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Safety Dance posted:They're linked. It's been demonstrated time and again that being under financial stress makes you bad at decision making, and removing that financial stress literally makes you smarter. Highest rate in my county is in an area that has the highest "self-employed" population. *SHOCKER* Apparently they can't afford not to go to work, and people can't be without their services. most of whom are immigrants who hang out in front of Home Depot and 7-Eleven looking for day-labor Sorry about your mom STR 
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Charitably, they're poor and they need the money because the US is a hosed up place with limited social safety net and employer obligations. It's this. A lot of folks *can't* "just stay home" - they'de starve, lose their place to live, etc., because gently caress the poors - we need t maximize shareholder value, and make rich fucks even richer. Guess what happens when you "run the government like a business"?
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Darchangel posted:It's this. There's a new leak that Trump and his cohorts downplayed C-19 on purpose to keep from spooking the markets so yeah, definitely gently caress the poors.
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Darchangel posted:Guess what happens when you "run the government like a business"? I'm giving a PIP to every american, might want to polish those citizenship resumes
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taqueso posted:I'm giving a PIP to every american, might want to polish those citizenship resumes Yeah this is one of the worst parts of it. "No need to build a wall when you have a virus that will just take care of the problem for you." Yes there are actually idiots that hold this sentiment.
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Rhyno posted:There's a new leak that Trump and his cohorts downplayed C-19 on purpose to keep from spooking the markets so yeah, definitely gently caress the poors. In any other universe this would be a joke. A few weeks before this COVID poo poo started I fired up an old trading account and for a laugh bought Afterpay shares at an all time low. Best profit % I ever made in a week since 2000-2001 with Metalstorm.
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Humphreys posted:In any other universe this would be a joke.
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May 15, 2020 16:45
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I dunno about the US, but in Sweden tanking the market = tanking all the pensions for normal people. So you gently caress the poor either way.
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MrOnBicycle posted:I dunno about the US, but in Sweden tanking the market = tanking all the pensions for normal people. So you gently caress the poor either way. Most Americans no longer earn pensions through their jobs.
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Darchangel posted:It's this. Tbh, it's one thing to go to work if you feel fine, but if you are clearly showing symptoms like a loving fever and cough you are just making the situation way worse by continuing to work, infecting your co workers and possibly shutting down the place where you work to begin with and now you have no job to go back to.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Tbh, it's one thing to go to work if you feel fine, but if you are clearly showing symptoms like a loving fever and cough you are just making the situation way worse by infecting your co workers and possibly shutting down the place where you work to begin with and now you have no job to go back to. This is so frustrating. We had someone admit to spending a week taking care of her nephew after he tested positive. She told two people who freaked out and ratter her rear end out. But when questioned she changed her story and since it was her word (she's been with the company 15 years) against two people who started this year they took her word. So the rest of third shift (myself included) flipped the gently caress out when we found out and we demanded she at least be tested. And surprise, surprise, she hasn't been back to work so we're all assuming she tested positive. Still no actual word on that but we continue to work and nobody has died yet.
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May 15, 2020 16:53
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Rhyno posted:Most Americans no longer earn pensions through their jobs. 
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Rhyno posted:There's a new leak that Trump and his cohorts downplayed C-19 on purpose to keep from spooking the markets so yeah, definitely gently caress the poors. poo poo, I believed that from the beginning. Applebees Appetizer posted:Tbh, it's one thing to go to work if you feel fine, but if you are clearly showing symptoms like a loving fever and cough you are just making the situation way worse by continuing to work, infecting your co workers and possibly shutting down the place where you work to begin with and now you have no job to go back to. That goes back to the making poor decisions under stress thing. Also, we have a culture of selfishness, exacerbated by the current administration glorifying said culture. It's gently caress you Got Mine even when you ain't got poo poo. Somewhat related, I found these informative infographics following the Twitter posts from Charlize Theron regarding Fury Road someone posted in the Awesome thread:  
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Tbh, it's one thing to go to work if you feel fine, but if you are clearly showing symptoms like a loving fever and cough you are just making the situation way worse by continuing to work, infecting your co workers and possibly shutting down the place where you work to begin with and now you have no job to go back to. That's one of the core problems with COVID-19, though - there's an unusually long period where you can be asymptomatic but contagious as gently caress. So even if you got people to perfectly quarantine when they were symptomatic (which will never happen - even at my company with relatively generous and lax sick policies, certain motherfuckers still come in and cough all loving day) you'd still have a pandemic on your hands. MrOnBicycle posted:oh... Yeah. The best most people have are 401k or IRA type plans that are tied to the stock market, but there's a lot of people who aren't even offered 401k plans and an even larger group who can't afford to contribute to a retirement plan anyway.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Charitably, they're poor and they need the money because the US is a hosed up place with limited social safety net and employer obligations. also its texas
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May 15, 2020 17:14
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And anyways, 401Ks are pretty much in the shitter right now anyways.
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MrOnBicycle posted:I dunno about the US, but in Sweden tanking the market = tanking all the pensions for normal people. So you gently caress the poor either way. For many years I've been slackly bitching that my 'Super-Annunciation' retirement fund will be somehow absorbed into the government funds. I'm seriously tempted to draw as much as I can from it within the new rules. I have zero trust in our system.
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Humphreys posted:For many years I've been slackly bitching that my 'Super-Annunciation' retirement fund will be somehow absorbed into the government funds. I'm seriously tempted to draw as much as I can from it within the new rules. I have zero trust in our system. Yeah I'm planning for my retirement being funded by my personal savings. Anything I get pension-wise will be a bonus.
