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In Oregon. Friends of ours, a family of 5 with both parents in STEM fields, decided this week would be a great one to pack up the car and drive to visit the grandparents in Arizona, the worldwide hot zone of a global pandemic. "It'll be fine," they said, "My mom and dad live in a retirement community." Like, these were our "safe" friends, the ones we were planning on being social (but distant) with in just a couple weeks. One family member is on medication that leaves them immunocompromised. Is this the crack, or the ping? Am I pinging? I'm pinging into a whole new era / G-Funk step to this I dare ya.
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Jun 22, 2020 23:01
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anime was right posted:your friends are gonna give me the rona arent they Yeah, but it'll be that spicy Arizona rona, and not that stuff from Vancouver. I literally thought they were pulling our legs until I got a Pokemon Go present from the mom from a thousand miles away
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snoo posted:u wanna be pokego friends i need someone besides my wife to exchange gifts with since i don't leave the house 4984 7733 2695 We have a couple stops within walking distance, and with gps drift I can sometimes reach one from the couch!
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Our local paper decided to give us a free subscription to the Sunday edition for six months back in January. It's not a great paper, and even the comics section looks so sad and tiny and uninspired these days. I saved the letter they sent so I could cancel, but then the roni hit. Turns out, the Sunday paper has TWO crosswords (one from the Sunday NYTimes), a crypto-quote, and this hellish monstrosity called Killer Sudoku. That's a significant amount of non-electronic fun for certain subsets of the whole family! Every Sunday, we isolate the puzzles, lay them out on the breakfast table, and recycle the rest of the paper. We work on them in shifts throughout the week; sometimes alone, sometimes in pairs. This week we got all the puzzles solved (except for Killer Sudoku, gently caress that. I once spent 45 literal minutes staring at a board and wound up filling in ONE number) before the weekend! Sure, I could download an archive of all the NYTimes puzzles since 1847, or an app, but I get kinda nostalgic working the puzzles on newsprint. It feels good, and briefly saves me from THE NUMBER. In other news, I was finally able to get a Nintendo Switch w/ Animal Crossing, and our dinner table discussions now lean *heavily* towards fruit, weeds, and whether or not Charlise killed her parents before moving to our island.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Oregonian/status/1276568448634683393 38,000 cum infections by mid-July. Look out, southern states, Oregon wants in on the bus racing memes!
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Jun 27, 2020 09:32
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Just in case you missed getting unexpectedly drawn into this whole video If I time traveled back to 2010 and told myself all the stuff that would happen in ten years, I think the most surprising would be that I would thoroughly enjoy and have my heart warmed by watching a guy solve sudoku for half an hour.
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A couple years ago, during the early days of lockdown, we had a whole system where I'd bring groceries into a specially-prepared area and then "clean hand, dirty hand" manage them. I wiped stuff down with precious Costco wipes with my sinister left hand, then passed them to the clean and godly right hand to place them in the "clean zone" for further shelving and such. After what seemed like a couple months of this, we started encountering edge cases like eggs: you can't really sanitize the cardboard, and if the shells have the roni on them, it's unlikely to live long in the fridge, and we're careful hand washers... so they go right into the fridge. Freezer stuff goes straight to the freezer for the same reasons. Pantry stuff is gonna sit in a dark pantry for like a week or more before we touch it again, and so on. Now we pretty much just wipe down frequently-handled stuff like the big yogurt container everyone touches on a daily basis. It's an evolving strategy, I guess.
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Our friends who drove to Arizona to visit family are on their way back now, with stops at the Grand Canyon and other touristy things along the way. My wife told them we wouldn't feel comfortable hanging out with them on the 4th. They said they understood and we could meet up (outdoors, distanced, masked) later in the month once things cooled down. Hahaha, no. Wife got mocked for "making such a big deal" about it, and getting together later is off the table because they're "being more relaxed with what their kids do now, and that probably doesn't mesh with your paranoia." They're still up for boardgame happy hour via Zoom, so... hooray?
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Google Butt posted:Piss on them Right? It's like the mask fell off. Not the N95 one. Not something I expected to happen.
