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Post by Gopher Mod on May 19, 2020 17:48:10 GMT -5
After today I'm ready for a meteor to hit this wretched planet. Truck is shot and will cost 2500 to fix, money that I don't have thanks to being out of a job While this may not be much help, you may want to check RockAuto or other sites like that, buy the parts that you need replaced, and see if one of your more mechanically inclined friends can help you out with repairing whatever it is that needs fixed.
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Rave
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Post by Rave on May 19, 2020 18:55:44 GMT -5
I just received an internal memo saying that "wearing a mask is undermining the public's faith in leadership, we need to look strong in the face of disaster" I work for the government and this is what our elected officials governing us are pushing. It both acknowledges that is there is problem (calls it a disaster) and they we need to ignore the problem. Hooray. SMH. Haven't they heard of leading by example?
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J. Hova
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Post by J. Hova on May 19, 2020 20:12:35 GMT -5
Veering this thread somewhere else for a moment.
One of my cousins works as an administrator at the local blood bank. She's been all over my ass the past few weeks to come donate (I'm O-, making me a universal donor). I finally went today. I used to donate quite a bit and my work holds a blood drive at least twice a year and more frequently after some catastrophe. I've been holding off donating for obvious reasons but kept getting assured that it was as safe as it could be. I felt perfectly safe there (gloves, masks, eyewear, etc.). They were scrubbing down everything like mad.
I'd highly encourage those who are able to do it. There is a blood shortage and it will continue as more people leave their homes and venture out as well as postponed surgeries start to ramp back up. I don't like needles but it really isn't a big deal getting stuck if you are afraid of that.
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Post by HMARK Center on May 19, 2020 20:16:57 GMT -5
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Post by Rolent Tex on May 19, 2020 22:40:21 GMT -5
Yup, can’t wait to get opened back up on June 1st with all of the Florida funny business going on. We’re gonna get bombarded day one.
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Post by eJm on May 19, 2020 23:26:06 GMT -5
So somehow, Tampa officials have greenlit the Tampa Bay Comic Con to happen in July.
What? How? Why? Why? Why?!
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Post by Rolent Tex on May 20, 2020 0:04:26 GMT -5
So somehow, Tampa officials have greenlit the Tampa Bay Comic Con to happen in July. What? How? Why? Why? Why?!Very limited attendance will be allowed. At least you know they crowd will find a way to work with masks too. Unlike the lovely people complaining on news stories about Disney Springs. Being forced to wear masks is stupid and they don’t participate in stupid. Wearing masks is up to the guest, not them. Well guess what Karen, you don’t like it...tough...don’t go. It’s hilarious to me how people think that private businesses don’t have rights and that the paying customers “rights” trump all.
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ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on May 20, 2020 0:45:32 GMT -5
I haven't been to a con since 2007, and I was planning on going to an anime con January of 2021. I booked my hotel and everything in mid-January. Never imagined any of this would happen. I'm waiting until November or December to fully decide but I've already started consoling myself in canceling it probably. With people traveling from all over for it and etc, it isn't very comforting. Maybe I'll get to try again in 2022.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on May 20, 2020 5:30:47 GMT -5
I haven't been to a con since 2007, and I was planning on going to an anime con January of 2021. I booked my hotel and everything in mid-January. Never imagined any of this would happen. I'm waiting until November or December to fully decide but I've already started consoling myself in canceling it probably. With people traveling from all over for it and etc, it isn't very comforting. Maybe I'll get to try again in 2022. As someone that's done WrestleCon and Axxess stuff before, a con with heavy social distancing rules sounds like it may not be the greatest thing ever. No handshakes, no contact in photo ops, it takes the intimacy of the moments and makes them more impersonal. You may want to wait longer if only because the experience itself may be better by then.
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Push R Truth
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by Push R Truth on May 20, 2020 8:01:23 GMT -5
So somehow, Tampa officials have greenlit the Tampa Bay Comic Con to happen in July. What? How? Why? Why? Why?!I'm curious what impact this will have on the smell. Will it smell better because so many less people will be in attendance? Or will it smell the same because the ones with the worst "con funk" will do everything they can to still make it.
