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@JinShei said in Resources for Self-Isolating People:

Museum people are doing talks about their favourite objects...

If you like this sort of thing, Objectivity on YouTube is a great channel.

My favorite wing place here in TX (Pluckers) closed their dining rooms, but began offering curbside pickup (vs. inside pickup) and contactless delivery (the latter brand new for them). They're also offering double points to members (every $1 = 1 point, every 100 points = $10 off, so doubling that is a nice deal indeed).

Means more food options for people and their employees get to keep working (since they're a smaller company, they likely can't afford to pay PTO for everyone for an extended time, y'know?). They also made note that the system includes a 15% tip on deliveries with a note of 'Please take care of the people taking care of you.'

There's a reason they win awards for being a good place to work. If I had the money, I'd be ordering once or twice a week rn.

Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching just sent out a newsletter stating that she's evaluating her shop for what supplies she can afford to send out for very cheap to help those who are stuck at home (either due to financial hardship, the illness, etc.) to help alleviate boredom.

@Jeshin said in Resources for Self-Isolating People:

So some people have mentioned working from home, skewing sleep schedules, etc etc. If you are getting a lot of screentime on devices please consider installing f.lux https://justgetflux.com/ which helps reduce blue light exposure thus preserving internal clocks.

Or just embrace that you'll become a creature of the night and RP more with our Australian peeps like I have!

I have a friend where part of our relationship is that we send each other kitten gifs.
Lemme tell you, it makes my day when I wake up to kitten gifs.

SO.

I wanna share that with all of you.

Now, unfortunately, nodebb doesn't let you embed .mp4 links. So you'll have to take an extra step, but hey. Maybe treat it like kitty roulette. You don't know what cuteness you're gonna get.

https://imgur.com/gallery/BYtMMWi
https://imgur.com/gallery/mZKvJ5y
https://imgur.com/gallery/VRYb0L1
https://imgur.com/gallery/ULJcr18
https://imgur.com/gallery/L1xX67N
https://imgur.com/gallery/DXKOCgi
https://imgur.com/gallery/cH1HRga
https://imgur.com/gallery/hQxlDSV
https://imgur.com/gallery/fYOdxov
https://i.imgur.com/8fYX9h8.mp4
https://imgur.com/gallery/Cn6AKyB

In return, I ask that you share any kitten adorbs that YOU find.

GameStop finally forced to close.

this cover is life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOT_8wHvcY8

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

If nothing else, I hope posting that here will minimize the "good, maybe violence will wake people up/cut some of the diseased flesh from our society" responses from people who are comfortable in the certainty that their own blood shall remain safely inside their skins and this fact somehow makes them arbiters of who else should bleed for society's benefit.

As a note, re: testing... For anyone not following the news, Austin is pretty much run out of tests. They can only offer them to people hospitalized right now. So if you end up with symptoms, I'd monitor/isolate rather than spending money (and risk of exposure) on a doctor visit.

Until there's more tests, that is.

@Tinuviel said in Landlord Bitching:

This has definitely strayed from "my landlord did a bad" right into the Political section.

well now it's 'landlords and people who provide food are terrible evil people'

@Wretched said in Covid-19 Gallows Humor:

I just finished watching that episode and lol'd at that line.

@Auspice said in Good TV:

I love Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

My only complaint is I wish I hadn't started watching right away because the wait each week sucks. It's such a happy, lovely, upbeat show and I love Mo (the 'in on the secret' friend who is genderfluid) and I love Zoey's mom. And I love Lauren Graham.

But the last two weeks have both had stopping points that have me SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I WANT MORE.

well this week's episode was both the most secondhand embarrassment cringe-y thing ever and made me sob because of all the feels

I guess with The Good Place over I needed another HEY HAVE SOME FEELS show and this is it.

Spoonflower (they make printed fabrics) is offering one of their fabrics for free to people who are willing to sew masks for healthcare facilities. (They themselves, at their office, are using remnants to make masks!)

All you have to do is fill out this form.

This is a great venture and I suggest sharing it to anyone you know who sews.

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

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

"Hmm, it looks like something went wrong..." is not just useless, it's fucking annoying.

Sometimes there's nothing more to say. Not all software errors have 'here's what you can do...' solutions.

I doubt it would be any less annoying to have a message like: "You shouldn't be seeing this message. If you are, then somebody screwed up something somewhere in the code and we're going to have to go on a scavenger hunt to figure out who and what. Until then maybe try again? Good luck." Because most of the time, that's the honest truth.

Programmers can't plan for every single outcome, so a generic error message is kind of required.

If some third-party tool causes a hiccup in their code.... how could they factor for that? And the code is just code. It's dumb. It just does what it's supposed to.....until something stops it. So it doesn't know 'Hey this other thing running on your machine caused a problem! fix it!' It just knows: 'I couldn't execute what I was told to, help!'

@L-B-Heuschkel said in Covid-19 Gallows Humor:

@Kestrel What makes me mad is that it keeps clogging up my social media feed except -- this meme doesn't even have the worst one. Namely that Corona doesn't even exist, it's all 5G radiation killing people.

I thought the same when I saw the meme.
'Where's the 5G theory?'

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

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

And schooling online is a whole other bag.

Schooling in general needs an overhaul, but not like this.

Entirely agree. From my own experiences, from siblings experiences, to my stepson's (when I was married), to my current studies in certification.

But 'shove it all into online schooling' is not the answer.

@Darren said in The Work Thread:

I applied for unemployment in MD two weeks ago today but have yet to hear anything back from them.

I have $237 left in my bank account and am facing the prospect of having to liquidate some of my investments just to get bills paid. If this goes on for more than a couple of months, I honestly don't know what I am going to do.

So, good news on two fronts:
a) Another friend in MD who filed said his is now processing, so it looks like they're getting things done.
b) Most states backdate payments to when you first filed, so while it may not happen exactly when you need, you SHOULD get covered.

Also: stimulus checks are gonna start going out around this weekend (last update I saw) to everyone who has the direct deposit done. Mailed checks will take much longer. So if you filed taxes last year or this and used direct deposit, you should be getting some relief soon.

I will note, re: cats, that the study that gave this data was... -handwiggle-

***=because the article made me super sad so***

click to show

they put highly, HIGHLY, concentrated forms of the virus up the nose of a number of kitties. Like, a higher concentration than ANYONE will come into contact with, period. About... half? the cats contracted it and some had to be put down (this is where it got me really depressed and I am sorry if you are now too ) and of those that didn't get badly ill, they got put in with healthy cats and a couple of those contracted it.

so, yes, kitties CAN get it, but it's extremely unlikely and their mortality rate is low as is their infection rate.

HOWEVER.
THAT SAID.
I am a proponent of keeping cats inside ALWAYS because the world is a dangerous place full of cars and shitty people.

I am off my meds until these stimulus checks come in because meds without insurance are just way too expensive.

I've been most worried about my depression hitting me hard.
What I didn't expect was the generalized anxiety.

I've been going into anxiety attacks suddenly and without warning since last night. I don't know why I'm anxious (I mean there are REASONS to be but I can't identify which it is so I can work through it). I just am.