chit chat thread
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I saw a gray E46 M3 with CSL aesthetic enhancements while I was out for a cruise yesterday. Im not sure I will be participating in any group drives this year.
Are those thoughts related or are you rambling?
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Are those thoughts related or are you rambling?
I asked myself the same thing.
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Are those thoughts related or are you rambling?
Choose your own adventure:
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The Protagonist is rambling: The reader must imagine separate paragraphs were used for both thoughts.
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The Protagonist's thoughts are related: The Protagonist has encountered a superiorly styled M3 in the wild and can no longer bring himself to be seen in public
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Choose your own adventure:
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The Protagonist is rambling: The reader must imagine separate paragraphs were used for both thoughts.
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The Protagonist's thoughts are related: The Protagonist has encountered a superiorly styled M3 in the wild and can no longer bring himself to be seen in public
like many good choose your own adventure books, both paths lead to the same ending
All of Wibimmers is sad Brian is not around.
Dan
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I'm excited for Coronavirus to be over for two reasons:
- To have our normal life back.
- To stop hearing co-workers regurgitate information they read on the internet like they're coronavirus experts.
EDIT: Found the rare and sought after P95 filters for my painting respirator at Neu's in Menomonee Falls. They are completely sold out online or have 2-3mo shipping times.
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Do we have any super tin foil hat wearers here? Anyone up on the '5G caused Coronavirus' thing? My aunt is going off the deep end on FB about this. She also things it was a grand scheme by the secret world government to make us all get a vaccine which will also contain a chip so they can track us. Etc Etc. She's also highly religious. It's getting really weird, like weirder than normal.
What say you, wibimmer brethren?
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I have been reading about this lunacy.
I wont claim to be an expert on this topic, not even an internet expert but this diagram (MADE BY THE GOVERNMENT TO KEEP YOU SHEEPLE BLIND. Jk) seems to put things into perspective. 5G is still well below visible light on this spectrum.
No government is totally ethical, honest, and wonderful, but If anything, this pandemic has demonstrated to me that the government is really trying to watch out for and provide aid for its citizens as much as it can. I am happy with the paycheck protection plan, family leave allowances, and other steps being taken to help out.
A very jaded and slanted view may propose that the ONLY motive for all
of this is to save the economy so the government can keep collecting taxes. But when things get real like they have been over the last couple months, I find it refreshing to see, in my opinion, genuine attempts to help.
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people are very curious by nature, and need answers to questions. if they cannot see an answer with their own eyes, they have to believe what someone is telling them is the truth. what is hard to explain is why conspiracy theories resonate with people. the simple answer is too boring? they need someone to direct their anger at instead of just accepting that some things are just shitty and that's the way it is? heard mentality (my friend believes it)?
lately, the media and social media aren't helping these conspiracy loons. the loons are able to find other people saying the same things, thereby in their mind, confirming the theory. 50 years ago, there were loonies. but they lived far apart and never found each other so they were just crazy people in their own little worlds. now they have Facebook and can post their bullshit for the world to see.
Dan
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Do we have any super tin foil hat wearers here? Anyone up on the '5G caused Coronavirus' thing? My aunt is going off the deep end on FB about this. She also things it was a grand scheme by the secret world government to make us all get a vaccine which will also contain a chip so they can track us. Etc Etc. She's also highly religious. It's getting really weird, like weirder than normal.
What say you, wibimmer brethren?
My wife is part of some facebook mom groups. One of which is the "all natural" moms who are anti-vaccines and they have the same sentiment. Saying they would absolutely not get the vaccine because this is all some big pharma conspiracy theory. I will never understand how some people operate on a day-to-day basis.
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My wife is part of some facebook mom groups. One of which is the "all natural" moms who are anti-vaccines and they have the same sentiment. Saying they would absolutely not get the vaccine because this is all some big pharma conspiracy theory. I will never understand how some people operate on a day-to-day basis.
