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https://twitter.com/JasmineBala_/status/1452092929711874052?s=20 When exposed to water, potassium amylxanthate decomposes into carbon disulfide, which is a) quite flammable b) neurotoxic I feel for the crew. edit: JESUS CHRIST quote:Historic and current exposure
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Kesper North posted:https://twitter.com/JasmineBala_/status/1452092929711874052?s=20 I was worried when I saw chemical fire on a container hanging since that means its a very unstable substance. They are hosed and might have to abandon and wait for it to burn out. I've been telling everyone to buy Christmas presents early but if you haven't bought them by now its too late.
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what the gently caressscreaming posted:The leaked grant proposal struck a number of scientists and researchers as significant for one reason. One distinctive segment of SARS-CoV-2’s genetic code is a furin cleavage site that makes the virus more infectious by allowing it to efficiently enter human cells. That is just the feature that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology had proposed to engineer in the 2018 grant proposal. “If I applied for funding to paint Central Park purple and was denied, but then a year later we woke up to find Central Park painted purple, I’d be a prime suspect,”
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That is very dubious stuff. There have been multiple studies indicating that an engineered virus is completely unlikely and would require separate technological leaps combined to have generated the sequence of this virus without the hallmarks of genetic engineering that would normally be used to make it. Evolving a new furin cleavage site by natural evolution is more or less expected and very likely to happen because it would be advantageous for propagation of the virus if it did so. Someone also proposing it as a means to test by adding features while controversial is not some highly novel thought. The article makes a bit of an argument to incredulity there. Hard to say more about it without being able to see the actual Grant they are discussing.
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This is like the fifth different “smoking gun” I’ve seen for the lab leak theory, and they’re not cumulative. I’m not willing to completely dismiss the theory, but this isn’t earth shattering proof. We’ll probably never know for sure.
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Child sex trafficking Congressman overtly endorses Great Replacement conspiracy theory: https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1441807874053885952 And an actual goddamn bluhtfahn https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1448589553896468487 Anyone who thinks that a literal fascist takeover of America isn't coming soon is either a lot more ignorant or a lot more optimistic than I am. https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1451919403491151874
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FrozenVent posted:This is like the fifth different “smoking gun” I’ve seen for the lab leak theory, and they’re not cumulative. It's not even proof of anything or a smoking gun. It simply someone saying "hey here's how we think the virus can evolve to become more powerful and we should try that in a controlled environment and see how bad it would be so we can study and prepare for that." This type of proposal comes up now and then and it's hotly debated in the field whether or not they should be allowable because of the obvious risks. It completely ignores that if a lab had actually constructed a virus to do that it sequence would look very different than the current virus that is lurking in the wild and have telltale signatures of manipulation that would only be absent if some very new techniques had been developed in secret alongside it. It also ignores that the ace2 receptor binding and the way that it does that was also novel and unexpected and would have had to again have been developed in secret and combined with another wholly novel and secret technique being developed. To me the only actually plausible lab leak theory is that a naturally evolved worse version of virus had been identified and studied in a lab and then either accidentally or purposefully was released. No evidence of that so far has come to light. E: not posting this as an argument against you just providing some more context.
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What is the “tale tale signs of genetic manipulation”? Are we talking about restriction enzyme sites or something? Methylation patterns? I am genuinely interested in what these signs that they’re looking for and saying aren’t there in the wild Covid would be.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Anyone who thinks that a literal fascist takeover of America isn't coming soon is either a lot more ignorant or a lot more optimistic than I am. I look forward to being told this belief is just doomer nonsense while nothing is done to stop it
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Blind Rasputin posted:What is the “tale tale signs of genetic manipulation”? Are we talking about restriction enzyme sites or something? Methylation patterns? I am genuinely interested in what these signs that they’re looking for and saying aren’t there in the wild Covid would be. Some of it discussed here in one of the subsections https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
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That Works posted:Some of it discussed here in one of the subsections Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus
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Trumpists and a group of folks using BLM branding attempted to storm Barclay Center over the suspension of a lovely player's suspension for refusing vaccination. https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1452356957768138760
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Cugel the Clever posted:Trumpists and a group of folks using BLM branding attempted to storm Barclay Center over the suspension of a lovely player's suspension for refusing vaccination. Kyrie and those idiots deserve each other.
