I must confess, I don’t understand what “anti-cancel culture” people hope to accomplish. Do they think we should not be allowed to dislike other people’s opinions?
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Jul 2020
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The screencapped tweet and the preceding discussions reveal a particularly insidious mindset among the fanatics: (a) they understand full well what this admin is doing despite the palace’s BS claims of “neutrality” (1/x)
Quoted MaoiArroyo's tweet:Nope. Never have and never will. I made my “fuck you” money investing in the Filipino people. It’s called “fuck you” money because I have enough saved up to say that if pressured.
And nope never tagging you or your wife. #StarveTheTrolls
(b) they see no need to hold the powerful to account for abusing their position in service of vindictiveness and personal agenda; and even worse (2/x)
(c) they expect that everyone else should have to bend the knee, and stoop down to their level of transactional politics in order to do business in this country. (3/x)
For them, the ABS shutdown is less a delivery of justice and more of a takedown of an “enemy” who refused to play the games they think should be played
this is a dangerous pragmatism about the way the world works, the belief that we shouldn’t question how things are and just “play ball”, so to speak, instead of working to make things better.
The world isn’t perfect, but for that reason we have to believe it can still be improved, and to speak truth to power where we can, so that we are not stuck in the “reality” these people seem to be content to muck around in.
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Pandemic thoughts and updates, July 12 edition:
- haven’t had a haircut since January. Been urged to go out and get one, but feels like an unnecessary risk. As a friend of mine said “Like, it’s one thing to get sick because I picked up groceries or something. Would feel really dumb to be intubated because I wanted a haircut”
- Did a grocery run yesterday. Not too crowded. Hopefully didn’t get sick.
- Watching mass via Facebook again today
- As of last night, we are at 54222 cases (+1387 from the day before, +12392 from last week), 1372 deaths (+12 from the day before, +82 from last week), 14037 recoveries (+807 from the day before, +2584 from last week). Record high week for number of new cases. We broke past 2000 new daily cases this week, three times! One thing that still surprises me is how long recoveries take. Even though we only quarantine for 14 days if sick (in theory), many cases seem to be lasting a month or more. Like four weeks ago we only had 25k cases, but now we only have 14k recoveries, so there’s 11k active cases that have had the virus for four weeks now? It may also be due to a lag in testing, reporting and verifying recoveries I guess. I wish someone would come out with an analysis of all the deaths/recoveries to break down how long their cases lasted. Reference.
- Worldwide, we are at 12.8M cases (+1.5M from last week) and around 567k deaths. Rate of new cases accelerating worldwide as well. US and Brazil still a strong no. 1 and no. 2 respectively, India and Russia jostling for 3rd place. Caveat: these numbers are from Worldometer.
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Reply to quizandhers's tweet:
@quizandhers Oh, thanks for reporting!
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Repost from TeddyBaguilatJr:
Ang mensahe nila ay GMA-7, ABC-5 at ibang media - huwag nyo saktan ang Pangulo ha. At wag na wag nyo kaming banatan sa expose nyo. Maging tuta na lang kayo. Tulad namin. #DefendPressFreedom
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And yet it moves
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Repost from MNateShyamalan:
are you serious
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Listening to these dishonorable Congressmen rant about their personal problems vs a broadcast network to justify taking them down reminds me of the Filipino saying “Kung gusto may paraan, kung ayaw may dahilan”
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Can’t access mastodon.technology since last night, via either my broadband or mobile network. Downforeveryoneorjustme says it’s up. I assume if it’s some kind of ip ban I would at least see a message instead of just timing out
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Casually playing Garou Mark of the Wolves https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #twitch
that was terrible, but I exported to YT anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yQ6B9IlwHU
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Reply to Westraid's tweet:
@Westraid Not an American, but I really like Reese’s
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Are there any younger indie bloggers regularly writing about current events in the PH? We need more independent blogs about the PH. I’d do it myself, but with this government, it’s just exhausting. Young people still have that energy. (Preferably not on FB or with a ton of ads)
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Repost from GretaThunberg:
Please support the climate activists in the Philippines! #JunkTerrorLaw @YACAPhilippines https://twitter.com/fridays4future/status/1279081826091274240
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::Laughs in 2020::
Quoted Swiss_James's tweet:Pub quizzes in the year 2025.