When this was all starting I was in a customers waiting room in Appleton and they had Dr. Oz on. I was waiting for the dealer to finish with a customer so instead of staring at them waiting to finish I listened to the TV. Oz had another "Dr." on and they were taking audience questions and one was something like "I follow all of your recipes for all natural soaps, sanitizer, cleaning products and was wondering if you would recommend them for the corona virus?". Both "doctors" came back with a resounding "NO!" and back pedaled on how although they believe using their homemade products is a healthier way of living, during this time they absolutely recommend you buy your own soaps, cleaners and hand sanitizer because they are proven effective. I fucking laughed, it was too perfect to hear them have to admit their bullshit.
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My wife is part of some facebook mom groups. One of which is the "all natural" moms who are anti-vaccines and they have the same sentiment. Saying they would absolutely not get the vaccine because this is all some big pharma conspiracy theory. I will never understand how some people operate on a day-to-day basis.
these mom's are just looking to blame someone for kids being born with mental deficiencies, instead of accepting that nature and genetics are fickle and some people are going to be born with problems. they ignore the simple answer of evolution.
Dan
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Do we have any super tin foil hat wearers here? Anyone up on the '5G caused Coronavirus' thing? My aunt is going off the deep end on FB about this. She also things it was a grand scheme by the secret world government to make us all get a vaccine which will also contain a chip so they can track us. Etc Etc. She's also highly religious. It's getting really weird, like weirder than normal.
What say you, wibimmer brethren?
I am not a conspiracy theorist although I have worn a tinfoil hat before (haven't we all?). I haven't heard the 5g caused this yet but I have heard that this was a secret chemical weapon being developed in China and someone fucked up and accidentally let it out. The great thing about conspiracy theories is they never become a validated fact. Now, do I think that there are companies that will absolutely profit from this? 100% YES. I haven't heard of a large company brazen enough yet to make a very public move to take advantage of this situation but there's a sang in politics, never let a crisis go to waste. Big pharma and their supporting cast will make money off of this one way or another and there is nothing we can do about it. We're also going to see companies come out of this who figured out how to streamline and successfully cut their largest expenditure, their workforce. Money will be made by companies after this it's just a matter of who saw an opportunity and took it. In this case I don't mean to make that a negative either. In my role I see an opportunity to grow accounts by building a closer relationship with certain dealers because other sales people have been laid off or are making calls from home just the same as I am and they are being lazy. I've also identified crisis/economy proof markets and working to better support them during this time so they can keep making money and supporting their own customers.
I had a point when I started typing but i'm not sure I stayed true to the original question lol.
people are very curious by nature, and need answers to questions. if they cannot see an answer with their own eyes, they have to believe what someone is telling them is the truth. what is hard to explain is why conspiracy theories resonate with people. the simple answer is too boring? they need someone to direct their anger at instead of just accepting that some things are just shitty and that's the way it is? heard mentality (my friend believes it)?
lately, the media and social media aren't helping these conspiracy loons. the loons are able to find other people saying the same things, thereby in their mind, confirming the theory. 50 years ago, there were loonies. but they lived far apart and never found each other so they were just crazy people in their own little worlds. now they have Facebook and can post their bullshit for the world to see.
I agree with all of this. I think conspiracies exist because people want answers and to accept what somebody else told you is admitting you probably have no recourse. They can never prove it one way or another so if they can develop a "theory" as to why something happened that their lizard brain can understand and accept then it becomes truth and everyone else is stupid. I think their is some superiority complex to this as well. No conspiracy theorist is humble. They're the smart one because *they* figured it ALL out. People want to know why and if the answer is too simple or they don't understand then their HAS to be a "bad guy". It goes along with people unable and unwilling to accept their own mistakes and issues. SOMEBODY has to be at fault for their strife. Can't afford rent? Landlord is greedy. Got laid off? Big business is greedy. Didn't get laid off? Big business is greedy. Got cancer? Big pharma is greedy.
