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Maya Fey
Jan 22, 2017


https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/1188884270691037185

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MoaM
Dec 1, 2009

Joyous.

Failson posted:

So Boris will reappear in public next week, hale and healthy, with a new set of organs from one of the orphan-farms, right?

Nah, he'll die and Jacob Rees-Mogg will be PM or something dumb.

Honj Steak
May 31, 2013

Hi there.

Schnorkles posted:

i think world leaders contracting it and passing away from it is probably going to be the shock to the system necessary to actually muster the necessary political and administrative will to get through this

the people we've put in charge won't respond to anything else.

Dolan trrrp won’t ever change his mind on anything because he’s incapable of doing that. I’m truley sorry for your lots

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

SpaceGoku posted:

this guy is a lifecoach that got his degree from a diploma mill

That article was so loving stupid.

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author

Failson posted:

So Boris will reappear in public next week, hale and healthy, with a new set of organs from one of the orphan-farms, right?

Yeah, all the tory ministers lining up to take his place who effectively run the country now are making sure he gets the best care possible and are wishing for his swift recovery

Doc Walrus
Jan 2, 2014




Cryin' Chris is a WASTE.
Nap Ghost

misread this and thought the tweet ended with "LOL". It should have.

Chard
Aug 24, 2010




ny plague ship now official

Ruggan
Feb 20, 2007
WHAT THAT SMELL LIKE?!


Mr. Lobe posted:

this is liberal talk

the people who work to sustain and defend the existing order of things are the bad guys

the rest of us are hapless suckers, doing our best to survive and where possible, stand against it all

nah I meant we as in everybody

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



Quetzadilla posted:

We'll look, 99% of relationship problems boil down to communication issues of one kind or another. Odds are some other feelings she hasn't otherwise expressed or doesn't feel are being addressed are being hauled into the Covid conversation and she might not even be aware of it. Try to be empathetic and keep in mind that she's also probably not as blackpilled as your standard c-spam poster w/r/t the severity of the current situation. That isn't to say you should pathologize her in your convo (you'll just look like a condescending dick), nor that you should back down from your position, you should absolutely stand firm. Just try to keep empathy and understanding on the forefront as you're talking with her to beat back your anger and frustration.

I appreciate this good cspam poster advice. she’s worried about a lot of things, very valid fears, including security financially because her dad is immunocompromised and lives with a retail employee, whereas I am comparatively privileged with professor parents. I think we’re staring to understand each other and this thread was helpful

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.

Honj Steak posted:

Dolan trrrp won’t ever change his mind on anything because he’s incapable of doing that. I’m truley sorry for your lots

donald trump above all things is an enormous loving coward

people he knows dying or getting it is probably what caused his "about face", and people like BJ going to ICU is going to set the primitive part of his brain off in absolute existential terror.

Raine
Apr 30, 2013

ACCELERATIONIST SUPERDOOMER



Mr_Peaches posted:

Hee hee hee. I work at a grocery store in Washington. The store snapped up the new labor freed up by the layoffs and now everyone's getting 14-20 hours per week, if that. We're told "the store is losing money" so that's why hours are down.

I'm employed, and won't make May's rent. I'm already behind on all my other bills. I can't quit because I won't get unemployment. I'm looking for a new job / side gig during a pandemic, where jobs are way down and job-seekers are way up. The alleged Trumpbux are a drop in the bucket as everyone knows, assuming they ever actually show up at all.

The actual best economic move right now for me... would be to catch Coronavirus. You see, the store is offering "two weeks of overtime pay" to anyone who gets sick. Assuming they're basing that on 40 hour weeks (and not two 14 hour weeks as I imagine lol), that'd give me a shot at surviving another month. And I'm a fat asthmatic so there's a good chance covid would kill me, which is also an upside.

Just sitting here giggling at the fact that diving in front of a cough is my best bet at making it through another month.