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Al-Saqr posted:I havent seen any of my loving friends in real life since march and we're all adults about it. We haven’t seen anyone either. I think it’s harder on the missus. She works in a lab where everyone loves one another and they’re crazy close and do things together. I’m a recovering computer toucher who went remote five years ago and feel like I e been training for social isolation for a big hunk of my life. it’s like, we have a small but very diverse group of friends, but I always felt like we could all agree on science and rational thought. Jesus. I’m going to make mac and cheese with cream cheese and love it and get so much more fatter thanks to this thread.
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Intermezzo posted:I know cream cheese mac chat was a few pages ago, but I’m super sad I missed it. cuz those are the names of my cats!!! Tell Mac and Cream they're lovely! Cats make my skin itch and my eyes get super puffy, but I can like them from afar!
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snoo posted:I really love being awake until 5am alone with my thoughts it truly truly owns I haven't hit 5am yet, but I'm about to log off and be alone with my thoughts for the next 90 minutes, if the last few weeks are any indication.
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Went to Costco today because we needed supplies again for the continuing bean and rice apocalypse. The nice thing about Costco is that they require masks for entrance. The bad thing: - an old couple was wearing plastic face shields with no masks beneath. The old man walked by me and picked his nose - a lady was walking around with a maskless kid, but the more interesting part was that she was wearing, like, a chainmail mask? Looked like something a belly dancer might wear. In hindsight, maybe it was made out of copper so that it ionizes the roni? - innumerable men (only men!) who seemed to have saggy mask syndrome: masks that seemed to be physically incapable of covering their schnozzes. My kid suggests that mask height may have something to do with perceived status; the lower you wear your mask, the less likely you believe you are to get the roni. If someone died from a glacier -- like, literal death by the 2" of forward glacial movement annually, not a rock slide or avalanche -- people would say "Why was he so close to the glacier? Why didn't he just move away from it, or step to the side? Did he have to force himself under it? It just doesn't make sense!" Yet here we are SEVEN MONTHS IN. We knew about this poo poo back in January. What did we do? We stood there. Now the glacier has closed the gap by an inch, and we're just like "Whelp, only thing we can do now is hollow out a little divot with our boot, lie down in front of the glacier, and wait for it to pass over us." So, yeah. I bought some more beans, and splurged on the Kirkland basmati rice.
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Attended a zoom thing with our school district to find out what's happening in the fall; the kid's gonna be a freshman in high school. The district is planning on determining on planning on figuring out how to offer 3 options: - hybrid, some number of days in school, the rest online - online only, same curriculum from the school, only you don't go to school - online only, but with some curriculum they bought from a guy in the back of a van. This one is different because it requires a parent/guardian to be involved somehow The hybrid model is hilarious. They plan on offering bus service (windows down means the roni can't spread!), and will encourage parents to screen their kids before they get on the bus, because the driver sure isn't gonna. Once in school, kids will be escorted to their classrooms. They figure they can cram a pretty good number into some of the classrooms because "we've got some 900 sq. ft. classrooms, and each student requires 35 sq. ft. of space" (to which I mumbled "assuming spherical students" which made my daughter do a spit take; still got it). Kids eat lunch in class. Food is delivered, I guess? Peanut kids go somewhere else. After school, kids are escorted to their buses, and bring the roni home to their awaiting parents. My daughter is definitely taking this poo poo so much better than I would at the same age. It kills me that she can't have a "normal" high school experience, with shootings and JUUL and heroin and all that... but I just keep telling myself that whatever happens *is* the new "normal," in that everybody in her school is going through it. In the meantime, last weekend we built a PVC frame for a 110" screen I got off amazon. This weekend we're gonna host a friend or two of hers in the back yard for the Goonies. Socially distanced, masked, bring your own EVERYTHING. Oh, and wear long pants because the mosquitos are gonna be brutal.
