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I’m beginning to consider the idea that maybe I have coronavirus but all it’s doing to me is giving me a cold. It’s been around 6-10 days since I was possibly exposed to it by an elderly customer who maybe got it in Arlington (never did figure out who it was and if they were even in the store), and I’ve been dealing with cold symptoms for a few days now. No fever yet, though, and my cough was exceptionally minor and is gone today. Hopefully if that’s the case I didn’t get anyone sick, I was careful to make sure I was sanitizing everything in my cough radius just in case.
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 19:28:25 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I thought the same until I had a fevre this morning. So now I’m self-quarantining.
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Like I said - I have no reason to believe I’ve got it other than this cold, which is also going around right now. No fever, no headaches, nothing. Just congestion.
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 19:31:33 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser But, the Carnegie and Rockefeller and all those families, they used to do public works and stuff. They may have been hoarding the wealth, but not damn *all* of it. Their flash contest was at least servicing the greater good as a side effect of the ostentation. This new crop seems more about raw, bigly yuge numbers, and hoarding, like a dragon (or a priapism). But, again, this is all coming around to perception. . . .
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@scribus I mean, there's Bill Gates and whatnot. On the other hand you get people like this guy, who think it's an okay idea to keep making electric cars at a moderately high risk of illness to his employees with no one to buy them. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875471
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@thismightbeauser @scribus That is indeed the case, a lot of rich people have middle class cars and discrete houses and do their best to keep people from knowing how rich they are, due to the general sentiment of "wealth equals evil"
You can't blame them really, if the mob will hate you just for managing to make good decisions and earning your family big money. I'd probably do the same if I couldn't simply relocate to a fortified compound with a minefield around it. It makes no sense to feel empathy for a group that has none for you, for whom you'll always be the bad guy regardless of what you do or don't do, that openly talks about how good it'd be if you died.
The ones that show off are the sociopaths, politicians and entertainment industry guys, who by default are crooks as that whole industry is built on crime and debauchery.
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IMO, the whole thing is a PR disaster waiting to happen, but that’s fine, I guess. The guy was put there to be the fall-guy when union negotiations broke down... then this happened.
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 19:23:34 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Jump on TOR and anonymously drop the scoop to either an intrepid young journalism major or a washed-out alcoholic local reporter and watch the lid kinda simmer and flop and ultimately probably the heat'll get turned down and nothing'll blow after all!!
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My dad got carded at the grocery store on the way home from a night shift. He was too young to get in so early.
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 15:33:11 UTC from web-
@scribus We’re just kind of telling people we’re gonna card them but our interim President was really mad about having to change anything about the way we operate so we were explicitly told during a very angry conference call that it’s all just for show and we’re not supposed to actually turn anyone away.
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Which is especially infuriating because I'd been planning a move to Colorado for like, two years, but other stuff has set THAT back too.
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 07:47:28 UTC from web -
All of my cartoons just start with jokes now. By which I mean they start with a joke on a page, and then I try to figure out how I can get TO that joke, narratively.
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 02:51:22 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Downer. I have a Seattle trip for Sage and Savant cancelled, too. :(
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@scribus The biggest bummer is that I was planning to meet someone out there who I've known for like three years but have never met in person, she's in Colorado and I'm in Virginia and we both thought we were gonna get to finally meet each other at VidCon. Now we're both stuck where we are for the foreseeable future.
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/s
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 01:15:57 UTC from web -
Well that was a depressing outlook https://time.com/5804555/coronavirus-lockdown-uk/
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 00:54:09 UTC from web -
I have a minor cough. Ooo-woooo-ooooooo~
Wednesday, 18-Mar-20 22:12:25 UTC from web -
My grocery store is officially empty. We officially have nothing of value left to offer people. And yet, it’s still packed.
Wednesday, 18-Mar-20 19:41:02 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Time to buy a gun
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Oh wow. A small glimpse of "Communism" in the USA? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/americans-are-very-likely-to-get-dollar1000-or-more-checks-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ar-BB11k2rT
Wednesday, 18-Mar-20 12:33:08 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Ah. That explains a lot. Didn't know that.
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@mrmattimation I believe those were both tax rebates at heart, though. This would be a step further.
