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Started by Tank, March 10, 2020, 07:43:23 AM

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Tank

Quote from: Dark Lightning on September 13, 2021, 09:58:44 PM
Ah, OK. Somehow I got that they hadn't been vaccinated. It must be a huge relief to know that they are vaccinated.

They both work in the NHS so they were some of the first guin..., people, vaccinated. :)
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
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Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

Tank

Quote from: billy rubin on September 14, 2021, 01:43:05 AM
last week i hsd a preload of wood pellets to go 650 miles to iowa. then they called and said take it back, shut down for covid.

today-seven days later-- i am under those same wood pellets going back to iowa.

hopefully they are all out of quarantine

Wood pellets = fuel?
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

Biggus Dickus

A friend of mine just got his 2nd dose of the vaccine, and 24 hours later BOOM!...he was stung by a bee. Do your research.
"Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With a chair."

billy rubin

Quote from: Tank on September 14, 2021, 07:53:53 AM
Quote from: billy rubin on September 14, 2021, 01:43:05 AM
last week i hsd a preload of wood pellets to go 650 miles to iowa. then they called and said take it back, shut down for covid.

today-seven days later-- i am under those same wood pellets going back to iowa.

hopefully they are all out of quarantine

Wood pellets = fuel?

sometimes. theycome in big sacksthatweigh a thousand kilos each, and i carry 22 of em.

sometimets times they go into those pellet stoves, but tbr people ive talked to use em for mixing in with liquid oil field spills or manure, so you move stuff around with a front end loader


"I cannot understand the popularity of that kind of music, which is based on repetition. In a civilized society, things don't need to be said more than three times."

Icarus

Can never be too sure about what Billy is telling us. That is what makes him so interesting.  Pallets....note the spelling, are the wooden frames that stuff is stacked upon prior to storage or transport..  Pellets are what rabbits poop, or in the case of wood pellets what the fire is made from, or if another kind of pellets it is the projectile that is emitted from a sling or air rifle.

billy rubin

lol

somretimes im not sure about what im saying

tbe wood pellets come in giant supetsacks, one to a 48-inch pallet. drawstring closure. theyre little pieces of chopped hardwoid, sometimes burned in woodstoves and sometimes used as an absorbant medium for chemical spills or to thicken liquid wastes so they can be disposed of in a landfill.

theyre a bitch to carry, because they have no fixed shape and travelling down the road makes the pellets settle, so the straps get loose and the sacks squeeze out from under

carrying steel is vadtly easier, or any rigid object


"I cannot understand the popularity of that kind of music, which is based on repetition. In a civilized society, things don't need to be said more than three times."

billy rubin

doibg flatbed i carry steel coils, sheet, plates, ingots, pipes, girders, shipping conytaoners, dressed lumber, boulders, vehicles, museum exhibits, machinery, agricultural equipment, you name it. csrried a load of beehives once. a flatbed holds some 577? hives, iirc.

yesterday i delivered steel coils for making cars and picked up concrete mats for lining drainage ditches


"I cannot understand the popularity of that kind of music, which is based on repetition. In a civilized society, things don't need to be said more than three times."

Icarus

It is well known that our world would be in deep shit without  long haul truckers.  Trucks bring everything from Blueberries to toilet paper. Not as well realized, they also bring the essential chemicals that purify our city water.


billy rubin

dont forget that toilet [aper

but i try to stay with a philosophy of of primary producion\

-- imake food

-- iproduce energy

-- i haul low levl goods

in my opinion. th elower the trophic levels we choose to live within, the betteroff outr toatal economy becomes


i n general this means, first thing, we hang all the lawyers


"I cannot understand the popularity of that kind of music, which is based on repetition. In a civilized society, things don't need to be said more than three times."

Anne D.

People keep using that quote. I don't think it means what they think it means : )

hermes2015

I had my Pfizer booster shot an hour ago and feeling nothing so far.
"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
― Charles Eames

Tom62

Quote from: hermes2015 on January 26, 2022, 07:40:18 AM
I had my Pfizer booster shot an hour ago and feeling nothing so far.

Normally, it takes some time (one day) to feel the effects. I had my booster shot 2 weeks ago and only felt a sore arm the day after.
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein

Ecurb Noselrub

Quote from: Anne D. on September 18, 2021, 06:13:08 AM
People keep using that quote. I don't think it means what they think it means : )
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Correct. I think Dick the Butcher or some bad guy said it.  So if you want tyranny, kill the lawyers.  If you want freedom, pay the lawyers!! Ecurb the Lawyer just said that.

Recusant

Reminding myself to get the next booster when it becomes available...

"Even mild cases of COVID-19 might result in brain shrinkage and impaired cognitive function" | PsyPost

QuoteMany people who have had COVID report feelings of "brain fog", fatigue and problems with concentration and memory long after their initial symptoms resolve. These problems, collectively referred to as "long COVID", may last for months even after mild infection.

Long COVID is very common, and may affect more than half of the people who catch COVID, even if they have a mild case.

Scientists collected data as part of the massive UK Biobank database. They looked at brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and tests of brain function in 785 volunteers who were assessed before the pandemic. They then compared this to the same data collected three years later, when about half of those participants had mild COVID infection, and the other half had not caught COVID. This allowed the scientists to determine the specific effects of mild COVID infection on brain structure and function.

The group who had mild COVID an average of five months beforehand had thinning of brain tissue in several brain regions, ranging from 0.2% to around 2% compared to their pre-COVID scan. This is equivalent to between one and six years of normal brain ageing. Affected brain regions included the parahippocampal gyrus (an area related to memory) and the orbitofrontal cortex, which is located at the front of the brain and is important for smell and taste.

The post-COVID group also showed a reduction in overall brain size between their MRI scans that wasn't seen in the non-COVID group, and had altered connections between different brain regions in the olfactory cortex, an area related to smell.

They performed worse in a test for attention and mental flexibility, a finding that was associated with volume reductions within a part of the cerebellum related to smell and social relationships.

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"Brain changes after COVID revealed by imaging" | Nature
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration — courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth."
— H. L. Mencken


Ecurb Noselrub

Yes, I'm waiting for Number Four.  Hope it comes around soon.

Sounds like Covid has about the same effect as long-term drinking - brain shrinkage. Except it is accelerated.