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redshirt posted:One of the odd things I've noticed is people drive faster now than pre-covid. low tire pressure
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Ars Arcanum posted:It helped break my brain. Honestly, when my psychiatrist friend has mentioned patients (not identifying information and not much beyond things that have frustrated her), I’m glad I didn’t go into psychology. Cause people that I consider monstrous deserve to try to be less monstrous and I can’t imagine being able to separate my reactions from thinking about their victims. Not that that was an option. I don’t have a degree, but I was young and trying to figure out what I wanted to do at one time. Now I’m old and think I know what I want to do but can’t figure out how to do so. My brain is still broken from Covid.
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The SA covid threads have produces some of the funniest content that this site has seen in nearly 20 years
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It's probably giving covid too much credit, but I got married like a day before everything closed down and my relationship has never been in a worse place!
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Bad Purchase posted:low tire pressure My tire pressure is good, thank you.
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Toxic Mental posted:The SA covid threads have produces some of the funniest content that this site has seen in nearly 20 years isnt that special
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Between the veterinarian shortage and all the covid puppies, things are pretty bleak right now in animal health care. Or at least small animal/cats and dogs practice. I wish I had more time to actually talk to people. Curbside drop offs became the norm and some places basically refuse to go back. I'm looking into going to a practice that doesn't do drop offs except when they need to fit people in last minute. I haven't decided yet but part of me really wants to. It was pretty embarrassing when I was observing the doctor at that clinic in an appointment and when the owner found out where I worked he said he wouldn't go back there because he never talked to the vet. It's depressing and makes me feel guilty. But if we do more appointments in the exam room we have less time to see and help as many pets. And there is huge demand for appointments in my area. It's rough.
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Konar posted:It's probably giving covid too much credit, but I got married like a day before everything closed down and my relationship has never been in a worse place! “Blame it on the rain…” E. Vvv, yea, it’s great, tbh Brother Tadger fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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CaptainSarcastic posted:You are now my enemy.  I work manufacturing and I make the money I do because I'm a night person and I can fill niche jobs that are open for years because nobody wants to work 6-6. I worked through the entirety of covid. Everything shutting down at 9-10pm and staying that way permanently has made life pretty difficult.
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SHUT UP WESLEY posted:idk if ill ever get a haircut or eat in a restaurant again Just lol if you don't get your haircut at your favorite local restaurant.
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Saalkin posted:Just lol if you don't get your haircut at your favorite local restaurant. Carlos Beer Garden in Houston has you covered. Assuming Carlos is still alive...
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Even in NYC, open hours have generally gotten a lot shorter, and it absolutely sucks. I want to be able to go run errands or get takeout at 9, 10, 11 if I want. That’s supposed to be one of the benefits of living in the city, you know, the one that never sleeps, instead of the suburbs. Now places close at 7 or 8 and it blows
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Anne Whateley posted:Even in NYC, open hours have generally gotten a lot shorter, and it absolutely sucks. I want to be able to go run errands or get takeout at 9, 10, 11 if I want. That’s supposed to be one of the benefits of living in the city, you know, the one that never sleeps, instead of the suburbs. Now places close at 7 or 8 and it blows NYC sleeps now???
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Anne Whateley posted:Even in NYC, open hours have generally gotten a lot shorter, and it absolutely sucks. I want to be able to go run errands or get takeout at 9, 10, 11 if I want. That’s supposed to be one of the benefits of living in the city, you know, the one that never sleeps, instead of the suburbs. Now places close at 7 or 8 and it blows yea my brother works in a hospital in NYC, sometimes the 12am-4am shift and sometimes the 8pm-12am shift, and he says NYC is not at all a "24 hour city" anymore and he eats at like the same kebab place every single night because its the only place open all night anywhere nearby
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Earwicker posted:yea my brother works in a hospital in NYC, sometimes the 12am-4am shift and sometimes the 8pm-12am shift, and he says NYC is not at all a "24 hour city" anymore and he eats at like the same kebab place every single night because its the only place open all night anywhere nearby Hmm maybe he could try cooking at home? I dunno, just a suggestion
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UKJeff posted:Hmm maybe he could try cooking at home? I dunno, just a suggestion 
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Maybe all the vampires itt could band up and open a night shift store for each other so that normal humans don’t have to sacrifice their health and well-being for a bunch a goons that stay up late playing video games
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UKJeff posted:Maybe all the vampires itt could band up and open a night shift store for each other so that normal humans don’t have to sacrifice their health and well-being for a bunch a goons that stay up late playing video games  Or maybe society could recognize there are more chronotypes than just goddamn morning people.
