Rhino

27 minutes ago, OptOut said:

Oh FUCK YEAH!

I'm in guys, it's like phase 7,634 of my ten thousand step redemption arch! 

Gloves will never forgive you if you kill him again.

I want revenge. I am in again.

On 5/19/2020 at 3:31 AM, FenrirZero said:

Here is me during a Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light event Square Enix held in Akihabara. This was taken in a few days after my birthday in 2016.

And no... I did not wear the Legend of Zelda t-shirt for that event. It was purely coincidental. Even though some might be "outraged" for their own reasons. 

You look like the angry videogame nerd.

1 hour ago, The Strangest said:

They passed one $1200 check a few months ago, which the last I checked, was around $5-something a day for the Americans that were eligible to receive it. It’s less a day now, obviously. Countries that aren’t as rich as the United States are giving more money more often to their citizens and their citizens are better off and their economies are better than ours right now too. It’s pretty universally accepted that another stimulus is needed. The last one that the Republicans offered up was less money to less people, and when some tried to negotiate a better deal for our citizens, the Republicans threw their hands up and said “Okay, no check.” And they have been living comfortably at home, with their salaries, since.

As for why Amy Barrett is a farce, well...

- Only two years in private practice

- Never tried a case or argued an appeal

- Her private work was almost entirely civil cases, not criminal cases.

- No judiciary experience until 2017

She’s not qualified for a LIFETIME appointment to the highest court in our country, but luckily for her the only criteria her hiring team was looking to fill was if she would unquestionably vote in favor of the Republican Party every time. Trump’s first SC appointee is a little less biased than they were hoping. They haven’t been happy with the results which is why they pushed Barrett through.

And after her confirmation, all the old, decrepit rich white dudes raised their glasses and smiled as they’ve just taken another step toward an America that continues to work for them, at the expense of many American citizens that they don’t care about. And they’ve got the support of many of those citizens, who have some weird form of Stockholm Syndrome or who don’t realize they’re being played.

 

 

Welcome to America, where ~40% of the country is this dude’s bitch and they enjoy it. And ruin it for the rest of us.

You guys are funny. You act like only Republicans are rich and that no more stimulus only negatively effects Democrats. Here's a thought, why don't people save better? Why don't people manage their money better? Why is it up to the government to come swooping on again and again and again to bail people out? Not to mention all the people who didn't go back to work because they were making more from unemployment than they did when they worked. Why work when I can get a nice handout from uncle Sam? Sure another stimulus would help, but man, people really need to get their act together financially. Maybe don't buy a new iPhone every year. Maybe don't eat out 3 times a day. Maybe pay your bills on time and pay down your loans. 

Thank you for the information about her being a farce.

F*ck twin galaxies. POS organization. Billy Mitchell is one of the gaming GOATS. Who TF cares if he didn't play on an original PCB. 

On 10/26/2020 at 8:48 PM, The Strangest said:

Lol when they criminalize your wife’s IUD or your gay friend’s marriage, or when you have to sell off part of your collection because you aren’t doing too hot financially, just remember the Senate rammed this farce of a Supreme Court justice through after saying they couldn’t work on another stimulus to help the American people.

Why is she a farce? I thought they did pass several stimulus packages. They can't give money away for free forever. Plus Pelossi was the one holding up the deal. 

I would like to play. I am a Karkadann

8 hours ago, CodysGameRoom said:

3 Ways To Vote For Trump in 2020.

1. Vote for Trump
2. Vote for anyone except Joe Biden
3. Don't Vote

 

Also, Libertarians are silly

By that logic, if you vote for Jorgensen, you're also voting for Biden. I agree, the Libertarians could get their messages across better. One day there will be a competitive 3rd party, or perhaps a replacement for the Republican party.

On 10/8/2020 at 7:58 PM, Californication said:

 

So what your saying is Blacks are 360% more likely than whites to be killed by the police even though there are 250m whites and 44m blacks?

I don't know if your numbers are right, but that sounds pretty bad.

The percentage is misleading. The odds are so small that a 360% increase almost means nothing. It'd be like playing the lottery. If your odds of winning are 1 in a million, buying 3 more tickets really doesn't change your odds in a meaningful way. Now if this was going from a .1% chance to .5 or even .01% to .05, that'd be alarming. 

