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Apr 29 2020 12:47pm
Quote (Goomshill @ Apr 29 2020 02:44pm)


Going full Giuliani lol.

Right or Left, New York city residents vote for authoritarians.

Can't even get a big gulp up in there.

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Going full Giuliani lol.

Right or Left, New Yorkers vote for authoritarians.


Giuliani got elected in large part because of the crown heights riots and Dinkin's dinky response
De Blasio has seen race tensions get worse under his leadership than any point since 91, and it was just a few months ago black nationalists went on a terrorist spree slaughtering jews while crowds of average folks gathered to scream death to jews
He had the option of at least navigating this funeral gathering issue more tactfully, you know, by going through the orthodox community leaders and getting them to stand side by side with him (in masks preferably). Instead he literally tweeted a message to the jews "The time for warnings has passed, wir müssen die Juden ausrotten"
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Quote (Goomshill @ Apr 29 2020 01:56pm)
Giuliani got elected in large part because of the crown heights riots and Dinkin's dinky response
De Blasio has seen race tensions get worse under his leadership than any point since 91, and it was just a few months ago black nationalists went on a terrorist spree slaughtering jews while crowds of average folks gathered to scream death to jews
He had the option of at least navigating this funeral gathering issue more tactfully, you know, by going through the orthodox community leaders and getting them to stand side by side with him (in masks preferably). Instead he literally tweeted a message to the jews "The time for warnings has passed, wir müssen die Juden ausrotten"


"go out and live your lives New Yorkers" - DeBlasio Mar 2

"i'm going out for a walk with my wife" Deblasio April 27

"go out and you'll be arrested" - Deblasio April 29
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Quote (Skinned @ Apr 29 2020 09:05am)
Have you ever read the history of the conflict that lead to pasteurization?

Bruno Latour wrote a book called The Pasteurization of France, about infectious disease and human's efforts against it, and the conflicts that played out. It straddles the line between philosophy and science so it isn't really strong as either, but it is still very interesting and fun read.

I found it in Philosophy, Technology, and Society, which was a pretty cool class overall even though i learned a bunch of unimportant things lol. Learned a lot of very important things there too....Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn, Feyerabend, etc, who all have their merits and problems.


Might check it out when this quarantine is over. Working every single day for the foreseeable future, but our mouse tumors have all started ulcerating, so we might sack them all next week. As much as I want the experiment I've worked on every day for the past 50 days to work out.... I'd really like to have a day off.
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Apr 29 2020 01:03pm
Exhibit A: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-was-coronavirus-hard-predict/610432/

Exhibit B: https://youtu.be/RruvGLwSimE

Put those two ideas together and what do you get?

Many people who heard the farmer talking about empty grocery store shelves probably subconsciously thought to themselves "oh that could never happen here. Empty store shelves are just a thing we hear about from the USSR". It violates our wiring to try and wrap our heads around that scenario becoming a reality in August 2020. On the other hand, it's very easy for our brains to comprehend a person getting sick and dying in a hospital. That is something that many of us have experienced, possibly first-hand or at least heard someone close to us talking about it. We know how real that possibility is. Therefore, it becomes very easily for people to criticize the idea of "sacrificing lives for the economy". To them, 'the economy' is some sort of mythical intangible entity. But to that farmer, whose daily life consists of pushing the levers on the economy, it's easy for him to visualize how many months away we are form having empty store shelves.

This puts politicians in a tough position. Saying things that they know will be unpopular is damaging to their careers. Nearly all politicians (with one notable exception) bristle at the idea of saying something they know is not going to sound bad when the media replays the clip to the public. Therefore, the current system of politics and media is fine-tuned to stifle amy unpopular truth.

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Might check it out when this quarantine is over. Working every single day for the foreseeable future, but our mouse tumors have all started ulcerating, so we might sack them all next week. As much as I want the experiment I've worked on every day for the past 50 days to work out.... I'd really like to have a day off.


maybe the military will buy the failed experiment and weaponize ulcerating tumors.
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Apr 29 2020 01:49pm
Quote (thesnipa @ Apr 29 2020 03:00pm)
"go out and live your lives New Yorkers" - DeBlasio Mar 2

"i'm going out for a walk with my wife" Deblasio April 27

"go out and you'll be arrested" - Deblasio April 29


De Blasio 2020
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Might check it out when this quarantine is over. Working every single day for the foreseeable future, but our mouse tumors have all started ulcerating, so we might sack them all next week. As much as I want the experiment I've worked on every day for the past 50 days to work out.... I'd really like to have a day off.


Yuck. I hate animal experimentation. I worked in a meat department and that was rough enough for me...even knowing those animals were not tortured and i didn't witness their deaths.

When it comes to food I'm sure glad its someone else who does the killing. And if you're a killer, the best way to get that energy off is probably within our food supply system :lol:


Quote (Goomshill @ Apr 29 2020 02:56pm)
Giuliani got elected in large part because of the crown heights riots and Dinkin's dinky response
De Blasio has seen race tensions get worse under his leadership than any point since 91, and it was just a few months ago black nationalists went on a terrorist spree slaughtering jews while crowds of average folks gathered to scream death to jews
He had the option of at least navigating this funeral gathering issue more tactfully, you know, by going through the orthodox community leaders and getting them to stand side by side with him (in masks preferably). Instead he literally tweeted a message to the jews "The time for warnings has passed, wir müssen die Juden ausrotten"


Don't whitewash stop and frisk with me dude. I'm not gullible enough for that Shill.

"My authoritarian is better". I don't care. They're all shitty.

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Don't whitewash stop and frisk with me dude. I'm not gullible enough for that Shill.

"My authoritarian is better". I don't care. They're all shitty.


Amash 2020
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Apr 29 2020 03:59pm
Quote (Santara @ Apr 29 2020 05:55pm)
Amash 2020


I was just persuading a friend who isn't voting to vote for Amash. "I just don't want to help anybody I do not like" in regards to Biden or Trump. Sound reasoning.
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