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Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/MainsJosiebee/status/1244086240829300738

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Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Six-Of-Hearts posted:

Is it cheating to link charlie kirk?

There are a lot of people who fall under the building brand by self owning so it can be hard to draw a line on that one.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019



https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1244671167954386947

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

goblin week posted:

I know a semi-popular vore artist who’s hell bent on proving the world that no females can ever be predators to the point of drawing revenge porn to the irl story of a female shark eating the male that was bothering her, so I really wonder what happens when those two meet

What the ever making GBS threads Christ.

There should be an alod about vore forums.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Grraarrgghh posted:

No idiocy to add but wanted to say I'm jazzed my Wasted thread icon is still getting some use.

That is some excellent icon making and I look forward to flying head first into a bin and dying to really show how much it means to me.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Memento posted:

Ignoring the vegetation, how the gently caress do those look like "Britain style houses"?

lol, how does it even look like Britain style sun.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Idiot tries to steal LaB's thunder and create a renegade thread. Caves immediately to let this one shine

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Captain Monkey posted:

Why do cops of all people use the Punisher logo. It’s so stupid to me.

:thunk:

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Untrustable posted:

Someone get Cyrano in here. I cannot for the life of me identify that gun and it's driving me insane.

It's a Magnum PI.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


https://twitter.com/liveluv707/status/1246220047615393794

Mao was right

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Memento posted:

Yeah not loving yet you didn't

Yeah, that's a great big finger pointed at fate right there.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Screaming Idiot posted:

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1246051681592320002



Yes, Dawkins, I'm sure "the best immunologist you know" is worried about Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey and a horde of Facebook wine moms over mass human deaths, you utter fuckwit.

He's not wrong though. If the vaccine ended up being another thalidomide it would give so much ammo to the anti-vaxxers it isn't funny. There is genuine reason to be concerned about this sort of thing.

Do not let this distract you from the fact Dawkins is a gibbering idiot.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Midnight Voyager posted:

You know what thalidomide did to people, right? Because it killed a lot of babies.

I don't think relaxing health and safety regulations is the way to get out of this, man.

Yeah. This is specifically someone saying "we need to check up on this poo poo so that we don't gently caress up an entire generation trying to fix a problem that will suck to ride out but not doom us all".

It's not saying it's about publicity. It's saying we can't gently caress this up because it will destroy a lot more than it saves if they get it even a bit wrong.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

For a more topical example of how hosed up things can get if a vaccine goes wrong

twoday posted:

yeah, for instance large scale BCG vaccinations took off in 1921 in large part because of the Spanish Flu making everyone very afraid of a TB pandemic. However in 1930 there was an accident in a German lab in Lübeck that led to some bad batch of vaccine being produced and 77 children dying, and then many places in Western Europe stopped doing BCG because they thought it was unsafe. In the meantime, that production error has been fixed and those risks no longer exist, but that's why it was not the policy in the former Axis countries (including Italy and the Netherlands, and Franco's Spain) to use BCG through the 1930's and 40's (and still to this day in those first 2 countries). However after 1945, in the post-war ruins, there began to be an increase in Tuberculosis cases in Germany, and as a result the occupying forces began vaccinating German children in 1946-7. The vaccines in West Germany came from Scandinavia, which had to massively scale up production, and this how BCG-Denmark strain became prominent in the West. In East Germany the Soviets also did a similar program, presumably with BCG-Moscow. The death rate for COVID in East Germany is still significantly lower than in West Germany today, and it is possible that the strain is the reason, as I said in my first post. However, now I think it might also be explained by the fact that the East Germans had a much more thorough vaccination program and booster shots that lasted through 1988-90, whereas in West Germany it was easier to opt out of vaccinations for religious reasons, there were no booster shots, and they ended universal vaccinations in 1975

If you're not following poo poo closely you might not understand it but the BCG vaccine is looking like it is a vaccine against COVID. So a fuckup with a vaccine has, in part, hosed up humanity for a long while.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Samovar posted:

I, unfortunately since it is Dawkins, agree. He's an unpleasant oval office and I despise him, but anti-vaxxers are worse.

Yeah, no one is on team Dawkins here but broken clocks etc.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Josef bugman posted:

Wait, really?

Is there any evidence for this?

Yes, a lot but it's all correlation right now so do not count on it being a thing. It's looking way better than anything else right now though.

