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#2788929 4-Oct-2021 10:52

Handsomedan:

afe66: Maybe consider a quick note of thanks to the vaccinator ?

Letters of complaint outnumber letters of thanks unfortunately.

This is a great idea and I had thought of that...I will follow through on it, as I think a little praise goes a long way these days.

I also make a point of thanking checkout people in supermarkets. They get a lot of unnecessary flack these days.

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#2789669 5-Oct-2021 10:37

Playing Pandemic with my kids. It's a board game, which you play together rather than against each other. It's a little bit complex, but my 9-year-old has a decent grasp on it after 3 games, and my 12-year-old is already a pro :)

It's fun and challenging and winning is surprisingly satisfying.

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#2789693 5-Oct-2021 11:09

networkn:

Playing Pandemic with my kids. It's a board game, which you play together rather than against each other. It's a little bit complex, but my 9-year-old has a decent grasp on it after 3 games, and my 12-year-old is already a pro :)

It's fun and challenging and winning is surprisingly satisfying.

Do you have to wear masks and sit 2m apart?

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2789728 5-Oct-2021 12:03

Rikkitic:

I also make a point of thanking checkout people in supermarkets. They get a lot of unnecessary flack these days.

I like thank anyone who does something for me whether they've served my food, made me a coffee, let me out at an intersection, driven the bus, packed my groceries or opened a door.

But especially to those who have made something a real experience, or shown empathy or compassion to someone.

It's basic manners, it costs nothing and it's something we've tried to ensure our kids do as well.

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#2789758 5-Oct-2021 12:58

Facebook being down. Looks like they finally seriously clamped down on hate speech, racism, anti vaxxers, neo nazis, and conspiracy theorists... And found there was nothing left.

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#2790073 5-Oct-2021 17:44

From BBC Mock of the Week: (In Covid times)

"I don't care if you are a Dalek!"

"You still have to scan in!"

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#2790834 7-Oct-2021 05:53

Qualified downsizing to the real needs.

- NET: FTTH, OPNsense, 10G backbone, GWN APs, ipPBX
- SRV: HA server cluster, 0.1PB storage capacity on premise
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#2790902 7-Oct-2021 09:24

Getting out of our neighbourhood and taking the dog for a walk at a local lake, now that we are in stage 1, section 9, subsection 42 of level 3 of the lockdown, here in Auckland.

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#2790905 7-Oct-2021 09:27

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/11-for-brief-emotion-the-hidden-charges-of-us-healthcare-are-utterly-enraging

Yet another reminder of why I've never wanted to live there.

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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#2791207 7-Oct-2021 13:30

rb99:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/11-for-brief-emotion-the-hidden-charges-of-us-healthcare-are-utterly-enraging

Yet another reminder of why I've never wanted to live there.

The whole HMO (medical insurer) driven system in the US creates a perverse incentive to maximise treatment costs in order to maximise revenue. GPs get out of public into (expensive, HMO-driven) private practice as soon as possible, leaving general medical care a truly third-world experience. I've never been into a doctor's office in Africa but I'd expect them to look like the public medical practice I went to in the US.

At least they paint bright murals on the walls in African clinics, although with all the junk piled up you wouldn't have seen most of them in the US clinic.

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#2793552 12-Oct-2021 08:49

My youngest (nearly 15) has just procured an Oculus VR setup.

Watching him playing Beat Sabre or exploring the world in VR is actually really funny and quite endearing...the simple wonder of a floating menu that he can interact with.

He's ordered a couple of games - one of which is Jurassic World. I think we may have to expect some jump scares and leaping about with that one!

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#2794657 13-Oct-2021 18:01

A (presumably) elderly gentleman made a forum post about an issue with his circa 1994 computer (hard drive making a clicking noise and sometimes needing a bit of a shake to get started). What made me smile was everyone being polite and helpful, and not only helping to explain how to back up all his data but also with getting a replacement system up and running with a modern version of his accounting software.

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#2794678 13-Oct-2021 18:26

55 yrs of StarTrek. „Beam me up Scotty, there‘s no intelligent life down here.“ :-)

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#2794680 13-Oct-2021 18:27

Behodar:

A (presumably) elderly gentleman made a forum post about an issue with his circa 1994 computer (hard drive making a clicking noise and sometimes needing a bit of a shake to get started). What made me smile was everyone being polite and helpful, and not only helping to explain how to back up all his data but also with getting a replacement system up and running with a modern version of his accounting software.

Most people are nice. It is just a small number who spoil it for everyone.

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#2794686 13-Oct-2021 18:40

Tinkerisk:
55 yrs of StarTrek. „Beam me up Scotty, there‘s no intelligent life down here.“ :-)

I prefer BarTrek: Jim Beam me up, Scotchy!

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