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Platystemon posted:wtf don’t narc on your friend for committing a federal offense  I remember being told about this volunteering for Feingold back in '98.
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reopening schools is the next logical progression in "how can we gently caress this up more"
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zer0spunk posted:reopening schools is the next logical progression in "how can we gently caress this up more" it really feels that way
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I wonder if chuds will learn once their kids start dying... Probably not.
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what was that old goon question-and-answer text about how easy it will be to invade iraq? i need it for a project
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G-III posted:I wonder if chuds will learn once their kids start dying... If Herman Cain's death didn't convince them, their kids dying won't. 
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my mom wants to go back to working in the school cafeteria and i told her to write her will because covid will take her pretty quick. i made sure to let her know if she has anything she needs to say to her kids before she went back to work to get it in the will because you cant talk on a ventilator. she hated it and i think it had some effect on her so if anyones trying to stop someone they know from casting themselves into the furnace you can try that.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:If Herman Cain's death didn't convince them, their kids dying won't. "god's plan"
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Iron Crowned posted:"god's plan" didn't you hear? religion, the thing that wires your brain to accept and defend irrational beliefs, is good, friend
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Iron Crowned posted:"god's plan" 9-9-9
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Mozi posted:what was that old goon question-and-answer text about how easy it will be to invade iraq? i need it for a project It's Grover, if that helps. How long will it take to capture Baghdad? 2 days Will Saddam be killed? Yes Total Iraqi civillian casualties: 500 dead Total military casualties Iraq: 3000 dead Total military casualties U.S.: 15 dead Will the Iraqi army regulars hold the lines? No Will the Republican Guard fight to the end? No Will chem/bio weapons be used on invading troops?: Yes Will Saddam launch attacks on the Kurds? Yes Will Saddam launch attacks on Israel? No -If yes; will Isreal retaliate harshly? Yes Will Saddam sacrifice Baghdad (gas/nuke it)? No Will the Kurds make a grab for independence? Yes Will Iran do anything silly like try for land? Yes Will Saddam burn the oil fields? Yes How long will the US be occupying Iraq? ~15 years Will the Iraq war catalyze increased terrorism in America?No In the long run, will this war be good or bad for the world? Good We have to look at what those civilian casualties are- just because they're civilian doesn't make them innocent! Lets take a look at a few possibilities: 1) A civilian walking down the street to market gets killed by a cruise missile fired at the market. 2) A civilian asleep in their house is killed when their house is targetting by a smart bomb and blown up. OK, these two are regrettable innocents being killed- but since the US doesn't make a habit of targetting markets or houses, they're very small in number! 3) A civilian working at a chemical weapon factory gets killed when the chemical weapon plant is bombed. 4) A civilian security guard at a weapons depot is killed when the weapons explode. 5) A civilian contractor repairing a tank is killed by a MOAB dropped on the unit. 6) A civilian engineer is killed when the military command center he works at is destroyed. 7) A civilian delivering snackiecakes to the baghdad bunker vending machines eats a 5,000lb bunker buster. etc, etc. The list goes on. My point is that there are a lot of civilians directly supporting the military that aren't exactly "innocent" and would be mire rightly counted among the military casualties than civilian. I'm a civilian and work for the US military, but I acknowledge I'm also a valid military target because of what I do. And I think the vast majority of civilian casualties in this campaign will not be innocent. madeintaipei fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Aug 4, 2020 |
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I heard Herman Cain really died of cancer and that all the kids who are also about to die have cancer, too. But the nurses, they put "COVID" on the death certificate to get more money for the hospital!!!!
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A Fancy Hat posted:I heard Herman Cain really died of cancer and that all the kids who are also about to die have cancer, too. But the nurses, they put "COVID" on the death certificate to get more money for the hospital!!!! Many such cases!
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This feels like a staple of "post an image moments before disaster" threads 5-10 years down the road... I've had anxiety dreams about being in places half as crowded as this. I wish I didn't google this school district further, but... lol https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/paulding-at-home-learning-wait-list/85-00d037bd-eaa0-4fbe-9c06-dd21b40d335a Sorry if I missed this earlier in the thread. Some choice bits from the article: As for masks, the schools “will encourage students, teachers, and bus drivers to wear masks… wearing a face mask is a personal choice….” There is no requirement that they do so[wear masks], even after the principal of North Paulding High School sent a letter to parents telling them that members of the school’s football team had tested positive and that their children may have been exposed, as well. Apparently the superintendent also praised the first day as being "remarkably normal" so congrats I guess?
