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It's an unfortunate waste, but I don't see that there are really any other options. If they can't guarantee the safety of the food, they can't in good conscience give it to anyone else. In truth, lacking the necessary permits is probably more a matter of red tape than a genuine safety concern, but the law can't tell the difference.

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Oh yeah, that's a thing. I should arrange that.

teddy241 posted...

no thanks. I have to trust and believe in my natural immune system to fight the bug.

Your natural immune system is still fighting the bug if you've been vaccinated. All the vaccine does is give it the experience needed to do so more efficiently before it has an actual infection.

Why do so many people have no comprehension of how vaccines work?

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Jen0125 posted...

Seems to be working out pretty horribly for the planet even with those odds

Man, it's almost like 2% of 220 million is still a buttload of dead people. Who knew that multiplication worked exactly the same on big numbers as it does on small ones?

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SaltyAndSweet posted...

no no, its much more important to win at internet arguments

But we've established that they'll be losing them either way (hence the laughter).

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I'm not sure what to expect from this one. It seems rather different from the other two. I'll still grab it at some point.

Ogurisama posted...

Yep, it was called Finding Paradise

Indeed. A very different overall story from TtM, and not quite as aggressive a tearjerker, but still quite good. It delved quite a bit deeper into the ethical considerations of the whole concept, which was nifty.

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Veedrock- posted...

Don't take the vaccine and get laughed at.
Take the vaccine and get laughed at.

Lose-lose.

If the laughter is going to be the same either way, doesn't that mean you should discount the laughter and make the decision based on safety?

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deoxxys posted...

Then again, I wonder how many minorities actually take offense to this or if its just whites upset on the behalf of them?

When the first photo surfaced, there were a number of minority-representing groups that officially condemned it. They were generally satisfied by his apology, though. Pretty much the only people that made a big deal out of it past the initial uproar were conservative-leaning folks that saw it as an opportunity to try to discredit him in the then-upcoming election (the vast majority of whom either have not cared or outright supported others in similar situations), which obviously didn't work very well.

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Nor does what you said change anything about the fact that being vaccinated would have dramatically reduced the risk of this outcome and that "he should have gotten the shot" is therefore a completely accurate statement. Why say something with no actual semantic value?

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How many hugs does snuggling count as?

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wwinterj25 posted...

Could have still got it.

adjl posted...

Most available data is showing somewhere in the range of a 500-1000-fold reduction in the risk of death. It's not guaranteed (almost nothing is), no, but describing this death as easily preventable is completely accurate. This is very readily comparable to somebody being killed in a car accident because they weren't wearing their seat belt.

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pionear posted...

I guess he didn't read the warning placed on there (which I posted awhile back)

That warning wasn't telling people not to walk on the wing, though. It was telling people walking on the wing not to walk outside of the marked area, since that would mean they were stepping on more unstable parts which could be damaged or result in them getting injured.

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Zeus posted...

It kinda does, since that's often where they make a lot of their profit.

They lose out on potential earnings, but there's rarely any direct loss associated with not selling drinks, outside of extreme cases. Drinks tend not to be particularly perishable, so provided you're selling enough to get through a shipment in less than a couple years, you'll be okay. Wine and milk are the most noteworthy exceptions, but in the case of wine, glasses are typically priced such that they lose very little on the opened bottle if they only sell 1-2 glasses and there are often many opportunities to use an opened bottle in the kitchen, and milk is used in so many food dishes that drink sales are a fairly small portion of that.

That said, as you say, drinks are a major revenue source for most restaurants, given that their high margins can compensate for lower prices on other items, so many restaurants' pricing schemes will operate under the assumption that a certain number of drinks are selling. If they don't sell that many drinks, that can lead to losing money overall, even though they aren't losing money on the drinks themselves.

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MartianManchild posted...

So remember all you militant vaccine supporters, dont pick and choose what and when to listen to doctors or Im calling you out on your hypocrisy.

Does that mean you never listen to any doctors?

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CoorsLight posted...

I'm sure they'll be like "Damn, this sucks. Oh well"

Pretty much. There's obvious, measurable harm being done, but that's not something Instagram itself can do much about, nor that can be regulated without trying to dictate how people conduct themselves on the platform to an incredibly invasive, restrictive degree. That harm is a consequence of how people are behaving on the platform, not anything the platform itself is doing or can reasonably control, so correcting the harm is going to have to involve a cultural shift.

