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Brute Squad posted:Well it was Flint, so you have about a 1 in 3....hahaha who am I loving kidding. Whelp. I got that one wrong. https://www.abc12.com/content/news/3-charged-with-murder-of-Family-Dollar-security-guard-over-face-mask-dispute-570178991.html :edit: lovely snipe feel good content https://twitter.com/kateirby/status/1257316914310701057 Brute Squad fucked around with this message at 21:30 on May 4, 2020 |
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It's an easy way to see acceleration/change in acceleration. How does yesterday compare to today? Dont overthink it.
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There has been a minor bit of confusion in the vote on the Senate floor today, as drat near everyone is masked up. The clerks get momentarily puzzled while the Senators identify themselves for the vote. That wasn't a problem for one senator. https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1257432551683231759 Edit: https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1257466169767821312 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 01:36 on May 5, 2020 |
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Brute Squad posted:Whelp. I got that one wrong. What a world we live in. quote:Nunes with Biss as his attorney in Virginia is suing Twitter along with anonymous people who make fun of Nunes on Twitter under the personas of “Devin Nunes’ Cow” and “Devin Nunes’ Mom.” Twitter is asking a judge to dismiss the lawsuit, and a hearing is scheduled for June.
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Woofer posted:I don’t think we would be in this position at all. The US is a really lovely country but I think we did a lot to keep things in check. To answer this! SARS was MORE deadly, by a magnitude of something like 10%-- as in, that's the percentage of infected people that it managed to kill. It was a scary loving pathogen that was stopped in its tracks once it reached outside of China, but it was a major problem in China when it hit, and they didn't really know what they were dealing with. SARS-CoV-2 is named what it is because it's very clearly a genetic offshoot of SARS-CoV-1 (or 'SARS Classic' as it's being called), but it's wildly more successful wrt who it infects, mostly because of its lengthy incubation period and 'silent'/asymptomatic spreading period. That's something SARS Classic lacked. That being said: there's a good chance the US would still be in bad shape if we had a functioning government, mostly because we'd still have Fox News braying nonstop about it being a hoax, except they'd be doing it a lot more, and a lot more loudly, if the president happened to be a Democrat. Even with a pandemic team, we'd still be facing a full-on lockdown as contact tracing and test infrastructure got boosted to the extent that it needed to be, but it wouldn't be so protracted. We'd instead be in Germany's shoes, or South Korea's, if everything went 'according to plan,' though that comes with a major caveat: there'd still be assholes out in the street protesting/exacerbating things. I forgot who said it, but SARS-CoV-2 poses unique threats to America especially due to the divisions at the ground level. That would still be the case no matter how functional the government happened to be. That said, I definitely believe that, with or without idiots exacerbating the threat, we would still be seeing far fewer infections, and way less deaths. NYC would probably still be in trouble, though, just given that the city is packed nut-to-butt in terms of sheer density. See also: subway as the perfect method of dispersal. EDIT: MERS is 40% fatal in those it infects, so-- that one was pretty scary when it surfaced. Thankfully, it's not anywhere near as infectious as SARS Classic/CoV-2, and the clusters tend to be relatively self-contained when they pop up. A MERS off-shoot, however-- I could see that posing problems in the future if it spins off something less deadly but more infectious. According to this episode of TWIV, however, there's a coronavirus task force being put together and lead by the woman who has studied this family of viruses more than pretty much any active researcher on the planet. It's for the purposes of studying the current pandemic, but it sounds like it'll expand to deal with the potential for MERS-2 or whatever else might be spinning up in animal reservoirs. EDIT 2: vvv 
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Want to know how toxic the armed protests are? https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1257482269092020224 That toxic.
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Face-Eating Leopard Party Propagnda Minister Surprised Face Eaten By Leopards
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facialimpediment posted:Want to know how toxic the armed protests are? Is Donald about to back down from psyching these people up?
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I want him to don a cape Goering style
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TFW you take your VA benefits card with you to invade Venezuela https://mobile.twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1257495544538304513q
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Well, you're ~supposed~ to bring multiple forms of ID with you just in case your primary means gets stolen! 
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It is so unfathomably stupid that I can't tell if it's more likely to be some weirdo merc fantasy plan or if some merc was like "sure, Maduro can pay me a few thousand bucks to look like a total idiot on the TV and get some sea spray on my tactical shorts"
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mlmp08 posted:It is so unfathomably stupid that I can't tell if it's more likely to be some weirdo merc fantasy plan or if some merc was like "sure, Maduro can pay me a few thousand bucks to look like a total idiot on the TV and get some sea spray on my tactical shorts"  People do stupid poo poo for book deals, and hey, so long as there's a 0.00000001% chance that you might be able to engineer something that gets you a piece of that sweet, sweet oil money,  .
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shame on an IGA posted:TFW you take your VA benefits card with you to invade Venezuela Apparently these guys weren't being paid the promised amount too, lmao.
