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I genuinely can't wrap my head around the fact that the US somehow still doesn't recommend wearing N95 masks
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I have no loving clue what Don't Look Up is. some netflix remake of Miracle Mile
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I have no loving clue what Don't Look Up is. Don't Look (it) Up  Duzzy Funlop posted:I genuinely can't wrap my head around the fact that the US somehow still doesn't recommend wearing N95 masks  
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I genuinely can't wrap my head around the fact that the US somehow still doesn't recommend wearing N95 masks Freedom. But also lots of willful ignorance.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I have no loving clue what Don't Look Up is. It's a black comedy on Netflix with a huge A list cast and a ton of cameos. It was pretty funny.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I genuinely can't wrap my head around the fact that the US somehow still doesn't recommend wearing N95 masks At this point, I assume it's a Large Numbers thing. From a quick googling, the population of Germany (random country pulled) is 83 million with 5.6 million healthcare workers. American healthcare employs 18 million alone, 329 million people total. Also Germany has a functional healthcare system where we have 50+1, all guided by the invisible hand, and 10-15 at any given time won't fund their systems because covid isn't real.
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My names are somehow both irish and amish, but by blood i'm mostly italian and native american so who the gently caress knows.
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CommieGIR posted:This is especially darkly hilarious since a lot of Red States that have pushed antivax stuff were dependent on the monoclonal to treat their non-vaccinated populace https://twitter.com/mattlargey/status/1475577043974868992?s=20
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Speaking of everyone having to go back to wearing xN95 masks, this place is testing every mask on Amazon as well as selling their own masks and ones that tested well: https://www.armbrustusa.com/pages/mask-testing Mask reviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/ArmbrustUSA/videos The one they *really* like are the Gerson 3230 and 3230+, the difference between them being that the latter is "fluid rated." They also sell their own-branded US-made KN95s. I have no affiliation with the site, I just came across it after mistakenly buying some LG-made KF94 masks and this place said they're unbreatheable, so I was able to cancel the order in time.
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The administration pushed vaccines hard because they figured that was the way out. They hosed up in thinking that testing wasn't going to be needed, because why would the invisible hand gently caress up supply by laying off workers and destroying potential sales? Omicron hosed that one up. Heavily blue states also pushed vaccines hard for similar reasons. They hosed up in thinking that testing wasn't going to be needed - they forgot that their heavily-blue, highly vaccinated populace REALLY doesn't want to spread the poo poo, so they'll reasonably get tested for a mysterious runny nose or cough. So Omicron hosed that one up too. Heavily red states pushed covid-isn't-real because their voters would revolt, or they're just completely stupid, and the monoclonals were decent enough to serve as a treatment. Then Omicron came in and wiped out one of the primary monoclonals that worked against it and the feds had to restrict supply to ensure even distribution between the states so it wasn't a Jared Kushner Plane-of-PPE situation again. I fault one of the above groups. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Dec 28, 2021 |
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I got a 20 pack of the powecom FFP2 masks about a year ago and haven't burned through all of them yet but I love those because they've got over-the-head loops instead of over the ear KN95 style, it really feels like a better seal.
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This is a wild loving thread about everyone’s favorite paraplegic white supremacist and NC House Rep. Following the divorce announcement he went on the Daily Caller and explained that he met his soon to be ex wife in a fake CrossFit event in Russia. https://mobile.twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1474091377390587917
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:This is a wild loving thread about everyone’s favorite paraplegic white supremacist and NC House Rep. Following the divorce announcement he went on the Daily Caller and explained that he met his soon to be ex wife in a fake CrossFit event in Russia. The only question is whether or not he's too poo poo-stupid to realize that he's an asset and that the "former Army captain" is his handler. I give it 50-50.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:The only question is whether or not he's too poo poo-stupid to realize that he's an asset and that the "former Army captain" is his handler. You've seen his correspondence, right? Because he absolutely is that poo poo-stupid, and I mean that in the literal sense of "how did this man get a GED." https://twitter.com/ImSpeaking13/status/1472743823952523267?t=-6TnTiz2o0QUTs5tsV04UQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/CharlesFinch/status/1421496819930984452?t=OZKFJMG3KVYYvhqV053_4Q&s=19
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Fucks sake, that handwriting is worse than mine. At what point do you just hire someone with good handwriting?
