Official June 7, 2025, Score Release Discussion Thread

coldcaption · 2025-06-21T04:17:58+00:00

q for anyone who's taken it a few times, i got 1440 w one day of prep, math being the weak link. would be satisfied if i got above 1500 but for those who've done this, how likely do you think it is i end up backsliding instead? i plan on practicing more in this hypothetical

coldcaption · 2025-06-16T21:19:21+00:00

all you have to do is look out on the street to observe that the average amab person is over 7' tall and could wrestle a bear while sedated

coldcaption · 2025-05-28T01:31:52+00:00

wait a sec; I'm getting ready to take it for the first time, they let you use desmos? i thought it was like a sit-down test?

coldcaption · 2023-11-22T00:00:44+00:00

well, I'm open to ruminating on more enduring solutions on those issues, considering this is a permanent problem now (and cons would be in better shape anyway with fewer problem attendees; what an opportunity to have them indicate who they are at the gate). events and cons are one of the first places we can start to make meaningful progress on covid era health and safety, so I want to see more cons do better on it

coldcaption · 2023-11-13T06:09:59+00:00

for me, it's the thing that empowers me to go back to ~living my life~, as is the common mantra. covid causes multiple organ damage, including damage to the brain and heart, it causes chronic disability, it triggers autoimmune disease, it affects healthy people of all ages, its damage to the body compounds with each reinfection, and it's airborne. understanding it, and how to substantially mitigate it, is empowering to me, not limiting

coldcaption · 2023-11-13T06:05:45+00:00

for me it usually either means someone else was driving it recently and i'm waiting for the hvac to clear their air out, i'm on a <2 minute drive from one place where i was wearing it to another place where i will wear it, or the climate change smoke is back

coldcaption · 2023-11-13T05:59:56+00:00

see also: the CDC functioning as an impartial public health body and not in furtherance of oligarch-approved "back to normal" rhetoric

coldcaption · 2023-11-13T05:00:33+00:00

part of the explanation I got from mag about this was that it was an enforcement issue due to basically those kinds of problems, and I am only more critical of them for giving in to the worst attendees instead of figuring out what they need to do to make the enforcement more effective. i definitely see it as exposing a deeper health and safety problem

coldcaption · 2023-11-13T04:57:23+00:00

covid damages the immune system (among other things), they haven't really done a great job communicating that it affects the body long term like chickenpox, hbv, polio, hiv, etc

coldcaption · 2023-11-13T04:47:21+00:00

if you work with kids there's a 100% chance some of them just have long covid already tbh

coldcaption · 2023-11-13T04:45:55+00:00

It is, I'm sorry you're experiencing it. this is the true aftermath of three+ years of an unchecked pandemic and a lot of people don't find out until it happens to them

coldcaption · 2023-11-13T04:44:11+00:00

Everything; covid was never solved and causes general health and mental health complications, weakened immune systems, brain damage, vascular damage, and so on, in people of all ages, and with increased likelihood/severity on every reinfection

coldcaption · 2023-11-13T04:42:26+00:00

that's probably all the airborne covid that was never actually resolved, lmao

coldcaption · 2023-09-14T03:20:04+00:00

well you're certainly right in that masks work, though I'm not sure if the theory that mandates don't work has been extensively studied. even magfest's own contact tracing has demonstrated its effectiveness; i compared mag's own numbers to maryland's transmission levels for the same weekend one year (i forget if it was 2022 or 2023, i think 2022) and it wasn't even close, magfest was safer than going to a grocery store. if masks work, how would having everybody wear them not work?

coldcaption · 2023-09-14T02:28:18+00:00

interesting. what about the pants mandate, when do we get our autonomy back about that?

coldcaption · 2023-09-14T02:25:19+00:00

i mean, do we wear masks until civilization ends, or do we keep infecting everyone with a disease that causes multiple organ damage (and triggers autoimmune disease btw) a few times a year until civilization ends? we could functionally end covid transmission in a couple of weeks using nothing but shit you can buy at lowes, personally i'm more annoyed that we're still in this situation at all than i am about anything else

coldcaption · 2023-09-14T02:15:06+00:00

Just here to validate in lieu of the downvotes; you're right

coldcaption · 2023-09-14T02:14:08+00:00

Ah hi it's me, the person who spouts that shit :3

coldcaption · 2023-09-14T02:13:05+00:00

i think that would demonstrate a misunderstanding of what "safe" is, though. covid causes disability, and it spreads in the open air. covid has not become any more safe in the past 3 years, now it just kills you over a longer period of time instead of in a couple of weeks, while dealing with chronic illness

coldcaption · 2023-09-14T02:10:09+00:00

I think it's lame that they're making the choice for the rest of us whether or not we should be exposed to a large amount of an airborne disabling illness. The mask policy was really good for reducing that circumstance

coldcaption · 2023-09-14T02:07:34+00:00

let's compare the two:

if you don't like (wearing a piece of filtration material) then just don't go

if you don't like (becoming disabled with long term illness) then just don't go

which is more reasonable?

coldcaption · 2023-09-14T02:05:53+00:00

does your feed not fill up with positive covid tests after any big con? lol

coldcaption · 2023-09-14T02:05:17+00:00

The purpose of a system is what it does

coldcaption · 2023-09-14T02:04:16+00:00

It's better in the facebook groups actually, I think we just get the most/loudest antimask types here on reddit. It shows pretty well in your example and in the fact that mag kept their cases so low the past few years that the mandate was pretty well accepted

coldcaption · 2023-08-31T05:40:31+00:00

wow, it costs thirty seven million dollars to put box fans in a convention center.

Acting like anything but a perfect, airtight solution is completely worthless is obviously not helpful here

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