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What kind of curmudgeonly son of a bitch gets depressed over people enjoying Animal Crossing? It's, like, the cutest game. Also Skyrim is boring, reinstall Morrowind instead.
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Telemaze posted:What kind of curmudgeonly son of a bitch gets depressed over people enjoying Animal Crossing? It's, like, the cutest game. I'd replay morrowind on my switch.
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Apr 6, 2020 08:10
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MarcusSA posted:I'd replay morrowind on my switch. From your lips to Gods ear.
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Apr 6, 2020 08:12
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I reinstalled steam which I haven't touched since like 2015 and am playing some hotline Miami. Here's your takeout binch
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Apr 6, 2020 08:13
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So will there be a babyboom in 9 months time. Because people got caged up together and just started copulating, or will common sense prevail, and will the birthrate drop because it’s not a great time to have a kid? Or people couldn’t hook up and accidentally get pregnant?
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Apr 6, 2020 08:14
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I guess you can do a couple practice runs before you go shopping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQdOwtmwKN8
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Apr 6, 2020 08:14
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My friend who's stuck in africa posts about her cool encounters with nice people, but it's ok since the virus is fake news
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Apr 6, 2020 08:15
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mrfart posted:So will there be a babyboom in 9 months time. Because people got caged up together and just started copulating, or will common sense prevail, and will the birthrate drop because it’s not a great time to have a kid? Or people couldn’t hook up and accidentally get pregnant? How do we call this generation, the coroners, the crooners, the coronatives ?
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Apr 6, 2020 08:16
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unpacked robinhood posted:How do we call this generation, the coroners, the crooners ? Coroninals
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Apr 6, 2020 08:17
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Bronze Fonz posted:What I find nearly more distressing than the global pandemic bringing down the entire System® is so many goons' fascination with goddamn Animal Crossing, what seems to be an overglorified Pokemon Second Life. It isn't my thing either but some people like chill games, why do you care?
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Apr 6, 2020 08:28
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Ultimate Mango posted:Why are people not picking up torches and pitchforks over this? It's probably more important to understand the potential for the virus' ability to spread among animals than it is to find out that a couple more people have it.
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Apr 6, 2020 08:47
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Adenoid Dan posted:Chloroquine trial in Sweden discontinued after no positive results and some severe adverse events in the treatment group.
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Apr 6, 2020 08:57
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Ugh, I can't talk my elderly father into trying online banking, he could pay all his bills at home but he's still insisting on driving into town to go to the bank to handle all his transactions. He's at least stocking up on food so he only visits the supermarket as little as possible but they're no longer taking cash and are making everyone pay by card (they have tap-and-go so you don't even have to enter a pin number, if it's under a certain amount) so he had to figure out how to use his credit card at the till for the first time ever in his life, and now he'll be making an extra visit to the bank to pay off his card. He says he doesn't like having any of his banking details in the computer WHAT DO YOU THINK THE TELLER AT THE BANK IS DOING, OR THE EFTPOS AT THE SUPERMARKET?? He lives way off in a country town and there's barely been any COVID19 cases detected in the area buy hopefully he'll come around when the numbers start increasing.
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Apr 6, 2020 08:59
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Musharraf posted:No, deaths only matter if the mass media tell you they do. I didn't see goons panicking about the thousands upon thousands of daily deaths (from preventable causes) before this. ive posted it time and time again but this is literally the stupidest argument around people die every day this is a fact do you want more people to die every day? if not, then prevent ADDITIONAL coronavirus deaths
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Apr 6, 2020 09:18
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MarcusSA posted:I'd replay morrowind on my switch.
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Apr 6, 2020 09:19
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Ugh, I can't talk my elderly father into trying online banking, he could pay all his bills at home but he's still insisting on driving into town to go to the bank to handle all his transactions. He's at least stocking up on food so he only visits the supermarket as little as possible but they're no longer taking cash and are making everyone pay by card (they have tap-and-go so you don't even have to enter a pin number, if it's under a certain amount) so he had to figure out how to use his credit card at the till for the first time ever in his life, and now he'll be making an extra visit to the bank to pay off his card. My dad is like this too, he's on the vulnerable list which means staying inside for 12 weeks, we had a nice long chat about how well they're looking after him and getting him supplies.... then he noted how weird it is when he goes out to get the paper on the morning. Jesus ript.
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Apr 6, 2020 09:48
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Der Shovel posted:Corona Comix from Finland. Stay safe Fingerpori guy. 
