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moist turtleneck posted:they used ~computer models~ also lol at meat and fish being that small if you're going to make your info graphic a plate, my loving babyback ribs need to be their own plate
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A guy I work with said his dad died yesterday from "a sudden medical condition." hmmm
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Lol fuckin hot take Feel free to prove me wrong.
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going to be extremely funny and predictable when another insane variant hits exactly 1 month after mask mandates are lifted
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Lol fuckin hot take I think the point is that the ostensible goal used to be "make the best planes/missiles/whatever" and that may very well have been true at one point but if it ever was it hasn't been for a very long time and now government contracts are designed and operated on with the intent of perpetuation of the contract rather than delivering something and that part is very true
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Weltlich posted:So I've got a reasonable supply of 3M Vflex n95's and they've become my preferred everyday mask. My only issue is that they use the cheaper style of elastic band. That lead me to wonder: is anyone out there is making a clip-on aftermarket halo for N95's? It seems like it would be fairly easy to make a comfortable strap system with wider woven fabric elastic and some alligator clips that could take the place of the thinner rubber-band style straps on 9105s and 9205s. I tried to make a harness for the vflexes I have and the way the duck bill sits on the side of your face made it really loving difficult. Get some 1/4" elastic material to replace the bands off of Amazon, Walmart and craft stores stock it as well. Gently pry up the staples and swap.
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Why Am I So Tired posted:Can't say they didn't warn you. good album but the only wilco one i give a poo poo about and i still don't really ever listen to it any more so maybe not a good album except for heavy metal drummer?
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Chad Sexington posted:also lol at meat and fish being that small Where does the McRib fit in terms of category?
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Rutibex posted:they dont have a long term plan They certainly do not. Covid does not permit long term planning because it's future evolution cannot be predicted. We're looking at a pathogen which is using random mutation combined with natural selection to explore a "fitness landscape" we are utterly ignorant about. With Covid as your major operational asset, you can't make a plan that you can confidently expect to be worth a leaping poo poo in even 6 month's time, let alone 1-2 years.
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Louisgod posted:going to be extremely funny and predictable when another insane variant hits exactly 1 month after mask mandates are lifted There can't be another insane variant if we stop tracking and naming variants
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Lol fuckin hot take He's right
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Kylaer posted:If you've got money to buy a house, go ahead and buy a house. It's perfectly safe. You can do everything involved in viewing, buying, and moving while wearing a respirator. Wearing a respirator reduces your risk of contracting covid to essentially zero, even if you're right up close and personal with someone actively dying of covid (plus wear protective glasses or goggles if you want to, I suppose). Take it from someone who has been there dozens of times. Your concept of risk is completely uncoupled from reality. Can't afford one in this region unfortunately. But yeah, I do need to get better at trusting the respirator / seal, in the process of trying to put on some weight so it sticks to my face better.
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Feb 9, 2022 16:21
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It's actually more profitable to be a business that doesn't actually make or do anything.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:A guy I work with said his dad died yesterday from "a sudden medical condition." People are still dying from non-COVID events though. Of course if the guy is a chud then yeah, you gotta wonder
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I think the point is that the ostensible goal used to be "make the best planes/missiles/whatever" This was where I was going with it but it applies outside of government defense contracts. Ford Motor Company doesn't want to make good cars they want to make numbers on spreadsheets go up and they don't really care how they do it. They just so happen to have a bunch of car factories (who even remembers why) so those are the levers they mess around with to make the numbers jump.
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CPU Abuser posted:They certainly do not. I disagree, it would be fairly simple to make long term plans based on what we know about COVID. COVID might evolve to be more or less infectious, or to impact different organs, and so on. But the way to mitigate it remains the same. If someone wants to do long term planning about how to deal with COVID it would be very doable. We just refuse to do so.
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Louisgod posted:going to be extremely funny and predictable when another insane variant hits exactly 1 month after mask mandates are lifted They'll use it to say "see, the mandates didn't work."
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Glumwheels posted:Why can’t we just wait for vaccines to be approved for little kids before ripping off every last protection we had (even if the bare minimum)? Because the politicians running the show are so terminally loving stupid they think they can order evolution around. The way Fauci tried to do just yesterday.
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etalian posted:Where does the McRib fit in terms of category? McRibs are actually just used gym mats
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Who could have possibly imagined that this might happen? https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1491432794844975111?s=20&t=AIHEIHr90FfR5OO0cVo3UQ
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We've been living in a new gilded age for 30ish years, why is everyone surprised that the wood underneath the shiny metal is rotting?
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I think the point is that the ostensible goal used to be "make the best planes/missiles/whatever" Yep, this was the same thing at Boeing too. Thinking about my loser coworker / former classmate who was actually happy when health insurance got worse one year - "the savings are good for shareholder value, which is good for The Boeing Company, which is good for us all." Lol get hosed.
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CPU Abuser posted:Because the politicians running the show are so terminally loving stupid they think they can order evolution around. Fauci hosed up the AIDS pandemic response and he's continuing his perfect consistent track record this time around!
