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PhoneLobster, listen to me. Just listen. Please. Please do not be a dick right now. I am emotionally exhausted. I am not snidely delegitimizing the progressive movement. You know this. Everyone knows this. I have not been subtle with my politics here. And I know you know this, because I do not think...

I haven't really been following this thread, don't really know who's reading, and don't really know where people are getting their information from, but the media coverage of this election has kinda sucked and as someone who has been following county by county data and building their own battlegroun...

But nobody LIKES Kaelik, and he doesn't coordinate 'a brigade'. I don't disagree that Kaelik is an example of 'garbage people'. He is the one and only person I have on permanent ignore and that's exactly the reason. Kaelik is fine. He seems to be kinda bad at diplomatically taking shit from people,...

Zinegata, you're an obnoxious, dishonest asshole. Seriously, you jumped into a conversation about why people have adjusted their language to try to catch less innocent bystanders in the crossfire of their shitflinging with "YEAH BUT YOU USED TO THOUGH!" Thank you for the keen insight that ...

I do think ableism is a categorically different beast than racism or sexism. Whereas racism and sexism directly attack the validity of an identity, ableism exploits the consequences a disability has for those who have it to hyperbolically insult the competence of people who don't (so far as you know...

"Citizen, did you visit The Gaming Den on March 3rd, 2020, around 7:13 PM?" "Uhh, maybe? Sure, I guess. Why?" "Citizen, do you recognize this meme?" "Um, lemme see... oh, that one, haha, yeah, that was a good one, wasn't it? I think I got it from xXx_smokingbluntsf...

Alright, so I nearly made a thread about this after the first wave of thread locks, but then Frank left and I figured it was kinda pointless. Then we had the latest wave of thread locks and I mulled over sending it to fbmf as a PM of "hey, here's why I think you're having problems, here's what ...

Estimated herd immunity threshold without non-pharmacological interventions: 60-70%. Estimated infection fatality rate, which will likely turn out to be slightly higher because we know we're undercounting deaths, but if you're feeling optimistic could be slightly lower if we're still underestimating...

Whatever wrote:Men can get false positives on pregnancy tests.

Nah, that one's also the Illuminati.

It's all those chemicals Obama put in the water that made the friggin' frogs gay. It's called 'Operation MPREG.'

I believe the exact words were "... and then I see the disinfectant. It knocks it out in a minute. One minute. Is there a way we can do something like that? By... injection inside, or almost a cleaning?" So, no, he doesn't literally suggest people should inject detergent into their body be...

In other news, if you compare total deaths from the last month to previous yearly averages it looks like the COVID deaths are being underreported by tens of thousands. So that's a thing. Also that's a sample of ten countries and a city, so by "tens of thousands" we probably mean "hun...

Notice that both Japan and S.Korea had pretty intensive vaccination against tubercolosis for decades and guess which nations are right next to China and mostly shrugging off the pandemic. Countries that take their mass vaccination seriously deal with diseases better, who could've ever imagined? Not...

That... that article doesn't say that. It doesn't fucking say that at all! It briefly explains the concept of "off-target" immunological effects, tells us that some researchers are hoping to determine whether the BCG vaccine has any benefits with respect to COVID-19, references one study t...

Frank, I'd like to hear your opinion on this: ... I'm inclined to support mayor de Blasio's decision on this, but I'd like to hear more about this. So, most experts are estimating a herd immunity threshold of 50-80% and a minimum (as in with adequate care) infection fatality rate of .5-1.0%. That ....

The point is often made that you can't eat money, but you also can't inject it into your veins. It's important to understand that when we put you on a ventilator for pneumonia (COVID-19 related or no), we are managing a symptom of an underlying condition. That symptom is not being able to breathe, a...

Mechanical ventilation, which Boris Johnson is overwhelmingly likely to be on sometime in the next 24 hours if he isn't already, has a staggeringly high mortality rate - and I don't mean that in the context of COVID-19, I mean that generally. It is a last ditch effort to save a patient's life that f...

You know the joke - short answer, no, long answer, nope. The problem right now is that the data we have is coming from different countries with different levels of testing and different levels of preparedness. And also that the level of testing and preparedness vary over time in the same country as ...

EMP's don't care if your device is on or off. An EMP induces a current in conductive materials. Electronics are made of conductive materials. If the current is large enough, those conductive materials will melt or explode due to heat. If it isn't, then the EMP was just going to make your system rebo...

The virus is almost certainly not directly affecting your neurochemistry or mood or anything like that. It can, however, cause a significant degree of discomfort and pain, which can lead to mood swings through the totally mundane mechanism of being irritated about all the discomfort and pain you're ...

Let's talk about what's happening in the United States. The economy is imploding and millions of Americans have no idea where they're going to get the money for groceries next month - or possibly even next week, for many of them. Republicans put forward a "bailout" that very clearly wasn't...

Germany's current case fatality count is .37%. Attempts to estimate the true CFR rate all seem to land in the .5% to 1% range, meaning Germany's numbers are surprisingly good but not implausibly so. Germany is also doing widespread random testing and last time I checked had found exactly one case th...

So, that is basically a graph of open beds a country has per 1000 population, with the results ranging from .1 to 2.5. Let's put that in perspective. 1000 * .4 infection rate * .05 hospitalization rate = 20. Now, those are lowish estimates for infection rate and hospitalization rate, so it'll probab...

While governments are reluctant to publish any of their internal modelling for obvious reasons, the coronavirus is less and less of a mystery everyday. We're not really exploring uncharted territory anymore - we made it through all that, and now we're just triangulating exact coordinates. So here's ...

That's what lost you? You followed along through the Little School Bus of Horrors, the giant sea-ape punting overly handsy crabs off a nude beach, and the dolphin man with the thousand yard stare that somehow blends the expressions of serene contentment and horrifying existential crisis, but Igor as...

It is very validating to realize that you also don't understand the weird shit you post. I'm not just out of the dolphin boob loop.

Nope, still haven't forgotten.