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Love or hate the vax, this ad from the State of Arkansas will make you laugh out loud.
Not the Bee
Pro-Vaxxer Encourages Mike Rowe to Push Vaccine on the Rest of Us. Mike Responds with Spicy PERFECTION!
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The Holy Vaccinated Saints are some of the most insufferable nimrods out there. I know we make fun of "Karens" but we need to expand and come up with some kind of denigrating moniker for the lot of them. One such pro-vaccine nimrod wrote into Mike Rowe, encouraging Mike to use the power of his influence to spread the Gospel according to Fauci. My words, "Steve" isn’t near clever enough to think up something half-way original. Not his fault, he was born a sheep. Anyway, Mike Rowe didn’t take the guilt bait, and instead of saying "no thanks, to each their own" he wrote a brilliant, spicy essay that every politico and their minions pushing the pokey should read and absorb. They won’t, but a girl can dream.
You’d need to click the "See More" link to read the full post, and you absolutely should, it’s Mike Rowe at his best. But a few of you might be on a social media hiatus or you, blessedly, told Facebook to go pound sand. I approve. If that be the case, here is my favorite chunk from Mike’s post:
"The fact is, millions of reasonable Americans have every right to feel confused and skeptical. Those people you refer to, Steve – the ones now telling us that we can "get back to normal just as soon as everyone is vaccinated" – those are the same people who said, "two weeks to flatten the curve!" Those are the same people who told us that masks were "useless" before they told us they were "critical." Those are the same people who told us that a return to normalcy would occur just as soon as "the most vulnerable" among us were vaccinated. Then, just as soon as "half the population" was vaccinated. Then, just as soon as we achieved "herd immunity." Those are the same people who told us they wouldn’t trust ANY vaccine developed under the last administration. Now, those very same people are belittling the skeptics!
If this were a Peanuts cartoon, those people would be Lucy, pulling away the football at the last moment while a nation full of Charlie Browns land flat on their collective back, over and over and over again. Those people you refer to – elected officials, journalists, and most disturbingly, more than a few medical experts – have moved the goalposts time and time again, while ignoring the same rules and restrictions they demand we all live by. They’re always certain, usually wrong, incapable of shame, and utterly void of humility. Is it any wonder millions find them unpersuasive?"
Mike is, as usual, right about this. A lot of us are skeptical. Speaking for myself, I cannot nor will I trust anyone in government to make my decisions. I make my decisions, and I make my own decisions better than an elected official and better than a butt-kissing sycophant who elected those assholes. I pride myself on critical thinking skills that I saw few people exercising at the start of the pandemic way back in February of 2020. What I did see was herd mentality in full swing. Plenty of right-leaning leaders went right along with it, too.
It’s good to be skeptical. It’s good to hit pause. Sometimes going with the herd is the right move. Sometimes it’s not. But that’s where thinking comes into play rather than just feeling and reacting to those feelings. Or in the case of much of the COVID panic, reacting to what others are feeling and saying so forcefully.
It’s your body and your choice. Remember that line? If you decide the vaccine is right for you, no one is stopping you. But some people have decided it’s not right for them. It isn’t up to you or anyone else to force them to do something they do not want to do to their body. Hard stop.
I have to add this last part, because it resonated with me:
At this point, I’m afraid the the government has but one course of sensible action – get the FDA on board, stat, and then, provide an honest, daily breakdown of just how quickly the virus is spreading among the unvaccinated, versus the vaccinated. No more threats, no more judgments, no more politics, no more celebrity-driven PSA’s, no more ham-fisted attempts at public shaming. Just a steady flow of verifiable data that definitively proves that the vast, undeniable, overwhelming majority of people who get this disease are unvaccinated. In other words, give us the facts, admit your mistakes, try on a bit of humility, and stop treating the unvaccinated like the enemy.
This is the gold: "no more ham-fisted attempts at public shaming" and "stop treating the unvaccinated like the enemy."
I’m tired of the vaccinated treating the unvaccinated like second class citizens. Or third class. Vermin, maybe. It’s gone on long enough and it’s gross. Hopefully those of us in the conservative crowd have been consistent in saying you need to do what you need to do, and so long as others are not negatively affected, fine. But man, the vaccinated people are teetering on the edge of becoming just as if not more obnoxious than the BAKE ME A CAKE, BIGOT Gaystapo soldiers.
Thanks for the wisdom, Mike. Hopefully it’ll resonate with the obnoxious vaccinated populace.
