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That's perfectly consistent with flagging injuries as sensitive content, recognizing that many people would prefer not to see such images. The photos were still fully available for those that choose to see them and/or have turned off those filters; this wasn't a personal attack on his politics or anything like that. Sucks that dude's face qualifies as a gruesome injury, but that's the nature of catastrophic burns.

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It makes sense that the discrepancy exists, but the assumption is pretty dumb. There are countless reasons for an attractive dude to be single that don't involve being gay, not least of which is that he simply doesn't feel like being in a relationship.

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Lonewolf80 posted...

China's numbers are measured by absolute numbers. As in the amount of people vaccinated, not a percentage.

"Vaccination rate" refers to the percentage of a given population vaccinated, not the absolute numbers. How you define that population is up to you, but in this context, the usual assumption is that it's talking about the whole country's population, so any deviation from that should be specified for clarity's sake.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

The key difference is texture. Biscuits are way fluffier than scones.

That mostly boils down to the consistency of your pastry dough. Cut your fat in until you've got a mealy consistency (the best metric I've heard for this is that it looks like parmesan cheese), and both your biscuit and your scone are going to be denser. Leave larger chunks of fat (typically called "flaky" if you're referring to pie dough, which is the same principle), and you get more discernible layers in the final product and a lighter texture. Scones tend more toward mealy dough than flaky, which generally means they're denser, but you can make them flakier if you'd prefer.

Shark8637 posted...

Chocolate chip cookies are cookies. Oreos are biscuits (we have Oreos here).

Where do shortbreads fall? By your description, I'm getting the sense that "biscuit" is roughly anything crunchier than a shortbread and "cookie" is anything chewier, but I realize that's a pretty baseless assumption.

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Rasmoh posted...

I've always felt that driving is the ultimate proof that people are inherently assholes. Even some of the nicest people I know are tremendous assholes when it comes to driving.

I think the problem with driving is that it is inherently such a dangerous thing that it triggers a near-permanent fight-or-flight response, which nobody can do anything with because they're focused on driving. Some people handle that better than others, but for those that don't, it manifests as anger, aggression, or thrill-seeking. That only gets worse whenever something goes wrong, compounded by the knowledge that there's really nothing any individual driver can (legally) do about other drivers' misbehaviour.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

I liked it, but it's not as strong as Bastion.

Pretty much exactly this. I really liked Bastion, Transistor was decent. Still enjoyable, but not on the same level.

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My second shot is tomorrow, which is the earliest I was able to get it, then I won't actually be "fully vaccinated" until the 24th. That's been moved up dramatically from the September 17 date I was given when I booked my first shot, thanks to some extra supplies.

Nightwind posted...

The hat is catching up to the US,

Oh, Canada's first shot rates eclipsed the US' a couple months ago, though second shots have been lagging because we prioritized first shots (which I think makes sense. Better to have more people partially immune than half as many fully immune). The US hit ~55% for first shots and stagnated, and still hasn't broken 50% for second (which makes the whole "nobody needs masks anymore because the CDC said fully vaccinated people don't!"). We seem to be plateauing just shy of 70%, which is lower than I'd prefer (though we are pushing 80% of 12+, and <12's generally aren't eligible), but second shots are rapidly catching up and I expect we'll be passing the US there in a matter of days.

It's really quite striking just how thoroughly the anti-vaxxers have scuttled the US' vaccination effort. They had the supply, they had the distribution (mostly, I know there have been some holes, thanks largely to just how large the country is, but that's not what's keeping rates down), but they're falling far short of herd immunity pretty much purely because of anti-vaxxers.

reason posted...

You can add me to that list. I know too many people that's had the shot and are now in ICU with Covid. Good luck to you.

There's a pretty substantial chance that they'd all be dead now if not for the shot, so...

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Zeus posted...

Particularly the revelation that some areas *still* had policies where they were stealing native children right from their mothers' arms after they give birth in hospitals, which is disturbing.

Eeyup. Those policies aren't explicitly targeting natives, focusing instead on child welfare issues like substance abuse, poverty, and mental health problems, but because natives are so disproportionately affected by those problems (thanks in largely to that whole genocide thing), they end up comprising something like 25% of all such cases (despite being 5-6% of the population). It's one of the many cases where the policy itself isn't necessarily designed to be racist (although given Canada's history with the natives), but carrying it out ends up disproportionately hurting minorities. Most provinces have done away with the practice and shifted the focus to providing supports that help prevent children from needing to be taken away, but there are some holdouts, including mine (NS). They're currently under some pretty heavy fire here now, though, after years of people trying to get the policies changed, so I expect things to change relatively soon.

