BashfulBob

People seem to see posting as a bigger hurdle than commenting

This is why Hexbear continues to rely on a Posters Vanguard

Only a Dunbar's Number worth of active users. Damn, I bet they all know each other and have some degree of social intimacy, unlike us cool dudes in Lemmy who shout endlessly into the void of anonymity.

Then there's all the weapon skins like having neon purple tiger camo.

Obviously, DLC paid upgrades don't count

It's practically never been the gold standard. Lean athletic women came into fashion in the 80s, then gave away to emaciated waffs in the 90s, and finally buxom anime-shaped cuddle pillows in the '00s.

Before that, the All-Natural Woman of the 70s, the white lady dressed ethnically in the 60s, and the domesticated house servant of the 50s were the trends.

The idea that women should be allowed to do athletics was woke, soy, and leftist right up until the Jazzercise phase of Reagan consumerism swept the nation.

They're just angry at any game that's popular. That's the only common denominator here. "Other people shouldn't be allowed to like things".

Can't even jerk off anymore because too many of these games have women

softening, watering down, and removing anything controversial

After that litany of complaints makes this feel like parody.

Antisemitic to notice that we're committing genocide of a semitic people, actually

"We're innocent of these crimes but also they all deserved to die"

Forty Beheaded Babies* means we can kill anyone anywhere we want and tell ourselves that they're worse

• Source: Joe Biden said it so it must be true

the CDC currently has influenza and pneumonia deaths estimated at around 47 000.

sigh Remember when people masked up and quarantined, and the number of influenza deaths plummeted as a side effect? Remember when bottles of sanitizer were everywhere and people were actively health-conscious, and the knock on effect was a generally healthier and safer society? Remember Medicaid expansion and pop-up clinics and a national economy suddenly invigorated in pursuit of a comprehensive health solution for the entire population? And under a Republican President no less.

Gone. Gone. Gone. Like dust in the wind.

Humanity as a collective really did not perform well here. Only China, along with a few other countries like Vietnam and New Zealand, had effective lockdowns.

Given that China was ground zero for the epidemic, they achieved remarkable success. Longest time without a vaccine. Enormous urban populations. A host of hurdles for getting people protected without straight up strangling the economy to death. But they managed a national strategy for containment, treatment, and harm mitigation incredibly well.

Countries like Japan, the Koreas, New Zealand, Vietnam, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Pakistan largely outperformed their peers by delaying the initial onslaught of cases. They closed airports and limited the influx of residents from infected nations. Island nations did fantastic, entirely because of control over international travel. By the time they started to see cases emerge, the disease had mutated to a less-lethal state and enough treatment options were available to mitigate the effects.

Overall, it seems like humanity got out of this fairly well. Compare COVID to the 1917 Flu, for instance. Or the AIDS epidemic, which was far slower to spread but more difficult to treat and prevent. Information on the disease was accrued and distributed rapidly. Scientific investigation quickly nailed down the vectors of spread and yielded useful information on how to avoid contagion, which was (mostly) faithfully propagated internationally. We got a vaccine out in record time, using a totally novel technology that will continue to pay dividends.

This could have gone better. More lives could have been saved. But our performance relative to prior pandemics appears to have improved remarkably.

We can fairly easily build a space station around Mars.

Alright. Let me know where you're at in a week.