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Apr 6, 2020 09:56
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Platystemon posted:A CHALLENGER APPEARS The hosed up thing is that that regulator dies nothing to protect others, it prevents air coming in but not going out. Obviously a joke though, as evidenced by the snorkel tube Platystemon posted:Sanitation isn’t the major concern. "Certain" animals here basically being "all animals". Swine flu comes from swine. Mad cow disease comes from cows (and got to cows from sheep). The animals that we domesticate have been a significant source of disease since the beginning of human history The key is that we can ameliorate those risks with more sanitary conditions. Disease doesn't spread from one animal to another by magic, it's a numbers game; eventually a fortuitous mutation in one animal's disease allows it to spread to another, and if that other type of animal comes in contact then the spread occurs. Limiting contact between animals, either of the same species or different, limits the spread of all diseases, and therefore limits the likelihood of a human receiving those diseases. If animals aren't allowed to literally sit in the excrement of other animals, then it's harder for diseases to jump between them. Such measures fall under the large umbrella of sanitation. And of course, it's a lot harder to catch swine flu from a pig if you limit the number of times that humans come into physical contact with pigs, and having them clean themselves thoroughly when they do. This too is sanitation, and it is effective. You can't actually eliminate this kind of risk. Even if you have everyone go vegetarian, plants are vectors for disease too; Hawaii recently dealt with a surprise outbreak of Rat Lung Worm, wherein an infected rat poops out parasitic larvae, slugs and snails carry the larvae onto fruits/vegetables, human accidentally ingests the larvae, larvae travel to the human's brain and causes meningitis and various neurological symptoms, sometimes death. But sanitation can significantly reduce all of these risks, the only question is how much sanitation is required and whether an additional level of effort is worth the reduction in risk.
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Apr 6, 2020 10:00
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unpacked robinhood posted:How do we call this generation, the coroners, the crooners, the coronatives ? Generation Ω
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Apr 6, 2020 10:11
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unpacked robinhood posted:How do we call this generation, the coroners, the crooners, the coronatives ? Doomers? 1 hour after posting this a friend texted me to say they’re expecting a bundle of joy. Probably from before the lockdown, though. Still, I feel this might be a year to skip on baby dreams.
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Apr 6, 2020 10:27
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Beachcomber posted:Generation Ω alone
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Apr 6, 2020 10:35
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QuarkJets posted:"Certain" animals here basically being "all animals". Swine flu comes from swine. Mad cow disease comes from cows (and got to cows from sheep). The animals that we domesticate have been a significant source of disease since the beginning of human history Some animals are more equal than others. We eat tens of billions of chickens per year and for all the hand‐wringing about wet markets, broiler farms are stronger incubators. There are tens of thousands of chickens under one roof. How many bats are eaten in the world each year? Low millions? We’re rolling tens of thousands of dice with poultry for every one we roll with bats and the risk of pandemics is on the same order of magnitude for both. Birds threaten us with influenza outbreaks every decade, while bats have threatened us with SARS, Ebola, and 2019‐nCoV in the last two.* Per animal, and especially per gram of protein, bats are astronomically riskier to us than garden‐variety livestock. The cost of the current pandemic will be almost incalculable. The bat market could be worth a trillion dollars per year and it would still make sense to shut it all down on a strictly economic basis, to say nothing of the value of human lives. The bat market is not actually worth that much, as evinced by the observation that bats don’t sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece. *MERS is also bats’ fault, but we suspect that that didn’t come through direct human contact, so I will begrudgingly remove that from their column. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Apr 6, 2020 |
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Apr 6, 2020 10:40
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mrfart posted:So will there be a babyboom in 9 months time. Because people got caged up together and just started copulating, or will common sense prevail, and will the birthrate drop because it’s not a great time to have a kid? Or people couldn’t hook up and accidentally get pregnant? Local newspaper in Munich reports that midwifes are under a vacation ban from Christmas onward... what does that tell you?
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Apr 6, 2020 10:42
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Nitr0 posted:Oh you don’t like bats? That’s ok gimme a min I’ll go grab a dog or something. Those inscrutable orientals sure love eating weird things
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Apr 6, 2020 10:42
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Platystemon posted:Some animals are more equal than others. Most modern disease outbreaks have come from domesticated animals, not bats. I think it makes sense to not eat bats I'm just saying that your risk profile is all janked
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Apr 6, 2020 10:45
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Hopper posted:Local newspaper in Munich reports that midwifes are under a vacation ban from Christmas onward... what does that tell you? quarantine is a time for hole abuse 
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Apr 6, 2020 10:46
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QuarkJets posted:Most modern disease outbreaks have come from domesticated animals, not bats. I think it makes sense to not eat bats I'm just saying that your risk profile is all janked My risk profile is fine. I’m more likely to die from a fall in my shower than I am to die skydiving. I should not take that as encouragement to skydive daily. If done daily, you’d better believe it would be more likely to kill me than showering. It’s an inherently riskier activity.
