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Yeah there's no other way to help poverty except for "trickle-up" economics starting with literal children doing the work. Thank god Alabama lets em get married early too because how are you going to live a full life with no social programming and high mortality. Maybe I'd be interested in letting kids work in certain situations if there was any safety measures that let tweens cut sheet metal safely. P.s. i started working when I was thirteen and got a full time job when I turned fourteen. Absolutely nothing good came of this, and a poo poo ton of bad things
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 21:50 |
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So Lee Zeldin (republican candidate for NY Governor) was attacked yesterday on the stump and the whole deal sounded very very weird, as it was originally a knife attack that he held off but uh https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1550524453800792064 that's not a knife
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 21:50 |
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The attacker looks exactly like the kind of guy who would vote for Zeldin. What's going on here?
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 21:58 |
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Is that a black leather OIF hat?
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 22:11 |
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A.o.D. posted:The attacker looks exactly like the kind of guy who would vote for Zeldin. What's going on here? I'm assuming some spraypaint on easily cleanable surfaces.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 22:18 |
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Grip it and rip it posted:Is that a black leather OIF hat? Yep, it was A Troop https://twitter.com/AP/status/1550463012485595136?t=CFmNQRGG79u1U1er4J-BuA&s=19
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 22:46 |
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https://twitter.com/VinceMcMahon/status/1550572700959121408 I hope Vince dies pennyless https://twitter.com/TonyKhan/status/1550578379543437314?t=jCdGCLFsQ1YlAitAbMQ0KA&s=19 Tony Khan is a real master of the craft
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 22:56 |
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A.o.D. posted:The attacker looks exactly like the kind of guy who would vote for Zeldin. What's going on here? I have to agree, this looks hilariously set up.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 23:01 |
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What's the setup? He probably wasn't republicunny enough
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 23:36 |
Zamujasa posted:can't wait until biden recovers and goes "see? covid is nothing but a mild cold. everyone should go back to work. open 'er up!" The world is already back to normal. We have widespread rollout of vaccines and it's become endemic. It's been a little more then a performative event for at least six months now. We're still at like 500k new cases a week or something right?
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 23:53 |
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Baked Alaska pleaded guilty after all! https://twitter.com/Kunzelman75/status/1550579358225633280 Up to 6 months for livestreaming the insurrection from the inside, after initially recanting on an earlier plea, and also getting 30 days in an Arizona assault case (maced a bouncer).
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 00:24 |
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M_Gargantua posted:it's become endemic Nah. That term has a real definition in the field of epidemiology, and we’re not there. It’s still very much in the chaotic, epidemic phase. HIV is also still epidemic, forty years since identification and more like a century since it jumped to humans. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Jul 23, 2022 |
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Platystemon posted:Nah.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 00:43 |
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/VinceMcMahon/status/1550572700959121408 Apparently Brock Lesnar walked out in protest before Smackdown came on. edit: nevermind I guess he needed the paycheck. And nothing of value was lost. Wrong Theory fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Jul 23, 2022 |
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The White House physician wrote a statement about the president’s treatment. Nothing earthshattering, but I want to note the medication pause. The physician assessed that COVID is an acute threat and that it’s worth pausing the Eliquis and Crestor for a few days so that the president can take Paxlovid, which would interact with the heart meds in potentially dangerous ways. In lieu, he gets Aspirin. It’s basic stuff, but it takes a doctor who can look over the patient’s medications and make the necessary changes, and to do it on fairly short notice, and a lot of Americans don’t have that.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 04:39 |
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My Dad and stepmom (71 and 68) both have Covid right now and we’re prescribed Paxlovid, and it seems to be helping.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 05:21 |
Platystemon posted:Nah. Traveling all the time for the last 18months has left me feeling like covid is now treated with the same level of fucks given as car accidents and heart attacks. To me the difference between that and the medical definition is literally academic. The only thing we can do now is keep pushing vaccines and develop drugs to mitigate for those who catch it. No amount of handwringing will get a bigger response than that anymore.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 15:47 |
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Unless some new ultra virulent strain develops I think this is just how it is.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 15:55 |
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I'm confident we'll do nothing if there's a new ultra virulent strain. The US response will be the texbook 'what not to do' case in a century, if things are still functioning in that fashion. It's almost impressive, like, it took so much doing the OPPOSITE of everything sane and rational to get here in a concerted, societal fashion. Just powerful seeing everyone come together like that.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 16:31 |
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M_Gargantua posted:Traveling all the time for the last 18months has left me feeling like covid is now treated with the same level of fucks given as car accidents and heart attacks. To me the difference between that and the medical definition is literally academic. The only thing we can do now is keep pushing vaccines and develop drugs to mitigate for those who catch it. No amount of handwringing will get a bigger response than that anymore. Unfortunately the politicization of COVID in the US has rendered it impossible to have a rational discussion or analysis of it among the general public. My mom still insists on wearing a mask everywhere as a virtue signal, even though she only wears a cloth mask and not an N95 mask. Meanwhile, my in-laws are going around telling everyone "See? It wasn't so bad after all! We could have been carrying on like normal all along."
