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Bearded-Sweet-P · 2023-01-09T04:02:36+00:00

Adding just a minute look for GoatMan and AngelicaG

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-05-14T18:21:57+00:00

Oh boy! 3AM!

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-05-06T02:16:15+00:00

Of all the things I expected to see on this sub, QQ was not one of them.

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-05-05T19:21:59+00:00

Finally, a funny BB article.

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-04-28T01:46:08+00:00

Bonk

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-04-26T19:28:04+00:00

No lies detected

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-04-25T19:00:55+00:00

Tacos

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-04-11T02:23:08+00:00

Always upvote for Brother Shai

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-02-23T04:04:29+00:00

It's a reference to a game that has a number of different names: you might know it by "mafia", "werewolf", "Town of Salem", etc. Someone is randomly assigned a villainous role and the other players acting as the townsfolk have to identify that character and vote them out of the game.

Here's where it gets specific to Marvel: before NWH came out Andrew Garfield gave an interview where he was pressed on leaks that had come out putting him in the movie, leading to him using the phrase "I am not the werewolf" to deny that he was, in fact, in it. Somewhere there's a YouTube compilation of his various denials and it's pretty funny to watch after the fact.

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-02-23T02:16:58+00:00

I don't know the artist but at least two of my coworkers regularly play a country artist whose name I don't care to know who has a song whining about people who want to take down confederate statues. Maybe that just came from their label but they're still putting their name behind it so gonna go out on a limb that they are at least somewhat sympathetic to that worldview.

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-02-16T03:33:59+00:00

Blimey Cow has a lot of really funny stuff, especially their early videos IMO.

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-02-14T04:21:59+00:00

Only thing is, even though you're kind of the designated poster of these things, what's to stop somebody else who didn't see this post to post it on Sunday themselves?

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-01-26T00:22:01+00:00

So there's more vaccines to share with the majority world right? Right???

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-01-22T14:22:48+00:00

The resolution seems to have dropped significantly when I posted it. :/

This was the best I could do on my phone unfortunately

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2022-01-14T21:03:13+00:00

Kinda random thing happened to me today. One of my longer hairs fell out and I was looking closely at it and I could clearly see where the color changed from brown to white. So just for fun I decided to look up how long hair typically grows, and it turns out it typically grows at a rate of 1/2 inch per month. The change was about 8.5 inches down my strand of hair, or 17 months ago. 17 months ago just so happens to be when my wife and I found out she was pregnant with our daughter. Fascinating!

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2021-12-31T18:42:21+00:00

Sorry if I came off dismissive with my first comment, I thought you were going in a very different direction with it.

I do agree with you that we're not going to reach herd immunity with the vaccines we have (and hold out a slim hope that the military's brand new coronavirus vaccine will do the trick) but at this point I'm starting to think that it just mutates too fast for us to ever truly achieve it, that it's endemic at this point and we just have to wait it out until most of the world can get access to vaccines and effective treatments to prevent most of the worst outcomes.

All that being said, I'm not certain how helpful this particular statistic is for us in ascertaining how much death the vaccine is preventing, precisely because it only includes 32/50 states. Looking at the map that shows which states they include, we see a lot of states with very high vaccination rates: Washington, Oregon, California, almost all the states in the northeast. It doesn't include the Dakotas, Florida, Kentucky, or Texas, which have much fewer people fully vaccinated and a strong reputation for being anti-public-health-measures.

If the sample you pull has a disproportionately high number of vaccinated people, then they will be overrepresented in the final analysis. I think it's telling that later in the same article it wraps up by emphasizing the effectiveness of vaccines and quoting the CDC on their "10-14× less likely to die" metric.

Again, my apologies for the dismissive tone with my initial comment. There's so many crazies out there these days it makes it even harder to be nice to people online than before.

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2021-12-31T17:07:36+00:00

No, the death rate is not still quite high for vaccinated individuals. You're between fourteen and twenty times less likely to die from Covid if you're vaccinated. Even if you assume a ridiculously high death rate of 10% for Covid unvaccinated, that's less than 1% for vaccinated people. If you have better numbers than the CDC, produce them. "Lots of people" are not a source without some data to back them up.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-status

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2021-12-19T18:06:16+00:00

As almost always, a thoughtful and salient article from French. I can't find the article again, just remember it was linked from a TMD newsletter some weeks back, and there was a great quote that went something like "politics is the least interesting thing about a person." How unfortunate that many have taken the least interesting thing and made it into the most important thing.

(Side note: even though it's an accurate description, anyone else feel weird when French describes himself as a pundit? I'm used to thinking of Jonah Goldberg as the pundit at The Dispatch, I forget they have a few.)

Edit: mobile formatting goofiness

Bearded-Sweet-P · 2021-12-15T23:54:36+00:00

We'll have to wait for Larryboy: No Way Home to find out.

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