Acdtrux posted:my youtube video did not embed :(
also, there was a livestream of some japanese crosswalk that I Was trying to find but it does not appear anymore so
still stupid as shit, shop still selling wine and also sells beer, back indoors now
swampman posted:
these are wildly soothing, thank you for posting
Flying_horse_in_saudi_arabia posted:I know some of you are in New York and I hope you're okay, it seems pretty grim. Seems grim US-wide tbh. Stay safe and if you can't stay safe, stay drunk
yah we fucked. only silver lining hope for the future is that the rental market will likely collapse.
this basically reduces my rent so i'm fine with it.
the following week, alone in my office, i went to HR and told them I wanted to be set up remotely. i was told i was young and healthy, so i shouldn't be worried, and there were not enough laptops to go around.
i returned to my office, which management filled with people from customer services, all of us on top of each other as if they wanted us to be infected. management of course are ordering this remotely from their houses in rural southenglandshire.
i do no work for a week as there is no work to do. no one is watching me. i go upstairs to the abandoned meeting rooms and do push-ups and stare out of the window. i spin around in my chair. i disappear for an hour or more wandering the dual carriageway outside. intermittently i fight with HR. i find out there are spare laptops but they're being 'saved for business-critical roles.' the country is going into increasing levels of lockdown but i'm still going in. the make-up of people left in my office is getting younger and more working class. the well-fed toffs are unsurprisingly absent, fleeing one by one.
eventually i asked for a week's leave and was granted it. watching the graphs and the cases mount i predicted correctly there would be lockdown before my leave finished. however, as the government hasn't actually ordered much other than leisure facilities to close, my office remained open and i was faced with going back in or quitting and having no entitlement to benefits for voluntarily leaving my job. panicking, i called my manager and told her my housemate had symptoms of the 'rona and i had to self-isolate (on statutory sick pay which is £94 a week).
within 2 hours they delivered a desktop PC to my house. there was the ability to allow me to work remotely all along, but for some reason they were happy for everyone to swim in covid soup rather than allow people to work from home.
it's day one of homeworking and i have done absolutely nothing so far.
capitalism is an absurd hellscape and i still feel like one of the lucky ones for having employment, for however long this lasts.
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i hate working from home though, it sucks, i'm going crazy, also it's actually busy because of what's happening. doesn't help that i moved at the beginning of the month to a tiny studio, living alone for the first time ever.
thirdplace posted:do you cook? won't solve the baja blast problem (at least without some advanced ingredients not apt to be found in the standard American kitchen) but the other thing looks pretty simple
wtf? everyone knows fake homemade taco bell is never the same! also i dont have the ingredients for it anyways and also, suck at cooking. lol
in any case i went out to the nearest north suburb to get taco bell. there was someone there who was apparently 65 years old, diabetic and recently out of a job and now homeless due to corona issues. he asked me to buy him food so i did, adn then we sat in the parking lot and ate together and exchanged like two comments about whether we thought trump was going to be re-elected. thats the social interaction i had today. i need to sleep soon, probably, and theres some shit i need to reply to elsewhere and i mgiht do it now but i also may do it when i wake up depending on how soon i get sleepy enough to actually pass out
Parenti posted:the sky is so beautifully blue and leaning out the window into the sun it feels like summer. i wish i could go to the parc de vincennes with some friends and a watermelon and some sandwiches.
there's still 2 feet of snow on the ground everywhere here, and when it finally goes away i'm gonna be pissed off
dizastar posted:Parenti posted:
the sky is so beautifully blue and leaning out the window into the sun it feels like summer. i wish i could go to the parc de vincennes with some friends and a watermelon and some sandwiches.
yu should check out the parc de la butte du chapeau rouge, theres way less people thzn the buttes chaumont (to a point where its almost empty even in the summer) and theres a very nice view on a huge part of the 93rd
I've been past that on the T3b on the way to Porte de Pantin but never got out, it looks really pretty from the tram though. Love that whole route actually.
dizastar posted:i was rehearsing on my alto saxophone as i do everyday when all of a sudden a woman whos window is adjacent from mine completely went off on me screaming from her window, telling me to shut my window, that i sucked and it was horrible to listen to, that i was butchering the instrument and so on... i didnt pay no mind and tried to de-escalate by saying that i'll try to play earlier but it kinda hurts... but albert ayler received the same treatment so its a good sign
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dizastar posted:i was rehearsing on my alto saxophone as i do everyday when all of a sudden a woman whos window is adjacent from mine completely went off on me screaming from her window, telling me to shut my window, that i sucked and it was horrible to listen to, that i was butchering the instrument and so on... i didnt pay no mind and tried to de-escalate by saying that i'll try to play earlier but it kinda hurts... but albert ayler received the same treatment so its a good sign
gofundme to get this poster a soprano saxophone