Noah Rothman
@NoahCRothman
Wow. “The pandemic is potentially driving another national crisis related to its effects on behavioral health, with people experiencing new or exacerbated behavioral health symptoms or conditions.”
Perspective | The pandemic could drive another national health crisis, GAO warns: covid-19 anxiety
washingtonpost.com //
According to the experts Gueren interviewed for her article, she wrote, and the “limited research we have so far, the COVID-19 pandemic has come with a unique set of factors that can certainly fuel health anxiety in people”—particularly people who are already susceptible to the virus.
Josh Spitalnick, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist and CEO of Anxiety Specialists of Atlanta, told Health:
People who are having real medical and/or physical symptoms and they’re terrified about what they might mean—that’s typically understood as somatic symptom disorder.
And then there are people who worry about just getting a disease — getting COVID, getting cancer, having a stroke—where there’s no real physical or medical symptoms. //
“The worry that we have for health anxiety is productive at the beginning,” said Spitalnick, “which only each person can individually measure, but increasing becomes ‘not healthy.'”
And that place, RedStaters, is exactly where Biden, Fauci, and the Democrat Party want you to live–in the land of the not mentally healthy. Why?
Because people who are afraid of something, particularly irrationally so, are more susceptible to listening to advice about that “something” from “experts” and “leaders” who profess to know what they’re talking about—even when said advice is consistently wrong.
interesting tidbits still came out to play. To wit:
“I adhere to that traditional approach that a woman is a woman and a man is a man. A mother is a mother, a father is a father. And I hope that our society has the internal moral protection dictated by the traditional religious denominations of the Russian Federation,” he said.
Later he added:
“If somebody thinks that a woman and a man are the same thing, they’re welcome to [their opinion], but a certain common sense should exist,” the head of state pointed out.
There’s a lot to mull over here.
Putin is a fascinating fusion of Russian old, middle, and new. A product of the Soviet Union’s strong-arm socialistic/communistic political era, unlike many products of his time he understands the value of traditional Russian culture. The most noticeable difference between Putin and his predecessors is his approach to the church.
While his personal beliefs are known only to himself and God, outwardly, Putin has utterly discarded the USSR era’s open disdain for, and none-too-subtle efforts to at least reduce, if not altogether eliminate, the church’s influence on Russian society. Instead, Putin has embraced the church and its insistence on traditional moral values.
Putin saw how Pope John Paul II laid to waste Stalin’s smirk about how many divisions does the Pope have. As it turned out, the heavenly hosts are armed to the teeth. The people of Eastern Europe and the USSR itself overthrew the Soviet regime and its puppets not through armed revolt but by lighting candles, saying prayers, and carrying out faith-emboldened quiet resistance against their oppressors.
Putin is both sharply intelligent and keenly aware of the times. While the West is doing everything it can to run the church out of town, what’s left of the church insists on emasculating itself via the abandonment of its own truths, Putin is reinforcing the church, confident that doing so will simultaneously strengthen his hand and raise his appeal to Western people growing ever wearier of weakness in the face of wokeism.
while reading a recent post by whistleblower Edward Snowden about Julian Assange of WikiLeaks infamy, titled Everything Going Great.
After a lengthy and somewhat rambling preamble regarding bad faith’s meaning, Snowden gets to his point, namely that the U.S. attempt to extradite Assange is a direct attack on freedom of the press.
I agree with my friends (and lawyers) at the ACLU: the U.S. government’s indictment of Assange amounts to the criminalization of investigative journalism. And I agree with myriad friends (and lawyers) throughout the world that at the core of this criminalization is a cruel and unusual paradox: namely, the fact that many of the activities that the U.S. government would rather hush up are perpetrated in foreign countries, whose journalism will now be answerable to the U.S. court system. And the precedent established here will be exploited by all manner of authoritarian leaders across the globe. What will be the State Department’s response when the Republic of Iran demands the extradition of New York Times reporters for violating Iran’s secrecy laws? How will the United Kingdom respond when Viktor Orban or Recep Erdogan seeks the extradition of Guardian reporters? The point is not that the U.S. or U.K. would ever comply with those demands — of course they wouldn’t — but that they would lack any principled basis for their refusals. //
If we had honest media dedicated to the truth and not the narrative, it would be rallying around Julian Assange. This is not the case. Instead of being infected with the omicron variant of COVID, the media is infected with omertà. When the worm turns against the worms, the cost will be high. In ignoring Julian Assange’s plight because the Democrats were the ones embarrassed by his actions, the media sets itself up to have no one to blame but itself when the government comes down hard at the release of classified (read: embarrassing) material.
