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Panty Saluter posted:https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1237451626387996672?s=20 This absolutely loving rules
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zoux posted:Everyone is focusing on the completely inept response to COVID-19 from the Feds, but listening to this panel all day makes me feel like the state health and emergency officials have a realistic perspective and realistic capacity to handle an outbreak (depending on severity of course). Better than Lombardy anyway. Still waiting on Fiesta events to start getting canceled in San Antonio. I haven't heard anything yet and it's still over a month away but it seems inevitable that Fiesta's gonna be scaled back a lot this year. edit: Eat poo poo Alex Jones, Marxalot posted:This absolutely loving rules
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Hispanic has been its own can of worms forever because there's an argument about whether Spanish heritage should be dignified as such since that heritage is rooted in the brutal enslavement of indigenous peoples. This is very, very far from a ubiquitous opinion, and anecdotally I've talked to some folks whose families are from Cuba or Mexico who think of Spain sort of as the motherland I feel like a lot of this is also tied to the weird dynamics that come up among folks with Spanish heritage who can't actually speak Spanish vs those who do. You don't end up with memes like this if there aren't some hard feelings going around. 
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Mar 10, 2020 22:34
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While hispanic is a reference to the peninsula their colonial masters came from, latino is a reference to the language (and also squeezes French Guyana into qualifying), so it's not like that's sidestepping the whole issue.
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Mar 10, 2020 23:58
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https://twitter.com/KenKalthoffNBC5/status/1237414360504549377?s=20 Oh gee I wonder what the demographic breakdown is of the area where ballots had discrepancies
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Mar 11, 2020 00:27
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The only one I recognize is withers elementary, but it's definitely rich white people central, not far from Bush's house.
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Mar 11, 2020 01:05
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https://twitter.com/TXHouseWHC/status/1237414920058265606 Uh
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Mar 11, 2020 01:21
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M. Night Skymall posted:The only one I recognize is withers elementary, but it's definitely rich white people central, not far from Bush's house. That's only partially accurate - you go less than a mile north and all along 635 are low income apartments. A mile or two west and the same thing - huge quantities of low income apartments. The school itself may be in the middle of a relatively wealthy neighborhood, but when you think in terms of population density, the poorer minorities in that area vastly outnumber the people living in those single family homes, even if they occupy much less space.
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DAS Super! posted:https://twitter.com/KenKalthoffNBC5/status/1237414360504549377?s=20 https://twitter.com/AlynneStark/status/1237451234216296450/photo/1 
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Mar 11, 2020 02:05
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What outcome are they trying to rig here
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Mar 11, 2020 02:08
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litany of gulps posted:That's only partially accurate - you go less than a mile north and all along 635 are low income apartments. A mile or two west and the same thing - huge quantities of low income apartments. The school itself may be in the middle of a relatively wealthy neighborhood, but when you think in terms of population density, the poorer minorities in that area vastly outnumber the people living in those single family homes, even if they occupy much less space. Sure, I live a couple miles west among the much cheaper homes, but I don't vote at Withers. I think it's just gross incompetence, but I guess we'll see after the recount.
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Mar 11, 2020 02:08
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M. Night Skymall posted:Sure, I live a couple miles west among the much cheaper homes, but I don't vote at Withers. I think it's just gross incompetence, but I guess we'll see after the recount. Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't think it's some conspiracy or whatever. I'm sure it's just incompetence as well. But I also would bet that more people live in the apartment complex on the NW corner of Forest and Marsh than live in blocks and blocks of that wealthier single family area just on the other corner. Most of those houses hold one or two elderly people, while many of those single bedroom apartments have half a dozen inhabitants each.
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Mar 11, 2020 02:21
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zoux posted:What outcome are they trying to rig here Bernie should have lost by 4.3% instead of 4.5%
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Mar 11, 2020 02:26
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/NicGarcia/status/1237410979555749889 Rofl, dude is mad because the conservative monied interests backed Winegarner instead of Eckstrom. Winegarner seems pretty awful in terms of policy but is definitely less of a wacko than the others in the race. I went to the candidate forum they had for everyone in Amarillo, and it was pretty depressing. The best moment was when one of my students submitted a question to the GOP county chair candidates about what they would do regarding the Log Cabin Republicans, and one of the candidates didn't know what a Log Cabin Republican was.
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Mar 11, 2020 03:35
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He's like, gay Republicans? No, that doesn’t sound right.
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Mar 11, 2020 03:42
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Image-wise it feels like a weird choice, but he's a staff in the Howard's office (chair of caucus) so it makes sense. He's cool.
