lnxw48a1: #US government warned #NV not to use Chinese #COVID-19 test kits https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-15/us-warned-nevada-chinese-coronavirus-tests [www latimes com] In April, there were concerns about China's masks and tests ( https://nu.federati.net/url/276715 ), but I've not heard any other concerns until now.
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 18-Oct-2020 14:54:42 EDT
#US government warned #NV not to use Chinese #COVID-19 test kits https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-15/us-warned-nevada-chinese-coronavirus-tests [www latimes com] In April, there were concerns about China's masks and tests ( https://nu.federati.net/url/276715 ), but I've not heard any other concerns until now.
lnxw48a1: Microsoft to apply #CA #privacy law #CCPA to all #US users https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-apply-californias-privacy-law-for-all-us-users/
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2020 18:35:26 EDT
Microsoft to apply #CA #privacy law #CCPA to all #US users https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-apply-californias-privacy-law-for-all-us-users/
musicman: RT @lnxw48a1 Record spike in confirmed #COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations in states across the #US as reopenings happen. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/21269 [www reuters com] My advice: use some common sense. Wash your hands frequently, keep space between you and others, and wear a mask. Masks are nowhere near foolproof, but at the very least, they can help thin out the num https://nu.federati.net/notice/3317712
musicman's status on Monday, 15-Jun-2020 08:16:41 EDT
RT @lnxw48a1 Record spike in confirmed #COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations in states across the #US as reopenings happen. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/21269 [www reuters com] My advice: use some common sense. Wash your hands frequently, keep space between you and others, and wear a mask. Masks are nowhere near foolproof, but at the very least, they can help thin out the num…
lnxw48a1: Record spike in confirmed #COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations in states across the #US as reopenings happen. https://nu.federati.net/url/270572 [www reuters com] My advice: use some common sense. Wash your hands frequently, keep space between you and others, and wear a mask. Masks are nowhere near foolproof, but at the very least, they can help thin out the number of virus-laden droplets people send out into the air.
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 14-Jun-2020 19:31:45 EDT
Record spike in confirmed #COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations in states across the #US as reopenings happen. https://nu.federati.net/url/270572 [www reuters com] My advice: use some common sense. Wash your hands frequently, keep space between you and others, and wear a mask. Masks are nowhere near foolproof, but at the very least, they can help thin out the number of virus-laden droplets people send out into the air.
lnxw48a1: Looking at http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20994 it looks like the growth in *confirmed* cases of #COVID-19 is slowing and may even be declining in all four countries. Right now, I'm looking at #Germany, #Italy, #UK, #US. I know I could turn of exponential to get a better look at the numbers. But: (1) numbers are not per unit of population, which can make large countries look https://nu.federati.net/notice/3309767
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 10-May-2020 03:36:36 EDT
Looking at http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20994 it looks like the growth in *confirmed* cases of #COVID-19 is slowing and may even be declining in all four countries. Right now, I'm looking at #Germany, #Italy, #UK, #US. I know I could turn of exponential to get a better look at the numbers. But: (1) numbers are not per unit of population, which can make large countries look…
lnxw48a1: Anyone with #UK_politics background enough to give a background for this? 1. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20737 [news sky com] 2. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20738 [www theguardian com] 3. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20739 [novaramedia com] 4. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20740 [www independent co uk] Is this the #UK equivalent of the #US #DNC actions https://nu.federati.net/notice/3299340
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 13-Apr-2020 13:20:04 EDT
Anyone with #UK_politics background enough to give a background for this? 1. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20737 [news sky com] 2. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20738 [www theguardian com] 3. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20739 [novaramedia com] 4. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20740 [www independent co uk] Is this the #UK equivalent of the #US #DNC actions…
mjd: #US voters will get to choose a president for us from a field consisting of two dementia sufferers and lifelong compulsive liars with barely distinguishable racist and top-down class warfare agendas (one is more honest about it than the other). One of them has a natural gift for reflexive schoolyard verbal abuse, while the other is notoriously slow-witted and will be much mor https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/87510
mjd's status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2020 21:13:27 EDT
#US voters will get to choose a president for us from a field consisting of two dementia sufferers and lifelong compulsive liars with barely distinguishable racist and top-down class warfare agendas (one is more honest about it than the other). One of them has a natural gift for reflexive schoolyard verbal abuse, while the other is notoriously slow-witted and will be much mor…
lnxw48a1: #US has almost double the number of #COVID-19 cases as the next highest country ( #Italy ). https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html #2109-nCoV | #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus disease
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 01-Apr-2020 23:51:54 EDT
#US has almost double the number of #COVID-19 cases as the next highest country ( #Italy ). https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html #2109-nCoV | #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus disease
rozzin: Cripes I hate #politics in the #US right now. There's no way to even say "yes I went to work in Boston yesterday" right now without having to follow up with "I DON'T FUCKING CARE WHAT YOU THINK OF DONALD TRUMP, NOT EVERY CONVERSATION HAS TO BE ABOUT HIM"....
