[COVID-19 April] I've licked things I might not ordinarily have licked

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Raiad: Feb 1, 2005; Without the law, there wouldn't be lawyers.

Dog Toothbrush posted:

no hillary would have completely contained the virus

we'll have to revisit whether this is a plus or not after we establish whether corona drives us to socialism or barbarism

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:24

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Philosopher King: Oct 25, 2006

Wouldn't we be naturally better prepared by fall than we are now because we will have actually invested money in non diminished supplies by that time that we are only just investing in by now or is that offset by the fact that we will most likely have less doctors and nurses at that time since they will succumb to the virus?

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:24

Miles Vorkosigan: Mar 21, 2007; The stuff that dreams are made of.

euphronius posted:

1965 to 2016

rip

Historians are going to talk about the British Empire and make offhanded remarks about how in its last half century it was actually ruled by one of the colonies

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:24

Succbot Circlejerk: Jan 8, 2020; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Nonsense posted:

being home and drinking is very good, please be mindful of your bowels

I I'm so sick today from this

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:24

Dustcat: Jan 26, 2019

Skypie posted:

my goddamn bread keeps coming out too dense so I guess I'm gonna have to hand knead instead of using a dough hook/stand mixer

use more yeast/less flour/add an egg

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:25

Harry Potter on Ice: Nov 4, 2006; IF IM NOT BITCHING ABOUT HOW SHITTY MY LIFE IS, REPORT ME FOR MY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HIJACKED

Skypie posted:

my goddamn bread keeps coming out too dense so I guess I'm gonna have to hand knead instead of using a dough hook/stand mixer

Bad proof

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:26

Brony Car: May 22, 2014; by Cyrano4747

Miles Vorkosigan posted:

Historians are going to talk about the British Empire and make offhanded remarks about how in its last half century it was actually ruled by one of the colonies

or America as Byzantium?

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:27

Failson: Sep 2, 2018; Fun Shoe

Quetzadilla posted:

Lotta bad feels itt rn so here's another shot that shows off her unique coloring. She's truly incredible in sunlight but my phone camera doesn't do it justice.

Gorgeous. Please pet her extra for me.

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:27

Dustcat: Jan 26, 2019

Philosopher King posted:

Wouldn't we be naturally better prepared by fall than we are now because we will have actually invested money in non diminished supplies by that time that we are only just investing in by now or is that offset by the fact that we will most likely have less doctors and nurses at that time since they will succumb to the virus?

five months of contracting/collapsing economy is going to change all sorts of fundamental assumptions about how america works and nobody can predict what the end result will be but "more prepared" is not a bet i'd take

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:27

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

america dead so what

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:28

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Dustcat posted:

five months of contracting/collapsing economy is going to change all sorts of fundamental assumptions about how america works and nobody can predict what the end result will be but "more prepared" is not a bet i'd take

the rich will get richer and trump will win

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:28

BeefThief: Aug 8, 2007

Philosopher King posted:

Wouldn't we be naturally better prepared by fall than we are now because we will have actually invested money in non diminished supplies by that time that we are only just investing in by now or is that offset by the fact that we will most likely have less doctors and nurses at that time since they will succumb to the virus?

we would be but trump is gonna gently caress us all again and twice as many people are gonna die (unless we hit the 3m mark this round)

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:28

Gumball Gumption: Jan 7, 2012

Brony Car posted:

What are you talking about? She would have calmed us all down and taken charge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-_ZDrypec

The song choice is what always gets me. It's a bitter and cynical song about rejection. They picked it with no understanding of what it is about.

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:28

Dustcat: Jan 26, 2019

euphronius posted:

the rich will get richer and trump will win

everything was forever until it wasn't

a global pandemic combined with a ridiculously inflated economic bubble and the absolute worst possible leadership on every level is one of those "until" moments

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:29

Lacrosse: Jun 16, 2010; >:V

Philosopher King posted:

Wouldn't we be naturally better prepared by fall than we are now because we will have actually invested money in non diminished supplies by that time that we are only just investing in by now or is that offset by the fact that we will most likely have less doctors and nurses at that time since they will succumb to the virus?

Trump is president, so no

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:29

Jon Irenicus: Apr 23, 2008; YO ASSHOLE

Miles Vorkosigan posted:

Historians are going to talk about the British Empire and make offhanded remarks about how in its last half century it was actually ruled by one of the colonies

there will be a section of the "american moment" in textbooks akin to the Mongol empire

the accompanying pictures of that section will be map of the fifty states, 9/11, and Donald J. Trump grinning like a loving idiot giving a thumbs up

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:29

Mokelumne Trekka: Nov 22, 2015; Soon.