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i'm a night person as well, but i don't want to force a bunch of people to work horrible shifts so that i can buy groceries at 2 am it probably makes sense in a city where there's a critical mass of people to make it worthwhile for a subset of businesses to remain open, especially if people work those shifts voluntarily because that's their preferred schedule. i don't think the suburbs can support that kind of thing in a way that's good for the employees though. just a guess, i'm not a retail manager and don't know how common it is for people to like those shifts. kinda the same opinion about stores being open on holidays. i mean, yeah, it's convenient for me because i don't have to plan ahead or can go out to restaurants with friends while i'm personally off work. however, i think it would be nice if everyone got the day off and we just accepted it's ok for retail spaces to close for a full day sometimes.
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bossy lady posted:Retro game market went absolutely insane. I guess a combination of boredom and nostalgia hit people hard and then opportunists jumped on board? I have no clue. I think it's more the collectables market in general. Crypto basically taught people that you can turn anything into currency which caused hyper inflation of a bunch of old junk that wasn't worth much a few years ago. Even new junk. Game consoles and graphics cards were practically currency for a while there. The retro games market does seem weirdly calculated though, like some big scam/collaborative effort to artificially bump prices into the stratosphere. It's both gross and fascinating and I hope someone does a good writeup or video on it. Or if one exists, someone point me in that direction.
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veni veni veni posted:I think it's more the collectables market in general. Crypto basically taught people that you can turn anything into currency which caused hyper inflation of a bunch of old junk that wasn't worth much a few years ago. Even new junk. Game consoles and graphics cards were practically currency for a while there. graphics cards and game consoles weren't inflated because people saw them as crypto-like collectibles graphics cards were bought faster than they could be manufactured specifically to mine crypto, and there was a chip shortage that prevented the GPU and console manufacturers from scaling up production. it was a simple supply/demand problem.
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It's me the local night owl. I prefer nighttime from the scenery to the nonexistent crowds. If it weren't for keeping my schedule with someone else I'd go right back to waking up at 7pm. It's something like, 20% of people? So the idea that, "normal people shouldn't have to work these shifts for night time people" is pretty absurd, plenty of night people to work those shifts as they're already on them.
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Earwicker posted:yea my brother works in a hospital in NYC, sometimes the 12am-4am shift and sometimes the 8pm-12am shift, and he says NYC is not at all a "24 hour city" anymore and he eats at like the same kebab place every single night because its the only place open all night anywhere nearby
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Bad Purchase posted:graphics cards and game consoles weren't inflated because people saw them as crypto-like collectibles I guess that was a bad comparison but there is definitely something funkier going on with retro games.
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Bad Purchase posted:i'm a night person as well, but i don't want to force a bunch of people to work horrible shifts so that i can buy groceries at 2 am it's not even about full 24 hour service  anyone who works day shift gets to go on their weekend or during hellhour now
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redshirt posted:But now that's too slow and tons of people pass me. So I've upped it to 10 over. I do 9 over. After the ten plusses roar by, I'm still faster than the slowpokes and usually have the road to myself for a good amount of time. Both fast drivers and slow drivers tend to drive in clumps.
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doctorfrog posted:I do 9 over. After the ten plusses roar by, I'm still faster than the slowpokes and usually have the road to myself for a good amount of time. Both fast drivers and slow drivers tend to drive in clumps. Indeed my friend. I have a saying about that very phenomena: Maximize the gaps, blast the packs (IE moderate your speed to increase those times you are in the void; when you come upon a pack try your best to get through it ASAP)
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Bad Purchase posted:i'm a night person as well, but i don't want to force a bunch of people to work horrible shifts so that i can buy groceries at 2 am I remember early in the pandemic during shutdowns NYC learned they had to keep a few liquor stores open or people with severe alcohol addictions would have gone into DTs when hospitals absolutely did not have capacity to deal with it.
