Comments by joker44 (page 25)

>On you?< Jeez, Wally you're denser than a black hole. Yes, mute my comments or the entire thread, whatever brings you peace of mind rather than a recurring compulsion to give us a piece of your mind. Use the Force, Luke; Use the Mute, Wally.

@Nina: Missouri and Ks have been 'at war' since Quantrill's raid. Josh Hawley is Mo's answer to notorious former Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach - bigoted fanatics pretending to be Republicans.

Shhh....Pass it on : Crazyjoe and MackTruck are spreading the virus

One route of transmission for the virus is 'fecal-oral'. Virus excreted in stool is transmitted to eye,nose, mucous membranes by incomplete cleanup after BM 😁

Use the Mute Wally

OR it could be WORSE - because many deaths attributed to pneumonia etc could have initially developed as a result of undiagnosed Covid19; more people might be symptomatic but not be counted because they haven't seen a doc or gone to ER.

Additional Covid Resources: 1. Covid: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Diagnostics a 50 min illustrated medical explanation including infection rates and spread rate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWzbArPgo-o 2. Covid: Corona Virus: Treatment [ including use of cloroquine hcl ], Prognosis, Precautions [36min] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdoN_XsHWBI

@FLF "Sealioning A subtle form of trolling involving "bad-faith" questions. You disingenuously frame your conversation as a sincere request to be enlightened, placing the burden of educating you entirely on the other party. If your bait is successful, the other party may engage, painstakingly laying out their logic and evidence in the false hope of helping someone learn. In fact you are attempting to harass or waste the time of the other party, and have no intention of truly entertaining their point of view. Instead, you react to each piece of information by misinterpreting it or requesting further clarification, ad nauseum. The name "sea-lioning" comes from a Wondermark comic strip." SJG has expanded this to include not only questioning but "bad-faith" posting of non-sequitur comments and references/urls irrelevant to the OP.

See my post: 'All the Coronavirus Statistics Are Flawed' for caution about drawing unwarranted conclusions from flawed Covid stats. https://tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=71494 For an in-depth explanation of Covid Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Diagnostics click below [50min] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWzbArPgo-o For a shorter explanation with focus on Diagnosis, Treatment [incl cloroquine hcl], Prognosis, and Precautions in treatment click below [36min] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdoN_XsHWBI Factual information trumps wild speculation and useless arguments based on bullshitting [= bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. ... the bullshitter doesn't care if what they say is true or false,... only cares whether their listener is persuaded.]

>I'm sure he's chased away so many quality posters.< More like SJG has worn-out members by persistent malicious troll tactics like sealioning and wall of gibberish. The slow building annoyance and irritation you get with a dripping faucet. And to state once again a member like SJG can be both a malicious troll and psychologically disturbed; they aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, extreme malicious trolls like RIP trolls and stalkers/doxers likely score high on negative traits like sadism, coercive exploitation, etc.

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T-shirts for the TUSCL Kranky Krew https://tuscl.net/photos/5e7ae1c1f0b00

Just add wearing this T-shirt and you'll be ok. https://tuscl.net/photos/5e7ae1685c361

*Really detailed* and very demanding and tedious work. What Eakin describes isn't fun. In his words: "Adapting myself into the regiments of photorealistic drawing requires an assimilation into automata. There’s not a single facet of the genre that doesn’t necessitate a direct confrontation towards a shopping list of personal weaknesses. Reforming my process of art production becomes a reconfiguration of human habits into mechanical ones, a method of self-improvement via photographic translation and a stick of charcoal. Delete subjectification. Delete inspiration. Draw the picture. Beep Boop" Dylan Eakin

Levels of stress like this tend to expose poor coping skills and other deficits in personality organization.

> mean, who will want to go on a cruise ship after this experience ?< good point. But add that BEFORE covid19 emerged cruise ships were already having serious problems [ & much bad PR ] with rapid transmission of on-board infections. Covid19 just upped the difficulty for cruise lines.

Dandy Dan...........an empty glass kind of guy 😁

Locally, I knew a few strippers who still pulled in late 20s and older customers. These strippers were in their very late 30s; one worked into her early 40s. All of them were not only attractive but had entertaining personalities, Among them was locally born Penthouse Pet, Elizabeth Hilden who worked at a local SC into her mid to late 30s. She'd be 46 now. OTOH, some young and sexy strippers don't age well and become to old in their late 20s.

This is NOT MEANT TO BE a 'joke' It's a one item screening for a personality trait............SADISM

So now we'll get to see how Chamblee reacts; how much of a threat they are to Follies existence.

