Sulphur on 8/4/2020 at 10:08
Renz: He clearly doesn't get it because his ego's in the way. I'm following SubjEff's example.
Deal with this how you please; I'm out.
Renault on 8/4/2020 at 15:19
Quote Posted by Starker
What the actual fuck are you doing, Wisconsin?
Yeah, it was a mess. There were only 5 places open to vote in the city of Milwaukee yesterday. There are usually <strike>32</strike> 130. This picture pretty much says it all.
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http://www.southquarter.com/ridiculous.jpgDia on 8/4/2020 at 16:35
Tell me about it, Brethren!! Down here in Racine there were only a few polling places open though the reason for that was being given out that our state was suffering from a severe shortage of poll workers; many of those volunteers opted to stay home, as directed by Gov. Evers' 'Safer at Home' order. And you can't say Gov. Evers didn't fight the GOP-dominated Wisc. legislature, demanding that the primaries be rescheduled for June or later. Seems the Republicans in our state's legislature thought it would be a great idea to insist the elections be held in spite of the fact that our country is still being ravaged by the COVID-19 virus. And they also thought extending the deadline for receiving mail-in ballots from April 7, the date of the election, to April 13 was a piss-poor idea (thanks ever so, Brett Kavanaugh, you total POS wanker) and instead deemed only ballots postmarked or received by April 7 should be counted, according to the court filing. Btw, to date there are still thousands of voters who registered for absentee voting who have not even received their absentee ballots in the mail. What a cluster fuck. *smh*
(
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/04/gop-lawmakers-wisconsin-rebuff-calls-cancel-in-person-voting-tuesdays-elections/)
And another thing: I've been registered to vote in this state since 2014, voted in the 2016 presidential election and the 2018 mid-term election, yet I discovered the night before the primaries (4/7) that my name had been
mysteriously dropped from Wisconsin's voter registration rolls. I mean,
WTAF??!! I had to double-check the criteria that was used in dropping over 240,000 voters' names from the state's registry rolls and am
still at a loss; I am
not dead, I am
not registered to vote in any other state, and though I moved just three doors down from my previous address (in 2018), I never received the prerequisite letter advising me that I have to re-register, nor have I falsified any information on my voter registration, nor has it been more than five years since I voted in any state elections. So again, WTAF?? I'd just voted less than two years ago!
So why was my name dropped from the voter registry rolls, ffs?Gee, could it be because I usually vote a straight Democratic ticket?? No, the Republicans wouldn't sink so low, would they?! I mean, it's not like the Republican majority in our Wisconsin legislature wouldn't even respond to Gov. Evers' appeal (during their last meeting) to reschedule the primaries for sometime in June but instead literally ignored him, walked out of the meeting and immediately kicked the issue up to the Supreme Court, right (yep, good ole Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, who is assigned to the 7th Circuit strikes again), right? All in the middle of a viral epidemic wherein thousands and thousands of people are dying and the rest of us have been ordered by our Governor to stay (TF) home. No, I can't believe the Republicans in our state government would ever be so underhanded. And we all know that Brett Kavanaugh is 'a good man'; hell he said so himself. (Yeah, and Donald Trump is a very stable genius, too, just ask him.)
I'd like to say 'rant over', but I'm still fuming and will probably be seriously angry about this for some time to come. I'm currently contacting every single (pertinent) department in our state government to file formal complaints about a.) my name being dropped from the state's voter registry rolls for no explicable reason and the fact that I never received any notification of this action whatsoever, and b.) the fact that the citizens of our state should
never have been called upon to leave their homes and go to public polling places to vote during a national (hell, global) viral epidemic.
I swear, I think my head has exploded about 10 times in the past 48 hours.
Renzatic on 8/4/2020 at 17:03
Quote Posted by lowenz
About "my theories", these are the actual words - this morning - of a phycisian working in an hospital with Covid-19 patients
AND deads ;)
No one's doubting what you're saying here. We know the myriad ways this thing can kill you. Thing is, you're being too loud about it, too pushy, and with too heavy a helping of the histrionics. You don't need to remind us of what it
could do with every post you make. It's starting to annoy people.
