yospos coronavirus wfh thread year 5 - working all day just isn't right

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mystes: May 31, 2006

fart simpson posted:

yeah i live in china and i can confirm

Avatar checks out.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2020 16:19

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 09:45

mystes: May 31, 2006

Salt Fish posted:

I hate leaf blowers more than anything else. Why are you using 5 leaf blowers for an hour every week in an empty and unused parking garage?? How is this essential? Go home you loving losers or buy a god dam broom jesus christ.

Tell them to stay home and then play this instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke41QysEhuQ

# ¿ Apr 9, 2020 19:15

mystes: May 31, 2006

NoneMoreNegative posted:

I had a weird persistent lower stomach warmth the next 12hrs-ish after eating those noodles that I've never had before, but they didn't enflame my rear end in a top hat on the way out; yes they were spicy but not like where you see a youtube of someone eating a shitfuck pepper and they are sweating and seeing through time, eyes looking like they got the backdraft of a Mace blast.

I'm pretty sure those are actually the symptoms of coronavirus.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2020 00:16

mystes: May 31, 2006

echinopsis posted:

i can�t for the life of me understand why you�d buy a toy and keep it in a box

40 year old virgin style

I haven't seen 40 year old virgin but I'm going to assume that "buy a toy and keep it in a box" is a metaphor for virginity here.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2020 23:36

mystes: May 31, 2006

AnimeIsTrash posted:

One of the big pluses of wfh is cooking fresh food daily. It beats eating a lovely sandwich for lunch each day at work.

This is definitely one of my favorite things about it aside from not having to wear pants and not having to commute.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2020 23:47

mystes: May 31, 2006

DuckConference posted:

the first data from the serological survey from santa clara county is back, they estimated like 3% of the population has had it, but there are some good reasons to think their estimate is high and it could be as low as 1-2%. another study estimated the prevalence at 4% of the population US-wide, 2% excluding new york.

compare that to iceland which had 5% infected already last time I looked, spain that has something like 15%, and the hardest hit parts of italy which are 50% or more. it means the US still has lots of new infections ahead of it.

The Santa Clara study apparently recruited people off of facebook and didn't bother to ask them why they wanted to get tested. It also used a test that may have a fairly high false positive test.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2020 18:27

mystes: May 31, 2006

DuckConference posted:

maybe don't jerk it to apocalypse porn ITT where there are lots of people already in a bad state mentally

But if you do want to jerk it to apocalypse porn, C-SPAM is there for you!
[COVID-19 April] You're never lonely, with covidonly.
math max: enter the numberdome (doomsday economics)

# ¿ Apr 19, 2020 00:05

mystes: May 31, 2006

Most restaurants don't last very long anyway. New ones will open when this is over.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 01:26

mystes: May 31, 2006

Jonny 290 posted:

it costs a quarter million dollars to open a restaurant in like loving arkansas. I hope that yall are right but i do not expect 90% of nonwhite owned restaurants to come back, which basically means all of the good ones.

Haven't you seen the documentary Demolition Man?

# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 01:40

mystes: May 31, 2006

rotor posted:

me: "ok man, smell ya later"

ron howard voice: "but he never did"

Bad news about the roni symptoms

# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 02:00

mystes: May 31, 2006

fart simpson posted:

maybe it stays dormant in your lung cells and comes back even worse, like shingles

This is apparently unlikely with a coronavirus.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 11:18

mystes: May 31, 2006

"Long term" here is like more than a year, or maybe more than 6 months on the short side, which is probably going to become a huge problem, but it's still extremely unlikely that people can get reinfected immediately after they've had it.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 14:52

mystes: May 31, 2006

Endless Mike posted:

the eventual vaccine will get rolled into flu vaccines that not enough people get, and it'll stick around forever instead of getting eradicated, but not kill as many people

The only way the coronavirus vaccine is going to end up not being a big deal is if it runs it's course and it turns out the mortality rate is WAY lower than we think it is because there are tons of asymptomatic people, and right now I really wouldn't recommend getting your hopes up for that.

