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1. 14 days ago on Reality Check

   The specter of a TB outbreak should make everyone nervous.

2. 14 days ago on WuMo

   If nothing else becomes available. I met a guy once whose organ donor card was marked “brain only”.

3. 14 days ago on Reality Check

   An N95 mask is supposed to catch 95% of particles larger than .3 microns. Virus sizes vary and many are smaller than .3 but we’re not dealing with absolutes here. It will allow some of the larger size particles through and even stop some of the smaller ones. You’re just playing the odds and the mask does improve the odds.

4. 15 days ago on WuMo

   Good for you but I’m holding out for the whole body transplant.

5. 15 days ago on Reality Check

   Wild fires will be back and we’ll want masks for the smoke.

6. 15 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   Even the bottomless one is missing today.

7. 15 days ago on Pooch Cafe

   If the Pacific zone stayed on Daylight and the Mountain zone stayed on Standard we would effectively have one less time zone in the U.S. The same could be done with Central and Eastern.

8. 17 days ago on El Café de Poncho

   Estremece.

9. 17 days ago on Non Sequitur

   You’re probably right although I have heard it argued that the usage was anachronistic and that the literal meaning of camel at least had parallels in other languages of the region. I am not an authority by any means.

10. 18 days ago on Non Sequitur

    In addition to the postern gate interpretation there was another that claimed that the camel was a clew of yarn. As far as I know they were both medieval inventions to make rich people comfortable with Christianity.