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It really is something how in the midst of a quarter of a million Americans dead, historically high unemployment and a national task force that has said "we have no containment plan", yall are more worried about bars opening up than containing and tracking the viral pandemic.
Six months in, and all the "it'll be over by easter" folks are still acting like it was over by easter and we've just been overreacting.
@slorch did you read my post up the page on why bars are being singled out? I'll post it again for ya:
Ever see a big red 51% sign at a bar limiting your right to carry a firearm? That's because we as a society recognize and accept that alcohol tends to enable bad behavior from people who otherwise know better.
Arbitrarily limiting bars that exist solely to sell alcohol (or at least >50% of their revenue is exclusively from booze) seems like a reasonable measure during an air-transmitted viral pandemic, considering risky behavior is ramped up when inebriated.
And I'm sure that some folks will get trashed at a restaurant on booze, but the difference is that there's gonna be wayyyy fewer of those folks at a restaurant than at a bar. Not to mention that they aren't likely to visit several other restaurants that night. It's not about absolute, 100% no variance, hard and fast rules. It's about trying to balance normalcy against a bunch of selfish asshats that don't give a fuck if they get everyone around them sick.
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Does your mobo support NVMe? You'll get a pretty significant performance uplift for boot times and loads if you can get off of SATA interfaces for your SSD's. Or shit, just a PCIe card to take NVMe drives may be a worthwhile upgrade for not too much extra.
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Update to the forced sterilization story:
Link to the actual report sent to congress
QuoteAt least 19 women have now come forward to allege they were pressured into unnecessary gynecological treatment and surgeries, including procedures that left them sterile, while they were imprisoned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. The women are mostly Black and Latina. They were all patients of Dr. Mahendra Amin, the primary gynecologist linked to the jail.
In a shocking new report submitted to Congress Thursday, an independent medical review team of nine board-certified OB-GYNs and two nursing experts examined more than 3,200 pages of the women’s medical records and said they found a lack of informed consent and a, quote, “disturbing pattern” of questionable gynecological surgical procedures. Today they’ll present their findings to the Senate Democratic Caucus.
This comes after whistleblowing nurse Dawn Wooten first spoke out in September about an alarmingly high rate of hysterectomies performed on women at the ICE jail, prompting congressional and federal investigations. An ICE spokesperson said the allegations in the new report raise, quote, “serious concerns that deserve to be investigated quickly and thoroughly.” Meanwhile, the private prison company that operates Irwin, LaSalle Corrections, said it could not comment during the impending investigation.
The report, authored by a panel of nine board-certified OBGYN's and two nursing experts, found a "disturbing pattern in which many women either underwent abdominal surgery or were pressured to have a surgery that was not medically indicated and to which they did not consent". The report also questions the possible complicity of ICDC in a pattern of abuse from a contracted OBGYN, including referring patients who had no GYN-related concerns and ordering psychiatric evaluations when women refused to undergo procedures recommended by the OBGYN.
None of the 19 women in this initial report received adequate informed consent. Dr. Amin's "findings" for surgery are not supported by any available source of information. Many of the patient records produced by ICDC and Dr. Amin are incomplete without imaging studies, operative notes, pathology reports, or hospital records.
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I'm not feeling any better about this story.
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16 minutes ago, aggie08 said:
But dining in certainly isn't necessary. So, to your point, once they decided that indoor dining was allowed, there weren't many valid reasons* why bars couldn't also open under the same distancing and capacity guidelines.
And to be frank, regulating what behavior is legally permissible in bars is consistent with existing law. Ever see a big red 51% sign at a bar limiting your right to carry a firearm? That's because we as a society recognize and accept that alcohol tends to enable bad behavior from people who otherwise know better.
Arbitrarily limiting bars that exist solely to sell alcohol (or at least >50% of their revenue is exclusively from booze) seems like a reasonable measure during an air-transmitted viral pandemic, considering risky behavior is ramped up when inebriated.
And I'm sure that some folks will get trashed at a restaurant on booze, but the difference is that there's gonna be wayyyy fewer of those folks at a restaurant than at a bar. It's not about absolute, 100% no variance, hard and fast rules. It's about trying to balance normalcy against a bunch of selfish asshats that don't give a fuck if they get everyone around them sick.
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1 minute ago, Cheeseweasel said:
Trust the science (that agrees with our opinion)
How about "trust the science that is actually science"? There's quite a bit of quackery from you and yours posting your FB feeds all over DT
Just because an official looking publication wrote it, doesn't make it actual science.
And the actual science has been pretty goddamn consistent. It's the idiots muddying the water with trash science and op-eds disguised as scientific writing PROMOTED BY SCIENCE DENIERS that you're pointing to to discredit actual epidemiologists. Just like some national leaders that I'm not allowed to mention here.
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I drove through Midtown in Houston yesterday and every fucking bar on Bagby was full of people wearing masks on their chin, under their nose, or not at all. Third wave during flu season is going to be a doozie with this many people acting like there's not an ongoing viral pandemic.
