I'm being lazy and you can pick this apart all you want, but the evidence is that it worked and was very well into statistical significance range:

Interpretation
Our results showed that US counties with higher proportions of persons 12 years of age fully vaccinated against COVID-19 had substantially lower rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths—a finding that showed dose response and persisted even in the period when Delta was predominant.

From:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjour...
County-level vaccination coverage and rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States: An ecological analysis

1 - Someone would figure out there was a SIM card in there. RF can't hide from a spectrum analyzer.
2 - Ground the antenna once we find it's in there. Ok, sure, you'll void the warranty, but if you're reading this, you don't care.

There's always a way.

Rhesus Macaques are carriers of Macacine alphaherpesvirus 1, better known as B-Virus. In non-human primates, it's annoying, roughly the same as a cold sore in a human. In humans, however, it has something around an 80% case fatality rate with limited treatment options available.

The colonies are routinely tested for B-Virus by PCR, but it's possible that the virus is dormant in a given animal, resulting in a negative test. While that animal wouldn't be able to infect a human AT THAT MOMENT, they could start shedding virus at any time afteward. All Old-World Primates are assumed to be B-Virus carriers, with appropriate protection for the humans always exercised.

So, no, while they may not have been used in any procedures that would introduced a transmissible disease to them, they can be a threat to human health anyway.

"WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Christians on Friday that if they vote for him this November, "in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."

There are many ways to interpret this line. I like to think in 4 years we can vote again.

> You cannot copyright a name like "Gollum" or an idea like "let's tell a story about looking for Gollum after the trilogy."

That is a totally wrong interpretation of copyright law in the United States, which specifically covers derivative works (parody, criticism, and other Fair Use provisions notwithstanding).

Hybrid learn from home is not going away

I installed Ubuntu Budgie, Steam, and OnlyOffice two months ago and I Never Looked Back

In Boston, which has no dedicated bus lanes and a marginal-at-best rail system, you can be stuck on the same bus watching the same Netflix show as the person in the car stuck in the same traffic jam you are.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wric.com%2Fnews%2Floca...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fartic...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbaynews9.com%2Ffl%2Ftampa%2F...

The equivalent of this *never* happens with ICE vehicles. Right?

Different web, different place. I miss the old /. with the longass threads of discussion and some well-considered answers that would go on for a page or two. Usually learned something, too, even if it was a perspective I didn't agree with.

We're all still on a list, yes. The intertubes don't forgive or forget. .....slashdotting: back in, eh, 97-98, one of my friends had a little site on the school's server. He gets a call from the admin screaming one day, saying that the traffic had gone up something like 100000x in 4 hours on his little page and he was shutting it off because it was eating most of the school's bandwidth and capacity. DDOS, indeed. WTF?
Yup, slashdotted. Still a funny memory.

Ah, the Audi 5000 mess:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.curbsideclassic.co...

TL;DR: It wasn't Audi. It wasn't even an engineering problem. It was the fact that it was unusually narrow spacing between the gas and brake pedals, and the fact they were nearly the same size. Great for heel-and-toe shifting, really bad for American drivers used the 9" wide brake pedal on a Buick. The car didn't have an override for the gas and brake being pressed at the same time, so even if someone was laying on the brakes, it was possible they were stepping on the gas at the same time. The harder they pressed the brakes, the harder the car would pull. The brakes would eventually overpower the engine, but not until the driver was scared somewhat shitless.

Audi was confused as shit about this problem originally, as the entire engine control system was the same as the cars sold in Germany, and they hadn't had a single reported case of this in the country. It was something that only was happening in the American market. Eventually they figured it out, but not until well after the PR damage was done.

Not exactly, or not universally at least:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

The "Exploder" moniker was, at least in the USA, due to the Firestone tires "exploding" on a large number of 1st gen. Ford Explorers.

You weren't paying attention.

I had a Miss Bistany in 1st grade.
Later that year, the name tag was Mrs. Bistany.

Wasn't hard to figure out.

"Because they were professionals and stuck to their topics. Their private life was not a school to[ic."
The K-12 educator that manages to keep their entire private life separate from school is rare. College is different.

"The teacher's job is to instruct in reading, math, science, etc."

On paper, sure.
In reality, a K-8 teacher is mom,dad,counselor,cook,friend,comedian,historian,protector,psychologist,teacher,confideant
This is not new. This isn't even 1930's new. This is one of the reasons that so many of the teachers found the underpaying job so, so, rewarding: it's never been just about the teaching.

Disney isn't the first, or last, for any of that kind of public-private game. This isn't exactly the same thing, but I'm too lazy to really find the right links now:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Frethinkq.adp.com%2Fartif...

We do have a long, storied, history in the USA about companies in then-remote areas setting up shop with very "special" rules. Disney was smart enough to capitalize on that for decades after building in the middle of Alligator Alley.