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Real Mean Queen posted:You're completely right. Portland has a decent food scene, and it's set up in a way that's been very interesting to watch during the last year and change. Our restaurants took a hit while they were closed for indoor dining, but most of them switched over to doing to-go food pretty fast and many of them survived. At the same time, though, we've got shitloads of food carts that never had to miss a step due to dining room closures because they don't have those anyway. Nobody in this city went a single day without the ability to buy a hot meal, you can even get some guy to drive it to you for an extra fifteen bucks or so. I can see this argument about restaurant tyrants. But I have to imagine continuing to prepare meals on a faceless assembly line for delivery is also sort of dehumanizing in its way? Maybe moreso for owners or front of house, obviously, but those businesses are built on relationships and community involvement. (And exploitation, yes.) IDK, I haven't done food service in like 20 years and I was loving terrible at it and was banished to wash dishes, so I am no authority.
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Aug 17, 2021 16:19
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D.C. school protocols are out today and they're doing the whole "vaccinated kids who were in close contact with infected kids don't need to quarantine if they aren't showing symptoms!" thing. Grateful that we only have a cat and she is not of school age.
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Aug 18, 2021 18:32
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:"Trust Science" is a made up liberal truism with one goal: Conflate policymaking with research. The Science says we should lock down; The Science says we should open up. No, science doesn't say poo poo about this. "Science" is also kind of an aesthetic thing vaguely having to do with technology and generally opposed to Republicans/Trump.
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Aug 19, 2021 19:11
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PostNouveau posted:DeSantis is rich because he scammed Medicare, so I assume he's gonna make money off this somehow You're thinking of the last Florida governor, Rick Scott. Desantis trying to get his bag now.
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Aug 19, 2021 21:23
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I've made no progress on the "disability accommodation" I need to not go back to the office. The form is plainly for people with physical disabilities and my cardiologist keeps putting off looking at it. And I know once he does he's just going to say that I don't have a physical disability and/or that the vax is enough. All a bunch of performative bullshit so they can say "But we have a process for those who have medical conditions!" when the process is doomed to fail or, if one were particularly charitable, pulled together from scrap and tissue paper.
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Aug 20, 2021 16:01
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Had diarrhea, body aches, shaking chills and a 100+ fever yesterday. Strangely, this morning I feel fine. Are those at-home tests worth a poo poo or do I have to get somebody to scrape my brain with a giant q-tip?
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Aug 22, 2021 14:47
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Pardot posted:Look i'm cool with getting extra vaxes, but who the hell is getting extra hearts They were just dumping them so I figured why not?
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Aug 22, 2021 17:17
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Home COVID test came back negative. Pleased to just have whatever stupid nonsense gives you fever and chills for only like 12 hours.
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Aug 22, 2021 20:49
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Koirhor posted:well pediatrician doing cya is why I contacted our son’s cardiologist affiliated with the childrens hospital he’s had to stay in a couple times they have the info and medical history to hopefully make the right call here I can't even get my cardiologist to write me a note saying "he should WFH for now," but pediatric cardiologists tend to be more attached so I suspect you might have more luck. Hmm, I wonder if I can get my pediatric cardiologist to write my note... it's only been 17 years!
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Aug 23, 2021 20:56
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Just had a webinar with my employer (they disabled any ability for employees to see or chat with each other, natch) about the return to office. They think they're going to be able to test and contact trace their way round delta. the person in charge of the covid response literally said "the D.C. area isn't the rest of the country" as though living at the center of this stupid empire makes people here any smarter or more immune to disease
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Aug 23, 2021 22:07
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etalian posted:This is a fun website for checking local hospitals: Hope someone enjoys that half an ICU bed. 
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Aug 24, 2021 16:39
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I can't believe this is not satire. All the way down to the fish in the thumbnail, which one has to conclude is what is inserted in the rear end of the patient.
