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Mithaldu: Sep 25, 2007; Let's cuddle.

snergle posted:

its a more expensive prime that gives you free shipping and a slightly cheaper price on select items but you dont get the personal prime benefits of the tv shows / movies or twitch prime. if you dont watch the shows or use your twitch prime sub swap it over its generally worth if you order lots of stuff in those catagories where its cheaper. usually building materials and computer parts

it also limits what you can buy as all purchases through it are guaranteed to have a proper legally valid invoice

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# ? Jul 29, 2020 00:56

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# ? May 26, 2024 16:08

Michael Corleone: Mar 30, 2011; by VideoGames

OK thanks that is a no go then. And I have been told to cool it by more people than just here. I have more than enough to last a year probably, was just worried about not being able to get poo poo, I just bought everything I thought was good and cheap. Now I'm done. I like Prime Video actually.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 01:01

snergle: Aug 3, 2013; A kind little mouse!

Cacafuego posted:

1 - AccelerateED

2 - SC has an �elite� anything school, let alone one that is elite in math. I mean, this is the state who�s state university students proudly wear merchandise that says COCKS.

still better then their northern neighbors non college wise. sure we have duke but every public school is 100% garbo.

Mithaldu posted:

it also limits what you can buy as all purchases through it are guaranteed to have a proper legally valid invoice

i prefer that personally.

snergle fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Jul 29, 2020

# ? Jul 29, 2020 01:49

Space Gopher: Jul 31, 2006; BLITHERING IDIOT AND HARDCORE DURIAN APOLOGIST. LET ME TELL YOU WHY THIS SHIT DON'T STINK EVEN THOUGH WE ALL KNOW IT DOES BECAUSE I'M SUPER CULTURED.

Mithaldu posted:

That's Washington.

No. It's Louisiana.

You can always pick out Washington in these graphs, because it's where the first cases popped up, so it's always the longest line.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 01:49

AnnoyBot: May 28, 2001

Nevermind, pages behind.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 01:53

Mithaldu: Sep 25, 2007; Let's cuddle.

Space Gopher posted:

No. It's Louisiana.

You can always pick out Washington in these graphs, because it's where the first cases popped up, so it's always the longest line.

ah, completely misread the question, thanks for correcting

# ? Jul 29, 2020 02:04

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:

okay last edit. kodak is making inert pharmaceuticals. is that normal for a camera company to make medicine ingredients.

Actually, yeah.

Ignition! posted:

All sorts of efforts were being made, during the late 50's, to increase propellant densities, and I was responsible (not purposely, but from being taken seriously when I didn't expect to be) for one of the strangest. Phil Pomerantz, of BuWeps, wanted me to try dimethyl mercury, Hg(CH3)2, as a fuel. I suggested that it might be somewhat toxic and a bit dangerous to synthesize and handle, but he assured me that it was (a) very easy to put together, and (b) as harmless as mother's milk. I was dubious, but told him that I'd see what I could do.

I looked the stuff up, and discovered that, indeed, the synthesis was easy, but that it was extremely toxic, and a long way from harmless. As I had suffered from mercury poisoning on two previous occasions and didn't care to take a chance on doing it again, I thought that it would be an excellent idea to have somebody else make the compound for me. So I phoned Rochester, and asked my contact man at Eastman Kodak if they would make a hundred pounds of dimethyl mercury and ship it to NARTS.

I heard a horrified gasp, and then a tightly controlled voice (I could hear the grinding of teeth beneath the words) informed me that if they were silly enough to synthesize that much dimethyl mercury, they would, in the process fog every square inch of photographic film in Rochester, and that, thank you just the same, Eastman was not interested. The receiver came down with a crash, and I sat back to consider the matter. An agonizing reappraisal seemed to be indicated.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 02:39

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

Just random thoughts, but does herpes protect against Covid ?

Wanna find out?

# ? Jul 29, 2020 02:44

zer0spunk: Nov 6, 2000; devil never even lived

quote:

WASHINGTON (AP) � A new $1 trillion COVID-19 response package by Senate Republicans is supposed to give the government more weapons to battle the surging coronavirus pandemic. But GOP lawmakers have more than just the �invisible enemy� in mind.

The Republican measure includes billions for F-35 fighters, Apache helicopters and infantry carriers sought by Washington�s powerful defense lobby. Overall, the proposal stuffs $8 billion into Pentagon weapons systems built by defense contractors like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics � corporate titans that sit atop the Washington influence industry.

quote:

The outlook for Shelby�s proposed defense projects could be dim. Democrats slammed the add-ons, and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Tuesday that the final package should not stray from the coronavirus response.