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Humphreys posted:For many years I've been slackly bitching that my 'Super-Annunciation' retirement fund will be somehow absorbed into the government funds. I'm seriously tempted to draw as much as I can from it within the new rules. I have zero trust in our system. BFC guy here: do not draw from your australian 401(k)
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STR posted:Found out mom's possibly been exposed by a coworker. Her coworker went to the ER from work today.. admitted and assumed to be positive, but they're waiting on test results. She'd still been coming to work with a fever, but didn't tell anybody until the cough came out to party, along with sudden severe weakness. poo poo man, so sorry about your mom. Hopefully if she does have it it won't be terrible. I used to smoke cloves but I think they outlawed them during the Obama years? Something about flavored cigarettes but I'm not 100% on that one.
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Had to settle for Camels. They didn't even have Kamel Reds, which is what I used to smoke when I couldn't get cloves.
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Coredump posted:You got a link or something I can read about the landscaping cloth and tuberculosis? I think I want to touch the poo on Facebook too. Sorry, between my memory being sketchy and no hard data I couldn't even tell you the name of the material anymore. Just that our customers helped us test it and they were like "yeah this is good".
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May 15, 2020 18:20
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My friend buys his cloves online. They're branded differently I think but same stuff essentially.
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May 15, 2020 18:21
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You guys I'm exhausted. It's been another crazy busy week at work.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:So sorry about your mom STR I hope she pulls through it ok man. She's considered exposed pending results of her coworker's COVID test, but has no symptoms at the moment. Her coworker is already in the ICU though, and a flu test already came back negative. Xray showed fluid in the lungs. Her boss is pissed that my mom won't come back to work. 
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Goober Peas posted:You guys I'm exhausted. It's been another crazy busy week at work.  STR I hope your mom is okay and also DON'T SMOKE
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yo gently caress your moms boss STR
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Rhyno posted:And anyways, 401Ks are pretty much in the shitter right now anyways. are you retiring today? No? so just get in the pool with the rest of us third world american assholes and pray that a Dem is in years 3-8 when you're ready to die. Your big opportunity is now, invest heavily in things like live concerts and ... not tech so much this year, but that's the usual routine when repubs crash the economy on purpose every 11.5 years. This time was an accident because Trump can't even gently caress up the world according to plan he's so loving stupid. STR posted:She's considered exposed pending results of her coworker's COVID test, but has no symptoms at the moment. Her coworker is already in the ICU though, and a flu test already came back negative. Xray showed fluid in the lungs. I was led to believe that if you don't test anyone it means there's no COVID. Texas broke the trump testing rules? Da fuq. Georgia, Alabama, Iowa and all the chuckleberryfuckstates are going to be very upset to learn immigrants poisoned their $1.85/hr meat packing plants with OBAMAGATE virus
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I really miss Ilkhan with his hot takes on politics these days, whatever happened to that brain genius?
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hair salons/barbers got the green light to open in Alberta yesterday and got a haircut! What a god drat relief. Some basic precautions taken, I'm cautiously optimistic I didn't catch the rona getting it done. Also, it's god drat stupid at work.. as in, I don't want to answer my phone/look at my emails anymore because I just know it's going to be more weird poo poo coming in which is good, but more comes in before I can finish off the earlier stuff which seems to keep me from ever getting out of the hole. Any interest in starting a general thread about work that anyone can post about their day or best to keep it in monthly chat?
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May 15, 2020 19:46
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i just go to the hookah shop to buy clove cigarettes, i didnt know they were banned elsewhere
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May 15, 2020 19:48
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At this point I'm just cutting my own hair to show off. All my friends with the bootleg barber now have Covid
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The girl who's been cutting my hair went back to work on monday. I got in there on tuesday and they were basically wrapped up like a surgeon so I felt at ease.
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Clove cigarettes are just as bad for you as normal tobacco smokes, and actually worse for you than many traditional lights. Honest question: What's the appeal to them over regular rockets? The smell?
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May 15, 2020 19:53
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When I was 16 and thought I was cool I smoked Lucky Strikes. No filters made me exponentially cooler.
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Yes. that's exactly how we all felt
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slidebite posted:Clove cigarettes are just as bad for you as normal tobacco smokes, and actually worse for you than many traditional lights. I like the taste, and they don't smell as bad.  And I don't have to smoke an entire one to get my fix.... vs 2 or 3 in a row.FAT32 SHAMER posted:i just go to the hookah shop to buy clove cigarettes, i didnt know they were banned elsewhere They have to be sold as "cigars" now. But yeah I'll probably hit up a head shop to get them. Rhyno posted:The girl who's been cutting my hair went back to work on monday. I got in there on tuesday and they were basically wrapped up like a surgeon so I felt at ease. I've had one haircut this year, and it's almost shoulder-length again. gently caress it, just gonna let it keep going until the end of this here pandemic.
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On the covid front: Incoming press release Monday - scuttlebutt is it is going to be very promising news on an antibody treatment for Covid https://twitter.com/CurlyJungleJake/status/1261338915899760641 Background: This is the guy from the Netflix Pandemic show that created the single dose universal flu vaccine. When Covid hit they worked like dogs and came up with candidate antibody treatments that should not only be highly effective against COVID, but also SARS and MERS. For those that don't know, antibody treat compared to a vaccine - you use the antibody to treat people who are infected, very good tool to have before the vaccine is rolled out. Think of how rabies is treated if you get infected.
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Ether Frenzy posted:I really miss Ilkhan with his hot takes on politics these days, whatever happened to that brain genius? Got derailed by the one-word tweet from Obama. 
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