Zombies are slow, stupid and can't catch healthy adults and children. The only people who are getting eaten are the elderly and those with preexisting conditions.
There are so many of them, though, and they don't need to sleep. They're persistence hunters.
Come to think of it, zombies are to humans what humans are to everything else.
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
On the other hand, I now find World War Z's assertion that NZ would largely avoid the virus apart from a small outbreak in Auckland that was stopped from spreading further by some Maori with taiaha entirely believable.
Zombies are slow, stupid and can't catch healthy adults and children. The only people who are getting eaten are the elderly and those with preexisting conditions.
There are so many of them, though, and they don't need to sleep. They're persistence hunters.
Come to think of it, zombies are to humans what humans are to everything else.
Exactly. Many of our monsters are things that are even better than us at the things we're good at, leaving us little hope of beating them (in that area, at least); depending on the desired tone, either we manage to change the playing field to one of our other strengths, or just die.
Also remember that - in much the same way that fairground rides allow riders to safely enjoy fears of heights, speed, falling, etc - zombies are, at their core, a sufficiently fantastical/unreal stand-in for the widespread collapse of lawful society and roaming mobs of hungry people. (Money and status cease to matter, only survival goods and skills count, and so on.) The big difference is that it's 100% morally okay to kill zombies to protect your home and family, whereas you might have a slight twinge doing the same to a fellow living human.
Zombies are slow, stupid and can't catch healthy adults and children. The only people who are getting eaten are the elderly and those with preexisting conditions.
I mean the equation changes significantly if you're planning on making it your fulltime job and intend to make a living from it, but occasional freelancing as a side hustle kind of needs to be cheaper than market rate, because you're competing with the safety of a major business.
Yeah I mean she's working part time, and also writing her own stuff as her own side hustle, this is more of a one-off thing right now. But I know she has the attention to detail to be really good at this so I strongly urged her not to underprice herself. I basically walked her through the possibility that this person agrees to her price, and then turns around and not only has a constant source of work for her, but recommends her to others and tells how much he pays; they'll pre-emptively expect that same price, and her (being a good person and soft heart) will not want to fight it too much, and will end up screwing herself in the long run. I basically said, "what's the worst that will happen if you overprice yourself?" and the honest answer was no different than where she's at now, so hopefully she takes that into heavy consideration.
But considering people apparently charge 7-10 cents a word, and that alone would have been about ~$3k for around 8 hours work, compared to the ~$30/hr I recommended as an absolutely floor, I think she'll be fine. This is purely an extra-extra-side gig for a little extra cash to pad our savings, but I did point out that right now, since she's on my health insurance, we actually are almost paying full price (her+me is about 4x what just me was).
Pedia lyte or some generic version of it needs to be part of every jobs 1st aid kit. Because when someone has vacated their Stomach, and is crawling on the ground, you need the good stuff on site
See, this is how I know I'm am old. I would grab the water purification filters before the ethanol during civilisation's collapse
I would hit up the pharmacy, grab a bottle of sleeping pills and pick out a nice hillside.
I'm a domesticated human; I've been acutely aware since the bad old days of the Cold War that if civilization ever truly ends, I would (and would prefer to) go with it.
As a type 1 diabetic, I either immediately become a pig and cattle baron ensuring I have a useful role in post apocalyptic society, and a ready source of close enough animal pancreas to extract insulin from (I think sheep can work too) or I die slowly of uncontrolled glucose levels slowly destroying my nerves and circulatory system from the inside.
So yeah, in an actual apocalypse I always figured I'd be somewhere near the bottom of the skull pile.
Zombies are slow, stupid and can't catch healthy adults and children. The only people who are getting eaten are the elderly and those with preexisting conditions.
Is this... is this a Coronavirus bit?
The amount of people dying from zombies is less than the flu. I don't see what the big deal is.
Please note, while the aqua vitae was safe for the alechemists to drink, they were literally just distilling strong wine a lot of the time, so essentially they were making unaged brandy of one sort or another. What we have in the lab is ironically distilled to very high purity, and then small amounts of potent poisons are added to "de-nature" it, so we can buy it without paying liquor tax, because if you drink it you will likely at least go blind. So if you DO raid a lab, make sure you have a still and a good method you trust to not carry over methanol or other nasties. Likely more productive than starting from mash again, but I'd still say just go back to mash if you are already distilling.
