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Interesting coincidence that both are Game of Thrones actors. Although their two characters didn't meet.

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Wait until you hear about W

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Yes they have. Elimination is not eradication - there are longstanding epidemiological definitions of these terms.

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Your statement is not consistent with reality. There are several countries that aren't "small island countries" that have achieved and maintained elimination without a vaccine. Their methods are similar and they are not some kind of secret trick. Likewise, there are "small island countries" like the UK who have been devastated.

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electricbugs2 posted...

Other countries definitely haven't figured out how to control it either, it's just really bad in the US for obvious reasons.

The only places that have it under control are small island countries in Oceania.

Small island countries like Australia, Vietnam and China?

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Thighon posted...

It's irresponsible to buy a ps5 rn anyway. Stop rewarding companies for shit substandard products how bout

This, kind of. The hardware issues (storage especially) seem to be getting kind of widespread. That combined with the impractical physical design of it mean I'm wating for a hardware revision before I think about it anyway.

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GiftedACIII posted...

most of Asia besides China are on top.

Besides China? They have achieved and maintained elimination in most of the country for most of 2020.

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The main reasons for me would be healthcare (inequity, cost, access, association with employment) and the broken political system (awful voting/electoral system, excessive influence of money, a 2 house system that stalls meaningful political reforms).
And the current intersection of both of those things when the country is getting rekt by a pandemic that a lot of countries around the world have figured out how to control.

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masticatingman posted...

If youre actually getting brake checked for no reason, you either honk or preferably flash the high beams on them if its night. Can speak from experience that the high beams work. Gets an asshole to fuck off. Legit brake checkers are probably gonna be early 20 something dudes who get frightened easily.

"If someone in front of you is doing some unsafe behaviour, make sure you do something even more dangerous in hopes of overtaking them"

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That's a waste of testing capacity. People who are symptomatic or close contacts need their results in a timely fashion. Routine asymptomatic testing is reasonable if you're in a job where you could conceivably have had close contact without knowing it (e.g. healthcare)

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Harpie posted...

If you send her any kind of message, whether it be a screenshot or a super like, you will become that guy. That guy is creepy, weird and so desperate its funny. And she is gonna tell her friends, share your responses and giggle about it. I know exactly how this goes from years of personal experience. Ive seen (and done) it time and time again.

Move on, TC. Im sorry. She doesnt want a relationship. If you message her you start crossing the line into the creep zone whether or not youre actually a creep.

This. So many times this, holy heck

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D. I've had a BMI in the low 30s

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It is a good feature for sure. Although there are third party apps like Youtube Vanced that also offer it

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samurai bandit posted...

without disregard

Hmm

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Depends on the job, and how much your CV differentiates you from other likely applicants. Would be most useful for something like a new graduate job where most people are coming in with the same qualification and not much work experience. Also worthwhile if it's an organisation that cares about some social factors in their hiring (e.g. they like to hire people with an attachment to the location, or their specific industry

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Missile in Ghost Trick

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Aside from that post (which reads like conspiracy-thinking, but not hateful or bigoted), can people provde a few examples of things she has said/done that are bigoted or hateful? I see a lot of people talking about it over the past few months but I haven't seen any material so far that fits the description.

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Banjo Kazooie

The last boss fight as well as the weird board game thing immediately before it.

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MonkeyBones23 posted...

Within recent years I'd say yes but not in the entire history of the country.

This. There are only a handful in the last 10-20 years that reflect worse on the state of the nation, but there were far worse days in past decades. May 31 1921 comes to mind.

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Can you provide references?

Previous infection for some conditions can provide a durable herd immunity, but it's not the case for all illnesses.

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Batshit crazy in a good way?

For reference, I liked the batshit crazy meta parts of the previous games, with the exception of the way they handled the ending of 3

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trappedunderice posted...

Back To The Future?

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RebelElite791 posted...

I hate Moscow Mitch as much as the next guy but why make up shit

This. It's just low effort bait

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He just posts Daily Mail articles and converts them to polls. That's literally all he does these days.

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nexigrams posted...

instead of just, like, shutting down the country for 2 months back in spring, and buying us all some food to eat during that time.

Dat elimination strategy though. Worked real well here in NZ. For all the accusations of "They're taking your freedom away!", I sure feel like we are more free than most of the world right now.

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I work hard to the extent that I see a benefit to myself or others. I don't ever specifically try to impress a boss/manager doing things that I don't believe are genuinely worthwhile.

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INTERWEBUSER posted...

Its up to prudent business owners to set aside a rainy day fund for unforeseen economic shocks.

I agree with this. It is not to cover all costs, just the costs of staff. The way it was done here in NZ was the business applied for a given number of staff and only gets it if they:
1) Pay 100% of the subsidy to their employees
2) Commit to paying all employees applied for at least the full subsidy amount, but use best endeavours to pay 80% of their pre-covid income

It's helped a lot with preventing unemployment. It's a lot cheaper for the economy if the links between workers nd employers are maintained during these downturns. Much faster to ramp back up (Our Q3 GDP growth was greater than our Q2 loss)

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The better solution would have been to avoid this mass unemployment in the first place by putting in a better social safety net up front - a wage subsidy paid to all companies that lose a certain portion of revenue to last the duration of any period of relevant business restrictions, plus at least a few weeks beyond.

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My impression is there are about 5-10 really good VR games, and a good variety of interesting small ones.
Which is cool, but not enough for me to justify the cost for a system since it's so high to get a good fidelity one.

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The_Office_pwnz posted...

to be fair, the ceo knows all the horrible stuff you can get from it, that 8 months of research couldn't discover

Please explain how the CEO knows things that haven't been discovered.
Seems to me like he is just going to get it when his country's health services say it's time for his turn.

