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Well maybe if they have someone else to blame it on they'll actually do something worthwhile about it Saw a thing today that said that British citizens are the most dissatisfied with their government's response to covid, at -15 net approval. We're second at -12 but tied for first is Mexico, I haven't heard anything about how the virus is going there, they have 13k deaths but that's at the top of the second tier of fatalities by country. Something else going on? zoux fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Jun 8, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1269995211817713666 Good job, idiots. At some point, voters are going to have to come around to the fact that the GOP cannot competently govern. i say swears online posted:anti-AMLO in general from what I've seen, doesn't looks like things are happening very efficiently down there Maybe they just don't like presidents down there
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zoux posted:Good job, idiots. At some point, voters are going to have to come around to the fact that the GOP cannot competently govern. says the increasingly nervous man
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https://twitter.com/cassi_pollock/status/1270002801121406978 Just lmao Well, as chair of the GOP caucus in the house Burrows will have a real chance to...wait, what's that? Why not? Oh. Oh god.
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The graph is going the wrong direction, but I wouldn't call it "bad" necessarily. Hospitalizations are up, but are we close to capacity, in either ICU beds or ventilators? The whole point of shutting down wasn't to get to zero, but to "flatten the curve" so that hospitals weren't overwhelmed. If they're not being overwhelmed, then it doesn't seem all that dire. Compare us to, say, Arizona, where ICUs *are* at capacity, and hospitalizations are still rising, so there's much greater risk of needless death due to overcapacity over there.
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They aren't overwhelmed *yet*. Only a small percentage of Texans got Covid. If everything is opened up and a lot of people have given up on distancing we will get right back to where we were headed before we locked down. Hopefully the hospitals at least have enough vents and PPE now, but nothing fundamentally changed to prevent us from needing to continue to flatten the curve. It's going to get bad because this time most people aren't going to accept being locked back down. Property tax chat: we won't need to worry about raising taxes if all the cities defund the police!
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saintonan posted:The graph is going the wrong direction, but I wouldn't call it "bad" necessarily. Hospitalizations are up, but are we close to capacity, in either ICU beds or ventilators? The whole point of shutting down wasn't to get to zero, but to "flatten the curve" so that hospitals weren't overwhelmed. If they're not being overwhelmed, then it doesn't seem all that dire. There's no reason to think that spike will start to go back down again, since restrictions are getting looser and not tighter, which means hospital overruns are probably coming in a few weeks with no intervention. Anecdotally (in Dallas) mask wearing went from like 80% a month ago to 50/50 now, from my experience going out and about. Most people here think it's over. Also I'm seeing TV ads with the tone "now that things are going back to normal..." a LOT and it's making me nervous.
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Roughly half of the ICU beds in the state are occupied.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1269995211817713666 That's not why they were elected in the first place so it's not like it'll matter much.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we must flatten the Brontosaurus curve
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duz posted:That's not why they were elected in the first place so it's not like it'll matter much. It doesnt help that their opposition is also poo poo at it and says things like "why dont police just shoot people in the leg?" During mass protests where police shoot people in the face. Can we just be allowed to vote for people who dont want us dead instead of bickering about who wants us dead the least? Cause that would be nice.
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https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1270067004867821577 https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/599182865658736642
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1270067004867821577 Cornyn talking out of both sides of his mouth? Why I never.
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The physical damage to people is bad, but my mind keeps darting to the financial cost as well, because so many people are going to be saddled with unmanageable medical debt during a recession when they might be unemployed, wages are down if they are, and the economy freezing has just eliminated a fortune of abstract financial assets from existence. Because basically the worst thing you could do when a pandemic is ravaging a population and stalling the economy is help the pandemic ravage the population more and then stall the economy more by sticking with a for-profit medical system. Just really make sure people are made as financially insecure as possible and really do your best to stop money from circulating ever again. zoux posted:Good job, idiots. At some point, voters are going to have to come around to the fact that the GOP cannot competently govern. Sadly many of the democrats aspire to a similar level of incompetence because competence is too dangerously radical for a national-level party.
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https://twitter.com/tplohetski/status/1270073120171442176?s=21 This happened in March last year
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/tplohetski/status/1270073120171442176?s=21 No poo poo he ran from the cops, he knew they would loving kill him. Williamson County better enter the cool zone something fierce.
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Potentially tone deaf question: how have things been on the ground in San Antonio and Dallas? I'm driving to the former tomorrow for work reasons and my wife's heading to Dallas the day after for the same reason.
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citybeatnik posted:Potentially tone deaf question: how have things been on the ground in San Antonio and Dallas? I'm driving to the former tomorrow for work reasons and my wife's heading to Dallas the day after for the same reason. Both cities are smoking piles of rubble. Bring cash with you to pay off the roving gangs of bandits and highwaymen.
