And those were/are likely fascinating discussions.
But arguing against what I said won’t really get you anywhere.
I have to acknowledge that this is a great metaphor.
I saw this morning that Kennedy’s lawyer is asking the FDA to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. If anything should tank his nomination, this should. The fucker is insane.
“Should” being the operative word, I’m not counting on things going the way they “should” in government for at least a couple of years.
My wife’s grandma is still kicking around and she survived childhood polio. It’s not something so far in the past that it’s ancient history. It could be a serious threat if we are stupid about it.
Programmer here. Maybe we are asking AI different sorts of questions. I find it helpful for a quick reference instead of spending 15 minutes googling something.
Shit. For a test, I asked it to write Python code to find the latitude and longitude of any address I imputed.
It gave me the code.
It took it 8 seconds. It was correct, and worked.
I’m retiring in a year.
But how much of that code is proprietary? That’s an issue my wife is having with her coders. They’re using ChatGPT to write code, and she’s having to reject quite a lot due to licensing issues.
My sister-in-law survived childhood polio. It wasn’t all that long ago.
I’m sure that in the confirmation hearing he will say that he has no intention to revoke any vaccine, and then Susan Collins will vote for him only to be shocked that he reneges 3 months later.
Holy shit. My folks thought I might have polio because my growth spurts caused severe muscle weakness.
Polio is a horrific disease that used to put people in iron lungs.
Guessing the Chicken Pox Vax is next.
I remember it well, and I remember standing in line with my mother to get the vax. I also remember a classmate, Joey Romig, who ended up in an iron lung. And this fucker would revisit that horror on us all.
I’m so sorry @Chefguy. That is all.
That reads a lot snarkier – after the passage of some time – than what my brain was thinking.
For which, @Cervaise , I apologize.
As a gesture of contrition, may I arrange a visit for you with Nancy Pelosi??
Take it or leave it. I won’t be offended 
Cool - two pit posts in a row with apologies.
what’s this world coming to?
Yeah, as soon as it was available, my mom rushed us to the location where the health dept was adminstering the shots/sugar cubes. Younger people don’t realize the terror that polio induced.
Oh, goody. I can’t wait for the sun to start coming up at 3 AM every June from now on.
To be fair, the twice-annual clock changes are indeed stupid and inconvenient, and DST should be ended. In fact, the European Parliament came to an agreement in principle several years ago to do exactly that. So it’s hardly a controversial idea.
The only reason the EU’s plan didn’t proceed to implementation is (a) there was disagreement between northern and southern states as to which direction to set the permanent clocks, and (b) COVID derailed the negotiations for a couple years.
Now, though, it’s back on the agenda.
Of course, Trump being Trump, I’m sure he and his minions will come up with the worst possible way to handle the change. Maybe they’ll split the difference and the US will be permanently half an hour off the rest of the world, one way or the other, and it’ll be labeled “US Trump Time” and he’ll sell an affordable line of wall clocks and wristwatches with a gold-inlaid “Trump Time” logo, the most accurate timekeeping devices ever created by man, makes a great gift, operators are standing by.
So now, instead of being able to get in 18 holes after work, I’ll have to get in 18 holes before work?
Well, I’m in Canada so it shouldn’t affect me; but given how our (US and Canada) schedules are so intertwined, it will. We’ll have to do the same, on the whim of a doofus none of us could vote against.
His loverboy tried that half hour time switch.
On 5 August 2015, the North Korean government decided to return to UTC+08:30, effective 15 August 2015, and said the official name would be Pyongyang Time or (PYT).[8][9] The government of North Korea made this decision as a break from “imperialism”; the time zone change went into effect on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Korea.[10] The South Korean government officials worried about inconvenience in Inter-Korean exchange and cooperation, including commuting to and from the Kaesong Industrial Region, and further difference of lifestyle between the North and South Korean people.
Now that Trump’s loverboy is cutting off all connections with the South, that might be back on Kim’s agenda.
Another country whose leader Trump loves is China. According to Suncurves.com, the earliest sunrise in the year in Beijing is at 5:10 a.m.; the latest sunrise in the year is at 8:20 a.m.; the earliest sunset in the year is at 4:11 p.m.; the latest sunset in the year is at 7:19 p.m.
I, for one, would greatly appreciate China resurrecting the previous five time zone divisions for the country and DST. I’m really getting tired of commuting in the dark at 5:30 p.m. now.
That’s actually not a bad compromise. We can deal with a half hour additional difference. There’s several places around the world that are half an hour off, notably the entire country of India, and they somehow manage.
Of all of life’s myriad inconveniences, changing clocks twice a year has to be one of the most minor. By far the worst part of it is listening to people complain about it online.