Hee hee hee.

good news friend!

i have just diagnosed you as sick, and you should attempt to get sick leave immediately.

tell them to gently caress off and start fake coughing if they doubt you, because your personal medical information is confidential under HIPAA

Fuckt Tupp
Apr 19, 2007

Science

someone being admitted to the icu means they are very sick u say? wow thanks for the stunning insight dr science

Quetzadilla
Jun 6, 2005

A PARTICULARLY GHOULISH SHITPOSTER FOR NEOLIBERLISM AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Mr_Peaches posted:

Hee hee hee. I work at a grocery store in Washington. The store snapped up the new labor freed up by the layoffs and now everyone's getting 14-20 hours per week, if that. We're told "the store is losing money" so that's why hours are down.

I'm employed, and won't make May's rent. I'm already behind on all my other bills. I can't quit because I won't get unemployment. I'm looking for a new job / side gig during a pandemic, where jobs are way down and job-seekers are way up. The alleged Trumpbux are a drop in the bucket as everyone knows, assuming they ever actually show up at all.

The actual best economic move right now for me... would be to catch Coronavirus. You see, the store is offering "two weeks of overtime pay" to anyone who gets sick. Assuming they're basing that on 40 hour weeks (and not two 14 hour weeks as I imagine lol), that'd give me a shot at surviving another month. And I'm a fat asthmatic so there's a good chance covid would kill me, which is also an upside.

Just sitting here giggling at the fact that diving in front of a cough is my best bet at making it through another month.

Hee hee hee.

The UI expansion is supposed to cover if your hours get cut but you're still working, I believe. Assuming you can even get in, submit an application anyway (be honest with your responses). Everything is so hosed and changing daily anyways that they'll probably approve it even if you do not technically qualify and as long as you didn't lie about your circumstances you'll be fine.

Definitely spend some time weighing your options and strongly consider not paying rent/organizing a rent strike with your fellow tenants. That is your biggest and least necessary expense right now.

Spoondick
Jun 9, 2000

Frosted Flake posted:

This Medium piece of magical thinking is picking up steam with multiple boomers and X’ers I know. Any good rebuttals?


https://medium.com/the-mission/why-coronavirus-should-be-the-least-of-your-worries-d6ed6abe75bc

what's with radiologists and their lovely takes on epidemiology?

Mackers
Jan 16, 2012

Drinkfist posted:

Just googled a Recipe.

I got the Salt, Onion, Oil, Rice and Water on hand. I keep a super special Ms Dash and Garlic Powder and Herb spice as my go to everything cooking. Once I had a whole shaker of taco seasoning and thought it was a luxury. Before I google it myself I don't know what garam masala is.

Edit: After Google. a hot spice mixture, usually of ground coriander, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, and pepper, used in Indian cooking. Now I need to know what cardamom is.

I should start making my own spice paste. Normally just buy jars of it out of laziness but it's probably a lot cheaper to make a shitload myself

Fuckt Tupp
Apr 19, 2007

Science
if boris somehow survives this im gonna be real pissed off

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.
the programs that the governments put into place actually will probably end up being somewhat helpful but they're behind such a byzantine morass of paperwork and accessability and will take months to actually draw anything from

also all the unemployment systems can't handle this sort of load and are breaking under the strain.

Submarine Sandpaper
May 27, 2007


Spoondick posted:

what's with radiologists

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


i could go for a big ol ethiopian veggie platter....... extra misir wot please

mark immune
Dec 14, 2019

put the teacher in the cope cage imo
Nurse: Boris! It's 4pm, time for your lung intubationing
Boris: *cough*

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

Mr_Peaches posted:

Hee hee hee. I work at a grocery store in Washington. The store snapped up the new labor freed up by the layoffs and now everyone's getting 14-20 hours per week, if that. We're told "the store is losing money" so that's why hours are down.