Or just have a lab manager who insists on paying the extra and buying the untainted stuff. Obviously it's because it does better science and not because they had a massive drinking problem.
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
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Tynnanseldom correct, never unsureRegistered Userregular
A note: if you ever see 200 proof ethanol, do not under any circumstances drink it. The 190 proof azeotrope is dehydrated to 200 proof using potentially very poisonous chemicals.
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Kane Red RobeMaster of MagicArcanusRegistered Userregular
My work phone just lit up with an *URGENT* meeting notice for tomorrow morning at 0730.
They put the wrong time so a bunch of folks came in early or called into the zoom for no reason because the person who scheduled the meeting doesn't get in until 0800.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
How many zombie parties would there be? Intentionally trying to get that herd immunity going faster.
Huh. Now that you mention it, it's weird that I've never read a virus-based zombie story where some decent fraction of the population was just immune. I guess it might undermine the whole human extinction stakes, but it'd open up some new story beats. Would the immune survivors be that much better off than everyone else, or would they be used as shock troops and lab rats by non-immune leaders with more firepower? And the whole "kill me before I turn" scene would have a whole other layer of complexity if there's a chance you'll just get over it.
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Kane Red RobeMaster of MagicArcanusRegistered Userregular
How many zombie parties would there be? Intentionally trying to get that herd immunity going faster.
Huh. Now that you mention it, it's weird that I've never read a virus-based zombie story where some decent fraction of the population was just immune. I guess it might undermine the whole human extinction stakes, but it'd open up some new story beats. Would the immune survivors be that much better off than everyone else, or would they be used as shock troops and lab rats by non-immune leaders with more firepower? And the whole "kill me before I turn" scene would have a whole other layer of complexity if there's a chance you'll just get over it.
The Feed trilogy by Mira Grant goes into it kinda but I can't recommend them on account of weird gross pseudo-incest showing up in book 2/3. Anyways, being immune to the virus doesn't prevent you from still being killed and eaten so not a lot of good there.
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
New laptop day's always fun. At least in this case I am getting to manage the transfer of my own data across systems... but I have so much cruft that I don't want to sort though that it is taking FOREVER.
A note: if you ever see 200 proof ethanol, do not under any circumstances drink it. The 190 proof azeotrope is dehydrated to 200 proof using potentially very poisonous chemicals.
What, you don't like the refreshing taste of benzene?
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
How many zombie parties would there be? Intentionally trying to get that herd immunity going faster.
Huh. Now that you mention it, it's weird that I've never read a virus-based zombie story where some decent fraction of the population was just immune. I guess it might undermine the whole human extinction stakes, but it'd open up some new story beats. Would the immune survivors be that much better off than everyone else, or would they be used as shock troops and lab rats by non-immune leaders with more firepower? And the whole "kill me before I turn" scene would have a whole other layer of complexity if there's a chance you'll just get over it.
Left 4 Dead actually has some of this, with the main characters being immune (mainly so you don't turn into a zombie with one hit I assume) and the tie-in comics going a bit more into that
Like having Zoe's tragic backstory include killing her dad before he turns... and later when the whole immunity thing is being explained to them the doctor mentions it seems to be patrilineal
Please note, while the aqua vitae was safe for the alechemists to drink, they were literally just distilling strong wine a lot of the time, so essentially they were making unaged brandy of one sort or another. What we have in the lab is ironically distilled to very high purity, and then small amounts of potent poisons are added to "de-nature" it, so we can buy it without paying liquor tax, because if you drink it you will likely at least go blind. So if you DO raid a lab, make sure you have a still and a good method you trust to not carry over methanol or other nasties. Likely more productive than starting from mash again, but I'd still say just go back to mash if you are already distilling.
Or just have a lab manager who insists on paying the extra and buying the untainted stuff. Obviously it's because it does better science and not because they had a massive drinking problem.
Everclear is RIGHT there if that's the way you want to go. That's wild and a hell of a bummer. Or wait, I guess they don't sell pure grain alcohol everywhere, but still.
My state is now allowing public employees to get the vaccine. I got really excited until I went and checked what a public employee actually is. It's certainly not me despite being a public facing employee.