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BEERandWEED posted...

You are also presuming that the shot would have prevented this person's death. That is not guaranteed.

Most available data is showing somewhere in the range of a 500-1000-fold reduction in the risk of death. It's not guaranteed (almost nothing is), no, but describing this death as easily preventable is completely accurate. This is very readily comparable to somebody being killed in a car accident because they weren't wearing their seat belt.

BEERandWEED posted...

If we stop killing for profit, feeding to sustain and housing to maintain, there would be substantially less death, guaranteed.

Now you're comparing a statistical reduction in death to an individual case. If the entire world were to be vaccinated against Covid, there would be substantially fewer Covid deaths, guaranteed. Meanwhile, you cannot necessarily guarantee that any individual death from violence, starvation, or exposure would be prevented by peacekeeping, food, or housing initiatives.

Also, once again, taking two shots is not remotely comparable to the difficulty and effort involved in eliminating war, famine, and homelessness. Heck, it's not even comparable to the difficulty and effort involved in ensuring that one person is saved from those things. Nor, for that matter, is this one kid getting vaccinated in any way mutually exclusive of global efforts to reduce the impacts of those things. It's not a good analogy, and it's not a matter of choosing to focus on one over the other, so why are you even bringing it up?

jramirez23 posted...

Yeah that sounds odd. Like I wonder if maybe he got the staph infection from the hospital environment.

The way duckbear's described it, it sounds like he developed the infection before he got to the hospital, which isn't that unbelievable. S. aureus is pretty commonly found on the skin and in the upper respiratory tract; pretty much anything that compromises the integrity of those areas creates the risk of it getting into other parts of the body and creating an infection (hospital-acquired staph tends to be associated with intravenous and urinary catheters, since they risk introducing external pathogens into the blood). In this case, Covid's damage to his sinuses created an opportunity for the staph to move in and cause further trouble.

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BEERandWEED posted...

You know what other deaths are easily preventable, deaths from war, starvation and exposure due to homelessness.

They are, and it's therefore also deplorable that they continue to happen, but preventing even one death from any of those things is still several orders of magnitude more difficult than getting two shots.

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helIy posted...

I'm unreasonably entertained by this response.

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wpot posted...

Why is 32 in particular getting to you?

Do you track your life on base 2 milestones?

Well, 32 is the oldest he's ever been.

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SaltyAndSweet posted...

I dont support the death penalty. I think making them live with it is worse. And I think small things should be done to annoy them for our entertainment. Nothing violent or overly cruel. But mild annoyances. Like once a week or so play an obnoxious song a few cells over the the bass turned all the way up

or maybe make them feed a group of pugs and bulldogs and then stay in the same room with them with the door closed for half an hour after they eat

Enterpunishment. A wildly slippery slope to be sure, but I say the times call for it. Lets go full fucking dystopian

Make the height of every tile in his cell adjustable, and randomly make a different one 4-5 mm taller each day so he stubs his toe on it.

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SaltyAndSweet posted...

Despite people online reacting impulsively, I think most people have enough common sense to know that there is a big difference between someone making themselves look darkskinned as a costume that isnt trying to be poor taste or they are doing an impersonation of a specific individual, and people who do it in bad faith to mock and perpetuate negative stereotypes against ethnic groups.

I'd still say this was in poor taste, but the key difference is in how he reacted to it. When somebody who's done blackface in the past apologizes for it and generally acts in a manner that indicates they recognize it was wrong and they are more sensitive to the issue now, forgiving them is reasonable. When somebody who's done blackface in the past starts going on about their "right to free expression" and "snowflake cancel culture" and "fascist political correctness" without ever actually admitting it was in poor taste or apologizing for it, there's not much reason to forgive them for it.

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It's creeping up, fuelled in no small part by students coming back and presumably with a larger surge incoming from a massive street party said students held last weekend. We had been doing extremely well (averaging 0-1 cases per day), but that inevitable fourth wave has arrived and we had 83 yesterday (7DA of 29). Fortunately, the government walked back the plan to eschew mask requirements on the 15th, which stuck me as being very silly because the proof-of-vaccine plan isn't being implemented until this coming Monday. We'll see what happens with that.

