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  1. 4 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Yeah, fertilizer doesn't do that. If anyone wants to take me up on a wager I'm game. It had to be a perfect (or imperfect) mixture of atmospheric oxygen and pressurized fuel - either on board or nearby.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon

    A mechanical failure or fuel leak that allows flammable fumes to fill the hull of a ship basically turns it into a floating fuel air bomb. Japan lost two recoverable carriers in WWII that way, but the speed of the shockwave really seems like a high explosive, not a slow moving firework or thermobaric explosion

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  2. 4 minutes ago, slorch said:

    Number of deaths requires a task force?  LOLz.

    Not concerned with cause.   Just deaths.  It is not rooted in politics or the blame game.

    Well we sure don't fucking have an accurate count of cases or deaths in this country, and active steps have been taken to reduce public access to that data. So you prefer to examine bad/non-existent data rather than stop and think about what's blocking us from the data. 

    So no it's not that a task force is a must have, but the career team who existed for this exact problem was cut as a cost savings measure AND we as a nation lack the basic tools to make data driven decisions. 

  3. 35 minutes ago, slorch said:

    This is the shit that bothers me...  Try looking up incremental deaths or "excess mortality" and it might as well be Big foot or a UFO.

    In today's information age, why?   How many people have died in the US in 2020 through July 31, regardless of cause?  what was that number in 2019?

    Publicly available data on excess mortality

    International organizations are not publishing an international database on excess mortality

    Unlike statistics on confirmed COVID-19 deaths – for which several organizations such as the WHO, ECDC and Johns Hopkins University are collating data for all countries – there is no single source of data on excess mortality.

    This is a major problem for policymakers, researchers, and the general public that has a need to understand the ongoing pandemic.

    https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

    Wow, it's almost like there's been a systemic effort to prevent gathering of data on the spread of COVID, and to prevent the public dissemination of that info. If only we had a pandemic task force team staffed with career professionals on hand - I heard we can just hire them back and spin everything up when we need em. Should give em a chance to get tanned rested and ready.

  4. 1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Trump is now saying that he's ok with MSFT buying TikTok but that a cut has to go to the Treasury? Is the Treasury acting as a shake-down criminal now to approve deals?

    Trump is regressing to his Atlantic City hustlin' days

  5. https://www.startribune.com/daily-mail-leaks-bodycam-footage-of-george-floyd-arrest-killing/571995372/

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    The Daily Mail published an article on its website at 10:53 a.m. Central Time with the videos. It showed about 10 minutes of video from former officer Thomas Lane's bodycam and about 18 minutes from former officer J. Alexander Kueng's bodycam.

    The two former officers' bodycam videos were made available for public viewing inside the Hennepin County courthouse in mid-July, but were prohibited from being recorded or publicly distributed.

    It's unclear how the Daily Mail got the videos. The article said they were "leaked" to the company.

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    The courts had provided a large room and several laptops to view the videos, and required attendees to stow away their own personal laptops and cellphones during the hourlong viewing sessions. Sheriff's deputies and court staff were stationed throughout the room as several members of the media and public viewed the videos.

    The two videos, which totaled about 65 minutes, were made viewable to the media and public by appointment only. Sixty-six slots were made available.

    Attorney Earl Gray had filed the videos in court in early July as evidence supporting his motion to dismiss the charges against Lane, his client. Court filings make evidence, including bodycam footage, public data, according to state law.

    A coalition of local and national media companies, including the Star Tribune, filed a motion in July seeking their immediate release. Cahill took the issue under advisement and has not issued a decision on the matter.

    The videos, which were viewed by Star Tribune reporters in July, showed that Floyd was given no explanation for why he was being questioned before Lane pointed a gun and swore at him, touched him multiple times and forced him out of his vehicle into the street.

    Kueng and Lane had responded to Cup Foods on May 25 on a report that Floyd had allegedly used a counterfeit $20 bill. They arrested Floyd. Their former colleagues, Derek Chauvin and Tou Thao, arrived later to help them.

    Pretty crazy that someone was able to sneak a device in and film the whole video without getting caught. Jury selection just got more difficult

  6. 52 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Hate to see The Rock fail like this. Because it will fail. Like all attempts at minor league football in the history of ever.

    TBH but for COVID, I think XFL would have made it a few more seasons. The viewership was there and they were filling up stadiums pretty good

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  7. 8 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

    The talk about death rates decreasing due to a mutating virus or something has dissipated. As anticipated, deaths follow hospitalization rates surging, which also lagged because 20-somethings fueled the spike this summer.

    Not to be a Nostradamus, but if the surge decreases then is accompanied by tens of millions of students meeting in-person, we’ll see another spike, followed by less deaths, but then followed by hospitalization surge, followed by OMG!, followed by a “3rd wave”, followed by schools shutting down again, followed by deaths peaking again.

    If only there was some way that we could centrally coordinate nation-wide public health policy to help dampen the cyclical nature of these outbreaks...

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  8. 40 minutes ago, Snacks said:

    The latest XFL was on the path to succeed... It was interrupted by covid.

    There will be a spring football league. XFL needs a few years of QB pipeline to not suck.

    XFL is back at least

    And as far as wrestling-linked ownership goes, The Rock is head and shoulders better than Vince.

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  9. 7 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    All it takes is one private boat, speeding to the capsule, for all Boat Dudes around to think it must be ok.

    Those idiots in the boats could very easily drive through a cloud of toxic fumes if there's any residual hypergolics in/on/around the capsule. Genuine safety issue for the boaters and the astronauts.

  10. Hypergolic fuels are bad bad shit, but also super reliable and have good specific impulse. I wonder if they're going to be able to work out a better solution for purging and cleaning the capsule

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  11. 1 minute ago, BradInATX said:

    I'm at surfside beach, been here all weekend. It's a crowd that uh, let's just say isn't worried about Covid. Have had nothing but pleasant interactions and found everyone respectful. Shot the shit with some Houston good old boys next to us on the beach from a distance for awhile, and they were completely fine when I asked them to give us a few more feet of space when we were talking, because the wife is pregnant. Almost 100% mask compliance in stores, with a few who only had the mouth covered.

     

    The internet is like an amplifier for assholery. Real life ain't all that bad.

     

     

    Down in Port Oconnor this weekend there was a solid 50% mask usage rate from what I saw at the liquor store and speedy stop. Fewer folks wearing masks at the fishing tournament weigh in though

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  12. 4 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    What, the so-called boogerloo idjits?

    Lotta hot air braggadocio out of rednecks don’t make a shit.

    There was a dude just last week that posted a lotta hot air braggadocio on Twitter, then drove into a crowd of protesters and killed someone. 

    Seems like it makes a shit to me

  13. Re: "kids are a non factor for COVID"

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/07/31/new-evidence-suggests-young-children-spread-covid-19-more-efficiently-than-adults/#73ff8cb219fd

    "The researchers found that although young children had a somewhat lower risk of infection than adults and were less likely to become ill, children age 14 and younger transmit the virus more efficiently to other children and adults than adults themselves. Their risk of transmitting Covid-19 was 22.4 percent—more than twice that of adults aged 30 to 49, whose rate of contagiousness was about 11 percent. “Although childhood contacts were less likely to become cases,” they wrote, “children were more likely to infect household members.”

    The Trento study also found that its youngest participants were the most efficient transmitters of the disease, citing respiratory syncytial virus as an example of another infectious disease for which this has been the case. The younger the child, they noted, the higher the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 in their nasal passages—an observation consistent with the Chicago study. "

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