March 2020 Current Events Thread: The revolution lives on

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Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Godholio posted:

I hate all of you, I just want you to know that.

Hey gently caress you buddy I sent you bbq sauce

Also stop arguing about a dumb film when YOU HAVE POTUS DOING EVIL CHOICES FROM BIOWARE GAMES

Like it's universally known that Bioware evil choices are scenery-chewing puppy stomping Cape-flicking Dick Dastardly type stuff and your loving POTUS is out doing it in the open

# ? Mar 16, 2020 04:37

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# ? May 25, 2024 13:57

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

joat mon posted:

The major metropolitan area near me just suspended all civil cases in the courts.
The exceptions:
1) Emergency Temporary Restraining Orders
2) Civil mental health (immediate danger to oneself or others stuff)
aaand
3) Evictions.

Oh my loving god

# ? Mar 16, 2020 04:43

bird food bathtub: Aug 9, 2003; College Slice

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Hey gently caress you buddy I sent you bbq sauce

Also stop arguing about a dumb film when YOU HAVE POTUS DOING EVIL CHOICES FROM BIOWARE GAMES

Like it's universally known that Bioware evil choices are scenery-chewing puppy stomping Cape-flicking Dick Dastardly type stuff and your loving POTUS is out doing it in the open

So, you're saying it's a Tuesday?

# ? Mar 16, 2020 04:45

Old Boot: May 9, 2012; Buglord

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Hey gently caress you buddy I sent you bbq sauce

Also stop arguing about a dumb film when YOU HAVE POTUS DOING EVIL CHOICES FROM BIOWARE GAMES

Like it's universally known that Bioware evil choices are scenery-chewing puppy stomping Cape-flicking Dick Dastardly type stuff and your loving POTUS is out doing it in the open

IDK man if we can't take time out of our day to call someone an idiot what's the point of even living.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 05:05

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Fair

# ? Mar 16, 2020 05:12

Doc Hawkins: Jun 15, 2010; Dashing? But I'm not even moving!

the only part of that story that surprises me is the germans confirming it

# ? Mar 16, 2020 05:20

Chichevache: Feb 17, 2010; One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

Doc Hawkins posted:

lurid sexual and physical threats to attractive young women. a premise that places their bodies fully in the control of men and offers them no empowerment except through seduction, seen through the effects-reel set pieces. Internet Wizard already says it: you don't get a pass just because you wink at the camera and say "but it's different when I do it!"

jon hamm's soliloquy at the end was vile, but in a sense perfect. "oh, wow! wow! seeing this mutilated woman has helped me finally feel empathy for her! this has really made me reconsider my earlier criticisms of snyder's ouevre! genius is never appreciated in its own time!"

...anyway, current event, i spent my weekend driving around state parks. i recommend it.

They showed plenty of empowerment without seduction. I'm not sure you're accurately recalling the movie. Most- if not all- of their empowering moments were acts of violence against men.

Is it possible you're thinking of the "dancing" scenes as seduction? The film explicitly does not show a single dance, so you dont have these girls gyrating in an exploitative manner masquerading as liberated or woke. The implication is that performances or dance scenes are actually violent outbursts by Babydoll in the setting of the psych ward, not stripteases. If anything it reinforces the concept of revolution through violence being the only way for an oppressed group to free itself.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 05:23

maffew buildings: Apr 29, 2009; too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned

Did you own a fedora before or after you saw this film

# ? Mar 16, 2020 05:28

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Holy crap shut up about this dumb film

# ? Mar 16, 2020 05:40

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

https://twitter.com/i/status/1239383795205169152

# ? Mar 16, 2020 06:13

Duzzy Funlop: Jan 13, 2010; Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Bavaria is declaring a state of emergency as of Tuesday. All non-essential services to suspend, all non-essential businesses to close as of Wednesday.
Unified crisis staff to be formed in order to get the healthcare-response on the same page.

Ultimately, having the administration react sooner than later is the right thing to do, so I can't be mad, especially since my personal happiness in this matter is completely irrelevant.

This does, however, confirm my current work-related fears since this essentially negates the majority of my work over the last two months, and puts my project into a really lovely position. We're expecting the mandatory home-office call to be made before noon today, so the only good thing to take away from this is that I can focus entirely on damage control working from the confines of my home since all validation testing "in the field" over the next three weeks at minimum is probably going out the window.