The weapons bazaar galled Democrats whose votes will be required to pass the bill amid widespread divisions inside the Senate GOP conference on the measure. They are pressing items such as food aid and funding for mail-in voting.

�We are not going to be supporting anything that does not acknowledge the incredible hardship people are facing on food,� said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.

�Did you see the states it goes to? Maine. Arizona. Kentucky � we have a list,� said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., naming states where Republicans are defending seats in the fall election.

from the ap's "GOP tucks $8 billion for military weaponry in virus bill" an hour ago

https://apnews.com/f14ef99ec7939f44860e6026624be38f

# ? Jul 29, 2020 03:03

Moonshine Rhyme: Mar 26, 2010; Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate

Trip report from Florida: many more people wearing masks than I would have thought, people actually caring. Only a handful of people not wearing them, more than a handful wearing them for no reason while driving their cars alone. Fear of getting virus: non-existent, pretty drunk.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 03:04

zer0spunk: Nov 6, 2000; devil never even lived

Moonshine Rhyme posted:

Fear of getting virus: non-existent, pretty drunk.

So I see you learned nothing from getting probed ITT

alrighty, real big lowtax energy from this guy

# ? Jul 29, 2020 03:05

Jabor: Jul 16, 2010; #1 Loser at SpaceChem

the really unfair part is that if someone quotes your posts in a month telling you to gently caress off and die quietly from your self-inflicted disease they'd probably be called a ghoul and eat a probe.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 03:07

Zugzwang: Jan 2, 2005; You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.; Ramrod XTreme

zer0spunk posted:

from the ap's "GOP tucks $8 billion for military weaponry in virus bill" an hour ago

https://apnews.com/f14ef99ec7939f44860e6026624be38f

For levity, someone please post that tweetstorm explaining everything wrong with the F-35, TIA. (It is a LONG tweet storm, unsurprisingly.)

Moonshine Rhyme posted:

Trip report from Florida: many more people wearing masks than I would have thought, people actually caring. Only a handful of people not wearing them, more than a handful wearing them for no reason while driving their cars alone. Fear of getting virus: non-existent, pretty drunk.

Were you too drunk to read the post from a page or two back about how a REALLY high percentage of survivors have lasting heart damage? Because it looks like a REALLY high percentage of survivors have lasting heart damage.

Live it up though duders, a few days of beach fun will be totally worth it if you catch the virus, especially since you'll almost certainly pass it on to someone who'll pass it on to someone etc. who'll get turbo-hosed or killed, even if you yourself are fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJQnM_4gn1A

E: found the post

Mozi posted:

more of a molotov apertif

edit: good news everyone

Lasting heart damage could be COVID-19's legacy for some non-hospitalized survivors

so 78 out of 100 young people and 24 of 39 old people had heart damage. very encouraging, i can't wait to catch this disease

Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Jul 29, 2020

# ? Jul 29, 2020 03:09

tractor fanatic: Sep 9, 2005; Pillbug

BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:

the beginning of these press briefings is always exciting, like waiting for the rancor to show up in return of the jedi.

lol @ gina virus. the only reason I tune in is the off chance his face might melt off on live tv.

okay last edit. kodak is making inert pharmaceuticals. is that normal for a camera company to make medicine ingredients.

Kodak was a chemical company masquerading as a film company

# ? Jul 29, 2020 03:18

Hazo: Dec 30, 2004; SCIENCE

Zugzwang posted:

For levity, someone please post that tweetstorm explaining everything wrong with the F-35, TIA. (It is a LONG tweet storm, unsurprisingly.)

Probably not what you meant, but some welcome levity in the same vein:

Trochanter posted:

Major Laurier had picked the wrong day to change meth dealers.

The sharp pounding in his head had started just as the scramble alert came on. A Russian Tupolev Tu-95 bomber had blatantly violated Canada's northern sovereignity and was headed for the strategic city of Yellowknife. It was up to his squadron, No. 420 Harper's Harriers to show those Slav bastards what-for with their state-of-the-art C-35 war machines... and peacefully escort them out of Canada's airspace.

Now, he was alone. Captain Fraiser's C-35 had flown through a cloud and the moisture had torn its skin from its fuselage. The rookie, Lieutenant Dorian, had attempted a gentle banked turn and the strain on his engine was too great. His plane exploded in a hail of fire, cheap steel and packing peanuts. He didn't even have time to scream. loving hotshot, thought the Major.

