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Marshal Prolapse posted: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. Here's the latest from the Massachusetts Wastewater COVID-19 tracker (because you poo poo/piss out COVID-19 before you even know you're sick), which is backing up the South African data of a massive, rapid dropoff:  We're likely in the highest point of contagion right now in these places - then it slows way the gently caress down when the virus starts running into vaccinated people and/or cautious folks, like all the loose tinder burning up in a fire. It's possible that the rapid climb/drop in Omicron might even be more pronounced without as extreme of hospitalizations. So it's really not worth the mental worry about "well gently caress, we're all gonna get sick and/or dead in 104 weeks", the slowdown is inevitable. And there's still a lot of evidence showing that the death rates for the olds are still much worse than the death rates for the youngs. And the hospitals are already packed to gently caress with unvaccinated delta cases, so yep, it's going to suck for another few months.
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Hyrax Attack! posted: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. There's a bit like this in Pratchett and Gaiman's Good Omens, where a demon moves the marker stakes for a new motorway to change it into the shape of a demonic rune. Not as a plot point, just to fill his quota of evil deeds.
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mlmp08 posted:Yes, that is why “sedans are dead” doesn’t make sense. 3 of the top 10 are straight up sedans. 2 more are crossovers (sedan chassis). And their market share is falling. Double digit drops in 2020 for all cars on the list; and no, it's not only due to the chip shortage. Camry sales have been declining since 2015, Accord since 2014, Civic since 2017, Altima since 2014 (2020 sales literally half what it was in the late 2000s). GM and Ford have ended production of almost all sedans because the US market has basically left them behind. The ones we see are the last of what used to make up the vast majority of the market. In 2000, the top 10 included 5 cars; in 2010, 7. In 2020 it's three. Where it starts getting weird is when you start looking at which platforms are surviving because they're the basis for hybrids and EVs (hello carbon credits), and as you point out, crossovers. As hybrids and EVs move to independent platforms over the next few years, you're going to see more models disappear, and crossovers will continue to eat away at the models that contributed their chassis in the first place. If not dead, they're on a ventilator in the covid wing. There will probably always be a few, but they're not the driver of the automotive market. They're not even in the cab, they're being towed. Godholio fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Dec 17, 2021 |
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Loucks posted:I played with google and maybe it's this: Shoggoths in Traffic Yeah that's it. LeVar Burton narrates it for an episode of his podcast.
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Loucks posted:I played with google and maybe it's this: Shoggoths in Traffic Good Omens did it first and funnier
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So you know how great noise was made about Denmark dropping all restrictions? Welp. https://www.9news.com.au/world/denmark-seeks-to-close-public-venues-to-curb-coronavirus/c02d80dc-8ab2-46c6-9f11-27f89a77fbbb
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Godholio posted:And their market share is falling. Double digit drops in 2020 for all cars on the list; and no, it's not only due to the chip shortage. Camry sales have been declining since 2015, Accord since 2014, Civic since 2017, Altima since 2014 (2020 sales literally half what it was in the late 2000s). GM and Ford have ended production of almost all sedans because the US market has basically left them behind. The ones we see are the last of what used to make up the vast majority of the market. In 2000, the top 10 included 5 cars; in 2010, 7. In 2020 it's three. Where it starts getting weird is when you start looking at which platforms are surviving because they're the basis for hybrids and EVs (hello carbon credits), and as you point out, crossovers. As hybrids and EVs move to independent platforms over the next few years, you're going to see more models disappear, and crossovers will continue to eat away at the models that contributed their chassis in the first place. IMO the distinction between crossovers and hatchbacks is one without a difference and this shift in the market is decades overdue
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Can't say I'm a fan of the push towards ever-larger vehicles. More useful trunk space is great, but taller and heavier is not. I'll take an ancient station wagon over a brand new crossover. But I drive my cars a lot longer than the average customer, so I'm certainly not a factor in market trends.
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Kesper North posted:Good Omens did it first and funnier Yeah, but that encourages Neil Gaiman to write more garbage.
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Sedans are stupid and shouldn’t exist. Station wagons simply make more sense.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:So you know how great noise was made about Denmark dropping all restrictions? Well, this certainly comes as a complete surprise 
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Crab Dad posted:Sedans are stupid and shouldn’t exist. Station wagons simply make more sense. Or hatchbacks, at which point hatchback vs wagon vs crossover vs SUV is just a question of proportion. And people seem to like buying the bigger ones.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Or hatchbacks, at which point hatchback vs wagon vs crossover vs SUV is just a question of proportion. And people seem to like buying the bigger ones. Yes, but they don't need them to be that big, which is part of the problem. We need to overhaul our vehicle regulations.
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This calls for the return of the greatest car design in history. The suzuki mighty boy.
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Defenestrategy posted:This calls for the return of the greatest car design in history. The suzuki mighty boy. That’s a funny way to spell “1998 Subaru Outback.”  This car has AWD, ample cargo space, heated seats, and low profile enough that you could actually see pedestrians. Extremely good poo poo.
