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I know nothing about Carhartt the company. I just know last year someone got me a handful of Carhartt t-shirts and I love them. They seem thicker than a normal t-shirt. And most of my length is in my torso, not my legs. So normal t-shirts tend to not be long enough. My Carhartts fit perfectly, even after a year of use (many "tall" t-shirts just shrink up after a handful of washes).

I was cringing when I saw that video last night. But after watching it, I was pleased to learn they're getting crap for doing good, not evil. (y)
their pants now suck at least the ones I have been buying. I have worn the seat out riding in a few months, they used to be some of the most expensive work clothes now dikky are far more.
 

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I was cringing when I saw that video last night. But after watching it, I was pleased to learn they're getting crap for doing good, not evil. (y)

We really need to go after the people who foment the attitude of punishing people for behaving responsibly and being decent. Those mouthpieces are fucking stochastic terrorists, who need to be treated with as much respect as Osama bin Laden (who, AFAIK, never actually killed or hurt anyone with his own hands).
 

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I was just talking with my mother. She informed me that Omicron is just a cold for 3 days and that there haven't been any deaths from it at this point. I did my best to inform her and suggest that she double check that information with her nurses (she just had surgery and is currently in the hospital).

She said she doesn't watch the news anymore, so I guess she got that from Facebook and word-of-mouth.
 

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Her twitter timeline is literally full of hate and she is surprised people are dishing it back lol

Things seen in writing, text, pictures, video, or in-person are proof of nothing. You know what is real proof? No proof. It's simple. People just can't seem to see it because they can't see it.
 

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Prove it wasn't!
Theodore Cleaver was involved in the infamous fiftieth attempt to make the Philadelphia Experiment in early 1968. The field generator was augmented with a confoundium mesh, which was a dreadful mistake that ended the experiments for good and resulted in a significant increase in CIA agents, who were sent out to deal with the unwanted side effects.

It appears that Theodore was flung back in time by something on the order of sixty to sixty-five years. The earliest solid evidence we have of his activities are military base records from 1909, which suggests that he must have arrived by at least 1908, because a different time period requires a fair bit of reacclimation.

He is listed on the crew of a naval destroyer, as a third shift helmsman, which was in the general area. It is believed that the destroyer was the closest vessel to the Titanic at the time that it stuck the iceberg, an in steaming hard to its rescue, the helmsman made an error in judgement that caused the destroyer to collide with the Titanic aport, just fore of amidships.

The Titanic would have survived the iceberg had Cleaver not unintentionally rammed it on the other side, severely compromising its structural integrity. Distress calls from the destroyer were intermingled with transmissions from the destroyer, and the big ship carried the navy ship to the bottom, the two hulls so entangled together as to be indistinguishable.

So, the statement is partially correct: the Titanic was sunk by The Beaver. It is assumed that Theodore perished in those cold waters, but that much is uncertain. The destroyer did have lifeboats, and there were odd reports in late April of strangers coming ashore in Gander, Qaqortoq, even as far away as Galway and Sligo (improbable but not entirely inconceivable), so what actually happened to the Beaver is uncertain, but he almost certainly did not sire his father.
 

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This lady threatened to bring a lot of guns and shoot up her kids’ school…. all because they mandated masks.


But she’s white, so… $5000 bond and go home… no harm no foul I guess? Must be nice to have such privilege.

Also, great job so far Glenn Youngkin… your new anti-mask rules are really bringing Virginia together in peace and love. For those who saw his campaign ads, he railed against the supposed violence and fighting that was supposedly rampant in schools of Virginia… looks like he‘s made it worse in just a few days on the job.

Several schools are planning a "Mask Off Monday" protest to show their support of Youngkin's new order on Jan. 24.
If you have kids in Virginia, might be a good day to have them play hooky. If they don’t get murdered by a crazy right-wing mom, they could catch COVID and bring it home to parents or grandparents.
 

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It's sorta like blaming Biden for record COVID deaths, but ignoring the fact that Trump locked down. Lockdowns come with lowered mortality. So when human garbage like Rand Paul is whining about the stuff he's advocated for comes with increased mortality all I can say is well, whodathunk.

Comparing alpha vs delta and especially omicron are three entirely different beasts all together in terms of death rates and transmissibility. Delta obviously lead to the most deaths, especially in the unvaccinated. Omicron has made the case count skyrocket because it’s so transmissible and the vaccine provides little protection against infection. It’s comparing apples, oranges, and potatoes.

Biden did vow to “shut the virus down”, which maybe he’ll do eventually relatively speaking, but it’s a stupid promise to make. Zero COVID is an impossibility and such a comment is clearly political-speak.




The math is a bit off as not all adults are registered to vote and not all registered voters actually vote. Still...
Kind of amazing Trump’s most fervent supporters also tend to be the most anti-vax, considering Trump essentially claims the vaccines would not have existed without him, which anyone with any sense of reality knows is insane. It’s surprising just now he is slowly, quietly, beginning to support their use.

200k is far more than enough to flip an election. It might be insignificant if this trend continues of people moving away from the democrat party continues. As a moderate I have been thoroughly been unimpressed with Biden, but a second Trump term would be disastrous. I can only hope 2024 yields candidates worthy of the Presidency.
 

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This lady threatened to bring a lot of guns and shoot up her kids’ school…. all because they mandated masks.


But she’s white, so… $5000 bond and go home… no harm no foul I guess? Must be nice to have such privilege.

Also, great job so far Glenn Youngkin… your new anti-mask rules are really bringing Virginia together in peace and love. For those who saw his campaign ads, he railed against the supposed violence and fighting that was supposedly rampant in schools of Virginia… looks like he‘s made it worse in just a few days on the job.


