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“Fifteen Days To Stop The Spread”

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Time flies. It’s been five years since one of the (many) big lies about the pandemic.

We had to fumigate the house for termites, and decided to take the cats up to Cambria for a couple days (their first, and so far, only road trip, which they probably think was some kind of weird dream), so we wouldn’t have to board them. We were supposed to meet some friends from Berkeley, but the lock down had just begun in the Bay Area, and they decided not to go. I wouldn’t say that the town was a ghost town, but it was decidedly weird. When we got back to LA, things just started rapidly deteriorating with all the lunacy from there.

[Update a few minutes later]

Jennifer Sey: “The five-year anniversary of the lockdowns is here, and I’m angry.”

So am I. So should we all be. And Deborah Birx (among many others) has never been held accountable for her (her word) “subterfuge.“

[Thursday-morning update]

Lileks remembers.

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Business, Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, War Commentary

Fantastic Point

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I love Simone. Being of Pakistani ancestry, she knows whereof she speaks.

Business, Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Social Commentary

“Elite” Higher Education

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Is the jig (finally) up?

Let’s hope so. It’s done immeasurable damage to the Republic.

[Update a while later]

Link added, sorry!

[Sunday-morning update]

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Linux Update Problem

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When I ‘dnf -y update’ it downloads all the packages, but at the end crashes with this error message:

Importing OpenPGP key 0x7FAC5991:
UserID : “Google, Inc. Linux Package Signing Key linux-packages-keymaster@google.com“
Fingerprint: 4CCA1EAF950CEE4AB83976DCA040830F7FAC5991
From : https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
The key was successfully imported.
Importing OpenPGP key 0xD38B4796:
UserID : “Google Inc. (Linux Packages Signing Authority) linux-packages-keymaster@google.com“
Fingerprint: EB4C1BFD4F042F6DDDCCEC917721F63BD38B4796
From : https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
The key was successfully imported.
Transaction failed: Signature verification failed.
OpenPGP check for package “google-chrome-stable-134.0.6998.35-1.x86_64” (/var/cache/libdnf5/google-chrome-6ed7e4f336f6863c/packages/google-chrome-stable-134.0.6998.35-1.x86_64.rpm) from repo “google-chrome” has failed: Import of the key didn’t help, wrong key?

Any idea how to tell it to ignore this and just do the other updates? I don’t see any obvious options on “dnf update.”

Thanks for the advice in comments. Unfortunately, I can’t deal with it until I get back from a trip on Friday.

[Friday update]

The problem seems to have resolved itself while I was gone. I updated last night with no issues.