Any embarrassing celebrity reactions lately? I feel like I should be upping my dose of vapid Hollywood evil takes rather than the usual Nazi capitalist evil takes.

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:30

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Dustcat posted:

everything was forever until it wasn't

I accept a scenario where the rich don�t win again but that isn�t America in 2020-2030

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:30

lmaopocalypse: Mar 16, 2020

This is very possibly weeks when decades happen times, we're about to outdo the great depression and everything is getting really clear.

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:30

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

TheLemonOfIchabod posted:

Just read that pink-eye is a symptom of this. Uh is anything NOT a symptom of this?

red, dry, squinting eyes

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:30

hexate: Sep 13, 2012; What do you mean it's not Tom Cruise?

Tracer Tong was right

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:32

Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

quote:

(CNN)The streets of Ecuador's western city of Guayaquil are deserted, with few residents in sight -- and a few dead, as bodies are being left in the streets of this overwhelmed place.

The coronavirus pandemic is overloading this city's public services to a point of collapse. Hospitals have no beds left to accept sick patients, and morgues, cemeteries and funeral homes are straining. With no place left to put them, some residents say they have no choice but placing them outside.

It's unclear how many of the deceased are dying because of Covid-19. Many families say their loved ones had symptoms of the virus, while others only know the ill were unable to be treated at Guayaquil's overwhelmed hospitals.

"We have been waiting for five days," Fernando Espana said in a video obtained by Reuters on March 30, as he complained about the struggles to have authorities come pick up his family member.

"We are tired of calling 911 and the only thing they tell us is to wait, they are working to solve this," he continues as he moves the camera through a window to show a black plastic-wrapped shape inside the home, with two fans blowing on it.

The smell is too much to take. "It's the odor from the body that one can no longer handle," Espana's neighbor, Glenda Larrea Vera says in the same video, from across the street and behind a mask. "And we also have neighbors that are elderly. I have my mother who is 80 who is also having respiratory problems."

Video surveillance from last week obtained by CNN shows a motorcyclist abandon a body in the street. Hours later, a group of people, dressed in special hazmat suits are seen picking up the deceased, then driving off in a vehicle.

In another video obtained by CNN, a group of people remove a body from a car. Covered in face masks, they wrap the body in a what appears to be a black tarp when a police vehicle approaches minutes later. A conversation takes place and the group puts the body back into the car. Police tell CNN they could not offer details about the video.

National figures show that Ecuador's authorities have collected more than 300 bodies from private homes in the city between March 23-30.

Jorge Wated, head of a joint military task force created to deal with Ecuador's coronavirus crisis, in a televised interview on Wednesday said that his task force had gone from "taking away 30 deceased per day to 150" over the past three days. Wated added that this was "independent of the hard work reactivated by the private funeral homes and graveyards in the country."

Guayaquil's mayor Cynthia Viteri has desperately begged for help from the national government in a video posted to her Twitter account last week. "What is happening in the country's public health system? They are not taking away the dead from houses, they're leaving them on the sidewalks, they're falling in front of hospitals. No one wants to pick them up," she said, adding later, "we need to know the causes of why people are dying in their homes."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/americas/guayaquil-ecuador-overwhelmed-coronavirus-intl/index.html

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:33

D1E: Nov 25, 2001

I mean, we have some pretty smart goons here. Who wants to step up and formally organize nationwide general strikes and lead the socialist revolution?

You have my axe.

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:33

Grapplejack: Nov 27, 2007

Skypie posted:

my goddamn bread keeps coming out too dense so I guess I'm gonna have to hand knead instead of using a dough hook/stand mixer

how long are you letting it proof?

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:34

Solarin: Nov 15, 2007

Skypie posted:

my goddamn bread keeps coming out too dense so I guess I'm gonna have to hand knead instead of using a dough hook/stand mixer

are you measuring by weight using a scale or volume (measuring cups).

what kind of yeast are you using? how old is it

how fresh is your flour?

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:35

HiHo ChiRho: Oct 23, 2010

Grapplejack posted:

how long are you letting it proof?

Made a starter this morning, letting that fucker ferment and making some Italian bread tomorrow

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:35

Vox Nihili: May 28, 2008

Venom Snake posted:

China has like 1 billion more people than the united states and it looks like were going to have like 10 times the death total as they will.