The only thing purporting to show numbers remotely like that right now is the dumb antibody study from California that recruited people using Facebook and did nothing to address self-selection bias.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 15:58

mystes: May 31, 2006

PCjr sidecar posted:

hey there�s the la study too now!

by some of the same people; and are responding to criticism of the earlier study by not publishing their data or peer reviewing this one

Holy poo poo, :lmao:

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 16:11

mystes: May 31, 2006

TerminalRaptor posted:

Turns out if you're full-screen in a Win 10 application and you minimize it, it suspends the process, and there's nothing an application developer can do about it.

That sounds like a legacy of how WinRT was designed for mobile devices. I think that Microsoft has fixed some of this stuff now that they've given up on mobile, but I guess they haven't fixed everything yet. Suspending the processes makes sense if you're using an Android-style app lifecycle but it makes much less sense on a desktop.

mystes fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Apr 21, 2020

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 16:29

mystes: May 31, 2006

Hed posted:

Based on your post I thought "oh man, I should see if I can get the Win10 version since I bought the Java one back in 2013".

Turns out, I could have claimed a free copy until a few hours ago! the option expired just before midnight on April 20. Fuuuck.

It's fitting that they ran it through Hitler's birthday in honor of Notch.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 16:45

mystes: May 31, 2006

big scary monsters posted:

sagebrush can have little a hill to die on, as a treat

# ¿ Apr 22, 2020 01:03

mystes: May 31, 2006

abigserve posted:

These people suck so hard and it's not just a university thing. Every job I've ever worked has these people. "I've been here for 30 years, any change to my routine will involve me either pitching a giant fit if it's a small change or literally ghosting if it's a major thing"

The record for me was the guy who was told to move into a new office space and proceeded to go awol for two months, then took all of his sick leave, then all of his annual leave, then finally his long service leave, resulting in two years away from the office. At which point he came back to tender his resignation.

he was told to move one building over lol

I can't even begin to comprehend this but it would nice to have enough job security to be able to pull this poo poo

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 00:00

mystes: May 31, 2006

rotor posted:

too symbolic imo

That's weird. In the a/b testing people vastly preferred it to the hamster wheel desk.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2020 01:30

mystes: May 31, 2006

Methanar posted:

My chair was 40 dollars from ikea. I have two of them.

My windows computer chair was bought about 5 years ago.

Work one about a year old.

I need to put pillows on the 5 year old one because all the original padding is gone lol

The Ikea chairs are really good, IMO, both the Markus and even the Renberget honestly.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2020 03:53

mystes: May 31, 2006

Arcteryx Anarchist posted:

I want one of those stacked keyboard setups right now, but for the keyboards for my work and personal computers

Why don't you just use barrier or synergy?

# ¿ May 1, 2020 11:41

mystes: May 31, 2006

Pedestrians should ally with cyclists against cars, IMO.

# ¿ May 2, 2020 20:18

mystes: May 31, 2006

Wow, RTX Voice is really good for noise reduction.

# ¿ May 5, 2020 15:05

mystes: May 31, 2006

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

you know whats even cheaper? reducing your square footage which brings down your rent and utility costs. Just have an office with some employees who need to be on site full time and some conference rooms for when you have clients coming for a pitch or important meeting

Yeah but what's the point of running a company if you don't get to be lovely to your employees in person?

# ¿ May 5, 2020 18:55

mystes: May 31, 2006

qirex posted:

if it's not a dedicated separate room it's really hard to claim that deduction and even then you might be only able to claim a portion and it's a huge flag for an audit

this is who gets audited by the irs now btw, not billionaires who pay zero taxes

Actually it's mainly poor people taking the EITC, OP. But I'm sure computer touchers with home offices is a close second.

# ¿ May 5, 2020 19:21

mystes: May 31, 2006

DELETE CASCADE posted:

my coworker who lives in danville (lol) got his house declared as a satellite office of the company, so that when he takes an early morning call and then drives into the office in redwood city, he can write that off as travel between company offices. i believe this only worked because he has shares so technically he's an owner of the company. but he did it thru a real accountant so it's totally a thing you can do if you're careful to follow the letter of the law

The richer you are the more loopholes you're allowed to use.

