I thought the woman handing me this was going to ask for help reaching something, but she was handing this out to everyone.

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    3 months ago

    Did they just photocopy a flyer that was photocopied by someone else? Because this looks like it was about 15 steps from the original printing. Also, why hand these out now?

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      3 months ago

      Reminds me of a line in Futurama:

      Fry: Over there a crazy guy used to hand out a socialist newsletter

      Bender: Was it poorly Xeroxed?

      Fry: Oh, you better believe it!

      • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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        I once got a full color, too many graphics, tiny writing to fit it all on one full page flyer about how doritos is made with human stem cells. I’ve got it in a file somewhere because it was so weird I couldn’t throw it out. And yes, some of the graphics were of the flavoring fetuses.

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          For many years, I had what was very definitely an expensive printed tract (full color in the early 1990s) called “Is the Russian Bear Ready to Strike?” It predicted that Russia would launch a nuclear strike on the United States based on Biblical prophecy. My favorite part was where they tied it into the Biblical tribes of Gog and Magog by saying that Gorbachev’s name was actually Gogrbachev. Since this was in 1990 or 1991 and the Soviet Union collapsed in 1992 and Gorbachev (Gogrbachev?) died two years ago, I think their prophecy might have been a little off.

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      Did they just photocopy a flyer that was photocopied by someone else? Because this looks like it was about 15 steps from the original printing.

      Some nutcases do things old school. Respect.

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      Sounds about right for these folks. Anytime you see an email like this it’s always FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: the Illuminati KILLED MY DOG with COVID masks!

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    3 months ago

    U got ne dat baby blud homes? I pay extra if it minority blood, that extra suffering and agony is FIYA

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    This is far more than mildly infuriating, this is actively putting peoples lives at risk, it’s enraging and quite scary, and why disabled and other vulnerable people are continuing to be more isolated than ever.

    Fuck this person and the bullshit they spread. I rarely leave the house, but if I did and someone handed me something like this I’d grab the whole pile and set it on fire, casually roll over their feet with my wheelchair on my way, too (E: actually, scratch that, I wouldn’t want to get that close to the disease vector, even with my mask on).

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      I’ve had it twice now and don’t mind getting close, otherwise agreed on all counts. Let’s hide the accelerant fairy juice under your chair, you can be getaway driver with clean hands. Tell me you have a rad van with wheel controls

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      3 months ago

      If I handed it back to her, it would have ended up in someone else’s hands. Figured I could trash it on her behalf.

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      3 months ago

      Don’t hand it back; rip it up and then apologize and ask for a second one. Then rip that one up, too.

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    3 months ago

    I’d be more annoyed that this person couldn’t even bother me with a more up to date conspiracy.

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    We clearly need to bring back the big red rubber stamp. Just stamp it “SCAM” and leave it somewhere like a bulletin board. Because if they want to waste their money and paper, we should make it expensive for them. The stamp isn’t expensive really and ink pads are fairly cheap and last a long time.

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      It’s not a scam though.

      A “Fake” or “Citation needed” or similar stamp would be more appropriate.

      Also I think you underestimate how cheap it is to print in black and white. Judging by the leaflet it’s also a shit printer.

      Hell, they could and probably are printing it at work.

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    People who wear masks can never tell me why, if I wear underwear how come I can still smell my own farts?

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      3 months ago

      Let me sneeze in your face and I’ll let you sneeze in my face but you’re wearing a mask.

      See, it was not that hard to understand.

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      3 months ago

      Are you LARPing as a Fox News viewer, or is that a genuine question?

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      3 months ago

      In case you are serious or someone else is serious about this:
      Masks, just like underwear, are permeable. If they wouldn’t be, you would suffocate as no air would be able to reach your lungs. (At your rear, that’s just a consequence of low requirements towards the material, which mainly serves as a covering and being able to dry.) So gas molecules are usually not stopped to pass through your underwear or masks.

      The main difference between, e.g. FFP2/3, masks and your underwear is the size of particles that are able to pass through. Your underwear will be able to catch some moisture of a juicy fart and probably some shit particles. However, most of the gases and smaller particles can pass through. Filter masks are able to stop most particles down to a certain size. For FFP 2 masks at least 94% of particles down to a size of 0,6 micrometers can be stopped. Particles smaller than that are likely to pass through. FFP 3 masks block at least 99% of particles down to the same size.

      The thing with viruses like Covid-19 is, that they are usually expelled from an infected person via the respiratory system, that means, your mouth and nose. There, the virus cells are mostly soluted within the moist air you breathe out. Moist air means: there are very tiny (mainly) water particles which are spread over a certain volume of gas. And they are floating with the currents of the gas. That’s what basically constitutes an aerosol. Particles, tiny and lightweight enough to float with a gas (for a while).
      You can see that clearly with spray cans. With breathing air it’s not so good to see with the naked eye.
      Those moist particles, loaded with virus cells, are usually large enough to be filtered out by FFP masks. It’s not perfect of course, but it can help a great deal and contribute to prevention measures.

      The stinky stuff in farts is afaik a pure gas and not an aerosol. (Did you know that in terms of gas volume, just about 2 % of a single fart contains the smelly chemicals?) Which is why neither masks, nor underwear help so much against stinky farts.

      FFP masks are mandatory in jobs where dangerous smaller particles can enter your body. They help against dust, smoke and a lot of aerosols. But they don’t filter out pure gases. That’s what gas masks are for.

      In terms of infection spreading, a neat side-effect of masks is that they can slow down the velocity of exhaled air, which helps to reduce how far the aersol spreads around a person. Trying to blow out a candle while wearing a mask isn’t as easy as without a mask, which demonstrates this effect.

      Futhermore, there has been a study suggesting that wearing a mask for a while or wearing it during rainy weather can - up to a certain point - further improve the filter capabilities of such face masks, since the moisture accumulates on the surface of the mask (in- and/or outside) and by this forms another protective barrier.

      Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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          Please provide an explanation, preferrably with sources, if you think my explanation is wrong.

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              I see. Thanks for clarifying that! I already thought you were joking, but wasn’t so sure. Seems a lot of people didn’t get it as you intended.
              You could consider adding a flag like /j, /i or /s (depending on context) to such comments to avoid confusion.

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    There’s some loon still plastering their ill informed, anti Vax / anti mask stickers on every bit of street furniture across the nearby town centre.

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        Or rather too much access to too many non-credible sources.

        Meaning, we need to remove shit like Twitter from the net already.

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        No, they’ve got plenty of access. They just don’t want to be exposed to anything that challenges their indoctrination.

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          Some have medical degrees and will actively ignore anything that doesn’t fit with the Jeebus.

          Religion and capitalism will be the legacy humans leave behind and it’s a shit one

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          While that may be true. The filter bubble is also a very real thing.
          Social media sites earn their money by your attention. And try to keep it as long as possible, with all the tricks in the books, and some they invented.
          So when someone belives something. They search about it. And belive they have done research. When they find what the site belive keeps them engaged.

          Want to know more? sorry, been playing to much helldivers 2. ;) https://www.ted.com/playlists/470/how_to_pop_our_filter_bubbles

          The science is not conclusive tho. Perhaps i am in a bubble… messes with the head…

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    Funny how surgeons don’t seem to have the problems this flyer describes.
    And I better not open this person’s closet and find a single scarf.

    How anyone can still believe this shit just confounds me.

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      Not funny once you realize all doctors are actually lizard people in human skin suits performing experiments on us. QED sucker!