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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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Ape Fist posted:If you're still obsessively masking up in 2023 you might be derranged. People realized that medical masks stop both lovely common illnesses that they'll end up having to work through, and also allergy poo poo, and that absolute revelation has changed them into mask-wearers and it's actually good, OP FlocksOfMice posted:nah gently caress you, I don't wanna get sick, and no one in public is entitled to see my face, what does it matter to you? Also this. Not having to fake smile and obsess over cosmetics to be a "people-pleasing face-to-face customer service" type is an extremely zoomer thing that is great and some people aren't going back ever.
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Earwicker posted:i live directly above a freeway in LA and it was really surreal the couple of months when it was close to empty. never got there all the way. but sometimes i'd go out and just drive around at night on the empty roads, it was trippy. What kind of chill cruisin' music were you listening to driving on those empty roads? (You will be judged by GoonsTM for your choice)
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Around me people driving too slow has become a huge problem, another thing I swear wasn't anywhere near this bad 5 or so years ago. Driving slow is not always safer. On highways, the safest thing to do is flow with traffic around you. In most cases, if everyone else is going faster than you, then you are the one being unsafe. Phone addiction has hamstrung people's attention and they go all jangle keys distracted while waiting for a green light. CaptainSarcastic posted:I've done some very light research into this, and it looks like one reason US pedestrian deaths is higher than than in other countries is because fuckoff huge vehicles have become way more common. Another solid reason is that the U.S. will shamelessly put pedestrian sidewalks and bike lanes next to motor vehicle roadways with basically nothing between them, so you're one good swerve from ending up mangled. And that's just where it's actually an accident and not on purpose because you're "too woke". Nothing like getting your brain broke with a serious public conflict occurring so you can project your broken thinkybits on people you arbitrarily judged based on initial appearances.
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MEIN RAVEN posted:Yeah, that's the takeaway my friend and I both got from Covid. Like, there was a great come-together moment for all of....1 month? Than poo poo got real nasty real fast. Just wait until people have to fight over water. Or when tomatoes cost $15/lb. Or when meat is $25/lb. I'm not at all looking forward to the rapid deterioration of our stupid, fragile society. Meat will never cost $25/lb. Not when there's more guns than people and those guns-having people would rather not ask. Also the rampant deer/hog populations, but even that would put the worst cuts near $20. Sierra Nevadan posted:Yea, they really suck. I used hand sanitizer after filling up my gas tank when I first got the interlock. There goes $80. That sucks and I'm sorry to hear it. Police will absolutely ream you through the wringer if you're in the cab with a key to the car--intending to drive or not. I've heard quite a few stories of military types smashing the rear passenger corner window and using a wire hanger to get their keys out the ignition from outside their cars to avoid the cops who are right there watching the whole thing go down. Two creative solutions I've heard are rolling the car onto your key and parking on it, and putting your key in the gas hatch, neither of which are considered "in the cab." Putting it in the trunk is iffy, but a reasonable alternative if you don't allow a search.
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Triikan posted:Also, when I read your first sentence I thought you meant the people with guns were going to start hunting people for some reason. That'd probably work for a while. That was purposefully implied. As an American, I wouldn't put it past other Americans.
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mojo1701a posted:A good chunk of the right-wing media sphere was like that. Alex Jones was the original inspiration for "conspiracy theory nut on the radio" from Deus Ex, it's kinda his shtick, so I don't know if his brain broke or not over covid. Sure did draw in the ones that did, though, like flies to poo poo.
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Disco Godfather posted:Last week I found out two of my cousins (brothers) still haven't spoken to each other since December 2021 when they both got covid after going to a football game and had to miss Christmas. Apparently one still blames the other for inviting him. Their parents have been doing two separate events for every holiday and birthday so they can see all their grandkids. If you really wanna stir the poo poo, ask which one is the first of the two events, because it would be a hell of a thing if the blaming brother caught covid from the blamed brother through shared family visitation because they visited second. 
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