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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/KWWL/status/1295458180831555585 "error" "inadvertently"
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/gdebenedetti/status/1295458730419654657 Actual print headline from UNC's student newspaper, which Some People are whining about because bad language is worse than a deadly pandemic:
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Zugzwang posted:Extremely unlikely (though not impossible because "pretty great country") situation (active shooter) outweighing extremely likely scenario of at least one room closed shut with at least one infected kid inside. Cool, cool. 
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RudeCat posted:"error" For what it's worth I've written bugs exactly like that before and government agencies aren't known for their programming skills
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meanwhile a bunch of people in the germany thread (where more schools are set to open soon) were all "schools will be fineZugzwang posted:Actual print headline from UNC's student newspaper, which Some People are whining about because bad language is worse than a deadly pandemic:
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Wife and I drove through the small TX town of Bandera, and decided to stop to check out the shops. We decided not to go into any, because each shop had this sign on the window (yes, every shop. they coordinated together on this) We're all screwed lol. Americans are too dumb to be alive.
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I bet the staff there love those, while the owner who put them up stays safely at home.
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food court bailiff posted:*yawn* who could have possibly seen this coming This is Normal IL off campus housing for Illinois State University. Students weren't let out of their leases by the blood-sucking campus housing companies and as a result everyone is here from all over the state and country.   lmao our fate rests on college students not partying, we're all hosed.
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dwarf74 posted:lmao our fate rests on college students not partying, we're all hosed.
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zgrowler2 posted:You can automate the helicopter part, a non-insignificant number of firms opted for user control solutions post-WFH-boom that use webcams, focus trackers and the like to micromanage workers' time and productivity on the clock. Orwellian poo poo. Middle managers are cruisin for a bruisin in 2020 How can you tell if such software is installed on your computer? I'm not familiar with any of the programs. I have a webcam but like most people I never have my laptop open.
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stump collector posted:How can you tell if such software is installed on your computer? I'm not familiar with any of the programs. I have a webcam but like most people I never have my laptop open. On an enterprise managed device if you're not a local administrator, you can't really.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:On an enterprise managed device if you're not a local administrator, you can't really. This, sadly, if your work issued you a device. If you're using your own device, it's a matter of checking running processes and services against lists of known corporate spyware, but even then VPN administrators can see everything you do over the network and dashboards exist and are used to make said info collection very easy to parse through.
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According to this the usa could already have like 220k covid deaths. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm 
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The Strangest Finch posted:My limited understanding of HIPAA is that if you aren't a medical professional it straight up doesn't apply to you. If it did you'd be in violation after saying saying "My father has cancer." That said, "a not from her doctor saying that she has MS" absolutely sounds like a HIPAA violation. There's so many idiots in the US who don't understand HIPAA (or even FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act which covers schools) and are utterly convinced that it's a get-out-of-jail-free card for never having to wear a mask because you can just scream "I HAVE A MEDICAL CONDITION AND IF YOU ASK WHAT IT IS I WILL SUE YOU, I KNOW MY RIGHTS!!!!11!" at shop clerks who ask them to put on a mask or leave. We've also got them in Australia even though HIPAA doesn't apply here which makes it even more hilarious when they flounder about trying to bullshit their way out of wearing a mask without giving an actual reason. I was arguing with an anti-masker on Facebook and she thought she'd blow away all my arguments by saying "Well actually I have a legitimate medical reason I can't wear a mask  " and absolutely exploded when I called her on her bullshit. Apparently she couldn't even drop a tiny hint about the rough medical field her "condition" fell under because that was 100% a complete violation of her sacred privacy.  I also know a whole bunch of people who do have actual medical conditions which heavily factor into their COVID-19 precautions and you can always tell the legit ones because they won't ever loving shut up about their condition and will tell everyone about it at every opportunity. 
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All the people I know with actual respiratory conditions already owned N95 masks for dusty work around the house or extreme pollen days, and happily wear them to the grocery store when they have to leave the house. It's such a bullshit excuse.
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/KWWL/status/1295458180831555585 I love my state! 
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Detheros posted:I love my state! Jastiger and Burt Sexual do, unironically.
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The first week means that these are students who didn't catch cv19 on campus, but came to campus sick right? Oh, who could have seen this coming. I sort of feel like forcing college students to come in for one week before transitioning to online only is a slimy trick to keep enrollment up and I'd guess soak students for fees/housing/meal plans/etc. That's a pretty cynical take on my experience as a consumer of an university education. Between bad decisions all around and mucking with testing and account of cases, I kinda feel bad for all of the hot takes I made about the CCP response. Delta-Wye fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Aug 18, 2020 |
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Delta-Wye posted:The first week means that these are students who didn't catch cv19 on campus, but came to campus sick right? Oh, who could have seen this coming. I dunno exactly who made all these decisions but the Board of Governors for UNC is largely ultra-chuds, last I checked.
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The cutoff to get tuition back was 5:00 today. The announcement was 3:45. Another thing we all saw coming. I went to UNC and really liked it, but man do I hate the admin. Scarodactyl fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Aug 18, 2020 |
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Scarodactyl posted:The cutoff to get tuition back was 5:00 today. Holy poo poo lol, 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There's so many idiots in the US who don't understand HIPAA (or even FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act which covers schools) and are utterly convinced that it's a get-out-of-jail-free card for never having to wear a mask because you can just scream "I HAVE A MEDICAL CONDITION AND IF YOU ASK WHAT IT IS I WILL SUE YOU, I KNOW MY RIGHTS!!!!11!" at shop clerks who ask them to put on a mask or leave. We've also got them in Australia even though HIPAA doesn't apply here which makes it even more hilarious when they flounder about trying to bullshit their way out of wearing a mask without giving an actual reason. As a person with a disability I'm really disappointed that having a disability doesn't actually mean I'm allowed to do whatever I want. Rules still apply to people with disabilities.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_accommodation quote:The United Nations use this term in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, saying refusal to make accommodation results in discrimination. It defines a "reasonable accommodation" as:
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/gdebenedetti/status/1295458730419654657 You can’t cut back on transom funding! You will regret this!
