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WrasslorMonkey
Mar 5, 2012

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1702427056917839921

https://i.imgur.com/kdW41Oq.mp4

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Raskolnikov2089
Nov 3, 2006

Schizzy to the matic
Just a reminder for my fellow min/maxxers (so everyone in this thread):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/15511/

Exercise after a shot can boost your antibody response.

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002




Thank you for posting this update from Redhead porn: No PFV just Wet messes, Squirting
Full Orgasm Videos, Naked Gardening, Partner Play, Cosplays ☺ Snapchat Included

I hope her sister recovers.

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004


dumbest loving thing the US has done was let wops vote and hold office

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Lynyrd Skynyrd were mean to him over Southern Man and he immediately submitted and said they were right
He's a squeamish guy

SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

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I was about to say, didn't the East Village Other poo poo on him for being a poser and a sellout but no that was Bob Dylan lol.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
welp

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
welp

https://twitter.com/justaneighsayer/status/1703244197514420630?s=46

https://twitter.com/justaneighsayer/status/1703263337746661428?s=46

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

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Clapping Larry
I don't understand why it's so hard! Nobody knows what you look like anyway! Why do you have to show your face??

thuly
Jun 19, 2005

Transcending history, and the world, a tale of MS Paint and animes, endlessly retold.
Finding Novavax info in my state is like pulling teeth, swear to God I might have to road trip to get the good juice.

SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

BTICH IM A NEWT
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Gunshow Poophole posted:

I don't understand why it's so hard! Nobody knows what you look like anyway! Why do you have to show your face??
People are really good at convincing themselves to walk into their own deaths for short-term convenience. It's scary.

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT

Needs to be one of those bowling alley screen strike animations

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

OMBUDSMAN
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Clapping Larry

SardonicTyrant posted:

People are really good at convincing themselves to walk into their own deaths for short-term convenience. It's scary.

In this case it's not even convenient! You just leave the mask on at all times! Literal no thought necessary

StratGoatCom
Aug 6, 2019

Our security is guaranteed by being able to melt the eyeballs of any other forum's denizens at 15 minutes notice


Gunshow Poophole posted:

I don't understand why it's so hard! Nobody knows what you look like anyway! Why do you have to show your face??

I have terrible facial dysphoria and... well, good reason for it. My secure click is doing you a favor on more then one level!

SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

BTICH IM A NEWT
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Gunshow Poophole posted:

In this case it's not even convenient! You just leave the mask on at all times! Literal no thought necessary
I mean I tried that and my landlord evicted me because I wasn't friendly enough to him.

PoundSand
Jul 30, 2021

Also proficient with kites

SardonicTyrant posted:

People are really good at convincing themselves to walk into their own deaths for short-term convenience. It's scary.

I think because it’s more scary to them to think they might have to more or less permanently give up stuff cause it’s obvious Covid isn’t going away. Even people I know that were p diligent for a while after the first vaccine just caved and started going back to normal eventually. When I point out rates weren’t really any lower and if we believed late spring/early summer 2020 warranted lockdowns/masks/social distancing then at no real point since then have things been good enough that they should have gone away no one ever really has a good response just general hand waving that it’s just something we gotta live with now.

the social pressure kinda just snowballs from there cause as more and more people throw in the towel suddenly you get viewed as less and less reasonable for caring. I’m real glad my wife is on the same page as me because we’re both kind of just okay with keeping it up indefinitely at this point and we have each other but I imagine it’s really hard for a lot of people to have the double whammy of feeling isolated and the impression that people think they’re weird for it.

SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

BTICH IM A NEWT
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PoundSand posted:

I think because it’s more scary to them to think they might have to more or less permanently give up stuff cause it’s obvious Covid isn’t going away. Even people I know that were p diligent for a while after the first vaccine just caved and started going back to normal eventually. When I point out rates weren’t really any lower and if we believed late spring/early summer 2020 warranted lockdowns/masks/social distancing then at no real point since then have things been good enough that they should have gone away no one ever really has a good response just general hand waving that it’s just something we gotta live with now.

the social pressure kinda just snowballs from there cause as more and more people throw in the towel suddenly you get viewed as less and less reasonable for caring. I’m real glad my wife is on the same page as me because we’re both kind of just okay with keeping it up indefinitely at this point and we have each other but I imagine it’s really hard for a lot of people to have the double whammy of feeling isolated and the impression that people think they’re weird for it.
All I can say to people is: get used to feeling disempowered, cause that feeling isn't going away anytime soon.

Poppers
Jan 21, 2023

Yep… covid isn’t going away ever. I’d rather have fun than try to minimize my risk for the rest of my entire life.

