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no mandatory wfh yet north of the border in vancouver. wouldn't mind if there's a week or two of it though. roll out of bed at 9am, log into jabber, schedule some power naps throughout the day as "meetings"
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lmao of course two hours after I post "no panic yet" the corporate covid-19 policy goes out annual spring training pushed back to fall training, non-critical travel halted, mass wfh preparations being implemented, reminders on how to properly function in society (wash your goddamn hands)
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Mar 5, 2020 20:54
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Jonny 290 posted:wfh without a strong social support network is absolute death from madness. Don't be too excited about it unless you are planning to take specific steps to see other humans on a regular basis. yeah cabin fever is real. I live in a commuter town that tends to be quiet as all hell after 6pm so now that the weather is turning nice I'm getting a lot of walking in. seems to be holding it off. couple of my friends in the service industry have been laid off so it's gonna be shooting the poo poo and drinkin beers online all night erry night from now on until either the all-clear or the eschaton
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Mar 18, 2020 00:15
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FMguru posted:do you get allergies? because if the thick layer of yellow pollen on my car every morning is any indication, we are balls deep in allergy season the mix of pandemic and the start of spring allergies owns y'all ever just clear a city block by sneezing
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Mar 18, 2020 00:18
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we'll only need to stop using stuff like boomer-b-gone when we finally run out of boomers
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Mar 18, 2020 00:26
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coronavirus coronavirus harder coronavirus with a vengeance
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Mar 18, 2020 00:32
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PIZZA.BAT posted:it's not going to get that bad. there's never mass violence during a plague. everyone hunkers down and is generally miserable. the next few months are going to suck but that's about it in fairness, the last time a plague like this hit america, half the nation hadn't been brainwashed by fox news and the NRA, and social media hadn't whipped millions of chuds up into a frenzy where they're just itching to mow down "liebural democrats"
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Mar 18, 2020 04:36
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PIZZA.BAT posted:welp. day three and webex has already poo poo the bed for us. our entire company is basically dead in the water lol our SIP provider took a poo poo a little before webex did for us. all their inbound routing for toll-free numbers croaked 
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Mar 18, 2020 17:45
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supervisor tried to schedule an impromptu huddle but no one can connect to the webex audio
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Mar 18, 2020 18:18
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all-hands webex on a third party ITSP conference bridge, people can't mute themselves, feedback, typing, and someone put the drat bridge on hold beep beep beep beep beep beep
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Mar 18, 2020 20:23
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or some idiot with speakers causing an echo and brain-jamming the presenter pretty much got a blackout on conference call bingo there
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Mar 18, 2020 20:29
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Glorgnole posted:i think cspam not being worried is a much better indicator of when you should definitely be worried yeah when cspam actually has a moment of clarity, start preparing to face the artificial sunrise until then, mark the first few hours of your day in your calendar as "CUSTOMER CALLS DO NOT DISTURB" and set your alarm forward to match Kazinsal fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Mar 20, 2020 05:51
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Sagebrush posted:i watched an infectious disease researcher talk about the coronavirus on the joe rogan show. i had never seen a joe rogan show before. it was very enlightening. joe rogan is an MMA guy who got hit in the head a bunch, became a commentator, started smoking ridiculous amounts of weed, tried psychadelics, and started a podcast. he is not smart, but it's unfair to call him stupid because a lot of it is probably chronic TBIs
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Mar 20, 2020 05:53
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fart simpson posted:i don’t think he’s a stupid guy. he’s not particularly smart or stupid, the defining thing about him is that he asks very basic questions and will engage with basically anybody for hours yeah he's totally that guy who'll just listen to anyone tell stories even if they're not particularly exciting ones or anything. not a bad thing, just... not exactly what you would expect out of a popular interviewer if there was some kind of "joe rogan experience abridged" where it was basically just cut down to the interviewees talking about poo poo I would probably be inclined to listen to some of it. for some reason though rogan himself just... is grating to me. like listening to an untrained, inexperienced streamer, except this dude's been in broadcasting for like 30 years
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Mar 20, 2020 06:01
