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  2. COVID 19 Discussion

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    9 hours ago, Cascade Youth said:

    One thing this pandemic has done is highlight the flaws of nearly every institution.  Reactionary, defensive communist regime full of fearful bureaucrats?  Not a surprise they sat on the problem and tried to cover up the true extent of the outbreak: it was predictable.  Science-skeptical President who carried out his mandate of gutting established bureaucracies and prefers his own instincts to actual data?  Can’t be surprised that his “nothing to see here” first reaction made him look like the mayor from Jaws.  Regardless of your politics, you could have gone from institution to institution around the world and predicted exactly what ended up happening based on the type of people in charge and their professed world outlooks.

    From the standpoint of American society writ large, I hope this is an apolitical statement: we generally prefer a “buy now, pay later” approach.  We finance things on credit, it’s part of the American DNA.  This is what we’ve chosen, always.  Americans don’t want to spend now to deal with a problem in the future: we don’t want to pay now for a medical infrastructure that would maybe help some future generation deal with a pandemic.  This is the result; it was entirely predictable.   Some might say the next big debt coming due is climate change, but even suggesting that has become “political” so I won’t go there.  Personally I would hope society learns some lessons from all of this and realizes that being guided by anything other than science and data is a dangerous recipe for catastrophe - but some things are so deeply embedded in American culture that I’m skeptical anything will really change.

     

     

    And now we are having protests in mostly  red states. People never learn.

     

     

  7. GDT: PENGUINS @ SABRES - 7 PM ET

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    1 minute ago, Andrew Amerk said:

    Yes, I use it through Roku. Never had any issues with buffering at all. Picture is crisp. The only thing I’ve noticed is that the stream is maybe 30 seconds behind people watching on things like DirecTV - I’ll get texts from friends saying “EICHEL!!!” before I see the goal lol

    Previously, I was able to go into my account settings and change the zip code, so that I could watch other games in other markets. I was trying to do this last week, with no success. 

    Is this anything you’ve played with in the past? 

    No. I've been having trouble staying logged into Fubo. Real pita getting logged back in

     

  13. Democratic Presidential hopefuls and your thoughts

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    Biden almost died years ago from a brain aneurysm. That and being 77 will take it's toll..Trump hasn't worked a day in his life.It's easy taking over a room when you got a big mouth and are an ***** all the time.He's been that way ever since he started spending Daddy's money. Terrible leadership skills.How in the heck do you bankrupt multiple casinos?

     

  15. Iowa Caucus

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    20 hours ago, LTS said:

    If I tried to pay attention to this my angst would only grow.  Watching party candidate hopefuls tear each other apart is ridiculous.  Let's all trash each other but when one person is picked let's be expected to throw our support behind that person... yeah, the one we just said was unfit to be picked.

    Could anything be more asinine?

    And its both parties... just depends on the year.

    Kind of like those clowns that ran against Trump and now lick his boots and wipe his butt

  22. Who Does Their Own Mechanical Work?

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    I was an ASE certified mechanic for 15 years. GM & Chrysler shops. Got sick of flat rate shop favoritism. Worked at Napa for 10 years and trained in HVAC. Became an industrial mechanic since. Getting older I don't do any work on my vehicles outside bulbs and wipers. Just ain't worth the pain crawling, stopping and kneeling.

    Stay away from chain shops. Find someone close that specializes in your type of car. I was lucky. We have Toyota's and there's a ex Toyota guy in the next town.

  23. Anthem Singers

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    DOUGIE!!! Don't understand the hate. He does a great job, hits all the notes and doesn't drag it out and ruin it by changing it. The Sabres  suck but we have one of the best anthem singers in the land!?

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