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Goredho

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  1. I don't disagree, but we now have something better than the best information available in 2016 that was the basis of that plan. We have the best information available in 2025 after having been through a modern pandemic on the scale of the Spanish Flu. The best possible plan could be crafted today using the lessons of COVID -- if we were collectively interested in it. We are not. Like so many things, we seem to be more preoccupied with defending our predisposed positions (or undermining those of the people we disagree with) than we are at doing anything meaningful to "get better".
  2. I totally agree that America has jumped the capitalistic shark, you won't get an argument against that from me. But there were choices to be made in how we reacted to COVID happening, and societally, we made the choices we thought best given the information available at the time. Those decisions were messy, with no real consensus achieved, and yielded results that were very mixed at best. If ever an event deserved a post-mortem, it's our response to COVID. But collectively, we don't seem interested in that. People who trusted the response just want to move on and not look back. Those who hated it want to dismantle public health entirely. Neither position will help us "get better" at responding to pandemic threats that are only going to get more likely to happen over time.
  3. One was my mother in a posh independent living facility that basically shut down all of its communal spaces and cruise ship activities and severely limited access to people from outside the facility. Sure, we talked to her on the phone and such (FaceTime and zoom were beyond her ability), and visited as we could, but she went from having a full daily life to one where she was alone, in her room, essentially having meals pushed under the door. She became unable to manage meds by herself, and the facility limited access to help. She went bananas, and I won't go into all the specifics, but suffice to say she shortened her life by a handful of years, though it was not an overt suicide. The second was a guy that lives up in the Colorado mountains. He was divorced, lived alone. Spent a lot of his time holding down a stool at a bar, and was a funny dude, until that went away when our town shut down hard. He was stuck there in his cabin with little interaction like my mom. He committed suicide barely a month into lockdowns. Sure, you can say that he was at risk anyway given his life context, but he was hanging on. But in the isolation, he decided the best path forward was to eat a bullet. Both lived alone, both relied on people outside of their personal dwelling for human connection, both fared terribly during their period of isolation, which is a vastly different experience than that of someone who is isolating with a full house. Going to SuperCuts, eating at Chilis, shooting the shit with locals at the bar, playing bridge with the other matrons on your floor may seem insignificant to you. I mean, it did to me. To some people in a vastly different living context, these insignificant social interactions are what keeps them sane on a daily basis.
  4. We're HOT Tua. You gotta put tariffs on that thang.
  5. I had the vaccine, I've had two boosters, I've had covid 3 times now, and each time I've had it, its gotten progressively less severe. I know 2 people who died directly from covid and I known 4-5 that went batshit crazy after isolation during lockdowns. Two of those people that went crazy are dead, with the isolation being a contributor to their shortened life. We'll never have an honest retrospective of the COVID pandemic and our public health response to it, and that's a fucking shame.
  6. Venezuelan mafia fo sho The OP said NO CR Greg!
  7. Elon Musk getting an RTO order is fucking funny.
  8. I am already seeing early stages of this at my company, and hearing about it at my peer’s companies. I’m glad I’m in the last 10 years of a tech career vs the first 10.
  9. Anything’s a dildo if you’re brave enough?
  10. Needs "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees playing for that walk.
  11. Hypothetically, what does selling gold look like? Like if someone had some American eagle gold coins, and wanted to convert say 10 of them to cash to finish paying off a mortgage, how would they go about it in a safe and tax-friendly way?
  12. But gaze upon the crypto gains as people flee the USD! #WINNING.
  13. Assuming you mean vintage in terms of spec vs truly something like a legit '50s tele, these are the ones I've liked the best in no particular order. Late 80s AVRIs (sorta vintage spec, made in the USA, somewhat collectable today at custom shop prices) Early 90s Time Machine series (The start of the custom shop guitars at Fender, sorta vintage spec, made in the USA, don't show up often, custom shop prices) 90s/00s American Vintage series (standard grade but vintage specced, often moreso than the AVRI and Time Machines, made in the USA, normal used prices) Custom shop year-targeted reissues from 2000 to present (custom shop grade, most true to vintage spec, made in the USA, custom shop prices) Basically I am seconding what @jimmyjazz said. Late 80s/90s eras fenders in those lines have been my favorite as far as vintage-style reissue guitars. Imo, its hard to beat a 90s American Vintage at $1200-$1500. I don't have much experience with the newer vintera or road worn lines which I believe also target a vintage look and feel if not exacting adherence to vintage specs.
  14. Yeah, this Tele was a perfectly good player. I don’t think I’ve played a Fender American Pro or equivalent “standard” grade USA Tele that was better at probably double the price or more used. I briefly considered buying it, but I’ve got a lifetime Tele already.
  15. I picked up a PA at a GC today and they had a used Sire Larry Carlton Tele knock off. Really nice for the $500 price tag. Seems like they would make a great gigging guitar - sounded good, played good, relatively cheap and relatively painless if it were to take a fall or leave with someone else. Aren’t some of ya’ll fans? I can see why.
  16. I don't care if you are white, brown, black, or chartreuse. If you are a Christian, a Muslim, Atheist or Christian Scientist. If you are turned on by men, women, or all of the above. If you were born in the US or came her from a foreign country. If you have a family and make less than $200K a year as a household and have less than a $1 million net worth, you have a hell of a lot more in common with everyone else I mentioned than you do with Donald Trump or Elon Musk. You are falling behind while the rich get richer You are a few paychecks or one medical emergency away from financial catastrophe Your kids are being poorly educated by a crumbling public education system You have relatively less than your parents did at your age Your children will have relatively less than you do at your age You have fewer opportunities to make a comfortable living than your parents did Your kids will have fewer opportunities to make a comfortable living than you do If democrats are to ever be relevant again, they need to start there and fucking stay there. You want to know how many voters that is? 88% of U.S. households make less than $200K a year and have less than a $1 million net worth. If Dems simply stick to a platform that puts their economics first, second and third and quit taking the culture war bait from Republicans, they win. Bigly.
  17. Elaborate. If you are trying to make this story disappear, you are doing a piss poor job of it 😜
  18. The Quilters is a good redemption documentary. A group of dudes in prison atoning for their sins by making quilts for foster kids. It’s short.
  19. Sidis needs to add a gold top and you need to add a white custom.
  20. He’s got a game best suited for 7 on 7 drills.
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