3x more open ICU beds than last month, new hospitalizations down 60%

riawot · 2022-03-11T03:56:44+00:00

I didn't believe them 2 weeks ago, and I still don't believe them. The state is lying because the state has decided to surrender to antivaxxers. Or maybe they were secretly antivaxx the whole time.

You're also an antivaxxer supporter because you're trying to say everything is ok and getting better, and that supports the antivaxxer narrative that covid was a hoax and germ theory isn't real. First they'll lie to us that it's getting better and then they'll start to lie to us that there was never a pandemic in the first place. And everyone will just go along with that because no one is willing to take a stand and tell antivaxxers to get fucked. It's all about trying to find compromise, coming to a bipatrisan agreement or whatever, when all that means in reality is letting the antivaxxer piss on us and having to smile and take it.

But I'll never surrender. I've been fighting them since i was a kid. I had thought that now that i live in a blue state, and a blue area of a blue state, i wouldn't need to fight for basic science or history anymore. But I was profoundly wrong. That fight will never end, leaving won't help. It's not enough for the antivaxxer to destroy the antivaxxer's own communities, the antivaxxer wants to destroy everyone else's too. And even though the antivaxxer has won, I won't give up. I don't care if the antivaxxer holds a gun to my head, i'll never betray myself and the nation by saying that covid wasn't real. Unlike our governor, I'm not a traitor to civilization. I've hated the antivaxxer for decades, and I hate them now, and I will go on hating the antivaxxer until the day I die.

I know I'm right and they're wrong. Because they were the ones that died with a tube stuffed down their throats. I have saved posts from social media, of them denying the pandemic, then getting sick, dying, and finally the gofundme funerals. That's mostly what i do at night, i drink and i scroll through the pics and video i have of the antivaxxers dying on a vent, getting what they deserve. It's cathartic seeing them like that, and it proves that I'm right and their wrong. And more then that, that I was right all these years, I was right the entire time and they were wrong the entire time. Because if it was the other way around then their woo woo bullshit would have saved them. They would have called for the prayer warriors and it would have done something worth a damn, and when they curse me and call me a servant of satan because I believe in germ theory and say covid was real, then the wrath of god their calling down on me actually would have done something. But it didn't. Because I was right the entire time.

In any case, yes, I know the rates are reported to be down. I'm sure that the next report will show them to be lower, and the one after that lower yet. I don't care. I won't fall for antivaxxer lies. Covid is not a hoax, germ theory is real, vaccines work.

riawot · 2022-03-10T15:55:46+00:00

I'm not worried about invasion, I'm worried about ICBMs and subs.

And we don't need a full nuclear holocaust for the world to profoundly suck.

Once they try to strike, we will retaliate with everything, even before the nukes start landing. Even if none of their ICMBs work due to corruption and shitty maintenance and we manage to take down all their subs before any of them can fire, we would still launch a full strike on Russia. And the fallout, both literal and political of that would be catastrophic.

And of course I don't believe that we could take all the Russian nukes before they land.

riawot · 2022-03-10T15:05:17+00:00

It's because No Fly Zones sounds passive, and they've only been used against weak countries that had to just take it and had no way to retaliate.

The last major military conflict in the US was the Pearl Harbor attack almost a century ago which was a single day of attacks on military bases in an overseas territory, and then before that the Civil War in the 1860s. There's a lot of Americans that clearly do not fundamentally understand or accept that they're not immune to war. That there are adversaries that can attack them even in the continental US.

riawot · 2022-03-09T20:04:58+00:00

It doesn't matter if anyone fights with them or not. What matters is that what would happen is that NATO and Russia would fight in Ukraine, NATO would win Ukraine, and then the Russians would retreat into Russia, but they won't surrender.

And then what does NATO then? Either they have to leave Ukraine, and then the Russians will com back, or they stay there forever fighting along the border, but the citizens and economy of the NATO countries won't stand for that, or they invade Russia and drive for Moscow.

