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I. M. Gei posted:I still don’t know what “gaslit” means Someone does a thing to hurt you. Then when you confront them they tell you you're making it all up, misremembering, that's not what really happened, etc... It makes you question your sanity.
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I. M. Gei posted:I still don’t know what “gaslit” means Here's the American Psychological Association definition: https://dictionary.apa.org/gaslight
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I. M. Gei posted:I still don’t know what “gaslit” means No you definitely understand it. haha j/g (just gaslighting)
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Oct 7, 2020 05:17
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Trump chat aside here in Berlin we're having the biggest outbreak since this started, we had a case in our sister company one story above us, and our management increased homeoffice from one day to... Two days a week. I told my boss that I'm not comfortable with going to work in a packed subway during a huge outbreak while I can work just as well from home and he agreed, but said he doesn't want to make extra allowances for too many people because that'd be unfair. Most of my colleagues are coming in to work as if nothing happened in any case, Monday was full house except for me. Am I overreacting or am I going crazy by wondering what the gently caress is going on with people that they think this isn't a big deal anymore? I'm relatively young but the more I hear about long term consequences the less I want to infect myself with this, I don't have the best immune system anyway.
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Oct 7, 2020 06:27
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I live in Japan and haven't gone into the office since February so you know, gently caress that
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Oct 7, 2020 06:42
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Xenocides posted:He doesn’t realize there will be a bigger stimulus package if he loses does he? https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313664886648582144 Feeling good about that prediction.
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Oct 7, 2020 06:44
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Ah just to clarify, I have to come in two days a week still, my extra allowance is 3 days homeoffice.
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Oct 7, 2020 06:45
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Oh, and for those not following the Trump threads he has completely lost it tonight. Best Twitter meltdown I have ever seen. Rumors coming out of the White House that the GOP is considering or actually is asking him to resign.
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Oct 7, 2020 06:46
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Barudak posted:I live in Japan and haven't gone into the office since February so you know, gently caress that I took holidays starting Feb 26 to visit Japan and have been unemployed since Aside from 3 days in July where I went back after my layoff time ran out and no one was social distancing or wearing masks around me so I quit lol
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Oct 7, 2020 06:51
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Xenocides posted:Oh, and for those not following the Trump threads he has completely lost it tonight. Best Twitter meltdown I have ever seen. Rumors coming out of the White House that the GOP is considering or actually is asking him to resign. Which thread?
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Oct 7, 2020 06:51
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This is about where it begins: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3940821&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=394&noseen=1
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Oct 7, 2020 06:57
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Xenocides posted:Oh, and for those not following the Trump threads he has completely lost it tonight. Best Twitter meltdown I have ever seen. Rumors coming out of the White House that the GOP is considering or actually is asking him to resign. Even if it turns out to be false, imagining it makes me smile.
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Oct 7, 2020 07:45
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I'm not sure one tweet from a guy who seems to just make poo poo up counts as rumors coming out of the white house.
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Oct 7, 2020 08:24
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Even if it turns out to be false, imagining it makes me smile. Scarodactyl posted:I'm not sure one tweet from a guy who seems to just make poo poo up counts as rumors coming out of the white house. Sorry, I really jumped the gun on that one. His meltdown still had me laughing so hard I was crying. I was probably nearly as high from laughing as the President is on his steroids. It was nice to believe. Can’t wait to see 2020’s next twist.
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Oct 7, 2020 08:25
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Xenocides posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313664886648582144 Compared to nearly every other country in the world, that's jack poo poo. Even when combined with the last one. And I'm not even factoring healthcare into it. He's throwing tuppence at the masses. Meanwhile I quit keeping track a couple months ago of how many federal trillions have been thrown at the stock market to keep the "Trump Boom" going. Trillions which promptly go 'poof!'. We are a very, very, very stupid country and so easy to screw over it's pathetic.
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Oct 7, 2020 08:55
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Australia paid out a wage subsidy of something like $1500/fortnight per employee to employers if their turnover collapsed by at least 30%.... I believe they've only recently dropped the rate to $750/fn They also bumped unemployment by $700/fortnight and paused "mutual obligations" (the need to apply for jobs and poo poo)
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Oct 7, 2020 09:39
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UK wage subsidies were up to 70% of the wages up to a certain amount IIRC, and while I can't speak for other bosses, I know mine paid the remaining 30%.
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Oct 7, 2020 12:10
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norp posted:Australia paid out a wage subsidy of something like $1500/fortnight per employee to employers if their turnover collapsed by at least 30%.... I believe they've only recently dropped the rate to $750/fn In addition to this, individual states are doing their own measures too, like in Victoria you get $450 for staying at home while awaiting test results (usually within 24 hours), and $1500 to stay at home for two weeks if you test positive.
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Oct 7, 2020 12:22
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Son of Rodney posted:Am I overreacting or am I going crazy by wondering what the gently caress is going on with people that they think this isn't a big deal anymore? I'm relatively young but the more I hear about long term consequences the less I want to infect myself with this, I don't have the best immune system anyway. It's hard to experience being right while everyone else is wrong. I also don't understand why so few people don't seem to care about developing things like heart damage or permanent brain fog
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Oct 7, 2020 13:01
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Son of Rodney posted:Trump chat aside here in Berlin we're having the biggest outbreak since this started, we had a case in our sister company one story above us, and our management increased homeoffice from one day to... Two days a week.  Berlin is literally doing worse than in the first wave. Your boss is either ignorant and unaware, an idiot who wants to ignore everything, or a loving afd chud. And while germany has a low mortality rate because of better treatments and a good system: 1. Nothing loving guarantees that you'll get the good treatment if you're hospitalized in a wave worse than the first. 2. Even if you don't die, there's a really good chance of you being out of work for months, and a decent chance of keeping permanent damage to your body, including stuff that'll make you worse at your job.