Longfellow had fallen into a depression in 1861 when his second wife Frances died. She had been sealing envelopes with hot wax when a flame caught her clothes on fire. Henry had rushed to her aid and tried to smother the flames. But by the time the fire was out, Frances had been burned beyond recovery.
She died the next day. Henry, burned badly as well, was too sick to attend her funeral.
The death marked a turning point in Longfellow’s life. His physical appearance changed dramatically as he began growing his beard because the burns disfigured his face. Mentally, he sank into depression. //
In 1863, Longfellow suffered another blow. The poet was a staunch abolitionist, but he, like the entire country, was troubled by the Civil War. His son Charley in March of 1863 had decided that, regardless of his father’s wishes, he would join the fight. He ran off to Washington to enlist in the 1st Massachusetts Artillery.
Charley fell ill with “camp fever” (probably typhoid or typho-malarial fever) and was sent home to recover for several months with his family. That summer, having missed the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), he rejoined his unit on August 15, 1863.
On the first day of that December, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was dining alone at his home when a telegram arrived with the news that his son had been severely wounded—inaccurately stating that he had been shot in the face—four days earlier. On November 27, 1863, while involved in a skirmish during a battle of of the Mine Run Campaign, Charley had been shot through the left shoulder, with the bullet exiting under his right shoulder blade. It had traveled across his back and nicked his spine. Charley avoided being paralyzed by less than an inch. //
On Friday, December 25, 1863, Longfellow—as a 57-year-old widowed father of six children, the oldest of which had been nearly paralyzed as his country fought a war against itself—wrote a poem seeking to capture the dynamic and dissonance in his own heart and the world he observes around him that Christmas Day. //
He heard the Christmas bells ringing in Cambridge and the singing of “peace on earth” (Luke 2:14), but he observed the world of injustice and violence that seemed to mock the truthfulness of this optimistic outlook.
The theme of listening recurs throughout the poem, eventually leading to a settledness of confident hope even in the midst of bleak despair as he recounts to himself that God is alive and righteousness shall prevail.
Within a decade (1872), the poem was put to music by the English organist John Baptiste Calkin for a processional, set to the the melody “Waltham.”
“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” is a lesser-known Christmas song, and not generally the first to be requested around the Christmas tree. The lyrics were born out of painful circumstances, but as with other classic hymns, the story behind the song gives it gravity and drives home the message of hope and the power of God’s marvelous plan. //
Longfellow was a staunch abolitionist, something that was proudly reflected in some of his writing. So, when the Civil War came, his oldest son, Charley, was eager to do his part. As a Second Lieutenant, Charley fought in the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia, and narrowly dodged the Battle of Gettysburg by coming down with typhoid fever, writes Justin Taylor of the Gospel Coalition. He was back in the fight by August 1863, but Charley’s luck was running out.
Taylor writes that “While dining at home on December 1, 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow received a telegram that his son had been severely wounded four days earlier. On November 27, 1863 … Charley was shot through the left shoulder, with the bullet exiting under his right shoulder blade.” Longfellow’s son survived his injury and was brought home to recover.
Longfellow found himself staring down another Christmas season as a widower, with five children dependent on him and now one child on the brink of death. Outside, he heard the Christmas bells ringing, but I imagine he could also hear the cannons and gunfire of war in his mind. The world was tearing itself apart. There didn’t seem to be much space for peace on earth or goodwill toward men. //
I think I love this song especially because it is raw and real. It’s a Christmas song that doesn’t cover up the world with holly and tinsel and say everything is just fine. Longfellow acknowledges that the world is broken, but he doesn’t leave it there. There’s more to the story, and that’s what makes the message of Jesus’ birth so joyful.
Jane Goodall is warning people against giving live animals to communities or individuals in developing countries this year, arguing that these gifts can strain the areas’ water supply.
Several charitable organizations encourage donors to give animals like goats, pigs, sheep or heifers to people in developing countries.
Goodall says donor money would be better spent on initiatives like seed hubs, water irrigation systems and soil regeneration.