The Tupolev was zooming southeast at a blistering Mach 0.3 but he was slowly closing in on his prey. He had already dropped his external fuel tanks, all four of his bullets and his missile to stay airborne, and the airframe was shuddering like his Chevy Cavalier on the Trans-Canada Highway. The radar app had crashed an hour ago and OnStar was useless. No, I don't want to find a loving gas station, I'm trying to intercept a warplane! Nonetheless, he had followed the contrails left by the bomber in the northern sky. He knew he was close. And then there! On the edge of his horizon, a vast twenty miles away, were the Russians. He clenched his jaw and punched up the afterburners. The plane kicked and lurched like a mechanical bull with half the gears broken. He set course to ram his plane into the hulking turboprop. I knew I wasn't coming back from this mission, he thought. I'm a C-35 pilot. We don't come back. But at least I'll take these assholes with me. His squadron's motto, gently caress EVERYONE AND PISS ON THEIR ASHES, rang in his ears as his HUD flashed a 404 error.

Meanwhile, on the Russian plane...

The Major was five miles from the bomber when he heard a new and unfamiliar bang. He tried in vain to look behind him, but from the corner of his eye, he could see a great crack forming on his left wing. He knew at once what it meant. The epoxy that kept the plane together was never meant for such extreme temperatures. His plane was literally coming apart at the seams. How he wished he was in an Avro Arrow now. With a sickening CRRRACK the wing tore itself free from the plane and the C-35 went into a death spin. The Tupolev continued on, oblivious.

Amidst the alarms, klaxons and spontaneous fire, Frasier bit his lip and thought of Maverick. Then suddenly he remembered his training. One of the Powerpoint slides had mentioned that the ejection seat was NOT made by Lockheed, but by a British company! Hope sprung in his breast; perhaps he might survive this ordeal, and achieve his dream of becoming a cyberathelete! In desperation he lunged at the ejector handle. The seat roared upward into the void and while the canopy didn't deploy, it didn't matter; the cheap glass was shattered easily by his hundred thousand dollar helmet.

The Major breathed a sigh of relief as the chute deployed and slowed his descent. He took one last glance at his plane, which plummeted like a meteor into the ground and exploded. It was a bittersweet sight. At the very least, he thought, he had saved half a billion dollars from the clutches of the poor, the needy, the nonwhite and Quebec. The thought made him smile.

The ejector seat landed with a soft thud on a river bank, narrowly missing some pine trees. He looked around at the bright sky, the green grass and river teeming with fish. This unfamiliar hellscape sent chills of fear down his spine. If I liked the outdoors, he thought, I would've joined in the army.

Thus began Major Laurier's desperate bid for survival in the harsh subarctic summer, where temperatures could drop to nearly below freezing. In the distance, a beaver roared.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 03:33

Gynovore: Jun 17, 2009; Forget your RoboCoX or your StickyCoX or your EvilCoX, MY CoX has Blinking Bewbs!

WHY IS THIS GAME DEAD?!

tractor fanatic posted:

Kodak was a chemical company masquerading as a film company

...up until they decided that digital photography was 'just a passing fad', and went belly-up in short order.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 03:34

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

Moonshine Rhyme posted:

more than a handful wearing them for no reason while driving their cars alone.

Jesus you�re loving dumb

# ? Jul 29, 2020 03:43

Philthy: Jan 28, 2003; Pillbug

zer0spunk posted:

from the ap's "GOP tucks $8 billion for military weaponry in virus bill" an hour ago

https://apnews.com/f14ef99ec7939f44860e6026624be38f

I guess I don't understand why the Senate is doing something the House is supposed to be doing. The House will just rip out all the BS, modify it, pass it, then send it back to the Senate where it either passes or dies.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 04:02

MasonReese: Oct 8, 2004; This is gross misconduct!

bird with big dick posted:

Jesus you�re loving dumb

Are we supposed to wear our masks driving alone?

# ? Jul 29, 2020 04:05

Bloody Hedgehog: Dec 12, 2003; 💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

MasonReese posted:

Are we supposed to wear our masks driving alone?

No. You place the mask on the car seat, and fart into it as you drive.

Then when you get to your location, you'll be the luckiest lad in the room with your "well seasoned" mask.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 04:12

Rockman Reserve: Oct 2, 2007; "Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

MasonReese posted:

Are we supposed to wear our masks driving alone?

yes, unless you have a serious hand wash decontamination station in your fuckin car to allow you to safely take it off??

like I fail to see how this is even a question unless you�re genuinely stupid as poo poo, like what the gently caress are you thinking lol

# ? Jul 29, 2020 04:12

azurite: Jul 25, 2010; Strange, isn't it?!

