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Delta and Omicron deaths are probably similar. The graph is a global average so individual variants are spread out. Delta did not get going even in England until after the 2nd highest peak (deaths). https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/one-year-since-the-emergence-of-omicron

this is simply not true at all. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Power posting doesn't change facts. It is factually true... The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (world experts) report 18,572,492 estimated Covid deaths and 7,727,905 reported deaths as of today.

I somewhat agree about mandates, it all could have been done better. OTH, the vast majority of cases that spread Covid were not high risk groups, rather, younger mobile people and everyone else. Lots of graphs show this. Had they been able to cut spreading in half, high risk deaths would have dropped accordingly.

Just some questions to clarify the issue. -- If you do not switch the breaker on and off, does the compressor (cooling) ever turn back on by itself? -- Is this a split unit or a single unit? -- Has the unit been cleaned recently? --Do they mean it is happening a lot to other rooms in the condo? Is it happening only in the last month or 2, or all along? --Is this your aircon or it belongs to the condo (i.e., all condo aircons are the same model) The recent hotter than usual weather can add new stresses on aircons or power systems.

Faulty logic. Just because climate phenomena existed in the past doesn't mean they're not affected by climate change. The currently predicted strong El Nino almost certainly is. It follows a highly unusual 3 year, wrongly timed La Nina that drove California's recent drought. A new paper now shows the abnormal La Nina was triggered by massive particulate matter from abnormally severe Australian bushfires 2-3 years ago, almost certainty due to climate change. Here are refs, some with neat graphs and videos. https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/australia-bushfires-may-have-caused-global-climate-phenomenon-la-nina-study/ Original paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg1213 https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2023/05/20/graphics-el-nino-is-building-what-this-means-for-the-worlds-weather/70211954007/

Very true, Russia has always been behind in petro and many areas of technology. Russia is a conundrum. It has some of the best scientists and engineers but under Putin's kleptocracy did little to develop Russia's technological base, consumer industry, or anything except horrific weapons and oligarchs' personal wealth.

Any suggestion Western views of Russia's problems are propaganda are destroyed by Yale professor Jeffery Sonnenfeld, top expert on Russia's economy. In truth, it's much worse as even Western media is inadvertently repeating parts of Putin's complete wall of lies. Listen to the fascinating no holds barred interview: Summary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU0resswOds Full unabridged interview https://youtu.be/B643JWVOO2g?t=141

Russia — 6,257 (1,458 active, 3039 available, 1,760 retired) United States — 5,550 (1,389 active, 2,361 available, 1,800 retired) France — 290 available United Kingdom — 225 available [ref] Note: US nukes and delivery systems are more reliable. The MAD policy holds. Putin is highly unlikely to start a global nuclear war. Interesting fact. Maintaining aging nukes' reliability requires much higher technology than making them. Only the US has such high tech.

When Putin and his cronies hang in Red Square. Don't buy the propaganda that Russians all like him. They don't, especially ones with some education. They know he has ruined the country and prevented it's advancement. Aside from minerals and oil controlled by Putin's cronies, Russians have almost nothing. They also know all Russian buildings have windows.

Again wrong. If exposed... ... to sufficient virus to have a 50% chance of infection, adding a properly fit N95 mask will reduce your chance of infection to 2.5%.

Wrong. 10% infected means 10% of the people exposed got infected. 10% pregnant means 10% of your girlfriends got pregnant. Your just being silly now.

Wrong. A mask stops all SARS-2 particles equally. It doesn't know what strain its blocking. If a virus is 50% more infective with an N95 mask, it will be 3000% more infective if you take it off. Your reasoning that its so infective you don't need a mask is backwards.

Just arrived. here: https://nextstrain.org/nextclade/sars-cov-2?branchLabel=aa&label=clade:22F

Even worst case, a properly fit N95 mask still reduces your exposure by at least 95% for respiratory exposure. IOW, a 9.5 hour flight with mask is equivalent to a 6 minute flight without a mask. Of course you can also by N100 masks but they're expensive. It's 'at least' because the 95% rating is for worst case particle size, which is usually 0.3 micron.

That was just the internet. Enter stage left, full blown AI ...

Very big explosions. Below is a google map satellite view of the ammunition dump outside the city. https://www.google.com/maps/place/49°27'05.6"N+26°52'34.3"E/@49.4515622,26.8736309,572m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d49.4515587!4d26.8762058 No matter the significance, the free world must stop Putin's attempt to change the world by criminal warfare. Slava Ukraini.

Interesting, a GSM signal booster. It could work, put the base station on the balcony, look for signal, and redistribute in my home. If I were to keep the GSM phone. Weak mobile signals at high elevation are usually due to base stations being angled towards the ground. Downtown with many high-rises, some BS antennas can point upwards. My building is taller than the general surroundings.

Like this GSM 'landline' they gave me? No connectivity and doesn't work well enough from the 20th floor to hold conversations. But the installer did say it should work anywhere in Bangkok as long as it can find a TOT 3G signal. Calls police station: "Record this call from my home phone for evidence. I am nowhere near the bank branch currently being robbed!"

The singularly most staged photo I have ever seen. No faces, just carefully framed hands with party affiliation instructing a 'man in black'. From an article by Robert Amsterdam, the attorney hired by Thaksin to lobby the world about his goodness and integrity.

"The number of coups in Thailand, successful or unsuccessful, is uncertain leading one academic to call for a concerted effort to make a definitive list." According to one professor at Chiang Mai University's Institute for South-East Asian Affairs, there have been almost 30 coup attempts in Thailand since 1912. Some count 11 [successful] coups since 1932 others count 13. wiki Do the math: Years since 2014 (last) coup = 9 Average years between coups = 91 years / 11 coups = 8.27

There will be no pardon. Wrong team.

Your asking the wrong question. The only important question is what will they shoot. The chance of them telling you that is as small as answering your technical questions about systems integration during war time. The Russians would also love to know. Now if you will excuse me, I have a bridge to find on a map. https://news.yahoo.com/military-expert-storm-shadow-capabilities-170700132.html

It seems to continue, 2 kilometers is not a small advance but they don't specify exactly where in Bakhmut. From NEXTA TV twitter posted 33 min before this AN post.

Final outcome. After discussions between the NT Laksi branch manager, the condo and myself, NT/TOT agreed to install a full fiber box to provide hardware landline ports and fiber internet for the whole condo. The new landlines will use the condo's existing copper pairs so no disruption of service. I'm told the order is already signed and will take about 1 to 2 weeks. That's fast considering the condo has been asking for years. As for my landline, they gave me a simple 3G wireless desktop landline, which I had told them won't work on the 20th floor. But they pleaded saying it was only for a week so I said OK. Don't complain about small things after winning the war. This morning the Laksi manager called to see how my new 3G landline was working but the connection was so bad we couldn't talk. After calling 3 times he said "Let me call you on your mobile." Lol. Overall though, the Laski manger was very helpful and worked hard to fix our problems. As one poster above said, to get problems fixed you need to go higher up. Once you find someone helpful, be very nice. Thanks to all who posted helpful comments.

Is that a 3G connection where you can plug in a standard landline phone, or they also gave you an internet phone of some sort?