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Looking like the Euro semi-finals and final really fucked things up.

Their numbers are insane.
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Apparently one of the people shot (and killed?) was a stadium employee.
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inb4rigged
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I4NRulez posted...

edit: Got this from Reddit. Nats broadcasts picks up the shots https://streamable.com/4cyhs6 (click to expand)

wtf that's way more than I expected
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https://asiatimes.com/2021/07/everyone-is-dying-myanmar-on-the-brink-of-decimation/

Two days ago, I spent six hours on encrypted apps with contacts inside the country trying to locate one just one oxygen concentrator for the mother of my friend, whom I will call Ma Moon.

Her mothers oxygen saturation rate had dropped precipitously in one day from 95 to 70.

I do not know this for sure in these circumstances, we know we cannot ask this question but I think the family is being treated on a daily basis by doctors who have gone underground in a civil disobedience campaign.

Medical professionals are among the most respected individuals in the country, and so their decision to oppose the February 1 military coup detat that took down the elected civilian government carried immense weight among the population.

One estimate provided by public health experts in Myanmar predicts that 50% of Myanmars 55 million people will be infected within three weeks by either the Alpha or Delta variant of Covid-19.

One very reputable public health specialist expects that the population will be decimated by at least 10-15 million by the time Covid is done with Myanmar.

In the meantime, Ma Moon, who suffers from a serious co-morbidity condition herself, and her family are all Covid positive and symptomatic.

Nonetheless, Ma Moons family dared to break the militarys curfew two nights ago to drive all over Yangon chasing down Facebook leads on possible oxygen concentrators for sale.

In the end, they found one, but in such a heartbreaking way. It came at 2 am, when all parties involved could have been arrested for breaking curfew. The many phone calls we all had made led to one response from a bereft family, whose patriarch had just died.

The oxygen compressor was given to Ma Moons family, with only a demand that it be passed on for free to the next victim, when no longer needed.

Other friends, utterly desperate, have worked out agreements to share oxygen concentrators putting their sickest family members on compressed oxygen for a few hours, then returning the device to another very sick patient for his or her few hours to hope for survival.

And all pray for the remote possibility they will be able to refill the oxygen tanks the next day.

In April, I left Myanmar after attending the funerals of four young men killed in my ward. Already, gunshots fired during cruel nighttime army raids on civilian apartment buildings had started hitting my condo building.

Now in Thailand, I get over 200 encrypted texts per day from friends there. Until last week, most were promoting armed and political resistance to the coup. Responsibility to Protect and No Fly Zone came up over and over.

Now, 100% of the texts are desperate pleas for health assistance and an international humanitarian intervention. We need help, read so many social media posts and flash protestor signs these days.

They do not need help in the future. They needed it yesterday.

I have worked in and on Myanmar for more than 30 years. Everyone I know there is either infected or caring for an infected person. No hospitals accept patients anymore, not even the priciest private ones.

Some of the Covid-infected die on the steps in front of hospitals that reject them. They undoubtedly go untested, with death certificates likely reading pneumonia as cause of death.

Health care workers, who began civil disobedience against the coup on February 2, are doing what they can from underground.

But still, C95 and N95 masks and PPE are impossible to come by, despite containers full of them sitting in the Yangon port where the Customs Department will not release them.

Most horrifically, there is no oxygen left in the country, or rather, there is oxygen, but only the military gets it.

One does not need to be an epidemiologist, statistician or econometrician to see where this is going. The public health system, to the degree it still exists, will utterly collapse, at this rate of infection, probably within two weeks.

How will that look different from now? Probably dead bodies. Everywhere.

Like all famines in history, and like the huge death toll from Covid in the United States, Myanmars misery is almost entirely a political problem.

An elite struggle between the leaders of the army and the legitimately elected civilian government led to the February 1 coup.

The eruption of civil disobedience and armed resistance appears to have been unanticipated by coup leader, military commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.

Ominously, since May, there has been a burgeoning of counter-resistance militias carrying out assassinations of pro-democracy adherents, left and right.

