So today is going to be a lot, huh?

Annual flu vaccine no longer required for U.S. military, Hegseth says The move alarmed some public health experts, who warned that it would weaken troop readiness.

Come on. Come ON!

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Cars propagate racism in such inventive ways.

HEAD QUARTERS MORRIS TOWN 12TH MARCH 1777 Sir You are hereby required immediately to send me an exact return of your regiment, and to send all your recruits, who have had the small pox to join the Army. Those, who have not, are to be sent to Philadelphia, and put under the direction of the commanding officer there, who will have them inoculated. You are to leave a sufficient number of proper officers to carry on the recruiting service, who are to bring up their men as soon as they are ready. No pleas, of delay, on account of the dispersion of the officers can be admitted, as every commanding officer ought to know where his inferior officers are, and they what recruits they have, and where they are to be found. You are to remain at Philadelphia, to procure arms clothing &c., and send on, your Major to Camp, to receive your detachments. Your Lieut. Colonel is also to come on, as soon as circumstances will permit. I am Sir Your most humble servant Go: Washington George Washington wrote this letter to Lt. Colonel David Grier on March 12, 1777. In it, Washington instructs Grier to send new soldiers to Philadelphia so they could be inoculated for smallpox. Washington wanted to make sure that his troops were not affected by disease, and he believed that inoculation would help with that. So, just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers.

George Washington wrote this letter to Lt. Col. David Grier on March 12, 1777. In it, Washington instructs Grier to send new soldiers to Philadelphia so they could be inoculated for smallpox... just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers."

George Washington, the effing Founding Father mandated vaccination of the Continental Army in *1777*.

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Leave It to Chance. Lazarus. Kill Six Billion Demons. Mighty Isis.

UFO. Thunderbirds. Arc II. Malazan.

Yes yes and yes.

Oh, and a Dragnet. At least three Twilight Zones.

Ah, right, I remember those.

Now I’m trying to remember if there were 1980s reboots of 1950s TV. Love Boat and Fantasy Island rebooted on about that time-arc.

They believe that it is fated, that they cannot but otherwise write them, that their creation is in a sense their

This feels like one of those rules that has a ... very specific ... genesis.

NPR: Employees may NOT bet on the Tiny Desk!!

Future Zuck: Hey, agent? What are these items in the Zuckbot cadre budget for softbody robotics research?
Agent: Nothing to worry about?
FZ: And these appointments for me to get highly detailed 3D body scans?
Agent: Probably just a doctor thing?
FZ: Why am I donating stem cells again?
Agent: …

Yes, congestion pricing worked in New York and public transit is good for health, the economy, and the environment, but this administration proposes: what if we don’t care?

Well, if the head of HHS doesn’t believe scientific evidence and NASA is cutting half its budget and DoD thinks “warfighting” doesn’t mean logistics…why should DoT follow half a century of best urbanism practices?

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I'm actually terrified by the idea of a humanoid chore-doing robot anywhere near me. One careless swing of an arm and pop! That's my eyeball knocked out.

Report details tetanus in 4 unvaccinated US kids, including refusal of post-exposure prevention

Harrowing accounts of antivax parents letting their kids get tetanus—tetanus!—and in a couple cases even declining post-exposure treatment.

I'm having a little parental panic/distress here. Kids! Getting tetanus! Come on.
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Also, talking about IQ is always a tell. Always.

Hey, that's really racist.

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Yeah I guess the question is whether we’re talking about general robots that can do scary military stuff versus just a show that humanoid robots are a market. I’m plenty scared of the general idea.

I…guess? But if you want infantry bots to run down loudmouth dissidents like me, you put them on wheels, no? Or just drone me? They’re not going to build Robocop….

Beats the heck outta me.

Also like I *guess* I understand why someone might want a robot that did household chores or hard labor (to undercut human labor for capitalism, obv.). But I don’t actually need a robot that can run faster than me. I’d actually rather it couldn’t, as a precaution.

Presumably to show that a humanoid robot had capabilities that exceed a human’s, doing things in a human way. Which in the end it did not do very well, is what I’m saying.

It doesn’t even clank that loud??

The lesson here may be that human bodies are pretty good at doing the things human bodies do, and humanoid robots probably won’t be. This is what I like to call the “Gundams Aren’t Real” principle.