Charho-oh Virus Thread

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Rylinks » Mon May 10, 2021 4:17 pm

well i mean that arguments in ordinary conversation are never 'valid' or 'invalid' because ordinary language contains too many imprecisions for that to be a useful description (see above)

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Doug » Mon May 10, 2021 4:17 pm

Jeb Bush 2012 wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 4:14 pm fortunately khaos is canadian
Public Health Agency of Canada wrote: Although COVID-19 vaccines are effective at keeping you from getting sick, scientists are still learning how well vaccines prevent you from spreading the virus that causes COVID-19 to others, even if you do not have symptoms. Early data show the vaccines do help keep people with no symptoms from spreading COVID-19, but we are learning more as more people get vaccinated.
understating the case a bit but better than pretending we have no idea what the effect is imo
I'm not aware of any of the vaccines having been developed in Canada
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon May 10, 2021 4:18 pm

Rylinks wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 4:17 pm well i mean that arguments in ordinary conversation are never 'valid' or 'invalid' because ordinary language contains too many imprecisions for that to be a useful description (see above)
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Rylinks » Mon May 10, 2021 4:18 pm

fact check: true

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Khaos » Mon May 10, 2021 4:20 pm

Doug wrote:
Jeb Bush 2012 wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 4:14 pm fortunately khaos is canadian
Public Health Agency of Canada wrote: Although COVID-19 vaccines are effective at keeping you from getting sick, scientists are still learning how well vaccines prevent you from spreading the virus that causes COVID-19 to others, even if you do not have symptoms. Early data show the vaccines do help keep people with no symptoms from spreading COVID-19, but we are learning more as more people get vaccinated.
understating the case a bit but better than pretending we have no idea what the effect is imo
I'm not aware of any of the vaccines having been developed in Canada
another point in dougs favour is that canadian health authorities are as fucking dumb as the cdc (see mask debacle from a year ago)

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Doug » Mon May 10, 2021 4:21 pm

Khaos wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 4:20 pm
Doug wrote:
Jeb Bush 2012 wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 4:14 pm fortunately khaos is canadian

understating the case a bit but better than pretending we have no idea what the effect is imo
I'm not aware of any of the vaccines having been developed in Canada
another point in dougs favour is that canadian health authorities are as fucking dumb as the cdc
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Doug » Mon May 10, 2021 4:22 pm

Anyway, the overall point is that you should more worried about your friend than worried your friend is Typhoid Mary
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Blissful » Mon May 10, 2021 4:23 pm

Jeb Bush 2012 wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 4:18 pm
Rylinks wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 4:17 pm well i mean that arguments in ordinary conversation are never 'valid' or 'invalid' because ordinary language contains too many imprecisions for that to be a useful description (see above)
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Khaos » Mon May 10, 2021 4:28 pm

Doug wrote:Anyway, the overall point is that you should more worried about your friend than worried your friend is Typhoid Mary
lol. and what about being typhoid mary for his 80+yo grandparent and 60+yo parents

at this point im leaning towards maybe i was being overly emotional and i should just pack this away and not think about/discuss it with him anymore

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Dantes » Mon May 10, 2021 4:31 pm

Khaos wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 4:10 pm
Dantes wrote:
Okay, fine. It's unsound. Happy?
i always get happy when people start using valid and sound correctly consistently with how i use them

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Khaos » Mon May 10, 2021 4:35 pm

Rylinks wrote:well i mean that arguments in ordinary conversation are never 'valid' or 'invalid' because ordinary language contains too many imprecisions for that to be a useful description (see above)
i think it's still useful. for example in my original response to dantes i think the distinction helped clarify my beliefs (that i'm certain it's okay to cut yourself off from mini-typhoid mary, but that i am uncertain if said person in question is actually a mini-typhoid mary)

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon May 10, 2021 4:35 pm

Khaos wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 4:20 pm another point in dougs favour is that canadian health authorities are as fucking dumb as the cdc (see mask debacle from a year ago)
that was not a pro-Public Health Agency of Canada post

the point is, even if for some reason you felt the need to ignore the evidence on transmission until your national disease control agency acknowledged it, you'd be in luck

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon May 10, 2021 4:38 pm

but since mongrel isn't here to whine about it being brought up, yes, I do remember debating how much faith we should put in the Public Health Agency of Canada vis-a-vis other sources of information