I'm employed, and won't make May's rent. I'm already behind on all my other bills. I can't quit because I won't get unemployment. I'm looking for a new job / side gig during a pandemic, where jobs are way down and job-seekers are way up. The alleged Trumpbux are a drop in the bucket as everyone knows, assuming they ever actually show up at all.

The actual best economic move right now for me... would be to catch Coronavirus. You see, the store is offering "two weeks of overtime pay" to anyone who gets sick. Assuming they're basing that on 40 hour weeks (and not two 14 hour weeks as I imagine lol), that'd give me a shot at surviving another month. And I'm a fat asthmatic so there's a good chance covid would kill me, which is also an upside.

Just sitting here giggling at the fact that diving in front of a cough is my best bet at making it through another month.

Hee hee hee.

if you aren't following it keep an eye on reddit.com/r/coronaviruswa it's a great resource for stuff happening in the state. there are daily threads of people asking about UI benefitis, etc. and lots of good advice and help in there. the state is trying to pick up a TON of slack for people getting screwed over. good luck and stay safe washingtonian

nikosoft
Dec 17, 2011

ghost in the shell, but somehow much worse
College Slice
love to use a public health crisis to ram through completely unnecessary changes at work. I'm explaining that we can only make system changes if they effect patient safety, and this dumbshit director thinks her pet project qualifies as such. She's the one that shared that idiot Medium article, the one that got yanked, a couple weeks back on the all-dept distro list to explain how Covid wasn't really all that bad and it would clear up in the next few weeks. The next day, someone else sent a mass email to the distro explaining that her own brother had just died of covid, and that it should be taken seriously. I hope the director apologized to her directly, but I doubt it.

Mayor Dave
Feb 20, 2009

Bernie the Snow Clown

Lpzie posted:

someone said this in the loltrmp thread decades ago and i keep thinking about it, and i'm paraphrasing/mis-remembering, but trump only knows how to do small petty grifts like pushing this hydroxychloroquine poo poo whereas if he just listened to the initial people around him he'd be able to grift on a larger scale as president.

We'll unfortunately Jared knows all about the large grift and he's used his position to set up a bunch of tools for good donors to profiteer the response

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author

Schmoe Cwead posted:

if boris somehow survives this im gonna be real pissed off

This would be pretty funny too

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

Should I do more or less weed

Ruggan
Feb 20, 2007
WHAT THAT SMELL LIKE?!


Spoondick posted:

what's with radiologists and their lovely takes on epidemiology?

yeah I didn’t read more than the first paragraph

it’s just some opinionated idiot with an advanced degree and smartest-man-in-the-room syndrome talking about a subject they aren’t a true expert in

when you open a medium article and it’s written by an armchair expert my advice is to immediately close it and defer to the field experts who spend the majority of their time doing it

elaboration
Feb 21, 2020

mod sassinator posted:

if you aren't following it keep an eye on reddit.com/r/coronaviruswa it's a great resource for stuff happening in the state. there are daily threads of people asking about UI benefitis, etc. and lots of good advice and help in there. the state is trying to pick up a TON of slack for people getting screwed over. good luck and stay safe washingtonian

does it get as insanely racist as the regular seattle board?? my poor wife is more worried about the racism going around than the virus b/c shes chinese. its miserable to have contend with

Stairmaster posted:

Should I do more or less weed

i've been doing more tbh

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.

twoday posted:

This would be pretty funny

Boris being able to triumphantly emerge in like a week or two and give a rousing "we'll conquer this together" speech while his approval shoots up to 80 and labor falls off a cliff is exactly the hell world we live in so

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord

Chard posted:

ny plague ship now official

Lmao

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

Drinkfist posted:

Just googled a Recipe.

I got the Salt, Onion, Oil, Rice and Water on hand. I keep a super special Ms Dash and Garlic Powder and Herb spice as my go to everything cooking. Once I had a whole shaker of taco seasoning and thought it was a luxury. Before I google it myself I don't know what garam masala is.