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

Just random thoughts, but does herpes protect against Covid ? Any other viruses ?

I read 80% of people have the herpes and also 80% of people don’t have issues with Covid so it seems logical

Also I listened to Rhonda Patrick and she says at any point your immune system holds “memory” immunity to maybe 10 coronaviruses and this seems to provide some sideways protection against Covid

Herpes is a whole different category of virus. It's not even an RNA virus like COVID-19. Seems like a total coincidence.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 04:20

Kirk Vikernes: Apr 26, 2004; Count Goatnackh

MasonReese posted:

Are we supposed to wear our masks driving alone?

And then set your car on fire when you arrive to your destination to kill the germs. I've been buying up $400-$500 beaters and it's still getting really expensive.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 04:21

zer0spunk: Nov 6, 2000; devil never even lived

Philthy posted:

I guess I don't understand why the Senate is doing something the House is supposed to be doing. The House will just rip out all the BS, modify it, pass it, then send it back to the Senate where it either passes or dies.

last big legislation push before an election reshuffle according to every pundit right now

not great when one party is pretty united on their proposal and the other is infighting about what random pork goes to whom

# ? Jul 29, 2020 04:23

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

MasonReese posted:

Are we supposed to wear our masks driving alone?

People go one place that requires a mask and just keep it on en route to a second place that also requires a mask rather than take it off.

I don�t think any of these people think they�re going to get Covid in their car alone.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 04:32

Number_6: Jul 23, 2006; BAN ALL GAS GUZZLERS

(except for mine); Pillbug

Gynovore posted:

...up until they decided that digital photography was 'just a passing fad', and went belly-up in short order.

Kodak practically invented digital photography. They had a working digital camera in 1975**. But like most big American tech-oriented companies with groundbreaking technology, they utterly failed to develop the tech into a competitive mainstream product. (Partly because they didn't want digital to eat into their traditional film and film camera business.)

**It weighed 8 pounds and recorded images on cassette tapes.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 04:36

smoobles: Sep 4, 2014

I finally got a face shield and I feel invulnerable at the grocery store now, shoulda done this ages ago. I can walk past a chud with his nose out of his mask, and imagine the cloud of ronis passing gently around the curved plastic.

Also keeps me from mindlessly touching my eyes, adjusting my mask etc

# ? Jul 29, 2020 04:41

BlackIronHeart: Aug 2, 2004; PROCEED

Hi, it's me, I'm the guy driving in his car alone while wearing a mask. Why am I doing that? Well, I could just hold my mask in my hand, or shove it in my pocket until I get to my destination where it's required, or buy a special mask storage bag or box or something, or toss it somewhere in my car once I get in or... I could just store it on my loving face and not gently caress with it until I get back home. One of these options suits my lazy rear end just fine and it's the one that involves just wearing the loving thing until it's no longer needed.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 05:37

Blitter: Mar 16, 2011; Intellectual
AI Enthusiast

MasonReese posted:

Are we supposed to wear our masks driving alone?

I think the point is that if you are say, running errands in Florida, unless you have a stack of masks and sanitizer, it's better to not gently caress with the mask until you're done?

# ? Jul 29, 2020 05:39

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

smoobles posted:

I finally got a face shield and I feel invulnerable at the grocery store now, shoulda done this ages ago. I can walk past a chud with his nose out of his mask, and imagine the cloud of ronis passing gently around the curved plastic.

Also keeps me from mindlessly touching my eyes, adjusting my mask etc

Same. It's also not hot like a mask. I can wear it outside and forget I even have it on until my hand bonks into it because I mindlessly went to scratch my face. You don't even have to take it off to eat or drink.

Face shields own.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 05:46

21st Cherry boy: Jan 28, 2004; i'm a girl, fucktard

I kinda debate about wearing my mask when I'm in the operating cab of a train because I'm in a little room by myself but there's also air conditioning so I'm theoretically sharing air with everyone? But the ac sucks in the cabs so I usually end up with the mask hanging off my ear because I get so sweaty if I wear it my whole shift.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 05:56

Fate Accomplice: Nov 30, 2006

BlackIronHeart posted:

Hi, it's me, I'm the guy driving in his car alone while wearing a mask. Why am I doing that? Well, I could just hold my mask in my hand, or shove it in my pocket until I get to my destination where it's required, or buy a special mask storage bag or box or something, or toss it somewhere in my car once I get in or... I could just store it on my loving face and not gently caress with it until I get back home. One of these options suits my lazy rear end just fine and it's the one that involves just wearing the loving thing until it's no longer needed.

