What a sweeter world that could have been…

The boss is a bologna elemental meat golem.

If anyone is down for a fascinating video essay about this by a textile historian: Standardized Sizes Ruined our Clothing Quality

Have you ever wondered how we let clothing quality get so bad? It wasn’t just desperation for cheaper options- the 18th century consumer would never have been willing to pay so much for such poor quality cloth. And yet, they stayed clothed. Even their cheaper options lasting years of hard wear. But they knew what quality looked like and for the most part, we don’t.

When did we forget how to shop for good clothing rather than just trendy? What makes clothing “high quality” is so complex and nearly impossible to track with online shopping. Even in person, it’s not a simple answer. But it used to be that more money meant more quality, plain and simple. Where did we mess up this system? Turns out, standardized sizing allowed (and even encouraged) far more than just issues with poor fit and body image.

I wish I knew. Scouring a metal bottle by using a bottle brush with a little water and rock salt or baking soda can help de-scum the films that lead to mold.

Historically, these are the consensus fave in reusable bottles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabash

Let history also remember that responders wheeled her inadequately covered gurney right by a live news reporter’s broadcast. This country can always eke out a little extra indignity in a death.

Thus, a world where we don’t protect each other is like an ouroboros of peeing Calvin stickers.

A well-sealed respirator mask like an N95 filters inhalation and exhalation extremely well.

Via https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2769443 :

No paywall: https://archive.md/2OxKx

“Pestilence” is such an underused word. They’re a lot like locusts.

Prayers should be applied topically or to worn armor, written on parchment and attached to a stamped wax seal infused with holy oils.

Thoughts are often immunosuppressive and should be guarded against with tinfoil headwear or nerve staples.

Both, I suppose. They go in on both anti-virus action and opposing pro-infection actors.

In their words, “The People’s CDC is a coalition of public health practitioners, scientists, healthcare workers, educators, advocates and people from all walks of life working to reduce the harmful impacts of COVID-19.”

do you think Hughes Aircraft people ever referred to jorkin’ it as “sprucing the goose?”

Trump’s health department is stacked with people hostile to the idea of public health. The People’s CDC, an anti-COVID advocacy organization, had this to say about NIH Director Bhattacharya in March prior to his confirmation:

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a health economist with a medical degree but no further medical training or practice. He endorsed and promoted mass COVID-19 infections to pursue an impossible to achieve infection-driven herd immunity. His policies such as mass infections relying on natural immunity would have led to even more illness, Long COVID, and deaths across the US. His extraordinarily wrong views on the pandemic include predicting, even late in 2020, that US COVID deaths would not reach 50,000, and assuring Floridians in mid-2021 that enough had been vaccinated – though far more have died since then. Videos from as recent as 2024 continue to show him advocating ineffective treatments for COVID-19 such as ivermectin, opposing layered protections against COVID-19, and belittling the value of important tools such as masking and vaccines.

Instead of focusing on advancing the medical sciences, Bhattacharya wants to intertwine politics and policies at NIH and prioritize funding based on academic freedom instead of innovative and impactful medical and health sciences research. If confirmed as the director of NIH, he will continue to downplay the seriousness of COVID-19 and potentially other infectious diseases, and steer NIH towards investment in ineffective treatments for diseases such as focusing on seroprevalence studies. Ultimately, this will harm and reverse the already monumental discoveries at NIH. He will likely assist Secretary Kennedy’s current efforts to delay and even prevent the development of effective therapeutics for infectious diseases, including COVID-19 – and for Long COVID. Finally, there is no reason to think he will fight this administration’s attacks on NIH staffing and cuts in research funding.

Johnson & Johnson’s non-mRNA one had some severe side effect incidents that got it pulled, and showed lower vaccine efficacy versus Pfizer and Moderna in trials before then. AstraZeneca’s vaccine was a somewhat similar story.

A lot of vaccines off older tech had no such issues. Notably, Novavax delivered a well tolerated high efficacy shot with more limited post-shot hangovers. Some research indicated that this was particularly true for folks with autoimmune conditions, some cancers, or MECFS.

Could I ask if you’ve you tried any other respirator masks than those KN95s? It kinda sounds as though you don’t love their fit or durability or the experience of wearing them. There’s a lot of variety to fit folks’ faces better and more comfortably, especially if you can get down with head straps instead of ear loops. This accessory exists to let you use a straw while masked, too: https://sipmask.com/

It would be a shame to lose vacationing days or have an unexpected health scare if you’re already putting some masking effort in, y’know?

LIMA, LENTIL, SOY, AND PINTO, NAVY, NORTHERN, AND GARBANZO!

You call kimchi and kombucha a war? There is no thunder in those drums. Lemmy is BEAN COUNTRY.

Paywall removed: https://archive.md/Ojpjm

Dismaying to read a whole-ass article in 2025 litigating all the arguments from that book without mentioning basic facts, such as that fucking Long COVID exists or that respirator masks work.

You’re just jealous of GWOT surplus carry handle mounted AR optics because they remind you how evolution didn’t grace you with eyestalks 🐌

Coral