Sagebrush posted:

FMguru posted:

all work conferencing should be done in microsoft comic chat

Broken Machine posted:

i remember reading some article where they looked at how far kids are allowed to roam from their house. a century ago, it was like ten miles. then gradually over time parents got more and more afraid, and neighbors more likely to call the cops because of your poor child enjoying playing outside instead of glazing in front of screens

FMguru posted:

count down days until 19 january 2038

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

disarming the cops absolutely has to happen, but lol the howling you'd hear about it. i bet they'd all quit

carry on then posted:

immunity is lost in weeks anyway.

Jonny 290 posted:

it's more shades of gray than that though. Studies do show that it's likely that you do get a decent immunity period, but also covid ages your pulmonary system ten years each time you get it. So the chance for you to get rekt by a respiratory infection or the flu or pneumonia probably go WAY up if you've had it. those deaths of course will not be counted as covid deaths, but some of them definitely are.

haveblue posted:

there are a couple of people whose test results may indicate they have been reinfected. there are no reputable studies that have conclusively proved immunity is short-lived among the general population

Sagebrush posted:

b-rock "the islamic shock" is mellifluous

uncurable mlady posted:

i suspect anti-vax sentiment might widen a bit after trump tries to dr mengele his hand at widespread distribution of first-wave vaccines that were rushed through trials. remember, the only criteria for success is "better than getting coronavirus, even slightly"

Kenny Logins posted:

badminton is a weird sport to play socially, because there are three tiers of sportsmanship you run across

1) beginner, doesn’t take it seriously, singles or doubles sure but can’t really get a good rally going, but the game is fun

2) intermediate, takes it way too seriously, skilled but uses their skills to play in the most annoying way imaginable, miserable doubles partner, sucks all the fun out

3) god tier, doesn’t take it seriously, scales their play to their opponent(s), great doubles partner, can get a good rally going, most fun imaginable

lots of 1s and 2s never enough 3s

Arcteryx Anarchist posted:

also for not giving out allocated doses fast enough iirc

and getting a dose had some kind of certification process that was about as accessible as the dmv?

quote:

Those seeking appointments must fill out a multi-step verification process to set up an account and face about 51 questions or fields to check off on the Health Department's site, according to Stringer.
...
"I was able to make her one after a lot of trouble," Kuppersmith said. "It's really difficult to load. So after many, many tries of refreshing, reentering the information, over and over again, I was finally able to get the appointments to actually show."
Her grandmother doesn't own a computer and would not have been able to sign up online alone.
...
Scharrenbroich, as did Kuppersmith, suspected they needed to clear their browsers' cookies for the website to allow them to go through the entire sign-up process.
"You can't expect an older person to do that," Scharrenbroich said.

TOOT BOOT posted:

I miss popular music having different flavors, a lot of what 's popular now is very similar-sounding to me

There's still good stuff out there but it feels like the mainstream is very homogenized because almost every aspect of the business is controlled by a small number of companies

Roosevelt posted:

ive heard that icey-hot or bengay are great topical treatments

rotor posted:

the only bar i actually enjoyed hangin out in was the Frolic Room. sometimes we could get the bartender to light the bar on fire, it was great.

Achmed Jones posted:

if y'all had cd set up why did someone need to push a deploy button?

Stereotype posted:

yeah it's definitely a state-by-state thing for the dmv. the hawaii dmv is actually pretty good. it used to have insanely long all-day lines but they now have an appointment system where you only have to wait like a week, then can show up and almost immediately get your stuff taken care of. then most things you can just do online too, like car registration renewal or getting a new licence if you lost yours or it is expiring. and there's a ton of satellite city halls with pretty reasonable wait times (5-10 minutes) if you don't want to do it online.

i know that in wisconsin the insanely gerrymandered GOP legislature closed all the dmv offices in cities and moved them way out of town (to save money on office space rent you see) and then also cut their hours way down. it's super infuriating that republicans openly and deliberately sabotage services and then brag about it, and then people still for some reason don't connect the dots when they have to deal with the now awful service.