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- Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:03 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 55352
PhoneLobster, listen to me. Just listen. Please. Please do not be a dick right now. I am emotionally exhausted. I am not snidely delegitimizing the progressive movement. You know this. Everyone knows this. I have not been subtle with my politics here. And I know you know this, because I do not think...
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 5:06 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 55352
I haven't really been following this thread, don't really know who's reading, and don't really know where people are getting their information from, but the media coverage of this election has kinda sucked and as someone who has been following county by county data and building their own battlegroun...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:13 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: So long, and thanks for all the fish
- Replies: 100
- Views: 33329
But nobody LIKES Kaelik, and he doesn't coordinate 'a brigade'. I don't disagree that Kaelik is an example of 'garbage people'. He is the one and only person I have on permanent ignore and that's exactly the reason. Kaelik is fine. He seems to be kinda bad at diplomatically taking shit from people,...
- Sun Sep 13, 2020 7:46 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: So long, and thanks for all the fish
- Replies: 100
- Views: 33329
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 2:27 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: So long, and thanks for all the fish
- Replies: 100
- Views: 33329
I do think ableism is a categorically different beast than racism or sexism. Whereas racism and sexism directly attack the validity of an identity, ableism exploits the consequences a disability has for those who have it to hyperbolically insult the competence of people who don't (so far as you know...
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 6:18 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 63416
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:31 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 63416
- Sun May 17, 2020 6:31 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
Estimated herd immunity threshold without non-pharmacological interventions: 60-70%. Estimated infection fatality rate, which will likely turn out to be slightly higher because we know we're undercounting deaths, but if you're feeling optimistic could be slightly lower if we're still underestimating...
- Wed May 06, 2020 5:30 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
- Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:48 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Image macros that make you laugh, cry, or both.
- Replies: 6320
- Views: 985285
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 4:06 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
- Tue Apr 14, 2020 3:36 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
Notice that both Japan and S.Korea had pretty intensive vaccination against tubercolosis for decades and guess which nations are right next to China and mostly shrugging off the pandemic. Countries that take their mass vaccination seriously deal with diseases better, who could've ever imagined? Not...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:09 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 1:46 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
Frank, I'd like to hear your opinion on this: ... I'm inclined to support mayor de Blasio's decision on this, but I'd like to hear more about this. So, most experts are estimating a herd immunity threshold of 50-80% and a minimum (as in with adequate care) infection fatality rate of .5-1.0%. That ....
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 3:02 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
The point is often made that you can't eat money, but you also can't inject it into your veins. It's important to understand that when we put you on a ventilator for pneumonia (COVID-19 related or no), we are managing a symptom of an underlying condition. That symptom is not being able to breathe, a...
- Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:21 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
Mechanical ventilation, which Boris Johnson is overwhelmingly likely to be on sometime in the next 24 hours if he isn't already, has a staggeringly high mortality rate - and I don't mean that in the context of COVID-19, I mean that generally. It is a last ditch effort to save a patient's life that f...
- Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:31 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
You know the joke - short answer, no, long answer, nope. The problem right now is that the data we have is coming from different countries with different levels of testing and different levels of preparedness. And also that the level of testing and preparedness vary over time in the same country as ...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 938343
EMP's don't care if your device is on or off. An EMP induces a current in conductive materials. Electronics are made of conductive materials. If the current is large enough, those conductive materials will melt or explode due to heat. If it isn't, then the EMP was just going to make your system rebo...
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:46 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
The virus is almost certainly not directly affecting your neurochemistry or mood or anything like that. It can, however, cause a significant degree of discomfort and pain, which can lead to mood swings through the totally mundane mechanism of being irritated about all the discomfort and pain you're ...
- Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:43 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 1:58 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
Germany's current case fatality count is .37%. Attempts to estimate the true CFR rate all seem to land in the .5% to 1% range, meaning Germany's numbers are surprisingly good but not implausibly so. Germany is also doing widespread random testing and last time I checked had found exactly one case th...
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 11:32 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
So, that is basically a graph of open beds a country has per 1000 population, with the results ranging from .1 to 2.5. Let's put that in perspective. 1000 * .4 infection rate * .05 hospitalization rate = 20. Now, those are lowish estimates for infection rate and hospitalization rate, so it'll probab...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:22 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 158003
While governments are reluctant to publish any of their internal modelling for obvious reasons, the coronavirus is less and less of a mystery everyday. We're not really exploring uncharted territory anymore - we made it through all that, and now we're just triangulating exact coordinates. So here's ...
- Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:58 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Image macros that make you laugh, cry, or both.
- Replies: 6320
- Views: 985285
That's what lost you? You followed along through the Little School Bus of Horrors, the giant sea-ape punting overly handsy crabs off a nude beach, and the dolphin man with the thousand yard stare that somehow blends the expressions of serene contentment and horrifying existential crisis, but Igor as...
- Fri Feb 28, 2020 1:07 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Image macros that make you laugh, cry, or both.
- Replies: 6320
- Views: 985285