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Oct 7, 2020 13:09
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Again, the case numbers don’t tell the whole story. Lots more people are being tested now than were in March or April, people who back then would not have been tested, either because they’re mild cases who would have dealt with it at home back then and not gotten tested, or because they’re asymptomatic and only being tested as contacts of known cases, which didn’t happen back then either. Systematic testing uncovers a lot more cases than sporadic/emergency room only testing, but so long as the hospitals can handle it, it’s not a big deal. What was so bad in the spring was that hospitals were getting overwhelmed, that’s not happening again yet.
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https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1313631894941118465quote:"Although not allowed at NIH to utilize his expertise in vaccines or therapeutics, Dr. Bright developed a plan to implement a robust national testing infrastructure, which emphasized the critical need to provide screening tests for asymptomatic individuals and to provide services to underserved populations disproportionately impacted by COVID-19," Bright's attorneys, Debra Katz and Lisa Banks, said in a statement. 
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Oct 7, 2020 14:53
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HerStuddMuffin posted:Again, the case numbers don’t tell the whole story... All true, but if you look at the case counts and see an exponential-ish curve you should still be seriously worried and looking to reduce transmission.
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Oct 7, 2020 14:55
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HerStuddMuffin posted:Again, the case numbers don’t tell the whole story ... https://twitter.com/BenjAlvarez1/status/1311256865481916422
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Oct 7, 2020 15:14
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And he wouldn’t wait E: didn’t even have to wait for January, just the election results.
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HerStuddMuffin posted:And he wouldn’t wait three more months to see if things were going to get better? He could still have resigned then if not.
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HerStuddMuffin posted:And he wouldn’t wait Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Oct 7, 2020 |
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Oct 7, 2020 16:36
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Every department is going to need serious purging by the new administration. The best way to make sure you have a job with them is to quit now or they'll just assume you're a patsy. lmao who am I kidding, the dems will leave everyone in place so nobody can accuse them of being unfair (narrator voice: they will accuse them anyway)
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Oct 7, 2020 16:47
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That dog will have to stop dunking on us eventually.
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greazeball posted:Every department is going to need serious purging by the new administration. The best way to make sure you have a job with them is to quit now or they'll just assume you're a patsy. Trump has probably fired more Bush Jr. hanger-ons than Obama, lol.
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Xenocides posted:Oh, and for those not following the Trump threads he has completely lost it tonight. Best Twitter meltdown I have ever seen. Rumors coming out of the White House that the GOP is considering or actually is asking him to resign. Hahah no, they arent.
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coronavirus posted:Hahah no, they arent. Yeah GOP know the election is already over, they're stripping the place for copper pipes and hoping to hold onto their senate majority.
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greazeball posted:Every department is going to need serious purging by the new administration. The best way to make sure you have a job with them is to quit now or they'll just assume you're a patsy. My fear is every presidential admin from now on will purge as much of the bureaucracy as possible, making effective governance impossible because nobody in government will know how anything works operationally.
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Oct 7, 2020 18:37
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has anybody worked as a contact tracer my state's health department is offering a $20/hr straight 40 hours a week, work from home set up for 6 months. no benefits but i'm thinking of doing this.
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Oct 7, 2020 18:46
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7of7 posted:My fear is every presidential admin from now on will purge as much of the bureaucracy as possible, making effective governance impossible because nobody in government will know how anything works operationally. the sad truth is that trump already started this and now the Ds better loving sort poo poo out or we're stuck with people who know how things work operationally but are only interested in tearing poo poo down
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Oct 7, 2020 18:48
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20 Blunts posted:has anybody worked as a contact tracer Yes, I'm currently working as one. Do you have any particular concerns/questions about doing it? You can pm me also if you prefer DeadFatDuckFat fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Oct 7, 2020 |
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20 Blunts posted:has anybody worked as a contact tracer My mother in law quit her job as an in home health aid (she lost too much work with covid to keep doing it) to do contact tracing. My wife's friend is in a similar situation. They both seem to think it's a pretty good gig. Long term prospects aren't great but if covid has already attenuated/destroyed your income it seems like a good way to go.
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Yes, I'm currently working as one. Do you have any particular concerns/questions about doing it? You can pm me also if you prefer hmph. i don't have PMs but thought gently caress it time for a plat upgrade, i can't get it to work though, are payments not being taken right now because of lowtax poo poo? i basically started working with the company im at when i was 20 and now im in my late 20s and ready to move on. i started as a hired hand and then took over the office duties for about 5 years now. Im in an industry that kind of straddles what you would call "unskilled" and "skilled" labor. I'm the management side of that, and so my gig is kind of cushy but getting stale. So I'm just stuck with a single bullet point on my resume, other than 18 years old working at sears...My bachelor's degree is in philosophy from a pretty respected state school. I have excellent phone skills and organization, definitely have hosed with some management software and I might be able to work tech support at Quickbooks at this point. I juggled business side poo poo and also the owner's personal affairs so I'm good with sorting out problems. I think this 6 month job sounds like a good regrouping period for me doing something that is pretty drat important. I don't think the technical side of it really intimidates me much. And honestly I'm a bit of a boomer whisperer so I think they might just need my services. Like 2/3 of my clients right now are homeowning boomers, they go from 0-60 getting pissed about minuscule poo poo all the time, but i've honed some strategies to reel em in over the years.
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