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BigDave posted:MotherFUCKER this is more self-feliating then the urban legend about Marlyan Manson. And who do you think pioneered the surgical techniques that allowed Marilyn Manson to remove two of his ribs so he could blow himself? That’s right- boomers.
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maffew buildings posted:"Here's one last piece of advice. Aim higher. Your passion for change seems to be mostly for yourselves—health insurance, child care, student loans, paid family leave. Our passion was often to help others: civil rights, apartheid and famines in places like Bangladesh, Biafra and Ethiopia. Yes, it was naïve to think that a few concerts like Live Aid could save millions, but it was rooted in good intentions. Our generation may have failed in the execution, but we did not fail in ambition." I didn’t read the article but this quote is all I’ll ever need from it
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maffew buildings posted:"Here's one last piece of advice. Aim higher. Your passion for change seems to be mostly for yourselves—health insurance, child care, student loans, paid family leave. Our passion was often to help others: civil rights, apartheid and famines in places like Bangladesh, Biafra and Ethiopia. Yes, it was naïve to think that a few concerts like Live Aid could save millions, but it was rooted in good intentions. Our generation may have failed in the execution, but we did not fail in ambition." No. My uncle thinks this exact thing. He also thinks that everything is too complex and change is too hard and it will never happen and it's pointless to try &c &c
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maffew buildings posted:"Here's one last piece of advice. Aim higher. Your passion for change seems to be mostly for yourselves—health insurance, child care, student loans, paid family leave. Our passion was often to help others: civil rights, apartheid and famines in places like Bangladesh, Biafra and Ethiopia. Yes, it was naïve to think that a few concerts like Live Aid could save millions, but it was rooted in good intentions. Our generation may have failed in the execution, but we did not fail in ambition." "Your passion for change seems to be mostly for yourselves" says author who in the latter part of the same sentence mentions child care and paid family leave.
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Why try to fix things here? Try some lofty goals that don't actually require any direct effort because they won't actually ever be fixed, like world hunger! Honestly though does anyone read that rag ever? Someone starting a conversation about a Newsweek article is my cue to exit
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Sacrist65 posted:"Your passion for change seems to be mostly for yourselves" says author who in the latter part of the same sentence mentions child care and paid family leave. No, see, those are changes to America. We don't change America, it's perfect. Change the world! There's nothing to fix at home, you selfish kids!
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They seem to run on a sense of moral superiority and an inability to process genuine altruism. It's loving infuriating, it is a generation of loving sociopaths
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Lol the only reason anyone cared about Live Aid was to see, like, Queen and Led Zepplin. No one gave a gently caress about Ethiopia.
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looking into newsweek's relatively recent history is real fun. i ended up doing it a couple years ago when seeing if i wanted to use one of their articles for an essay (I did not.)
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maffew buildings posted:They seem to run on a sense of moral superiority and an inability to process genuine altruism. It's loving infuriating, it is a generation of loving sociopaths It's really no wonder they worship Donny dickbrains. They see themselves in him
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Jesus loving Christ, I check into the crazy ward for the week and the world burns in real time. loving marvelous. It would take all night to catch up on this madness, if I cared enough to read back twenty pages.
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Have we considered that this might be Andy Kauffman re-emerging into the world?
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stealie72 posted:Have we considered that this might be Andy Kauffman re-emerging into the world? I'm still not entirely convinced this isn't the simulation breaking down. I've had my suspicions ever since the Cubs won the world series but I've never been able to figure out if that was the cause or the first sign.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Lol the only reason anyone cared about Live Aid was to see, like, Queen and Led Zepplin. No one gave a gently caress about Ethiopia. quote:BBC coverage co-host Andy Kershaw criticised the event in his autobiography No Off Switch, stating, "Musically, Live Aid was to be entirely predictable and boring. As they were wheeled out – or rather bullied by Geldof into playing – it became clear that this was another parade of the same old rock aristocracy in a concert for Africa, organised by someone who, while advertising his concern for, and sympathy with, the continent didn't see fit to celebrate or dignify the place by including on the Live Aid bill a single African performer." Kershaw also described the attitude of Geldof and his showbusiness associates as "irritating, shallow, sanctimonious and self-satisfied". Checks out.
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stealie72 posted:Have we considered that this might be Andy Kauffman re-emerging into the world? Destroying capitalism as a performance art piece? If anyone would do that, it would be Andy Kauffman, if only as a act of revenge against CBS.
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https://time.com/5799765/intelligence-report-pandemic-dangers/quote:“An annual intelligence report that has been postponed without explanation by President Donald Trump’s administration warns that the U.S. remains unprepared for a global pandemic, two senior government officials who have reviewed a draft of the report tell TIME.
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Coronavirus fatalities hit 4,000 this evening. 
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Has there been an outbreak on this level before in the US? I'm 29 and can't remember anything like this. The closest I can think of was swine flu from...10 years ago? Edit: Not the thread I meant to post this in, but I think I'll get just as good an answer here as anywhere else.
