The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP

[PrettyDeadThings]

There's no doubt in my mind he's taking orders directly from the CCP at this point.

 

Biden Shut Down Wuhan Lab Investigation Probing COVID-19 Origins:
 

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The Biden administration pulled the plug on a Trump-era State Department investigation into whether COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, according to a Tuesday evening report by CNN.

The effort, led by then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, also sought to determine whether China's biological weapons program may have played a role in the pandemic. According to the report, it was met with internal opposition from officials who thought it was simply a politicized witch hunt to blame China for the virus.

According to three unnamed sources, when Biden was briefed on the investigations' findings in February and March, he pulled the plug - and instead opted to trust the findings of the World Health Organization, which conducted an 'investigation' earlier this year which turned out to be nothing more than political theater, the cast of which included the highly conflicted Peter Daszak, the Fauci-funded virologist who was studying bat viruses at the Wuhan lab.

"The way they did their work was suspicious as hell," said one former State Department official who (we're guessing was rooting for team Schiff during Trump's impeachment).

Pompeo, meanwhile, said in May 2020 that there was "enormous evidence" and a "significant amount of evidence" to support the lab-escape theory. And according to former senior State Department official David Feith, "People in the US government were working on the question of where Covid-19 came from but there was no other effort that we knew of that took the lab leak possibility seriously enough to focus on digging into certain aspects, questions and uncertainties."

 

The revelation that Biden shut down the inquiry is awkward at best, after the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were so sick in November of 2019 that they sought hospitalization, citing the intelligence report that Biden rejected.

 

The details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet, issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness.”

The disclosure of the number of researchers, the timing of their illnesses and their hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization’s decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into Covid-19’s origins. -WSJ

The lab leak theory, floated by Zero Hedge and several other outlets in early 2020, was promoted heavily by former President Trump, who blamed China for unleashing the virus on the world and derailing historic economic growth following three years of 'America First' international negotiations, along with generous tax breaks.

 

"I said it right at the beginning, and that's where it came from," Trump told Newsmax Tuesday night, taking somewhat of a victory lab over the MSM's 'come to Jesus' moment over the mounting lab leak hypothesis. "I think it was obvious to smart people. That's where it came from. I have no doubt about it. I had no doubt about it. I was criticized by the press."

Trump also said he remains confident that the lab leak theory is correct.

"'People didn't want to say China. Usually they blame it on Russia," he continued. "I said right at the beginning it came out of Wuhan. And that's where all the deaths were also, by the way, when we first heard about this, there were body bags, dead people laying all over Wuhan province, and that's where it happened to be located."

"To me it was very obvious. I said it very strongly and I was criticized and now people are agreeing with me, so that's okay."

 

 

 

 

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On 5/24/2021 at 9:24 PM, CandleVixen said:

Yesterday it was less sore. Today, however, he’s got light fever, body aches and nausea. Stayed home today and tomorrow. Doc said that is normal with what they’ve been seeing with shot one. 

 

How is he now?

 

The way people react to the vaccine is so random.  My parents had zero reaction to the vaccine.

[frenchkiki]

My mom got a little red rash for a week.

She is fine now.

 

 

 

 She rules at the magnet challenge !

 

[Matt!]

 

EDIT: 

Edited May 28, 2021 by Matt!
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On 5/18/2021 at 4:28 PM, Enrico_sw said:

 

I think AC depicted him at a later stage in his life. He says in the game that he became fatter and less athletic with age. I heard he was a solider too, but most Greek citizens were soldiers (not the slaves, the citizens - BTW, it's funny how slavery is quite hidden in AC Odyssey, they've probably been scared of showing it, but in reality it was a pillar of their society).

 

AC Odyssey is real good. Real good. It would've been better, had the gameplay been more difficult (like in DS3), but it's still a great game.

 

Slavery was also a huge part of Roman life.  There is a Roman concept of a "natural slave..." a person who is, by nature, slave-like!  

 

Also the Greeks and Romans practiced man-boy love very openly.  It sounds insane to me that even men that would be considered "straight" today were having sexual relations with young boys.  And that their culture saw that as normal..!

 

One thing I gather from the Romans and Greeks were that they were rather heroic cultures, celebrating masculinity and having a contempt for death.  They were intensely nationalistic and militaristic.  The extreme case was the Spartans.  The Romans took much from the Greeks, the power before them.

 

The biggest issue with the AC series comes across as the pedestrian gameplay, and certain formulatic aspects that are considered repetitive by critics.  Kind of like how Call of Duty is already getting player fatigue.

 

The new AC game, the Viking one is barely an AC game.  It's a Viking game with a loose connection to AC. 

 

Resident Evil has some similar issues.  After RE6 the players got sick of the move away from horror to action.  So RE got rebooted.  RE7 was so different from the earlier games that it seemed more like a new horror game with the "RE" brand stamped on it.  RE8 however, is more like a hybrid of RE4 and RE7.  The RE2 and RE3 remakes are the true successors of the originals.

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7 hours ago, frenchkiki said:

My mom got a little red rash for a week.

