Met Summer Banter

[PhineasC]

2 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

The BAC (big ass church) and Leif statue.    

We spent the morning downtown (after clearing customs, security etc and getting our rental car)  
 

Then we visited a science museum called the Perlan. Pretty cool.  I picked out my ice throne for this winter 

Nice, those first days jet lagged are always tough but looks like you are diving in head first.

[Typhoon Tip]

1 hour ago, Supernovice said:

I moved to YouTubeTV which was great then the price went up and they lost NESN... so not as good of a deal.  But even cutting the cord- I still pay ComCast for their internet and their router- which I need to just buy one- any one got any good recommendations? I digress... a TV streaming option is cheaper by far with the same features. I would recommend it.

LYNKSIS router -

I have a 4-channel broadband WIFI powerful enough that SETI could operate out of the home - ha!   I don't use 95% of the thing's capacity ...

Yeah, maybe a bit of an over -purchase, but LYNKSIS tech support was indicating pretty convincingly that the state of the art/direction isn't going the other way, anyway.  I was getting stalls and time outs with weather maps and satellite and porn (kidding).  Then, work started booting me off their server.  Database programming would hesitate too long compiling relatively non-taxing scripts. ...etc... 

Internet speed test was like 10 mps  ... I'm thinking, whaaaaa    In 2020?   

So, went on their website, figuring the near 15 year old router might be bottlenecking... and got this one for like 85 bucks... They start at 50 and go to 300 for multi- plex gaming and streaming throughout larger facilities, which I don't need.    Got it out of the package, jumped through an hour of config and securities language I did not understand, but once all was connecting, now I'm haulin at 400 to 500 mps!!   I've never gotten a hesitation while streaming NETFLIX shit since I got this, and weather satellite and mobile model loops rotate through their cinema without stalls on lap-tops.  General web use loads pages from the future .... 

[mreaves]

2 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

When my wife and I rented our condo 3 years ago, we signed up for YouTube tv. It was awesome and only like $35 a month when we got it. It was obviously still fairly new and not as well known. Between that and WiFi, we were only spending like 75$ a month for internet and tv.

Naturally, as more people went to it, the price has gone up and quality has gone down. A couple of my friends have tried it, and say it sucks now.

At the end of the day; with the price of streaming services and other subscriptions it’s probably just cheaper to keep cable. Our cable bill is like $185 a month with Verizon fios. That split with my parents downstairs in the in-law; it’s not bad 

That's what I have ended up doing.  Our cable/internet with Spectrum is $165.  We do have a Netflix account and Amazon video with our Prime subscription.  By the time you get all the streaming services, it costs almost the same and you have the added headache of having to look through a million apps.  I say this as someone who has had a 25 year hatred of my cable company.  I had to use them for internet service because the only other option was crappy DSL and in the world of bundled services having cable along with internet made the most sense.  I have to admit though, as much as I hate them, their internet has been stellar.  With my wife and I both working from home and my son remote schooling through much of the last year +, there have been no issues other than 1 or 2 outages from a pole being damaged or something similar. 

[Supernovice]

15 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

LYNKSIS router -

I have a 4-channel broadband WIFI powerful enough that SETI could operate out of the home - ha!   I don't use 95% of the thing's capacity ...

Yeah, maybe a bit of an over -purchase, but LYNKSIS tech support was indicating pretty convincingly that the state of the art/direction isn't going the other way, anyway.  I was getting stalls and time outs with weather maps and satellite and porn (kidding).  Then, work started booting me off their server.  Database programming would hesitate too long compiling relatively non-taxing scripts. ...etc... 

Internet speed test was like 10 mps  ... I'm thinking, whaaaaa    In 2020?   

So, went on their website, figuring the near 15 year old router might be bottlenecking... and got this one for like 85 bucks... They start at 50 and go to 300 for multi- plex gaming and streaming throughout larger facilities, which I don't need.    Got it out of the package, jumped through an hour of config and securities language I did not understand, but once all was connecting, now I'm haulin at 400 to 500 mps!!   I've never gotten a hesitation while streaming NETFLIX shit since I got this, and weather satellite and mobile model loops rotate through their cinema without stalls on lap-tops.  General web use loads pages from the future .... 

Thanks- will do this immediately...running a lot of data being at home and it's showing. 

[correnjim1]

i really feel like there is something nefarious going on with this push to get everyone vaccinated....if the Covid was so dangerous and  people were dying like during the Black Death....they wouldn't have to be pushing it like this people myself included would line right up for the shot....something just doesn't smell right to me (oh and I can still smell so I'm Covid free lol)

[Typhoon Tip]

6 minutes ago, Supernovice said:

Thanks- will do this immediately...running a lot of data being at home and it's showing. 

Yeah, they're really helpful in CS, too.  I called them and there was little hold time, and connected to competency - relatively savvy sounding level 1 support is probably all you'll need. Describe your symptoms vs needs, and that individual will probably ask you about gaming and station/port numbers in the household, etc... Y'all arrive at a model the best suits your need - I only went with the multi channel because at some point a spare bedroom ( was thinking...) would be converted to a nice home office, so I'd need access with lucidity from that area of the home...blah blah you get it.

