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First off, for those of you who are celebrating Thanksgiving this Thursday, please accept our best wishes for a safe and happy holiday. For those who are struggling themselves (or who have friends or family who are), please accept our sincere and best wishes for a speedy and full recovery.
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I am encouraging the editorial staff to take a break during this holiday period. Therefore, we will be on a reduced, weekend schedule from Thursday through Sunday (UTC), inclusive. We will continue to check in during this period... we thank you in advance for continuing to send in your story submissions.
Again, please accept our genuine best wishes for a safe and happy holiday!
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday November 26 2020, @01:38AM (4 children)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 26 2020, @02:16AM
Dammit, Benedict, all you ever do is whinge. And, you wonder why nobody ever names their kids Benedict Arnold. We don't even like eggs Benedict very much!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 26 2020, @06:57AM (2 children)
It's not government going to the neighbor to say hello and just pop in with their parents to drop off groceries in their fridge.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday November 26 2020, @01:05PM (1 child)
But it IS government that keeps changing the messaging every few days, to the point where nobody can be certain what is and isn't allowed.
Ontario - stay home for Christmas. Quebec (half the population of Ontario, but almost 2/3 of all covid deaths in Canada) - 2 family gatherings of up to 30 people permitted, don't get tested unless you have symptoms (even though half of all adults are asymptomatic, 3/4 of preschoolers are a symptomatic, the schools are crawling with covid).
It was a big mistake not to leave Quebec. And now that my "good" eye had a series of haemorrhages and is now also legally blind, I can't. Even before that it was too risky to ride a bicycle, never mind drive a car. And eye surgery? Really backed up..
It's ridiculous. I have a 50" TV 48" from the couch and I can't see it. And yet I'm not classified as handicapped "because it might only be temporary " even though it's been going on for a decade.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 26 2020, @11:11PM
If only you could find a place where they paid you to whine, you would have it made!