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Midjack posted:joe rogan uncritically gives shitbags a platform and for that he deserves your scorn, not your attention. worse: his strung-out-on-cough-syrup-and-edibles-at-all-times demeanor makes even the dumbest maga chud celebrity he platforms look like an unironic galaxy brain genius. he's frequently described as a gateway to the alt-right for gullible people
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Mar 20, 2020 06:28
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I liked rogan's interview with james hetfield from metallica because hetfield got totally fuckin sober in the early 2000s (and even goes back into rehab voluntarily if he feels it coming back to him) and watching rogan try to parse the totally happy experiences of someone who's 100% drug and alcohol free and committed to it is like watching someone realize that capitalists aren't your friend at the same time as they're learning that santa isn't real and there is a word for that feeling you have after you wake up night after night from having dreams in which you're inexplicably a girl
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Mar 20, 2020 06:42
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the grocery stores here are pretty much flat out of non-perishables. I've done all I can, time to ride out the next couple months and take solace in the fact that, worst case scenario, my country has a functioning healthcare system and even if I'm in triage for 24 hours, I won't get a bill for it que sera sera
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Mar 20, 2020 07:03
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service desk supervisor just scheduled me for what would be five long weekends on call in a row my boss is about to tear this dude a new one lmao
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Mar 20, 2020 23:42
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:bored and tbh wish i wasnt single rn majorly feeling that. even fuckin tinder doesn't seem to work at all for me. probably because I'm a short motherfucker with long-rear end hippie hair and a computer toucher to boot. just want someone to fall asleep next to on the couch after polishing off a bottle of cheap wine together
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Mar 21, 2020 07:22
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been rewatching Narcos the past few days and it's kind of a weird thing how they all hyped up the long journey to the death of Pablo Escobar, both in the show and in reality not that I'm trying to glorify drug kingpins but it's two seasons of "when are they gonna kill Pablo" and the back half of the second season is all about him and his family and it's kinda actually devastating when he finally eats a bullet. like, yeah, okay, dude ordered the assassination of thousands of people, but he was a family man as well? it's weird. I actually feel worse about Pablo loving Escobar's death than I do someone like John Lennon 1am beer and netflix thoughts
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Mar 21, 2020 09:18
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echinopsis posted:does yospos have a discoed i joined for some other local reason but the app seems better than slack or mirc also wondering this but I get the feeling the pos is still hiding out in some obscure IRC channel on freenode (he says, also still in obscure IRC channels on freenode)
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Mar 21, 2020 23:54
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Jabor posted:they'll bring on a live guest that's supposed to be quarantining to prove that it's no big deal, and end up giving it to the whole studio god willing
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Mar 22, 2020 07:12
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c quarantine s: gas prices have tanked to the lowest I've seen this century. also all the cop shops in town are closed so it's an excellent time to be gay and do crimes local skate park is lazily wrapped up in caution tape, which has stopped exactly zero teenagers from potentially spreading the rona of course
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Mar 26, 2020 01:09
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it's possible to turn around but explaining how step by step results in a ban
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Mar 26, 2020 03:19
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any game that launches with even slightly realistic shotguns with proper chokes and such gets a patch within six weeks that nerfs them into oblivion, unless it's some kind of simulator like Arma and engagements are genuinely at 100m+ distances except you have one guy bring a shotgun for breaching
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Mar 28, 2020 01:00
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god that and the ACE add-on for realistic radio comms. imagine having to have a radio guy with each group and know every other group's frequencies and poo poo so you can relay orders between them, and you have to punch this into a realistic military radio interface. big enough games needed dudes with literal radio backpacks and poo poo and through all of this you're doing a canned mission you've done dozens of times before plinking at loving AI
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Mar 28, 2020 02:29
