Virtual Box

OK, so I’ve given up on restoring my previous Windows guest machine, and am going to create a new one (I only lost a couple files that I cared about). But now VB won’t work properly. Without getting into detail on the error messages, I’d like to just completely remove it, and do a clean install. But I can’t figure out how to do it.

I apparently installed it from a script, so there are no Fedora packages for it, so dnf can’t do anything. When I click on the details of the icon in Gnome, and select remove, it just shrugs its digital shoulders. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Tuesday-afternoon update]

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Wearing Masks Outside

It didn’t make much sense even at the beginning, give that we knew early on that UV killed it, and there was no evidence of transmission under those circumstances, but it’s come to the point at which it’s now just stupid.

[Update a few minutes later]

Why are Democrats so badly misinformed about Covid?

Why are they so badly misinformed about everything?

[Update a while later]

Team Blue should give up its unhealthy obsession with Covid panic porn.

[Tuesday-morning update]

The Great Barrington Declaration and ad hominem argumentation.

I met Dr. Bhattacharya in October, shortly after the declaration was drafted, at the Hillsdale event where I gave my presentation on the economics of space.

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