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AHH! A MONKEY!
More seriously, I am okay. For now at least.
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I really hope that was a broom I was swinging.
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And the insanity continues.
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... New York FOREVER!*blink*
Just popping in to say stay safe FHDM. I am rooting for my favorite city to visit, and when things return to some sort of baseline, I will be supporting the Big Apple with my tourism. We shall eat much Asian food and drink many craft cocktails together my friend!
Until then, stay safe and my most heartfelt hopes all of your family are safe.
*blink*
Ok, the situation is getting really terrible... Wild monkeys are roaming the countryside...
Is this the beginning of the end?!
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And the headache continues... :/
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Funny, that painkiller I have is banned in a lot of countries, and prescription only in many others.
It doesn't seem to really work for me, though. I used it before when I had my only really serious tooth ache and then it worked fine. It doesn't seem to be handle my head properly, though.
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SO I was trying to think on the bright side of this pandemic and I did manage to think of one. me and my fiance are getting married in November (probably things may change) then we are going to look for a house in the spring. This whole thing going on right now should at least drive prices way down.
By then the rest of the country might look like Detroit so you'll probably just be able to pick a house, remove the corpses and move right in!
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Everything seems to be in working order, there won't be any panicked calling the state equivalent of Vany or Woran from our house this day.
And Tiny T-Rex loves his new role as an informal secretary.
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So, I've always had a LOT of respect for high school teachers. Their dedication. The number of hours they put in in a week. Their low pay. The sheer amount of administrative **** they have to put up with.
Yeah, we had some really bad ones where we wondered how they managed to tie their shoes in the morning, but they were in the vast minority.
But well into Week 2 of the shutdown, we have:
Impus Major at DVC: All his classes and lectures are running normally using conferencing software; even his guitar lessons. (And yes, I loved watching him sit in front of his laptop, and when it was his turn holding his guitar up in front of the camera so the instructor could watch him play and give him tips.)
He's working just as hard as he was before, if not harder, and it's all going perfectly smoothly.
Impus Minor: Isn't having any lectures because the teachers can't figure out the conferencing software nor schedule the classes. Isn't getting more than one homework packet per teacher per week because the teachers can't figure out how to post their homework online. And the school district has a full Google Classroom license.
The school board had a meeting last night to discuss shutting down lessons entirely because the online learning is such a complete failure.
I can see it for elementary and middle school kids; I simply cannot imagine them having the attention span and dedication to watch/work with their teachers online. But having watched the high school kids for many years now, I'm really surprised at just how little the teachers are trying to do with them online.
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First day ever of working from home.
This is peculiar.
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Hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE HATE HATE YOU ALL!!
I guess I am a bit conflicted. Is not the Holocough fulfilling the request of so many younger people and acting as a boomer remover/boomer doomer to sweep the old geriatric placeholders out of positions of power and influence (whether political or corporate)? I thought this was a bit of what they want.
Or is the prospect of losing real people such as a grandparent or parent enough to quell that conversation?
Reverend Malthus smirks and walks away.
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Y'know what we all really need right now?
A list of corporations that are stepping up and actually helping their employees (as I mentioned, both GothBard's and my companies are being awesome, and my corporate CEO just recorded a message from home talking about what an amazing job we were all doing, and how proud they were of all of us. Just a nice, uplifting, "We're all in this together so don't think for a moment I don't know how hard it is to work from home," message that even *I*, in my stodgy trolliness, appreciated).
And a list of corporations that aren't. "If we get the stimulus checks for our employees, we'll cut their hours so we can keep their checks."
It'd be nice to know who to boycott once this is all over.
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For these people I always assume they have shoes with velcro.
Yeah, we had some really bad ones where we wondered how they managed to tie their shoes in the morning, but they were in the vast minority.
HEY! I like my velcro shoes!
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Hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE HATE HATE YOU ALL!!
I guess I am a bit conflicted. Is not the Holocough fulfilling the request of so many younger people and acting as a boomer remover/boomer doomer to sweep the old geriatric placeholders out of positions of power and influence (whether political or corporate)? I thought this was a bit of what they want.
