Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

@joelvanderwerf @futurebird It's also the name of a local metal band, who perform in Klingon and have a seven-foot, one-armed lead signer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stovokor_(band)

@douglips @futurebird From the 1991 TTRPG Toon:

Unbelievably Silly Species Table
...
25 Matador
26 Manta ray
31 Manatee
32 Manitou
33 Minotaur
34 Man o' war
35 Manticore
36 Manilow (Barry)
...

@Jinshei I presume it has to marinate in the dirt and it has to be moved regularly for security reasons.

@pieceofthepie #Violet, who is probably part Corgi, still has one of the toys that came home with her over eight years ago.

@Jinshei Yes, #Violet does this!

@Pat

> DT was in office for the first 11 months of the epidemic in the US. During the first 11 months of the Biden admin, more people died than under Donald.

That's cherry picking. It ignores the lower numbers in Biden's second's year and includes a huge spike just as Biden took office, before his policies could have changed anything. It's also not true.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-have-more-americans-died-covid-under-joe-biden-donald-trump-1661528

> I'm sure you've read my previous posts on this

You would be wrong about that.

> Did hear any PSAs telling people to wear respirators?

Yes! Constantly! Through the mainstream media!

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-updates-mask-guidelines-know-n95-kn95-masks-rcna12302

@Pat Huh, that's weird. I clicked on the link in the Wikipedia article. It works -- because even though the text in the article says publichealthemergency.gov, the link is to phe.gov.

So: the site works, but the Wikipedia article give the wrong URL (weirdly, only in the text).

@Pat It worked fine for me.

@Pat Media and some other sources. I don't claim to be an epidemiologist.

That said, even if the TOTAL deaths under Biden have been higher, you have to take into account that Biden has been dealing with the pandemic for about twice as long. The deaths PER DAY have been lower under Biden.

Why do I think we had more deaths than other countries? Republicans, pure and simple. Even as health authorities begged people to get vaccinated and wear masks, Republicans told people not to and sued to prevent any mask requirements.

@boardgamebreakdown It works as a light dice game. I'm planning to have my software development students implement it as a practice project.

Looking forward to the video!

@Pat "GQP" is my snarky conflation of GOP and QAnon. It seems that the majority of that party has gone off the deep end.

I guess I'm not ready to believe in the sort of vast, evil conspiracy you describe. Even Trump doesn't have killing people as his goal; he just doesn't care about anyone but himself. I certainly don't believe Fauci or Biden want more people to die.

The difference with Exxon is that we have the smoking gun: they paid for ads saying climate change isn't a problem while their internal research said the opposite. (See also the Ford Pinto.)

When I complain about "capitalism", I mean runaway, unregulated, laissez-faire, every-man-for-himself, predatory capitalism. I'm not opposed to commerce or a profit motive within limits, but we need to tax the rich and spend tax money on things that benefit all of us (like health care and public transit).

Elections are, of course, the easiest means to nonviolent revolution. Don't like the people in power? Throw 'em out. Our elections are flawed and under attack, but changing things any other way is much more difficult.

@boardgamebreakdown Nope, the only requirement is to play at least one game starting with that letter.

We've played other things in the past fortnight: Floriferous, Mandala, Parks, Qwixx, and Votes for Women.

Yes, we've been playing a LOT of games lately, because we both happened to have some vacation time. Next week it's back to the bit mines.

@dria Iron Helm is decent for solo.

For two players (competitive), consider Claustrophobia.

Dungeon Twister also has a lot going for it.