Fortunately, we are doing quite well for vaccines (over 80% of eligible people vaxxed, over 70% of the total population), and compliance with control measures has been pretty good because we've seen considerable success in the past (which does wonders for motivation). Hopefully, this won't be nearly as bad as the third wave (which can be entirely traced back to a single family coming from Ontario and failing to isolate), since that hit before most of us were eligible for vaccines.

teddy241 posted...

damn real talk tho? yikes

Yeah, Alberta's in trouble. Thankfully, Kenney walked back his insanely idiotic plan of no longer requiring positive people to isolate and stopping pretty much all testing, but they're still in really, really bad shape.

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CinderLock posted...

Literally the first topic I've made about it.

And that's roughly one topic too many.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

So he was able to compromise before, but now wants to have it both ways? (For clarity, I think the cultural identifiers that do not actually affect anything, should be fine)

Pretty much. It's reasonable enough, if there's precedent for other Sikh military members wearing their turbans full-time. He just didn't feel that he was in a position to fight it before and/or didn't feel strongly enough to do so.

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OneGrumpyUncle posted...

Honestly wondering. If the turban is so important to him why isn't he wearing one in all those just random candid shots out and about with his girlfriend? Shouldn't he be wearing one the too?

By the sounds of things, he gave up the practice for the sake of getting into the marines, but religion has since become a bigger part of his life and he wants to get back into it.

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I like Runepunk. That rolls off the tongue very nicely.

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I should really play more of Ever Oasis. It was a nifty little game, but I got pulled away by other games and haven't gotten back to it.

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DANTE20XX posted...

You don't think that's a new thing, do you? People on twitter (lol) are like this about pretty much anyone if their story goes viral at all.

Oh, I know it's not. People have been losing their minds over the deaths of an arbitrary subset of complete strangers for as long as the deaths of that arbitrary subset have been reported.

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Conner4REAL posted...

What did he do with the mail?

mrduckbear posted...

I will bring that back to the station

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Black_Crusher posted...

It's not that silly to me. I got a Pro controller to use for my Switch Lite because I don't want the stupid thing to start drifting and I have to send the whole thing in to get fixed.

I'll use the D-Pad all the time for those games that'll allow it (older games, Disgea 5 lets you move around with either, etc).

For the Lite, that makes sense. Being built into the system makes drift much harder to resolve. For regular Joycons, though, I'm using ones that do drift while avoiding using ones that don't for the sake of making sure that I retain the option of using non-drifting ones in case I really need them some day. It's the controller equivalent of hoarding Elixirs.

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Recently finished Daemon X Machina, which took me rather a long time. Not the most engaging game, to be honest. Fun enough, and the customization is kinda nifty, but the missions get pretty samey well before the game actually finishes.

Almost at the end of Bloodstained, which has been great but has also taken me a while because it's been hard to find the time (also I lost a rather large chunk of progress to an inconvenient crash and was too annoyed to go back to it for a while).

I've consistently got NGU Idle running in the background of whatever I'm doing, because I'm a sucker for a good idle game.

Next up is Astral Chain and possibly starting a new (probably modded) Factorio game.


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party_animal07 posted...

"Gabby will forever be in our hearts. She was our American angel".......

***** what?

"My entire world has been shattered by the death of this girl of whom I had literally zero awareness last week."

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adjl posted...

where was all this "contract" talk when "your friend" was looking for validation for cheating on "his" wife? Why do you keep glossing over the fact that this effort to justify your actions didn't come up until long after you'd done the damage and spent several months trying (and hilariously failing) to defend yourself against people saying that you were the bad guy for cheating on your wife? Given that timeline, why do you expect any of us to believe that you actually followed that rationale when you chose to cheat on her instead of just being a horny, terrible person and latching onto it long after the fact because it's an easier explanation than actually accepting your guilt?

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BlackScythe0 posted...

How are you unable to see the difference?

This is obviously worse, but any instance of refusing to deliver packages is a bad thing and should be scrutinized. That's quasi-justifiable because it takes extra time that carriers often don't have in their schedules, but the fact that carriers don't have that time in their schedules is a consequence of poor management (though that would more justify firing the manager than the carrier).

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The_Hulk posted...