Shipping time was like 4 days.  Problems solved -

[Typhoon Tip]

1 minute ago, correnjim1 said:

i really feel like there is something nefarious going on with this push to get everyone vaccinated....if the Covid was so dangerous and  people were dying like during the Black Death....they wouldn't have to be pushing it like this people myself included would line right up for the shot....something just doesn't smell right to me (oh and I can still smell so I'm Covid free lol)

mmm.. sentiment shared by a lot more folk than just yourself if it makes you feel any better.

[PhineasC]

1 minute ago, correnjim1 said:

i really feel like there is something nefarious going on with this push to get everyone vaccinated....if the Covid was so dangerous and  people were dying like during the Black Death....they wouldn't have to be pushing it like this people myself included would line right up for the shot....something just doesn't smell right to me (oh and I can still smell so I'm Covid free lol)

This pandemic has always been driven through out-of-context metrics and anecdotes pushed on TV and Twitter. Even at the peak of things last spring, people weren't dying in the streets. People were still going on airplanes and having parties in April 2020. There were times last year where I would be with some people in some public place who were really worried about COVID and they were quoting the latest stats out of some random town in some random country to show me why I should be scared (like @Hoosier still does). I always just asked, "you must not be that scared in reality because you are standing here at the airport or in Walmart with just a thin napkin over your nose and mouth."

The man on TV wouldn't need to berate the unvaccinated or talk about fear and doom 24/7 if people were actually seeing mass death in their own families and communities. Fact is, they aren't now and haven't been. Turn off the TV!

[correnjim1]

5 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

mmm.. sentiment shared by a lot more folk than just yourself if it makes you feel any better.

it honestly does

[Typhoon Tip]

In the end its probably just component in the greater social experiment of this thing.  It may mimic or formulate as though, casting off affectations of planned this and social-engineering that.

But it's like the first time in history the entire world has gathered around a common interests and visions toward the same directive/goal, that did not require or result in a WORLD WAR.

I've opined in the past, but it is a historic sort of ...well IS a watershed moment in history.

But part of that is seeing it through?  - I think... Like, we've come this far, now finish the task.     A lot of the underlying motivation in urgency is a cultural abstraction/vibe more so then a disclosed or discretely observable directive.  Think fad to see it through ...

I think it's proportionality in a lot of ways.  There have been anit-vaxxers and in general, eye-brow raising about vaccines since mid last Century.  Yup. But, only now when it is possible to mechanize an entire billion population to that, and make surveilled by media coverage ... etc etc, the scale of awareness and anti-sentiment grows in direct proportion and seems now like a civil war of ideologies in the matter.  So, us more passive types ...cerebral and observant about it, do "kinda sorta" get caught in the cross fire by wondering ...  'yeah, why is it so urgent' - it's probably more just grander awareness.

I think   LOL

[MJO812]

1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

yep on and on we go....media sucks

They are already saying the next mutations are more severe.

[MJO812]

[WhitinsvilleWX]

1 hour ago, Lava Rock said:

Back to masks nationwide in order to get into Home Depot. Just another couple months away from the 1st lockdown. Don't say it can't happen. Sick of this crap.

The home depot around here never enforced it the last time. But ill be going to lowes. they dont require customers wear one. Ill be patronizing businesses that dont require it.

[dendrite]

9 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

How many harassments?

[correnjim1]

11 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

deflection

[Cyclone-68]

Who’d have thunk that it wouldn’t be the virus doing us all in but the reaction to it?

[PhineasC]

Just now, Cyclone-68 said:

Who’d have thunk that it wouldn’t be the virus doing us all in but the reaction to it?

Me.

[Typhoon Tip]

5 minutes ago, correnjim1 said:

deflection

 

[Typhoon Tip]

3 minutes ago, Cyclone-68 said:

Who’d have thunk that it wouldn’t be the virus doing us all in but the reaction to it?

Lol ...  

this concept was floated in the early months of this thing ...way back there.   Astute visions asked the question, is the reaction disproportionate and therefore MORE harmful.  

It's interesting how many isms were forethought and how few of them were actually tested or circled back on -

[powderfreak]

8 minutes ago, Cyclone-68 said:

Who’d have thunk that it wouldn’t be the virus doing us all in but the reaction to it?

Who’d have thunk a summer banter thread in this sub-forum would ever see over 5.1k  replies?!  On par or more than a HECS thread.  And not one single mention of a dew point.

[correnjim1]

9 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Who’d have thunk a summer banter thread in this sub-forum would ever see over 5.1k  replies?!  On par or more than a HECS thread.  And not one single mention of a dew point.

63

[CoastalWx]

23 minutes ago, dendrite said:

How many harassments?

Trendline going up faster than FL hospitalizations.

[weathafella]

Lines drawn in the sand.   Let’s just try to find what most agree on and build from there.....I’m gonna start with snow....

[WhitinsvilleWX]

24 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Who’d have thunk a summer banter thread in this sub-forum would ever see over 5.1k  replies?!  On par or more than a HECS thread.  And not one single mention of a dew point.

We could talk about local sportsball teams 5 game slide.

