Corona Thread |OT| Please scream inside your heart

[toku]

https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1249819442768302082

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1249820873131012100

 

[Rufus]

Someone who knows how to put their ego aside for the greater good.

[toku]

I'm so glad all of this is gonna be over by next week!

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1249819442768302082

Lol, my middle school was the one that started it in 2002. 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1249831631587880962
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1249832151534768129

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1249819442768302082

Lol, my middle school was the one that started it in 2002. 

Weird flex but ok.

[shosta]

Not only that but the federal small business loans don't apply to the gaming industry

And to top it all off, the unemployment system has been completely falling over and lots of people I know can't sign up. Basically what I'm saying is that shit's extremely fucked if the federal government doesn't shape up soon

totally unrelated to anything, there are a lot of guns of here

[shosta]

At Shosta Sr.'s job (the airport) they were giving people 0 hours but keeping them employed and telling them they can't apply for unemployment

so Shosta Sr. taught a bunch of young kids that anyone who loses a paycheck is eligible shady ass businesses outchea

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1249819442768302082

Lol, my middle school was the one that started it in 2002. 

Weird flex but ok.

Not trying to flex, just amazed that this is it’s legacy. During my time there we had a bomb threat one year and they made a tsa checkpoint outside the lunchroom cause they were afraid of a food fight happening. Weird fucking place.

[Stro]

Pre 9/11, the high school I went to had bomb threats every few weeks because it was always an automatic day off. This happened even after Columbine. Of course by the time I went there, it was post Columbine and 9/11 so instead of shut downs, there would be random days where the entire student body had to go through metal detectors and be wanded and lockers/vehicles would get searched by dogs.


Pretty fucking weird now that I think about it.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Let’s get this thread back on track.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nypost/status/1249758098174115841

[Great Rumbler]

STILL AIN'T GOT MY CORONA BUX

[CatsCatsCats]

Nor have I, direct deposit every year. Haven’t done 2019 tho since they extended to July and I owe

[bluemax]

Made my first grocery store trip in over a week.

Things that were good:
- Face coverings required
- Plenty of markers to remind you of distancing
- All aisles 1 way
- More stuff in stock

Things that were bad:
- People who wanted to take 10 years to read labels thus holding things up
- People who ignored the signs and cut ahead or pushed past you or etc.

Highlight:
Fat old white man on a rascal scooter type thing saying "I ain't fucking following their one way signs." Like bruh, you're the one who is most likely gonna get the Rona!

Obviously your random neighborhood super market just doesn't have the personnel to enforce this stuff but it annoyed me how many fucking Karens I had to scowl and sigh at.

[Rahxephon91]

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[nachobro]

Nor have I, direct deposit every year. Haven’t done 2019 tho since they extended to July and I owe

STILL AIN'T GOT MY CORONA BUX

my bank emailed me and told me to expect it wednesday if i was getting direct deposit

[nachobro]

coincidentally wednesday is also the day flamin hot doritos tacos are available at taco bell. worth noting.

[demi]

Yeah I see a lot of people getting or should get their bux this week. My bank doesnt show pending online so I'm just going to assume it arrives this week.

Who's onlyfans should I sub to?

[bluemax]

https://corona-virus.la/covid-19-myths

This is where we are at.

[Uncle]

https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1249819442768302082

looks like Complex's tweet is gone as is whatever pic.twitter it was referring to, probably because the guy was wrong

and also "school shootings" include someone having a gun on school property that accidentally goes off, and some dude driving into the school parking lot and committing suicide

[thisismyusername]

Mine.

Only if you're filming with your girl.

https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1249819442768302082

looks like Complex's tweet is gone as is whatever pic.twitter it was referring to, probably because the guy was wrong

and also "school shootings" include someone having a gun on school property that accidentally goes off, and some dude driving into the school parking lot and committing suicide

Pic.twitter.com is just a Twitter embed/image host for an image embed in the tweet. If the tweet is deleted, so is the embed.

[benjipwns]

Only if you're filming with your girl.

Dr. Jill?

[jorma]

The 600/wk is ON TOP of unemployment benefit?

So there’s no way this isn’t going to be more than my actual salary, I just want to thank you all for my neet bucks

So the Murican dude loses his FREEDOMS but gets a boatload of neet bucks to compensate while the Swedish dude keeps all of his FREEDOMS but doesn't get a single neet buck.

Corona really is a helluva virus. 

