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BlackScythe0 posted...

So... see a black guy walking down the street "HES A RIOTER KILL HIM!"

Young person with a Biden bumper sticker? "HES A LOOTER KILL HIM!"

streamofthesky posted...

Remember when the Philippines allowed random citizens to murder each other, place a cardboard sign claiming the victim was a drug user, and get off scott free for it, and us in the U.S. were horrified and thought something like that could never happen here?

Yeah, the wording of this is insanely vague, to the point of giving carte blanche to any Rambo wannabes to open fire on a peaceful protest as a preemptive measure. Defending property against an actual attack is fair game, but letting people shoot "suspected looters/rioters" or anyone engaging in "criminal mischief that disrupts a business" is just asking for that to be abused.

The_tall_midget posted...

Yop. But then again, it just keeps proving every single point I ever make, so...

Not really. Getting modded just means you can't behave politely. You've still got to put some actual effort into proving yourself right if you want to be able to claim that your position makes any sense at all.

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Phantom_Nook posted...

https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/1324912765308268546
That's my Grunkle.

On one hand, I feel really bad for the grunts Trump has put on the front lines to staff that ridiculous farce of a hotline, given that I'm guessing most of them aren't even getting paid to deal with all of that harassment and abuse (or if they are, it's minimum wage and their last three cheques bounced). On the other hand, they were clueless/desperate enough to sign up for Trump's campaign, so I guess they kinda have it coming and could really quit any time.

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That's fair. For what it's worth, I don't remember any of them depending enough on the first films' stories to really make it necessary to rewatch them, but if it better puts you in the mood, you do you.

Also, for what it's worth, none of them are particularly good. If you never get around to them, you won't be missing much.

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Zeus posted...

I have yet to see anything to convince me that they're either.

Would you consider the emergency response to an accident complete without immobile cars being removed from the scene?

Zeus posted...

Which is the same thing as a mechanic.

While there's some overlap in skills and one may moonlight as the other, tow truck operators and mechanics are very different things. One moves cars, the other fixes them. I really don't know why you're trying to equivocate them like this.

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Hard mode is when you play a game with optional parameters that make it more difficult to play than it would be otherwise.

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Zeus posted...

aka "They're responders but they're not responders" >_>

They're not first responders. They are emergency responders. WHOAMG ADJECTIVES.

Zeus posted...

Do you also consider taxi/uber drivers emergency responders?

Not generally. Their typical function doesn't usually involve responding to any sort of emergency situation, and in the handful of emergencies that might involve them (e.g. transporting people after their car was totaled), they're just one of many options for handling that particular aspect of an emergency.

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Zeus posted...

When you say 3-4 episodes merged together, are you talking separate plots as well or just a multi-part single storyline?

You've got Disney+, don't you? You can check any of them out to see. Off the top of my head, I can think of Atlantis 2, Cinderella 2, and Tarzan & Jane (did become a TV series), plus a whole bunch of different holiday specials that follow a similar structure. Basically, they're "feature-length films" consisting of half-hour stories (basically TV episodes) played in sequence to make up a full hour and a half. There's sometimes an overarching plot linking them together, but generally it's just the bare minimum needed to have the series of episodes make sense. It's not a matter of having a single storyline told over three "acts."

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Mead posted...

I dont know

I think that we are being really stand offish towards China in some ways that dont really benefit us, but at the same time were looking the other way about some messed up shit that theyre doing

Pretty much this. Trump's approach of putting tariffs on a random assortment of goods was so directionless that it really didn't send a clear message about how China had to shape up to get on better terms with the US. There needs to be a focus on labour conditions and environmental impact (two of the major ways China cuts corners to be attractive to companies looking to outsource manufacturing) in any tariffs or sanctions that are levied, directly targeting the problems (such tariffs can also be made more general to prevent companies from simply moving their manufacturing to a less regulated country and repeating the whole process again) while not hurting companies that want to engage China for other advantages (such as the fact that their sheer population size makes it easier to find specialists to employ, for tasks that require a very specialized workforce).

Getting American boots on the ground to survey their various alleged (most likely true) human rights abuses is also in order. The UN's on the fence about such measures, but the US taking some initiative would really help spur that along and lay the groundwork for international pressure on China to get is act together.

Muscles posted...

He should cut off china from all trade and try to get the rest of the UN to do the same, let's see how far they can get without anyone trading to them

Enjoy having literally no new electronics. Given how vital China is to global commerce, cutting them out cold turkey like that would be completely insane.