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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. I'll be honest: It's definitely part this. Vincent Van Goatse posted:Essentially it's "Hope is a lie and optimism is cowardice." I'm not sure what any other takeaway could be. Every fundamental system in America is broken and weighted against meaningful progress, between voting rights, gerrymandering, civil rights, and so on; and even when the Good Guys™ manage to scrape out a win and get a "majority" and they do nothing with it. They make empty promises about how they'll tackle X or Y issue and then turn around after getting their votes and go "haha, j/k! losers" And this is after they saw exactly what the other side tried to do! They know what's at stake. They have all the intelligence and research and polling and whatever the gently caress. They saw and in some cases were directly impacted by the failed coup, and yet they still do nothing about it. They say "Vote." We uphold our end of that bargain, and our reward is to be ignored. The result is that the Democrats further entrench themselves into do-nothing wastes of life and the very voters they demand vote for them get disillusioned and see the entire election as farce, harming not only the national races, but all of the smaller ones as well. There is no winning here.
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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. except we're not doing that either
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A Bad Poster posted:Yes, but they don't need them to be that big, which is part of the problem. We need to overhaul our vehicle regulations. Properly taxing vehicles based on proportionate road wear might be a good start. 
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I just want a ute. Subaru bring back the baja already. My sentra is an '11 and is about to tick 80k miles even with it being parked for 5 years
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Properly taxing vehicles based on proportionate road wear might be a good start. sure, the damage from a fat man on a large bike looks low, but just wait until it goes off 
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pantslesswithwolves posted:That’s a funny way to spell “1998 Subaru Outback.” I need a moment. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Dec 18, 2021 |
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SquirrelyPSU posted:I need a moment. I'll be in my bunk Also The Coward Douglas Ford is freaking out, limit of 10 person indoor gatherings But you can still put 10k people in Scotiabank arena to see the raps or leafs! Just astonishingly stupid poo poo.
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Zamujasa posted:sure, the damage from a fat man on a large bike looks low, but just wait until it goes off ❤
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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/17/world/covid-omicron-vaccines/new-york-reports-record-number-of-coronavirus-cases New York officials reported 21,027 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest single-day total since the earliest days of pandemic, when the availability of testing was not as widespread as it is now.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:That’s a funny way to spell “1998 Subaru Outback.” Wrong AWD platform  
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The 2004 Ford Mondeo is all the car I'll ever need. I lived out of mine for four weeks with a gigantic dog on gravel roads and she never once skipped a beat.
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CommieGIR posted:Wrong AWD platform Ok, but 
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joat mon posted:Ok, but Ok, I'll give you that. Preffered the Sedan variant.
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i will never understand peoples love for cars that look like a box
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ded posted:i will never understand peoples love for cars that look like a box warhammer 40k fans
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Marshal Prolapse posted:https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/17/world/covid-omicron-vaccines/new-york-reports-record-number-of-coronavirus-cases What's not amazing is the number and the current testing lines. What's amazing is just how bad NYC must've been in the first days of the pandemic, because fuuuuuuuuuuck
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They were storing dead unhoused people's corpses in freezer trucks in central park. It was bad.
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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. It’s probably more like four times that rate because not all infections lead to positive tests. One in four is a recent U.S. CDC estimate for ascertainment ratio, anyway. It could he higher or lower in other locales at other times.
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Godholio posted:How do hospitalization rates compare? Check the second picture in this tweet: https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1471941692962099212 The general problem is that we don't know *why* those hospitalizations are so low versus previous rates. Is it Omicron being more mild? Are there just a fuckton of low-level infections due to vaccines and previous infections? Did everyone just lock themselves in their houses and/or leave the province and got hospitalized elsewhere? Is this a consequence of the school year ending there? Could it be because it's kind of their summer right now? And the projected answers to these questions mostly have scientists split because now we have decent data, but it doesn't make much sense. Plus there's a cacophony of chuds saying LET IT RIP, NATURAL IMMUNITY IS THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT FROM COVID
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Wasn't there some news that Omicron settles mostly in the bronchus rather than deeper in the lungs? You're more infectious earlier, but it does less damage.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:That’s a funny way to spell “1998 Subaru Outback.” I thought those camo mercedes in the lost world were cool as poo poo when I saw them e: on second glance, it turns out those were more of an suv than a wagon. Huh Milo and POTUS fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Dec 18, 2021 |
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Hannibal Rex posted:Wasn't there some news that Omicron settles mostly in the bronchus rather than deeper in the lungs? You're more infectious earlier, but it does less damage. That’s the hope, anyway. It makes a certain amount of physiological sense, but the fly in the ointment here is that while Omicron prefers lung tissue less than Delta, Delta itself preferred lung tissue less than the original virus isolated in early 2020, and we know that Delta has more than double the IFR. 
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Crab Dad posted:Sedans are stupid and shouldn’t exist. Station wagons simply make more sense. My Legacy was like $7-9000 cheaper than an equivalent Outback for ~85% of the functionality. That being said, an RS6 Avant is definitely a dream car of mine. The ultimate pre-built sleeper. Godholio posted:It's good news whether it's because Omicron evolved to be less deadly (not uncommon in viruses, and "smart" on its part) or the vaccines, or a combination. My  is coming from the fact that we're giving Delta and Omicron so many hosts to co-mingle in simultaneously and birth a loving monster variant.
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