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Elephant Ambush posted:You know what? Good on this kid. I wish more people were able to own mistakes and admit wrongdoing and make themselves better people. Yeah for one dumb comment this is a fine apology. There's people out there doing way worse that can't seem to figure this out.
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kid was dumb but realized it and is seeking to limit harm and spread, it's literally what we're asking everybody to do and so many are failing to even consider, he's good in my book all things considered it's not surprising that somebody could think it's no big deal until they're face to face with it
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Epic High Five posted:kid was dumb but realized it and is seeking to limit harm and spread, it's literally what we're asking everybody to do and so many are failing to even consider, he's good in my book Especially if you're a college kid on Spring Break. If it were me and I had a mic in my face after a day of drinking I am not confident I would have said anything less stupid.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Yeah for one dumb comment this is a fine apology. There's people out there doing way worse that can't seem to figure this out. honestly I don't think anyone was really even reacting to the specific dumb poo poo he said so much as the fact he looks and sounds like the secondary bad guy from an 80s college goofball comedy escaped into real life
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Biplane posted:Huge lol at americans posting in this thread, of all loving threads, getting hella offended when it's pointed out America is objectively the absolute worst first world country and arguably is third world for the majority of its citizens. it's definitely the worst, but moving to another country full of lovely white people isn't much better
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Samovar posted:What did this Sluder person do? went on spring break to Florida and said covid wasnt going to stop him from partying to cbs news iirc because if he dies, he dies, not really knowing or caring that if he got infected he could kill other people
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the Sludes partied too hard and now he's gotta pay
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If you squint it even kinda looks like a scythe
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I assume it's because the ACA locks insurance company profit margins to a fixed percentage of payouts for care. Hm what's 10% of $10 vs. 10% of $100,000, I'm a claims adjuster at Aetna help me figure out this impossible legalistic riddle Third world doesn't mean anywhere black people live what the gently caress.
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this kind of poo poo is why all hospitals need to be nationalized along with Medicare for all
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I assume it's because the ACA locks insurance company profit margins to a fixed percentage of payouts for care. Hm what's 10% of $10 vs. 10% of $100,000, I'm a claims adjuster at Aetna help me figure out this impossible legalistic riddle yeah the “if you limit me to one scoop I’ll use a big loving scoop” was deliberately designed in by the lobbying of health insurers . Obama Admin welcomed it
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Trollking posted:If you squint it even kinda looks like a scythe wonder how similar the map of places with only like a single Walmart for a whole county’s food and living supplies would look
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:
Texas isn't uniquely stubborn but goddamn are we some pigheaded motherfuckers I'm in hill country and aside from the college kids being mostly gone and half of us townies being out of work from the plague and quickly running out of money, life seems to be proceeding normally. The HEB is packed, there's people wandering Lowe's and the traffic is almost as bad as usual. It's incredibly bizarre.
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So the number of infected doubled in the last week to 1 million. That's not so bad, surely, even if it carries on like that? Week 2: 2 million Week 3: 4 million Week 4: 8 million Week 5: 16 million Week 6: 32 million Week 7: 64 million Week 8: 128 million Week 9: 256 million Week 10: 512 million Week 11: 1 billion Week 12: 2 billion Week 13: 4 billion Week 14, mid July: 8 billion (so, everybody in the world apart from those dudes on that one island)
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TheKennedys posted:Texas isn't uniquely stubborn but goddamn are we some pigheaded motherfuckers Wild. The DC metro area has been basically shut for weeks now. People persisted in using the soccer field near me so the county chained the goalposts together.
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Stoatbringer posted:So the number of infected doubled in the last week to 1 million. 6,000 years from now: [POLITICIAN] Well? [SCIENTIST] Sir, there can no longer be any doubt. The cradle of civilization is... (points at map) here, in Madagascar.
