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Killer robot posted:I don't know if these were the kind of spas which are fronts for sex work or the kind which absolutely are not, the two that got shot up in atlanta and not in the suburbs, were in the only spot in atlanta which could be vaguely considered a red light district. whether or not they actually were venues for the sex trade, the fact that the shooter drove to this specific neighborhood indicates to me that his actions were sex motivated
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A big flaming stink posted:did you read it? this is the literal text of the article In the full interview he clearly says "Don't leave because we're working on setting up a system so you can apply from the community you're trying to escape from"
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Mar 17, 2021 05:18
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Acebuckeye13 posted:In the full interview he clearly says "Don't leave because we're working on setting up a system so you can apply from the community you're trying to escape from" Sure but that's what's in the article and that's what the poster was being chastised for not reading. I agree the quote is not quite as bad and has been edited for maximum controversy, but it's ABC doing that not the poster.
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Mar 17, 2021 05:28
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Acebuckeye13 posted:In the full interview he clearly says "Don't leave because we're working on setting up a system so you can apply from the community you're trying to escape from" Thanks for posting this! Definitely gives a fuller context of that clip that they had previously tweeted.
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Mar 17, 2021 05:31
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I will agree the Axios article is hilariously devoid of context, and the ABC article isn't much better.
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Majorian posted:We did, it just died last October, lol.
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Grouchio posted:Thread revived! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3848439&pagenumber=7 God Bless You
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Grouchio posted:Thread revived! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3848439&pagenumber=7 Thanks Grouchio! All right, folks, let's move the immigration convo over there, since I expect that thread will outlive this one.
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SporkOfTruth posted:This is from a bit back, but G. Elliot should know better than to do this, barf. What a completely toxic and moronic application of an already stupid concept (replacement levels are arbitrary thresholds of labor exploitability, not political baselining!). The enormous problem with this analysis is that it discounts the fact that the ideology-based electability isn't directly dependent on the average partisan lean of a state/district in a two-party winner-takes-all system. The candidates that do well will (more-or-less) reflect the partisan lean of their voters, and the winner is the one that manages to do so better than the other candidate (+- all the other stuff that goes into voting). While partisan lean of a state and the distribution of ideology within voting blocks are going to be correlated, it's definitely not 1-1. Plus, it creates highly misleading axis intercepts that lead to his ridiculous interpretation that most Democratic would be replaced by someone to the right of them (and to the left for Republicans, if he had bothered to make that chart). E: Unless I'm missing a component of the construct - no time for a deeper dive. Stickman fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Acebuckeye13 posted:In the full interview he clearly says "Don't leave because we're working on setting up a system so you can apply from the community you're trying to escape from" Just get on the internet and fill out this form, or drop it in your local warlord run mail box if your internet connection was cut off or never installed in the first place because some nameless country destabilized your government as a favor to a multinational corporation, then wait six to eight months in the community you're trying to escape from for a response letter containing your position in next year's visa lottery. Its important you don't move during this time so the letter gets to your address. To help you out during the wait, we've put together a list of helpful tips for surviving violent and oppressive regimes formed in the wake of US foreign 'diplomacy'. We'll be pre-emptively mailing those forms out to Iran. And don't think we forgot about you Venezuela, the first coup attempt might not have taken but we'll keep backing Guaido until it does. Your letter is in the mail.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/WilliamTurton/status/1371897154571239427 It's a political investment. And likely a data harvesting operation. Breitbart isn't about "making money" either. It's a fascist propaganda tool.
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Important series of six articles, on the historical roots of some of the forces that have been loving the world: https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1370469022379216902?s=20
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Bucky Fullminster posted:Important series of six articles, on the historical roots of some of the forces that have been loving the world: drat you for posting this when only 5 out of 6 articles are finished!  (This is good stuff though)
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Bucky Fullminster posted:Important series of six articles, on the historical roots of some of the forces that have been loving the world: Just started reading it, and wouldn't you know it, they got some oldies but goodies in here. John Birch Society nuts, Roy Cohn, Phyllis Schlafly, Reagan, a laundry list of the shittiest figures in American History.