In South Africa, nearly every early case of Omicron was in fully vaccinated people, despite only 23.8% of the population being vaccinated at the time. While that data would suggest that vaccinated people are more likely to be infected with Omicron than the unvaccinated, I stopped short of saying that because it was still very early in the spread of Omicron and the data could change. What was clear, though, was that South Africa was in the midst of an outbreak of a new and more transmissible variant. //
With an astounding 1100% increase in cases, South Africa only had an 8.32% increase in deaths. Again, at the time, South Africa’s vaccination rate was below 25%. Meanwhile, the United States, with more than double the vaccination rate of South Africa, has nearly twice the new caseload and five times the rate of death from COVID than that of South Africa. That data would suggest that being vaccinated makes you more likely to be infected with Omicron than being unvaccinated. //
Now, data from a new study suggests negative effectiveness, that is the very thing Fauci warned as a potential: a higher likelihood of being infected with Omicron than if you had simply been unvaccinated, 90 days after being vaccinated. The study, entitled “Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection with the Omicron or Delta variants following a two-dose or booster BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 vaccination series: A Danish cohort study,” shows that both mRNA vaccines maintained a better than 50% effectiveness against previous variants of COVID-19, that effectiveness drops to nearly zero 60 days after the vaccine is administered and actually provides a negative response after 90 days. In fact, initial vaccine efficacy against Omicron for both vaccines tested was below that of the effectiveness against Delta after more than 90 days.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.20.21267966v2.full //
When factoring for the confidence interval, both vaccines show a potential of causing negative effectiveness after 30 days, and the data show that only the Pfizer vaccine has results that indicate a positive effect for the first thirty days. Moderna’s vaccine consistently shows the potential of cause in negative results, that is, a higher likelihood of infection, from the date of vaccination forward.
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements. – Brian Kernighan, “Unix for Beginners” (1979)
When writing shell scripts, the programming logic tends to be shorter and is often contained within a single file. So there are a few built-in debugging options we can use to see what is going wrong. The first option to mention is probably the most useful too – the xtrace option. This can be applied to a script by invoking Bash with the -x switch.
$ bash -x <scriptname>first let’s contrast -x with its opposite -v, which shows each line before it is evaluated instead of after.
Radio spectrum, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, is divided into different frequency bands that have been allocated for data, voice, and wireless communications used by a variety of different industries. Aircraft radar altimeters operate within 4.2–4.4 GHz, the lower half of which falls within the C-Band—a frequency range from 3.7–4.2 GHz where the combination of the range of signal transmissions and capacity are optimum.
A graphic shown by AVSI's Andrew Roy during a Dec. 7 NBAA webinar shows power levels of the previous satellite emissions that were occurring in the 3.7–3.98 GHz band that 5G stations in the U.S. will start using next year.
The 5G wireless networks scheduled to be switched on by AT&T and Verizon next month will occur within the 3.7–3.98 GHz frequency range, close to the altimeters. As the FAA indicated in its Dec. 7 AD, while it has heard concerns from airlines, the FAA, and aircraft OEMs over the potential interference issues posed by the deployment of 5G in the C-Band, it has not yet been presented with data or information that shows altimeters are not susceptible to interference.
Jered Ede (Project Veritas Chief Legal Officer)
@Jtaylorede
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Dec 24, 2021
BREAKING: NY Supreme Court GRANTS Veritas’ Motion; ORDERS New York Times to destroy attorney-client memos “irregular[ly]” obtained from PV; REJECTS Times’ cries of “prior restraint” while citing case about “‘Hit and run’ journalism”
How did NYT obtain the memos? Poss. "improper means" : "The Times incredibly admitted that here 'no apparent bribery was used to obtain the memoranda.' ... [PV] has met its burden of showing [the memos] were obtained by irregular means, if not both irregular and improper means."
But the memos were public concern because it involved PV, no? No: "[S]ome things are not fodder for public consideration and consumption. These memoranda ... are only between an attorney and a client, and it does not matter one bit who the attorney and client are."
The Times/corp. media argued prior restraint. Wrong. "The Times is perfectly free to investigate, ... publish, opine, expose or ignore whatever aspects of Project Veritas its editors in their sole discretion deem newsworthy, without utilizing [PV's a/c] privileged memoranda."
"[T]he court's protective order does not act as an impermissible prior restraint on the Times. As important as the First Amendment's protection against prior restraints is, on the present facts, the erosion of the attorney-client privilege is a far more imminent concern."
Jered Ede (Project Veritas Chief Legal Officer)
@Jtaylorede
Of the Times' journalism, the court noted: ... "''Hit and run' journalism is no more protected under the First Amendment, than speeding on a crowded sidewalk is permitted under a valid driver's license.'" #ouch.
"[T]his is no defeat for the First Amendment," wrote the Court. "It would indeed be a Pyrrhic victory...if the Amendment's safeguarding of the media... were confused with the attempt to constitutionalize the publication of the private, privileged communication ...presented here."
A hard-fought victory by the indefatigable @libbylocke of @ClareLockeLLP, who frequently reminds the NYT that, contrary to internal belief, they are not the most powerful entity in the State of New York.
Where is Santa now?
The red phone rang one day in December 1955, and Shoup answered it, Pam says. "And then there was a small voice that just asked, 'Is this Santa Claus?' "
His children remember Shoup as straight-laced and disciplined, and he was annoyed and upset by the call and thought it was a joke — but then, Terri says, the little voice started crying.
