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DesertIslandHermit: Oct 7, 2019; It's beautiful. And it's for the god of...of...arts and crafts. I think that's what he said.

Der Meister posted:

newsom is gonna get recalled because of being slightly inconveniencing to chuds lol

It started with the electric company issues (which Republicans won't fix lol) and snowballed with trying to handle COVID (which I won't repeat myself)

# ? Aug 19, 2021 06:49

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# ? May 23, 2024 19:46

Mola Yam: Jun 18, 2004; Kali Ma Shakti de!

DesertIslandHermit posted:

Yeah my mom used to say people are honest when they're drunk.

I drank the other night and was just 'lmao this country is hosed, just keep close touch with friends and help out if I can'

"another round" is a good movie about alcohol

# ? Aug 19, 2021 06:50

Helith: Nov 5, 2009; Basket of Adorables

https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1428231728099848192?s=21
:unsmith:

https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1428216622355935232?s=21

# ? Aug 19, 2021 06:51

fosborb: Dec 15, 2006; Chronic Good Poster

gently caress it

a bit interactive this time around

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fosborb.sa/viz/RealGoodCovidTrackerVariant/Tracker

# ? Aug 19, 2021 06:53

scary ghost dog: Aug 5, 2007

fosborb posted:

gently caress it

a bit interactive this time around

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fosborb.sa/viz/RealGoodCovidTrackerVariant/Tracker

lol this is pretty good

# ? Aug 19, 2021 06:55

Mola Yam: Jun 18, 2004; Kali Ma Shakti de!

hehe cum 9/11

# ? Aug 19, 2021 06:55

cash crab: Apr 5, 2015; all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology

Casey Finnigan posted:

Zoomers are gonna poo poo on millennials for complaining about our lives the way that we poo poo on boomers

Granted, millennials and gen-xer's poo poo on rich boomers - we were upset about the wealth hoarding and the vestiges of bizarre post-war etiquette standards and the obsession with social stratification. Most of the millennial/gen-z/boomer/gen-x/gen-ligma discourse is thinly veiled class issues. Like, I'm not mad at the boomer cook at my work because he's a loving line cook and we have the same lifestyle. But I loving hate my slightly-younger-than-me millennial boss because she has a big house and veneers and spent the whole first year of the pandemic hiding in the woods because she's loaded. I think this is because these generational labels are usually marketing categories rather than real classes of people, IMO.

# ? Aug 19, 2021 06:55

Helith: Nov 5, 2009; Basket of Adorables

That honeycomb is really pretty

# ? Aug 19, 2021 06:59

Hadlock: Nov 9, 2004

mod sassinator posted:

"Shut the gently caress up millenial, at least you had a JOB when you graduated"

Laughs in 2008

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:03

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Mola Yam posted:

i hope everyone dies all of the time

Bush_mission_accomplished.jpeg

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:09

Mola Yam: Jun 18, 2004; Kali Ma Shakti de!

"cum 9/11" would be a good porno to watch, as a joke with your friends.

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:11

WampaLord: Jan 14, 2010

Hadlock posted:

Laughs in 2008

yeah i graduated in 2009 where was this so called "job" when i graduated

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:15

Kunabomber: Oct 1, 2002; Pillbug

"Shut the gently caress up millenial, at least you had WATER COMING OUT OF A TAP when you graduated"

Kunabomber fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Aug 19, 2021

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:19

LionArcher: Mar 29, 2010

Mola Yam posted:

they say being drunk just amplifies who you are when you're sober

i have a drink and i feel fine about dying. what a gift! i wish death on everyone as a kindness!

I become way more crude and flirty and fun when I drink. or so I�ve been told.

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:21

Chard: Aug 24, 2010

is the communication improvement between 3m 6300 vs secure click worth upgrading, or better question, how did you decide it was?

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:21

Harik: Sep 9, 2001; From the hard streets of Moscow
First dog to touch the stars; Plaster Town Cop

mod sassinator posted:

100k dead kids with a CFR of 0.1% (total guess but the CFR for kids definitely isn't the 0.5% we see for adults) would require all 100 million children in the country to be infected. realistically i doubt we can get much past 1/3 of kids infected before poo poo is really off the rails. and 0.1% is still probably way too high a CFR, it's probably more like 0.01%. so I'd wager we see about 1,000 kid deaths--which is still a horrific number and like 4x a bad flu year in deaths. if I'm totally off and it really is a 200x bad flu year (100k deaths) then holy poo poo you are right there will be parents gunning down principals and administrators in murder-suicide retributions

so the gigantic fuckup here is that you assume CFR is constant at any rate when in reality there's this thing i like to call the brick wall effect where you're just cruising along just fine with "acceptable" (to shitheaded death cultists) fatalities until you hit the point that you don't have the capacity to treat any more critically ill and whoops you run headfirst into the wall and splatter your brains out in a vertical brick wall of death

also fun that you don't have to have all the cases at once, just as long as they're regional in time it overwhelms that regions resources because an avaliable pediactric ICU bed 500 miles away doesnt do you any good where you are

theres only been 5 days of school here in my garbage florida county, in the first two days half the schools in the district had positive cases and quarantines. by day 5 we got the note that our kid was exposed and welp that's it for in person schooling until this is all over.

