Great to see Maggie again!!! Been too long.
The Oz social security net has been massacred over the last few decades.
Local activists have been screaming for years that the government needs to raise the rate; theyāre only doing it now because it looks like significant numbers of middle class white people might need to depend upon it.
Sounds like PA has another business to targetā¦ they already forced GameStop to close by revoking the business license of every franchise in the state.
Turns out, despite GameStopās insistence, āgamingā is not a critical retail service. Whoāda thunk?
I assumed not because I didnāt see any reflection and because his voice wasnāt obscured, but I could easily be wrong.
Am seeing a lot of doctors and pharmacists saying this after the Presidentās pronouncement:
Listen to people who have studied these things, not some grasping-at-straws grifter looking to prey on peopleās insecurity. Please.
where i live people are being asked to self isolate, businesses are closed, etc. and yet: parents are still giving their kids money to run to the store where i work for snacks.
iām wishing we could put up pictures of peopleās lungs like they do for cigarettes in some countries.
Boinged:
The article below may contain the first use of this term: āCOVID-19-esqueā
I wonder how I would fare; I have a deviated septum! May not be a very nos-thrill for me.
Where I am, because schools are closed parents are taking their kids with them everywhere, which suddenly means stores have groups of three where there used to be one. It makes maintaining a good distance while traversing the aisles that much harder.
The supermarket nearest me is installing plexigrass cashier shields on Monday.
@milliefink has a point. Could you remove the link (transparently)? It has some educational effect to read this shit, but I fear some people might be confused, as it looks slick on a first scroll. I donāt want this garbage to spread.
Lying liar lies:
Medium removed the blog for review.
from 2018:
Howās your con?
Oh, well, Iāve always liked Nine Worlds! I missed last year, but thatās the first year Iāve missed. This year, there have been some fantastic panels ā the Hidden Histories panel was a favourite. But probably my highlight was playing four hours of The Good Society . Itās a Jane Austen based tabletop RPG. And it was really intense.
Who were you?
I played the heiress, the daughter of the lady of the manor. You know, beset by suitors, having to choose the one that was least awful ā¦ and you canāt choose nobody.
Oh my God. What happened?
Well, the misconception is that in Austen novels nothing happens. But imagine if you watched somebody trying to defuse a bomb, and you didnāt know what they were doing ā¦