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@mrmattimation And that is super one of my favorites, I aspire to such heights of !caffeine consumption. Actually, I may have committed a couple such moments as a bus driver....
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meanwhile, I made five dollars on the market
Wednesday, 18-Mar-20 18:10:15 UTC from web -
Naturally Trump glares at the woman as she says something positive about China's response
Wednesday, 18-Mar-20 16:49:16 UTC from web-
@scribus my favorite part of that press conference was that Fox News had a real-time DOW counter in the corner, so every time he said something dumb, you could watch the recession get worse in real time.
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@mrmattimation Hey you're right, CBS had a ticker showing the measly growth of the day slow down every time I roll my eyes!
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hobby: lying to my ex and telling her i'm doing very good in my life, not because i want her to be jealous, but because i don't want her to think i'm about to go kill myself
Wednesday, 18-Mar-20 04:32:50 UTC from web -
Social distancing. Smh my damn head.
Tuesday, 17-Mar-20 19:29:08 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation A terrible Social Distortion cover band...
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Social distancing is what you do when the weird kid starts drawing in his notebook in seventh grade math and the teacher’s yelling at him about it
Tuesday, 17-Mar-20 19:27:51 UTC from web -
that’s about the extent of my coronavirus-related material
Tuesday, 17-Mar-20 19:21:49 UTC from web -
Hey sorry Matt, I can’t go to the prom with you, there’s a coronavirus going around and I’m practicing social distancing.
Tuesday, 17-Mar-20 19:18:09 UTC from web -
Oh, you’re lonely because of the coronavirus? Suck it up.
Tuesday, 17-Mar-20 19:10:18 UTC from web -
“Social distancing” makes it sound like you’re being bullied and it’s your fault. It sounds like a nice way of referring to what women did to me in high school
Tuesday, 17-Mar-20 19:09:33 UTC from web -
"There was a line at Costco so I went out and bought a gun" is not the logic pathway of someone who should own a gun https://time.com/5804562/coronavirus-fears-gun-sales/
Tuesday, 17-Mar-20 15:09:08 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation A legitimate concern, indeed. Much more dangerous than America switching to bidets!
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Boss called me into work. Told him I was out of town. Too embarrassed to say I’m playing Dungeons and Dragons
Monday, 16-Mar-20 19:31:16 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation WAY out of town, baby!
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gonna take a kiwi in someone’s salad and make a different crisis
Monday, 16-Mar-20 17:13:53 UTC from web -
I just told this dumb slut that I’m a human and I have amnesia and we’ll start a rescued team together lmao this papaya is too easy, gonna slam some pika FrankerZy, gonna put some eggs in that daycare center then bounce out, know what I mean
Monday, 16-Mar-20 09:01:22 UTC from web -
*true of any human race
Sunday, 15-Mar-20 23:54:41 UTC from web -
Clarification for my previous point: The show starts out as a pretty clear allegory for racism, but as you get further into the show it becomes pretty clear that actually, it isn’t, and that’s just how you chose to interpret it, so making real life connections with real life issues become crazy uncomfortable because, yes, carnivores are inherently more violent than herbivores, and yes, rabbits papaya like rabbits, and no, none of that is true in real life.
Sunday, 15-Mar-20 23:54:15 UTC from web -
here’s a fun game, when you watch Beastars replace every use of the word “carnivores” with “black people”, then slowly become uncomfortable with the fact that you’ve chosen to do this because doing so neatly fits the show’s narrative into a white supremacist rhetoric
Sunday, 15-Mar-20 20:19:28 UTC from web -
Beastars sure is silly
Sunday, 15-Mar-20 20:15:46 UTC from web -
OK completely unrelated to server setup bile, but I seriously didn't feel as much like we were facing The End after 9/11 as it looks for COVID-19. Just about think there were more flights in the air, too.
Sunday, 15-Mar-20 15:46:51 UTC from web-
@scribus I live next to IAD. Usually hear a plane flying overhead several times a day. I think I’ve seen or heard one plane in the last four days.
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@mrmattimation Intra-something device.
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@mrmattimation I used to travel to that area for work. It was all right.
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...so, uh, there’s your insider stock trading tip.
Sunday, 15-Mar-20 00:50:09 UTC from web
