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Oxygenpoisoning posted:I lather myself in old bay crab salt nightly so I’m basically immortal at this point. Hey stop stealing my ideas!
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piL posted:Just mainlining Old Bay like a Marylander It's good stuff.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:I lather myself in old bay crab salt nightly so I’m basically immortal at this point. Are you though?
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Nov 27, 2021 21:06
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He's more crab than man, twisted and evil.
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Nov 27, 2021 21:11
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So there's another debt ceiling extension predicted to expire Dec 3rd (next Friday). That means another shitfest about a possible government shutdown during <*waves hand across the landscape*> all this.
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Woof Blitzer posted:He's more crab than man, crunchy and delicious
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Lake of Methane posted:So there's another debt ceiling extension predicted to expire Dec 3rd (next Friday). That means another shitfest about a possible government shutdown during <*waves hand across the landscape*> all this. I'm confident our political leaders will do all they can to ensure our nation is in the best shape possible to face any challenges going forward 
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Nov 27, 2021 21:17
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If someone could pass the NDAA so I can have a loving budget to buy poo poo that would be great, thanks.
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Woof Blitzer posted:If someone could pass the NDAA so I can have a loving budget to buy poo poo that would be great, thanks. Next SECDEF: Marie Kondo?
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Best Friends posted:Modern democracy just can't handle viral pandemics imo. Everyone is too atomized, you can't reach everyone with information. You can't make people get vaccinated. Not every person on Earth can have their government afford vaccination in a market-based, closed IP system. And capitalism likes fostering far right movements and parties that will inherently agitate against any mass action, even ones that don't impede capital, like masks, let alone making meaningful shut downs impossible. Some fringe people in Western Europe aside, pretty much everyone in developed democratic states outside of the US accepted necessary public health measures. East Asia especially shows that "modern democracy" and limitations on "freedom" in the name of public health can coexist.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Well, it's in the UK Let's be real, if the variant was sequenced in RSA roughly two weeks ago, that means it's been running around there for something around a month or two minimum before. Trying to contain it to the continent would therefore have been futile way before it even got identified. It's more about "how do we deal with it" at this point (again), not so much about "how do we contain the spread". It's gonna shove Delta off the throne like delta did with the British variant and like the British variant did with whichever milquetoast variant that came before it
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Some fringe people in Western Europe aside, pretty much everyone in developed democratic states outside of the US accepted necessary public health measures. East Asia especially shows that "modern democracy" and limitations on "freedom" in the name of public health can coexist. It’s amuses me how right wing media has picked up on Australia and NZ as basically being freedomless hellscapes because they are functioning during a pandemic with center left leaders.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:It’s amuses me how right wing media has picked up on Australia and NZ as basically being freedomless hellscapes because they are functioning during a pandemic with center left leaders. don't kid yourself our media say the same thing 
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Australia is a freedomless hellscape but not because of covid it’s only if your a journalist and make their oil companies and/or intelligence agency angry.
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Australian PM is absolutely not centre left. He's an empty suit from the right wing party and is in a weird elitist Christian cult.
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It fits the pattern, the whole reason the Spanish Flu was called the Spanish Flu was because at the time Spain was the only country with a free enough press to report on this new disease that had come over from the US.
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They need to stop this poo poo of reporting each country's first reported case(s) of Omicron and simply say "just assume this variant is in small pockets everywhere by now, because it probably is." I'm also pissed that I only recently learned that Delta has a similar transmissibility to chickenpox, a factoid that should've been shouted from the rooftops because it's something people can grasp and process. Sure, assholes and idiots are going to conflate COVID and chickenpox as both being something to not worry about, but the more concise and clear the narrative is without being condescending, the better chance it has to stick. Simply the fact that they're expressing such concern over this variant so close to the Almighty Number's most favorite and economically vital time of the year is giving me pause. The sun could explode and the message in the last eight minutes of our existence would still be to take advantage of the world's last "flash sale" as the shockwave blew apart the planet. For them to be sowing seeds of doubt and discord in the public during the Christmas shopping season ain't nothing. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Nov 28, 2021 |
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To the surprise of no one with half a brain, https://twitter.com/ShibleyTelhami/status/1464552013514084358?t=tMed7pJAb-kM1VVlEqdU-A&s=19
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Bored As gently caress posted:To the surprise of no one with half a brain, That was such a low point. Hey if you make major concessions to reach a deal with the US it can get thrown out the window on a whim by someone who can’t find your country on a map, hope knowing that doesn’t make it much less likely for similar leaders to risk their necks dealing with the US in the future. Hey, please don’t learn a lesson from how NK getting nukes but Libya not having them led to very different fates for their autocrats.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:They need to stop this poo poo of reporting each country's first reported case(s) of Omicron and simply say "just assume this variant is in small pockets everywhere by now, because it probably is."
