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[vote-democrat-president-congress]

NYTimes:  “All of us knew tens of thousands were going to die, and we were helpless to stop it, said Dr. Daniel Wozniczka. It was really heartbreaking." 

"The Trump administration reprimanded Dr. Nancy Messonnier, a senior C.D.C. official, for warning Americans to prepare for a pandemic.

Two days later, on Feb. 27, C.D.C. employees were told that all messaging from the agency would be routed through Vice President Mike Pence, who had assumed leadership of the coronavirus task force.

That day, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, who led the C.D.C. during the swine flu pandemic of 2009, declared on Twitter that the coronavirus “pandemic is coming,” prompting one E.I.S. officer to remark: “Someday I hope to tweet with the freedom of a former C.D.C. Director.”

Things were unfolding strangely on the ground, as well. E.I.S. officers were dispatched to airports around the country to screen passengers arriving from China for infection with the new virus — but told not to wear masks, so as not to alarm the public.”

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[posttexasstressdisorder]

Coz most fuckin’ idiots can’t even find it.  And once they DO, they don’t know what to do with it.

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[re-x]

New research confirming what many cat owners and cat lovers have known forever.

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[apartness]

Earth’s rotation slows ever so slightly from year to year, and the astronomical second (like the astronomical day) has gradually grown longer than the atomic one. To compensate, starting in 1972, metrologists began occasionally inserting an extra second — a leap second — to the end of an atomic day. In effect, whenever atomic time is a full second ahead, it stops for a second to allow Earth to catch up. Ten leap seconds were added to the atomic time scale in 1972, and 27 more have been added since.

The process of squaring these two time scales has become so unruly that the world’s time mavens have made a bold decision: to abandon the leap second by 2035. Civilization will wholly embrace atomic time; and the difference, or tolerance, between atomic time and Earth time will go unspecified until timekeepers come up with a better plan for reconciling the two. The vote, in the form of Resolution D, occurred on Friday at a meeting in Versailles of the Bureau’s member nations.

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[buffleheadcabin]

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[chavisory]

Yesssssss

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[eptoday]

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[noneofthisisreal]

i know what species spreads the most death and destruction on our tattered garden planet

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[feedng]

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[mrlsci-blog]

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[leapingmonkeys]

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[an-elvish-disquiet]

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[snowshoe1980]

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[sethshead]

This article only demonstrates how far we are from practical fusion energy.

Ignition is an important first step, but it does not match the energy needed to power the lasers, much less heat the laboratory to fabricate the pellets. Anyone who thinks fusion power is around the corner or even viable now is deluding themselves. LaRouchists are high on their own supply. Climate change mitigation will have to come from environmental conservation to preserve existing carbon traps; reducing demand through efficiency gains and population stability; expansion of renewable energy sources such as geothermal, hydroelectric, solar, and wind; and accepting the risks of nuclear fission energy.

Fusion remains science fiction. To face today’s challenges, we must rely on today’s technologies.

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[covid19-clarity]

Deaths from opioids increased among Americans aged 65 and older by 53 percent in 2020 over the previous year, the National Center for Health Statistics found. Alcohol-related deaths, which had already been rising for a decade in this age group, rose by 18 percent.

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[newsworthy56]

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