nhold.bsky.social
Hey bluesky. Historian. In decline. Views expressed here are those of a future insightful majority.
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I met a colleague's small dog this week, he had it in his office. I knocked with a question. It ran out and put its paws on my knees, wagged its tail and looked at my face. Might be the best day of the year.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUS9...
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I mean this stuff is hard and this society is barely tenable to navigate under good circumstances so fwiw I'm not judgmental about individual behavior on this stuff beyond 'I'm trying to be caring and careful' and that's just a given from you in particular imho!
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I think this point on recovery is a good one and is different from 'am I contagious', it's my impression a person with little chance of infecting others can still rush recovery and end up feeling worse for longer.
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rapid tests have issues with false negatives but more so early rather than late, and that the chances of two false negatives separated by 24 hours is low, so I think that part of the guidance is good when feasible.
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I used to follow the guideline changes closely but I haven't in a while. My sense is over time all guidelines shifted toward lower isolation times, making a tradeoff between less immediate disruption and more infections (because more contagious people walking around). It's also my impression that
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(I assume the guideline's relaxed now because infection prevention is less of policy priority now, but idk, I haven't checked in a while.)
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I mean it's all probability - longer isolation correlates with reduced contagiousness post-isolation. IIRC last I checked NHS's guideline was on 5th day from symptom onset, if symptom free, take rapid test. If negative, isolate 1 more day and take second rapid test, if negative then end isolation.
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Totally, also many of us have had to be in meetings or gotten talking-tos from supervisors that are analogous to that
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I had a job cleaning toilets for a while and I thought it was kinda gross. Then again I've also had way better paying jobs where I had to sit for many hours a day and those gave me pretty debilitating back pain that required physical therapy to reverse!
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I couldn't agree more. 'we need to get some YOUNG bigots and genocide deniers in here!' kinda stupid shit.
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Oof. Good luck dude!!
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seems to me this is them trying to set up 'vote for us because we're not Trump' as their main pitch next election
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aw no! you deserve a windfall now, maybe you'll win the lottery!
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obviousness to the speakers using it, with that obviousness downstream from an analytical conversation. Nothing remotely wrong with that in general but in this context there's people with different concluded analyses talking past each other because not getting into the doing of the analyses together
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I have a similar view and personally I don't use the f word. That said I think it's possible to discuss events on their own terms using that word if done the right way, and the issue isn't just terminology so much as badly conducted discussion. Like the word seems in part to express a sense of
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When I taught writing to CS students, I can't tell you how many of them I had in my office, who wanted to do art, or history, or creative writing, "but my parents wouldn't pay for that."
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This is the society they are actively working to produce.
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Ah yes of course, if memory serves he wrote this in between recording Gub and Fook, an amazingly versatile artist
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(my heart sings at the "you got a union card? get the fuck out of that truck... drop those fucking craaaates!" bit in particular)
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If you don't like 90s Chicago punk classics that's cool too, different strokes for different folks, but it does mean you are a life form I find entirely incomprehensible, like a sea anemone or a living planet or something.