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Zeynep Tufecki, who wrote the Atlantic article linked above, explained on twitter:
Did you know that *study after study* finds most people don't seem to transmit COVID at all? That a small percent is responsible for almost all infections? That R is not that informative? My new piece on why this may be key to controlling the pandemic.
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New paper from India, tracing ~500K contacts for ~85,000 cases. They did not find a single positive contact for 70.7% of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Dashy at 11:41 AM on October 2, 2020

The fallout would be more likely to cause additional chaos than bring stability, but fuck it, I hope he suffers and dies. He is a fascist who has been openly agitating for civil war and denying the basic reality of a potentially deadly virus during a global pandemic (among other, worse things that I don't see discussed much anywhere). He deserved to catch it and he deserves to suffer and die. Over 200,000 other people have suffered and died as a direct result of his rank stupidity and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by EmpressCallipygos at 11:30 AM on October 2, 2020

Per CNN just now, Trump skipped a planned conference call today, which Pence had to host in his stead. The subject was -- no lie -- senior citizens and the dangers of COVID.
posted to MetaFilter by wenestvedt at 10:13 AM on October 2, 2020

Melania's tapes sound bad, but they're also full of just enough mixed messages for people to defend her on it, too. She's an objectively terrible person but her claiming she "tried" to reunite "a" family and how the media is mean to her is enough for people to cling to and make it a non-story.

And to be honest her disinterest in Christmas decorations is probably the most sympathetic moment she's ever had.

She's fully complicit... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scaryblackdeath at 10:12 AM on October 2, 2020

¯\_(🦠)_/¯
posted to MetaFilter by donatella at 9:01 AM on October 2, 2020

Drinking game: do a shot every time you hear the phrase "an abundance of caution."

Update: I am dead.
posted to MetaFilter by DirtyOldTown at 8:25 AM on October 2, 2020

There's a long running conspiracy theory that Barron Trump is a time traveler.
posted to MetaFilter by robocop is bleeding at 2:07 PM on October 2, 2020

DNC Offices: Okay guys! We've been sitting on these Melania tapes since July. Nothing really big on them but they have Melania saying "fuck" in the same sentence as Christmas decorations. Oh? Yeah no she thinks the Christmas decorations are meaningless and wants to focus on the actual news. Yeah, yeah doesn't matter, she said fuck Christmas decorations basically. Well I guess she could come off as sympathetic and she seems to genuinely care about the kids and care for her husband but... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by geoff. at 3:16 AM on October 2, 2020

The S-1 was apparently written by Khan Noonien Singh:

The engineering elite of Silicon Valley may know more than most about building software. But they do not know more about how society should be organized or what justice requires.
posted to MetaFilter by RobotVoodooPower at 3:11 PM on September 28, 2020

Vampire Boi over-promised and under-delivered. Huh. Imagine that.
posted to MetaFilter by SPrintF at 12:27 PM on September 28, 2020

I have watched my aunt, married for decades to a man exactly like your husband go from

a happy, bubbly, outgoing, interesting woman with lots of friends and family relationships

to

a ground-down, colorless, servile, nervous, jumpy mouse of a woman with no opinions of her own and an abject fear of displeasing her miserable excuse for a husband. He has isolated from her own family and her friends, expects her to do all of... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Ginesthoi at 5:30 AM on September 19, 2020

Today while signing up for Where's My Ballot I learned that somehow I'm no longer on my county's voting rolls. Seventeen years at the same address, no name change, voter in nearly all elections - somehow I've been expunged.

An hour later I learned of RBG's death.

An hour after THAT I sent money to McConnell's opponent Amy McGrath, and contacted my local election board.

I mean - no. NO. We will not be silenced.
posted to MetaFilter by goofyfoot at 11:59 PM on September 18, 2020

I was astounded by this article. I thought it was going to be yet another article on how some programmer with esoteric knowledge of an archaic language comes out of retirement to fix a legacy system. And it would be slightly newsworthy since its pandemic-related.

