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HardcoreHunter

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  1. National safety council has it listed as 1 in 113 for americans only, but the WHO had it as 1 in 77 which was a world statistic. Just do some searches of mortality statistics, but yeah WHO probably isn't all that credible. I mean not like they've been in the news lately or anything. Here it's a 244 page pdf about road safety put out by WHO https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/42871/9241562609.pdf?sequence=1 Here's some more stats from NSC https://www.nsc.org/work-safety/tools-resources/injury-facts/chart Is there a reason why you think I pull this shit out of my ass? A lot of people die from mundane shit, it's nothing new. Here's thousands who showed up for 500 testing kits, 4hr lines of cars, whole cities blocked from access from the traffic. There are more stories like that than I am willing to link. https://www.al.com/news/2020/03/birmingham-coronavirus-testing-site-shut-down-as-us-280-traffic-snarls.html https://www.denverpost.com/2020/03/12/denver-coronavirus-drive-thru-test-wait-times/ https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/03/njs-1st-major-coronavirus-testing-site-hits-capacity-shuts-down-after-just-4-hours.html So you're telling me that all these thousands of people holding up traffic, diverging medical staff from saving lives, blocking off large parts of cities, etc has zero effect on any lives being saved that are at risk? All just so that they can no if at that moment if they were sick which may change in the time it takes them to get their results back. Do you just have a hate boner for me laying down facts, or do you just like me talking with you?
  2. The hell it doesn't, I've been on a ventilator before from a flu. If you are immune compromised, seasonal illnesses can be life threatening. My mom had a real bad one back in 98 and had to get on a vent, she had a 107 fever and they had to even throw ice on her. Corona viruses are a problem because they have a longer incubation period than something like the normal flu. If you get the flu you're showing symptoms in about 2.5 days. That is rather quick and can give you a short window to infect others. Corona on the other hand is closer to a Week. So 7 days of walking around infecting people before you even realize you're sick. This is why the quarantine was put in place. It was supposed to give you some time to find out if you're sick or not, and have self isolation. Instead everyone has been using it to go party and hang out with friends and have fights at the super market. It's not that it's just some ungodly whole other beast of a virus. It might sound that way for people who don't face possible death seasonally because they've never brought their own mortality into question before. For you finding out that corona made it to america and we were going into quarantine was horrifying news; for me it was a Tuesday.
  3. I'm talking world wide not just the US on those numbers. Globally seasonal flu deaths are between 12k to 61k a year according to the cdc. Globally over one million auto deaths a year. Occasionally young and healthy people die from tripping and falling, but there isn't a mass panic about it. It's a small possibility that it can happen, but there are also odds that someone is going to walk into my house and shoot me in the face. They're actually low odds considering being 1 in 300. The news saying that people under the age of 19 having a chance of dying if they catch the virus is a fucking joke when it's only 1.03% or less. You have a 1 in 77 odds of death any time you get in a car. Most people do that multiple times a day for their whole lives. That's a 1.28% probability though. The health care system wouldn't be swamped if healthy people would stay the hell out of the hospital and tying up their staff. You don't need to take a flu test to see if you have the flu. You know how to tell if you're sick? You'll more than likely feel sick. It's so dumb to hear people say "I need that test it's life or death" as if it were the damn vaccine. It is a double edged sword though. The virus is dangerous to select people, everyone should be mindful and cautious. Though instead the media stirs up a frenzy and encourages people to gather. A couple of weeks ago they announced a place near me was giving out 10k free sandwiches to help people. I was like oh that's nice have 10k+ people gather together for a chance of getting a free sandwich, sure that will be worth it. Sure enough 3hrs all 10k sandwhichs were gone. People do not think at all that maybe this will spread more infection. The hospitals around me quit telling the media when they'd be getting tests in, because the media would out them immediately and cause life threatening lines of cars that were blocking ambulances. Lines of perfectly healthy people are responsible for at least 3 deaths in my area. That is why they are using stadiums for tests now, because people were just murdering actually sick and injured people who did need immediate attention. I do believe that all of the healthy people who were part of that line should live knowing that they 100% murdered someone and didn't give it a 2nd thought because they were selfish. In my view if it weren't for people being idiots and going into a panic, and the media not feeding that panic. Then the situation would be far better off than it is. I know my view is somewhat cynical, but damn if things haven't happened before and be damned if they won't happen again. I think the high stress people are showing is more of an outlet of people who have had it too good for too long. My great grandma was a one room school house teacher and would tell me about how bad things were, but people didn't really pay it much mind back then because they didn't have time to. WWI 40 million deaths, spanish flu 50 million died, the dust bowl 7k, Great depression, WWII 85 million. All in the span of about 20 years. In the last 31 years the only major bad things I can remember happening were Mad Cow, killer bees, fire ants, Y2K, 9/11, economic recession, swine flu, and Corona. If some of those seem kinda lame it kinda proves my point.