@OldOwl75 I'm with you. No one knows if SJG IS homeless. No one KNOWS how much the person who writes on TUSCL as SJG is like the character they created. Perhaps it's nearly 100% overlap, perhaps near 0% overlap. No member has ever met SJG f2f :) SJG's author's not posting coinciding with the Santa Clara Co shelter-at-home has added fuel to the homeless suppostion. But this is TUSCL where "Everything on this site should be considered a work of fiction.", not the WSJ or LATimes. Closer to The Onion parody site. So members are free to speculate. Free to play fast and loose with reality for fun and enjoyment. Some people who stumble upon TUSCL, fail to get the 'work of fiction' memo and believe mostly everything they read.

/sarcasm/ I strongly encourage those Trumpaholics, MAGAts, vocel/incels, and gamers to gather in large numbers. All those with questionable reality testing, fanatic psychological tendencies, etc. It's a 'win-win'. Many will get infected and survive with no symptoms or very mild symptoms. They'll get a shot of imaginary testosterone. They'll be able to boast that they confronted imaginary fears and survived. They were right and the 'normies' were wrong. OTOH, up to 2-3% may die ridding the overall population of dangerously compromised individuals. Encourage disobedience and help make some impaired folks feel like they make a difference again. /sarcasm/

Locally [KCMO] city is on 'stay at home' and extensions/delays have been granted in terms of business licensing. Here, for the most part, club locations are restricted by SOB zoning. Most, but not all, SCs are non-alcohol clubs. Liquor license irrelevant but SOB zoning makes it nearly impossible to start/build a club in a NEW location. Existing clubs have a powerful motive for retaining their zoning-based licenses. Once lapsed in current atmosphere they'd be difficult to reinstate even by current owner/operator.

Whoopsie! Posted under wrong ' government attack on individual freedom' post. Corrected.

Steve Gibson's comments on his podcast Security Now! #758 - 03-17-20 https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/758?autostart=false A despicable attack on encryption It surely does appear that our government, embodied by crypto-naive politicians, is, one way or another, going to figure out how to break into the encryption-protected assets of American citizens. The most recent effort, dubbed the “EARN IT” act is almost despicable. First of all “EARN IT” is the most tortured abbreviation we've encountered in some time. It stands for: “Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies.” So, get a load of this. What is it that strong data encrypting companies would be “earning”? The legislation proposes to strip the protection provided by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act from certain apps and companies which would then hold them responsible for user- uploaded content... unless they provide a means for “lawful access” to their encryption- protected content. In other words, the legal protections that currently serve to hold all of our online social media companies harmless for whatever their users post, would now need to be “earned” by allowing law enforcement to have access. Sadly, EARN IT is a bipartisan effort, having been introduced by (no surprise) anti-encryption crusader Lindsey Graham, Richard Blumenthal and other legislators who continually use the specter of online child exploitation to argue for the weakening of encryption. Remember that we discussed this back in December 2019: While grilling Facebook and Apple, Lindsey threatened to regulate encryption unless the companies give law enforcement access to encrypted user data while pointing to child abuse. Graham said to the assembled tech-company heads: “You’re going to find a way to do this or we’re going to go do it for you. We’re not going to live in a world where a bunch of child abusers have a safe haven to practice their craft. Period. End of discussion.” The EFF notes that one of the problems with the EARN IT bill, among many, is that the proposed legislation “offers no meaningful solutions” to the problem of child exploitation. They wrote: "It doesn’t help organizations that support victims. It doesn’t equip law enforcement agencies with resources to investigate claims of child exploitation or training in how to use online platforms to catch perpetrators. Rather, the bill’s authors have shrewdly used defending children as the pretense for an attack on our free speech and security online." If passed, the legislation will create a “National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention” tasked with developing “best practices” for owners of Internet platforms to “prevent, reduce, and respond” to child exploitation online. But, as the EFF maintains, “Best practices” would essentially translate into legal requirements: "If a platform failed to adhere to them, it would lose essential legal protections for free speech." It turns out that the “best practices” approach arose from pushback over the bill’s predicted effects on privacy and free speech – pushback that caused its authors to roll out the new structure. The best practices would be subject to approval or veto by the Attorney General (currently William Barr, who has himself already issued a public call for backdoors), the Secretary of Homeland Security (ditto), and the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). CNET talked to Lindsey Barrett, a staff attorney at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Public Representation Communications and Technology Clinic who said that the way that the bill is structured is a clear indication that it’s meant to target encryption: "When you’re talking about a bill that is structured for the attorney general to give his opinion and have decisive influence over what the best practices are, it does not take a rocket scientist to concur that this is designed to target encryption." If the bill passes, the choice for tech companies comes down to either weakening their own encryption and endangering the privacy and security of all their users, or foregoing Section 230 protections and potentially facing liability in a wave of lawsuits. A senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said: "The removal of Section 230 liability essentially makes the ‘best practices’ a requirement. The cost of doing business without those immunities is too high."