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CommieGIR posted:Apparently these guys weren't being paid the promised amount too, lmao. So trump was in on it
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https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1257594058517684225 I can only hope that there’s some arcane secret society that will be keeping watch over Musk’s kid to make sure he doesn’t fulfill some prophecy and become Baphaelizar, Cybernetic Devourer of Worlds, or at least stop him from jamming his head up his own rear end like his dad has repeatedly done.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1257594058517684225 I hope he’s just trolling but if he isn’t, I think naming your baby crazy poo poo like that is some incredibly entitled billionaire poo poo because otherwise you’re stacking the deck against your kid in a normal public school.
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Fallom posted:Is Donald about to back down from psyching these people up? I feel like it may not matter, it's an open question in my mind whether or not the Ersatzgruppen types are on the verge of getting away from them. I'd bet money that the Republican establishment thinks this will all just go away once it is no longer useful to business. What worries me is that a lot of nasty people are being platformed and handed ready made venues for networking, radicalizing, and recruiting. Plutocrats always think they're in charge of their fash "allies" until suddenly they're not.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1257594058517684225 That kid is going to grow up thinking that sexy murder games is completely normal way to live.
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I hope he Michael Jacksons his kids. Not molest, I mean hang out a window haphazardly. He seems more like the Eric Clapton type though, just leave a window open and the problem solves itself. Then we'll get a song about it 20 years later. Grimes - tears from mars
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Grimes - tears from mars gently caress
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I hope he Michael Jacksons his kids. The kid will depressurize the Mars colony building and kill them all. 
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Doesn't musk already have a mess of kids that he already ignores? Or am I misremembering things? Put one musk kid on each colony ship. E: 7 kids, one is already dead. Dude fucks, that's for sure.
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It’s always weird to me how people like Musk think that they will be able to withstand life in some inhospitable environment. The dude grew up rich and has never truly struggled in his life. He melts down when people contradict him on twitter. How does his thin skinned self think he’s surviving in the barren wastes of Mars? I know he over hypes his intellect and his actual parts in his company, but I’d think he’s smart enough to know that colonizing another planet would be pure agony.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:It’s always weird to me how people like Musk think that they will be able to withstand life in some inhospitable environment. The dude grew up rich and has never truly struggled in his life. He melts down when people contradict him on twitter. How does his thin skinned self think he’s surviving in the barren wastes of Mars? I know he over hypes his intellect and his actual parts in his company, but I’d think he’s smart enough to know that colonizing another planet would be pure agony. Throw money at it. It solves everything.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Doesn't musk already have a mess of kids that he already ignores? Or am I misremembering things? At least the 5 from his first wife were from in vitro fertilization, so he does not indeed gently caress.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:It’s always weird to me how people like Musk think that they will be able to withstand life in some inhospitable environment. The dude grew up rich and has never truly struggled in his life. He melts down when people contradict him on twitter. How does his thin skinned self think he’s surviving in the barren wastes of Mars? I know he over hypes his intellect and his actual parts in his company, but I’d think he’s smart enough to know that colonizing another planet would be pure agony. Remember, agony is subjective and he likely thinks that it being agony means he has to use a weird toilet and other people do all the sweaty parts
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:At least the 5 from his first wife were from in vitro fertilization, so he does not indeed gently caress. Yeah, I saw that. He talks big game but is just the proto-beta.
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He's just a giant computer nerd who made some good bets during the dot com boom, so now just because he has a bunch of money, people feel obligated to listen to him.
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Better him than Grimes' music, I guess. I don't know what her music sounds like, but I'm assuming it's various shrieks mixed poorly over out of tune mixer poo poo.
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A Bad Poster posted:He's just a giant computer nerd who made some good bets during the dot com boom, so now just because he has a bunch of money, people feel obligated to listen to him. Even worse: He's a child of people who benefited from gem farming under Apartheid and comes from a family of racists, his racist brother is on the Tesla board. He's also so bad that the C level suite at Tesla has a higher turnover rate than some call centers. SpaceX is largely successful because Musk is kept at arms length away from the engineering decision process.
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https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1257495544538304513 For those who've not seen it, more info on the people captured in Venezuela. Apparently there's a VA card involved. Here's an article version; https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/venezuela-americans-nabbed-failed-coup-plot-200505025057889.html This seems like it should be an important thing but ehh?
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Erghh posted:For those who've not seen it, more info on the people captured in Venezuela. Apparently there's a VA card involved. I mean, over the last 40 years or so it's kind of assumed there are people with guns being paid by the US running around everywhere in Latin America, isn't it? If it turned out the CIA and DEA weren't paying contractors in Venezuela that would be more surprising.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Better him than Grimes' music, I guess. She’s an eccentric but super creative musician. Her second to last album Art Angels was a pretty good listen, even if that type of music isn’t usually my cup of tea. Her last album was a pile of self-indulgent garbage about AI and the “fun side of climate change” so I’m just gonna pretend that she quit after her last album, just like how Weezer broke up after Pinkerton.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:I mean, over the last 40 years or so it's kind of assumed there are people with guns being paid by the US running around everywhere in Latin America, isn't it? If it turned out the CIA and DEA weren't paying contractors in Venezuela that would be more surprising. Yeah but these dickheads were getting paid by the heir to the Kraft family fortune (of cheese fame). Or apparently not really getting fully paid, like a bunch of chumps.
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