@e_considine @asymmetricinfo @DarkOssoff @conor64 I have to wear safety glasses and metatarsal steel toed shoes at work.
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Greg Zywicki
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@Gregzywicki @asymmetricinfo @DarkOssoff @conor64 You are aware, for example, even today hospitals will mandate masking for their staff when Covid rates are high even though they also mandate vaccination.
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A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.
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@e_considine @asymmetricinfo @DarkOssoff @conor64 It was especially egregious during the period when they insisted that you couldn't get sick once you had the vaccine. "You have to wear this mask to keep from contracting and spreading a disease we're 1000% sure you can't get."
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@e_considine @asymmetricinfo @DarkOssoff @conor64 It's a dumb mandatory requirement. If a person is vaccinated and not infected, there's no reason to require them wear something that prevents them from spreading a disease they don't have.
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@e_considine @asymmetricinfo @conor64 I recall seeing different data. Not that I'm anti-vax, just that "natural immunity isn't good enough you MUST vax" was a lie. From what I understand.
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@Gregzywicki @asymmetricinfo @conor64 Nope, if a month from now you are facing an infection you are better off facing it with vaccination than previous infection. Probably vaccination+previous best but no one goes out purposefully getting Covid.
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@jdawgum @JonahDispatch @bendreyfuss Yes, probably. Gordon's Gin is good. The Botanist is leaps and bounds better.
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@Gregzywicki @JonahDispatch @bendreyfuss Cheese curds from gas stations in WI are leaps and bounds better than Culver’s
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I recently tasted a Culver’s cheeseburger and it was pretty good! Clearly worse than the best fast food burgers (In-N-Out, ShakeShack) but clearly superior to most fast food burgers. It belongs in the “competing for third place” category of things, like Five Guys or Europe
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@IMAO_ I've actually asked this question unironically and gotten the unironic answer: "it's important to show where I stand."
Important to who?
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If you have fun going to protests, knock yourself out. But it just seems so deluded to think it has any chance of accomplishing something.
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There doing the No Kings protest again? And how is that different from a "I'm a Democrat and I don't like Trump" protest? Is this supposed to be news to anyone that a lot of people don't like Trump?
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@shockadelicaust @ProtectPatient1 @TheStingisBack (cOMunITy noTe: THe jOKe WoRKEd anY WAy AnD shOUld nOT bE oVERANaLYZed
did you find this note helpul?)
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@ProtectPatient1 @TheStingisBack Well duh, it's all scripted
My point is the underlying premise is fundamentally false
GIF
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Rita Moreno is one of just three people to win an Emmy for The Muppets, the other two: Bernadette Peters and Peter Sellers. The comedy timing during her performance of "Fever" while Animal attempts to railroad her is incredible. It was also done in one take
"Dat my kinda woman!"
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@JonahDispatch @bendreyfuss Other things to not miss:
Fish Sandwich
Pork Tenderloin sandwich (give it a demi-try)
POT ROAST SANDWICH (BWAH BWA BWAH!!!)
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@bendreyfuss That’s fair. But the Culver’s patty melt and cheese curds are their comparative advantage.
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@JonahDispatch @bendreyfuss And an exceptional diet root beer.
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@shannontking @JonahDispatch @bendreyfuss Absolutely. But Ben's probably got LA derangement.
(I like In-N-Out but it's more a case of value for cost.)
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@JonahDispatch @bendreyfuss In-N-Out got nothing at all on Culver's.
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@jdawgum @JonahDispatch @bendreyfuss Culvers cheese curds ARE good. The ones you're thinking of are GREAT.
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@JonahDispatch @bendreyfuss If you think Culver’s cheese curds are good, you’ve never had real cheese curds
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@JonahDispatch @bendreyfuss There is zero advantage to cheese curds…. Nothing but gooey fried salt.
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@asymmetricinfo @conor64 Given we are now about half a decade out from Covid the harsh reality for influencers is public health were more right than any other group.
Sweden was not magic.
'Natural immunity' never panned out.
Vaccine worked
Even masks worked for what they were intended to do.
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@e_considine @asymmetricinfo @DarkOssoff @conor64 How about pushing masks after the vaccine was widely avalable?
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@asymmetricinfo @DarkOssoff @conor64 Even these faults were minor compared with the competition. Most didn't mean a thing. Not pushing masks from the start was irrelevant, there was no masks available. Ditto for testing, as a Zero Covid goal was ultimately unachievable absent China level lockdowns.
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@jimrunsfar @asymmetricinfo @DarkOssoff @conor64 You could ask all the ones who signed statements like "we have to let people protest because Racism is a worse virus." Many of them put there names down on publicly available documents, if I recall correctly.
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@asymmetricinfo @DarkOssoff @conor64 were they incompetent? or asked to be competent in skills like Communications, Marketing, Policy Tactics, etc for which I'd assume they had little to no experience
At the very least we can state their communication tactics were pitiful
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@IMAO_ They already have that precedent where they made Al Franken wear a plastic cone so he wouldn't lick himself.
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This is why I say you could train a dog to be a mediocre Senator. There's not much intelligence to it.
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine
When I get elected, I am not going to vote to confirm a single nominee that comes out of the Trump administration.
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@christianserino @VerumVulnero1 ChatGPT said Amazon paid $27b in the last five years per the 10-k.
Is that something. Anything? Or are you going to move the goalpost.
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Once again, wealth taxes are very obviously unconstitutional and any proposal that does not address that is unserious and should be treated as such.
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
Multi-millionaires and billionaires keep getting richer and richer while working families get squeezed by a rigged economy. No more. It’s time for a wealth tax — and for our government to start working for working people.
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@JackMal94371989 @IMAO_ I'm not sure it's sarcastic. Does Hyperbolic but Pro-Frank clarify at all?
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Democrats don't want the U.S. to be the dominant power in the Western hemisphere?
If you don't even like this country, what are you doing here?
OSZ@OpenSourceZone
Should the U.S be the dominant power in the western hemisphere 🟢 Yes: 51% 🔴 No: 28% By party: Republicans: (🟢 Yes 74/8) Democrats: (🔴 No 26/49) Economist/YouGov poll | 3/20-3/23
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@IMAO_ It's a Mott and Bailey. They get to subliminally suggest it's a mental disorder, but if you push they can retreat to "No, it's like hydrophilic vs. hydrophobic."
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Transphobic is such a silly word.
"That makes zero sense."
"So you're afraid of it!"
"No, it's just dumb and makes no sense."
It's like flat earthers calling people flat-phobic.
The A.V. Club@TheAVClub
The first teaser for HBO's Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, a show that will give J.K. Rowling millions to donate to transphobic causes, arrived this afternoon. avclub.com/harry-potter-h…
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