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Gaunab posted:So my office is apparently looking to adjust things back to normal by next week and I don't know how to feel about that. Ours sent out an email that they'll be updating us as to re-opening as the restrictions are eased as if the state's stay at home order isn't going to be extended past May 4. Probably a bad sign when your CEO sends a video out of the guy who lied about invented email claiming Fauci pushed the "myth" that HIV causes AIDS.
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friendbot2000 posted:I have been part of the Club since I was 12, my eldest cousin was bipolar and had an episode in which he believed his family was better off with him dead...he was wrong. We still feel his loss. I am no stranger to suicide and it's why I took classes in intervention and spotting the signs. I didn't want anyone to feel the pain my family felt having to bury my cousin. I try to keep my mind off the pain with volunteering and GMing a Starfinder Campaign that we are making into a podcast because we are dumb nerds. Wifebot is keen to make sure I practice self-care. I won't despair though. My friends would be disappointed in me if I did. I feel you. So sorry. It never really goes away, does it? It gets better. But it never really goes away. 
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Reminder that VA policy is currently being set by one of Trump's Mar A Lago members. I would kinda like to know who has the authority to order drug trials with the VA.
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Final update? https://twitter.com/GrahamUlkins/status/1252622050268786689 quote:A Louisiana pastor who has defied state orders against large gatherings was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly backing his church bus dangerously close to a protester.
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Jarmak posted:My ex-wife's parents easily have 9-figure net worth and for whatever disagreements we might have had they 100% loved all their kids and would do anything for them. I'm basing this off of my own experience and from talking to a substantial number of other people who worked for the ultra-rich and that's why I specify the ultra wealthy. There's something that just breaks in people at a certain really extreme level of wealth both in terms of what drives people to unceasingly pursue more money than even 4 generations of your family could ever need, as well as from the actual experience of going through life utterly insulated from irritations and totally sheltered from uncertainty. By nature, that level of wealth self-selects some people who only have on priority in life and no that priority is not children. I'm genuinely glad you had the good fortune to meet some rich people who were decent parents who weren't ruined by their financial situation, that's awesome. They also aren't representative of people who have literally spent their entire lives pursuing wealth accumulation. Some rich people are entirely decent wonderful people who were just successful and who still have decent values. Sounds like your exes family falls in that category. The ultra rich, even if they're friendly, and hell, even if they did care about their kids, are loving parasites. No one at all becomes that rich without putting money before every single other thing in their life. btw the 'tell me about being rich' thread had some really interesting stuff in it https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3903303 Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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Kale posted:It's easy to maintain this sort of narrative and perspective when your just kind of constantly reinventing reality around it. It's like those Gamergater types that show up for every major upcoming video game insisting that "SJWs" are going to come out of the woodwork to censor and gently caress up a game as an excuse to just flood the zone with poo poo and whine about stuff to shift the narrative on it into a mostly political one. Any moment now those "SJWs" will be here to try to ruin our favorite entertainment for us......just about any moment now....meanwhile I'll just keep bleating off this "counter-narrative" when there's literally no currently established one out there because I literally just made a straw man one up for convenience sake in order to shitpost effectively. Speaking to that first part, and going back to what you said earlier, I saw a “prominent” Gamergater (which is a sad thing to see/saw in Two Thousand and Twenty Anno Domini) today frothingly arguing that SJWs have ruined the purity of the original Final Fantasy VII by forcing in a radical pro-environment, anti-capitalist political message into its remake that was CLEARLY never there in the original. And I’m sitting back going “Do you have objects orbiting around you, by chance? Because you’ve gotta have your own gravity well at this point if you’re THAT goddamn dense.”  You’re completely right, to these people The Bubble is everything and it is utterly impenetrable.
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A big flaming stink posted:The Kim Jong un stuff is almost certainly bullshit, the West basically uncritically repeats what sk tabloids say It's legitimately terrifying to me how many every day people just believe anything they read that sounds sensational enough without even cross comparing it with other sources to see if there's an existing real world narrative and situation that's basis for it all. Like what a golden age for tabloids and conspiracy theorist wack jobs. There's a guy I work with that literally just immediately believes any crazy wacky conspiracy being pushed on the internet. Like it doesn't matter what it is, where it's coming from or what evidence there is, if it exists and especially if Joe Rogan has the guy on his show to talk about he just out and out believes in it and tries to talk to people at work about it to get their opinions but also try to convince them of it. Like I can see considering conspiracy theories a matter of curiosity and coming at them from that perspective, but the just IMMEDIATELY believing in it thing based on pure hearsay thing and knowing that he's far from the only person that absorbs and vets (or really not at all) information that way concerns me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tarx2BDR4L0 Like straight up this is a non-insignificant group of people's outlook on the world nowadays.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Final update? good on them for not giving into his "martyr" bullshit.
