Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[Aria]

@JinShei I have not! I mostly shop HerRoom, BareNecessities, and weirdly enough.... sometimes Amazon, looking for the Wacoal and Chantelle bras I know I like when they discontinue a color and go on sale.

[JinShei]

@Aria I highly recommend them. The PRETTYYYYYY

[Aria]

@JinShei I will check them out!

But! As an FYI: HerRoom.com is having a 25% off everything site-wide event right now, including things already on sale. I just bought a few bras that are normally $68 each for about $37 and got a $25 gift card valid in May that I might use next month on the one that wasn't on sale + 25% discount, 'cause the $25 gift card is a bigger price reduction than the percentage off is.

This should not be in the peeves and irks section. This should be in a confused, good coming from bad, "....These brands never go on sale. NEVER. This is a sign of the end of days, but at least my boobs will be well-supported in the post-apocalyptic wastes" section. I was not looking forward to strapping hub caps to my chest.

[JinShei]

@Aria Oh MYYYY

[Auspice]

@Aria BreakoutBras is my go to primarily because their storefront was in the town I used to live in and the girls that worked there were always so nice and helpful.

It felt nice to be a bigger woman and not get the 'tsk, your breasts aren't that size, you just need to go up in band sizes because you're fat'

Heck. It was thanks to them that I stopped doing that (because of years of my mom doing the same thing). They got me sized and were so great with having recommendations. 'This brand rides a bit high' would be met with 'Why not try this one or....'

So I'm def loyal to them.

[Auspice]

@JinShei said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Ok. I give in. The sourdough experiment has now gone into the food waste bin. I refuse to feel like a failure because it was eating flour and not doing anything!

Also. I thought it was Friday today.

Sourdough is hard. It's easy, but it's hard.
Because you have to approach it more like having another pet in the house vs food and keeping its environmental needs, the timing, etc. In fact it can be harder than a pet. My cats don't need to be fed at the same exact time every day. They don't require a strict/stable temperature and humidity.

I'm actually, once my flour order gets in, thinking of restarting my sourdough. I kept a mother for a while until I was just too busy/tired. But. I also had a starter for it. I wanna try purely from scratch this time, no starter.

[Ganymede]

I don’t know why I have to get angry at this.

If you have the sniffles, stay at home. If you have a fever, stay at home. If you are coughing, stay at home. But if you are having respiratory distress, go to a hospital.

Do not fucking go to private practices. Do not go to pain clinics. Fucking don’t go fucking out of your fucking house if you are sick.

The number of sick people showing up at clinics and not disclosing their sickness until after they set foot in the waiting room is mindnumbingly irresponsible and fucking stupid.

For fuck’s sake.

[RightMeow]

@Ganymede

I think it might be financial too. My friend's insurance is like $40 for a private practice/clinic and $200 for a hospital. If they aren't sure they have it.. I'm not sure.

[Ganymede]

@RightMeow

I'm trying not to judge, but here's what I do know.

With my insurance, I pay $100 for urgent care and $300 for emergency care.

My private clinic demands around $75.

I am told on a daily basis about how wrong it is to value money over life, which is fair.

So, here we go:

Spend the extra money to save lives.

Because I tell you, the private clinics have donated most if not all of their PPE to hospitals, so you risk those health care workers and everyone else who visits the clinic if you're sick.

[RightMeow]

@Ganymede

I get that. Also, you aren't wrong peeving or anything.

This is a dangerous thing with the exposure.

[mietze]

Today was a bad day. Too many people in tears on the phone needing help that we cannot give them yet because the feds have not come up with the guidelines or system yet while promoting it. Not hearing from my sweet elderly client who hasn't called for 2 days and sounded scratchy voice the last time she did. A client in tears at the drive thru. Just a lot of little things hitting and tugging at me, like the birthday party box of favors and decorations from the canceled party for the 6 year old, the senior trying to not show he is bummed about no graduation, no prom, no senior party, maybe even no moving into the dorms this fall.

Every morning hearing the daily report on closures and colleagues out sick. Knowing a colleague in my office has been very sick the last 2 days and is fighting for testing. being a bit of an extrovert and getting choked up how long it's been since I got to hug any of my friends. Seeing the teens put on a brave face while being nervous. Learning about more deaths of clients/their family members. Feeling my chest tighten and feeling fear until the allergy med and the inhaler makes it go completely away (stupid fucking trees).

I dunno. It's been a very bad day with a lot of things snowballing and I will be fine tomorrow, but I am just super fatigued.

[Macha]

After two weeks of calling and emails and doing everything I can to stay in touch with my 'boss', and make it EASY to help me work from home (I've done it before, all I needed was the code for the app that would generate my access codes to protect information for the job) - I am officially laid off. Now they're saying last week and this week are 'paid leave' - Which means the time sheet I filled out last week was rejected for the wrong count code.

I was emailing the help desk as I was told to get it changed - Guy was a waste of time. Called the number when I got desperate because it was crunch time just before running payroll - girl took 15 minutes to get it fixed, my 'boss' approved it 2 minutes after that. After I wasted HOURS.

Why is it people think women in help desk and IT positions are less capable, again?

Argh.

(Also not looking forward to filing for unemployment)

[Ganymede]

Real world reminder and peeve:

Please stop calling COVID-19 "the Chinese virus."

It's not Chinese. It is no more Chinese than MAGA hats or iPhones. We don't call the 1918 Spanish Flu "the American flu" because the first reported case was from Kansas. We adopted a more neutral way of identifying these viruses long ago (with MERS being an exception, I guess, but people are going to hate on Muslims no matter what it seems).