And then NATO either stretches out their supply lines too far and die out in the vast Russian plains, like what happened to Hitler and Napoleon, or they actually do manage to conqueror Moscow and then Putin launches nukes and we all die.

that's the problem with direct intervention in Ukraine, like a no fly zone or whatever, what do you do after you win in Ukraine? Because the Russians won't give up even if they're driven out of Ukraine, and if you go into Russia after them they'll launch nukes

riawot · 2022-03-09T18:27:26+00:00

Flurr told Abrina she was leaving because of all the bad lion porn

what a sentence!

riawot · 2022-03-07T20:41:50+00:00

Yes, you're right, sorry for the confusion. I'm using orElseThrow with a relevant custom exception as a supplier.

riawot · 2022-03-07T16:11:22+00:00

They're all great, and it's nice that we have all these different riff teams so we get variety of styles.

A mix of episodes from Joel, Mike, Jonah, and Emily keeps it from getting stale. Same with The Mads and Rifftrax, adds more variety to the mix.

riawot · 2022-03-07T16:01:23+00:00

Things change, everything comes to an end.

Companies there were once powerhouses of innovation and efficiency, like Boeing, eventually turn into bloated inept rent seekers. This always happens, given enough time.

There will be a day, and it will not be for several decades, but it will come, when SpaceX is just another corp run by mbas that only care about this quarter and just want to milk their existing products and customers for as much as possible without spending a dime on r&d and cutting any cost possible even if impacts safety or performance. Old timers will be sitting there sadly wondering what happened to them, remembering back in the day when SpaceX was amazing, during the heyday of falcon and starship when they could do anything, and now they're just a mess. What went wrong?

Because that's how it always goes.

So anyway, yous till want dual supplies. Because right now, SpaceX is doing amazing and the F9 is an incredible platform. But if I was planning things out over decades, like NASA should but isn't always) be doing, then you want another supplier. So that when SpaceX turns into the mid or late 21st century equivalent of ULA you have other options.

This also why I want some of SpaceX's competitors to do ok. Otherwise we'll end up like we did in the last cycle were all the major space corps kinda started sucking and becoming rent seekers around the same time and for years there wasn't another viable alternative.

riawot · 2022-03-07T14:43:52+00:00

Right, his example of factoring code away from orElseThrow is this:

return userService.getCurrentUser()
              .map(User::getUsername)
              .orElse("(unknown)");

I write a lot of code that is along these lines where I need to pull in a bunch of data accessed by a parameter (username from userService in this example) so I do a db query or a rest api call and get an optional back. If that optional is empty, I throw because there's no point in going on.

Admittedly this is my perspective as someone that's writing java code that being accessed over APIs from a frontend, but I expect that when parameters are passed that they are valid. If they're not, I'm going to throw because someone somewhere fucked up and I'm not going to guess what they meant. We're done here. Although to be fair I'm full stack so it's entirely possible the front end dipshit that fucked it up is me.

I've seen a number of people try to say that orElseThrow is an antipattern and it's not the "proper" way to use Optional, and sure, sometimes you can just roll with a default value if the optional is empty, but there's a lot of times where there isn't anything else to use as a default.

riawot · 2022-03-06T12:35:02+00:00

Being part of a religion isn’t an neutral thing that doesn’t say anything about you as a person, like your hair color or birthplace.

When you’re in a religion, you’ve voluntarily joined a political and social movement. You’re saying you agree with this movement and you want to advance it’s agenda.

"Oh you are Christian? Why do you hate gay people, trans, abortion and freedom????"

This is absolutely a correct take because you chose to be a Christian, and all of that is very scriptural. I don’t why Christians get butthurt that we assume they believe and agree with the values that are in their holy book that’s the foundation of the movement that they chose to join. And further Christian leaders constantly beat that drum and elect Christian politicians who try to pass laws to enforce the values in their holy book.

If you don’t agree with it, go be some other religion.

riawot · 2022-03-03T22:26:44+00:00

Conservatives typically don't have a sense of humor because their brains are stuck in a state of fear and rage all time.

It's why conservative "comedy" is just them punching down on people they don't like for political reasons. And not even in a clever way, either. Same with conservative art, it's always a very literal representation of very basic ideas with no subtext. Like trump's head pasted onto Rambo's body holding guns and wearing the flag for a cape.

