Lurker > adjl

Legitimately not sure if serious. This is almost too hamfisted to not definitely be deliberate trolling, but I've seen enough people who genuinely think this way that I can't quite be certain.

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Pikazard1 posted...

possibly, though I don't have too many problems to deal with

Sounds about right. My life's pretty decent at the moment (obvious pandemic situation aside, because that sucks for everyone), but a big lottery win would secure that for a good long while. I'd probably give a decent chunk of it to my mother to pay off her house and the like, since she's coming up on retirement age and not in a financial position where retirement is readily attainable, but otherwise it'd just be a matter of making it so that work wouldn't be a necessity anymore.

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LinkPizza posted...

Maybe. But I think I like Banana pudding more than other foods apples and oranges make... Especially when my grandma makes it...

Sure, and banana bread is great, but compare that to everything else that can use apples and/or oranges? That's a massive list that includes both sweet and savory dishes. Bananas can also be more versatile than a lot of people give them credit for, but it's still not even close.

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If Tom Cruise were a destructive explosive device he'd be Bomb Cruise.

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April 6th.

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I've got a copy of The Food Lab.

https://www.amazon.ca/Food-Lab-Cooking-Through-Science/dp/0393081087

I should really read more of it. I've barely scratched the surface, but it's pretty cool to see the science behind everything. I'm generally more interested in baking, though, which he pointedly doesn't cover because it's not his thing and there's enough material in baking to fill several books of that size. I am, however, just finishing up a baking & pastry diploma, which has been pretty informative about the underlying theory (though sadly not to the extent I want, but I guess I can't really expect a detailed analysis of cocoa butter crystal formation in a community college course >.>).

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I'm more a fan of getting a theoretical understanding of what each ingredient does rather than relying on experimentation and potentially ruining my food, but once I have that, I'll make tweaks or substitutions based on that understanding to see how it works. Some things work better than others, but I usually do end up with something edible enough, and given that that was my goal in starting to cook/bake in the first place, I'd say that's preferable to higher-stakes experimentation.

Of course, then there are the times that I forget ingredients altogether, but that's less of an experiment and more of a mistake.

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Generally speaking, the term "meme game" is reserved for games that rely on referencing memes in lieu of actual content, not for games which are so universally considered funny that they end up spawning memes. Both Portal games are an example of the latter, and as much as they're both known for their humourous writing, they're also genuinely excellent puzzle games with some delightfully creative level design and tons of room for breaking the boundaries of the game for those who like speedrunning and the like. It's not at all surprising that Portal 2 - pretty widely considered the better game of the two due to how much more content and polish it had - is beating KH3, which was pretty widely considered a disappointment even without taking into account how absurdly it was delayed.

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Filter? I 'ardly know 'er!

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I ended up going outside unexpectedly this morning because the fire alarm went off at 4 am. Apparently somebody set fire to a plastic plant in the lobby of my building (my money's on it being whoever's been smoking in the lobby using the plant as an ashtray, but it could just as easily have been a sketchy homeless person wandering in and lighting it on fire, since this city has its share of those). No actual damage besides some really smelly hallways, but that was not a fun way to wake up. Bonus points because it snowed overnight and was really very cold compared to recent weather.

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aDirtyShisno posted...

This should be enforced 24/7/365. People might get hurt if they go outside for any other reason, its so silly to think they should be allowed to!~

Why do so many people seem to think that these lockdown and distancing measures are for personal safety? Are people really so incapable of understanding any sort of bigger picture than their own well-being?

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The toxin dart guys made me very glad my first character was a Brigand and therefore had the Spider Shield to rely on.

I am also playing Dark Souls (3) and Animal Crossing at the same time, and the contrast is indeed pretty entertaining. I'm periodically finding myself dodging instead of picking up items, though, because B and A are in opposite places on the Switch and 360 controllers. It's not as bad as when I tried to play MH3U and the first Dark Souls at the same time (B is dodge in both games and that didn't go well at all), but it still requires me to think from time to time.

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papercup posted...

What did that one lady say "they said the hospitals would be overrun and they aren't! they shut down for nothing!"

It's like the very concept of cause and effect fries these people's brains.

It happens every time there's a big public health problem. The problem emerges, public health agencies around the world make a big deal out of it, media reports on this, the general public start to worry, and then the potential epidemic is resolved without much threat to the general public. And then the general public says that they got worked up over a non-problem, ignoring that the reason it wasn't a problem is because public health agencies made a big deal out of it and worked very hard - often at considerable personal risk - to keep it from being a problem.