If you want to really feel good about these things, look up the Nanaimo Indian Hospital. Our own little slice of Unit 731.

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Not intentionally. Occasionally my daily meals will end up falling within an 8-hour time frame, but I usually have some manner of snack or dessert before getting ready for bed, which means I don't qualify.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

american "cheese" isn't better, it's plastic crap

Yes, that's the point.

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OhhhJa posted...

Yeah eastern Europe says hello

Or Northern Europe.

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Clench281 posted...

Hopefully he doesn't have marfan syndrome

I don't think he does, just looking at his hands. That's hardly conclusive, and it's hard to tell what his spine's like from those pictures (he's slouching, but so does every 16-year-old boy), but I had the same thought and I don't think he's actually got it.

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Backpack sweat is the worst. I really need to stop being lazy and get a rack for my bike so I can keep my stuff on that instead of in a backpack.

FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...

We do. It sucks but for me its all about enjoying the speed.

That's why biking's great. All the zoom (and then some), none of the effort.

Of course, you have to go much, much further and really go out of your way (mostly to avoid coasting/easy downhills) to get the same amount of exercise out of biking as you would spending the same amount of time running, but that's beside the point.

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Indeed. It certainly wouldn't magically fix the problem, but it could help.

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I mean, the music video features evil cowboys blowing up a house for no reason with glowstick whips. I'm not sure it's even possible to get more 80's than that.

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Lokarin posted...

In Maryland (June), every person who died of covid was unvaccinated

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/07/us/maryland-unvaccinated-covid-deaths/index.html

Given that vaccinated people are making up like 0.1% of Covid deaths on a larger scale, 0/130 is within expectations. 1-2 would also be consistent, because that sample is small enough for random variation to cause some pretty significant deviations.

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LinkPizza posted...

Also, is it me, or do his proportions look off?

They do (lots of leg, not much torso, head's kinda big), but he's also 16 and probably not done growing yet. A lot of teenage boys have weird proportions as the different parts of their bodies grow at different rates.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

How? It is deliciously 80's.

Indeed. Pretty much everything about it is "80's." It's got a lot of staying power, but it's unmistakably an 80's song.

Controversial take: The version from Shrek 2 is better than the original, though the fact that it's so broken up because it's background music interferes with that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLHCS6oL7lo

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In NA-speak, scones and biscuits are very similar (both made by cutting fat into dry ingredients, then adding milk). The key difference is that scones have sugar added to the dough and tend to be flavoured with fruit and other sweet things (though more savory scones exist, such as cheddar-chive), being used primarily as a snack or dessert. Biscuits tend to be more exclusively savory and are primarily used as a side dish.

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Zeus posted...

Considering you didn't even list a citation for that thing you just claimed

Your own citation lists an efficacy of 66.9% for Janssen. As for the others:

https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-moderna-covid-19-mrna-1273-vaccine-what-you-need-to-know
94.1% after the first dose (I actually thought it was ~70%)

https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/040421/how-effective-is-the-first-shot-of-the-pfizer-or-m
85-89% for Pfizer (also higher than I thought)

To my surprise, Janssen's actually quite a bit worse than single doses of the others, let alone the full double dose. Nifty.

Zeus posted...

I'm curious why you constantly try to downplay what's clearly the ideal solution.

Because it's clearly not the ideal solution. It's vastly more convenient, certainly, but it doesn't work as well and has the same side effect concerns as AZ, making it a clearly inferior choice to alternatives. That's not the ideal solution, that's just better than nothing, and your insistence on promoting it at every possible opportunity is really quite bizarre.

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Veedrock- posted...

Fun fact: Gfaqs mods sympathize with warlords and support ongoing conflict in war-torn regions of the world that involve black people.

Eh, your wording could have used some work. IIRC, you said something to the effect of "cleaning up Africa," which is really open-ended. I understood that you most likely meant dealing with some of the particularly deplorable political figures in Africa, most of whom happen to be black, but I can see why it was deleted.

Of course, even then, killing dictators and warlords tends to cause its own suite of problems because power vacuums, and killing any evil black person that took over would eventually just result in a non-black person taking over, who would likely be just as evil. I don't think that's the most feasible strategy for improving the situation.

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Zeus posted...

Direct bribes tend to work better than lottos.

Quite the opposite, actually. People are a lot more attracted to the idea of possibly winning a fabulous prize than being guaranteed to win a mediocre one, provided the cost of entry is low enough that they don't stop to really think about the odds (and even if they do, humans are notoriously bad at risk analysis, so they're still going to disproportionately favour the lottery). Consider it yourself: If you weren't planning to do something, would you be more inclined to change your plans because somebody offered you $10 or because somebody offered a 1/100,000 chance to win $1 million (or, better yet, an unspecified chance based on how many other people decided to go for it)? Lotteries provide greater motivation while also generally being much cheaper to run per person motivated.

