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Mayor Dave posted:it sucks i need a new glasses prescription but there are no optometrists there are some websites that have online vision tests if that works for you. probs can’t do astigmatism or anything fancy tho
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actionjackson posted:I mean, the minimum league salaries put you in the top 1% easily the average nfl career lasts 4 years lol
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May 4, 2020 05:54
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actionjackson posted:yeah i know but you can make more than most workers will in a lifetime in that short period. Minimum salary sticker price looks great, but after top-bracket taxes (which can include a mid-to-high single digit percentage bump in some states for entertainer taxes), manager/agent fees (low-to-mid double digits), union dues, and big-city living expenses, it’s not great even if you make it to four years ( pension starts at 10 iirc). Add that to the fact that any pro player was told by his college athletic program to take the easiest major possible with no-show credits or better yet, going into the draft after junior year and boom, you have a (likely) physically and mentally disabled (about a 10% chance every year in addition to seven/eight years of accumulating injuries in hs and college) high school grad with no work experience but a few hundred k in the bank. that’s if he makes it to four years (an average with its upper bound drug pretty high by 18-year kickers and qbs who won’t die) and doesn’t get a career-ending concussion in his first preseason game AND holds on to all of his money without an accountant skimming or fourth cousin getting him to invest in their “sure thing” crypto company and doesn’t spend like he’s a 22yo who’s never had a comma in his bank account in his entire life
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:The average career is even worse than you mentioned, it's 2.5 years and most of those dudes are making league minimum ($495K as of 2019). Professional athletes tend to form the center of a web of financial support for family and friends, so that money goes quick. lol I half-assedly googled and the big number said 900k but that’s with 7 years. Ten years of destroying your mind and body for 400k lol I got a permanently hosed up neck and a decade of neurological issues and I only played 3 years in high school, don’t let your kids play contact sports jfc
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euphronius posted:literally no one lives in those yellow counties there’s 300k people in Erie county alone 😡
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May 8, 2020 02:59
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I went up to Newtown Creek, the most polluted body of water in the country and saw a Black Crowned Night Heron on the hunt, so cool, so close
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May 8, 2020 06:38
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American Protestantism at its best: hey we went through all the motions, it’s over now
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May 8, 2020 07:11
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:hey dumbass who made this, I don’t care how you averaged all our responses—not shaving off one death here and marking it at 169,420 is criminal and should be worth a ban imo it’s a median and there were an odd number of responses and someone went for price is right rules
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May 10, 2020 22:42
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I didn’t see a version of this yet so I made one for everybody rushing to go to a “safe socially distanced” restaurant
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May 16, 2020 01:36
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May 16, 2020 01:37
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MorrisBae posted:http://web.archive.org/web/20050421000017/http://www.geocities.com/mnussitch/gossip.html drat I had no idea Keanu Reeves was romantically linked with Keanu Reeves
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Uuudar posted:i'm a doc in nyc and treat covid pts, got covid back in march, have poz antibodies, and donated plasma to treat pts. ama why don’t you hang out in the NYC thread/slack?
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and of course Montgomery has to suffer because that’s probably the only place in AL where all of the suburban exurban and rural chuds have to be taken to e: ok half the state, forgot Birmingham existed theflyingexecutive has issued a correction as of 03:55 on May 23, 2020 |
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mastershakeman posted:The one factor I don't know is a/c and if it means grocery stores are dangerous or safe grocery stores are much much safer than gyms or restaurants because you’re not going to take off your mask or be close to any one individual for more than a minute or two
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May 23, 2020 05:56
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Nocturtle posted:Reminds me of this article on potential airborne transmission 2004 SARs outbreak and this picture: SARS was way more transmissible than covid. people were getting it through apartment HVAC and other wild acrobatics
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COVID-420 posted:nailed it I genuinely believe LA was spared because the weather was lovely in late Feb/March, and the bay because tech companies WFHed right away
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May 26, 2020 19:42
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eric ciaramella posted:Haydon said the experience left him as sick as he’d ever felt. But standard flu-like symptoms that resolve within a day are not necessarily considered a reason not to use a vaccine that prevents a more serious illness. covid kills young healthy people when their immune system is hyper activated, it’s not unexpected that the higher dosed people would get a covid-like but temporary reaction because no vaccine dose would approach the viral load of an infected person. I’m optimistic 
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May 26, 2020 21:42
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etalian posted:Lmao this month Moderna's upper management cashed around 30 million in stock. it’s worth trying every possibility. neuropeptides were supposed to be the future of antidepressants, but they ended up being the best antiemetic ever. viagra was supposed to be an anti hypertensive too
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May 26, 2020 21:44