This one's a bit different because it is immediately threatening the general public, but the same "logic" still shows up. If people take precautions and it ends up not being too bad, those same people will complain that they took precautions for something that ended up not being too bad and completely fail to understand why it wasn't bad.

Joker_X_II posted...

When "it" happens, if society decays because of this virus and the impacts on the economy....these protesters will be the first to go....certain as fact.

That'd be nice, but unfortunately, the virus isn't so discriminating. More people will be endangered by the actions of these protesters than protesters themselves will be, which is why these crowds of idiots just need to be tear gassed back into their homes.

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Evidently mudcrap prefers alien sex scenes over human ones.

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Walked a block to the vet to pick up some meds and cat food today, and drove to the pet store yesterday to get some litter and food for the other cat. Curbside pickup in both cases, so the orders were prepaid and I just grabbed them after an employee dropped them outside for me. Prior to that, outside of taking garbage out, I don't think I'd left the house since last Monday (the 6th), when we went for groceries. The next time I expect to leave is for groceries this coming Monday (again, not counting taking garbage out).

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Yay! Dictatorships!

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Yes. One without China in it.

And you think China would accept surveillance from a world health organization that excluded them?

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Actually it's perfectly in line with the history of Europe to look at Italy or Spain do things and go "lol we'd never let it get that bad."

And that's not how epidemics work, which anyone who knows how epidemics work knows and would have advised leaders because developed countries have public health agencies whose job it is to know how epidemics work and advise leaders.

As much as you're trying to suggest that the WHO has been actively preventing other countries from being more cautious, they've been making recommendations since around when Italy started looking bad that said other countries have been ignoring. Trump in particular was calling the virus a hoax even as the WHO was suggesting social distancing and lockdowns and whatnot. For the most part, the countries that are lagging behind now have been lagging behind the WHO's recommendations all along. You can't blame the WHO for giving them bad advice when the WHO has since been giving them good advice that they haven't listened to.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

The lack of a world health organisation. The US is forced to be more vigilant and more vocal on global threats to deal with the deficit.

Thereby effectively becoming a world health organisation? Since, of course, the US would likely seek other countries' funding and resources for such an international initiative as global health surveillance. What you're describing sounds an awful lot like the WHO.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

The WHO harmed the credibility of Italy making them look like they were fumbling the situation worse than they were. Italy would've been a stronger message if the WHO didn't make a completely fallacious first impression.

Italy was a perfectly strong message just the way it was, especially when Spain followed suit so quickly. I don't know anyone that looked at either country and said "wow, they must just suck, I'm sure we'll be fine if we don't enact and follow stricter lockdown measures than they had," because anyone with any understanding of how epidemics work knows that's not how epidemics work.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Without the WHO, the US would have sent people in to witness the damage and it would be immediately clear that it's not nothing.

And what would have prompted them to send in those people sooner than, say, late January (which is around when it became very apparent that there was a serious problem)? You can't cover up a plague indefinitely, no, but by the time this became too big to cover up, it would likely already be a problem to at least the same degree in the rest of the world, if not worse (particularly where China would likely have pushed ahead with Lunar New Year celebrations and welcomed all the resultant tourists).

Of course, if we're playing Alternate History, there's always the variant timeline in which Trump hadn't disbanded the pandemic response team that the US had stationed in China to watch for emergent outbreaks that would have provided accurate information untainted by the CCP's influence and also likely been able to coordinate a response to it faster than the Chinese health care system and WHO were, which may well have prevented it from ever making it out of China. But nah, let's focus on the idea that the WHO's corroboration of the CCP's story is primarily to blame for what happened next.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

But that's okay because you're more than happy to passthe buck from the WHO to the countries.

adjl posted...

Again, by all means, hold them responsible for failing to do their job properly,

Yeah, that looks like I'm passing the buck.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

While no country would have had a perfect response, if the WHO were honest from the beginning, the world would have gotten done umming and ahhing a lot sooner and the damage would have been much less.

Again, look at how long has passed between when Italy started to look serious (early-mid February) and when the US finally stopped dragging their heels on slowing it down (oh wait they still haven't done that two months later). Again, there's a case to be made for Italy being inadequately informed to prepare themselves. They ended up being the front line for Western cases. Same with Spain. But the rest of the world has had long enough to prepare since Italy made the gravity of the situation apparent that the WHO's account of what was happening in China should have been of no consequence. Blaming that account for their unpreparedness - especially when the WHO itself has been making recommendations since then that countries like the US have been slow to adopt - is a pathetic, flimsy excuse with little to no objective merit.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Except countries would do independent investigations since who the f*** trusts China?

