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Business Gorillas posted:no idea but as soon as i know we've expanded, i'll update my poo poo 
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ram dass in hell posted:Pandemic Unemployment Assistance ends tomorrow of course, the pandemic and any associated losses of employment is over now. everything is back to normal.
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Remember April 2020? We had no clue what spreads covid the most. This got posted in the pseudoscience thread for suggesting that noise could be a factor. She's been vindicated many times over by the many studies saying that loud talking massively increases the amount of aerosolized saliva spewed into the air.Discendo Vox posted:...presented without further comment:
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ram dass in hell posted:Pandemic Unemployment Assistance ends tomorrow i legit loving hate some of my coworkers because they're giddy that we'll start getting a flood of applicants into our jobs. we have people flooding in already trying to dodge the covid pits and what's coming to the point that our main barrier is we don't have enough time in the day to interview everyone (check the mutual aid thread for more details and get yourself put at the top of the list)
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My younger brother’s University reopened to having some in person classes. On his second day the professor made an announcement that someone who attended the first day tested positive for COVID so the professor will be posting everything online for the next few sessions. University only sent out a notification email later that day after class lol
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Sep 5, 2021 06:06
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I'm a barfly by nature Same here. I like drinking with friends and strangers, I like traveling, I like live music, I’m the most bored I’ve ever been in my life. That’s fine though, because not only am I keeping myself alive and being one less piece of connective tissue in this stupid thing, but I also know that the things I love don’t actually exist in the way that I love them right now. You know who’s at the bar right now? The kind of people who would go to the bar right now. Those aren’t my people, I don’t want to hang out with them, we have nothing in common. I can’t deal with a conversation about how nice it is to be back to normal, or what we did during the pandemic, and I for drat sure don’t want to show my face and announce to a bunch of old friends that I have joined them in giving up, even if they would be very happy to see me do it. Same deal with everything else. I don’t want to go make friends in a hostel, I don’t want to be the guy who went to Mexico at this point in history, I don’t want to know that I was at the show where everybody got sick. I won’t do it, I’m not going to do a shittier version of a cool thing just to feel like the world is okay again, it’s a dangerous lie and I won’t tell it to myself or anyone else. This whole thing has asked us what we are each really made of. Are you good in an emergency? Can you turn off your desires long enough to make a decision that impacts others correctly? Are you a sentient enough dude to not blithely gently caress around and get your elderly neighbor killed because you got bored and the world got scary? Are you even put together well enough to realize that you’re taking a test? This is a very clear opportunity to decide what kind of person you want to have been when the chips were down. I don’t want to hang out with the people who didn’t even realize there was a moral decision to be made here, or worse, the ones who did realize it and decided it wasn’t important to make the right decision.
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Sep 5, 2021 06:07
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gay_crimes posted:My grandparents were all alive before 2020 and are all dead now, either directly from covid or indirectly, I know a lot of other people who have lost grandparents or parents already too. Grandparents are old and death prone but it seems higher than usual? Maybe society will just fail and kill everyone older than 60ish that isn't rich or healthy? I don't really know how this ends, it feels like it never will My grandma called the other day because she's getting her affairs in order. 
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Sep 5, 2021 06:08
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Rubby posted:HELLO FRIENDS lol i couldn't help it, got the shirt and the mug
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Sep 5, 2021 06:08
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Real Mean Queen posted:Same here. I like drinking with friends and strangers, I like traveling, I like live music, I’m the most bored I’ve ever been in my life. That’s fine though, because not only am I keeping myself alive and being one less piece of connective tissue in this stupid thing, but I also know that the things I love don’t actually exist in the way that I love them right now. fuckin a well said
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super sweet best pal posted:My grandma called the other day because she's getting her affairs in order. mine called me last week because I didn't check in every 5 days like normal  it made me very sad and mad at myself.
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Sep 5, 2021 06:10
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Real Mean Queen posted:Same here. I like drinking with friends and strangers, I like traveling, I like live music, I’m the most bored I’ve ever been in my life. That’s fine though, because not only am I keeping myself alive and being one less piece of connective tissue in this stupid thing, but I also know that the things I love don’t actually exist in the way that I love them right now.