This will be my last warning to you on this. Simmer down a bit, or you'll get a 3 day break.
Gryzemuis on 8/4/2020 at 17:34
Quote Posted by Dia
So why was my name dropped from the voter registry rolls, ffs?According to Facebook-data you are likely to not vote Republican. So the Republicans decided it was better to remove you from the voter registry rolls.
Tony_Tarantula on 8/4/2020 at 19:04
Quote Posted by Renzatic
So some random site on the internet that isn't even a big name in the media used this picture from an older story concerning another tragedy, either by accident, or to bolster its clickbait status by providing a face with the name, and you subtly suggest the implications of a conspiracy by oh so so subtly providing these two stories side by side to allow us to "figure it out for ourselves."
It doesn't occur to you to maybe consider it's just that one site. You don't bother to do any deeper digging. You probably read about this on some rando conspiracy site, saw it provided an excellent chance to EXPOSE THE LIE to us poor sheepy plebes here, and you ran with it.
You're massively projecting, and again it's bizarre windmill tilting.
Notably absent from your response is any actual rebuttal of the main point: they re-used a photo of another boy from two years ago for their story. The other sites were a little more responsible and didn't use an obviously fake picture for their story.
And "that one site" is MSN, it's a major media outlet that also owns a cable news network.
Your rebuttal is only a "genius smackdown" if you project far more onto it than what is actually there (me mocking them using a fake picture).
Quote Posted by Sulphur
That's quite the strawman you're arguing. You know why? Because actually, no one gives a hot shit what you think. Be left, right, middle, up and down or round and round, you're still irrelevant to anyone sane.
Let me guess, you're far more capable and smarter but you're just being held back by oppressive capitalist/white supremacist system that fails to recognize your talents?
On everything else: Iowenz is being extremely dramatic, but he's also the only one linking to actual science. If you can tolerate the tone it's a far valuable contribution to the topic than yet more hysteria about Trump about which I could get literally the exact same points (verbatim sometimes) 24/7 by turning on a random cable news channel.
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So...
Rare admission given my massive ego (a necessary evil to survive when you're at a competitive up or out consulting firm)....
But.
I think I massively fucked up and over-estimated at first how deadly the virus was. The reason why was that I had assumed initially that the Chinese were massively lying about the actual data on how contagious and deadly the actual virus is and that they were higher than we knew so far. That my actually be true but if it is true that may be due to other factors such as extremely poor air quality, notoriously bad hygiene levels (e.g. wet markets), and the use of ineffective folk medicine treatments.
The IMHE model ((
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america)) is continually being revised downwards and actual numbers of deaths are failing to meet it. Given how poor the actual social distancing is in many parts of the US the "Occam's Razor" explanation is that the virus isn't either as deadly or as contagious as initially believed. The current model by August calls for 60,000 deaths which is roughly a 99.9% reduction compared to the initial forecast of 5 million deaths.
Renzatic on 8/4/2020 at 21:13
Abuse of pop psychology will no longer be tolerated in this community. The next person who tells me I'm suffering from post-purchase rationalization will receive a prompt bullet to the back of the head.
You have been warned. :mad:
SubJeff on 8/4/2020 at 21:27
Quote Posted by Renzatic
No one's doubting what you're saying here.
I am, actually.
It's like this. lowenz posts some info, but without really understanding the background or context, and in some cases the meaning. For example, saying that the virus doesn't kill you but x, y and z do, and then reiterating it like it's some important revelation and this virus is really special because of it.
No virus kills you in that case. I asked for one example, of course I've never been given one. You die because of some complex effect of the virus. HIV destroys your immune system. You never die OF HIV, but of the complications of HIV. Ebola doesn't kill you, the bleeding and the encephalopathy does. Every virus has a mechanism but if you really boil it down it's always one of the three basic causes of death - cessation of function of the cardiovascular, respiratory or central nervous systems.
lowenz is like me trying to talk about football. I know what it is. I watch it occasionally when the Euros or the World Cup. But I don't know who plays for who, what the different league and knockout competitions are, what division any team is in, who plays for which team now or last season. And I don't pretend to.
