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CitizenVectron

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  1. Oh I'm aware! But it's a dumb excuse. Next they'll have the X-Men come out and Prof X will say "I feel bad, but we had to keep the school in hiding, to protect the children from the public's eye." At this point, they should just fully lean in to either bringing in new "established" heroes from the multiverse, or have some other (legit) reason they were not present (trapped in hibernation, etc). Not just "yes we witnessed everything and could have stopped it, but the prime directive prevented us..."
  2. This just isn't doing it for me. The movie might be great, but... Hate the aesthetics of their uniforms and powers (the former being way too similar and boring and generic) Too many characters introduced at once No relevance to existing storylines, and outright brings up questions about where they were, etc I know some of that will be answered/dealt with...but of all the Marvel movies yet, this one seems the most generic and not worth seeing.
  3. One batshit theory I've seen is that these rules are preparing us for even harsher rules that will lead to genocide, internment camps, etc. Camps for who, you ask? That is unknown. But for someone. So it's just a slippery slope argument, broken by design. If we follow one rule for "no reason," then we're more likely to be indoctrinated to follow other later, more arbitrary rules that will enslave us. The step-by-step of this is never fully outlined.
  4. Will be hilarious if MAGA people start saying "why do I have to pay $100,000 for my hospital stay, and zero for an experimental vaccine?!" and then have a weird populist right-wing push for universal healthcare. Obviously it would get shut down by the higher-ups in the GOP.
  5. Nice to see another war movie about the non-violent part of war. I've always been interested in this plan and how it was carried out, and the cast looks good, so I'm interested!
  6. tl;dr: Delaying second doses (to get more people their first dose faster) not only saved lives and reduced spread, it also boosted immunity. Mixing doses also proved successful, with the same immunity.
  7. Oh, and another thing about that article—thin crust pizza is better than deep dish!
  8. The pivot to specialists and away from classes is 100% an EA-directed move in order to sell more skins for weapons, etc. In the end there are going to be a tonne of nerfs anyway and the specialists won't be that different...so why even have them. Clearly the grapple guy is completely OP and will be picked by everyone, so they will nerf the grapple. If this is eventually going to happen...then just get rid of classes and everything, and let everyone choose any combination of weapons and perks and whatever.
  9. Ironically, even though many people see environmental protection as weak, the most badass US President in history was the biggest environmentalist (in a certain sense).
  10. Yeah, it's a dumb article. "lol, covid is a mystery!" We know exactly how it spreads—as you said, by aerosol. Sure, we might not know the exact specifics for filtration, etc, but we do know 100% a few truths: You can't catch it unless you breath it in, so if you're not around people, you won't catch it (so less trips out of the home means less transmission) The amount you are exposed to matters. A single breath could infect you, but it seems that duration matters a lot. Spending less time around others indoors reduces transmission As a corollary to the above, you can reduce duration of exposure by making sure air is cycled out of indoor space through good ventillation You can reduce some exposure through masking (which by this point has been conclusively proven to reduce transmission, but as much as 40%) So yeah, there will be some specific situations where we don't know the exact risk of transmission (because we don't know the air cycling of every single building), but we do know the general tips, in order of importance: Don't be around other people indoors Be vaccinated If you have to be around others indoors, wear a mask and keep it as short as possible
  11. Canada’s employment is back to prepandemic levels, adding 157,000 jobs in September WWW.THEGLOBEANDMAIL.COM Statistics Canada said the economy created 157,000 positions last month, far more than the 60,000 economists had been expecting; the jobless rate fell to 6.9% last month from 7.1% in August
  12. Having been to Ukraine, I do not believe there are any fat slavic people. They are perpetually underfed (either by choice or lack of food supply).
  13. Right. And I think there are two things being argued here (well, three): Is the value arbitrary? Yes, and so is everything in life except that which is fundamental to life itself Is it really just a giant scam? Yes. A lot of art sales are also scams, but that's separate Is the whole thing stupid? Yes
  14. So...the least important part of immune protection wanes, and the important stuff stays.
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