China is massively lying about their death total but well we probably are also so who loving knows

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:35

a.lo: Sep 12, 2009

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1246199379385626625?s=20

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:35

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

baking is black magic best left to savants and those in touch with the flour realm

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:36

Tei: Feb 19, 2011; Can't post for 5 days!

Miles Vorkosigan posted:

Historians are going to talk about the British Empire and make offhanded remarks about how in its last half century it was actually ruled by one of the colonies

I don't agree that people will forget USA. The school book will probably have a hologram of the first man on the moon playing the song "america gently caress yea", and thats how history will remember the USA, has the first humans to put a foot on the moon and starting space exploration, and some weird extrovert pro-violence culture that is kind of cool.

Tei has issued a correction as of 01:41 on Apr 4, 2020

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:36

Quetzadilla: Jun 6, 2005; A PARTICULARLY GHOULISH SHITPOSTER FOR NEOLIBERLISM AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Aino Minako posted:

it takes so much effort on my part not to rub my chud family members� faces in trump idiocy, telling them �look at this, this is what you voted for and support.�

(also �you should be ashamed� and �you morons� etc etc.)

I don�t want to alienate them from the kids who don�t understand the situation and still like them and some tiny speck of me still thinks some sort of family interaction is good for them.

seems like a maturity thing. I�ve had outbursts in the past at them but have exercised some restraint now. but it�s really really hard.

how do other goons handle it?

Well it's not easy and only you can assess what you're capable of and what's best for your family. If you're able and if everyone's acting in good faith, try to approach them from a place of empathy. People are by and large not actually politically engaged, when they're not completely apathetic they're a mostly incoherent jumble of half-heard policies and ideologies which is why universal healthcare as an issue polls at 70+% but we keep electing people who actively crush it. This is by design to keep people like your family disengaged and to sabotage class consciousness. Idk the socioeconomic situation of your family but I'm guessing Trump & the GOP have been the only ones talking to them for 30+ years since the Clinton machine abandoned the working class/union base in favor of neoliberal technocratic bullshit, so they literally haven't heard a different point if view addressing the problems they see every day in a meaningful way.

If you can start from a point of empathy and understanding it will increase your own tolerance, and if they're willing to engage earnestly, you can start to tease our what's important to them and show them the (leading) light by putting it in proper class context.

This assumes a lot of good faith on everyone's parts though so if they're just gonna concern troll you or disengage the second their premises are challenged you probably won't be able to get very far. It's very important to not seem condescending or otherwise superior to them because feeling talked down to will make them defensive real quick.

Again it's up to you to determine what you're comfortable with/capable of but keep in mind that "it's not my job to educate you" is loser white liberal bullshit we all need to be organizers and educators.

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:37

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Tei posted:

Is not it awesome?

Some kid from the year 5000 will have a hard time tryiing to remember if we moved around in horses or we had already teleportation technology. He will fail the exam because will not remember the existence of cars.

Normal people will point to the pass at the "ancient ages" and periods that will last 500 years has if nothing happened in these 500 years.

I don't agree that people will forget USA. The school book will probably have a hologram of the first man on the moon playing the song "america gently caress yea", and thats how history will remember the USA, has the first humans to put a foot on the moon and starting space exploration, and some weird extrovert pro-violence culture that is kind of cool.

the soviets started space exploration

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:38

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

Its going to peak in two weeks in the current epicenters yeah. Also I would like to remind the thread again that predicting a peak coming soon isn't being optimistic its being pessimistic. The sooner peak is the steeper the curve is. The steeper the curve is the more people are sick simultaneously. The more people who are sick simultaneously the more deaths there are the worse hospitals are overwhelmed. In the 1918 flu epidemic St Louis put quarantine measures in place almost immediately while Philly waited and held a parade. The epidemic lasted much longer in St Louis but there were way less deaths than in Philly. Its a tradeoff between length and intensity and we seem to be going whole hog on intensity.

KaptainKrunk posted:

the american peak is like a month away bro lol

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:38

Impkins Patootie: Apr 20, 2017

hexate posted:

Tracer Tong was right

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:38

Amp: Sep 10, 2010

a.lo posted:

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1246199379385626625?s=20

test 'em where the most cases are the usa baby

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:39

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Dog Toothbrush posted:

no hillary would have completely contained the virus

within the united states

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:39

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

Gumball Gumption posted:

The song choice is what always gets me. It's a bitter and cynical song about rejection. They picked it with no understanding of what it is about.

doesnt matter. bari weiss' rear end is a corona immune environment

# ? Apr 4, 2020 01:41

XK: Jul 9, 2001; Star Citizen is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it's fidelity when you look out your window or when you watch youtube