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And what's the deal with airline food, huh? Spoeank posted:Now that he has no power I can go back to thinking that he's the funniest loving person in the universe, just not in a way he wants He really is/was an all-time poster, it's too bad he's such an irredeemable piece of poo poo. I'm drawing a blank on anyone else who was among the best at their craft at such an advanced age.
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Spoeank posted:They built them in space But... how did they get there? Does Bajor just have one really tall mountain or something? Did they build a ladder? Edit: wife and I have our vaccine appts. I'll be getting jabbed Friday. 
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hahahaha what the hell gives me an excuse to post a text my mom sent to my brother yesterday. he's trying to get her to get the vaccine and she started ranting about...this 
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Ehud posted:hahahaha what the hell Thanos did nothing wrong.
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I can’t tell if that means she’s for or against the vaccine.
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Apr 7, 2021 13:13
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Against. One major anti-vaxx argument is that they're actually poison and being used for population control
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Ehud posted:hahahaha what the hell I am confused. Is your mother trying for more children?
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Intruder posted:Against. One major anti-vaxx argument is that they're actually poison and being used for population control Yeah when she found out we got the vaccine she said "Good luck" lol I guess she thinks we're gonna die or whatever
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My mom has so many conflicting views at this point. I can't even keep up anymore. Like she simultaneously believes that unregulated capitalism is the best economic system but also that Bill Gates is so rich that he is now a member of an "oligarchy" which has the power to implement a system of population control lol
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Skwirl posted:https://twitter.com/dannywallace/status/1379498007004123144?s=20 People are going to whine incessantly about vaccine passports for the next 3 months and then forget about it because once we have like 70% vaccinated everyone is going to stop bothering with it. Though this assumes that we have 70% of the population that will actually get vaccinated, which I’ll admit seems like a stretch.
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Ehud posted:My mom has so many conflicting views at this point. I can't even keep up anymore. I genuinely don't understand what people like this want. Like I get that there's no answer because they're generally a mess of conflicting grievances, but...you don't want masks, you don't want shutdowns, you don't want vaccines, you don't want government aid, so do you just want... death? But fighting the virus is also population control? We really aren't served by engaging people like that, huh?
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Freaquency posted:People are going to whine incessantly about vaccine passports for the next 3 months and then forget about it because once we have like 70% vaccinated everyone is going to stop bothering with it. The NY Times did a thing on this a couple of days ago. White evangelicals are the biggest obstacle standing in the way of hitting that 70%+ number. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/us/covid-vaccine-evangelicals.html quote:The opposition is rooted in a mix of religious faith and a longstanding wariness of mainstream science, and it is fueled by broader cultural distrust of institutions and gravitation to online conspiracy theories. The sheer size of the community poses a major problem for the country’s ability to recover from a pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of half a million Americans. And evangelical ideas and instincts have a way of spreading, even internationally.
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Intruder posted:Against. One major anti-vaxx argument is that they're actually poison and being used for population control Yea, but she also says "we'll be in a much better place", so it seems like she wants the population reduced. This is why it's pointless to engage with these people. They have no internal logic.
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shirts and skins posted:I genuinely don't understand what people like this want. Like I get that there's no answer because they're generally a mess of conflicting grievances, but...you don't want masks, you don't want shutdowns, you don't want vaccines, you don't want government aid, so do you just want... death? But fighting the virus is also population control? It's the mentality of a toddler. I want everything done my way and I don't want anything I don't like.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Yea, but she also says "we'll be in a much better place", so it seems like she wants the population reduced. I take that as more resignation that Bill Gates is going to kill us all but at least we'll be in heaven (assuming you spit on the right people as you should)
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Freaquency posted:People are going to whine incessantly about vaccine passports for the next 3 months and then forget about it because once we have like 70% vaccinated everyone is going to stop bothering with it. Yeah I talked with my boss about that. I'm all in favor of requiring the passports for things like cruises. For all the people that bitch and say "well I'm not cruising then", there are people like me who say "Only verified people with Covid-19 vaccinations will be allowed on the ship? Sign me the hell up." My coworker insists that if airlines implement this he's driving everywhere. Good luck getting to those California conferences when they resume.
