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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Yeah that’s true I went to a meeting in 2016, probably one of the most attended they ever had, literally a week after the election and the chair spent the entire meeting rehashing some beef she had from last week with the progressive and black wings and then singled out and yelled at people for leaving when people started walking out in disgust. A ballot initiative to constitutionally forbid ballot initiatives
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Yeah, except when the Democrats try to explain this as being the case, everyone's going to tune out and go all And when settlements do happen, it'll be framed as "Democrats give hundreds of millions/over a billion dollars to illegal immigrants." Like, should the administration/individual dems be excoriated when they don't do the right thing? Absolutely. In this case, these children were abused and their families absolutely deserve compensation, the DoJ/administration should suck it up and pay a global settlement. But it's obnoxious to see posters frame it as a political disaster that voters will definitely remember come next November (And in 2024!), because the reality is that most voters have extremely short memories, usually don't care about specific policies/events unless they are directly affected by them, (And even then...) and are also far more centrist/right wing than posters on this forum.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I sure as gently caress learned my lesson. I’m going to try to get involved in local politics when I move back to California next year but gently caress the blue dogs. SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I’m not voting for Biden again. They can’t think this is acceptable. How many more years of this game can they play? Don't get me wrong, I didn't vote Clinton in '16 because she was a uniquely terrible candidate and, thankfully, my state was sure to go blue regardless. I'm all for protest votes, just have to be sure it's doing no more harm than good.
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shame on an IGA posted:also strap up they'll be shooting at us by '24 little late
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We've done our sacrifice to Odin now for the first time since 2016. So now maybe things can get back to normal: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thelocal.se/20211217/swedens-ill-fated-yule-goat-burns-down-a-week-before-christmas/%3famp#cobssid=s (Large straw yule goat gets built every year in  with a bad habit of burning up. Has been standing for four years up until last night which is a record)
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This got lost last page, but is really good news assuming the second circuit and the scotus uphold it. For those that don’t know, the family that owns the company that makes oxy knew that oxy was addictive despite deliberately marketing that it wasn’t and lying their asses off the whole time. When everyone started suing, they bled the company dry to ensure the family fortune was safe and then got a bankruptcy judge to agree to release the family and the $10bn or so they drained from the company from any lawsuits ever. The first level of appeals said the sacklers get no global peace and can gently caress right off. Since they’re billionaires, though, I’m doubtful that this will last.
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Wasabi the J posted:The perfect car is a walkable / bike-able city You could have stopped here without being silly. CRUSTY MINGE posted:Speaking on cars, the new Grand Tour episode is up. In the back of my head, I feel like if I knew they were going to do another episode within the next six months I would have enjoyed it more. That said, I overall enjoyed it and had a few great laughs. I hope we get different shots of the end on Youtube or something. Get well soon Abbie. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Dec 17, 2021 |
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Current event: New Witcher season is out on Netflix Friday episodes of The Expanse too.
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It was a decent episode, because that's what it should have been, an episode in a series. But it was still an hour of 3 guys I've been watching for a decade and a half having fun. And their french intern was so cute giving James the finger. Mr. Nice! posted:This got lost last page, but is really good news assuming the second circuit and the scotus uphold it. That's good news, but I'm afraid they've stolen so much from so many families, they each need to be fed a spoonful of fentanyl. Every last one of them, while the patriarch is forced to watch from a prison cell. At this point their pills have killed north of 100x the americans killed on 9/11. Realistically, they're probably going to win when they appeal to a trump appointed judge, but I look forward to John Oliver throwing up a youtube video about this.
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bird food bathtub posted:Friday episodes of The Expanse too. Technically, Thursday night East Coast! Make sure you access the XRays after each episode (might need your computer) as each episode gets a short add-on mini-episode. Also, Prime Video's YouTube channel will have a Ty And That Guy aftershow where they all talk about the episode too. Wednesday night, Ty Franck (writer) and Wes Chatham (Amos) had a Patreon Die Hard Viewing Party and it was rad as hell. Everyone already knows that Die Hard is basically a perfect movie, but it's even moreso when a writer and an actor are all pointing out the ways even the littlest thing is just brilliant. Edit: By every indication this is real, and a semi-common thing, so https://twitter.com/headgrassman/status/1471861305334239240 I can't figure out if this is heartwarming as hell or they're trying to summon a hellmouth facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Dec 17, 2021 |
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/headgrassman/status/1471861305334239240 Well gently caress. How long do I have to work in the ice cream business before earning this perk?
