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  1. Reporter needs to be like, "President Obama stated that he takes 10x the recommended HCQ dose because he's tough and not a loser. How much do you take?"
    26 points
  2. I’m going to start chemo treatments. I don’t have cancer mind you, but just in case I get it someday.
    19 points
  3. You seem focused on the ratio between a country’s share of coronavirus deaths and its percentage of world population, using it to make the argument that the US “is massively over-represented.” Based on the numbers you provide, the US ratio is .25/.04=6.25 The best comparisons to the United States are other, Western countries. Let’s apply your approach to European nations: Belgium - .15% of world’s population and 2.8% of total cases for a ratio of 19 France - .8% of world’s population and 9% of total cases for a ratio of 11 Germany - 1.1% of world's population and 2.5% of total cases for a ratio of 2 Italy - .8% of world’s population and 10% of total cases for a ratio of 13 Netherlands - .22% of world’s population and 1.9% of total cases for a ratio of 9 Spain - .6% of world’s population and 8.4% of total cases for a ratio of 14 Switzerland - .11% of world’s population and .6% of total cases for a ratio of 5 UK - .9% of world’s population and 11% of total cases for a ratio for a ratio of 12 So compared to these Western countries (with the notable exception of Germany and to a lesser extent Switzerland) the United States is not massively over-represented.
    15 points
  4. What is it about cheerleaders in that state? Seriously what is it, let's import it
    12 points
  5. this will be the first line of my novel. we'll square up on royalties once it's printed.
    11 points
  6. And if your guess isn’t accurate within 10 pounds, they get their choice of prize from the lower shelf!
    10 points
  7. A Trump business that loses around 50% of revenue goes right to the top of one of his most successful business ventures.
    10 points
  8. He asked for it, doc said ok, and is giving him flintstones chewables, not actually hydroxychloroquine.
    10 points
  9. I believe that is footage of Taylor Doyle on his OV or Junior Day visit
    10 points
  10. According to World Meter the total US deaths are 91,717 of which NY has 28,443. That’s about 1 in 3 right? Hell if you add in New Jersey which is barely a different state that number is closing in on almost 45% of total deaths. Am I not seeing these numbers correctly?
    10 points
  11. I prefer Governors who aren’t boot lickers and can actually stand on their own.
    10 points
  12. Obama had the most corrupt administration in US history. It’s obvious folks. #obamagate
    10 points
  13. In before b_t destroys this thread.
    9 points
  14. The ability to coalition build is what’s needed. Many of the progressive left are idealists to the point that they alienate even those that are left of center. If there has been no other lesson learned from the transition from obama to trump it is that elections have consequences. Trump isn’t the fault of progressives, but democrats inability to work together to build a winning coalition that both excites the base and is rooted in the practical realities of what it takes to win elections. We can’t want everything all at once, which is hard for some people to accept. The reality is that we share this country with a shitload of trumpkins and people who are sympathetic enough to him to stay home instead of voting for a democrat. There is no quick fix and you can’t implement progressive policies until you start winning elections. Drop the purity tests. Find issues that all democrats can agree on. Mobilize voters and fundraise. Win elections far and wide, turning red states blue. Keep shifting the narrative to the left over time as demographics change.
    9 points
  15. Steel Shank After Dark Tizer Noach - left over pork sausage, Frito hot bean dip, queso, jalapeño Course (too much for PT) Flour tortilla, Fritos hot bean dip, bulls eye bbq sauce, salsa, yellow onion, sour cream, pork sausage, queso, jalapeño *heart attack not pictured
    9 points
  16. What has changed is Obama was dominating the news cycle, so Trump had to make some shit up.
    8 points
  17. The numbers are BS because you don’t like numbers or for a reason that you can articulate? We have a highly affluent, mobile population, and our response started far too late and has been incoherent. This is the result that makes sense. It was widely predicted which is why we had a pandemic plan in place. Things are highly likely to be as they appear to in this moment. Why is that hard to believe?
    8 points
  18. Take out the abomination that is NY and how are our numbers. NY is a complete outlier/shit show and not at all indicative of the rest is the US. That happens when they had great ideas like the one to place Covid19 patients in nursing homes.
    7 points
  19. And as fate would have it, my Eastman 335 clone came in the day after Topochico’s wayward Strat. It’s the closest I’ll get to owning a tux.
    7 points
  20. “Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”" -George Carlin
    7 points
  21. I had read that James Jamerson never cleaned his fretboard. One time I got it set up and they cleaned it off - I was pissed
    7 points
  22. He’s known for inking the best recruits. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    6 points
  23. 6 points
  24. The fact that the highest numbers of reported cases and deaths also correlate to countries with relatively high-functioning healthcare AND gov't bureaucracies seems important. We're not going to get good data on COVID out of Shitbagistan, or BananaRepublic (not to mention countries that are purposefully underreporting becauase that's how they roll, cough cough, China and Russia), because we don't get good data out of either place on ANYTHING -- they're not good at data. It's not that Western countries are "overreporting," it's just that they're better at it. That's my hypothesis.
    6 points
  25. I almost agree with this. The problem with your approach is that it is solely focused on kids as VICTIMS, when the real risk is kids as VECTORS. I'm not saying that risk isn't/can't be minimized enough to be acceptable. I'm just noting that you're discussing the wrong thing. I think all scientific minds agree that kids are pretty safe from this thing (yes, some get sick, some have died, some have experienced the odd Kawasaki disease effects -- but truly, many fewer than suffer similar bad outcomes from the flu). But that's not really the concern. The concern is kids and schools/camps being petri dishes, where little Timmy picks up the sniffles, passes them on to his parents (any of us with children are familiar with this phenomenon), where 1) his parents suffer a lot more than Timmy did, and 2) THEY pass it along to adult peers, including a potentially vulnerable older person. That's the risk we need to figure out.
