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It looks like this particular tragic death/severe injury isn't immediately CTE-related, but did any positive change ever actually come of the last in-your-face incident(s) that showcased the physical devastation the sport wreaks on players? I'm very much not a sports person and don't follow things at all, so the limited visibility I have into things leaves me with the impression that things quickly just get memory-holed by fans, leaving the industry free to make empty promises until attention fades. There's been a massive outpouring of donations to Hamlin's toy drive and that's good, I guess, but it's hard not to be sad and frustrated that it looks like a way for fans to salve their consciences while abrogating responsibility for the cartel's continued consumption of human lives. All my adult life, I've been seeing fans say "X was the last straw", "gently caress the NFL", and "I wouldn't let my kid play football", but things seem to just keep on keeping on. Sorry if any fans feel called out, it's just hard not to be angry seeing another life possibly cut short for entertainment.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Didn't that guy that got wrecked with a concussion earlier this season, just get sidelined with another concussion? e: nevermind I think you're referring to another player? But yeah, another case of concussion getting swept under the rug by everyone involved. Cugel the Clever fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jan 3, 2023 |
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mlmp08 posted:Current event: IMO, the buildup pays off 
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Fash attempting their own Jan. 6-inspired coup in Brazil. https://twitter.com/otimistaoficial/status/1612153564008415232?s=20
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CommieGIR posted:Wonder where the Brazil Army sits on this, since that's usually the decider in South American coups.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I can hazard a guess Given that the attack has been contained, there have been mass arrests of a portion of the attackers,, and troops haven't shown up to try to announce a "transition" government, it doesn't look like the military was interested in hopping on the coup d'état bandwagon. There's some arrest warrants out for a high profile guy in the security services and an admiral showed up with the mob, but there's not much more. Yet, at least. I'm hoping the government appearing to have things under control now will forestall any further attempts.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Never watched iZombie. The name alone was deterring enough, everything was iThis and iThat in that window of time.
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As an idiot who just pinched the skin on their palm racking a slide at the range this morning, I say ban all guns  I've bought a few guns because I'm concerned about far-right violence erupting well below the level of a complete takeover of the state to target people like me and my neighbors. Whether it's stochastic terrorism from terminally online losers or more organized attacks perpetrated by the less LARP-y of the Christofascist militias, there's a real possibility that the American conservative movement will increasingly embrace armed violence as it continues to rely on labelling liberals evil to paper over their own lack of policy ideas and overall bad governance. But I'm outright anti-Second Amendment because I fundamentally disagree with the framing of it pushed by contemporary American gun advocates. While great strides must be made to address both systemic societal issues and broken governance, effective gun control policies that are universally applied can put an upper bound on just how bloody the consequences of these are.
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Jan 17, 2023 00:44
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Loser GOP candidate for NM state House went and did a terrorism. https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1615149532769140737 https://twitter.com/SolomonPena2022/status/1592733859216773120?s=20 His research was apparently into the addresses of the six Democratic elected officials whose homes he shot up. Thank gently caress he didn't manage to hit anyone.
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Jan 17, 2023 05:04
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:It's "funny" nihilism. Platystemon posted:Biden’s people will commission a public opinion poll to determine if pardoning Santos would be popular with the American people.
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Crab Dad posted:Like I don’t want to spend more than I’m use to but what’s really stopping them from just increasing price and going “lol” to the consumer?
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Jan 20, 2023 17:11
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Tiny Timbs posted:hosed up that you did the shell pun dude
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Jan 20, 2023 17:26
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Bummer to get laid off but if that guy was at Google in a tech role for nearly 20 years and was getting stock benefits, and has basic saving abilities, he probably never needs to work again. That’s just based off knowing people in a similar situation at Microsoft who “retired” before 50 and while not living in luxury are doing fine.
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Judging by the graffiti on the elevators on my way out of the building today, there's been an additional round of unexpected layoffs to follow the announced ones. Still waiting for the headsman to reach my desk.
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Elendil004 posted:Is there still a Cool Zone thread somewhere?
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bulletsponge13 posted:We are culturally programmed to speak to the police through all avenues, but specifically TV anf Movies. To be fair, the latter message had the opposite of the intended effect and I'm also laughably out of touch with popular media.
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ASAPI posted:Half my neighborhood is like this. They are convinced that protesters downtown will walk the 20+ miles into our suburban downtown area, whip up more people, then descend onto our neighborhood. The other half are immigrants and they get very confused by our vocal right wingers.
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CommieGIR posted:We leave a Skeleton out year round and just decorate them for each holiday.
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Jan 27, 2023 23:13
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Nystral posted:For as much poo poo as the sequel trilogy rightly gets, the Rouge One & Andor stuff have been a real gem in the Disney-owned era of Star Wars.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1619473378955653121?t=j0D56B-MNKcrifZOoKyD7A&s=19
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Platystemon posted:We did it, Joe. I know some people still have some wild American exceptionalism going on and complain that the US just needs the will to stick to vision zero, but... even were that unified national will on hand (it's not! Republicans are insane!), it'd require a permanent quarantine period for all international travel because the rest of the world has opened back up, too. China's clownish end to its lockdowns is also putting on full display the dangers of confusing draconian measures with efficacy. The state utterly failed at raising vaccination rates (much less distributing effective vaccinations) or building out effective hospital capacity beyond some much applauded Potemkin hospice camps despite years of time to prepare, then retroactively declared an end to its brain-dead lockdown policies after Covid finally escaped their control. Here's hoping their stupid experiment doesn't turn their under-immunized population into a petri dish for a newly aggressive strain of the disease!
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Platystemon posted:If you told anyone with authority over public health in 2019 that surveillance had detected a strain of flu that we estimate with supreme confidence would kill three hundred thousand people in America in one year and corresponding number worldwide, they would call it pandemic influenza and pull out the response playbook. Platystemon posted:I’m not asking for lockdown. I just want us to treat it as the number three cause of death, a little over half cancer, a little under twice the sum total of accidental deaths of all types. There are entire agencies at every level of government dealing with such things, entire private industries. Every corporation of any size employs people whose entire job is to limit death and injury on the job.  ). But it's clearly no longer an active emergency—we don't have a national emergency declared for the extremely worthy fight against cancer, but that doesn't mean it's not a priority that receives significant investment.I'm not sure what good non-pharmaceutical mechanisms exist for this, though. Even left-wing Seattle is 98% maskless because people have gotten immunized and are ready to be done with it. Like with a lot of things, we're pretty stymied by an actively non-compliant ~30% of the population who refuses vaccination and half of state governments being controlled by proto-fascists who are actively making things worse. The route to Covid zero now depends almost exclusively on political and cultural shifts, rather than it does what we'd think of as traditional ways to address disease.
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Masking being illegal actually dates back to way earlier than the pandemic and the argument for it being upheld isn't crazy, given exceptions for public health reasons, personal safety, or weird cultural shenanigans. A lot of the laws in the US date back to stamping out the Klan. Of course, now you have chuds using it against public health or peaceful protesters, so it's a lot murkier.
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ded posted:so they cancelled Halloween, all sports that need masks, paintball/airsoft, firefighting, motorcycle helmets, and recitational diving?
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