This Story Makes The Trump Administration Look VERY Bad

[Bill Sloman]

On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 4:19:15 AM UTC+10, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 11:00:46 -0700, jlarkin wrote:

walking up on the right side without a mask. I passed a woman walking
down, wearing a cloth mask. When she saw me, she leaped to the side of
the path and hunched down against the opposite sidewall until I passed.

Hmmmm.. https://tinyurl.com/ya2a7wvy



I hope her PTSD doesn't disable her for too many years.

Not sure about PTSD, but I reckon OCD-sufferer numbers will skyrocket
over the next few years as people develop an obsessive aversion to germs
and modify their behaviour in psychologically-unhealthy ways.

Cursitor Doom does need to be reminded that Covid-19 is a virus, rather than a germ.

If you catch something that kills you, you haven't got brain to be psychologically unhealthy. If everybody else is also behaving in a way that minimises their chances of getting infected, that makes the behaviour normal and thus psychologically healthy. If you deviate from it, you become a deviant.

That wouldn't be psychologically healthy.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[bitrex]

On 4/19/2020 10:26 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:47:16 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/19/2020 8:12 PM, whit3rd wrote:
On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 1:58:10 PM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:54:31 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com
wrote:


Larkin Syndrome: perceiving fear, hysteria, panic in every situation

They're sure popular right now, about this cold virus.

Virus, yes. Cold, no; it was always anomalous, not the same symptoms
as any cold or flu.

But in general, most people let unreasonable fear overpower thinking.

There's the Larkin Syndrome again. It only took two sentences to go back there.


Larkin has likely never had much opportunity to experience real fear in
his life I expect.

Correct.

so the concept of what it is never took form in his
mind.

I have to observe its curious effects second-hand.



I doubt he's ever been in a real street-fight or taken a punch in anger
from someone capable of doing real harm. That's not uncommon among young
men today either - all Internet tough-talk but they've never once been
in a real fight or drilled straight in the mouth and down to the ground
for running their mouth at the wrong time, at the wrong dude.

A small amount of life experience like that does tend to engender a
certain humility.

Oh, I've had some violence, almost killed a few times. But why would I
run my mouth at any dude? Why would anyone sane seek a street fight?
Friendly takes less energy and spills less beer.

Some guys go looking for fights, and sometimes fights come to you. The
former type of guy tends not to last too long he ends up dead or in
prison sooner or later.

In electronics design, the consequences of taking risks is small and
easily planned for. The payoffs can be huge. But even there, people
miss out because they are afraid.

Only psychopaths, fools, and liars don't experience anxiety or fear from
time to time, true facts. It's a normal biological response. Yes, like
pooping.

 

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:01:18 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/19/2020 10:26 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:47:16 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/19/2020 8:12 PM, whit3rd wrote:
On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 1:58:10 PM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:54:31 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com
wrote:


Larkin Syndrome: perceiving fear, hysteria, panic in every situation

They're sure popular right now, about this cold virus.

Virus, yes. Cold, no; it was always anomalous, not the same symptoms
as any cold or flu.

But in general, most people let unreasonable fear overpower thinking.

There's the Larkin Syndrome again. It only took two sentences to go back there.


Larkin has likely never had much opportunity to experience real fear in
his life I expect.

Correct.

so the concept of what it is never took form in his
mind.

I have to observe its curious effects second-hand.



I doubt he's ever been in a real street-fight or taken a punch in anger
from someone capable of doing real harm. That's not uncommon among young
men today either - all Internet tough-talk but they've never once been
in a real fight or drilled straight in the mouth and down to the ground
for running their mouth at the wrong time, at the wrong dude.

A small amount of life experience like that does tend to engender a
certain humility.

Oh, I've had some violence, almost killed a few times. But why would I
run my mouth at any dude? Why would anyone sane seek a street fight?
Friendly takes less energy and spills less beer.

Some guys go looking for fights, and sometimes fights come to you. The
former type of guy tends not to last too long he ends up dead or in
prison sooner or later.

In electronics design, the consequences of taking risks is small and
easily planned for. The payoffs can be huge. But even there, people
miss out because they are afraid.



Only psychopaths, fools, and liars don't experience anxiety or fear from
time to time, true facts.

Not always, not for everyone.

It's a normal biological response. Yes, like
pooping.

Your favorite theme again. Do you have troubles with your internal
processing?



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

Science teaches us to doubt.