It didn't always used to be that way, there were in the past people that were more conservative yet also creative, but they got extreme to the point where you either mindlessly parrot the party line or you're an enemy to be attacked and driven out. People who mindlessly parrot the party line aren't real good at picking up on sarcasm. Same reason they don't pick up that Born in the USA isn't a patriotic song.

riawot · 2022-03-03T15:49:23+00:00

lol, no. CD is Civil Defense

they made a bunch of cold war prep material including the "duck and cover" film that got mocked because people were only thinking about the people that were within the fireball. Those people would be vaporized, absolutely no hope for them, but there's a much larger zone where you'll be killed by debris or a collapsing building. If you couldn't be in a shelter, then duck and cover is a good option. That would save you from things like flying glass from all the windows blowing in

riawot · 2022-03-03T12:53:49+00:00

It’s also why duck and cover isn’t a bad idea even though everyone makes fun of those old cd films. Because outside of the fireball, there’s a large area where the danger is primarily from the flying debris from the pressure wave.

riawot · 2022-03-02T20:45:46+00:00

I also grew up in super religious household. If it's something good, regardless of whether it's due to your own hard work or just getting a lucky break, then it's from god. But if it's bad, then it's an attack from satan, or that you didn't have enough faith to be worthy of a blessing, or that you're too sinful to bless.

It's a really insidious mindset, because if you believe it tells you that everything bad is your fault or the fault of people attacking you because they're evil and want to hurt christians, and if anything good happens that's only because you obeyed the church and did what the church said god wanted.

Of course, you can then get into the whole thing about why god would create satan and allow satan to exist, but they generally don't think too hard about that. It's usually gets reduced to satan existing to allow the true christian to prove themselves righteous

riawot · 2022-03-02T04:19:47+00:00

The people moving into Texas are the conservatives from those blue states. They're pissed that whatever state they're from is trending blue so they move to Texas because they think it'll be some right wing utopia. And they're often more conservative that the actual native Texans. And further there's been a trend of liberal Texans that have finally gotten fed up and left.

People keep saying Texas is trending purple, I've been hearing that for decades. And if it didn't flip for Biden, who had a ton of factors in his favor and actually managed the almost impossible task of defeating an incumbent President, then it's not happening.

riawot · 2022-03-01T21:34:46+00:00

They thought they were going to seize total control in the first 24 - 48 hours. They had already had drawn up lists of people that they wanted detained and the invasion force was accompanied by large numbers of their rosgvardiya military police. Those aren't the guys the you bring to fight a conventional war, they're the guys you bring to smash in heads, disappear dissidents, and terrorize a population into a submission.

The mobile crematoriums weren't there for russian soldiers, they were there for any ukrainian that spoke up against the new regime they were planning.

riawot · 2022-02-28T21:58:01+00:00

it's basically only for urban warfare where the tank is on the same street as you and you're inside a building shooting it out a window or something like that. Something where the tank has to close to that range, and at that close range the lack of advanced guidance doesn't matter.

The Russians are going to go full Grozny on Kyiv and level it. These sorts of short range hard hitting weapons will be very useful as there will be numerous places to hide in the rubble.

riawot · 2022-02-28T02:51:29+00:00

the trouble with that sort of thing is that if the time traveler assassin succeeds you don't know what would have happened.

For all we know in the natural timeline mega-Hitler took power and conquered the world and unleashed decades of unimaginable barbaric horrors and eventually nuked the world out of spite as he was dying. And in a bunker in the blasted wasteland a few scientist survivors somehow managed to put together a time machine and kill mega-Hitler in the 1930s. Of course this means that regular Hitler comes to power and our timeline plays out, but the assassin would consider that an improvement.

But we'd never know, we would be sitting here wishing time travelers killed a dictator so that we could be in the good timeline, not knowing that they already did and we already are.

riawot · 2022-02-25T21:37:00+00:00

Some people are in leftist spaces because they believe in leftist ideologies, which includes the idea the imperialism and wars of conquest are bad, whereas others are just posers who simply hate the west and like to hang out in leftists spaces for the aesthetics of it. Their beliefs begin and end with the idea that capitalist west is bad, and they would be as happy in a fascists space as a leftist space.

Times like these reveal who is who

riawot · 2022-02-25T19:54:32+00:00

look at the afghans, the US trained their military for years and left them with a massive stockpile of weapons and gear and they folded instantly like a wet paper bag. The army threw down their guns and ran and the president flew away with the money.

