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Lokarin posted...

Isn't this the equivalent of someone's elementary school record getting someone fired from CEO?

Considering he was still an adult when he made those tweets, no. Although funny, your comparison is very exaggerated.

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Freedom of speech has nothing to do with it. All it does is prevent the government from prosecuting you for your opinion. It's a restriction, not a right. It's a way to protect citizens from being imprisoned on political grounds. Her employers aren't the government, so that restriction doesn't apply to them. For example, I can freely and publicly tell how much I hate the US government without fear of being imprisoned for it even if I was on US soil. This is in stark contrast to totalitarian regimes like in North Korea and China where you can definitely find yourself in deep trouble if you dare insult the government. But if I were to say anything to piss off GameFAQs' administration, they have all the rights to terminate my account.

This freedom of speech myth is annoying.

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That's pretty unfair, those tweets were made before he even joined the cast. If his actions of today don't reflect his past behavior, he doesn't deserve being fired over this. It's kind of like firing your employee because his criminal background has suddenly become the subject of conversations on social media, even though said crimes were committed before employment and were publicly known. Heck, I've said pretty racist and homophobic stuff in the early 00s when I was still a kid. I compared another student's black skin to chocolate as a joke in elementary school when I was 11, and I said I hated gays out loud in class (the entire class heard) when I was 13. The first was due to me not having much experience with black people at the time (I don't live in the US and black people are extremely rare), and the second was because I was at an age when my sexuality was developing and a group of older male students were sexually harassing me (they didn't touch me, they only abused me verbally).

A few years later and I was already a strong opponent to racism and homophobia. My personality wasn't fully developed yet, so holding me responsible for these stupid comments now would be absurd. If I hadn't changed, then yeah you could use them against me, but that isn't the case. The only reason why they fired him is because of the current protests, they want to show the world that they're distancing themselves from the problem. They're making a stance against racism and police brutality. They wouldn't have made such a big deal out of it if it wasn't for that. They fear public outrage, so if fans turn the problem around by showing CW that their decision causes more backlash than otherwise, they're going to backtrack and hire him again.

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Way to go trying to twist the truth to fit your own racist agenda. After researching what happened to Dillon Taylor, it became very obvious that the man committed suicide by cop. He was emotionally distressed, had a BAC of 0.18%, attracted the police's attention, made sure that the police believed he was armed and did everything to escalate the situation.

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jramirez23 posted...

I am not so sure. I had heard that Trump was maybe losing some of the senior citizen vote and that is a very important base of voters due to their higher likelihood of voting.

Trump has nothing to worry about, considering he made sure that senior citizens would be dead before the election.

I actually predict that Trump will still be president in 2021. I can see several ways this could happen.

• Trump uses COVID-19 and the riots as an excuse to cancel the election, then challenges Congress to impeach him which they will obviously fail to do as history taught us.
• Using the riots as an excuse, Trump commands the military and the police to "guard" voting locations, thus preventing black people from voting altogether.
• Trump helps the riots escalate into civil war, thus allowing him to remain in office.
• Trump bans vote by mail, thus discouraging his opponents from voting out of fear of contracting the virus or, if they're black, getting murdered by police.
• Trump loses the election but refuses to concede, declaring that the votes were fraudulent.

It can also be any combination of the above. Trump acts like a monarch, he disregards the constitution and accuses his opponents of treason by not making a distinction between the country and himself. He's everything the country wanted to end on Independence Day. He's been pissing on the American flag ever since he became president.

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adjl posted...

It might not, actually, since the protesters being gassed are generally unarmed.

So according to you, soldiers shooting civilians isn't a war crime because said civilians were unarmed. Okay, that makes total sense.

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I want to make a few corrections to my previous post. My paternal grandfather, his wife and my paternal grandmother died on February 2019, February 2018 and summer 2019 respectively, all one year after what I said. My maternal grandmother also lives in a condominium, not an apartment block.

HornedLion posted...

Im now down to one grandparent. My grandfather who owns a farm. Hes almost 90 and I think his health is due to high activity doing farm chores and natural country cooking.