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Zeus posted...

Pretty sure mechanics aren't classified as "emergency responders." That term is reserved for law enforcement, medical professionals, and firefighters.

Have you literally never seen an accident scene before? Tow trucks are absolutely part of the response team for those emergencies. They're not first responders, but their job is arguably the most vital of anyone present short of firefighters stopping anything from exploding.

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How many of those armed groups that were arrested en route to counting centres were left-wing?

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Mostly Factorio (though I've hit a bit of a roadblock in my current map that I think is going to depend on the upcoming patch to fix the way I want to), and I recently started A Hat in Time. I've been playing a bit more of Disgaea 5 after drifting away for a bit (mostly because I stopped trying to dupe the same maxed item and started working on developing other characters), and I'm planning to start Secret of Mana (Wii VC) at some point in the near future.

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Ogurisama posted...

https://i.imgur.com/eQaV8Xv.gifv

For angrily insisting that we need to keep statues and whatnot up to ensure that we don't forget our history, the far right really doesn't seem to be very good at remembering history.

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It's kind of an odd one. It's got plenty of decent moments, but there are a lot of weird inconsistencies that mess with tying everything together (one of the more glaring ones being the entire civilization completely forgetting the written language despite it having been in regular use within living memory for most of the population), and something about the pacing just feels weird.

InfestedAdam posted...

Pity the "sequel" was nothing more than 3-4 episodes merged into a "movie".

That was most Disney "sequels" around that era. I'm pretty sure they were basically just making pseudo-pilot episodes for potential TV series to try and see which ones would be worth producing.

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Wanded posted...

why do you assume we believe that? seriously like 70% of arguing with leftists is trying to clear up their constant self imposed misconceptions =.=

all i'm saying is that there is going to be a recount and serious investigations, i'm not saying anything will flip because i don't know what would happen, i'm just saying that people should wait for the eggs to hatch before counting chicks

If you don't believe that any states have a non-zero chance of flipping in Trump's favour, then you don't believe that the election has a non-zero chance of flipping in Trump's favour. This is not the sort of topic that somebody who believed there was no chance of the election flipping in Trump's favour would make. Ergo, you must believe that some states have a non-zero chance of flipping.

I'm not asking for you to identify states that are extremely likely/guaranteed to flip. Just the ones that you believe have a possibility of doing so and your reasons for believing that. That shouldn't be a difficult question to answer if you actually have a basis for the position that the media is being premature to predict a Biden win.

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OhhhJa posted...

You guys were already excusing it and coming up with reasons as to how it was totally legitimate before it came out that it was an error lmao. That shows you lot were operating in bad faith in the first place. I remember adjl specifically saying that it was because they counted all the biden votes separately even though trump hadnt gotten any. He hand waved away 140k biden votes to 0 trump votes as being a non issue.

The position was never "that isn't weird." The position was "there are plenty of reasonable explanations for it, so stop acting like it's proof that these election results aren't legitimate." Weird stuff like that happens all the time during elections. It's only making news this time because the election is being conducted under a microscope and Trump is so desperate to find ways to discredit the result that he'll latch on to any oddity he can find and call it fraudulent. Investigations are ongoing, so if you want to allege wrongdoing, wait for actual evidence to surface instead of jumping to conclusions from easily-explained oddities.

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DrPrimemaster posted...

the bar is substantially lower.

Doesn't that make it harder to lift it?

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GunslingerGunsl posted...

I never was one for cardio, but I want to start implementing more of that into my routine now.

I've always been terrible at cardio, mostly because of my asthma. Even treated, it's very much exercise-induced (it rarely does anything to me otherwise) and stuff like running very quickly leaves me in very rough respiratory shape. For whatever reason, biking is generally okay, probably because I tend to alternate between bursts of pushing really hard and coasting for a while. If I'm pedalling constantly at a high speed (like in a lower gear on a long hill, or any stationary bike), then it starts to be a problem.

SpeedDemon20 posted...

Yes! But I don't really know what to do.

There was a while when I was bothered by my lack of core strength (biking for long periods was hurting my lower back) and I was playing a lot of DotA, so I made a habit of holding a plank whenever I died until I respawned. That actually did a surprising amount for me (and gave me a seething hatred for Necrophos' ult, especially in late game >.>), for taking no additional time or equipment to do.

