For a better tomorrow.
- Krassy20
Car of The Day
This stunning Renault 5 Turbo is the vision of Legende Automobile, a French collective of car enthusiasts based in Los Angeles, made up of a car designer, a race engineer and, being LA, a former stuntman – who also happens to co-own a classic car restoration business.
- Krassy5
News of the day...
‘South Park’ creators sign $900 million deal to extend series through 2027, produce 14 films
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/new…
- $$$monospaced
- Crikey. Seth Macfarlane got like a half billion dollar deal ages back, so good to see these two make $$$.Nairn
- SP is kind of funny to me - it started when I was at uni, and that was a lifetime ago, yet it's still manages to stay funny. Unlike the fucking Simpsons.Nairn
- It started when I was a freshman in college. Or the season before. Wow. A lifetime ago indeed.monospaced
- I met Trey Parker and Matt Stone hanging out at some bar in Venice Beach some years back, and both of them were naturally hilarious. Made everyone laugh nonstopKrassy
- People still watch south park? I thought it went the way of the simpsonsscarabin
- I just went through the whole thing and the last half was weak afscarabin
- I wasn’t a big fan originally back 1997.
It was around season 5 when I got hooked. One of the funniest shows around.Ramanisky2 - I thought the trump years were pretty damn good. And Sodasopa. Hah.monospaced
- Pandemic Special was pretty funny. Randy and Mickey tag-teaming a batPhanLo
- They really better buy Casa Bonita and improve the food.formed
- Tegridy.monospaced
- drgs6
- sarahfailin5
- https://panopticon.p…sarahfailin
- uhm...why not click on other days?grafician
- but sure, it's cool it seems to pick on me these days lol
what a bunch of bullshitgrafician - next time you cherry pick something - like kingsteven tried also to do - make sure it's valid lol
GrAfiCAN POStinG tOO MuCH
< day earlier PhanLo dropped 12grafician - oh i thought this was for today. i guess it stopped running the data past 6.24sarahfailin
- < 2 days earlier Gardener dropped 13
and so on...
Again if you're trying to make a point, make it true not based on bullshit
Byegrafician - https://media.tenor.…sted
- lolcannonball1978
- btw where is palimpsest?grafician
- Calm downmonospaced
- When I read that list I thought I was slipping!PhanLo
- @PhanLo Bro guess you and Krassy and Gardener and drgs and Nairn post a lot more than me hahaa
thanks for the numbers @palimpsestgrafician - Keep posting Grafician!PhanLo
- Nah, but I'll keep upvoting all your posts alwaysgrafician
- the numbers don't lie, just like downvotes.fadein11
- @fadein11 the numbers are here https://panopticon.p… click and see for yourself dumbassgrafician
- Not to mention downvotes mean nothing to me, if you can't discuss clearly your ideas and intentions fuck off buddygrafician
- There you go again. Triggered to the point of nonsensically insulting people’s intelligence. Does it make you feel better?monospaced
- You are taking this way too seriously. And personally it seems.monospaced
- scarabin4
You are in a dungeon.
Attack again, aiming for its throat with our shiv. Hoping to get a good stab or two in and then strangle the thing.
Thank goodness it’s unarmed!
- I want to silence this dude. We heard a couple other voices out therescarabin
- ok, this. but dice roll for the genitals flapping/dangling.sarahfailin
- Interrogative to the DM: Is the orange light coming from an item the Goblin has, or is it emanating from outside the cell?garbage
- ^^ lolscarabin
- -> https://www.qbn.com/…mantrakid
- Been a bit busy at work today haha sorry for the delay. :)mantrakid
- mantrakid3
Test Thread
.--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--.
:::::.\::::::::.\::::::::.\:::::... ! ACTION !
' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--'- lol. Not to overstep any boundaries dear DM, but you can test this in your profile page.garbage
- But now I know action is coming soon, so I'm going to hold off on walking to the grocery store.garbage
- hahahah i dare not soil my profile page with such nonsense :D i thought this is what the test thread was for :Dmantrakid
- Test thread is exactly the place for explosives testing. Never mind what people say. Carry on.monospaced
- ha well it's the only place you can edit here, can always delete. But yes I also like the explosives range as well.garbage
- Salarrue3
Pic of the Day
THE AFRONAUTS
by Cristina de Middel
In 1964 a Zambian science teacher named Edwuard Makuka decided to train the first African crew to travel to the moon. His plan was to use an alluminium rocket to put a woman, two cats and a missionary into Space. First the moon, then Mars, using a catapult system. He founded the Zambia National Academy of Science, Space Research and Astronomical Research to start training his Afronauts in his headquarters located only 20 miles from Lusaka.