Instead, there are surprising takes on programming language origins and gender, government maintenance vs. consumer-based obsolescence as well as a surprise root cause of the problem.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by aworks at 6:20 PM on September 17, 2020

My wife and I acquired a bidet attachment for our toilet a couple of years ago. I can honestly say that toilet paper, and anyone who uses it, now seem barbaric and disgusting. To quote another bidet convert, "when you get poop on your hands, do you wipe them with a piece of paper? No, you wash them."
Trust me, you'll never go back.
posted to MetaFilter by Joan Rivers of Babylon at 6:17 AM on September 14, 2020

*I* am micromanaging my toast. Perfect toast in one of my favorite small pleasures in life.
posted to MetaFilter by tiny frying pan at 8:19 AM on September 10, 2020

"What kind of neurotic life are people living where they need to check the status of their toast? "

There's an art to timing toast.
Never try to guess:
Just toast until it smokes,
Then twenty seconds less.

-Piet Hein
posted to MetaFilter by Eyebrows McGee at 7:51 AM on September 10, 2020

“I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody’s ever had in this country before,”

Apparently the W76-2 low-yield nuke (5–7 kt), although why you'd waste a 2-stage thermonuclear weapon on 7kt is beyond me. ( That's below the 15 kt of the uranium gun design of the "little boy" bomb dropped on Hiroshima. ), although thinking about it, if you just removed the secondary stage, then yeah, that would make sense to just use the fission... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mikelieman at 4:02 AM on September 10, 2020

People who think that somehow the earlier release of these recordings would have had even the tiniest smidgen of an impact are as as dumb as Donald Trump.

How many times do you have to adjust your bowtie, look in the mirror, and practice your indignant "How dare you sir? Have you no regard for the office of the president?"1 before you realise that none of this matters at all?

What's the alternative? That despite repeated statements from... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by atrazine at 1:58 AM on September 10, 2020

Meh. I don't think it changes anything in practice.

Those who hate him will point out that he was denying publicly available knowledge in order to keep the stock market up.* This merely moves the needle a bit further away from the "Incompetence through Denial" and closer to "Malice."

Those who support him will claim it was faked, that COVID "only kills 6%," and their liberties not to wear a mask and carry an AK-47... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by MrGuilt at 9:03 PM on September 9, 2020

I feel as if the design firm Gómez Platero was looking to showcase their design abilities.
posted to MetaFilter by geoff. at 5:35 PM on September 6, 2020

What a cool person. And, jesus:

Finally, the way black people suffer in the US is unlike any places I’ve ever been. I’ve been held at gunpoint by police officer in Miami. The chances of that happening anywhere else in the vast, vast majority of world—maybe 191 countries—is pretty slim.
posted to MetaFilter by showbiz_liz at 1:35 PM on September 5, 2020

God Zuckerburp has a lot to answer for.

Just working on my 1st cup of coffee, and I initially assumed God Zuckerburp was a German far right leader. Should probably just go back to bed.
posted to MetaFilter by ryanshepard at 7:00 AM on August 30, 2020

WHY DO THE BREADS ALWAYS LOOK SO SOFT IN THESE STREET FOOD VIDEOS

Soft like a soft soulful breeze of sugar that I want to cuddle with my mouth and digestive apparatus.

Such soft breads.
posted to MetaFilter by turbid dahlia at 5:39 PM on August 24, 2020

اوہ میرے خدا مزیدار
اوہ میرے خدا مزیدار
اوہ میرے خدا مزیدار
اوہ میرے خدا مزیدار
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 12:53 PM on August 24, 2020

I lasted 2.5 videos before I had to stop because my stomach growled and I was afraid I'd try to eat my phone.
posted to MetaFilter by pointystick at 2:47 PM on August 24, 2020

Thorzdad, I’m 67 and I never ate a hamburger
posted to MetaFilter by growabrain at 2:25 PM on August 24, 2020

Loved the Egg Paratha video. I buy these Frozen Malaysian Style parathas, and this looks like a wonderful addon when I cook that.

The usual Anda Paratha that I get from restaurants is the paratha wrap with a maamlette. This way of doing it seems better as the eggs are incorporated as a layer on the paratha itself!!