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I am not a conspiracy theorist although I have worn a tinfoil hat before (haven't we all?). I haven't heard the 5g caused this yet but I have heard that this was a secret chemical weapon being developed in China and someone fucked up and accidentally let it out. The great thing about conspiracy theories is they never become a validated fact. Now, do I think that there are companies that will absolutely profit from this? 100% YES. I haven't heard of a large company brazen enough yet to make a very public move to take advantage of this situation but there's a sang in politics, never let a crisis go to waste. Big pharma and their supporting cast will make money off of this one way or another and there is nothing we can do about it. We're also going to see companies come out of this who figured out how to streamline and successfully cut their largest expenditure, their workforce. Money will be made by companies after this it's just a matter of who saw an opportunity and took it. In this case I don't mean to make that a negative either. In my role I see an opportunity to grow accounts by building a closer relationship with certain dealers because other sales people have been laid off or are making calls from home just the same as I am and they are being lazy. I've also identified crisis/economy proof markets and working to better support them during this time so they can keep making money and supporting their own customers.
I had a point when I started typing but i'm not sure I stayed true to the original question lol.
I agree with all of this. I think conspiracies exist because people want answers and to accept what somebody else told you is admitting you probably have no recourse. They can never prove it one way or another so if they can develop a "theory" as to why something happened that their lizard brain can understand and accept then it becomes truth and everyone else is stupid. I think their is some superiority complex to this as well. No conspiracy theorist is humble. They're the smart one because *they* figured it ALL out. People want to know why and if the answer is too simple or they don't understand then their HAS to be a "bad guy". It goes along with people unable and unwilling to accept their own mistakes and issues. SOMEBODY has to be at fault for their strife. Can't afford rent? Landlord is greedy. Got laid off? Big business is greedy. Didn't get laid off? Big business is greedy. Got cancer? Big pharma is greedy.
you're very right that someone almost always profit from disaster, and people see this as motive instead of opportunity.
good point about the superiority/egotistical nature of those people.
the craziest conspiracy guy i ever met believes the airplane smoke trails were chemicals from the government meant to keep us docile. he also believed when he broke his leg at work, the doctors purposefully didn't fix it right so that he would be trapped by the medical system for his life. what really happened is he didnt do his physical therapy correctly and he had to blame someone else.
Dan
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My Aunt is all in on all those conspiracy theories. I usually just ignore it, but sometimes I have to point out the gross fallacy. For awhile she was spouting about how the government and the mega rich had these super high tech healing machines and posted 'leaked' documents and images of them. I realized immediately that they were set shots and artists renderings of the machine from the Prometheus movie. I posted links and such. She simply said that the images were only representative and that she was sure they existed.
Now she's heavy on the 5G = Covid19 and Bill Gates being evil and selling Alien Technology.
Crazy.
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My Aunt is all in on all those conspiracy theories. I usually just ignore it, but sometimes I have to point out the gross fallacy. For awhile she was spouting about how the government and the mega rich had these super high tech healing machines and posted 'leaked' documents and images of them. I realized immediately that they were set shots and artists renderings of the machine from the Prometheus movie. I posted links and such. She simply said that the images were only representative and that she was sure they existed.
Now she's heavy on the 5G = Covid19 and Bill Gates being evil and selling Alien Technology.
Crazy.
is this a blood aunt, or in-law? if its blood, better get yerself checked.
Dan
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The aforementioned influx of social media and people just sharing anything because the title says what they agree with has really blown me away. I really enjoyed the large amount of people sharing the "Covid only has a death rate of 3%, don't let the big media fool you." A quick look at the Hopkins site (best source for numbers as far as I can tell) shows that Italy and Spain are up in the 9 to 12% death range. Sure, the US was at a 3% mortality rate at that moment, but we were so early into the spread of it.
I (to many people's annoyance) have a habit of asking further details and play devils advocate to things that are said that don't line up with what I would consider to be logical. It either leads to frustration from the other person, or leading to believe that the source is logical.
