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aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

A Fancy Hat posted:

FROM THE DESK OF DONALD J TRUMP

It was at 6:31 am today that I took a Powerful Dump, the likes of which the United States has not seen in "Many Years". Because Sleepy Joe Biden has been attacking the American Toilet, it took 10-15 flushes to "Get it All". Very disturbing development, and Not a Good Sign for the USA!

I can still hear Crazy Bernie Sanders inside the bathroom wall, scratching away and telling me "Socialism is Good!" No, Bernie, It's not!

Just want you to know that I appreciate these, and I hope you don't end up mentally scarred from getting in the right mindset. :)

Edit: Crappy snipe. Have some education:

aas Bandit fucked around with this message at 22:49 on May 7, 2021

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aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

Lifespan posted:

Sadly just got confirmation that a long time friend of mine is dumb. Asked if he got his vax and he said "No, it was rushed." After I explained that actually it was not rushed, just prioritized and fast tracked through the government sign off aspect, he then explained he "couldn't take 2 weeks off because he has to provide for his family." His family is only his wife who has a full time government position she has admitted to just remotely sleeping through for the last year and he just spent his stimulus check on a $1200 guitar. But to drive this further, his job provides him with PTO and as we all know... getting a vaccine does not require 2 weeks off, maybe a day or two after the second shot. After explaining that as well, he just said that he has been exposed to it dozens of times now so isn't worried. And I have not talked to him since and have no plans to.

From a few pages back, but I've lost quite a few old friends over the last few years, and distanced myself from a few family members for similar reasons, and it's really sad. The degree of infectious stupidity and irrational fear-mongering and conspiracy theories and just general denial of reality has been pretty impressive. Where once I might have humored folks or just changed the subject over "crazy opinions", I think we've all seen that poo poo fester and grow and result in Monty Python levels of wacky poo poo like Dermp Trermp becoming president (lol).

gently caress 'em--they can eat poo poo and stay the hell away from me.

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

From a few pages back, but this made my day better. This is exactly the way to handle idiots spouting disingenuous bullshit and "just asking questions" (at least in a context where you can't ask them why they're a stupid rear end in a top hat and you have to play the decorum game)--just treat the dipshit like they're an especially dim child and calmly state facts and don't even engage. Let them be mad about it. I could just feel Young's eyeroll, even though she was too professional to let it reach her face.

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

Vitamin Me posted:

Ok I overreacted a bit, thanks for all the replies :buddy:

Really having to focus and grit my teeth a little to avoid some lameass attempt at an own because...well, the SA forums *gestures vaguely*, but I'm really pleasantly surprised you didn't double down and have this turn into a back-and-forth shitfest.
Page space is better spent on fantastic photoshops (even though no one's added Bolsonaro yet).

Good job. Good response. <--Not sarcasm.

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

Time_pants posted:

like an accordion filled with salsa

:rice:

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

I initially read this as Abbott banning the vaccine itself instead of any sort of mandate and kinda just sighed and thought "well, alright then".

Give it a few weeks I guess, and maybe that will be his next move. Holy poo poo the stupid, it burns.

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

Frank Frank posted:

Holy loving poo poo he banned vaccination? This is next-level stupid.

Nah, he banned vaccine mandates. It's stated weirdly (I made the same assumption for a bit).

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

Does the HHS site link provided in this tweet fully load for anyone else?
The first chunk of data + map loads fine, and then it just grinds for the other two sections. Website busted? Too much traffic?

Also, remember when Trump called Pence a pussy?
lol

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

Xenocides posted:

https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1424191674922590211

LOL

Okay, this feels good. Took me a while to confirm but yeah…..it true.

What did you find to confirm? I'd love to pass this along to folks--"Republicans sick from covid is loving up their attempted power grab" is some juicy poo poo--but from the only stories I can find it sounds like it's still just the lack of Dems that's keeping them from hitting quorum?

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

Gutter Phoenix posted:

I feel like poo poo really went off the rails in early 2016 when those Bundy scumbags invaded a national wildlife preserve, occupied it for 40 days, and were set free by a jury of especially dumb Oregonians.

That should have been a huge red flag that Trumpy bear might actually be elected president.

This was from a few pages back, but it really resonated. Although we had decades of bullshit and Reagan as president and constant right-wing nonsense happening throughout the 80s and 90s, that was the first time I remember feeling really shocked, like I had entered some kind of parallel universe. It was like, "...wait...we watched all this poo poo live on television for weeks, and the decision is "nah, nevermind"?! And everyone's just going to nod and say "yeah, that's too bad". What the gently caress is even happening?!"