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Google Butt posted:lol whos the dumbass chud pushing the hybrid option I think it's all make-pretend and that they just aspire to have in-person school to appease... someone. The grim meathook reality is that the whole @#$% state is gonna be closed down again in 3 weeks. Nobody's hanging their heads out the windows of the roniwagon as it tools around the neighborhood. Nobody's gonna sit in one classroom for 7 hours a day, eating food delivered by people in bunny suits. Nobody's gonna push a "here are 4 classes for you, one size fits all" bait-and-switch on a bunch of kids/parents who chose schools based on all the awesome, diverse classes they offer... ...right? They're apparently going to be taking some sort of attendance for the online stuff. In the spring, her teachers just dumped stuff on Monday morning that was due Friday. Some held Zoom office hours. The new plan supposedly has a lot more structure, which might be nice. I mean, it seems like school should have at least as much structure as Animal Crossing.
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Rah! posted:australian fire is wet and australians hands are backwards and their faces are where their butts should be and they eat with their butts and they fall upwards lmao also instead of hte piss going out it only goes in its very interesting we are looking into it Watch Out My Piss is Coming In LOL
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Elderbean posted:I've always preferred donuts on the spicy/tangy side. the Japanese bakery near me makes a “donut” that’s filled with beef curry and covered with panko crumbs. In the before times I’d get a couple and warn them up in the oven a little for Sunday brunch.
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Making sauerkraut with some leftover cabbage tomorrow. Gonna make a couple little jars: traditional with caraway seeds, a currykraut with some warm Indian spices, and one with some leftover jalapeños. Might toss some shredded apple in any number of them!
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Jul 15, 2020 09:05
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Keep the keys from your old job and sneak in and use their printers at 2am I got my department's HP laser jet as an exciting parting gift when the company suddenly went under. I think it had printed maybe 200 pages in its lifetime. Best non-purchase ever. When it finally died we got a pretty simple Brother laser jet and it works great. Always yes laser jet. Never no laser jet.
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Turns out my wife bought a secondhand Wahl clipper kit a while back to shave the pills off her wool jackets and stuff. Oiled it up, put a #3 guard on it (3/8", I think) and let my kid go to town. She did great! Haven't had a buzz cut in years, but I'm getting strong flashbacks to a childhood I don't think I had.
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Tamba posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O133ppiVnWY This was mandatory viewing (on VHS!) in a Physics class I took, and it caused me to slightly crack/ping all those years ago. It's really worth a watch. There's a point where he glosses over some math a little too quickly and you get a little lost for a bit, but the rest is like "Can you do really, really, really basic math? If so, you are provably more informed than tens of millions of people." It's a wild ride that starts with ski lift ticket prices and ends with mass sterilization. Just the kind of thing this thread needs! A LOL a minute, guaranteed.
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Bust Rodd posted:According to Axios the GOP & and Dems are "Nowhere close to a deal" while acknowledging benefits do end this Friday. Oregon's system is incredibly broken, and there are thousands of us who haven't gotten *any* PUA yet. You have to call in, only sometimes the system is down (you get a busy signal), or woefully overloaded (you get a busy signal). A big part of my day is war dialing the unemployment department. I've gotten through twice. Once, I was on hold for an hour, then disconnected. The other time, after nearly two hours I got to talk to Adolfo, who said he'd transfer me to a specialist and hung up on me. On the upside, if benefits expire for a little while maybe that'll lighten the load enough that I can actually get through to these people.
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theflyingexecutive posted:Have you hit up your state rep/senator? My friends (NY) have had luck that way Not yet. The guidance thus far was that if they didn't ask you for anything, just keep filing. Every now and then the system will send a confirmation email, but it's sporadic. I got an email a couple weeks ago saying they wanted to talk to me. Then, last week, I got a letter saying I didn't report for a week in July (I did), and that they will not restart benefits (that never started) unless I call them. Been calling them since. I've got an alarm set to try them again at open this morning, then I'm hitting up my rep. In better news, Oregon has said all school is online straight through until mid-November! None of this cohort hybrid bullshit. High school gets 4 classes daily, down from the normal 7. That actually seems somewhat sane and manageable.
