It's probably bad for a mod to be posting this. To be fair, I'm still 100% doing covid precautions, including N95 masking and boosters. I'm still actively very covid conscious.

I'm aware that there hasn't been much new research on long covid numbers after 2024, or at least nothing that I can find. Trump taking over the presidency hasn't helped. I'm very much a sciency kind of person, and I could always pinpoint a study as to why I'm still masking and being extra cautious.

Obviously caring about the vulnerable is still a very good reason to keep being cautious.

A lot of libs have been saying that "well we're all immune from multiple infections, so long covid is over". Clearly the opinions of libs should be discarded, and their thoughts are anecdotal af, but still I would appreciate some facts to keep me cautious through this difficult time.

BTW CDC pulse survey data still shows that around 10% of US adults have long covid.

Cocks, balls, arse, and piss.

My dad's a billionaire, and he's an OK guy. He visits once a month, and he always has the best ketamine of anyone I know. Last time I asked nicely for a PS5 and he totally bought it for me.

You shouldn't complain about billionaires if you haven't met my dad. All the mums in our family love him so much.

As I posted last year, my old ex best friend has come back into my life. He used to be cool as fuck, he was charismatic and funny and pretty progressive for 1998. But then he did was all (nearly) all beneficiaries of generational wealth do, and became a massive reactionary, conspiracy theory knobhead.

I should have listened to my not cishet white friends and dumped him asap. I definitely let him say shit that I would never tolerate with another adult. Hanging out with him felt like work. But I felt that I owed him a lot because he was there all through my nervous young man years.

Not surprisingly he's antivaxx, and into all the alternative therapies that chuds are into like ice baths and ivermectin. I help my tongue for years about his absolutely fraudulent medical business because it was convenient and easy and I was being nice. And now he's pushing me and my gf to get involved, and not in a chill way either.

I should have just treated fascists like they deserve. Sorry for letting an absolute bigot be in my life because it was convenient for me.

😈Manager😈: "Hi just checking in to see that [huge thing due Friday] is going OK?"

Me: "Fine, thank you. I wonder if I could submit that report [that you need to read] a day late on Saturday as there's like 4 special things going on this week".

😈Manager😈: "Oh sorry. I have a lot to do and I'll need that done by the deadline" [end of day on Friday]

Me: "Are you going to read the report on Saturday?"

Manager: [Who has a fuck ton less responsibilities than me] "There's a lot I need to do and I need to have that report done in time."

Me: "I'm trying not to be difficult, but there's a lot going on atm. Are you going to read it on Saturday".

😈Manager😈: "Just so you know I'm only asking you to submit report by the [actually really obscenely tight] deadline."

Me: "OK, I'll stay late on Friday to get it done."

I know that PMC people deserve the wall, but every working person I'm used to treats end of day deadlines as first thing in the morning next working day. Due on Tuesday? Ass early Wednesday is fine. Who the fuck cares? People need sleep and rest.

I even put a sticky note with my NAME. I've already wrote an email to everyone asking whoever it is to STOP drinking my soymilk. I really like to have my tea with a bit of milk. I can tell you the name of my shop if you want to buy your own.

Looking at you, Charlie.

• Team Fortress 2 - Team Fortress Classic was pretty based back in the day. I know I was looking forward to the Valve remake before it came out. But let's be honest, Heavy's accent is super racist, and who the fuck was Sniper shooting back in Australia. And no one from New York sounded like Scout since 1948.

• Red Dead Redemption - Can't accept reality that we're not riding ponies anymore. Probably a certain species of Amish.

• Warhammer - Has no qualms about ordering tens of thousands of people to their deaths. Probably thinks that it's cool.

• Tomb Raider - Has extremely unrealistic beauty standards. He'll judge you if you can't free climb a sheer cliff or DIY a bow and arrow from stuff around the campfire.

• Civilization - Still hasn't gotten over Great Man Theory.

• Project Zombiod - Not so secretly wants to kill everyone in the neighborhood.

• Fallout New Vegas - If a person is so willing to mod the fuck out of a game to make it playable, they're going to try to change YOU at every turn.

• Hitman - He's going to do an adventurism and the FBI will be knocking on your door before you know it.

• Hades - Paternal issues. Also boys that obsess over Greek myths are just neo Christians or weebs by another name.

• Vampire Survivors - Has the shortest attention span possible.

• Subnautica -thinks that the Titan was a good idea

• Plants vs Zombies - cares more about defending his backyard than he does about your feelings.

In summary, if your boyfriend has played any of these games for an hour, you should really break up with him.

This shit isn't funny. I will fight you if you say it again.

I'm tired of having an argument with a "leftist", they throw every bad faith liberal putdown at me, yet somehow they've gone to all the best schools and have traveled to 6 continents for fun in their life.

Are you a member of the bourgeoisie!?!?

One guy I know from uni is the largest shitlib in the world. Absolutely "if a guy won't vote for Hillary, he's sexist" kinda dude. Only I know that he's from one of the largest landlord families of his country.

Should I just divorce or ghost her? Maybe make a fort out of pillows that she's not invited to enter.

I just walk to the TV and fuck around with the buttons on the bottom until I find what I need. Fuck infrared radiation, I don't need it.

How could they do this???