Àhttp://www.lademiddel.com/fotos...
http://www.lademiddel.com/the-af…- :(Salarrue
- The idea of fashion space suits = great!
I mean, pretty sure there's nothing stoping SpaceX or Nasa from using colors in space, as everything right now is whitegrafician - < Pretty good art direction and all that, don't worry if the images didn't load, whoever is curious will click thru anywaygrafician
- Krassy3
WANT of the day
This stunning Renault 5 Turbo is the vision of Legende Automobile, a French collective of car enthusiasts based in Los Angeles, made up of a car designer, a race engineer and, being LA, a former stuntman – who also happens to co-own a classic car restoration business.
- mantrakid4
You are in a dungeon.
.--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--. .--.
:::::.\::::::::.\::::::::.\:::::... ! ACTION TIME !
' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--' `--'The goblin falls to the ground, still clutching its throat as blood continues to throb out of the wound.
*ROLL (for the approaching footsteps)*
Searching the goblin you find a small folded piece of cloth, a coin and a circular glass lens, potentially some type of monacle or telescopic lens. Everything is small enough to grab. in one hand.
The goblin is wearing cloth pants and a shirt, and simple leather boots.
*ROLL (for the approaching footsteps)*
You can hear the footsteps louder now, but a voice calls out and tells you there's still a bit of time. You quickly pick up Dennis and while covering his eye with the glove you dart out of the room and behind the now fully opened door, making yourself as small as possible between the door and the stone wall.
*ROLL (for the approaching footsteps)*
You manage to fully conceal yourself before the footsteps arrive and, with pained breath, you stay hidden behind the door as you hear the footsteps round a corner and approach the open doorway.
Peering through the thin vertical crack between the door and the wall, you can see there are 2 goblins similarly dressed as the first one. They both enter the room and find their colleague on the ground, unconscious and still bleeding. In a panic they both rush to his side.
- Inventory:
- Bloody Makeshift Shiv
- Cloth Gloves
- Leashed Dennis
- Small Coin
- Glass Lens
- Folded Clothmantrakid
- Inventory:
- capn_ron3
Family Meeting
this Family Meeting sucks, no one brought macaroni salad.
- I brought CapriSun.i_was
- wheres the deviled eggs at?GuyFawkes
- I think pango brought his milkshake to the yardmonospaced
- I brought plenty of ketchup to go with all of the harsh-browns!elahon
- Harsh browns lolscarabin
- drgs0
Coronavirus
A vaccine prevents me from getting ill, but it does not stop me from infecting others. Why is it your moral duty to take the vaccine "to protect others"? You're only protecting myself.
So why the moral pressure?- It doesn't stop anything. You can still get ill and infect others.
Much like when your mom stopped drinking during pregnancy.Projectile - ...it reduced the chances of brain damage, but there were no guaranteesProjectile
- vaccines block the transmission, that is the moral duty. 30%+ freeloading on herd immunity (if it is even achieved). i don't want those people in my life.kingsteven
- Vaccine does NOT block transmission.monospaced
- *yourselfdrgs
- if a vaccine prevents infection and prevents disease it blocks transmissionkingsteven
- I think the moral take on it is to prevent health system from collapse. And protect the ones who can't get vaccines because of allergies or other illness.uan
- but the 'moral duty talk' is also part of the communication campaign used to convince more people to help in a community effort to get this thing under control.uan
- vaccinated = gets covid, lasts 7 days, stays at home. Unvaccinated, gets covid, lasts 21 days, 14 days in hospital, puts health workers lives at risk = big A hoshapesalad
- Don't be a pussy get vaccinated, everyone, quick. The longer you drag it out, the more chance a 'super' variant has time to mutate out.shapesalad
- @kingsteven, you are dead wrong.Morning_star
- What is it I keep hearing vaccines dont help with transmission, what is the truthdrgs
- The vaccines do NOT block transmission. They do not prevent infection. They never claimed to.monospaced
- They are not like traditional vaccines. These only keep you from getting deathly ill. That's why it's so important to get it.monospaced
- To protect others from having to take care of your selfish assnb
- @drgs, from day 1 they've been consistent that the covid vaccines are effective against the virus turning into a bad infection, and not much elsemonospaced
- @drgs The vaccine is a bit like a personal army. It's able to protect you whilst fight the Covid invaders. The stronger your army the less damage the invaders..Morning_star
- ...do. The same Covid invaders attacking you will also attack other people and the damage to that person will depend how strong their army is. Vaccine gives...Morning_star
- ...you a stronger personal army.Morning_star
- Lol Projectile. I’m deadnoRGB
- the idea of vaccines blocking transmission is fundamental, it can't be proven in trials because it is mostly the direct effect of the prevention ofkingsteven
- infection and disease in society but has been proven multiple times with all the major covid vaccines, often outperforming expectations...kingsteven
- fairly good explanation based on the initial studies of pfizer roll out in isreal: https://www.nature.c…kingsteven
