Some heavy duty supply chain risk in Helene:
I always thought the mines in Spruce Pine, NC made kitchen countertops. TIL they made the Palomar Observatory, and pretty much every modern computer chip:
The processor that makes your laptop or cell phone work was fabricated using quartz from this obscure Appalachian backwater.
PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off
There are also a ton of women who have HPV who think that's reason enough not to get it. You don't have all the strains this covers.
Useful information to spread to anyone you know about NC in regards to voting (if the natural disaster means they've lost their photo ID)
“A study by the Baker Institute at Rice University found that about 18% of nursing home staff are immigrants. Imagine what would happen if nursing homes, already desperately short-staffed, lost nearly one in five of their remaining workers?”
It's getting worse. They're getting directly threatened with bombings now. It was just a bag of garbage, but the intent is clear. It's terrorism.
Drama in Pittsburgh! Vance can't even do an OTR in a sandwich joint without causing chaos and bad feelings.
When Iowa representative Steve King said stuff like this in 2018-19 the house GOP caucus stripped him of his committee assignments.
Absolute mensch who did this is running for state rep in NH btw: secure.actblue.com/donate/mille...