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Mandatory mask-wearing puts an individual's comfort and freedom of expression against a chance of temporary illness, and smaller chances of permanent complications or death. The main issue here isn't the virus risk to the individual who refuses to wear a mask, it's the virus risk to those around th...

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You just undercut yourself? You point out that jeopardy isn't binary... then seem to suggest it's therefore irrational to take effort to protect the populace from jeopardy like it's 'too much' of an infringement on individual freedoms! That's HOGWASH! WTF? Take a timeout. Your rant here is based on...

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A couple of things jump out at me and make me go "hmmm." To what extent are you reaching for full time because that's the only hypothetical scenario in which you can afford the amount of content you desire? And to what extent are you reaching for full time because that's a hypothetical sce...

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As Bert suggested, beliefs and opinions are fine up until the point when they inform actions which place others in jeopardy. Then the recklessness of science deniers becomes an infringement of others' rights. Someone may believe that seatbelts kill more people than they save, for example. They are ...

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Just look at any COVID conspiracy discussion on social media and you don't have to scroll down far to find people accusing Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates of being demons who are plotting the downfall of humanity. Not just people to be demonized, but actual demons . From Hell. Who need to be killed. T...

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I'd call that not manmade but manspreading, but that word already means something else

Industrialization does create the conditions for more deadly pathogens to evolve, but even absent our impact, nature's balance is dynamic and merciless.

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Yes, "natural disaster" has some administrative and legal meaning. Declaring a disaster activates protocols for administrative action and allows access to funding pre-authorized or set aside for such purposes. I believe further declaring a *natural* disaster invokes some "acts of God&...

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You need evidence to support the assertion that it's man-made. Or even that there was intentional curation or distribution. A virus of this type needs no deliberate human intention to evolve and spread. Especially since -- and this is what SHOULD be the lesson -- common human behaviors like lax hygi...

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Try it as a vacation before trying it as a vocation. Then ask yourself honestly why that's not enough. The judgment you seem afraid of here isn't that you're turned on by women getting unmasked, or women in tight rubber suits and diving gear fighting for their lives -- it's the judgment that you're ...

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I heard a story that aliens developed the virus, and China made a deal with them to test it in exchange for early access to the vaccine -- but surprise! The aliens didn't hold up their end of the deal. If this is true, imagine the blowback and universal condemnation if it had been the US practicing ...

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He didn't create the virus. Like he didn't create a hurricane.
But his toolset is that of a stupid five year old.

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Relevant:
https://xkcd.com/2395/

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This article provides perspective on what's happening in a particular community in South Dakota, USA. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/09/south-dakota-mitchell-covid-masks/?arc404=true Unfortunately, it leaves some (to me) obvious questions unanswered, like if community behavior changed...

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I'm not buying what Mr. X is selling. The value of mask-wearing is generally accepted by science. Sorry he's unconvinced, but he's also unconvincing. Just pointing to national or even state-level rates is not drawing valid statistical comparisons that come anywhere close to correlating with mask usa...

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Forgive my ignorance, but it sounds like they're taking advantage to push further toward an exclusively closed streaming model.

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You are so deep into nonsense and alternative facts that you are beyond reach. I pray one day you find your way out of the cult. So you approve of rewarding over paid officials instead of diverting money to the people who have been hurt by the pandemic. That's the creakiest pivot on a logical falla...

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The Senate and President proposed a covid only bill. Nancy now is for a bill with less money, because Biden got elected. "covid only bill" is mendacious nonsense. No it is what is needed. There is no need to fund cities that were in trouble because of their pension obligations before Covi...

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Dazzle1 wrote: ↑
3 years ago
The Senate and President proposed a covid only bill. Nancy now is for a bill with less money, because Biden got elected.

"covid only bill" is mendacious nonsense.

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"a Covid only relief bill." Convenient made-up term to gloss over the fact that Mitch has been sitting on his hands for months.

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I hope his healthcare is better than his hair care.

Why didn't Donnie fix the libel laws when he had Congress at his disposal so that he could stop the Failing New York Times from lying? If he had, then we'd now all know what a great job he's done with the virus.

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Is flatulence a symptom of COVID-19?

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I don't know, for clarifying the thinking of his apologists and followers? It just seems weird to reach for analogies for what used to be a trope in fiction, and pretty thoroughly explored in reality. So many tropes are headed for the scrapheap as a result of this Presidency and the events that it f...

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I don't think analogies are necessary or adequate to clarify the fact that we elected a malignant narcissist President of the United States.

Maybe next time we'll elect someone who actually wants to kill us all just for spite.