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 16:33 |
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M_Gargantua posted:Traveling all the time for the last 18months has left me feeling like covid is now treated with the same level of fucks given as car accidents and heart attacks. To me the difference between that and the medical definition is literally academic. The only thing we can do now is keep pushing vaccines and develop drugs to mitigate for those who catch it. No amount of handwringing will get a bigger response than that anymore. This is unfortunately true, but the chaotic epidemic stage that Platystemon mentioned is in part defined (IIRC) by the potential for rapid uncontained spread within a community due to community susceptibility. If you combine the lack of fucks given by the population with the characteristics of the epidemic, the result is going to be continued cycles of mass infection for the foreseeable future. poo poo is hosed.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 16:34 |
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M_Gargantua posted:Traveling all the time for the last 18months has left me feeling like covid is now treated with the same level of fucks given as car accidents and heart attacks. To me the difference between that and the medical definition is literally academic. The only thing we can do now is keep pushing vaccines and develop drugs to mitigate for those who catch it. No amount of handwringing will get a bigger response than that anymore. Car accidents is probably not the best example, because for those we at least mandate that people are supposed to wear seat belts and drive safely, and to some degree those laws actually do get enforced sometimes. Covid just feels like absolutely nobody takes it seriously any more.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 16:35 |
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I still wear my cloth neck gaiter mask in most places. People tend to gently caress off when you tell them you're on the Iraq/Afghanistan burn pit registry.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 16:42 |
Nobody takes it seriously because it's no more serious than regular risks anymore. I realize that's a heartless thing to say to people who are immunocompromised. Life sucks but we don't have overflowing ERs with people dying at this point. I'm only speaking from anecdotal evidence of places where i'm primarily active, being New England and Spain, but half my family works in medicine and even they're over it. Everybody just seems to pop positive and spend a day or two in bed taking ibuprofen. It was awful, and we didn't take sufficient steps to mitigate the disaster. But two and a half years later and this is the new normal.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 16:44 |
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now that the rich can get treatment there's really nothing worth trying since there's ~330 million Americans they can grind through to make number go up
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 17:03 |
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M_Gargantua posted:Nobody takes it seriously because it's no more serious than regular risks anymore. I realize that's a heartless thing to say to people who are immunocompromised. Life sucks but we don't have overflowing ERs with people dying at this point. I'm only speaking from anecdotal evidence of places where i'm primarily active, being New England and Spain, but half my family works in medicine and even they're over it. Everybody just seems to pop positive and spend a day or two in bed taking ibuprofen. haha, cool
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 17:10 |
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The NYTimes recently had a fairly decent (if bleak) article on where we're at with Covid: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/opinion/covid-19-deaths-vaccines-endemic.html quote:Bedford is reluctant to dwell on semantic debates about what constitutes a “pandemic phase” rather than an “endemic phase” for Covid-19, for instance. But if we insist that the country is still in a pandemic phase, he says, we’re not going to be able to downshift from that anytime soon, since conditions aren’t likely to look very different for years — and the country’s accumulating immunological protection, if imperfect, is still a categorical break from those earlier phases in which we first calibrated our fears. “If we’re saying that we’re still in a pandemic right now, it’s still going to be a pandemic in year seven — we’ll still be in a pandemic then,” Bedford says. “So I think it’s better to acknowledge that we’re at 98 percent of the population having immunity of some form — certainly over 95 percent. There’s not much more that could change in that regard.” quote:It is natural to look at those charts and feel some relief, appreciating how much immune protection the country has accumulated over time, particularly against severe disease and hospitalization. But the footprint of that steady state is also disconcertingly heavy. More than 300 Americans have been dying nearly every day for months; the number is today above 400, and growing. quote:Where is that, exactly? Mina calls it a “long, bumpy off-ramp,” defined by the imperfect but predictable and reliable accumulation of additional immune protection. tldr being that technical endemicity will continue for many years. Covid will be a new and steady drag on life expectancy on the order of Alzheimers and diabetes as it affects the vulnerable and elderly. Eventually with multi-generational replacement you'll have people who will have been exposed to Covid all their lives and hopefully retain protection into old age.
