Add teachers, grocery store, retail workers to that list as well as the many I’m sure I’ve forgotten.
We should remember the “essential” workers who have to go to work no matter what.
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I would be freaking out but literally haven’t seen any news except people saying we should be freaking out (even listening to morning news that is the depth i get) so thanks i am going to go read and commence freaking out
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None of this should be controversial. The WH staff (current and future), members of Congress and their staffs are essential workers along with all the government workers not working remotely. They should be treated as such.
Conservatives like to treat public employees including teachers like they are somehow doing charity work that need only be minimally compensated. We liberals fall into this trap when we want to threat these workers as second class citizens.
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There is so much distraction, that no one is really watching the story.
The fucking Russians seem to have gained access to some deep regions of the gov’t’s significant information technology and barely a peep from the press.
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Praps a vaccine shot should be predicated on passing an actual annual budget and the other 400+ bills Mitch has sat upon for months.
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In a normal world.
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On the balance, a few hundred privileged people getting the vaccine for the rest of us might drive the masses to more urgently want the vaccine, ultimately doing more good than harm.
I’m not going to get all bent out of shape demanding that we use this as an opportunity to punish politicians that I don’t like.
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Getting Congress (House and Senate both) to do their goddamned jobs is like herding rabid cats.
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We/re in an alternate universe and have been since 11/8/2016 and considering who got elected there’s no reason for anything to be “normal”. I really hope the voters in Georgia choose to kick the goobers to the curb. Things need to get done and Mitch McConnell stands in the way.
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Here’s another little story to make you crazy.
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They’ve been playing undetected for months.
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I had just now looked to post again and got assaulted by that goddamned nannybot again:
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TPM has “talked over” me again and it’s fucking rude. Then again I am somewhat old fashioned and politeness is still important. But when wronged the gloves come off… yu listening nannybot???
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Here’s the question - does all of Congress get it or just the leadership?
As I read the article, the vaccinations in Congress are predicated on continuous government operation - do we need all of 'em? For a while there, we had quite a few Senators on the sidelines (remember the SC justice hearings right around the election?) and nothing was all that impacted (except for Mitch insisting that further infecteds keep it quiet, lest they lose the timing on confirming her, which was nothing short of selfish on his part).
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The article contains a warning to users that Microsoft Azure cloud services may have been compromised and to lock them down.
Too late for that, isn’t it?
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It is their software that DOESN’T put our comments in a thread, so that we could actually see the entire discussion on one screen. I know folks don’t like Disqus, but it is far more user and comment friendly than this nonsense.
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I know.
I guess I started out today in a cranky mood.
I’ve been around TPM since 2013 and seen a variety of comment styles go by. This one works reasonably OK. It’s just that discobot annoys me. It looks over our collective shoulders in a controlling manner that I don’t like. It’s just me and my crankyness.
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Republican never masks should be never vaccine receivers
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It’s ok, darr.
I don’t think it works reasonably ok, because the parent-child relationships of the thread are lost past level 0 (thinking in terms of a Bill of Material, where the final product is level 0 and the next level 1 is subassemblies, etc).
Your initial comment is level 0, mine is level 1, yours is level 2 and this one is level 3. But we can’t see that all on one screen. That’s a problem for me, because going up and down loses all the stuff in between. And any additional comments to your level 1 are completely lost in the visual for the thread.
I just don’t like this system and it’s even more difficult on a cellphone - one can’t see ANY of the connectivity easily.
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“By a long shot”
Pun intended?
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“Azure”
Azure about to get hacked.