[winterwx21]

1 hour ago, PhineasC said:

This pandemic has always been driven through out-of-context metrics and anecdotes pushed on TV and Twitter. Even at the peak of things last spring, people weren't dying in the streets. People were still going on airplanes and having parties in April 2020. There were times last year where I would be with some people in some public place who were really worried about COVID and they were quoting the latest stats out of some random town in some random country to show me why I should be scared (like @Hoosier still does). I always just asked, "you must not be that scared in reality because you are standing here at the airport or in Walmart with just a thin napkin over your nose and mouth."

The man on TV wouldn't need to berate the unvaccinated or talk about fear and doom 24/7 if people were actually seeing mass death in their own families and communities. Fact is, they aren't now and haven't been. Turn off the TV!

The scare tactics and fear mongering in this country is off the charts. The way the media and even many doctors talk about this Delta variant, leads people to believe that this variant is much more dangerous for young people. But notice how they never talk about the statistics on it in our country. They publicize and hype like crazy the cases in which young people are severely ill in the hospital, in an attempt to trick people into thinking this is common. But they don't give any kind of statistics on the hospitalization and death rates for younger people, because they want to push vaccination for everyone. Other countries have been honest about the low threat to younger people and have actually put statistics on it. The UK released data recently on death rates for people that were hospitalized with the Delta variant. The death rate for unvaccinated people under 50 years old was 0.02%. They also put out statistics showing the overall death rate for everyone is under 0.2%. We're seeing similar statistics from Spain. I was just reading a very good article from Spain. The author talks about how ridiculous vaccine passports are, but also the statistics showing the extremely low death rates now and the very tiny hospitalization rate for young people. They point out that the covid hospitalization rate for people under 30 years old in the last 2 months for Spain is only 0.3%. Here is the article...

 

https://collateralglobal.org/article/the-delta-variant-decoupling-in-spain-and-the-illogic-of-vaccine-passports/

 

Yet in the United States, they will never ever show statistics like this. They want to keep mega hyping the rare severe cases in people under 30 years old. They want to mislead people and push their agenda. We will keep hearing about how this variant is more dangerous and deadly, even though the statistics don't back that up at all. The media really sucks. Time to turn off the news.

 

[PhineasC]

5 minutes ago, winterwx21 said:

The scare tactics and fear mongering in this country is off the charts. The way the media and even many doctors talk about this Delta variant, leads people to believe that this variant is much more dangerous for young people. But notice how they never talk about the statistics on it in our country. They publicize and hype like crazy the cases in which young people are severely ill in the hospital, in an attempt to trick people into thinking this is common. But they don't give any kind of statistics on the hospitalization and death rates for younger people, because they want to push vaccination for everyone. Other countries have been honest about the low threat to younger people and have actually put statistics on it. The UK released data recently on death rates for people that were hospitalized with the Delta variant. The death rate for unvaccinated people under 50 years old was 0.02%. They also put out statistics showing the overall death rate for everyone is under 0.2%. We're seeing similar statistics from Spain. I was just reading a very good article from Spain. The author talks about how ridiculous vaccine passports are, but also the statistics showing the extremely low death rates now and the very tiny hospitalization rate for young people. They point out that the covid hospitalization rate for people under 30 years old in the last 2 months for Spain is only 0.3%. Here is the article...

 

https://collateralglobal.org/article/the-delta-variant-decoupling-in-spain-and-the-illogic-of-vaccine-passports/

 

Yet in the United States, they will never ever show statistics like this. They want to keep mega hyping the rare severe cases in people under 30 years old. They want to mislead people and push their agenda. We will keep hearing about how this variant is more dangerous and deadly, even though the statistics don't back that up at all. The media really sucks. Time to turn off the news.

 

Delta is about as deadly as the flu.

The media is still pushing blatantly wrong stats such as “99.99% of cases are the unvaccinated” when the CDC isn’t even tracking most breakthrough cases. 

[powderfreak]

10 minutes ago, WhitinsvilleWX said:

We could talk about local sportsball teams 5 game slide.

Local sportsball team needs to remove head from arse and look forward.

[Brian5671]

47 minutes ago, Cyclone-68 said:

Who’d have thunk that it wouldn’t be the virus doing us all in but the reaction to it?

Hysteria sells

[DavisStraight]

22 minutes ago, WhitinsvilleWX said:

We could talk about local sportsball teams 5 game slide.

Put the kid, Tanner Houck in the rotation and hope Sale comes back to what he was.

[winterwx21]

12 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Delta is about as deadly as the flu.

The media is still pushing blatantly wrong stats such as “99.99% of cases are the unvaccinated” when the CDC isn’t even tracking most breakthrough cases. 

Yep. Other countries like Israel and the UK are being much more honest about the huge number of cases in vaccinated people. But in our country they are not honest about that, because they want to keep calling it a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

 

Another way some doctors are being dishonest is that they're claiming that either you're vaccinated or you'll catch the Delta variant. That is completely untrue. There's no such thing as a virus getting to everyone. The 1918 flu didn't get to everyone. The Delta variant ravaged India, but there are tons of people over there that didn't get it. The lies that some (even doctors) come up with to try to scare people is very disturbing.