Snap Map

[bandit957]

Anyone else like to look at Snap Map?

Since I can't be in every city in the world all at once, I've enjoyed looking at Snap Map lately to check out all the wild times! There's been a lot of parties at universities and in the streets lately that people have put up on Snap Map!

[thspfc]

If you're trying to make certain people on here angry with these childish, provocative posts, you're doing a great job. For the record I agree that COVID is overblown, but like what's the point of trolling people over it?

[TheHighwayMan3561]

If you're trying to make certain people on here angry with these childish, provocative posts, you're doing a great job. For the record I agree that COVID is overblown, but like what's the point of trolling people over it?

First time in Timworld?

[kphoger]

but like what's the point of trolling people over it?

[renegade]

 :coffee:Too early in my day for this shit ... just gonna move on.   

[hbelkins]

If you're trying to make certain people on here angry with these childish, provocative posts, you're doing a great job. For the record I agree that COVID is overblown, but like what's the point of trolling people over it?

What is childish, provocative, or COVID-related about this post?

I never heard of Snap Map. Is it an app or a website or something else entirely? A combination of Snapchat and Mapquest? 

[JoePCool14]

I never heard of Snap Map. Is it an app or a website or something else entirely? A combination of Snapchat and Mapquest? 

You're basically correct. It's Snapchat's built in map. You can look to see where your friends are (if they have their location enabled for you) and see public stories for specific areas.

As for me, I only use it occasionally to see where friends are. I never look at the public stories since they are more than likely idiots sharing that they're being idiots.

[SectorZ]

If you're trying to make certain people on here angry with these childish, provocative posts, you're doing a great job. For the record I agree that COVID is overblown, but like what's the point of trolling people over it?

What is childish, provocative, or COVID-related about this post?

I second this question. I'm missing the trolling part, too.

[hotdogPi]

If you're trying to make certain people on here angry with these childish, provocative posts, you're doing a great job. For the record I agree that COVID is overblown, but like what's the point of trolling people over it?

What is childish, provocative, or COVID-related about this post?

I second this question. I'm missing the trolling part, too.

It's a "here are some people ignoring COVID restrictions, and that's a good thing" type of post.

[Scott5114]

Snap Map: A safety-oriented Waze equivalent for mice?

[hotdogPi]

I immediately thought of the "snap to grid" feature in AutoCAD.

[kphoger]

It's a "here are some people ignoring COVID restrictions, and that's a good thing" type of post.

Only if your immediate reaction to everything in the world right now is "COVID".  That's not the only existence possible.

[Rothman]

It's a "here are some people ignoring COVID restrictions, and that's a good thing" type of post.

Only if your immediate reaction to everything in the world right now is "COVID".  That's not the only existence possible.

Minimizing it and bringing harm to oneself or others is an option, I suppose.  An immoral one, but an option.

[SectorZ]

It's a "here are some people ignoring COVID restrictions, and that's a good thing" type of post.

Only if your immediate reaction to everything in the world right now is "COVID".  That's not the only existence possible.

Minimizing it and bringing harm to oneself or others is an option, I suppose.  An immoral one, but an option.

How is looking at a map of what other people are doing bringing harm to oneself or others. It's immoral?

I literally can't wrap my head around the fake outrage in this post. It starts to seem targeted against bandit for reasons unexplained.

[hotdogPi]

It's a "here are some people ignoring COVID restrictions, and that's a good thing" type of post.

Only if your immediate reaction to everything in the world right now is "COVID".  That's not the only existence possible.

Minimizing it and bringing harm to oneself or others is an option, I suppose.  An immoral one, but an option.

How is looking at a map of what other people are doing bringing harm to oneself or others. It's immoral?

I literally can't wrap my head around the fake outrage in this post. It starts to seem targeted against bandit for reasons unexplained.

bandit isn't bringing harm to oneself or others. The people he's talking about, having parties during COVID, are.

[thspfc]

It's a "here are some people ignoring COVID restrictions, and that's a good thing" type of post.

Only if your immediate reaction to everything in the world right now is "COVID".  That's not the only existence possible.

Minimizing it and bringing harm to oneself or others is an option, I suppose.  An immoral one, but an option.

How is looking at a map of what other people are doing bringing harm to oneself or others. It's immoral?

I literally can't wrap my head around the fake outrage in this post. It starts to seem targeted against bandit for reasons unexplained.

I'm not outraged and I don't care if college students want to have parties. They can make their own desicisions without local politicians and governors breathing down their necks. I'm kindly pointing out that this is just rage bait for those who are more concerned about COVID and feel that people should stay alone in their houses until 2097. Though to be fair to Bandit, everything is rage bait to those people so . . .

[kphoger]

I don't see how it's any more "childish, provocative, or COVID-related" than any post on this forum about people's family holiday gatherings, worship services, or whatever.

Forgive my over-extended metaphor, but...  Suddenly, every single social aspect of life gets filtered through the reader's COVID-colored lenses, and then they tell you what "color" your life is based on their perception.  If, however, someone else's lenses are colored by something other than COVID, or their own COVID lenses are a different color, then an argument breaks out about what color the reality is.

