COVID-19

[count2infinity]

I'm good, brah.

[Freddy Rumsen]

The incels are happy these days:

And it is my fear, as a researcher of far-right and anti-feminist digital spaces, that continuing mass anxiety and material depression will combine with the contemporary digital landscape in an ugly fashion. As a dramatic post from one misogynist subculture, incels (short for involuntarily celibate), recently put it:

“Normies now feel what we feel all the time. Alone, bored, sad, aimless, horny, empty, desolate, disconnected from the rest of humanity — the endless drone of whining and moaning I’m seeing on the social media timelines is the hellscape we have to endure constantly all the time during ‘normal times’, I can’t help but have a huge dose of schadenfreude over this — welcome to our world normiescum.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/opin ... ntributors

Is this like when the Joker movie was going to cause mass shootings?

[faftorial]

The incels are happy these days:

And it is my fear, as a researcher of far-right and anti-feminist digital spaces, that continuing mass anxiety and material depression will combine with the contemporary digital landscape in an ugly fashion. As a dramatic post from one misogynist subculture, incels (short for involuntarily celibate), recently put it:

“Normies now feel what we feel all the time. Alone, bored, sad, aimless, horny, empty, desolate, disconnected from the rest of humanity — the endless drone of whining and moaning I’m seeing on the social media timelines is the hellscape we have to endure constantly all the time during ‘normal times’, I can’t help but have a huge dose of schadenfreude over this — welcome to our world normiescum.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/opin ... ntributors

Is this like when the Joker movie was going to cause mass shootings?

It didn't say that.

[faftorial]

I sleep next to a woman every night, so...I'm good, thanks.

Normiescum.

[willeyeam]

[Freddy Rumsen]

This sounds terrible.

[dodint]

Yeah, don't do that.

Walkin' on the Sun by Smashmouth is their jam.

[willeyeam]

I'd go with

or

[nocera]

Wow that chart is incredible.

[willeyeam]

Every county is PA is now represented. Mercer County up to 26 from like 14 yesterday I think. Here we go

https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid ... 579285&z=8

[Troy Loney]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Definitely appears like NYC reached the apex for cases. That GA number is ugly though.

Still not sure what this says about how places that experienced massive outbreaks can get back to normal. Spain and Italy have to provide the model.

[Troy Loney]

Just watched some video about that world covid tracking website.

It was some 17 year old kid in Washington, and has turned down millions of dollars from advertisers.

edit, this is his website.

https://ncov2019.live/

[AuthorTony]

Looks rough for PA too as far as new cases go.

[Troy Loney]

Looks rough for PA too as far as new cases go.

They have pretty much flat lined at around 1400- 1500.

Pittsburgh has more or less avoided outbreak, so unless that changes the PA numbers will be manageable.

[nocera]

Just watched some video about that world covid tracking website.

It was some 17 year old kid in Washington, and has turned down millions of dollars from advertisers.

edit, this is his website.

https://ncov2019.live/

He apparently turned down an 8 million dollar offer. There isn't a lot I wouldn't do for 8 million dollars.

[Troy Loney]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/c ... e=Homepage

I know this is written from a race angle, but I think it's more of a class issue, and it's also why I'm afraid that our social distancing measures are limited to flattening the curve.

[willeyeam]

17 year old kid turned down 8 million? What a maroon

[shafnutz05]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/c ... e=Homepage

I know this is written from a race angle, but I think it's more of a class issue, and it's also why I'm afraid that our social distancing measures are limited to flattening the curve.

Yeah, it's definitely a class issue. Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs is one area where the disparity has been especially heinous.

[nocera]

17 year old kid turned down 8 million? What a maroon

I think he wanted to do the ethical thing, but damn kid. Find a way to make an unobtrusive ad space and make that money.

[offsides]

17 year old kid turned down 8 million? What a maroon

Sure sounds like he has his stuff together. I'm betting with his obvious skills, he will do just fine in life.

[dodint]

Maybe he is also a COBOL programmer.

[nocera]

Will he do "8 million dollars in one lump sum" fine?

[willeyeam]

Will he do "8 million dollars in one lump sum" fine?

I was gonna post that but didn't wanna take this convo too far off topic. I hope he doesn't regret it down the road but I question that decision

[Kaiser]

If we had more people like that, nobody would have to care about any dollar amount.

[skullman80]

Me too. I'd of taken that money. That's ALOT of money.