What? Lock up my SPAM?

SPAM goes on lockdown due to inflation in NYC

“I’ve never seen that before!” one cashier laughed while using a magnet to remove a can of Spam from its cage.

Forget COVID. Forget climate change. 

This is serious. 

So what we're saying here…

New data suggests the CDC’s COVID guidance to isolate for 5 days after testing positive is wrong. You should follow Joe Biden’s example instead

…is that even the government doesn't trust the government's advice?

[UPDATE: He got better, and then got worse again.]

To quote a CBS Sports guy talking yesterday about a soccer game played in England:

"You never see that very often."

Block those words

Discord’s new content moderation tool will automatically block words and phrases

In an effort to help its own moderators out, Discord has developed a new automated content moderation [sic] tool.

Orwell saw this coming in 1984:

“‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.’”

Too Big to Fail: Not just for banks anymore

Congress OKs bill to aid computer chip firms, counter China

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a $280 billion package to boost the semiconductor industry and scientific research in a bid to create more high-tech jobs in the United States and help it better compete with international rivals, namely China.

 Abetted by a raging political fetish for globalization at the end of the last century American industrialists rushed to move their operations to locales offering lower — much lower — labor costs {see NAFTA, for example). As a foreseeable result, U.S. manufacturing capabilities shriveled. 

Now the bill comes due: As usual, the taxpayers pick it up.

If you're going to make a mistake, make it as big as you possibly can.

What it's about

PACT Act and Camp Lejeune Justice Act blocked by Senate

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Honoring Our PACT Act meant to extend healthcare benefits for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals both at home and abroad has just been blocked by the Senate.

Jon Stewart says it right

 It's nasty. It's passionate. It's a little long. And it's absolutely right.

When did this happen, exactly?

 

Almost like a day at the beach

 

(The guy's working on our new library there.)

Having an uneventful summer so far?

Whale breaches, lands on boat off Massachusetts coast in dramatic video

We can fix that.

Make no little plans

Inside Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Build a Skyscraper That Stretches for 75 Miles

Designers of the Mirror Line propose two parallel structures traversing mountains and desert as part of a futuristic development to transform the kingdom

H/T Daniel Burnham, Chicago architect 

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