Friday Night Open Thread

I love Weird Al. Even if I don’t always like the singers he parodies.

[The YouTube]

Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s our nightly Open Thread, and you have the floor.

Mis-Taken?

I just watched Taken again after a long, long time.

Liam Neeson did not go into the room full of scumbags and identify the guilty man by using a red light on a gizmo (from a tech accomplice) matching his initial voice recording.

What movie am I conflating this with?

Or am I just thinking of the Family Guy spoof?

Biden/Harris Harris/Biden Campaign Struggles To Take Off Amidst Carnival Atmosphere

Many of Us Are Already Worrying About This

Could workplaces require all employees to get a vaccine?

Employers’ Latest Quandary: COVID-19 Vaccines
Human Resource Executive | September 16, 2020 | Carol Patton

The eventual COVID-19 vaccine is primed to create a legal showdown for many employers.

According to a summer Gallup poll, 35% of Americans would not get a free, FDA-approved vaccine if it were available today.

This places companies in a predicament. How can they protect their employees if more than one-third are unwilling to take the vaccine?

The default rule in the American workplace—excluding employers in Montana and Puerto Rico—is to observe at-will employment, which generally means employees can be terminated for any reason if it’s not illegal or prohibited by employment contracts or collective bargaining agreements…

My body, my choice.

But that argument doesn’t work in smoke-free zones, does it?

The End

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All I Know Is Batteries Die

Apparently, scientists have discovered shocking new reasons why:

There are multiple ways a lithium battery can fail, but a longstanding problem associated with high currents is dendrite penetration. Dendrites are tree-like structures that can form on the lithium plating in a battery.

They can quickly penetrate a battery’s ceramic separator, a porous plastic film between the anode and cathode of the battery. Once a dendrite makes its way across the separator, the battery shorts out.

The growth of dendrites depends on the current density, but dendrites spring up in batteries at current densities three orders of magnitude higher than expected or designed.

Know Your Noemi

She has a gift for words:

History Will Thank Trump (and Obama) for Keeping Hillary Clinton Out of Office
Washington Examiner | 9/16/2020 | Noemi Emery

Win or may lose in November, there is one thing for which people will forever praise President Trump: Just when it counted, at the moment of crisis with all on the line, he threw his body into the line of incoming fire — and prevented Hillary Clinton from becoming president.

Deserving of thanks also is President Barack Obama, who in the 2008 primary defeated Clinton and kept her out of office through his two terms until Trump could step up to the job. The importance of what these people did becomes more impressive when one recalls that the plot to make Clinton president, whether she had earned it or not, had been decades in the making. Some say it stemmed from the 1980s in Arkansas, or even before that, when she and her husband met at Yale.

“Two for the price of one!” the pair chirped while campaigning in 1992, (happily described as the “Year of the Woman”), while Hillary was sold as a “New Kind of First Lady,” seemingly meaning a sort of co-president, until healthcare blew up in her face. With that, she retired into more traditional duties.

Until, of course, she was called on again during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which made her sympathetic at once to “traditional women,” whom she at the beginning appeared to despise. And then at the end, she became “the wronged woman,” (as opposed to the wrong one), sold as the victim-survivor deserving of everyone’s praise.

Because she had been forced to listen in excruciating detail to every last fact of her husband’s betrayal, she was given a seat in the Senate representing New York (which she never had lived in) and a fast track to her party’s nomination for president in 2008…

College Informs Student That Trump Could Win Reelection

Student’s Parent Sues College

Hold My Bier

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Bismark’s Imperial Germany Counted as Victim of COVID

(And, of course, the lasers and infrared didn’t hurt.)

Ju-u-u-st a Little Outside

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Today’s Edition of “What on Earth Is Biden Babbling About Now?”

Biden’s answer:

“Chickens. Chicken and chick-poultry and all what is all the all the manure quite frankly that is a consequence of chickens.“

This Biden guy is a national treasure.

They’ve Done The Groundwork, Now It’s Time For Us To Step Up and Finish the Job

Somebody at some site called “Getpocket.com” posted this article:

The Best Method for Making Bacon

with these images:

Science!

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