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Khaos » Mon May 10, 2021 4:40 pm

i'll never forget that discussion, i think. being told i sound like an anti-vaxxer because i said i used my brain to determine that masks are good

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon May 10, 2021 4:42 pm

immediately followed by a discussion on whether it's okay to go outside! real early pandemic hours

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Dantes » Mon May 10, 2021 4:48 pm

So mongrel launched a conversation that devolved into idiocy? Am I hearing this correctly?
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Khaos » Mon May 10, 2021 4:58 pm

the conversation was fine. it mostly involved telling mongrel he was dumb

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Khaos » Mon May 10, 2021 4:58 pm

Jeb Bush 2012 wrote:immediately followed by a discussion on whether it's okay to go outside! real early pandemic hours
i don't remember this

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Khaos » Mon May 10, 2021 5:03 pm

Khaos wrote:at this point im leaning towards maybe i was being overly emotional and i should just pack this away and not think about/discuss it with him anymore
yeah i guess i'll do this. thanks again to dantes

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Dantes » Mon May 10, 2021 5:07 pm

Khaos wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 5:03 pm
Khaos wrote:at this point im leaning towards maybe i was being overly emotional and i should just pack this away and not think about/discuss it with him anymore
yeah i guess i'll do this. thanks again to dantes
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon May 10, 2021 5:28 pm

Khaos wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 4:58 pm i don't remember this
mongrel was yelling at glocks for recommending walking around outside

not like, even, hanging out with people outside. just walking around outside without getting close to anyone else

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Khaos » Mon May 10, 2021 5:34 pm

Jeb Bush 2012 wrote:
Khaos wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 4:58 pm i don't remember this
mongrel was yelling at glocks for recommending walking around outside

not like, even, hanging out with people outside. just walking around outside without getting close to anyone else
oh yeah i remember this now! i guess my brain only has room for one stupid mongrel-related anecdote at time

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Dantes » Mon May 10, 2021 5:45 pm

I'm trying to be polite, but I don't know how you all can stand to post with some of those people. When I stopped posting there the general stress in my life went down quite a bit.
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Khaos » Mon May 10, 2021 5:46 pm

that was one conversation a year ago. cbf is gone, the politics thread is gone. it's all uphill dude

edit: not that i recommend you go back

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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Dantes » Mon May 10, 2021 6:01 pm

Khaos wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 5:46 pm that was one conversation a year ago. cbf is gone, the politics thread is gone. it's all uphill dude

edit: not that i recommend you go back
CBF wasn't the only reason I left, though he was a major reason. There are however several other people (Jack is not on that list) I don't really want to have to interact with any longer for various different reasons. The degrees of pathos, lack of self awareness, unwillingness to take any kind of responsibility (personal or otherwise), and management's willingness to coddle sickness weren't healthy.

EDIT: And to be clear that was a two way street. I found myself becoming increasingly vicious. I know I went over the top in some of my responses to some people, but you should have seen some of the responses to Mongrel/CBF/ewie/etc. that I chose not to make. I was trying to inflict as much damage as I could, which is very much not who I am or ever wanted to be.

I very much left for my own sake. That place was a cesspool and it was dragging me down to its level.
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Crunchums » Mon May 10, 2021 6:07 pm

yet you also refuse to use the ignore list functionality
(not interested in having this same conversation again, just poking fun / rolling my eyes at "I don't know how you all can stand to post with some of those people" because the answer is that i use the ignore list functionality)
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon May 10, 2021 6:10 pm

Crunchums wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 6:07 pm yet you also refuse to use the ignore list functionality
(not interested in having this same conversation again, just poking fun / rolling my eyes at "I don't know how you all can stand to post with some of those people" because the answer is that i use the ignore list functionality)
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Doug » Mon May 10, 2021 6:10 pm

Well that only raises the question whom you expect Dantes not to ignore
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Dantes » Mon May 10, 2021 6:11 pm

The ignore list is poorly implemented and breeds FOMO as it currently stands. It didn't work for me, I ended up clicking on the ignored posts.

Ideally the way it should be implemented is that when you ignore someone they cannot see your posts, and their posts are completely suppressed for you.

Once I ignore CBF (by way of example) he never should have the ability to interact with me. At all, until I decide to remove the ignore.
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Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon May 10, 2021 6:11 pm

I too am a fan of the ignore list although it seems like a bad board feature that my notifications still light up if jack quotes me

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