Zeus posted...

Wtf? Joke Biden really dropped the ball after all of his tough talk and promises.

I mean, the alternative is jabbing people at gunpoint, and you'd be losing your mind if he even considered that, so...

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Judgmenl posted...

The Wii U is probably the worst, most confusing model name ever.

New 3DS is worse, but the WiiU's name hurt its performance more. That pretty much single-handedly caused it to waste its 1-year head start over the PS4 and Xbone. I don't know if it would have done better if not for that setback, but that certainly didn't help.

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acesxhigh posted...

I only got Risk of Rain 2. Pretty fun game

That was one of the few that I considered, since this is the best price it's ever had, and it's one I plan to get eventually. I don't see myself playing it any time soon, though, so I'm holding off for now. Same story for Dyson Sphere Program and Satisfactory, though even more so where they're just 10/20% off and will likely get cheaper in future sales.

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Zeus posted...

Although the New 3DS is probably the worst, most confusing model name ever.

To be fair, it works pretty well in Japanese, where the use of the loanword "New" as part of the name isn't particularly ambiguous. To be less fair, Nintendo's been selling stuff outside of Japan for decades and has more than enough staff that could tell them it was a bad idea to release it with that name in English-speaking regions, so there's really no excuse for pushing ahead with it anyway.

That said, it performed well enough, accounting for ~1/8 of total 3DS sales despite there really being no reason to buy one if you already had a 3DS (a grand total of 7 N3DS-exclusive games, only 5 of which came stateside, and none of which were actually exclusive to the system). It pretty much ended up being the most sensible version to buy if you were buying a 3DS, just not worth upgrading to.

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Zeus posted...

Honestly, it's a reminder why I would never, ever live in a condo complex or an apartment building.

As much as these things make a lot of news when they happen and it seems really scary, the personal risk of living in a high-rise isn't really any higher than living anywhere else. The vast, vast majority of people living in high-rises are fine.

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Black_Crusher posted...

Also Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 is lots of fun. Gotta stress this is the second game though, the first one was ass.

FFTA2 was a DS game.

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PunishedOni posted...

wood-based energy... do you mean fire

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/4/4e/MM2-LeafShield-Art.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100718211013

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I'm not sure he's capable of feeling bad about how little he knows, given that he seems completely unaware of it. Dunning-Kruger, ho!

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DING DING DING DING DING DING

(Caps)

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

still don't have years of data from people who received the vaccine. that is the most important part.

What, exactly, is your threshold for identifying "long-term effects"?

Krazy_Kirby posted...

there is still a chance to catch it regardless if you get the vaccine or not.

There is, but mortality is working out to be roughly 1000-fold lower for vaccinated people than unvaccinated, so I'd call that a success. Nothing's perfect, but that's pretty damn good.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Because the damn car wont stop beeping until I do. (Actually, mine is older so it just blinks at me, but still....)

A couple weeks back, I picked up a bunch of bales of soil for my garden, and I had to put one in the passenger seat because I ran out of actual cargo room. That was all well and good, until I got above 20 km/h and my car informed me that my passenger wasn't wearing a seatbelt. That was a somewhat obnoxious drive home. If I ever transport something that heavy in the front seat again, I'll need to remember to buckle up behind it.

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The Covid vaccines have been pushed out significantly faster than vaccines typically are, so I can understand some skepticism. I was also skeptical. The problem, however, is that none of these people are scientifically literate enough to actually do anything with their skepticism. If they were, they would investigate and find out that the accelerated timeline doesn't mean corners have been cut, it means steps were done in parallel that would normally be done in sequence, and that a lot of the most time-consuming parts of researching a new drug (finding trial participants, securing funding, waiting for the government to process their application for approval) have gone much faster than normal because of how high-profile Covid is.

All of the usual standards to which new drugs are held have been met, which should be enough to satisfy the skeptics, but because they've incoporated that skepticism too thoroughly into their personal identity to risk giving it up, they tell themselves that the occasional article about 1-in-a-million side effects is enough to count as "doing research."

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I don't think there's any reason to believe OhhhJa is Shenti. There really aren't any similarities between them.

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If I had to guess, somebody accidentally punched in your health card number when they were processing somebody else's shot, and somehow the error made it all the way through (they usually also verify the name and DoB, but I guess that step got missed somehow). This is especially likely if the actual recipient of "your" vaccine got it out of province, since that makes for extra administrative hoops to jump through that may have interfered with the usual precautions. Either way, it should be easy enough to get it sorted out, though I'd expect you to have to wait a couple weeks before you can actually get your shot.

