I thought I read somewhere that your social security card wasn’t initially at all meant for proof of identity and shit that we use it for today, which is why it’s made of fragile paper. But I didn’t actually look that up to verify so idk.

Bro I get company shills exist, but that’s a big level of paranoia right there.

I swear, some people on the internet act as if you even mention a company name, that you’re some sort of paid corporate shill. No, man, sometimes I just talk about every day things in my life lol.

Seriously what is this a photo of?

P Sherman 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney, Australia

This is so stupid but why do I love it??

COVID is going around at my workplace. I caught it. You might have caught it too.

How does that work? I feel like I would just end up wanting to vomit. Not that chocolate milk is gross, but it’s a bit heavy for working out.

I could figure out the other words, but not that one. “Select”??? It makes sense from a semantic point of view, but there is no way that it says that. It does not look like that at all!!

One of my coworkers without children (I think she is in her early 40s) got strep last year and she was out for a whole week! That shit is no joke! I also don’t hear much about adults getting it (especially when they don’t interact with kids) but I guess it happens! You doing better now?

Omg yes exactly! I’ve not heard this comparison before but it is spot on! Like what was even the point??

Yeah my coworker is going to be seeing at least 2 vulnerable people. I’m sure there could be more out there as well.

Just feels a bit odd and simultaneously wasteful using an extra sick day (we have a limited amount) when I am not even sick. And look, this is totally stupid, but I also don’t want people to think I’m a wimp that needs more time to recover than I actually do. Or I don’t want people to think that I’m lying and using sick days for no reason.

I know those last two are kind of nonsensical, but I can’t help how my brain works lol!! I’m getting cabin fever in here!

Thank you! This is actually unfortunately my second time having it. Definitely nowhere near as bad as the first. I took the whole week off out of paranoia of infecting my coworkers, even though I probably don’t need to be out that long. One of them had weekend plans that I don’t want to mess up for them. Mostly I’m bored as fuck but I feel basically better!

That was me on Friday. Thought I just irritated my throat, but nope. Two days later I tested positive for COVID. >:(

I was only a kid when we still had smoking vs non smoking sections, but I remember how odd I thought it was back then.

The pungent smell of smoke permeated the air throughout the entire restaurant. Usually there was not even a door separating smoking from non smoking. Idk what they were hoping to accomplish.

I was with most of this until the selective breeding part. Did prehistoric humans have a concept of this? Do we have evidence of that? If so, that sounds rather interesting. I’m just a bit skeptical is all.

What do you mean about the nose feeling funny thing?

I do know what you mean. Idk, I feel like when in a small enough community as it is being on Lemmy. Only so many people will see this anyway. We’re already a fringe group.

Tbh I wish Biden didn’t have to be an option to begin with. But I’ll still vote for him over Trump. Hell, I’d vote for a bag of rocks over Trump. At least the bag of rocks can’t possibly be gunning to become a horrifying dictator.

Oh my fucking God I was so startled and amused that I made dying horse noises. Well done, OP.

I did notice he had many moments of straight up disbelief on his face at the thought that he is seriously supposed to be debating these man. I felt for him when he made those faces in those moments.

But this isn’t one of those. Most of the time it just looked like he was absolutely terrified and distracted by something we couldn’t see off screen that wasn’t Trump.