    6 points
  26. Chipmunk patrol resumed on the pacific crest trail yesterday (gifford pinchot nat forest trail heads opened friday) Had to head in the direction of lower elevations due to persistent snow pack. fwiw, almost got stuck in a random snow covered section of a forest road with deep tire ruts 10 miles into the wilderness having seen no one heading in. Would have survived, but man that would have sucked.
    6 points
  27. They need to recalibrate their expectations and try to move incrementally. You can't just ban private insurance, ban fracking, implement static wealth taxes etc. without massive negative disruptions to daily life. I think the average american and average democrat realizes that and roll their eyes at the AOC's of the world who don't invest the critical thought to realize the negative side-effects of their proposals. While their goals are commendable, they have failed to come up with a realistic pathway to get there, work on that path and get back to us in 4 years, until then most Americans aren't going to jump when they have no idea where they will land.
    6 points
  28. I like the fact that Obama simply listed what the entire world k ones are shitty character traits...and all the Trumpkins immediately knew that it was a reference to Trump. It’s as if I said “hey, we all should have a problem with stupid, racist shitbags,” and you immediately jumped up with “stop criticizing me!” Way to admit that your guy is an epic piece of shit, Trumpkins.
    6 points
  29. I had never made gumbo. I did it today. Used the Alton Brown oven roux recipe. It was easy but never got past the color of peanut butter even after 3 hours in the oven. Regardless, tastes really fucking good.
    6 points
  30. I am a terrible food photographer. But I like hamburgers.
    6 points
  31. Here's a cool public Tableau that gives you visuals of key monitoring metrics: tests, positive tests, hospitalizations, and deaths by state on a daily level (with 7 day averages), along with a 7 day average of % of tests that are positive. The data is sourced form the COVID tracking project. You can pick any state you want. https://public.tableau.com/profile/peter.james.walker#!/vizhome/COVID-19SeeYourState/YourStateKeys Here's TX: The 2nd picture (cases!!) is what the media seems to obsess over, but you can see pretty clearly it's essentially a proxy for how many tests are being conducted (1st picture). Hospitalizations (3rd picture) is what we should be focusing on. After a run-up through about 5/7, hospitalizations seem to have leveled off and, if we are lucky, peaked. Deaths are a lagging indicator, but follow the upward trend of hospitalizations. The % positive seems to be holding steady. Anyway, something to play around with other than yourself.
    6 points
  32. Either hes lying and isn't taking it and just wants to continue his grift, or hes lying and has the rona and is trying to stop symptoms from appearing. Either way, hes a lying piece of shit. At this point Darwin is at the wheel. Protect yourselves and let the dumbasses weed themselves out.
    5 points
  33. 5 points
  34. I agree that there are multiple factors in play impacting international mortality data. That the two largest countries in the world appear to be, alternatively, systematically under reporting and under testing makes framing the statistics as a function of the worlds total deaths fairly meaningless. The populations of those two countries combined are far greater than the rest of the top 10 combined. I mean, I understand the rhetorical value, but we should be comparing per capita case and mortality data to our international peers, other western countries.
    5 points
  35. remember when this was an actual slide made by wework and it was championed by son-san? this is also from softbank.... what in the ever living fuck.... how much did they pay a mckinsey associate to make that slide? more non-fictitious unicorn hilariousness from softbank
    5 points
  36. While I don’t disagree with you, it’s Wells who is the East Texas cock gobbler. It’s not an East Texas thing with him, imo. I think he’s just had it with Tom Herman.
    5 points
  37. As a Gen-X former generally Republican voter (I always crossed the aisle for particular candidates -- hell, the first campaign I worked for was Mark White's v. Bill Clements), I'll never go back to the GOP. Ever. I honestly can't conceive of a world where I'd even cross the aisle to vote for a particularly "meritorious" GOP candidate in a downballot race. Because what the GOP has done, and chosen to be, is unforgivable to me. Saying someone is a good GOP politician is, to me, like saying that "I know he's a member of a racist death cult, but he has some good ideas about transportation." It's a non-starter. Being a member of the GOP is evidence of a completely disqualifying character flaw. My kids will never vote GOP. Even my son, who is reasonably conservative (relative to the rest of the family) is left-of-center. And he's politically-minded (as a vocation). He may be the future of the "moderate" wing of the Democratic party, and I can tell you that he accepts a lot of things we old farts might call "progressive" as being rather mainstream. Future democrats are going to be much more "progressive" than current ones. That's being baked in by the political climate of the past 10+ years and the current situation. Contrast the core message of Obama's speech last night -- we have to look out for each other, and serving the common good has to be part of our calculus -- versus the shouted refrain from the right of "ME, ME, MINE!", and the contrast couldn't be more stark. A shitload of younger voters are more community and society-minded. They hold the radical idea that maybe we should give a shit about our fellow man, not just ourselves. And that foundational belief is very compatible with progressive ideas. We've gone all-in on the church of the individual, and we are reaping the whirlwind of that right now. They aren't going to forget. Ever.
    5 points
  38. He is black and was president for two terms.
    5 points
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