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madeintaipei posted:It's Grover, if that helps. typing one handed while stroking a war boner
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So I'm deeply confused at the internal logic (even relative to it being Grover) because it seems like:quote:Will chem/bio weapons be used on invading troops?: Yes Is inherently inconsistent with: quote:Total military casualties U.S.: 15 dead 
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OMFG FURRY posted:typing one handed while stroking a war boner He's such a dumb motherfucker.
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Schadenboner posted:So I'm deeply confused at the internal logic (even relative to it being Grover) because it seems like: American gas masks stronk.
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OMFG FURRY posted:typing one handed while installing load-bearing insulation
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thanks madeintaipei! How long will it take to reopen schools? Instantly Will children be killed? Yes Total US civilian casualties: 500 dead Will the teachers hold the lines? No Will chem/bio weapons be used on the incoming students? Yes Will COVID launch attacks on the teachers? Yes Will COVID launch attacks on the students? No Will Trump sacrifice high school (gas/nuke it)? Yes Will the homeschoolers make a grab for independence? Yes How long will COVID be occupying the US? ~15 years In the long run, will this be good or bad for the world? Good We have to look at what those civilian casualties are- just because they're civilian doesn't make them innocent! Lets take a look at a few possibilities: 1) A teacher in class gets killed by COVID spread from a student. 2) A parent gets COVID from their child who caught it at school and dies. OK, these two are regrettable innocents being killed- but since the US doesn't make a habit of accurately counting COVID deaths, they're very small in number! 3) A lunchlady working in the cafeteria gets killed when they get COVID. 4) A janitor at the school is killed when they catch COVID from a discarded apple. 5) An electrical contractor repairing the AC is killed when he gets a lungful of condensed COVID. 6) A librarian is killed when he accidentally licks the books after they are returned. 7) A civilian delivering PPE donations to the school eats a 5,000-virii strong bit of loogie. etc, etc. The list goes on. My point is that there are a lot of civilians directly supporting the educational system that aren't exactly "innocent" and would be more rightly counted among the educational casualties than civilian. I'm a civilian and work for the US education system, but I acknowledge I'm also a valid COVID target because of what I do. And I think the vast majority of civilian casualties in this campaign will not be innocent.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:CT's rates peaked back in April and are currently doing really well but their total per capita deaths so far are still the 4th worst in the entire country and are WAY higher than California, Texas or even Florida. Even if you're not going by per capita rates, CT still has the 10th highest number of total deaths out of all the US states & territories Haha, we're opening schools in a couple weeks. People are really starting to just brazenly wander around with no masks here and it's disturbing. I saw an old couple freak out at the deli counter in the supermarket because they were asked to wear masks (and they were in full Trump regalia, which was clearly A Decision) and in the checkout line the guy behind me complimented my mask because he was also a fan of the same football team. He was also maskless so I spent the wait just talking about how Matt Stafford tested positive and the Lions would suck again if we even have a season because I'm a non-confrontational passive aggressive bitch. In other news, the governor is looking at mandatory mask enforcement options because the people above exist in sufficient numbers to be concerning. We did what we had to to get the numbers down, but people clearly are now in the mindset that it is all over because we're not Florida or Texas. This is sort of like when you don't finish the whole course of antibiotics because you feel better after the first 10 days, only for the infection to come back stronger than ever.
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Oh my god this is loving humiliating. It's like a scene from The Office. He's fumbling with his little papers like a high schooler being asked followup questions after a powerpoint presentation they didn't prepare for
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Hazo posted:Oh my god this is loving humiliating. It's like a scene from The Office. Worlds Best President
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Saul_Tingly posted:Apparently the superintendent also praised the first day as being "remarkably normal" so congrats I guess? Hazo posted:Oh my god this is loving humiliating. It's like a scene from The Office.
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zgrowler2 posted:one of our friends is a baker and they made bon bon deliveries to mailboxes during lockdown to keep morale up. life finds a way and I'm convinced none of these mouth breathers who pitched fits for restrictions to be lifted even tried adapting when mildly inconvenienced. it's infuriating I feel exactly the same way. So much of everything could be mostly preserved with a few minor adjustments (excluding some pretty broad categories, of course) but people won't even loving TRY. Wearing a mask really doesn't affect much of anything and neither does standing a little bit away from others and some people refuse even that much. I'm a teacher and all of these school openings piss me off so much because we had the whole summer to actually come up with goals for online learning and to do some training or ANYTHING AT ALL and in 4 weeks time things will be locked down again (hopefully) but we'll still be pulling the distance learning program out of our asses at the last minute because we were trying so hard to believe that COVID would just disappear and leave us alone. Distance learning will suck, again, and people will again just blame distance learning in general rather than the completely seat-of-the-pants way it's been implemented.