"And Dad realized that it wasn't a joke," her sister says. "So he talked to him, ho-ho-ho'd and asked if he had been a good boy and, 'May I talk to your mother?' And the mother got on and said, 'You haven't seen the paper yet? There's a phone number to call Santa. It's in the Sears ad.' Dad looked it up, and there it was, his red phone number. And they had children calling one after another, so he put a couple of airmen on the phones to act like Santa Claus."
"It got to be a big joke at the command center. You know, 'The old man's really flipped his lid this time. We're answering Santa calls,' " Terri says.
Elon Musk said his wealth "isn't some deep mystery" and that his taxes are "super simple."
He told The Babylon Bee he doesn't use tax-avoidance schemes, offshore accounts, or tax shelters.
The tech billionaire recently clashed with Warren, who accused him of "freeloading" over taxes. //
if Musk chooses to exercise all his Tesla share options expiring in 2022, the taxes on these could exceed $10 billion for this year, according to calculations by Bloomberg.
Musk, who now tops the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with a net worth of $261 billion, told The Babylon Bee that he could do his taxes himself "in a few hours." //
He said his worth was calculated by multiplying his ownership percentage of the two companies by their valuations.
"My so-called wealth, it's not some deep mystery," Musk said.
He added that he doesn't take salaries or bonuses from the companies because he thought it would be "morally good to not do that."
"My cash balances are very, very low, at least until I sold stock," Musk said. "I simply had loans against my stock, so if Tesla and SpaceX went bankrupt, I would go bankrupt too, immediately."
Musk has sold $15.4 billion in Tesla shares since asking Twitter on November 6 to vote on whether he should divest 10% of his stake, and said Wednesday that he was "almost done" selling stock. He told The Babylon Bee that this quarter was the first time he sold stock "in any meaningful way."
The Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel points out how Manchin could torture Schumer and get his way next.
What ought to worry Mr. Schumer is that the West Virginian votes to proceed with the bill and modify it to his liking. The budget-reconciliation process allows a simple majority to pass legislation, but it comes with a price: unlimited amendments. Despite Democrats’ efforts to claim just “one senator” stands against their bill, the actual number is 51—Mr. Manchin and the 50 Republicans. Imagine what fun that majority could have in a vote-a-rama.
Mr. Manchin could craft amendments striking entire entitlements from the bill, amendments barring climate programs, amendments gutting the bill’s tax hikes.
Some may quibble with my use of the word “rigged,” but I think it’s more than apt. The Democrats’ legislation not only bans voter ID laws that are key to election security, but it also endorses ballot harvesting, uses taxpayer money to fund political campaigns, mandates same-day registration with no safeguards, makes mail-in voting universal, automatically registers minors, legalizes so-called “drive-thru” voting, and even sets up a system where ballots are allowed to be counted if they arrive 10 days after an election.
There is simply no justification for passing an illegitimate power grab over the nation’s election systems, and in my opinion, no justification could ever exist in any circumstance. We are a republic, and localized control of elections is a bedrock principle of our system. //
If you can make an exception on “voting rights,” one can be made on anything. Oh yeah, and lest we forget, Democrats would like to pack the Supreme Court as well. You know, to save “democracy” or some such.
This is all really tyrannical stuff, and if the shoe was on the other foot, the gnashing of teeth from the press would never cease. Yet, instead of being condemned, Democrats are actually lauded for their dictatorial efforts. It’s absolute insanity.
you can use getfacl other_file | setfacl -bnM - file_to_change to copy the permissions. This doesn't copy the ownership; you can do that with careful parsing of ls -l other_file, assuming that you don't have user or group names containing whitespace.
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Andrew P. @apoure25
I did three domestic 767 flight plans last night, and also this one.
Around 14.5 hours enroute.
Any guesses as to how much payload that 747-400F is carrying that far?
10:23 AM · Dec 8, 2021
Josh @BlainPlanes
67 pounds
Andrew P. @apoure25
No that’s just the catering
Ethan Manchester @pilotmanchee
126k?
Andrew P. @apoure25
I wish. Only 101 w/PER today.
Greenie @aviationhead747
Replying to @apoure25
One time I had 8 fuel truck tickets for a atlas -400. Jfk- ICN. 326,000 lbs of fuel. About 28,000 gals fuel. 10 pallets main deck. Not sure ttl load..... wing's and gear hanging loww
Robert W. Mann, Jr. @RWMann
Sounds about right. 20,000 gallons, two trucks and tickets, classic JFK-TLV 747-200, very near max gross w/pax, bags, catering, cargo, planned 11:20 with international reserves
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