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[Rolan7]

People overshare sometimes, and delete it afterwards.  It's better to let them (well, we) do so, and not ask too many questions.  Honestly, it's an extension of trust - we can put something out there, for a little while, just for y'all.

[dragdeler]

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[LordBaal]

The same over here. Heck some even know my real identity to the point I sent my CV a few weeks ago to other member for proofreading. Most of those are the ones that have helped us so dearly when we were in dire circumstances.

[Vector]

Honestly, I used to worry more about sharing highly personal stuff, but then I realized that most of the people who could guess my identity based on my conversations here would be my very close friends IRL anyway, and nothing else that I said here would surprise them.

I am still careful about really de-anoning and have enjoyed getting caught up in fewer quoteathon blow-by-blows but, anyway ...

Yeah, sometimes people just say something and then they rethink it. I was literally talking to a friend last night where I started a sentence and just said: "that's going in the garbage, it doesn't add anything to the conversation." Just some needlessly pedantic point that I started making because I was too tired and then changed my mind. It shouldn't surprise anyone that that happens in casual text formats if it happens IRL, right?

[None]

Being chronically online, I still worry about stuff. I worry less knowing that 'none' is a really difficult keyword to use in a web search. At one point in my youth, I loved the idea of having the same handle all across the net. Nowadays, not so much. Hard to post about your private turmoils when someone on the far side of the internet might somehow recognize you, yeah?

Also, having made off-taste jokes that I immediately regretted and then edited away, I'll agree that some posts just don't deserve to stand on their own and that's okay.

So, uh, back on topic, how's FDA approval going for the covid vaccines?

[ChairmanPoo]

I suspect I could be doxxed pretty fast

[martinuzz]

Last week our government proposed a new law against doxxing. It can get you in prison now.

[feelotraveller]

Massive drop in US life expectancy last year due to Covid.  Article here: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/07/21/1018590263/u-s-life-expectancy-fell-1-5-years-2020-biggest-drop-since-ww-ii-covid (contains link to the 12-page CDC report for those who want to go beyond a particular gloss).

[Akura]

Got my first. Pfizer.

[Doomblade187]

Got my first. Pfizer.

huzzah!

[Sirus]

I find myself still wearing masks most places I go, despite being fully vaccinated and a number of businesses starting to relax restrictions. I'm worried about encountering someone with a new strain that the vaccine (I got Moderna) doesn't protect against. Or that I may be one of the unlucky few who got a dud dose that will not protect me. Or something.

My paranoia isn't helped by the fact that I can go into a gas station and see someone without a mask on coughing into their hands.

[Vector]

Yes, I still wear my mask everywhere, too.

[Rolan7]

I'm still using my simple black mask, it's comfortable.  I was still planning on wearing it forever but with this delta variant going around it might be smart too.  5 days till my second Moderna!

Spoiler: I also got this wild thing for $1.50 off Wish! (click to show/hide)

I do not understand Wish at all and the one I got is sold out, but it's pretty much exactly what it looks like: a sunglass with more material.  It seems reasonably comfortable but I question how much protection it provides - seems like the particles just blow left and right past it, in fact it hardly obscures breathing at all somehow, so I should probably wear my cloth underneath it.

Mostly I got it because it looks cool (and now I'm all shy about actually wearing it out) but I do need to wear sunglasses anyway.  I'll try to figure out if it obscures my voice, I kinda assume it's worse than the cloth for that.

[None]

Hah, those are so delightfully bizarre. I wouldn't count on them being particularly effective mask, but still! Admittedly, I might feel like I'm having a stroke if I go looking for someone's face and see a sunglass bubble like that where it should be, but still!

Speaking of acquiring masks, where do people get those ergonomic snugly-over-whole-lower-face lookin' masks that like the sports announcers use? I'd love to get a stock of a few quality masks in case things go grim again.

[scriver]

...Those variants are just photoshops of the same picture