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UKJeff posted:Hmm maybe he could try cooking at home? I dunno, just a suggestion its hard to find a place with a decent or even useable kitchen where he lives. but he's moving to a new place soon that i think has a better kitchen but also kind of hard to do on a "lunch" break that occurs at like 2am or whatever
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I worked for the postal service in March 2020. I feel like I was the last one who knew about the pandemic, 70 hour weeks will do that to you. All I remember is people asking if I had gloves on while delivering thier Amazon Sunday hoarder supplies and being chased by a Rottweiler. People were definitely driving dumber than normal.
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Hyrax Attack! posted: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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I was declared essential as a college custodian, but I took off the first 6 months because my roommate was immuno compromised. She left, and I went back to work only to get into a nasty rollover accident weeks later. Then, to kick my teeth in, I lost my apartment, got covid after being vaxed, and have had sinus/throat issues ever since.
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Jul 16, 2023 05:36
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I got declared essential as semiconductor/electronics manufacturing 5 hours before my shift started the day they announced the shutdown was gonna happen. It was official news that it was going to be announced around 8-9AM, Governor didn't do her presser until like 4:30-5PM. Barely got any sleep that day.
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Jul 16, 2023 05:40
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Bad Purchase posted:the number of hours i spend in meetings at work pretty much doubled And the 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. Everyone had the perfect opportunity to capitalize on the overnight hours for overnight businesses catering to overnight clientele, but it didn't materialize when everything opened back up, and that's an honest disappointment. You don't need a whole walmart, but like, only the fast food burger places are 24 hours? Some people want to relax in a cafe and it's loving "the roadkill is literally being slowcooked" hot outside this summer. CaptainSarcastic posted:
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Jul 16, 2023 06:28
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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. We really should've mass reported those idiots to the SEC back in the day.
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super sweet best pal posted:We really should've mass reported those idiots to the SEC back in the day. I blame Reagan.
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Jul 16, 2023 06:45
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I'm a dirty daysider and I couldn't imagine sitting in a Cafe for more than 5 minutes 24 were great for people who like to stock overnight without dealing with customers
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Jul 16, 2023 06:50
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What covid broke was my dick from how much porn I watched during lockdown
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Bad Purchase posted:graphics cards and game consoles weren't inflated because people saw them as crypto-like collectibles Iirc graphics cards specifically was mostly a scalper issue. There was an article around that time that compared the drop of new graphics cards and new crypto farms popping up and it concluded they weren't really related. GPUs were just a very hot ticket item like new consoles that people were really desperate to buy but supply was limited because of all the supply chain issues, and scalper bots were basically unstoppable. 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. There deffo are some blatant 'this is straight up money laundering' sales in the retro game market, but a lot of it is just that there were a lot of people getting into the hobby because of WFH. The same thing happened pretty bad in film cameras too, with lots of models that were hyped by the YouTube influencers seeing as much as a 3x price increase compared to just a year or two prior. I know LGR (popular retro tech/gaming youtuber) has talked in the past about seeing a huge influx of subscribers once Covid hit.
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Jul 16, 2023 07:06
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the cost of dollar pasta is 1.33. unacceptable.
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ishikabibble posted:Iirc graphics cards specifically was mostly a scalper issue. There was an article around that time that compared the drop of new graphics cards and new crypto farms popping up and it concluded they weren't really related. GPUs were just a very hot ticket item like new consoles that people were really desperate to buy but supply was limited because of all the supply chain issues, and scalper bots were basically unstoppable. Crypto definitely had an impact, but it really was a confluence of events that made it a crazy market. Supply went down, demand went up, and scalpers had a field day. I have been a regular in the GPU megathread in SH/SC for years, and that thread is kind of a living document of how the market for videocards went nuts and still hasn't really normalized.
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i got my 3080 because a goon in that thread let me use the evga queue he didn’t need when it was his turn and even gave me his evga login to use so i could make the order, a goddamn hero
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Jul 16, 2023 08:11
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PA has state-run wine and liquor stores and they closed during the start through the height of COVID. A bunch of people were like “Hey, you’re going to really gently caress up people already dealing with addiction,” and the government was like “there will always be a place at hospitals for addicts,” lol no there loving was NOT. Cue people lining up at 5 AM outside of grocery stores so they could buy a single half-case of beer or two bottles of wine. No idea how many people in my state got really messed up from unattended detoxes and whatnot. I’m sure it was awful, but likely got lost under the pandemic clamor.
