Oct 2021 CE: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sigh

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That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

I hope you feel better soon goon.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2021 15:22

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 15:40

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Topical
https://twitter.com/acechhh/status/1444705519445348356?s=20

# ¿ Oct 3, 2021 18:08

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

lmao

https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1445730199635701760?s=20

# ¿ Oct 6, 2021 18:33

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1444029375272325124

# ¿ Oct 6, 2021 18:54

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Richard Bong posted:

A guy who shot at cops during the protests was acquitted. Minneapolis PD basically did drive bys in unmarked vans and a legal gun owner fired back.

https://twitter.com/mdvancleave/status/1445530570298036231?s=21

This reminds me of the drive by paintballing thing, which gets non-police arrested.

https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2021/06/wild-spree-of-drive-by-paintball-attacks-reported-across-syracuse-at-least-2-injured.html

# ¿ Oct 7, 2021 16:45

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Woof Blitzer posted:

Hit a mountain, captain relieved of command, etc.

The Abyss started with a nuclear sub crash, heh.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2021 23:57

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Ugh

Thread worth reading

https://twitter.com/bykenarmstrong/status/1446505198516535297?s=20

https://twitter.com/bykenarmstrong/status/1446506352608567300?s=20

https://twitter.com/bykenarmstrong/status/1446508171388854284?s=20

# ¿ Oct 8, 2021 22:17

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/benphillips76/status/1446770368648204296?s=20

# ¿ Oct 9, 2021 20:07

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Stupid.

Thread title imo

# ¿ Oct 11, 2021 09:45

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

He's not the sharpest tool in the shed

# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 22:08

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

boop the snoot posted:

What about good posts

lol

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 16:55

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

MazelTovCocktail posted:

Any explanation why it�s going back up? Not that I�m complaining mind you.

Hard to determine significance from just what is shown there, could just be normal variation in polling if you ran it over and over at set intervals with different folks for example.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2021 00:29

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/chrisdcomedy/status/1448094241088065551?s=20

# ¿ Oct 14, 2021 01:09

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

RFC2324 posted:

What about the other 2% of the time?

Balut

# ¿ Oct 14, 2021 17:43

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Eason the Fifth posted:

Am I wrong here, or does labor (due to the pandemic labor shortage) generally have the best position they've had since like thr 70s?

Seems p drat good tbh

# ¿ Oct 14, 2021 21:16

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1449063255197036553?s=20

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 20:13

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

BIG HEADLINE posted:

Jussie Smollett for Nathan Bedford Forrest, then. Even if it's just a bit role.

hahahahah

# ¿ Oct 19, 2021 01:30

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Well you can put a D next to his name but if his decisions help keep the agenda of R rolling then what's a name.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2021 19:24

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Defenestrategy posted:

I don't see it particularly mattering in the long view of things.

Theory 1) Joe Manchin flips and the GOP have 51 senators for a little less than a year, then the GOP takes control of everything because the democrats didn't post election reform before this happened.

Theory 2) Joe Manchin doesn't flip and the Democrats start kissing his shoes and beg him please don't leave, and the GOP take control of everything at the end of 2022 because Joe Manchin doesn't want to do election reform.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2021 19:28

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1450885274695712768?s=20

# ¿ Oct 20, 2021 19:42

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Somehow learning that Fran Drescher is president of SAG-AFTRA is almost as shocking to me as the firearms fuckup.

Brilliant negotiation tactic. "You're gonna either concede to our demands or listen to Fran talk for several hours, your choice"

# ¿ Oct 22, 2021 14:54

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Good news, everyone!

https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/1451552512062930945

# ¿ Oct 22, 2021 15:48

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Someone speculated the gun was being shot at the camera since the cinematographer was hit - shrapnel maybe?

If it was a plugged barrel prop but loaded with an actual shell I imagine that's gonna go badly for everyone downrange.

whatever you feel about Alec Baldwin I legit feel bad for the dude on this one, I seriously doubt any of this was intentional or directly his fault and it's probably gonna gently caress that dude up pretty bad. Note I feel even worse for the victims and their families ofc, but its lovely for everyone in this kinda deal

# ¿ Oct 22, 2021 15:54

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

ASAPI posted:

If I�m playing correctly, 15.

I assume this is a lifetime list� none of these things seem bad though?

sports buff and hardcore gamer are p bad if you're around it too long

# ¿ Oct 23, 2021 22:21

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

That is very dubious stuff.

There have been multiple studies indicating that an engineered virus is completely unlikely and would require separate technological leaps combined to have generated the sequence of this virus without the hallmarks of genetic engineering that would normally be used to make it.

Evolving a new furin cleavage site by natural evolution is more or less expected and very likely to happen because it would be advantageous for propagation of the virus if it did so. Someone also proposing it as a means to test by adding features while controversial is not some highly novel thought.