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Mar 17, 2021 09:57
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Relevant Tangent posted:Pettiness is one of Trump's defining character traits. Yes. Expecting Trump not to be a whiny little bitch every day till he finally strokes out and dies goes completely against everything he is from birth. That's part of why his cult loves him so much, it makes them feel powerful for being whiny little bitches too Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:the two that got shot up in atlanta and not in the suburbs, were in the only spot in atlanta which could be vaguely considered a red light district. whether or not they actually were venues for the sex trade, the fact that the shooter drove to this specific neighborhood indicates to me that his actions were sex motivated Wonder if maybe he actually went to them before expecting a happy ending and was pissed when he got nothing
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Mar 17, 2021 10:22
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Chase bank account reporting in, just got my BidenBux. Used direct deposit for my 2020 tax return.
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Mar 17, 2021 10:39
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Sir Lemming posted:Chase bank account reporting in, just got my BidenBux. Used direct deposit for my 2020 tax return. Same with BoA, haven't filed for 2020 but used direct deposit for 2019.
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Mar 17, 2021 12:46
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Same for my tiny CU.
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Thom12255 posted:Same for my tiny CU. Same and same.
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Mar 17, 2021 13:07
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I got less than I expected, but maybe that will be coming along later.
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Mar 17, 2021 13:15
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I'm still not even listed on the IRS.gov website 
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Mar 17, 2021 13:20
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FizFashizzle posted:I'm still not even listed on the IRS.gov website I assume someone at the IRS is loading diskettes into an old Amiga one by one to upload the names.
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Mar 17, 2021 13:26
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Slightly more local news, but University of Minnesota's health clinic is ending using race as a factor to determine kidney health. Here's a snippet of the article. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/m-health-fairview-end-common-162700598.html quote:M Health Fairview will no longer use race as an automatic adjustment in determining kidney health, following recommendations from a task force of its physicians convened last summer. Does anyone familiar with the medical field know how common/widespread this still is? I didn't know anything about this and am honestly a little surprised it was occurring.
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Mar 17, 2021 14:00
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Mmmm dat stimmy money hits nice. Credit union, used direct deposit for 2019 and 2020 tax refunds.
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Kalit posted:Does anyone familiar with the medical field know how common/widespread this still is? I didn't know anything about this and am honestly a little surprised it was occurring. I see the fine print on every panel.
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User Error posted:Mmmm dat stimmy money hits nice. Credit union, used direct deposit for 2019 and 2020 tax refunds. Same here. Definitely used my 2019 taxes for the full amount too
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J.A.B.C. posted:Just started reading it, and wouldn't you know it, they got some oldies but goodies in here. John Birch Society nuts, Roy Cohn, Phyllis Schlafly, Reagan, a laundry list of the shittiest figures in American History. And the simmering grudgefest over the New Deal and the US leaving the gold standard, apparently. I know this is a bit of a stretch here, but I have to wonder if the thought process of big business back then was "stick with the gold standard >>> prolong the Great Depression >>> hoover up assets at fire sale prices while watching the US fall headlong into Nazism >>> more money for us, gently caress you"?
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90s Solo Cup posted:And the simmering grudgefest over the New Deal and the US leaving the gold standard, apparently. I know this is a bit of a stretch here, but I have to wonder if the thought process of big business back then was "stick with the gold standard >>> prolong the Great Depression >>> hoover up assets at fire sale prices while watching the US fall headlong into Nazism >>> more money for us, gently caress you"?
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90s Solo Cup posted:And the simmering grudgefest over the New Deal and the US leaving the gold standard, apparently. I know this is a bit of a stretch here, but I have to wonder if the thought process of big business back then was "stick with the gold standard >>> prolong the Great Depression >>> hoover up assets at fire sale prices while watching the US fall headlong into Nazism >>> more money for us, gently caress you"? I mean, that sounds a lot like the Business Plot's endgame.
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I'm still getting the "no information available (we are working on this)" message when I check on the status of my Biden Bucks. Is anyone else encountering this? I filed my taxes around March 3.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I'm still getting the "no information available (we are working on this)" message when I check on the status of my Biden Bucks. Is anyone else encountering this? I filed my taxes around March 3. Has your return been marked 'accepted'? They may not be able to base it on your 2019 taxes since you filed already, but if your 2020 return isn't fully processed yet they may not be able to use that yet either. I filed back in February and got my stimulus cash based on my 2020 taxes today.
