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Captainant

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  1. 3 minutes ago, Chet Steadman said:

    The tweets of someone who now suddenly knows his Supreme Courts future.  

    Oh shit I forgot the last day of opinions is today. Here's hoping for good news and not head-injury Roberts!

  2. 11 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    A very, very simple and predictable take from an attorney. I’ll respond in more detail later, but giving politics credit for the drop in crude this Spring is really stupid. That was the noisy headline and had little to do with it. 

    What are you talking about? The low oil prices are being driven in part by depressed demand, but OPEC and Russia are in a price war that's driving the price down and putting American fracking wells into the red. Shale only works above a certain price per barrel, and OPEC knows that and is exploiting that by not reducing production

  3. 13 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

    Lololololololololol

    as if anything is going to end before a certain little political event that occurs in November 

    Well, the senate is currently in recess for a state work period and won't be back until July 17 and the Pandemic Federal Unemployment Compensation (PFUC) statutorily runs out on July 31, and many states issue the last payment on the 25th. It's not a surefire thing that they'll pass something before August to extend that date out, and even if we could reopen and presto-chango go back to normal, it would still be at least a quarter to recover with regard to employment.

    And yet, the Nasdaq hit an all-time high today. Stonks.

  4. Just thinking forwards though guys... There's tens of millions of Americans getting an extra $600/mo in unemployment benefits that ends sometime in July. That's alot of fluid capital to dry up, and I can't imagine it's going to do good things for REITs and MBS's to look so good come August/September. Especially with it looking like we're going to have to continue to social distance at least to August.

  5. 5 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

    Teachers.....

     

    Do teachers unions and teachers at large ostracize and punish educators who see something and say something?

    Fuck your false equivalency man. Teachers aren't killing people and getting away with it in plain sight.

  6. 2 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    I completely agree about accountability, which does not negate the need to re-evaluate training duration and method.
     

    The point is more that from looking at existing data, there is no correlation between increased training and improved behavior, for lack of a better term. This is a REALLY good twitter thread that sticks to data to back its points

     

     

    The lower hanging fruit IMO is to change the relationship and power dynamic between the police unions and the cities they work for. The ability to play a shell game with serial offender officers and bury past wrongs is arguably the single largest contributing factor to our current animosity with policing.

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  7. The decision to trade GDP for human lives is pretty inherently political, my dudes. Especially in the face of opening ahead of data-driven guidelines and medical guidance. 

    But hey, I guess it's all just spilled milk and we gotta hope there's no further economic anxiety to justify ignoring data to reopen early again.

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  8. 44 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    I don’t care to hear Abbott and Patrick criticisms.

    Here's why it's sticking your head in the sand

     

    Opening early was a purely political decision and it has put millions of Texans at risk, and contributed directly to the severity of the pandemic in our state. You're ignoring plain facts if you want to protect Abbott and Patrick from criticism

  9. 19 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    This is simply not reality. I know you want it to be. Which is it - politics are unavoidable in today’s news, or have right wingers politicized DT?  Those are two different points. At any rate, politics are avoidable in news, and no, right-leaning posters haven’t co-opted DT as their propaganda machine. I don’t know anyone who thinks like me (conservative) that can even stand Trump.

    Politics are necessarily unavoidable in discussing current events and today's news. COVID, nascar nooses, police brutality, confederate memorials? Not sure how you avoid politics when the president is actively taking a side and participating in the bad faith and false arguments

    And right wing posters haven't co-opted DT into an active propoganda machine, but y'all whine and cry whenever someone links a cause or source to our current situation. And actively push out and discourage even mentioning anything around the decision makers whose decisions put us where we are and are keeping us here.

    You're burying your head in the sand and acting like anyone paying attention is a partisan

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  10. 55 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Yeah that's what it was. The cabal just wants to play the typical blame game where they can somehow feel superior.

    Politicking the shit out of it ?  Hardly, there were political comments made, I made a few, and either edited them away or got called out on it. The humor was every few days the CR boys made a run at the thread, and tried to get in to a slap fight with someone ....... anyone as long as they could spout off their political views.

    The CR is no fun when it's an echo chamber, circle jerk.  You start eating your own (SEE: multiple Bad teammate attacks).

    You're conflating people who don't think like you and repeat the propoganda as some partisan hacks. Especially considering the president has been tweeting the same debunked talking points that get echoed in DT. Unless you're telling me that we do in fact have COVID under control and we should resume reopening?

  11. 28 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

    Here is a West Texas doctor that says he has had success with Budesonide. It is an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid he uses in nebulizers. Don't know much about any of that, but thoughts from our Docs would be nice to hear:

     

    CHIEF

    Not a medical expert like any of our docs, but from some googling it looks like it's useful for treating acute respiratory symptoms, which could absolutely help to save lives in ICU. Seems to have many considerations and side effects to account for in prescribing though

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    Budesonide is used to prevent difficulty breathing, chest tightness, wheezing, and coughing caused by asthma. Budesonide powder for oral inhalation (Pulmicort Flexhaler) is used in adults and children 6 years of age and older. Budesonide suspension (liquid) for oral inhalation (Pulmicort Respules) is used in children 12 months to 8 years of age. Budesonide belongs to a class of medications called corticosteroids. It works by decreasing swelling and irritation in the airways to allow for easier breathing.

     

  12. 46 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, I finally got a couple of cheapo surgical masks to replace our bandana masks.

    It is much easier to breathe through those masks than the double-thickness bandanas.

    Doesn't seem like they cover a whole lot better either.  Maybe around the nose.

    Could it be that a bandana is a more effective mask?

    In my anecdotal view, I think it's just that bandanas are more restrictive to air passing through them, while the masks are (theoretically, at least) easier to breath with and do a good/better job filtering out some droplets. I definitely fuck with a purpose-made mask less on my face than I did with a bandana though, and that adds up too.

  13. So where I'm at is I have a bunch of seemingly overvalued shares of stocks that don't make sense at the price they're at. And I also have a bunch of student debt. I'm thinking I sell off half of what I've got (get my money out and leave house money in), dump it into principal payments, and let the rest ride? Because BRRRRRT is still gonna BRRRRRT, but bird in the hand and all that

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