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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaleredar View Post
    That seems fairly apropos
    It’s funny, the worst thing to happen to society in recent history, is our ability to know people‘s opinions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Felya View Post
    What would that even be called? “Mega thread: social media outrage and the outrage over that outrage”.
    Mega Thread: we mad af
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skulltaker View Post
    I tried to connect the dots in the first exercise to make a cube for a solid 15 seconds or so. I feel really fucking stupid right now, thanks.
    It kinda does make one think that the first exercise is to draw a cube. Looked at it for a moment and realized it just wanted 1A2B3C. . .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Felya View Post
    Finally... can’t believe he tried to make this a wedge issue for 6 months:

    In my very best Bill Burr: "He's got a mask! What a fag!"
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    The good news: "only" 61,719 new cases today.

    The bad news: it's the weekend and I'm seeing a lot of counties that haven't reported, so that's probably off by a couple thousand. North and South Carolina and Arkansas all posted new records. Other states probably did too but again, I'm limiting my research to those that break 1k for my own sanity. It's been a bad week. (Fuck) Florida passed 10k again. Texas and California are in the 8k range again. Overall there are 13 states in the "thousands" range when, a couple weeks ago, there were only 4-5.

    Deaths are, once again, up. Discounting last weekend because of the holiday, deaths are up about 200 compared to the Saturday before. In fact you have to go back to the end of May to see a death count on Saturday that's higher than the 733 recorded today. The curve is going back up, due in no small part to the absolute flood of new cases overwhelming hospitals.

    I'm a bit burnt following yesterday's news, so I don't really have much more in-depth analysis for you. It's the weekend, so expect things not to sound too bad until Tuesday or Wednesday when the corrections come in, as usual. In the meantime, wear a fucking mask.

    Sorry folks. Stay safe.

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    It's a shame he wore a mask for reasons other than covid, ah well. he did it for the right reason, just not because of covid.

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    "Does this mask make me look orange?"
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    UPDATE: Earlier, I posted the above saying Cuomo was trolling DeSantis, who said he didn't want it. I found that hilarious.

    But turns out, no, he was just being professional. Cuomo had talked directly to Florida's HHS People (right next to Florida's FFS People?) and they had accepted the offer -- just enough remdesivir to fill the gap until their federal delivery had arrived. Yeah...Florida's kind of running low for...some reason.

    DeSantis, by the way, claims he has thousands of ventilators sitting idle. Hey @benggual how's the Florida death count? Does their death count scream "we have all the help we need, thanks" or not?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    Hey @benggual how's the Florida death count? Does their death count scream "we have all the help we need, thanks" or not?
    I don't know what their real death count is, but they posted 95 on the day which is nearly two times 47, so I'd say things are serious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benggaul View Post
    I don't know what their real death count is, but they posted 95 on the day which is nearly two times 47, so I'd say things are serious.
    It's twice 47, plus one for good measure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thepersona View Post
    It's twice 47, plus one for good measure.
    *sigh* "Two times" is the same as "twice". Cut me some slack. It's been a shit week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benggaul View Post
    The good news: "only" 61,719 new cases today.

    The bad news: it's the weekend and I'm seeing a lot of counties that haven't reported, so that's probably off by a couple thousand. North and South Carolina and Arkansas all posted new records. Other states probably did too but again, I'm limiting my research to those that break 1k for my own sanity. It's been a bad week. (Fuck) Florida passed 10k again. Texas and California are in the 8k range again. Overall there are 13 states in the "thousands" range when, a couple weeks ago, there were only 4-5.

    Deaths are, once again, up. Discounting last weekend because of the holiday, deaths are up about 200 compared to the Saturday before. In fact you have to go back to the end of May to see a death count on Saturday that's higher than the 733 recorded today. The curve is going back up, due in no small part to the absolute flood of new cases overwhelming hospitals.

    I'm a bit burnt following yesterday's news, so I don't really have much more in-depth analysis for you. It's the weekend, so expect things not to sound too bad until Tuesday or Wednesday when the corrections come in, as usual. In the meantime, wear a fucking mask.

    Sorry folks. Stay safe.
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    I have to imagine with the "Biden is finished" talk, they have somehow convinced themselves that doing the right thing and wearing a fucking mask (like a rational and sane human being who doesn't want to see the virus continue to screw with people's lives) was the only thing separating the two candidates?

    Fascinating.

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    As they should be. Look, it is stupid and idiotic, but if they don't praise him constantly for wearing a mask, then he won't wear one. And if he doesn't wear one, millions of others will refuse to wear them either. So don't expect me to praise him for it, but it is a good thing his lackeys are doing it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post


    Yeah, good luck with that last one.
    OT
    wtf, I want that too.. our forecast for Tuesday here in NRW,Germany is fucking 17°C ... -.-
    Weather is completely random the last few years, we either have 40° or 20° nowadays it seems... thanks climate change
    /OT

    That Stone commutation is really bad, wow
    Has he given up on re-election?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Felya View Post
    It’s funny, the worst thing to happen to society in recent history, is our ability to know people‘s opinions.
    I do find it funny that the people "worried about the overreach of the SJWs" and/or "the supression of non-liberal views on social media" are afraid of those things killing free speech (see the now closed "do you still support Trump" thread, you can find them,) but think it totally justified when the president has peaceful protestors assaulted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Inuyaki View Post
    Has he given up on re-election?
    The problem is is that Trump's supporters so blindly believe what Trump says that they believe him when he claims that Stone did nothing wrong or that he was unfairly imprisoned. They perceive him getting Stone out of serving jail time as a victory for the Trump administration, and his ability to unilaterally do so as triumphing over the libs and/or deepstate.

    Fox news was already putting up videos on youtube about how "Stone was unfairly railroaded by the justice system." I believe the exact title of the video was "What happened to Stone should scare every American," implying that the system is unfairly stacked against Trump and his supporters and operating as some kangaroo court, as opposed to the reality where Trump is a mob boss getting his cronies out of the prison sentences they deserve.
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    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/u...ity-trump.html

    Ms. Duke is the latest in a series of senior officials who have gone public to describe — often in vivid, behind-the-scenes detail — their discomfort and sometimes shock at the inner workings of the Trump presidency.

    She said she was especially taken aback, during the response to Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico, when she heard Mr. Trump raise the possibility of “divesting” or “selling” the island as it struggled to recover.

    “The president’s initial ideas were more of as a businessman, you know,” she recalled. “Can we outsource the electricity? Can we can we sell the island? You know, or divest of that asset?” (She said the idea of selling Puerto Rico was never seriously considered or discussed after Mr. Trump raised it.)
    lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thekri View Post
    As they should be. Look, it is stupid and idiotic, but if they don't praise him constantly for wearing a mask, then he won't wear one. And if he doesn't wear one, millions of others will refuse to wear them either. So don't expect me to praise him for it, but it is a good thing his lackeys are doing it.


    In the end, Trump still couldn't wear the mask properly.
    Last edited by Zaydin; 2020-07-12 at 03:22 AM.
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    When the President's cabinet and other high ranking officials have to treat the President like a five year old who speaks up while your in the middle of a conversation.

    High Ranking Official: "We have to get support out to Puerto Rico to help with the hurricane relief."

    Trump: "We could send them dinosaurs to move the big rocks like in my sand box."

    High Ranking Official: "Okay sweety we will do that. How would you like to watch some youtube on my Ipad?"

    Trump:"YAY!"

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