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Wang's right. At this point, you're ignoring all logic and just assuming Biden is going to magically fix everything day one, which is not a safe assumption at all. You don't want to accept there are actually problems because you assume they're just going to all go away. We can't assume that until they actually do, because right now our pacing sucks big time and shows literally zero signs of improving.

The interview I'm quoting was from yesterday. You're attributing meaning to other quotes from him that he himself is not trying to convey. Fauci is in no way trying to say "Yes, April for sure." Not at all. No way.

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red13n posted...

I'm not sure why you would think hes caving about timing now.

Because he LITERALLY DID

During his chat with New Day, Fauci also spoke candidly about whether or not Americans should have confidence that the current plan in place will work. "Well, we have to see," he said. "As not being responsible myself for the rollout, I can't personally guarantee that we're gonna catch up."

The rest is him giving what COULD happen if we get back on the initial timeline. He. Is. Not. Saying. We. Definitely. Will.

He sure as hell would not be using the words "catch up" if we were on pace. What are you not getting about this?

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I'm not going to continue filling up this topic with a dumb argument that's really only happening because you don't want to admit "We're still well on pace!" was a really dumb thing to say.

There are exact quotes from him saying we're behind schedule, that he does not know if we'll get on schedule since he's not in charge, that he can't guarantee we'll get on schedule, and that things can improve IF we get on schedule. You're trying to paint it as this guy saying "We're going to be there in April" when he's not. He's specifically refusing to actually give his own call on it because he's not in a place where he can do that.

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red13n posted...

He uses feeling as in he thinks its going to happen.

I don't think so since in every other occurrence he says he doesn't know/can't guarantee. He uses "feeling" as in that's what the people in charge are saying, but the people in charge so far have been pretty incompetent.

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"The feeling"

While he, himself, is saying there's no guarantee.

Dude, we're not on pace unless things change pretty drastically. I don't know why you're still on this hill.

Like, this is all that needs to be said:

I believe if we do it correctly, we will be there by the early fall.

If. If. That's a big if, the way things are going right now.

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red13n posted...

"Let's say in April, it will be what I call open season, namely, anybody who wants to get vaccinated can get vaccinated," Fauci said in the Facebook interview. "If we then diligently vaccinate people in April, May, June, July, then we will gradually and noticeably get a degree of protection approaching herd immunity."

That was his interview today.

Read the whole thing. That's a hypothetical scenario that he's saying could happen IF they turned things around and sped up the pace. That's IF they catch up, he's not saying he thinks they will.

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red13n posted...

Fauci was on an interview in California with the governor, reiterated he still expects vaccination to be available to the general population within about 3-4 months.

Really? Because he just said yesterday or today that they're behind schedule and he just "hopes" we can get on pace.

"We certainly are not at the numbers that we wanted to be at the end of December," Fauci said. "You heard talking about 40 million doses for 20 million people. I mean, even if you undercount 2 million as an undercount, how much undercount could it be? So we are below where we want to be."

During his chat with New Day, Fauci also spoke candidly about whether or not Americans should have confidence that the current plan in place will work. "Well, we have to see," he said. "As not being responsible myself for the rollout, I can't personally guarantee that we're gonna catch up."

"I hope we do," he continued. "The people who are responsible for it, are really on it. The question is: Are they going to be able to get back to the pace that we set early on? And again, I hope we can."

Like, he's just flat out saying we're well below pace, there, so I think that sorta ends the "We're still well on pace!" argument.

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Yep, sure does!

https://youtu.be/fuEG_PSb_Ts?t=2m

2 minute mark.

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I feel like this does happen in Hot Fuzz, actually.

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In other news, people suck

https://twitter.com/mattsmith_news/status/1344454695465713664

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I can't recall specifically where, but I know I've seen like a good half dozen variations of "Character throws X at retreating enemy and it hits them with pinpoint accuracy several seconds later from seemingly impossible distance."

I'll get back to you.

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red13n posted...

Looks like the actual statement is they expect another 30 million doses in january and then another 50 million in february.

Okay but it's "another" 30 million on top of the... 2 million we have now?

So 32M by end of January isn't much better!

And either way it means they don't expect to hit the target 20M by first week unless they're expecting to only do like 10-12M the rest of the month, so it's still another shifting of the timeline.

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This is a meme scene that has happened in a lot of things so it's possible you've seen it multiple places

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So they've updated their vaccine pace prediction from 20M by first week of January to 30M by end of January.

But remember, we're well on pace!

