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Showing content with the highest reputation on 02/26/20 in all areas

  1. It is absolutely worthy of discussion that experts in the field of virology and public health (the CDC, others) are telling us we are on the precipice of a pandemic, that we need to be prepared for a disruption to daily life and that the mortality rate globally and number of infected here are X and Y while the White House and other conservative leaders are telling us it’s no big deal, it will start receding in April and the global mortality rate and number of infected here are several times less than X and Y. Then following that with a call to Congress for a couple billion to throw at the problem that had previously been cut from the funding of public health orgs like the CDC in the past couple of years. There is nothing inherently political in pointing out those facts. They are observable and verifiable in the public record. If someone surfacing them makes you start to feel uncomfortable, then perhaps you need to examine your own biases. Hell, governmental lockdown of information reflective of reality is already a dominating topic in this thread, but focused on the Chinese vs US government. A public health threat of global scope is not a topic that should be limited to accommodate the feelings of those who cannot bear the observation of our government’s response to it. Lives may be at stake. Yours and mine, or at least the the elderly and more-at-risk members of our families. So I would hope that we could have a civil discourse of the full scope of the problem at hand that includes our current leadership’s response to it and the efficacy thereof.
    19 points
  2. There is a politics thread for this topic. Stop posting shit about politics here.
    16 points
  3. This country can handle 4 years of bad policy. It cannot survive 4 mores of an incompetent, lawless potus
    14 points
  4. 12 points
  5. Also, dude, "Cruise Ship Americans" is not the preferred nomenclature. "Fat White People," please.
    10 points
  6. I am really, really, really loving this guitar. Something about the hollow body with P90s produces really complex tonality within an individual note that just cries out. It is currently my favorite guitar.
    10 points
  7. Gotta brag on Little T'Boo for a second. I've taught the kids that when they get allowance for chores or gifts, money goes in 3 piles. Save, Give, Spend. They don't get the % yet so I help them with that. Mostly they give each week at church and have ridiculous amounts in savings and cash for kids their age. Last week our 7yo son says to me he wants to give $100 each to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as well as the American Heart Association. My Mom died from Leukemia before he arrived and one of his classmates has it as well. Man, talk about getting a lump in my throat. I would have never even thought about that at his age. Proud Dad right here.
    9 points
  8. Well, my lucky day. At a random little bar in Coeur dalene idaho and they have pappy 15 for 25 a pour. Trying to talk the chick into selling me the rest of the bottle. ------ Did it. 100 bucks and a 50 dollar tip for almost half a bottle.
    8 points
  9. God works in mysterious ways.
    8 points
  10. I think Cole didn't like A&M (like even clowned on them) which really helped us in getting Malcom Brown IIRC. I'm pretty sure that makes Tim a fucking American hero.
    8 points
  11. You dumbasses buy all the ammo and guns you want. If things go to shit I’m spray painting a giant red X on my door and writing “INFECTED” on top of it. Let’s see how many people try and loot me.
    8 points
  12. I was talking to a friend of mine that’s a doctor yesterday and made a joke about wearing a mask. He seems to think that wearing a mask doesn’t do much good at all. Any amount of moisture, which apparently doesn’t take much time, and the mask is useless. Also, the constant adjusting/removing actually encourages you to touch your face. So I thanked him for the advice, hung up the phone, and finished purchasing my masks.
    8 points
  13. To answer your question, following 50 years of two of the greatest coaches in baseball history, we have relative nobody David Pierce. The jury is still out on him in pretty much every respect. Last year we played a salty non-conference schedule and acquitted ourselves well and then put up one of the worst regular seasons in recent memory. The signs (lots of walks and streaky/poor hitting) were there and became endemic during the regular season. Several new recruits fizzled badly and mainstays from the prior season underperformed, throwing both recruiting and development into question. We also had two key injuries in Hamilton and Petrinsky. The year before that we had a darn good season with a fairly depleted roster. Maybe a last gasp of Garrido's upperclassmen? No one is quite sure what they're looking at right now. And no one wants to get yoinked like last year.
    8 points
  14. We have a lot of scientists working on this. The best scientists. Some people say we have more scientists working on this than on any other thing that's ever been done in history. They are working so hard and you should see them, they look right out of central casting these scientists. And they are working very hard. One of them was crying when we talked about the great success they're having. He said to me, "Sir we would not be able to do this work with any other President, so thank you sir." And that was really something.
    7 points
  15. This is important. We should celebrate the free flow of ideas. Perhaps this will staunch the bleeding of the pocketbooks of the working class. Sure, it will take some time for society to absorb the true import of this step, but this goes far beyond merely padding Scotland's social welfare bonafides. And if you don't like it, you can stick it up your....whatever.
    7 points
  16. Based on early data from China, the mortality rates for COVID-19 are: 14.8% for those 80 yrs old + 8.0% for those 70-79 yrs old 3.6% for those 60-69 1.3% for those 50-59 < 0.4% for everyone else (decreasing by age) So you gotta ask yourself, is this the plague that we need, the plague that we deserve, or both?
    7 points
  17. it is really, really stupid that in the richest country in the world people are dying from lack of insulin. it's unconscionable, really.
    7 points
  18. To clarify that means no mention of political parties or candidates or incumbent members of the government. You can talk about government agencies and refer to their titles in the government, however adding qualifiers like "stupid president" etc is political. Keep it focused on current events and the economic and or infrastructure related topics.