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Jul 16, 2023 09:40
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Thank god for liquor stores during the early days of the pandemic; they were the only places I could find toilet paper for sale for at least a few weeks (and finally bought a bidet attachment as a result)
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Jul 16, 2023 09:47
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I work in medical supplies/manufacturing, it was nuts. We had to replace about 90% of our workforce. I can't imagine what it was like for people at the frontlines, doctors, nurses, etc.
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That reminds me: a not insignificant number of ICU nurses got fired from the hospital my partner worked at, as they refused to get vaccinated
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veni veni veni posted: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. It was very much a scam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLFEh7V18A
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Jul 16, 2023 10:18
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Nobody's watching a 50 minute long youtube video. tl;dr your poo poo
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Jul 16, 2023 10:26
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WFH is fantastic because half the week the office is just a fuckin' ghost town and I have free reign of the (comfy and well air conditioned) place.
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Covid got me to quit pushing myself as hard as I could as my health was seriously degrading for a few years before it. When we realized we could still live comfortably off my husband's income, we agreed I needed to rest. Stopping chronic burnout hit me like a wall of bricks. I can barely function without being overwhlemed with fatigue. They say it can take up to 5 years to recover. I'm at 3 now, so we'll see. I also started unmasking and doing a lot of deep self-reflection, I've had a ton of repressed memories come to the surface, and I realized I barely even knew who I was. I've gotten several diagnoses for mental health conditions in the last 3 years which explain so much of what I've struggled with my whole life and just assumed I was a weirdo and a failure. I'm even on some medications that I clearly needed. It has been an enlightening yet loving exhausting period of my life. So yeah, I had been pushing myself to be as busy as possible, too busy to feel feelings, too busy to think difficult thoughts. And then I was forced to stop. It's a lot to deal with, but I'm glad I did it.
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The Metaverse
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:the cost of dollar pasta is 1.33. Bronze cut went from like 1.80 to 3.00+, sucks.
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Good job fam, glad for you
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Brother Tadger posted:Thank god for liquor stores during the early days of the pandemic; they were the only places I could find toilet paper for sale for at least a few weeks (and finally bought a bidet attachment as a result) It broke my insane attachment to toilet paper too.
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Brother Tadger posted:Thank god for liquor stores during the early days of the pandemic; they were the only places I could find toilet paper for sale for at least a few weeks (and finally bought a bidet attachment as a result) Man it was so surreal walking the empty aisles of the grocery store, knowing you didn't need TP and yet.....
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You know what hosed me up more than anything? Losing my job, and then getting government checks that ended up paying me more a week than I've ever earned in my entire life. Not stressing about paying my bills and actually having money to take care of poo poo broke me more than anything. Can't wait to start paying for the college loans again!
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That first time I went to the supermarket after poo poo went down -- there was an occupancy limit, so even though I went at 9 AM on a Wednesday I had to wait in a line outside (6 foot apart). And then the grocery store had direction arrows in the aisles. Which I fully agreed with and got pissed any time anyone went against them. Then coming home and washing all my groceries, my clothes, me. Just hosing off everything.
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I work in the airline industry and had dozens of coworkers die from COVID in 2020-2021 and still to this day have a few coworkers that refuse to believe COVID was a problem like having memorials for people every month was totally normal I have serious PTSD about COVID denial now because of it and I fly into an rage if I hear someone downplaying it, it’s bad
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Covid fixed me in some ways and broke me in others. In chronological order, and as best as I can remember it: I'd finalized the divorce from my ex in November 2019 - and had we stayed together up until the pandemic I would've been even more miserable than I had already been. I met my (now) wife in February 2020, three weeks or so before lockdown. Dating app hell made her cautious and I was keeping one eye open for my own needs as well, but the nature of the pandemic drove us together even closer and accelerated how quickly we got to know and appreciate each other and who we were. It was the beginning of the end for me as a teacher. It had nothing to do with the kids, and virtual/hybrid model was difficult but doable for me. March - June 2020 was fully virtual, with about 4 hours of instruction and 3 hours of one-on-one/small group/"office" hours if kids needed it. Might not be great, but who can sit in front of a computer for 7+ hours straight? We went from an A school to a B school. Then in a Zoom meeting in September 2020 our principal lost her poo poo when she thought teachers were distracted talking to each other and demanded that "nobody (mess) with her scores" - I got to see what we, and the students, really meant to her. When the mask comes off, you can't put it back on and with that context handy I was witness to her doing some shady loving poo poo. Still, I loved doing what I did and kept doing it until 6 months ago. Speaking of which, I'm no longer as