  4. 1 Breakfast at Tiffany's 2 Silence of the Lambs 3 Mary Poppins 4 The horse Whisperer 6 Fried Green Tomatoes 8 Broke Back Mountain 9 Driving miss Daisy 10 Finding Nemo 13 ET 18 supersize me 19 stewart little 23 Blair Witch 27 6th sense 28 Up 29 You got mail 30 les miserables 33 Psycho 34 Groundhog day 35 catch me if you can 36 The devil wears prade 37 on golden pond 38 Edward Scissor hands 39 American Werewolf in london 40 The crying game 41 Four weddings and a funeral 42 Ghost Busters 53 Free Willy 55 to kill a mocking bird 60 life of pi
  5. The thing is that otaku in Japan are addicts and will pay these prices so they have no reason to drop them. A lot of the way Japanese shop is similar to the K-Mart blue light special craze in the 90s. Things are usually sold in limited quantity and have an odd tradition about that process making getting an item more self validating. Like even fruit in Japan can be like this. They have stores that will sell apples graded like we'd grade a steak. I couldn't imagine paying $20 usd for a single apple, but enough Japanese pay for it to make it a viable market. As for Oda, I've come to realize that he's Oda and kinda gets his own set of privilege that come with it. Editors and Jump seem to bend over backwards for Oda. Though mangaka like Kubo seem to have butted heads with his editors the whole time. Toriyama probable has the oddest relationship with his editors. Just about everything an editor tells him to do, he'll do something else to spite them; then he'll have regret. Editor told him to have Bulma end up with Goku, he had him end up with Chichi out of spite and hated writing for her so he regretted it. Editors keep telling him to use vegeta more because fans like vegeta, so he kills vegeta. The only regret he said he feels on that though is all the letters he gets from fans until he brings vegeta back to life. Pretty much all the androids were made because the editor didn't like any of them except for Cell, and Toriyama didn't like cell because he had too many shapes to draw and shade.
  6. I actually am in the risk group. Most of the people in a panic are actually the people at least risk of the virus causing any real harm to them. My great grandfather developed the original tetanus vaccine that you'd have to get every 10 years. And even with a cheap cure that you only have to remember to take once every decade 200k-300k people still die every year of tetanus. If corona jumps up it's killing game by about 4x in the next 6 months it will be on par with the low end of tetanus related yearly deaths, a very easily preventable disease that you get from cutting yourself on rusty metal. About 650k people die yearly from just slips and falls. Though people aren't losing their minds and buying all the toilet paper and food. It's odd to turn on the news and hear that 500 more people died of the virus today, but no mention of the 1,800 people who slipped fell on their head and died. People have an odd sense of security about some types of deaths. A virus is an invisible threat that can attack at any moment, like a spooky ghost. So people overreact to it because they have no control over it. We feel like we have control though over how we can fall down and our odds of surviving etc. So people aren't freaking out over 1800 people dying every day from falling down. Same with school shootings. Biggest problem depending on who you ask that has ever happened. Ten years around 350 deaths. What is not a problem people think about though is every year 1.35 million people will die in a car accident. We have pretty much just accepted that 1.35 million people dying a year is part of the tapestry of life and don't think about it too much. If every year though 1.35 million people died from the flu or a single virus people would be losing their fucking minds. We're at around 65k deaths right now. Just have 3.5k people drop dead every day for a year straight, because that is what happens with automobiles. Not saying it isn't bad, just that people are fearing this far more than they should and the media pretty much is just making things worse by encouraging panic. Some advice is do what I do. Unplug from tv and internet for a while, go into the mountains and hunt and fish for a bit. What's happening is there's a lot of people catching cabin fever who aren't used to not being around others, and it's making them obsess over the media coverage because they're bored and there's nothing better to do. When you're in the mountains your only worries are getting food and having a warm fire, and sometimes bears.