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Mar 11, 2020 04:47
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I'm sure he's fine but you’re right the optics aren’t great. Seems like the thing that draws snarky tweets from Mack Mackowiak
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SlothfulCobra posted:While hispanic is a reference to the peninsula their colonial masters came from, latino is a reference to the language (and also squeezes French Guyana into qualifying), so it's not like that's sidestepping the whole issue. I mean, there's a lot of stuff going on in the conversation. Like, some folks take it to a certain extreme:  Which, of course, ends up ignoring folks with Central American heritage (not to mention that this kind of falls into "but I'm 1/16th Cherokee!" appropriation of First Nations identities by the descendants of colonizers). But then there's also the weirdness of what is considered "white" in America vs elsewhere. Like, I was in Costa Rica with some US friends last fall, and at some restaurant one of them made a comment about us being the only white people there. Which got a bit of a weird look for someone who overheard, because literally everyone else in the restaurant was a white Costa Rican. We were just the only Anglos there. So yeah, the whole conversation around the terminology is clearly still being worked out and it's probably best to let that community figure things out before chiming in...
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Mar 11, 2020 13:03
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https://twitter.com/evanasmith/status/1237734291767005184 Every one of those cases is from that one Egypt cruise. I think the only actual p2p infections that have occurred in Texas were that dude in Collin Co who gave it to his wife and kid. People are losing their minds over this; I can't remember, was it like this for SARS or H1N1? The only thing I remember about the latter is the get ready for some loving bird flu meme but I don't recall this level of unease. I know that the federal government not taking this seriously due to direction from Trump isn't helping things, but to me it seems like every official in Texas is taking this very seriously.
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zoux posted:Every one of those cases is from that one Egypt cruise. I think the only actual p2p infections that have occurred in Texas were that dude in Collin Co who gave it to his wife and kid. People are losing their minds over this; I can't remember, was it like this for SARS or H1N1? The only thing I remember about the latter is the get ready for some loving bird flu meme but I don't recall this level of unease. SARS and swine flu got a lot of big and loud headlines, but at their peaks those episodes were still a hell of a lot tamer in the US than what we're seeing now. SARS had a real bad case fatality rate but was relatively easy to spot and contain, as it had consistent symptoms and a shorter incubation period. It never actually got to "pandemic" status. H1N1 was a lot harder to spot and contain, but it had a low case fatality rate, similar to regular influenza. Wikipedia tells me SARS only ever had 27 cases in the US and zero fatalities, which sounds right - the only bad outbreak in North America was in Toronto, which had 251 cases/49 deaths. H1N1 had about a couple thousand confirmed fatalities in the US, but again, people didn't freak out about it as much because the fatality rate was not all that much worse than influenza. Neither of those episodes prompted anything like the event cancellations and university closures like we're seeing now. New York State just mobilized the national guard, we sure as hell didn't see that for SARS or swine flu. The idea that we'll be watching the NCAA tournament being played in silent arenas is wild, but given the strain on our healthcare system that seems likely if we go the way of China and Italy, I can't fault anyone for calling for drastic measures. zoux posted:I know that the federal government not taking this seriously due to direction from Trump isn't helping things, but to me it seems like every official in Texas is taking this very seriously. The disconnect between state/local authorities and federal authorities is remarkable, I don't really recall a precedent for a big, obvious, slow-motion crisis where the state/local people are rightfully freaking out but the feds are trying to brush it off. The only modern episode that comes close was Katrina, but I still don't think that works as a comparison because the disputes between state/local and federal people were about assigning blame, not about the basic acknowledgment of the severity of a crisis. There was a ton of finger-pointing about who hosed up, but everyone was still on the same page about the fundamental fact that there was a big fuckin' problem.
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Blotto_Otter posted:I can't fault anyone for calling for drastic measures. It seems like we are taking drastic measures. Social media/the news is like "We're gonna be Italy!" but was Italy cancelling essentially every public conference and activity before community spread was established? We cancelled SXSW which was just, apocalyptically unthinkable three months ago. I have really bad health anxiety, so obviously my interest is that the media, social and commercial, is blowing this out of proportion so I can't be objective about it because I want them to be wrong so bad, and I recognize that. I think it's exacerbated by people using the outbreak as the perfect exemplar of exactly why *my* politics should be implemented, and it seems that many see this as a useful cudgel to beat Trump with, and they're doing so. Not that he deserves anything but scorn and blame over this, but people are like "MILLIONS WILL DIE DUE TO TRUMP YOU WILL SEE" and that seems more like political opportunism rather than sober analysis. https://twitter.com/jsmccullou/status/1237749846171418627 If I see a single "Texas cases jump by almost 100 in a day" headline then I guess I'll have my answer. Public health reporting in general is extremely bad and sensationalized, even when it's something like cholesterol guidelines have changed.