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If Covid hadn't happened or Trump had done a better job of managing it, I'm pretty much 100% certain he would have won. He's generated a ton of ill will with his mismanagement of the situation, and as much as he's got supporters that have kept humping his leg the whole time, that failure cost him a lot of his more lukewarm voting base. It also meant that his opponents were even more motivated to get him out of office, resulting in an aggressive push to get people voting that resulted in the largest voter turnout in the country's history (at least in terms of raw numbers), and it's unlikely that push would have happened (or been nearly as successful in swaying apathetic people and fence-sitters) if not for Covid.

MartianManchild posted...

Absolutely. Biden only won because of the mail in ballots. A good chunk of those mail in voters wouldnt have gone out to the polls like usual and Trump would have won handily. Basically it would have been what it was looking like late Tuesday night of the election with him ahead in most swing states.

Eh, I don't think that's quite accurate. There's generally a Democrat bias in mail-in and other advance votes, but the main reason it's been so pronounced this time is because of the clear left/right split in willingness to follow Covid safety protocols. Take Covid away, and a sizable chunk of those voters would just go to the polls normally. It's even more pronounced because Trump spent the last several months trying to convince the country that mail-in votes were going to be made illegal and telling his supporters not to use them, and again, that wouldn't have happened except in opposition to the push for expanding mail-in voting as a Covid precaution.

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captpackrat posted...

Did anyone notice this?

Huh. Nifty.

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I feel it. I stopped biking regularly back in like March when my school shut down (when I wasn't exactly biking a lot anyway, because winter, but I at least was walking instead), plus I went off my asthma meds for a while due to not havign a doctor to renew the prescription (and now my school insurance is gone so I'm off them again until I can afford them more comfortably), so trying to bike anywhere now is pretty rough. That's compounded by working from home, so I don't even have a regular commute to whip me into shape. It's hard to find the motivation to go out for a quick ride just for the sake of rebuilding my stamina, particularly where going anywhere interesting is pushing my current capabilities.

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IronBornCorps posted...

I don't think it's really the party itself that does the damage. Just parents who have one I feel are more likely to aggressively gender their children. Which doesn't just hurt trans and non-binary kids.

Pretty much. I actually heard about one couple who threw a second gender reveal party to help their teenage kid come out as non-binary, saying something along the lines of "we got it wrong the first time so let's try again." Conceptually, a gender reveal party is no different from telling your friends "it's a boy!", which most people do quite harmlessly. Committing to that to enough of an extent to have a party, though, does suggest that they value that gendering more than somebody who just tells people whenever it comes up in conversation.

Basically, as long as the people throwing it maintain an open mind and don't blow anything up, the party itself doesn't cause any harm. It's just often correlated with more close-minded attitudes and/or explosions.

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Or you cut into the reveal cake and the icing is green, and you just start munching away on your slice without saying anything.

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LinkPizza posted...

Probably not. Noop_Noop has other accounts if he wants to post, AFAIK...

Nah, he said he'd do all of his accounts and leave. Presumably, he'll come back within a year or so and create a new account, but I don't doubt that he'll follow through.

LinkPizza posted...

PK was the other. He said he would closed his account if Trump won. So, he doesnt have to close his account... Unless there is another I havent heard about...

Ah yes, forgot about him. He probably wouldn't welch either, though I believe his intent is to create a new account after following through on it (which he almost certainly won't have to do).

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Phantom_Nook posted...

I didn't hear about them until recently. Sounds like an excuse to just have a party. Which is fine, unless they start fires.

This is roughly my opinion. They're all well and good (provided they're paired with an appropriate degree of open-mindedness regarding gender identity to avoid creating issues in that regard later in life) as an excuse for cake and whatnot, but the people who take actual risks to put on a grand spectacle are idiots. There have been far too many wildfires, injuries, deaths, and other adverse outcomes stemming from such parties, mostly caused by pyrotechnics.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Will they welch?

Schmen probably won't, dunno about the other one.

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Console exclusives in general have kind of died. Outside of first-/second-party titles, you only really see high-profile exclusives if the platform holder has funded the game's production (see: Bloodborne, Bayonetta 2) or paid for an exclusivity deal (which is becoming less popular as people catch on to how anti-consumer that is). There's just so much extra money to be made by releasing on more platforms, with relatively little work involved (compared to the game's whole development process).