And that leads to my next point about China not reporting anything about the disease and nobody having any clue that anything was going on until the disease had spread globally. The WHO may have lent credence to the CCP's claims, but the alternative is a much more comprehensive cover-up job, not simply less credible claims.

Zeus posted...

lolwut? If the WHO didn't exist, another organization would exist in its place.

Your premise is that the WHO did more harm than good. The extension of that premise is that the world would be better off if the WHO did not exist and nothing took its place (mathematically, WHO<0, Nothing=0, therefore Nothing>WHO). If you wouldn't also make that claim, then you cannot claim that the WHO did more harm than good.

While you're correct that another organization will come to fill the role of the WHO even if it collapses, that doesn't change the fact that nothing is in place to take over right now, and given the ongoing global health crisis, that's a really bad idea. Again, it's a very reasonable move to take, but only after resolving the current crisis and when an alternative will be made operational within the foreseeable future. Not when the alternative is nothing and this is obviously just Trump throwing a tantrum over the fact that they made him look bad by being right before he was.

Zeus posted...

If they hadn't been around at all, countries would have done more to prepare.

Eh, that's debatable. I've never actually had the feeling that poorly-prepared countries were behind because of a lack of information, but rather because of a lack of political impetus to enact the measures needed. Plenty of countries have managed to keep things under control by acting decisively (New Zealand being one of the best examples). Meanwhile, plenty of countries (such as the US) have been lagging behind recommendations (many of which came from the WHO, despite your insistence that they hamstrung the response) and are now suffering for it. There's been a very common sentiment of "it's not that bad yet, we don't need to take it that seriously," both from leaders and from citizens, even while we were able to watch Italy exploding.

I don't doubt that the WHO could have done more to help, but to suggest that their shortcomings are the reason the rest of the world wasn't prepared is ludicrous. Italy, maybe (though even then South Korea and Singapore had it under control and should have been the model for everyone else). Maybe even Spain, who followed fairly closely in Italy's footsteps. But not the entire rest of the world. The rest of the world had ample opportunity to stop this. They just didn't commit to it until it was too late and now are looking to pass the buck for that failure.

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Zeus posted...

You had to jump on two separate alts to support horseshit like this? LOL!

He was saying I wasn't defending ignorance because I wasn't defending this (or more specifically your) topic. Your post supports that, since the only one defending your topic is you.

I don't. And even when I had a lot of alts, I never pretended that they weren't me and went out of my way to identify myself. You should know better. Shame, Far-Queue, shame.

All of this, and he still doesn't respond to the key question of why he chose to focus on the job titles of the Republicans involved instead of giving an opinion on their priorities.

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DPsx7 posted...

We did lock down. Then people said 'you can't tell me what to do' and did what they wanted. They chose freedom over safety which makes it no fault of Trump's. Try again.

Where did I blame Trump? This is a broader issue with lockdown measures, of which Trump is only part.

DPsx7 posted...

Doesn't have to be hundreds of thousands. That 'what if' can go either way.

If measures are lifted and people are free to go about their business? It will be. Almost certainly. That "what if" is based on the current success of distancing measures. Get rid of those measures, and it very much won't "go either way."

DPsx7 posted...

I don't think that's true. You will have some symptoms but maybe mistake it for allergies. Really there's no concrete proof for either side, every day they claim something different.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/13/831883560/can-a-coronavirus-patient-who-isnt-showing-symptoms-infect-others

That's a nice roundup of some literature on the subject. You'll see conflicting information here and there, but it's pretty certain at this point that transmission can happen before symptoms actually start, which is why isolating people as soon as they become symptomatic hasn't been enough to keep it from spreading through nursing homes and the like.

Even if we do want to say that a- and presymptomatic transmission aren't actually issues and ignore that inconvenient piece of empirical reality, avoiding people with symptoms still isn't really a viable strategy because you can't tell they're symptomatic until you've already been exposed. You can't wait until somebody coughs and then avoid them, because by then they've already coughed around you. It's too late.

DPsx7 posted...

Can't help ya there. Jobs need employees, how long must they wait for you to decide? If someone comes along willing to do the job now then why refuse? There won't be an easy rule for this.