If people really hate Trump and Biden so much, why don't they vote for Jo Jorgensen? If you take one of those quizzes, you'll probably be surprised how much you match up with her. jo20.com 

17 hours ago, Californication said:

If conservatives know right wing extremism is an issue, why are they okay with Donald Trump?

Why do conservatives defend Donald Trump as he dog whistles and occasionally shouts his support for White Supremacists? 

Clearly you guys don't care about  racism and the effects its having on America. You don't care about: the threats and fire bombings of abortion clinics the last few years, the multiple shooting of jews at church the last few years, the white supremacist Ethan Melzer planning to kill his fellow military members, the bugaloo boys murdering police officers or the whites supremacists infiltrating the police and military. If you did care, you wouldn't be supporting Donald Trump and acting like anything Antifa or the left wing has done in recent years is anything near these atrocities.

To your other point, every person that goes to a protest or causes property damage the last few months isn't Antifa or left leaning. People are stressed, tired, and scared of everything going on in this country and when people are pushed to far and the screwed up system becomes to conspicuous people sometimes protest and some people may riot. It wasn't Antifa that destroyed LA during the Rodney King riots.

You wanna know what causes social unrest and rioting? Things like: people being scared of Corona virus because Trump was too incompetent to do his job, or the Trump admin. giving trillions of dollars to corporations but telling 40 M people out of work they won't be getting additional unemployment, maybe the millions of people that are going to be evicted from their apartments/homes causes unrest, or could it be a president that supports white supremacists as we watch video after video of cops killing black people. 

FYI, in the U.S, cops kill more white people every year by shooting them than any other race. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

Your chance of being shot to death by a cop if you're white is .00000148%. Your chance of being shot to death by a cop if you're black is .00000534%. https://www.statista.com/statistics/183489/population-of-the-us-by-ethnicity-since-2000/

26 minutes ago, RegularGuyGamer said:

I do say it light hearted-ly bc it's politics. It's a fun conversation to have. 

I know it's a lesser problem and I am well read on both extremist. 

Everyone agrees that right wing extremism is a problem, especially conservatives. Every conservative outlet I read is annoyed by those groups to out right hating them, specifically white supremacists.

The thing is, the left consistently denies any extremism on their side. Going to far to regularly blame white supremacists for burning down buildings and breaking business windows.

Left wing extremists took a fucking city over this summer and we brush it off. Like what the actual fuck?? It is especially brushed under the rug by the left. It blows my mind that there's been 60ish of unrest in Portland lead by the left, portion on a city seized, multiple cities burned to the ground all by one side but meh maybe they're a problem maybe they're not.

Theyre a problem. 

Everyone knows right wing extremist are a problem. The ones on the left are quickly racing to catch up. This summer is the pudding full of that proof. 

This guy gets it. Yes, wtf happened in CHAZ or CHOP? Why does that get a pass? 

On 10/6/2020 at 7:36 PM, Californication said:

@Rhino, no one is trolling you. The data is misleading and doesn't reflect how dangerous right wing terrorists are because of the way it conflates data.

This was a common tactict during the Bush administation when the military and spy agencies kept trying to tell the American people why the Patriot Act was necessary. 

The chart that you quoted doesn't even correlate to the search functions in the data base. There is no search option for Left Wing Extremists under perpetrators and if you put Left Wings Extremists in the search function it finds three incidents in the U.S. If you search by left wing, there qre maybe four pages out of 24 in the U.S. and they are 99% from the 70's.

Womp, womp.

It is so difficult to take you seriously. They probably don't have the perpetrators named "Left wing extremists". They probably have whatever name the group called themselves or are a part of. No one is saying right ring terrorism doesn't exist or is a much bigger problem than left wing terrorism. We're trying to point out that left wing terrorism exists and is a problem, albeit, a lesser problem than right wing terrorism. You should read this piece too and do some more of your own research. https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-terrorism-problem-united-states

20 hours ago, Californication said:

And since Antifa started in 2017 that report is completly irrelevant with the conversation which is violence from Antifa.

Edit: If you are trying to make a point about non-Antifa related left wing violence v. right wing violence this report is not proving your point. 

