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1081.
by brimble 5y ago
Oh yeah, totally, before it was relying heavily on a population of bored retired teachers wanting to pick up a little money to go drop at the boats or whatever, licensed teachers who hadn't yet landed a full time role and wanted time i
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, it'd barely touched anyone I knew, family or friends. That changed really fast this month.
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by brimble 5y ago
> This is a very specific claim that gets thrown around a lot with zero evidence. What... have you been looking at that has you thinking otherwise? [EDIT] I mean for the colloquial "everyone" that means "so close to ever
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by brimble 5y ago
There's a significant and well-documented gap between voter preferences and our laws. Last I checked it's even larger in the US than in most democracies (our electoral system is designed to be that way, and also has failed in wa
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by brimble 5y ago
Odds of having it pass through a whole household without a trace would be lower, of course, but you are right that some of them/us may have had asymptomatic infections earlier on. About half have had symptomatic infections, all from
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by brimble 5y ago
Pay's so low at districts in our area that anyone who's not already doing it and has free time isn't gonna sign up for even more exposure to Omicron, for what they pay. Talking like $100-120/day and no benefits (of cou
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by brimble 5y ago
It means a much higher volume of change-of-address requests and mis-delivered mail.
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by brimble 5y ago
Probably because dorm rooms change occupants at a much higher rate than apartments.
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by brimble 5y ago
About half of my friend circle has had it in the last two weeks (and no, not because we're passing it to each other). There had been one case of Covid in the whole group the entire rest of the pandemic.
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by brimble 5y ago
The reduction of recommended quarantine time was clearly an acknowledgement of this. Keeping it at two weeks with no way to significantly reduce infection rates would have led to a month of everything being shut down, and everyone still get
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by brimble 5y ago
> "workers are getting sick" doesn't imply any sort of blame. Indeed. Instead the headline is "workers are calling out sick in droves". [EDIT] gruez noted below that the original post was based on an error, ple
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, I intended that a bit tongue in cheek. Of course everyone knows what's going on, though to some extent they pretend not to.
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by brimble 5y ago
At least future folks won't have to throw away heavy boxes of our photos, while feeling guilty about it. They just won't bother to recover our cloud accounts, when we die.
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by brimble 5y ago
With the electricity, hardware, space, and time cost it might be cheaper to have just one and sync to a hosted ZFS service. Of course, those didn't exist 10 years ago, I don't think.
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by brimble 5y ago
They're also the "legit" channel for corporate espionage (or, research sharing, if you prefer), especially for processes and such. They didn't make up that "best practice" they're teaching you now—they sto
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by brimble 5y ago
At first I was like "but with those rules you could play BURN every other card, and that's not good" then I realized that if I'd only wasted half of an average waking day for the last couple decades, I'd probably
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by brimble 5y ago
On rare occasions, I'm left with both wife and kids out of the house for a few days. Just about every time I lose the first (non-work) day entirely to video games. Then the next day I'm just... done with games for a good long whil
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by brimble 5y ago
The ones I've seen (yes, at McDonalds specifically) are terrible, take forever to use, are abusive in attempting to push crap on the user and make some (what I'm sure are higher-margin) items easier to buy than others, and are ye
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by brimble 5y ago
That's luxury brands moving downmarket to cash in. I've seen a lot more Maseratis out in my part of the 'burbs than before. We're not the rich 'burbs or area of the city, but deeply middle-class, and I'm qu
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by brimble 5y ago
1) There were some confounding factors, obviously, and 2) Though also polluted by unusual circumstances, didn't we get a bit of a test with this when some states pulled support before others did, and didn't that show little to n
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by brimble 5y ago
Hulu (ad free) and HBO Max are easily the best services I have, these days. It's not even close. D+ is a bargain if you have kids and intend to let them watch any streaming at all. Apple TV only stays around because it's cheap and
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by brimble 5y ago
Not by much, I'd bet. If at all. The poster seems to have confused top-tier private schools and gifted programs. Read enough politician and C-suite and such bios and it's very clear what's going on. You practically never see