My point is that "harm", "safety", "risk", "danger", and such things are pretty subjective in nature.  For example, I started taking my family to Mexico right around the time drug cartel violence was soaring.  Some people (family and friends and church leaders included) called us irresponsible and stupid.  A few who might otherwise have gone with us on a trip declined to go out of fear.  They viewed reality through cartel-colored lenses.  Meanwhile one of our ministry associates, who travels there from Mississippi a couple of times every month, was hardly paying any mind to news articles and statistics.  He was focused instead on the mission work he was doing, the ins and outs of importing materials, the oversight of construction, the needs of the people, the activities of the local Mexican churches, organizing mission teams from his home congregation, etc, etc, etc.  He viewed reality through differently-colored lenses.  Then there was me, who did a lot of research into the actual data of crime in Mexico, and came to my own conclusions (that traveling there was slightly more risky than here in the USA but not by very much);  my cartel-colored lenses weren't the same color.  The reality was the same, but our perceptions of it all differed.  It's the same with COVID.  Not everyone views reality through the same lenses.  What one person sees as "harmful" another sees as "just part of life".  What one sees as "too risky to bother" another sees as "reason for caution".  What one sees as "troll bait" another sees as "an interesting read".

Only if your immediate reaction to everything in the world right now is "COVID".  That's not the only existence possible.

Minimizing it and bringing harm to oneself or others is an option, I suppose.  An immoral one, but an option.

How is looking at a map of what other people are doing bringing harm to oneself or others. It's immoral?

bandit isn't bringing harm to oneself or others. The people he's talking about, having parties during COVID, are.

Those people have already potentially brought harm to themselves or others.  Posting it on a map or a timeline or whatever doesn't somehow harm them even more.  Nor does looking at or reading about their actions bring any harm to you or me.

[thspfc]

So apparently by calling out obvious trolling, I'm looking at everything through a COVID lens. Just because like two people didn't follow what I said doesn't mean that I'm looking through a COVID lens. You have to be living under a rock to not know what the current situation is with college students and their partying. Some people don't like it due to COVID.

So in conclusion, I'm sorry for pointing out trolling and looking at everything through a COVID lens, because apparently the alternative is completely ignoring it.

[hotdogPi]

So apparently by calling out obvious trolling, I'm looking at everything through a COVID lens. Just because like two people didn't follow what I said doesn't mean that I'm looking through a COVID lens. You have to be living under a rock to not know what the current situation is with college students and their partying. Some people don't like it due to COVID.

So in conclusion, I'm sorry for pointing out trolling and looking at everything through a COVID lens, because apparently the alternative is completely ignoring it.

Part of the reason people are attacking you is that bandit is known for starting threads that are completely off-topic, and you're treating it as an unusual occurrence. This is the reason for reply #2.

[NWI_Irish96]

I don't care if college students want to have parties. They can make their own desicisions without local politicians and governors breathing down their necks.

They're continuing to have parties, which clearly demonstrates that they can't make good decisions even with politicians breathing down their necks.

Hospitals are near capacity--again. Maybe this seems trivial to you because none of the patients or hospital employees are people you know. Just hope you don't experience any kind of trauma, like a bad car accident, while the hospitals are this full. When you get to the ER, the respiratory therapist who you need to intubate you and is usually stationed in the ER waiting for trauma patients to come in is up in the ICU, because the RTs up there can't keep up. As a result, it takes him/her 3 minutes to get to you instead of 30 seconds, and that might make the difference as to whether or not you survive.  Or maybe the ER nurse that was supposed to help save you quit because he/she had seen too many people die and couldn't take it anymore, and the replacement is someone who has never worked trauma before but that's all the hospital could hire right now.

COVID is a very extreme example of Americans being so bedazzled by the concept of freedom that they just can't avoid doing something that has negative consequences if those consequences aren't immediate. It's the same mindset that leads to smoking, drugs and obesity. Those things won't kill us next week, but when we're on our death beds at age 45 we get upset at everybody but ourselves.

I don't give a fuck if I've hurt anybody's feelings and/or get this thread locked. I'm tired of my wife coming home every morning either crying uncontrollably or screaming at me for no reason because it's her only outlet for the horror she's experiencing at work, because people are too selfish to do what medical experts are suggesting.

[citrus]

This thread is gonna get locked, but I am 100% with everything said here:

Hospitals are near capacity--again. Maybe this seems trivial to you because none of the patients or hospital employees are people you know. Just hope you don't experience any kind of trauma, like a bad car accident, while the hospitals are this full. When you get to the ER, the respiratory therapist who you need to intubate you and is usually stationed in the ER waiting for trauma patients to come in is up in the ICU, because the RTs up there can't keep up. As a result, it takes him/her 3 minutes to get to you instead of 30 seconds, and that might make the difference as to whether or not you survive.  Or maybe the ER nurse that was supposed to help save you quit because he/she had seen too many people die and couldn't take it anymore, and the replacement is someone who has never worked trauma before but that's all the hospital could hire right now.

