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poverty goat posted:If there's a national food shortage truckers hauling food will be able to smuggle anything across state lines without hassle. With a police escort, maybe No the cops will have nothing better to do and see anyone that smokes weed as a baby killing scumbag they'll pound his face into the pavement and take all the food into evidence along with the weed. Only half the weight will be recorded and the arresting officers will smoke / eat the rest in celebration of a "job well done"
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Anne Whateley posted:...if you're assuming truckers won't get coronavirus. If truckers/grocery/cleaners/etc start having to call in sick, could those jobs be temporarily filled by recently unemployed but able-bodied people from other sectors? Obviously this doesn't help hospitals or specialized fields, but various other unskilled positions to keep infrastructure together and help people get paychecks?
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unpacked robinhood posted:We could have avoided all of this if TCM wasn't idiot bullshit American Traditional Bootstraps aren't dealing much better
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in the depression didn’t the government create bs jobs just to feed people? like they’d go plant trees for a nickel
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poverty goat posted:American Traditional Bootstraps aren't dealing much better They usually have the courtesy to die from whatever without bringing the whole world with them
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givepatajob posted:I'm the idiot in the office who can work remotely but comes in anyway because they hate their family. There are quite a few of these in my office right now. That's code for " I hate my wife and kids"
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naem posted:in the depression didn’t the government create bs jobs just to feed people? like they’d go plant trees for a nickel My grandpa (83) tells me his grandpa said he cut grass using a pair of scissors during the great depression just to buy chicken broth. No idea how true that is, but my hands always cramp up thinking about that.
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Hobo Clown posted:If truckers/grocery/cleaners/etc start having to call in sick, could those jobs be temporarily filled by recently unemployed but able-bodied people from other sectors? Obviously this doesn't help hospitals or specialized fields, but various other unskilled positions to keep infrastructure together and help people get paychecks?
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pixaal posted:My grandpa (83) tells me his grandpa said he cut grass using a pair of scissors during the great depression just to buy chicken broth. There's an old man in my grandparents neighborhood that does this everyday in his yard
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Hobo Clown posted:If truckers/grocery/cleaners/etc start having to call in sick, could those jobs be temporarily filled by recently unemployed but able-bodied people from other sectors? Obviously this doesn't help hospitals or specialized fields, but various other unskilled positions to keep infrastructure together and help people get paychecks? Do you think driving a truck's the equivalent of flipping burgers or running a register?
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Guys, just let me mow my lawn the way I drat well please and that is with a pair of moustache scissors.
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Anne Whateley posted:I think there's a reason you need a CDL Disgusting Coward posted:Do you think driving a truck's the equivalent of flipping burgers or running a register? OK yeah, that was a bad example and I apologize. Obviously you can't toss any rando into a 18-wheeler. If poo poo gets dire could you start hiring a dozen randos to carry the loads in a dozen U-Hauls? Or is that inviting just as much chaos?
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Kind of amazing how quickly everybody started taking this seriously. Just about every restaurant around here is voluntarily closed to everything but take-out and delivery. Two days ago it was business as usual.
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Disgusting Coward posted:Do you think driving a truck's the equivalent of flipping burgers or running a register? I'm terrible at backing the truck up in truck simulator, oh god how does that even work? Oh great I somehow hit my own container and hosed up my cab again!
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Day 2 of working from home. Really bored. Did all housework on day 1. Not sure I've spoken in five days. Hadn't realised 99% of my human interactions were at the office and the gym. Wish I had a pet. Consider phoning family but think better of it. Ordered bicycle training machine and will def use it at least once. Five rolls of toilet paper remain. Will ration as best I can.
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Hobo Clown posted:OK yeah, that was a bad example and I apologize. Obviously you can't toss any rando into a 18-wheeler. With the trucks in U-Hauls fleet? Only if you want 9 out of 10 trucks to break down before they ever reach their destination, and the food in the 10th truck to be infested with cockroaches when it does arrive.
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My parents pulled the trigger and decided to home earlier, so now I will be spending the majority of my quarantine in my childhood home with my entire immediate family. 
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Hobo Clown posted:OK yeah, that was a bad example and I apologize. Obviously you can't toss any rando into a 18-wheeler. The logistics of this would be a nightmare and probably worse than doing nothing.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Kind of amazing how quickly everybody started taking this seriously. Just about every restaurant around here is voluntarily closed to everything but take-out and delivery. Two days ago it was business as usual. My Trump-supporting anti-vax friend went from "what's the big deal, it's less deadly than the flu" to "this is the end of the world" in about 20 minutes when the rest of us in our group text started linking statistics and information at him. He's now trying to figure out how he can stock up on more guns & ammo but at least he's choosing to stay home for the moment.
