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Beefeater1980 posted:Let us say, for the sake of argument, that this all passes in a couple of months. 2020 was a write off; working from home has been shown to not do that much harm; people have been proved, yet again, to have the memories of goldfish, the world still turns on its axis, chickens still lay eggs etc. [kissinger voice] more diseases
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Beefeater1980 posted:Let us say, for the sake of argument, that this all passes in a couple of months. 2020 was a write off; working from home has been shown to not do that much harm; people have been proved, yet again, to have the memories of goldfish, the world still turns on its axis, chickens still lay eggs etc. I think that propaganda techniques are so advanced and so utterly saturate the public sphere in the 21st century that the majority of people can never be deprogrammed but I would really like to be wrong
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This is an interesting article about some of the potential problems in creating a vaccine: Avoiding pitfalls in the pursuit of a COVID-19 vaccinequote:Researchers need to understand in particular whether the vaccine causes the same types of immune system malfunctions that have been observed in past vaccine development. Since the 1960s, tests of vaccine candidates for diseases such as dengue, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) have shown a paradoxical phenomenon: Some animals or people who received the vaccine and were later exposed to the virus developed more severe disease than those who had not been vaccinated (1). The vaccine-primed immune system, in certain cases, seemed to launch a shoddy response to the natural infection. “That is something we want to avoid,” says Kanta Subbarao, director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne, Australia.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Let us say, for the sake of argument, that this all passes in a couple of months. 2020 was a write off; working from home has been shown to not do that much harm; people have been proved, yet again, to have the memories of goldfish, the world still turns on its axis, chickens still lay eggs etc. I don't think it's all or nothing, this is putting buckets of people out of work and forcing actual left ideas into the public sphere even if only as "oh we can't do that that would be silly" but that itself is a reaction to people saying we should. I don't think change happens because of one big hammer fall that shatters the old and brings in the new, it happens over time in fits and starts as things collapse piece by piece. A massive chunk of the economy just evaporated overnight and that's not going to just reappear. That's a lot of people who are faced with the material reality every day that they were never needed.
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atm my greatest hope is that by the time climate change starts to gently caress everything even in the west I have made enough money to buy a croft in the Highlands and have learned enough to realistically achieve subsistence farming I'll still die of ketoacidosis a year or two after the supply chains break down, but you work on the things you can change, you know
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dispatch_async posted:This is an interesting article about some of the potential problems in creating a vaccine: Avoiding pitfalls in the pursuit of a COVID-19 vaccine
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I go to a club called antichrist and if they don't do a biohazard theme night as soon as the lockdown is lifted I will be mortified I go to Torture Garden which is quite similar (but a little less gothic apparently?) and some others, considering the kind of interaction people have there I don't think we are going to be anything like that in a long long time. It's really depressing me.
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In 20 years there'll be a hit HBO drama about the coronavirus pandemic and it'll open with a croaky voiceover delivering the line "what is the cost of lies?" shortly before an elderly Fauci hangs himself
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as opposed to the prime youth Dr Fauci displays currently?
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 15:57 |
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So the site I'm doing cover for next week hasn't had anyone doing any form of cover for six weeks since the guy I'm covering for apparently went and self-isolated, told his boss and his boss didn't communicate this to anyone. Plus the site is on some sort of ridiculous lockdown over who can go where on which days it's going to be hilarious
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 16:10 |
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Wait am I the weird one for not going to fetish metal clubs
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 16:12 |
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ThomasPaine posted:Wait am I the weird one for not going to fetish metal clubs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THBe0DoHLUQ If you aren't doing this at least weekly, you are.
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an infectious disease professor also thinks that the government's prevarication about masks is based on economics/politics rather than any actual scientific rationalehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/24/face-masks-mandatory-spread-coronavirus-government posted:Passing through the new Beijing Daxing airport on my way to an international scientific meeting on 25 January, two days after Wuhan had been put under lockdown, one sight in particular was unsettling. Close to 100% of people were wearing masks (myself included). Even in pollution-stricken China, this was highly unusual. Arriving in Europe, masks were nowhere to be seen. also just an incredibly bleak story https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/new-mother-dies-of-coronavirus-six-days-after-giving-birth hundreds of thousands of individuals like this is the price that Boris Johnson was happy to pay to keep the number up, and he's going to get away with it
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Now that we're talking about the Oxford vaccine, here's a deep dive on the nine(!) different vaccine studies currently happening around the world: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/23/a-close-look-at-the-frontrunning-coronavirus-vaccines-as-of-april-23 Interesting to note both the different methodologies and that several have already completed phase one trials and are moving on to phase two.