Claude Bernard

 

[bitrex]

On 4/20/2020 1:06 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:01:18 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/19/2020 10:26 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:47:16 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/19/2020 8:12 PM, whit3rd wrote:
On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 1:58:10 PM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:54:31 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com
wrote:


Larkin Syndrome: perceiving fear, hysteria, panic in every situation

They're sure popular right now, about this cold virus.

Virus, yes. Cold, no; it was always anomalous, not the same symptoms
as any cold or flu.

But in general, most people let unreasonable fear overpower thinking.

There's the Larkin Syndrome again. It only took two sentences to go back there.


Larkin has likely never had much opportunity to experience real fear in
his life I expect.

Correct.

so the concept of what it is never took form in his
mind.

I have to observe its curious effects second-hand.



I doubt he's ever been in a real street-fight or taken a punch in anger
from someone capable of doing real harm. That's not uncommon among young
men today either - all Internet tough-talk but they've never once been
in a real fight or drilled straight in the mouth and down to the ground
for running their mouth at the wrong time, at the wrong dude.

A small amount of life experience like that does tend to engender a
certain humility.

Oh, I've had some violence, almost killed a few times. But why would I
run my mouth at any dude? Why would anyone sane seek a street fight?
Friendly takes less energy and spills less beer.

Some guys go looking for fights, and sometimes fights come to you. The
former type of guy tends not to last too long he ends up dead or in
prison sooner or later.

In electronics design, the consequences of taking risks is small and
easily planned for. The payoffs can be huge. But even there, people
miss out because they are afraid.



Only psychopaths, fools, and liars don't experience anxiety or fear from
time to time, true facts.

Not always, not for everyone.


It's a normal biological response. Yes, like
pooping.

Your favorite theme again. Do you have troubles with your internal
processing?

An interesting aside many years ago I dated a young Jewish woman who
told me in rabbinical Judaism there is a ritual for claiming and
purifying donkey excrement on the side of the road. Now, at the time I
thought she was just pulling my leg but now I believe it may well be
true. The Jewish people are a remarkable and ancient people and have
survived for many thousands of years. but sometimes do tend to have a
penchant for scatological humor themselves.

I think the thing about the ritual had to do with re-enforcing a concept
of one's own humility, as often in nature humility equals longevity.
Like ah, y'know, sea turtles, maybe. Not that I'm saying Jews are sea
turtles.

Anyway she eventually left me for a lawyer I think it was and married
him some time after. Nice guy, good family man. Made a good couple. Even
though she broke it off I found it very difficult to be angry at her for
anything.

 

[bitrex]

On 4/19/2020 10:52 PM, Ricky C wrote:

On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 5:23:07 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:
On 4/19/2020 11:32 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 1:10:37 AM UTC+10, bloggs.fre...@gmail.com wrote:
U.S. exported millions in masks and ventilators ahead of the coronavirus crisis- Jan/Feb 2020.

The White House and congressional intelligence committees were briefed on the scope and threat of the coronavirus in January and February, but President Donald Trump has not stopped exports of key medical equipment – a move taken by at least 54 other countries so far.

The data show how U.S. manufacturers stepped up production and cleared out inventory to supply protective medical equipment to China for weeks, even as the threat of the coronavirus became clear.

Can we say rank incompetence?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/02/us-exports-masks-ppe-china-surged-early-phase-coronavirus/5109747002/

Let's just say that Donald Trump doesn't seem to have access to a particularly reliable crystal ball.

It's actually pretty odd that the US has done such a bad job of containing the epidemic. China seems to have contained it pretty effectively from a standing start, and places like Taiwan and South Korea had more warning and did better.


Trump doesn't much care if he saves something or wrecks it so long as
his name is in the headline and the history books as the man responsible

To Trump blame is rather like carbon credits. You keep people around who can assume the liability for blame. They are then shed from the group after they have taken their capacity. So he is paying them for their blame credits.

<https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-supporters-are-willing-to-die-to-reopen-economy-when-its-my-time-to-go-gods-going-to-call-me-home/>

So long as they stay among their own kind let them have their wish, I
suppose.

 

[bitrex]

On 4/19/2020 10:52 PM, Ricky C wrote:

On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 5:23:07 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:
On 4/19/2020 11:32 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 1:10:37 AM UTC+10, bloggs.fre...@gmail.com wrote:
U.S. exported millions in masks and ventilators ahead of the coronavirus crisis- Jan/Feb 2020.

