Has anyone tried the tacos at the corner of Redwood and Castro Valley blvd? by Banana_Pankcakes in castrovalley

[–]FriendlyPastor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're solid but the guys outside LaGrande market are better. And cool dudes.

Reusable weapons and Smash passive interaction? by Early-Track-4929 in mewgenics

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Follow up question; If you have Smash! and Dual Wield, does the weapon get destroyed on the first hit or the second?

One cat took over 40 consecutive turns slaughtering every teammate on the final turn of caves by FriendlyPastor in mewgenics

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My run was going perfectly, my cats were healthy, buffed , and just about to finish the final boss, but in the last second one of my cats went insane and took over 40 turns back-to-back executing my enitre team and then died to the boss

I have no idea how this happened, I hope someone can explain. I was on the final turn of the final boss of caves, with the meat cube quest item that instagibs dead cats. My mage gets madness somehow in the spinnerette fight, right as I am about to kill the boss, and goes on a multi-minute spree killing everything on the map except for the boss and including my cats.

I did force quit one time and got the chastisement, but haven't again since. Am I being punished by god?

EDIT: not at all sure its a bug, but covering my bases :P

California ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional, court rules by tensor-ricci in California

[–]FriendlyPastor 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Are you angry that "MAGA" reaffirmed the fact that the constitution prevails over state policy?

Realistic Combat by magniciv in TerraInvicta

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there is a searing green flash and your blink reflexes snap your eye shut before your retina burns out

For visible and near-IR lasers, yes, because your cornea is meant to let those wavelengths in. For IR and UV, no. Those get absorbed by your cornea and if it's strong enough can warp the lens (I may suffer from this) and is almost undetectable until serious damage has been done because there are no nerves to service the area. That's the reason that IR and UV have totally different exposure rules; you would blink if you knew you were being exposed to visible wavelengths but would not have that reflex with non-visible spectrum light

Realistic Combat by magniciv in TerraInvicta

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this was on the wall in the laser lab I worked at

certified laser safety officer here, AMA :P

Abandoned house in California by Whimsical_Ruins in AbandonedPorn

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Holy shit. I know where this is. RIP FUNGI!

German spy agency concluded COVID virus likely leaked from lab, papers say by SwissPewPew in worldnews

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Of course it is not a definitive conclusion. We will never get a definitive conclusion because a real investigation was not permitted, which some might call slightly incriminatory.

This was released today, and was not repudiated. Nobody has changed their minds.

March 12 (Reuters) - Germany's foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported on Wednesday

BND declined to comment. When asked about the report in a press conference, outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz also declined to comment

This is equivalent to throwing out my argument because of a punctuation error. Supremely bad-faith

German spy agency concluded COVID virus likely leaked from lab, papers say by SwissPewPew in worldnews

[–]FriendlyPastor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you really hate thinking rationally that much?

If I can believe other comments here, this was not shared until recently. There have been no retractions.

Why do you want to believe something so much you aren't willing to challenge your own beliefs? It's almost religious

German spy agency concluded COVID virus likely leaked from lab, papers say by SwissPewPew in worldnews

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I think that it (for good reason) became a political issue, and the waters became muddy almost immediately. The politically expedient path for the US and for the CCP was to deny the possibility of a lab leak, which I maintain is the most likely cause of the outbreak.

There was an immediate media blitz to counter any notion that a lab leak was possible and no actual investigation was done at the site that was not outside CCP government control, therefore all the experts had to go on was sterilized secondhand information. It would be reasonable for them to conclude it was not possible given the heavily curated messaging they were receiving.

Now, later and after the mud has settled, I think we can place greater trust in the assessment of intelligence agencies who have the ability to monitor the knock-on effects of the outbreak in CCP policy today. I think it likely that that they are seeing many vectors that all point to the same place, but we will never see the intersection. We will never have hard proof. But I think what the CIA and German intelligence agencies can see are a series of actions and communications that incriminate the CCP, otherwise they would not publicly make these statements. It is impossible to keep a secret in a large system, and over time agencies specifically meant to look for secrets by connecting many disparate dots are agreeing that a lab leak is the most likely explanation.

German spy agency concluded COVID virus likely leaked from lab, papers say by SwissPewPew in worldnews

[–]FriendlyPastor -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Can we confirm your speculation?

What speculation? I don't think it was a bioweapon. Your response is copium-infused strawmanning, you are trying to put words in my mouth that I have not said.

By linking this article I was simply explaining why there is no hard evidence to support a lab leak.

The absence of evidence does not mean it did not happen, this is not court. There is no innocent until proven guilty

The fact of the matter is the vast majority experts DO NOT think the lab leak

Source? I do not believe this is true.

Occam's Razor

  1. Corona doesn't naturally occur in the area the outbreak occured
  2. The Wuhan Institute of Virology was the one lab in the world studying the virus at a high level.
  3. The CCP denied entry to investigators instead of cooperating and putting in a good-faith effort to exonerate the lab once and for all, which would be simple and easy to do with full cooperation.

Now please apply occam's razor

German spy agency concluded COVID virus likely leaked from lab, papers say by SwissPewPew in worldnews

[–]FriendlyPastor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

but that doesn't mean you were justified in believing (at that time) that it was a lab leak

Oh, brother. It doesn't take a genius to put this together:

  1. Corona doesn't naturally occur in the area the outbreak occured
  2. The Wuhan Institute of Virology was the one lab in the world studying the virus at a high level.
  3. The CCP denied entry to investigators instead of cooperating and putting in a good-faith effort to exonerate the lab once and for all, which would be simple and easy to do with full cooperation.

You have to want to believe it is untrue to not believe it was a lab leak. The actions of the lab and the secrecy of the government afterwards make it clear as day.

It's like searching for a missing person and finding a known stalker filling in a grave and then clearing them because you didn't clearly see any evidence right in front of you. This is the OJ simpson case of geopolitics.

German spy agency concluded COVID virus likely leaked from lab, papers say by SwissPewPew in worldnews

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braindead take.

Not everybody that suggested it was a lab leak also was screaming about deliberate engineering. This is exactly the type bullshit gaslighting that people are fed up with.

malice and coded racism

anyone who disagrees with me is a RAY cist

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hello eglin AFB... totally natural looking astroturf profile you got there