JujuFish

With the Western Conference down to the Clippers and Suns, at least one team in the Finals will be one that has never won an NBA championship. Neat.

I've only been to a single Bills game. I was pretty young, don't really remember it much, other than I think we made a small comeback to win? This was probably early to mid 90s. When I go to sports games (admittedly pretty rare for me, have only been to one since moving to New England (a Red Sox game)), the home team always wins. The one exception was seeing the Yankees lose. The downside? I've seen more Sabres games in Philly than I have in Buffalo.

I don't watch much tennis, but it really is crazy. 58 grand slam titles between just the three of them. And, absurdly, only a single career grand slam for each. Djokovic and Federer are both 1-4 at the French Open finals, and Nadal is 1-4 at the Australian Open finals.

I'm not here to gatekeep. If you're outside, in nature, following a trail, that's good enough for me. My hike yesterday clocked in around 9 miles and 3200 feet of elevation. It was a good workout. Mount Moriah, #28 of 48 of my state's 4000 footers. I think I want to finish it this year.

Getting back into hiking. Took yesterday off and hiked with my roommate. Tomorrow I'm planning on a solo hike.

Oooooooohhhhh! I remember that. Thanks! Makes so much more sense now.

I never really understood Bills Mafia's obsession with Allen in shorts

The whole team played like garbage against KC, but you can't deny Allen had a bad game.

Please don't tell me I should be cheering for a Boston team. I don't think my mental state can handle it! 😛

Speaking of the NBA, does anyone here pull for the Clippers since they started in Buffalo? Basketball is the big 4 sport I care least about and never really pay attention to. I was pulling for Cleveland the year they won with LBJ, but that's mostly by association of my uncle living near Cleveland when I was growing up partially endearing me to their teams (which is a big reason I'm an Indians fan, further entrenched by their Bison-affiliated years).

Either you're misreading what you've read, or you never read the email. I'll help you out. It's on page 3187 of this document: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561/leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails.pdf Kristian Andersen at the time said 1) the features look potentially engineered and 2) further analyses need to be done. That same Kristian Andersen and his team then published https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 wherein they conclude "Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus."

You said Fauci was in possession of evidence that the virus was engineered and that he misled people about it. That is simply not consistent with the information that has been provided from the FOIA request.

Being a lab leak does not in any way mean it's engineered.

Mmmm, no. It isn't clear. Anyone taking a hard side on this issue, regardless of the side, is doing so without substantive evidence. That's because China has been uncooperative with investigations. That said, lab leaks happen. It could very well have been a leak. Wouldn't surprise me. It was known back in 2019 that that lab was studying bat coronaviruses.

Well...yay, I guess?

Anyone who studies human behavior. Let's say that instead of giving out 5 million dollars in five 1-million lotteries, they'd given out $5 with every dose. You'd likely harm the vaccination rate, because people would see that as a bad thing ("Why are you paying me to get this? Something must be wrong with it")

Did you even read the article you linked? Not only has there not been even a correlation, let alone a causal link, between the vaccine and myocarditis, the article even says: "The vaccine safety group says the “relatively few” reports of myocarditis “appear to be mild” and are below the expected baseline rates. "

I'd eat it. And I bet I'd love it.

I rarely ever get pepperoni pizza anymore, because once you've had thick, cup-shaped pepperoni, "normal" pepperoni pales in comparison.

What's a commercial?

Seems to me that it's an attempt to incentivize people to vaccinate.

Looking forward to (1) getting a nice hiking day in tomorrow and (2) trying Mass Effect Legendary Edition over the weekend. I've always wanted to get into the series because it's so beloved and I like sci-fi and RPGs.

I'm definitely curious to see how our defense does. Seemed like they were really picking up steam toward the end of last season, and then the Chiefs game happened.

They're going to have a good defense this year, I'm willing to bet. They were missing several key players last season, including Hightower who opted out.

If I thought you had no interest in learning, I would not have bothered to respond to you. I've gotten more than enough of that from conservative parts of my family. As for my news exposure, when I was making my own decision about vaccination, I did research. I didn't get my information from the news. I looked at research papers and studies, and checked what expert opinions on the matter were. I clearly was making an assumption that you got your information from news sources, which was shortsighted on my part (even though you didn't refute that), but I think based on your discussion of the coronavirus, my statement is still accurate. I've seen plenty of bias about SARS-CoV-2, even from fairly neutral sources. Just this morning, I was listening to some NPR, and during a topic about the tragedy happening with the virus in India, there was a brief mention of a new mutation. Instead of using a neutral phrase such as "the deadliness and contagiousness of this new mutation is currently unknown", the words that were said were something along the lines of "scientists are worried this could be more contagious or deadlier", which is certainly a more loaded way of conveying the information. Was NPR consciously (or subconsciously) trying to spread fear of the virus in hopes of creating a greater vaccination rate? I honestly don't know.