Or is the prospect of losing real people such as a grandparent or parent enough to quell that conversation?
Reverend Malthus smirks and walks away.
The issue is that it's not the people in power being told to go let themselves die for the sake of the economy, it's the regular citizens who happen to be elderly.
There's no "sweeping of the old geriatric placeholders out of positions of power" because they're carefully arranging these requests/demands/expectations in a way that keeps the problematic people out of actual harm's way.
The old businessmen, politicians, and general troublemakers are still hiding safe in their quarantine zones or private offices or secluded mansions or otherwise using their fortunes to protect themselves from the virus, while telling other people in risk categories that they are Acceptable Losses to get the economy moving again so THEY can resume making more money.
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I don't care if I get flaming bikes.
Our Lieutenant Governor is a colossal horse's patoot and a sick and evil f**kwad.
Every time I think he can't sink any lower, he somehow manages it.
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I want to see more on the second one from the top and the second one from the bottom.Hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE HATE HATE YOU ALL!!
The IMF one apparently came from a family announcement via facebook, which the reporter refused to share to prevent harassment.
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I don't care if I get flaming bikes.
At this point the politics are so entwined with daily life that I don't think we could discuss the situation at all without risking Fritzys ire. It's just the state of things now.
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Fun working from home stories:
I'm watching a new feature demo, and the guy's dutifully going through his demo and describing how it works, the architecture, and so forth...
...and the moment he brings up the architecture slide an angry squirrel starts chittering loudly from outside his window.
TOO cute!
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One thing about the pandemic situation that's really sitting badly with me...
There's been an emphasis in recent years for schools to explicitly teach soft skills. This includes things like time management, organization...and empathy.
The news is demonstrating more than ever both the necessity for that last one and the impossibility of the task. We need empathy more than ever - how else are we going to navigate the situation? We need to connect with each other and work toward something that benefits everyone.
But society screeches from its mountains of hoarded Purell and Charmin, "What about me?" Society is self-centered and short-sighted...and then we look at our decision-makers. How are people ever going to learn empathy and community awareness if the only thing they ever see is how to punch down?
I don't like the complete disregard we've acquired for human life. I don't like that politics has turned the quest for empathy into a multi-fronted generational and class war. I don't like knowing that my life is just a statistic, a blip on the Dow's infinite charts. I don't like how I need to be a source of stability to scared children when I want to do nothing more than scream to whatever deity wants to hear it .
I suppose all we can do is our best.
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Hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE HATE HATE YOU ALL!!
I guess I am a bit conflicted. Is not the Holocough fulfilling the request of so many younger people and acting as a boomer remover/boomer doomer to sweep the old geriatric placeholders out of positions of power and influence (whether political or corporate)? I thought this was a bit of what they want.
Or is the prospect of losing real people such as a grandparent or parent enough to quell that conversation?
Reverend Malthus smirks and walks away.
The issue is that it's not the people in power being told to go let themselves die for the sake of the economy, it's the regular citizens who happen to be elderly.
There's no "sweeping of the old geriatric placeholders out of positions of power" because they're carefully arranging these requests/demands/expectations in a way that keeps the problematic people out of actual harm's way.
The old businessmen, politicians, and general troublemakers are still hiding safe in their quarantine zones or private offices or secluded mansions or otherwise using their fortunes to protect themselves from the virus, while...
Prince Charles
Tom Hanks
Harvey W
Idris Elba
Kevin Durant
Placido Domingo
jackson browne
Prince Albert
all would like to have a word with you. Granted none of them have died yet to my knowledge, but they are catching it.
But you are also ignoring the voting demographic effect. If the Holocough does take out a large swath of over 50 age voters...that leaves who left to vote...and what power change will that bring? Or a wealthy stock holder dies and suddenly JR owns 6% of company X and can put someone on the board. No, not every old politician will die, but it only takes a few to change control of the Senate...or change the voting demographics to flip other seats.
