Sanpaku I'm considering learning to fight so I can kick guys like you in the balls when they come for the Jews and trans kids, what martial art is the best for kicking you in the balls, as an expert in all human fucking knowledge
― college bong rip guy (silby), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:14 (four years ago) link
Ooookkkk
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:15 (four years ago) link
Silby is otm re Quillette. You might as well link a Jordan Peterson op-ed.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
or the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
― college bong rip guy (silby), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
Is this yet another example of ILX taking bad faith interpretation of a user's behavior?
Ehh, probably
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link
how much winking am I supposed to tolerate from this asshole
― college bong rip guy (silby), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link
"Peak Prosperity" my fucking ass
Idc who does what, just saying Quillette is toxic and shouldn't be linked if it can be avoided
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
silby i fear i may have misgendered you upthread and if so i am really really sorry
― honky wonk badonkadonk (crüt), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
Ok piece on Taiwan's response.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/07/coronavirus-outbreak-taipei-taiwan-china
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
I've done PCR DNA amplification in the lab
congrats? so have all my 10th graders
― the late great, Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:52 (four years ago) link
Quillette is trash.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:57 (four years ago) link
just delurking to say that as a former employee of both the scripps institute of oceanography and the lawrence berkeley cyclotron, and as a current science teacher, i feel so much fucking shame and disappointment when i see ppl pay attention to sanpaku's puffed up credentials and jargon. it just means my profession has broadly failed to innoculate ppl against charlatanry.
― the late great, Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:02 (four years ago) link
Hey, look, if it's ever determined that a particular skull shape or jawline predisposes you to coronavirus, Quillette will 100% be first on the case. So why not give them, and those who link and quote their articles, the benefit of the doubt?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:08 (four years ago) link
itt, admissions of broad failure to innoculate
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:12 (four years ago) link
Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy reading Plasmon's inspired takedown of Sanpaku from years past.
Not really down with the occasional demonizing that goes on here.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link
Also great to see ya back even if fleetingly tlg
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:19 (four years ago) link
Silby: You don't know me. I'm the token lefty in my family. The crazy vegan bicyclist living in a $875 1 bdrm on a street where Norteño music gets loud Friday nights, because I don't need more, and I save where I can. The one who spent more on Warren's campaign last month than I spent on food, and more still at the therapist. I'm the autist without siblings and raised in a retirement community, so my entire childhood was reading. Books nearly killed me going up the outside stairs last move. If you think physically beating a person like me will make the world a better place, perhaps you should question who the goosestepper in our relationship is.
And just as I'm the leftist in my family, I'm the one that reins in alarmists on places like r/climate or r/collapse (which FYI is totally voting for Sanders, we drove out right wingers 3 years ago). Case in point, moderating the alarm when news of this outbreak, as there was no evidence yet of human to human transmission. It was only when papers/stats on the the R0 and CFR came out 3 weeks later that my eyes got wide. So far, my concerns have been paralelled by others who know far more about epidemiology than I do after reading all the pop cultural books by Laurie Garrett, Richard Preston et al.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcJDpV-igjs
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
pop cultural epidemics
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:29 (four years ago) link
what's wrong with norteño music pendejo
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:48 (four years ago) link
Nothing. Just means I have to turn the audio books up higher.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:49 (four years ago) link
Burrito otm
I actually dunno if they are but i always wanted to type
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:56 (four years ago) link
For those curious how Taiwan has been so successful controlling the outbreak (and with little of the coercion seen in mainland China), this is a good read. Especially the 100+ action items in the eSupplement.
Wang et al, 2020, Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan: Big Data Analytics, New Technology, and Proactive Testing. JAMA.
Using mobile phones to verify self-quarantines may rile those who value civil liberties over life. But jeez, they sent their army into support mask factories, and produced 44 M masks before their first confirmed case. It perhaps really helps to have an epidemiologist as national VP.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:23 (four years ago) link
Sanpaku there’s no reason to take anything you say or link seriously because you’ve got very bad judgment
― college bong rip guy (silby), Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:38 (four years ago) link
Stop misleading people on this thread about important shit
For an obsessive it’s astonishing how little you know what you’re talking about
― college bong rip guy (silby), Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:40 (four years ago) link
sorry I need to keep touching my face
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:48 (four years ago) link
For the life of me
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:49 (four years ago) link
It'd be easier to just cut off all contact with the outside world for a month.
