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Elephant Ambush posted:I really wish we didn't live on such a stupid planet we couldn't live anywhere else.
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quote:It’s really hard to believe that Trump could have built the real estate Empire that he did meaning that he had to delegate tons of authority and he had to pic top-notch people to do it. But yet when it comes to being president he seems to have turned into the worst judge of competence and character on the planet. Really makes you think 
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You also have a contingent that look at two data points: - COVID deaths are way up in 2020 (because COVID exists) - Flu deaths are way down in 2020 (because masks and social distancing also works for other infectious diseases) then try to claim that any COVID deaths are actually misdiagnosed flu deaths. They are bolstered by a CDC memo that basically said 'we're retiring this COVID PCR test because there are better ones on the market now' and highlights that the new versions can detect not only COVID but other viruses. So the Freeper / QAnon / TheDonald anti-vaxx contingent immediately went 'THE TEST COULDN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COVID AND THE FLU!!!!!! ALL COVID TESTING IS MADE UP!!!!!!' Just in case we have any TheDonald people lurking here: I am personally, in my professor's lab, sequencing covid samples we get from our state's testing labs. It's covid. It's not made up. The tests are not misdiagnosing it. The CDC memo says that the old test could only check for COVID19. That doesn't mean that what you think it means. tl;dr, memo said 'Old test could tell you if red ball was in the box. New test can tell you if red ball or yellow ball is in the box' and the freepers are saying 'test can't tell the difference between red and yellow'. Bobulus fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Aug 13, 2021 |
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Aug 13, 2021 19:34
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I've been hearing this sort of nonsense from family friends that I don't think are Freepers: "Oh, the deaths are inaccurate. They count anyone dying as having died from covid". Unless it's from Fox News I have no idea where this particular "idea" comes from. That's been everywhere from Fox News to talk radio to Facebook from day 1. It's just the flu, it doesn't kill anyone, doctors get money from the federal government for every covid patient so they just lie and say everyone has it, they list every death as covid because they get more money, etc etc. I think there was one case in Florida where a hospital did accidentally put covid as cause of death for a guy killed in a motorcycle accident, because in a country of millions of people sometimes the paperwork gets hosed up. So of course all those idiots are like "See? SEE? They're blaming motorcycle deaths on covid, that proves they're blaming everyone who dies of anything on covid, therefore covid isn't even a real disease!" VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Aug 13, 2021 |
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Aug 13, 2021 20:14
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Scratch Monkey posted:https://i.imgur.com/79SQAfr.mp4 Well, they're starting from "Trump greatest prez evah" so sudden upticks in Dem turnout simply cannot be possible. Remember, you have to view this through the eyes of the insane kik2dagroin posted:To: madison10 Ah, if only I could be there when his employer tells him "There's the door, see ya". We went through this where I worked, people tried to game the company and force some pay raises after the lockdown because we couldn't get new people. Company basically told each one "see ya" to call their bluffs. I'm all for people getting paid more, but it was sheer hilarity to watch smug dicks that thought they were invaluable get some reality for a change SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Aug 13, 2021 |
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Aug 13, 2021 20:43
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VitalSigns posted:How was Barrett a fraudulent appointment I haven't heard this new theory. It goes like this: ACB made everyone think she was a true right wing patriot who would do everything that Trump wanted. She did a thing that Trump wouldn't want, therefore she was a lying liberal all along and her appointment was fraudulent. That's it, that's the theory. Bobulus posted:Just in case we have any TheDonald people lurking here: I am personally, in my professor's lab, sequencing covid samples we get from our state's testing labs. It's covid. It's not made up. The tests are not misdiagnosing it. The CDC memo says that the old test could only check for COVID19. That doesn't mean that what you think it means. Nice try, liar, how much did Soros pay you to lie like that?
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Aug 13, 2021 21:59
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quote:I have a unique skillset and lots of knowledge of our niche industry software, but I will walk away if I have to. This is so cute. Even among people that support COBOL or weird embedded products, no one is irreplaceable. Plus, getting rid of a pain in the rear end shithead that can potentially bring disease to the rest of your workforce, then hiring a replacement at a lower cost is a no-brainer. EDIT: vvv I'm pretty sure it was all music. I vaguely remember him talking about ripping out the radios on all his work trucks or something.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:03
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A little off-topic but, I was thinking about DaleReed the other day. What the hell was his issue with music? Did he just hate modern music, or did he hate the entire concept of music?