and meanwhile we ban discussion along the lines of "i'd absolutely kill hitler" because an enormous number of deaths is a statistic but one monster getting merced is a tragedy

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:22

mod sassinator: Dec 13, 2006; I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

mock up of how 9/11's of death could be displayed in a dashboard:

(image from here: https://www.citypng.com/photo/3713/hd-world-trade-center-new-york-illustration )

mod sassinator fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Aug 19, 2021

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:28

WampaLord: Jan 14, 2010

Kunabomber posted:

"Shut the gently caress up millenial, at least you had a WATER COMING OUT OF A TAP when you graduated"

that's more like it

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:29

Ammanas: Jul 17, 2005; Voltes V: "Laser swooooooooord!"

mod sassinator posted:

"Shut the gently caress up millenial, at least you had a JOB when you graduated"

most millenials graduated into the 08 depression so uh not really

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:32

Kreeblah: May 17, 2004; INSERT QUACK TO CONTINUE; Taco Defender

Penisaurus Sex posted:

don�t know why I have to post this in C-SPAM or how to make this clearer but normal people don�t matter.

Even on just a state level, a governor is concerned with the opinions of maybe .05-.25% of the state population. And those people, in both red and blue states, are mostly fine with things as they are. COVID is a poor person disease* and they�re not poor so why change things that could inconvenience them?

*: I anticipate that the aristocracy realizes that delta has maybe changed this risk calculus by the middle of September.

Yeah, that's fair. I probably am being too idealistic when it comes to these fuckers.

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:38

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

https://twitter.com/jdmaccoby/status/1427983823942438912?s=21

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:39

Kreeblah: May 17, 2004; INSERT QUACK TO CONTINUE; Taco Defender

mod sassinator posted:

mock up of how 9/11's of death could be displayed in a dashboard:

(image from here: https://www.citypng.com/photo/3713/hd-world-trade-center-new-york-illustration )

That's pretty good. Makes me think of something Edward Tufte might come up with.

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:41

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

today's number of 9/11s

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:42

Cup Runneth Over: Aug 8, 2009; She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate

Mr Hootington posted:

Let people live their lives you mentally ill freaks

Hard agree. The mentally ill freaks raving about freedoms and face diapers need to go home and let us live our lives instead of spreading the deadly disease that's killing hundreds of people a day.

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:42

The Oldest Man: Jul 28, 2003

DesertIslandHermit posted:

It wouldn't surprise me either if our country goes full Nazi Germany and blames the long covid people for not working hard or being a burden on medical care.

lol i still have the capacity to be shocked and disgusted, this is definitely going to happen

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:44

Ice Phisherman: Apr 12, 2007; Swimming upstream
into the sunset

SpaceDrake posted:

alright, but. im sorry cspam, i have to realpost for a minute here

I'm actually super loving worried about the next 6-8 weeks. like. it is now virtually guaranteed that millions of children are going to be infected with covid-19 � probably north of 75% of the entire school-age population, especially the elementary demographic � and the sheer overload of the health system this will cause is going to kill tens of thousands of children in the space of a month or two. I am deadass actually expecting that we are going to be facing down a hundred thousand dead children by some point in October. and I have no loving idea what happens after that. what happens after the biggest child mortality crisis in this country in more than a century, and this one self-manufactured.

like, the leadership and certain parts of the bourgeoisie are going to try to not give a poo poo beyond platitudes, and at least at first I expect a Sandy Hook-esque shrug, but by the time the death wave really sets in, even at only like 50,000 dead that's going to be six digits worth of parents who are just. just totally and completely out of their minds with grief and rage. and power will try and do nothing, and. they're going to want to express their anger.

i'm not predicting ~~civil war~~ because i don't expect it to be a war; war implies some level of organization. i just keep imagining this white-hot ball of rage erupting all across the country, and. it'll just be people doing poo poo because gently caress it, our children are dead, our world has already ended, and so far nobody has given a gently caress. well we'll make you give a gently caress.

like. tell me the molochian virus furnace we're about to shovel 60 million children into isn't going to result in massive child death, cspam. tell me the next few months I see ahead of us is just me doom-braining.

I expect empty platitudes from politicians and eventually some politician is going to get attacked by an angry parent. Perhaps shot or at least shot at. But I don't expect thousands of children to just get shuffled underneath the rug. As a mass we're pretty jaded but the personal tragedies are going to radicalize at least a few people towards violence.