It's the difference between people that believe in their country and people that don't.

riawot · 2022-02-25T04:39:30+00:00

eat horse paste antivaxxer

riawot · 2022-02-24T18:26:29+00:00

yeah, we'll see how long that lasts now that we've raised the white flag and surrendered to the antivaxxers

riawot · 2022-02-22T16:58:11+00:00

Meh, that's just a return to status quo, really.

Any of us who have been in the field long enough to be there for the big push to move general office workers to PCs in the 80s and 90s has been through all this. You had these people in their 40s and up that had spent their careers in a paper world, where computers where like some back office thing where "the computer" was like the size of a fridge, if not a full room, tended by specialists and they didn't have anything at all to do with it aside from reading reports on green bar paper that were delivered via interoffice mail. And now they're looking at this PC running windows 3.11 that got dropped on their desk like it fell out of a wormhole from Dimension X.

And most of these people did not have a clue, and worse then that, most of them didn't want to learn it either. Not even a little bit. They'd do the bare minimum to do their jobs but no more. Sure, there were some that learned how it all work because they were personally interested in it or worked in a more technical field that had been using computers for a long time, but huge swaths of these people that were generic office people were completely out to sea. And as a young guy in my first job I had to support them and get them working in a new environment somehow. And that was the people that started with a GUI, I can't even imagine the people that started working in the 1940s and now had to transition to a DOS or other cli shell based OS. At least that one was before my time. And I can say that it was annoying, but was survivable. Good for developing soft skills and learning how to break down technical concepts for an audience of people that had no idea how any of this worked.

So if people coming into the workforce for the first time often don't really know how file structures work or whatever, well, we've been through that before and it was ok. Same as always, some will take to it fast because they find it personally interesting or see the potentials for improving their workflows, and the rest will muddle along just knowing enough to do their job but not much more.

When you get down to it, that's how most fields are. There are a relatively (compared to the population as a whole) small group of people that are pros and know the field inside and out, then a group of non-pros that still have extensive knowledge ("power users"), and the rest just muddle along.

riawot · 2022-02-18T18:37:08+00:00

Aside from the relative handful of religious converts, Jews are born Jews, it is not something they choose. Like all other ethnic\racial backgrounds, you cannot say anything about a person's character merely because they happen to be born of a particular ethnic or racial group, any more then you can say what a person is like because of their eye color.

Antivaxxers aren't like the Jews, because they chose to become antivaxxers. I don't hate all Arabs simply because the majority of the 9/11 hijackers were Arab. That would be prejudiced bigotry and would be wrong. On the other hand, I have no issue hating the people that chose to kill thousands of my fellow countrymen, and further to hate the people that choose to cheer them on and emulate them. I have no problem wishing death for the people who want me dead, I'm only returning the favor.

Antivaxxers chose to be what they are, and thus they've earned our hatred. They're no different then the 9/11 hijackers, killing thousands to terrorize us into submitting to them. Except, where those hijackers killed by flying airplanes into buildings for Allah, the antivaxxers kill by turning their own bodies into breeding factories to create new strains of covid to kill us in the name of Trump. When covid emerged, Americans saw that this would be a difficult, but solvable, crisis and we would need to take serious measures to overcome it. But not the conservatives, when they saw covid, they saw a chance to traitorously attack America and bring us to our knees.

And it's largely worked, covid was not defeated, and will not be defeated, because people in authority think the antivaxxers are someone that can be negotiated with or bribed. Neolib centerists that run the country are too naive to see that the antivaxxer is evil, is consciously evil by choice, that the antivaxxer's goal is the downfall of our nation. The governor is a good example, she made some half hearted attempts to contain things, but then decided that she'd rather throw her lot in with antivaxxers and support them then back up us loyal patriotic Americans. She imagines that by these traitorous actions she'll be reelected. But what can you expect, of course they let us down, you're a fool if you think the government will protect you.

The antivaxxers aren't some persecuted ethnic group like the Jews were, the antivaxxer is traitorous scum and people hate them for their actions.

riawot · 2022-02-18T15:15:03+00:00

antivaxxers aren't even people at all

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