The White House and congressional intelligence committees were briefed on the scope and threat of the coronavirus in January and February, but President Donald Trump has not stopped exports of key medical equipment – a move taken by at least 54 other countries so far.

The data show how U.S. manufacturers stepped up production and cleared out inventory to supply protective medical equipment to China for weeks, even as the threat of the coronavirus became clear.

Can we say rank incompetence?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/02/us-exports-masks-ppe-china-surged-early-phase-coronavirus/5109747002/

Let's just say that Donald Trump doesn't seem to have access to a particularly reliable crystal ball.

It's actually pretty odd that the US has done such a bad job of containing the epidemic. China seems to have contained it pretty effectively from a standing start, and places like Taiwan and South Korea had more warning and did better.


Trump doesn't much care if he saves something or wrecks it so long as
his name is in the headline and the history books as the man responsible

To Trump blame is rather like carbon credits. You keep people around who can assume the liability for blame. They are then shed from the group after they have taken their capacity. So he is paying them for their blame credits.

What's sad yet unsurprising is just how many Americans will gladly sign
up for the job. Working for him is clearly its own worst punishment risk
is high and rewards seem few. No shortage of applicants...

 

[bitrex]

On 4/20/2020 3:09 AM, bitrex wrote:

On 4/19/2020 10:52 PM, Ricky C wrote:
On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 5:23:07 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:
On 4/19/2020 11:32 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 1:10:37 AM UTC+10,
bloggs.fre...@gmail.com wrote:
U.S. exported millions in masks and ventilators ahead of the
coronavirus crisis- Jan/Feb 2020.

The White House and congressional intelligence committees were
briefed on the scope and threat of the coronavirus in January and
February, but President Donald Trump has not stopped exports of key
medical equipment – a move taken by at least 54 other countries so
far.

The data show how U.S. manufacturers stepped up production and
cleared out inventory to supply protective medical equipment to
China for weeks, even as the threat of the coronavirus became clear.

Can we say rank incompetence?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/02/us-exports-masks-ppe-china-surged-early-phase-coronavirus/5109747002/


Let's just say that Donald Trump doesn't seem to have access to a
particularly reliable crystal ball.

It's actually pretty odd that the US has done such a bad job of
containing the epidemic. China seems to have contained it pretty
effectively from a standing start, and places like Taiwan and South
Korea had more warning and did better.


Trump doesn't much care if he saves something or wrecks it so long as
his name is in the headline and the history books as the man responsible

To Trump blame is rather like carbon credits.  You keep people around
who can assume the liability for blame.  They are then shed from the
group after they have taken their capacity.  So he is paying them for
their blame credits.


What's sad yet unsurprising is just how many Americans will gladly sign
up for the job. Working for him is clearly its own worst punishment risk
is high and rewards seem few. No shortage of applicants...

Like that young blonde on Tinder who has an online dating profile where
the first sentence is "I probably love my dog more than I'd ever love
you" she still has 50 men a day firing off texts to her thinking that
she's kidding or it doesn't apply to them in particular

 

[Ricky C]

On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 3:01:38 AM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:

On 4/19/2020 10:52 PM, Ricky C wrote:
On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 5:23:07 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:
On 4/19/2020 11:32 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 1:10:37 AM UTC+10, bloggs.fre...@gmail.com wrote:
U.S. exported millions in masks and ventilators ahead of the coronavirus crisis- Jan/Feb 2020.

The White House and congressional intelligence committees were briefed on the scope and threat of the coronavirus in January and February, but President Donald Trump has not stopped exports of key medical equipment – a move taken by at least 54 other countries so far.

The data show how U.S. manufacturers stepped up production and cleared out inventory to supply protective medical equipment to China for weeks, even as the threat of the coronavirus became clear.

Can we say rank incompetence?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/02/us-exports-masks-ppe-china-surged-early-phase-coronavirus/5109747002/

Let's just say that Donald Trump doesn't seem to have access to a particularly reliable crystal ball.

It's actually pretty odd that the US has done such a bad job of containing the epidemic. China seems to have contained it pretty effectively from a standing start, and places like Taiwan and South Korea had more warning and did better.


Trump doesn't much care if he saves something or wrecks it so long as
his name is in the headline and the history books as the man responsible

To Trump blame is rather like carbon credits. You keep people around who can assume the liability for blame. They are then shed from the group after they have taken their capacity. So he is paying them for their blame credits.


