I’ll vote till the day I die. I’m of the ‘it’s a right, but more than that it’s a responsibility,’ mindset. But, every day I just feel a little more screwed. 

The aggressively conservative bent in this thread reminds me of an old episode of Star Trek (that’s right, I’m going nerdy with this one) where a character says something along the lines of: ‘Ferengi don’t try to end exploitation of workers, they try to join the ruling class so that one day they can exploit others.’…

Can you really get .7 times the ‘exposure?’ I mean, the whole point is that the pay is actually zero, otherwise they would just pay us. Seems to defy direct math.

Seems like a serious gamble to me. This would work great right up until someone figured it out, then not only would you be ‘difficult,’ you’d be ‘crazy,’ and ‘that girl.’ But it could totally be worth it.

While there may be a case for touching things with the small hook rather than your whole hand, the antimicrobial metal thing is just nonsense when it comes to these hooks.

While there may be a case for touching things with the small hook rather than your whole hand, the antimicrobial…

My first thought was ‘not happening, this area is as [insert whichever color bugs you] as it gets. The world would be a much better place with fewer polling places out here,’ then my internal Jiminny Cricket got going.

The fireflies are disappearing, but the bark beetles are destroying the national parks. Can’t we just occasionally have our unrelenting attack on the planet cut our direction? I mean, ideally we’d get our stuff together and live in some kind of conservative sustainable balance with nature, but why is it always fewer…

“I can’t say that it would need to be for the whole time, if it’s going to be months of them working there,” she says, “but in the beginning, when we don’t know for sure [about their exposure risk], I would say I wanted them to wear a mask in the house.”

I have a little thing that looks like a chain of S hooks back to back (bad description, but it’s not honestly important) that I 3D printed with a file that is available online, or there are lots of commercially available silicon and plastic versions online for fifty cents or so a piece. They’ve been great since I have…

Also:

It was four paragraphs long. He’d have had to make all the way it to the link then read the sentence after it to know they mention that directly.

I feel your pain.

Four paragraphs total with the info you mention in paragraph two . . .

But they CAN’T stop you!

Article: ‘here are two things backed by science.’

We can’t do every inch of 6 feet, so you might as well be touching them. There’s zero in between. 

I like the panicky ‘never compliment anyone at work! you’ll immediately be accused of being a predator!!!’ responses.

In all fairness, I think the point of most contraptions people build along these lines are to be indicators that you would like to observe social distancing rules, not to actually physically enforce it. 

I feel like this is one of those things where the app misses the simplicity that was the original beauty of the system. Kitchen timer, twenty-five on/five off. Full stop. There’s your technique.

Maybe it’s just me, but in my experience if you are cooking scrambled eggs slowly enough over low enough heat, you are barely going to need to mix them before they go in the pan. The action of moving them around will create a pretty uniform product (mind I said ‘pretty uniform,’ no doubt this is more uniform than…