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OhhhJa posted...

Yeah except it's a guy who makes six figures at the CDC. Sit down now, loser

So instead of your uncle working at Nintendo, he works at the CDC. Riiiiight...

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I'm inclined to agree, but at least everyone else had the extra costs of their shenanigans paid for. Presumably, that was an easier option, legally, than prohibiting them from boarding a flight they were following the rules of.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

long term effects are unknown

That's true of both Covid and the vaccines (even without considering that it's technically true of virtually everything).

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Oh look at that. Either way, everyone else got compensated, they didn't.

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That should work. You probably won't actually get the shot at that appointment (looking for needle marks doesn't indicate much, the mark from mine was gone pretty much overnight), but you should at least be able to get the ball rolling on sorting out whatever administrative error has happened here, and eventually get it.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

I'm young enough, healthy enough, and have a strong enough immune system that even if I did catch it, the risks of me having serious effects are low. why bother risking side effects from a shot?

adjl posted...

What everybody that understands that 10 is a bigger number than 1 is saying is that the risks of these side effects are significantly lower than the risk of even worse adverse effects due to Covid infection, such that the most sensible course of action is still to get the shot despite these side effects.

I literally just said it.

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Zeus posted...

This. We can't have an open and frank discussion about possible adverse reactions because a stalwart group insists it can do no wrong.

More accurately, we can't have an open and frank discussion about possible adverse reactions because a stalwart group insists on blowing every single report out of proportion and characterizing empirical risk analysis that suggests a more tempered response as "insisting it can do no wrong."

Nobody's saying these vaccines (or any others) can't have adverse side effects. If you believe they are, that's because you don't understand what they're saying. What everybody that understands that 10 is a bigger number than 1 is saying is that the risks of these side effects are significantly lower than the risk of even worse adverse effects due to Covid infection, such that the most sensible course of action is still to get the shot despite these side effects. That's very, very different from "insisting it can do no wrong." If you keep humping strawmen like that, you're going to get some very uncomfortable splinters.

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My first shot was Pfizer and my second shot's going to be Moderna, so I guess I'm basically gong to be invulnerable.

Zeus posted...

Oh, and not for nothing, but the Janssen is supposedly effective against the delta variant:

https://hospitalhealthcare.com/covid-19/janssen-vaccine-effective-against-covid-19-delta-variant/

So not only is the Janssen more economical and easier to store, but it outperforms Moderna. And it also has milder side-effects in the overwhelming majority of cases.

And has roughly the same overall efficacy as the first shot alone for any of the alternatives (note also that your link just says "it works against Delta," and makes no comment on how well it works compared to others). I know you're really keen on the Janssen shot, but no matter how much cheerleading you do, I'm afraid it's just not the best option. I'd love if it were, given how much more convenient it is, but it isn't. Not in the US, anyway. In places where the infrastructure doesn't exist (and can't reasonably be developed) to transport and store the mRNA vaccines, it's a lot more attractive (and still a whole lot better than nothing), but as long as alternatives are viable, those alternatives are going to be better.

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Possibly try booking an appointment with a walk-in clinic (presuming you don't have a family doctor) and ask if they can point you in the right direction? I know accessing health care is a lot easier said than done in the North, but short of contacting the relevant regional health authority directly, I'm not sure what else you'd do.

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Zikten posted...

My family went to Canada and ordered Canadian bacon and they put literal bacon on it

Contrary to popular belief, we just call bacon "bacon." "Canadian bacon" is typically called "back bacon" here. Further confusing matters, asking for "Canadian" from a pizza place generally means pepperoni, mushrooms, and bacon (at least in the Maritimes, that may vary elsewhere).

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lihlih posted...

Why didn't they just kick the kids out and fly the rest of the passengers?

They ended up giving the other passengers hotel/meal vouchers and rebooking them for another flight the next morning, sans brats. I'm guessing, given the number of kids they had to deplane (along with their luggage), that disrupted the schedule of flights by enough that they couldn't simply take off once they were finished and had to cancel that day's flight instead.

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I'd move my bare king into her back rank, if you know what I'm saying.

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Clench281 posted...

Get outta here with your custard.

That's what she said!

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I'm inclined to trust psychotherapists' assessment of how dangerous she is above that of anyone else, though the fact that she's not medicated seems odd to me, given the severity of her psychosis.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

If chess players had historically been sexy I bet they'd be more common.

Instead, most of them spend more time bashing their own bishops than being given someone else's.

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