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-supporters-are-willing-to-die-to-reopen-economy-when-its-my-time-to-go-gods-going-to-call-me-home/

So long as they stay among their own kind let them have their wish, I
suppose.

I like the way they seem to get so upset about their hair. Is getting your hair done such a big deal that they need to have a public protest? Really? That's like Larkin pouting about his garlic.

--

Rick C.

++ Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
++ Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209

 

[Gerhard Hoffmann]

Am 19.04.20 um 23:46 schrieb Phil Hobbs:

On 2020-04-19 17:43, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:
Am 19.04.20 um 22:08 schrieb Phil Hobbs:

Way too new agey for me.  Folks round here have started just bumping
elbows.

First they told us they told us to better cough into the elbow
and now that.

Cheers, Gerhard

You cough into the inside of the elbow and bump the outside.  In any
case, you can't touch your elbow to your face.

Anything within 10 cm to ground zero of the explosion will
be contagious. That includes all of the elbow. You could send it
to the lab instead of the Q-tip.

Gerhard



Why do 16 slowish CPH3910 JFETS insist in oscillating at 500 MHz???

 

[Pimpom]

On 4/20/2020 2:53 AM, bitrex wrote:

Trump doesn't much care if he saves something or wrecks it so long as
his name is in the headline and the history books as the man responsible

The way you put it reminds me of the old joke about the job
candidate who was asked if he was a responsible person.

 

[Jeroen Belleman]

On 2020-04-20 12:44, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:

Why do 16 slowish CPH3910 JFETS insist in oscillating at 500 MHz???

Too much capacitance trying to wire all those sources together?

Jeroen Belleman

 

[Cursitor Doom]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:34:47 -0700, jlarkin wrote:

What I (naturally) don't understand is how stressful the lockdown is for
people-people, people who have a deep need for social interaction.

Same here. I'm no sociopath, I can take or leave company but most of the
time these days I can well do without it. But I have a pal who's been hit
seriously hard by the lockdown. He really needs company very badly so is
suffering on account of the situation. I feel sorry for him, but at the
same time I can't relate to that need for others and am starting to lose
respect for him. Needy types are not attractive personalities AFAIC.

How many people here are actually working? I appreciate that some
generally don't anyhow.

Since I retired I wonder how the hell I ever found time to work. I keep
busy but it's because I *enjoy* it, not because I have some psychological
need for it or to blot something nasty out.

 

[Cursitor Doom]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:06:03 +0530, Pimpom wrote:

The way you put it reminds me of the old joke about the job candidate
who was asked if he was a responsible person.

It can't have gone any worse than this interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGEXECLc__0

 

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:55:00 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/20/2020 1:06 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:01:18 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/19/2020 10:26 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:47:16 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/19/2020 8:12 PM, whit3rd wrote:
On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 1:58:10 PM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:54:31 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com
wrote:


Larkin Syndrome: perceiving fear, hysteria, panic in every situation

They're sure popular right now, about this cold virus.

Virus, yes. Cold, no; it was always anomalous, not the same symptoms
as any cold or flu.

But in general, most people let unreasonable fear overpower thinking.

There's the Larkin Syndrome again. It only took two sentences to go back there.


Larkin has likely never had much opportunity to experience real fear in
his life I expect.

Correct.

so the concept of what it is never took form in his
mind.

I have to observe its curious effects second-hand.



I doubt he's ever been in a real street-fight or taken a punch in anger
from someone capable of doing real harm. That's not uncommon among young
men today either - all Internet tough-talk but they've never once been
in a real fight or drilled straight in the mouth and down to the ground
for running their mouth at the wrong time, at the wrong dude.

A small amount of life experience like that does tend to engender a
certain humility.

Oh, I've had some violence, almost killed a few times. But why would I
run my mouth at any dude? Why would anyone sane seek a street fight?
Friendly takes less energy and spills less beer.

Some guys go looking for fights, and sometimes fights come to you. The
former type of guy tends not to last too long he ends up dead or in
prison sooner or later.

In electronics design, the consequences of taking risks is small and
easily planned for. The payoffs can be huge. But even there, people
miss out because they are afraid.



Only psychopaths, fools, and liars don't experience anxiety or fear from
time to time, true facts.

Not always, not for everyone.


It's a normal biological response. Yes, like
pooping.

Your favorite theme again. Do you have troubles with your internal
processing?



