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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday December 30 2020, @03:19AM (8 children)
After I made my post, I got word from one of my sisters that the place I volunteer at was hit with covid. I wasn't called because I had been off for 5 days before the first person felt sick, and a week before the test results come back. Dodged the bullet because I had herniated an old temporary colostomy from the 90s.
How perversely lucky. Because I didn't feel lucky the last few weeks as it reduced.
Anyway, one of my friends who works there tested positive, so I offered to let her stay here to isolate from her hubby and stepson if she felt it necessary. Two spare rooms, separate electric heating and windows in every room, it can be made comparatively safe.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Thursday December 31 2020, @12:55AM (7 children)
One of the things that told me I had a really great friend here in this once-foreign country (I knew basically no-one here when I moved, it was rather tabula rasa) was when I messaged him something like "Oh, shit, I proper fucked up", and his instantanious reponse wasn't "what did you do?", or laddish jokes about whether my partner had found out about something, but simply "how can I help?". My wellbeing got a huge boost, no matter what troubles had beset me.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday December 31 2020, @03:51AM (6 children)
Hard times can be good times, as they provide people a chance to do good. At least that's what I keep saying.
Then again, I'm probably full of shit thinking that. Maybe. Who knows? The world is f'ed up, news at 11.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by mrpg on Thursday December 31 2020, @05:25AM (5 children)
The good thing is that you find out who are your real friends and who are just acquaintances.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 31 2020, @08:48AM (1 child)
<sarcasm>Wait a minute. Y'all had real friends?</sarcasm>
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 31 2020, @04:39PM
"A friend is someone you need."
- Neil Diamond in Heartlight
Turn on your heartlight. And I'll call the next time I need anything from you.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Friday January 01 2021, @06:04AM (1 child)
Q: What do you call a friend that you can't get rid of no matter what you do?
A: Family.
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday January 13 2021, @06:57PM
The same is true, if they weren't family to begin with.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday January 27 2021, @11:46AM
This is one of the good things I see coming from such a bizarrely conceived failed coup attempt in the U.S.
I respect their right to feel as they do and I encourage them to continue screaming at the top of their lungs "I BELIEVE THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN."
It's good to know where people stand.
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