/edit: Okay, that came out wrong. It's "the only good thing in the state of my work to come out of this", an organized response to a pandemic obviously has much more relevant good things coming out of it in the long run.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 06:17

piL: Sep 20, 2007; (__|\\\\); Taco Defender

On the Bond-villain vaccine story, this has the stink of equivocation somewhere within transnational corporate law definitions being utilized as diplomatic leverage.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 06:30

piL: Sep 20, 2007; (__|\\\\); Taco Defender

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ktla.c...9-pandemic/amp/

Fun is not authorized in Los Angeles.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 08:54

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_066dEkycr4

# ? Mar 16, 2020 09:33

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

Two Women Fell Sick From the Coronavirus. One Survived.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 09:42

Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

Vegas is closed

Inserting the 2021 tourism video now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7UjcC6Fvck

# ? Mar 16, 2020 09:54

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

# ? Mar 16, 2020 10:12

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Has Vegas ever closed?

# ? Mar 16, 2020 10:13

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Bloomberg posted:

The coronavirus pandemic will bankrupt most airlines worldwide by the end of May unless governments and the industry take coordinated steps to avoid such a situation, an aviation consultant warned.

Many airlines have probably been driven into technical bankruptcy or substantially breached debt covenants already, Sydney-based consultancy CAPA Centre for Aviation warned in a statement Monday. Carriers are depleting cash reserves quickly because their planes are grounded and those that aren�t are flying more than half empty, it said.

relates to Coronavirus Could Bankrupt Most Airlines by End of May, Consultant Warns
�Coordinated government and industry action is needed � now � if catastrophe is to be avoided,� CAPA said. Otherwise, �emerging from the crisis will be like entering a brutal battlefield, littered with casualties,� it said.

Coronavirus Pandemic Causes Climate Of Anxiety And Changing Routines In America
A Delta flight from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport flies nearly empty to JFK on March 15.Photographer: John Moore/Getty Images
Most of the biggest carriers in the U.S., China and Middle East are likely to survive because of government help or support from their owners, CAPA said.

Airlines have been among the biggest corporate casualties of the virus outbreak as the coronavirus grinds air traffic to a halt. Carriers from American Airlines Group Inc. to Australia�s Qantas Airways Ltd. have slashed capacity, while some like Sweden�s SAS AB have temporarily laid off most staff. Flybe, Europe�s biggest regional airline, has already collapsed. Carriers could face as much as $113 billion in lost revenue this year, according to the International Air Transport Association.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-16/virus-to-bankrupt-most-airlines-by-end-of-may-consultant-says

# ? Mar 16, 2020 10:16

LtCol J. Krusinski: May 7, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

If the markets aren�t an absolute blood bath today then I don�t know what the gently caress.

I don�t know �what the gently caress�

# ? Mar 16, 2020 10:47

Nuclear War: Nov 7, 2012; You're a pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty girl

Kesper North posted:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-16/virus-to-bankrupt-most-airlines-by-end-of-may-consultant-says

But like, the planes will still be there, and the trained people who ran them so.... New airlines will rise in their place, like capitalist phoenixes surely?

# ? Mar 16, 2020 10:56

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

All hail Federal American Airlines

# ? Mar 16, 2020 10:57

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

If it means I can change planes somewhere other than Houston or O'Hare, I'm all for it.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 11:00

LtCol J. Krusinski: May 7, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

I don�t think the financial fuckoclpsye or whatever can be overstated. Our only hope at limiting this to a Great Recession / The Depression level event is extreme government action and complete and utter control over entities public and private that hasn�t been seen since WW2.

And we got Donnie Smoothbrains and Miller at the helm.

gently caress. Me.

Buttery E-Mails indeed. Buttery E-mails.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 11:03

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Come hang out in NZ, friend.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 11:07

LtCol J. Krusinski: May 7, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Come hang out in NZ, friend.

Don�t I wish I could, brother.

I wanted goonysberg to happen so we could meet up and you could be introduced to tons of 100% �Murican poo poo- I was seriously gonna come.

The wife and I have New Zealand on out wish lists so I�ll be contacting you in due time to do a NZ goon meet of sorts.

We love to travel but only first class if it�s over 3+ hours, and holy poo poo is that expensive going to Australia or New Zealand. poo poo is Mortgage Payment expensive.

But we�re gonna do it. Wether we hit Iceland and the Seychelles first depends entirely on the upcoming financial... poo poo loving, or whatever this is called.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 11:17

Old Boot: May 9, 2012; Buglord

Whole thing seems so ridiculous that it's looped around to the point where throwing your hands in the air and saying 'gently caress it who cares it's all moon magic anyway' would be a lot easier.

I'm dumb about market poo poo because I was always too loving broke to think about investing, but can't they just shut it down to keep investors from loving it up even more than they have already?