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GunslingerGunsl posted...

Golf Story is great and hilarious. I thought I had heard there was a sequel or will be a sequel but I could be wrong.

I believe there is, but a vague recollection of a Direct mentioning that is all I know about it.

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Nightwish posted...

Golf Story is cheap and awesome

I keep meaning to check this out, but I never think of it when I've got my Switch handy, and I forget about it by the time I sit down with the system and could wishlist it to start tracking sales.

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OhhhJa posted...

Why would you concede when they are still doing recounts?

Because the recounts are extremely unlikely to change anything and the country (like the rest of the world) is currently in the midst of an emergency situation whose response could be significantly disrupted if power is not transitioned smoothly. Note that "concede" doesn't meant immediately stepping down and letting Biden take over before January, it means beginning to plan to not be in the White House next year.

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Generally the distance between two intersections, though sometimes relatively minor intersections will be discounted if it's a larger road. As a unit for measuring distance, it's pretty thoroughly useless due how variable and arbitrary it is. It's only really useful for giving directions, since the recipient of the directions can count the number of streets they cross.

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I'm just going to keep reposting this until one of you people can actually come up with an answer to it:
adjl posted...

Which states do you believe have a non-zero chance of flipping in Trump's favour if they do a recount/by the time they finish counting ballots, and why?

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keyblader1985 posted...

I tend to check out when someone starts with this.

So does whoever starts with it, apparently.

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Based on Sunny's responses and insistence on avoiding the question, I think we can safely conclude that his stance is "Yes, I do believe that meditation can cure/prevent Covid, but I don't want to explicitly commit to that position because I know I can't back it up." Is this correct? If not, what needs correction?

Raddest_Chad posted...

lol it's like when people shit all over that malaria vaccine with a 40-something-% success rate and an African leader or doctor was like "this is amazing because that's a 40% that basically just died before"

Pretty much. 40% means there's still a ton of work to do before the job's done, and they won't be able to rely on the vaccine alone to solve the problem, but a 40% reduction in cases is a HUGE deal when you're dealing with something that dangerous.

What baffles me is that - to some extent or another - we're all gamers here. We've all played RPG's where 40% resistance to anything is a big enough deal to be worth seeking out. That's not always the case, but it happens often enough that everyone here should understand the significance of a 40% reduction, or 30%, or even just 10%.

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IronBornCorps posted...

I will say, I have never heard Sun say he believes it could cure Covid. He is a big proponent of meditation and breathing as a miracle treatment, and I would not be shocked if he were anti-vax.

Actual (paraphrased) quote: "We should all try to live healthily instead of relying on flu shots."

He did not respond when it was pointed out that the ~1 hour it takes to get a flu shot (tops) leaves some 8600 other hours in each year in which to live healthily.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Yes I did.

That syntax is so off I'm not even sure what you're trying to say.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Only fools look for simple answers.

Not remotely. Plenty of questions have simple answers. This is one of them: it can be answered in its entirety with a mere "yes" or "no."

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SunWuKung420 posted...

I believe proper breathing and meditative thinking have benefits far beyond was is believed by westerners.

That's not the question you were asked.

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Zeus posted...

Well, it was certainly more reasonable brainstorming than injecting bleach or doing something with sunlight.

To be fair, shining sunlight on one's respiratory tract would probably clear out a good chunk of the Covid viral load. It's surviving that process that's the problem, not its effectiveness for disinfecting stuff.

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My idea was more along the lines of using full-on gene editing to permanently incorporate the viral proteins into the patient's genome, which would definitely be longer-lived (and effectively create an autoimmune disorder, which probably wouldn't be good). I don't actually know that an mRNA approach would create a longer-lasting response, though I can understand that they'd go with RNA over proteins to expedite the research (having to successfully create and clone a bacterial vector to express the mRNA after isolating it would take time, and isolating the protein directly from intact viruses leaves the risk of incorporating extra, virulent proteins).

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Decoy77 posted...

Here is my thought on this covid BS.

My friend's father is in his mid 50's. Has 4 different lung diseases already. Got pneumonia...went to double pneumonia, so in both lungs. And got Covid at the same time. Now this should be 100% dead man walking right? Nope he was on a vent and had to get a tracheotomy done but he is up and doing well in the hospital yet.