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Twitch is super lax on enforcement of that policy, and doesn't ban for a whole multitude of slurs, including ableist poo poo, or thinly veiled racist slurs that simply aren't "the big ones". In this case, they just caved to white folks being pissed after one streamer caused a stir over it, and now decided to enforce the policy for the poor disenfranchised white race. True, but if a high profile streamer were to surround one of the ablest words you're thinking of with "dumb" and "bitch", and a bunch of people reported it, I bet you'd see movement in that direction too. I think most people using ableist language or veiled slurs tend to inject some ambiguity That's the Hasan Piker temp ban; I can't find the Ian Kochinski clip to tell if the derogatory intent was that clear. Edit: it probably doesn't even have to be a slur; just surrounding any of the protected characteristics words with dumb and bitch is probably risky maneuver if Twitch is your primary revenue stream. piL fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Dec 28, 2021 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Fucks sake, that handwriting is worse than mine. At what point do we leave hand written notes where they belong, in museums and other places you keep relics of bygone eras?
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Fucks sake, that handwriting is worse than mine. Just imagine having the necessary level of empty-headed hubris to look at that elementary school-level penmanship, written on the official stationary of a Congressional office, and think "yep, fuckin' nailed it"
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I'd like to see a writing sample from before the accident, though I do expect it would be just as awful. Edit: Based on recent history, he's going to be elected president in 2032. Edit2: While refusing to release his Russian income tax forms due to an audit.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Just imagine having the necessary level of empty-headed hubris to look at that elementary school-level penmanship, written on the official stationary of a Congressional office, and think "yep, fuckin' nailed it" Imagine the ones he threw away for not looking good enough!
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Defenestrategy posted:At what point do we leave hand written notes where they belong, in museums and other places you keep relics of bygone eras? Totally get it, but calligraphy as a craft will always be useful. Not saying everyone needs to know cursive anymore, but it definitely has a place. Microsoft word would produce better results than Cawthorn though.
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Godholio posted:I'd like to see a writing sample from before the accident, though I do expect it would be just as awful. I'd feel more bad about making fun of him if he A) wasn't a loving US Congressman and B) if by all accounts he hadn't been a dumbass and a terrible person even before the accident (which, as it should always be mentioned, he has lied about repeatedly to make his story sound more compelling).
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The only cursive writing I do on a regular basis is my signature, which is 1000x better than Cawthorn's, but if called upon to do it again I know I could because that was something that was beaten into me in elementary school because that's how they indoctrinated you back then - the Pledge and cursive writing. If you couldn't master a cursive F you weren't getting into college and it was going on your Permanent Record. What's worse, *your* cursive became a copy of whatever your teacher's cursive looked like.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Totally get it, but calligraphy as a craft will always be useful. Not saying everyone needs to know cursive anymore, but it definitely has a place. I think calligraphy needs to remain the purview of "jobs that exist because of fancy rich people partys" and graphic design artists so that I can have fancy fonts for photoshop.
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My hand writing is god loving awful. Like imagine a five year olds drunk handwriting. I remember in grade school, I had teachers basically say gently caress it and let me type out my in class assignments while everyone else wrote. So if I ever end up in Congress, you bet your rear end I'll either type it out or have someone else write it for me.