rozzin's status on Saturday, 14-Mar-2020 05:09:33 EDT
Cripes I hate #politics in the #US right now. There's no way to even say "yes I went to work in Boston yesterday" right now without having to follow up with "I DON'T FUCKING CARE WHAT YOU THINK OF DONALD TRUMP, NOT EVERY CONVERSATION HAS TO BE ABOUT HIM"....
mjd: When you have decades of evidence showing how many civilians are killed by drone strikes, yet you continue to carry out drone strikes, there are no "accidental" deaths by drone strike. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-drones-idUSKBN1W40NW #US #Afghanistan #PineNuts
mjd's status on Friday, 20-Sep-2019 19:32:42 EDT
When you have decades of evidence showing how many civilians are killed by drone strikes, yet you continue to carry out drone strikes, there are no "accidental" deaths by drone strike. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-drones-idUSKBN1W40NW #US #Afghanistan #PineNuts
mjd: Ha. John Bolton is out. Couldn't happen to a nicer raving nutcase. Can't understand why #Trump occasionally appoints people with an agenda (albeit an unspeakably vile one) when all he really wants is utterly unprincipled craven subservience. Lasted longer than Bannon though. If civilisation survives, this presidency is going to make such a brilliant HBO box set. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/19047 #US
mjd's status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 23:32:15 EDT
Ha. John Bolton is out. Couldn't happen to a nicer raving nutcase. Can't understand why #Trump occasionally appoints people with an agenda (albeit an unspeakably vile one) when all he really wants is utterly unprincipled craven subservience. Lasted longer than Bannon though. If civilisation survives, this presidency is going to make such a brilliant HBO box set. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/10/politics/trump-john-bolton-out/index.html #US
mjd: Okay. If you live in the #US, #Broadchurch is considered soothing. Remind me to never visit. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/30040
mjd's status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2019 04:27:26 EDT
Okay. If you live in the #US, #Broadchurch is considered soothing. Remind me to never visit. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/30040
mjd: How did I miss this when it happened? Ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic #2020 front runner: "Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids." #q Joe Biden https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/10/biden-poor-kids-bright-white-kids-1456296 #US
mjd's status on Monday, 26-Aug-2019 03:38:45 EDT
How did I miss this when it happened? Ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic #2020 front runner: "Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids." #q Joe Biden https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/10/biden-poor-kids-bright-white-kids-1456296 #US
drak: Dangers of #US voting machines http://status.hackerposse.com/url/18595
drak's status on Saturday, 11-May-2019 17:21:12 EDT
Dangers of #US voting machines https://www.salon.com/2019/03/28/new-hybrid-voting-system-can-change-paper-ballot-after-its-been-cast_partner
mjd: "This is our hemisphere." #q John Bolton https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-russia-idUSKCN1S73K3 #FFS #US #MonroeDoctrine
mjd's status on Friday, 03-May-2019 07:35:52 EDT
"This is our hemisphere." #q John Bolton https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-russia-idUSKCN1S73K3 #FFS #US #MonroeDoctrine
rozzin: !TIL that today is #US National !YoYo Day! http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-other/national-yo-yo-day.htm
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2017 23:58:04 EDT
!TIL that today is #US National !YoYo Day! http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-other/national-yo-yo-day.htm
mcscx: !TIL "Most toilet cubicles in #US have #gaps between door& cubicle that allow ppl to peep in & often leave a #knee-high #gap from the floor"
mcscx's status on Thursday, 14-Apr-2016 16:58:43 EDT
!TIL "Most toilet cubicles in #US have #gaps between door& cubicle that allow ppl to peep in & often leave a #knee-high #gap from the floor"
rozzin: !TIL that #US pennies from before 1982 #sound different when dropped.