At this point it feels like a miracle that I or any of my coworkers have not gotten sick since we fully reopened in June. We're not exactly retail, it's only a small portion of what we do, and we are not essential despite how busy we've been the past few months. Many of us have interacted with a couple of thousand people since June. Almost always closer than 6ft apart because our employer never put up any kind of barrier in front of the counter(s). We do the best we can by masking up, using sanitizer, and taking what precautions we can. With the new variant become ever more present and business continuing to get busier the day I can finally get my vaccine can't come soon enough. I wont deny that I'm getting jealous of how many people I know that work from home and rarely go out have gotten their vaccine but I still can't. I'm very sorry if that's selfish but considering how much interaction I have with the public I continue to be about my safety.
I'm also pretty worried about how much of a shit show open registration is going to be if NYS's unemployment registration fiasco was anything to go by. Granted it's been a year but I'm not particularly hopeful.
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I really wish people wouldn't message me asking if I'm going to do a thing. I was planning to do the thing, but now you've asked me I don't want to any more.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
I really wish people wouldn't message me asking if I'm going to do a thing. I was planning to do the thing, but now you've asked me I don't want to any more.
What if someone asks you to not do the thing? Does that make you want to do it more?
Don't do the thing, smof!
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited March 2021
Calling in sick today was definitely the right move. Between the cedar pollen, working eight days straight, and wrecked sleep patterns due to DST and nightly thunderstorms, I don't feel human today. Time to retreat into my hermit crab shell and try to regrow a passable set of social skills.
Jedoc on
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
Ya’ll and Folks are my two imformal adresses. If im addressing formally its either *company* or *department* team, like “accounting team, i need help...”
I'm definitely a fan of "folks" as well. It allows me to come across as more "human" I guess in my written customer communication beyond the "Dear Sirs/Everyone" etc.
"hey I haven't done this video edit thing yet because it might be a huge pain and I have to create a bunch of animations first, so I need to be able to completely clear my plate for an afternoon. I'll see if I can get to it."
"Here's an ffmpeg command I just googled!"
Yes thats what I love, a helpful comment I didn't ask for that doesn't remotely solve my problem. Like it's not that I don't know how, all of these steps are straightforward in theory, it's that I have to anticipate running into something goofy and make sure I'm not gonna spend hours down a rabbit hole at the expense of all my other work.
Threw together my PowerPoint for my interview on Monday (gotta do a 5 minute presentation on a past project)
It really helps when you do a thing that has a wide amount of tech coverage, high quality photos everywhere!! And three videos of the different elements in use, too - this shit is gonna be multimedia
Tomorrow I'm going to work on the spoken content itself and then just casually practice it all weekend, I'm feeling good about it
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There are so many of them, though, and they don't need to sleep. They're persistence hunters.
Come to think of it, zombies are to humans what humans are to everything else.
Exactly. Many of our monsters are things that are even better than us at the things we're good at, leaving us little hope of beating them (in that area, at least); depending on the desired tone, either we manage to change the playing field to one of our other strengths, or just die.
Also remember that - in much the same way that fairground rides allow riders to safely enjoy fears of heights, speed, falling, etc - zombies are, at their core, a sufficiently fantastical/unreal stand-in for the widespread collapse of lawful society and roaming mobs of hungry people. (Money and status cease to matter, only survival goods and skills count, and so on.) The big difference is that it's 100% morally okay to kill zombies to protect your home and family, whereas you might have a slight twinge doing the same to a fellow living human.
Is this... is this a Coronavirus bit?
Yeah I mean she's working part time, and also writing her own stuff as her own side hustle, this is more of a one-off thing right now. But I know she has the attention to detail to be really good at this so I strongly urged her not to underprice herself. I basically walked her through the possibility that this person agrees to her price, and then turns around and not only has a constant source of work for her, but recommends her to others and tells how much he pays; they'll pre-emptively expect that same price, and her (being a good person and soft heart) will not want to fight it too much, and will end up screwing herself in the long run. I basically said, "what's the worst that will happen if you overprice yourself?" and the honest answer was no different than where she's at now, so hopefully she takes that into heavy consideration.
But considering people apparently charge 7-10 cents a word, and that alone would have been about ~$3k for around 8 hours work, compared to the ~$30/hr I recommended as an absolutely floor, I think she'll be fine. This is purely an extra-extra-side gig for a little extra cash to pad our savings, but I did point out that right now, since she's on my health insurance, we actually are almost paying full price (her+me is about 4x what just me was).
https://youtu.be/oqLCDHjQxEQ
The worst decision you've made so far.
