Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@ztx

Just a tip...

No one is going to go watch your video unless you say what it's about.

@mc @trinsec

"Reality has a way of catching up with you." -- Barack Obama, quoting his mom

https://www.mass.gov/news/department-of-public-health-updates-covid-19-death-definition

Well, some of them got it, but since there is generally no requirement for reporters and family to report positive tests, we'll never know for sure how many people caught COVID-19 at the event or how sick they got.

(Note: The CEO of CBS is probably required to disclose a positive because his health directly effects the value of that publicly traded company.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/world/george-cheeks-covid-positive-biden.html

We'll never know because no one will report it.

@mc @trinsec

A few months ago the Biden administration used leverage to get the media to completely stop coverage of COVID-19. As part of that campaign, friendly state governments such as Massachusetts began to redefine what a COVID-19 death was – e.g., instead of counting anyone who died of respiratory illness or organ failure who also tested positive for COVID-19, they would only count those who had the exact classic symptoms of COVID-19. So people who had been previously recorded as a COVID-19 death would be retroactively reclassified as something else. The idea was to have the states do this sequentially and gradually so that the death rate would be reduced, but they screwed up and did too many at once which gave a negative death rate.

#covid19 #covid #covid.gov #respirator #mask #masks #vax #vaccine #socal #distancing #death #CDC #CDCP #NIOSH #N95 #numbers #lie

#TruthBeTold
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The truth is…

In the US in March 2022, there were 2450 people who had died from COVID-19 and came back to life again.
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Cumulative deaths from COVID-19:
2022/3/12 11:15 p.m. - 967,552
2022/3/14 11:35 p.m. - 965,102
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Source: Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center; https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

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@drahardja

And nearly all of those deaths were preventable. Sad.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #time #travel #future #film #movie #international #culture #war #airraid #food #DeLorean

Retro SciFi of the Week…

The Time Machine (1960)

This is the first film adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel. Although the story isn’t the first time-travel story ever written, it’s the first one to include a device that allows one to travel forward or backward to arbitrarily selected points in time.

After six decades, the film has held up well and is still entertaining in it’s own right. The special effects are pretty good even by today’s standards. They won an Academy Award when the film debuted.

Other film adaptations were made in 1978 and 2002, but they deviated more substantially from the book.

@mc

You think that was bad, wait until you see Thursday and Friday...

#pessimism

@iankenway

I get it. It's just some kid of consensus of what those folks on that island want to see in the future, but not a plan on how to do it or anything.

Rather than publish a full manifesto, they just put it in a list. Ok.

@fi

(Note: I see that another user is posting to this thread but I can't see their posts because I have them blocked.)

@fi

My understanding of the meaning of the word "incel" is someone who is involuntarily celibate. I learned this from a black guy who said he was an incel at one point. I just searched the term and I see that it also refers to a racist and misogynist online group, which uses that name. I was not aware of this online group, so obviously I was referring to the former definition (involuntarily celibate), not the online racist group.

@iankenway

Why is it a checklist? Is this a checklist that someone will do in the future, to see if those things happened? Or are these goals of some organization?

@Sphinx

You too. I hope you're feeling better.

@iankenway

Could you please provide more context. What is this?

@JackLondon

That's so cleaver! But how do you get into those things without letting in air from the outside? Did they have some kind of ventilation system or something?

@trinsec @fi

Trying to figure out what the connection is between incels and Nazis...???

@freeschool

It's an opening. Why is the kid studying the board so intently?

@PawelK

I don't understand what you said.