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Apr 6, 2020 10:55
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This whole thing about the market is weird for me because I have family that lives near it and it wasnt considered normal. That relative also somehow still hasnt got Corona so either they were asymptomatic as hell or their messages to me are a ruse by the virus to lure me into a false sense of security
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Apr 6, 2020 11:02
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shovelbum posted:who normally cleans uh the cleaning lady? what kind of obvious question is that?
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Platystemon posted:MERS is also bats’ fault, but we suspect that that didn’t come through direct human contact, so I will begrudgingly remove that from their column. The intermediary host for MERS was/is camels. It's not a case of 'we suspect' but 'we confirmed,' last I checked.
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Apr 6, 2020 11:40
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Platystemon posted:My risk profile is fine. Your risk profile is definitely janked. You're so preoccupied with the risks of your annual skydiving experience (bats at wet markets) that you keep forgetting to wear a seat belt in the car (poor sanitation at factory farms). But there's good news: dealing with one set of risks does not preclude dealing with the other. We absolutely need to deal with both
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Apr 6, 2020 11:42
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A hundred little joggers are complaining about each other in the park One started coughing and goes "Hurgh huck hark!" Police called the doctor And the doctor said "No more joggers jogging in the park!" Ninety-nine joggers are complaining about each other in the park One started coughing and goes "Hurgh huck hark!" Police called the doctor And the doctor said "No more joggers jogging in the park!" Ninety-eight joggers are complaining about each other in the park One started coughing and goes "Hurgh huck hark!" Police called the doctor And the doctor said "No more joggers jogging in the park!" Ninety-seven little joggers..
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Apr 6, 2020 11:45
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Tei posted:What you want people to do? number crunching?
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Being able to chill is gonna become more and more valuable as this goes on.
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Apr 6, 2020 11:53
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Laughing Zealot posted:Being able to chill is gonna become more and more valuable as this goes on. I heard is the difference between dogs and wolves. Wolves can't manage the stress as easily has dogs. And thats why dogs are cool to have around, even around kids that will abuse them. But you don't let your kids play with wolves unsupervised (or supervised). Except if you are trying to lower the number of kids in your family, then is a good way. HerStuddMuffin posted:Al Zimmermann has a programming contest ongoing so, yes, that’s what I’m doing. But I also let others do whatever makes them happy while quarantined, I’m not judging. I’d rather have people play animal crossing in their homes than Pokémon go in the park, honestly. The PS4 console have a game that let you do art, "DREAMS". I am tempted to do that, but the console is too loud. Also WFH.
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QuarkJets posted:Your risk profile is definitely janked. You're so preoccupied with the risks of your annual skydiving experience (bats at wet markets) that you keep forgetting to wear a seat belt in the car (poor sanitation at factory farms). Good news: dealing with one set of risks does not preclude dealing with the other but we absolutely need to deal with both I said, like forty posts ago: Platystemon posted:The risk we currently take on with the factory farming of swine and poultry is also unacceptable I do not oppose action on this front. I am merely suggesting that it’s higher‐hanging fruit. If skydiving one day and driving every day have the same risk of killing me in a year, you know what? It’s a whole lot easier to take a big bite out of risk by not skydiving that it is to stop driving. If only cleaning up our farms were as easy as putting on a seatbelt.
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Tei posted:I heard is the difference between dogs and wolves. Wolves can't manage the stress as easily has dogs. And thats why dogs are cool to have around, even around kids that will abuse them. But you don't let your kids play with wolves unsupervised (or supervised). Except if you are trying to lower the number of kids in your family, then is a good way.  Also why is Kushner doing anything in the white house in the first place besides having a family connection?
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Apr 6, 2020 12:10
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Platystemon posted:I said, like forty posts ago: I, too, ensure all my sentences are separate paragraphs.
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Apr 6, 2020 12:14
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I wish this Meat Horror Olympics y'all are engaging in would take note from the IOC and be postponed until next year.
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If you want to talk about China, please limit it to a discussion of my Chinese relatives belief that trump is going to revoke citizenship for all Americans outside the US because the deadline given is when the bombing of his global war starts in every country around the world and Trump doesnt want to take the hit in the polls for bombing Americans
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