  7. Yeah but are we counting the height at which she started to fell and was caught, or the height she was at when she fell from that guys hands, and is that landing spot in the tree or the ground. Too much maths for me. Either way falling from that height would not be good. Hell I've been up in a tree stand 18ft and when you're up there it feels high. Then there are people who just die from short falls, and people who survive falling out of the damn sky.
  8. Dead weight and a bad angle that you can't get power behind. Try laying off the side of a deck on your stomach and pulling a 50lb bag of dog food up with one arm. It's harder than it sounds. You can also try fully extending your arm out holding a 25lb weight and see how long you can keep it parallel without your arm giving. Movies make it seem like pulling people up is easier than it is. Lifting a car is easier than lifting something near your own body weight with one arm on a bad grip while on your stomach.
  9. Hell this was me at 25, I'm 31 now. Not everyone looks like they're in middle school forever.
  10. It's odd that Japanese girls do this because it makes their face look smaller in photos. It's like how american girls were obsessed with duck face selfies years ago. Either way if you put your hand in the foreground the camera will focus and perspective will make your face look smaller. I guess having a large head is not sexy in Japan. Kinda reminds me of how Ino would make fun of Sakura's head size in Naruto.
  11. It actually is considered old. 25 and older are called Christmas cakes. Because like a christmas cake it becomes more stale and less desirable after 25. It's been becoming a bit of a moe gap though recently.
  12. Drama makes entertaining TV. There was actually a restaurant in my town that was on the show. They closed down, and the other one went under a new name this year. It was called My Big Fat Greek Gyro.
  13. Did they really do anything racist, or is it just because they're using Americans as faceless antagonists.
  14. It's westernized Like those fired rolls arent a thing in Japan. The closest you might fight is onigiri which you can't find in america. Duck sauce as well is more of a Chinese condiment. Most of the dishes have too much meat. Only in the west is it normal for one person to eat a 12oz or larger steak by themselves. In Japan a 4oz steak would be the norm. The majority of meals are things like plants, rice, and tofu. Aside from Sushi fish is used sparingly in dishes just enough to flavor stock usually. Its a very odd culture from a food standpoint.
  15. Yeah it's weird, it's like they work so hard to make food look really good. Though nearly everything is ultra bland. Probably helps that you have to pay a fat tax for being overweight.
  16. kitchen nightmares he has it in both the UK and US. He's much nicer in the UK version though.
  17. As much as this series hypes up Japanese food, it's actually really bland. The only taste that Japanese seem to enjoy is salt. They hate spicy and sweet things. It's weird at times. Like to think that people could eat mashed red beans and think it's so sweet that it needs an overly bland tasteless bread around it to balance out the sweet, when it's really not all that sweet to begin with. Also spicy food that makes them sweat that is on par with cracked table pepper. The most mild thai curry is still hotter than the hottest Japanese curry.
  18. I can't just keep cooking like I always have. Progresses to cook like he always has up to this point.
  19. "2nd in command chef" You mean a sous chef?
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