We are talking about potentially 9 million people dead. That changes votes.
Granted, it may include all the CA homeless as well, but that is its own little bucket of special.
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I want to see more on the second one from the top and the second one from the bottom.Hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE HATE HATE YOU ALL!!
The IMF one apparently came from a family announcement via facebook, which the reporter refused to share to prevent harassment.
good on the reporter for keeping their source anonymous, but without much beyond the quote it goes into hearsay. I could see this being dismissed by those who need to hear it the most.
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Run The Jewels is releasing their new album (RTJ 4) online, right now!!!
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Devin Townsend is releasing a new song per day on YouTube called The Quarantine Project. It's been alternating between ethereal and heavy metal concept space humor (Ziltoid). It's quintessential Devy.
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Nylar, maybe I'm dense today so just be blunt with me.
The Hells does that have to do with the actual thing I'm complaining about?
The problem isn't that "only normal people are getting the disease not politicians or businesspeople or celebrities". No one is saying that, and if that's what you got out of my posts you severely misunderstood my meaning.
The problem is the specific people saying "ignore the disease and go back to work so I can keep being rich" and "X number of deaths is an Acceptable Loss to get the country's stock market rising again".
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Apparently I'm considered "non essential".
There will be vengeance.
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How *not* to notify your employees of potential exposure:
Our Property Management was notified that someone visiting the building has tested positive for COVID-19. They were in the office building between March 7th-March 11th and have been self-quarantining since then. Based on what we know from health officials, symptoms present within 2 weeks of exposure. The 2-week period ends tomorrow. If you are feeling any signs of symptoms, please seek medical attention. We just got the notification from the building today.
In other words, "Whoopsie! You were exposed 2 weeks ago! Hope you didn't develop any symptoms nor infect anyone else while we were sitting on our butts failing to inform you!" (Property management, not the company. They sent the email the moment they learned of the situation.)
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How *not* to notify your employees of potential exposure:
Our Property Management was notified that someone visiting the building has tested positive for COVID-19. They were in the office building between March 7th-March 11th and have been self-quarantining since then. Based on what we know from health officials, symptoms present within 2 weeks of exposure. The 2-week period ends tomorrow. If you are feeling any signs of symptoms, please seek medical attention. We just got the notification from the building today.In other words, "Whoopsie! You were exposed 2 weeks ago! Hope you didn't develop any symptoms nor infect anyone else while we were sitting on our butts failing to inform you!" (Property management, not the company. They sent the email the moment they learned of the situation.)
I see that being how things will pan out here, due to population density and testing issues. Until we get a test that works with pregnancy test speed, we are going to eternally be behind the ball.
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Summer Co-worker: I heard two of the symptoms were lack of smell and taste
Me: Yeah, that doesn't help me
Summer Co-worker: Born that way or electrocuted?
Me: Born that way, then electrocuted.
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Personally, I think we just need to over dramatize our job.
"If this wall isn't built by the end of next week then this whole family COULD be mauled by bears!".
Another idea: Plant corn or soy beans on every job site and call it a farming operation.
Third suggestion: Every truck leaving the yard HAS to have a cow, pig, or chicken with it.
Our work yard is on a farm.
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How *not* to notify your employees of potential exposure:
Our Property Management was notified that someone visiting the building has tested positive for COVID-19. They were in the office building between March 7th-March 11th and have been self-quarantining since then. Based on what we know from health officials, symptoms present within 2 weeks of exposure. The 2-week period ends tomorrow. If you are feeling any signs of symptoms, please seek medical attention. We just got the notification from the building today.In other words, "Whoopsie! You were exposed 2 weeks ago! Hope you didn't develop any symptoms nor infect anyone else while we were sitting on our butts failing to inform you!" (Property management, not the company. They sent the email the moment they learned of the situation.)
The only defense I will give is that maybe the property management just found out as well, and sent out the communication immediately upon finding out themselves.