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Real Mean Queen posted:Same here. I like drinking with friends and strangers, I like traveling, I like live music, I’m the most bored I’ve ever been in my life. That’s fine though, because not only am I keeping myself alive and being one less piece of connective tissue in this stupid thing, but I also know that the things I love don’t actually exist in the way that I love them right now. a good post
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Sep 5, 2021 06:13
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ram dass in hell posted:lol this made me realize that for years pre pandemic I was on a bo burnham type arc of coming out of a depressive and isolatory shell due to paat trauma over the course of years and had for the first time in my life felt a sense of purpose and belonging and community and then everyone in that community got brain damage from trump leading to full blue maga mindset leading to full open biden and here I am disconnecting fully from a death cult society again but this time it's good alienation because it's based on valuing life I actually liked being social up until late 2019 what a loving moron I was. Utter dipshit. I'm not being ironic here, I was actually a dipshit for being social, I get so much more done now and I've lost 30 lbs
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Sep 5, 2021 06:14
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Real Mean Queen posted:Same here. I like drinking with friends and strangers, I like traveling, I like live music, I’m the most bored I’ve ever been in my life. That’s fine though, because not only am I keeping myself alive and being one less piece of connective tissue in this stupid thing, but I also know that the things I love don’t actually exist in the way that I love them right now. read that as a brunch of old friends and i'm going to stick with that
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Real Mean Queen posted:Same here. I like drinking with friends and strangers, I like traveling, I like live music, I’m the most bored I’ve ever been in my life. That’s fine though, because not only am I keeping myself alive and being one less piece of connective tissue in this stupid thing, but I also know that the things I love don’t actually exist in the way that I love them right now. One of the very people you're talking about murdered someone at a bar in my neighborhood last night because he was the sort who couldn't handle life without going out right now. I don't want to be around people who can't self-police right now. I really can't do it.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I actually liked being social up until late 2019 Same except actually my mental health is in the gutter and I’ve gained like 50. I am doing this poo poo because it’s the right thing to do but boy will my face be red when the weight I gained staying home and depressed is what kills me when I catch the vaccine-resistant strain bred by all the people who went out anyway. lol lmao, as they say
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:One of the very people you're talking about murdered someone at a bar in my neighborhood last night because he was the sort who couldn't handle life without going out right now. jfc
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Sep 5, 2021 06:19
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Steely Dad posted:Same except actually my mental health is in the gutter and I’ve gained like 50. I am doing this poo poo because it’s the right thing to do but boy will my face be red when the weight I gained staying home and depressed is what kills me when I catch the vaccine-resistant strain bred by all the people who went out anyway. lol lmao, as they say Ride a bike, it's nice and gets you away from human beings and out into the woods where things are nice and also you can listen to podcasts while you ride if that's your thing.
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Sep 5, 2021 06:21
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:One of the very people you're talking about murdered someone at a bar in my neighborhood last night because he was the sort who couldn't handle life without going out right now. Sounds about right, and I hope it wasn't anyone you knew or cared about.
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Afghan refugees were given ivermectin as part of their vaccination program. Aha, said antivaxxers, there’s proof that ivermectin works against Covid: https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7004224908637031685
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Real Mean Queen posted:Same here. I like drinking with friends and strangers, I like traveling, I like live music, I’m the most bored I’ve ever been in my life. That’s fine though, because not only am I keeping myself alive and being one less piece of connective tissue in this stupid thing, but I also know that the things I love don’t actually exist in the way that I love them right now. put that on a shirt
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Ride a bike, it's nice and gets you away from human beings and out into the woods where things are nice and also you can listen to podcasts while you ride if that's your thing. I have done many a long bike ride and agree about this, but am unfortunately not in a place where I can turn this thought into the life change it’ll take. Not stuff I care to get into in the dead comedy forum covid thread, though
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Real Mean Queen posted:Sounds about right, and I hope it wasn't anyone you knew or cared about. https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2021/09/04/homicide-pittsburgh-beechview-methyl-fatal-shooting/stories/202109040028 The guy who was charged doored my car a month ago and left his car running in the street because he was shitfaced on his way back from the bar. A neighbor of mine stopped him and I'm glad he didn't get murdered. I love going out when things are good and normal. I will not hang out with people like this right now, in this moment.
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Steve Yun posted:Afghan refugees were given ivermectin as part of their vaccination program. Aha, said antivaxxers, there’s proof that ivermectin works against Covid: they just fundamentally don't understand why everyone is making fun of them for eating the horse paste
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Sep 5, 2021 06:25
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Stereotype posted:they just fundamentally don't understand why everyone is making fun of them for eating the horse paste They literally think that it's smart of them to make choices outside of the medical orthodoxy because they genuinely believe that the medical orthodoxy is about killing people.
