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[LordBaal]

You might not remember but told you people here are solid friends and cares.

[itisnotlogical]

You might not remember but told you people here are solid friends and cares.

I remember you keeping in touch with me, at least.

[LordBaal]

You also remember you offered to take all my college student debt right???

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just janking your chain, here there are not such things

[Akura]

Learned a bit more about yesterday's tornado. Aside from a few trees, power lines, etc., the only major damages I've seen were a Chipotle on the corner of a shopping center and the two stores next to it getting wrecked. Oddly enough nothing else, not even the places next door to that, was touched. That, and a friend of my mom's house getting badly damaged apparently to the point of condemnation. The roof was torn off, and landed a few houses over. Luckily, they were visiting upstate and weren't home at the time.

[Frumple]

Tornadoes can be oddly localized, yeah. Bit before I was born, there was one that uprooted and relocated a tree from a family member's back yard, and that was the totality of the overt damage. Thing moved one tree and that was it.

In other wtfs, I may have just read the stupidest thing I've seen a written character do in... months, maybe years. Person was in a setting where there's, like... what sounds like infectious pseudo-cognitohazards, basically extradimensional critters that infect the soul and eventually transform the infected, and can spread between people if they're around the infected long enough. MC and an acquaintance encounter what appeared to be someone infected who tries to kill themselves before they can transform.

Stuff happens, they get pulled in to get tested for possible infection themselves. Arrive at test site, potential infected's sister is there, and offers the pair an unknown liquid the almost certainly also infected sibling claims will let them spoof the test, and, like. The staggering idiots actually take the mystery drug from the close acquaintance of the potential infectious cognitohazard.

People, just. People. When the close relative of someone possibly infested with infectous magic soul gribblies offers you crazy shit supposedly made to trick the tests for the early stages of said gribblies, you don't drink the probable gribbly juice. Like holy shit. The lack of self preservation instincts involved in the words I just read was friggin' wild.

Story is Rend, over on royal road. Part of me wants to just drop this because by all rights the main character should be too stupid to breathe, but morbid curiosity is probably going to keep going for a little while longer. Holy hell but any belief in the competence or cunning of the MC just cratered like a ground level Tunguska explosion, though.

[itisnotlogical]

All I see is the realistic outcome of a magic gribblies outbreak, given what we know now about how certain groups have reacted to COVID.

[methylatedspirit]

glad you're alive and healthy, be safe lil co'decker

Welcome back into our lives, meth! You've been missed.

LOL. Welcome home darling!

You might not remember but told you people here are solid friends and cares.

That made me smile. Thank you!

It's a bias I have that I severely underestimate my influence social capital something, even though I like to think I'm decent at estimating that for others. I'd dig up a Twitter post posted in a memes channel in a Discord server I occupy to prove a point, but it's safe to say that seems to be a common bias, thinking you're far less important than you actually are. Isn't social anxiety fun?

[Egan_BW]

Hey Meth, glad you're doing okay.

[Frumple]

All I see is the realistic outcome of a magic gribblies outbreak, given what we know now about how certain groups have reacted to COVID.

Sure, but people usually don't seem to feel like they can get away with writing fiction that's as dumb as reality, heh.

There's a point there that the plague and reaction to it might just widen what's considered reasonable behavior to depict folks performing, though. I've seen folks talking about that, wondering if they can start writing stuff that would have been considered caricatures a decade back, intending to point at the last few years if called on it. Maybe some author or another found a monkey's paw a bit ago...

[Mathel]

So I am now employed. Not much, just making car electronics.

There are a few WTFs there though. Mainly, taking weapons, specifically knives into work is forbidden. This is in spite of the workplace containing plenty of weaponizable tools, including exacto-knives.
It just makes me self-conscious of bringing my own cutlery (which I have to, because it is not supplied by the workplace).

Also, I met my first vehement anti-vaxxer in RL today. She made me rather angry.

[LordBaal]

Cogratulations on your job! It migth not seem much to you but is great and every honest job is a good job.

Now, remember you go there to work, not make friends. Not that is mutually exclusive but on general the personal opinions and facts of these people should amount zero to you, at least while in the bussiness on working hours.

[Mathel]

Thanks, Lord Baal.
I shall endeavour to remember that. After all, I am paid indeed paid for working, not for friendliness.

[LordBaal]

Of course, not that you must be hostile either. Just that while on work all you  must care from those people is that they execute their job properly, specially if their job is directly connected with yours. Maintain a good level of manners and be diligent on your own job.

[EuchreJack]

So I am now employed. Not much, just making car electronics.

There are a few WTFs there though. Mainly, taking weapons, specifically knives into work is forbidden. This is in spite of the workplace containing plenty of weaponizable tools, including exacto-knives.
It just makes me self-conscious of bringing my own cutlery (which I have to, because it is not supplied by the workplace).

Also, I met my first vehement anti-vaxxer in RL today. She made me rather angry.

Well, I'm reading a problem + solution regarding the lack of ability to bring cutlery and the workplace having exacto-knives.  And hey, the blade is disposable!

As for the anti-vaxxer: You can't cure stupid.  Best thing to do is not engage.  One fool can out-talk a whole mountain top of wisemen.

Remember: In the world of ideas, the worst thing to do is convert them into beliefs.  You can't change beliefs, well not easily.

It's a bias I have that I severely underestimate my influence social capital something, even though I like to think I'm decent at estimating that for others. I'd dig up a Twitter post posted in a memes channel in a Discord server I occupy to prove a point, but it's safe to say that seems to be a common bias, thinking you're far less important than you actually are. Isn't social anxiety fun?

I'll jump on the "glad to see you meth" bandwagon.  You seem to be doing better, from what little information is available.
Social anxiety generally doesn't "go away", it just gets easier to handle through prior experiences.

[heydude6]

Well, I'm reading a problem + solution regarding the lack of ability to bring cutlery and the workplace having exacto-knives.  And hey, the blade is disposable!

Don't use an exacto-knife as a kitchen knife. Those things are usually oiled, and the metal isn't as corrosion resistant as stainless steel. That means that you're gonna get a lot rust mixed into your food. It's not remotely hygenic.