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How *not* to notify your employees of potential exposure:
Our Property Management was notified that someone visiting the building has tested positive for COVID-19. They were in the office building between March 7th-March 11th and have been self-quarantining since then. Based on what we know from health officials, symptoms present within 2 weeks of exposure. The 2-week period ends tomorrow. If you are feeling any signs of symptoms, please seek medical attention. We just got the notification from the building today.In other words, "Whoopsie! You were exposed 2 weeks ago! Hope you didn't develop any symptoms nor infect anyone else while we were sitting on our butts failing to inform you!" (Property management, not the company. They sent the email the moment they learned of the situation.)
I like it. A concise, detailed admission of knowledge of a exposure to a highly infectious and lethal disease, delivered two weeks too late. Liable negligence transcribed into an electronic format that is perfect for forwarding to your lawyer of choice and/or printing out & posting publicly in numerous locations.
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Summer Co-worker: I heard two of the symptoms were lack of smell and taste
Me: Yeah, that doesn't help me
Summer Co-worker: Born that way or electrocuted?
Me: Born that way, then electrocuted.
Hey! If Dylan could Go Electric, then... {rushes to home recording studio...}
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Nylar, maybe I'm dense today so just be blunt with me.
The Hells does that have to do with the actual thing I'm complaining about?
The problem isn't that "only normal people are getting the disease not politicians or businesspeople or celebrities". No one is saying that, and if that's what you got out of my posts you severely misunderstood my meaning.
The problem is the specific people saying "ignore the disease and go back to work so I can keep being rich" and "X number of deaths is an Acceptable Loss to get the country's stock market rising again".
Apologies. My original post was in poor taste and not particularly serious. Accordingly, my responses may have been flippant.
That said, the original 'conflict' of my post was the juxtaposition of 'wow, this is gonna kill so many people. That's horrible.' with 'but look at who it is gonna kill, that changes everything.'
You said:
There's no "sweeping of the old geriatric placeholders out of positions of power" because they're carefully arranging these requests/demands/expectations in a way that keeps the problematic people out of actual harm's way.
The old businessmen, politicians, and general troublemakers are still hiding safe in their quarantine zones or private offices or secluded mansions or otherwise using their fortunes to protect themselves from the virus, while telling other people in risk categories that they are Acceptable Losses to get the economy moving again so THEY can resume making more money.
What I got from this was you saying that the people in power were not going to contract the disease.
My first contention, flippant as it was, was a rebuttal of what I heard you say. Specifically, that there are demonstrably people of power and influence who are infected and may die from this virus. Thus, the 'problematic people' are not, in fact, out of actual harm's way.
My second contention, also somewhat flippant, is that even if you accept the premise that the current crop of politicians gets through the pandemic uninfected (or recovered), the mass die off of the older population changes the voting demographics A LOT. PEW research says that approximately 3 in 10 eligible voters are boomers. Another 1 in 10 are the silent generation (pre Boomer). Another 1 in 4 are gen x. Kill them off in droves and that leaves Millenials firmly in control by numbers (they are already slightly ahead of gen x). {source: https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/an-early-look-at-the-2020-electorate/ }
That means that all those protected problematic politicians do not make it through another election cycle. Those old stock holders that control the boards of companies die and pass the stock to younger people who have different goals etc. Wealth that has been clutched in the hands of an older generation suddenly passes to younger people.
All because those old protected people said, get back to work and make me money.
While not nearly as eloquent as a "Modest Proposal" my 'conflict' is that go ahead and let the virus run its course, let all the people die, but see where that actually gets you.
But whatever. I don't buy my own argument. I merely throw it out there so that people can see the juxtaposition of the positions.
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Well, California's shutdown has really done a number on our rate of increase, but at least our officials are being more sensible: Public schools in the Bay Area just got closed until May 1. (The previous date was April 7.)
Guess we're not going to make the President's deadline to be open by Easter.
But then, we've had our differences with him throughout...