1. They are calling anti-abortion terrorism - "religious" terrorism and not right wing terrorism. So they are dividing right wing terrorism to make it look smaller, then;

2. Their terrorist attack data points include "Threatened use of violence." I've never heard of a non-violent terrorist attack before.

I almost took this post seriously before remembering you enjoy trolling people. How are you still denying left wing terrorism exists? What more do you need? Unless you really are just trolling again. If you actually look at the data, they have tons of data points for each terrorist attack. They're also not deciding what is left wing terrorism and what is right wing terrorism. When they refer to perpetrator groups they say stuff like "White Supremacists" "Pro LGBT Rights Extremists" "Male Supremacists" "Anti-government Extremists" and so on. You as the reader can tie the groups to whatever side they're on. As for threatened use of violence, what if someone says "I'm going to shoot you." and then something happens where they can't or don't fulfill their crime. Just because a terrorist attack wasn't successful doesn't mean they won't have it in their database. I bet you a large chunk of these incidents are terrorist attacks that weren't carried out fully or were doing property damage, with no casualties. That would also be an attack with threatened use of violence. "I'm going to kill and burn all of you." People inside run to safety, building burns, and there are no casualties. https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?page=4&casualties_type=b&casualties_max=&dtp2=all&country=217&expanded=yes&charttype=line&chart=overtime&ob=GTDID&od=desc#results-table

7 hours ago, Californication said:

You are pretty confident for someone that can only point to one partial data point. 

It is a fools errand to look for murders/deaths associated with Antifa because they aren't real. I wouldn't call yourself informed for repeating propoganda with no basis in reality. Really, you should probably do some introspection and try and figure out why you believe something with no factual evidence. 

You are treating both sides like they are similar when they are nothing alike. The problem with repeating this nonsense is that it prevents us/the public from putting pressure on the govt. to actually resolve the situation by putting resources into preventing these right wing terrorist plots before they happen.

I'll just leave this right here for anyone who thinks there aren't left wing terrorists. 

Between 2010 and 2016, 53 percent of terrorist attacks in the United States were carried out by religious extremists — 35 percent by right-wing extremists and 12 percent by left-wing or environmentalist extremists, according to a University of Maryland-led consortium that studies terrorism. https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-antifa-trump.html

Do we know what Trump's real current status is?

10 hours ago, Californication said:

You are doing it again. We are talking in circles. The point of using the positivity rate is to make the jumber of tests taken less of a factor. You keep talking like the main reason infection rate and positivy rate are changing is because the number of tests taken. They are changing because more people/less people are getting infected.

The positivty rate is used as opposed to a whole number because it can be used to estimate the infection rate in the population. 

And the positivity rates are not dropping across the country. Texas and Florida look like their getting ready to overtake California because their positivity rate have been increasing while Califonia's decreasing overall.

While we're at it since you still don't get it, here are the positivity rates (total cases divided by total tests) for the top 10 countries with the most cases, as well as the 2 you have brought up, and then some other countries.

10 hours ago, Californication said:

This is like 85% Trumps fault. There is almost no federal response to Corona virus. And instead of creating laws to protect people Trump has spread misinformation about the corona virus. You are a perfect example. You are sitting here arguing over and over that the reason the number of infected people are going up is because more tests are being done. You believe that because that is what Donald Trump and his surrogates have spread through the conservative news spaces. And while you may be wearing a face mask when you go out, there are many other people who think it isn't necessary because they follow the same logic as you but reach the conclusion that it isn't necessary.  

Okay you got me. You are just trolling me. Well done. Trump is partly to blame yes, but everyone has the power to research stuff on there own, to wear a mask, and to not go out and gather in large crowds. That's not at all what I'm arguing. I know you're trolling me, but what I'm saying is the positivity rate is going down because more tests are being done. I never said anything about there being more confirmed cases because there are more tests being done (that probably only applied during the first month or so of this when they could only do a certain amount of tests in a day.) I do my own research. I don't follow Trump. I'm not a moron. I know COVID-19 is real and a serious problem. You need to stop putting words in people's mouths and assuming things about them. Trolling or not, it's not a good look for you.

16 minutes ago, Californication said:

@Rhino, what is your point? Are you saying that 200,000 deaths in the U.S. isn't that many and Trump has done a good job?

