"These viruses are all competing with each other for advantage to be the one that survives," Durbin said. "We know that the Lambda variant has some of the same mutations as the Delta variant that we think [will] allow it to be more transmissible, so it would be difficult to outcompete the Delta variant."
Privacy advocates caution against giving the government another tool to monitor its citizens.
In time, I suppose we will, but that might be way too late.
I haven't counted the pages in this infrastructure bill, of course, but I've seen a picture of it and it's quite a stack. It's way, way more than anyone will ever read, and that includes the congresscritters who will be voting on it, and thee and me.
18 U.S. Code § 2384. Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
–William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
When the damage from Delta starts to subside, what other variants will be lurking just behind it to pull us back down again? The World Health Organization is already keeping an eye on several: Eta, which is now in several countries; Kappa, which arose in India; Iota, which first popped up in New York City—and especially Lambda, which has torn through Peru and shows signs of having unusual success in infecting fully vaccinated people, according to one early study. It has already spread to Argentina, Chile, Ecuador as well as Texas and South Carolina.
Panic will sell newspapers—or in this case, magazines—even better than Trump did.
*Not a typo.
Local media reported at the time that the man made no secret of his weapons collection and even brought the tank out during a bad winter to use as a snow plow.
While an OTG spokesperson told THE CITY the prices on the beer menu at LaGuardia were “incorrectly posted” due to back-end glitches and “quickly corrected” — to $18.15.
I suppose that's correctly high, then.
"Many of the findings are alarming, to put it mildly."
They'll do a better job fixing the potholes though, right?
“We are so fortunate to have really unique and funky vintage shops throughout Franklin County."
Seven of them, at least, featured on a brand new (i.e. non-vintage) vintage business web site.
(I'm trying to hum a song called Vintage-Related Rose. Isn't working.)
At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves.
“Although it's in industry's best interest … building the ships that you want to build, lagging on repairs to ships and submarines, lobbying Congress to buy aircraft that we don't need … it's not helpful,” the Navy's top officer said Monday at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space conference.
Yikes.
(And what they want is…drones. Lots of drones.)
He said Trump is “fully engaged, highly focused and remaining on task.”…Sarah Palin might be available!
Also and ear-opener and who knows whatever other kind of opener thing as well…
Assembled by experts at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the Satellite Database is a listing of the more than 4,084 operational satellites currently in orbit around Earth.
Get your very own list. [This is known in the trade as OSINT — Open Source Intelligence.]
Now the chair’s wooden joints are in splinters and the rope seat is no longer in place.
