The good news is my COVID test came back negative.
The bad news is why I took a COVID test.
A local deli, who I'm not going to name this second. had a blowup in the local town's facebook group because someone indicated that multiple employees have had COVID come back positive and they kept the joint open, because Save Small Business.
This deli gets visited by a lot of people. Construction workers and tourists visiting the local park are among the biggest sets of customers.
And me. On my long health-oriented walks, I used this place as where I could get a snack before the miles-long walk back.
The whole thing got into a froth, and of course the admins deleted the entire post because of course having randos in charge of an information group about a town with no accountability on a platform (Facebook) that hates accountability means they cut and run.
The deli is now closed for "deep cleaning", which who knows what that is, and what it involves, because they're making it up.
Anyway. I'm negative, they've lost a customer, a lot of people are going to get very sick this Winter.
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In in the district for a particular race for a New York State Senator position. It is held by a Republican named Sue Serino since 2015. It is being challenged by a Democrat named Karen Smythe.
The mailings have been coming in. A LOT OF MAILINGS.
Serino's stuff seems to be "Let's keep things going. We're doing great. I'll help with that." It does not go out of its way to call her a Republican. (Note the color shift in Red/Blue)
Karen Smythe is coming in strong, about how competent and world-changing she is.
A recent youtube video thanked the BBS Documentary for background info, then linked to my youtube playlist for it, so literally hundreds, maybe thousands of people are finding it, 15 years after I put it out there. Lots of backseat driving and lots of confusion ensues.
This one's just interesting on several levels, but it's one of many comments of people coming in with very hard opinions about a time they didn't live through and assuming that the world at the time had aspects or outlooks that, well, it didn't.
Is this the time to discuss the Fake Robot Girl a company had that used a magician-designed elaborate "boot-up" system where they could put her parts into a box and "start her up" as the actress would slide into the costume?
I'm not an engineering major, nor a library sciences major, and definitely not an archivist major - I'm a mass communications major with a concentration in film studies and production. That means I both know how mediums work and engage in those mediums.
Taken as a medium, Twitter is a complete and utter failure for what it was originally used for, which was a tiny chat system that allowed quick dabbles of text between a closed group of people. Every time twitter expanded that, they hit wild success AND utter misunderstanding.