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@attoparsec I'm glad your job lets you work independently. I however depend on some 70 other production staff to do my job. It is vital that we all are in the same place at the same time in order to get the products we maintain our the door.

@albertcardona @simonvarwell Agreed. I never realized how much the constant traffic noise was effecting me until I moved out of the city and it was not there.

@Gothilla My CEO is the company founder, has an 2 degrees in Engineering, and has been doing the same job since the 1970s. Entrepreneurship is far more likely to get you to the top than climbing at an existing company.

@freemo With all the scar tissue in my bionic schnoz it is worth a lot to work from a single sample, but I'll look more carefully after dinner. Thanks.

@freemo In the USA? I've never seen one for anything other than Covid except in a medical facility. A quick search of the world largest online retailer didn't turn up any either. Do you know a supplier who will ship to a US address?

@freemo I'd at least like my insurance to cover a box of 4 each year, but even if I could buy them OTC out of pocket, I'd just like to know cold / flu / Covid in one test that doesn't include dragging my sick ass to the doctors office at $100 a visit.

@webhat

Both true and not true. Nearly every job requires some skill, the question from an employment point of view is, "How much does it take to acquire those skills?" At my last job I could take a High School Junior with a 2.0 GPA and no work experience and have them competently monitoring the arcade in one 4-hour shift. Maintaining the games took 4 years of technical schooling and a year of on the Job training. I got paid more then the game room attendant.

@eliasp @dymaxion

I want a box of these in my medicine cabinet. Why to I think that the FDA is the main reason I don't already have one.
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@amaditalks A majority of people really don't like either candidate, but both have manipulated the primary process to get nominated anyway. If either Trump or Biden win they will be the lease popular person ever to be elected president. Look out for a third party spoiler that will make Ralph Nader and Ross Perot look tame.

@smallerdemon @JohnJBurnsIII And what is your proposed alternative?

@JohnJBurnsIII @ai6yr Because I80 is the only viable winter route east for 500 miles in either direction. The next best option to get our of California is I15 through Las Vegas. It's only a 800 mile detour.

@migriverat

Have you considered the possibility that the people who work at the CDC are those kind of people, but that the best scientific evidence suggests that at this point in the progress of the COVID-19 epidemic that there is not a reasonable social benefit to the 5-day quarantine? Could it be that Public Health is acting completely rationally and that you are perhaps the one over reacting?

@trendless

My California ballot doesn't have an #uncommitted line, but I have done what I think is the next best thing and voted for Rep. Barbara Lee to be the next US Senator from California.