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  1. Testing positive happened to me 2 weeks before I was supposed to leave the country. I had 1 day of a mild cold symptom wise, but I didn't finally start testing negative until yesterday. My trip is intact, thank god, but we were going to have to start canceling things this morning to get our money back had the tests not finally flipped. I have been full of the angry for the last week thinking my trip was gone, so I'm very very happy with this outcome.
  2. We got married in Maine, specifically because we figured that Texas would drag it's feet (it did) and would look for the first opportunity to annul our marriage if the situation ever presented itself. Looks like we weren't wrong.
  3. Not sure where this fits, but Kentucky doesn't believe in the Don't Say Gay law. As you can see here, at least one school wants to make sure it's students talk to their friends about being gay. And how it's awful and they are wrong. Every time I start thinking that maybe Jesus wasn't such a bad guy, I think of all the people that call Jesus a friend and am reminded why I want nothing to do with Jesus or them.
  4. We have a project we're trying to get off the ground in San Antonio, but once we can prove we can do it remotely, I suspect we're not going to keep staying in Texas. I spent my first 50 years here, and I just can't think of very many reasons to stay. We'll miss a few friends, I'll sorely miss a couple restaurants, but otherwise, meh.
  5. Details man, details…
  6. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is an amazing book. Glad to see it represented on this list!
  7. Can you list for me the better uses that would have support of this Congress? I mean there’s no point talking about better uses that are a pipe dream, but we can talk about the one that would pass so let’s talk about them. What are they?
  8. I love it, and my team loves it, but I'm one of those supervisors that listened to my supervisors and said that what this means is we expect everyone to take at least 1 week off per quarter. We are going to be on your ass to take off more time if you don't get to at least 3 weeks off. We aren't doing anything except rubber stamping requests unless the request is coming from someone that has already taken 6 weeks off. We're still most likely going to approve it, but we're going to make sure that their teams aren't being affected negatively before we do. Our company also has the culture that you are telling us you are taking time off on a particular day, you aren't asking for it, though, and we had that even before we made the switch. I think for this system to work and be appreciated, company culture has to see vacation as a good thing for their employees to take and not a hit to productivity.
  9. My company has unlimited time off so...
  10. Wait, are people with non-serious cases not just continuing to work from home? Am I doing this wrong? Should I be using this as an opportunity to fuck off for a few days?
  11. So how did he come down on the 2nd Amendment, where the types of weapons that are available today were not yet conceived of back in those days? WHy are they legal by default? And why is he ok with ignoring the words "well regulated" in that amendment but needs to parse every other word in the document? Could it be that he's proof texting, just bending the words to mean what he wants them to mean and ignoring the rest, kind of like most Christian Americans do the Bible? Nah, that couldn't be it.
  12. It worked for them because they can force every member of their caucus to vote the way they want them to vote. Dems don't seem to hold that power over their reps. And honestly I'm happy the Dems can't wield that power. I'd rather figure out how to make sure the Reps can't wield that power than I would have the Dems go down the same path.
  13. You and I both know that if Congress were filled with reasonable people, he would've been investigated and impeached and convicted over the Mueller report, so the insurrection never would've happened nor would the second impeachment. But supposing for a second that he did skate on those charges somehow, the second impeachment trial would've been unanimous. Every Republican in Congress knew it was wrong the day it was happening when they were cowering in fear. They knew it was wrong when they finished their job that night. They knew it was wrong the next couple days after that. They just reminded that they needed to forget it was wrong to stay in power, so they did. That's nothing to do with justice. It's to do with the fact that he's a rich white man with power. You or I would already be in jail if we were out there doing the shit he's been doing. I'm not going to sit here and argue about it, though since I'm stuck in my office for a couple more days I guess I have the time to, but he hasn't gone to jail yet because the people who could send him to jail are afraid to take away the power of a rich white man. The good thing about Trump is that I think I always thought at some level that the system was rigged against non-white people especially but also against non-rich people, but seeing how blatantly he goes around committing fraud and breaking the law and still walk free really put a pin on how much systemic injustice is really built into our system. It's disgusting, and it's another in a growing list of reasons that I better understand Michelle Obama's speech every day. I'm looking forward to the day when I can be proud to be an American again.
  14. So, I tested positive 2 days ago. Felt better yesterday, feel basically back to normal today. I'm locked up in my office and my husband has the run of the house, and he's also sick with a sore throat and cough and achiness, but he has tested COVID negative for 3 days in a row now. How much longer do I need to stay sequestered before I start burning tests looking for a negative?
  15. And if that was in there, he'd ask for another amendment that we have to mark every dollar with a red x or some other nonsense. His job here isn't to make sure we pass bills responsibly, it's to gum up the works and ensure that nothing happens for as long as he can. We can see this based on his long history of doing this exact same type of thing, and then voting against the bill anyway even after his demands are met. If you don't take history into account when justifying his actions, you are only going to make yourself look foolish.
  16. If it wasn't for that pesky cloud, I could've gotten away with it!
  17. Everytime I see this GIF I simultaneously laugh because it's objectively funny, especially when the banner comes down before he hits the button, but it also angers me because it's been true so many times and has not mattered even a little bit. Fuck.
  18. I did not know I was about to get new Selena music, +rep for dropping this here!!!!
  19. But there are no more steakhouse windows he can climb out of when he decides he wants to quit shilling for them.
  20. I mean, how do these people expect to be taken seriously by anyone but the dumbest among us when they are just so outlandishly lying about what's going on out here in reality?
  21. I don't know how good Ted Lieu is as a rep, but he's fantastic at the twitters.
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