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If the material is something you would not want put on the TV screens in your elementary school, it can be restricted.  Because, after all, elementary school kids do use social media these days...

Hahaha that would delete like 90+% of twitter, probably most of social media period. Trump (and most of the republican party at a minimum) would promptly get booted off the platform, ha.

I get the feeling you haven't had any exposure to TV material aimed at elementary school kids any time in the last, like... ever.

Confirmed to tests... positivity rate, right? Iirc the import of that one is basically a measure of if you're testing enough (and consequently have the information you need to mitigate spread and fatality). The higher it is, the less you're (probably) testing people with minor or nonexistent symptoms, so the less you have any fucking idea how much the plague that's very much capable of spreading through a/pre-symptomatic or minor symptomatic carriers is nailing your population.

It's basically a measure of how badly the country in question is fucking up, broadly speaking. Higher means you're fucking up worse, somewhere in the 2% or lower range means you might just have enough information to keep things more or less under control, if you're not doing something staggeringly stupid in regards to your testing practices.

Quote from: Frumple on May 25, 2020, 06:39:12 am

He blocks younger leftward folks from running again I'ma friggin' riot.

Who?

Bernie's campaigns inspired more leftist youth to get involved in politics.  People like AOC have directly attributed him as inspiring their decisions to run for various offices.

Meanwhile, what young leftist are you aware of who was considering or in any position to run for president?

Like, I've forgotten their names 'cause the whole plague thing and 2020 being a small eternity already, but from what I recall there were at least two or three younger (if not AOC level young) left-wing politicos that were in at least as good a position as bernie was to make a run this cycle, but to all appearances didn't largely because he sucked the air out of the proverbial room. Want to say there was someone or another mid-west-ish that kept coming up, but hell if I can remember right now.

Flat out, sanders should have found one good enough and backed them 110% instead of running this time (shit, biden should have done the same thing, but when you say "geriatrics are good enough" you get goddamn geriatrics, and everyone left, right, and center has decided "septuagenarian" isn't a bridge too far this cycle) -- if he tries to run again I'll just be flatly pissed off, and I'd hope to hell everyone that said similar shit about clinton running this cycle would be in the same position. We didn't need a geriatric that lost to clinton to run this time (since, y'know, he proceeded to lose again), we damn sure don't need an even older one that lost to clinton and biden to run next time.

I've seen fairly common mention of confusion or disappointment in sanders just not doing much endorsement of down-ticket stuff, or doing much direct personal involvement in developing the next generation, too. Like, endorsements happen, but not nearly as much as you'd expect from 'im, and some of them have been kinda' odd (or ineffectual) on top of it. Sure, he's inspired some folks, but that ain't the same thing as buckling down and supportin' them, yeah? He probably would have done more good doing that instead of failing at another primary campaign.

The problem was not failing to build bridges.  It was flat out ideological incompatibility with the party's true nature.

I mean, if that's your problem you're flatly fucking not going to win the party primary, and pretty damn certainly going to fail to carry the general even if you make it on the ticket somehow.

Pull the other one about sanders taking the high road, though; guy cheerfully put attack dogs around him that could and would do that for him, and it's part of what sunk him -- you're not going to win a campaign for the votes of folks that have significant investment in a political party that way, and going hard for the establishment throat would just destroy you of you tried, putting people willing to do that in your near circle caused enough problems on that front. Add in not reaching out to more local folks and organizations he really should have been reaching for, getting fuckin' torpedoed in places like florida, and so on, and just... it didn't work. Again. Actually building significant networks within the party could have made the difference there, but I guess we'll never know

What ?

Like, okay, can you direct the formation of the cities, so they can make shapes? You say moria, I say giant skull cave city, possibly inside a volcano. Then little heart shaped sub-cities around it, probably a XOXO space station up in the sky for pizzazz. Decorate, y'know? When you got that kinda' capability you make shoddy pixel art out of townships. The garrulous Empire of the Many Smiling Faces will conquer the world. That's just how it works.

The only thing is, if you can control the direction of building like that, you're inevitably going to have people make phallus shaped cities, gigantic ones, probably with flocks of smaller space station ones floating about the sky. These, you convince the game to recognize and drop meteors on, for the betterment of all.

Clearly you need a series of cities lined up in alternating skull and heart shapes. Maybe get some lips and uwus in there. I could see turning an entire planet into like a teenage girl's diary, now that I think about it.

Idle thought, incidentally: Making cities or space stations or whatever into the shape of giant dongs should cause meteors to fall on them or somethin'. Maybe they spontaneously combust, I'unno.

Infinite times, 'cause when you don't vote or vote third party, the message you send isn't "I don't vote for space mutants" it's "I can safely be completely ignored".

Though if it's actually just assertions without any action at all behind it, it's not even trying to give someone a clue, it's just talking to yourself with no one to hear, ha.

Switzerland is compulsory, minimum care is legally mandated, and costs for the patients subsidized if they're too high (too high being over like 8% of the person's income), eyeballing things. There's explicitly public aspects of it, too. It's about as wholly private as a stripper's nipples.

Israel's in a similar position, near as I can tell, except its base/last-resort providers seem to be legally mandated non-profits, which seem to be substantially funded by taxation, or something along those lines. Profiting on a number of services seems to be straight up illegal, too.

Probably nuances involved with both I'm missing, but neither are actually wholly private or getting the money/resources involved entirely through private funding.