The easy rule is to keep non-essential stuff closed until this has blown over enough for everything to reopen safely. If you let businesses reopen too soon, then you're sentencing the people who are being responsible and safe to unemployment. It's that simple.

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Not outside. You can rotate it indoors.

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Mead posted...

maybe by requiring citizenship to receive UBI? Just a crazy thought

the stimulus should be given to everyone in the US because being undocumented doesnt make you any less able to contract or spread covid and the whole point is to help people make ends meet while staying home

Yeah, the stimulus is an emergency measure meant to keep the population afloat through a crisis situation. Comparing it to a long-term solution to crippling poverty - as much as they bear many similarities - isn't the most valid comparison to make.

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I suppose you'll also need my island and name: Andrew/Islandface

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I should also get in here.

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wolfy42 posted...

Honestly I don't know if UBI is a good idea yet, what I would like to see is something that balances the rediculous amount of rent most have to pay.

Basically it's UBI but in the form of rent relief and food stamps only (not directly cash).

And it's based on both the rent you pay (which needs to be reported) and the income you make.

You still qualify for UBI as long as your rent is over 30% of your income per month basically.

Meanwhile food stamps become universal for everyone at 50$ a week per person.

This would not be enough to make anyone happy/live comfortably, but it would keep everyone off the streets and fed, drastically reduce crime, but still give incentive for everyone to work if they can.

As time goes on and less jobs are available it could be expanded on.

That's something that a lot of federal minimum wage proponents ignore: Cost of living is very much not static across the country. Minimum wage in a region should reflect the cost of living in that region, and to that end I'd like to see an algorithm established that would define it accordingly instead of trying to set a flat number. Base it off of median rent (or possibly a lower value like the first quartile) within a half-hour walk of the workplace, include median car/gas costs if you want to expand that to a half-hour drive, and maybe you'd be getting somewhere. As it stands, $15/hour would do nothing in Silicon Valley, but it'd let you live like a king (and, by extension, bankrupt your employer) in many small towns, and that's just a silly, silly idea.

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Mead posted...

why not just give UBI to only US citizens?

The best idea I've heard for doing it is as a reverse income tax of sorts. You file your taxes, and if your income at that point is below a certain threshold, you get topped up to that threshold. The convenient side effect of that is that you're only giving it to people who file their taxes, which means any illegals that do take advantage of it are ones that are at least trying to pay taxes and therefore basically the same as actual citizens. The downside is that it makes working under the table (as many illegals do) and other forms of tax evasion become significantly more damaging and would need to be cracked down on.

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DPsx7 posted...

Still waiting to be proven wrong.

adjl posted...

https://i.imgur.com/OUdvIwG.png

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deoxxys posted...

Why are these statistics not mentioned when its not in favor of the minority though? We hear people ramble on about how "All of these prestigious jobs end up given to a white person", when its simply in the favor of probability?

Depends. Usually, it's because people are fine with tokenism for the sake of appearing diverse (which isn't okay), but the better-conceived instances of it are people who are identifying that a given field doesn't follow the racial distribution of the general population. Hypothetically, a workplace of 100 people should have ~70 of them be white (+/- 5-10 for random variance), but often it's higher than that, and that's cause to question why that is. Sometimes, the answer is biased hiring practices, sometimes it's a more systemic issue that affects the applicant pool... jumping to conclusions is never good, but identifying a statistical discrepancy that warrants further investigation is fair game.

deoxxys posted...

Also I think defaulting to "racism" when theres no evidence is not a good thing to do. The reason for this is it stirs up s*** worse then it already is. There's no doubt the 18 year old kid is a horrible human being and should be punished severely for his crime. But lets for a moment give this murderer the benefit of the doubt and lets assume it wasnt race related. The news gets out, Mamadou's family are devastated, as they should be. Other people in the black community see this story and its attached race-driven motive attached to it, despite no evidence being present. The Black community will be outraged, some will be driven to hate by this, even though it had no leg to stand on. Enraged, a troubled young African-American man driven over the edge by this decides to get back by "evening the score" by committing his own hate crime.

Can you not see the cycle being perpetuated in this way?

Sure, and that's why it's important to sort out the motive and then call it what it is while also administering justice appropriately. It could be racist, so figure out if it is or not and then report that while also giving him the sentence he deserves. If it turns out to be racism-motivated and a black man commits another murder in his rage over it, similarly report that as being racist and give him the sentence he deserves. Transparency and decisive justice are what are needed to quell the sense that the country isn't doing enough to prevent such crimes, and it's that sense that enrages people to the point of taking it into their own hands.