# ? Mar 16, 2020 11:21

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

I don�t think the financial fuckoclpsye or whatever can be overstated. Our only hope at limiting this to a Great Recession / The Depression level event is extreme government action and complete and utter control over entities public and private that hasn�t been seen since WW2.

And we got Donnie Smoothbrains and Miller at the helm.

Yeah over the weekend I kinda went from making sure we had enough stuff on hand to manage 2-3 weeks without assistance or need to go back out and thinking a little bit about tightening up spending in case the summer stays slow too into full on "Will I have a job in 6 months / will my University go under because of financial collapse?" etc.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 11:29

dubzee: Oct 23, 2008

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

If the markets aren�t an absolute blood bath today then I don�t know what the gently caress.

I don�t know �what the gently caress�

# ? Mar 16, 2020 11:29

Torrannor: Apr 27, 2013; ---FAGNER---
TEAM-MATE

https://twitter.com/PhilippineStar/status/1239376124917866496

Seems like Mother Earth is getting serious about ridding herself of those human parasites

# ? Mar 16, 2020 11:35

Old Boot: May 9, 2012; Buglord

Torrannor posted:

https://twitter.com/PhilippineStar/status/1239376124917866496

Seems like Mother Earth is getting serious about ridding herself of those human parasites

The good news is that we are very good at making flu vaccines.

The bad news is that we're a little distracted right now.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 11:41

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Places going into quarantine etc for COVID-19 will also help lessen the spread of flu etc in general as well. So, it could be worse?

# ? Mar 16, 2020 11:45

SquirrelyPSU: May 27, 2003

To go to work or not go to work, that is the question

# ? Mar 16, 2020 11:52

pkells: Sep 14, 2007; King of Klatch

SquirrelyPSU posted:

To go to work or not go to work, that is the question

That's my decision right now. Well, I need my work laptop and monitors regardless.

I was looking forward to WFH and getting some extra PE studying in, but since they cancelled that, who knows...

# ? Mar 16, 2020 12:11

SquirrelyPSU: May 27, 2003

pkells posted:

That's my decision right now. Well, I need my work laptop and monitors regardless.

I was looking forward to WFH and getting some extra PE studying in, but since they cancelled that, who knows...

Wait, they cancelled the April PE??

Also, I can just remote into mine (I've got 3 monitors at work, I've got two monitors at home but I can rig together my Surface to act as a mini-third) which makes it even harder to get into the shower. Kind of just want to watch the world burn today.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 12:14

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

Old Boot posted:

The good news is that we are very good at making flu vaccines.

The bad news is that we're a little distracted right now.

Avian flu is a bit different, it has a way amped up mortality rate compared to normal flu, and it is lethal to chicken eggs, which makes the virus extremely hard to culture. (It destroys the chicken egg before producing any decent quantity of virus)

You treat it in humans by giving antivirals and praying basically, because highly pathogenic avian flu mortality is more like Ebola than something like SARS/MERS. Thankfully avian flu doesn't spread person to person, all cases to date have been direct contact with infected birds for the HPAI strains.

orange juche fucked around with this message at 12:24 on Mar 16, 2020

# ? Mar 16, 2020 12:14

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

Don�t I wish I could, brother.

I wanted goonysberg to happen so we could meet up and you could be introduced to tons of 100% �Murican poo poo- I was seriously gonna come.

The wife and I have New Zealand on out wish lists so I�ll be contacting you in due time to do a NZ goon meet of sorts.

We love to travel but only first class if it�s over 3+ hours, and holy poo poo is that expensive going to Australia or New Zealand. poo poo is Mortgage Payment expensive.

But we�re gonna do it. Wether we hit Iceland and the Seychelles first depends entirely on the upcoming financial... poo poo loving, or whatever this is called.

Yeah man. I was really looking forward to it too. Thought I'd more or less covered all my bases, but I can be forgiven for not predicting a massive pandemic shutting down entire continents.

It was probably gonna be dumb and awkward as hell, but honestly sitting around smoking meat and talking poo poo with a bunch of morons sounded like a pretty good time to me.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 12:19

Woofer: Mar 2, 2020

If I go to New Zealand I might become an illegal taxpayer burden for the foreseeable future.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 12:30

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

SquirrelyPSU posted:

To go to work or not go to work, that is the question

I wish I had that choice. School is cancelled for at least two weeks, maybe the rest of the year.

# ? Mar 16, 2020 12:37

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# ? May 25, 2024 13:57

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Woofer posted:

If I go to New Zealand I might become an illegal taxpayer burden for the foreseeable future.

If you bring Monty I'll allow it

# ? Mar 16, 2020 12:39

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