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Everything posted by Jhawkmvp
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Impressive. Only 877 deaths out of 680,000 people in in El Paso. I live in South Korea. Less than 600 deaths out of 52 million people. This did not have to happen, if most people had followed basic recommendations on how to prevent COVID spread. Unfortunately, we had a sizeable (sorry for the fat talk) group of Americans who didn't, A lot of these deaths, even among the old will be premature deaths. It will be interesting see how many excess deaths there are going to be in 2020 compared to previous years. I am sure everyone would like to have had grandma or grandpa around another year or two.
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It is so depressing to watch this from afar. South Korea has had a total of 30,733 cases with 505 deaths for the whole year. They are instituting restrictions again in Seoul (~25M counting the surrounding province), because the country has had 300+ cases a day for 5 days straight. There are 52M people in South Korea, about 1/6 the population of the USA, and their total cases for the year is about 1/6 of the cases the USA has had in 1 day. The biggest difference is nearly everyone wears masks and follows basic precautions like washing their hands and social distancing. It is that simple. Yet too many Americans can't do even that. SAD! DO SOMETHING!
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As a someone who grew up in Kansas with all my family originally from a small rural town and observing what happened with my aunts, uncles, and cousins from that area. The smartest rural people go away to college, and rarely go back, so there are fewer smart people in the local gene pool. The cycle repeats generation after generation and the average IQ continues to plummet.
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Swap Meat would be a great name for a gay bar.
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We probably bailed about the same time. The post 9/11 shenanigans were another reason I left. I'm an atheist, but I don't care what people believe as long as they do not force their beliefs on me. Everyone needs something to get through life. However, the evangelicals and fundamentalists would love to push their ideas onto all of us and make it part of American government and education. Screw that. I have been pretty lucky with dealing with MAGATS in my family and among my friends. I really don't check my Facebook feed much, however, I do use it to communicate with others a lot since I am overseas. When I do check the FB feed the 3-4 people who used to post Trump stuff stopped earlier this year. They were all vets or nurses so whether it was due to impeachment/COVID/Military disrespect I am not sure, but something dimmed their support. I am sure they probably still voted for him, but they stopped wrapping themselves in the MAGA flag and I have not seen anyone posting the election is being stolen by Biden and the liberals either. I guess I got lucky. The biggest issue I had was combating the socialism part. So many people have come to associate socialism with democrats without understanding what it is or all the socialism they benefit from every day right now. That was the biggest boogie man among those who refused to vote or voted for Trump that I know.
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It is also in the Evangelical's play book. That was one of the big reason's I left the Republican party. Once I saw how in bed the Republicans had become with the Evangelicals I was gone. They don't want it taught either because it makes it harder for them to peddle their bullshit. And the persecution complex comes from their play book too. Their prove it is not true when they are asserting their unsubstantiated bullshit also comes from apologetics. That is why religion and politics are a dangerous mix. Politics should be about compromise. Religion is all about having faith you right no matter what reality says. When religion infects politics there is no room for compromise.
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Fuck'em more turkey for the rest of us.
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I had a female coworker who used to show me his videos from Youtube sometimes. I always felt he was pandering to Korean culture, but I could be wrong. Him and his wife fucked up. Never get the Korean netizens angry at you or you will get swarmed like killer bees. If they feel you are disrespecting Korea or it's culture they pull out the long knives. Though younger Koreans are pretty open to foreigners, there are plenty here who judge you extremely harshly for any misstep. I know some other flu outbreaks here in the past were laid at foreigner's feet by a lot of Koreans. Ignoring COVID restrictions, as a foreigner, is just asking for trouble and filming yourself doing it...yikes. Also sounds like they had other issues that Koreans were not happy about that they felt free to bring up after the controversy related to taxation and using the health care system without paying into it.
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I stopped giving COVID updates from South Korea as it feels depressing to contrast here to the USA. Things are pretty normal here except anyone indoors in public wears a mask. Otherwise life is fairly normal all things considered. I just stopped trying to explain Trump support and the corona virus. I just tell people who ask WTF is up with America that it is full of morons. They must understand because I rarely get follow up questions, which is good because I don't want to talk about it. My brother found out today he has COVID and he has had an organ transplant so he has increased risk for complications. I have been lucky as that is the first person in my family who tested positive, though a few were quarantined due to exposure in the past.
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Decriminalization is the way to go. Most of the cost of drugs comes from their illegality. A person working a low paying job could afford their drug habits, if you legalize it. It would greatly reduce the crime and violence that dug addicts engage in to get cash to pay for their habits or drug dealers do to hold and expand their territories. Plus, the government can tax it. Lived in SF for a year 20 years ago. I loved it, but the biggest problem there was the homeless, which seems to have gotten worse since I left. Some problems for curing homeless issues there (some may be addressed now or there may be new issues): 1) Things are so expensive you can't afford housing with a lower paying job unless you get into rent control housing and the vacancy rate was so low that this is hard to do. So a lot of the working poor are homeless due to a lack of affordable housing in the area. 2) The weather there is awesome IMO and a lot of the homeless from the rest of the Bay area, like Oakland and San Jose, move to SF. I remember one day I was like something is wrong. Then I realized I was sweating from the heat. One day all summer. Makes it hard to keep enough homeless housing when more homeless people are constantly moving there from other parts of the Bay area due to the milder weather, especially in the summer. 3) SF also has some huge ass parks that they can sleep and stay in. I lived by the beach in the Richmond district. There are some huge parks to the north and south of where I lived, the Presidio, Lincoln, and the Golden Gate Parks. The homeless would sleep there at night and go downtown during the day to beg. 4) SF makes it pretty easy to be homeless. Porta-potties on the corners in areas with a lot of homeless. You want these because you learn pretty quickly never to walk in an area out of line of sight from the street as those places are just urinals/shitters for the homeless. Allowing them to sleep on the sidewalks all over. Parks that they lived in without being hassled. They had homeless housing, but it was never enough. SF tries to help, but the numbers are just overwhelming. So services for them are never enough. 5) Like all homeless they are a lot of addiction and mental health issues. It is hard to treat them all and I doubt the have the money to do it. Throw in many would refuse the help. I used to take the bus in from where I lived, since it was the first stop, and I was too cheap to pay $25 a day to park my car downtown. I always shared it with the Golden Gate park homeless going downtown to beg during the day. I felt like I was in this Dave Chappelle skit sometimes:
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This is why you have to get a real hobby or something else to do after you retire or when you are unemployed. Volunteer somewhere, take up gardening, fishing, or something else time consuming like serious all day drinking and/or whoring. Otherwise too many people, with nothing to do, sit around and watch FOX news or read Facebook all day and let their brains rot.
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Yeah. Dems not likely to get to 50. Biden likely wins and then Mitch is going to keep things locked down in the Senate for at least 2 more years like the last 2 years under Obama. Good news is that in 2022 12 D seats will be up compared to 22 R seats. Maybe some things will get done then.
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Live look at Vic with his girlfriend's dog:
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I have a twitter account I never post on; however, after Biden wins the election and Trump refuses to concede and starts whining about election fraud, I plan to drop this gem from TreatyOak on him:
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