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Kalit posted:Slightly more local news, but University of Minnesota's health clinic is ending using race as a factor to determine kidney health. Here's a snippet of the article. Ubiquitous when you’re talking about nephrology. It’s a gold standard measurement and, from what I’ve seen, concerns only started being taken seriously last year. I haven’t seen anything game-changing released yet from the task force their convened to look into it, but there will probably be a good bit of debate once they do.
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KitConstantine posted:Has your return been marked 'accepted'? They may not be able to base it on your 2019 taxes since you filed already, but if your 2020 return isn't fully processed yet they may not be able to use that yet either. I filed back in February and got my stimulus cash based on my 2020 taxes today. I think they have been. My refund is scheduled to be deposited today.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:him sucking was super well-known and nobody's ever really liked him. He was known for being responsible for the republicans controlling the state senate despite democrats having the majority by getting some democrats to caucus with the republicans (no it made no sense) which let him prevent progressive stuff from getting passed while blaming the republicans in the state senate for it. he only turned around and dissolved it in 2018 when AOC started pointing it our and he got scared. That's a good point and I didn't think of that. What is notable, is that it looks like his earlier obsession with COVID Press Conferences played out especially during it's Winter peak but as far as I can tell he's done at this point. No amount of cleverly crafted media events will get him out of this hole and it doesn't look like has has the decency to resign. Gucci Loafers fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:His pandemic TV stuff wasn't even because of Trump in the background, like every loving governor did that press briefing stuff and all of them got approval bumps and cult-of-personalities springing up about it. Andy Beshear a Democrat in Kentucky who won by only 5,000 votes against the biggest rear end in a top hat alive 3 months prior had mugs getting sold of his catchphrases and cut-outs getting posted in gas stations to remind us to socially distance. The only different thing about cuomo's briefings was that he was in New York so the media paid more attention to him due to media provincialism. If he had been Governor of any other state except maybe california and done the exact same poo poo not a soul would have noticed. That the media is based in new york was part of it, but the other part was that in March/April New York was in a much worse state than a lot of other places so the disaster would probably have been the national focus anyway. Left unsaid is that in large part it was in a much worse state due to Cuomo himself not taking it seriously because he'd rather slap down DeBlasio's feeble efforts to take it seriously to show Cuomo is the boss and overturning measures to avoid getting New York into the disaster it was back then.
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Kalit posted:Slightly more local news, but University of Minnesota's health clinic is ending using race as a factor to determine kidney health. Here's a snippet of the article. https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/how-we-fail-black-patients-pain The American medical field is full of misinformation regarding the treatment of black people and its largely rooted in the slave origin of the US. One half of white medical students have some really terrible understandings of the physiology of black people. Specifically that: ABOVE LINK posted:“Black people’s nerve endings are less sensitive than white people’s.” “Black people’s skin is thicker than white people’s.” “Black people’s blood coagulates more quickly than white people’s.” https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/racism-discrimination-health-care-providers-patients-2017011611015 Knowing this I would suspect that there are other underlying racial bias within the medical field we haven't even touched on, including your information.
