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adamaero
adamaero
12:56 AM
fucking possums... massive confusion
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
That's a lot of cars still on the roads. Greta Thunfisch must do more.
 
 
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Cerberus
Cerberus
4:01 AM
@RegDwigнt So the Rückgang in Berlin is 64%?
Or 20. Marz / 24. Januar = 64%?
I think it must be the latter, but that description/title is terrible.
 
 
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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
6:27 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in link text in body, blacklisted website in body, potentially bad ip for hostname in body (265): How are placements in RCMB different from other colleges? by siniantony on english.SE
 
 
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Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
9:43 AM
Happy Lock Down Thursday!
 
 
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
12:09 PM
@Cerberus yeah it's the latter. Minus 36%.
Which is why I'm saying Greta is a slacker.
Well, because of that, and because she started skipping school one full year before the rest of the planet did.
@MattE.Эллен I read that as "Look Down Thursday" and was quite confused.
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
12:34 PM
> The drug product is manufactured at Block II in Unit 1, which is approved for GMP compliance by various regulatory authorities like US FDA and EU.
Can it be guessed what they mean by "block" and "unit"? Is "block" a single building? Or is it a section inside a building? Or is it a whole quarter full of production buildings?
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
1:16 PM
@RegDwigнt 😔
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
1:29 PM
What is the average growth factor of daily new cases of COVID-19? About 1.1 or 1.2?
I'm trying to estimate the curve for Russia based on 1.1, meaning plus 10% of new cases compared with the previous day's new cases.
 
Mitch
Mitch
1:57 PM
> Finland has just closed their borders. No one will be crossing the finish line.
 
Gigili
Gigili
@Mitch Yeah, canned chick peas.
And champignon mushroom
add a pinch of salt and voila
Bean appetite
The world will collapse without flour, I'm warning you. This is the real threat, not the damn virus thing.
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:59 PM
@Gigili Et y a-t-il des mushrooms qui n’soient pas des champignons? :)
I’m kidding. I know you mean the "button mushroom" type.
@RegDwigнt he remarked superciliously
@MattE.Эллен No worries, these things happen in even the best of households.
@CowperKettle Are you asking for the basic reproduction number known as the R0 (pronounced R-nought), which is an estimate of the average number of people who catch the virus from a single infected person? Initial estimates in refereed journals put it at around twice the typical influenza strain’s R0 of 1.3, so somewhere between 2 and 3 for the new virus. I don't know the confidence margins there though, nor the methodology. I assume you're looking for the daily rate of new cases, like +11% or +27%?
 
Robusto
Robusto
3:44 PM
> Trump goes on a fact-finding visit to Israel. While he is on a tour of Jerusalem he suffers a heart attack and dies. The undertaker tells the American diplomats accompanying him: “You can have him shipped home for $50,000, or you can have him buried here in the Holy Land for just $100”
The diplomats go into a corner to discuss the choices for a few minutes. They return with their answer to the undertaker and tell him they want President Trump to be shipped home.The puzzled undertaker asks, “why would you spend $50,000 to ship him home, when it would be wonderful to have him buried here an…
@tchrist Here's yesterday's US curve:
 
tchrist
tchrist
4:08 PM
 
Robusto
Robusto
Looks like a possible peak in that data.
NM had its first death from the coronavirus yesterday.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
4:30 PM
I think this is the part where Davos Seaworth goes "Gods be good"
This is the part of the story where the storm will start to fade away, right?
I hope so.
Half a million cases reached today
 
NVZ
NVZ
i knew something like this would happen a long time back... but never ever thought i would live to see it..
this is a very sad year
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Mar 12 at 23:29, by M.A.R.
Jan 26 at 15:51, by It's Over
Why does 2020 suck so much already?
 
NVZ
NVZ
btw, anyone here own a mitsubishi pajero?
 
Robusto
Robusto
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@NVZ well, "knew"? Epidemics happen every few years
One of them was bound to get out of control
 
NVZ
NVZ
4:37 PM
i was about to buy one, and then thought it is not a good time to commit to a huge expense seeing the covid situation..
@M.A.R. knew as in, i read a lot, and this kind of "what if" was a very likely thing to happen, based on my reading... or so
as in.. what if people all over the world got infected, with something very mild, yet deadly for some, in that even a 1% fatality of 7 billion would be devastating.. that kind of what-if scenarios..
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Well, let's not remind the world that a space rock killed four fifths of all living beings on Earth
 
NVZ
NVZ
 
tchrist
tchrist
5:04 PM
@NVZ That's a naughty word.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
5:31 PM
@M.A.R. well said.
 