I don't disagree with you, but the fact of the matter is that most people who see an interracial assault with no other context will at least suspect racism was a factor until told otherwise. Pretending that doesn't happen doesn't alleviate racial tensions, so it's important to clearly determine and report the truth of the matter so that people aren't left to speculate.

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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I wouldn't try to use that claim, anyways. Not only is it extremely relative to gage, Skyrim likely isn't even top 5 in influence in this competition. After all, Minecraft and GTA 5, the 1st and 2nd highest selling games EVER (with about 6x and 4x the sales of Skyrim respectively) easily have a better case of impact and influence. Hell, millions of kids are and have growing up with Minecraft as their gateway game, as Pokemon and Mario and others before them.

Yeah, given that it is easily the most influential game of the decade (and one of the most significant games ever published), I'm amazed Minecraft did so poorly. I understand Spiderman's good and all, but there must have been some kind of anti-Minecraft bias at play there.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

And BotW is damn near flawless.

Except for a durability system that stripped the game of the fun of finding new items that Zelda is known for and was more irritating than anything else. I get trying to create the impression of starting from nothing in a hostile world and all, but I'd say it went further than it should have.

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Mead posted...

So youd rather they were out and working?

That's about my attitude. The point of the stimulus is to ensure that people don't starve to death (or, more realistically, resort to stealing to survive) while working is ill-advised. Working isn't any less ill-advised nor is starvation without income any less imminent for illegals. Keep them home and not looting grocery stores, same as is being done with everyone else in the state.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Nope. You can't involuntary be something that requires choosing it for yourself. In regards to dry ice, the "ice" refers to the solid state of volatile compounds, dry isn't modifying the water-based definition of ice, like I said a failed analogy.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ice

Oh hey look all of those definitions involve water. I am very surprised by this. And then I guess "dry" is added to indicate that it's a solid that resembles ice but is not water-based. Wow! I am learning so much and definitely did not expect this conversation to go this way. In a sense, I guess that's sort of like adding the word "involuntary" to refer to a state that is like celibacy but isn't voluntary. Who knew?

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LaggnFragnLarry posted...

whats the fastest way to make money early in the game? i got this 198,000 loan that feels like its going to take awhile to pay off

Also plant money trees, but only plant 10,000 bell bags. The trees have a 70% chance of growing 3x10k and a 30% chance of growing 3 of whatever you buried, and as nice as the occasional 297,000 tree sounds, you make more profit just planting 10k at a time. This is something I wish I'd looked up before I planted 99k the past three days and 30-50k the other couple days I've had the game (I've harvested my first two now, and while I figured the first tree full of 10k's was just what I'd planted and forgotten, the second one made me question what was actually happening), but that's life. They won't make you large amounts quickly, but it's 30,000 per day for doing almost nothing, so ti's worth doing.

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OhhhJa posted...

So when proven wrong this guy's debate tactic is to just insist he's right and everyone else is dumb lol

Eeyup. Happens pretty often.

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Revelation34 posted...

Looks like somebody used the email I wanted to use for that account. Guess I'll have to get whatever account that is deleted.

Alternatively, change its password (and recovery options, if you can), use it to recover the password for that account, then enjoy using both accounts while whoever used it can't.

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Bought my first batch of turnips at 92, sold today for 178. Could be better, but I'm okay with this. This will let me pay off my back room today, which is nice because Resident Services is closing for upgrades tomorrow.

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DPsx7 posted...

Said and confirmed.

https://i.imgur.com/OUdvIwG.png

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DPsx7 posted...

Prove.

Countries with stricter lockdowns have fewer deaths than countries with more lenient ones. Oh hey that means that choice had life and death consequences! That was hard.

DPsx7 posted...

Without making light of the situation the fact remains that most people aren't going to get that bad.

Most aren't, no. That doesn't mean a whole lot of people aren't going to die if restrictions are lifted this soon. Hundreds of thousands of people may not be a majority, but dismissing it because it's a minority doesn't change that it's still hundreds of thousands of people.

DPsx7 posted...

The thing people fail to realize is restrictions can be lifted without forcing you to do anything. If a person still has or feels a need to stay away from others there's nothing wrong with that. The title here is grossly misleading.