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Zamujasa posted:sure seems like the choices are "vote for a useless piece of poo poo who won't even attempt to make anything better despite having a majority which will galvanize the base against the party and result in a huge bloodbath next election cycle" or "don't vote so the result is a huge bloodbath next election cycle" I dunno it seems like delaying or stopping the people who tried to seize power and kill congress so they could start rounding up undesirables is important but I'd be willing to hear the other side of this argument.
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Sentinel posted:When they circle a roundabout 666 times it summons the ice cream truck from Twisted Metal. I read a short story where someone was trying to figure out why when highway traffic went by a small town GPS would divert cars to drive a weird path through the city before putting them back on the main road, and it turned out an unknown power was having the cars trace a large symbol over and over again as part of a summoning ritual.
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Grip it and rip it posted:I dunno it seems like delaying or stopping the people who tried to seize power and kill congress so they could start rounding up undesirables is important but I'd be willing to hear the other side of this argument. Essentially it's "Hope is a lie and optimism is cowardice."
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Yeah, omicron is not loving around. I was listening to NPR earlier today and one of the guest epidemiologists they had on earlier suggested that the US could see 200,000 cases a day by the end of January, and one million cases a day isn't inconceivable. Also Pfizer just announced that their vaccine in two dose didn't provide enough of an immunity reaction in their under 5 year old trials. They're hoping adding a third one will do the trick, but until then it's going to be a long wait.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Yeah, omicron is not loving around. I was listening to NPR earlier today and one of the guest epidemiologists they had on earlier suggested that the US could see 200,000 cases a day by the end of January, and one million cases a day isn't inconceivable. There's still a shitload that we don't know/understand yet: https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1471670787853725706?t=Kg6jj__Aof-dDG__w0zmGg&s=19 https://twitter.com/thehowie/status/1471838567928373251?t=P2z_gNOCG5lu9u6c4ews1A&s=19 The answer is probably in the middle of the doomer/wide-open spectrum, but data could very much be lying in either direction. Scientific consensus ain't there about severity and data like the above doesn't make much sense. Omicron's definitely here while Delta is still packing the hospitals, so anyone's guess where things go this winter, but it probably won't be great.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Yeah, omicron is not loving around. I was listening to NPR earlier today and one of the guest epidemiologists they had on earlier suggested that the US could see 200,000 cases a day by the end of January, and one million cases a day isn't inconceivable. Which wouldn't be a big deal if the antivax morons weren't so numerous. e: Marshal Prolapse posted:Also Pfizer just announced that their vaccine in two dose didn't provide enough of an immunity reaction in their under 5 year old trials. They're hoping adding a third one will do the trick, but until then it's going to be a long wait. gently caress. Stultus Maximus fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Dec 17, 2021 |
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SquirrelyPSU posted:You could have stopped here without being silly. I'm a suburbanite
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Stultus Maximus posted:Which wouldn't be a big deal if the antivax morons didn't use to be so numerous.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Am I understanding that the daily case rate is near as dammit one per cent of the total population? The source appears to be https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/search?postcode=SE15%205AD and those numbers appear to be weekly totals. When I clicked the "98", it said that was the total over 7 days, which is the ratio of 991.7 per 100k. "Average" doesn't appear anywhere that I could find. So it's infecting 1% of the population weekly, not daily.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Am I understanding that the daily case rate is near as dammit one per cent of the total population? Well hey then, open 're up we'll have this done and over with in 100 days. That's just how numbers work.
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So in theory in 104 weeks it could infect the entire planet (that’s not factoring in vaccinations mask wearing and restrictions on movements obviously)? Like I know it’s not a true 1% infection each week, that’s still going to be a terrifying number of dead and just sick, even if it’s mild vs say delta. More terrifying is anyone without a booster shot or say kids 5 to 11 seem already be at a disadvantage. I mean I’m not the only person who finds that as something to be pants shittingly terrified of, right ?
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facialimpediment posted:The source appears to be https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/search?postcode=SE15%205AD and those numbers appear to be weekly totals. When I clicked the "98", it said that was the total over 7 days, which is the ratio of 991.7 per 100k. "Average" doesn't appear anywhere that I could find. 1/7th as bad then
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Milo and POTUS posted:whats the story I played with google and maybe it's this: Shoggoths in Traffic
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