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Stoatbringer posted:So the number of infected doubled in the last week to 1 million. North Sentinel Island: 
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Grape posted:North Sentinel Island: Whoops, gets submerged by climate change
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God drat I just can't help coming back to the feeling that out entire country is about to go into a depression because of our lovely health care system. It's just a perfect storm of trickle up capitalism, health insurance being tied to your employer and then no one being able to work to buy the things that enrich those same "job creators" that "give" us our insurance and then losing their coverage. Watching it collapse in real time is just brutal and it's too late to do a loving thing about it. Hundreds of thousands of people RIGHT NOW are losing their coverage and, even if they don't have Covid19, still need insulin, mental health care, etc., etc. etc. and how the gently caress are they going to pay for it? How are they going to crawl out of this debt? WTF, you gonna make COBRA payments with unemployment checks? And this is assuming you can even see a doctor right now. Well over half of this country is about to go completely broke simply because we tie health care to employment. I'm sorry to be...whatever it is I'm being but this house of cards has collapsed and we're just getting started - with the stupidest President I've ever seen or listened to "leading" us. I just turned 53 and there's no coming back from this in my lifetime. Those jacked up pick up trucks with their Trump stickers driving I95 like the autobahn fill me with rage. I'd have had the common decency to scrape those off 2 years ago but we're living in Mad Max cult territory right now and a disturbingly large number of people seem to be reveling in it. It's over. And I don't know what comes next. Biden? JFC
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BiggerBoat posted:God drat I just can't help coming back to the feeling that out entire country is about to go into a depression because of our lovely health care system. It's fine.
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Confidently Queer posted:Whoops, gets submerged by climate change not if the main thing causing climate change gets wiped out due to illness and poor decision making
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Biplane posted:Huge lol at americans posting in this thread, of all loving threads, getting hella offended when it's pointed out America is objectively the absolute worst first world country and arguably is third world for the majority of its citizens. America loving sucks but making it substantially worse via the emigration of everyone who isn’t a libertarian or Nazi doesn’t seem like a great idea since you’d basically end up with the 4th reich except with unrivaled military power and a huge stock of nuclear weapons. Don’t think living in Canada or wherever is gonna do much good then!
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BiggerBoat posted:It's over. And I don't know what comes next. Biden? JFC the bernie or bust slogan ain't about his supporters, friend. we still have a shot at this. otherwise lmao
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Biplane posted:Huge lol at americans posting in this thread, of all loving threads, getting hella offended when it's pointed out America is objectively the absolute worst first world country and arguably is third world for the majority of its citizens. I need an escape plan. Probably too late though.
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SirPablo posted:I need an escape plan. Probably too late though. Before the rona took off, mine was to 'retire early', buy a used sail boat, and sail around in low cost of living countries. Like, you an cycle between Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia on tourist visas forever. Already have a short list of countries the wife and I could stop at for a few years that have fairly easy citizenship requirements if we really need to stop being Americans. Provided the countries of the world don't all become bitter isolationists after this, it might still be doable. With a lot of boomers dying and charter companies going broke, there will likely be a ton of cheap boats on the market in the next couple years.
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:Already have a short list of countries the wife and I could stop at for a few years that have fairly easy citizenship requirements if we really need to stop being Americans. my dream of marrying a hot irish babe and vanishing within the foggy marshlands probably isn't gonna pan out
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The Joe Man posted:what are these countries Not with that attitude
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The Joe Man posted:what are these countries I was wanting to move to Brigadoon.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:So, your dream is to be murdered by pirates? No. My dream is to be ransomed by pirates for some crazy sum of money. Then killed when no one pays up. Closest I'll get to dying a millionaire. gimme the GOD drat candy posted:lmao, dude thinks that owning a boat is a way to save money. The boat idea is primarily a way to escape being inside the dying American empire. After being a car and home owner for the past 20 years, I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll be repairing poo poo till I die. The Joe Man posted:what are these countries Off the top of my head (and laws change). Portugal and Uruguay have a program if you start a business and employ a few people. Paraguay has some deal where you just have to leave some money in a bank account or buy real estate. Everyone says it is shady as all hell, but the place it full of the descendants of Nazis, so I don't think they are too picky. Panama and I think Chile have a deal for "retirees", where you can at least get residency if you can show you have a pension or an annuity or disability payments from somewhere. The Hail Mary pass is Iceland. They have a law on the books that you can argue for citizenship from their parliament. It worked for Bobby Fischer. The cheapest though is just to over stay a tourist visa and work illegally till a local marries you.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:So, your dream is to be murdered by pirates? That's what I want on my gravestone, regardless.
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The Joe Man posted:what are these countries Same. Only my plan involved a hot scottish lady and moving into obscurity to Mexico, since I can claim citizenship from my parents.
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:
Real talk, this is how a lot of Russian get Chinese marriage visas. Grind for a bit in the ESL mines until you meet a Chinese person who strikes your fancy.
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SirPablo posted:I need an escape plan. Probably too late though. Good luck, most of the world hates americans for some unfathomable reason so unless you're rich you're probably hosed.
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