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Braintree

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  1. 19 minutes ago, Squee said:

    Read last night that New York is getting ready to open up again. Do any of you who live in big cities feel comfortable going out again?

     

    I feel that California is opening too fast. Feels like they've set some arbitrary time and are doggedly adhering to that goal. SF is in the yellow tier (least restrictive tier) starting this week, and I think LA is moving there soon, so maybe I'm wrong.

  2. 1 hour ago, J3FF3R00 said:

    On an unrelated note, Trump (sorry to bring him up... we're all trying to move on... I hope) is the closest thing our country has ever had to an anarchist president and the new ilk of the post-Trump Republican party is basically trying to engineer a veiled vision of anarchy where those with power and influence grab what they can from the devastation. Prove me wrong.

    Of its many facets, Anarchism is basically about removing hierarchy. Trump definitely 100% craved nothing but rigid hierarchy. Being opportunistic about the chaos they cause is not representative of anarchist theory. It's perfectly capitalist.

  3. Use diatomaceous earth.

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    Diatomaceous earth (DE) has many uses, but one of the most popular is as an insect killer. DE is not a poison, but a naturally occurring product that works through mechanical (physical) means to kill pests. Unlike many chemical products, bugs will never become resistant to it.

    Diatomaceous earth is the fossilized remains of a type of algae known as a diatom. The shells of these diatoms are made mostly of silica, and when crushed up, they form a soft, white powder. Diatomaceous earth has microscopic, razor-sharp edges that are harmless to humans and other animals, but deadly to insects.

    When insects crawl through the diatomaceous earth, the microscopic sharp edges work like shards of glass, slicing open their exoskeletons. As soon as the waxy outer covering of the bug is pierced, the insect will slowly begin to dry out. DE is also excellent at absorbing moisture, so the more the insect contacts the diatomaceous earth, the faster it will dehydrate. Thus, the actual means by which diatomaceous earth kills bugs is through desiccation.

     

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  4. Factory Owners Around the World Stand Ready to Manufacture Covid-19 Vaccines

    Bill Gates said he doesn’t think the recipe for the vaccine should be shared. Drugmakers are eager to retrofit their facilities and get to work.

    https://theintercept.com/2021/04/29/covid-vaccine-factory-production-ip

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    Gates suggested that it could be unsafe to share the critical information that allows vaccines to be more widely produced: “There’s only so many vaccine factories in the world, and people are very serious about the safety of vaccines. And so moving something that had never been done — moving a vaccine, say, from a [Johnson & Johnson] factory into a factory in India — it’s novel — it’s only because of our grants and expertise that that can happen at all.” The delay in getting vaccines to low- and middle-income countries, he added, was shorter than expected. “Typically in global health, it takes a decade between when a vaccine comes into the rich world and when it gets to the poor countries.”

    Yet, in the past few months, the danger of not transferring the knowledge more quickly has become painfully clear, with deaths climbing in India, Brazil, and other parts of the world that have been unable to procure adequate supplies of vaccines while richer countries stockpile them.

     

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