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I feel bad for those kids who did nothing wrong and were exposed to this virus by someone being a selfish idiot. That selfish idiot on the other hand should go to jail for child endangerment.
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https://twitter.com/babadookspinoza/status/1252641758829146112 https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1252378550734172166 https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1252612719150161921 https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1252614547950768128
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Bugsy posted:https://twitter.com/babadookspinoza/status/1252641758829146112 But what about the Piss Tape?
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Angry_Ed posted:I feel bad for those kids who did nothing wrong and were exposed to this virus by someone being a selfish idiot. That selfish idiot on the other hand should go to jail for child endangerment. I really wish all of these idiots taking their children to these rallies or doing stuff like this gets CPS called on them. It is absolutely child endangerment. I was looking at the picture a page or two ago of the woman wearing a mask and get sons next to her holding signs as well with no mask or PPE. Shameful.
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not shocked. the senate probably hates trump, like sure they wont impeach him because they are ghouls who love their gravy train but they will throw him under the bus in other ways.
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Does the US really have the highest rate of single parenthood in the world? That might be worth some introspection.
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Arglebargle III posted:Does the US really have the highest rate of single parenthood in the world? That might be worth some introspection. Where do we fall on divorce rate?
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Why is every single Trump tweet getting 100k+ likes within a couple hours now. It was in the 30-60k not too long ago.
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Tayter Swift posted:Why is every single Trump tweet getting 100k+ likes within a couple hours now. It was in the 30-60k not too long ago. Bots seem the obvious answer.
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https://twitter.com/jslovegrove/status/1252658909527134209 SQUIRM YOU loving WORM
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Tayter Swift posted:Why is every single Trump tweet getting 100k+ likes within a couple hours now. It was in the 30-60k not too long ago. Social media platforms have a problem with bots. :themoreyouknowstar:
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i am harry posted:Social media platforms have a problem with bots. :themoreyouknowstar: Yeah I get that but why now and not, say, during the impeachment trial or other times. Like today specifically they seem inflated.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Where do we fall on divorce rate? It varies but IIRC the US is just about always in the top 10: http://countrydetail.com/top-10-countries-highest-divorce-rates-world/ The US really does have the highest rate of children w/ single parent households though: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/12/u-s-children-more-likely-than-children-in-other-countries-to-live-with-just-one-parent/ Tayter Swift posted:Why is every single Trump tweet getting 100k+ likes within a couple hours now. It was in the 30-60k not too long ago. More people staying home lol
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This study may not be any good (there's still no reason to believe the drug is good, but you need to be careful on this stuff). Basically, it's not an actual clinical trial and has confounding factors. quote:Late Update: TPM Reader JB is an MD at a major academic medical center. He writes…
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Arglebargle III posted:Does the US really have the highest rate of single parenthood in the world? That might be worth some introspection. I’m guessing a significant portion of single parenthood in the US is directly attributable to the fact that we also have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
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The future is so hosed right now that it's actively irresponsible to have children regardless of how wealthy or lucky you are.
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NaanViolence posted:The future is so hosed right now that it's actively irresponsible to have children regardless of how wealthy or lucky you are. Ok, I'll just die quietly and let all the evil shitheads keep having children and ruining the planet!
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Spaced God posted:Something tells me they wrote this vague enough that they can do whatever they want to any past or future greencard doing it to past ggreencards was struck way the gently caress down during the first Muslim ban
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The Super-Id posted:Ok, I'll just die quietly and let all the evil shitheads keep having children and ruining the planet!
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NaanViolence posted:The future is so hosed right now that it's actively irresponsible to have children regardless of how wealthy or lucky you are. Bearing and raising children is an essentially human act. Under no circumstances should the left frame childbirth as being a matter of “responsibility.”
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Stuntman posted:you could also adopt Planning to actually, but my point is that we need caring people raising children who will be better than us, not to just give up because everything is hosed.
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...can you do that? Didn't they have to pass special legislation (over Obama's veto) to allow lawsuits against Saudi Arabia over 9/11?
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The article doesn't even match the tweet so this is politico at its finest. Finest being a finely polished turd
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doesnt this go to the house next? i am sure they will add good stuff. yeah gently caress the dems but senate dems dont have real leverage so lol we were hosed anyway.
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