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Yesterday, after 90 minutes of calling the unemployment office, I finally got through! Got put on hold for 40 minutes, told a guy my name and SSN, and he transferred me to a specialist! Well, he put me on hold, but on hold for a specialist! Fun fact! The hold music is only 28 seconds long and is horribly looped. After 4 literal hours on hold, or slightly over 500 loops of the on hold music, they hung up on me. I've played cornhole and cribbage, and we own a couple really cool cribbage boards. My wife and I hold a yearly tournament: 52 games, mostly played on Sundays after breakfast. Winner buys the popcorn on a future movie night. She's a pinochle player and mops the floor with me sometimes, but lately our games have been within 5 points or so. The game that's really got our attention right now is German Whist. It's a simple, 2-player trick-taking game with no betting or weird card decks. The one house rule we have that's not mentioned in the link is that red trump means you have to take the fewest tricks, and black trump means you have to take the most tricks. Turns out I'm way better than she is at throwing the game.
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Bought a top-of-the-line circa 2017 video projector a couple weeks back. Add $30 for a screen and $25 worth of PVC and we've got a ten foot screen in the back yard (and a fantastic 1-day project for the kid and I). Add a Chromecast I got for free and we've got a portable movie theater that we can set up/tear down in 10 minutes. Our new thing is hosting movie nights on Friday and Saturday. Invite 2-3 people over, masks mandatory until everyone gets settled in. Bring your own snacks, bring your own seats, bring blankets and bug spray. At 8:45 I start obsessing over getting the image straight using a stack of DVDs and the manual for our Gamecube. Amazon Prime has over an hour of those little "our feature presentation will begin in five minutes, don't forget to visit the concession stand" clips. Use those to set the volume and focus. Last weekend was Tangled and The Goonies. The bats came out at 9pm and started eating mosquitos. We cheered them on. This week was a special, two night, two part showing of Hamilton (it's long) with some neighbors from up the street who are immunocompromised and basically haven't left their house since February. They wore Hamilton merch. Tonight, one of the "outdoor" cats in the neighborhood came over and curled up on the kid's lap for a while. My wife says these movie nights make her feel the closest thing to normal she's felt in a long time. Gonna milk that for all it's worth; rainy season doesn't hit until mid-October.
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empty whippet box posted:hamilton is one of the worst things ever produced by mankind, I hope you all at least hated it, even if you did risk your lives to watch it with people I wouldn’t go that far, but I will allow describing it as the ready player one of hip hop. I liked the bit Lin-Manuel Miranda did at the white house back in like 2014, when it was going to be a concept album or something.
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I get the economist. it was a Christmas present. I was reading this article (paywalled, I think) and they had a pull-quote from themselves in 1849, which I thought was pretty cool and thread worthy:”the economist in 1849” posted:
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Is that them being dumb or is that about the revolutionary discovery that year about cholera. That it’s water borne and all the whole leper colony type response was nothing. It was definitely them being dumb. Right after that is a line from The Times: “We prefer to take our chance with cholera and the rest rather than be bullied into health.” this is why aliens stopped visiting us and probing our anuses. We are somehow incapable of learning.
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D1E posted:My father just passed away today from COVID-19. This is terrible, and I’m very sorry you’ve had to go through this.
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Starting to run out of spices. Gotta make dem beans taste good. There's a Penzey's nearby, and it turns out they're full-on closed to shoppers. You want spice? Order online or call and pick it up all contact-free. That makes me happy... you know, in a happy they're keeping folks safe while still providing a service and jobs and all that. Based on the way things look now, I gotta load up on sweet paprika. It's gonna be a long winter and that goulash ain't gonna make itself. Their freeze-dried little ginger bits are super convenient for making teriyaki chicken. I'll sometimes freeze fresh ginger, but I almost always forget it's in there.