Seriously, are you even reading my posts? Are you just trolling me? What is going on? I literally just said "For now, yes, the U.S has done a sh!t job with the virus. "

200k deaths is a lot, and it'll be 250k+ by the end of the year. The country has not done a good job. Trump is partly to blame and has not done a good job either.

18 minutes ago, Californication said:

I brought people I know into it because you are saying that the testing is so focused and the people getting tested mostly have the corona virus making the positivity rate irrelevant. The point is you don't understand what positivity rate means or the laws od the most populous state in the country that require people to get tested.

I don't think you read or understand my post then. At the beginning of this, positivity rates were high because only those with symptoms got tested. Now people who simply have been in contact with anyone who had it get tested even if they don't have any symptoms. You see lower positivity rates now because there are more people getting tested who are less likely to test positive. That's why it's a bad stat to go off of to view how good or bad a country is dealing with COVID-19. 

1 hour ago, Californication said:

Positivity rates are the worst way to measure this? Said no doctor or scientist ever. You have no idea what your talking about. My manager in california's entire family has had to be tested three times because her daughters keep getting symptoms at school. Then four of them have all been negative each time, but California law requires the testing before her daughters can go back into daycare. My uncles who is a plumber at the prison's family had to be tested because someone on his block got covid. They are all negative. Multiply that out.

Total death count matters the most? We have 4% of the worlds population and 25% of the worlds covid deaths. 

I don't understand what point you are trying to make. 

I am so lost now. Why did you bring your family and manager into this? They got tested and were negative. What is your point? 

The U.S does not have 25% of the actual death count of the worlds deaths. China has been lying out the ass this whole time. You're telling me they magically solved their COVID-19 problem in February? They must have hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of deaths by now from COVID-19. The U.S' death count percentage compared to the world will also decline as India and Brazil catch up. The U.S was one of the first big countries to seriously experience the outbreak after China. Several countries are months behind but are now catching up. The U.S total death count is bad and could end up being the official worst. Only time will tell. You remind me of people at the beginning of this who said the flu is worse than COVID-19 because it kills more people. Yes at the time that was true because the outbreak was a month old. You have to wait until the event has run it's course. Then we can compare stuff. For now, yes, the U.S has done a sh!t job with the virus. 

So how about that train wreck last night?

21 hours ago, Californication said:

Vietnam had zero deaths for months. Unfortunately Chinese migrants were smuggled into Vietnam and spread the disease.

The rest of the country's are going through a second wave as we were told could happen from the beginning. I am not sure how you are comparing our first wave to other country's combined first and second wave and then acting like they didn't do miles better than us 

Donald Trump had mmmooonnths of notice. And since Donald Trump doesn't care about Americans he didn't take preventative measures. Even now with 200,000 people dead Donald Trump has no plan to slow down the virus.

I don't think you understand what positivity rate means. It is a ratio. If we have 100,000 positive tests and 1,000,000 tested we have a 10% positivity rate. If there are 5,000 positive tests and 50,000 tests there is a 10% positivity rate. By comparing the ratio the number of tests become irrelevant. You are saying that we have a lot of infected because we have a lot of tests, but that is wrong. All of the extra people being tested, who don't have the virus, should lower the positivity rate. Say 500 people have the virus and 1000 people are tested, there is a 50% positivity rate. The say 500 people have the virus and 2000 people are tested the positivity rate is 25%. You see the more you test and have negative results the lower the positivity rate. 

Also, more importantly they don't have to test as much as us because they are doing contract tracing. We have to test everyone because the virus is everywhere.

Positivity rates are one of the worst ways to measure how bad the virus is in an area. What if only people with symptoms are getting tested? Of course your positivity rate will be higher. What if everyone who wants to get tested gets tested? Of course your positivity rate will be lower. All that matters is total case count and total death count. Total death count is more important because you can't "hide" that as much. You can "hide" the official number of cases either because of asymptomatic carriers or because people just aren't or can't get tested. 