Congrats.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
As a type 1 diabetic, I either immediately become a pig and cattle baron ensuring I have a useful role in post apocalyptic society, and a ready source of close enough animal pancreas to extract insulin from (I think sheep can work too) or I die slowly of uncontrolled glucose levels slowly destroying my nerves and circulatory system from the inside.
So yeah, in an actual apocalypse I always figured I'd be somewhere near the bottom of the skull pile.
@Kadith
May I borrow this idea for a short story?
my shit posts definitely don't deserve to be part of anything productively creative
but i would have no problems with you doing so.
Thank you
I'm not sure anything will come of it
I'm constantly on the verge of writing fiction and rarely get a word on a page
Or just have a lab manager who insists on paying the extra and buying the untainted stuff. Obviously it's because it does better science and not because they had a massive drinking problem.
They put the wrong time so a bunch of folks came in early or called into the zoom for no reason because the person who scheduled the meeting doesn't get in until 0800.
Huh. Now that you mention it, it's weird that I've never read a virus-based zombie story where some decent fraction of the population was just immune. I guess it might undermine the whole human extinction stakes, but it'd open up some new story beats. Would the immune survivors be that much better off than everyone else, or would they be used as shock troops and lab rats by non-immune leaders with more firepower? And the whole "kill me before I turn" scene would have a whole other layer of complexity if there's a chance you'll just get over it.
The Feed trilogy by Mira Grant goes into it kinda but I can't recommend them on account of weird gross pseudo-incest showing up in book 2/3. Anyways, being immune to the virus doesn't prevent you from still being killed and eaten so not a lot of good there.
What, you don't like the refreshing taste of benzene?
Left 4 Dead actually has some of this, with the main characters being immune (mainly so you don't turn into a zombie with one hit I assume) and the tie-in comics going a bit more into that
Everclear is RIGHT there if that's the way you want to go. That's wild and a hell of a bummer. Or wait, I guess they don't sell pure grain alcohol everywhere, but still.
At this point it feels like a miracle that I or any of my coworkers have not gotten sick since we fully reopened in June. We're not exactly retail, it's only a small portion of what we do, and we are not essential despite how busy we've been the past few months. Many of us have interacted with a couple of thousand people since June. Almost always closer than 6ft apart because our employer never put up any kind of barrier in front of the counter(s). We do the best we can by masking up, using sanitizer, and taking what precautions we can. With the new variant become ever more present and business continuing to get busier the day I can finally get my vaccine can't come soon enough. I wont deny that I'm getting jealous of how many people I know that work from home and rarely go out have gotten their vaccine but I still can't. I'm very sorry if that's selfish but considering how much interaction I have with the public I continue to be about my safety.
I'm also pretty worried about how much of a shit show open registration is going to be if NYS's unemployment registration fiasco was anything to go by. Granted it's been a year but I'm not particularly hopeful.
As an aside you know there would be frat parties with a zombie on a chain as entertainment and a bunch of dumb youths daring each other.
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wasn't that in land of the dead, one of the most terrible zombie films?
Probably. Its a movie I watched once them promptly forgot.
Id still watch it over that Boyscouts guide to zombies or whatever it was called.
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What if someone asks you to not do the thing? Does that make you want to do it more?
I'm definitely a fan of "folks" as well. It allows me to come across as more "human" I guess in my written customer communication beyond the "Dear Sirs/Everyone" etc.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
"Here's an ffmpeg command I just googled!"
Yes thats what I love, a helpful comment I didn't ask for that doesn't remotely solve my problem. Like it's not that I don't know how, all of these steps are straightforward in theory, it's that I have to anticipate running into something goofy and make sure I'm not gonna spend hours down a rabbit hole at the expense of all my other work.
It really helps when you do a thing that has a wide amount of tech coverage, high quality photos everywhere!! And three videos of the different elements in use, too - this shit is gonna be multimedia
Tomorrow I'm going to work on the spoken content itself and then just casually practice it all weekend, I'm feeling good about it
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The screen was disgustingly filthy. I handed her a clorox wipe and she cleaned the screen and it was fixed in 15 seconds.
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