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35 minutes ago, JustinNck1 said:
Took the wing out for a little 170 mile ride with my fiancé. I just keep loving this bike more and more.
A living room and entertainment center on two wheels. Freaking awesome.
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9 minutes ago, Bubba said:
BTW, I haven't been able to disseminate since about 1978. 🤨
TMI, Bubs.
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4 hours ago, what said:
I wonder how long it will take before the flat earthers blame NASA and the reptilians.
Members of the Furry Culture and Pastafarians are also fanning the flames of conspiracy. Ignore their gratuitous assertions and those of Bubba, a new member of OR who, as many know, is a recent retiree of NASA, an organization whose sole purpose is disseminating fake news and creating chaos under the guise of promoting extraterrestrial science.
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30 minutes ago, jbot said:
Jesus christ people are fucking retarded.
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20 minutes ago, 2talltim said:
Do it on the social distancing conference call zoom group
Just don't get virtually drunk and cyberembarrass us. And ensure you stay at least six feet away from yourself.
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32 minutes ago, Bubba said:
There will always those who run toward the trouble...and those who run the other way.
Bubs, your sister IS a hero, and I'm not surprised at all that she volunteered to reenter the battlefield. That's the stuff many (if not most) medical people are made of.
Just remember: there will always be doctors and nurses who graduated at the bottom of their cohort in med school. Pray you don't become one of their patients.
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Looks as if all of us who have responded so far are of like mind. I know I speak for all of you when I say, despite our opinions, we are grateful toward our first responders and to the medical community. Not a job I would want to have. We are all different, and those who risk their lives for us are drawn to these callings--many, I feel certain, not for the money, either.
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19 minutes ago, 2talltim said:
Okay I have to have this conversation here because I can't on my social media because I'll butt hurt people that matter. You assholes don't matter.
This in no way taking away from any of those medical workers out there on the front lines of this thing or the ones that are willing to do what it take when ever and where ever it takes to combat this thing. But the new catch phrase amongst the medical profession community is "I'm immune compromised" And what they mean by that is they can't work the front lines of this thing because they say they have some kind of auto immune disorder or asthma or what ever. If that's true I understand and have sympathy for those. BUT, now techs, nurses, aids, ect , ect you name it. Are all coming out of the wood work claiming they can't work in the ER or sick floors basically saying they can't work where the Convid-19 patients are because they are "immunely compromised" Now myself and others around me have heard this term passed around for a few weeks now and have up to this point just rolled our eyes and said "fuck it, they don't want to work they don't have to work I guess" and just figured shame on them. An mind you most of the ones(not all) that I'm talking about there is a pretty good chance there is little to nothing wrong with them. They are just saying these things to get out of working the front lines out of nothing more than fear, that pretty much the rest of us share about this whole thing. But now, now it's being taken to a new level. There is word that some of these folks are trying to claim this/that as a medical disability so they can get out of working during this outbreak and still get paid.
My over all view of all this is. Maybe if your scared of catching a disease or illness working in the field of medicine maybe you made the wrong career choice? Maybe even the ones that truly are immune compromised choose the wrong career? Assuming that they already knew they had that issue from the start. Now don't get me wrong. I'm sure there are legit cases and scenarios but I more or less speaking of the ones that see this as an excuse or easy way out just because they are scared. We all are.
Thought? Lettuce discuss.
After reading this morning about the ultra chaotic conditions in a New York hospital, I found myself wondering just how many of these frontline workers were so terrified of the goings on around them that they are considering getting out of this side of healthcare, if not the entire industry. I'm sure I would have been one of those. No job (or "calling" as many practitioners refer to their job) is worth one's life--is it? What value is sacrificing one's self when it could have been prevented? Is the pay even worth it? This whole situation reminds me of the Chernobyl tragedy, where so many workers placed themselves in harm's way in mitigating (or trying to mitigate) a terrible situation while facing almost certain death.
Nothing wrong with changing jobs and/or careers, and I don't blame some of the folks you mention who are trying to bullshit their way out of a dangerous assigment or duty. It looks cowardly--no, it IS cowardly--but it's not wrong. Those who are paralyzed by fear should get out of the way so they can be replaced by those who are ready and able to help as asked. This may be a "war," but civilian healthcare work is not military service.
The whole mess is complicated even further by the well-publicized lack of tools to do the job safely--PPE, vents, gowns, gloves, etc. If you would stay on the front line, readers, please let me know why. As I indicated earlier, I certainly wouldn't.
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3 minutes ago, what said:
Most of the kids I was in college with didn't have their licenses, 10 to 14 years ago. The decline has only gotten more dramatic since then.
College kids?? I don't understand that at all. Weird.
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22 minutes ago, durk said:
That’s because their mommy’s and daddy’s drive them everywhere and do everything for them. I told both my girls they had no choice but to get their license. I’m not carting there butts everywhere.
True dat. I guess they don't want the freedom.
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6 hours ago, what said:
They already do by and large. Vehicle ownership is way way down in the 18-36 year old demographic.
Oddly enough, many of the kids I talk with couldn't care less about getting their first driver's license.
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1 minute ago, what said:
Electric will be easier to work on/modify/shoehorn into different applications. Especially once price vs capacity becomes more affordable.