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Admiral Ray posted:what? they're gonna have to manufacture like 6 billion doses of the vaccine, there's a huge internal push to have the one that works. the house will pass a bill to make the vaccine free for all Americans while kicking huge piles of money to the manufacturer and hospitals and insurers then McConnell will strip out the free vaccine part and Democrats will go “well we tried”
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May 26, 2020 22:02
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knobgobblin posted:aaaww now I'm only getting high 6 figgies instead of low 7 figgies to play sports for a partial season. Won't someone think of our struggling professional athletes???!! imagine a career where you have a >10% annual chance of having to find a new career with a high school diploma, no transferable skills, and a high likelihood of permanent physical and mental disability also you pay double the taxes of any ceo and have to cut in your agent, manager, union while 18th cousins look at you like a meal ticket
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great story about collective bargaining from sports writing’s only comrade: https://youtu.be/ZymSrDfLhW8
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Burn Zone posted:Walmart (or Sam’s Club) usually has hand sanitizer, just order online and pick it up in the store to guarantee you get it. No need to walk through a Walmart only to find they’re sold out. I don’t know about Walmart, but my local Sam’s Club has shitloads of disposable masks. I originally ordered some masks from Amazon but they weren’t that good, the metal nose piece was pretty flimsy. However, the ones I bought from Sam’s Club are better quality. Funny story, back in early April when masks weren’t available in the States, a friend in China sent hundreds of dollars worth masks for me to give to his family here. We thought they were seized by Chinese customs or someone snagged the package when they figured out it was masks, but after weeks of no movement the tracking number shows they’re scheduled to arrive next week, two months late lmao. a massive amount of air freight from China is done by filling extra cargo space in passenger jets. prices have more than quadrupled at this point
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May 28, 2020 18:11
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Flesh Forge posted:man, how about this pneumonia going around almost, you have to subtract the union though, the cases reported as both pneumonia and covid
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May 28, 2020 18:12
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Flesh Forge posted:a bunch of states have big disparities there, I know Florida was just talked about last page but they're just the most blatant. the grapevine also says those states in particular are reporting probable covids as “heart failure” and “natural causes” the fucks
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May 28, 2020 19:08
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snoo posted:hrm i don't have any desire to go to my work to pick some up, i could try some e6000 or shoe goo though e6000 will definitely come apart
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May 28, 2020 19:11
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the cost to keep these players would have been 1.5 million commissioner rob manfred makes more than $11 million per year
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SKULL.GIF posted:how the gently caress does a coronavirus have this many crazy symptoms blood vessels go everywhere my dude
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Jun 2, 2020 18:49
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FizFashizzle posted:The virus can't physically change the shape of RBC. That's not possible. Illnesses can cause certain kinds of anemias but that wouldn't actually create the sickle effect you see in SCA. does covid produce a competitive or allosteric inhibitor of heparin?
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it does indeed reduce antithrombin (drastically in some cases), meaning heparin can’t form the complex needed to stop clotting: https://www.facs.org/-/media/files/covid19/umiami_study_uses_of_coagulopathy.ashx “In addition to increased clotting events, there seems to be an increased incidence of antithrombin-III deficiency leading to an inability to therapeutically anticoagulate with heparin. A number of centers have switched to bivalirudin as their anticoagulant of choice while on these circuits.”
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FizFashizzle posted:that would be horrifying The Coumadin is interesting, but apixiban is upstream of thrombin, so that at least makes sense
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Jun 2, 2020 21:55
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redleader posted:how the gently caress does this thing just evolve to break humans do effectively wtf good ol natural selection. you have a virus that wants to access as many ace2 receptors as possible. getting stuck in a clot impedes that, so trillions and trillions of genetic drifts can produce an optimal protein shape to stop clots and it only takes one successful hit that can replicate and outcompete other strains. if you want really wild poo poo, dive into bacterial horizontal gene transmission, where bacteria can share this information with others of their species, and other species! and loose dna/rna just floating around from dead bacteria!
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Jun 2, 2020 22:45
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Flesh Forge posted:human beings are just nature's way of making more coronaviruses your body has ten times as many bacterial cells than human ones, likely 100x viral particles
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Flesh Forge posted:maybe they're in on it they control way more of your life than most people would be comfortable with
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FizFashizzle posted:about 45% of people that get cpr outside of a hospital setting survive. I’ve heard 10%, gonna look it up
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theflyingexecutive posted:I’ve heard 10%, gonna look it up This looks like a decent study (for cardiac arrest specifically): http://img2.timg.co.il/forums/54969181.pdf 
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FizFashizzle posted:yeah, i had thought 10% too but i googled it before i posted that. 45% make it to the hospital, but only 10% survive longer than a month cpr by an amateur doubles your chance of living past a month and cpr by a professional almost quadruples it
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