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  1. 3 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    The Sussman and Dashenko stuff has been playing out for a while, without much discussion or bumping of this thread.

    Not much interest on this board when the focus is on the DNC lawyers peddling nonsense, and the primary source for the Steele dossier. Funny that, huh?

     

    Because every accusation is a confession:

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.235638/gov.uscourts.dcd.235638.35.0_1.pdf

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  2. On 2/10/2022 at 11:11 AM, YChang said:

    As a Chinese American, I don't like it. I think she could have made money here too. But I also don't think it's anything nefarious what Gu's doing. I think she's just capitalizing on her stardom to make as much money as possible. Window is pretty short typically for Olympic athletes.

    She does invite tons of criticism and I think some of y'all feel a lot stronger about this because she's of Chinese descent. And it's fucking China (fuck them). And that's ok, we all have our built-in biases. But I wonder if some of y'all would be as vigorous in your criticism if she was Scandinavian descent and just won a gold for Norway. 

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  3. 7 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    You explained why Biden is afforded patience in your own post. Yet, you believe Rogan should be afforded the same because? Rogan is being attacked because of his large body of rhetoric pushing anti-vaccine positions, not to mention platforming white nationalists and others. Biden and Rogan are not equals in any sense of the word, and thus are judged with a different lens. It’s the same reason Abbot is afforded more patience than Alex Jones. 

    Not to mention Rogan actively opposed racial integration of schools, was close friends with a Klan leader for decades, has a 40-year record of racist comments, was publicly called a racist by his partner, and only major legislative accomplishment led to the record incarceration of African Americans ... and was the original vax skeptic.

    Spoiler

    Oops ... that's Biden again.

     

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  4. On 6/13/2018 at 8:45 PM, XYZ said:

    I mean, this is a solvable problem, right? We are not talking about putting a man on Mars. These are cars circulating on the streets in broad daylight, all around us. Scientists have figured out how to re-program the HIV virus to attack only cancerous cells. And we don’t know how to deal with an epidemic of cars with fake license plates and no insurance.

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    IDs, math, punctuality, tests ... now fucking car registrations. 

  5. Also in the "not watching" category. Primarily because of China's genocide and generally human rights atrocities and our corporations shameless selling their souls to China for profit. Also not helped by the time zone, no in-person broadcast, and I could not name a single U.S. or international Olympian to save my life.

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  6. 8 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

    What public health officials ever acted like cloth masks were equivalent to n95s? Don't make up shit. 

    And, #1 on your list is vaccination at this point. 

    You're right. I forgot that we did not have mask recommendations or mandates but N95 recommendations and mandates. Thanks for clarifying. You're right, I was able to find two years worth of clips showing no one recommended so-called "masks" but N95s. Appreciate you standing up for not making shit up.

  7. 13 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

    Those are the Lee Child books in a nutshell....and I don't care.  They are a fun read and the character is great.  Rehashing the old "pale rider" theme that comes into town, and trouble finds him and injustice is not overlooked.  For what it is, it's entertaining and doesn't take itself too seriously.

    The series was simple, fun entertainment. While Reacher seems to be a pretty two-dimensional character, the sidekicks carried the movie. The dynamics between Reacher and Finlay and Reacher and Neagley were some of the best parts of the show. It was refreshing to have the bad guys have a simple motive - GREED - vs. some complicated, overwrought motives. And the Venezuelans and the Klinger cousin giving him all he could handle was refreshing.

    For bookfags, does Child ever go into a little detail about Reacher's backstory and motivation, or is it pretty straightforward: for whatever reason guy just likes wandering around the country.

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  8. On 2/4/2022 at 4:38 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

    If your intent is to say that anyone, including the very young, are less likely to catch a severe case of Covid if they are vaccinated, then that’s what you say.  It would be even better if you can parse some data to indicate the risk of a serious case in the very young vs other age groups, so that the relative risk mitigation is apparent. 
     

    we need to be able to understand the information people are putting out there, especially those credentialed such as that guy is, without translation or interpretation. 
     

    otherwise it’s misinformation, intentional or not. 

    Agreed. I think one of the more obvious mistakes our public health leaders have made is to discuss everything in absolutes. The mortality risk is clearly driven by several factors, age clearly #1 and obesity #2. Similarly around masks acting like a two-year old "Sexy Mama" cloth math from Wal-Mart is as effective as an N95 ... at least people finally are acknowledging that Fauci was correct day one.

    I would speculate this has had some unintended consequences:

    • The people on the poles are probably not going to change their behavior
    • The people in the middle who take the time to look at data start to scratch their heads and start to question what they're being told
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  9. I blame surly. As others have noted, thinking about it for many makes it worse, and I swear I had a mild case that became worse when I found this thread. :)

    I went to the ENT. I had a hole in my eardrum, which make have caused it. The hole closed, but the tinnitus remains - and it comes and goes.

    Here is what my doctor said:

    • People do not actually get tinnitus per se - ears constantly ring for everyone, but in most people your brain causes you to ignore it, so when you hear ringing it is your brain no longer "hiding" it from you
    • It is the body's defensive mechanism to let you know something is wrong with your ears - at evolutionary development to let the caveman know "you're hearing in this ear isn't great so watch out for the Sabretooth tiger growl"
    • He did recommend an OTC - I took 60 days of it, but it did not seem to do much
    • He said caffeine can exacerbate it, so I have been weaning myself off coffee and Cokes or at least drinking much less
    • Definitely said thinking about it makes it worse, and my experience bears that out
    • He seemed to downplay out noises as being the causes, but if loud noises blow an ear drum then there could be the connection
    • There are some therapies - but they're very expensive - where basically a device attempts to trick your brain into re-ignoring it

    Best of luck. Mine goes from I forget about it to annoying, and it definitely seems like constant online calls with headphones do not help.

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