Quizzer: “In what year did..”
Quizzee: “2016. It’s always 2016.”
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Covid19 thoughts and updates, July 5 edition:
- I did a small restaurant take-out run and mid-week mini-grocery run. Didn’t stay out too long. Ugh, not enough walking though.
- Watched mass via Facebook again today, after our internet came back. I’ve already deactivated Facebook, but Church pages are mostly public anyway.
- As of last night, we are at 41830 cases (+1494 from the day before, +7027 from last week), 1290 deaths (+10 from the day before, +54 from last week), 11453 recoveries (+380 from the day before, +2023 from last week). New cases still accelerating week-on-week, apparently even faster this time. Our death rate remains low, so that’s something. Is it because of the widespread mask usage? Reference.
- The presidential spokesperson, on the eve of July, struck a celebratory tone because we “beat” the prediction of UP experts that there would be 40k cases by the first of July. A “target” we barely met, and probably still crossed anyway due to late reporting/verification. He has rightfully been turned into a meme. Later in the week, he proceeded to go to a resort park to swim with dolphins.
- Worldwide, we are at 11.3M cases (+1.3M from last week) and around 533k deaths. Ten million! Brazil now a strong number 2, but still at only around half of US numbers. Caveat: these numbers are from Worldometer.
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Repost from blakeir:
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but gaming twitter is officially more mature than tech twitter.
h/t @YangCLiu
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M21 draft Episode 6 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #twitch #m21
FINALLY managed to hit 7 wins in M21 draft! This is also the SEASON FINALE for M21 draft for me I think. Maybe more limited when Jumpstart comes around?
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrx5KOMn3FM
YT playlist for all my M21 drafts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXZO7Ukg5Xk&list=PLmU0vkKslGXiz0shcCJgV1YTP5emzWgr4
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M21 draft Episode 5 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #m21 #twitch
Bleah. Went RB but it didn’t go well.
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSNpxY5NYoc
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M21 draft Episode 4 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #twitch #m21
Draft was mediocre, but I had fun so that’s what’s important right? Right?
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0o9At_aEmg
Jun 2020
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In the Philippines, a lot of people like having the so-called “silog” meals - “silog” stands for “sinangag” (garlic fried rice) + “itlog” (egg). Basically rice meals usually with a meat viand. Examples are:
“tapsilog” - “tapa” (dried or cured thinly-sliced beef or similar meat) + silog
“tocilog” - “tocino” (sweetened and cured pork belly) + silog
“longsilog” - “longganiza” (sausages flavoured with indigenous spices) + silog
“hotsilog” - hotdogs + silog
etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silog
There’s also a bread roll called “pandesal” (literally salted bread from Spanish), commonly consumed for breakfast, usually with some spread or some meat filling, sometimes you dip it in coffee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandesal
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Wala ba tayong AntiErrorBill?
Quoted MaoiArroyo's tweet:Pwede ba kayong nga ERRORISTA, less focus on those who protest. Suggestion ko lang, why not do a better job because then people won’t complain. Mahirap ba intindihin yon? We need large scale testing. Our scientists have already made a more affordable rapid test kit. FUND TESTING.
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M21 draft Episode 3 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #m21 #twitch
Had to do 3 drafts just to jump from Gold 1 to Platinum lol. 1 draft was terrible, 2 were mediocre. 3rd draft was a WG deck (no screenshot here). At least I finally got to try some archetypes other than WB!