rozzin's status on Saturday, 24-May-2014 23:41:18 EDT
!TIL that #US pennies from before 1982 #sound different when dropped.
rozzin: The Best #Burger in Every #US State: The Common Man is apparently !NH's best. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/5839
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 21-May-2014 21:11:22 EDT
The Best #Burger in Every #US State: The Common Man is apparently !NH's best. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/5839
erkanyilmaz: 24 years ago: #US invasion of #Panama, "Safeguarding the lives of ... citizens in ... threatened the lives of the approximately 35,000 U.S. citizens living there", "Protesters echoed claims that #3,000 people were #killed as a result of U.S. military action." http://ur1.ca/gvxct !history
erkanyilmaz's status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2014 18:41:09 EDT
24 years ago: #US invasion of #Panama, "Safeguarding the lives of ... citizens in ... threatened the lives of the approximately 35,000 U.S. citizens living there", "Protesters echoed claims that #3,000 people were #killed as a result of U.S. military action." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama#United_States.27_justification_for_the_invasion !history
erkanyilmaz: 11 years ago in !history: invasion of #Iraq (by an invasion force led by the #US), "the Center for Public Integrity alleges that the #Bush administration made a total of #935 #false statements between 2001 and 2003 about Iraq's alleged threat to the US" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_war_2 #tomorrow
erkanyilmaz's status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2014 11:41:20 EDT
11 years ago in !history: invasion of #Iraq (by an invasion force led by the #US), "the Center for Public Integrity alleges that the #Bush administration made a total of #935 #false statements between 2001 and 2003 about Iraq's alleged threat to the US" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_war_2 #tomorrow
erkanyilmaz: "Moscow accused Western countries of #violating the 'Budapest Memorandum' (signed in 1994) which guarantees Ukraine's territorial integrity. "The question is, how the guarantees (envisaged by the memorandum) could be matched with the #US and the #EU's threats to use sanctions against Ukrainian leadership during the riots in Kiev," the foreign ministry said in a statement." http://ur1.ca/gvu5c cc @question
erkanyilmaz's status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2014 11:00:19 EDT
"Moscow accused Western countries of #violating the 'Budapest Memorandum' (signed in 1994) which guarantees Ukraine's territorial integrity. "The question is, how the guarantees (envisaged by the memorandum) could be matched with the #US and the #EU's threats to use sanctions against Ukrainian leadership during the riots in Kiev," the foreign ministry said in a statement." http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-03/19/c_133198950.htm cc @question
laurelrusswurm: !torture and !copyright infingement perpetrated at #gitmo ♻ @kuro #SkinnyPuppy Is Invoicing #US Gov’t For $666,000 http://qttr.at/c7e
laurelrusswurm's status on Monday, 03-Mar-2014 13:44:45 EST
!torture and !copyright infingement perpetrated at #gitmo ♻ @kuro #SkinnyPuppy Is Invoicing #US Gov’t For $666,000 http://qttr.at/c7e
rozzin: @kfogel, I never got the whole "this biller doesn't accept money from this payer" part of #US #medicine. I could see it being the other way.
rozzin's status on Monday, 24-Feb-2014 13:50:04 EST
@kfogel, I never got the whole "this biller doesn't accept money from this payer" part of #US #medicine. I could see it being the other way.
rozzin: I imagine the #US #Constitution has more special meaning to naturalized immigrants, as they actually had to learn about it & take an oath.
rozzin's status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2014 12:54:38 EST
I imagine the #US #Constitution has more special meaning to naturalized immigrants, as they actually had to learn about it & take an oath.
