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Off the Record / Re: Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Cov...

Last post by Grey Fox - Today at 03:21:52 PM

My daughter had it, atleast, 7 times. She gets barely sick each time, the first time she was 100% asymptomatic.

It's part of interacting with 1000s of kids every day.

There is not 1000s of kids in our schools, lol
cities and their mega structures

 

#2

Off the Record / Re: Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Cov...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 03:14:33 PM

My daughter had it, atleast, 7 times. She gets barely sick each time, the first time she was 100% asymptomatic.

It's part of interacting with 1000s of kids every day.

There is not 1000s of kids in our schools, lol
cities and their mega structures

#3

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 03:10:14 PM

About 400 years between the fall of the republic and sack of Rome.

Rome never really fell though.
Though the imperial authority in the west was usurped. The British and later Americans have tried to take on the imperial mantle. Successfully? Hardly.

Rome died on its own.
It did not need a future America, and honestly, just fuck yourselves. We Europeans will manage our own demise.

Byzance had a good run.

#4

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 03:08:29 PM

Supreme Court rules Trump overstepped by imposing tariffs.

Now what?

Lutnick's sons will sue the admin to get back their money.

They sold the legal rights to a potential tariff refund in exchange of 20-30% of the duties already paid.  Canto Fitzgerald.

I expect an advantageous out of court settlement for this part.

There were also tariff swaps being sold by someone close to Trump. It's a lucrative business.

For the rest Trump just announced that he's reviving a 150 years old law for implementing tariffs.  No justification needed, but Congress will need to rule on it by August.

#5

Off the Record / Re: Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Cov...

Last post by Jacob - Today at 01:37:43 PM

We have had double if not triple digit colds and flus and whatnot since covid. We haven't tested whether any of them were covid or not; at this point we're treating it as endemic.

We still get vaccines and whatnot every so often, though.

#6

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Norgy - Today at 01:27:55 PM

About 400 years between the fall of the republic and sack of Rome.

Rome never really fell though.
Though the imperial authority in the west was usurped. The British and later Americans have tried to take on the imperial mantle. Successfully? Hardly.

Rome died on its own.
It did not need a future America, and honestly, just fuck yourselves. We Europeans will manage our own demise.

#7

Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by Solmyr - Today at 01:22:29 PM

I think the only recent game I have enjoyed thoroughly is not EUV but the second coming of Henry of Skalitz.

Yes, KCD2 is far from my political compass.

KCD2 is apparently a woke gay love fest if you believe right-wing Gamergate types.

#8

Off the Record / Re: Bobby Kennedy Junior

Last post by Norgy - Today at 01:20:53 PM

We have a whole generation or two of people who think doing their own "research" makes their ideas more valid than the people who do real research.

Nah, man. This is our time.

To stand up, and say no, we believe a science-based approach to any issue is needed.

I believe in facts not the ones who run for office on hearsay and...

Oh. Right.

We lost, didn't we? Well, at least our forebrethren ended slavery.

THEY DID NOT? Norwegian evangelicals thought those blacks were half human? Jesus.
What next? That Norwegian immigrants were Republicans. That my great grandfather was.
Well. At least daddy's Labour Party was very much at the forefront of human rights. Right? RIGHT?

Oh. They believed themselves better than niggers and accepted apartheid. So...

Did we... do any good? Our leaders were cohorts of Jeffrey Epstein? Right.
Anything else?
We failed both Israel and the PLO?
Right.
But I think at least mrs. Brundtland did something good?
Oh, dear, she was in the pay of Pepsico like Nixon? Damn. We really know how to pick them.

What about her report on human condition?
"She could not care less". Right'o. And the environment? "Let us just agree on something inane like sustainable development".
Oh, dear.
So we lost?
Yeah, big time, mate. Want some carbs?

#9

Off the Record / Re: Bobby Kennedy Junior

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 12:53:54 PM

We have a whole generation or two of people who think doing their own "research" makes their ideas more valid than the people who do real research.

#10

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 12:51:46 PM

People here seem to be confusing the "fall of the Roman Republic" and the "fall of the Roman Empire."

The Republic fell, IMO, because the quaint political and economic organization of the Republic couldn't handle the consequences of having created an empire.

The causes of the fall of the Empire are, as has been noted, multiple and complex.

Good clarification