03/13 - Friday the Thirteenth!

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  1. Turkmom86

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    My husband told me that tooooo! I could not believe they are LOOOOKING for ppl to infect. makes you wonder WHO caused this virus to begin with......


    Coincidence? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi...e-hard-to-unify-country-without-a-major-event
     
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  2. tricker

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    I want to say this will be helped by the government, and it could be, but i don't know if it will.

    They're considering a bill to suspend any evictions for tenants who can't pay rent due to the virus here and can prove that,
    Which morally I'm not opposed to. But as a landlord? Whose going to pay my bills? Property tax is due in three weeks. Insurance needs to be paid monthly. And there's that mortgage. Oh, and I'm sure my tenants like using water and want me to keep paying that bill. If CA suspends evictions they better give some money to landlords to stop their places from going into foreclosure.
     
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  3. tricker

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    Ok, so, we know this is what immunizations are? And how they're developed? Every single day humans all over this nation make money being test subjects. This is not new or a conspiracy!! I had a tenant who used to make tons of money being a test subject.
     
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  4. Kan Du

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    Wasting time, I stumbled upon this:
    To allow for natural language understanding, Snips devised a way to train its AI without keeping records of what users are saying. When developers want to add new skills, Snips can hire humans though services like Amazon Mechanical Turk to generate thousands of sample spoken commands, which it uses to train the AI. Hindi says this method allows for 90% accuracy without collecting any user data.

    https://www.fastcompany.com/4057815...ants-to-protect-privacy-by-spurning-the-cloud
     
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    Where my sister is at they had to close one of he two major groceries stores (its a smaller town) just to stock today. They posted last night they would be closing. This is a place that is normally open 24 hours a day and hardly ever closes.
     
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  6. Tracy Wethington

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    They are here too. My husband went to pick up a few things on a regular weekly grocery run and this was the ground beef section...He didn't bother sending me a picture of the empty TP shelf... :emoji_rolling_eyes:

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  7. Masterbah

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    I mean, controlled experiments are how scientist understand the symptoms of a disease and what treatment may help....
     
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    $7000 to possibly die while they make a vaccine from the research?

    Wow, that's my price exactly! Where is the doctor at?

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  9. Turkmom86

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    I just think you'd have to be stupid to sign up to be injected with this.
     
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  10. dan

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    Where do I sign up?
     
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  11. Mecca

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    Why are people fucking hoarding TP of all things.
     
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    Mturk in a nutshell right now.

    Please take this survey about cake.
    How tasty is this cake?
    Would you eat this cake?
    How much would you pay for this cake?
    HOW AFRAID ARE YOU THAT YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES ARE GOING TO DIE TO THE CORONAVIRUS?!?!?
    Does this cake have feelings?
     
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  13. Masterbah

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    For $7k? If it includes lab quarantine for 2-3weeks + food/stable internet connection... I'm young and healthy enough to very probably withstand it... I'd consider it.
     
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  14. Turkmom86

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    maybe afraid they will get it, have the shits and be quarantined for 14 days?
     
  15. Mecca

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    you could just take a shower though, I mean there are worse things to not have.
     
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    Guys. Let's not spread scientifically false information here. Controlled medical experiments happen daily. What they will do to get a vaccine for this is no different. And it's not like they're injecting folks with HIV. This is a virus. I get dead viruses injected into me yearly.

    Please. There's enough fear right now, let's not make it worse.
     
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  17. Turkmom86

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    It would be a nice vacation from my kids if my husband would allow it ... hmmmm
     
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  19. tricker

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    I just thought...for 7K? I'll do it. 7K would solve a lot of problems!
     
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    I think it's mostly been a snowball effect. A few people started hoarding it, some people saw that and thought it was a good idea, now people are panicking that they won't be able to get it because everyone else is buying it all and trying to buy as much as they can. Just fear all around.
     
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