bigpharmasutra

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[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 3 points 42 minutes ago (1 children)

Same thing working in restaurants. Same fucking thing.

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 1 points 44 minutes ago

part and parcel of living in the south.

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

OH YEAH. Tons of dirty looks like I've got the bubonic plague.

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 3 points 7 hours ago

Yeah I think its 2 years to the next season but don't quote me on that one.

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 10 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

I know its forever to mask. I could mask in my sleep at this point. Its doing it alone in a society that treats me like a leper that's got me down. That and doing it all alone.

That article is an absolute hatchet job. I read he even lied about talking to Taylor Lorenz, which is ridiculous because she'll talk to anyone about covid.

Thought I'd throw the thread up to see how everyone else was doing. Holidays have to be stressful for those of you with families that aren't masking or taking precautions.

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah this might be some smoke monster-esque shit. I'll give it another season, because there's so little good tv on now, but I've basically lost all my optimism for this show at this point.

Hoping your dad is ok. If I can impart a little advice - get his will and end of life documents sorted out NOW. Have a serious talk with him if he wants to be hooked up to tubes or just wants to go at home. If you've never dealt with long term sickness or hospitals/hospice/home's, I can assure you, its far more awful to see and live in person than you can possibly imagine.

 

I hate the holidays normally, but the thought of doing ANOTHER YEAR of this has gotten me really down in the dumps. I have no one to talk to about this and no one left in my life. Things really suck a big fat cock at the moment. On the plus side, I get to look forward to my $7000 deductible spinning up anew on 1/1/26. Yaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy............

How are you all doing?

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

At this point I really have to ask people who are engaging with this show in a meaningful way: what plot? What exactly are we doing here? We've got a rocketship that we were given no info on, the ability to plurb people in real time yet an inability to actually do that on a reliable basis, an extended lesbian romantic holiday, the rogue character, and a nuclear bomb in a box. Outside of all the overarching metaphors and allegories, what the fuck are we actually doing here? Where is the god damn plot going?

The season finale was such a tremendous letdown. The radio scene had SUCH promise and then it fizzled out into the guy getting up and going home and nothing coming of it.

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago

Well I have to imagine they still feel sensations like cold and hot. They obviously feel discomfort as everyone going to sleep was taking their shoes off.

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago

First, no one is safe from Nintendo. Those bastards are insane.

Second, Proton moved Lumo out of Switzerland already and I believe they are going to start phasing the other services to German or Norway, I forget which one. Not that its necessarily "better" but its something.

Third, they just passed another no-log audit, so they're not just forking the info over to everyone that asks. As far as I understand it, the orders that are complied with are mostly about CSAM.

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago

Again I'm not disagreeing with you. Just pointing out that saying its flatly bad in all circumstances is not particularly helpful to a wide swath of the audience here.

 

The most expensive plan on my state's marketplace. Honestly, I'm going to have to start selling myself, or my body parts, to be able to afford this shit.

but instead of federal buildings its going to be health insurance companies.

 

Its getting pretty hairy out there with the new mutant flu + covid + norovirus. Stay safe comrades.

 

I just found out about a covid forum called Still Coviding & Beyond. Does anyone have an invite? I feel like I'm signing up for a private torrent tracker!

Are there other worthwhile covid groups out there? Being permanently fucked up and unable to have a social life really makes one want to have people to talk to.

 

This made me very depressed so I wanted to share that with all of you.

Literally had a neuropsychiatrist tell me that the BrainHQ game was good to help out with memory issues in Covid cases...

https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/promising-brain-fog-therapies-fall-flat-in-long-covid-trial/

 

Finally decided to make a Twitter after 20 years to bitch about covid things online. I don't have any other social media since I live in a cave, so shoot me any of your good covid follows, leftist follows, or good follows in general. Any hashtags or flags I should put in my bio to mark my bonafides? Germ, Palestine, etc., or is that frowned upon?

 

Essentially c/piracy but without actual piracy per se. I see this has been discussed a few times over the years and never caught on because of hosting issues, which I get. No need to host links to pirate material or tracker links, just discussion of what to do when you're ready to get off the corporate media train. I personally want to discuss how to dump streaming services and get into vseeboxes or IPTV or other things like that. We can call it c/alternatives to streaming or something that you all like I honestly don't care much. Just looking to talk about it without having to sign up for a Reddit account, which should be the sole purpose of this place.

 

https://www.nuvaxovid.com/vaccine-locator

In case anyone is still trying to find it.

 

Trying to hack a great deal on a Chevy lease and it seems the only way I'll be able to do it is if I can source one of these dumb codes. They're pretty hard to come by unless you or your family work for GM or you work for someone in their supplier database here:

https://www.gmsupplierdiscount.com/about-the-discount/

If you're able to help out I'll be more than happy to make it worth your while or donate to whatever cause you prefer.

P.S. - I'll likely need some identifying information to give to the dealer like name DOB etc but I don't believe its anything horribly intrusive.

 

So everyone was freaked the fuck out about the recent ACIP meeting, and rightfully so, but it looks like things aren't going to be too much worse for the near term future. Few things of note:

-You DO NOT need a doctor's prescription on the national level to get a Covid shot. You MAY need one in your particular state but that is sort of up in the air at the moment.

-AHIP (the insurers) released a statement saying they were covering the Covid vaccines:

https://www.ahip.org/news/press-releases/ahip-statement-on-vaccine-coverage

-If you're not of age, you can still list one of the underlying conditions. I've not personally found a pharmacist to check but you can usually bullshit your way through this:

https://www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/clinical-care/underlying-conditions.html

-Lastly, and most importantly IMO, at the meeting Sanofi announced they have started shipping the new Novavax vaccine. Supposedly, they're going to start showing up at the end of the month or the first week of November.

As always, wear an N95. Covid causes brain damage!:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2311330

And, possibly demons:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9938787/

 

So apparently I screwed up and posted in the general vs. the comm. Admittedly, I have no idea what I'm doing at this point. Lemmy is setup so oddly compared to something like a forum which is what I'm used to.

Anyway, I've been hanging around here since the Chapo reddit died and now, finally, I decided to make an account. Don't ask why I picked today, I'm still not sure.

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