StratGoatCom posted:

https://twitter.com/wkbn/status/1694461472800133203

Gotta live your life.

Rescue Toaster posted:

I tried to order some of those Metrix tests from peach and A) Their website sucks, B) They are now sold out of tests already. Boo.

quote:

i am concerned that one of the decisions you made was "yes, this person who posted about using pipe bombs for domestic terrorism, they can come back and post on this website" and perhaps you should be having a long and detailed conversation with your lawyer about (a) that you did that; and (b) that you posted about that you did that

buy them a bottle of whiskey first, they'll need it

StratGoatCom posted:

Okay, can we make an exception in the rule about blaming hostile outsiders because the Cow Exploder Rereg certainly qualifies?!?!

StratGoatCom posted:

Hey, Bastard Tetris, if you want to use your monoclonal bux to do us all a solid, now's the time:

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Well.....I suspect the first part of this is not true. The presence of someone writing credible death threats on the site in any form is serious as hell. I've been looking into it for a few days at this point, including contacting the payment processor and digging through the database, and got as much information as I could - this was doxxing combined with a death threat and this is easily warranted. I wanted to see if the person that did this could be found despite our store's limitations, and, if they are posting on this site, permaban them, and provide information to Boba Pearl to contact the police, if she chose to. Unfortunately, I am forced to conclude that Boba Pearl purchased these avatars for herself. The core of it is that she recently posted from one of the IPs that I have associated with one of the two avatar purchases, in a way that does not line up at all with the stories she told me. There are a bunch of details beyond that, but I don't really want to lay them all out here. It's bad and manipulative. Boba Pearl is someone I consider a friend, and it hurts to be lied to and misled in this way. I just really can't deal with writing up a big long post about the private conversations I had with her leading up to this conclusion, but I also can't leave it unaddressed.

To be real with all of you, I am....aghast. Boba, I went out on a limb by allowing you to return to posting on this site, previously posting as permabanned user Turtlicious, and I just.....don't know what to say. You posted about missing SPR the morning you did this. Did you not remember how this hurt people? Do you not see how concerned and worried this makes people in this community?

Turtlicious posted:

Which we are doing, and many countries in the G20 have agreed to do. I'm 26 and I refuse to die in a global apocalypse. I'm going to die at 85 surrounded by my family and friends, and if there is a final account, St. Peter / Buddha / Anubis will know I didn't just sit back and let the apocalypse happen. I fought for the right things and I never gave up hope that humanity could do better.

Weight my heart against a feather you fucks, I'm ready to try and save the world.

e: Even if someone has to go pipe bomb some methane emitting cows, or gently caress up an oil pipeline.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Turtlicious posted:

watch the news in the next 2 weeks.

e: I'm going to stop climate change.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Turtlicious posted:

LIke to use a metaphor, I had a DND game going and I 3d Printed some very expensive miniatures, that you can't just flush down the toilet, and had all of my uh dice and snacks ready, and no-one came and now I'm wondering how you disassemble 3 goblin figurines w/o losing your loving fingers.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Tzen posted:

https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1694210288159953330

quote:

133 of 750 participants (17.7%) had a PCR-confirmed Omicron infection during the observation period. Increased infection risk was associated with prior Omicron infection (at 9–29 days: 47.67 [23.73–95.76]), and this was not attributed to days since fourth vaccination (1.00 [1.00–1.01]) or residence outbreaks (>6 compared to ≤6: 0.95 [0.37–2.41]). Instead, reinfected participants had lower serum neutralizing antibodies to ancestral and Omicron BA.1 SARS-CoV-2, and lower anti-RBD IgG and IgA antibodies, after their initial Omicron infection.

quote:

Our results suggest that the generation of protective humoral hybrid immunity is influenced by the heterogeneity of immune aging as well as the specific SARS-CoV-2 variant of infection. Many residents of long-term care and retirement homes do not experience a period of enhanced post-infection protection against subsequent infection, which highlights the importance of maintaining high coverage of booster vaccinations in older adults in both congregate care facilities and in the community.