My roommate lately has been on a "the death numbers are faked or they're classifying all deaths as Covid" or other statements of suspended disbelief. When prompted with further questions it's always an "I think" answer. While having an opinion isn't wrong, it feels ignorant to be making large scale claims as someone that is in an entirely unrelated field.
It does also prompt the question of "Who do you believe?" in this whole thing. What is an unbiased source? Do they truly exist? All of the mainstream media channels will have a skew/bias, be it major or minor. Social media has both helped and hurt in that regard in my opinion, as you at least have the ability to "peer review" other people's sources.Who's to say this Dr. Fauci guy isn't being paid to say certain things? I'd like to assume he isn't, as he has stood as the director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease since 1984.
Clearly I have a hard time trusting things I don't / can't verify! -
is this a blood aunt, or in-law? if its blood, better get yerself checked.
Sadly, Dads Sister. But, my dad is completely disgusted by me so I don't have a relationship there, so I'm, actually closer to this Aunt as weird as she is.
The aforementioned influx of social media and people just sharing anything because the title says what they agree with has really blown me away. I really enjoyed the large amount of people sharing the "Covid only has a death rate of 3%, don't let the big media fool you." A quick look at the Hopkins site (best source for numbers as far as I can tell) shows that Italy and Spain are up in the 9 to 12% death range. Sure, the US was at a 3% mortality rate at that moment, but we were so early into the spread of it.
I (to many people's annoyance) have a habit of asking further details and play devils advocate to things that are said that don't line up with what I would consider to be logical. It either leads to frustration from the other person, or leading to believe that the source is logical.
My roommate lately has been on a "the death numbers are faked or they're classifying all deaths as Covid" or other statements of suspended disbelief. When prompted with further questions it's always an "I think" answer. While having an opinion isn't wrong, it feels ignorant to be making large scale claims as someone that is in an entirely unrelated field.
It does also prompt the question of "Who do you believe?" in this whole thing. What is an unbiased source? Do they truly exist? All of the mainstream media channels will have a skew/bias, be it major or minor. Social media has both helped and hurt in that regard in my opinion, as you at least have the ability to "peer review" other people's sources.Who's to say this Dr. Fauci guy isn't being paid to say certain things? I'd like to assume he isn't, as he has stood as the director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease since 1984.
Clearly I have a hard time trusting things I don't / can't verify!I think a lot of it has to do with what your personal agenda is (and this can be an agenda whether you realize it or not). If you generally do not trust something, say the government, you immediately latch on to any bit of info that confirms such. and with the plethora of (mis)information out there, it is easy to get the same confirmation from multiple sources.
I just always try to take a step back and get as much of the picture as I can. Then add my own sense of realism to it all. Does the government really want to control us all and become socialist? (sure, but that's besides the point) Would they kill the economy to do it? That I doubt.
Still, I love talking about it all and getting peoples opinions, some very smart people I know have wildly different views on things. I always keep in mind, that I could be wrong, and that just because we differ in opinion, doesn't mean I have to hate them. I can't discuss things with people that go off the deep end though. I can't discuss any of this with said Aunt, because she 'knows' she is right, and there is no discussion.
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Still, I love talking about it all and getting peoples opinions, some very smart people I know have wildly different views on things. I always keep in mind, that I could be wrong, and that just because we differ in opinion, doesn't mean I have to hate them. I can't discuss things with people that go off the deep end though. I can't discuss any of this with said Aunt, because she 'knows' she is right, and there is no discussion.
This reminds me of why I enjoyed working with the group of engineers I did when I worked out of our office.
We could sit and calmly discuss / debate things that we had completely opposing opinions on. No one stormed out, no one refused to talk to someone because of their opinion (well, shy of one guy) it was just good clean discussion.
It seems like that is becoming less common, and the polarizing of sides isn't helping us out at all.
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