And then the Delta variant of Covid-19 arrived. And two days ago when we struggled to help her mother, Ma Moon very softly said over an encrypted app, Everyone is dying.

What would it take to save the ten million Myanmar lives likely to be claimed by Covid?

As the acclaimed local news outlet, Myanmar Now, argues, an unprecedented humanitarian intervention in arguably the most politically, geopolitically, socially and economically fraught country in Asia.

In the last few days of state media reporting on the junta chiefs speeches, he clearly has no intention of asking anyone, other than his good friend, the Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, for help.

Even Russia can only proffer a trickle of WHO-unapproved Sputnik vaccines, probably in many batches of 10,000, arriving over not months but years, and probably at great cost.

China is busy shoring up and extending an electrified border fence that only Donald Trump would drool over; it already stretches 500 kilometers east and west of the biggest trading post on the China-Myanmar border.

China has closed all border crossings, but it also deployed Covid testing and treatment teams in some remote ethnic armed group-controlled areas to vaccinate all. In these areas, new arrivals are tested, quarantined and then vaccinated.

How about the United Nations? No one wants to say this, but the UN country team of 20+ agencies is utterly overmatched for what it faces. And to the degree those agencies are committed to saving Myanmar lives, they are hamstrung by international legal norms around sovereignty.

With Russia and China on the UN Security Council, the necessary international humanitarian law mandate of a resolution to undertake a military intervention against a junta-in-denial will not happen.

The Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has shown itself thus far gridlocked on Myanmar, having agreed with Min Aung Hlaing to a five-principle response to the multiple crises in the country on April 24, which has been utterly ignored by the junta in Naypyitaw.

And the rest of the world? As one protesters sign read last week, If not now, when? If not you, who?

There appears to be no urgency around the massive devastation being wrought by the military coup, the economic crisis and the logarithmic spread of Covid amongst a population that has never had proper healthcare.

Ma Moons mother died in her arms this morning. Now her mothers body joins the long queue of coffins at the crematorium. Not having a government laboratorys confirmation of Covid-19, she will not count in the daily statistics of positive cases or deaths from Covid.

But to Ma Moon and to me, she counted.

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God's greatest gift to mankind
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Gamefaqs doesn't have proper support for those emojis. Same thing happens with like
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Shocker, PrinceFish is being openly racist again
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https://twitter.com/vp/status/1415848328307302402

lmao
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The Mods really never modded that post where he made an outright false claim about the origins of covid huh. Even after including in the report a link to an actual scientific study indicating he was wrong and intentionally pushing disinformation.

Neat!
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Between all retailers in Canada I think like 4000 (or maybe even more) more units popped up this morning after the preorders sold out super quick originally.

Suck farts scalpers.
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eston posted...

Topic title does not match the story

I don't really know how else you're supposed to take the statement

"I trust you, Tim, but you're not driving the car"

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https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pence-refused-to-leave-capitol-during-riot-book-2021-7

Vice President Mike Pence refused to leave the Capitol as rioters stormed the building on January 6, according to a forthcoming book by the Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol D. Leonnig.

The authors provide a behind-the-scenes account of the Capitol insurrection in their new book, "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year," which is scheduled for release on Tuesday. The Post published an excerpt of the book on Thursday.

Presiding over a joint session of Congress, Pence was leading the certification of the 2020 election results, a constitutional duty that President Donald Trump wanted him to abandon based on baseless claims that the race was stolen. The certification started around 1 p.m. on January 6.

When a crowd of Trump supporters breached the Capitol complex about an hour into the certification process, Secret Service agents swiftly escorted Pence to his ceremonial office near the Senate floor, the book says. But Pence's security detail was worried for his safety because the room they were in had glass windows that rioters could break, the authors write.

Tim Giebels, Pence's lead security agent, asked the vice president "twice" to evacuate the building, the book says. But Pence did not want to bow down to the rioters and flee the scene, according to the book.

"I'm not leaving the Capitol," he told Giebels, according to the book.