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

how is this a TKO

what referee declared that

It's pretty much always a TKO when the other person stops fighting back/defending themself.

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red13n posted...

Ehh they were literally on today saying they expect to hit that around the first week of January.

And you give them the benefit of the doubt why? Especially since experts have been saying even that is unlikely as things stand.

Like they've moved the goal posts several times. Why do you buy THIS is the one enough to argue there is no problem?


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Okay so 2m in two weeks. 4m in a month.

Oh man slow down there, Sonic

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red13n posted...

We're still more than on pace to beat that especially with production and distribution ramping up.

How can you say this, though, when they've literally had to change the number multiple times down to 20% of what they initially promised, and now are admitting they don't even know when in Jan they'll hit that?

What part there inspires confidence that we're "more than on pace?"

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It just seems weird to say we're on a good pace when the pace is currently sitting at barely 2m in a month.

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Like, picture literally any other job.

"I'll get it done. Well, I'll get 40% of it done. Well, I'll get 20% of it done. Maybe. Probably not though."
"SOUNDS FINE HERE"

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red13n posted...

was it 20M? whatever it was the number we were promised by december recently is only a week off.

Yes but that number is down from a promised 100m and we're very likely to not even hit 20m by early Jan at this pace.

This is not "mostly fine" when they have to keep lowering the number to the point of just shrugging

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In fact, the goal went from 100m to 40m in November, then down to 20m at beginning of December, and then first week of December they admitted even 20m was unrealistic. As of right now, we're only sitting at 2m vaccinated.

You sound very, very behind on the news.

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red13n posted...

Vaccine distro has not been as smooth as it could be but its mostly fine and the story is overblown compared to bigger things on our plate. From what I know the 100M doses "by december" is slightly behind...but its literally just a week behind and they are on schedule to be distributed by the first week of January. So not even a week behind.

We're still on pace to have enough doses of vaccine "for all who want it" within the first 4 or 5 months of the year, way ahead of any pace anyone thought possible.

According to that thread, we'll be lucky to hit 20m by first week of Jan, not 100m. We are not remotely on that pace anymore.

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A majority of password managers are going to have two-factor verification to stop such a thing from happening.

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Markey's on board, too.

Love to see it.

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Bernie says he's going to object to the override vote on the defense bill until McConnell agrees to bring a vote on the $2000.

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I know ring wingers on the politics boards here post those dumb smug anime girl faces every post they make

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Johnbobb posted...

also how the fuck do wishes work? do people get multiple wishes? His kid makes wishes multiple times (once for his greatness, and once for him to come home) but they're both vague and aren't totally granted, and also don't seem to have a downside?

His second wish didn't work, and that WAS the downside. He wished for his dad's greatness, and in return couldn't be with him. That's why he tries to make the second wish about him coming home. The wish to see him didn't actually come true, the guy just happened to make the choice to renounce his own wish to see his son on his own.

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It's weird because it's kinda barely a superhero movie. Like, there's really only one scene where she's technically doing something superhero-y, and then a fight at the end, and that's about it. Though it's understandable. They had to spend the rest of the time making her act irrationally because she's sooo in love with Chris Pine and she's a woman. Because... Something.

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"It's one of the movies from the past five years that interests me most. Also I don't want to watch it."

Huh

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Also making the "emotional gutpunch" moment be saying goodbye to Steve AGAIN was so just creatively bankrupt it made my head hurt. It's not even like it's been multiple WW movies in between. It's literally the very next movie and they just recycled it.

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The CGI in general was super bad. Any time she ran fast or swung around, it just looked... Yikes.

Overall it wasn't terrible, but it was incredibly mediocre and I'm glad I didn't pay to see it.

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My team was basically Kamara, Hill, and a bunch of apparent scrubs that made ESPN be like "Your team fucking sucks," but then surprisingly good seasons out of Keenan Allen and Jonathan Taylor paid off, and I picked up Roethlisberger for most of his good weeks, and suddenly I was in first place.

The team I'm facing is like objectively better than mine, but Kamara may have turned things around. I picked up Hurts since Steelers suck now so I've gotta rely on him not being a fluke.

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turbopuns3 posted...

Just noticed with Kamara locking up RB1 for the year and there being a very high chance Tyreek ends up WR1 for the year (half ppr. He has a 27 point lead over Adams) I'm likely to end up with the top RB and WR for the year as my 1 and 2 picks.

Hey, I have Kamara and Tyreek, too!

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I had been in first all season but my opponent made some key trades that absolutely stacked his team, so I was projected to lose by 15 in a very high scoring week, but Kamara quickly turned that around.