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Aug 24, 2021 17:50
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Schnorkles posted:They pushed approval out the door to be able to do this: It's better than literally nothing... Which was the plan before, so My university employer is doing vaccine mandate (before it was cool), mandatory indoor masks, on-campus PCR testing and contact tracing and I still don't think it will be enough.
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Aug 24, 2021 22:17
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Zurtilik posted:Genuinely surprised Florida hasn't banned testing or some wacky workaround to that effect. Why ban testing when you can just fail to report the numbers anywhere? Not just the state, but the schools too.
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Aug 25, 2021 14:39
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Mr. Nice! posted:just shot an email off to the head of my program to say 'hey, less than 1/3rd of the undergrad students are following the masking 'expectation' and multiple phd students are doing the same. likewise vaccination rates for the student population are as low as 11%. are we going to have a virtual option anytime soon or are we just hoping that we only have a handful of students die?' The last few months have definitely taught me a lot about human behavior. Trying to deal with managers who are themselves trying to implement unsafe edicts from their bosses gives insight into how a lot of human atrocities must happen. The way denial manifests is strong. They lash out at complaining underlings instead of the people creating the impossible scenarios. They minimize the opportunities for collective expressions of anger as a cynical containment strategy. And of course at the end of the day, they are just following orders. Vishass posted:
Very cool, very normal stuff.
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Aug 26, 2021 14:22
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Shiroc posted:'My brain doesn't work very well post infection but I didn't need a hospital' Show up at the hospital but got turned away because your blood oxygen is still 80%? MINOR CASE Rubby posted:https://twitter.com/FalconryFinance/status/1430044170966601729?s=20 I got mine and it's good quality. Thanks Rubby! (Also Threadless lets you pick the kind of shirt you want anyway...)
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Aug 26, 2021 21:09
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/pc46sg/covid_from_a_nicu_perspective/ My sister is a NICU nurse in South Florida. She's described similar, tons of unvaccinated mothers getting really sick, normal ICUs full with more and more school-aged kids in there. The other day she was in the NICU Covid unit taking care of two preemie kids and they were on a backup generator, which meant no A/C and their water/ice machine wasn't working. I don't know what else to call it other than a failed state.
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Aug 27, 2021 15:47
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Lacrosse posted:PAX is in a few days and so is the Washington State Fair and the epidemiologists are losing their minds. PAX of course is famous for the "pax pox," which refers not just to the communicable diseases that are ALWAYS spread at conventions like these (especially among unwashed nerds) but also for the swine flu outbreak they caused a decade ago. But sure, having masks and a negative covid test I'm sure will make it fine.
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Aug 31, 2021 20:31
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I am on warfarin for a mechanical valve. COVID itself can cause a silent liver stunning or failure which can lead to an overdose of blood thinner. It's no joke. (Of course, still navigating the "disability accommodation" myself to avoid going back to the office deathtrap.)
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Sep 1, 2021 01:41
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Caseman posted:This has been posted before but this feels like the opposite of a crack ping, I kinda feel like my entire brain structure has collapsed. This was definitely a crack but not a ping. I don't understand how you surrender to the virus. It's just baked in that 2% of people are going to die? Old people, the immunocompromised, the unvaccinated chuds... sorry you're going to get it no matter what gently caress you. Hospital ICUs are collapsing under the strain and it's still summer... Come on ping, where are you?
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Sep 1, 2021 16:55
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Saw my cardiologist today for a routine check-up and asked if he had COVID advice. "Don't get COVID. Oh, and get a booster." Given the administration still seems stuck on their 8 months timeline, I guess I'll be max titersing when my 6 months is up in October.
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Sep 2, 2021 17:14
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Chamale posted:Lmao do those do bad things together? Warfarin is hosed, you can't have any grapefruit, garlic, ginger, or mango, and can't eat too much raw vegetables and whole grains It was a woman so she also had other imminent... bleeding issues besides from her rear end. You're exaggerating how bad warfarin is though. For non-chuds it's mostly leafy greens with heavy vitamin K that are the problem. And even then, you can have most things as long as your diet stays consistent.