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COVID fixed my brain for a bit because I was going through a really rough anxiety/depression/panic attacks phase (never really struggled with that before) and started therapy juuuust before COVID kicked off and COVID kind of served as a distraction from my inner dialog constantly telling me I'm a piece of poo poo. Then when COVID tapered back a bit my mental health plummeted to the point where one day I just said "gently caress it" and walked off my job. Oddly, ever since then, I've felt great. Still not sure what it was about that job, but it sure scrambled my brain while I was doing it Oh yeah also after I quit I found out that I had spent the last four years working with my 100% blood brother that I didn't know I had but that didn't really have anything to do with any of the mental issues, it was just p. weird and cool
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Covid allowed me to go permanently work from home after just a year since I joined the corporate world after quitting my teaching job. So that ruled. I have no intent to ever work from anywhere other than my home office ever again. Previously the happiest period of time in my life was right at the end of college where I had no more classes to take, and I got laid off from my job so I was just getting unemployment checks with the intention to move out of the country anyways, which I did. Right now has basically become the best time in my life because I am happily married, my job is insanely easy and I can just kind of watch youtube, go out with my wife and go to the gym any time I want every day. It's like every day is a Saturday. And I owe it to covid for putting me in this spot I guess. Toxic Mental fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Jul 16, 2023 |
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Earwicker posted:i found one through my lovely insurance but either he's more depressed than i am or he's an ai or both My brain is too broken to see ai anything other than fake as poo poo. If *this* is the first job ai takes over, well then im hosed. Also im in the EU, everything private takes cash anyway. You would think they would at least have automated emails set up.
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I didn't take Covid seriously at all until the NBA went and shut down. And I wasn't even a big NBA fan then, but that was the sign for me this poo poo was serious. I immediately drove to a big grocery store and bought so much.
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COVID didn't break my brain, but my job during COVID did. I was working at a university / university hospital as tech support trying to get a free ride on an MBA. When COVID hit, all the boomer doctors and professors along with the administrative seat-fillers got kicked home and needed to learn how to use a computer for the first time in their lives. I went from taking 15 phone calls a day to 50 and had a horrible boss to make it worse. I quit after I graduated from Zoom university. At first, everyone was scared but polite and then after 6 months everyone was vile and stayed that way. People are still vile- everyone is in a constant state of road rage mentality even out of their cars.
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Toxic Mental posted:Covid allowed me to go permanently work from home after just a year since I joined the corporate world after quitting my teaching job. So that ruled. I have no intent to ever work from anywhere other than my home office ever again. yep, this side effect of the pandemic is pretty great. my company told everyone to get back in the office about 6 months ago, but i told them no, and got reclassified as permanently remote. i can still go in when i absolutely need to since there are a few pieces of lab equipment i might need to touch, but it's been such a tremendous improvement to quality of life, i can't imagine going back. i'd sooner retire and live in poverty for the rest of my life than spend 10 hours per day in an office again.
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Bad Purchase posted:i also miss the convenience, but i think it was crazy of them to stay open and probably hellish for the people who had to work those shifts. i know some people prefer nights, but i bet most who got those didn't. Night shift at walmart was far from the worst job I ever worked.
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super sweet best pal posted:Night shift at walmart was far from the worst job I ever worked. When I worked retail I liked the early shifts like starting at 6am, nice to leave early afternoon and have rest of day to myself and customers shopping early seemed nicer. I did not care for the 4pm to 11pm Friday/Saturday shifts especially hauling carts in the dark. redshirt posted:I was incredibly blessed. All my jobs went remote, everyone was accommodating. I did so much drugs and alcohol and got paid the same, it was amazing, like I was for the first time freed from all that work. When working remote have not touched alcohol while on the clock, it’s rare but if suddenly get called into zoom meeting to help management I’m not clever enough to think I could fake being sober & that would get me on unwanted radar real quick.
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