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Like.. who do they think is going to teach all these kids as the teachers get sick and die? It's not like they'll be sniff sniff and come back in 14 days.. Most teachers are generally older. They're gunna be in the loving ICU for a month with half a year of rehab if they're lucky. If they think keeping kids at home is traumatic, wait till they have the conscience of possibly killing their teachers and parents.
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Philthy posted:Like.. who do they think is going to teach all these kids as the teachers get sick and die? It's not like they'll be sniff sniff and come back in 14 days.. Most teachers are generally older. They're gunna be in the loving ICU for a month with half a year of rehab if they're lucky. If they think keeping kids at home is traumatic, wait till they have the conscience of possibly killing their teachers and parents. The web of infections is going to be insane to track once schools start back up. My mom teaches second grade will be back in class soon. My dad runs a retail business where most of his job is talking to people and sitting in a fairly small office with like six of his employees. His guys deliver things into people's homes. Even if you buy the "kids aren't super spreaders" thing that the YMCA helpfully proved was bullshit at that camp, just the number of people who could potentially be infected from the average teacher is crazy.
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us schools are basically indoctrination/day care centers so parents can continue to work for their meager salary. if the schools dont open wage slaves like you and I might not just go quietly back to work because we won't have someone to watch our kids.
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sex excellence posted:us schools are basically indoctrination/day care centers so parents can continue to work for their meager salary. if the schools dont open wage slaves like you and I might not just go quietly back to work because we won't have someone to watch our kids. the system works! 
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My sister-in-law is a teacher and already gets an incredible amount of disrespect on a daily basis. I cannot imagine the living Hell she's going to suffer through in a few weeks. It doesn't help that Trump's now arguing that teacher's unions are bad and are just indoctrinating your kids!!!! with socialism or whatever.
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what kind of baker makes bon bons? are bon bons in America the same as they are in France or something else entirely? Give me the FACTS
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A Fancy Hat posted:It doesn't help that Trump's now arguing that teacher's unions are bad and are just indoctrinating your kids!!!! Someone said on this forum, and I think it holds very true When a right winger tells you their fears, they are telling you their plans
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A Fancy Hat posted:My sister-in-law is a teacher and already gets an incredible amount of disrespect on a daily basis. I cannot imagine the living Hell she's going to suffer through in a few weeks. just wanted to clarify that I don't think teachers are useless babysitters incapable of teaching anything useful/enlightening to kids but that the institution of schooling does very little to help teachers succeed in providing students 'real' education because it isn't really the point. unfortunately teachers do not run the schools or set curriculum requirements
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Jeza posted:what kind of baker makes bon bons? are bon bons in America the same as they are in France or something else entirely? She's a baker, she also makes bon bons - I connected dots that shouldn't have been connected first thing in the morning. I have no doubt that American bon bons differ from the original, but nah, not baked.
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I never knew som US kids go back to school in august. Is this something that is decided on state level, or how does that work?
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Noblesse Obliged posted:Someone said on this forum, and I think it holds very true This shouldn't be news to anybody, but: Republicans despise education because more educated people overwhelmingly vote liberal.
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Mithaldu posted:Basic rules: Thank you and the others. More feedback, especially about surfaces, is welcome. How safe would restaurants, coffee shops, and cultural activities (genre walking around in a city and musea) be in a a typical European country?
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A Fancy Hat posted:I heard Herman Cain really died of cancer and that all the kids who are also about to die have cancer, too. But the nurses, they put "COVID" on the death certificate to get more money for the hospital!!!! I actually had someone at work tell me that hospitals get $37,000 for each recorded COVID death. It's something people actually believe
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One of my dumb gently caress toxic positivity friends posted some obnoxious Tumblr meme that said something to the effect of, "the only thing you need to say to your friend sending their kid back to school is 'wow, that must have been a hard decision for you,' they don't need your negative input on a difficult time," and it's like...nah. If there's not a financial situation that necessitates sending your kid back (which in the USA is totally a possibility), if your me-time is more important than your kid's or someone else's kid's life and well-being you're a lovely parent and I've not no problem telling you as much. People keep focusing on deaths as if that's the only "bad" number. Suppose the reproductive effects we're seeing in some adults causes sterility when experienced by children. The potential effect of an entire generation with a reduced ability to procreate is economically devastating, on top of the psychological impact. That's *one* possible non-death side effect that's being treated like a minor inconvenience to some adults with zero consideration or study on the impact to kids. It's absolutely loving batshit how cavalier public health officials are being about this to kowtow to the administration.
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