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:there's squad, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Foyre18VQ which only the squad leaders have radio comms with other leaders, so its like 5 squads of 8 players vs another 5 squads. All coordination has to be done via the leaders, otherwise all voice chat is local (within hearing range) or just to your squad leader. I've played that one and it's kinda fun in that it scratches the uber tactical realism itch while not being so over-complicated that it makes me want to go enlist so I can punch frequencies into a broken-rear end piece of poo poo radio in real life because at least that has tactile feedback. doesn't really have the lasting appeal or playerbase to sustain it other than the same 200 people who play it six hours a day every day though. tbh I'm waiting for valorant. counter-strike was my jam through the 2000s and I'm looking forward to a take on that style of gameplay by a developer who actually gives a poo poo about things like producing balance patches regularly
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Mar 28, 2020 11:09
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I was only mildly fat before this but I started aiming for -30 lbs by summer around mid-january and I'm -15 lbs so far. once the weather turns nice consistently I can just walk for two or three hours after dinner and the pounds will just start fuckin flying off e: also really helps that all the fast food joints around here are drive thru and delivery only now so I'm eating somewhat healthier
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Mar 30, 2020 23:13
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Sagebrush posted:so basically every restaurant and bar is just gonna go out of business right there's only a certain number of pub licenses that my town will hand out at once and I guarantee the ones that are taken by the lovely pubs that only boomers go to are going to be relinquished by the time this is over there was a queue of taphouses waiting for licenses last I checked so I'm looking forward to a few new ones being open a few months after the end of the pandemic.
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Apr 1, 2020 02:35
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I think the ventilator-required percentage for 80+ year olds is over 50% three rounds of the rona in The Villages will leave maybe a thousand left standing
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Apr 1, 2020 02:41
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PIZZA.BAT posted:we've been doing a weekly happy hour via webex and i've been tasked with setting up some sort of game for the next one so have we, except I haven't been going to them because by 4pm on a friday I'm pretty much dead though if there's a jackbox server on this week's invite I would consider it tbh
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Apr 1, 2020 04:16
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echinopsis posted:i don’t know if I want coronavirus to kill me but then again it would also solve the problem of waking up every morning hating life lmao honestly I'd rather staring down the post-apocalyptic barrel of some nazi's shotgun than the wu tang flu coronavirus is basically a random chance to get loving murdered by an illness that the world could have stopped from getting to this point. at least if I say the right words then a nazi is going to give me a few seconds to make peace with jesus and accept my fate.
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Apr 1, 2020 10:26
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put bullshit early morning meetings in your calendar, visible to the whole company prime snooze time
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Apr 1, 2020 10:49
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maybe it's just unchecked mental illness but every time I post something like that I pray there's no fuckin narcs who work for the same 100-man company that I do in this forum if any of you know a bald man in the oil sands who says "work smarter not harder" every time someone says "we're overloaded" and work for a company that has a name that's frequently confused with both an ISP in the US of the same name and a cell carrier up here in canada with a similar-ish name, PM me
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Apr 1, 2020 10:52
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full-company wfh has forced the execs to OK scoping and deploying full mfa for the org lol been trying to get that going for a year now and it took a literal pandemic to get it through
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Apr 3, 2020 23:19
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echinopsis posted:what’s mfa not much what's mfa with you
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Apr 3, 2020 23:58
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I could dig a seceded Cascadia eventually having open borders with Canada as it stands now Washington state is BC with guns instead of healthcare
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Apr 6, 2020 06:44
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Salt Fish posted:One thing I keep hearing from people in real life is that they're hopeful the current crisis will give way to a new era of progressive policies. They think that this virus will cause socialist programs to fall from the sky into our laps. This is ignorant in my opinion. Socialist programs only come from hard work, direct action, organizing, and relentless effort. Fascism is what naturally organizes itself from the failures of capitalism, not socialism. yeah not really looking forward to america trying to anschluss everything north of the 49th
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Apr 6, 2020 07:09
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syntaxrigger posted:loving same. Going to join the DSA when we are allowed to be around ppl again. At least I'd feel like I am doing something. join the SRA as well
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syntaxrigger posted:what is the SRA? socialist rifle association advocates for proper firearms training and rights for leftists in america
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