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Aug 13, 2021 22:04
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Shaddak posted:A little off-topic but, I was thinking about DaleReed the other day. What the hell was his issue with music? Did he just hate modern music, or did he hate the entire concept of music? He hated the concept of joy.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:05
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Music is like a hat for the ears or a muppet for the soul.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:07
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Makes sense.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:07
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Perhaps he is occasionally posessed by the ghost of a puritan.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:10
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NecroBob posted:EDIT: vvv I'm pretty sure it was all music. I vaguely remember him talking about ripping out the radios on all his work trucks or something. dalereed ripping all the radios out of his work trucks was less about his hatred of music (which to be clear, he did hate), but more about "workers aren't allowed to do anything pleasurable on company time. Here is the original post: quote:To: FlingWingFlyer
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Aug 13, 2021 22:10
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God, what a joyless hateful man. He probably would have hated knowing people were having fun laughing at his posts, not out of any personal pride, just the idea of there being enjoyment in the world and him being partly responsible for it.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:19
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Twelve by Pies posted:dalereed ripping all the radios out of his work trucks was less about his hatred of music (which to be clear, he did hate), but more about "workers aren't allowed to do anything pleasurable on company time. Yes, there's the post! Godspeed, dalereed, you salty dead gently caress 
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Aug 13, 2021 22:21
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dalereed was that Kate Beaton "I had fun once and it was awful" panel in real life.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:26
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Except definitely not Hispanic.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:28
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There’s a singular pic floating around of him, somewhere. To gaze upon it is to look into the heart of malice, as it enjoys a cigarette and a bud light.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:30
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Lord Hydronium posted:God, what a joyless hateful man. He probably would have hated knowing people were having fun laughing at his posts, not out of any personal pride, just the idea of there being enjoyment in the world and him being partly responsible for it. His employees tricked him into drinking piss for a reason.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:54
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Icon Of Sin posted:There’s a singular pic floating around of him, somewhere. To gaze upon it is to look into the heart of malice, as it enjoys a cigarette and a bud light. Sounds suspiciously like he was having fun. As hilarious as our guy himself described it, that whole view is distressingly common. My partner works in a warehouse atm. 50-80% of the day is working alone picking products and packing them for shipment, with no interaction needed other than being able to hear the forklift or cherrypicker if it's about. Despite this, so much as an earbud in one ear on the floor is a fireable-on-the-spot offence. By contrast, when I did a similar job stocking a grocery store overnight, we could spend the whole shift with music or podcasts. Not an offence as long as you practiced basic reason and didn't play music so loud it hosed you or something else up. Guess which one is horrible drudgery and which one lets you get in a grove and suddenly realize you completed your whole workload halfway through the shift? Guess which one keeps employees for a 30 year career and which one regularly sees people nocall noshow inside of a week? Guess the rate of injuries despite the exact same equipment from boxcutters to forklifts to trucks? Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Aug 13, 2021 |
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Aug 13, 2021 23:01
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Shaddak posted:A little off-topic but, I was thinking about DaleReed the other day. What the hell was his issue with music? Did he just hate modern music, or did he hate the entire concept of music? Dalereed was the real life version of that Abe Simpson meme "Old man yells at cloud"
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Neo_Crimson posted:His employees tricked him into drinking piss for a reason. Wait I missed this part of the dalereed mythos
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Bobby Digital posted:Wait I missed this part of the dalereed mythos Yeah I don't remember this at all. I'm also unable to find the dalereed post about his hatred of hats, sadly. The muppet one and the radio one are well preserved but the hat one is beyond my finding capabilities. Icon Of Sin posted:There’s a singular pic floating around of him, somewhere. To gaze upon it is to look into the heart of malice, as it enjoys a cigarette and a bud light. I remember the old arguments about that photo and whether he was holding a pack of cigarettes or a can of beer in his hand, and "dalereed has monstrous hands" became part of the mythos for a while. Enormous hands, hated hats, man dalereed really was the anti-Trump.
