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Burt Sexual posted:Canx the Olympics Jfc The aristocrats and landed gentry that run the olympics for the corporations have proven quite conclusively for some time now that they do not give a single poo poo for the life of anyone who isn't them, particularly if those lives get in the way of their spectacle and profit. Why on earth would they change that now?
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Grape posted:I'm really glad I got a long overdue haircut the week before all this lol. Is all right guys! This dude managed to get a hair cut!
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Mar 22, 2020 09:30
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The Folding@Home and Rosetta@Home distributed computing projects are both giving COVID-19 work top priority now. On the BOINC thread on SH/SC, we've been encouraging other BOINC goons to join the goon teams for these two projects, and to prioritize on workunits for them. I think COVID-19 is more important than mining buttcoins. Anyone who wants to is welcome to throw their own computers onto the grid too. BOINC/Grid computing: Numbers Go Up, Hardware Edition https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3871439
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Funk In Shoe posted:Is all right guys! This dude managed to get a hair cut! I'm glad for him tbh, and I wish I'd gotten one. It's diy buzzcuts for me for the next while.
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Mar 22, 2020 09:36
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40 confirmed cases in Sheffield, more than any other northern city, though without testing of non hospitalized potential cases pretty much just a snapshot of a class of sufferers not of the infection rate overall
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Governor of Hawaii orders mandatory 14-day quarantine for anyone entering the state, breaking quarantine is punishable by up to 1 year in prison I know it's easier for Hawaii to do that than most places but let's hope more states follow suit
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Mar 22, 2020 09:55
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Lol, cops in Oslo are asking for face masks and hand sanitiser from the public. Get hosed!
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Mar 22, 2020 10:00
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Lodin posted:Lol, cops in Oslo are asking for face masks and hand sanitiser from the public. Get hosed! if by "get hosed" you mean "spread corona to everyone they stop because they didn't have masks/hand sanitizer", sure
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Crimpolioni posted:I'm glad for him tbh, and I wish I'd gotten one. It's diy buzzcuts for me for the next while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK7_VSpTyVY
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Mar 22, 2020 10:06
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US has taken over Spain! Soon it's gonna be US NO 1 as God intended!
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Victoria and NSW are going on lockdown and South Australia and Western Australia and Tasmania and I think Queensland have all closed their state borders.
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Mar 22, 2020 10:26
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Here in Australia the states of Victoria and New South Wales are going into lockdown. The school term will end early and all non-essential services will be shuttered over the next 48 hours. It was a little unclear what would actually be counted as "essential" so of course thousands and thousands of people immediately crammed themselves into the local bottleshops and started hoarding booze   ...... and it looks like bottleshops will stay open anyway 
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Tuxide posted:The Folding@Home and Rosetta@Home distributed computing projects are both giving COVID-19 work top priority now. I tried doing folding@home yesterday and was getting nothing but errors connecting, after manually spamming requests a bunch of times was able to get assigned work for the GPU (but never the CPU) but it wasn't COVID related (had a different ID than the ones they're saying are for COVID and I don't think you can choose what to work on) and it made my video card get crazy hot with the blower fan screaming, and then stuff like scrolling on websites slowed to a crawl and I got scared and stopped it. Video card is a non-overclocked 1080ti and the priority or whatever it's called was set to medium. Is folding only for people with crazy water-cooling setups or something because this felt like one of those things guys use to set video cards on fire for youtube views d0s fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Mar 22, 2020 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here in Australia the states of Victoria and New South Wales are going into lockdown. The school term will end early and all non-essential services will be shuttered over the next 48 hours. On the plus side, the government's reaction to all this has genuinely surprised me, in a good way. We really have very few cases comparatively but they're rightly using the acceleration of the disease from other countries to rightly NOPE the gently caress out very quickly, closing borders and banning travel etc. To date they've also announced $189 billion dollars toward keeping people in homes and businesses afloat etc. For perspective that's 10% of the entire value of the Australian economy.
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I have no idea of this is bullshit or not https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1241163642067877895
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unpacked robinhood posted:I have no idea of this is bullshit or not It’s dumb bullshit.