- it wasn't until i read the reports in to reduction of transmissibility from AZ vax that i decided to get it myself. just look at the drop in cases in countrieskingsteven
- >2/3 vaxxed and largely reopened, UK, Netherlands etc. Vaccines workkingsteven
- Over longer time periods, like after 1 year that you see an effect on transmission?drgs
- no in the same timeframe individual protection the effect on transmissibility can be observed in a demographickingsteven
- kingsteven, for the last time, these vaccines do not stop transmission, and this has been common knowledge for a yearmonospaced
- they can REDUCE it (less coughing, etc) but they don't stop itmonospaced
- I think the point kingsteven is making is that they prevent getting Covid, which in turn prevents you from transmitting it.bogue
- it's rare for someone with a vaccine to test positive for Covid.. which is why they are calling them "breakthrough" cases.bogue
- And yes Mono, the vaccines are also even more effective at preventing serious cases of covid, and even more effective at preventing death.bogue
- @mono vaccines provide protection against infection AND protection against severe illness, 'blocking' transmission is the statistical term i've seen used tokingsteven
- describe an instance of an individual not passing on the virus (of course is dependent on the amount of protection against infection and illness a vax provides)kingsteven
- i didn't say stop for a reason, but could have probably explained it betterkingsteven
- They don't prevent you from getting covid, and don't prevent transmission. This might be true of other vaccines, but not these ones. Sorrymonospaced
- You can be vaccinated, contract COVID, pass it on, and never know. This is common knowledge. It's been talked about for a long time.monospaced
- These vaccines just make sure that it doesn't turn into a trip to the hospital, and at that they're 90%+ effective.monospaced
- those are the parameters by which the efficacy of vaccines is assessed mono, in the UK its been shown this week vaxxed are 3 times less likely to test positivekingsteven
- https://www.gov.uk/g…kingsteven
- i mentioned before, the trials can only test for infection. the effect on transmission is observed in the wild, but its the result of individuals getting vaxxedkingsteven
- those are not the paramaters for efficacy of THESE vaccines. You keep talking about vaccines as if they're all the same.monospaced
- The trials can test for more than infection. They tested for if it turned into a deadly disease in this case.monospaced
- You seem convinced that it is limited. Where are you reading this?monospaced
- Even your link shows that it's less likely, but it doesn't prevent. That's what everyone is saying.monospaced
- you were claiming it doesn't prevent infection, i'm not claiming it prevents all infection, it prevents 75% if that study is to be believed.kingsteven
- you cant determine prevention or transmissibility in a trial, only if someone is infected (asymptomatically or seriously) it doesn't mean they dont preventkingsteven
- but the studies coming out now are very positive, obviously preventing infection is a far bigger deal than symptoms in blocking transmissionkingsteven
- 50-60% not 75%kingsteven
- It doesn't stop anything. You can still get ill and infect others.
- Krassy4
- So satisfyingmonospaced
- OCD folks breathing a sigh of reliefKrassy
- neverscared6
- PR 2?tank02
- What happened to pr2? New nick?scarabin
- He was just trolling here a couple days ago.monospaced
- AQUTE16
- ugh, i kinda want some nutella nowscruffics
- what font is that?
;)monospaced
- DaveO3
Coronavirus
This was a really interesting listen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/…
Basically – the weird swings in the labor market, the effect of stimulus and unemployment relief, and the winners and losers of both.
Part of me got quite angry at some of the people who aren't going back to work and are basically collecting more than they would do if they took a job. "i don't ever want to go back to how it was" – IE working for a living.
But then the other part of me was envious that i didn't use the crisis to change course like some of these people did. I work more now than I ever did, not always for the better.
I'd be interested to hear what some on here think.
- A lot of people realised their working life was an endless misery and they weren't being well compensated for it. Will give it a listenPhanLo
- Exactly that – restaurant workers especially. Working in restaurants / kitchens is intense and the money is wack. Good on them for making change.DaveO
- Restaurants are struggling to hire staff, and there's a huge rise in customers being nightmare assholes on top of it.monospaced
- good / indie restaurants need to up their prices and pay staff more. Chain restaurants will either have to do the same or go under.Fax_Benson
- There are so many fascinating financial / market quirks associated with Covid, interesting times that will be studied for years. Oil / Labor / Cars / HousesDaveO
- $10 an hour to work in a kitchen is brutal, that guy saying it hadn't went up in 20 years too. Bosses wonder why people don't want their shitty jobs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯PhanLo
- And with housing prices going up, those workers are finding it hard to actually live near a place they would work.monospaced