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The prejudice against Donnie is completely earned. He is a malignant narcissist with a public record decades long. That doesn't mean his actions can't produce any positive result, and even the not-by-any-reasonable-definition "liberal" media has dutifully reported the occasional positive r...

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Restaurants and bars are not the problem as the CDC studies show large gathering such as protests or family gatherings are. Citation please for the statement that restaurants and bars are not the problem. Many bars *are* large gatherings. As for the reference to the curfew, I would have encouraged ...

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I find the technique of a 10pm curfew interesting. To me it suggests that a significant continued cause of spread is people trying to get laid -- parties and late night bar-hoppers.

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Splunge.

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Bothsidesism is a term because a specific fallacious rhetorical technique became so common in public discourse as to need a term.

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I think the way we all rallied around the immediate common good in this COVID-19 crisis speaks volumes about our ability to rally around the long-term common good to address climate change.

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Per-capita deaths are worse for the UK than for the USA.

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What have been the challenges in the UK?

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Mask wearing is not as high as possible. Masks clearly ARE reducing numbers. See Vox link above. Where McDonald's franchisees can stay open, so can other restaurants under the same rules. There are places where the rules aren't being followed / aren't adequate, and employees are imperiled -- profit ...

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The first documentation of our national identity is called the Declaration of Independence. The first suggestion yelled out at the brainstorming session was "You can't tell us what to do!" And if you tell us it's GOOD for us? That's a double Hell no! Sure, we like the idea of sacrifice -- ...

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1) You made it sound like you were in favour of large numbers of people dying. I'm... assuming that's not the case. Neither do I think people are being deliberately allowed to die through anything other than incompetence. To the extent selfishness and malignant narcissism can be viewed at as incomp...

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...I beg your pardon? Sometimes thinking like a supervillain helps make sense of the machinations of powerful men. Have 1.4 million of them died from staying home in the last eight months? The state of the social safety net and government response to the pandemic has imperiled many who've stayed ho...

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Y'all are looking at this backwards.

This is a culling, and the United States is exploiting it better than almost any other nation.
America is preparing for its next transformation.

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We don't know that she didn't wipe the nape of the bull's neck with a disinfectant wipe shortly before mounting up.

Not that it's likely the surface has much viable coronavirus on it in the first place, being outside in mostly-empty streets.

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Mainstream media aren't saying this is the end of the world, at least not in the US. Try not to use hyperbole when complaining about hyperbolic reactions.

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I can't believe people are stil hung up on this thing. They hadn't been for three days. I thought I'd put a cap on it two days ago. But you just couldn't let it go, could you? ;) ...focus on the more important things in life. Especially in times like these. NO WAY. This whole site is about distract...

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He made a lot of genre videos. Can't take that away from him. But he doesn't make them anymore. He's been trying to make a superhero feature film since he stopped making genre videos. But feature films are hard. Really hard. He shot two features. But they've been in the can a long time and haven't b...

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The IMDb trail is stone cold, and if the car isn't gone it's an out-of-warranty BMW convertible -- I'll take Crippling Costs for $200, Alex.
There's nothing to pursue. We can muse about possible truths, but there is no utility in nailing it down.

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Some consumers like seeing a Ron Jeremy type -- as someone they identify with, or as comedy, or as something more outrageous, or as villainy, or as a particular element of peril, or as its own fetish. And it seems some consumers of bondage in particular want to linger on the process, not (or not jus...

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Am I reading it right? They picked one backer, tried to issue a refund, and discovered that particular backer's payment account was no longer valid. So they're not going to try to issue anyone any refunds until they figure out another way to refund everyone. They'll figure that out on their own, and...

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Not this leap day, next leap day.

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Forty years ago Superman: The Movie had made a splash but it hardly proved there was a sustainable profit in adapting the comic IP. Comic books were a pulp business, and the licensing bonanza was a ways off. And AT&T isn't George Lucas. But it's true that AT&T, like every conglomerate at som...

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This is wishful thinking. Sure, the comic book business is a rounding error to AT&T, but the IP isn't. I don't see AT&T wanting to exit the content business, or divesting itself of a powerful sprawling franchise IP. WarnerMedia's top-domestic-grossing film of all time? The Dark Knight. Their...

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I wonder what steps are in the process of issuing a refund, and how long they take.

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Was the promise that the wallpapers would be actual stills from the finished film, or actual stills from the production shoot, or just promotional stills?

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The whale doesn't want any minnows claiming a piece of the pie.
IIRC there were in-the-movie naming rights and name drops that can't be fulfilled if there's no movie, and would be a drag on the production and final product if there is a movie.

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Don't forget it's a leap year, in case you were planning to spend your refund on the 28th.

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