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ThomasPaine posted:atm my greatest hope is that by the time climate change starts to gently caress everything even in the west I have made enough money to buy a croft in the Highlands and have learned enough to realistically achieve subsistence farming Learn how to extract the insulin from the pancreas of the Highlanders you hunt.
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I thought you just had to cut off the head and the insulin flies out the neck hole in a bolt of electricity and zaps you?
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 17:24 |
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Do any of you know anyone in the Leftist Gypsy/Roma/Traveller groups? I know there was a LabourGRT group a while ago which left in disgust at the casual racism they received but I've not been able to make contact.
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https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1253617676657844224 loving LOL are we seriously doing this again
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Melissa McCarthyism posted:https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1253617676657844224 I legit cannot conceive of this level of cognitive dissonance lol
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Melissa McCarthyism posted:https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1253617676657844224 I literally exclaimed 'No!' out loud when I saw that picture, lol
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Barry Foster posted:I literally exclaimed 'No!' out loud when I saw that picture, lol Maybe social media is the real disease
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so Cummings is on the science panel for coronavirus
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Jesus
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https://twitter.com/NigelCl42240730/status/1253738647268048897?s=20
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lmao well that absolutely confirms that "following the science" is just a figleaf
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 18:34 |
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I'm crawling through the Marx-Engels reader so that I actually know what half you lot are on about here, and I just got to the really racist bit in "On The Jewish Question". I can skip this bit right?
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crispix posted:In this house we bleach our innards and that's that I read this in my granmy's voice and lol'd offline
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lolol'd laugh out loud off/on line'd.
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1242899581924446212 Check the date, the lag between The Onion being ridiculous satire and cold hard reality is shortening by the day.
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agc ( ) https://twitter.com/wefail/status/1253659287349583874
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Wachter posted:I'm crawling through the Marx-Engels reader so that I actually know what half you lot are on about here, and I just got to the really racist bit in "On The Jewish Question". I can skip this bit right? What are they saying? I know a lot of Marx and Engels' stuff on Jews looks pretty loving bad today, but given the former was himself Jewish I generally tend to assume that a lot of what they're saying looks significantly worse to a 21st century reader than was intended. But who knows, Engels' stuff on the 'savage races' did not age well either. The 1800s were a hell of a time! ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Apr 24, 2020 |
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Josef bugman posted:How does one make a good veggie curry that can be frozen? I've been making veggie Chilli and, although it is not my favourite, it isn't bad. I'd imagine given that things like coconut milk come in cans and will keep, you could do the most labour intensive aspect, chopping the veg, as prep and then bag and freeze the chopped parts.
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Josef bugman posted:How does one make a good veggie curry that can be frozen? I've been making veggie Chilli and, although it is not my favourite, it isn't bad. Big onion diced Bulb of garlic minced/crushed Big bit of ginger minced 2 big carrots diced cook in a big pot with some oil for about ten mins then add (if you don't have all these spices in your pantry it doesnt mater much you can get by with curry powder, chilli flakes or garam masala alone) 2 tablespoons cumin powder 2 tablespoons garam masala or curry powder 1 tablespoon cinnamon powder 1 tablespoon of tumeric powder 2 tablespoons of chilli flakes (or less if you like it mild). teaspoon of salt then add 2 tins of tomatoes 1 bag of lentils (500g) 2 litres of vegetable stock or water bring to boil and simmer for at least 45 mins (stirring occasionally to stop it sticking/burning). Makes around 12 servings, freezes just fine. Serve with rice/nan bread/rotis etc. edit: if you have other root veg like turnip, potatoes etc they are fine to also throw in at the start. Fresh chillis are optional, but I've been making do with dried flakes for the past month. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Apr 24, 2020 |
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OwlFancier posted:lolol'd lol out loud Oh also fetish clubs good, go.
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ThomasPaine posted:What are they saying? They? It's an abridgement of Marx's work. Marx, not me, don't ban me posted:What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.
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Generally do not listen to the views of anyone writing before the past 70 years on judaism.
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ThomasPaine posted:Wait am I the weird one for not going to fetish metal clubs Don't worry; plenty of people simply enjoy their expensive fetishwear from the comfort of their own homes.
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OwlFancier posted:Generally do not listen to the views of anyone writing before the past 70 years on judaism. The Talmud is sometimes acceptable. Sometimes.
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josh04 posted:Don't worry; plenty of people simply enjoy their expensive fetishwear from the comfort of their own urethras.
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Wachter posted:They? It's an abridgement of Marx's work. lol oh dear e: also sorry, you weren't clear as to whether it was marx or engels so I just went with both
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