And then Trump as president, which weakened the gently caress out of my general faith in humanity, but I was able to comfort myself and sorta rationalize it a little as "people are just ignorant as gently caress and have no idea what the they're doing; that's too bad".

And then the orange shitgoblin was almost reelected and we barely dodged "Trump2: poo poo Gets Even More Real" despite four full years of absolute batshit insanity on a daily basis. At that point there was no more excusing people on general principle. In a weird way, it's sort of helped, because I kind of gave up on the idea that "most people are okay" and now I'm not quite so shocked and upset when people do stupid poo poo like refusing a free vaccine and killing off their loved ones and their parents and their own kids to own the libs.

lol

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

Mushika posted:

If my 92 (vaccinated) grandfather gets COVID, that's it for him.

That doesn't seem to be the case, even for the very old. The vaccine takes a lot of the bite out of it if you're unlucky enough to get it anyway.

The rate of death for all vaccinated folks who have gotten a breakthrough case of covid after being vaccinated looks like it varies from a tiny fraction of a percent to, at most, maybe 2% judging from the info on the chart at the bottom of the page here:
https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/
(no info for Louisiana specifically)

Granted, common sense says it's going to be higher risk for someone who's 92, and who knows what delta might change (not to mention hospitals being hosed), but it's certainly not a done deal if he gets it.

Hang in there, and good luck. I'm sorry you have to deal with stupid assholes.

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

This made me lol irl. Thank you.

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

This is solid for folks who aren't science literate--passing along.
Thanks for posting it.

Edit: loving snipe...okay this huge block o' text was previously a series of tweets summarizing the wonders that Trump accomplished in his four years of hard work.
The Twitter account is now suspended for whatever reason, so I'm glad I saved it off. It's fun to just pick random bits of insanity from to respond with when someone tries to bullshit about "how much better we used to be".

American Ethical posted:

I owe my Trump-supporting friends an apology. I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency these last four years, and am still exhausted from the experience. But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than when he incited an insurrection against the government, mismanaged a pandemic that killed nearly half a million Americans, separated children from their families, lost those children in the bureaucracy, tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church, tried to block all Muslims from entering the country, got impeached, got impeached again, had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history, pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden, fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia, bragged about firing the FBI director on TV, took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community, diverted military funding to build his wall, caused the longest government shutdown in US history, called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate,” lied nearly 30,000 times, banned transgender people from serving in the military, ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions, vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers, refused to release his tax returns, increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion, had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history, called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers, coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist, refused to concede the 2020 election, hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House, walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl, called neo-Nazis “very fine people,” suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID, abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey, pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans, incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic, withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords, withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal, withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership which was designed to block China’s advances, insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter, pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op, failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies, called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries, called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation,” claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere, forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe, suggested the US should buy Greenland, colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges, repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people,” claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases, violated the emoluments clause, thought that Nambia was a country, told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public, called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution, nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet, nominated a corrupt head of the EPA, nominated a corrupt head of HHS, nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department, nominated a corrupt head of the USDA, praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies, refused to allow the presidential transition to begin, insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death, spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president, falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote, called the Muslim mayor of London a “stone cold loser,” falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year, considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions, mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID, locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones, used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus,” hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser, pardoned several of his shady associates, gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories, got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!), had a Secretary of State who called him a moron, forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history, botched the COVID vaccine rollout, tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him, charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties, constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate, claimed that COVID would “magically” disappear, called a U.S. Senator “Pocahontas,” used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise, opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling, got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers, claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US, ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings, blew off honoring American war dead in France because it was raining, redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle, got played by Kim Jung Un and his “love letters,” threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution, botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them, pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes, thought that the Virgin islands had a President, drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane, allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing, rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and asbestos, pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID, rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers, held blatant campaign rallies at the White House, tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a Black man, refused to attend his successors’ inauguration, nominated the worst Education Secretary in history, threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted, attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci, promised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn’t), allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues, struggled navigating a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble, called an African-American Congresswoman “low IQ,” threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders, went ahead with rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic, claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts,” seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution, demanded “total loyalty” from the FBI director, praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles, completely gutted the Voice of America, placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service, claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower, suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country, suggested that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public, overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported, reduced the number of refugees the US accepts, insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames, gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address, named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties, eliminated the White House office of pandemic respon used soldiers as campaign props, fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him, demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade, hired a poo poo ton of white nationalists, politicized the civil service, did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked US, falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts, claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won, insulted reporters of color, insulted women reporters, insulted women reporters of color, suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uighurs, attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him, summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election, spent countless hours every day watching Fox News, refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas, hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer, tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him, acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney, attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault, held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present, didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media, stopped holding press briefings for months at a time, “ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power, led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform, claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers, tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course, suggested that the government nuke hurricanes, suggested that wind turbines cause cancer, said that he had a special aptitude for science, fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure, blurted out classified information to Russian officials, tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida, fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban, hired Stephen Miller, openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them, interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel, abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war, tried to get Russia back into the G7, held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden, seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive, lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated, falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t, shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies, still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan, still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure", forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID, told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” hosed up the Census, withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic, did so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings,” allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act, seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win, constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president which presumably includes four that were assassinated and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump, claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened, said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake, claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him, claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President, created a commission to whitewash American history, retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain, claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there, hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims, had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others, bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties, apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House, stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians, falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police, said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about, tried to rescind protection from DREAMers, gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic, tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax, said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states, deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented, claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln, touted a “super-duper” secret “hydrosonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all, retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile, forced through security clearances for his family, suggested that police officers should rough up suspects, suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs, tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender, suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher, nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy, retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “gently caress tha Police” at a campaign event, hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags, accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address, claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia, mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, obsessed over low-flow toilets, ordered the rerelease of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release, called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek), hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech, took advice from the MyPillow guy, claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists, said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition, never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign, falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent, announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defense secretary to resign in protest, insulted the leader of Canada, insulted the leader of France, insulted the leader of Britain, insulted the leader of Germany, insulted the leader of Sweden (Sweden!!), falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues, blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually, continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders, said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked, left a NATO summit early in a huff, stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that, called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary, refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise, and a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment.
But other than that...