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I don’t even remember swine flu being as bad. Maybe it’s just the more connected nature of everything now with social media (only in regards to the attention, not necessarily the actual damage)? For what it’s worth I’m 39
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Retrowave Joe posted:Coronavirus fatalities hit 4,000 this evening. Achievement unlocked
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Retrowave Joe posted:I don’t even remember swine flu being as bad. Maybe it’s just the more connected nature of everything now with social media (only in regards to the attention, not necessarily the actual damage)? For what it’s worth I’m 39 Swine flu had like a .02% mortality rate. It did loving suck to get though.
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Leavemywife posted:Has there been an outbreak on this level before in the US? I'm 29 and can't remember anything like this. The closest I can think of was swine flu from...10 years ago? The actual numbers right now are really, really mild. The problem is that the actual numbers aren't even close to true.
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Leavemywife posted:Has there been an outbreak on this level before in the US? I'm 29 and can't remember anything like this. The closest I can think of was swine flu from...10 years ago? I'm 40, I've never seen anything like it. Anthrax scare right after 9/11 was pumping up a bit of hysteria around it but was very short lived. Only thing in the same ballpark that I remember. Swine flu looked scary for like a week then died down. Talking to the olds in my department it sounds like the last gasps of Polio in the US were kinda like this. I'd say we're closer to a 1918 flu than anything else here. A month ago I would have called you a loonie if you said that.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Jesus loving Christ, I check into the crazy ward for the week and the world burns in real time. loving marvelous. Everything ok?
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CURRENT EVENT: PATH OF EXILE LEAGUE OUT ON FRIDAY AND I GOT THE DAY OFF
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It's honestly the only time I can think of where I've been concerned about a disease. It's kind of scary, especially since I work at a Walgreens. Thankfully, I'm in a small town in Michigan (less than 12k population), but I still have this small worry in the back of my mind.
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Boomer college education was paid for by the government directly funding public universities and they're too loving stupid to realize that no it was paid for in taxes. The gap in prices between public and private universities has shrank because more and more there becomes little difference.
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white boomers magically became uninterested in progressive candidates as soon as they weren't directly threatened by the draft
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PookBear posted:Boomer college education was paid for by the government directly funding public universities and they're too loving stupid to realize that no it was paid for in taxes. The gap in prices between public and private universities has shrank because more and more there becomes little difference. VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS
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PookBear posted:white boomers magically became uninterested in progressive candidates as soon as they weren't directly threatened by the draft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B6DVdCzwy0
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Leavemywife posted:Has there been an outbreak on this level before in the US? I'm 29 and can't remember anything like this. The closest I can think of was swine flu from...10 years ago? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
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Honestly I'm not gonna worry about Coronavirus, if only because I've been getting "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!1!" screamed at me by Fox and CNN once a month for the last 20 years. A strong flu is a 2 on the disaster scale, maybe a 3 if coughing blood is a symptom.
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Young people (meaning anybody under roughly 55) have nothing to worry about from the virus assuming they don't have a compromised immune system. The danger of the virus itself is largely irrelevant to why it's actually a colossal concern that's absolutely destroying the world economy right now. It spreads easily enough, and people go a long time before showing symptoms. Which means it will eventually find people that *do* need to get hospitalization or they die. If too many of these people get sick, the healthcare system gets overloaded and then a lot more people die. Nobody gives a poo poo if young people get flu-like symptoms for a week. Because it's so dangerous to older people (who make up a large percentage of the workforce in certain countries and sectors) there's legitimate public health concern. But people don't work like that, and people that are largely safe will panic regardless. This is the dangerous part of a pandemic. I keep seeing people dismiss COVID-19 as something meaningless, and the best metaphor I have is a house fire. The fire isn't what will kill you, it's the smoke.
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My mother and aunt are teachers, I spend most of my day in and out of offices meeting with clients, my wife is a caregiver for the elderly, and she's immunocompromised. I'm absolutely worried.
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Vasudus posted:Young people (meaning anybody under roughly 55) have nothing to worry about from the virus assuming they don't have a compromised immune system. The danger of the virus itself is largely irrelevant to why it's actually a colossal concern that's absolutely destroying the world economy right now. It spreads easily enough, and people go a long time before showing symptoms. Which means it will eventually find people that *do* need to get hospitalization or they die. If too many of these people get sick, the healthcare system gets overloaded and then a lot more people die. Nobody gives a poo poo if young people get flu-like symptoms for a week. There's gonna be a whole lot of cases of dudes accidentally killing grandma in the near future. Also that's my big fear, I work in a bunch of different hospitals and I know it's only a matter of time before I'm exposed, and I really don't want to accidentally expose my parents. Also my company hasn't really put out a plan for what we are supposed to do if we are exposed! Which is pretty cool and good when you consider 90% of us are in healthcare facilities on a daily basis. Sure feel good about having unlimited sick days turned into 4 extra PTO days!!!!
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Proud Christian Mom posted:My mother and aunt are teachers, I spend most of my day in and out of offices meeting with clients, my wife is a caregiver for the elderly, and she's immunocompromised. I'm absolutely worried. Yes, my wife just got a kidney transplant and she works in healthcare. Not only do I worry about her getting it, I worry about myself getting it and spreading it to her. It doesn't help that my idiot chud coworkers are running around yelling that it's just a fake news flu and avoiding any precautions. The flu is easily testable, has an actual treatment, has a vaccine, and hits in a way that keeps most people out of work for a while. I feel like I should be very concerned about Covid. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Mar 10, 2020 |
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