My Boring Life
But its not really a meme, and it deserves its own space
Note: I took the screenshot myself, not photoshopped
Edited to add: yes, I have a problem with the messaging, because $70 less is still twice what I was paying before. But my REAL issue with it? You’d think the White House could afford to have a proper editor look these things over for miss-spellings….
Canada sees no legal problem with denying an unvax’d person an organ transplant
Nope, that was another conspiracy theory. And frankly, untill they finish the ACTUAL study on it, which isn’t due for at least a year, I’m thinking that “no cause for concern” is a bit early to state.
Various areas of Cali are getting ready to reinstate mask mandates. At least one school system just DID reinstate it. Meanwhile a major medical system announced that they are NOT seeing a covid crisis or emergency at all.
Court puts hold on the discharge of vax refusers in the Air Force.
In the subgroup of children aged six months to two years, the trial found that the vaccine could result in a 99% lower chance of infection—but that they also could have a 370% increased chance of being infected. In other words, Pfizer reported a range of vaccine efficacy so wide that no conclusion could be inferred………Referring to Pfizer’s vaccine efficacy in healthy young children, one high-level CDC official—whose expertise is in the evaluation of clinical data—joked: “You can inject them with it or squirt it in their face, and you’ll get the same benefit.”
The above quote came from here, numbers backed up by the Pfizer EUA request here.
Denmark admits there wasn’t much point to vaccinating children.
Meanwhile so much damage done to children by lockdowns.
Covid learning loss is a worldwide problem
A look at Covid infections in Icelandic children
Analysis of a 4th shot for under 50yr olds.
Prior infection boosted immunity against Omicron better than the vax.
China limits future fertilizer exports
Railroad union authorizes strike
Chinese allow AI to overrule judges
Truckers protest in Cali
BMW starts selling heated seats as micro transactions
Guess they aren’t that worried about monkey pox afterall
One sixth of the calls to the suicide hotline never get pickedup
Continuing freight problems in Cali
The learning disabled may be losing their right to having same sex carers.
FDA admits that its at least partially responsible for the formula shortage (which continues, especially for those who need speciality formulas).
The shut down formula plant is finally being allowed to re-open.
2nd largest LNG facility in the USA shut down
So, a running meme style is that every time someone big-named dies of unexpected causes its because “they had information on Hillary”. Apparently several big news sites were unaware of this fact.
Canada pushing farmers to reduce emissions as well.
Wisconsin supreme court decides unstaffed ballot drop boxes are illegal.
Nigerian senator on trial for organ harvesting.
Sri Lanka shows the USA what an ACTUAL insurrection and capital attack looks like
The inspiration behind the 2nd amendment.
A fictional story on Reddit (well, I hope its fictional!)
I swear to god, can we have a quiet week so I can stop accumulating depressing links??
Biden administration appears to have sold barrels of oil to the Chinese
Additional oil headed other places too
NYC cashier jailed for self defense
Food crisis in Sri Lanka, and 2, and troops open fire on rioters
Dutch farmers are especially pissed, apparently some bigwig thinks that we can feed the world while cutting nitrogen by 50% in the world’s 2nd largest food importation district. We’ve already got reports of shots fired at the protestors (and video of the shots show that no, the police were not at risk of being run over, no matter what they claim).
Thanks to the Internet Archive: The UN thinks world hunger is a good thing
Some Dunkin Donuts have a shortage on some coffee syrups
No significant increase in myocarditis or pericarditis in un-vac’d post covid patients
Naturally won immunity beats out the vax, still going strong 15 months later
Uruguay suspends covid vax for under-13s
Pfizer refuses to meet India’s testing requirements for the vax
Danish covid testing policy. Sweden covid testing policy. Finland’s covid testing policy. Norwegian covid testing policy.
Red states recovered faster than blue states.
60k Guard and Reserve soldiers cut off from pay and benefits
Nation’s largest teachers/educators union wants to require masking and vaccines, meanwhile Los Angeles (of all places) just made that impossible for schools to do.
NYC mayor states he plans to mandate covid vax for children in the fall
An explanation for the layman of one of the studies I posted last week.
More data showing mask mandates don’t work. And again.
FDA has no plans to require additional safety testing for covid boosters.
Where to read the data on Pfizer’s shots as its released by the FDA.
Washington State makes covid vax and boosters a permanent requirement for state employment.
Reminder that those movies you didn’t actually buy the disk for aren’t actually yours
Secret Service Director moving to…..SnapChat??