Soap Scum
Aug 8, 2003



SardonicTyrant posted:

I mean I tried that and my landlord evicted me because I wasn't friendly enough to him.

cool to live in a world where i legitimately can't tell if this is a joke or is sincere

StratGoatCom
Aug 6, 2019

Our security is guaranteed by being able to melt the eyeballs of any other forum's denizens at 15 minutes notice


PoundSand posted:

I think because it’s more scary to them to think they might have to more or less permanently give up stuff cause it’s obvious Covid isn’t going away. Even people I know that were p diligent for a while after the first vaccine just caved and started going back to normal eventually. When I point out rates weren’t really any lower and if we believed late spring/early summer 2020 warranted lockdowns/masks/social distancing then at no real point since then have things been good enough that they should have gone away no one ever really has a good response just general hand waving that it’s just something we gotta live with now.

the social pressure kinda just snowballs from there cause as more and more people throw in the towel suddenly you get viewed as less and less reasonable for caring. I’m real glad my wife is on the same page as me because we’re both kind of just okay with keeping it up indefinitely at this point and we have each other but I imagine it’s really hard for a lot of people to have the double whammy of feeling isolated and the impression that people think they’re weird for it.

Meh, the poo poo I lost was either hyper stressful for me or too expensive for the most part.

PoundSand
Jul 30, 2021

Also proficient with kites

Poppers posted:

Yep… covid isn’t going away ever. I’d rather have fun than try to minimize my risk for the rest of my entire life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxAIn2OOpwI

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

SardonicTyrant posted:

I mean I tried that and my landlord evicted me because I wasn't friendly enough to him.

lets see those smilesssss

hissssss


Banger

The Oldest Man has issued a correction as of 21:25 on Sep 17, 2023

Indoor Dying
Dec 13, 2022
Love how not going to restaurants is the most scary thing society can imagine, and that’s where the line is drawn

BusError posted:

Almost just rear-ended someone while driving because I was distracted by the sign a restaurant had out on the sidewalk which literally said "Get brunch or die trying".

Indoor Dying has issued a correction as of 21:38 on Sep 17, 2023

SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

BTICH IM A NEWT
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Soap Scum posted:

cool to live in a world where i legitimately can't tell if this is a joke or is sincere
the joke was listening to my mom do the same to someone else.

Why Am I So Tired
Sep 28, 2021
I love how Feigl-Ding follows up "COVID situation out of control, why won't someone do something???" posts with "Joe Biden is the most wonderful and effective president of all time, thank you sir!" posts. He refuses to connect the very obvious dots that he lays out himself, it's almost like the Mr. Thompson scene in Cape Feare re-envisioned as a one man show.

Bastard Tetris
Apr 27, 2005

L-Shaped


Nap Ghost
Did the thread stop calling him Crackl-Ping at some point? Dude was histrionic as hell until Biden got into office

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

Bastard Tetris posted:

Did the thread stop calling him Crackl-Ping at some point? Dude was histrionic as hell until Biden got into office

He still is, but the party line cognitive dissonance field is at full strength as long as a democrat is the president

Pingui
Jun 4, 2006

WTF?

Bastard Tetris posted:

Did the thread stop calling him Crackl-Ping at some point? Dude was histrionic as hell until Biden got into office

He will always be Mr. Spicy Nachos to me.

WrasslorMonkey
Mar 5, 2012


This post is how I found out Metric put out an album in 2022. Also got one coming out in October of this year and there's a single out for it.

PoundSand
Jul 30, 2021

Also proficient with kites

The Oldest Man posted:

He still is, but the party line cognitive dissonance field is at full strength as long as a democrat is the president

I recall getting into several fights in 2020 with friends over the idea that the second Biden walks into office people will stop caring about Covid/kids in cages/literally every progressive issue he won’t do poo poo about and it’s crazy how fast that stuff got memory holed. like fortunately it wasn’t Twitter arguments so no one who knew me assumed I was a trump supporter for saying mainstream democrats only care about these issues as the opposition party but it’s so bizarre to me that this sort of discussion comes up, plays out exactly how a pessimist would expect, then upcoming election year the same people will step on the same rakes going to bat for the idea that either party cares about anything other than their rich friends and their insider trading portfolios.

SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

BTICH IM A NEWT
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The Oldest Man posted:

lets see those smilesssss

hissssss
Things are hard now but rest assured the worst is yet to come.

Why Am I So Tired
Sep 28, 2021
It's so loving destructive when COVID people on Twitter do poo poo like this. At various points of the pandemic I've gotten people to follow Feigl-Ding, Kim Prather, etc., and it always inevitably leads to "see, even they're taking their masks off, you're being unreasonable." It just completely undermines their message and gives people the permission they're seeking to carve out exceptions to do what they want.