If you have kids in Virginia, might be a good day to have them play hooky. If they don’t get murdered by a crazy right-wing mom, they could catch COVID and bring it home to parents or grandparents.
Just heard about this earlier as I prepare to head back down to Virginia. A couple of friends with kids in the local public schools are worried about the so-called protest this coming Monday. I'm afraid to look at the COVID situation of the city and especially county.
 

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Kind of amazing Trump’s most fervent supporters also tend to be the most anti-vax, considering Trump essentially claims the vaccines would not have existed without him, which anyone with any sense of reality knows is insane. It’s surprising just now he is slowly, quietly, beginning to support their use.

200k is far more than enough to flip an election. It might be insignificant if this trend continues of people moving away from the democrat party continues. As a moderate I have been thoroughly been unimpressed with Biden, but a second Trump term would be disastrous. I can only hope 2024 yields candidates worthy of the Presidency.
He words and inaction got his supporters to be anti-vax. And that's why we're seeing reports about 25% of the public vowing to never get vaccinated. And his first term was disastrous. If the GOP retakes the Congress, whether one or both chambers, it will be a complete disaster with Biden needing to veto legislation on a regular basis in the worst case scenario.
 

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This lady threatened to bring a lot of guns and shoot up her kids’ school…. all because they mandated masks.


But she’s white, so… $5000 bond and go home… no harm no foul I guess? Must be nice to have such privilege.

Also, great job so far Glenn Youngkin… your new anti-mask rules are really bringing Virginia together in peace and love. For those who saw his campaign ads, he railed against the supposed violence and fighting that was supposedly rampant in schools of Virginia… looks like he‘s made it worse in just a few days on the job.


If you have kids in Virginia, might be a good day to have them play hooky. If they don’t get murdered by a crazy right-wing mom, they could catch COVID and bring it home to parents or grandparents.
Amazingly, frighteningly stupid woman there. Bringing guns to school…over masks?!?
 

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He words and inaction got his supporters to be anti-vax. And that's why we're seeing reports about 25% of the public vowing to never get vaccinated. And his first term was disastrous. If the GOP retakes the Congress, whether one or both chambers, it will be a complete disaster with Biden needing to veto legislation on a regular basis in the worst case scenario.
Agreed, there is nothing amazing about it. His idiotic rhetoric about it being less dangerous than the flu took hold among his supporters. They see refusing masks, vaccines, etc. as a badge of courage. He is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths that wouldn’t have happened if he treated this seriously.
 
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Agreed, there is nothing amazing about it. His idiotic rhetoric about it being less dangerous than the flu took hold among his supporters. They see refusing masks, vaccines, etc. as a badge of courage. He is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths that wouldn’t have happened if he treated this seriously.
I'm still amazed how Trump managed to turn COVID stupid into conservative policy.
 
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Comparing alpha vs delta and especially omicron are three entirely different beasts all together in terms of death rates and transmissibility. Delta obviously lead to the most deaths, especially in the unvaccinated. Omicron has made the case count skyrocket because it’s so transmissible and the vaccine provides little protection against infection. It’s comparing apples, oranges, and potatoes.
Because it's political speak with the assumption that your voters are raging idiots. People saying in retrospect that based on the data we had in March 2020 it wasn't the right thing to lockdown, are like people suggesting we should have done a night time off-trail hike without equipment in Grand Canyon, based on doing the easy trail at daylight the next day. DeSantis is already on an offensive blaming public health institutions for policy He enacted, LOL.

Biden did vow to “shut the virus down”, which maybe he’ll do eventually relatively speaking, but it’s a stupid promise to make. Zero COVID is an impossibility and such a comment is clearly political-speak.
It's political speak too. With the majority of american deers having SARS-CoV2 antibodies, we have a large pool of animal vectors, just like with Influenza. I'll prefer this though, over the above form of PS.
 
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This lady threatened to bring a lot of guns and shoot up her kids’ school…. all because they mandated masks.


But she’s white, so… $5000 bond and go home… no harm no foul I guess? Must be nice to have such privilege.

Also, great job so far Glenn Youngkin… your new anti-mask rules are really bringing Virginia together in peace and love. For those who saw his campaign ads, he railed against the supposed violence and fighting that was supposedly rampant in schools of Virginia… looks like he‘s made it worse in just a few days on the job.


If you have kids in Virginia, might be a good day to have them play hooky. If they don’t get murdered by a crazy right-wing mom, they could catch COVID and bring it home to parents or grandparents.

Well they charged her with violation of Code of Virginia 18.2-60 Oral Threat While on School Property which is a misdemeanor akin to what they lay on a kid who triggers a lockdown by making a threat but doesn't have the wherewithal to implement it.

Whatever happened to parents who show up to schools bearing gifts like boxes of lined notebook paper, binders, whiteboard erasers or paper towels, wipes, etc.
 

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This story is tangentially related to Covid, but it is all kinds of stupid.

A small group of employees of ThedaCare (a major hospital system) took new jobs at another system, Ascension, which had offered them a better benefits package. ThedaCare got upset about this and convinced a judge to impose an injunction on this move, which now means that these specialists will not be working at either facility until ThedaCare and Ascension can resolve their conflict.

Naturally, these health care specialists had at will jobs at ThedaCare, so how they can get a ruling like this is baffling. They complained about a shortage of healthcare workers, so the solution is to make the shortage even worse.

Apparently, ThedaCare was shown the offers that Ascension had made to these people and responded with something like "Meh, we can't afford to match that." And clearly there were no contracts involved, so the fact that ThedaCare (which is a major provider in the area) can get away with a stunt like this is troubling.
 
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