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There is some value to the art. Obviously not much if so many artists are starving. Even wealthy fucks can just order their assistants to use Word. This excludes NFTs, which are not art, but a ponzi scheme of worthless online trading card links. Handwritten notes just don't carry the weight they used to, it's a smaller world. It meant something 50 years ago, but it's worthless sentiment now for most. A shame, in it's own way, but if you're putting yourself in a place of representation, you should probably practice your handwriting to at least look better than serial killer scrawl.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I'd feel more bad about making fun of him if he A) wasn't a loving US Congressman and B) if by all accounts he hadn't been a dumbass and a terrible person even before the accident (which, as it should always be mentioned, he has lied about repeatedly to make his story sound more compelling). He's a horrible person and I have no problem making GBS threads on him. What I don't want to do is poo poo on him for having childish handwriting due to nerve damage. Which I don't think it is, since his spinal injury was at T12.
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If I sat around and re-wrote the letter a few times very carefully I think I could get something close to that. gently caress you 6th grade and Mrs J, handwriting was the most useless waste of time ever and I'm never getting that time back or forgetting those cramps from the thousandth perfect "t". Now everything gets written in large capitol letters or typed so there's no doubt as to what I am trying to communicate.
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My handwriting is far worse than that, even I can't read it sometimes. Doesn't help that I have a tremor, and now meds make it worse. As soon as I got my first PC, you bet I immediately learned how to type and gave up on handwriting. If I end up on congress I'll totally troll everyone via indecipherable handwriting
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https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/12/27/texas-laredo-plant-cancer-children/4981640615996/ Texas really is on some bullshit. Doubling down on kids cancer through ethylene oxide seems unbelievable... Remembering the Texas freeze and how they kept their ERCOT grid anyway, welp believe it now The company Midwest really has the balls to argue increased cancer risk (in poor areas near our sloppy polluting facilities) is worth it because they sterilize medical equipment. But they also need new regulations on permissible exposure levels and oh they don't have detectors that read above 0. The EPA knew back in 2006 that this causes 30 times higher cancer incidence in adults and 50 times higher cancer incidence when exposed since birth than previously thought. and yet industry pressure was enough to delay their finalized findings for a decade. Then Texas said gently caress regulating job creators! Come sterilize medical equipment here in Texas! They started a new state run review and 'correction' or whatever to the USEPA guidance. https://www.tceq.texas.gov/toxicology/ethylene-oxide Anyone that has an actual environmental science background able to parse that Texas website? It reads like some bullshit, they pull some real shady false equivalence and seems they misrepresent the federal EPA findings with some real 'there are studies representing both sides of this issue' But I am an idiot so couldn't be sure
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:This is a wild loving thread about everyone’s favorite paraplegic white supremacist and NC House Rep. Following the divorce announcement he went on the Daily Caller and explained that he met his soon to be ex wife in a fake CrossFit event in Russia. The smartest , most stable people.
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CommieGIR posted:The smartest , most stable people. I'm more or less with LethalityJane on this one: https://twitter.com/LethalityJane/status/1475686085481013248?t=JRzJxMKqbH9sI1mfkzh1XQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/LethalityJane/status/1475508634415091714?t=cSCfBPml58JsSzGqHaGuNQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/LethalityJane/status/1475505374547431425?t=VAEnZcTS2qUropHDrI___A&s=19 High likelihood that the weird CrossFit fake gym competition whatever the gently caress was standard CrossFit weird poo poo. Also a high likelihood that she thought she was marrying a conservative Republican, then Cawthorn's psychopath nazi poo poo started coming out and it became a bridge too far. And because CrossFit, she got irritated that she couldn't compete in stuff, so it all added up to divorce.
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facialimpediment posted:I'm more or less with LethalityJane on this one: Holy poo poo she's ripped. In way better shape than I ever was for sure, even when I was playing football. Imagine if she took up a real, non massively inury causing hobby, like olympic weight lifting. Crossfit is a cult.
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stackofflapjacks posted:https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/12/27/texas-laredo-plant-cancer-children/4981640615996/ It's also a military explosive! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_of_All_Bombs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UnKLm2Eag shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Dec 28, 2021 |
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