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Comic for August 05, 2021
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Human-Powered Tennis Ball Cannon
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Machines that fire tennis balls are as common. But we’ve never seen one that uses human power. Creative Machines’ ball cannon launches tennis balls up to 200 feet. Each time its handle is pushed, it raises a weight. When it reaches the top, it falls and becomes a piston, flinging balls into the sky using compressed air.
The Awesomer
The Clean Coder’s Guide to Laravel
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What Is It?
Last week, I released a free PDF called “The Clean Coder’s Guide to Laravel”. It’s a 70-page PDF that covers 6 different topics of how to write clean code in your Laravel projects.
What Topics Does It Cover?
The guide contains the following 6 chapters:
- Cleaning Up Laravel Controllers – Learn how to clean up “bloated” controllers by extracting your authorisation, validation and business logic out into separate classes. This chapter shows how you can achieve this by using form requests and DTOs (data transfer objects).
- Quick & Easy Tips to Speed Up Your Application – Learn about several different tips that you can implement quickly to speed up your Laravel applications. This chapter discusses caching, optimising database queries, and reducing uneeded bloat from packages.
- How to Create Your Own Helper Functions – Learn how to create your own helper functions in Laravel and then register them using Composer.
- Using Interfaces to Write Better PHP Code – Learn about how you can use interfaces to decouple your code. This chapter discusses how you can use interfaces to make your code more testable, extendable and maintainable.
- Using the Strategy Pattern – Learn about how to use the strategy pattern to make your code more extendable and readable.
- Making Your Laravel Application More Testable – Learn about how to make your code more testable. This chapter also briefly discusses topics such as dependency injection, the Laravel service container and mocking.
How Do I Get My Copy?
This download is completely FREE! If you haven’t already downloaded it, you can simply drop your email address into the text box at the top or bottom of this post.
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How to use UUID as Primary key instead of auto-increment IDs in Laravel application?
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Lodata
← Discoverable APIs
OData RESTful APIs are easy to consume. The OData metadata, a machine-readable description of the data model of the APIs,
enables the creation of powerful generic client proxies and tools.
The metadata is available as standard OpenAPI v3(opens new window)
which can be loaded into API collaboration platforms like Postman.
← Discover insights
Easily connect to, model, and visualize your data in off-the-shelf business intelligence tools.
Microsoft Power BI(opens new window) supports OData as a first class data connector. Develop
reports locally, and then publish them to the PowerBI Service(opens new window)
where they’ll refresh themselves unattended, directly from your Lodata service.
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Memes that made me laugh 69
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Gathered from here and there over the past week. Click any image for a larger view.
(Verily, the mind doth boggle . . . because you know the only reason that warning label is there must be because somebody did that!)
More next week.
Peter
Bayou Renaissance Man
FieldGoal – Don’t build a whole backend just for one stupid form.
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FieldGoal provides form endpoints as a service, so your simple sites can stay simple. Build your form your way, point your form at FieldGoal, submissions are delivered to wherever you want.
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Need Large, Durable Tarps? You Can Buy Ex-Highway-Billboard Vinyls for Cheap
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At the local home centers, small tarps are cheap, but large tarps (30 feet or above in either dimension) get pretty pricey, up into the hundreds. If you need something large but don’t want to pay a lot, there are at least two companies selling repurposed heavy-duty tarps at affordable prices.
"Each of our vinyls was once posted high in the sky alongside a freeway," writes Billboard Vinyls. "Once their lives as advertising billboards are over, billboard tarpaulin can be re-purposed for a wide range of applications. These high quality vinyls are created to be waterproof, weather resistant, and are UV protected."
"Vinyl billboard tarps are perfect for a variety of applications inlcuding hay tarps, roof covers, boat and vehicle covers, construction, weed barriers, rv skirting, dividers, slip’n’slides, agriculture, wood pile covers, vapor barriers, drop cloths, ground covers, and anything else that needs waterproofing," writes competitor Billboard Tarps. "The 3-ply design is durable, tough and long-lasting with vinyl coating and UV protection on both sides. They are specifically designed to withstand harsh outdoor weather conditions."
You don’t have a choice of what the printed ad is, of course, and the reverse sides are either black or white. Also, the sizes don’t quite correspond with what the big-boxes sell; because these were billboards, they all have letterbox aspect ratios. But you can get a lot of durable material for little money. A 14′ x 48′ reused vinyl tarp at either site goes for $75, for instance.
I’ve looked through both sites, and at press time Billboard Vinyls had a much wider range of sizes in stock.
Core77