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Xenozoa425 posted...

The rest is common sense. If thousands of people are stuck at home or in the hospital, there will be less people working to provide you with goods and services, and those same people stuck in quarantine will be competing with you and others for the available goods and services. And that competition will drive prices up higher than they already are.

You do realize that the only people who are staying home from positive tests are the ones who are sick. Which is the absolute fucking last category of person you want coming to work as a business owner. Most business owners would consider it a massive boon if they could have the government tell them who would bring the flu into work at no cost to them, and this is many times worse because your entire business effectively has to shut down if you only find out after it's had a chance to spread, and people are way more likely to die from it or sustain long-term respiratory damage. And it's not just your workers you're concerned about, it's the general public as well, but I suppose externalities like infecting your neighbors and their families don't matter to your type because they don't show up on a financial report anywhere.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Sunburst posted...

The economy and people's health kind of go hand in hand. If the economy totally tanked then so would people's health and standard of living.

But if people fucking die the economy not only tanks anyway, but they're also fucking dead.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Xenozoa425 posted...

Because Fauci and others want to perform contact tracing to use surveillance and mandate that millions of people get tested every day. Many of those people will return positive from the test. If that happens, lots of people will be stuck at home. If there's less people working, there's less stuff being made. If there's less stuff being made, there's even less stuff to buy, because everyone is competing with each other to buy first. You'll either pay a premium for anything based in our country, or you put money into China's pocket. It's literally a degeneration of our economy. Trump realizes this, and he wants to get the economy moving ASAP.

But nope, everyone thinks he's an idiot with an elementary-school intellect. Everyone blames him for his poor handling of the virus, when he's the one that wanted to close borders and ban travel from China in the first place, and his administration (aka Fauci and friends) urged him not to. 4 weeks of nothing, when so much could have been prevented.

I have to get off this website, so many people just can't use logic and reason.

Ah right, I forgot that putting a bunch of people in contact with infected individuals and have businesses lose portions of their staff to hospitalization will kickstart the economy. There are certainly more business roles that can be done from a hospital bed than from at home, after all, and it doesn't really matter how many people get the virus because we have unlimited resources for medical care and the symptoms are generally mild anyway if you ignore all the times they aren't. The man actually does know what he's doing; thanks for clarifying.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Can someone in government please step up and strip this man of power before he has millions of deaths and the ruined shambles of the nation on his hands?

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

BlockAddition posted...

should of*

can't tell if this is ironic or you've just made a colossal fool of yourself

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Samsora is an enigma wrapped in a mystery.

But he sure as hell knows what he's doing when it comes to cosplay.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Mareen posted...

Honestly I still don't quite get demisexuals, assuming they're indeed legit. Like how would you really know? Do they just go through life thinking they're asexual until they meet someone they form that emotional bond with? How strong is this bond in question? Do they always feel something towards their close friends?

It seems unnaturally specific to me. But I fully admit I'm speaking from ignorance here.

I'm still attracted to overtly sexual characteristics like genitals, and I still have a huge sex drive. But I don't look a person and think about wanting sexual relations of any sort unless I feel a certain level of trust and comfort around them, a strong personal bond. So when people ask me if a girl/guy is hot, I really can't give them much of a response, because no one ever looks hot to me. But I am still strongly attracted to the body of someone I'm in love with even if it's not "hot" in the traditional sense.

This doesn't seem to apply to purely fictional/fantastic characters, though. It's only real people where I just don't see them in any sexual light at first. I dunno if there are different types of this or if experiences differ, though. The idea that it's identified as it's own thing is relatively new to me.

The connection I'm referring to is basically feeling free to open up to someone and express my thoughts and emotions freely to them, as well as feeling wanted and desired by them.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Let me add Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling. It's a relatively new title compared to most of these, but I mean, the game is literally Paper Mario except with a fixed party of three characters and a lot more ways to bump up the difficulty. It was a really fun experience that last me about 35 hours (although I haven't done the Pit equivalent or Boss Rush yet), and I could still go back and do some of the modifier codes entered at file creation (super hard mode for example) sometime maybe.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

I liked Supraland, but there were some aspects of it that felt pretty jank with jumping around cliffs looking for walkable areas to reach stuff. It's a good game though.

Rabi-Ribi is a fantastic game that people are scared away from by the price. Spend almost 400 hours on it now and I'm still coming back to it because there's so many modes and difficulties. Doing AFD mode on BEx difficulty now.

StS is popular enough that it's hard to say people are sleeping on it unless they're one of the moronic mouth-frothing indie haters.

Let me make my own recommendation of Stephen's Sausage Roll, a sausage-rolling puzzle game that manages to be crazy hard but immensely satisfying and time and time again gives you that rush as you realize, "Wait, I can DO that!?" or figure out the trick to beating each level.

The Talos Principle was also really freaking good both from a writing and puzzle perspective, but IDK how slept on I would call it.

And I'll throw in another BABA IS YOU AND GOOD AND UNIQUE

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Sariana21 posted...

Many people on Yahoo comments were saying that their DVRs weren't showing more than one more day, so they think Ken wins in one more game.

Many people also were saying that they think this tournament is an "audition" for Alex Trebek's replacement. :-(

Sounds like a complete load of nonsense to me. Being a winning candidate has absolutely no correlation with being a good TV host.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

There is a female ejaculate that's made by a specific gland that is separate from urine. It does contain trace amounts of urea, but it's also similar to seminal fluid in composition.

Squirt is normally some part that, some part heavily diluted urine from what I understand (which means it's some large part water, as I assume that's what is meant by "heavily diluted".)

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

coh posted...

Without a god, morality is just an opinion

If God is the source of morality, then morality is completely and totally arbitrary and murdering everyone would become morally correct the moment God said it was.

If you think that sounds off, then God just relayed something that was inherently true to people, so it's entirely possible to find the same truth without God.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

So the 200 IQ play is to take the ability and use it exactly 180 times, then?

Also 2000 IQ does not make sense as a concept. You're looking at 126.7 standard deviations from the mean with that. There's no test or sample size that ever could give rise to such an extreme outlier.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Turn-based is so incredibly boring when it's just an attack/heal system that I don't know why people like it. It doesn't matter if you give 200 different flavors of attack if all you do to win is use attacks until the enemy is dead while not letting your HP hit zero, and all you do to not let your HP hit zero is cast the spell that heals you.

Turn-based can also be great when it's about forming strategies, activating triggers, manipulating position, setting each other up, and other things to add depth.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

The first third of the movie was just a constant whiplash of "Something's happening! Look a thing and next scene!" No time to let anything soak in or have any real impact. The rest of the movie actually had scenes that lasted longer than five seconds, but there were still issues with things moving so quickly you couldn't think about any of them at times.

All of Leia's scenes where she was interacting with other characters consisted of just saying one line of completely generic, vague wisdom (for obvious reasons) and I feel like the movie would have been better off not trying to use those snippets at all.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia