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Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Watching
Bread Liar

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

that guy's been out of business for a while but his website is still up and it's a classic



as a 75% italian I can say we are absolute pieces of poo poo.

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AppleNippleBOB
May 13, 2007



Got in that case of 9210+ today.

:blessed:

Why Am I So Tired
Sep 28, 2021

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Growing up in the south I thought it was totally normal that when you meet someone new they will almost immediately ask you what church you go to.

Still think about "What high school did you go to?" after my year in St. Louis almost a decade ago.

And while we're recommending books, just want to re-recommend Walter Johnson's The Broken Heart of America for the new thread.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51343985-the-broken-heart-of-america

Not sure if I've ever enjoyed a book more. Basically A People's History of the United States told through a people's history of St. Louis and Missouri.

Why Am I So Tired has issued a correction as of 19:40 on Apr 1, 2022

Trixie Hardcore
Jul 1, 2006

Placeholder.
You had my interest until you said it was about Missouri

Greg Legg
Oct 6, 2004

Why Am I So Tired posted:

Still think about "What high school did you go to?" after my year in St. Louis almost a decade ago.

This is a Hawaii thing too.

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme

Business Gorillas posted:

Remembering the time when I interviewed someone in collections that talked about how she refused to get the vaccine because the guidance of her lord Jesus Christ. I asked her how Jesus would have felt about her career in usury and she went cross-eyed in the middle of the interview lol
lmao

Teenage Riot
May 25, 2010

Does anyone have a relatively up-to-date graph showing the correlation between Covid cases and posts in this thread ty if you do

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Trixie Hardcore posted:

You had my interest until you said it was about Missouri

Missouri loves company!

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme

Greg Legg posted:

The rental place in my hometown would do stuff like this. The awesome thing is that I don't remember the signs being political until Trump and I imagine he's gotten more insane. I left before Let's Go Brandon really took off.
There’s a gun store you can’t not drive past if you’re going to the Outer Banks in NC that famously always has unhinged poo poo on its electronic sign. It’s right by a good place to make pit stops, too. Nothing like getting gas across the street from a firearms distributor who feels confident about advertising that you should be shot for not voting GOP.

silicone thrills
Jan 9, 2008

I paint things

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Growing up in the south I thought it was totally normal that when you meet someone new they will almost immediately ask you what church you go to.



lol Yep. I grew up in Memphis and "what church do you go to" got real awkward after I realized I wasn't into organized religion. "I dont" was a very unacceptable answer to my teachers and guidance counselor in my public school.


My husband grew up in Hawaii and any time he runs into another person who also grew up in hawaii he gets the "what high school did you go to" as well.

Pie Colony
Dec 8, 2006
I AM SUCH A FUCKUP THAT I CAN'T EVEN POST IN AN E/N THREAD I STARTED
finally popped hot after 2 years. entirely my fault since covid is over, but what now? what kind of doctor will prescribe me paxlovid in nyc?

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Greg Legg posted:

The rental place in my hometown would do stuff like this. The awesome thing is that I don't remember the signs being political until Trump and I imagine he's gotten more insane. I left before Let's Go Brandon really took off.

Reactionaries in the US are extremely good at taking normal peoples' interest in doing normal things, like protecting children from abuse, and using them to radicalize those formerly normal people into murderous lunatics.

The Proud Boys was pretty much custom-built to take lonely Reddit guys without a social network and turn them into violent brownshirts.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Why Am I So Tired posted:

Still think about "What high school did you go to?" after my year in St. Louis almost a decade ago.

Big New Orleans thing too. I think it's probably a question everywhere there are big class divides. You can tell a lot about someone's childhood by what high school they went to in New Orleans.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


PostNouveau posted:

Big New Orleans thing too. I think it's probably a question everywhere there are big class divides. You can tell a lot about someone's childhood by what high school they went to in New Orleans.

It's wild to watch those food shows do episodes on New Orleans and realizing that the establishments they visit are either completely white or completely black with very little in between

Why Am I So Tired
Sep 28, 2021
Hello from Washington State


mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

PostNouveau posted:

Big New Orleans thing too. I think it's probably a question everywhere there are big class divides. You can tell a lot about someone's childhood by what high school they went to in New Orleans.

similar in Memphis and Rochester, both bigly segregated cities

Trixie Hardcore
Jul 1, 2006

Placeholder.

Pie Colony posted:

finally popped hot after 2 years. entirely my fault since covid is over, but what now? what kind of doctor will prescribe me paxlovid in nyc?

Thoguh posted:

I found a link to a place that tracks what pharmacies have anti-COVID medications in stock. Which is pretty cool. Please do not knock over pharmacies for Paxlovid.

https://covid-19-therapeutics-locator-dhhs.hub.arcgis.com/

silicone thrills
Jan 9, 2008

I paint things

mdemone posted:

similar in Memphis and Rochester, both bigly segregated cities

When I was a kid I obviously didn't really think about those things much but when I went back in the early 2000s I hadnt really registered that "the good high school" was only about mile from "the really bad high school" (white station vs east)

I was very acutely aware though of how much difference a single block made as I grew up in old binghampton but would walk to overton park and would ooo and aw at the estates around there.

Pie Colony
Dec 8, 2006
I AM SUCH A FUCKUP THAT I CAN'T EVEN POST IN AN E/N THREAD I STARTED
that's just where to find it, which is useful (thanks) but i need the prescription first. havent seen a pcp in years

silicone thrills
Jan 9, 2008

I paint things

Pie Colony posted:

that's just where to find it, which is useful (thanks) but i need the prescription first. havent seen a pcp in years

Do you have insurance at all? most of them will have a telemedicine option to just talk with any doctor who will prescribe you what you need after you have a confirmed positive test.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019


:d2a: :killing:

Trixie Hardcore
Jul 1, 2006

Placeholder.

Pie Colony posted:

that's just where to find it, which is useful (thanks) but i need the prescription first. havent seen a pcp in years

I would guess urgent care then? I don't live in nyc and can't recommend doctors there

Toph Bei Fong
Feb 29, 2008



Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I wonder what it's called when guys say poo poo l ike "PEOPLE WHO DON'T WORK SHOULDN'T EAT" because they think it makes them sound like Ivan Drago, when in actuality everyone else just thinks they're psychos.

There's gotta be studies about it

Diagnosis:


Therapy:

Clark Nova
Jul 18, 2004

anecdotally, from my own childhood and my friends' experiences, a lot of the people renting storage units are trying to hold on to their furniture while they go through a (hopefully) temporary period of homelessness, so the fuckers that run those places are absolutely preying on precarity

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


NYC changed their website again

now a big green banner that says the current level is low lol

Tzen
Sep 11, 2001

^^^^ lmao

Sex Arse of Calais posted:

So these are not covid-related books, but imo they're both really good reads (that I'm still going through) and I personally have found them helpful/gained some perspective that has been useful in maintaining sanity during current events. It's comforting to connect to the past and see what got us through it and what didn't, how people reacted, and so on. And sometimes it's not comforting in the least but it's... humbling? At any rate I feel less alone.

Anyways the first I'll recommend is Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time. It's about the American dust bowl (we're bringing it back, baby, yeah!) and the second is The Great Mortality* by John Kelly, which is slightly more relevant to thread interests since it's about the black death. It's brutal. Collectively, we can endure a lot as a species. Individually, welp. :v:

I took a couple mental health days(that I get to combine with catching up on doctor appointments hooray) so hopefully I'll finish these over the weekend. If anyone has any good history reads I'd be grateful for the recommendation.

*there is a lol-worthy bit towards the start in which the author steps into the climate change "debate" briefly(thank gently caress) by bringing up how much warmer it was during this time than present(oh fun, now tell me how much carbon was in the air in 1300 versus now, history man) but if you can roll your eyes at that and move on it's p good

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Seconding this rec, it's been years since I read The Worst Hard Time and it still sticks with me. Great book about people getting hosed over by the system and just having to get on with life while the air itself is hostile to their existence. Seems like a good reread now.

I'm going to recommend Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything because it's an incredibly pleasurable and informative read in spite of having a running theme of "and here's how these rich motherfuckers ruined everything". It reminded me of James Burke's Connections series in that it doesn't talk down to it's audience while remaining accessible, can't recommend it enough.

YouTube has the unabridged audiobook here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvz6JEjQyPI
and the abridged audiobook here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RStZ73GpU8E

Also recommending Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex a real good read about some friends having a real tough time. The audiobook version is fantastic but I can't find a free rip anywhere, probably because they made a movie.

e: just remembered Internet Archive has Connections: https://archive.org/details/ConnectionsByJamesBurke
appreciate these posts, solid recommends

BoothBaberGinsburg
Jan 4, 2021

silicone thrills posted:

lol Yep. I grew up in Memphis and "what church do you go to" got real awkward after I realized I wasn't into organized religion. "I dont" was a very unacceptable answer to my teachers and guidance counselor in my public school.

ah this takes me back. I grew up in a Catholic family in deep East Texas and was routinely told I was going to burn in hell for worshipping statues lmao

Why Am I So Tired posted:

Hello from Washington State




We see these every time we drive up to WA, nice to see they're as unhinged as ever if not moreso

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb

Clark Nova posted:

anecdotally, from my own childhood and my friends' experiences, a lot of the people renting storage units are trying to hold on to their furniture while they go through a (hopefully) temporary period of homelessness, so the fuckers that run those places are absolutely preying on precarity

I mean it has the word "rent" in it.

Tzen
Sep 11, 2001

lmao
:theroni:

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


tenderjerk posted:

my legal Italian Heritage

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Eugenics are legitimately popular as long as a person has convinced themselves that they aren’t in the “unfit for survival” group, the moment you start breaking down how it works and how they’re not as fit as they think suddenly eugenics is barbaric and immoral.

the genius eugenicist "lets breed out compassion and cooperation from humans! I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with our success as a species"

Trixie Hardcore
Jul 1, 2006

Placeholder.

That reminds me, throwing this onto the book rec pile too:
The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aEaubXjWx4

inferis
Dec 30, 2003

Zerg Mans posted:

they keep asking me if I want to go to a Blues hockey game


yes, I do! But not with 20,000 screaming eating people with no mask, test, or vaxx mandates anymore. And given hockey's demographic you know they're probably 1/3rd unvaccinated

it’s fine, wear your respirator and don’t take it off, I went to a hockey game last week

Tzen
Sep 11, 2001

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

that guy's been out of business for a while but his website is still up and it's a classic


lol amazing glimpse in time here

PostNouveau posted:

Died WITH a plane crash
lol

Toph Bei Fong
Feb 29, 2008



Trixie Hardcore posted:

That reminds me, throwing this onto the book rec pile too:
The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aEaubXjWx4

:hmmyes:

This book is awesome, and also not 1,000 pages like the first Adorno I recommended.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Pie Colony posted:

finally popped hot after 2 years. entirely my fault since covid is over, but what now? what kind of doctor will prescribe me paxlovid in nyc?

any doctor can prescribe it. if you get pushback, tell them you have one of the CDC's "certain medical conditions" that put you at higher risk of complications from COVID (not judging but you almost certainly have one of these)

i talked with my specialist about it a couple weeks ago and they told me "pretty much anyone with any comorbidity will qualify for paxlovid and we would recommend you take it if you ever test COVID positive"

call now since you need to take it within five days of onset of symptoms

Blitter
Mar 16, 2011

Intellectual
AI Enthusiast

Pillowpants posted:

Everyone ignored my effort maps with nice color schemes last night, jerks

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT
Ran into my work buddy at McDonald's this morning. He felt so sick on Monday, he had to go home. Said he could barely stand up and stay awake. Says he's feeling better now. I guess he didn't think wearing a mask to McDonald's would be worthwhile. Can't spread Covid right after you had it again, right?

I still wear at least the KN94.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

oof the doses of Molnupiravir available vs Paxlovid is just huge

i have a suspicion that if Test to Treat ever gets set up (lol lmao) it'll just be a Molnupiravir shovel

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Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


fosborb posted:

the guy who owns these storage sites died of covid



the fact that this was for a storage unit, *famously* one of the easiest, least labor intensive businesses, is a great juxtaposition

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