[team filler]

[nudemacusers]

Got my coronabux, pay check and incentive pay this morning

[Stro]

My city has cancelled all events deep into July

[Pissy F Benny]

The lighting on this

[Nintex]

Got my coronabux, pay check and incentive pay this morning

Todays Corona Direct

[Rufus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWDx3nKm_Gc

"Well that was a shit idea" poster in the back.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/grocery-store-flyer-covid-19-1.5530979

[Tasty]

Really don't feel good about the location history tracking Google opened up to gov'ts and the public, and also not a fan of this Apple/Google collaboration to strip more digital rights away.

Scary shit.

This is 9/11 and the Patriot Act all over again. COVID panic might be the tool gov'ts need to finally ban encryption and be applauded for that decision by the electorate.

[nachobro]

social credit score coming any day now and now with location tracking any group of people organizing can be punished instantly for doing so

[thisismyusername]

Really don't feel good about the location history tracking Google opened up to gov'ts and the public, and also not a fan of this Apple/Google collaboration to strip more digital rights away.

Scary shit.

...but you... stan... Googie... *head explodes*

This is 9/11 and the Patriot Act all over again. COVID panic might be the tool gov'ts need to finally ban encryption and be applauded for that decision by the electorate.

Goddamn it, where is that "ehhh,"ish Hide the Pain Harold reaction .gif when I need it.

They can certainly try, but like torrents and piracy, you stomp one encryption standard down, others will raise. They can criminalize it (like piracy) but folks would just continue to use it.

And Apple of all fucking people saying they protect peoples privacy and wouldn't unencrypt shit for the FBI would take a beating in terms of PR and trust if they did.

[thisismyusername]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/



Ok. Not sure why this needs an article, but this coming across my Facebook feed from feminist democrats is such an "Eva Green popping her eyes out" reaction image.

[toku]

Really don't feel good about the location history tracking Google opened up to gov'ts and the public, and also not a fan of this Apple/Google collaboration to strip more digital rights away.

Scary shit.

This is 9/11 and the Patriot Act all over again. COVID panic might be the tool gov'ts need to finally ban encryption and be applauded for that decision by the electorate.

it's troubling but also feel kinda crazy because the only ppl worried are super nerds and tech heads like us =/

[Leadbelly]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/

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Ok. Not sure why this needs an article, but this coming across my Facebook feed from feminist democrats is such an "Eva Green popping her eyes out" reaction image.

That's great and all, but do you notice that we are expected to hold two contradictory ideas in our head?

- Men and women are exactly the same.
- Men and women are different.

It usually goes something like this: Men and women are exactly the same, except when women are portrayed as somehow better. In that case we're different.

[CatsCatsCats]

No. Men and women are not the same, but all genders should be treated with equal respect my dude

[Leadbelly]

What the hell is going on with Shosta?

[Madrun Badrun]

Madness.  It will come to us all.

[Pissy F Benny]

Spooky shosta

[toku]

Really don't feel good about the location history tracking Google opened up to gov'ts and the public, and also not a fan of this Apple/Google collaboration to strip more digital rights away.

Scary shit.

This is 9/11 and the Patriot Act all over again. COVID panic might be the tool gov'ts need to finally ban encryption and be applauded for that decision by the electorate.

it's troubling but also feel kinda crazy because the only ppl worried are super nerds and tech heads like us =/

I think it's awesome and not troubling.

 

[BisMarckie]

The German state that got hit the hardest during the pandemic wants to open up its schools on Monday. I can’t help but think that it’s a political move by their PM who is tanking in approval ratings, but desperately wants to take Merkel‘s throne.

[Nintex]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/

(Image removed from quote.)

Ok. Not sure why this needs an article, but this coming across my Facebook feed from feminist democrats is such an "Eva Green popping her eyes out" reaction image.

So basically women have put a halt to the entire world economy and caused a massive spike in unemployment and government debt to save 0.1% of the 80 year olds? 

[Madrun Badrun]

[thisismyusername]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/

(Image removed from quote.)

Ok. Not sure why this needs an article, but this coming across my Facebook feed from feminist democrats is such an "Eva Green popping her eyes out" reaction image.

So basically women have put a halt to the entire world economy and caused a massive spike in unemployment and government debt to save 0.1% of the 80 year olds? 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/

(Image removed from quote.)

Ok. Not sure why this needs an article, but this coming across my Facebook feed from feminist democrats is such an "Eva Green popping her eyes out" reaction image.

That's great and all, but do you notice that we are expected to hold two contradictory ideas in our head?

- Men and women are exactly the same.
- Men and women are different.