You're right, staying active can do wonders to your health. If it wasn't for that damn Alzheimer's disease, my paternal grandmother would still be alive and kicking today. She owned a huge house with her two sisters in a rural town. She lived upstairs while the other two lived downstairs, although one of the sections downstairs also included a second story. One of the sisters only used her section of the house (the one downstairs with more verticality) as a secondary home, so she let my father and his two kids use it whenever we spent a week there during the summer. We went there twice a year, once during the summer for at least a week and once during winter's holidays for slightly less than a week. Since the lodge was occupied (most of the family was there to celebrate the new year), we had to share our grandmother's section, but thankfully there were enough beds for everyone. I actually loved that place, it was huge. The backyard was immense and it included a lake and forest! She would wake up early every morning to swim to a small island in the middle of the lake and back, except during winter of course.

I lost my great aunt, the sister permanently living downstairs in her section of the house, to Alzheimer's disease a long time ago. Her deterioration and death was harder on my younger sister than me because she spent a lot of time with her while I was busy exploring or playing video games. She eventually had to be placed in a nursery home and died three years later. We got to use her section of the house instead of the other one ever since she left for the nursery home, whether it was in the summer or winter. I don't remember the exact year but I do remember playing Star Fox Adventure on the GameCube there after recently getting it for Christmas, so she was no longer living there in December 2002.

My grandmother showed signs of the disease when I was 13 or 14. She eventually had to sell the house and live in a small apartment. She thought her landlady was illegally entering her home and stealing her stuff, she gave me a remote controlled toy truck as a Christmas gift and she let herself be scammed by selling her car five times under its market price. At this point we had to place her in a nursery home. She managed to one-up the toy truck by giving me a bunch of multicolored socks sized for small children for my birthday and the card that came with it was just a card some company sent to her to thank her for being a loyal customer, she had simply written my name inside it. I donated both the truck and socks to charity. My father also became her legal tutor and kept me up to date when I stopped seeing her.

In the few years preceding her death, she was in a near vegetative state, incapable of eating herself and using the toilet. It's absurd that people had to change her diapers and everything. That woman was such a hard worker. I'm pretty sure that if it wasn't for this disease, she would still be swimming to that island to this day. Heck, she would still be doing it way past the age of 100. She managed to survive more than 15 years with the disease. Her slow deterioration broke records in slowness. This is because she was very healthy thanks to her active lifestyle. But her genes were damaged. Her entire family died of Alzheimer's disease. Her other sister showed signs of the disease one day and died a year later, her deterioration was fast. At least one of her children also died from it. The three sisters had already lost their parents and most of their grandparents to that same disease.

Thankfully, I doubt I'll get it. There's absolutely no history of the disease on the grandfather's side of the family. His parents and grandparents didn't have it, same goes for his uncles, aunts and cousins. As for his descendants, none of them have shown signs of the disease despite three of them being elderly. My father is the youngest of three siblings and he'll turn 68 next month. That man also has 21 descendants, I counted them at his funeral. One of them had previously died as a baby due to choking on food (his funeral was really sad), so I didn't count him, but I did count one who was still in his/her mother's womb. He left quite a legacy and he was proud of it. My branch is the only one who hasn't made great-grandchildren to him yet, but we're also the youngest one considering my paternal cousins are 5-15 years older than me. His oldest great-grandchild is now 20 and she's popular with the boys, so she might do like her parents did in their mid 20s and start a family in a few years.

My mother's side of the family is also completely free of Alzheimer's disease. The only thing I had to be careful about was cystic fibrosis. I lost an uncle in 1995 to it, which was my first experience with a relative's death. I also didn't get to know an aunt who died a year before my birth. Out of the three remaining siblings, two carry the gene (50% chance) and one doesn't (25% chance). My mother carries it, so she made sure my father didn't have it before having children with him. I tested for it when I was 17-18 and the result was negative (50% chance), so it's impossible for my children to have the disease. My sister hasn't tested yet.

Such is the cycle of life and death. People are born, then they die. Life is short, so don't take it for granted and cherish the time you have. I also know from experience that reminiscing about your deceased loved ones can bring back good memories and feel like they're still present. This is however easier after some time has passed. You have to give yourself the time to mourn them first. The longest I spent mourning someone was my maternal grandfather. It took me a year before I could finally smile and laugh thinking about him.

