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Anyone seen this? Seems to be a startup JW site for leaning languages

by Funky in

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scanning thru the usual jw sites, i saw a link to this site:.

https://www.talk2practice.com/.

looks like a standard language-tutoring site, right?.

Funky

Here's one thing that's odd:

Click on the "Teachers" tab and select any language.

All the photos of the teachers are of attractive people aged about 25-40, with the backgrounds all very similar - spacious, modern, bright, designer furniture, large windows....basically very large American-style houses that virtually no young JW window-washer / janitor / house cleaner could come close to affording.

I guess it's conceivable that a bunch of young, wealthy, white American JWs all decided to become language tutors on a lark, but....

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Anyone seen this? Seems to be a startup JW site for leaning languages

by Funky in

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scanning thru the usual jw sites, i saw a link to this site:.

https://www.talk2practice.com/.

looks like a standard language-tutoring site, right?.

Funky

Scanning thru the usual JW sites, I saw a link to this site:

https://www.talk2practice.com/

Looks like a standard language-tutoring site, right?

But then you go to the "work with us" tab, where you apply to be one of their instructors, and at the bottom you see this:

https://www.talk2practice.com/work-with-us

There's nothing else anywhere that I see, even on their "About Us" tab, that even hints at it being a JW site and/or run by JWs.

There's something "off" about this site, but I can't quite figure out what, aside from the "almost but not quite completely hiding that they are JWs" thing.

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2020-10-01--Care For Your Personal Needs Yourself----Full Time Servants! (as of 2020-10-06)

by Atlantis in

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i guess the full time servants will have to fend for themselves or rely on publishers to care for them.

------------------------------------for special full-time servants in the field in the united states branch territory1.

necessary personal needs: it is preferred that you and your mate (if married) continue to care for your personal needs yourself.

Funky

"Wound care" ?!?!?!?!

Ring-a-ding-ding....ring-a-ding-ding....

"Say Brother Pompous, I know you're busy and all, but I seem to have my broken shinbone protruding from the skin just below my knee, and I was wondering if you or Sister Pompous would mind dropping by to care for my wound?"

"Well, Brother Poverty-Stricken-Special-Pioneer, I'd love to help, but I'm leading our virtual Zoom field service meeting now, and later I'll be driving our virtual Zoom field service car group. I'll call Brother Put-Upon to see if he's available, after he's finished delivering the boxed fruit to all our other poverty-stricken publishers. Shouldn't be more than 2 or 3 hours from now."

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Is this how people will be microchipped soon?

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i found an article at zerohedge explaining how a state sponsored microchip will be redy for use in the spring for detecting corona virus infections before people feel symptoms.. the article expect that majority of the people will line up to take it.. i think this will become the mark of the beast revelation 13 speaks about.. hereis the article: .

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/microchipd-darpa-biochip-save-us-covid-can-control-human-dna.

Funky

Well, yes, of course, but my question is....

...how do the alien lizard-beings fit into all of this?

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Everyone Around Trump Is Getting The Virus Including Joint Chief if Staff ...what’s going on???

by minimus in

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is this just a coincidence?

is trump a “super spreader”?

is this a republican payback?

Funky

IKR?

It's almost like....

...now follow me here.....

...it's almost like.....

...infected folks refusing to wear a mask, and talking and laughing within inches of others people's faces, and giving them hugs....

...results in contagion of a airborne virus!

Weird theory, I know. Completely out of left field. Way out on a limb here.

If only there were some scientific evidence.....

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President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-he-and-first-lady-have-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/ar-bb19cg4u?li=bbnb7kz.

given his age and weight, he is at very high risk of needing to be hospitalized.. trump is arguably the most well-protected man on earth, and he got it.. people.....wear a fruggin' mask!.

Funky

I was being conservative

I still stand by my assertion that is much, much sicker than the doctors are letting on. And for that reason he's getting not one, not two, but three aggressive and/or experimental therapies that are indicated for the most severe cases.

I have no idea how long it may take that aggressive combination of therapies to make a difference. I suspect very few, if any, 74 year old obese males with a positive COVID diagnosis have taken that exact same combination of drugs, so we can't know how effective it may or may not be, or how soon to expect to see a change.

Obviously the doctors think it is the best course of treatment. It may well be effective.

I have a hunch, a prediction, it's not enough to overcome his illness. His comorbidities are too intense. He may well be incapacitated and hospitalized for much longer than a week, but I'm not ready to assert that yet.

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President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-he-and-first-lady-have-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/ar-bb19cg4u?li=bbnb7kz.

given his age and weight, he is at very high risk of needing to be hospitalized.. trump is arguably the most well-protected man on earth, and he got it.. people.....wear a fruggin' mask!.

Funky

I don't follow - you wrote you thought he would be out of the hospital "soon", now you're saying he will be in the hospital, but strictly for purposes of self-isolation?

I just want to understand your prediction: "out of the hospital soon", or "isolating in the hospital for a while yet"?

Let me clarify mine: I predict he will be in the hospital actively receiving treatment, not merely sitting around in isolation, for a minimum of one week.

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President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19

by Funky in

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-he-and-first-lady-have-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/ar-bb19cg4u?li=bbnb7kz.

given his age and weight, he is at very high risk of needing to be hospitalized.. trump is arguably the most well-protected man on earth, and he got it.. people.....wear a fruggin' mask!.

Funky

Hey, I'll play.

And happily acknowledge if I am wrong.

What is your prediction?

My prediction: Trump remains hospitalized for a minimum of one week. At least until October 12. There will be occasional videos produced when he's flying from the "up" due to his steroid treatments, but there will be continuing nonsensical and/or vague answers from the medical team.

After hospital release: A greatly reduced schedule of public appearances, if any. No more rallies, no debates, virtually nothing where he is seen "live". I predict his COVID will cause long-term debilitating effects which will become increasingly difficult to disguise.

Happy?

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President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19

by Funky in

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-he-and-first-lady-have-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/ar-bb19cg4u?li=bbnb7kz.

given his age and weight, he is at very high risk of needing to be hospitalized.. trump is arguably the most well-protected man on earth, and he got it.. people.....wear a fruggin' mask!.

Funky

I see you have no counter to my debunkment (?) of your "it's just a mild case of COVID because he's getting [best practice] drugs as a preventive treatment" argument.

We can talk about Trump's tax situation if / when he has recovered. It's not going away, it just got (rightfully) elbowed out of the way since the president's health crisis is more urgent.

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President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19

by Funky in

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-he-and-first-lady-have-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/ar-bb19cg4u?li=bbnb7kz.

given his age and weight, he is at very high risk of needing to be hospitalized.. trump is arguably the most well-protected man on earth, and he got it.. people.....wear a fruggin' mask!.

Funky

1) President Trump got diagnosed with the corona flu

Yep

2) Best doctors in the US administer drugs based on best practice

"Best practice" for remdesivir:

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2924

Current practice Remdesivir has received worldwide attention as a potentially effective treatment for severe covid-19.

"Best practice" for dexamethasone:

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2648

RECOVERY findings therefore support use of dexamethasone only for patients with hypoxaemia, not those with milder disease. The data do not support use of dexamethasone or other corticosteroids in the outpatient setting.

"Best practice" for Regeneron:

Woops, there are none - it's an experimental drug still in phase 3 trials.

Yes, I can easily imagine doctors giving experimental drugs to their top-priority patient who has a "mild" case, cuz, heck, why the hell not?

3) President looks perfectly fine and healthy, continues to carry out his duties

Ya got me! It's true, he is every bit as effective at carrying out "signing blank pieces of paper and scowling menacingly at disconnected telephones" as he ever was.