aas Bandit fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Aug 28, 2021

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

No. 1 ANIME HATER posted:

The simple version of viral load:

if you scrape your skin with a needle with HIV you'll get like a couple of HIV viruses and your body goes "hey they don't belong here" and then 6 million white blood cells curb stomp those 5 HIV viruses and you don't have HIV.

If you inject yourself with a few drops of blood from the HIV needle your body goes "hey they don't belong here" and the 6 million white blood cells get their asses kicked by the tens of thousands of HIV viruses.

With covid, you've almost certainly had a couple of covids get in you just from adjusting your mask or rubbing your eyes. Exposure is almost guaranteed at this point.

But because you're a socially distanced hand-washing mask wearer your body got hit by like 50 covid viruses and you kicked their asses.

If you're a disgusting hog butt-chugging sheep shampoo and screaming at a rally with other diseased hogs you're inhaling 50 million covid viruses and now you have to get in the forever box.

I enjoy your explanations of things. Seriously. [not sarcasm]

No. 1 ANIME HATER posted:

5-10ml of semen taken as a suppository will cure any ailment in men because it increases testosterone levels while stimulating the prostate.

When's the last time you saw a gay pride float that wasn't all absolutely shredded buff dudes?

...mostly.

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

Powershift posted:

I need help trump thread

i found a guy selling horse paste on craigslist for $10 a tube so i bought a couple. i tried to take a little bit but it was so delicious, horseradish flavored, so i ended up eating the whole tube.

Am i gonna die?

It's Arby's brand horsey paste if that helps

Step 1: Change nick to "Powershit".

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

John Wick of Dogs posted:

I feel so bad for fight attendants

https://twitter.com/timheidecker/status/1435996508940226562?s=19

They're getting this poo poo every day

Legit lol from me at "Everyone I know is a lawyer!"

Asterite34 posted:

This is the fourth one though

There are four god snot movies. What a country.

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

Tenkaris posted:

I have 288 followers and given the socialist anarchy I spew I can’t imagine any of them were considering horse drugs but some guy with 12 followers wants me to apologize and repent or something?

Like the tweet was just “I just saw an article about ivermectin making men infertile. So.. people believing that the vaccine is secret population control, instead they're taking horse dewormer that makes them sterile? That’s a lol”

It only mentions having seen an article and the idea being funny to me, I really don’t get why it even merits the response :shrug:

A few pages back, but I had this happen too--I posted about how "lol horse paste idiots are sterilizing themselves and giving Darwin a ghost-stiffy" and a couple of days later someone responded with a link debunking the original study.

So then I removed the post, because it's false and I'm tired of dipshit chuds spreading nonsense and then doubling down, and I don't really want to imitate them.
I didn't "apologize and repent". I just hit delete. It took three seconds. This isn't complicated.

You're rationalizing that posting misinformation and leaving it up for other people to potentially read and spread is okay because you're one of the good guys.