I'm sure that's true, plus the current generation of kids will be coming of age with this new technology instead of the muscle cars we were enamored with at their age. They will geek out on electric vehicles. The big block Chevelles, Mustangs, and Firebirds from the 70s probably are looked upon as dinosaurs by anyone under 21 years old now.
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1 minute ago, TimTheAzn said:
Idk, the kids these days suck pretty bad already...
Maybe its me getting old but I'm pretty sure my generation didnt suck as much as these GenX-ers
Oh no, I can assure you you are absolutely right. I see it every freaking day at school. That's one reason why it's so great that we don't live forever.
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7 minutes ago, TimTheAzn said:
If you aren't burning dead dinosaurs are you really having fun?
Yea yea I get the benefits to an electric motor. I've spent time behind the wheel of a tesla and it was fun with immediate torque.
I'll still have something that burns fossil fuels in my garage for funzies, personally.
I just have a really hard time imagining future teenagers and college kids getting excited about kilowatts instead of cubic inches. Plus, the absence of engine noise seems . . . I dunno, kinda boring.
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World's quietest drag race. How weird is this??
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11 minutes ago, Qman said:
Makes perfect sense now. Glad to have learned something while sitting at home, not working, and eating too much.
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7 minutes ago, Qman said:
FYI, My training has been that the ~70% alcohol solutions are more effective in killing microbes than the 100% alcohol. Just trying to help.!
Wow, that's seems odd; I wonder why? Soap and water are still touted as being the most effective solution. My hands have become pretty raw over the last few weeks.
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21 minutes ago, Qman said:
This isn't much different than my employer telling me that I'm "essential" and must report to work.
These dumb asses volunteered to attend choir rehearsal; they weren't ordered to go, according to the story.
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1 minute ago, snot said:
So, it took 3 weeks not 14 days to show up?
This is the kind of information we are not getting.
On another note 18 people died this week from floods.
I think the take-away is that people should take all available measures to insulate themselves from exposure and passively exposing others. Dr. Acton said today that we should all internalize this and, for practical purposes, assume that everyone we encounter is either toxic or susceptible and act to minimize proximity. Pretty fackin' easy to do.
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12 minutes ago, what said:
Some of it is hard fact, other parts are speculation based on social media/first hand reports coming out of china. Hard to get any verified info out because of the whole "expel foreign media" thing.
I totally get that. Verifying facts and dispelling speculation/misinformation is almost totally impossible in this panic-fueled environment. As you imply, negative reports of the spead/containment of this scourge have consequences for countries that "do business" with the USA.
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https://people.com/health/washington-choir-members-die-after-rehearsal-amid-coronavirus-spread/
Here is a story about a terribly tragic occurrence that happened recently in our country. Stupid people who don't follow experts' rules pay the ultimate price. Totally unavoidable deaths and needless exponential exposure of the virus to others.
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16 minutes ago, snot said:
Lab created virus?
I have not heard any new news on how it spreads, how long it last (average), if you can get it mulitple times or how to kill it.
The way it spread so fast makes me think it can be transmitted easier than what we are told. I have not heard if products like Lysol (spray) or other disinfectants work.
Hand-sanitizers with an alcohol content of at least 62% are considered effective by the CDC. Lysol is also approved as an effective surface disinfectant--this is what we use around our house. Parenthetically, DeWine and his team closed Ohio schools until May 1 this year during today's statehouse press briefing. I'm confident that this school year will effectively be over very soon.
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10 minutes ago, what said:
China has also -
- Blamed this pandemic on both Italy and the USA, telling its citizens that the virus originated outside of China
- Banned all foreigners from entering the country, even visa holders, blaming them for bringing the virus back and "restarting" infections
- Banned all foreigners currently inside China from being out in public, for the most part, by issuing advisories to most businesses to deny foreigners access - including grocery, pharmacy and hospitals
- Expelled all foreign media
- Disabled 23 million cell phones over the last 3 weeks (probably not death related, more than likely information control measures due to an ongoing outbreak)
- Forbade any medical sites from submitting any new confirmed corona cases, as if they do they will have to "bear the full responsibility" - whatever that means in communist-speak
- Sent 70% faulty tests and compromised medical goods (masks, PPE, etc) to multiple countries while making them pay for these supplies
- Actively bought up all PPE available in Australia while still telling the world that this virus was not transmissible human to human
- Roped the W.H.O. in with (money? access? political favors?) and had them providing the entire world outside of China with dangerous, false information, ultimately delaying the response and leading largely to where we are today
Nobody should be looking at China's numbers at this point. They are throwing off models and contributing to poor/misinformed decisions being made.
I know it would be ridiculous to ask you to cite sources for all of this information here, but if half of what you write here is factual, it is appalling. At minimum, I agree that there is a high probability that the Chinese are, indeed, skewing the truth in order to mollify their populace, and bolster their international reputation.
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7 minutes ago, snot said:
And that is how Hooters starts a delivery service...
I don't think people go to Hooters because of the food--so delivery might not fit with their business model.
What did you do to your bike today?
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I have used this term my entire adult life and have apparently not offended anyone that I know of. This association of the term with racism sounds made-up. Never heard this before.