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Post by vintagecomics on Feb 1, 2021 19:00:34 GMT -8
Just wanted add one thing. It gets tedious to keep typing out long form stuff, so I'll often use quick terminology like left or right rather than write out stuff like 'most democrats' or 'most republicans' which would probably sound less judgmental..so in small part it's just laziness on my part too that may change the tone of the discussion. I'll try to stop doing that.
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Post by steveinthecity on Feb 1, 2021 19:10:57 GMT -8
Just wanted add one thing. It gets tedious to keep typing out long form stuff, so I'll often use quick terminology like left or right rather than write out stuff like 'most democrats' or 'most republicans' which would probably sound less judgmental..so in small part it's just laziness on my part too that may change the tone of the discussion. I'll try to stop doing that.
I appreciate knowing that. It’s part of what makes this sort of communication so difficult or awkward compared to sitting around in person trying to relate the same thoughts or ideas to one another. |
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Post by vintagecomics on Feb 1, 2021 20:29:11 GMT -8
Just wanted add one thing. It gets tedious to keep typing out long form stuff, so I'll often use quick terminology like left or right rather than write out stuff like 'most democrats' or 'most republicans' which would probably sound less judgmental..so in small part it's just laziness on my part too that may change the tone of the discussion. I'll try to stop doing that.
I appreciate knowing that. It’s part of what makes this sort of communication so difficult or awkward compared to sitting around in person trying to relate the same thoughts or ideas to one another. I catch some flack for it on the CGC forum as well. Sometimes I'll rush an idea out in the anticipation of getting it out but may not use the best wording and if it gets misconstrued then I end up having to clarify semantics which is a pain.
As I've often said on that oterh forum, communication is a very complicated thing (especially in English which is actually a horrid language for easy communication) and certain personality types just tend to understand each other better than others...that's why you get cliques and groups forming naturally.
And I know they love when I do this, but I tend to mesh well with some astrological signs and not so well with others.
I find that MANY of the people who really disagree with me on that forum are one of a few astrological signs.  |
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Post by parker1865 on Feb 2, 2021 8:37:46 GMT -8
it does not matter what communications shortcuts you use on the cgc boards. or why.
if you communicate there, you are going down.
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Post by vintagecomics on Feb 2, 2021 8:51:18 GMT -8
it does not matter what communications shortcuts you use on the cgc boards. or why. if you communicate there, you are going down. You know what's really cute?
How many more people there are viewing these chat boards since I started posting here.  When I used to swing on here intermittently there would only be 1,2 maybe 3 people viewing these boards at a time. Now there's routinely 5 or even 10 13 viewing.
I hope jsilverjanet is taking lots of screen shots! 
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Post by Stu on Feb 2, 2021 8:53:28 GMT -8
it does not matter what communications shortcuts you use on the cgc boards. or why. if you communicate there, you are going down. You know what's really cute? How many more people there are viewing these chat boards since I started posting here. When I used to swing on here intermittently there would only be 1,2 maybe 3 people viewing these boards at a time. Now there's routinely 5 or even 10 viewing. I hope jsilverjanet is taking lots of screen shots!
Whoa, 5 or 10 people? I didn't think you were even that popular so you got me there. What a narcissistic way to think about life. |
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Post by Stu on Feb 2, 2021 9:27:21 GMT -8
I appreciate knowing that. It’s part of what makes this sort of communication so difficult or awkward compared to sitting around in person trying to relate the same thoughts or ideas to one another. I catch some flack for it on the CGC forum as well. Sometimes I'll rush an idea out in the anticipation of getting it out but may not use the best wording and if it gets misconstrued then I end up having to clarify semantics which is a pain. As I've often said on that oterh forum, communication is a very complicated thing (especially in English which is actually a horrid language for easy communication) and certain personality types just tend to understand each other better than others...that's why you get cliques and groups forming naturally.
And I know they love when I do this, but I tend to mesh well with some astrological signs and not so well with others.