(Oh, and I'd like a frosty too.)

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost
A friend of mine made a good FB post today urging folks to wear their masks. Someone, of course, had to respond with the typical noise about how viruses are so much smaller than the holes in the mask that "it won't do anything".

Giving her the benefit of the doubt (I know), I explained how the point of wearing a mask is to protect others and slow the spread, and how, yes, holes in masks are larger than viruses, but are smaller than the aerosolized droplets of fluid from your potentially infected lungs, mouth, and nose. I threw in a comment asking if she thought heart surgeons were afraid of catching a heart attack, and finished with, "wearing a mask means you care about other folks' welfare".

The response?

"Wearing a mask means you care about other folks welfare?! Do other folks concealed carry to care about my welfare?"

I...I just...that's...something right there.

aas Bandit fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Sep 22, 2021

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
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trickybiscuits posted:

I was trying to make a joke but gently caress it, link her to the Herman Cain awards and be done with it.

I just said I was sorry and hadn't realized she was that stupid, and wished her good luck with shooting covid.

Strong Sauce posted:

the whole the virus is too small for masks to block was something i listened to and then decided not to bother too much with masks... at the very beginning of the pandemic... when we knew nothing about the virus.

once they determined it was spread via aerosol and that the higher the concentration of the virus made it more likely you'd get sick, wearing masks is like the least effort thing you could do to prevent its spread. it is unbelievable how much they've just decided to ignore once the actual science went against their viewpoint. i was wrong at the beginning but once more information came out you realize how much masks _could_ possibly prevent, its like a no-brainer...

Yeah, a lot of us initially had doubts and concerns about various things. My first reaction when I heard about a vaccine coming out so soon was "Holy poo poo, that fast? That's good, but it also seems like it might be a shitshow of side effects..." and I held off for...a couple of weeks, I think, while reading a lot and looking for any sort of legit news of badness. It quickly became obvious that any side effects were minimal/rare and that it was saving a lot of lives. Wow, that was easy.

It's really not that hard to make good decisions, assuming you have any sort of decent reasoning ability, aren't completely brain dead, and give a gently caress about other people.

Edit: Have some extra stuff for the top of the page:

aas Bandit fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Sep 22, 2021

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
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Nap Ghost

Herman Merman posted:

That's not how respirator masks work. Microscopic particles just don't behave the same way as peas or billiard balls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_filter_(respirator)#Mechanism_of_operation

That's great, but the vast majority of people aren't wearing respirator masks. That's not what was being discussed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirator#Contrast_with_surgical_mask

CPA Hell posted:

I know this thread is for lols, but I went through this exact same trajectory and now I’m really struggling because many of my friends went through the same, but came out on the other side. And what’s made this misinformation campaign so powerful is that it gives the resisters the assurance that they are reasoning, are smart and are taking care of other people by not falling for a scam. All their news sources are skewed right and supporting them in these positions and making the other side look ridiculous.

If anyone has any serious suggestions for how to get through to them I’d love to hear it. So far I’ve been using “take all the politics out of it, and listen to what experts you know personally are saying. I know a pharmacist with over 40 years experience, another PharmD, my doctor who has always been spot on with diagnosis, and two doctor clients and they are 100% in favor of the vaccines and masking, social distancing etc. so I’m just listening to them.” It’s made some headway, but all this misinformation plays on emotions and vulnerabilities in ways you can’t just out talk with rational information.

In my experience, the only friends and family who ended up on the other side were already right-wing leaning and/or Fox News consumers. I've pretty much just written them off and :sever:ed and it's made my life a lot less stressful. I'm all out of understanding and tolerance. Hundreds of thousands of preventable covid deaths and the last couple of years in general (including Trump nearly winning a second term after 4 years of insanity. What. The. gently caress.) really did a number on the casual faith in humanity and general sympathy for ignorance I've had for my whole life. I am no longer the person I was.

Some people suck. Those people can eat poo poo (and do it somewhere else away from me).

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

"Chasity"

"yaw"

aas Bandit
Sep 28, 2001
Oompa Loompa
Nap Ghost

Herman Merman posted:

Cloth masks, surgical masks and respirator masks all work by the roughly the same filtration mechanisms.

You're right about the reason for wearing masks, but wrong about the way they work. The holes in the mask do not have to be smaller than the particles for it to filter some of them. It's not a sieve. Aerosolized droplets can be much smaller than the pores of a cloth mask, yet it filters some fraction of them.

okay

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Sep 28, 2001
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learnincurve posted:

The cropped the wrong part, what the gently caress is this



Panny pack.
("Panny" is short for panniculus.)

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