stressed about my job as I once was. I'm still bugged out by certain people and events at my current employer- I'm a corporate trainer now- but changing jobs at 40 for the first time in 14 years led me to realize that a job is just a loving job. It doesn't define you, and you've got to live your life for yourself and what's important to you. Even if poo poo fell apart where I'm working, I'll be all right. Last I can think of (for now) is the fantastic notion that I might not actually drop dead while I'm working because I'm unable to retire. My wife knew more about long-term investments than I did when we met, and that drove me to learn as much as I could in tandem with her because it sounded reasonable. Right now we're doing well enough with index fund investments that if we stopped now we could retire at 65 without worrying about Social Security. However, that's not the plan - we're out to retire early and just live life for what it is, for as long as we're able. I love the idea that I could work because I wanted to, not because I had to. I'm more likely to volunteer with animals in between traveling, cooking, gaming, reading, and just doing whatever else the gently caress I want. I guess to some people throwing the leash off is a "broken" mentality. As far as I'm concerned, I just learned that life is short, it isn't guaranteed, and you might as well enjoy it as much as you can while you're able. ElectricSheep fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Jul 16, 2023 |
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That's hosed up and the people in 2021 who were saying "oh it's just a flu" or whatever clearly didn't have anyone close working in healthcare. I hate how politicised and divisive the whole thing became. I have a friend who would also fly into a rage anytime I mentioned I was living my life or going anywhere and would spam my messages with walls of text. The thing is, I live in Queensland, Australia, and not the US. He's in the midwest where Im from originally. We had a categorically different experience than the vast majority of the world (even within Australia). I was certainly cautious, masked up, limited trips, worked from home, etc. But I was still able to get out for groceries once a week and even attend some concerts in a controlled setting. This really irked my friend. Any convo ended up basically as me defending myself, and the dynamic just no longer worked as a long-distance friendship. The whole thing just felt belittling and very stereotypically American. My wife and I lost a friend to suicide during lockdown, I missed my sisters wedding. We couldn't get home for a few years and it hurt. It didn't really help to be scolded for existing in a locale that managed to get things somewhat right and limit the spread and reach 90% vax rates. We still locked down, and the vast majority of folks did the right thing. Because of that we were able to still go to cafes once in a while. Im pretty sure he's got me pegged as some libertarian anti-woke rear end in a top hat now, but whatever. I'm happy to be 15000km away from the type of politics that pit friend against friend.
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It can be hard because in the US we did effectively nothing and a lot of us lost people to COVID, brain worms, or both, but yeah it’s not cool to not realize that someone may be in a part of the world where there was a good response so going out became safe to do
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I feel like covid happening in the trump era was a double whammy where nobody was able to think critically. It almost became uncouth to say "I don't know what this is or how to act" even though that's how the vast majority were likely feeling. There's this overwhelming pressure to have a stance (pro or anti vax/lockdown) so people can figure out who's camp you're in.
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Poohs Packin posted:I feel like covid happening in the trump era was a double whammy where nobody was able to think critically. It almost became uncouth to say "I don't know what this is or how to act" even though that's how the vast majority were likely feeling. I wonder what the actual number of people who died because he was President for Covid. It's significant, I assume.
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And while it's easy to say "gently caress these people", the real tragedy are those that wouldve done the right thing had they not been compelled by lovely politics. Nobody wants to be the one Guy in a small red town isolating for 2 years while everyone is down at the local slamming $2 miller lite.
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My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in Feb 2021. She got her vaccine before the general populace, shortly before she started chemo. Covid was heightened for us because she was immunocompromised. She had six rounds of chemo, and then a double mastectomy and reconstruction in September of 2021. Post surgery she’s had no evidence of cancer. It’s been a real mind gently caress to slowly emerge from the emergency cancer mindset, while also emerging from the emergency Covid mindset. My therapist and I talk about it a lot. I really feel it requires a lot of thinking and processing. I’m weirdly lucky to have a therapist and to be thinking about it. The therapy really highlights for me how I don’t feel like our larger society is dealing with it though. We’re all just…ignoring it? Pretending there’s nothing to process? It’s bad.
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Maybe more applicable to people in this forum, but how are there people who say "I will never visit a restaurant again" or "I am still masking at all occasions"? Is this an American thing? Here in Europe it is as covid never existed, except for the ghost test centers. People do not even get tested or ask when they get sick
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Awkward Davies posted:My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in Feb 2021. She got her vaccine before the general populace, shortly before she started chemo. Covid was heightened for us because she was immunocompromised. She had six rounds of chemo, and then a double mastectomy and reconstruction in September of 2021. Post surgery she’s had no evidence of cancer. Congrats to your family for making it through that.
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