This is me but I also wear latex gloves whenever I�m not at home.

I know surface transmission is unlikely but I�m immunocompromised.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 06:52

Comfy Fleece Sweater: Apr 2, 2013; You see, but you do not observe.

smoobles posted:

I finally got a face shield and I feel invulnerable at the grocery store now, shoulda done this ages ago. I can walk past a chud with his nose out of his mask, and imagine the cloud of ronis passing gently around the curved plastic.

Also keeps me from mindlessly touching my eyes, adjusting my mask etc

Er, doesn�t the virus stick to the plastic? You have to disinfect your face shield too, right?
I�ve been doing that with mine, got a couple

# ? Jul 29, 2020 06:53

a sexual elk: May 16, 2007

I get super paranoid driving with my windows down, car pulls up next to me with windows just cracked and that car is up wind. Just picture all that guys crap just blowing out of his little bubble of air into mine

# ? Jul 29, 2020 08:16

Xaintrailles: Aug 14, 2015

Facebook Aunt posted:

Same. It's also not hot like a mask. I can wear it outside and forget I even have it on until my hand bonks into it because I mindlessly went to scratch my face.

drat, good idea. Ordering a face shield for my dick.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 10:24

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

Er, doesn�t the virus stick to the plastic? You have to disinfect your face shield too, right?
I�ve been doing that with mine, got a couple

Yeah but it's a smooth piece of plastic so it's dead easy to clean. Soap and water while you wash your hands. Or alcohol. Or spritz it with a disinfectant spray. Or a wet wipe.

But honestly it's no more likely to build up virions than your clothes or your hair. With a mask your breath actively sucks potentially contaminated air into the material, there's nothing like that going on with a passive face shield (or your clothes, hair, or exposed skin other than hands). Unless someone coughs or sneezes directly on the shield there's no reason for virions to congregate there. It's easy to clean so there's no reason not to clean it, but it's probably not a high risk item.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 11:30

Mithaldu: Sep 25, 2007; Let's cuddle.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Yeah but it's a smooth piece of plastic so it's dead easy to clean. Soap and water while you wash your hands. Or alcohol. Or spritz it with a disinfectant spray. Or a wet wipe.

But honestly it's no more likely to build up virions than your clothes or your hair. With a mask your breath actively sucks potentially contaminated air into the material, there's nothing like that going on with a passive face shield (or your clothes, hair, or exposed skin other than hands). Unless someone coughs or sneezes directly on the shield there's no reason for virions to congregate there. It's easy to clean so there's no reason not to clean it, but it's probably not a high risk item.

I read a while back that cloth breaks the virus down faster, but otherwise 100% agreed. The virus is easily killed with soap.

# ? Jul 29, 2020 12:29

lil poopendorfer: Nov 13, 2014; by the sex ghost

food court bailiff posted:

yes, unless you have a serious hand wash decontamination station in your fuckin car to allow you to safely take it off??

like I fail to see how this is even a question unless you�re genuinely stupid as poo poo, like what the gently caress are you thinking lol

Umm ever hear of Purell?

# ? Jul 29, 2020 12:36

lil poopendorfer: Nov 13, 2014; by the sex ghost

BlackIronHeart posted:

Hi, it's me, I'm the guy driving in his car alone while wearing a mask. Why am I doing that? Well, I could just hold my mask in my hand, or shove it in my pocket until I get to my destination where it's required, or buy a special mask storage bag or box or something, or toss it somewhere in my car once I get in or... I could just store it on my loving face and not gently caress with it until I get back home. One of these options suits my lazy rear end just fine and it's the one that involves just wearing the loving thing until it's no longer needed.

You can just slip it down under your chin when you�re in car

# ? Jul 29, 2020 12:40

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# ? May 26, 2024 16:08

unpleasantly turgid: Jul 6, 2016; u lightweights couldn't even feed my shadow ;*

BlackIronHeart posted:

Hi, it's me, I'm the guy driving in his car alone while wearing a mask. Why am I doing that? Well, I could just hold my mask in my hand, or shove it in my pocket until I get to my destination where it's required, or buy a special mask storage bag or box or something, or toss it somewhere in my car once I get in or... I could just store it on my loving face and not gently caress with it until I get back home. One of these options suits my lazy rear end just fine and it's the one that involves just wearing the loving thing until it's no longer needed.

I throw all my cloth masks into my custom built incinerator in the passenger seat, purging any contaminants completely. does this help?

# ? Jul 29, 2020 13:01

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