Limo
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@manmower : You may not think mandating vaccinations is a good idea now, with COVID-19 being a relatively benign virus and all, but what about when we’re hit with something truly serious like SARS?
Like it or not we’re probably heading towards a future where governments become much harsher in telling us what to do so we can continue to live together in those incredibly densely packed cities of ours without everyone getting killed. Think China - but hopefully without the Uighur thing.
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8 minutes ago, Claudius t Ansuulim said:
If you were indeed as big of a history buff as you claim then you would know that much of what we know of modern medicine came from those very experiments, and similarly unethical experiments conducted in the decades that followed wwii
Nazi experiments were terribly unscientific and yielded close to zero usable results.
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43 minutes ago, ignatius said:
perhaps it's a modern problem. but perhaps the FWP is i'm getting kicked out of the FWP thread for being too cringe pathetic because none of my problems are FWP and are of a different problem classification that has no thread except for the cringe thread maybe.
Being kicked out of the FWP thread is not in any way in itself an FWP.
It’s also not cringe. It’s more like “oof”.
45 minutes ago, ignatius said:fwp? the people i hired to take care of the lawn stopped showing up. had to deal w/it myself over the weekend and have to find someone else to take care of it.
Now this, this is an FWP. Congratulations, you get to stay.
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9 hours ago, ignatius said:
well paying 6 month temp job offer working from home for a audio software dev probably gonna have to pass because impending nuisance surgery will put me out for a week or so right at beginning of a busy/demanding part of it.
FML
Not a FWP.
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9 hours ago, zero said:
I wonder if it'll ever get to a point where hospitals stop treating covid patients that have refused vaccination. send them home with a pat on the head and a lollipop, and let them deal with that shit on their own.
Unfortunately, no. That’s not how doctors work.
Which is why antivaxxers are such unbelievable assholes: hey fuck it up for everybody.
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So despite starting the thread I hadn’t gotten around to playing with this yet because of 22 bucks and really don’t need more software. Now, however, I have, taking it with me on a holiday trip (short, not very far away because of COVID) on a 2019 iPad mini.
It really is a lot of fun. You can go fairly deep with it - or at least experiment with unusual routings. The interface is fantastic, really well thought out (but do read through the manual a little bit). Sound is a bit dull, maybe (although that might just be me) but probably fixable in post.
Overall really, really good. Recommended.
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47 minutes ago, xox said:
Am quite worried about you, ding man!
Yes, me too @dingformung
Go talk to someone. Seriously. If only to get some ointment for your fingers. They must be worn out from typing so much.
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11 hours ago, species8472 said:
enjoyed seeing at the olympics. these guys make it look too easy.
Anyone know where you can watch all of it? Our national tv station only provides clips of locals competing
BBC and Belgian tv have complete videos but they’re inaccessible to me.
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2 hours ago, cichlisuite said:
the Israeli guy's angle is like they own the place by default... isn't this the crux of the problem?
A while ago there was a clip posted here of the Israeli equivalent of John Oliver.
If that is supposed to be the voice of reason in Israel then just … wow.
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1 hour ago, Nebraska said:
anti-vax banger
Well that’s …
… a distinctive subsection of the population.
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2 hours ago, brian trageskin said:
got my 2nd shot yesterday and i'm having flu-like symptoms.
Very much so.
But, yeah, those second shots really deliver. Even my wife had some side effects and her immune system is made of steel.
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On the one hand … it doesn’t make his music any more or less good.
On the other hand: playing music for the Olympics is a pretty public thing to do and this, of course, looks pretty bad in public, so yeah, no choice but to let him go.
So: shrug.
(but really: bullying kids with Down syndrome? Wow)
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On 7/20/2021 at 12:53 AM, cichlisuite said:
surfhole butters
Surfhole Butlers
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The missus and I treated ourselves to a copy of Paleo, a two person cooperative game (these work best for us) that has you hunt mammoths, build stone spears and escape caves. Rules are on the difficult side of missus-proof, but doable. Harshness is right at our level (perpetual noobs) so when we won we felt like we accomplished something (and it was exciting). If you’re a hardcore board game nerd, it’ll probably be too easy, though.
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All Pfizered up.
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47 minutes ago, ignatius said:
i heard he puts his phone in this guy's red wagon
This is really cool, btw. Such an understandable oversight on Google’s part and such a humorous way to point it out.
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6 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:
Good job.
Also love the blatantly propagandist tone of the writing. The test flight was “clandestine”? How? It was neither illegal (what’s an illegal space flight anyway?) nor “secretive” - the article is filled with sound bites and info coming from Chinese defense contractors for crying out loud.
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This is pretty fun. What is this? Where is it taken from?
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9 hours ago, ghsotword said:
There is still some chance that the number of new COVID cases per day in the UK will not hit a new all time high before the grand reopening on July 19thThe Netherlands is doing great as well:
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Over here I’ve started work on the 73-75 Serge Homebuilt. The boards are spaciously laid out so soldering is not a big deal, but they’re big and I discovered you should really do each board in its entirety to keep things manageable. So it’ll be a while before there’ll be sound output.
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Right. So now it's the "muh freedom" people that are causing everyone to lose their freedom to go to places without wearing a mask.
Fantastic.
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11 hours ago, ignatius said:
i'm sure it's happened in other ways to various populations. i mean.. it's must've. generations of people doing the same things the same way has to become an inherited trait at some point right? as a result of the effects of physical stuff like sitting a certain way or something. maybe it takes a thousand years though.
There's the case of the tribe in Papua New Guinea that ate so many of the brains of their vanquished foes they developed a mutation that made them immune against Creutzfeld-Jacob type diseases (where proteins in brain tissue you eat end up damaging your own brain).
And of course the multiple times people decided milk was a good food source and developed a mutation that prevented the milk digesting gene to shut off at age five.
So, yes, can happen.
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11 hours ago, ignatius said:
i can't figure out if we're flirting though
Nurses are like bar people. The answer is no.
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5 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:
This is the #1 country song in the US
Now this, kids, is why the rest of the world thinks Americans are all a bunch of mentally defective goons.
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NOT Coronavirus COVID-19
in General Banter
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Yes, I believe you’re right and that this is the critical point. As long as enough people voluntarily take the vaccine it’s probably wisest not to force matters.
At the same time I also believe this crisis has exposed some serious weaknesses in Western (European) societies. All this having to tiptoe around individual liberties at the cost of everything else has made dealing with the pandemic rather messy and difficult. The contrast with East Asia is stark, of course, but there I’m also thinking of a place like Ghana where the government said “there’s a virus going around, keep your distance and be careful” and that is exactly what people did because, unlike Brits, say, or Dutchmen, they were not stupid.
Like Belgians, apparently. Despite their reputation for anarchy and governmental ineptitude they seem to have handled the pandemic quite well (for a Western country).