NVZ
NVZ
@tchrist had to google it. lol. in that case, the montero or shogun then.
 
Færd
Færd
6:20 PM
Coming from Boulder:
 
tchrist
tchrist
7:07 PM
@Færd When I got the broadcast LIONS-AT-LARGE alert for my immediate neighborhood, that was by far the least worrisome of my many scares that day.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Færd Wow, impressive!
@tchrist Then what was the most worrisome?
 
tchrist
tchrist
@Cerberus Members of my family being turned down by the for-profit health insurance company for a refill of urgently needed life-saving medication, and then when you called that insurance company to get them to fix their insanity their recording said they were closed due to the virus.
There were other things, too, like securing a travel pass during lockdown etc.
Lions are the least of my worries, albeit not of my critters'.
Whom I guarded inside for the duration, and then some.
Haven't been able to check back on the lions. That was like Tuesday.
Yes, they aren't Pathera leo but do you really think you'd do any better against a pair of 150-pound specimens of Puma concolor acting in tandem? Seems questionable.
The lynxes I'm not afraid of. The lions, either, but I know how treat them, and hope they pay me the same courtesy in return.
But when they come in packs, that's too much.
One at a time when they're in front of you at a distance, fine.
When they're behind you and you don't know it, just takes one.
> “They’re doing healthcare to make money, not to take care of people,” said Dr Judd Hollander, an emergency medicine physician and associate dean at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
Same as Trump.
 
Færd
Færd
@Cerberus Yes, they are.
@tchrist I understand. I'm sorry.
Tehran has become a lot clearer and cleaner, so we're lucky in that regard.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@Færd Living through a rolling disaster that just keeps going and going and going and going, with daily blows of new catastrophic events brought on by any number of combinations of bad luck, bad management, or bad planning, takes a staggering toll by the end of the day. And then, if you're lucky, it starts up all over again tomorrow. If you aren't lucky, even your nights are filled with it.
Wolves make poor shepherds.
But good parents of their young.
 
Færd
Færd
7:23 PM
We must find ways to deal with the constant angst.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Not the R word?
 
Færd
Færd
Umm?
 
tchrist
tchrist
Repress? Retreat? Revolt? Rx?
 
Færd
Færd
Well, we'll get to those in turn.
But in the foreseeable future things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Requiem?
 
Færd
Færd
7:26 PM
So either we learn how to deal with it individually or, if we're lucky, in our smaller communities or not.
It's definitely going to take a heavy toll.
 
tchrist
tchrist
The rebirth of spring is a balm to the soul.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@tchrist I thought lions came in prides.
 
Færd
Færd
There's little pride in preying on humans.
Oh the fragile humans.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Gas is now under a buck in some places.
Too bad nobody can use it.
 
Færd
Færd
I assume that's petrol.
It's confusing to me 'cause we call the gas one gas.
 
tchrist
tchrist
7:32 PM
 
Færd
Færd
Over here people can ask the gas station workers to fill their tanks.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@tchrist Where's that? Last weekend the Shell near me was down to $1.59.
 
tchrist
tchrist
 
Færd
Færd
It's certainly inadvisable to go out on the streets but if you have to, you don't need to get out of your car.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@tchrist Not worth driving to OK.
The only "good" thing about this is that it breaks the bank for the fracking industry.
Our virus cases still seem to be increasing arithmetically, not even geometrically. Ten or twelve new cases a day. We're just a little above a hundred cases so far.
 
Robusto
Robusto
7:48 PM
We were at 50 last week.
 
 
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
8:50 PM
@Færd jealous
@skullpatrol well starred.
@Færd kitty
Large, deadly kitty
 
tchrist
tchrist
9:49 PM
@Robusto Looks like Trump finally got his wish: he's made USA #1 again: worldometers.info/coronavirus
 
Robusto
Robusto
@tchrist MAGA = Make American Graves Again
 
tchrist
tchrist
Yup.
And gravid.
Abortions are considered elective surgeries if you're a red state.
Which means they're forbidden during the emergency.
 
 
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Daniel Rigg
Daniel Rigg
11:23 PM
Difference between In the heat of the moment and On the spur of the moment?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
11:36 PM
@tchrist to be fair, nobody really trusts the numbers coming out of China.
Or many other places, for that matter.
@DanielRigg lacking any context, I might say the former implies some degree of anger or agitation, while the latter is just lack of planning. Given a particular context, they may be completely interchangeable.
Always make sure to provide the context. Differences in meaning only exist in context. Because meaning itself only exists in context.
 
Daniel Rigg
Daniel Rigg
okay and what would it mean if you do or say either In the heat of the moment or On the spur of the moment?
 

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