COVID is a very extreme example of Americans being so bedazzled by the concept of freedom that they just can't avoid doing something that has negative consequences if those consequences aren't immediate. It's the same mindset that leads to smoking, drugs and obesity. Those things won't kill us next week, but when we're on our death beds at age 45 we get upset at everybody but ourselves.

I don't give a fuck if I've hurt anybody's feelings and/or get this thread locked. I'm tired of my wife coming home every morning either crying uncontrollably or screaming at me for no reason because it's her only outlet for the horror she's experiencing at work, because people are too selfish to do what medical experts are suggesting.

I, too, am married to someone who's been working in hospitals since before the beginning of this pandemic, and in a totally different part of the US, it's the same thing. All she really wants to do right now is to tell people who aren't following guidelines that they should be denied healthcare, though of course she can't and won't.

COVID is not a huge personal risk to most individuals, but it's a gigantic systemic risk to everyone. Our healthcare system was not designed for this. I'm tired of seeing people evaluate the risk of COVID as if it's their own decision because they're only putting themselves at risk.

[jmacswimmer]

This thread is gonna get locked, but I am 100% with everything said here:

Hospitals are near capacity--again. Maybe this seems trivial to you because none of the patients or hospital employees are people you know. Just hope you don't experience any kind of trauma, like a bad car accident, while the hospitals are this full. When you get to the ER, the respiratory therapist who you need to intubate you and is usually stationed in the ER waiting for trauma patients to come in is up in the ICU, because the RTs up there can't keep up. As a result, it takes him/her 3 minutes to get to you instead of 30 seconds, and that might make the difference as to whether or not you survive.  Or maybe the ER nurse that was supposed to help save you quit because he/she had seen too many people die and couldn't take it anymore, and the replacement is someone who has never worked trauma before but that's all the hospital could hire right now.

COVID is a very extreme example of Americans being so bedazzled by the concept of freedom that they just can't avoid doing something that has negative consequences if those consequences aren't immediate. It's the same mindset that leads to smoking, drugs and obesity. Those things won't kill us next week, but when we're on our death beds at age 45 we get upset at everybody but ourselves.

I don't give a fuck if I've hurt anybody's feelings and/or get this thread locked. I'm tired of my wife coming home every morning either crying uncontrollably or screaming at me for no reason because it's her only outlet for the horror she's experiencing at work, because people are too selfish to do what medical experts are suggesting.

I, too, am married to someone who's been working in hospitals since before the beginning of this pandemic, and in a totally different part of the US, it's the same thing. All she really wants to do right now is to tell people who aren't following guidelines that they should be denied healthcare, though of course she can't and won't.

COVID is not a huge personal risk to most individuals, but it's a gigantic systemic risk to everyone. Our healthcare system was not designed for this. I'm tired of seeing people evaluate the risk of COVID as if it's their own decision because they're only putting themselves at risk.

Not usually one to throw my hat into these types of threads, but my girlfriend also works in a hospital and I totally agree with both cabiness42 and citrus.

I just posted about this in the COVID thread started by tolbs17, but both my girlfriend & I tested positive a month ago.  Why?  Because my girlfriend (a pediatric nurse) had an infant patient, and the mother decided to go to a Halloween party (with relatives who she knew were positive at that point), then return to the hospital immediately afterward.  She then infected both her infant daughter (already in the hospital for something else, mind you) and my girlfriend, and I quickly got it thru proxy as well.

My girlfriend & I are both recovered and fine now after minor cold-like symptoms (luckily), but it's incredibly frustrating that we did nothing wrong and still got COVID because someone else decided to be incredibly stupid.  It would honestly be less infuriating if we had gone to a Halloween party and infected ourselves, because then we would have no one but ourselves to blame.

So, yeah.  Like citrus said, it's not only yourself that's being put at risk.

[jemacedo9]

...didn't the original COVID thread get locked? 

Do we need another rehashing back and forth thread on COVID?

[GaryV]

So, yeah.  Like citrus said, it's not only yourself that's being put at risk.

And that is the whole point.  You don't know if you might infect someone who is vulnerable because you decided to do something risky.

As pointed out above, risk perception is relative.  But when you weigh the risks vs the benefits, it often times becomes more clear.  Was going to that party important enough to infect your infant child, let alone your health care worker and her friends/family?

[kphoger]

So apparently by calling out obvious trolling, I'm looking at everything through a COVID lens. Just because like two people didn't follow what I said doesn't mean that I'm looking through a COVID lens. You have to be living under a rock to not know what the current situation is with college students and their partying. Some people don't like it due to COVID.

So in conclusion, I'm sorry for pointing out trolling and looking at everything through a COVID lens, because apparently the alternative is completely ignoring it.

No, we're saying that asking if anyone else uses Snap Map isn't "obvious trolling".

And enjoying watching videos of parties is not the same thing as promoting the disregard of CDC guidelines.  You might as well say he's also advocating binge drinking by his comment.  Yet nobody said that, now did they?

...didn't the original COVID thread get locked? 

Do we need another rehashing back and forth thread on COVID?

Exactly.  Can we get this discussion back on topic?  Which, for those who've forgotten, is Snap Map.