DickParasite posted:

For anyone not following the SAD thread about Boba Pearl's avatar doxing:

It turns out Boba Pearl was previously permabanned user Turtalicious.

Gunshow Poophole posted:

DickParasite posted:

For anyone not following the SAD thread about Boba Pearl's avatar doxing:

Gunshow Poophole posted:

U-DO Burger posted:

YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON KISSING SMALL TURTLES! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!

StratGoatCom posted:

On that note, would anyone know the component markings to make sure it's a genuine aranet, given what we've seen with masks there?

Al! posted:

honey we gotta come up with more for the party tray than just guac

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Boba Pearl posted:

The thread is a cesspit, with the absolute worst posters, headed now by one of the worst posters. They're allowed to do whatever they want, and face no repercussions, a day for handing out fake medicine? Nothing is being done about the constant homophobic and transphobic sentiment, and I'm not going to list it all out, because it's exhausting to look for attacks over and over and have nothing done about them. They constantly attack anyone whose an outsider. They are the worst the forums has to offer, and are constantly being handed rope by which they use to strangle the rest of the forums.

E: Fosborb did nothing about any of the attacks against me, whether they were transphobic, homophobic, about my art, or anything in between, and instead let his cadre of fake practitioners continue to give out dangerous medical advice.

Boba Pearl posted:

The only thing I wouldn't super mock, is the idea that these threads radicalize people, it's generally exposure to that thinking without consequence that allows them to get like that. I would like to remind people, though I loathe being the one to do it, that an actual poster, made real world pipe bombs to commit real world terrorism. Yes they were mentally ill, yes they were perma'd 6 months later, and yeah someone did call the cops, but there was a real world consequence due to exposure of radicalized thinking.

e: Posting isn't JUST a game anymore, it's not 15 years ago. The things you say and do effect people, you can come to real world harm, and that reality needs to be internalized.

Boba Pearl posted:

There were murmurs that CO2 was starting to drop, and then someone started popping off about how the real problem was methane from Industrial farming, and that even if we fixed carbon emmissions, methane was much more powerful of a greenhouse warming effect, and that agriculture was going to strangle the planet. Turtlicious started posting there because they were sharing good news from r/climateactionplan, and was convinced by the thread that the world was ending, and nothing would save it.

Literally, in the new thread, their first post was talking about how their therapist begged them to stop posting there.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3884239&userid=189869

DickParasite posted:

Sure enough BP had some strong opinions about the Covid thread too.





She was referring to herself in both of those quotes.

DickParasite posted:

Sure enough BP had some strong opinions about the Covid thread too.

She was referring to herself in both of those quotes.

Steve Yun posted:

time to cancel the apocalypse

DickParasite posted:

Sure enough BP had some strong opinions about the Covid thread too.

She was referring to herself in both of those quotes.

Steve Yun posted:

time to cancel the apocalypse

Steve Yun posted:

time to cancel the apocalypse

https://www.reuters.com./business/h...ase-2023-08-24/ posted:

Highly mutated COVID variant found in new countries but pandemic in 'a different phase’

A highly mutated COVID variant called BA.2.86 has now been detected in Switzerland and South Africa in addition to Israel, Denmark, the U.S. and the U.K., according to a leading World Health Organization official.
(..)
"It's still low numbers," Maria Van Kerkhove, COVID-19 technical lead at the WHO, said in her first interview regarding BA.2.86.
(..)
But data submitted to the international database, GISAID, has fallen dramatically. In the first week of Omicron, more than 200,000 coronavirus sequences were submitted. Last week, it was around 20,000.
(..)
The WHO said COVID testing has declined by 90% worldwide from the peak. Testing has also plummeted in the U.S., and sequencing is down by around 90%, said Dr. Ashish Jha, who served as White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator until June 2023.
(..)

Pingui posted:

I am not sure I really appreciate said "different phase".

DickParasite posted:

Sure enough BP had some strong opinions about the Covid thread too.





She was referring to herself in both of those quotes.