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Q6LfipbRo
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Git needs a shortcut for “pull, then if no merge conflicts, push”
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M21 draft Episode 2 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #m21
Draft deck was fine, games were terrible; lots of misplays. Last chance tomorrow to rank up before rollover!
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clajhTE3Q-M
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I have deactivated my Facebook account. Join me!
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I like how all the PH 90s kids in my feeds are enjoying their Ghost Fighter rewatch on Netflix. People still refer to the characters by their Filipino dub names, because those were the best! #JusticeForJeremiah
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Casual M21 draft https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #twitch #mtgarena #mtg
Draft went reasonably well, all things considered. Lost 2 games to mana flood/screw, but that’s fine.
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXZO7Ukg5Xk
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Reply to visakanv's tweet:
@visakanv https://searchengineland.com/search-google-by-date-with-new-before-and-after-search-commands-315184
(Such things aren’t super accurate, in the sample image, one of the hits is from 2012)
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@talk2GLOBE followup on my dms please
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Covid19 thoughts and updates, June 28 edition:
- Wew, it’s almost July! It’s unlikely that the Metro Manila GCQ gets further loosened though.
- A lot of new cases recently have been reported in Cebu/Region VII. Some dumbass things coming out of their local officials too.
- Haven’t had a haircut for 6 months now. People keep asking me when I’m getting one, but it doesn’t really seem essential?
- Did a grocery run Saturday afternoon. Surprisingly, fewer people than I expected. Still unable to find Choc-Nut in the grocery.
- We had internet service people coming in this week, and a friend working in UK said to give them masks to wear and I was like “That’s ridiculous, of course they’ll bring their own.” Apparently the expectation is a lot different in the UK, unsurprisingly.
- (That doesn’t mean I wasn’t worried about having the masked strangers from the outside in our home…)
- Despite all of these precautions, I can’t help but feel quite a bit of anxiety visiting these medical facilities.
- Watched mass via Facebook again today, after our internet came back.
- As of last night, we are at 34803 cases (+738 from the day before, +5403 from last week), 1236 deaths (+12 from the day before, +86 from last week), 9430 recoveries (+249 from the day before, +1780 from last week). New cases still accelerating week-on-week. I read somewhere that they’re planning to tweak how they report recoveries, presumably to make it look like we have less active cases? Reference.
- Worldwide, we are at 10,087,840 cases and around 501k deaths. Ten million! Once again roughly a million new cases during the week. USA still number one, but Brazil racing to catch up. Caveat: these numbers are from Worldometer.
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@talk2GLOBE i sent another inquiry via dm please check
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My broadband has been unavailable for two days now and this mobile internet really gets in the way of my doomscrolling
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@talk2GLOBE have sent you a DM, please check
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@talk2GLOBE any update? If youre just gonna ignore my dm at least give me a support number i can call
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@talk2GLOBE is there a phone numbet i can call for globe fiber tech support rn
Any update? Did you slide into my dms then ghost me?
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Reply to rovietoosin's tweet:
@rovietoosin hindi confident sa ability nila magsulat or magexplain via writing
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That grind from Diamond 1 to Mythic is always the worst =/ #mtg #magicarena
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Finally managed to win at Trivia Royale, now I can quit playing it lol
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Covid19 thoughts and updates, June 21 edition:
- The other day, a friend who doesn’t keep up with the news much said that it feels like the pandemic is no longer an urgent thing, and I think that says a lot about the general atmosphere in these parts. This in spite of the fact that our case counts continue to go up, accelerating even.
- The president’s spokesman bravely says that at least we are doing better than the US; what standards, to be compared against the country with the worst response in the world. Maybe try comparing to New Zealand?
- This past week I had to take my mom to the hospital and some clinics a couple more times. Again, nothing major, just regular tests and consults that had been pushed back due to quarantine. I wrote about our first hospital visit last week. The smaller clinic we went to for blood tests had less screenings at the entrance, but all the med techs were in full PPE. Their building also had these nice foot-powered alcohol/hand sanitizer dispensers, pretty neat.