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pixaal posted:I'm terrible at backing the truck up in truck simulator, oh god how does that even work? Oh great I somehow hit my own container and hosed up my cab again! Look in your mirrors and steer in the direction that the trailer is swaying. I work in logistics management and the average age of truckers is already a concern. Especially now that electronic logging regs are scaring a lot of them away. The only way I could see untrained labor helping in the industry would be if we get driverless trucks on the road and just keep a body in the cab to open the doors, check the rig for maintenance issues, and hand out paperwork.
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Rat posted:I'm not sure of that. He got super sick quickly, the local rural hospitals didn't have room, he was shuttled around to a Calgary hospital. He had miner's lung from his days mining up north. Don't think they bothered testing. This exact thing happened to my grandfather in early Jan after visiting a bunch of touristy places in Florida a week prior 
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Kind of amazing how quickly everybody started taking this seriously. Just about every restaurant around here is voluntarily closed to everything but take-out and delivery. Two days ago it was business as usual. Most people look to the president to know when things are hosed up. The current president downplayed it so everyone followed his play assuming he knows more. This is reasonable and how things would normally go. The president started to take it serious so everyone else is taking it serious now. I think some people have realized he should have been taking it serious earlier and are taking additional measures. Most people do not care about politics and assume everything is great and perfect. They assume they can trust what the president says. I think that is a reasonable point of view most of the time and if they missed the last 3 years of news well this is their wakeup call I guess.
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naem posted:in the depression didn’t the government create bs jobs just to feed people? like they’d go plant trees for a nickel Planting trees is pretty good and certainly not bullshit imo
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It is now day 1 of EA's "heavily recommended" work from home for every employee in North American, Europe, and Australia. We're lucky in that most people just need to tap computers to do their job. On the downside the apartment that we rent has terrible insulation and it's freezing in here constantly. We should be good for total quarantine at home for at least quite a few weeks but we also started a home purchase across the country like 1 week before the apocalypse hit so we'll see how that goes I guess. We may end up having to do some kind of insane 4-day cross-country roadtrip to get to our new city,
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Not sure if a lot of people were thinking about it but convenience stores seem to be fully stocked. Walked into a Dari Mart here in Oregon to get a drink and I was surprised to see all their shelves full. Got a couple loafs of bread and a couple bags of chips. May be a good spot to check out if people want to avoid large stores.
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bitterandtwisted posted:Day 2 of working from home. Fever gone but itchy. Hungry and eat doggy food. Itchy itchy Scott came. Ugly face so killed him. Tasty. 4 Itchy. Tasty.
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Colonel Cancer posted:This exact thing happened to my grandfather in early Jan after visiting a bunch of touristy places in Florida a week prior The first case was like December 8, it's not just possible but likely that the virus got to the US a month later. So many geriatrics succumb to pneumonia in the winter, a few undected coronavirus deaths wouldn't raise any eyebrows
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Yeah smaller local stores don't suffer the brunt of this quite as badly
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naem posted:in the depression didn’t the government create bs jobs just to feed people? like they’d go plant trees for a nickel Wouldn't it have been easier to just give them a nickel? If people are working they're going to be even hungrier.
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:The first case was like December 8, it's not just possible but likely that the virus got to the US a month later. So many geriatrics succumb to pneumonia in the winter, a few undected coronavirus deaths wouldn't raise any eyebrows Yeah the hospital basically said it was an unknown virus causing pneumonia and into the ovens he went. The nurse was wearing a mask and super weirded out when we were over to say our good byes...
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bitterandtwisted posted:Day 2 of working from home. This is what weed is for
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Just as I was about to cancel my gym membership for a few months, they closed down all locations and suspended payments until further notice. Woo hoo.
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unpacked robinhood posted:We could have avoided all of this if TCM wasn't idiot bullshit I don't think Turner Classic Movies has a thing to do with this
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Louisgod posted:Not sure if a lot of people were thinking about it but convenience stores seem to be fully stocked. Walked into a Dari Mart here in Oregon to get a drink and I was surprised to see all their shelves full. Got a couple loafs of bread and a couple bags of chips. May be a good spot to check out if people want to avoid large stores. Same her in MA at a CVS- toilet paper and hand sanitizer on the shelves.
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as long as doom eternal is not canceled, delayed, or a bad game, this will all be fine
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Please sign my petition to move cyberpunk's release date back to April
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Lamech posted:as long as doom eternal is not canceled, delayed, or a bad game, this will all be fine I was wondering how I would have time for both DOOM and Animal Crossing.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Excuse me sir, we were loving them Yankee Doodle went to town Riding on a pony Laid down with a pangolin And gave us all the Roni
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Bought some more rations (beer) today and also picked up a big bag of flour and some yeast. I carried that up to the guy two floors above since he's a baker who's offered to make bread for anyone who gets hit. I'm normally an rear end in a top hat to my neighbours, but here I am, at least trying to help a little bit. Feels weird. I think it's called dugnad in the ancient language of my people.
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