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adamaero

00:56

fucking possums... massive confusion

RegDwigнt

That's a lot of cars still on the roads. Greta Thunfisch must do more.

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Cerberus

04:01

@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

06:27

[ 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

09:43

Happy Lock Down Thursday!

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RegDwigнt

12:09

@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

12:34

> 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

13:16

@RegDwigнt 😔

CowperKettle

13:29

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

13:57

> Finland has just closed their borders. No one will be crossing the finish line.

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

14:59

@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

15:44

> 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:

cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/…

tchrist

16:08

@Robusto Colorado has a good site for its own covid data.

Robusto

Looks like a possible peak in that data.

NM had its first death from the coronavirus yesterday.

M.A.R.

16:30

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

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.

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

btw, anyone here own a mitsubishi pajero?

Robusto

COVID-19 Is Just The Beginning. Here's Why. | Answers With Joe

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M.A.R.

@NVZ well, "knew"? Epidemics happen every few years

One of them was bound to get out of control

NVZ

16:37

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.

Well, let's not remind the world that a space rock killed four fifths of all living beings on Earth

NVZ

The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates

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tchrist

17:04

@NVZ That's a naughty word.

skullpatrol

17:31

@M.A.R. well said.

NVZ

@tchrist had to google it. lol. in that case, the montero or shogun then.

Færd

18:20

Coming from Boulder:

tchrist

19:07

@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

@Færd Wow, impressive!

@tchrist Then what was the most worrisome?

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.

@Cerberus theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/26/…

> “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

@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

@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

19:23

We must find ways to deal with the constant angst.

tchrist

Not the R word?

Færd

Umm?

tchrist

Repress? Retreat? Revolt? Rx?

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

Requiem?

Færd

19:26

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

The rebirth of spring is a balm to the soul.

Robusto

@tchrist I thought lions came in prides.

Færd

There's little pride in preying on humans.

Oh the fragile humans.

tchrist

Gas is now under a buck in some places.

Too bad nobody can use it.

Færd

I assume that's petrol.

It's confusing to me 'cause we call the gas one gas.

tchrist

19:32

Færd

Over here people can ask the gas station workers to fill their tanks.

Robusto

@tchrist Where's that? Last weekend the Shell near me was down to $1.59.

tchrist

@Robusto electrek.co/2020/03/25/…

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

@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

19:48

We were at 50 last week.

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M.A.R.

20:50

@Færd jealous

@skullpatrol well starred.

@Færd kitty

Large, deadly kitty

tchrist

21:49

@Robusto Looks like Trump finally got his wish: he's made USA #1 again: worldometers.info/coronavirus

Robusto

@tchrist MAGA = Make American Graves Again

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

23:23

Difference between In the heat of the moment and On the spur of the moment?

RegDwigнt

23:36

@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

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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