I find that MANY of the people who really disagree with me on that forum are one of a few astrological signs. Awesome joke deleted, warning received |
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Post by davidpg on Feb 2, 2021 9:45:06 GMT -8
I've found that the vast majority of the time, the first person to bring up narcissism is the actual narcissist.
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Post by parker1865 on Feb 2, 2021 9:49:46 GMT -8
jump ball...dead heat: bob or ff? popular word in their book of words. or, someone else i may know?  |
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Post by Stu on Feb 2, 2021 9:52:18 GMT -8
I've found that the vast majority of the time, the first person to bring up narcissism is the actual narcissist. Someone's full of himself And this isn't Twiiter ya know, you're allowed to respond with more than one or two sentences. |
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Post by Stu on Feb 2, 2021 9:56:26 GMT -8
jump ball...dead heat: bob or ff? popular word in their book of words. or, someone else i may know? Are you talking about davidpg? |
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Post by vintagecomics on Feb 2, 2021 10:23:22 GMT -8
jump ball...dead heat: bob or ff? popular word in their book of words. or, someone else i may know? You know what's pathetic? How nobody on the 'hard lockdown' side ever admit they're wrong even when they are caught red handed.
500Club comes at me with the Sunetra Gupta jokes (under the protection of moderation) because he has some training in epidemiology (or virology I can't remember) and keeps trotting out and repeating a comment she made last spring as though it reflects on her inability to understand epidemiology.
She's an infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford but his degree supersedes hers. 
And I remember him specifically telling us there was nothing that we could learn about the origins that could help the fight against the pandemic even after you had said that there are insurance companies (and the military) investigating it.
Me, I didn't know enough to comment with any certainty at the time but that reply didn't sound correct to me. 
Sure enough, Heather Heying, an evolutionary biologist from the video I posted earlier states this in the video:
"Whether or not this virus emerged from a lab or not actually has implications as to how it's going to behave out into the world"
I don't even expect 500Club to concede he was wrong because that is not the way most people behave these days, especially those who are politically or ideologically motivated because it threatens their entire ideological model.
Video in spoiler body below in case anyone needs a reference again.
The video makes clear the following as per Weinstein as he states all of the reasons why he thinks the virus escaped from a lab.
1) viruses when they find a new host may infect people and cause that person to get sick or feel the affects of the virus but isolated viruses in nature don't naturally jump from one person to the next immediately. Covid-19 seems to make the jump to humans too quickly
2) Did not seem to transmit outdoors well initially and seemed more adept at indoor transmission lending itself to the theory that it was developed in a lab
3) Attacks so many different types of tissues in the body that it does not seem natural
4) Acc to Weinstein, it seems that the virus is now free in the world to explore and adapt in a way it was not allowed to before and is now beginning to mutate.
It makes perfect sense to me that knowing the origin of the virus not only would we have been able to know sooner exactly what the properties of the virus were (duh) without having to figure them out but it ALSO would have helped predict how the virus would behave and mutate allowing us to better react to the pandemic and the spread of the virus.
That to me is such simple common sense that even my daughter with a degree in immunology probably would get it.
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Post by Stu on Feb 2, 2021 11:16:15 GMT -8
jump ball...dead heat: bob or ff? popular word in their book of words. or, someone else i may know? You know what's pathetic? Sure do! |
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Post by davidpg on Feb 2, 2021 12:10:19 GMT -8
I've found that the vast majority of the time, the first person to bring up narcissism is the actual narcissist. Someone's full of himself And this isn't Twiiter ya know, you're allowed to respond with more than one or two sentences. Every single one of your posts are one line, pot. |
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Post by Stu on Feb 2, 2021 12:17:33 GMT -8
Someone's full of himself And this isn't Twiiter ya know, you're allowed to respond with more than one or two sentences. Every single one of your posts are one line, pot. Every single one meaning all 6,601 posts?  |
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When I used to swing on here intermittently there would only be 1,2 maybe 3 people viewing these boards at a time. Now there's routinely 5 or even 
