Chad Sexington posted:

Reading Hanya Yanagihara's new book and it's mostly tortured literary fluff, but the third of three stories is a future story set in New York after successive waves of various pandemics in the 2090s or plus various knock-on climate change side effects.

It feels both grimly plausible and yet also totally out of reach because she describes pandemics getting so bad that society is actually spurned to become authoritarian instead of just slowly drifting that way naturally while letting people die in droves.

I guess once we got to the point where there are large numbers of visible climate refugees, people would take an airborne pandemic seriously... as a reason to holocaust other people.

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The new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire.

It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives—brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria—the island revolts.

To stop the epidemic, the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II sends his most accomplished quarantine expert to the island—an Orthodox Christian. Some of the Muslims, including followers of a popular religious sect and its leader Sheikh Hamdullah, refuse to take precautions or respect the quarantine. And then a murder occurs.

As the plague continues its rapid spread, the Sultan sends a second doctor to the island, this time a Muslim, and strict quarantine measures are declared. But the incompetence of the island’s governor and local administration and the people’s refusal to respect the bans doom the quarantine to failure, and the death count continues to rise. Faced with the danger that the plague might spread to the West and to Istanbul, the Sultan bows to international pressure and allows foreign and Ottoman warships to blockade the island. Now the people of Mingheria are on their own, and they must find a way to defeat the plague themselves.

Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago, with themes that feel remarkably contemporary.

mawarannahr posted:

now is probably the time to invest in coffee substitutes like energy drinks. this is rock solid investing advice

Lacrosse posted:

Cross-posting from the econ thread: have you checked your bean hoard lately?

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1507050109904863236?s=20&t=MICgtZ3i6lvgT0Oa_HW5fA

Lacrosse posted:

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1507050109904863236?s=20&t=MICgtZ3i6lvgT0Oa_HW5fA

tenderjerk posted:

i just cant take this guy seriously sorry! 😀

Lacrosse posted:

Cross-posting from the econ thread: have you checked your bean hoard lately?

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1507050109904863236?s=20&t=MICgtZ3i6lvgT0Oa_HW5fA

Pillowpants posted:

Wastewater Data is back!

Missouri: Today I learned St. Louis is not in St. Louis county.
-Saint Louis City +183%
-Saint Louis County 1: +628%
-Saint Louis County 2: +736%
-Saint Louis County 3: +40%

Lastgirl posted:

You shouldn’t. He’s a piece of poo poo that kills everything he touches. While that sounds threatening, you can’t defend yourself so you must allow him to kill you, counter intuitive I know, but you said you weren’t going to take his murdering lying rear end seriously

https://twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/1507083754292056066?s=20&t=6Mq_pSiHfRdFeLDmwwZILA

mawarannahr posted:

just found some interesting info for fellow info heads

https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/A...ged-Facts-finds

now is probably the time to invest in coffee substitutes like energy drinks. consumers are more likely to buy energy drinks from the gas station or vending machine. at the same time, coffee is probably more affected by things like rising shipping prices and political instability. this is rock solid investing advice

Lastgirl posted:

You shouldn’t. He’s a piece of poo poo that kills everything he touches. While that sounds threatening, you can’t defend yourself so you must allow him to kill you, counter intuitive I know, but you said you weren’t going to take his murdering lying rear end seriously

https://twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/1507083754292056066?s=20&t=6Mq_pSiHfRdFeLDmwwZILA

Petanque posted:

but i drink tea

Petanque posted:

but i drink tea

silicone thrills posted:

Mr. Pizza posted:

what year is it

MLK Ultra posted:

reposting in new thread since COVID == over.

[vids]

Mr. Pizza posted:

what year is it

empty whippet box posted:

it's been a bad week for covid thread's posting enemies

Pingui posted:

Gio posted:

so i know lol goon project, but ive thought a lot about what a cspam covid doc would be like.

i have zero knowledge of how to do this but my IDEA was that it would have zero narration, zero interviews, zero Expose type poo poo—just a collection of videos that highlight the contradictions of this bizarre reality, like videos of freezer truck morgues with people partying it up.

i mean thats all i got. basically two hours of morgues and packed ICUs juxtaposed with people partying. with IRONIC song choices like black eyed peas and poo poo.

MLK Ultra posted:

reposting in new thread since COVID == over.

https://imgur.com/ShEoY2c.mp4

https://imgur.com/Ammm3bT.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/AACqm4q.mp4

https://imgur.com/Wi5ZrTz.mp4

https://imgur.com/9hhD3W6.mp4

Joementum posted:

[British accent narrator]

but then something happened that the CDC hadn’t planned

*static*

*footage of people banging pots from their balconies*

*footage of a child struggling to walk across a playground at school*

[Burial soundtrack begins playing]

Gio posted:

so i know lol goon project, but ive thought a lot about what a cspam covid doc would be like.

i have zero knowledge of how to do this but my IDEA was that it would have zero narration, zero interviews, zero Expose type poo poo—just a collection of videos that highlight the contradictions of this bizarre reality, like videos of freezer truck morgues with people partying it up.

i mean thats all i got. basically two hours of morgues and packed ICUs juxtaposed with people partying. with IRONIC song choices like black eyed peas and poo poo.

Gio posted:

so i know lol goon project, but ive thought a lot about what a cspam covid doc would be like.

i have zero knowledge of how to do this but my IDEA was that it would have zero narration, zero interviews, zero Expose type poo poo—just a collection of videos that highlight the contradictions of this bizarre reality, like videos of freezer truck morgues with people partying it up.

i mean thats all i got. basically two hours of morgues and packed ICUs juxtaposed with people partying. with IRONIC song choices like black eyed peas and poo poo.

Barry Soteriology posted:

wasn't there a goon in the last thread who got laid off and started posting videos kinda like what you're describing? and i think a different goon posted a compilation video that was pretty good earlier this year

edit: lol its been quoted on this page

loading... posted:

Covidisqatsi

Gio posted:

i have never seen or heard of this movie but after reading the description i am highly intrigued

Mr. Pizza posted:

what year is it

U-DO Burger posted:

4. biden announces a test to treat program where people can get free covid testing, and free covid treatment if they test positive

5. congress drops all federal funding for covid, completely killing the goals outlined in the roadmap, and the test to treat program, while making our already useless CDC community transmission map even worse

Toaster Beef posted:

telling the job tomorrow of my intention to hit da bricks

new gig is fully remote and a 20% raise

impetus to look for it was asking to only work two days a week in the office instead of three (i'm a heart patient, any reduction in potential exposure is a good thing) and basically being told to gently caress off

so i'm loving off

Toaster Beef posted:

telling the job tomorrow of my intention to hit da bricks

new gig is fully remote and a 20% raise

impetus to look for it was asking to only work two days a week in the office instead of three (i'm a heart patient, any reduction in potential exposure is a good thing) and basically being told to gently caress off

so i'm loving off

Iron Crowned posted:

Love that my work just sent out a "safety program" that I have to return a signed acknowledgement of. Like everything it's poorly written but includes the line "respirators are used only in the paint booth area."

I'm guessing I should probably order a case of Auras and start sourcing a Corsi Cube.

Rasczak posted:

good. i saw you in particular being one of the folks who were supportive in the thread, know that poo poo was both seen and appreciated

Toaster Beef posted:

telling the job tomorrow of my intention to hit da bricks

new gig is fully remote and a 20% raise

impetus to look for it was asking to only work two days a week in the office instead of three (i'm a heart patient, any reduction in potential exposure is a good thing) and basically being told to gently caress off

so i'm loving off