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Nov 28, 2021 07:54
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UK is back to wearing masks in shops and public transport from Tuesday. Can't quite get my head around why Tuesday, why not just say "wear a mask from right now"?
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Burt posted:UK is back to wearing masks in shops and public transport from Tuesday. I think the idea is that you don't want to enforce things without notice. Should people go ahead and wear a mask in those cases? Yes. If someone gets denied a critical service or working hours or gets the cops called on them because yesterday the rule was one way and today its another that might cause some social harm. Hopefully most people are already putting them on and asking their customers to do the same, and its about applicability of enforcement.
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I didn't know where to put this https://twitter.com/Spark898/status/1464790207392325636?t=esQIklCqYNnhMrkqGpncTw&s=19
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^^^^^^ That’s incredible. Meanwhile, Israel has basically closed its borders for the next few weeks and is bringing back phone surveillance for COVID patients. I think the latter measure is a scarier sounding term for the kind of location based contract tracing that a lot of states have rolled out but I’m not sure. As Big Headline was alluding to, the way governments are reacting to this thing- despite confirmation of increased transmissibility or lethality- is making me wonder whether they’re trying to get ahead of another delta-style outbreak (in which case it’s probably too late) or if they’ve got advance information suggesting this thing is really, really bad. After two years of COVID, my reaction is just kind of “Aw goddamnit, not again.” in thinking about the inevitable return of mask mandates and restrictions- DC just lifted theirs last week, although there is considerable doubt as to whether the Mayor just moved the goalposts to allow her to drop it in time for Thanksgiving or not. I know we’re never going to “get rid” of COVID, but I wonder if humanity is actually going to tolerate living with it.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:but I wonder if humanity is actually going to tolerate living with it. It's either that or it'll finish us.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:It's either that or it'll finish us. It won't finish us, we will do that all on our own!
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pantslesswithwolves posted:As Big Headline was alluding to, the way governments are reacting to this thing- despite confirmation of increased transmissibility or lethality- is making me wonder whether they’re trying to get ahead of another delta-style outbreak (in which case it’s probably too late) or if they’ve got advance information suggesting this thing is really, really bad. It's more likely that they're getting the same information as we are - "hey this thing is heavily mutated in troublesome spots and that could mean increased spread/evasion/power over even Delta, but we don't really know yet, give us 1-2 weeks". Apparently it takes that long to grow the thing and test it against antibody lines and treatments/vaccines. So we have a metric shitfuckton of data, but we have no idea what it means. Governments are playing things cautious until true data comes back, probably for internal political purposes to show that Stuff Is Being Done, even though travel bans are basically useless. Nobody knows anything for another week or two.
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ie https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1464875309262680067?t=yH50MofbgfSWsNvEx7kU5w&s=19 (Suspect Dent is resident word expert person on two British gameshows called Countdown) ThisIsJohnWayne fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Nov 28, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1464966155379036160?s=21 Tight https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/1464897850114863107?s=21 Also tight.
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Nov 28, 2021 17:56
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If only there was another group those IRS employees could target.
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The IRS thing is just astounding. Does anyone who's not cheating on their taxes actually get harassed by the IRS? I made a legitimate mistake a few years back and handling it was the most reasonable experience imaginable, everything was well documented and the timeline was generous.
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Nov 28, 2021 18:21
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MRC48B posted:If only there was another group those IRS employees could target. She knows. She's a liar.
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Nov 28, 2021 18:22
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People like Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald, Sinema, and Jill Stein are deliberately controlled opposition.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:The IRS thing is just astounding. Does anyone who's not cheating on their taxes actually get harassed by the IRS? I made a legitimate mistake a few years back and handling it was the most reasonable experience imaginable, everything was well documented and the timeline was generous. Yea, I can't imagine anyone making an honest mistake on taxes is worth while enough to harass and threaten. No idea what the line would be, but I doubt less than 8k in back taxes is enough for the IRS to put the screws to you.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:The IRS thing is just astounding. Does anyone who's not cheating on their taxes actually get harassed by the IRS? I made a legitimate mistake a few years back and handling it was the most reasonable experience imaginable, everything was well documented and the timeline was generous. We ended up owing some taxes from a couple years back, and they were VERY reasonable with us and friendly.
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Mr. Nice! posted:People like Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald, Sinema, and Jill Stein are deliberately controlled opposition. She's even worse than Alan Colmes at playing the "opposition" role https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1463926754616111105
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