Random Rant Thread

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The Deficit Turds are crawling out of their graves.

Maybe Low Interest Rates Won’t Last Forever
www.bloombergquint.com/amp/global-economics/maybe-low-interest-rates-won-t-last-forever

These Zombies refuse to die, don't they. No matter how many times and how thoroughly they get discredited, they just keep coming back.

Isn't it incredible that there are people out there who think this in the middle of the fucking pandemic?

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My God, he's pretty bad at political speeches, but is so incredibly good at explaining stuff. I'd say he's even better than Bill Clinton.

This takes talent. He's not a presidential material, but may be a great asset to America.

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Undoubtedly the most pressing issue of this winter. The WSJ as usual has its finger on the pulse of regular people.

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This, really. So irresponsible.

Report it as BREAKING NEWS *when it's ACTUALLY a serious problem*.

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It's actually against the law in Florida to tamper with the American flag, but of course none of these "patriots" care and instead accuse you of being a flag-burning Antifa agent if you vote for Biden.

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These people are incredibly eager to change the flag at every chance they get.

They talk about "America" all the time, something for them to "make great again," but it's perhaps a bit different from the actual United States of America.

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I told you. Only someone who was scared shitless of the disease act this way after going through it and becoming immune (for now).

I did go through it too, but never felt this way even once. This man is a child.

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This tells you both the utter awfulness and backwardness of American elections and energy/sheer will of American voters. In ANY other country voters simply wouldn't bother. Who the fuck in the world outside America would wait in line for 12 hours to vote?

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Oct 12, 2020 11:59:01 GMT 1 miscmisc said:

Oct 12, 2020 6:09:22 GMT 1 bol said:

I tested which idiom comes close to my school/tourist English as a German (few things I had to guess though based on what sounds good) and I had a similar result. New York, Newark, Yonkers.

That's pretty weird actually, lol. The dialects in the Northeast in general are far from standard American English. Even urban Texan English (DFW/Houston/San Antonio) is a lot closer to the standard. The so-called "BBC English" of America is a Midwestern dialect.

But I suppose that has something to do with Hollywood movies/TV shows (many take place in New York, although they often don't speak like New Yorkers at all). Non-Americans tend to learn a substantial part of their colloquial English words/idioms from them.

True, with the internet there's probably also on top a significant random factor since I may copy whatever expressions I've read somewhere.

Maybe it was also your influence . My results for the individual questions were rather over the place though, I think the New York result may have been just a small majority.

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Yeah, New York vocabulary does tend to spread due to the city's cultural dominance in all kinds of media. I think the crucial difference between you and me, though, is that you've got Newark, a New Jersey city, whose cultural aspects also tend to be overrepresented in movies/literature/etc, whereas I got Providence, a New England (Rhode Island) city of no cultural significance.

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I posted this 3C's poster here months ago, but once again:

It's kind of incredible and also a little disappointing that there still hasn't been better guidance/instructions than these posters distributed here back in MARCH.

Anyway, these instructions still hold well. Read all the four, and even print them out and put them up on the wall, lol.

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So, China can test the entire population of a city of 9 million people just because 9 residents have tested positive. They will finish the testing in 5 days.

If you wanted to go back to "normal" quickly, that's what it'd take. China is the only non-tiny country that is capable of doing that, and more importantly being always administratively ready to do that.

It's impossible for any liberal democracy to beat those authoritarian countries, but if you're a "freedom-loving" country competing with them for international respect and influence, you ought to be a decent example at least. No, you wouldn't have to do as well as New Zealand - just, you know, decent. Not great, but not too awful. 

The US has failed at that to such a degree that it's even a little pointless to discuss this topic.

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Thanks for sharing how you've been.

False negative is very rare but possible, so you can't definitely say you weren't infected. But Covid-19 really plays with your mind too, so it's really hard to know.

But I act like I've never been infected anyway, so on some level it doesn't really matter. I expect the whole thing to get gradually resolved next year, so we should hang in there for a bit more.

Sure, no problem. Somehow it does feel like taking a bit of a load off. I hope all of you are doing well, despite all the shit going on around us.

Newly updated measures/rules for the Netherlands will be announced tonight.

Since infections have been ballooning these past few weeks, expectations are we're getting something close to a lockdown without actually calling it that.

Meanwhile an 89 year old Dutch woman has passed away after getting infected a second time, which apparently is the first time this has happened.

It needs to be mentioned that aside from her advanced age, she was suffering from a rare form of bone marrow cancer and her immune system was compromised.

nos.nl/artikel/2352120-nederlandse-vrouw-overlijdt-na-tweede-besmetting-met-coronavirus.html

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While Trump is dancing on the stage at the rally like a yesterday's star doing a show in a small Las Vegas casino, cases and hospitalizations are going up at a fast pace across the US again. Unfortunately we'll have another mountain of deaths.

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rictor said:

For me on the contrary. My colleagues are like the only good thing about my job (well, the work I currently do ain't that bad but I apparently love to complain). We still work normally like nothing happened and since I live with my family I'm among people 7 days a week. Guess it helps. Would probably be tougher not being able to talk to anyone.

Fortunately, nobody I know passed away from COVID. I hope it stays that way.

Masks will be now mandatory everywhere outside and I hope everybody will comply. But there already were protests against introducing any restrictions in regards to covid pandemic :/ Feels like I already heard it before. Some people can only learn the hard way. Not that I believe masks will protect you with 100% probability, maybe not even with 50%. But if they prevent spreading the virus with even at least 1% then I'll wear them. And it's not that I fear for myself. Wouldn't want to infect anyone if I can help it.

Hope everyone of us, our families and friends will get through it. Stay safe friends.

I can get along with my colleagues fine. It's just that the vast majority of them shared thoughts and ideas over the years that really rubbed me the wrong way and made me write them off as anything beyond co-workers. However, I did have 'work-friends' at different jobs that made shitty jobs more bearable so I can relate to your situation.

As for masks, they're mandatory in stores in Germany and Belgium, but for some reason the Dutch are trailing behind again and only 'advise' wearing them. Advice means nothing to westerners, unfortunately. Over here you need to require shit by law and threaten the population with fines/heavy punishment before a message is received. To be fair; it probably doesn't help that footage of a prominent Dutch politician leaked out showing him not giving a fuck about social distancing.