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  1. 42 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    Yeah, other countries can do things the US won't/can't. Look at China, (not that I agree with their bullshit numbers), but they were literally locking people in their own homes. They weren't having debates about a mask. The US can't do what they did. The controlled their outbreak through totalitarian measures. Places like South Korea, Taiwan, Japan used a few measures that the US doesn't have. Culturally, they already are anti-germ, they all believe in masks, already wore them regularly. They had hard lockdowns, some more than other, but they followed social distancing, masks, etc back in January and February. They had big data tracking people phones, and social shame people who didn't follow the rules. They weren't having people living their best lives in March and trying to reopen a month later. Again, the US is culturally opposite. They don't give a fuck, and half the country thinks it's not real. 

    Spain/Italy/France and other EU countries shut down hard and fast. They still got hit hard, but they took it seriously. They socially shamed people who didn't take it seriously. Now they are seeing spikes because they opened back up a little. That's because the virus didn't go away. It's going to flare up in places. But when you got it down to a reasonable number, you can contact trace and quarantine those people and keep it mostly down until a vaccine is available. 

    The US has zero discipline. This thing is going to be here for a while. Even after we get a vaccine, how many will actually get the vaccine? How effective will the vaccine be? Dont' get me wrong, the cases and deaths will drop dramatically once it becomes widely available, but there still going to be issues in the US in communities that don't give a shit. 

    We do have the ability but lack competent (political) leaders to implement sensible policies. We have come together as a nation in other national crisis but had reasonably (not even great) leaders that would make the hard decisions. 

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    That article is headspinning lol. They're arguing to "just go with it" and to not look at data when evaluating prices in favor of looking at job postings and social media entries of employees to determine stock value.

    That's a bubble, my dude

    def bubble but today's investing...

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  3. On 7/21/2020 at 3:43 PM, Captainant said:

    I challenge you to justify the current market climates without using the word "stonks", because shit is violating basic principals of free markets right now. This is one hell of a bubble that is happening during the worst unemployment in modern history

     

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  4. On 7/23/2020 at 6:56 AM, MillerEP said:

    FBI and State Dept is saying the Houston consulate is their Spying HQ for all espionage operations in the US. They've been monitoring it for years, the expectation though is they'll just setup shop in another of of the Consulates.

     

    Burning documents before you leave is pretty standard for everybody.

    usually dont you expel those individuals when caught. maybe didnt have enough evidence....

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