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  1. 2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    No one is absolving Trump of anything by observing that CDC and FDA did standard, administration-independent gubmint fuckups.

    Indeed, the dumbass, slow-roll emergency use authorization provisions of the FDA that clogged things up were enacted during the Obama administration.

    It's real popular around here to trash Trump for observing that government kind of sucks.  That Trump sucks and makes it worse does not belie that fundamental truth.

    This is only partially true.

    The agencies actually do, in fact, suck.  The leaders don't help.  The agencies probably suck a little worse now.

    stop the deflection.  

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  2. 16 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    So one of the things I don't really see discussed much on this thread that seems relevant is specific issues for different locales that aren't as germane for other groups of countries, and that impact. I'm not talking about "China is authoritarian" or "Iran is an Islamic state" or "Italy is the Mexico of Europe". I mean more along the lines of this:

    -China is a smoker's haven with a terrible local air environment (I am peanut-buttering Wuhan into the stereotype here, but I've never heard of any place in China being a stand alone clean location during their industrial rise)

    -Is there a situation of large scale malnourishment in China as well? I don't know.

    -Iran is a smoker's haven for men. Hospital beds per 1000 people is .1 (for comparison, US is 2.9, China 3.8) and the .1 is skewed by higher density of beds in Tehran.

    -Italy is also an extremely heavy-smoking population. They also kiss anyone and everyone they greet socially on each cheek with their lips, or brush the cheeks if not with the lips. That's not a stereotype, that's actually a thing. This has to be a big component for spread, right? It's also an extremely old population, with 22% of the population being over the age of 65. Honestly, Italy seems like a perfect storm for outbreak for something like this. Hell, most of the world beyond a few first world countries still has a smoking problem. It's not like it doesn't exist in the US, but traveling abroad highlights an imbalance that is supported by facts from WHO. 

    Anyway, this isn't to poo-poo weaknesses in infrastructure in the US or elsewhere. I'm just wondering if part of what we are seeing as major epicenters for this aren't also not coincidentally places with unique amplifiers to the location making it a bigger deal there than it might be elsewhere. Is the argument that places like the US have their own unique bullshit that will make things worse than they should be? If so, what is it/are they?

    Keep in mind, China has the authority and did lock their population the fuck down to the effect of completely ducking over global supply chain and their own evening.  We cant do that and a large part of our population simply won't do that because American.  We don't go to the doctor.  We don't wash or hands.  Can't even get people to cover their nose and mouth when sneezing and coughing   I feel like we are not seeing our own assess here. We are like the perfect population to spread something like this.   

  3. Surprised there's not much talk about the jewels of cheating info being dropped in the Hernandez doc.  I guess we just expect it these days?  Lots of banned substances and direct mentions.  Dude casually threw Wisconsin out there. That why they always have a strong run game?

  4. 9 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:

    Also, Megan is a completely insufferable cunt who hasn't earned and doesn't deserve her wealth while looking down her nose at peple despite having almost no actual accomplishments to her name. 

     

    She should be absolutely perfect for America 

    How do y'all know so much about these people.? From the outside looking in I know nothing about this last except she was on a successful tv show and that since this stuff started all I've seen is people constantly giving her shit, including this board.  Seems she knows every damn body. 

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  5. 10 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    They've already been far more patient in the last year than we would ever be. 

    We're not the only people in the world with pride, courage, and wherewithal. I would be in the streets of Iran cheering were I an Iranian. 

    We're not the fucking good guys. We're just another country pursuing its interests in the oil rich Middle East. Nobody cares about our WWII merit badge. We are what our record says we are. We've left pieces of innocent citizens all over the place from Kuwait to Afghanistan. 

    Are our interests being served by what we have done? My guess is the only benefit of our violent policies in that part of the world have mainly served to give the morons here a good feeling about themselves as they watch the explosions and high five the death of an endless stream of fanatic enemy leaders.

    But what are we really gaining? Enjoy your adolescent thrill of feeling tough; some of us would like a little more for the blood and money.

    Don't know any Iranians do you?  Large sennet if that population hate their leadership to a point that Americans can't even imagine.

  6. 44 minutes ago, jet black said:

    Guess I’m going to have to watch the clone wars cartoons. My 9 year old told me that the ending of ep 8 has a back story in a few of the episodes.

    Rebels might be more relevant though.  There are some direct connections revealed in this episode that the uninitiated wouldn't be aware of.  Not necessary to know at this point, but definitely adds some great possibilities of future run into and back story.  

     

  7. 17 minutes ago, Jersey Man10 said:

    Jesus christ y'all are such buzzkills. This was the best possible outcome after TLJ. Glad JJ was able to somewhat fix that mess. Loved when Luke grabbed the sabre and told Rian to eat shit.

    But my all time favorite scene was luke and Leia training.

    The nostalgia is the whole reason for these movies existing. We wanna know about Luke and the gang with all their adventures. Glad we got at least some of it.

    I'm with you.  I swear I wanted to slap the shit it off the guy next to me.  STFU and just watch the movie.  Don't need commentary about how everything sucks.  

    Just wanted to say that I may be the only person happy that the force finally actually looks and feels powerful.  In the OT, as much as I loved start wars, it always bothered me that Vader spoke on how powerful the force was, but it really just seemed like something Harry Potter could easily defeat.

  8. On 2/16/2019 at 8:02 AM, BrickHorn said:

    We watched S1e1 last night and came away very, very “meh.”  Based on that one episode, the show is boring and disjointed. Is it supposed to be a comedy?  A drama?  A whimsical fantasy about a woman who doesn’t seem to notice she has children?  WTF is this show?

      As someone probably far outside the demo they are looking for, I find this to be one of the best shows out.  

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  9. 27 minutes ago, Casual Encounter said:

    Religious bullshit aside, seek help, immediately. If what a bunch of young men do on a football field has that big of an impact on your life, you’re fucked.

    On that same note, we are projecting our own moral and ethical platitudes onto the program to the point that it can't succeed in the arena that it plays in.  Not saying anything about Urban. More addressing the moral and ethical expectations of our fans vs what college football actually is.  We can win, but it's gonna be at the rate we've won the last 30 years when we find a coach that meets all of our criteria including being liked enough by the big donors enough to be morally a little more loose behind the scenes.  Not advocating we go full on dirtbag, rather saying, lower your expectations and the notion that we are a football school if you can't stomach actually playing the game some.

  10. 4 hours ago, DoneWithit said:

    The fact that he had to go through all that work to get an egg then to watch them fuckers slice it open and eat it was funny. How the hell was that egg worth more than all the ship parts/equipment. But then the mini Yoda is in a egg shaped crib and you got to think who ever wants it probably won’t play nice with the mini Yoda. This could be foreshadowing, I dunno really. I saw it on one of the episode reviews via YouTube and thought it was intriguing. 

    I think the Jawas were punishing him for killing their peeps.  If he didn't die, they get some delicious furry egg. Win-win

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