People have gone batshit crazy about the masks. The one other person who's scheduled to be in the office Tuesday-Wednesday was having fits yesterday because one of the instructors using our conference room was not wearing a mask. She interrupted me on a conference call to see if I could find a mask and get him to wear it (no). And the people who won't wear masks ... there are the (fake) exemption cards people make up and there's a (fake) "Freedom to Breathe Agency" with people going around saying that anyone trying to make them wear a mask - in a store, with signs posted - can be fined and spend a couple days in jail for doing so. They have (fake) badges and (fake) paperwork laying out the penalties. oy
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Aug 13, 2020 3:49:42 am PDT #24799 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Toddson - Aug 13, 2020 3:50:34 am PDT #24800 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
HOWEVER, Illinois recently passed a law making it a felony specifically for anyone who assaults a worker for trying to make them wear a mask. yay?
Kalshane - Aug 13, 2020 4:37:09 am PDT #24801 of 30019
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
The anti-mask sentiment is so ridiculous. I get it, they're uncomfortable, I hate wearing mine all day at work, but it's such an incredibly minor inconvenience to prevent spreading a virus that even if it doesn't kill you has a 1-in-3 chance of causing long-term health effects.
The fact that it's been politicized to this extreme degree is depressing.
Gudanov - Aug 13, 2020 5:05:07 am PDT #24802 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
I'm so angry about Trump and Fox News playing the pandemic as a partisan plot. You can't put that genie back even if you reverse course later. The virus isn't fucking playing politics.
Laura - Aug 13, 2020 5:06:13 am PDT #24803 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
The fact that it's been politicized to this extreme degree is depressing.
It would be just dandy if only the anti-mask idiots got sick, but it unjustly doesn't work that way. I am totally okay with all these idiots getting sick. Also, I hate this change in my previously peace love dove personality.
billytea - Aug 13, 2020 5:20:22 am PDT #24804 of 30019
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Fivethirtyeight has released its forecasting model:
(I'm not entirely sold on the design, it feels like dumbing it down.) It currently gives Trump a 28% chance, which sounds about right to me. If the election were held today, it'd give Biden a 93% chance, which also sounds about right.
Laura - Aug 13, 2020 5:35:24 am PDT #24805 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Can we please have the election today? I want this over with so very much.
Steph L. - Aug 13, 2020 5:37:51 am PDT #24806 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'm more worried about what happens when Biden wins and Trump refuses to leave office.
Laura - Aug 13, 2020 5:56:55 am PDT #24807 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
It isn't going to be pretty, but I don't think the GOP or Justice will stand with him at that point. I hope.
Gudanov - Aug 13, 2020 5:58:55 am PDT #24808 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
I think the election will be won or lost in the courts this year.