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Right now the air quality in Oregon (and California and Washington) sucks. No, I mean really sux! This article from San Francisco about sums up the situation. NYT article on smoke in SF. But you know, if you cultivate marijuana, for example the regulation four plants we are allowed here in...

Have you ever noticed right wingers here always claim to be apolitical? Wouldn't you know it, just by coincidence they happen to defend whatever the president said, thats all.. :hmm:

I think his individualism is more thorough-going than that. He's saying you are on your own, period, full stop. If you have any misfortune it's your own fault or it's your own fault for being so impecunious as to have difficulty withstanding a misfortune you didn't cause, etc. Mayor, waiter...

So says the resolute, self-reliant individualist who lives in a state that receives $1.38 for every tax dollar they turn over to the federal government. All those other (nasty blue) states subsidize you, build your roads, pay for your parks, much of the underpinning of the society where you are...

Really? You want waiters and waitresses to do for self? How? Open lemonade stands? This is a fucking economic catastrophe and the party in power is twiddling its thumbs while it burns. This is not a handout. Some industries will die. How come the biggest ones get bailed out but the little...

If the repubs would go along with the more generous virus aid package the dems are pushing, some of those bars and restaurants that are now about to go under might stay afloat, and some of their erstwhile employees might actually be available to work once it's safe. But no, they got their tax...

Every year the fires in the western US get worse! I ended up fleeing Medford last night and spending the evening in a parking lot in Grant's Pass along with hundreds of other refugees. Weird, carnival atmosphere. (I brought a glass sherlock vapor genie and had a few surreptitious hits in the...

Back in January he told us Xi Jinping has very good control of the covid situation and everything will turn out fine and this does not pose a danger to the United States. We now know that his intelligence services told him something completely different and when cornered on the discrepancy told...

If they ever want to get significant participation in a vaccine, Trump, his son-in-law, Pence, and all the politicos must step back completely from the process and let the scientists and medical experts not only make all the announcements, but take charge of the effort. At this moment I am not...

What? You mean to say you don't trust this guy implicitly to rush a vaccine to the market safely and keep politics completely out of it? Come on! Has he ever lied to you? Or downplayed the views of the experts while promoting his own opinion or whim? Or taken risks with public health to...

Some of these more rural areas that are now seeing spread are very under-served for hospitals, equipment, doctors, nurses, staff... There are going to be some more preventable tragedies now, largely because of the chaos at the federal level.

Hey we're in a situation where a if you are older a bad decision can pretty easily result in death from covid. So fear is healthy.

They must turn over the docs to the DEA. Would that be the same way that the president's tax returns 'shall' be turned over to congress when congress demands them?

A troll? At least two. Probably quite a few. The latest trick is to pare down the number of covid deaths: if there was a "co-morbidity" well then the death doesn't count. So if your relative has high blood pressure or asthma or whatever, their death doesn't count as covid, even if covid...

Some of these general books like Rosenthal and Cervantes are slightly out of date as regards some of the technology, like recent developments in lighting, but they are very solid on the basics. I use Ed's book all the time and have the kindle version too so I can look things up.

Barry Blitt!

Why trust all the recognized health experts on the uselessness (nay, dangerousness) of hydroxychloroquine when you can instead believe rumors and hoaxes from the internet?

Ed Rosenthal: Marijuana Growers Handbook

There are some hot spots where there are too many new cases and tracing is impossible - those places need to tighten up restrictions or shut down until the numbers are workable with testing and tracing. The rest of the country can in fact and is doing testing and tracing quite successfully...

Right. Just to tease that out a little because some don't seem to understand, the actionable information yielded is: if positive, the person must isolate/quarantine and their contacts must also be traced and tested. The idea is that every infected individual is identified and isolated and their...