mistercwood

All of you are missing the point. The jury (for me anyway) is still out on whether Ron is actually delusional enough to be a True Believer. There is however NO doubt whatsoever that he is an expert button pusher whose glee at getting everyone riled up on here informs every single one of his posts.

I've long suspected it was put there for that very reason by the trolls who first seeded the idiocy.

I read this while picking my nose and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

The study Skydekker linked covers some interesting points and areas where deaths could increase. I don't think I'd need a study though to conclude that in areas/countries where WFH was widely adopted you would expect to see a drop in motor vehicle injuries and deaths.

I vaguely recall a story some years ago about a dude who would create artificial traffic jams with a cart full of like 50 smartphones that he'd slowly wheel along the sidewalk and mess up Google's local data. I think it was some sort of performative protest or awareness building thing about big tech? Still fascinating.

That he actually didn't know what sealioning was.

Can you go one day please without pouncing on his every post assuming the worst possible intent? The bickering between you two is just so damned tedious lately and you BOTH have hefty amounts of responsibility for that state of affairs. It would be nice if people could give each other just a little bit of the benefit of the doubt when something *could* be a dig but equally might not be.

Neither had I until I came across the comic strip in question, it's useful to be aware of because it can be done quite subtly. IMO it's one of the worst trolls because it wraps itself in an earnestness to engage in good faith, which is something that should be encouraged a hell of a lot more in most online discussion. The comic for reference, if you hadn't seen it in your travels (or for anyone else really):

I keep coming back to this post and honestly I have to agree. For me, it's the matching of the blown highlights from the left collarbone to the top of the left breast, it's pretty much exactly what you'd see in real life.

No. The only easy examples I can call to mind on SC are Brent's on anything AGW - state that you just want to use the facts/data, when people present facts/data, explain how the data isn't quite right and move the goalposts again, while insisting you are being the reasonable and consistent one. I honestly can't recall anyone else doing any sealioning here in ages.

Look I thought she was the wisest of us all, but she took the job so.... I don't make the rules!

I'd vote for Bigun, but I think he's smart enough to stay the hell away - soz Wendy but you made your bed.. :P

I dunno man, my old boss told me I was really testing the limits of Casual Friday.

Routine maintenance is one of three completely independent reasons given out by official sources - the inconsistency in the messaging lends weight to concerns that something iffy is going on (concerns, not proof). This is also coupled with reports that many sorting machines have also been removed - and anecdotally these million dollar machines in some places have been literally scrapped, so can't be replaced. I'm taking that last part heavily salted until further evidence shows up. While this all could easily still be innocent, the timing is at best just phenomenally short-sighted. Trump has literally admitted to interfering with the mail service because mail-in ballots could hurt him in the election, even though it is a much safer route for voting in the middle of a pandemic. To start removing the public face of that service immediately afterwards - without clearly stated, consistent and transparent reasons - is just plain dumb optics. It is reasonable to question these actions without it bumping up to the level of a conspiracy theory.

You guuuuuyyyyssss....

There's an issue with this approach that I think is being overlooked. Let's say we go ahead with the vaccine release asap, and that you get a good number of the public receiving it without panicking about Bill Gates and microchips. You're going to get a massive push at the same time to open things up in full, since hey, we've got a vaccine now right? And you're not going to be able to deny people from opening up, because the line almost from the start has been that a vaccine is what's needed to return to normalcy. Most people aren't going to bother with any nuance from here, it's just going to be, "I got the shot, I can live my life again like from before". Now what happens if that vaccine is only 10% effective. Everyone walking around like they've got a bulletproof vest on that isn't doing shit. Will releasing the vaccine early save more lives than it will take? I think the answer is that it's an enormous gamble that has a terrible risk.

People seem to be spending a great deal of meaningless effort/words/time on these responses. A Q supporter by definition is only going to be one of two things: a) Delusional - using logic or reason in an argument with them is pointless, they're unwilling and/or unable to engage rationally. b) Trolling - using logic or reason in an argument with them is pointless, your frustration is their goal. Stop feeding them.

Sidenote: You now never, ever, ever again get to use the "If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" line as an argument for all politician's lying. Don't argue, don't get mad at me, you played yourself.

1 month later: I'd also note that the peak in daily cases came exactly one day after the admin required hospitals to bypass the CDC and provide results to HHS instead, then magically began declining. Make of that what you will.

In all seriousness, I don't actually much give a shit about Trump's mispronunciation - it's not the first time (by him or other presidents/candidates), it's probably not even the worst he's done, and it's pretty easily explainable by his demonstrated issues with reading in general. My horror/bemusement was with his sycophants - actual, professional, adult type people - boldly claiming over and over that this was the real way to say it and that everyone who's been saying Tie-land were just uncultured plebs. I think it might be the most cultish behaviour I've seen yet.

I dunno man, just the other day I got on Ubereats and searched for my local Thigh restaurants, I was pretty keen for some Pad Thigh lemme tell ya.

His grifters are working some phenomenal overtime on this one. Classic hack Dinesh D'Souza has spent literally the last 24 hours insisting that Thighland is the correct pronunciation in more "classicaly" English speaking countries like England and Australia, even in the face of literally thousands of people telling him he's straight up full of shit and literally no one does that:

Over Trump? Without a second thought, or likely any regrets. I disagree with you fundamentally on many subjects, but I don't question that you're a (mostly) rational, fully functioning adult.

This is the part I'm still having a hard time getting past. How TF is the delay still that long, this far into the pandemic? I understand that with the higher numbers/population that this strains resources, but also wouldn't you by that same token have more infrastructure and staff available? I had to get tested this week as we've had known rogue cases enter my city (QLD, Aus) after we'd effectively hit zero community transmission. Despite the city going from maybe a dozen tests a day to literally thousands overnight, I still got my results back in just over 48 hours.