Yes, the vaccine has come to market faster than usual for a vaccine, but we've got phase 3 trial data from many thousands of participants that demonstrate it is safe at least in the short term (6 months). Delayed adverse events from immunisations are exceedingly rare to begin with, but post-market surveillance will still be going on to find that.

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masterbarf posted...

Top 10:
EarthBound
Final Fantasy VI
Resident Evil
Demon's Souls
Diablo
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown
Resistance: Fall of Man
Hard Corps: Uprising
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Enter the Gungeon

10/10:
Ketsui
Battle Garegga
Starfox 64
Super Mario Bros. 3
Psyvariar Delta
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

There are more, but it's been too long.

Bro have you played any games in the last 10 years?

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Both reviews seem quite reasonable to me.
Reviews are opinions, and always have been. All you can expect is honesty.

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I only watched a few episodes of that show (Alex Jones, Elon Musk 2018, Michael Osterholm) and I didn't really grasp what people like about it. Rogan is far too uncritical and underprepared on the topics/people on the show, and is really easily swayed into pseudoscience/conspiracy stuff.

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No_U_L7 posted...

He just told me she's fresh out of college...this sounds like the start of a porno!

Now you really sound like you shouldn't be a supervisor for women

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V = ( p r^4 )/(8 l)

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Did the downloads complete yet? I agree with the statements above about Bayek and Aya. Also one of my favourite depictions of a couple in a video game.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

It's essentially impossible to legislate away dumbassery, thus attempting to do so is ineffectual at best and an epic backfire at worst.

Research ways to neutralize hyaluronic acid in the lungs (and maybe also vessels). That's the major mechanism of death: the lungs fill up with what's essentially jello.
https://www.ornl.gov/news/computational-gene-study-suggests-new-pathway-covid-19-inflammatory-response

This isn't really new information, it's an established part of the pathophysiology of ARDS and has been for decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_alveolar_damage
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2923370/

Some people have tried to study it as a therapeutic target:
https://touroscholar.touro.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=tcomny_pubs

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I enjoyed it quite a bit
The biggest step up it makes is in the dialogue and acting from both the main characters and supporting cast. The environments are really nice, but they feel less "assassin's creedy" than the older games.
They also did a better job of the present-day stuff in Origins than they had in Rogue, Unity and Syndicate.

My main advice would be to only do side missions that seem cool, or ones that are quired for progression, unlocks or achievements. They are ok, but there are too many of them and if you sink a lot of time on them you'll burn out.
People tell me AC Odyssey is even worse in that regard, but possibly the better game overall.

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Yeah, but containing a novel virus within the country of origin is almost impossible. It takes weekr or months to even figure out that the new virus exists at all, by which point it's probably escaped. Italy is a good example of this, since they had their first cases before the virus was even sequenced and named. Blaming China for "giving it" to the US is pretty unreasonable.

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Beemo_Season11 posted...

Sanctions for China until they pay for the loses around the world

Right now USA is by far the world's hotspot, and there's no indication that the US would have had any hope of containing it if it had emerged locally. Should the rest of the world be sanctioning the US right now on this basis?

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Jx1010 posted...

Hasnt there been more people exposed to it and with antibodies?

The numbers with protective antibody levels are still pretty low compared to the whole population. Studies from Wuhan seem to indicate unless you got a symptomatic infection, you only have about a 10% chance of having protective levels of antibody 6 months later

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Depends a lot on where I am. In the USA or a European country with relatively open travel from outside the area, I don't think I would aim for elimination. If I live somewhere with a lot of travel restrictions (most Asian countries, Aus, NZ, etc) I would aim for elimination.

For elimination the most important thing is a strong testing strategy (easily available, free, reasonable turnatound (<12h for positive tests) and good contact tracing mechansms. Ideally this also means people keep good records of their movements somehow, ideally with a phone app or similar solution.

For a suppression approach (e.g. in the US), testing is still important. The biggest thing is restrictions on ths most high-risk, rapid spreading situations. That means restrictions on indoor gatherings, especially where there's lots of close contact, where you might not know all the guests, or where there are raised voices and/or alcohol.
Mandatory masking for public transport and indoor environments other than the home (workplaces, retail) is probably next, since it's relatively low cost compared to its benefit.
Then you work your way up, as required by healthcare capacity, to restrictions on less risky/more costly things. So limits/bans on bars and restaurants, then rules about schools, workplaces and retail.

Edit: I ignored all the non-health policy side of this for simplicity. But there would need to be supports that cover people and businesses affected by shutdowns/restrictions as well as people who are required to isolate by public health.

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DarkChozoGhost posted...

That's the personal, no questions asked money. I'm sure if they go out to the bar together or something they use the shared money. But if he wants magic cards or a videogame, it's nice to have a personal bit

This is exactly it. Dining out/dates etc come from the couple money, but we do expense tracking every month to make sure it's not getting out of control. Sometimes we'll send some fun money back to the joint account to subsidise things like holidays or if we've been going out a lot recently.

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marthsheretoo posted...

Our finances are merged, but we talk to each other about expenditures.

I can't imagine doing anything less.

This, basically. Income all goes into a joint account, and most things are paid out from there. Anything large will always be a joint decision.
We also each get $50 a week of "fun money" that we can spend on ourselves however we want, no questions asked.

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I'd recommend an Xbone controller (the ones since the S which include bluetooth) or the newer ones for the Series X|S. Xbox controllers preferred over PS controllers due to better driver integration.

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ArianaGrandSlam posted...

I wouldnt consider myself a fan as Ive never sought out his work, but hes fine when hes on and I like some stuff Ive heard him featured on.

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I can't remember if I played AAI2 or not. I definitely played at least the first one.
Anyway this is good news. AA series on DS was one of my favourite gaming experiences of all time.

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