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[iamsmall]

I don’t think we can market a mass message to get everyone vaccinated, I think we’re down to the one on one conversations. And never forget that there are bullheaded people who will still refuse

The bullheaded can be refused a restaurant, a sports game, a school, a plane ride, and basically anything that allows them out of their house. Been watching the UK handle this and they are screaming, but the vaccination rate is stepping up. Saudi Arabia is another; they are not even allowed in a nice air conditioned mall.

[bcgister]

@edhedh

GOP: the party of “Too little, too late.”

Yes, but they’ll have done it more cheaply and, maybe, not even have raised taxes on their primary constituency.

[21zna9]

Case in point here…

Over 200 medical journals warn climate crisis is the "greatest threat to...

[cnyexpat]

@geographyjones

Decimate: to reduce by 10%

Decimate is a good word that is routinely misused. (And my pet peav).

Even Bryan Garner (Garner’s Modern English Usage; The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation) has given this usage his approval.

[geographyjones]

I get that but those of us who study the Roman Legions really don’t like that usage regardless (or irregardless) of who uses it.

[cnyexpat]

Makes sense!

[godwit]

Yup. Mandates for workers, vaccine passports for leisure activities. We’ve done it before, it’s time to do it again.

Some people will quit, but there are other who will find it the face-saving way down off their high horse that they’ve been looking for (but would never admit)

[brian512]

@iamsmall

Megalomaniac billionaires? Oh yes, that’s the line down there … and around the corner

So the shanty towns seen outside the city limits are the service workers and gardeners??

Well, we’ve got to put the wretches somewhere … we have architects working to fix the “seen” problem, though. Subterranean barracks, maybe. I suppose we could start with the Mittelbau blueprints.

[godwit]

@sysprog

Manchin and the Republicans insist on ‘dropping the cost’ of the Infrastructure Bill but then whine and snivel about THEIR states needing money for climate damage.

It’s been astonishing over the last month to watch pundits shrug off paying $2 trillion over twenty years to achieve nothing on the other side of the world and simultaneously choke on the very idea of spending $3.5 trillion over 10 years to invest in the US and our future

[bobatkinson]

I don’t care about Mel. Do you?

[brian512]

@bcgister

Yes, but they’ll have done it more cheaply

Not necessarily. After adding the cost-plus provisions, “reasonable” fees, and family-and-friends grift at the expense of the public, the magical efficiency of the free market should, if you’re lucky, come in no more than double what it would have cost otherwise.

[geographyjones]

eg. Naypiyidaw Myanmar
Astana Kazakhstan

[bcgister]

@brian512

After adding the cost-plus provisions, “reasonable” fees, and family-and-friends grift at the expense of the public, the magical efficiency of the free market should, if you’re lucky, come in no more than double what it would have cost otherwise.

Agreed, but certainly they’d find a way of leaves all those costs out of the accounting.
Like with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[bcgister]

@iamsmall

So the shanty towns seen outside the city limits are the service workers and gardeners??

C’mon, what’s a new city without its own bidonville?
Could it even be considered complete without one?

[gargoyle]

@maximus

Way to Go TPM on cranking out posts on a holiday

The three that I loaded where “AG Garland (says)…” and “Graham Pronounces…” and “Official Points To…”. No actual news, but at least chattersite talking-about-talking-about-stuff.

[gargoyle]

@rascal_crone

… hope the workers will take Dubai over and burn it to the ground …

How about: every capital city in the world, of all government forms.

[gargoyle]

@emiliano4

… think of themselves as American citizens first , …

In the near space and time, yes. But more broadly, to address the bigger problems, I still argue that people need to think of themselves as Earth partners first.

[lastroth]

Time keeps on ticking, ticking into the future. Mother Nature is on a roll dontcha know.

[gargoyle]

@lastroth

Mother Nature is on a roll

with hummus.

[lastroth]

Wouldn’t a cracker have more mouth feel?