Biden / Harris Focused Discussion

[Darsithis]

Alright guys time to stop the spread of covid.

Too late, thanks to Trump. The major damage is done. However, Biden can at least soften things with strong leadership, including mask mandates and a focus on science instead of pageantry.

[Belize]

They need to just do shows like this for inaugurations from now on.

This is much better than the tractor trucks and street drummers we got 4 years ago.

[cubby]

Holy hell - might be me just interpreting it, but the songs during this part of the ceremony are just not-even-remotely-subtle digs.

"Better Days are Coming".

[Orange Joe]

Holy hell - might be me just interpreting it, but the songs during this part of the ceremony are just not-even-remotely-subtle digs.

"Better Days are Coming".

Semi related

I always though it interesting too that Biden's "We just did" is a reply to "MAGA" and "Stop the steal"

[Egomaniac]

Holy hell - might be me just interpreting it, but the songs during this part of the ceremony are just not-even-remotely-subtle digs.

"Better Days are Coming".

To be fair, it's fairly standard for new administrations to promote "better days are coming"

[Belize]

Also, Fox News isn't broadcasting the inauguration concert.

Fucking tools.

[Omega10]

Alright guys time to stop the spread of covid.

Unreachable goal, imho.

With hard work, it can be somewhat contained. With so many mutations, the virus will be slowed by not stopped by the vaccines.

Social distancing and masks will be needed more than ever before with so many cases and so many different mutations.

In Israel, people with one dose had 33% protection rather than the expected 60%. No one knows how low the protection will go (from 95%) for people with 2 vaccines two weeks after their second shot. I suspect it will be somewhat less than 95%.

Hopefully annual vaccines will be sufficient. But mutations are happening so frequently it might be more like every 4-6 months. It'll take a while to get those kinds of distribution chains set up.

[Egomaniac]

Too late, thanks to Trump. The major damage is done. However, Biden can at least soften things with strong leadership, including mask mandates and a focus on science instead of pageantry.

But don't you know?

We only started spreading Covid so that we could get Biden elected.

Now that he's sworn in we're just gonna go turn off the Covid taps.

[Omega10]

Or you could lockdown for the decently understood life cycle of the virus. I understand that getting individual states to do this would be difficult, but shit at least putting in some effort to save some lives would be greatly appreciated.

I should also add extra emphasis by making the letters a bit bigger and maybe even italics. No other comments are needed - you said it best.

[cubby]

Semi related

I always though it interesting too that Biden's "We just did" is a reply to "MAGA" and "Stop the steal"

Agreed. I do appreciate Biden's public push for unity combined with the subtle hints at "go fuck yourself Trump".

[Felya]

Semi related

I always though it interesting too that Biden's "We just did" is a reply to "MAGA" and "Stop the steal"

He is wittier than he looks... My favorite Biden moment:

BCC Reporter: Any comment for the BCC?
Biden: I’m Irish... *shit eating grin*

[cubby]

Past three (real) Presidents talking about the peaceful transition, and the traditions, associated with our country.

(and just shitting all over Trump)

[Belize]

Past three (real) Presidents talking about the peaceful transition, and the traditions, associated with our country.

(and just shitting all over Trump)

Man, Clinton looks rough. I heard that he had been sick, but shit dude

[cubby]

Man, Clinton looks rough. I heard that he had been sick, but shit dude

Yeah, holy cow.

[Thepersona]

Tom Hanks as presentator is rather neat, i will say

[Breccia]

Biden unfreezes $27.4 billion Trump froze on his way out of town.

Because of the way such a freeze works, Trump could lock it for 45 days and he did it 6 days ago. He had to know what he was doing was petty and pointless.

[PACOX]

I imagine it would be set up like a series of problems to solve. IIRC Google did it as part of their recruiting process. I have zero knowledge outside the article, but if I can think of something like that, I would guess the person who set this up also did.

Pretty cool imo to do something like that.

Now that I'm one my desktop I decided to take a look. Theres one job posting and another link that points to another .gov page. Kind of hidden in plain sight, wouldn't say they really hidden. The <!-- --> means anything between those brackets is a comment. Its highlighted in green.

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This is neat

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The form they are referring to in the comments is probably hidden for a lot of people with an adblocker. I had to turn a bunch of stuff off to see it. Spoiler, its a fight sign up for thats a honeypot for bots.

Most sites do not deploy with comments. Theres no reason to. 5 min of digging showed my that various government sites actually deploy with comments (and fairly readable syntax), probably some transparency regulation.

The analytics site has another message in its source that points to two github pages (its an open source project) and a page that goes over how they designed the analytics page (front end, what visitors see. backend, what inner workings of the site, much deeper than the HTML you can view from a web browser)

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-w...ytics-usa-gov/

[Breccia]

And of course, here's FOX News proving how "fair and balanced" they are.

The headline:

GOP looks to Biden administration to ‘lower the temperature’ but voice skepticism

"Biden won't get the two sides to agree," the GOP said, "because we're just not going to do it. Seriously, have you been paying attention?"

[Rasulis]

It is refreshing to see a President that actually tried to govern on his first day in office.

What did Trump do on his first day in office? Oh yeah. Registered for re-election.

Finally a normal WH press conference. Jen Psaki actually talked about policies.

As opposed to Sean Spicer first press conference which degenerated into shouting match with WH press corps about the size of the inauguration crowd.

[PACOX]

Can always lockdown, the Brits are finally learning it's how you stop the spread of an infectious disease. The masks mandate is a small start.

Problem with locking down America is we have an economy and culture where human life is cheap. Theres no safety nets, no backups. Society serves The Economy and not the other way around. There would need to be a gameplan and a cultural shift campaign to mental and physically prepare everyone.

Also the US is a massive country in both geographic size and population. Its almost like 50 small countries in comparison to other countries. The states hold a considerable amount of power and we know, I definitly know my governor is one, that governors will be dickheads just for the sake of doing so. The federal government has little it can do in a short amount of time to force compliance. Biden's language in mask mandate is very specific, ordering masks only where he has power.

Now between last March and now a president and legislature would have had the time to plan out a national lockdown, semi-lockdown, graduated lockdown, slow down, whatever to smoothly and legally pump the brakes on the pandemic. If only we had a proper government a year ago.