# ¿ May 5, 2020 20:47

mystes: May 31, 2006

Cold on a Cob posted:

freeasinflowinglikethebloodoftherichafterthecommunistrevolution

# ¿ May 7, 2020 02:29

mystes: May 31, 2006

Endless Mike posted:

fwiw, ff7r is like the first disc of the original. it doesn't even get to the world map.

I never played ff7 and don't have a ps4 but after all the stuff I heard about the remake I assumed it covered the whole original game and lol at the idea that they're splitting it up to milk it for everything it's worth.

# ¿ May 9, 2020 00:35

mystes: May 31, 2006

I just find it really weird that it's being sold as "Final Fantasy VII: Remake" rather than "Final Fantasy VII: Remake Part I" or something. It's basically asking for a class action lawsuit because it would be really easy to buy it assuming that it's the whole thing.

# ¿ May 9, 2020 02:48

mystes: May 31, 2006

fart simpson posted:

i dont understand this post at all

There's a fair number of reviewers on amazon saying they didn't realize there were going to be multiple installments and they thought they were buying a complete remake of the entirety of the original game.

# ¿ May 9, 2020 13:08

mystes: May 31, 2006

fart simpson posted:

are you going to sue?

The whole point of class actions is that each individual person doesn't have to sue. I wouldn't have sued audible for their credits expiring or Experian for the data breach but I was part of the class for both of those settlements because I didn't opt out. There are law firms that specialize in class actions and they actively look for stuff like this and try to convince people to sign on as named plaintiffs so they can start lawsuits.

I'm not even saying that it's that unreasonable on the part of Sony because it does seem like there's enough content in it to justify the price, and obviously if it wasn't billed as a remake of ff7 there would be no issue with the fact that they planned to make sequels, I'm just saying exactly what I wrote: they're basically asking for a class action lawsuit by not making it more clear. If it happens they'll probably end up settling for coupon for 10% off the next game or something, but it will have been a huge waste of money for them.

mystes fucked around with this message at 13:50 on May 9, 2020

# ¿ May 9, 2020 13:47

mystes: May 31, 2006

haveblue posted:

final fantasy vii demake and it's just the original game for $60

Demake is already a term, OP. A final fantasy vii demake would be something like an NES port of ff7.

# ¿ May 11, 2020 14:52

mystes: May 31, 2006

Is there even anything spicy in tandoori?

# ¿ May 16, 2020 23:20

mystes: May 31, 2006

I guess you could make it with paprika or tomato or something then, unless those are also too spicy.

# ¿ May 16, 2020 23:25

mystes: May 31, 2006

ShadowHawk posted:

One of the things I don't miss about the office is that occasionally the cafeteria would have "jalapeno spa water"

Better than the jacuzzi having jalapeno spa water I guess?

# ¿ May 16, 2020 23:55

mystes: May 31, 2006

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

it's too spicy for my toddler

Disown and adopt a better one.

# ¿ May 17, 2020 18:52

mystes: May 31, 2006

Sagebrush posted:

well you gotta start sometime. i don't know how e.g. south indian culture titrates spicy food into the baby's diet but they gotta start early

One more drop of ghost pepper hot sauce in the milk every day.

# ¿ May 17, 2020 21:12

mystes: May 31, 2006

Midjack posted:

i woke up screaming yesterday morning from some nightmare where my clothes were trying to eat me. i haven’t remembered a dream in 20 years.

It's only fair. They've put up with you wearing them for years; now they get to eat you as part of the bargain.

# ¿ May 23, 2020 01:58

mystes: May 31, 2006

Trimson Grondag 3 posted:

going to the barber tomorrow for the first time in three months, i can't wait.

Enjoy your coronavirus, OP.

# ¿ May 26, 2020 11:12

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 09:45

mystes: May 31, 2006

uncurable mlady posted:

you don�t need a lockdown for 18 months, you need a very good lockdown for like six weeks and use that time to produce ppe, contact tracing, quarantine procedures, etc. then let people out with social distancing guidelines. you can burn the virus out.

the US ofc has done the worst possible thing which is to half rear end every step of that

Really I think we've quarter assed it at best. Maybe a tenth of one rear end cheek.

# ¿ May 26, 2020 18:25

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