Is it gonna steal your job? Change your job? Ruin your life? Make it better?

Lots of people are in full panic mode over this thing.

puerile_polyp wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 03, 2023 7:49 pm

Madrigal wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 12:35 am

Despite being like a regular flu

It's hilarious seeing this after spending two years being excoriated for acknowledging what was obvious at the time.

I waited 3 years to get covid and got 4 shots. I am still lucky I didnt get it in 2020.

Got covid (first time). Despite being like a regular flu, I'm glad work has been slow because I felt sick all week and still do.

My senior friend and her husband, who I saw on Friday, got sick at the same time we did. They had to check themselves into a covid hotel because they needed taking care of.

When did people start taking pictures of themselves holding up big, decorated cardboard frames?

I don't have an internal monologue. Do people with an internal monologue go around saying things in their head like, "I'm hungry, I wonder if I need to shop for groceries," etc? Or literally hearing their own voice reasoning things out like, "If I do this, so and so will happen, but if I do that..."...

I didn't know Rubén Darío was Nicaraguan! I used to read his poetry as a teenager.

I got Mythos by Steven Fry but can't start reading it till next week. I got Heroes too but it hasn't arrived yet. I am actually thinking of publishing a book. That may be the privileged Nicaraguan tradition. However, our Northern provinces (Esteli, Matagalpa, Jinotega, Nueva Segovia) heritage is Bas...

Spaghetti with butter and black pepper.
Spaghetti with a pack of tomato sauce squirted on top, then olive oil, then black pepper and salt.
Spaghetti with mustard.
Sardines in a can on hot bread.

All of this stuff is good, of course.

I just made a shopping trip for groceries that would have cost me about 130 dollars three months ago and now cost me 220 dollars.

I've always had real jobs that require actually doing things and not just fucking around on the internet, so I have never "worked" from home This reminds me of someone I know who told me he basically fixed the electrical circuits in airplanes for a living. I was shocked and told him he was the only...