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Okay, yeah that makes more sense. I'm admittedly very bad at detecting sarcasm or flippancy in conversations I'm serious in, I've never been good at that kind of code-switching.
I'm not generally among the people rooting for the "boomer remover" aspect of the virus, and I'm admittedly rather confused as to how one could have interpreted that I was in favor from my prior posts; I thought I was pretty straightforward about the fact that I was primarily upset about these powerful people making declarations of the success of their businesses and/or the resumption of their profits being a perfectly fair trade for the lives of vulnerable workers.
I may have had a bit of a vindictive desire for those specific people to suffer the fate they would so happily doom others to, but I intended it only specifically for them, not necessarily everyone in equivalent positions of power. Because they're being dicks with people's lives and I imagine they'd be a lot less accepting of the statistics were the shoe on the other foot.
But that is the full extent of my complaint. These particular rich dudes are disgusting wretched evil team-killing f@!&tards who could possibly stand to be thrown to the wolves as readily as they seem willing to throw others.
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...and, there we go with, "The world is NOT 100% comprised of Evil Corporations."
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If we're going to name-and-shame, we should also name-and-praise.
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Ah yes, I have had two pairs of bifocals for 4 years now.
HA! You're old!
But I'm Only,...
WHat part of 'Aged' did you,...
Your just NOW figu,...
<Sigh>
Yes. Yes I am.
-_-
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Dresden Files: PEACE TALKS Official Book Trailer
OMFG!!! THAT WAS AWESOME!!! I can't wait for the book.
O. M. G. That was AWESOME!
Forget the next book!
Whomever is in charge of THIS gem should just go back and turn ALL of the books into Movies!
NOW!
<Aged wizzie starts bounding up and down on his couch in anticipation of this book. WHich comes out in JULY.>
I. Can't. WAIT!
:)
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I've been contemplating making a pell (kind of like a punchbag, but for use with swords) for the back garden, regardless of the puzzled/concerned looks I will inevitably get from the neighbours.
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Hoo, boy. Vanykrye and Woran will get this one.
They did a massive analysis of service requests filed against one of our products.
In 73% of all cases, the end users did not even try to search our knowledge base before filing the service request.
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen: The end user!
(In fairness, the next graph was, "Would they have found the answer?" and that's at "only" 60%, but it means that over 40% of all our service requests are wastes of our time where people are filing requests instead of trying a simple search first.)
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Hoo, boy. Vanykrye and Woran will get this one.
They did a massive analysis of service requests filed against one of our products.
In 73% of all cases, the end users did not even try to search our knowledge base before filing the service request.
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen: The end user!
(In fairness, the next graph was, "Would they have found the answer?" and that's at "only" 60%, but it means that over 40% of all our service requests are wastes of our time where people are filing requests instead of trying a simple search first.)
The only reasonable solution is arson.
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The only reasonable solution is arson.Hoo, boy. Vanykrye and Woran will get this one.
They did a massive analysis of service requests filed against one of our products.
In 73% of all cases, the end users did not even try to search our knowledge base before filing the service request.
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen: The end user!
(In fairness, the next graph was, "Would they have found the answer?" and that's at "only" 60%, but it means that over 40% of all our service requests are wastes of our time where people are filing requests instead of trying a simple search first.)
I support this product and/or service.
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The only defense I will give is that maybe the property management just found out as well, and sent out the communication immediately upon finding out themselves.How *not* to notify your employees of potential exposure:
Our Property Management was notified that someone visiting the building has tested positive for COVID-19. They were in the office building between March 7th-March 11th and have been self-quarantining since then. Based on what we know from health officials, symptoms present within 2 weeks of exposure. The 2-week period ends tomorrow. If you are feeling any signs of symptoms, please seek medical attention. We just got the notification from the building today.In other words, "Whoopsie! You were exposed 2 weeks ago! Hope you didn't develop any symptoms nor infect anyone else while we were sitting on our butts failing to inform you!" (Property management, not the company. They sent the email the moment they learned of the situation.)
indeed. The current test is not that fast.