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More fun happenings in Hawai'i! I am proud-to the point of chauvinism-to be from the most beautiful and diverse place on earth, but it does come with a wide variety of idiots. This dumbass was holding jazz jam nights with a dance floor and everything, not a mask in sight. Ironically, the videos I've seen of that were taken by someone who is the biggest germophobe I know. Seems he had to convince himself that covid wasn't real just to stop his brain oozing out his ears. https://www.facebook.com/bub.pratt.9/videos/3500025453361710/ The establishment mentioned also held a town hall style event two weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys9LH0_WbYk The intersection of Sovereign Citizens with the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement is a pretty fascinating thing, and it's unfortunate that it distracts from the legitimate grievances of the Native Hawaiian people. A nice mini-cluster at the hospital on Maui, https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/...AIp1VFGhdYAtzyk And a massive cluster at the O'ahu prison! https://www.kitv.com/story/42501576/200-occc-inmates-and-staff-infected-with-covid19 And a big ol' boat party because why not? https://www.reddit.com/r/Hawaii/comments/ibnnwj/huge_boat_party_on_oahu_no_masks_too/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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 My stupid city is opening up again, and more and more people are not giving two fucks and don't want to wear a mask. I'm guessing it has to do with the vaccine news. The one we might not get until somewhere after January 2021. Anyways, influenza (and H1N1) season are coming up soon so I suppose shits gonna hit the fan.
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Scarodactyl posted:The cutoff to get tuition back was 5:00 today.
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Honestly if we all stopped doing stuff on the outside of our homes we probably wouldn't get sick. Just my two cents.
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BiG TrUcKs !!! posted:Honestly if we all stopped doing stuff on the outside of our homes we probably wouldn't get sick. Just my two cents. True, but tell our workplaces that.
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numberoneposter posted:That's what you call a catch 22. American schools: either you catch a .22 or you catch 19
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BiG TrUcKs !!! posted:Honestly if we all stopped doing stuff on the outside of our homes we probably wouldn't get sick. Just my two cents. Look at this fool believing in the germ theory of disease, not realising that covid is visited on those with insufficient faith in God
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I'm in PA and we seem to be trying to get this poo poo under control. We had about 2000 cases a day when lockdown started, now we're at around 700 a day. Still way too high and, sadly, above the ~500 a day we had back in may. Testing is way up, too, which is good, we've basically been trending upward this entire time. Republicans have been fighting every single step of the way. Arguing that masks kill people, trying to get bars open, arguing that all school must be in-person every day of the week. And this week there's a bunch of Republican events going on "to support Trump". The last local one only had 9 people show up, so hopefully that trend continues. My Dad would die from covid (he has COPD and already survived a ruptured bowel 15 years ago that left him in septic shock and a coma) so every time I see an anti-masker I flip poo poo.
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This fall is going to be a loving shitshow both in the States and here in CanadaianaLand. Mind you, even here in Alberta, people are wearing their masks and being, in general, more considerate. Now I'm waiting for our provincial government to dismantle our medical system.
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People, it is the loving air, no matter how much some scientists bicker about the correct taxonomy of particles at different sizes. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/
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I can't figure out why our numbers haven't shot through the roof here. We've been back to school since 7/30. The HS went E-learning only from 8/3-8/7 due to 4-5 positive cases, but the elementary and intermediate have been business as usual since day one. Students have done well with masks in the high school where I teach, but lunch seems like it should be a covid breeding ground. 25-30 minutes with mask off, chewing, talking, spreading droplets everywhere. It probably helps that we're at about 65% capacity with the students who are E-learning, but there still isn't room in most classes to distance and we strictly follow the lovely CDC "15 minutes of maskless contact within 6ft= exposure" so they've gotten by with minimal contact tracing. So if Rayden kisses Khrystianna for 30 seconds at their locker or if Clayton is found out to be positive after spending the whole day coughing and farting aerosolized covid and a kid sat 6' 1" from him....well none of that counts because it doesn't meet all three criteria to initiate testing/quarantining. Still hoping to be out by fall break.
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Sir Not Appearing posted:we strictly follow the lovely CDC "15 minutes of maskless contact within 6ft= exposure" so they've gotten by with minimal contact tracing. So if Rayden kisses Khrystianna for 30 seconds at their locker or if Clayton is found out to be positive after spending the whole day coughing and farting aerosolized covid and a kid sat 6' 1" from him....well none of that counts because it doesn't meet all three criteria to initiate testing/quarantining.
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Mithaldu posted:People, it is the loving air, no matter how much some scientists bicker about the correct taxonomy of particles at different sizes. They're not talking about this because then they'd have to admit it's airborne.
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azurite posted:They're not talking about this because then they'd have to admit it's airborne. quote:ZEYNEP TUFEKCI is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and an associate professor at the University of North Carolina. She studies the interaction between digital technology, artificial intelligence, and society. Not to say that this isn’t true, but I wish people would stop smugly relying on editorial columns by non-experts. There was an article a couple of weeks ago that advocated for masks and empty middle seats as adequate protective measures for flights, due to the excellent ventilation/filtration on planes. The author had, like a Master’s in Organizational Dynamics.
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