This isnt even a MeToo thing. This predates that movement by many years

A lot of actual #MeToo cases predate the movement by many years. It was allegations against Weinstein that kicked everything off, and those went back decades. The charges against R. Kelly may have predated the movement, but it's probably not inaccurate to suggest that the ensuing cultural shift has helped with the conviction.

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lihlih posted...

The contract was for us to marry so I can get out of the barracks. Once I was out of the Army, there was no barracks anymore. You really need to learn some reading comprehension, bruh.

Marriage is itself a contract. Hence there's a formal legal process for ending it.

Moreover, where was all this "contract" talk when "your friend" was looking for validation for cheating on "his" wife? Why do you keep glossing over the fact that this effort to justify your actions didn't come up until long after you'd done the damage and spent several months trying (and hilariously failing) to defend yourself against people saying that you were the bad guy for cheating on your wife? Given that timeline, why do you expect any of us to believe that you actually followed that rationale when you chose to cheat on her instead of just being a horny, terrible person and latching onto it long after the fact because it's an easier explanation than actually accepting your guilt?

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You may also need to adjust the exact positioning of your seat and/or handlebars, rather than buying a new seat. Improper alignment can also cause pain.

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lihlih posted...

So because I got out on purpose while keeping my benefits, I wasn't good enough at the job? What kind of dumbass logic is that? Lol

Choosing to not be good enough for the job still means you're not good enough for the job.

lihlih posted...

Also, what the f*** is the point of breaking it off with a contract wife when the contract was completed? Our contract was for her to marry me so I can get out of the barracks. I was already out of the Army at the time, so what the f*** is this stupid s*** about breaking it up with her when the contract was already fulfilled? Do you not know how contracts work?

Because that's how marriage works. You have to formally break it off for it to end. If you don't, everyone involved believes it's still in effect. Do you know how contracts work?

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lihlih posted...

You're forgetting that I purposefully got out of the Army, not got kicked out for being bad at the job.

You got out by deliberately failing to be good enough to keep the job.

lihlih posted...

Bailed on my contract wife? When will you people grow enough brain cells to understand that you can't cheat/bail on a contract wife?

I mean, we were all here to watch as "your friend" felt guilty but also excited about sneaking around behind her back, then knocked up some other girl, then came up with the post-facto rationalization of "it was a contract marriage" after at least a year of people giving you a hard time for being a cheating bastard. You also have not, at any point, indicated that you made any effort to legitimately break off said marriage prior to cheating, nor that your ex-wife was in any way okay with you sleeping with other women. So... Yeah, you cheated and bailed on your wife. Your gonadal deficiencies in that regard mean it's no surprise that you refuse to grow a pair and own up to that now, but you still shouldn't expect people to stop giving you a hard time for it. You completely deserve it, and denying that is hopelessly futile.

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Kids these days always looking to waste their money on the newest, fanciest ass pounding they can find. In my day, you just took whatever ass pounding you could get on a 10-cent allowance, and you liked it!

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lihlih posted...

Except it's not just them. If you lived in a military city like Killeen, El Paso, etc... , or served in the military, you'd understand.

But that's not what you said. You said that those two proved your point, which is very different from saying that those two comprise part of the larger body of evidence that proves your point.

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lihlih posted...

How funny that you and Far always get s*** wrong, proving my point most vets and active service members assume s*** and are wrong pretty much all the time.

N=2 doesn't exactly give you results you can generalize.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

I still need to understand the concept of NFTs first.

It's like copyright but crypto-based. Most instances just consist of people wanting to own these things for the sake of owning them and not caring about other uses, but my understanding is that if they actually did want to pursue royalty payments or other such enforcement actions against unauthorized use, they'd be able to.

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Notschmendrake posted...

Naturally irony of this proving my point is completely lost on you all lol.

It is the way of the world and you can do nothing to stop it. You struggle in vain.

Notschmendrake posted...

And jesus, way to let a lady live in your heads rent free ;)

A considerable majority of the users here are straight men. Ladies living in their heads is nothing unusual.

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I'm presuming it's not a muscular soreness, since you do enough other exercising that I wouldn't expect biking a couple miles to do that to you, but that may mean you need a different saddle. Give it a couple days to get used to it, but if it doesn't get better, you may want to shop around a bit.

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