The saddest part about losing someone in the current state of the world is that you can't hold funerals anymore, at least not like before.

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I'm sorry for your loss. I know how it feels to lose a grandparent, I lost four out of five (I'm including an in-law) but before the pandemic. I first lost my maternal grandfather to cancer in spring 1998 when I was 8 years old. I loved that man, he was my favorite and always made me laugh. He died too young at 62. I lost the other three in quick succession, starting with my paternal grandmother by marriage (she married my grandfather before I was born and I always considered her my third grandmother) in February 2017. Her death was sudden and unexpected. She fell ill one day and was sent to the hospital. My father was there, then she was apparently getting better and was to return home soon, so my father left and by the time he returned home (the trip was 1-2 hours), something went wrong and she died. My biological paternal grandmother died the following summer due to complications linked to Alzheimer's disease. I had technically lost her a decade early when she couldn't remember me anymore and I stopped seeing her as a result. Finally, my paternal grandfather died of old age and grief in February 2018 when he was 91. His funerals took place exactly one year after his wife's. He had lost the will to live. He survived cancer twice, but losing his wife was too much of a toll.

My only grandparent still alive is my maternal grandmother. She's 85 and not really in good shape. She's still autonomous, but has difficulty walking, hearing and seeing. We had to postpone her cataract surgery for her remaining eye (the other was fixed, it was decided that we wouldn't operate both eyes at the same time) due to the pandemic. She lives in an apartment block for the elderly and thankfully the virus hasn't penetrated its walls. The staff is handling the situation quite well. Visitors aren't even allowed inside. She hasn't left her home for over two months now. She's precious to me and the rest of our family, so we all want her to remain inside and quarantine herself. We talk to her on the phone to make sure she's fine and she doesn't get lonely. Although I do miss seeing her, I don't want her to be a victim of COVID-19. We'll be sure to do a party at her place once the pandemic is over for good.

I've always been closer to my mother's side of the family. Losing my grandfather in 1998 was really hard. It was much less difficult losing those from my father's side. I was still sad, but it didn't hit me quite as hard. Since my remaining grandmother started to show signs of deterioration 4-5 years ago, I started to come to accept the reality that she won't be around forever anymore, but losing her will be really hard, that's for sure. This pandemic doesn't help. Normally I'd want to spend as much time with her as possible, but doing so right now could potentially cause her premature death.

Cherish the time you have left with your loved ones and cherish the memory of those you have lost.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Clearly Spain thinks differently.

I'm just being realistic. Just imagine HIV suddenly being transmitted like the flu. Do you really think scientists would be able to find a vaccine to stop a HIV pandemic? The urgency of a situation doesn't make it any easier. It's safe to assume that if a vaccine was ever discovered for a coronavirus, it would be a scientific breakthrough worthy of a Nobel Prize. Heck, the most optimistic predictions are that we might be able to find a vaccine that is only slightly effective, one that might only reduce the number of patients with the most severe symptoms, thus reducing the number of SARS cases that lead to death. It's kind of like how having AIDS today is less of a problem than it was forty years ago. Although AIDS still kills you, you get to live much longer with it than before thanks to better treatment. Complete immunity will never happen. Don't get your hopes up.

The way how a coronavirus vaccine might work is different from your typical one. The point of vaccines is to give immunity to a virus. For most viruses, surviving infection and naturally eliminating the virus basically makes you immune to all future infections. Cororaviruses, unfortunately, don't grant this immunity when you successfully fight it. You can always catch it again and repeat the whole process over again. However, surviving it once also means that you are much less likely to die from it in the future, because symptoms should be less severe than your first infection. Do you get where I'm going with this? What if we could grant that resistance to someone who never had the virus before? That's what many of the scientists are going for in their search for a "vaccine". People are still going to catch it, but the rate of asymptomatic cases will increase while SARS cases will decrease. However, it'll always remain contagious. For the unlucky patients to still get SARS, treatment will have to improve, which is separate from vaccination.

