Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and that you will regret ever signing up for Comcast.
— Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, 1789
@Packrat A suggestion, for I am Aria, fixer of things and savior of kittehs/possibly yer unclawed face.
@silverfox said in Good TV:
I've watched it all the way though twice, and I'm going on my third.
West Wing. I imagine for a bit we have a president who gives a fuck.
Oh, God. I did a full West Wing watch a couple of months ago and when I was finished, I literally sat there and cried.
Poor insomniac asked me what was wrong and I just wailed that I wanted Jed Bartlet.
Rob Lowe got so bored, he did a Tiger King cosplay from his house.
Rob Lowe is a goddamn treasure.
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@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 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.
<stares at bra 'sale'>
Look, fuckers. I get it. Bras come in endless shapes and sizes and colors and price points.....
Except for us big-titty ladies, where it's like "Now in plain beige! For $70! And it's probably still not gonna fit quite right!"
But whatever this two hundred and five dollar "miracle" bra bullshit you're trying to sell me is, at that price point? I could probably pay a vaguely hot graduate student weeping into his bank account to just walk around behind me carrying my tits in his hands and giving shoulder massages on demand.
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I am so desperate for a haircut that I am about to cut my own hair with kitchen shears
because apparently everyone ELSE is desperate for haircuts too and all the shears on Amazon are on wait until May
As weird as it sounds....
Dog grooming scissors. We just ordered some with clippers to try and tackle our giant sheepdog's shag.
This morning, our CEO announced an emergency $5 million donation to organizations fighting COVID-19, including to hyperlocal organizations like food pantries that operate in the same cities as each of our global sites. They also announced that our corporate giving program will go from donating a 50% match for any charitable donation that an employee makes to a 100% match.
This wasn't announced in a press release. That's not how my company rolls. This was announced in a private video to employees, as a follow-up to letting us know that they're paying out our usual June profit-sharing payment in April this year to help those of us whose families have been reduced to one income, in the hopes that those employees whose families are all able to work from home and maintain their usual income will give an even larger portion to non-profits than they usually do.
And that portion? Is already pretty high. We normally time our internal campaign to support local anti-hunger organizations to that annual bonus payout. The year I led just my department's campaign, which is less than 1% of our employee total, we raised something like six tons of food between us.
I....
Please excuse me while I get all weepy at my laptop.
#Camacho2020 -- At least he'd listen to the smartest guy in the room.
@L-B-Heuschkel said in Covid-19 Gallows Humor:
@Goblin 2 people here. -TWO-
Time to decide which kids have to live in the yard! >.>
Alright, lawyerbots.
@insomniac7809 and I may or may not need some guidance in dealing with his employer. Anyone familiar with labor law in Pennsylvania or able to point us in the direction of resources?
I am WFH today. This is the first time in well over two weeks (almost three!) that I have done anything besides "Stare at Netflix. Wheeze into nebulizer. Sleep. Maybe visit a doctor or have groceries delivered."
I have over 500 emails waiting! THIS IS SO EXCITING.
(Also, it's sad that I consider emails exciting.)
@tek said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Today in mediocre mantrums:
- Yeshivish guy who claims that the medieval rebbes understood microbes and his intelligence is superior to mine and also no one has ever died in front of a Torah
- Guy I defriended comes back to my profile to laugh react my one public post and then block me.
Someone needs to calm their boys down.
I have this theory that all the dudes that normally spend their time sending unsolicited dick-pics are pacing their apartments right now, finally realizing that with all of the shelter-in-place orders spreading around, there is absolutely no chance. Like, none. Sorry, bro, you're definitely not getting your dick wet.
I mean, there was a very, very low chance before. But now I think it's more that the slowly dawning reality is driving them crazy.
@mietze said in COVID-19 Assistance Thread:
That being said, there is a flu variant that has remarkably similar symptoms. My son's medical provider tested for influenza and the covid19 virus for that reason
Yeah, I was tested for Influenza A & B, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, and had bloodwork done in the hospital in case it was a bacterial infection (and the husband wasn't sick yet at that point). The nose swab checked for Pan-SARS RNA with the SARS-COV-2 test. Literally everything has come back negative. I have no clue.
"The specimen is NEGATIVE for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus associated with COVID-19. A negative result does not rule out the possibility of COVID-19 and should not be used as the sole basis for patient management decisions."
What does that even mean?! Lawyerbots, is this some medical liability bullshit that you make doctors offices put in their paperwork so that my family doesn't sue them if I keel over and die?
(And no, I'm not convinced that "I must really have COVID-19 and am dyyyyyyyyying!!1!?!!?1!!" I'm terrified at the prospect that the husband and I don't, given that we've both been knocked-on-our-asses and had-to-go-to-the-ER level sick for three weeks with something that has all the symptoms of COVID-19, but have apparently tested negative for it and everything else under the sun, and just how dangerous that might be if either of us catch it now.)