Someone else said that nothing happened after Sandy Hook. I say that it's hard to retaliate against a lone wolf shooter. Even though there are communities that essentially mint new "lone wolves", though obviously not always. But decisions made by government that kill this many children? People already hate government and they have a wide variety of targets to choose from. Also the dead at Sandy Hook were 27 children. The dead will likely number in the thousands. So this will become a numbers game.

So you have many potential targets of an identifiable group of people in government and far more aggrieved people who will possible be radicalized or who are already radicalized. And radicalization happens a lot easier now that people are more often stuck at home with access to the internet.

I expect violence against people in government.

Ice Phisherman fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Aug 19, 2021

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:45

Mola Yam: Jun 18, 2004; Kali Ma Shakti de!

mod sassinator posted:

mock up of how 9/11's of death could be displayed in a dashboard:

(image from here: https://www.citypng.com/photo/3713/hd-world-trade-center-new-york-illustration )

problem with this is when you get to > one 9/11, you just get a flyby

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:46

Cup Runneth Over: Aug 8, 2009; She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate

Mola Yam posted:

problem with this is when you get to > one 9/11, you just get a flyby

wrong. you begin stacking the towers you loving fool

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:48

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

Mola Yam posted:

problem with this is when you get to > one 9/11, you just get a flyby

if you want to get pedantic about it you need at least two planes to even have one 9/11

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:50

The Oldest Man: Jul 28, 2003

Harik posted:

so the gigantic fuckup here is that you assume CFR is constant at any rate when in reality there's this thing i like to call the brick wall effect where you're just cruising along just fine with "acceptable" (to shitheaded death cultists) fatalities until you hit the point that you don't have the capacity to treat any more critically ill and whoops you run headfirst into the wall and splatter your brains out in a vertical brick wall of death

also fun that you don't have to have all the cases at once, just as long as they're regional in time it overwhelms that regions resources because an avaliable pediactric ICU bed 500 miles away doesnt do you any good where you are

theres only been 5 days of school here in my garbage florida county, in the first two days half the schools in the district had positive cases and quarantines. by day 5 we got the note that our kid was exposed and welp that's it for in person schooling until this is all over.

and meanwhile we ban discussion along the lines of "i'd absolutely kill hitler" because an enormous number of deaths is a statistic but one monster getting merced is a tragedy

Yeah something else to keep in mind is that kids don't get as sick as often and bounce back with hospitalization more than old people do but

The hospital and ICU capacity for kids is comparatively tiny. So if kids do start getting hospitalized in greater numbers, the quality of care goes in the toilet much, much faster. And we have almost no experience treating severe covid in kids because it didn't really happen before Delta.

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:50

mod sassinator: Dec 13, 2006; I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

Cup Runneth Over posted:

wrong. you begin stacking the towers you loving fool

lol yep

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:53

Idiot Kicker: Jun 13, 2007

but hey we beat Alpha

Anyway how worried should I be about working through this? I've been fully vaccinated since June 5 and my state has a mask mandate. We are in cubicles. For some loving reason people are allowed to unmask at their cubes. If I have to get on the phone I kind of move it a little so people can hear me.

We have zero interaction with the public though and most of the staff are vaccinated.

# ? Aug 19, 2021 07:57

mod sassinator: Dec 13, 2006; I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

Idiot Kicker posted:

but hey we beat Alpha

Anyway how worried should I be about working through this? I've been fully vaccinated since June 5 and my state has a mask mandate. We are in cubicles. For some loving reason people are allowed to unmask at their cubes. If I have to get on the phone I kind of move it a little so people can hear me.

We have zero interaction with the public though and most of the staff are vaccinated.

try a kf94, they're pretty good about letting you still talk through them. never eat lunch with your coworkers or other people. try to keep masked indoors at all times. you'll probably outlast everyone else before it's plainly obvious that things are not going well and in person isn't working. that's really the primary goal--just be a little more vigilant and careful so you aren't in the wave of people popping positive before things have to shut down

# ? Aug 19, 2021 08:01

Idiot Kicker: Jun 13, 2007

mod sassinator posted:

try a kf94, they're pretty good about letting you still talk through them. never eat lunch with your coworkers or other people. try to keep masked indoors at all times. you'll probably outlast everyone else before it's plainly obvious that things are not going well and in person isn't working. that's really the primary goal--just be a little more vigilant and careful so you aren't in the wave of people popping positive before things have to shut down

Thanks! I drive home for lunch because I'm 5 minutes away. That helps a ton with my mental state, too, being able to break the day in half by returning home.