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SirPikachu posted...

I just don't get why people think Bill Gates of all people is this evil Antichrist

It started when some idiot posted "proof" that he was behind it. The "proof" was that he had patented something related to coronavirus in the past, way before COVID-19 was even a thing. The problem with this is that coronaviruses have been a thing for a very long time now. COVID-19 is just a newly discovered type of coronavirus among thousands. Most are harmless, those that are a threat are rare, e.g. SARS-CoV. Bill Gates has also been warning people about a potential coronavirus pandemic for over a decade now, which idiots take as "evidence" that he planned it, as stupid as it sounds. He's also been donating large sums of money to research toward treating the life-threatening coronaviruses, which explains the patent. Someone also found a picture of him with fellow billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, which apparently "proves" that he's evil. I had no idea being in close proximity of a pedophile also makes you one. Regardless, this has nothing to do with COVID-19 but the idiots are using it as "evidence" anyway.

Heck, as much as I hated the man, George W. Bush made a speech in 2005 about his concerns over the US being unprepared for a potential flu outbreak like the one in 1918. Everyone made fun of him and didn't take him seriously, which was a side effect of his known incompetence in other matters. Even though a coronavirus isn't a type of flu, his point still stands. He compared it to a forest fire. If it's not contained quickly, it becomes a raging inferno that destroys everything in its path. Do you remember the "overreaction" about the A-H1N1 vaccination in 2009? Well, the virus that killed an estimated 17-50+ millions of people in 1918-1919 was the very same virus. When a deadly virus is successfully contained, people talk about overreaction in the media, but when its containment fails, we see people dying everywhere. Fortunately, A-H1N1 only killed anti-vaxxers in 2009. Unfortunately, COVID-19 doesn't have a vaccine and one will never exist, so it kills indiscriminately and we're all forced to protect ourselves with social distancing measures.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Not to fully call him correct, but mental health has been a thing mostly overlooked during the current crisis.

You're right, but that's no excuse of endangering people like he does, especially the elderly. It's the pretext he uses to not do social distancing, he thinks he's some kind of hero saving people from suicide. He's insane. Our customers who feel the need to talk with someone can call our coordinator and ask to be redirected to a call service. There are volunteers who can call on a regular basis mentally fragile people who feel lonely. I know there's a community center for the mentally ill where I've done some volunteering work that does this. It's done by its coordinator (she's also a social worker specialized in mental health). She calls every active users of the center (active means they have visited the center at least once in the past year) once every three weeks just to have a long conversation, make sure everything is okay, if they need special help, etc. I might give her a call and offer calling some of the users myself as well just for a friendly chat, at least those I know well. She won't be able to give me their phone number because it's confidential, but she'll be able to ask them for permission.

FrozenBananas posted...

someone should tell this to the White House

I don't live in the US, but I assume it's much worse there with that dumbshit of a president you have. Where I live, our provincial prime minister is very, very good. Everyday at 1PM he gives a press conference with our minister of health and our public health doctor. His messages are repeated on radio and television all the time. He gives advice on how to cope with loneliness and how to avoid going crazy. He also gives tricks on how to stay active. He forced the lockdown way before things got out of hand. We didn't even have a single death caused by the virus yet when he did it. He's smart and well advised. As for our federal prime minister, he's passable. He was late to close the airports, which provinces can't do, so it did get out of hand in Montreal during the first week of lockdown. He's certainly thousands of times better than your president, that's for sure.

The problem with this pandemic is that we'll never ever find a vaccine. One was never discovered for any coronavirus in the past. This type of virus doesn't make you immune to it once you survive it, which explains the sheer difficulty of finding a vaccine. The only way to stop it is to social distance and mechanically make it stop from spreading, which is unrealistic when you have idiots and jerks not giving a shit about public health. If everyone had followed the rules of quarantine, the pandemic would have ended over a month ago in just two weeks. It's because of the idiots protesting against the lockdown that we're still in lockdown, but they don't have the mental faculty to realise or understand this.

