You know, Alan Dershowitz has totally ruined the film Reversal of Fortune for me…it was such a good movie. Wait..I think I’ve said that before…
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https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2021/05/03/ashish-jha-herd-immunity
This is somewhat reassuring about lower rates of infection even if we don’t get to herd immunity.
Oh wow – that face makes me feel safe.
Not safe around small children, pets, women, or Black men.
David Duke with all the baggage and then some at it again …
A commenter at TPM asked why don’t they just go straight for MTG? Hahahaha. Stefanik is so very very repellent – nice choice idiots.
MTG?
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The world may be rid of this asshole !!!!
Lapid has four weeks to form a government. Here’s hoping he can do it.
I so relate to this little girl
OMG! She’s so cute! The girl next to her is covering her face the whole time.
BOGGLE! These crazies are driving me crazy!
Because, duh, bamboo only grows in Chynah. And, duh, they use bamboo for *everything*. Cooking pots, spaceships, everything.
(If you’ve ever made paper, you know what you want is cellulose, as close to pure as possible. Using bamboo in papermaking would be like mixing glass into your slurry because of all the silica it contains.)
Bamboo is used for papermaking, though it is difficult to pulp because of the silicia content. Traditional paper in Vietnam and other SE Asian countries was made from bamboo. China still uses bamboo in papermaking.
I only know this because I just finished reading Paper Trails, From Trees to Trash –The True Cost of Paper by Mandy Haggith. Fairly well written though sometimes belabors the point far too much. It’s discouraging how what remains of Earth’s forests are slashed and pulped, and “replaced” with enormous monoculture tracts of nonnative species for the paper and pulp industries.
Of course it was used in some handmade papers. It has very interesting properties for papermaking, so you wind up with products which can be a bit like papyrus. But the chances a mill making heavyweight paper for ballots wants to ruin its machinery on one run of mixed-in bamboo — just so a Q-Ball in Arizona can guess it’s from Chynah — is down there with the multiple zeroes.
The use of bamboo in contemporary, non-handmade paper (China uses bamboo plus other fibers in the pulp making up commercial paper) is a separate topic from Trumpists’ conspiracy theories.
Aargh, Luna. Paper for ballots. Specialized. Not just your regular “copier” paper. (Now you’re going to tell me it’s not used much in copiers any more?) yadda, yadda. Can’t use same machinery. Anyway, I assume you get the point I’m making? i.e. the whole thing is gonzo.