    7 points
  19. The most shocking thing to me is that there are people who would vote for Biden or Warren who would not vote for Sanders, despite the fact that we have a retarded orange fascist running for re-election. No offense to people of special needs intended.
    7 points
  20. I'd also like to point out that you gave absolutely no shits when we criticized and mocked the performance of the Communist Part of China, China's leadership structure and its leaders, their coverups, nd their contribution to the spread of this virus, both within China and around the world. You also gave no shits when we criticized and then mocked the government of Iran and its leaders, both for fucking up the response, and then trying to cover up the numbers, and then having a top-level government official not only becoming infected and presenting symptoms during a live press conference, but then infecting other top-level government officials. When government officials fuck up or mislead their citizens and the rest of the world, either willfully or ignorantly, the accurate information needs to be presented, because otherwise, far too many people will take the misinformation as gospel.
    7 points
  21. Miller and Coors were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and it looked at me
    6 points
  22. Ok I’m typing a thought that I previously would not have typed until now. This is a big change for me and I realize many of you have already been thinking this for a long time. So, sorry I’m late to the party. If Bernie holds off Bloomberg and Biden, and gets the nomination, I think he beats Trump. I know the polls have indicated this for a long time, but I always felt those polls weren’t reflective of people’s true voting plans, just like 2016. People don’t like to admit they would vote for Trump. I also thought Trump would chew him up during the race to November over the socialist label, and scare enough swing voters. Why have I changed my mind? Trump is so bad, so despicable, and so hated, I don’t think the swing voters can take him for four more years. The grift. The lying. The embarrassment on the world stage. The stupidity. The dangerous actions like the assassination of the Iranian general. The dumb Syria move. The indifference to Ukraine. The alignment with Moscow. The embarrassing interaction with North Korea. The dumb tariffs. The irresponsible tax cut. His fundamentally bad moral character. His racism. Etc, etc, etc. It’s just too much. So, enough will swing with Bernie.
    6 points
  23. I'm no mathematician, but I'd guess it's pretty much 1 minus the mortality rate. 😉
    6 points
  24. Fuck the grandfather for basically killing his grandchild through his negligence. Fuck the grandfather for lying about it. Fuck the whole family for blaming the cruise ship and trying to get $ out of it.
    6 points
  25. This is some of the worst logic I've seen coming from you, and that's saying a lot. As GoLL said, your premise is wrong. If there were an election and there were 5 candidates, and they received votes as follows: A - 32% B - 17% C - 17% D - 17% E - 17% then you would say anyone other than A ending up with the victory after runoffs, additional voting rounds, etc. would be theft. But what about the situation where A is the 5th choice of the 68% of people who didn't vote for them? When a field has more than two candidates you can't just say anyone other than whoever had the plurality on the first round winning is theft. That's absurd. The "will of the primary voters" in this example is that Candidate A not be the nominee. 68% of voters absolutely don't want them nominated. Ranked voting and required primaries in each State are a much better solution than what either major party uses right now for specifically this reason.
    6 points
  26. It's almost as if our economic system incentivizes privatizing profit while socializing risk. What wizard could have foreseen these consequences?
    6 points
  27. Yes, I think so. While mostly polynesian/Latina with lots of variety, some are half-Chinese, half-Japanese, half-Korean, half-white, half-black with skin colors ranging from pale white to "negra" as my girlfriend calls herself. I have a thing for darker skinned women. After two years I look for women who make me think "wow" the first instant I see them, and then I go with my instincts, assuming the negotiations work out. No blow no go.
    6 points
  28. While watching the movie Giant tonight, my neighbor shared a bottle of gin. Gee, it was a genuinely nice gesture.
    6 points
  29. Which one of you lives in Denver?
    6 points
  30. Yeah it definitely had nothing to do with the stonewalling of a record number of judicial nominations by McConnell which led to the record number of nominations by trump. Classic anastasia - misrepresent the fact pattern and leave out critical context to justify a farcical """centrist""" both-sides position. Shine on, you intellectually dishonest diamond.
    6 points
  31. I just saw that Trump put Mike Pence in charge of the coronavirus response and I feel MUCH better. There's literally no one more qualified to deal with this, like the head of the CDC or the Surgeon General or any of the other 1.1 million doctors in the United States. Let's put the guy who thinks homosexuality can be cured in charge of a fucking pandemic. Maybe he can shout enough racial slurs at the coronavirus for it to sheepishly fly away in tears so we can build a wall across the Pacific. Fuck you, Republicans.
    5 points
  32. first time in history, cancer needs to pick up the pace here
    5 points
  33. There's gonna be a shitload of red tape.
    5 points
  34. Videos like that are rare, but this one was well done!
    5 points
  35. Except at this point it's pretty clear that the Big 12 is more valuable than the Pac 12. I realize that Ames, Iowa; Stillwater, Oklahoma; Manhattan, KS; etc aren't vacation destinations, but people there actually care about and tune into college sports. The gap the Pac can likely never close is that absolutely no one out there gives a fuck about college sports. That's why the Big 10 and SEC do so well. Not only do they have population, they have give-a-shit. The Big 12 lacks population, but has give-a-shit in spades, and that's going to translate into more eyeballs and a more viable product than a mountain of theoretical but disinterested viewers.
    5 points
  36. You probably won’t even contribute to the wreath fund when Raydog dies after catching the virus from a Filipino midget, and when Armybrat dies after being caught by Mrs. Armybrat looking at Filipino midgets on the internet.
    5 points
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