Thank goodness only 0.3% of everyone should worry, otherwise we'd all have to live in fear.
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Or something?
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On 10/24/2020 at 7:13 AM, immamac said:
So with all the news about ryzen and 3080 I've been getting the itch for a new build.
I have a 5820k (6c/12t @3.4 with 4.1 boost), crucial ballistix DDR4 overclocked to 3000mhz a 980gtx, 2 samsung evo 970 sata3 + a 4TB WD spinning disk. Mobo has dual 1gbe nic 7.2channel surround and all the luxuries you'd expect from a high end board (including on board security chip).
Anyway. I don't use 40 lanes if pci-e so the 5820k has been extreme value.
After looking at geekbench scores and real world benchmarks I don't think upgrading to anything other than the tippy top of the line is going to get me anything and most of that is going to come from the GPU not the new chipset, processor or RAM. I'm actually pretty sad that with all these"improvements" intel is basically the same shit this much later single core performance wise.
Maybe I'll just slap a 3080 in and be done. The latency on newer RAM is better, but that's not really worth the 300+ for upgrading 64GB worth.
Any thoughts or anything I'm missing about all the new stuff?
Once there's independent benchmarks out for the new Ryzen chips, you should really consider upgrading to the new chipset and processor. Early benchmarks have their $300 5600x single core performance beating current-gen intel at a lower power consumption, and they're objectively superior on paper specs. As long as you aren't using some intel-specific instructions there's no downside to Ryzen. Plus you get PCIe 4.0
Comparing apples to apples:
5820k has a TDP of 140W, 15mb of L3 cache, and base clock of 3.3GHz and a max boost clock of 3.6GHz
5600x has a TDP of 65W, 32mb of L3 cache, and base clock of 3.7GHz and a max boost clock of 4.6GHz
The clock and power consumption improvements aside, IPC is significantly increased in Zen 3 and you should upgrade if you're getting the latest and greatest GPU and don't want to bottleneck in a year
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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:
Article from HMS epidemiologist regarding mask wearing messaging...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/dudes-who-wont-wear-masks/613375/
The Dudes Who Won’t Wear Masks
Face coverings are a powerful tool, but health authorities can’t simply ignore the reasons some people refuse to use them.
JUNE 23, 2020
Julia Marcus
Epidemiologist and professor at Harvard Medical School
Well people on this board tend to get touchy if we talk about how and why we're in the mess that we're in
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4 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
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Guess the new batch of navel gazers downplaying COVID got their learners permits to start posting
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7 minutes ago, rage-a-holic said:
lolercopters. Relieving shitheads who refuse to do their job is not cancel culture.
"Job" implies getting paid.
As opposed to paying tuition plus fees, plus sacrificing 12+ hours a week during football season just so a bunch of assholes like you can ignore their effort until there's a reason to focus your boomer angst on them
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13 hours ago, Gravy Train said:
Yeet them into the sun, followed by the scholarships of the band members stirring this up and sitting out of the game. The football team found unity this week, maybe the rest can pick up a book and learn about The Eyes, rather than some SJW's 'hot take' to cancel tradition.
Do you think people are getting scholarships to be in band? There's about 30 scholarships totally that the band awards, and they're mainly alumni funded $1k-2k awards. And that's it.
Everyone else pays full tuition, some extra fees to cover LHB costs, and sacrifice at least 12 hours a week during football season. I'd say they've earned their opinion on what the band should do.
It's a shame that so many so-called horns fans want to kill LHB just because it's members want to do what they think is right.
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15 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:
we can eliminate some of the gaslighting and people can be honest with the rest of the board, and, frankly, more honest to themselves.
We talking about the same trump supporters here? Intellectual dishonesty is their primary language
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8 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:
I took the “I’m abstaining from voting for President” route in 2016. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for either. But not this time. Trump IS a danger to our democracy. And if he has no consequences for his actions in a second term, who knows what he’s capable of doing.
I'm guilty of this as well, I voted for Johnson in 2016 because I was convinced my vote didn't matter in Texas
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Well, that and I REALLY don't like HRC lol. Gotta learn from our mistakes right?
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8 minutes ago, orangecat92 said:
Thought of another possibility. Could DOJ show up Monday morning, give Sullivan the middle finger, say we refuse to do what u want, make your ruling, and we will go to a higher court?
Even if trump loses, they have two more months to ratfuck
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@Fud where do you land on separating children from their parents explicitly as deterrent?
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11 minutes ago, Lobo said:
This guy's fucking coke habit is getting out of control. That family keeps making fun of Biden's son about it, but seriously...
it's the classic spineless confession/accusation. They attack Hunter for his past drug problems so Biden will defend it. Then when trump jr's coke habit spills into the spotlight, they can deflect and coverage of it as "don't attack his health, he's like hunter biden!"
It's like a kamikaze of being shitty
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also it's funny to hear yall angry salty boomers bitch and moan about cancel culture while cheering on cancelling LHB in the EOT thread
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1 hour ago, Dr. Beeper said:
It’s on both sides, clearly. I definitely think it’s worse on the left but have no evidence to support this.
petition for new DT motto
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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:
A bunch of the documents supplied to indicate that there was "no investigative basis" for the Flynn interview leading to the "immaterial lies," have redactions, alterations, and other miscellanea.