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M_Gargantua posted:Nobody takes it seriously because it's no more serious than regular risks anymore. I realize that's a heartless thing to say to people who are immunocompromised. Life sucks but we don't have overflowing ERs with people dying at this point. I'm only speaking from anecdotal evidence of places where i'm primarily active, being New England and Spain, but half my family works in medicine and even they're over it. Everybody just seems to pop positive and spend a day or two in bed taking ibuprofen. drat dude I didn't think of it that way, are there any other things that actual trained experts don't agree with what you're saying you can explain to me because apparently I've been all hosed up about life
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maffew buildings posted:drat dude I didn't think of it that way, are there any other things that actual trained experts don't agree with what you're saying you can explain to me because apparently I've been all hosed up about life He literally said it's anecdotal.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I still wear my cloth neck gaiter mask in most places.
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Godholio posted:He literally said it's anecdotal. I forgot anecdotes start with a definitive statement such as defining how much of a risk something is, thanks
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 17:42 |
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Landlords delenda est https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1550873384866779139 quote:"There's very little evidence that shutting off utility service to a tenant is an effective way to collect from a delinquent landlord," Whillans told NPR. "In many cases, landlords that refuse to pay repeatedly are bad actors that also have lots of other outstanding violations, so a lack of water service is just one more violation on the books."
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 17:42 |
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Cugel the Clever posted:Not to be a dick, but is this heavier duty than the usual or is it the same type that everyone has said does effectively nothing against Covid, giving or receiving, since the start of the pandemic? With ample chance to have proven otherwise? It's double layered, pretty thick compared to the handkerchief thin poo poo most people wear. If I'm going in somewhere that's absolutely packed, I'll double down with one of those surgical masks under my gaiter. I have a big beard, though, so it's easier to use a gaiter and tuck my beard into it than wear a cupped mask like an N95.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 17:47 |
Wingnut Ninja posted:Landlords delenda est How in the blue gently caress could punitive measures against tenants, like eviction, be a reasonable move against delinquent landlords? That makes no fuckin sense.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 18:36 |
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Arrath posted:How in the blue gently caress could punitive measures against tenants, like eviction, be a reasonable move against delinquent landlords? That makes no fuckin sense. Well if the tenants are evicted they ain’t paying rent! Hurt him in his pocket hook! Who will then wait until they are all gone, pay the bill and increase rent then stuff in new people.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 18:44 |
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Arrath posted:How in the blue gently caress could punitive measures against tenants, like eviction, be a reasonable move against delinquent landlords? That makes no fuckin sense. Are you suggesting the privatizing and deregulating the housing and utility markets would inevitably adversely impact lower income renters? Who could have seen this coming!
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 18:57 |
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Hey Crab Dad, how hosed are these guards? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-22/who-stole-millions-in-jewels-in-brinks-heist-5-freeway-truck-stop quote:In the early hours of July 11, two armed guards left their Brink’s big rig, giving a gang of thieves a 27-minute window to make the huge snatch, its total value still a mystery. Estimates range from $10 million to $100 million.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Hey Crab Dad, how hosed are these guards? LOL LMAO
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 19:39 |
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Is having both guards walk away from the truck for half an hour normal procedure?
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Stealing is probably the coolest crime
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