Edit: After Google. a hot spice mixture, usually of ground coriander, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, and pepper, used in Indian cooking. Now I need to know what cardamom is.

just go to a store and buy a jar of curry from the spice aisle. literally every store in america has it. loving mccormicks makes--it's in your store. curry = garam masala + turmeric (the bright yellow part of curry). you can make tikka with curry and it will just be super yellow and still taste delicious

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

nikosoft posted:

love to use a public health crisis to ram through completely unnecessary changes at work. I'm explaining that we can only make system changes if they effect patient safety, and this dumbshit director thinks her pet project qualifies as such. She's the one that shared that idiot Medium article, the one that got yanked, a couple weeks back on the all-dept distro list to explain how Covid wasn't really all that bad and it would clear up in the next few weeks. The next day, someone else sent a mass email to the distro explaining that her own brother had just died of covid, and that it should be taken seriously. I hope the director apologized to her directly, but I doubt it.

Maybe Ghana dancers will visit her if we are lucky....

Quetzadilla
Jun 6, 2005

A PARTICULARLY GHOULISH SHITPOSTER FOR NEOLIBERLISM AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Feldegast42 posted:

Lol "we're losing money!" when grocery retail business is growing like a weed

Grocers' margins are razor thin in good times. I absolutely believe that their books are dire since probably no one's buying chintzy high-margin poo poo like seasonal decorations & toys, and there's probably rising costs to source staples since demand is spiking and loving things up for everyone. Its still lovely & brutal to cut people's hours though, possibly even worse than just laying people off outright.

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

Dutchy posted:

I dunno if personal stuff is kosher in this thread but I'm seething right now so I'm posting anyway

So my brother lives with my mom, who is in her 50s with high blood pressure. He works at a grocery store, and is refusing to wear masks/gloves at work (not being told not to, refusing). When I told him he should be wearing equipment to, if nothing else, improve the chances of protecting our mom, he told me to go gently caress myself and blocked me on everything. When my mom told him he should be wearing equipment, he kicked the dog gate out of the wall and stormed out of the house. Later he calmed down and promised to wear a mask, but when my mom dropped him off at work, she saw him take the mask off as he entered the store. Legally, I can murder him, correct? No one would convict me, would they?

Also keep in mind that a) a few weeks ago he was bitching that he didn't have a mask and b) his job is absolutely not essential to maintaining the household and he should actually just quit. All it pays for is video games, the gas to drive him to and from work, and a higher internet speed than they actually strictly need.

DEATH

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
what's the full list of poz virus taunters so far:
BoJo
Rudy Gobert
...

Fellatio del Toro
Mar 21, 2009

The FEAR Cannot Be Worse Than The Cure Which Cannot Be Worse Than The Disease

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

Judge Dredd Scott posted:

does it get as insanely racist as the regular seattle board?? my poor wife is more worried about the racism going around than the virus b/c shes chinese. its miserable to have contend with

not super racist, surprisingly! lots of hate for boeing and 'not in my back yard', but that's washington lol

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

cargo cult posted:

the goon in question regularly chided me for saying white rurals are morons who would rather die than embrace socialism

lol

pathetic little tramp
Dec 12, 2005

by Hillary Clinton's assassins
Fallen Rib
lol trump is going to recommend hydroxychloroquine for boris johnson and his heart is going to go into arrest

Ruggan
Feb 20, 2007
WHAT THAT SMELL LIKE?!


https://youtu.be/kJQP7kiw5Fk

remember when this slum got wiped out by a hurricane like a year later

good times

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Zisky
May 6, 2003

PM me and I will show you my tits

Stairmaster posted:

Should I do more or less weed

Depends on how it interacts with your anxiety, if you have any.

If you don't, get high as hell and ride this out!

Personally I haven't smoked anything more than my pen (before sleep) in days. 2 hits from a pipe has been sending me into the dark place, like, immediately.

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