Eddieb

> Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China The new strain, scientists say, is carried by pigs but can infect humans and requires close monitoring. www.bbc.com Singapore will see your pork flu and raise you with potentially it's worst …

Florida tops 10,000 new cases in one day. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/02/886595119/another-day-another-coronavirus-record-in-florida

> New South Wales koalas on course to be extinct in the wild before 2050 A year-long New South Wales parliamentary inquiry has found koalas are on track to become extinct in the wild in NSW well before 2050 without urgent intervention to stop the …

> In Upload, there wasn’t the sense that people were killing themselves to live virtually. Instead, the characters in the virtual world were mostly people who died of something other than old age and the village was a place to try to live out the …

This is a free documentatary on Youtube and I'm watching it quite shocked. The first 57 minutes concentrates on racial history of the US and how that drove huge increases in incarceration rates in the US. From the 57 minute mark the story moves …

Same here, multiple 503's today

The economist.com has been mapping excess deaths vs coronavirus attributed deaths in a number of countries and has got the numbers to prove reported deaths do not capture the full …

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to invalidate Obamacare https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/25/politics/trump-administration-obamacare-supreme-court/index.html

If you zoom into the dam on Google Maps you can clearly see it's not straight. https://goo.gl/maps/HtuBzjRRtaNhHL2C7

China has just entered it's flood season in the Yangtze River Basin and is seeing some of its worst flooding in 80 years. Videos show extreme quantities of water which has inundated 10 provinces and cities and threatens the Three Gorges Dam which …

So far @Victoria is 3 for 3 on good recommendations so this looks like another I'll have to see.

> If that's something you're comfortable with, I could upload the relevant code snippets somewhere. I've not programmed in Kotlin but have in several other languages. Yes please I'd be keen to have a look at your code if possible.

> If Space-Time exists as a quantity, then arguably the entire universe is pre-determined. On a much shorter time scale a person is born and at some point they will die so our lives are all pre-determined in that sense, but it's the bit in between …

> Not having worked with WebView before, I gave it a try and ended up with a mostly functional Android app that could be put on the Play Store just an hour later. I might have to have a play with this for my New Zealand adventure riding site …

SPOILER ALERT So in the final confrontation Forest and Katie believe so strongly in the future being pre-determined that they don't even try to change what happens, even though they know Forest is going to die and have plenty of opportunity to do …

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/two-staffers-coronavirus-trump-rally/index.html More trump staff positive for Covid.

Houston says, We have a problem https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/121912549/covid19-us-three-weeks-away-from-being-overwhelmed

I guess this isn't old enough yet to start discussing things in a way that would reveal spoilers?

I got a 503 at about 7:30AM NZT. 45 minutes before this post.

It doesn't much look like a flood. Our local farmers market is busier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_eWvigBCzY

OH I HOPE SO! https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/06/20/trump-overflow-crowd-speech-phillip-sot-nr-vpx.cnn

One of the stipulations of buying a ticket to the Trump rally is that attendees agree to not prosecute Trump or any related entity if they contract Covid-19 at the rally. …

I'm sure Trumps Rally in Tulsa will create many stories. Here's the first one. https://www.msnbc.com/weekends-with-alex-witt/watch/police-arrest-protester-outside-trump-rally-arena-in-tulsa-85505093751 What law are police enforcing here?

> For me, I was just really happy to see a Fox News poll with sky-high approval of masks and low very low approval of rallies. Also, the rally has raised awareness of Juneteenth and the horrible massacre in Tulsa, so good things, right? They have …

> It’s going to be interesting in Tulsa this weekend where the seven-day case average is up 110% over last week. The big rally is indoors among older people who feel masks infringe on their liberty. I'm kinda disgusted in myself for having this …