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syntaxrigger
Jul 7, 2011

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Captain Foo posted:

contrary to what you may expect not every use of a gun is a school shooting

huge if true

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syntaxrigger
Jul 7, 2011

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what is the over under on this pandemic radicalizing the masses to true progressiveness? I am so tired of so many things...

syntaxrigger
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I'll take it

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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

I guess putting whiskey in my coffee is an everyday thing now.

you know I have never gotten good at drunk coding and I am less good at high coding but every day I get closer to answering yes to the question

"Couldn't I be loving high right now?"

syntaxrigger
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I grew up drinking tap water from outdoor water faucets on houses in south louisiana which is much like drinking water directly out of the swamp. Since then all faucet water has a less appealing taste.

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Asleep Style posted:

Have you tried adding Tony's?

wait......ppl drink water WITHOUT tonys? bull poo poo

syntaxrigger
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Is it weird wanting to put in PTO when I am at home and cannot go anywhere? I just want to be high/drunk for like 2 days straight

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haveblue posted:

if you're not on a video call how can they tell

catholic upbringing, little sweet infant baby jesus is judging me for even thinking of such a thing even while I know you are 100% correct and I haven't been catholic for about a decade.


qirex posted:

do it

my company still seems to be operating under the assumption that this whole thing won't impact development velocity, like we were already really good at working remote but people have kids at home all day and worries and stuff so yeah we're going to miss some features from the next release but I don't think that's bubbled all the way up the management chain yet


That is a good point.

Thanks all.

syntaxrigger
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Methanar posted:

...

I don't want to even pretend to work today

Hard :same:

syntaxrigger
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ambient oatmeal posted:

Masturbate furiously

This but unironically

syntaxrigger
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Having a weirdly good day on a friday.

feelsgoodman

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The Fool posted:

I decided I don't give a poo poo about my kids preschool packets and after I get a little bit of work done we're going sledding

A good parent.

syntaxrigger
Jul 7, 2011

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what is a good movie?

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rotor posted:

I watched this and thought it was v good, OP

https://www.netflix.com/title/80109551

I have watched this and it was both interesting and a little scary.

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All states fighting over PPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmd1qMN5Yo0

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MononcQc posted:

The family-owned farm I know has the farmer doing the following (they're 3 relatives, no employees, only family members helping):

- beef production (that's their main gig)
- got like half a dozen fields for different cereals and crops; they try to grow human-grade crops, but if the harvest is too bad, it becomes food for the cows
- does some beekeeping and produces honey (and maple syrup!) on the side
- is the local union rep for the union

Essentially the mechanization just meant that rather than spending all his days tilling fields, he's now doing the work that many farms would have done before, for a similar amount of money. So while he's in the automated combine, he essentially reads agronomy papers, and participates in the farmers' equivalent of a stock market where they auction off/buy veal, cows & bucks, and various cereal futures (if it's worth his while to sell the crops and buy cheaper elsewhere), or handles the farm's finances.

Then the rest of the spare time will include: drying grain, fixing equipment, dealing with the agronomy specialists and the related tasks (fertilizers, vaccinations, herbicides and pesticides), health tracking (and syncing with various veterinarians) and reproduction of his cows (tracking genetics, traveling with bucks to keep them diverse but in-line), and handling all of the related poo poo and maintenance.

The thing he keeps saying (I offered to volunteer some farmhand time about a year ago) is "we don't need more people, we need money for more machinery", even if dude still works anywhere between 60-80 hours a week, more when frost is about to arrive and they gotta do everything now. He needs more fancy equipment and probably ways to turn his propane heating (and grain dryer) to a bio-gas generator since he'd avoid a lot of overheads there.

I wonder how many missed opportunities to utilize waste or minimize overhead, like the bio-gas generator, there are in the typical farming setup. I wonder fully utilized min/maxed out setup would look like and what the optimum size would be?

syntaxrigger
Jul 7, 2011

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unpacked robinhood posted:

goddammit Bernie

loving same. Going to join the DSA when we are allowed to be around ppl again. At least I'd feel like I am doing something.

syntaxrigger
Jul 7, 2011

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I have a 4 day weekend coming up. Open to suggestions on how to recharge in this loving hellscape. Going to try to art some

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PIZZA.BAT posted:

my plan is to subvert the democratic party from the inside

it sucks but we have a two party system. you have to choose which one you want to influence from the inside

What is the argument against 2+ parties? Is it just "unlikely" because tradition or is there some other reason?

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Neat! Thanks.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efk_z9kg2MU

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Kazinsal posted:

join the SRA as well

what is the SRA?

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rotor posted:

honestly I view open secession as more likely than america implementing ranked choice voting on a national level but if it can happen, I'm all about it.

Considering how unhelpful the federal government has been during the pandemic and leaving some governors to their own devices, it would seem to me secession is more likely than it has been in the past BUT I don't ever see that happening. Especially not without bloodshed.

syntaxrigger
Jul 7, 2011

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Maybe we convince Mexico and Canada to invade?

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haveblue posted:

maybe not a loud, bloody secession but we're already seeing states band together through side channels to evade the feds when distributing medical supplies and that can't help national cohesion

I am not sure what "national cohesion" means in this sense but if it is basically "people are mad at the federal government" I think that is basically Texas and Louisiana all the time.

