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PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


Stereotype posted:

and it’s making me go crazy because if you listen to us all now I need to go get a gun.

it's not going to get that bad. there's never mass violence during a plague. everyone hunkers down and is generally miserable. the next few months are going to suck but that's about it

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PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


Achmed Jones posted:

yeah but it's nice to have something that's blatantly false in there with the believable-ish doom and gloom that yospos loves. it helps me remember that this forum is pessimistic beyond what is reasonable and treat its apocalyptic predictions appropriately

idk i've been telling myself 'well the next two weeks will be interesting' since december and so far every prediction has come true right on schedule

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



anybody who was telling your fiancé it was cool to go to London is either stupid or ignorant, straight up. but the covid-economic-disaster talk is currently about the same level as nbsd's Tylenol rant as far as hyperbole goes. it'll be real bad for some people, but this is not the end of the (economic) world

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Stereotype posted:

what if we were right for once though.

nice hypothetical but it'll never happen

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



PIZZA.BAT posted:

idk i've been telling myself 'well the next two weeks will be interesting' since december and so far every prediction has come true right on schedule

ya same. what you said re: "the next few months are going to suck but that's about it" is p much my take too. it'll especially suck for eg food workers etc but things will bounce back and the wheels of capitalism will continue to grind us all down a little bit more

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



https://twitter.com/tentwentysixpm/status/1240089341864493057?s=20

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
cancel culture has gone too far

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

well with all the TP shortages i'm not sure what you people expected

Raymond T. Racing
Jun 11, 2019

i had put in my paperwork at my job for my last day being the 23rd, and due to the mechanics of working for a school district, they were sitting with their head in the sand about preparing for wfh

so i told my boss "lol this is dumb i'm changing my resignation date to tomorrow if we're not gonna enable wfh until we're absolutely forced to"

and then the county shut down so i'm not even sure if i have to even pretend to wfh tomorrow

kinda weird saying goodbye to your job when it's entirely wfh

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



PIZZA.BAT posted:

it's not going to get that bad. there's never mass violence during a plague. everyone hunkers down and is generally miserable. the next few months are going to suck but that's about it

in fairness, the last time a plague like this hit america, half the nation hadn't been brainwashed by fox news and the NRA, and social media hadn't whipped millions of chuds up into a frenzy where they're just itching to mow down "liebural democrats"

PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


Kazinsal posted:

in fairness, the last time a plague like this hit america, half the nation hadn't been brainwashed by fox news and the NRA, and social media hadn't whipped millions of chuds up into a frenzy where they're just itching to mow down "liebural democrats"

i know a few of these types. they’re scared shitless of the infected hordes invading their remote suburbs. they’re repulsed by cities as if there were a magic miasma force field. they won’t be doing poo poo

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

PIZZA.BAT posted:

they won’t be doing poo poo
...except voting to reelect the current president

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
i feel like I’ve trained my entire life for a crisis situation where I can be a hero by sitting my rear end at home and posting

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

FMguru posted:

...except voting to reelect the current president

trump is gonna push through a dumber version of medicare for all and call it trumpcare and win in a landslide

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


uncurable mlady posted:

i feel like I’ve trained my entire life for a crisis situation where I can be a hero by sitting my rear end at home and posting

yopsos is mega training op

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


its good i finally got a nintendo switch a few weeks ago


now i have plenty of time to dig into breath of the wild

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

fart simpson posted:

trump is gonna push through a dumber version of medicare for all and call it trumpcare and win in a landslide

If Republicans just become Racist Socialists then I think that it might be easier to make them not racist than it is to make Democrats into Socialists, which seems like a total lost cause at this point. Also Democrats are plenty racist too.

Whoever abandons capitalism first is going to win is what I'm saying

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

rotor posted:

nice hypothetical but it'll never happen

oh also I loled at this. Gotta keep the record straight in these trying times

Zorn
Oct 24, 2000

Stereotype posted:

If Republicans just become Racist Socialists then I think that it might be easier to make them not racist than it is to make Democrats into Socialists, which seems like a total lost cause at this point. Also Democrats are plenty racist too.

Whoever abandons capitalism first is going to win is what I'm saying

If history has taught us anything it's that "racist socialists" are just facists. We all ought to be pretty concerned when the nationalist, racist side of politics starts co-opting socialist rhetoric, because that's when they start redefining who a citizen is and start eliminating all of those who don't fit that description.

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
I'm pretty sure I've heard something about racist, xenophobic, nationalist socialists.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Zorn posted:

If history has taught us anything it's that "racist socialists" are just facists. We all ought to be pretty concerned when the nationalist, racist side of politics starts co-opting socialist rhetoric, because that's when they start redefining who a citizen is and start eliminating all of those who don't fit that description.

Hmm sounds like "two thousand dollar checks to 'everyone'" might be a problem then

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
Right now the worst off are going to be the undocumented of course. The big red flag though, the thing where you literally start burning down police stations, is when they try to subcategorize "citizen" which currently is one big uniform bloc with zero differentiation, in law at least.

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

CLASS 2 PERVERSION posted:

my workplace has a "post your battlestation" slack channel now

people have a lot more halo figurines on their desks at home than I would have thought

same exact two channels but legos instead of halos

i expect to see people going slowly insane over time

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

DuckConference posted:

trip report: had chills last night, not much this morning, but now I'm super fatigued and sore. cough/chest issues are very mild today though

is this poster still alive

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe
lol you can't say boomer remover in gbs

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

SmokaDustbowl posted:

lol you can't say boomer remover in gbs

counterpoint why aer you reading gbs

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

bump_fn posted:

counterpoint why aer you reading gbs

I was looking for myself in the lepers colony lmao

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
Hawaiian airlines just said my fiance can't get on the plane home from JFK to HNL. She was in the UK yesterday, and they told her it is a new policy that you have to wait 14 days. American Airlines seems to not have this policy, at least the people on the phone don't think so. Fingers crossed.

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



bump_fn posted:

counterpoint why aer you reading gbs

he watches anime so it's not like he has good taste

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
I've been on hold for an hour with hawaiian while i called and got through to 2 other airlines. Alaskan was like "she could absolutely get on" but they only have 30 hour trips. American has a 15 hour one. Again, fingers crossed.

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Endless Mike posted:

he watches anime so it's not like he has good taste

she, also anime is good

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

SmokaDustbowl posted:

anime is blood

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
so long wfh crew, i'm going back to the work tomorrow. gonna self isolate my posting to protect the thread

Stereotype posted:

I've been on hold for an hour with hawaiian while i called and got through to 2 other airlines. Alaskan was like "she could absolutely get on" but they only have 30 hour trips. American has a 15 hour one. Again, fingers crossed.
that sucks, my partner is stuck abroad and she absolutely can't get back because the borders are closed. at least she was visiting family so she has a good place to stay for as long as she needs

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

SmokaDustbowl posted:

lol you can't say boomer remover in gbs

Lol what the gently caress

Asleep Style
Oct 20, 2010

I'm gonna need to start setting an alarm and establishing a routine or I'm gonna fall apart

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

SmokaDustbowl posted:

lol you can't say boomer remover in gbs

dammit genesplicer

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



current job status: at it
current home status: also at it

the tent kit and wrist wrest came for my ergo keyboard yesterday :toot:

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe
quarantine stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geDnQKRu01c

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

WFH duration increased to "indefinitely"

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President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

Captain Foo posted:

WFH duration increased to "indefinitely"

holy poo poo, foo. living the dream. :worship:

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