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zoux posted:It seems like we are taking drastic measures. Social media/the news is like "We're gonna be Italy!" but was Italy cancelling essentially every public conference and activity before community spread was established? We cancelled SXSW which was just, apocalyptically unthinkable three months ago. I have really bad health anxiety, so obviously my interest is that the media, social and commercial, is blowing this out of proportion so I can't be objective about it because I want them to be wrong so bad, and I recognize that. I think it's exacerbated by people using the outbreak as the perfect exemplar of exactly why *my* politics should be implemented, and it seems that many see this as a useful cudgel to beat Trump with, and they're doing so. Not that he deserves anything but scorn and blame over this, but people are like "MILLIONS WILL DIE DUE TO TRUMP YOU WILL SEE" and that seems more like political opportunism rather than sober analysis. I don't think there's a lot of community transmission in Texas yet. I work in a molecular pathology lab(as a software developer so I'm just passing along what I hear in meetings not my own expertise) and we have a couple cases here and there, but no one's really talking about the kind of poo poo you're seeing in California/Washington/NY. We're still working on getting our test online separate from the CDC, and had a meeting where they talked a little about the public health messaging etc. today, but no one around me seems super concerned that it's everywhere in Texas and just not being traced. Maybe we'll get lucky and it'll just simmer along here until November, then everyone dies  . It's definitely more infectious than the flu, but it's not *that* much easier to spread, and it's past flu season here. It'll be slow, probably. That said, my chair cancelled all his travel plans, even domestic ones, and encouraged others to do the same, so people are worried.
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Here's an example, I've seen a ton of stories about Trump/Pence/Bojo/whatever CPAC attendee not getting tested and people freaking out about it, but the state public health officials at that hearing yesterday said that you can't test asymptomatic people, like it doesn't work until the person is showing symptoms. I don't trust anything coming out of the federal government right now since they have to cater to the ego of a mad king, but I don't see why state officials would lie in this particular scenario. Again, it's impossible for me to distinguish between my own wishful thinking and actual good information, but all the catastrophizing on-line for clout isn't helping. Stay the gently caress out of the SA COVID threads unless you want to worry if you should be preparing more for fast or slow zombies.
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zoux posted:It seems like we are taking drastic measures. Social media/the news is like "We're gonna be Italy!" but was Italy cancelling essentially every public conference and activity before community spread was established? We cancelled SXSW which was just, apocalyptically unthinkable three months ago. I have really bad health anxiety, so obviously my interest is that the media, social and commercial, is blowing this out of proportion so I can't be objective about it because I want them to be wrong so bad, and I recognize that. These are all completely unprofessional opinions, so get your salt shaker out. I don't know at which stage Italy started canceling public events and blocking travel, but if they had a do-over, I suspect they'd do it even earlier. My read on it is that we're not dealing with a bug that's going to put everyone in the hospital, we're dealing with a bug that's going to put much of certain segments of the population in the hospital, in a way that requires long, intensive treatment of life-threatening conditions, which puts an immense strain on hospitals. For places that already have outbreaks (which seems to include places like Seattle and NY, but maybe not Texas yet), the goal now is just keeping infections down enough that the ICUs don't get absolutely overwhelmed. Canceling stuff like SXSW is important not because an outbreak at SXSW would kill that many SXSW attendees, but because those attendees would take the bug home, where it could then spread to grandma and put grandma in the ICU, along with everyone else's grandma. I don't usually have bad anxiety about this stuff, but I have a pregnant wife who is due in less than a month, and I'm now mildly terrified of an outbreak happening in San Antonio right at the same time my family is about to go in for a hospital stay. The good news for me is that children do not seem to be severely impacted at all by this virus, and people below 50 seem to have good odds of weathering the virus okay. If you're over 50 or 60, or if you're immunocompromised, or if you have a preexisting respiratory conditions, it sounds like you really don't want to catch this. But if you're younger and reasonably healthy, you probably don't need to panic. (I'm still freaking out though because I haven't seen any data about its impact on pregnancies or newborns, yet.) The other good news is that the only confirmed case of community transmission in Texas so far is that one dude in Collin Co. who gave it to his wife and kid. So far, there's no confirmed indications of an outbreak in Texas. Time will tell if that's because there's really not an outbreak yet, or if we just haven't realized it yet because our testing capacity is so pitiful. zoux posted:I think it's exacerbated by people using the outbreak as the perfect exemplar of exactly why *my* politics should be implemented, and it seems that many see this as a useful cudgel to beat Trump with, and they're doing so. Not that he deserves anything but scorn and blame over this, but people are like "MILLIONS WILL DIE DUE TO TRUMP YOU WILL SEE" and that seems more like political opportunism rather than sober analysis. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. Trump's administration seems to be handling this badly, the rhetoric from Trump himself and outlets like Fox News is flat out dangerous, and people are right to be shouting about that. But the people screaming "MILLIONS WILL DIE, WE'RE DOOMED" are either overreacting or deliberately exploiting the situation. People will die, and there's a good chance that some more will die than otherwise would've because of Trump's rhetoric and the administration's mishandling of things, but it's not going to be that apocalyptic.