Roe Vs Wade is so last week. This week: Not all your devices use the same style charger!!
How the FBI Wiretapped the world
Trials of randomized Universal Income (spoiler: doesn’t solve the problem)
Make your PDFs read-able by human eyes only
In June NYS authorized Medicaid reimbursement assistance providers to work from home. Turns out this isn’t a good thing.
EU Parliament agrees to label nuclear and gas power as green (gosh, guess all those solar and wind farms weren’t so great after all huh? I seriously laughed out loud, and not happily, when I read this.)
Germany looking at rationing hot water
33 hospitals sent personal medical information to Facebook’s Meta company
Turns out you might not be able to opt out of the next controversial vax
Sweden is about to allow parents to take (PAID) time off to care for sick kids.
I gotta say, regardless of whether you believe Biden or Trump won the 2020 election, we’ve got ample proof that there COULD have been fraud. And its not really making me happy about the future of the country. Everytime I turn around we’ve got more reports about things went wrong, audits weren’t done right, gaps in security, and so on. The 2020 election may have been entirely legit, but there are sure are a LOT of holes that need to be fixed.
NYS Supreme Court decision on allowing non-citizens to vote
Supreme court says intention matters when it comes to prescribing pain pills
Supreme court says “may issue” firearms license is against the 2nd amendment. Which is going to make one of those newly passed NYS laws interesting to enforce.
Biden says gender identity protections more important than Title IX
Detroit Public Library finally reopening, after two years closed
Age and Sex specific risks of myocarditis and pericarditis after RNA covid vax, meanwhile the USA is the only country to approve them for under 5’s, despite horrid effectiveness rates in studies, and at least one school is rumored to have already mandated them for pre-K students, and Twitter is banning people who point that out. Not to mention that we’re 2years into this, it’s not longer an emergency, by any standard of the definition.
No wait, I KNOW this was a conspiracy theory….”The excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest surpassed the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization relative to the placebo group in both Pfizer and Moderna trials (2.3 and 6.4 per 10,000 participants, respectively).“
And here’s ANOTHER conspiracy theory! At least its only temporary…right?
Children are 44% less likely to suffer from severe covid
and yet toddlers are still required to mask in NYC for certain federally funded programs
Children who previously had covid remain highly protected
Paxlovid approval data based on a total of 15 infections, 5 in the treated group and 10 in the untreated group. In a country with supposedly how many infections daily that was all they could come up with to test this on?
Turns out Comirnaty was never actually a thing, basically they made just enough to get the FDA to push approval through (so that the various vaccine mandates could be pushed through), and then stopped.
CDC caught using faulty data, again.
NOLA’s mayor has decided that a hair pick is the ultimate representation of black people
Polio detected in London sewage samples
Germany has had to turn back on coal powered electrical plants
Meanwhile they’re cutting down the Black Forest to make way for wind turbines
Uvalde officers did NOT need to wait for keys
Ohio approving arming teachers
If you had a male puberty you are not allowed to compete in Women’s Swimming (finally!)
Rumors of a DEF fluid shortage may be overblown, or not, only time will tell.
How many flights of stairs to equal a decent workout?
Caterpillar moving to TX
Digital License plates now an option in 3 states
I’m of the opinion that diversity quotas are a bad thing, but this isn’t how you fix that.
There’s a Hall and Oates Emergency Hotline
Since I was on crutches and generally not mobile during the garden prep season I didn’t really do much of a garden this year.
Some peppers in pots on the back porch. Some melons in the raised stock tank beds.
A zucchini plant, a pumpkin plant, and a cucumber plant.
I picked two tires to become (hopefully) permanent plantings, Bakers Creek seeds had hardy figs that are supposed to be hardy down to zone 5, which I am. Apparently they’re more bushes than trees here, so this should work about right.
The rest of the garden is going to hell right now. I’ve weed-whacked it, put down a pre-emergent, and roundup, and its still full of weeds and grass. 3 years of neglect coming home to roost I guess. I’ll have to decide how I want to go about getting it back into a condition I can plant in as I continue to become more mobile. I’m off crutches except for work at this point, but the ankle is still not back to full strength (probably another 6 months per the ortho), and so there’s limits to how much I can do at one time.
The fennel in the tractor tire bed is coming back, as are the snap dragon flowers, I’d also planted some purple balloon flowers for early color and as you can see they’re doing well too.
I also planted some flowers in the half barrel planters by the back porch.
