Month: April 2020

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jadagul:

collapsedsquid:

Stockpiling intensifies

In fairness, the problem in Katrina wasn’t the storm surge overtopping the levees. Everyone knew to be terrified of that (at least those of us living in New Orleans). And the hurricane passed, and the city hadn’t flooded, and we all exhaled.

And then the levee collapsed.

I keep hearing rumbles about the threat of solar EMPs and how “we should prepare”, but what am I, Jane Q. Citizen, actually supposed to *do* about it? Or is this purely a “talk to your politicians and try to convince *them* to do something about it, because they’re the only ones who can” thing?

(Argumate seems to think this is funny, but I *do* in fact own a Wikipedia dump and I highly recommend it [link]. Not sure it would survive an EMP, though.)

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kuttithevangu:

The last time I left my house was 17 days ago and on that day I walked past a man who was sitting in his car with the windows open and as I walked past, someone on his radio said “now sports! sports is, there are no sports”

That was the last day of Massachusetts

 

kuttithevangu:

Why are people commenting like “this is night vale” or “I can’t tell if this really happened or it’s an apocalyptic vision” like are you all not aware that there’s an unprecedented international disaster happening? What is not normal life in March 2020 about this post

 

pteapotdactyl:

The radio channel I listen to has a guy who does the traffic report every morning and he got so fed up of saying basically “theres no traffic because everyone is at home” that he started getting listeners to message him with the traffic that’s in their home. like “in Steve’s house in Surrey today theres a massive delay between the bedroom and the dining room table that is where Steve is working because the dog is lying in the doorway. the current recommended diversion is via the kitchen for a cup of tea.”

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #storytime #my home away from home #covid19 #illness mention

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babymyleopard:

great bedside manners, doc

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skeleton-richard:

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notquitesoancient:

you know who’s gay? paul the real estate novelist who never had time for a wife and davey who’s still in the navy and probably will be for life

New headcannon: everyone in that song is gay except the Piano Man who has no idea he’s playing at a gay bar and the staff and regulars have a betting pool on how long he’ll take to finally figure it out. So far John is ahead.

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#music #headcanons #Billy Joel #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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jadagul:

fatpinocchio:

When autocomplete is too slow and you google “s” instead of going to Slate Star Codex.

My browser is convinced I want to google “que” instead of going to “questionable content”. Nothing I can do seems to convince it otherwise.

Sometimes it’ll do the google thing even after the smartbar is displaying the site I want, and I still haven’t figured that one out.

Apologies if you’ve tried this already, but: last time I encountered someone with a similar problem, going into the browser history and deleting the offending search-results page (in this case, for “que”) fixed it.

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