Giebels tried a third time, telling Pence: "The room you're in is not secure."

"I need to move you. We're going," Giebels added, the book says.

The protective detail then ushered Pence, along with his wife, Karen, daughter Charlotte, and his brother Rep. Greg Pence of Indiana, down a staircase to his armored limousine, the book says.

Pence refused to get in the car. "I trust you, Tim, but you're not driving the car," Pence told Giebels, the book says. "If I get in that vehicle, you guys are taking off. I'm not getting in the car."

Pence and his family then waited out the riot from an underground but undisclosed location inside the Capitol, the authors write. He was adamant that Congress finish its work that same night, the book says.

"We need to get back tonight," Pence told top lawmakers and defense officials on a call, according to the book. "We can't let the world see that our process of confirming the next president can be delayed."

Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell also wanted to stand their ground against the the rioters and complete the election certification, the book says. The top Democrat and Republican, as well as fellow leaders Chuck Schumer and Kevin McCarthy, were transported from the Capitol to Fort McNair, an Army post in southwest Washington, during the chaos, the book says.

"We're going back to the Capitol," Pelosi said on a call, according to the book. "You just tell us how long it will take to get rid of these people."

"I want it cleared out now. The Senate needs to get its business done," McConnell said, according to the book.

Congress reconvened, and Pence returned to the chamber at 8:06 p.m., the authors write. The lawmakers certified President Joe Biden's 2020 victory at 3:24 a.m. on January 7.

Trump did not personally check in on Pence at any point during the riot, the book says.

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The other hilarious thing is that anyone who buys one of these phones still has to connect it to one of the traditional wireless carriers.
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Trumpers are the grift that keeps on giving.
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brestugo posted...

Logistically alone this is just silly. Try vaccinating 10 million plus over 4000 square miles as easily as a small Midwestern county that can fit in a proverbial Skoal can.

Also, quite nice of you to throw in the minority card.

You realize LA county has a significantly higher population density than Dane County does right?

Also what is the "minority card" here?

It's simply a fact that black people and latino people in the US are getting vaccinated at a significantly lower rate than white people and other minorities like those of Asian descent. There's various reasons for this, but it has significant implications both for those populations specifically and the unvaxxed populations as a whole.
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LightHawKnight posted...

It apparently comes with all the DLC, so including the game that is what? 26 bucks? Now if the other stuff is worth the 64 bucks is another question. The blanket and plush are the only things that seem worth money.

The physical copy of the games is $29.99 usd and comes with some stuff, so it's not really a 1:1 comparison to the digital price like some physical releases are.

https://i.imgur.com/LVWSNnW.png

So it's an extra $60 USD for:
-Fleece Blanket
-Toque
-Steelbook
-Plush
-Enamel Pin
-Lanyard

Which actually isn't that bad all things considered, definitely games out there that offer way less for way more lol.
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https://store.maximumgames.com/products/among-us-ejected-edition

Blanket+Pillow+Steelbook+Toque >_>
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brestugo posted...

Not to mention, vaccinating a county with 560K is easier than vaccinating one with 10 million plus.

Not if the vaccine doses are being sent out proportionately.

Large part of the problem is getting minorities the chance to get vaccinated in the first place.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/youngest-black-and-latino-residents-far-less-likely-to-be-vaccinated-in-l-a-county
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Kloe_Rinz posted...

Alts

Her main and her alt are both in the shit bin. I doubt she has another one given that she was incapable of shutting the fuck up on her alt (which is why it's in the shit bin) so I severely doubt she'd be able to shut the fuck up on a second one.
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hockeybub89 posted...

No one actually has a problem wearing a mask. That's psychosomatic.

The person you are responding to is an anti-masker and a covid denier and the Mods clearly see no issue with continuing to allow him to troll and spread his bullshit.
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monkmith posted...

https://youtu.be/jUsRAKMzKIk?t=79

No it's true.

Apparently the Turks were the main drivers of guinea fowl trade with Europe, so Europeans called them some form of "turkey chicken" or "turkey rooster" or something.