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That all sounds reasonable, it's just I can't trust my own judgment in situations like this. https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1237739416464109568 Guess that explains why Trautman reversed herself from "GOP  " to "My bad." Alexa Ura basically singlehandedly broke the Whitely voter suppression story so I'd trust her reporting on this. Also instructive to keep in mind as we see similar allegations of voter suppression where evidence is long lines at polling places in other states: Hanlon's Razor applies.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:22
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https://twitter.com/andreazelinski/status/1237770791854518272 !!!
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Mar 11, 2020 17:10
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Is Howdy a sentient pair of pants? What am I looking at here?
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Mar 11, 2020 17:35
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Please don't be ridiculous. Howdy is a sentient letter H.
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Mar 11, 2020 17:36
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Just close all rodeos permanently
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Mar 11, 2020 18:41
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https://twitter.com/ChronFalkenberg/status/1237797442491465730 Wuhan Situation was my favorite character on Yangtze Shore
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Welp, Texas Tribune is now reporting about a possible case of community spread in Texas. A Montgomery County man in his 40s has tested positive, and they're reporting that he has not traveled outside of the state recently and officials are not sure how he caught it. He apparently attended a barbecue at the Houston Rodeo on Feb 28, though of course it is not clear if he caught it there or if he had symptoms at that time. The article does not paint a very comforting picture, it sounds like we desperately need more testing capacity right now and we just do not have it.
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Mar 11, 2020 19:39
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https://twitter.com/James_Barragan/status/1237820408998645761 Oh
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With out looking at the tallies, I find it hard to believe that no races deep down ballot got affected.
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https://www.dallascountyvotes.org/election-results-and-maps/election-results/ Also the person who requested the recount is the person who said nothing was affected
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So an honest fuckup. Judging by the serial numbers of the flash drives that were misplaced, it looks like they took Denton County's system for this election. This system has paper trails. Edit: Now that I think about it, election workers also tend to take a copy of the ballot machine printouts as a memento and also use it to check it against the published results (at least I did). Kunabomber fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Mar 11, 2020 20:46
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https://twitter.com/lara_korte/status/1237832749064560641 A&M I think cancelled classes for the rest of this week leading into spring break, this is a step beyond that. You gotta think UT-Austin has to make a call at some point. https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1237833900166131713 Lol gently caress you Don
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UTSA just announced a similar policy as Baylor - extended spring break into next week, then classes move online after that. I don't know if there's any coordination among schools in the state system, but yeah, seems likely that UT Austin and a bunch of others are about to follow suit. In Bexar County election news, the two biggest nutjobs in the primaries are now bitching to the local press about the election results being suspect, but of course with zero evidence other than these results couldn't possibly be right! Incumbent Bexar County Republican chairwoman Cynthia Brehm, who you may remember as the one with the husband who's got a track record of exposing himself to underage girls (including Brehm's own daughter!), is in disbelief at being forced into a runoff, saying of last week's election that we should "throw it out" because "my constituents don’t trust it." Meanwhile, the incumbent county sheriff avoided a runoff and won the Democratic primary outright. That hasn't stopped the 3rd place finisher, Michelle Vela, from just-asking-questions around any reporter that'll listen. Unfortunately, being about 40 points behind the incumbent; and also being currently under indictment for falsifying and tampering with evidence (as a former constable); and also facing litigation for sexual harassment of subordinates; and also being under investigation for shaking down city park-goers for protection money, does not seem to be enough to get the local press to stop listening to your insane rantings.
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the local press needs any controversy they can to sell clicks in san antonio
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Ahhh Bexar County dems.
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