So if someone that checked all the highest of high risk boxes got it and the Dr said it was "The worst case of covid and other things on top he's seen yet" and he is doing fine...well there we have it boys and girls. Over blown and now that the election is over it will go to the back burner and oh gee shocker less than a week after the election a 90% vaccine was announced. The left have been out partying in the streets...while claiming Trumps rallies were "super spreaders" and college kids are rushing football fields. Yeah it is 100% a joke and was used as a political weapon.

Everyone knows that n=1 is the best study size to draw conclusions from.

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Both Pfizers vaccine and Modernas use messenger-RNA, or mRNA, technology, which uses genetic material to cause the body to create a protein from the virus; the immune system then recognizes the virus and learns to attack.

Huh. A while back, I was talking to somebody (I think it was Whiskey) about hypothetical ways that a vaccine could produce longer-lasting immunity than natural exposure (this was in the context of people only getting ~3 months of immunity out of being infected), and one of the ideas that I tossed out without knowing whether or not it was possible was using genetic engineering to cause the body to produce viral proteins and trigger a pseudo-atuoimmune response and develop immunity that way. Good to know my semi-educated spitballing of ideas wasn't actually that far off the mark.

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Clench281 posted...

To be clear, I think anyone trying to ascribe meaning to stock market behavior and current events is basically trying to read tea leaves

Eh, you can usually make some reasonable inferences retrospectively. Just not in the present.

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Wanded posted...

can anyone point me to where it says in the constitution the media decides who the president is?

i can't find it

I'll ask you the same question I asked Zeus in another topic:
adjl posted...

Which states do you believe have a non-zero chance of flipping in Trump's favour if they do a recount/by the time they finish counting ballots, and why?

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Not THAT surprised, but it's still a rather baffling amount of desperation.

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Has OhhJa really gotten so desperate as to stoop to "Trump didn't make this stupid-looking mistake, somebody in the administration that he hired did it on purpose to make him look bad!"?

My friend, Trump does not need help looking bad. There's no need for anyone to concoct any sort of plan beyond "let's give him back his twitter password" to achieve that, and there's no reason to presume that him looking bad is a result of some diabolical scheme. Especially not when he hasn't blamed anyone for it, because we all know Trump isn't exactly shy about pointing fingers when he doesn't want to admit to making a mistake.

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Zeus posted...

I'm still in reality. Maybe you'd like to join me some time? The media calling the election is completely informal and the process doesn't end until all recounting and legal battles are done, or when one candidate permanently concedes (as opposed to a temporary concession we saw in 2000, where the decision was based on the media then the concession was retracted for a recount)

Which states do you believe have a non-zero chance of flipping in Trump's favour if they do a recount, and why?

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I believe there are a few Disgaea games on there (I know 5 is), which are both RPG's and strategy games. They're all relatively old, though, so you may have played them already (that, and Disgaea isn't everyone's cup of tea). Also, if you don't already have it on 3DS, I can't recommend Rune Factory 4 enough.

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Grinderpug posted...

How the hell did I miss the Four Seasons?!?

It only just happened on like Friday or Saturday. It was bound to fly under the radar of anyone who hasn't been paying pretty close attention.

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blu posted...

Paying off the mortgage? Isnt that low interest?

Pay the minimum and invest the rest.

That's generally going to be better for your bottom line, but there's something to be said for the quality of life improvement that comes from being debt-free, even if it ends up being financially suboptimal. One should do the math to see just how much potential income is being given up by paying off the mortgage (or other low-interest loans) quickly, since it will often be a pretty substantial difference, but sometimes, it can be worth it.

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Jen0125 posted...

His mom's test came back positive

Jen0125 posted...

Ugh and so did my ex's test

It'd probably be a good idea to contact your local public health authority/testing centre/whatever your local protocol is to see what they recommend doing now. They may suggest going for a test, or they may suggest continuing to isolate while you watch for symptoms, in the interest of not going out unnecessarily. Either way, you're already isolating as best as you can, which is the right thing to do, so carry on with that. Odds are, you'll be fine even if you are infected, so try not to worry too much and just keep watching for symptoms.

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Revelation34 posted...

Presidents don't get fired.

adjl posted...

The organization that he's been working for has decided not to renew his contract, on account of his poor performance. It's technically closer to a layoff than to being fired, but there are definitely enough elements of "fired" in there that it's not inaccurate to say that.

And that's without considering that removing a president from office via impeachment can definitely be called "firing" them. That process hits every salient point in the term's definition.

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