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Is it common for American recruiters to cold call/text people? I've seen a few screenshots like this and it's always weirded me out.
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Generation Internet posted:Is it common for American recruiters to cold call/text people? I've seen a few screenshots like this and it's always weirded me out. Yes, I've gotten a confirmed cold call. I suspect it was a college administration somebody who sold my number and demographics to a recruiter.
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The funniest case of cold-calling I've seen is that after I talked to a Navy recruiter, my dad, a 60 year old physician, somehow got a letter offering a direct commission as like an O-5 in the Army medical corps. Maybe it was a complete coincidence, but we shared a good chuckle over it before he tossed it in the trash and continued with his retirement plans.
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High schools used to have recruiters drop in and try to talk some suckers into joining. No idea if that's still going on (probably). Those dumb enough to take the ASVAB in 11th grade give their information when they sign up.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Trumpists and a group of folks using BLM branding attempted to storm Barclay Center over the suspension of a lovely player's suspension for refusing vaccination. This was particularly weird because there was the one video and that was about it. The Barclay's Center released a statement like an hour later: quote:Barclays Center briefly closed its doors today in order to clear protestors from the main doors on the plaza and ensure guests could safely enter the arena," an arena spokeswoman said. "Only ticketed guests were able to enter the building and the game proceeded according to schedule." https://abc7ny.com/coronavirus-anti-vaccine-protest-kyrie-irving-barclays-center/11163508/ Then the cops showed up to make the critical mass and that was that, but: quote:The protests did have a ripple effect. Some fans didn't get inside to see the game until half time, resulting in many empty seats as the game against the Charlotte Hornets was set to begin.
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I’m surprised they aren’t cold calling Canadians as well. Some days I look at housing prices around here and then housing prices just south of the border and I consider what I would do for a green card
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Generation Internet posted:Is it common for American recruiters to cold call/text people? I've seen a few screenshots like this and it's always weirded me out. Yeah they did it to me. I had to take the ASVAB for a scholarship and they were blowing my phone up until they'd get me and I told them I had type 1 diabetes. Mom would always get snippy with them about "going to college" stuff but no need to waste their time or make them feel bad, just tell them I'm medically unacceptable and let them get on with their day.
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Kazinsal posted:I’m surprised they aren’t cold calling Canadians as well. Some days I look at housing prices around here and then housing prices just south of the border and I consider what I would do for a green card Don't join for citizenship, that's for goddamn sure. You'd probably stand a better chance than anyone from south of texas, but I wouldn't trust them to keep that promise having known a dude they hosed like that.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:High schools used to have recruiters drop in and try to talk some suckers into joining. No idea if that's still going on (probably). Those dumb enough to take the ASVAB in 11th grade give their information when they sign up. The No Child Left Behind Act stipulates that high schools have to provide the US Military the exact same information that they provide to colleges about their students. Richer areas can mitigate this by just not giving anyone info about their students. Lower performing high schools are often interested in getting colleges onto campus and calling their students since how many graduates go into college affects their performance metrics. This also has the side affect of welcoming military recruiters into the school and gets all their kids contacted.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Don't join for citizenship, that's for goddamn sure. You'd probably stand a better chance than anyone from south of texas, but I wouldn't trust them to keep that promise having known a dude they hosed like that. I joined for citizenship, which I don't recommend really, but 6 weeks into basic training I was getting sworn in at a federal courthouse. However, plenty of dudes get hosed over with it. It became a big thing at Benning when I was there. One of our platoon guys had been going to main post for a year trying to get the dicksack idiot there to do even the slightest his job required, but it never went anywhere. I heard about and said what the gently caress, I got mine in 6 weeks. CO and 1SG heard that and poo poo went absolutely wild after that, I ended up getting 2 different full birds pay me a visit to verify the dates and timelines on my paperwork. Dudes were madder than gently caress. Don't know if it got fixed, got out not long after that, but by rights it should work quickly and smoothly. It was actually a drat chaplain at Knox who got everyone organized and all their paperwork together. Whole bunch of us got done at once.