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Ehud posted:My mom has so many conflicting views at this point. I can't even keep up anymore. It's less about having a worldview free of internal conflict and more about saying "here's the stuff that I don't like" and building a worldview around that. But something tells me that you knew this already. Freaquency posted:People are going to whine incessantly about vaccine passports for the next 3 months and then forget about it because once we have like 70% vaccinated everyone is going to stop bothering with it. If I was a betting man I would guess that the medical clearances that you need in order to travel internationally are going to become much more strict and stay that way for a long time. I'm super looking forward to finding out what hoops I have to jump through next time I go to Thailand to see the in-laws.
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Silly Burrito posted:My coworker insists that if airlines implement this he's driving everywhere. Good luck getting to those California conferences when they resume. 90% of people saying things like this will either abandon it within a month or never do it at all because convenience above all
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Broke: Not flying cause they ask you to have a covid vaccine. Still woke: Not flying cause you dont like planes and you got a sweet rear end bus. 
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Ehud posted:My mom has so many conflicting views at this point. I can't even keep up anymore. Looking at fb profiles of people I worked with who come up in friends of friends I've found a couple people like this. The laziest person I've ever worked with has the pretty typical rural MN "socialism kills, dems are socialists", etc., but then it's interspersed with things about how much public good could be done with the inconceivable amount of wealth Bezos and Gates sit on. Some of the stuff it's like my guy, you are so close to getting it, then the next post is railing on Governor Walz being super left. Basically this: Silly Burrito posted:It's the mentality of a toddler. I want everything done my way and I don't want anything I don't like.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Yea, but she also says "we'll be in a much better place", so it seems like she wants the population reduced. I think the translation is "we'll be chilling in heaven (because Bill Gates killed us)"
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My home gym has been apart for about two months for the basement renovation and holy poo poo I want them to get the drywall up so I can set it back up in the unfinished space and stop turning into a ball of dough.
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shirts and skins posted:I genuinely don't understand what people like this want. Like I get that there's no answer because they're generally a mess of conflicting grievances, but...you don't want masks, you don't want shutdowns, you don't want vaccines, you don't want government aid, so do you just want... death? But fighting the virus is also population control? I don't really think there is a good answer because she lives in a totally different reality. We cannot even agree on what constitutes a fact, or that there are effective methodologies to help us figure out when something is true. She just has no discernible system of internal logic or critical thinking. I also believe that she is afraid to confront any of her beliefs (religious, political, the distrust of science and medicine) because they are so heavily intertwined. At her core, my mom needs her religious beliefs to be true because she has been through a lot of trauma. She did 20 years in an abusive marriage, she lost a daughter to a car accident, then she lost a niece (which she raised as a daughter) to suicide. She needs to believe that her experiences were part of a bigger plan that she doesn't understand (but god does) and that she will see her daughter and niece again one day. She has told me that this is the only thing that keeps her going, otherwise she just wants to die because she's so stricken with grief. So if you start pulling at one thread in the fabric of her beliefs, she gets super defensive and uncomfortable and starts crying. It's like, "If I was wrong about THIS I might be wrong about other things." And she's so mentally broken that she cannot even entertain a conversation as seemingly innocuous as, "Hey, maybe climate change is actually true." without sobbing and accusing me of being deceived by Satan. It took me 30 something years to realize that we are so different that our relationship can never be anything but surface level bullshit that I don't even care about. Bird in a Blender posted:Yea, but she also says "we'll be in a much better place", so it seems like she wants the population reduced. The better place is heaven lol
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:How did Madden make it to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii? Benzos.
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The Wild Man of YOLO posted:I think the translation is "we'll be chilling in heaven (because Bill Gates killed us)" Ah yea, that makes more sense.
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Paint Crop Pro posted:Broke: Not flying cause they ask you to have a covid vaccine. Bespoke: Not flying because you got some dumb starstruck VP of Sales to pay for your sweet rear end bus I'm a little bummed to see federal resistance to a COVID passport because I thought it might be a step toward freeing up medical information to stay with the patient rather than staying inaccessible and broken up across multiple hospital/hospital system silos.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Ah yea, that makes more sense. it would be weird as hell to be in heaven and be like "remember when the microsoft guy killed all of us?"