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I deliver meals to elderly people. It's volunteer work, so I'm not even paid to do it. I've been doing this job since the start of February. Due to the pandemic, we now have to follow very strict rules to protect our customers. Most of them are very old and vulnerable, some even require oxygen tanks to survive. You'd be surprised at the amount of idiots I met during my work. I have to keep hand sanitiser on me at all times and wash my hands before and after manipulating the food. I'm no longer allowed to enter homes, I must leave meals in disposable bags that I must hang on the doorknobs. I then knock and leave so that the customer can safely retrieve it. I have quite a few customers who refuse to follow the rules, they feel bored and need to talk all the time. We're not even allowed to take payments anymore (my work is free, but the food isn't) because that would go against the no contact rule. Customers were warned about these rules but quite a few of them don't give a fuck.

One of them is mentally disabled, so it's not really his fault. At least he complies when I ask him to enter his apartment when I see him at the other end of the hallway. Another opened the door and called me out because he wanted to pay for the month. I told him from a distance that due to the pandemic it's not allowed and that if he has any question, he must call the coordinator (she's salaried). He complained and argued, saying that it was stupid and out of hand. I told him that he wasn't just putting himself and me at risk, but also my other customers who will certainly die if they catch the virus. Another was like the simpleton, but he refused to comply even after I told him about the danger of it. I told him from a distance that if he didn't comply, I would have to leave without giving him his food, which he reluctantly did. That one has always been trouble even before the pandemic, so it's not surprising. I've kept my favorite for last.

Unlike the other three, this one is a woman. The first time I delivered during the pandemic, nothing special happened. I called her in the entrance lobby of her apartment block so that she would press a button to unlock the door. I then went to her door and left the bag under her doorknob, knocked, moved several meters away, watched her open the door and retrieve the bag at a distance, then left without saying a word. As I said, no problem. The second time, however, was different. She knew that I wouldn't be staying to talk with her, so when I called her in the lobby she didn't unlock the door. Instead, she left her apartment and greeted me in the lobby by manually opening the door. She did this several times. I was pissed at her, she said "she forgot to open the door", an obvious lie. I told my coordinator about it. I haven't delivered to her since then because my route changed due to unrelated circumstances, so I don't know if the coordinator made her comply or banned her.

But that's not all, because I've also met coronovirus deniers outside of my customers. Some are neighbors to said customers and others are fellow volunteers. Most volunteers are retired, in fact I was the only non retiree before the pandemic started and a flow of newly quarantined students and workers joined our ranks out of boredom or civic duty, replacing most of our veteran workers who were at risk for being too old. Personally, I've always been a freelancer working at home and my motivation for volunteering is to open up opportunities to meet people, something I can't do normally. Many of the veteran volunteers quit after the lockdown started, but some who should have remained. I heard one of them saying that he's never been sick his entire life because his immune system is so good, an obvious lie. A newly retired man (late 50s so much less at risk) who had joined a month after me asked him if he was "invincible", to which the idiot replied yes and said that stupid lie. Some people are just delusional.

I've seen plenty of old folks walking outside their apartment and socialising, but the one I'm going to talk about is the absolute worse. His apartment is right in front of one of my customers, a kind old lady who absolutely follow the rules. Before the pandemic, he almost always talked to me. His door was always open except that one time it was closed and a note said to not disturb him because he was sleeping, which is evidence that proves he lets anyone enter his apartment. He visited everyone and constantly loitered in the hallway. Since the pandemic, absolutely nothing changed. He kept approaching me to talk to me even though I was wearing a mask, which as an added bonus normally makes it so people are less willing to enter your personal space. He kept rambling about how he's more concerned about suicides than the virus. I saw him stop other old folks in their track, invading their personal space when they try to leave or enter their apartment, and talk with them. He was so dangerous that I denounced him to the cops. I don't know what happened next. I couldn't check if he complied because as I said early, my route changed. I certainly would have called the cops again if I saw his door open again.

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SilentSeph posted...

In the afterlife, you must defeat the noise in Shibuya, but you won't get far if you don't believe in the heart of the cards.

The World Ends With Yu-Gi-Oh!

Bulbasaur posted...

what the fuck is a portmanteau

It's 2020 and people still don't know how to use a search engine or a dictionary.

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