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I'm now imagining the Kool-Aid Man breaking through people's walls to deliver them checks and glasses of Great Bluedini, and then when the people get upset about their wall having a hole bashed through it in the middle of winter, he just says Mexico will pay for it and flees.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

The foreign aid is a normal part of the budget that's passed every single year. No one would have considered in "in conflict" with covid aid before Trump claimed that it was.

And now it's open for Republicans to weaponize against the left because of it, and you just want to let them do it.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

The premise is ridiculous and playing along with it is a loss in and of itself

How?

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LordoftheMorons posted...

I dont understand why you guys think going along with the stupid kill all of the foreign aid premise is any more of calling their bluff than putting forward just the $600>$2000 change

Because it's giving Trump exactly what he wants and forcing Republicans to straight up break with Trump with no excuses.

Anything else they're just going "look it's the dems playing politics again!"

And in the best case scenario if Republicans actually back down, that's a huge win.

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Like, we all complained that Pelosi basically had no choice in accepting the current shit. But now they DO have a choice and they DO have the ability to gain some negotiating strength back.

And you guys don't want to take it.

I'm very confused.

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It's no wonder the democrats always look like spineless losers that the republicans know they can push around with "support" like this!

"no don't call the bluff we should force the dog shit they've given us down our throats as is!"

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Jakyl25 posted...

Anyway the most boring sport to watch is water polo

This is true

Water polo is basically soccer but even more boring.

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Now, to be fair on that, Shayna destroying everybody was still the correct booking choice.

Having her lose to Becky was the wrong one.

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Hey I remember that!

I complained about it and half the topic was like "No SEP you just don't get it!"

I even remember calling the loss because they made Asuka look too "strong" leading up to it and I was told I was crazy, and then when it happened it shifted to "The loss is fine!"

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This bipartisan, consensus legislation will provide the Department of Justice with the authority to bring felony charges against a digital transmission service that:
-is primarily designed or provided for the purpose of streaming copyrighted works without the authority of the copyright owner or the law; or
-has no commercially significant purpose or use other than to stream copyrighted works without the authority of the copyright owner or the law; or
-is intentionally marketed by or at the direction of that person to promote its use in streaming copyrighted works without the authority of the copyright owner or the law.

Twitch is screwed since there is no explicit "authority of the copyright owner" with video games. It'd literally have to be a case by case basis, which isn't going to happen unless publishers start putting it in writing in EULAs or whatever. And since it's targeted at the platforms themselves and not the individual users, based on how Twitch handled DMCA, there is a very good chance Twitch just bails.

And given how companies like Atlus have already handled streaming, I don't have faith they're going to suddenly welcome it.

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The wording of the law is mainly just "companies that stream copyrighted material can be charged with felonies," and since video games are copyrighted material with no explicit language for streaming, it would hit Twitch.

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So apparently that anti-streaming stuff got put into the relief bill which is about to pass.

It was nice knowing you, Twitch.

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Their response about this is apparently to blame the player for playing the game too much:

This is in response to the save file bug alot of people are encountering, if your save file surpasses 8MB. It was made by a moderator on the CDPR forums. Literally any looting or crafting increases save file size over time. All saves are a ticking time bomb.

**Not all games are designed for unlimited, endless play.**Not all games are designed for NG++++ etc. CP2077, as of now, seems to have been designed with upper limits in place (likely to avoid issues elsewhere in the engine, just like TW3).

The workaround for now?

Don't do it. Play the game until the end, then start a new game. Don't continue saving and reloading the same character for too long. Don't craft thousands of items at once.

Is that ideal? No. And hopefully it can be worked out in the future. Although...maybe not. No game that CDPR has ever created has ever been designed for ongoing, unlimited play. (NG+ was added into TW3 after its release; it was never intended. It was extremely difficult to get working without major issues, is capped at level 100, still gets wildly weird at higher levels, and there is no NG++. It can only be done once per playthrough.) CDPR designs their games with a finite structure: with a beginning, a middle, and an end. They are not meant to be played on and on like Dark Souls, GTA, or an MMO. They're meant to be restarted from the beginning with a new character and played differently. Love it or loathe it, that's the design.

So, for right now, the best step is not to put the game in this sort of situation. It's the nature of the machine.

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Can abortion be expanded to include other people's accounts on internet forums

I've got a few users I'd like to abort on here please

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But Tucker's one of the good ones, right?! Somebody here vehemently insisted so!

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