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It doesn't matter what that choice is. Eat horse paste? Huff aquarium cleaning chemicals? All good. The DoKKKtors don't want you to do it. So it's fine.
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My dad killed himself at 46 years of age with this mentality so I am infinitely familiar with it, ama
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:They literally think that it's smart of them to make choices outside of the medical orthodoxy because they genuinely believe that the medical orthodoxy is about killing people. i mean these are real drugs that are definitely cures for things, they aren't completely outside the medical orthodoxy either. the part that is extremely stupid is that they are all just self administering a thing that happens to contain a real medicine but not in the way where it would be effective because they don't actually understand anything about it. it's very cargo-cultish. they don't think they need to understand any underlying mechanics or that there might be some subtlety, no, the horse paste has the covid cure because it says the same medicine word as the one i heard works.
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there was a book about a guy who went a million years in the future and humans were actually still around but the world was more accurately just an enormous logistics computer supplying every possible need for the whole society, which was sort of just more machines endlessly expanding and sending out space freighters. the humans weren't really people though, they were just docile apes because they had lost all their curiosity about how everything worked. everything had always worked so no need to understand it. a ton of people don't understand how anything works
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/09/03/biden-unemployment-white-house/quote:Anticipating a backlash to the program’s expiration next week, the Biden administration two weeks ago said states could on their own extend the jobless benefits using leftover state aid from Biden’s stimulus bill in March. Not a single state appears likely to do so, at least as of Friday. As a result, roughly 10 million people are set to lose some unemployment benefits on Sept. 6, including 7 million people who will lose all benefits. The Captain Planet parody where Don Cheadle is summoned to save the earth, but he loses his mind and just keeps turning everything into trees
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Sep 5, 2021 06:36
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McNugget Buddy posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/09/03/biden-unemployment-white-house/ did the whole drat eviction moratorium get forgotten too? what in the gently caress is the white house doing... are they working with Pelosi and congress to get anything done? loving anything!?
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mod sassinator posted:did the whole drat eviction moratorium get forgotten too? what in the gently caress is the white house doing... are they working with Pelosi and congress to get anything done? loving anything!? 
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:I didn't snap until we gave up and it was all for nothing. do you believe it was all for nothing because COVID is less dangerous than the flu
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Real Mean Queen posted:Same here. I like drinking with friends and strangers, I like traveling, I like live music, I’m the most bored I’ve ever been in my life. That’s fine though, because not only am I keeping myself alive and being one less piece of connective tissue in this stupid thing, but I also know that the things I love don’t actually exist in the way that I love them right now. a great post and exactly how I feel.
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in hell world 2030 we'll have a new pandemic and people will just shrug and say "meh, covid kills the same number of people a year and we don't stop anything for it" the life expectancy will be down to 65
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Asproigerosis posted:Relatively, yes. 46 years old. Also a whole bunch of comorbidities and mrsa sepsis, drug use, alcohol, etc. If he did truly get myocarditis, then it happened at the worst loving time possible (we can't do a cardiac mri because he won't fit and also a study where you hold your breath 80+ times is hard when you're intubated). the good news is that a good portion of anti-vax people seem to be in favor of genociding obese people, so there is a possibility they won't all rally behind this case as a reason the vax is bad. i don't actually know actually know if this is good news. https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1431746764390944768?s=20 like, these idiots think revamping the US food system is easier than vaccinating everyone. Zaid is actually one of the less moralistic people advancing this line. He at least motions towards it being systemic. Most of the ones I see online say stuff like "They just need more self control" while freaking out over not getting their Applebees
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mod sassinator posted:in hell world 2030 we'll have a new pandemic and people will just shrug and say "meh, covid kills the same number of people a year and we don't stop anything for it" you leftists will do anything to avoid giving Joe credit for his accomplishments. Just like that, social security is solvent forever!
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mod sassinator posted:in hell world 2030 we'll have a new pandemic and people will just shrug and say "meh, covid kills the same number of people a year and we don't stop anything for it" I think people overly focusing on the Lib response of blaming the moral failings of anti-vaxxers, miss how conservatives are blaming the moral failings of the sick. When people say "my immune system can handle it," they're implying something is wrong and hosed up in all the people who do get sick and die. yeah, a lot of GOP fans do get sick after saying they are one of God's chosen healthy ones, but that isn't going to change the narrative. Just like breakthrough infections and asymptomatic spread isn't going to change the Democrat storyline. it's the same liberal moralism from both major parties and their supporters, just with different flavors. The republican response is more self destructive, but it's got the same ideological underpinning.
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