Then when they arrived in North America and saw NA turkeys they were like "omg turkeys!" cause they look similar to guinea fowl.
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DandyQuackShot posted...

How did this country become named after Thanksgiving Day lunch?

Actually, turkeys the bird are named after the country >_>

Also, in a lot of languages the name for American turkeys makes reference to India or locations in India, because they thought it was from India lmfao.
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The only reason I knew this was going to be something dumb is because it's impossible for either of her accounts to be back yet.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Ditch the religious exemption, and all you'll get is a fuckton of "medical" exemptions.

And then the states need to start jailing or removing the medical licenses of the quacks handing out "medical" exemptions.
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Makeveli_lives posted...

What is separation of church and state

That has nothing to do with that.

There are a half-dozen states that don't allow religious exemptions for vaccines.
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The Wii U had been out for 1566 days when the Switch had its release date.

The Switch has been out for 1595 days.

I don't know if that's neat or sad.
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1) >Republicans

2) They need to stop allowing "Religious" exemptions for vaccines.
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Sounds like Scott Morrison did indeed shit his pants in a Macca's
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They've already rolled these out where I live and I've had mine for 2 weeks now.
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This is certainly a combat system
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Hey @Trumble given your views on abortion you should be all over this
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Heliogabalus posted...

What the hell are fleets?

It's the Twitter equivalent to Instagram stories but literally only viewable in the app
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https://twitter.com/twitter/status/1415362679095635970?s=21

lmao
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Questionmarktarius posted...

The better idea would be to sell off all the public land that isn't a national park and/or still substantially radioactive from nuclear testing.

Of all the stupid fucking things you post, this certainly is one of them
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You've posted enough transphobic and racist bullshit that we know you always mean b. No one buys your shit.
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I4NRulez posted...

I mean who cares?

If he does thats cool and if he doesnt its sad but he isnt hurting anyone. Its more pathetic than anything

Well it'd be cool if he wasn't using it to consistently go full UnfairRepresent and injecting himself in arguments where he acts like his opinion should carry more weight because he's lying about living there.
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SevenTenths posted...

Stop being an insufferable

This is rich coming from literally I Like Toast
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I mean yeah it's a statement to laugh at, but the problem is that it's bad because in-universe it's bad. It has nothing to do with how ridiculous of a notion it is irl.

Cause the whole series is obviously full of a bunch of nonsense anyways. I mean there's a scene early in the movie where Kong and Godzilla fight while standing on an aircraft carrier that Godzilla alone outweighs lol.
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Like it's easily an ignorable thing if it's just some one-off movie, but like...they'd spent 3 movies, 3 fucking graphic novels, and most of the 4th movie (by this point in the movie) building up all the side plots and coming up with some insane physics/science about how the earth works and then were like

"Haha let's have Godzilla blow a multi-thousand-mile-deep hole in the Earth!"

Like wtf
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Like, the Hollow Earth theory they went with was nuts to begin with and they basically handled it the worst way possible.

Like as soon as they had the part where Godzilla randomly blasted into the Earth and somehow had his energy beam travel all the way to the centre and he and Kong roared at each other through the newly-opened hole it was obvious they just started making shit up lol.

Not to mention they should have all died due to the massive amounts of radiation they'd have been exposed to when they were in the "throne room".

Also what the fuck happened to the tunnel that was on Skull Island to begin with?
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https://imdb.com/name/nm0002907/?ref_=tt_cl_t_1

Wtf lol
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PS4: "To use this app please update it"
Also PS4: "Please close app to finish update"

Omfg
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Their deaths are still way down from previous waves however, last I checked.

But yeah I feel like if they forge ahead with the total reopening plan in...6 days? They're asking for trouble.
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s0nicfan posted...

You could have gone a whole topic without being toxic, but you just couldn't help yourself, could you?

On the plus side, you'll make Balrog's decision that much easier.

Stop being such a softass lmao, you're literally no better than the rest of us
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