# ? Aug 19, 2021 08:04

Google Butt: Oct 4, 2005; Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

Idiot Kicker posted:

but hey we beat Alpha

Anyway how worried should I be about working through this? I've been fully vaccinated since June 5 and my state has a mask mandate. We are in cubicles. For some loving reason people are allowed to unmask at their cubes. If I have to get on the phone I kind of move it a little so people can hear me.

We have zero interaction with the public though and most of the staff are vaccinated.

It's as bad or worse than it's ever been, trust only your respirator

# ? Aug 19, 2021 08:05

Cup Runneth Over: Aug 8, 2009; She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate

Idiot Kicker posted:

but hey we beat Alpha

Anyway how worried should I be about working through this? I've been fully vaccinated since June 5 and my state has a mask mandate. We are in cubicles. For some loving reason people are allowed to unmask at their cubes. If I have to get on the phone I kind of move it a little so people can hear me.

We have zero interaction with the public though and most of the staff are vaccinated.

You should be extremely worried, however, it's not that bad, yet

# ? Aug 19, 2021 08:07

Fix: Jul 26, 2005; NEWT THE MOON

Idiot Kicker posted:

but hey we beat Alpha

Anyway how worried should I be about working through this? I've been fully vaccinated since June 5 and my state has a mask mandate. We are in cubicles. For some loving reason people are allowed to unmask at their cubes. If I have to get on the phone I kind of move it a little so people can hear me.

We have zero interaction with the public though and most of the staff are vaccinated.

Nobody here can calculate your risk. You can either join in maximal prevention or decide which measures are too much for you to bear for diminishing returns.

# ? Aug 19, 2021 08:15

crepeface: Nov 5, 2004; r*p*f*c*

Penisaurus Sex posted:

Yeah that�s the plan, as far as there is one.

Governors don�t want to act because it�s political suicide. Same for state legislators. Because of Federalism the Biden admin can�t do much, and what they can do is even further limited by ideological and political fears.

The first elected official to really admit everything is falling apart might realistically have to worry about a lot more than getting re-elected, especially in Florida or Georgia or somewhere. If all the death is baked in and we can�t actually do what we need anyway (banning interstate travel, actual lockdowns, contact tracing), who gains anything by rocking the boat?

Sadly a whole lot of people are going to die but that�s a consequence of the entire rotten structure, not one or two dipshits who became governor somehow.

honestly, if governors tried actually doing things, it might actually help them get reelected:

crepeface posted:

lol melbourne really is the covid import capital of australia. poor bastards.

edit: also, for those not aware of australian politics, WA's labor premier (governor) McGowan has been criticised a lot (by our largely murdoch owned media and conservative federal government) for being quick to enact lockdowns and hard borders. WA's been largely COVID and restriction free for a really long time now, and every time an outbreak happens over east, he looks more proficient and gets more popular.

last election, his poll numbers were so good that the conservative opposition conceded 3 weeks before and they ended up only with 2 seats (you need 5 seats to be considered a party in WA lmao). the conservative leader lost his seat and resigned and labor won with a bigger margin than Lukashenko "won" Belarus lmao

# ? Aug 19, 2021 08:15

empty whippet box: Jun 9, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Penisaurus Sex posted:

Yeah that�s the plan, as far as there is one.

Governors don�t want to act because it�s political suicide. Same for state legislators. Because of Federalism the Biden admin can�t do much, and what they can do is even further limited by ideological and political fears.

The first elected official to really admit everything is falling apart might realistically have to worry about a lot more than getting re-elected, especially in Florida or Georgia or somewhere. If all the death is baked in and we can�t actually do what we need anyway (banning interstate travel, actual lockdowns, contact tracing), who gains anything by rocking the boat?

Sadly a whole lot of people are going to die but that�s a consequence of the entire rotten structure, not one or two dipshits who became governor somehow.

man maybe we should have a position in the government where one guy has like a lot of power...we can call it the presiding person, or perhaps "The Big Guy". too bad the office of the presidency is only powerful when republicans have it

poor joe, he wants to help, but what can he do? he's only a man!

# ? Aug 19, 2021 08:17

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# ? May 23, 2024 19:46

mazzi Chart Czar: Sep 24, 2005

cash crab posted:

Granted, millennials and gen-xer's poo poo on rich boomers - we were upset about the wealth hoarding and the vestiges of bizarre post-war etiquette standards and the obsession with social stratification. Most of the millennial/gen-z/boomer/gen-x/gen-ligma discourse is thinly veiled class issues. Like, I'm not mad at the boomer cook at my work because he's a loving line cook and we have the same lifestyle. But I loving hate my slightly-younger-than-me millennial boss because she has a big house and veneers and spent the whole first year of the pandemic hiding in the woods because she's loaded. I think this is because these generational labels are usually marketing categories rather than real classes of people, IMO.

huh.
Generations only exist for rich people?

# ? Aug 19, 2021 08:18

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