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Thoguh posted:I disagree, it would be fairly simple to make long term plans based on what we know about COVID. COVID might evolve to be more or less infectious, or to impact different organs, and so on. But the way to mitigate it remains the same. If someone wants to do long term planning about how to deal with COVID it would be very doable. We just refuse to do so. That assumes that the planners didn't do everything in their power to strip away public resort to the "mitigations" you just mentioned. The way ours are. Since the only certain mitigations, right now, are the specifically NPI mitigations. Vaccines and monoclonal antibodies only do a decent job if the virus doesn't evolve out from under them. As we're seeing Omicron do right now.
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Thoguh posted:I disagree, it would be fairly simple to make long term plans based on what we know about COVID. COVID might evolve to be more or less infectious, or to impact different organs, and so on. But the way to mitigate it remains the same. If someone wants to do long term planning about how to deal with COVID it would be very doable. We just refuse to do so. sounds.... dystopian
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Thoguh posted:Who could have possibly imagined that this might happen? long-boomer remover
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Kylaer posted:If you've got money to buy a house, go ahead and buy a house. It's perfectly safe. You can do everything involved in viewing, buying, and moving while wearing a respirator. Wearing a respirator reduces your risk of contracting covid to essentially zero, even if you're right up close and personal with someone actively dying of covid (plus wear protective glasses or goggles if you want to, I suppose). Take it from someone who has been there dozens of times. Your concept of risk is completely uncoupled from reality. This is the main problem I can see. House prices around NYC are going way up and don't see it getting better. The rats are fleeing the ship, and what's worse is I'm one of the pokier rats! Some maladjusted part of me hopes the current drive for normalcy pushes prices back down a bit, so the reactionary homeowner mindset is already setting in. You're right about the respirator, exposure isn't a serious problem for house buying. However you might consider a lot of people in the public haven't been trained for proper respirator usage. Expecting normal people to get a reliable seal every time for the rest of their lives when there's little margin for error isn't realistic, and given that the risk isn't essentially zero.
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etalian posted:Fauci hosed up the AIDS pandemic response and he's continuing his perfect consistent track record this time around! You say "hosed up" as if the AIDS response wasn't exactly as designed.
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CPU Abuser posted:That assumes that the planners didn't do everything in their power to strip away public resort to the "mitigations" you just mentioned. also even with chud approved treatment like antibodies the death spike was still big during each previous surge. 
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Iron Crowned posted:McRibs are actually just used gym mats There's very little meat in those gym mats
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Warmachine posted:If you're in a shared/communal living space and not a single family home you're already turbofucked w.r.t. air quality control. Opening the windows would be a net benefit compared to sucking down recycled communal air that has been in any number of units with no chance to disburse. I'm on the bottom floor in a very small condo (three floors, 15 units total), I think my air filters are MERV 12 or 13, not sure. each unit has it's own condenser, and an HVAC closet with the a/c, furnace and water heater, and soffits in the ceiling. I don't think there's any "connection" between units for this. actionjackson fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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where the tweet with "guess we're finally getting herd immunity" for the fourth time
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etalian posted:Fauci hosed up the AIDS pandemic response and he's continuing his perfect consistent track record this time around! And he's doing so at a level of intellectual arrogance that's stunning. Nearly unimaginable, even if it were on display in someone with even a layman's grasp of what's been happening these last couple of years.
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Warmachine posted:You say "hosed up" as if the AIDS response wasn't exactly as designed. COVID is killing the right people according to the powers that be.
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BoldFace posted:It's not like this is the first pandemic ever. Eventually, all they come to an end or shrink down to something like seasonal flu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD_iA7imAPs there's no rule that says we'll make it there's no rule that says we'll make it there's no rule that says we'll make it there's no rule that says we'll make it there's no rule that says we'll make it
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triple sulk posted:good album but the only wilco one i give a poo poo about and i still don't really ever listen to it any more I still love the whole thing but I'm really disappointed in them, Jeff Tweedy never seemed to be the "hold a superspreading event during a pandemic" type. I will never understand how concerts are a thing right now. It's indefensible.
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CPU Abuser posted:And he's doing so at a level of intellectual arrogance that's stunning. That Fauci takedown article was great for how he continues to pitch the delusion that "Believe the Science" can somehow be separated from political spin and outright lying. Similar how Dems are getting risk of mask mandates despite all their claims about believing "The Science" and watching the Colbert Show each night.
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goth smoking cloves posted:It's actually more profitable to be a business that doesn't actually make or do anything. correct if you have 50 million dollars (or whatever), using it to build a factory that manufactures widgets has a really poor ROI instead, you plow it into the stock market and chase returns as an investor if you actually already own the factory, continuing to run it and maybe even improving the process and management, and expanding your manufacturing capacity, again, has a really poor ROI instead, you sell it to an investor that wants to buy off the name-brand from you if tomorrow they shutter the factory after loading up your firm with toxic debt from some other holding the investor had? not your loving problem, you've already taken the money (and plowed it into the stock market, chasing after bigger returns)
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