Okay, I work in the industry.. If solar and windmills worked, we would be putting them up everywhere. They don't work.

I work for an electric utility. The politicians are forcing green energy, which doesn't work. Shutting down coal fired plants eliminates the base load energy production, and wind and solar are unreliable. So as we are forced to get rid of our base-load generation, and if the wind ain't blowing (or its blowing too hard) or the sun goes behind the clouds, we must purchase that electricity somewhere, and that excess capacity is getting scarce. It's a supply & demand issue. That's it.

âoeThe number of AI related regulations in the U.S. has risen significantly in the past year and over the last five years.â

Once it is clear just how small government can be made by replacing Betty Catlady (she, her, hers) in the Dept. of WTF with AI Betty, expect important Betty protections to fill the regulatory pipeline.

I agree smaller dose intuitively means less of a hazard of an infection putting down roots before the immune system wipes it out. However, I've never seen data for this.

IIRC coronavirus particles were around 0.1 um, but the virus would fall apart traveling bare. N95 do filter in that range in any event, just not at the advertised and tested level of an N95's 95% @ 0.3 um (you can get N100s which don't quite hit 100%; it's a rounding thing). Aerosols are typically much larger, 1+ um up, then transition to visible droplets around 20-100 um.

Was any of this data published? I wondered specifically about N95 claims for cheap imports.

I wait for the graphic novel version: https://xkcd.com/2523/

I'm afraid another pivotal concern may have been costs: inferior masks such as surgical are much cheaper. So, here in Virginia the hospital admin logic went, the mask they chose should be the standard for all purposes (our hospital required visitors to give up their personal N95s for a surgical mask, which was at least free).

As even more damning evidence of institutional thinking, the same hospital network required my PCP to wear a mask for telemedicine visits. I burst out laughing when I saw him and asked, "I don't mean to be rude, but are y'all familiar with the germ theory of disease?" He apologized and said the rule simply was that all patient-facing meeting required a mask. So there, standards.

Kudos for being the one who actually RTFA!

I suspect someone has an agenda against President Biden here. The stories jibe fine.

Reverting a template is child's play: even easier than vandalizing one. Wikipedia deals with this kind of shit on a daily basis.

The marks that this scam is aimed at aren't concerned about privacy as such. They'll eagerly hand over their private info to Snarler, GettrByThePussy, mOAN, NewSmax, and even GRU... just so long as King Obummer II and Narc Cuckerberg, can't censor their memes about lynching Killary.

A different verb would help: engender dissent. Hence a diffuse but pernicious impact. But YES the focus on spelling, grammar, and punctuation is just class marker or snide stuff. Just because you know what a semicolon is and use it doesnâ(TM)t make you smarter. ;;;;;;;;;;; See? :)

Youâ(TM)re making several assumptions here.

I think the theorists got lucky on this one. My boss used to say, every once in a while the blind squirrel finds a nut. We were surprised by the truth because we lacked evidence, and so did the theorists. Conspiracy theories by definition aren't based on verifiable facts. It's easy to speculate a 1,000 things; hitting the target once is chance and doesn't prove the 999 of chemtrails etc. Also, the existence of a surveillance program was not a big stretch of the imagination based on what the gov't did in the past, but the extent was amazing. So, sure, don't dismiss theories out of hand, but do hold them at arm's length if they lack proof.

You can't safely generalize too much about what the law is. The law and legal theory vary from place to place. But generally...

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