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Tuco

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  1. Pro-tip: if your apartment smells like sewage, you should definitely have that addressed, regardless if we are in a pandemic. The gases in a waste system are isolated from interior spaces by water traps. For your toilet, that's the water in the bowl itself. For your sink, that's your J-trap. If those dry out from disuse, there is no longer a trap and gases can leak into the interior spaces. That's why it's good to pour a glass of water in your floor drain in your basement every once in a while. Also, the sewage gases are vented through the roof. If those roof vents are too close to an intake on HVAC equipment, that can be bad as well.
  2. Regardless of the reality, it's important to the Republicans to depict this race as a very close that could easily go either way. Not only does that motivate potential voters to vote for down ballot candidates, it also increases donations - the life blood of the party. Regardless of the reality, it's important to the Democrats to depict this race as a very close that could easily go either way. Not only does that motivate potential voters to vote for down ballot candidates, it also increases donations - the life blood of the party. I have my opinion of what the reality is, but I don't have a ton of confidence in that opinion. I do know that if you are looking at political parties or politicians for signs on whether this will be a close race, you are mainlining marketing strategies.
  3. Kenosha is basically a suburb. It was a town with its own identity, but its growth over the last 30 years has been surburban sprawl. As of 2010, 100k residents, 77% white. I had a buddy who lived in Kenosha, so I've been there many times. Boring as hell. Which makes the idea that the cops need a fucking tank so much more absurd.
  4. Four years ago the debate was about whether a player kneeling during the anthem should be suspended.
  5. Let's don't forget the cops who gave armed, untrained, unregulated civilians water and told them they appreciated them coming out to help in an extremely volatile situation.
  6. Fucking Illinois Bastard.
  7. Donald Trump shakes the hand of the man who won him the evangelical vote in the primary.
  8. Again. It happened four years ago, in Milwaukee, in August.
  9. Who do I hate? Bernie? I saw him speak in Omaha in 2017 and was very impressed. I think his push on economic progressive ideas could be competitive in 50 states. Warren? Do you how many fucking Warren coffee mugs I have in my house? I don’t. Don’t confuse the acknowledgement of the current reality as a preference for it. Biden was not my first, second, or third pick, but I understand that he was not chosen in some back room. People like him, and many of them are scared about the political viability of many of the progressive proposals.
  10. Can someone explain to me how the Obama "cracked skulls" and how the party "rigged" the primary for Joe? The DNC couldn't get laid at a whore house. Neither could the state or county organizations. The campaigns are better run and frequently better financed than the party organizations. There is a reason that Hillary's campaign had to loan money to the DNC. And it's not like Biden conquered a field of progressive. Primary after primary, state after state, moderate candidates (Biden, Buttigieg, Klob) got more votes than progressive candidates (Sanders, Warren). The reality is that the Democratic Party (the voters) is the most progressives it's every been, has become considerably more progressive in the last four years, and it is still fairly moderate.
  11. About Biden’s “underwhelming” primary, let’s remember that he won, in a crowded field, and had pretty much secured the nomination after Super Tuesday. While a lot of people, myself included, were thinking he was toast after Iowa, his team demonstrated they understood electoral strategy better than the pundits.
  12. The Dems have a great advantage over the Republicans: they aren't pretending that everything is normal. Because of this, the Dems were able to create something different. The Republicans will likely just shoot for imitation of normalcy, which will come across as cheap and forced.
  13. Risk your life processing cattle in a factory during a deadly pandemic.
  14. Which is further evidence that Republicans have no fucking clue what capitalism is. It sure as shit ain't about people donating money to build a worthless monument.
  15. If autopart store managers want to pretend to be epidemiologists, then it makes since that epidemiologists should start following criminally link sports figures. I assume the next time a need wiper blades, Bob Costas will be there to help me out to complete the circle.
  16. Yeah, I don't think this is a coincidence. I think Guo is likely the big fish here. I'm guessing it was that investigation that was keeping Bannon "at sea."
  17. In a similar vein, I think it is too easy to get into the mindset that Democrats are looking to change things (being progressives) and the Republicans are looking to protect things (being conservatives.) I think the Democrats do a shit job of showing how the Republicans are actively whittling away at things which have long been valued. Take higher education: the debate is framed that the Democrats are pushing for "free" college, which the Republicans are resisting. What's lost in that is how Republicans have systematically defunded public universities, to the point that it is no longer affordable without incurring massive debt. They both are pushing for change: Democrats looking to make it more affordable and Republicans making it less affordable. Either way it changes, and I think if you give voters the choice between more affordable or less affordable, they'd go with Democrats.
  18. Well, killing the patient would certainly hurt the viruses ability to spread.
  19. I mean, he is right that he is only President because of the anger and hatred generated by a black man being President.
  20. Planning is part of it. But commitment is probably the bigger issue. When budgets are tight, it's tough to commit funds to something that may not be an issue in your term. There is a reason that NY State identified a need in their epidemic planning, but then cut it from their budget.
  21. If Trump loses NE-2, which I feel fairly confident he will, it would bring the total back to 269 to 269, with the House deciding the Presidency. Biden wouldn't need Arizona, NC, or Florida (Nevada is already in Biden's column on the count.)
  22. So, the polling on it was really bad, but the fake news didn't cover it. Then why was the polling bad? Which was idiotic from the start, and not just because it was obvious from early on that Covid was dwarf the H1N1 numbers. The terrifying thing about H1N1 was not the lethality, which was actually on par with a bad flu season. The terrifying thing was that it was killing young people. 80% of the deaths were people under the age of 65. 11% under 17. But, as with most things Trumpian, they are too stupid, lazy and arrogant to actually do the basic research to understand why H1N1 was a big deal. Even now, after over 160,000 American fatalities, they probably haven't done basic background research on other pandemics to understand historical context and to understand where previous failures were. This is not political philosophy; it is just stupidity. [Could you imagine if COVID was similarly impacting young people at those ratios? There is no reason why the next version won't. We need to get our shit together on how we deal with diseases.] The whole thread is weird. He gives some weird attack on the Obama admin, and then says that Biden wasn't really a player in it. So...?
  23. On the Sweden anti-body tests, it was not a random sample. They were out of cities, and self-selected. link to autoparts store...wait, not that would be stupid.
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