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Sep 6, 2021 22:34
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Chamale posted:I was on warfarin. As long as I ate a steady amount of vitamin K that wasn't a problem, but eating too much fibre while on it can cause horrible nausea. And it interacts with a bunch of chemicals, hence the long list of plants I was told to avoid entirely. I've been on it for 16 years. Still cook with plenty of ginger and garlic and dried mango is an awesome snack. Never had fiber-pains, but you don't have to tell me twice not to eat grapefruit, that poo poo is cursed. It's still rat poison and awful and I wish I didn't have to take it. And not just because it's contraindicated with BOTH butt-chugging ivermectin AND purposefully Open Bidening, since even "mild" COVID can quietly sucker punch your liver and make you overdose.
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Sep 6, 2021 23:13
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A co-worker just shared that he's leaving for a new job that lets him do full remote. He's been my COVID doom buddy because I have a heart condition that puts me at risk and he has an asthmatic kid who he doesn't want to infect, so we were pretty loudly in the "gently caress this" section during return to the office discussions. Obviously thrilled for him that he got remote work right on the cusp of the return date. But in talking to him about it, he's still holding out hope for a vaccine for kids and it's like... I don't know, I doom scroll this thread a lot and internalize the cruelty of this country's response but I just don't have the heart to tell a parent I don't think help for his kid is coming. Not like it makes a difference what I say anyway I suppose.
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Sep 7, 2021 15:42
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Zurtilik posted:-------- OTOH COVID has been useful fodder for keeping my lied-about-getting-vaxxed MIL from visiting. Gonna be a throw-down over the holidays I'm sure, but it's worked for the summer.
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Sep 7, 2021 16:02
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I mean, he's probably right about the Hollywood pedophiles and Epstein though.
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Sep 7, 2021 20:00
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Strep Vote posted:I love when people say, "I don't think I can do this for the next x years" What's the Voltaire quote? History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up? I know that idea has been co-opted by Boomers complaining about participation trophies or whatever, but our society is full of coddled croc-wearing adult children who can't make moderate sacrifices even to save their own lives, let alone the lives of actual children. Do they have wooden shoes in China?
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Sep 8, 2021 18:25
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My return to office is scheduled for this Friday. My cardiologist's advice was "don't get COVID" and his official recommendation on their dumb form was that I continue to WFH for six months. Submitted that poo poo weeks ago and it's been total radio silence from employee relations. Who would have thought pawning off this "accommodation" process on an outside vendor would end up with this result? I've worked at this place for 10 years so I have like 17 weeks of sick time saved up I guess I can use for my in-office days. This poo poo is whack though. genericnick posted:You mean two tests and not packs of tests, right? That's an absurd rip-off. As far as I can see the most expensive pack of five here in Euroland is 50€ with a few going as low as 8€. Yeah that's just for the pair. And it's the test which has a pretty crap rate of false negatives.
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Sep 13, 2021 15:25
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Weaponized Autism posted:https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/new...?ocid=bingcovid I mean, I'll watch Half Baked if its on. Not sure if this is true for everybody, but part of adulthood seems to be gradually learning not to get invested in any celebrity because they will always find a way to disappoint you, sometimes to the extent of ruining the work you enjoy or causes they were a part of after the fact.
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Sep 13, 2021 18:58
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:A guy shot up a newspaper in Maryland immediately after Trump went on a rant about how the media were the 'enemy of the people,' everyone shrugged their shoulders about what might have possibly caused it and forgot in a week. lol That guy was mentally ill and had a personal vendetta against the paper after they covered his conviction for harassment. He was triggered by losing his last appeal, not specifically by Trump. I do agree with you though that people would forget immediately. Nurses wouldn't, of course, and it would be another tick in the column of "nursing is a hopelessly stressful job" and lead to more people leaving the field.
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Sep 14, 2021 18:59
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:Today Continue to be impressed by the 95 corridor from D.C. to Boston holding onto orange. My theory is car pollution lines the nostrils of those in the mid-Atlantic, preventing COVID from entering the bloodstream.