The article makes a bit of an argument to incredulity there. Hard to say more about it without being able to see the actual Grant they are discussing.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2021 12:03

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

FrozenVent posted:

This is like the fifth different “smoking gun” I’ve seen for the lab leak theory, and they’re not cumulative.

I’m not willing to completely dismiss the theory, but this isn’t earth shattering proof. We’ll probably never know for sure.

It's not even proof of anything or a smoking gun. It simply someone saying "hey here's how we think the virus can evolve to become more powerful and we should try that in a controlled environment and see how bad it would be so we can study and prepare for that." This type of proposal comes up now and then and it's hotly debated in the field whether or not they should be allowable because of the obvious risks.

It completely ignores that if a lab had actually constructed a virus to do that it sequence would look very different than the current virus that is lurking in the wild and have telltale signatures of manipulation that would only be absent if some very new techniques had been developed in secret alongside it. It also ignores that the ace2 receptor binding and the way that it does that was also novel and unexpected and would have had to again have been developed in secret and combined with another wholly novel and secret technique being developed.

To me the only actually plausible lab leak theory is that a naturally evolved worse version of virus had been identified and studied in a lab and then either accidentally or purposefully was released. No evidence of that so far has come to light.

E: not posting this as an argument against you just providing some more context.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2021 18:35

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Blind Rasputin posted:

What is the “tale tale signs of genetic manipulation”? Are we talking about restriction enzyme sites or something? Methylation patterns? I am genuinely interested in what these signs that they’re looking for and saying aren’t there in the wild Covid would be.

Some of it discussed here in one of the subsections

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 00:00

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1452116083561795588?s=20

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 01:12

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

More info on identification of lab created / modified viruses etc.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22734496/genetic-engineering-attribution-biosecurity-forensics-biological-detective-work

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 06:59

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

My Louisiana public HS made all of us take the asvab .

I had a full ride scholarship to a smaller state school and the local army recruiter was trying to talk me into some green and gold army program to enlist anyway.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 11:01

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Lake of Methane posted:

Service Gives Access to Citizenship

*Under management discretion, not all offers valid outside of the contiguous 48 states.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 13:54

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Crab Dad posted:

Imagine being so terrified of 14% of your population you have to stoop to these levels.

https://twitter.com/RK_Hayes/status/1452645940297338881?s=20

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 15:55

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

That Works posted:

More info on identification of lab created / modified viruses etc.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22734496/genetic-engineering-attribution-biosecurity-forensics-biological-detective-work

Another thread talking about some of the furin cleavage site stuff, ie why covid does not at all look like something that would be engineered with purpose vs naturally evolving.

https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1452640563711389697?s=20

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 15:58

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

The 1st Dune book is def worth a read if you like SciFi. You'll figure out pretty quick if its for you or not.

The 2nd book is a big dropoff but still kind of interesting. After that I pretend that they never existed and no one should read that garbage imo.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 17:20

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Basticle posted:

I got the J&J vaccine in April, only had some minor aches and joint pains,nothing some Advil couldn't take care of. I'm getting the Moderna booster Wednesday, should I expect it to kick my rear end?

There's too many factors to predict it well, ie individual genetic based responses, if you had prior exposure to covid (known or not) etc. I would just plan for it kicking your rear end and take the day off if you can.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 17:48

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/c0mmunicants/status/1452033649843453953

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 19:21

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/rayyago/status/1451542667490328584

https://twitter.com/AugustJPollak/status/1451379917137096727?s=20

That Works fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Oct 25, 2021

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 19:54

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Thwomp posted:

I’d say that Dune has less closure.

Fellowship had the movie arc of the group coming together, breaking apart, but the parts finding the courage and resolve to continue on. That was inside the larger, three movie arc of the quest to destroy the ring.

Dune really didn’t resolve much. Paul goes to Dune, Paul’s family is attacked and he is nearly killed, and he finds safety with the Fremen.

I really struggle with the structure of Dune 2021. It’s like if Star Wars ended after Obi-Wan dies and they escape the Death Star. What happens to the rebel cause? What happened to Obi-Wan? Where did the heroes end up going? What’ll happen to the Death Star? Will Luke get Justice for his father? What the deal with the Force? Why does this all matter?

I feel like I’m really pissing all over Dune. I liked a lot about it but I was left struggling for any resolution to the characters or plot.

I really liked the film and I also agree with this. They could have just called it dune part 1 and it would have probably made it a little bit better but yeah the ending barely registers as an ending and it's not meant to be a self-contained story but it doesn't even try to be one which as is already been said here is going to be fine after the sequel is out but until then the movie leaves you feeling a little empty at the end.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 21:03

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Basically Eva but with a healthy father / son relationship

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 21:30

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 15:40

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Mildly interesting thread

https://twitter.com/goranmuric/status/1452702795266596866?s=20

# ¿ Oct 26, 2021 00:04

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