Some random article about it

It's literally the most promising lead we have right now. That doesn't mean it's a sure bet but it's still A THING

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Powered Descent posted:

So according to your source, when you say "the BCG vaccine is looking like it is a vaccine against COVID", you mean that it might be partially effective, maybe, in a statistical sense, if you data-mine hard enough.


Except for, you know, all the actual vaccine candidates being developed and tested in labs all over the world right now.

You know how vaccines work right? They don't make you immune they just seriously decrease the chance something is being spread so that it can't go wild. If 100% of the population got a vaccine you would still have people get the disease but their ability to pass it on would be so reduced it would be negligible.

Yes, there are a poo poo tonne of vaccines being developed around the world right now and absolutely none of them are safe for mass deployment. The BCG vaccine is and has been for a century. That is huge.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

We have a strong contender for most ratio'd tweet ever.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


He's not getting ratio'd anywhere near hard enough for this.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1246664843991461888

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/gotravelgear/status/1246665737357361153

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

TheKennedys posted:

hell, :same:

mine's from being a career smoker though; I know what's gonna kill me and the rona is gonna have to get in line

Mine is from chronic bushfires. I'm currently in the phase of loving it because people stay away from me.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

goddamnedtwisto posted:

The frequencies start in the microwave region (which is also where wifi and a lot of existing mobile phone bands are already) and goes up to EHF, which is still miles short of even infrared and visible light. EMF doesn't get dangerous (in under-gigawatt powers) until you go all the way past visible light and into UVB.

e: I guess I'm the IoSM for not seeing that I was pages behind...

You were already the IoSM for posting. Being pages behind is second to that.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Memento posted:

Oh poo poo I thought this was actually the funny pictures thread. Today the IoSM is me.

Here's one I prepared earlier.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Skwirl posted:

All the nearby grocery stores are forbidding people to bring their own bags. It protects the grocery baggers.

We mostly use self serve + tap + bag yourself here. But that is mainly because the shops don't want to give you free bags or pay staff to do anything.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1247182354755604487

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

hyperhazard posted:

As someone points out in the replies, dude's being intentionally dumb. He's eaten at Indian restaurants before, and I'm guessing like most people in the world, he knows that chicken tikka masala is some type of Indian dish*, even if he doesn't know the exact recipe. It's the same sort of "common man" act that Bush and Reagan and generations before them put on, and it works on the kind of idiots who think cultural blending has just gone too far, dammit, what's wrong with burgers and shakes?


*Technically created in Scotland, I think?

Everything is hate clicks. From chuds on Twitter to giant newspaper conglomerates (yes, I know I'm repeating myself). Creating a post / article that is controversial is the easiest way to generate engagement which builds your brand. There is no metric for improving society that you can sell ads off.

You've just got to accept the crack and the ping and lean into it with a hearty laugh. Maybe hope they become the main guy on Twitter and delete their account.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


In case you're not across this a convicted child rapist and Australia's highest ranking Catholic priest had his conviction overturned today.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

TinTower posted:

Why did you say the same thing twice? :confused:

Convicted was part of the first one and that is not normally the case.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/PSlock/status/1247723313700487169

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Henchman of Santa posted:

Never forget that one of the numerous sexual harassment allegations against NDT was that he carries around an index card with a list of heavy set actresses on it as proof that women don’t experience body shaming any more than men do.

I did not know this about him. While I will never forget it I really wish I didn't know it in the first place.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


That's some galaxy brain poo poo right there.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


Trapt are manufactured pop. Stanning for them as a metal band is the saddest thing.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

HiroProtagonist posted:

good god that row is still going?

It's the only time someone has thought about the band in years. Of course they're going to keep going.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/RandallLuvsYou/status/1248790146587205632

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Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Screaming Idiot posted:

He and his buddies inspired synagogue shootings, rampant transphobia, bigotry of all kinds. He also did all of that poo poo to himself -- the drugs, the diet, the brain damage from trying to sleep his way through withdrawal.

I'm glad Peterson isn't dead, so he can suffer some more. I feel that way because I do have empathy -- for the people his bullshit philosophy harmed.

Harsh but fair

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


I deliberately avoided the replies to that thread. No good would come of it.

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Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

OhAreThey posted:

My first thought was bulimia. My sister lived with a roommate who kept containers of vomit in her room and they realized what was going on because of the smell.

It's a spin on an old Sherlock Holmes story about a woman who had a biracial child who they wanted to keep them a secret from their current husband.

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