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Sep 14, 2021 20:27
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I actually got approved for a medical accommodation to continue telework, color me surprised. Of course, my doctor's note specifically said for at least six months and they bargained it back to "the end of the year then we can reevaluate," but one can imagine how fun things will look in December.
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Sep 15, 2021 14:35
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So I successfully got medical accommodation to continue telework because of a condition I have that would be bad news mixed with covid. The rest of the teams that I work with are all going back to the office on a hybrid schedule this week. I mentioned it in a biweekly email report I send to a bunch of teams by way of explaining why they wouldn't be seeing me at my desk. I was since told I shouldn't have shared my accommodation status publicly... as though people wouldn't find out? Or that I could commit a HIPAA violation against myself? I'm guessing management doesn't want to let on to the proles that prioritizing safety is actually an option if they wanted it to be and they wanted to remind me that my telework only exists at the grace of my betters. I was telling everyone at our union meeting to apply to the process, but I guess they don't know that. This is at a university-affiliated organization in lib-world, if that wasn't obvious.
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Sep 16, 2021 16:00
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Cyber Punk 90210 posted:My sister finally converted and got vaxxed, she's trying to convince her church friends to get it and it's going about as well as you'd expect ok
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Sep 16, 2021 16:38
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Petey posted:this is what has me brainfucked about some of the university numbers around here. we're a few weeks into classes with a vaccine mandate + indoor masking mandate (but i'm sure the latter is not fully observed in the dorms) and have been at <.09% test positivity the entire time in a relatively low-transmission and high-vaccination local area (boston). My university employer is similarly focused on just spending their way out of COVID. Considering how anemic the government response is, having on-demand saliva PCR tests available at all times and contact tracing seems actually kind of impressive. But I think whether it is ultimately a success or failure comes down completely to what the background community spread looks like. If the 95 corridor from D.C. to Boston finally starts succumbing like the rest of the country once the weather turns miserable in late fall, my guess is the campuses aren't going to fair better than the communities they're in just because undergrads are loving stupid as a general rule. The person in charge of our campus COVID response straight up said "D.C. isn't the rest of the country" as though Master's degrees offer immunity from disease. I don't believe in much, but I do believe in the universe punishing PMC hubris like that.
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Sep 17, 2021 14:06
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SKULL.GIF posted:I missed this happening a couple days ago. You doing OK, Oz? Doesn't seem like they subdued much of anything.
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Sep 20, 2021 18:41
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Real Mean Queen posted:I’m so goddamn tired of people defending their indefensible actions. Either say “gently caress you, I did that” or don’t do it in the first place. We don’t need this weird show where you recite what should have been doing and calling it ridiculous, we don’t need you reminding everyone that getting drunk makes you stupid, we don’t need you being drunk characterized as some kind of religious or cultural thing, all of it adds up to nothing. Own your actions or don’t do them, nobody made you gently caress up in public. she was just feeling the music man take a chill pill
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Sep 21, 2021 13:52
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Glumwheels posted:See the media endlessly crying over one missing white girl. There’s a reason why I don’t read or watch the news anymore. Blame Tiktok and Reddit for that one. Not that the media isn't predisposed to cry for white girls, but that was Zoomer social media poo poo.
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Elea posted:HermanCainAwards has been an interesting window on the world of antivax/antimask memes as well as just the horrible medical consequences of Covid. There is a bloodlust in a good portion of the comments that can get disturbing. Like they'll get very morally superior about pregnant women getting Covid even though I think a lot of trusted medical sources recommended against vaccination early on. I don't think they really grasp that the vaccinated are at a real risk too, because of all those awful statistics hyping up how effective they are. Overall though, mockery of the right wing is the only winning strategy compared to being asked to emphasize and explore their opinions for the 1000th time. Mockery is probably more effective and useful, but it's still fundamentally ghoulish. And simultaneously totally OK? It's a strange time.
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