FistEnergy posted:

My thread....my big, beautiful, healthy thread

Business Gorillas posted:

Gorilla Note: I've been in contact with some goons that have job postings at their companies and am working on a new thread for this kind of stuff. please accept this as one of the last times you'll see this post

WORK FROM HOME OPPORTUNITY

are YOU a goon who is dreading to have to go back to a lovely office during a loving pandemic?
do YOU or someone you know have a knot in their stomach because their psycho boss wants them back in the office and see their smile?
are YOU able to have an internet connection for 40 hours a week and able to read, talk, and not be a total shithead on the phone?
do YOU live in Ohio, Delaware, Utah, Arizona, or Illinois?

GOOD NEWS! WE'RE HIRING!
hi, my name is business gorillas and i want to do BUSINESS! my company is currently hiring for phone jockeys in a couple different departments. it's a basic customer service gig that pays $16.00/hr starting plus a signing bonus of up to $2,000 with full benefits, including education assistance. i'm not going to lie, the job is dull and unrewarding, but WHO CARES? i bet your current job is too!

if not wanting to die because your small business tyrant work-landlord keeps masks optional is right for you, send me a dm so we can talk!!!

worried about your resume? no problem! so long as you aren't a complete fuckup, i'll help you with your resume! even if you might be a complete fuckup, i'll still look at your resume and tell you to GET OUT OF MY FACE!!!!!

WE LOSE ENOUGH OF OUR LIVES TO OUR WORK, GOON. THERE'S NO REASON TO LOSE YOUR LIFE BECAUSE OF IT.

inquire within! my dm's are open!

Mola Yam posted:

they say being drunk just amplifies who you are when you're sober

i have a drink and i feel fine about dying. what a gift! i wish death on everyone as a kindness!

Palladium posted:

Yeah because everyone isn't already drowning in clothes

Fluffy Bunnies posted:

Where'd you grab it? I'm after some nightgowns with pockets because gently caress it, I can go that low here on the farm.

that is awful acting

do they wanna slap their wrist while they're at it

Cup Runneth Over posted:

get your unemployment denied because it is contested and the UI office is told you had the opportunity to work and turned it down

redreader posted:

I went to Colorado from California this weekend and it's night and day. In Santa Clara county, almost everyone wears a mask. In Denver, nobody loving cares. Hotel staff are not wearing masks, nobody downtown is wearing one, the people I met (mostly outside, while I wore my n95 lol), etc etc. I think starbucks staff had masks on but that's it. I asked why and one friend said 'well it was bad but it's been good recently so we don't need masks any more'. I was like, check again dude. He got on google and was quite amazed. Just a top of my head calculation, I think Denver is doing a bit worse (half the new cases with about 1/3rd the population) than SCC is doing. I couldn't get over the snacks in the plane and everyone accepting and eating/drinking. I think most people just think this is not a problem any more and it's all over, and if you've got a vaccine it's not a big deal. I might even be being generous about the 'if you've got a vaccine', I bet they just think it's fine.

I feel like a bit of a nerd in SCC with an n95 but in Denver I felt like a complete turbo-nerd. Maybe the healthiest (?) state in the USA is just covid-proof.

super sweet best pal posted:

Why didn't Antifa and BLM ever rush the police?

Tzen posted:

children will be dying in hospital hallways, parents cars, or in their homes in a months time

mod sassinator posted:

it'll be a murder - suicide from a father of a dead kid IMHO

SKULL.GIF posted:

we easily have more than a couple dozen goon marriages destroyed in the past 18 months

Louisgod posted:

poo poo man you don't even need to be together to argue about a vaccine, I told my ex-wife our kids absolutely need to get vaccinated when it's available to them and of course I get the "I need to see more data and make sure it's safe before I commit to anything" and of course she's not vaccinated and I can't just get my kids vaccinated without her consent as well. pisses me off so much and if it comes down to it I'll gladly take legal action against her to make loving sure my kids are protected.

Zisky posted:

Lmao what's gonna happen when the federal unemployment benefit ends?

Lenin Stimpy posted:

Sinovac/CoronaVac doesn't seem to be holding up very well against Delta:
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1431028624342142980
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1430532842212053001

I'm really jealous that the Chinese government is doing nearly everything in their power to protect their population, but I'm not envious in a negative way. None of us deserves this hell that we are living in, and I wish the US had the same sort of will to protect its people from harm, no matter the cost to industry.

The current Chinese strategy seems to be almost necessary with the relatively poor performance of the CoronaVac vaccine against hospitalizations. Unfortunately, a lot of other countries outside of China also rely on CoronaVac, but they aren't adopting the same strategy.

I sincerely hope these vaccine effectiveness numbers are wrong. But this situation presents a strong case for the US (and other countries with powerful vaccines vs delta) to force its companies to publish all of their vaccine IP and manufacturing processes. We need powerful vaccines vs delta in the hands of as many people as possible in the world, and relying on just a few producers for the best vaccines is harming all of us.

Lastgirl posted:

its pretty difficult to maintain relationships especially when people are consumers who think they're capitalists and are dictated by such a force in society that myriads of problems can crop up such as

which is why finance is one of the biggest drivers of divorce

like there's too many artifices for the relationship to navigate in this zoo people society, not saying that it's 100% the whole case but it is a rarity to find genuine company that isn't driven by motives that are dictated by capitalism and the meritocracy myth, especially with the nuclear family model push in a post-WWII society for "stability" and now there's no stability so woops!~

Schmeichy posted:

There's a documentary of the making of it that is full of animators and writers near tears with frustration and stress

Cup Runneth Over posted:

This thread is getting worse than the climate change thread lmao, God drat. It's going to be a rough winter.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

I'm not using "worse" as in quality, I love both threads. I'm talking about mood. It's getting loving bleak in here, even the climate change thread regulars might tell you guys to lighten up.

double negative posted:

what kind of monsters play 7 on 7 basketball

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I'm a barfly by nature

This entire pandemic has been pretty fuckin' easy for me to handle because I realized that if I gently caress up and die I can't go back to the poo poo I used to love. It goes away forever. A person I worked with put it best, "this is a moment in time, the stuff you love will be there in the future if you do the right things now."

People who suicide over the need to hit Red Lobster right now aren't extroverts, they're just nihilists.

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.

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.

DarkEuphoria posted:

Covid thread you are a nightmare but also a respite in this crazy world.

I was just thinking to myself, man this poo poo loving sucks, I’m tired of being isolated and everyone else has accepted Covid into their hearts, maybe I should just give up and start rubbing myself on the plagued masses.

Obviously that meant it was time to check into the thread (lol), and at first it was just confirming how hosed everything is, but then I was reading the last few pages and y’all are talking about the inherent value of the individual and I remembered that I’m not the only one having this problem, that other reasonable people exist and are able to put aside short term individual gain for a better outcome.

Anyway, covid winter #2 is going to suck.

Ice Phisherman posted:

Any suggestions for games for the pandemic?

BONGHITZ posted:

anime was right posted:

the recall is pretty incoherent because i dont think most of california understands that the person who gets the most votes, no matter how stupid that person is, and that person cannot be newsom (so dems are not messaging a backup) so its likely some moron wins but the consequences arent communicated to anyone clearly.

most people seem to think "newsom bad, i guess" or "newsom not terrible, but maybe a republican might win?" which is a complete failure of dem messaging and leadership lol

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Americans fuckin hate their kids. lol

Rah! posted:

open biden!

https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1435200650804146177

OK baizuo posted:

But if you physically defended yourself from this clear case of assault, you'd be the bad guy