And how do you propose making sure that everyone has the information they need to know who to stay away from? This thing can be transmitted asymptomatically for two weeks. You can't avoid that without avoiding everyone. There's also no shortage of young and/or healthy people (as much as I'm sure you'd like to presume they all had undiagnosed underlying conditions, you have no concrete reason to believe that and therefore shouldn't be making that assumption) being killed by it, so nobody can say that they're safe enough to not need to avoid it.

And then there's the point that people who refuse to return to work after their work reopens stand a good chance of being fired for it, so you really can't say that the decision is completely voluntary.

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I was 28 when I got into my first actual relationship. Don't worry about it too much. Learn to be happy without a relationship so you aren't being too desperate about it, then just let it happen when/if it happens.

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DPsx7 posted...

I know what I'm talking about and have never been wrong yet.

Remember when you said Steam doesn't have an offline mode?

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SunWuKung420 posted...

It is when you make the viral vector.

And how do you propose "hacking" the genetic code of that viral vector once it's infected somebody? For that matter, what makes you think that - in 2020 and after five months - the only people who have the virus' full genetic sequence (which seems to be around 30,000 BP, which isn't very long at all) would be the people that made it?

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Zeus posted...

You say that, but the WHO has ultimately done more harm than good during this crisis. Had the WHO been working properly, individual governments would have been much prepared so their systems wouldn't have been completely overrun.

None of this invalidates what I said in any way. That would require you to demonstrate why having no global public health authority is better right now (not six months ago) than having the WHO in charge. For that matter, even if the WHO hypothetically disappeared before this crisis started and therefore didn't have opportunity to - as you put it - do more harm than good by not contradicting China's official stance, the world would still have nothing to go on except China's official stance and be equally unprepared (probably more so, actually, since odds are China wouldn't have reported the virus at all and would probably have had a worse outbreak due to the lack of public health resources needed to try and control it), so you still can't claim the world would be better off without the WHO.

Again, by all means, hold them responsible for failing to do their job properly, but not while they're still doing a better job than nothing and while the world needs that job to be done. Not without an alternative that can be expected to do a better job, at least, and given Trump's efforts to date to suppress information about the virus in the US, I don't trust him in the slightest to pick that alternative.

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OhhhJa posted...

You obviously are ignorant on the subject of virology then because scientists say that the origin is important for learning about the virus and could expedite the process on treatment or a cure

The entire genome has been sequenced, all surface proteins have been identified, the virus' pathology is well-understood, it's too wide-spread at this point for the origin to be of epidemiological significance (unlike the classic example of John Snow's well)... The only thing an origin might provide at this point is an example of an organism that lives with it harmlessly, whose physiology might then provide some sort of inspiration for a cure (though given that turning humans into bats or whatever isn't really a viable treatment option, that's probably a stretch), otherwise, it's far more a matter of people looking for someone to blame than anything genuinely useful. Even if it were genuinely useful, that still doesn't mean laypeople need to concern themselves with it to the point that they encourage politicians to point fingers instead of actually fixing the problem. Let the scientists do their jobs and figure out what needs figuring.

SunWuKung420 posted...

For the same reason every code can be hacked...

Medicine isn't computer science.

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OhhhJa posted...

If trying to win an election is narcissism then I guess all former presidents qualify

That's still not what I asked. Why are you avoiding the question?

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DPsx7 posted...

Why keep acting like these choices are life or death?

Because they very obviously are.

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OhhhJa posted...

Unless it actually ends up affecting people getting their money I couldn't give a rat's ass

I didn't ask how much you care about it. I asked if you consider it to be reasonable, sensible behaviour and not a blatant example of narcissistically using this crisis to make himself look better in an election year. This is a simple yes or no question, though elaborating on your opinion will always be welcome.

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Is he volunteering?

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Celibate people don't desire sexual partners, that's why they choose celibacy.

And involuntary celibacy has the same end result (no sex for you), with the distinction that it's not a choice (which is what "involuntary" means). Ergo, the addition of an adjective has modified the meaning of the term to describe a related concept with different nuances.

So are you just glossing over the part where you failed to understand the dry ice analogy?

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Let's move away from all this "fake news" and "clickbait" nonsense for a moment and ask the real question:

OhhhJa, do you really believe it is reasonable, sensible behaviour for Trump to insist that these cheques have his name on them and that this is not a blatant example of narcissistically using this crisis to make himself look better in an election year?

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