Thank you!

Okay, but what does the duck mean?

He is I and I am him
Slim with the tilted brim, what’s my motherfuckin’ name?

As a follow up, possible Iranian malware be damned, this turned out to be the smoothest running version of the game that I tried.

BitDefender didn’t find anything, but of course that doesn’t mean anything after you have the app installed.

Others that I tried had Chinese stuff on bootup, and stuttered when running.

I’m of that generation where the Internet meant that “information needs to be free” but I’ve come around to paying for, aka supporting, (what is IMO) quality journalism and opinion (I’m not necessarily just referring to the Atlantic), especially my local news.

Or you can try archive.ph to see if they have an archived version of the article.

“‘Nothing can be done’ say officials in the only country where this happens regularly”

“‘Nothing can be done’ say officials in the only country where this happens regularly”

Hahaha, you think precedent actually means anything to SCROTUS.

I did find an APK on some outfit called apkvision.org, installed it, but it had something something about Iran, so I probably now have Iranian malware on my phone. 😓

Waiting for the SCROTUS to declare that the Comstock Act trumps state constitutions because that’s what the founding fathers intended /s.

That’s currently true, but I was also referring to the universe of Starship Troopers (the movie, vs the Heinlein novel), where it appears that birthright citizenship is no more, and military service (to the crypto-fascist government) is the only realistic path to citizenship for most US residents in that universe.

Would you like to know more?

Plague Inc. comes in at the top of a search in the Play Store for “pandemic” but I understand that it’s kind of a reverse concept of the Pandemic boardgame: You try to wipe out those pesky humans by developing an incurable virus.

I might be inclined to give it a try if I can’t find a decent implementation of Pandemic.

Not when the community notes will be written by AI, and voted on by bots.

Whomever has the most AI and bots to swamp the notes with their text and generate votes wins.

Does that sound like a good way to get facts?

Did anyone ever think of think tanks as anything other than thin veils of credibility for whatever they were advocating for?

The Heritage Foundation, and the Hoover Institution, for example.

Sure, I’ll bite:

In 2024 up to week 50, there have been 45,447 deaths involving COVID-19. This is compared to 159,940 deaths involving flu or pneumonia and 2,892,661 deaths from all causes in the same time frame.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

For comparisons sake, traffic accident deaths in the first three quarters of 2024 were 29,135.

I think the government has a good handle on COVID-19 now with more-or-less mass vaccination, so it’s not going to cause mass deaths and disabilities.

I’m more worried about H5N1 bird flu, more currently the affect it’s having on milk and egg prices (over USD$12/doz. yikes!) and the potential to mutate to direct human-to-human transmission.

From https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22401-bird-flu dated 12/5/2024

What’s the mortality rate of bird flu?

Overall, the mortality (death) rate for bird flu in humans is high — historically, about half of all people with known infections have died. But most recent cases in the U.S. have been mild.

My apologies, I assumed that you lived in the United States, where 40% sewer coverage for a city would not be good.

Only 40% sewers in your city?!?

What state is that in, may I ask, so I can never go there.