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TheEncogitationer wrote:
1812 Governor Elbridge Gerry and a Boston district shaped like a mythological salamander

Whoa, nice factoid. I think I’ll remember this. I mean, I want to transmute enough brain cells to accomodate a more permanent memory. Salamandering, too? I always recall seeing districts with only a highway-wide corridor connecting…[Read more]

Does anyone know, was this Hegseth, or Patel?

Y’all know that SCOTUS just defanged the Voting Rights Act, right? So incumbent legislators are already celebrating by ramping up gerrymandering.

Short:

Patience, grasshopper, this is a two-parter.

1) Call me naive, I only learned about mogging today. Here’s a 1 minute intro:

2) Here it is in a Hegsethian context, within the Trumpian context. I like the whole episode but jump into it where it serves comedic effect wrt mogging, leaving 9 minutes to…[Read more]

Trump and Gang aren’t the only ones profiting from MAGA superfans buying his personalized merch.

I think her older productions are worth mentioning here. I like this short:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
And since no one knows where these dildos have been, protesters could be spreading a biohazard, and could be prosecuted for such.

Good point. But I’ll bet ICE dicks are worse.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Trump may have accidentally done something right!

That would be nice. Hopefully he won’t set her up for fall when he needs another diversion.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
benefits of getting the Shingles vaccine

Ditto for higher dose flu vaccine.

A podcast about that from Microbe.TV, This Week In Virology (TWIV) Episode #1313: Audio; Video.

I’ve listened to most TWIV audio episodes since Covid hit in 2020. Most of it goes deep and is over my head, so I listen to help me fall asleep…[Read more]

Wow, is Ukraine’s drone tech industry becoming a profit center? Thank Iran.

I get the connection you’re making, but really, is there more than just the name to discredit good science in a different discipline?

I’ll take as a win, the fact that we agree about Musk.

Thanks again to Reg for providing another useful source of information (where the article above came from): “A newsletter about how false claims spread—and who’s behind them.”
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/

And here’s a realible source of data, recent research on human diseases and their prevention, which CDC was better known for relia…[Read more]