Pingui
Jun 4, 2006

WTF?

PoundSand posted:

I recall getting into several fights in 2020 with friends over the idea that the second Biden walks into office people will stop caring about Covid/kids in cages/literally every progressive issue he won’t do poo poo about and it’s crazy how fast that stuff got memory holed. like fortunately it wasn’t Twitter arguments so no one who knew me assumed I was a trump supporter for saying mainstream democrats only care about these issues as the opposition party but it’s so bizarre to me that this sort of discussion comes up, plays out exactly how a pessimist would expect, then upcoming election year the same people will step on the same rakes going to bat for the idea that either party cares about anything other than their rich friends and their insider trading portfolios.

If things consistently turn out the way you expect, you aren't a pessimist, but a realist.

Pingui
Jun 4, 2006

WTF?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-17/champagne-demand-softens-after-post-covid-boom-years-lvmh-says posted:

Champagne Demand Softens After Post-Covid Boom Years, LVMH Says
(..)
There was a “general sense of revenge pleasure,” in 2021 and 2022 after consumers were stuck at home, Moët Hennessy Chief Executive Officer Philippe Schaus said in an interview.
(..)

lmao, this poo poo sucks.

Why Am I So Tired
Sep 28, 2021
These people are manufacturing a world I wish had existed.

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

Brunch revanchism is a real thing

PoundSand
Jul 30, 2021

Also proficient with kites

WrasslorMonkey posted:

This post is how I found out Metric put out an album in 2022. Also got one coming out in October of this year and there's a single out for it.

“ Oh please” is probably my favorite song from that album but I just couldn’t help myself with dropping that track here. The idea that it’s impossible to enjoy life without our mass commercialized “public” spaces just feels so loving dumb to read on this forum of all places.

Bastard Tetris
Apr 27, 2005

L-Shaped


Nap Ghost
Not like anyone’s sippin veuve at brunch anyways

Andre, bithc

Pingui
Jun 4, 2006

WTF?
As this is a slow news day, I have taken the liberty of posting this opinion piece in full, because I've read it 4 times and I am unsure if he is trying to make the point I am reading (italization not mine):

https://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/going-back-normal-delusion-engaged-in-18366844.php posted:

Opinion: Pandemic takes a toll on the healthy, too

Another Labor Day has passed and I have a long list of things to be grateful for. Yet I must confess there is nothing I'm excited about. Not gloomy like Vladimir and Estrogon in "Waiting for Godot," but definitely not jumping out of bed eager to embark on a new project.

I may simply be feeling what 3.5 years of pandemic vigilance does to a creature.

I think we need a collective “Whew!” like getting your stuck car off the railroad tracks just in the nick of time. We made it through the pandemic. I don't want to do that again. Better follow directions.

I think of Samuel Pepys in London and the daily diary he kept from 1660 to 1669. In 1665 on Oct 7, he remarks about how normal it is to see on the street a dead body borne on a cart due to the plague. “Comes close by the bearers with a dead corpse of the plague; but Lord, to see what custom is, that I am come almost to think nothing of it.”

Pepys also wonders if he should buy a wig since the hair might be contaminated: "It is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plague is done as to periwigs, for nobody will dare to buy any haire for fear of the infection — that it had been cut off of the heads of people dead of the plague."

Unlike Pepys viewing bodies on carts on the streets of London, we in the COVID pandemic of 2020-2022 never got used to bodies being stored in refrigerator trucks outside of hospitals. And although we do not wear periwigs as a fashion, we did get angry when Speaker of U. S. the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi violated isolation protocols in order to have her hair dyed.

Perhaps the Pepys and Pelosi examples explain my lack of enthusiasm as I rolled out of bed this Labor Day. It's not just that we got off the railroad tracks in time with the pandemic, it's that like Pepys and Pelosi we spend much more time thinking about how to avoid death than is healthy for us human creatures.

I'm caught up in monitoring not only my own behavior as being risky, but in monitoring everybody else's, too. No wonder I'm not excited about starting a new project when I jump out of bed. My attention is already directed toward sickness and death. Avoiding both.

Going back to normal may just be a delusion we are all engaged in. It may be decades before our attention is emancipated from the slavery of a necessary but unhealthy health vigilance.

It seems to me that he is saying the plague normalization is a good thing? :coronatoot:

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SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

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Pingui posted:

As this is a slow news day, I have taken the liberty of posting this opinion piece in full, because I've read it 4 times and I am unsure if he is trying to make the point I am reading (italization not mine):

It seems to me that he is saying the plague normalization is a good thing? :coronatoot:
The writer of that piece is saying he wants to murder someone to feel again.

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