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Killin_Like_Bronson posted:Knowing this I would suspect that there are other underlying racial bias within the medical field we haven't even touched on, including your information. I strongly suspect there's a ton of random "this is the test for X" where the test was slapped together by someone in the 1960s on a subject that doesn't get a lot of attention and so nobody has really gone back and asked "does this make any sense and does it have any valid scientific basis? can we do better?" and well if it was the 1960s, boy you might have some bad stuff in there. There was also the NFL settlement where people have sued because the criteria for dementia also have a race component - in essence I think the criteria assume black people have lower mental functioning at baseline - so that black players are being denied with symptoms that would get a white player compensation under the settlement. A lot of organizations/industries have this sort of long-forgotten cruft in there and people on the outside assume that it's all got a much stronger basis than it does, when in actuality the basis is "well it works well enough and nobody has wanted to put in the effort to change it/improve it"
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Kalit posted:Slightly more local news, but University of Minnesota's health clinic is ending using race as a factor to determine kidney health. Here's a snippet of the article. This is based off the paper here. https://www.mnmed.org/getattachment...aspx?lang=en-US It's a quick read. eGFR is a very quick and dirty way to estimate kidney health that effects how you dose certain medications and imaging. you can do it here. https://www.kidney.org/professionals/KDOQI/gfr_calculator It's also a way to figure out if you're at risk for chronic kidney disease, and that'll get you a trip to a nephrologist who will do much fancier tests to figure that out. Part of the eGFR is creatinine which is a waste product created by muscle work. The higher the creatinine level in the blood, the worse the kidneys are functioning....theoretically. However, a big buff dude is going to have a naturally higher creatine level than a frail little grandma etc, it's not perfect, there are better tests. the study posted:The race adjustment exists because, in the original two studies, researchers noted that self-identified African Americans had higher true GFRs for the same creatinine level when using more expensive and time-consuming measurements such as nuclear medicine measurements. so essentially it's trying to mimic a result they see in more complicated tests. However... quote:In looking at the participants in the original MDRD study in 1999, the African American participants were more likely Now african americans are prone to higher blood pressure for whatever reason, but this study is saying that that it's not that they're black inherently, it's that black people are going to be more susceptible to kidney damage through things that we know cause kidney damage like diabetes, htn, kidney disease, etc. This is not definitive. This paper is saying that the nephrologists at this institution are comfortable leaving out race as part of GFR. And the difference is basically creatinine (one of the components of eGFR) is adjusted to .21 or .16 percent then thrown into the calculator. They're doing away with that. A couple of interesting considerations from the article. quote:Continuing to adjust eGFR upwards for Black patients may under-diagnose chronic kidney disease (CKD), lead to lower referrals to specialists or not meeting kidney transplant waitlisting threshold, play a role in why Black Americans dialyze more often initially through central lines rather than fistulas and continue the use of medications such as contrast dyes The obvious. Continuing to do this COULD misdiagnose CKD. quote:On the other hand, removing the race modifier could potentially over-diagnose renal failure in this population. Almost 1million Black Americans may be newly diagnosed with CKD by removing racial adjustment. Additionally, Black Americans Metformin is front line treatment for Diabetes, and SGLT2i are BIG diabetes drugs that you've seen commercials for all the time, like Invoka or Jardiance. My initial reaction to this is that if there's a chance an adjustment is keeping someone from getting the care they need, they should get rid of the adjustment. 1 million extra people diagnosed with chronic kidney disease is...substantial. also lmao racist old doctors quote:By convention, in the United States all biracial individuals receive the “if Black” number, while in the United Kingdom, anyone who is biracial receives the “nonBlack” eGFR. FizFashizzle fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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evilweasel posted:I strongly suspect there's a ton of random "this is the test for X" where the test was slapped together by someone in the 1960s on a subject that doesn't get a lot of attention and so nobody has really gone back and asked "does this make any sense and does it have any valid scientific basis? can we do better?" and well if it was the 1960s, boy you might have some bad stuff in there. There was also the NFL settlement where people have sued because the criteria for dementia also have a race component - in essence I think the criteria assume black people have lower mental functioning at baseline - so that black players are being denied with symptoms that would get a white player compensation under the settlement. Yes its horrifying to think about how deep some of these lie and obvious why nobody wants to turn those stones over.
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Some good news for today, VAWA is getting re-authorized in the house  It had been lapsed since McConnell refused to bring it to a vote 2 years ago: https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/17/politics/house-vote-reauthorize-violence-against-women-act/index.htmlquote:The new bill builds upon previous versions of the VAWA by authorizing funding for grants and other forms of support in an effort to prevent and combat sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking and deliver assistance to victims. quote:Now the House Democratic majority is poised to again pass a reauthorization. This time around Democrats control the Senate, but the effort will still face an uncertain future in the chamber. With a 50-50 partisan split, it is not clear there would be enough Republican support to overcome a filibuster. I'm wondering if Republicans will end up filibustering it. If so, this could be a bill that would get Manchin/Sinema to support eliminating it...
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