rozzin: I wonder how many natural-born vs. naturalized citizens would care to participate in the `get the NSA to read the #US #Constitution' project
rozzin's status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2014 12:52:18 EST
I wonder how many natural-born vs. naturalized citizens would care to participate in the `get the NSA to read the #US #Constitution' project
erkanyilmaz: oh, that was me talking (3 months ago) about the present of the #US to #Japan: #atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy http://ur1.ca/glt3i
erkanyilmaz's status on Monday, 10-Feb-2014 17:54:16 EST
oh, that was me talking (3 months ago) about the present of the #US to #Japan: #atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy http://oracle.skilledtests.com/conversation/218293#notice-359013
erkanyilmaz: In 2007 !Chomsky "concludes that the vast majority of US citizens also support a 2-state solution (1) (also supported by the international community - except for #Israel and the #US) and the end of the unprecedented levels of US aid given to Israel, and could, with the necessary education and organisation, become a powerful force for !peace." (1) "envisages an independent http://oracle.skilledtests.com/notice/460674
erkanyilmaz's status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2014 17:13:11 EST
In 2007 !Chomsky "concludes that the vast majority of US citizens also support a 2-state solution (1) (also supported by the international community - except for #Israel and the #US) and the end of the unprecedented levels of US aid given to Israel, and could, with the necessary education and organisation, become a powerful force for !peace." (1) "envisages an independent…
erkanyilmaz: in 2005 !Chomsky "concludes that the #US is a #failed state with basic institutions that are totally #illegitimate, but he hopes one-day it will become as #democratic as #Brazil or #Haiti." http://ur1.ca/gk50h cc @question
erkanyilmaz's status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2014 08:43:21 EST
in 2005 !Chomsky "concludes that the #US is a #failed state with basic institutions that are totally #illegitimate, but he hopes one-day it will become as #democratic as #Brazil or #Haiti." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Ambitions#Nine:_Another_World_is_Possible cc @question
erkanyilmaz: security message for #US. citizens: Establishment of a 'restricted zone' in Hamburg, #Germany, posted 2 days ago http://germany.usembassy.gov/hamburg-restricted-zone/ cc @question
erkanyilmaz's status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2014 18:21:18 EST
security message for #US. citizens: Establishment of a 'restricted zone' in Hamburg, #Germany, posted 2 days ago http://germany.usembassy.gov/hamburg-restricted-zone/ cc @question
erkanyilmaz: #TIL '#Mexico is a city in Audrain County, Missouri, #US. ' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico,_Missouri
erkanyilmaz's status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2013 10:41:15 EST
#TIL '#Mexico is a city in Audrain County, Missouri, #US. ' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico,_Missouri
rozzin: What is signified by #Uncle-Sam's displacement/replacement of #Columbia? What does it mean for the collective #US identity? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Columbia
rozzin's status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2013 14:10:02 EDT
What is signified by #Uncle-Sam's displacement/replacement of #Columbia? What does it mean for the collective #US identity? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Columbia
rozzin: British #atheist may be denied #US citizenship unless she joins a #church: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/3669
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2013 01:08:37 EDT
British #atheist may be denied #US citizenship unless she joins a #church: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/3669
zack: Join me in calling on the #NSA and the #US government to @stopwatchingus. Sign this now: http://ur1.ca/eacgg #PRISM
zack's status on Monday, 17-Jun-2013 07:41:30 EDT
Join me in calling on the #NSA and the #US government to @stopwatchingus. Sign this now: http://ur1.ca/eacgg #PRISM
mcnalu: dr who & Krugman? ♻ @freemjd Paul Krugman: #US Presidential campaign gets wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. http://ur1.ca/a2q8v !DrWho
mcnalu's status on Saturday, 01-Sep-2012 16:50:34 EDT
dr who & Krugman? ♻ @freemjd Paul Krugman: #US Presidential campaign gets wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. http://ur1.ca/a2q8v !DrWho
freemjd: Paul Krugman: #US Presidential campaign gets wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. http://ur1.ca/a2q8v !DrWho
freemjd's status on Friday, 31-Aug-2012 04:29:51 EDT
Paul Krugman: #US Presidential campaign gets wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. http://ur1.ca/a2q8v !DrWho