- Despite all of these precautions, I can’t help but feel quite a bit of anxiety visiting these medical facilities.
- Watched mass via Facebook again today.
- GCQ in Metro Manila extended until Jun 30th. Probably the minimum right decision, but it also feels like we’re just pushing back because we don’t know what else to do (because no mass testing, poor data management etc)
- As of last night, we are at 29400 cases (+943 from the day before, +4107 from last week), 1150 deaths (+20 from the day before, +76 from last week), 7650 recoveries (+272 from the day before, +1265 last week). Thankfully a lot more recoveries this week. Reference.
- Worldwide, we are at almost 9 million cases and around 466,000 deaths. Looks like we aren’t slowing down with roughly a million new active cases per week? Caveat: these numbers are from Worldometer.
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Update: YES
Quoted roytang's tweet:I wonder if the FF7 remake will have that enemy who’s like an animated house
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Hey, would any current users of https://lobste.rs/ be willing to give me an invite? Thanks!
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Reply to joyarmadamba's tweet:
@joyarmadamba PH, like many other Asian countries, has a high-context culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_cultures
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Reminder: You don’t have to buy the PS5 (or any other new console) immediately at launch, unless there’s a game there you really, really want to play immediately.
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Posted on r/comicbooks: What is Miles’ “new history” after they got merged into the 616?
Do Miles, Ganke, Miles’ family etc remember the Ultimate universe? Or Ultimate Peter Parker dying? Or were their histories “re-written” and merged into the main universe?
I’m not up-to-date with the Miles comics, but I don’t remember this being explained after Secret Wars
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I don’t use email heavily enough to justify paying $99/year for it, but the new hey.com email service has some interesting ideas https://hey.com/features/, especially on the workflow side (Their service does not seem to use standard protocols though)
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I might played TLOU2, but I can’t help but think that releasing an intense zombie apocalypse game in the middle of 2020 is some kind of power move
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It’s 2020 and govt services here still don’t use modern payment gateways and instead use the popular-among-online-sellers interface “deposit the money in my account and send me a picture of proof” =/
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I forgot to take a screenshot because I was so confused, but someone finally gave me a 3-0 split with Atris lol. #mtg #magicarena
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Covid19 thoughts and updates, June 14 edition:
- Aside from doing another grocery run this weekend, I also accompanied my mom to the hospital last Saturday. Nothing major, just a consult that had been put off due to all of this. Before letting us into the hospital, there were the usual temperature checks, but they also had us fill up a form with name, address and contact details, I assume for contact tracing purposes. We waited for a couple of hours in the doctor’s queue (my mom was only there to get a referral, which in itself only took like 5 minutes). The hospital was mostly empty, we didn’t see any actual sick patients in most of the waiting areas I think. Seating was limited - they had blocked off the seat rows such that only 2 out of every 4 seats was usable. I was super anxious about touching anything, and probably used hand sanitizer at least 5 times during the visit. Their canteen was open, I only went in to get some water while waiting.
- Watched mass via Facebook again today.
- GCQ in Metro Manila was supposedly only up to the 15th. It’s the 14th, and we still don’t know what happens after that. In fact, I’m not even sure the IATF has already announced their recommendations. There are rumors going around that we may get sent back to ECQ. Some authorities are saying limited restaurant dine-in will be available this week. In spite of this, my mom already scheduled some tests at the hospital, a result of the referral consult I mentioned earlier.
- As of last night, we are at 25293 cases (+607 from the day before, +4052 from last week), 1074 deaths (+22 from the day before, +80 from last week), 5706 recoveries (+252 from the day before, +1265 last week). Jumps slightly lower than last week, except for recoveries which are about the same, so that’s good news. Let’s see what happens next week. Reference.
- Worldwide, we are at 7.8+ million cases and 432,000 deaths. Caveat: these numbers are from Worldometer.
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Repost from GordyPls:
History is amazing