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Glad it worked out for you, but it's mostly a trap people get stuck in because there's a racist or similar vintage piece of poo poo in the way. I'm guessing the easier it is for you to pass the paper bag test, the fewer problems you'll typically encounter, but I knew guys on active duty for years, to the point of re-enlisting repeatedly because they hadn't received citizenship yet. That was 15 years ago so maybe things have improved, but I doubt by much.
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Yeah, for me it was fine, and for everyone else that went through with me it was fine. Skin color didn't matter, chaplain just made that poo poo happen. Funnily enough when we met with the USCIS people before the swearing in, never have I seen people's attitude change so fast when it was said that a service member won't be joining them today because he's getting kicked out for "anti american sentiment". But yeah, at Benning, apparently it was just one fat poo poo retiree that decided he didn't want to do anything. So that's what he did, and just blamed immigration, and then people PCS.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:The funniest case of cold-calling I've seen is that after I talked to a Navy recruiter, my dad, a 60 year old physician, somehow got a letter offering a direct commission as like an O-5 in the Army medical corps. Maybe it was a complete coincidence, but we shared a good chuckle over it before he tossed it in the trash and continued with his retirement plans. I got called, and of course sent plenty of mail (from everywhere really) as soon as I was out of med school and while in residency. There was a point at my second year in residency when I was alone but felt like the whole world was in front of me and wondered what it would be like to be a doc on a ship or aircraft carrier or something cool. I read a bit about mil MD programs and got pretty excited. But then I thought to look up experiences on forums and it was pretty bleak. Most people complained of just not getting that great medicine experience because the types of cases are pretty limited (trauma and std’s was the joke). I often saw people say they’d spend days sweeping outside or reading and seeing maybe 1 or 2 patients. The surreal dream just sort of died on its own.
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Granted it was the 90s, but the army and marines cold called the hell out of me my senior year of HS and frosh year of college. Now my kids are in high school and the marines still show up at football games being all chummy with the juniors and seniors.
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stealie72 posted:Granted it was the 90s, but the army and marines cold called the hell out of me my senior year of HS and frosh year of college. Because you had a home phone that the family shared. The schools nowadays have mom and dad’s phone and after the 300th time of getting told to go gently caress themselves, I am sure the recruiters have moved on to other methods of finding kids. I recruited 06-09 and even then families were starting to shift to mobile phones only. That meant I had to go knock on doors.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Glad it worked out for you, but it's mostly a trap people get stuck in because there's a racist or similar vintage piece of poo poo in the way. Huh. Filipino guy in my boot camp got his citizenship halfway through boot. Was a touching little ceremony before we back to doing pushups or whatever.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/exclusive-jan-6-organizers-met-congress-white-house-1245289/ drat probably going to have to cut more public spending from infrastructure bill to show the GOP they mean bipartisan business now
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My old room mate's Dad is a well renowned specialty surgeon who got offered a stupid deal to commission and deploy. He said it was a short course of how to Army, then a year in AFG as a MAJ. I think he said he did a deployment, 1 year stateside, then got out. I'll message him, because I am probably loving something up. E- I messaged him to find out the details, because I remember this being one of those fairy tale things. bulletsponge13 fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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Generation Internet posted:Is it common for American recruiters to cold call/text people? I've seen a few screenshots like this and it's always weirded me out. I agreed to talk to a marines recruiter when I was a dumb college freshman off a cold call because they offered to buy me pizza. I talked about how if I joined I'd want to do IT and fly UAVs because I like computers and video games. They seemed deeply disapointed in me. Pizza was good though.
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