Sullivan is ordering the government to provide further proof of their accuracy and completeness.
Normally, all you have to do is assert that it is a "true and correct copy" of the document that it purports to be. That, with the ability of the opponent to raise any valid (or invalid) questions about the authenticity of the documents is usually sufficient safeguard against the court relying on suspicious evidence.
Here, there is no opposition and Sullivan is wary of the government's candor with the court. He's making them go a little further.
Not only that, but Sullivan is saying that since the government's entire argument to dismiss is supported by these allegedly falsified documents - they must supply and individually identify the true and correct documents to the court, along with transcriptions of any handwritten notes for purposes of comparison.
Basically saying the government has to actually show its work and can't rely on the presumption of accuracy of their assertions, because the government has (per their own filings) already supplied the court with inaccurate documents.
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33 minutes ago, DigDug said:
huge ruling. The vast majority of rejected ballots are due to signature mismatch. Just ignore that that reasoning is used disproportionally against people with non-anglo names, according to the data
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Terrorists from Texas.
From the Star Tribune article:
QuoteIn the wake of protests following the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a member of the "Boogaloo Bois" opened fire on Minneapolis Police Third Precinct with an AK-47-style gun and screamed "Justice for Floyd" as he ran away, according to a federal complaint made public Friday.
A sworn affidavit by the FBI underlying the complaint reveals new details about a far-right anti-government group's coordinated role in the violence that roiled through civil unrest over Floyd's death while in police custody.
Ivan Harrison Hunter, a 26-year-old from Boerne, Texas, is charged with one count of interstate travel to incite a riot for his alleged role in ramping up violence during the protests in Minneapolis on May 27 and 28. According to charges, Hunter, wearing a skull mask and tactical gear, shot 13 rounds at the south Minneapolis police headquarters while people were inside. He also looted and helped set the building ablaze, according to the complaint, which was filed Monday under seal.
Unrest flared throughout Minneapolis following Floyd's death, which was captured on a bystander's cellphone video, causing Gov. Tim Walz to activate the Minnesota National Guard. As police clashed with protesters, Hunter and other members of the Boogaloo Bois discussed in private Facebook messages their plans to travel to Minneapolis and rally at the Cub Foods across from the third precinct, according to federal court documents. One of the people Hunter coordinated with posted publicly to social media: "Lock and load boys. Boog flags are in the air, and the national network is going off," the complaint states.
Two hours after the police precinct was set on fire, Hunter texted with another Boogaloo member in California, a man named Steven Carrillo.
"Go for police buildings," Hunter told Carrillo, according to charging documents.
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Hunter had bragged about his role in the Minneapolis riots on Facebook, publicly proclaiming, "I helped the community burn down that police station" and "I didn't' protest peacefully Dude ... Want something to change? Start risking felonies for what is good."
"The BLM protesters in Minneapolis loved me [sic] fireteam and I," he wrote on June 11. According to the complaint, "fire team" is a reference to a group he started with Carrillo "that responds with violence if the police try to take their guns away."
"Hunter also referred to himself as a 'terrorist,' " the complaint states.
A confidential informant told police that Hunter planned to "go down shooting" if authorities closed in. He didn't. They arrested him without incident in San Antonio, Texas this week and he made his first court appearance Thursday.
Hunter is the third member of the Boogaloo Bois, a loose-knit group intent on igniting a second American civil war, to be charged in Minneapolis as a result of the unrest that followed Floyd's death.
It's interesting that there's an emerging pattern of property damage, riots, and violence being incited by white supremacists and
boogaloo boysmilitia membersright-wing terrorists. From reading this thread you could have gotten the impression that people who think black lives matter are the violent ones.-
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20 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:
The oil comment likely removed any chance he had of winning texas, which removes the chance for the kind of message-sending blowout the country needs. Sad that it was that fragile and sad that Biden wasn’t up to the task, but not unexpected, and at least he didn’t say anything bad enough to materially affect his chances of winning.
Concern troll is concerned
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FORMOSA YOU FUCKER!
Comfort TX will be a dead city in our lifetimes.
There is more Cloak Room in Daily Texan than there is in Cloak Room.
in Please do this better?
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Do you have any shred of evidence or first-hand knowledge in support of this? Because when I was in LHB up through 2014 there definitely weren't that many significant scholarships available. There were definitely a few hundred-dollar scholarships out there from an alum funding their own named scholarship, but I wouldn't call someone getting five hundred bucks "on scholarship" lmao.
This has nothing to do with politics. I just don't like seeing an organization and legacy I was a part of and would hope (way in the future) for my kids to be in get shit on so much.
And it's not like they or their members I dunno, hospitalized, raped, or killed anyone like any of the greek life or other spirit orgs on UT's campus. Not sure why LHB is so fucking hated when all their members did was try to do a good thing in a fucked up year.
No accounting for taste, I guess.