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Displeased Moo Cow posted:

you gotta have huge tracts of land or hundreds of cows to make it in farming


genuinely was looking into bug farming. market not quite ready when I was looking plus cash flow and logistics meh

so it was back to being paid six nz figgies for excel functions for me

Banking on dystopia timeline with alternative food sources. I'm IN. Please include crawfish tia.

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Jonny 290 posted:

woke up at 5am realizing that i really just wanna get the roni and die and get it over with because lol there is no future, we're not getting a vaccine, we will be in lockdown forever, capitalism has failed and the billionaires in power will let the world die before they allow any sort of collectivism

feel free to call me a chicken little if i am eventually wrong about any of this, i will gladly take that whuppin

billionaires can want all they like but the brittle society they built around themselves requires people who aren't them to do real poo poo. I agree capitalism is failed and is poo poo but there are pockets of good. Billionaires are not all powerful. We have the power. We create the value. That is just what billionaires want you to believe.

Keep your head up man. This sucks and I am probably able to type these words because I am having an oddly good morning. I try to remember that humans are unimpressive compared to the rest of the animal kingdom. We aren't the strongest, fastest, we have no impressive defense mechanisms, or have any natural weapons. What we do have is the ability to work together in sophisticated ways, that is how we have come this far and that is how we will continue to survive by connecting to and supporting our local community.

Billionaires are a blip in our evolution and I'd like to think they only exist for us to learn that we could do so much more if we weren't afraid all the time.

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Drinking during covid



link

looks like Texas and Cali are in a race to the top. :getin:

syntaxrigger
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I just realized why I am in such a good mood today. The answer may surprise you!

Forgot that I got laid last night heh

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Squinky v2.0 posted:

this is technically mapping who is talking about their drinking on Twitter

my theory is that in the northeast and midwest, stoically drinking yourself into oblivion in the privacy of your home is a long established way of life, seasonally practiced by millions. we don’t feel the need to advertise.

Yeah it is probably more close to just a population heat map but it is a fun thing to think I guess.

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Jul 7, 2011

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I know texas has allowed booze delivery. Which coming from a state where you could get hard liquor at a gas station and then having to deal with blue laws, is a nice change of pace.

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Methanar posted:

In 2 hours I need to speak and do some dumb proposal infront of a bunch of principal engineers.

It shouldn't be too big of a deal but I really want to get it over with.

Silver lining is they can't smell your gas

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I am not familiar with FP but it didn't seem like it was saying anything new.

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TOOT BOOT posted:

So did she.

That is ALLLLLL part of the magic :wink:

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Friend sent me this. As a person who either never had a sense of smell, or lost it at around 3ish, I found this interesting

https://harpers.org/2020/04/under-our-noses-coronavirus-anosmia/

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Jul 7, 2011

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echinopsis posted:

actually it was the person syntax trigger boned

This is a new one to me but congrats on not being racist.

Stereotype posted:

game of death

name of my dillz

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Jul 7, 2011

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H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i'm hard of smell (hyposmia) and losing what little i have left would be completely awful

that article is p accurate, doctors don't take it seriously at all and it is a danger; i can smell that chemical they put in natural gas but spoiled milk is outside of my range and has made me sick before

I totally did the "paranoid that my kid has a full diaper and that makes me a bad parent" thing. Rotten food, gas leaks, and chemicals are generally my main concerns. I know sell by dates are garbage but that is all I have to go by unless I can borrow someone's nose. Something I will do and have done to complete strangers.

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big scary monsters posted:

my mother almost entirely lost her sense of smell after a head injury and yeah all those things (apart from the diapers part) were big concerns for her, and that she can't smell burning. also she lost most of her sense of taste, which sucks for a keen cook - she can't tell how much to season stuff any more, can't tell if new recipes taste good, she said that white wine tastes like water and red wine tastes like thick, astringent water

it seems like the covid anosmia is only temporary though?

It seems that may be true but only after months of therapy according to the article. Other than that idk.

These were the most wild bits of that article to me:

quote:

The neurons responsible for our experience of odor protrude down from the brain, pass through a layer of bone at the back of the nose, and then, in effect, dangle their cilia out into the air.

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Taken together, the genes that encode our olfactory receptors constitute the largest gene family in our DNA, and it has been suggested that we are capable of detecting and distinguishing between as many as a trillion distinct odors. Our noses detect “virtually all volatile chemicals larger than an atom or two,” the Rutgers University neuroscientist John McGann wrote in a 2017 paper in Science, “to the point that it has been a matter of scientific interest to document the few odorants that some people cannot smell.”

quote:

One survey respondent, a patient who noted that he missed the smell of approaching snowstorms...

That smelling or being aware of phenomenon beyond sight feels like voodoo magic to me. That seems like the coolest part of being able to smell.

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Jul 7, 2011

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Jonny 290 posted:

shouldn't have hosed, dude. we warned you

i am hard headed

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Jul 7, 2011

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I wonder if I can get a dog and just train it to tell me the cool smelling things. A Smelling Nose dog if you will

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