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lucas_lee
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Heel turn is finished, now stripping away my personality
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Post by lucas_lee on May 20, 2020 8:05:39 GMT -5
It’s going to get worse in Jersey. Just saw the news about the gym that opened despite orders not to, which drew a big crowd. I knew it would happen the longer these restrictions stayed on. People were going to rebel, especially the business owners who are losing everything. Murphy’s plan on slow reopenings is so vague that it’s just going to cause more trouble. I read that thing twice and knew just as little going in as I did after reading it. I still hope that by the beginning of June there is a well defined plan that is being executed (by NJ and everywhere else) that is designed to both help the economy and lessen the possibility of a second wave disaster. 2020 just needs to end. One of the founders of that gym killed someone in a drunk driving accident. Youd think after serving time for this, he'd have more decency for human life
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on May 20, 2020 8:19:23 GMT -5
So somehow, Tampa officials have greenlit the Tampa Bay Comic Con to happen in July. What? How? Why? Why? Why?!Between guests being restricted from travelling or choosing not to go due to precautions, their guest list is gonna be bare as f***.
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Post by Shy Guy on May 20, 2020 8:49:26 GMT -5
Phase 1 in Ontario is slowly starting. Companies with street access stores are allowed to open for curbside pick up, or if it's a clothing stores they were allowed to open if they have doors for change rooms and not curtains.
The company I work for has a street access store in Toronto, and we use curtains for change rooms. I texted a manager to see what was going to happen, and it sounds like THE COMPANY IS JUST GOING TI STRAIGHT UP REMOVE THE CURTAINS AND NOT REPLACE THEM.
What the actual f***.
This is a lingerie company, btw
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on May 20, 2020 11:25:36 GMT -5
This had better be the hot cosplay of the event
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Post by HMARK Center on May 20, 2020 11:54:43 GMT -5
Well, the bad news about a vaccine being far off is still lingering, but there's some good news today! Some other odds and ends reported on last night and today: International researches float the idea of a rotating schedule of 50 days locked down, 30 days with safe openings, until a more permanent solution is found.Finally, www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread-virus-all#Selfishly, that last one makes me wish I could go to a baseball game, since it's an outdoor event, but the research says being at an event like that isn't in and of itself the problem; it's the fact that everybody will go into confined spaces to, say, use the bathroom, and stuff like that, even at an outdoor event.
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Dr. T is an alien
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on May 20, 2020 12:52:50 GMT -5
Well, the bad news about a vaccine being far off is still lingering, but there's some good news today! I need more details on that one, but I have concerns. Yes, it is good that they don't find actual infectious particles in those individuals, but finding COVID-19 RNA is still problematic. No, the RNA by itself is harmless, but naked RNA is generally rather unstable at body temperature for any length of time, which initially would suggest that there was a relatively fresh source of RNA. Granted, that could simply be from recent viral particles that the immune system destroyed (or more likely, from infected cells that the immune system destroyed). Perhaps the RNA still is bound to the proteins that stabilize it as I don't know how long it can still stay bound in the blood stream. I wish I had more information about those things.
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ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on May 20, 2020 13:41:33 GMT -5
I haven't been to a con since 2007, and I was planning on going to an anime con January of 2021. I booked my hotel and everything in mid-January. Never imagined any of this would happen. I'm waiting until November or December to fully decide but I've already started consoling myself in canceling it probably. With people traveling from all over for it and etc, it isn't very comforting. Maybe I'll get to try again in 2022. As someone that's done WrestleCon and Axxess stuff before, a con with heavy social distancing rules sounds like it may not be the greatest thing ever. No handshakes, no contact in photo ops, it takes the intimacy of the moments and makes them more impersonal. You may want to wait longer if only because the experience itself may be better by then. yeah that and two of the things I was looking forward to was a video game room they set up every year, and a cosplay dance hey host at the end of every night. I can't see either being fun under those guidelines.
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Dr. T is an alien
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on May 20, 2020 13:55:53 GMT -5
Since Michigan doesn't have enough issues with the pandemic, where they are hit worse than many other states, they now have to deal with floodings and dam failures.
Correction: It was two dams, not just one. I'm guessing the failure of the first one played a massive roll in the second one failing.
Edit: Apparently the company that maintained the dam that failed had their license revoked in 2018 by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for non-compliance, particularly in regards to spillways and flood prevention. In other words, they got in trouble because they were not taking the steps to prevent what just happened, which apparently they never bothered to fix it and instead are currently trying to sell it.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on May 20, 2020 13:58:20 GMT -5
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on May 20, 2020 14:00:37 GMT -5
I’ve read that a lot of people aren’t even taking advantage of testing. Like people are just not going out to get tested. The supply is there but the demand isnt.
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