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d0s posted:I tried doing folding@home yesterday and was getting nothing but errors connecting, after manually spamming requests a bunch of times was able to get assigned work for the GPU (but never the CPU) but it wasn't COVID related (had a different ID than the ones they're saying are for COVID and I don't think you can choose what to work on) and it made my video card get crazy hot with the blower fan screaming, and then stuff like scrolling on websites slowed to a crawl and I got scared and stopped it. Video card is a non-overclocked 1080ti and the priority or whatever it's called was set to medium. Is folding only for people with crazy water-cooling setups or something because this felt like one of those things guys use to set video cards on fire for youtube views To clarify, and with links to the Something Awful teams: BOINC Rosetta@Home https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/team_display.php?teamid=4597 CPU Folding@Home https://apps.foldingathome.org/teamstats/team150.html GPU I tried doing Folding@Home myself, but I have an old-rear end graphics card and one of my fans on it failed, so I'm just doing Rosetta@Home. If you're in my situation, I would just do Rosetta. Both projects do two completely different things for COVID-19, and the work on each of them complement each other. We have a few goons who do GPU work, but I'm not one of them and I would ask on the SH/SC thread. I understand Folding@Home has a problem right now where they keep running out of workunits related to COVID-19, so that might be what you've been seeing. Both projects are giving COVID-19 top priority, but there's no way to just tell your computer to only do COVID-19 work. You're gonna get whatever work is actually available, just with priority given to COVID-19.
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Soysaucebeast posted:poo poo like this infuriates me. Literally every single other department in my entire company is working from home except mine. My department has the ability to, and the company gave us the equipment to, but they will not let us yet. As of Friday they told us they hired better cleaners and to just spread out more. Yeah man, same thing happened at my wife's work but I begged her to call in sick two weeks ago anyways, use up her sick and vacation days and stay home anyway, and wouldn't ya know it, they finally told everyone not to come to work when they found out that the cleaners they hired weren't actually doing the stuff they said they'd do and two people started showing symptoms.
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Lodin posted:Lol, cops in Oslo are asking for face masks and hand sanitiser from the public. Get hosed! Our cops insisted they need masks to "protect themselves", and now they're allowed to wear masks, even though the govt says masks are useless for non health profs caring for at risk patients. 
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a hot gujju bhabhi posted:On the plus side, the government's reaction to all this has genuinely surprised me, in a good way. We really have very few cases comparatively but they're rightly using the acceleration of the disease from other countries to rightly NOPE the gently caress out very quickly, closing borders and banning travel etc. https://www.covid19data.com.au/ The AU government is NOT good and it's reaction is horrible. We should have done what we're doing now 10 days ago. We should have all flights from UK and US 3 weeks ago. They've had 6 weeks notice and did nothing until a week ago! We are 4 days behind Italy in number of cases from the same starting point and it is doubling every 3 days. . We are 12 days behind where Italy's medical system got overwhelmed. Border Farce let 3 cruise ships dock and every passenger off with 120+ cases from just 1 of them reporting ill. The only reason we're doing a soft lockdown now is because NSW and VIC finally looked at the graphs more than 1 week ahead. And it's not a hard lock down. We won't know for sure till tomorrow, but it looks like tradies and companies that serve them CAN STAY OPEN. Like say...Bunnings. And that's not a small store network.
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Schengen closed borders except with the UK who chose the megadeath option. Lol!
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unpacked robinhood posted:I have no idea of this is bullshit or not Theres many reasons for less numbers. Like less fraud. People with multiple lines shutdown one.
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Bars and pubs are shutting down at midday tomorrow in Australia.
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Tei posted:Theres many reasons for less numbers. Like less fraud. People with multiple lines shutdown one. Also less money when people are forced to stay home and aren’t working.
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Friendly reminder that we could all be out enjoying life if some chinese dude's idea of a good time hadn't been loving a pangolin while using a live bat as a buttplug. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Bars and pubs are shutting down at midday tomorrow in Australia. All non essential businesses are.
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Comstar posted:https://www.covid19data.com.au/ lol alright mate
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Tuxide posted:The Folding@Home and Rosetta@Home distributed computing projects are both giving COVID-19 work top priority now. When our labs shut down last week I left all our workstations running folding. Pretty sure it was the most/only worthwhile thing I did all week.
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Icept posted:Friendly reminder that we could all be out enjoying life if some chinese dude's idea of a good time hadn't been loving a pangolin while using a live bat as a buttplug. We don't know that ! Do you think it makes sense to gently caress a pangolin when the cold velvet softness of a bat could engulf your cock in a pleasurable embrace ??