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Ehud, are you me and/or do we share the same mother?*  *Without most of that trauma in her past in my case, but still some amount and the same amount of mental reliance on belief system
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Oh my God I feel like I got the poo poo kicked out of me AND like I'm hungover
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:How did Madden make it to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii? i don't think he ever went afaik
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Fifty Three posted:Ehud, are you me and/or do we share the same mother?* Hello crazy mother bud  Look on the bright side. We know what not to do with our kids!
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Silly Burrito posted:My coworker insists that if airlines implement this he's driving everywhere. Good luck getting to those California conferences when they resume. STFU guy. God. I don't see how you deal with him on the reg. And you're so nice to him and he doesn't deserve it.
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Spoeank posted:Oh my God I feel like I got the poo poo kicked out of me AND like I'm hungover Just off your first shot? Pathetic. [spoilers]I kid, I hope you start feeling better[/spoilers] and yeah, crazy mom crew represent! my parents are a guiding light of things I try to avoid from my childhood
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Ehud posted:Hello crazy mother bud So my dad has started down this path hard the last couple of years. Like full blown crazy/conspiracy stuff. Everything with Covid and the election has just made it worse. My son thinks he is crazy to the point that he's almost told him in his face that. My brother doesn't want to go out anywhere with him just because of the crazy poo poo he says like he's being followed and everyone is out to get him. If a company vehicle passes him or if a vehicle has some words on it, that is code to him that they are telling him something. The phones are bugged etc etc. He won't talk to anyone so medication isn't a possibility and it will be ok because Rapture is coming soon and all the wicked people will have to answer for it then. It's really sad because this changed happened within the last 5-10 years whereas when I was growing up he was a rock and someone I looked up to as inspiration. So it's been hard seeing this happen.
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Ehud posted:It took me 30 something years to realize that we are so different that our relationship can never be anything but surface level bullshit that I don't even care about. Although my mother isn’t in quite as deep as yours, I’ve been through a similar situation with her. She isn’t online at all (thank gently caress) but she is terminally FOX news poisoned, newly evangelical somehow without being a church goer, and a survivor of like decades of trauma that make rationality impossible. This particular line hit hard. I realized just before our daughter was born that she and I can never really discuss anything of consequence because we are too different in basically all of our viewpoints and we don’t even agree on reality anymore. Thankfully neither she or my dad have wandered into any social media conspiracy theory nonsense, and are still basically bog standard conservatives, but it’s disheartening to have so few shared points on reality that everything has to be superficial.
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Ehud posted:Hello crazy mother bud I don't even know if I want kids and as soon as I mentioned that to her she was just like "well I guess I'll just move to Hawaii now then!" Like... please? You mean it?  She doesn't have any paranoid delusions of being stalked or anything, but there's Q stickers on her house and car and her Facebook is all MERICA LUV TURMPO poo poo. She sent me some Q meme about how it's "the only cult that teaches you to think for yourself!" 
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Bird in a Blender posted:Yea, but she also says "we'll be in a much better place", so it seems like she wants the population reduced. David Roth posted:One of the defining aspects of the highly caffeinated conservative cable news sludge that Trump still chugs thirstily from morning until night is that it is hard to understand. It is intended to induce a state of heated clammy umbrage in the slack and softening minds of its consumers, and reliably does that, but it does this more through tone and frequency than by means of information. The point is to keep everyone watching both very upset and kind of curious about what exactly they’re upset about. This worked both on Trump and for him, but in no way can it be said to have made him more informed. Nothing on earth has ever really done that, but the idea is to repeat things enough that even passive viewers will be able to pick up the broad strokes, learn the heroes and villains and outrages and memes, get upset when they’re supposed to get upset and keep watching through the commercial breaks. Someone who watches enough hours of this will become not just familiar with but wholly conversant in all the salty phonemes that make up its language, but never quite know what the gently caress they’re talking about.
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