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Aug 13, 2021 23:15
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Eagerly awaiting the dalereed cinematic universe.
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Aug 13, 2021 23:20
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Sounds suspiciously like he was having fun. There's research to back this up too. Listening to music makes people more productive.
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Someone is going to have to tell be about this mythical dalereed hatebeast. God drat, some people are just so loving miserable.
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Blotto_Otter posted:lol, what on earth is going on with the parade of Deborahs at the bottom ticker. Deborah Sambuca, Deborah Schmuckal, Deborah Smuckers, I can't get enough of these deborahs Going back to this, I bet what's happened is that's just a feed of supporter's names, sorted alphabetically by first name. Notice that they're not just all Deborahs, but they're also Deborahs with last names going in alphabetical order. It is the WORST possible way to show a list of supporter's names, but that's probably what it is. Cleretic fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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Aug 14, 2021 08:55
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Clarste posted:There's research to back this up too. Listening to music makes people more productive. You mean making your employees happier makes them work more? Nooooo, that's not very capitalism!
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Aug 14, 2021 09:48
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Captain Log posted:Someone is going to have to tell be about this mythical dalereed hatebeast. They had a freepmeet at an Olive Garden and were such assholes/didn't want to pay that everyone at it got banned from all Olive Gardens forever
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Aug 14, 2021 16:21
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I will never understand the boomer obsession with Olive Garden Like was that the only place in their neighborhoods that was considered good food? Or is it just the free breadsticks thing that they could abuse?
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The Genius of Olive Garden was in convincing old, dumb people that it is simultaneously a fancy restaurant and somewhere you can have someone bring you endless bowls of salted slop for 15 bucks.
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Elephant Ambush posted:I will never understand the boomer obsession with Olive Garden To be fair to the boomers, I think yeah, chain restaurants for a long time were the only sit-down restaurants serving much decent food that wasn't a local specialty. Nowadays the situation is better, and for rich people food capitals, NYC has eclipsed cities like Paris imo. But I can't blame them for getting accustomed. I still eat at Taco Bell, demolish cheddar bay biscuits, and the Impossible Whopper was a godsend. I guess the boomer-millenial divide here is that I know that the food I eat out of nostalgia is not the be-all end-all. Otoh, we have our own dumb obsessions. My partner is obsessed with Chipotle. Lady, this is Texas, and you used to live in NY. You need to go to a local dive and get some actual good rear end mexican.
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Elephant Ambush posted:I will never understand the boomer obsession with Olive Garden Olive garden gives you enough food that you can feast on the leftovers for days. If you're not taking home a bowl of soup, breadsticks, and half your entre you've hosed up somewhere.
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Elephant Ambush posted:I will never understand the boomer obsession with Olive Garden It's like eating in the private kitchen of a delightful Italian stereotype! Captain Log posted:Someone is going to have to tell be about this mythical dalereed hatebeast. dalereed was just a freeper who posted about everything he hated all the time, with his most prominent posts being how he hated radios in work trucks, him not knowing what the Muppets are and telling Jim Henson that, and his hatred of wearing hats which is a post that seems to be lost to time. I think it may even have been dalereed that coined the phrase "They should lay down in the streets and die!"
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Aug 14, 2021 21:35
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Yeah he was this bitter old flat-top hate golem that wanted everyone on welfare, food stamps or any other kind of assistance to lay down in the street and die. I think he liked muscle cars but that's about it. He had cancer and eventually died from it.
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GISing dale reed freep failed to find the iconic photo, but there are these  https://imgur.com/04t2b0Y Did we do this or was it bitter freepers zotted and trying their hand at memes? Second one is tame, but it's got vultures on a human skeleton and even it's from a sky burial or similar, gently caress freepers using a photo of someone's honoured dead for whining about jimrob tbh. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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Aug 14, 2021 23:25
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quote:To: Hojczyk quote:To: romanesq quote:To: romanesq
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1200 people is nothing. We could take a half-million and barely notice. America big.
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Sarcastr0 posted:I put value on American lives. I put zero value on pedophile worshiping pieces of poo poo. Now watch me vote for the GOP!
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