BTW, if you are in the Chicago area; try Egg-O-Holic on Chicago and Halsted for egg based dishes from the larri food scene in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by indianbadger1 at 2:22 PM on August 24, 2020

I am going to go watch more of these right now but wanted to mention the kid mandoline-ing (gah!!!) cabbage in the Al Madina Special Egg Burger video, who speeds up a touch when he realizes he's being filmed.
posted to MetaFilter by quaking fajita at 1:59 PM on August 24, 2020

Went to a (Socially-distanced. No! Really!) cookout a few weeks ago. The host cooked burgers on the grill. So, for the first time in, oh, 30+ years, I ate a hamburger. It was tasty. Not “can’t wait to have another” tasty. Just perfectly edible as a one-off.
posted to MetaFilter by Thorzdad at 1:31 PM on August 24, 2020

I love chapli, but I'm not sure I want to watch it being made.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine at 1:30 PM on August 24, 2020

Whelp, there goes my productivity for the afternoon.
posted to MetaFilter by ba at 12:58 PM on August 24, 2020

YES
posted to MetaFilter by orange ball at 12:47 PM on August 24, 2020

90% of the time when I tell people that I teach English, I get 1 of 2 reactions:

1) "Oh, I hated English!" Yeah, thanks, I hate whatever it is you do for a living too, you jerk.

2) "I better make sure not to make any grammatical errors then!" I'm not an automated spell-check program, thanks though.
posted to MetaFilter by Saxon Kane at 1:33 PM on August 24, 2020

Tech's major problem is that it defunded journalism. As it happens, working societies need journalists -- if you can't manage what you can't measure, we fired all the people measuring society.

Half of journalism lost their job last year. HALF.

Of course none of this is "just tech", but it's a real effect, and we have to manage it.
posted to MetaFilter by effugas at 12:09 PM on August 24, 2020

I hope Kellyanne asked her family whether they would like to spend more time with her.
posted to MetaFilter by springo at 8:12 AM on August 24, 2020

lol at these grifters, lol at the racists who got conned, lol at Steve Bannon getting hauled in by post office cops, and lol at the fact that they're all going to get pardoned anyway. Or as one of the crooks on page 12 of the indictment put it, "Better than you or me lol"
posted to MetaFilter by theodolite at 11:37 AM on August 20, 2020

We were supposed to move into our new home in Felton today. It’s now under mandatory evacuation. All of our savings went into this house. I spent the last three weeks ripping out carpet, replacing drywall, painting, upgrading the electrical system and so much more. It was our chance to get out of the East Bay and into a place in the redwoods that our children could grow up in. Today was surreal. I’m sitting in an apartment full of boxes with two little kids who are going nuts from being stuck... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by not_the_water at 1:08 AM on August 20, 2020

I'm hitting F5 a lot tonight lol; get me out of this cursèd state.
posted to MetaTalk by fleacircus at 12:05 AM on August 20, 2020

He'll make a typo one day.

And the Internet will come for him.

There's already a Twitter account for that.

Personally I think he's doing God's work. The New York Times, the "Paper of Record", fired its copy staff in 2017, which has resulted not just in the hundreds of typos you see here, but also serious errors resulting from the loss of fact-checking and sub-editing that accompanies that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Theiform at 5:03 PM on August 19, 2020

I don't correct people's spelling and grammar because I want to feel superior. I correct people's spelling and grammar because the anomalies cause me perceptible emotional distress, and I want the pain to stop.
posted to MetaFilter by Faint of Butt at 1:37 PM on August 19, 2020

This is exactly, exactly what I'd expect from an appellate lawyer. Fucking. On. Brand.
posted to MetaFilter by joyceanmachine at 12:12 PM on August 19, 2020

Home to the DPP, an OVERTLY capital-R Racist, nativist party, who got 21% of the vote in national elections 2015 and 9% in 2019, Denmark's racism is pretty damn structural.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:38 PM on August 19, 2020

1. Professor Plum

2. The only thing we have to fear

3. Helpful directions
posted to MetaFilter by inflatablekiwi at 6:56 AM on August 19, 2020

These fuckers

The snack machine

This is a bad sign
posted to MetaFilter by Room 101 at 6:31 PM on August 18, 2020

don't dead, open inside
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 3:19 PM on August 18, 2020

Necronomicon
welp my sign link changed to someone elses so I think it can only handle so many at once....
posted to MetaFilter by msbutah at 3:18 PM on August 18, 2020

Lower expectations
posted to MetaFilter by meinvt at 7:42 PM on August 18, 2020

Famous movie lines. Go!

Keep your friends close....

I love the smell of napalm.

No, I am your father.

I see dead people.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by inflatablekiwi at 6:15 PM on August 18, 2020

simple
posted to MetaFilter by paper chromatographologist at 5:20 PM on August 18, 2020

just touch the fuzz
posted to MetaFilter by The Great Big Mulp at 5:02 PM on August 18, 2020