― Fetchboy, Sunday, 8 March 2020 06:00 (four years ago) link
Latest case in Victoria went to a Vietnamese restaurant up the street from me I even walked past it (on my way to buy fish) a couple of hours before the patient went there.
Vic gov (and I’ll grudgingly admit, the feds) are doing a good job here getting the message out about where people have been whilst emphasising that it’s still safe to go to these places - I may get a bowl of pho there for lunch tomorrow.
Good to hear from the Vic health minister today that anyone who wants a test can have one on request, they’d rather overtest than undertest. I feel somewhat fortunate to be in a country where a shitty government is at least willing to listen to and, by and large, put themselves in the hands of experts (at least on this).
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 8 March 2020 06:27 (four years ago) link
silby: that's a peer reviewed paper in one of the big 4 med journals. I mentioned upthread how Taiwan seems to be doing a good job, but didn't have a handle on how as it hasn't been well reported. That paper is how it was reported.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 8 March 2020 07:01 (four years ago) link
It literally doesn’t matter what you say, your judgment is terrible and your commentary is worthless, stop posting. Goodnight!
― college bong rip guy (silby), Sunday, 8 March 2020 07:12 (four years ago) link
Fingers crossed:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/07/cpac-coronavirus-conference-trump-pence
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 8 March 2020 09:48 (four years ago) link
just wonderful stuff
When asked whether his thousand-person campaign rallies would would continue in light of the CPAC case, the president replied: “We’ll have tremendous rallies.”
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 8 March 2020 09:51 (four years ago) link
May this make up for Bush's little pretzel that couldn't.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 8 March 2020 09:54 (four years ago) link
his underlying health must make him a shoo-in for death if he catches it
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 March 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link
Parma and SPAL players have just been sent back to the locker rooms while the Minister for Sport mulls over suspending the league. Idk how it can practically continue if Lombardy is on complete lockdown.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 8 March 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
"Tom, how much do you need?""Two hundred and forty-two rolls.""Aw, Tom, just enough to wipe your arse with til the panic's over""I'll take two hundred and forty-two rolls." pic.twitter.com/BxYEJw3Rr6— Robert Peacock (@Peaky76) March 8, 2020
― calzino, Sunday, 8 March 2020 11:56 (four years ago) link
in huit clos ? that's what's happening in biathlon.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 8 March 2020 12:44 (four years ago) link
er huis clos
― Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 8 March 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
Yep. They’ve given the go ahead for the match, after a lot of deliberation. No word on whether the players will have to keep a legally mandated metre distance from each other while playing.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 8 March 2020 12:47 (four years ago) link
:-(
dude is probably just trying to get by. it sucks that he may have put others at risk, but not everyone can afford to take time off. https://t.co/C1sdul4zGA— putting the pal in palestinian (@jennineak) March 8, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 March 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link
There'll be no shortage of people who can't afford to take time off over the next few months
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 March 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
my best bud in Seattle is posting conspiracy memes about this now and saying it’s “overhyped” and he works in the service industry at a very popular and acclaimed restaurant there so... uh, good luck usa
― Clay, Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
Plz just say what restaurant some of us live here. Not that I’m likely to go to many restaurants for the next three weeks.
― college bong rip guy (silby), Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
I would suggest not going anywhere in the James Beard situation til like summer if you want me to be explicit
― Clay, Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
no sign any species of panic buying has hit my local hackney corner shop yet
― mark s, Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
I have a ticket for a debate on Tuesday night in which Alexis Goldstein is going to demolish the competition in support of student debt relief and now I'm like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
No blatant panic buying at the supermarkets in my part of Williamsburg but I stopped by Whole Foods on Bedford Ave last night and there were whole sections denuded (pasta, rice, water, toilet paper, frozen vegetables).
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
this is a really pointless frustration to express but: why r people buying bottled water in new york!!!!! ugh
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link