It usually goes something like this: Men and women are exactly the same, except when women are portrayed as somehow better. In that case we're different.

It's Navel Gazing bullshit made for "who run the world? women!!!" folks.

it's troubling but also feel kinda crazy because the only ppl worried are super nerds and tech heads like us =/

I guess I'd fit into the super nerd segment, but I'm not too worried about it. Folks will still encrypt (or not). The privacy invasion battle was already lost years ago (Me telling Occam or whoever that Chrome/Android/etc. mines already</aside>) so folks getting paranoid that their "local encrypted" or whatever shit may be criminalized just need to take a breather. Same with location data: That could always be turned off (but Google still mined via the phone telephony).

The major issue is that the governments never regulated the tech companies from getting all this sort of data (Facebook, notable with the Cambridge scandal) to where the Government is now "hmm, maybe mining this data is good/useful" which is the truly WTF moment because the tech companies shouldn't have been getting this sort of shit in the first place to where the NSA/etc. is the ones that should've been doing the leg work/mining instead of the companies themselves.

(But this totally off topic from the virus only than being tangentially related. Could be it's own thread)

As far as the countries reporting their stats: I wouldn't trust ANY countries stats, but that's being tin-foil conspiracy nuttery paranoid.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/jc_bradbury/status/1250094421766479873

[Uncle]

Really don't feel good about the location history tracking Google opened up to gov'ts and the public, and also not a fan of this Apple/Google collaboration to strip more digital rights away.

Scary shit.

This is 9/11 and the Patriot Act all over again. COVID panic might be the tool gov'ts need to finally ban encryption and be applauded for that decision by the electorate.

same, but if you actually read google's disclosure on the data they are more clear about what it is and it's a little less alarming than it first sounds

it only tracks people who have turned location data on, which is off by default (but IIRC they try to get you to turn it on by extolling the benefits)

and the data is also seeded with some noise so no individual can be tracked or exposed, it's for demonstrating broad travel data only

but yes it's not very far to the slippery slope of "well this would be way more useful if we forced location data on for everyone"

[OnlyRegret]

Stats trend down for two days, you again think things have peaked and bam, things shoot back up.
Looking to be a real bad day for the States.

[OnlyRegret]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1250075795701334019

Real death cult hours

I'm still surprised Florida hasn't fallen to shit.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1250075795701334019

Real death cult hours

I'm still surprised Florida hasn't fallen to shit.

It already had.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1250145350490427397

[Madrun Badrun]

Massively bad day for Canada.  Going to be bad for the US too. 

[Rufus]

The German state that got hit the hardest during the pandemic wants to open up its schools on Monday. I can’t help but think that it’s a political move by their PM who is tanking in approval ratings, but desperately wants to take Merkel‘s throne.

Laschet can get fuuucked. Hope it blows up in his face.

[VomKriege]

Massively bad day for Canada.  Going to be bad for the US too.

Weekend backlog always hits hard. Has been fairly consistent for most countries. UK daily deaths not as bad as I feared but it's been documented there's a fierce administrative lag there, moreso than elsewhere ?

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1250145350490427397

Excuse me, that’s 25,000 recovered from coronavirus 

https://mobile.twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1250121883409940482

[OnlyRegret]

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1250145350490427397

Excuse me, that’s 25,000 recovered from coronavirus 

100% cured of Corona for sure, not catching it twice.

Massively bad day for Canada.  Going to be bad for the US too.

Think previous 1-day max is already broken for the USA as well at this moment.

[Madrun Badrun]

[bluemax]

Really don't feel good about the location history tracking Google opened up to gov'ts and the public, and also not a fan of this Apple/Google collaboration to strip more digital rights away.

Scary shit.

This is 9/11 and the Patriot Act all over again. COVID panic might be the tool gov'ts need to finally ban encryption and be applauded for that decision by the electorate.

same, but if you actually read google's disclosure on the data they are more clear about what it is and it's a little less alarming than it first sounds

it only tracks people who have turned location data on, which is off by default (but IIRC they try to get you to turn it on by extolling the benefits)

and the data is also seeded with some noise so no individual can be tracked or exposed, it's for demonstrating broad travel data only

but yes it's not very far to the slippery slope of "well this would be way more useful if we forced location data on for everyone"

They're also pushing this out in such a way at it doesn't even require an OS update or an opt in download.

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/CFIB/status/1250128513195290629
SME = small and medium enterprise
CFIB = Canadian Federation Of Independent Business
22% have have lost all revenue
33% have lost 51% to 99%