But, Gany, what about the Zika and Ebola viruses?

The zika virus was first identified in 1947,and is alternately identified by virologists as ZIKV. Like the Spanish flu, the Asian flu, and the Hong Kong flu, this virus was identified back when the place of origin (or, in the case of the Spanish flu, no fucking good reason) was important to virologists. In the case of ZIKV, it was named after the Ziika forest in Uganda.

The Ebola virus is alternately identified as EBOV, and was originally thought to be a new strain of the Marburg virus in 1976. It was allegedly named after the Ebola river in the DRC. The Marburg virus was originally discovered in 1967 around the German city with the same name, but we don't call it "the German virus."

The difference is that few people identify as "Ebolan" or "Ziikan." The term "Chinese" refers to a visible minority in Western nations that have a history of being oppressed by the white majority. So, if you want to be an ally -- who doesn't? -- just call the virus "COVID-19" or "COVID". Because for a layperson the origin of a virus doesn't help in protecting against or treating it.

[ZekeTheG33k]

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Real world reminder and peeve:

Please stop calling COVID-19 "the Chinese virus."

It's not Chinese. It is no more Chinese than MAGA hats or iPhones. We don't call the 1918 Spanish Flu "the American flu" because the first reported case was from Kansas. We adopted a more neutral way of identifying these viruses long ago (with MERS being an exception, I guess, but people are going to hate on Muslims no matter what it seems).

But, Gany, what about the Zika and Ebola viruses?

The zika virus was first identified in 1947,and is alternately identified by virologists as ZIKV. Like the Spanish flu, the Asian flu, and the Hong Kong flu, this virus was identified back when the place of origin (or, in the case of the Spanish flu, no fucking good reason) was important to virologists. In the case of ZIKV, it was named after the Ziika forest in Uganda.

The Ebola virus is alternately identified as EBOV, and was originally thought to be a new strain of the Marburg virus in 1976. It was allegedly named after the Ebola river in the DRC. The Marburg virus was originally discovered in 1967 around the German city with the same name, but we don't call it "the German virus."

The difference is that few people identify as "Ebolan" or "Ziikan." The term "Chinese" refers to a visible minority in Western nations that have a history of being oppressed by the white majority. So, if you want to be an ally -- who doesn't? -- just call the virus "COVID-19" or "COVID". Because for a layperson the origin of a virus doesn't help in protecting against or treating it.

So what you're saying is... "The Chinese Flu"?
runs away to hide, raising shields and all sorts of anti-Gany defenses

[faraday]

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

We don't call the 1918 Spanish Flu "the American flu" because the first reported case was from Kansas.

The 1918 Spanish Flu is a perfect example of why NOT to label viruses based on nationality, because Spanish people were unfairly discriminated against / blamed as a result back in 1918. It didn't come from Spain; it had nothing to do with Spain, really. They just bore the brunt of the ill will because they were the first country to be honest about something being wrong.

So yeah, please stop. It has an actual name.

[Ganymede]

@Seamus said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

So what you're saying is... "The Chinese Flu"?

[surreality]

I'm waiting for the first idiot to proclaim that since CNN is referring to it as 'the novel coronavirus' all the time, it must have started with a novelist.

People really are that fucking stupid, particularly when in states of stress, unrest, panic, fear, etc., and that old saying about never underestimating the ingenuity of idiots is dead fucking on. This makes what certain politicians and their lackeys lackwits say even more dangerous than it would be normally.

I had to stop watching the daily press briefing dayglow manchild's petty ranting-ramble hour a few days ago, and this was one of the big reasons for it. I'm trying to save the Xanax for the inevitable real emergencies, and I only wish I was kidding/joking about that. (Certain levels of deliberately chosen warmly embraced ignorance hit my panic button pretty hard.)

[Ganymede]

This should infuriate everyone.

The short of it: not a couple of months before China lost control, Prof. Matthew Kavanaugh at Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Science and Security, along with other authors/experts, published an article in Journal of International Affairs warning of a future pandemic and begging for proper funding to the infrastructure and systems set up by previous administrations to prevent loss.

"Every U.S. President in recent decades has had to respond to at least one pandemic disease. Political leadership has proven decisive. In the coming years, U.S. foreign policy will face at least three inter-related issues: today's major pandemics of AIDS, TB, and Malaria; future outbreaks with the potential to become pandemics; and rising risk from infectious diseases associated with climate change. A review of epidemiologic data shows global progress on each issue is threatened. A coordinated U.S. effort, across agencies and engaged with national and multilateral partners, could save lives and address significant foreign policy interests. Such an effort could boost economic prosperity by reducing disease-related lost productivity, which we estimate at $1.7 trillion, with returns to investment in pandemic-related global health efforts averaging 17–20 to 1. Foreign policy focus on pandemics could also address economic and social inequalities and support climate adaptation and mitigation. Pandemic-related global health spending is 0.19% of the U.S. budget—a figure that has been flat in recent years even with growing needs and significant potential gains from investment."

In other words, despite the media's reporting, it seems pretty fucking clear to me that people have been warning about this for years.

[Wretched]

@Ganymede I mean yeah, I'm infuriated, but I've been noon stop infuriated for like 3 years now. Anyone who has been paying the barest modicum of attention saw this administration dismantling departments from day 1, and filling positions with cronies. I don't exaggerate when i say that it is maddening, because it is. America is in a seriously fucked position, and the future is looking bleak. We need dramatic and aggressive change to how we run our society, but right now people seem to be rallying around 'lets do the bare minimum if that!'

[Tinuviel]

@Wretched said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

We need dramatic and aggressive change to how we run our society