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PostNouveau posted:Both cities are smoking piles of rubble. Bring cash with you to pay off the roving gangs of bandits and highwaymen. Ah, so like here in Austin during SXSW. Gotcha.
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citybeatnik posted:Potentially tone deaf question: how have things been on the ground in San Antonio and Dallas? I'm driving to the former tomorrow for work reasons and my wife's heading to Dallas the day after for the same reason. As long as you're not a pane of glass to be fitted into the downtown Whataburger next to the convention center, I think you'll be fine. The hailstorms two weeks ago did infinitely more property damage than any looters. The most "violent" any of the San Antonio protests got were some dumbass kids Instagramming themselves smashing out the windows at that downtown Whataburger, and the next day the cops teargassed a crowd and and shot some reporters with wooden bullets because someone allegedly threw a (plastic!) bottle. That was a week ago, everything I've seen and read in the meantime suggests that protests in San Antonio have been entirely peaceful since then. You should probably be more concerned about facemask wearing, since I've noticed an uptick in people not bothering with masks in the last week. I had a coworker that went to Corpus for Memorial Day weekend and said that absolutely nobody was wearing a mask, I think some of the beachgoers that week brought that mindset back to San Antonio.
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Having returned to the office for work, I have now given in to all of us getting Covid-19 by the end of summer. Masks are only encouraged if you "can't socially distance," which means be 6 feet apart. Practically no one wears masks in the hallways or any other place where you would definitely expect to pass someone within 3 feet. They removed the chairs from the break rooms so people have decided to bring in extra chairs to eat in conference rooms. I guess this is expected in the oil industry where practically everyone lives in a suburb surrounded by a bunch of open 'er up types.
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Last night, to escape the carnage of this open air asylum of Neo-Houston, the right and rich secretly used banned chaos-frakking techniques to steal entire sections of the metro-area. Sliding them out into the Gulf on an impossibly vast oil slick, such floating towns were fortified into floating (and gated) salt doom dome communities.
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Roumba posted:Last night, to escape the carnage of this open air asylum of Neo-Houston, the right and rich secretly used banned chaos-frakking techniques to steal entire sections of the metro-area. Sliding them out into the Gulf on an impossibly vast oil slick, such floating towns were fortified into floating (and gated) salt doom dome communities. I like the attention to detail to the local geography you included in your world building. Really establishes a vivid mise-en-scène.
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Texas Politics: Every Kevin Costner Movie at Once
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Blotto_Otter posted:As long as you're not a pane of glass to be fitted into the downtown Whataburger next to the convention center, I think you'll be fine. Oh i'm not worried about riots or any stupid poo poo like that - i meant more road closures and the like to get where we're going.
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citybeatnik posted:Oh i'm not worried about riots or any stupid poo poo like that - i meant more road closures and the like to get where we're going. It's possible they closed off some surface streets downtown due to protests, so if you're staying in a downtown hotel then you might want to give them a call before you arrive and ask if parking or street access to your hotel is affected. Otherwise no, it's pretty much business as usual in San Antonio, just with somewhat less traffic.
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Floyd being buried about 15 minutes from where I grew up, in Northern Brazoria County. Metaphorical for the change up this way.
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I've never wished I was in Texas before y'all
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citybeatnik posted:Oh i'm not worried about riots or any stupid poo poo like that - i meant more road closures and the like to get where we're going. Pearland was blocked off most of the day. 
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It would have been completely superfluous but also nice if they had taken a detour through Santa Fe, which was a sundown town into the 1990s.
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This poo poo made my week thank you for posting it
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i think we all have this image in our minds of young people in rural texas being largely unaffected by the social upheaval of the last couple decades and i'm wondering how valid that actually is. maybe they're all juggalos now
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Roumba posted:Last night, to escape the carnage of this open air asylum of Neo-Houston, the right and rich secretly used banned chaos-frakking techniques to steal entire sections of the metro-area. Sliding them out into the Gulf on an impossibly vast oil slick, such floating towns were fortified into floating (and gated) salt doom dome communities. I... I think I'm in love with you. i say swears online posted:i think we all have this image in our minds of young people in rural texas being largely unaffected by the social upheaval of the last couple decades and i'm wondering how valid that actually is. maybe they're all juggalos now Juggalos were around in the '90s Angleton-way, some were my friends. There probably aren't fewer of them now.
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I thought Juggalos were more midwest. We certainly don't get Faygo down here. https://twitter.com/JimVertuno/status/1270466922342223873 That is less than half of the state's total ICU bed capacity. zoux fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Jun 10, 2020 |
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They're definitely more midwest, but I saw Faygo in Dallas-area gas stations eight or nine years ago. Those who are down with the clown have worked patiently.
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