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Chamale posted:Alberta is announcing some change to the school reopening plan tomorrow morning. School doesn't start for another month, but if we go full OPEN ER UP I'm going to buy a hundred pounds of rice and canned vegetables. I'll tell every cashier I see that they should threaten to strike if they don't get hazard pay for working during what will certainly be a much worse wave of infection. Maybe they'll make an announcement in the non-stupid direction but my premier gives me no reason to trust him. Our health minister has a 98% disapproval rating among doctors, which is like a reverse North Korean poll lmao. For most of the summer Oregon threatened us with a hybrid schedule with 2-3 days in school. Then it was 1-2 days, if the Oregon Health Authority signed off. Then they delayed opening for a couple days, and now we're in online-only mode until early November. Really, that's probably going to run straight through Christmas. After that, the virus won't be a problem, since you obviously can't get COVID-19 in 2021 *taps temple*. Here's hoping some of that rational thought (however late) spreads your way.
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Fix posted:Our tomato plants are set to go full ham and I am incredibly excited because I did not want tomatoes, but I did want ham. I almost forgot we planted tomatoes! We've got one turning red now, and at least a dozen others. Neither of us are much of gardeners, but we've already had our fill of our perennial strawberries, and some peas, and a couple handfuls of basil for making pasta fagioli. Not sure when it happened, but at some point a slice of room-temperature tomato with some salt and pepper became some sort of transcendent experience. Sometime in my 30s is my guess. My kid's in her teens and will only eat tomatoes in sauce/ketchup form. I've only gotten this to the table once this pandemic, but it was a gigantic hit: Halal Cart-style chicken and rice, from Serious Eats.
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My hair is long enough to display bed head in the morning (afternoons, who are we kidding?), so it's time for another Plague Camp Cut. Put on an old t-shirt, sit on the deck, and give the kid a Wahl with the #3 guard on it. She has a blast carving stuff into my head, and we're both not doom scrolling for a little bit This will be my third time under the blade. Probably will get one more before rainy season hits, then I guess I'll have to start wearing a poet shirt and writing with a quill pen or something with a crazy 1700s era ponytail thing going on.
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Durf posted:FYI this is based on a BBC series which has 2 seasons and is really good Stumbled on Utopia when it first aired. Everything about the first season was amazing. Each episode was so tense, it felt like my heart was in my throat. Never watched the second season, I just felt like that wasn't something I wanted to voluntarily put myself through.
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A family friend teaches in the bio department at a midwest university that just opened up. Monday, opening day: 1 kid out with the roni Tuesday: 3 more drop Wednesday: 5 more [edit] Shameful snipe. Here's a picture of Roni Size. There's a pun in there somewhere, I just can't think of it right now. 
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Uh oh, I may have missed tea chat and we're back on beans... I spent many formative years in east coast diners, so it's always been hard for me to get on board with coffee that costs more than a quarter. I used to love a morning cup of ridiculously strong black tea with a little milk and arguably too much sugar. These days, I'm mostly drinking any poo poo tea in iced form. I got my wife hooked on https://www.smithtea.com by adding them to her stocking at Christmas. I think she may be upwards of 4% Lord Bergamot by volume. As I recall, Smith started Stash tea, sold it, started Tazo, sold it, then started a boutique tea shop in Portland, OR with prices as if the teas are hand-rubbed on the virginal thighs of Assam valley nobility. They're good teas in fun packaging (the boxes get reused for all sorts of things), but I think the best part is going to the little teapourium around Christmastime. It's a neat little building full of happy, smiling people who want to talk about tea in the worst way, and get you to try new teas. I've been to a ton of boutique coffee shops (it's Portland, duh), but the tea shop feels 60% less intense. A friend from India gave us a box of Brooke Bond Red Label tea a while back. I don't think it's a particularly fancy or special occasion tea, but we really enjoyed it.
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Epic High Five posted:I can't speak for bagged tea, been a long time since I've had it since if it's the only option I'll just get coffee. I think the last I had was a British one whose gimmick is that the bags are round Yeah, we've started picking up some loose teas here and there. Nothing recently, on account of The Event. Like I mentioned above, it turns out I'll drink absolutely any leaf-soaked water in iced form. With both of us home this winter, I'm sure I'll be expanding my tea horizons, even if I have to have them delivered.
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