She is fine now.

 

 

 

 She rules at the magnet challenge !

 

 

Is Christy vaccinated?

[PrettyDeadThings]

Summer hasn't technically started and I'm over the oppressive heat and humidity.  I've had 4 hours of broken sleep because of this...

[Stromboli1]

Summer Break!

 

[PrettyDeadThings]

 

  I swear to god if Dems aren't getting Red Pilled by now....

[frenchkiki]

11 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

 

Is Christy vaccinated?

Not yet. Mid-June.

[PrettyDeadThings]

 

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8 hours ago, frenchkiki said:

Not yet. Mid-June.

 

stay safe christeee.

 

I've been doing something brazen; I no-longer double mask ...just wear the KN-95.  it's getting too hot now anyway.  

[Matt!]

Woah, huge comeback win for the Celtics and what a performance by Jayson Tatum! 

 

[frenchkiki]

11 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

 

stay safe christeee.

 

I've been doing something brazen; I no-longer double mask ...just wear the KN-95.  it's getting too hot now anyway.  

I have stopped wearing it outside.

So ridiculous. If I was still living in Paris I certainly will but the city where I live is small, I can walk 20 mnts without meeting someone.

[Matt!]

[PrettyDeadThings]

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Anne Vyalitsyna, better known as Anne V, split from her fiancé, multi-millionaire tech executive Adam Cahan, pictured together right, after having a daughter Alaska, 5, left. In filings to the Manhattan Supreme Court, Vyalitsyna said her income plummeted during the pandemic from $431,000 in 2019 to $77,687 . She told the court she owns $2.9 million apartment in NYC's West Village and has $2.6m in investments and savings. She claimed $26,000 in unemployment benefits during the lockdown. She says she has monthly expenses of $40,284 and that Cahan has ignored her requests for help in paying for child support. Vyalitsyna is a Russian-American model who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated 10 years in a row from 2005 to 2014.

 

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I'm most curious about her finances.  She barely did any modeling work, I wonder how much she gets paid there.  I thought models were low pay outside of a few superstars.

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9 hours ago, frenchkiki said:

I have stopped wearing it outside.

So ridiculous. If I was still living in Paris I certainly will but the city where I live is small, I can walk 20 mnts without meeting someone.

 

I've never worn it outside except for city streets.  

 

Will you still wear it on cold and/or windy days?  On the positive side of mask wearing I find that it really protects the facial skin from irritation.  It should be good for women too but it would smear the makeup.  I still wear a cloth one if I'm outside.

[Enrico_sw]

On 5/28/2021 at 8:38 AM, Cult Icon said:

 

Slavery was also a huge part of Roman life.  There is a Roman concept of a "natural slave..." a person who is, by nature, slave-like!  

 

Also the Greeks and Romans practiced man-boy love very openly.  It sounds insane to me that even men that would be considered "straight" today were having sexual relations with young boys.  And that their culture saw that as normal..!

 

One thing I gather from the Romans and Greeks were that they were rather heroic cultures, celebrating masculinity and having a contempt for death.  They were intensely nationalistic and militaristic.  The extreme case was the Spartans.  The Romans took much from the Greeks, the power before them.

 

The biggest issue with the AC series comes across as the pedestrian gameplay, and certain formulatic aspects that are considered repetitive by critics.  Kind of like how Call of Duty is already getting player fatigue.

 

The new AC game, the Viking one is barely an AC game.  It's a Viking game with a loose connection to AC. 

 

Resident Evil has some similar issues.  After RE6 the players got sick of the move away from horror to action.  So RE got rebooted.  RE7 was so different from the earlier games that it seemed more like a new horror game with the "RE" brand stamped on it.  RE8 however, is more like a hybrid of RE4 and RE7.  The RE2 and RE3 remakes are the true successors of the originals.

 

It's like the Indian caste system, there are lots of instances like that. It's weird to us, but maybe stuff like this will come back. Who knows... I certainly don't know how the world is going to evolve. Some of the new zeitgeists seem so weird to me.  I guess it's better to spend energy on our inner circles (family, friends, work, sport partners, etc.)

 

I was wondering if I was gonna buy AC Valhalla. I haven't finished Odyssey yet, but I was starting to plan the next one. I like parts of the AC formula (narrative gameplay, historical, etc.) but it's true some other parts are annoying (to me it's the fact that the game is too easy). Do you have good feedbacks on the game?

 

To me Ghost of Tsushima is one of the best AC games (even if it's not AC).

[Enrico_sw]

On 5/29/2021 at 4:07 PM, frenchkiki said:

I have stopped wearing it outside.

So ridiculous. If I was still living in Paris I certainly will but the city where I live is small, I can walk 20 mnts without meeting someone.

 

I don't always wear in Paris... in my street, there are 3 pelés et un tondu, so I do feel obliged to wear it. Plus, it's starting to be really hot now and most scientific studies say that masks are useless outside.

 

The administration already said that they agree masks are useless outside (except in a dense crowd), but they want to keep the rule this way to "remind us" that there's still covid (as if we didn't know... )