An interesting aside many years ago I dated a young Jewish woman who
told me in rabbinical Judaism there is a ritual for claiming and
purifying donkey excrement on the side of the road. Now, at the time I
thought she was just pulling my leg but now I believe it may well be
true. The Jewish people are a remarkable and ancient people and have
survived for many thousands of years. but sometimes do tend to have a
penchant for scatological humor themselves.

I think the thing about the ritual had to do with re-enforcing a concept
of one's own humility, as often in nature humility equals longevity.
Like ah, y'know, sea turtles, maybe. Not that I'm saying Jews are sea
turtles.

Animal droppings are valuable fuel and fertilizer in some places. And
have enough undigested content that insects and such reprocess it.

Anyway she eventually left me for a lawyer I think it was and married
him some time after. Nice guy, good family man. Made a good couple. Even
though she broke it off I found it very difficult to be angry at her for
anything.

I've dated two lady lawyers. I think practising law teaches people
that life is win-lose battles, not good for relationships. I left one
beautiful lady lawyer in a volcano crater in Hawaii and flew home.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

Science teaches us to doubt.

Claude Bernard

 

[Flyguy]

On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 8:10:37 AM UTC-7, bloggs.fre...@gmail.com wrote:

U.S. exported millions in masks and ventilators ahead of the coronavirus crisis- Jan/Feb 2020.

The White House and congressional intelligence committees were briefed on the scope and threat of the coronavirus in January and February, but President Donald Trump has not stopped exports of key medical equipment – a move taken by at least 54 other countries so far.

The data show how U.S. manufacturers stepped up production and cleared out inventory to supply protective medical equipment to China for weeks, even as the threat of the coronavirus became clear.

Can we say rank incompetence?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/02/us-exports-masks-ppe-china-surged-early-phase-coronavirus/5109747002/

Sorry, but Pres. Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to halt this travesty. 3M is now onboard with the crisis.

 

In the middle of a world-wide pandemic originating in China, on Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 11:32:27 AM UTC-4, with no apparent sense of irony, Bill Sloman wrote:

> It's actually pretty odd that the US has done such a bad job of containing the epidemic. China seems to have contained it pretty effectively from a standing start...

You have my vote for post of the day, sir.

Cheers,
James Arthur

 

On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 6:44:33 AM UTC-4, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:

Am 19.04.20 um 23:46 schrieb Phil Hobbs:
On 2020-04-19 17:43, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:
Am 19.04.20 um 22:08 schrieb Phil Hobbs:

Way too new agey for me.  Folks round here have started just bumping
elbows.

First they told us they told us to better cough into the elbow
and now that.

Cheers, Gerhard

You cough into the inside of the elbow and bump the outside.  In any
case, you can't touch your elbow to your face.

Anything within 10 cm to ground zero of the explosion will
be contagious. That includes all of the elbow. You could send it
to the lab instead of the Q-tip.

Gerhard



Why do 16 slowish CPH3910 JFETS insist in oscillating at 500 MHz???

I don't know why, but putting a few extra pF here then there while
measuring the 500Mhz frequency change, might identify the unwanted
feedback that's causing the 500MHz. Changing Vdd (which changes
Crss) might be interesting, too.

Cheers,
James Arthur

 

[Ricky C]

On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 12:03:47 PM UTC-4, Flyguy wrote:

On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 8:10:37 AM UTC-7, bloggs.fre...@gmail.com wrote:
U.S. exported millions in masks and ventilators ahead of the coronavirus crisis- Jan/Feb 2020.

The White House and congressional intelligence committees were briefed on the scope and threat of the coronavirus in January and February, but President Donald Trump has not stopped exports of key medical equipment – a move taken by at least 54 other countries so far.

The data show how U.S. manufacturers stepped up production and cleared out inventory to supply protective medical equipment to China for weeks, even as the threat of the coronavirus became clear.

Can we say rank incompetence?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/02/us-exports-masks-ppe-china-surged-early-phase-coronavirus/5109747002/

Sorry, but Pres. Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to halt this travesty. 3M is now onboard with the crisis.

Yeah, Trump straightened them out! He got them to do what they were doing already!!! Way to go Trump!

Oh, turns out Trump did not invoke the DPA to have 3M stop shipping to other countries in North America.

"The President did not explicitly order 3M to stop exporting under the DPA."

https://www.industryweek.com/leadership/corporate-responsibility/article/21127959/3m-resists-white-house-request-to-stop-mask-exports

3M understands that we are not alone in the life boat even if Trump does not.

--

Rick C.

--- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
--- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209

 

On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 11:10:37 AM UTC-4, bloggs.fre...@gmail.com wrote:

U.S. exported millions in masks and ventilators ahead of the coronavirus crisis- Jan/Feb 2020.

The White House and congressional intelligence committees were briefed on the scope and threat of the coronavirus in January and February, but President Donald Trump has not stopped exports of key medical equipment – a move taken by at least 54 other countries so far.

The data show how U.S. manufacturers stepped up production and cleared out inventory to supply protective medical equipment to China for weeks, even as the threat of the coronavirus became clear.

Can we say rank incompetence?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/02/us-exports-masks-ppe-china-surged-early-phase-coronavirus/5109747002/

Oh that's silly Fred, it's transparent propaganda.

At a time when the U.S. hadn't had its first case (Jan. 21)
and China was readying mass graves, why wouldn't we export
medical supplies to China?

The article's language and rhetoric remind me of Maduro's.

Cheers,
James Arthur

 

[bitrex]

On 4/20/2020 11:30 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:55:00 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/20/2020 1:06 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:01:18 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/19/2020 10:26 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:47:16 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 4/19/2020 8:12 PM, whit3rd wrote:
On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 1:58:10 PM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:54:31 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com
wrote:


Larkin Syndrome: perceiving fear, hysteria, panic in every situation

They're sure popular right now, about this cold virus.

Virus, yes. Cold, no; it was always anomalous, not the same symptoms
as any cold or flu.

But in general, most people let unreasonable fear overpower thinking.

There's the Larkin Syndrome again. It only took two sentences to go back there.


Larkin has likely never had much opportunity to experience real fear in
his life I expect.

Correct.

so the concept of what it is never took form in his
mind.

I have to observe its curious effects second-hand.



I doubt he's ever been in a real street-fight or taken a punch in anger
from someone capable of doing real harm. That's not uncommon among young
men today either - all Internet tough-talk but they've never once been
in a real fight or drilled straight in the mouth and down to the ground
for running their mouth at the wrong time, at the wrong dude.

A small amount of life experience like that does tend to engender a
certain humility.

Oh, I've had some violence, almost killed a few times. But why would I
run my mouth at any dude? Why would anyone sane seek a street fight?
Friendly takes less energy and spills less beer.

Some guys go looking for fights, and sometimes fights come to you. The
former type of guy tends not to last too long he ends up dead or in
prison sooner or later.

In electronics design, the consequences of taking risks is small and
easily planned for. The payoffs can be huge. But even there, people
miss out because they are afraid.



Only psychopaths, fools, and liars don't experience anxiety or fear from
time to time, true facts.

Not always, not for everyone.


It's a normal biological response. Yes, like
pooping.

Your favorite theme again. Do you have troubles with your internal
processing?



An interesting aside many years ago I dated a young Jewish woman who
told me in rabbinical Judaism there is a ritual for claiming and
purifying donkey excrement on the side of the road. Now, at the time I
thought she was just pulling my leg but now I believe it may well be
true. The Jewish people are a remarkable and ancient people and have
survived for many thousands of years. but sometimes do tend to have a
penchant for scatological humor themselves.

I think the thing about the ritual had to do with re-enforcing a concept
of one's own humility, as often in nature humility equals longevity.
Like ah, y'know, sea turtles, maybe. Not that I'm saying Jews are sea
turtles.

Animal droppings are valuable fuel and fertilizer in some places. And
have enough undigested content that insects and such reprocess it.

That may have been part of the origin of the ritual at one time, sure.
But it seemed to have persisted long after the Iron Age or whenever
random animal droppings were most valuable as a raw material or strictly
necessary to be collected, often rituals and symbols that were strictly
pragmatic to begin with acquire "secondary meaning" over time.

Anyway she eventually left me for a lawyer I think it was and married
him some time after. Nice guy, good family man. Made a good couple. Even
though she broke it off I found it very difficult to be angry at her for
anything.

I've dated two lady lawyers. I think practising law teaches people
that life is win-lose battles, not good for relationships. I left one
beautiful lady lawyer in a volcano crater in Hawaii and flew home.

The last lady-lawyer I went on (one) date with a number of years back
told me she was going to just take the pint glasses from the bar home
with her in her purse because she liked the design, I told her "miss
they call that theft you may not take the pint glasses home with you
they need those."

IDK if she thought she was "winning" or "losing" but she sure didn't
like being told "no" by a male and that was about the end of that.