If you like rates so much, you want a country who's doing horrible with the virus? Check out Mexico. 10.45% death rate for confirmed cases. In comparison, the U.S is at 2.84% death rate for confirmed cases. South Korea is at 1.73% death rate. Vietnam is at 3.19%. The point is, you can twist data about COVID-19 however you want to in order to fit whatever narrative you want to present. Based on my death rates, Vietnam has actually done a worse job with helping those infected with the virus than the U.S. Obviously this is a silly data point to argue over since the total deaths in the U.S is higher, but their death rate is higher. To me, total deaths is super important. Confirmed cases is also important because it shows how far the virus has spread, but ultimately deaths are what suck and truly matter.

22 minutes ago, Californication said:

Umm..what? People don't travel to the country's that have managed the corona virus well? People travel to European countries, Vietnam, South Korea, etc. but most of the countiries quarantine visitors. Also, they all do contract tracing so if someone gets infected they can try and prevent the spread. 

If we would have shut down for the appropriate amount of time and instituted other measures instead of listening to mostly republicans our economy would be back to normal already. We have proff of this from multiple countries around the world.

Also, your complaints about tedt kits don't make sense. We can compare positivity rates. That accounts for variances from testing. 

Vietnam and south korea do have low total case counts and death counts. Check out the past two months though. Starting in August, their cases skyrocket (for them). The same thing happened with lots of europe. France is a great example. No one has this totally under control. Some have it under control better than others. 

If China wouldn't have been shady af about it when they first found out, the rest of the world would've been able to better prepare and enact proper countermeasures to reduce risk. China didn't say sh!t about it for a solid month. They've been shady about their numbers since February too. Yes the U.S should've shut everything down early on. A big problem is all the misinformation about the virus and people not wearing masks and people congregating in large groups. Everyone can do their part despite what Trump says. 

Here's where test kits come into play. Let's say I'm country A and I can afford 200 million test kits and my population is 100 million. The amount of positive tests will be higher because there are more people who can be tested. Let's say I'm country B and I can only afford 10k kits and my population is also 200 million. That means only 10k people can officially test positive. Both countries have the same amount of test kits but one will have way more official cases. It's why India still hasn't surpassed the U.S in total cases. 4x the population of the U.S but 1.2 million fewer cases. They simply have fewer test kits. They now have kits which is why you see 80k+ cases every day.

On 9/26/2020 at 12:45 AM, Link said:

https://medium.com/indica/the-overwhelming-racism-of-covid-coverage-78e37e4ce6e8

... Recently the NYPost (dumpster fire) said: Scientists can’t explain puzzling lack of coronavirus outbreaks in Africa. Well no, they can, it’s bog standard public health. They have excellent scientists in Africa, you know.

... ‘developing’ nations have done remarkably better at fighting COVID-19 than the rich and white. The real story starts precisely where the western map ends. ... The real story is that places like Vietnam and Mongolia have completely kicked COVID-19’s ass. The real story is that places like Rwanda and Ghana have innovated and survived. There are countless stories like this ...

...the western media anoints white Germany a COVID leader, despite having outbreak the size of Iraq’s. They should be looking at Vietnam. Vietnam has the same population, much less wealth and has had a dramatically better response. Nearly 10,000 people have died in Germany, compared to 35 in Vietnam. Every two days Germany has as many cases as Vietnam did total. ...

...countless column pixels have been devoted to abject failures like Sweden, as if they’re somehow a model. A model of what? Killing your people, economy and reputation at the same time? Real models in the Caribbean or Africa are ignored while people debate whether everyone should just get the disease. Honestly, WTF is wrong with you people? Just get the disease? When poor nations like mine have just eliminated it and moved on? 

It's hard. Part of the reason why it's easier for poorer countries to contain the virus and eliminate it is because no one (or at least very few people) are traveling there. Travel is a huge part of the continued spread of the virus. There's also the problem of test kits and what the real numbers are for this virus. Poorer countries don't have the same resources, so that's also part of why they could be seeing fewer official cases and deaths. The U.S and other first world countries should follow proven successes in other countries, however, there is the sad reality of things such as keeping the world economy afloat. Imagine if the U.S really did shut absolutely everything down for a month. The world would go into complete chaos. Should it be shut down, absolutely. Will it, no.

"Just get the disease" wow. A better mentality should be "Just wear a f*cking mask and be responsible." Wait it out until a vaccine is ready, then get said vaccine and continue to be careful since you can be reinfected with different strands. You have to remember, it's not just about you getting the virus, it's about you getting it and potentially spreading it to a vulnerable population.