> Those included in the XCheck program, according to Facebook documents, include, in top row: Neymar, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr. and Mark Zuckerberg, and in bottom row, Elizabeth Warren, Dan Scavino, Candace Owens and Doug the Pug.
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rejectedandsad commented on I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case npr.org/sections/health-s... · Posted by u/dsr12
So you are ok with injecting things into peoples bodies, by force.
But covering the nose and mouth, when around others, is beyond the pale?
Yes, because I’ve gotten vaccinated and I shouldn’t be continued to be punished with restrictions.
rejectedandsad commented on I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case npr.org/sections/health-s... · Posted by u/dsr12
In 2019 or earlier, when have you had to show an ID and proof of vaccination to enter any building other than your own house? And for schools, didn't you used to have private schools or homeschooling as an option to avoid these kind of mandates? And hard hats aren't really comparable, since you can take them back off at the end of the workday.
I’m referring to masks. Mandating vaccines is fine and good.
rejectedandsad commented on I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case npr.org/sections/health-s... · Posted by u/dsr12
Perhaps we were too lackadaisical about flu.
I've certainly enjoyed not getting the usual bouts of cold and flu my kids would bring home from school every winter.
I hope at least one lesson we take from COVID is "people should be able to take sick days rather than coming to work/school sick".
It’s perfectly fine for that to be ones risk tolerance and to take mitigation steps. It’s not to mandate them by government fiat.
These numbers are really important, especially on a day like today. It's strange how much of a spectacle [1] 9/11 was, almost made for TV. Our 3000 victims of terror are thus acknowledged, depicted, and disseminated throughout the world. As a result, they're remembered in some sense too.
But the hundreds of thousands more whom we maim, torture, and kill across the globe are given no such status -- they're barely even admitted to exist! Simple efforts to just count these people etch them into the documentary record, and allow no one to say they couldn't have known. In this way they serve a similar purpose to Holocaust studies: by tallying the victims you make it harder to forget.
It’s probably because they’re our people. It’s normal to most acknowledge our own victims.
rejectedandsad commented on September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time 911realtime.org/... · Posted by u/smohnot
Yes, I was that day. And I had probably been there since 6:00 am the previous day. Pulling multiple all-nighters on various "super important" projects was typical for me and others. In retrospect, my advice is not to do such things, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
The email and all the security events happened right after the second plane hit, which seemed like it was closer to normal start of day hours.
Fair, 2001 was a pivot point for Apple's history too.
rejectedandsad commented on September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time 911realtime.org/... · Posted by u/smohnot
Watching the footage on this site reminds me of how I watched the events unfold on 9/11. I was at work at Apple in IL2 (Building 2 of the Infinite Loop campus.) People started getting calls on their desk phones and co-workers coming in started to share the news. An email came from Steve Jobs which I can't remember the exact contents of. One thing the email did have, was a link that was a live video news stream of the events unfolding.
The campus entered a type of lock-down. The gates to the parking garages were closed, the front-doors to the building were locked and security blocked the entrances to the campus with their vehicles. At the time, work was sort of my family so I didn't consider that some people probably wanted to leave right away to be with their loved ones. I assume they were able to do so with some effort.
Things obviously changed in the world that day. At Apple, the underground gates to the garages were always closed and you had to badge in. Security personnel were posted in the lobbies and badging in and "tailgating" were taken very seriously. The doors to the inner campus were now locked and you had to badge in and out. These were all really minor things, but it made you realize that things were no longer going to be the same as before.
> I was at work at Apple in IL2 (Building 2 of the Infinite Loop campus.)
You were at work at 6-7AM?
But being angry like this is really toxic for yourself. Life should be happier than this for you. Please find a way to talk to a therapist because you need to release your anger, get past your trauma, and find happiness.