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lithium flour posted:When our labs shut down last week I left all our workstations running folding. Pretty sure it was the most/only worthwhile thing I did all week. Serious question but are you keeping tabs on those machines ?
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unpacked robinhood posted:I have no idea of this is bullshit or not https://twitter.com/Ramunai40409885/status/1241336988025774081?s=19
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Wanna same in youre niple bby
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When I drown in my own lungs screaming it will be my fault because I tempted the universe with one of my posts.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here in Australia the states of Victoria and New South Wales are going into lockdown. The school term will end early and all non-essential services will be shuttered over the next 48 hours. Sunday 9:30pm update: the PM just held a press conference and pubs, clubs, cinemas, nightclubs, restaurants, gyms, indoor sporting venues, casinos and places of worship will be closed from midday Monday, nationwide https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/drastic-bans-on-pubs-and-clubs-in-bid-to-stop-coronavirus-20200322-p54csr.html
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Well I woke up feeling a little bit rougher this morning, told my boss, self isolation is a go from now. At least if it gets serious I might get a chance at a hospital bed at this stage.
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The Human Crouton posted:China has zero new infections for the third day in a row! Amazing! A Finnish "influencer" with a fairly sizeable following was posting on Twitter yesterday about how people should go out and buy masks to wear when going outside to stop the disease, because that's what China did and now they have 0 infections. A bunch of people called him a loving idiot and tried to explain that people should instead stay at home and leave the masks to the professionals who actually need them, but he just kept parroting the same "well the Chinese wouldn't be doing it if it didn't work, and look, it says right here zero cases". It's not the disease that'll kill us, it's the loving idiots.
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Der Shovel posted:
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unpacked robinhood posted:Serious question but are you keeping tabs on those machines ? Myself and the other lab manager can remote into them, security will be patrolling the building in our absence, our IT services approved doing it. If I'm allowed to at any point I will go in to check on them, but it's not looking likely in the short term (London).
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This big boring crosspost is coming out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Yesterday I had an eight hour shift bagging and taking out groceries, and I don't think I'm cut out for this stress. By the end of my shift I was more animated and emotional than I normally get, ranting with my coworkers and saying that I was going to put in my two weeks notice. I'm not sure how much I was overreacting. Throughout my shift my danger sense was telling me that things were very wrong. I'd mostly been away from work for the past two weeks and I guess I was expecting a lot more being done about the virus when I got back. My store has given employees a "temporary" two dollar raise, increased overtime pay, set aside time for the elderly in the morning, and everyone is wearing gloves with cashiers and baggers being told to change them between every customer (but I see not everyone actually is). However, they've barely done any real communication or education about what's going on with their employees. For example, I know about my raise because I read it in the newspaper but yesterday one of my coworkers didn't even know he had gotten it. I have coworkers who think that this is going to be over in two weeks. They have no clue about the kind of danger they are in. I asked a supervisor if they had changed their sick policy at all and no, they haven't. In that policy we're supposed to tell our supervisor if we have a fever or diarrhea but not everyone with this virus gets those symptoms. We haven't been educated at all about what symptoms we should be looking out for. I had to ask a supervisor what if somebody's housemate is suspected to have it and there is no direction about staying home. With the current policy we need a doctor's note to excuse any prolonged absence, and no one has enough PTO to miss weeks of work. Is it too much to ask to want them to stop selling immunosuppressants? We still have the liquor store open, with no precautions like spacing out customers. There's none of that going on inside the main grocery store either. By now they should have marks on the floor for spacing out customers in lines. By one of the timeclocks, though not both, there's a paper taped that recommends keeping six feet apart from people. Cashiers and baggers are standing right next to each other with customers like three feet in front of us. Unlike some other stores there also doesn't seem to be any policy in place about only letting in a certain amount of customers at a time, and we have no barrier in between cashier and customer. We haven't stopped accepting re-usable bags. My store closed down its cafe area where people sit and eat, but since that was where most employees took their break now the breakroom is packed elbow to elbow at times. I also heard about another grocery store that was having its employees wear masks but my understanding of non-n95 masks is that they aren't actually helpful. This all struck me as a disaster in the making. My current plan is to hold off on putting in my two weeks notice, instead I'll send an email with my concerns to a manager on the store safety committee and see how that goes. Maybe I will be reassured, but I had enough problems with anxiety before COVID-19 got involved. I might just not have it in me. I feel like a deserter. Minnesota Manatee fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Mar 22, 2020 |
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