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It’s not just you treating our couch like a doomsday bunker that is at issue here. It is also you being under the bed. And under that little end table in the den, which is admittedly less of a big deal.
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[inhaling 6 large coffees to achieve 150% productivity at work] Don't talk to me until I've had my capitalism!!!
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"We have a few animals that can actually catch the virus, the great apes, gorillas, and chimps and the people working with those animals immediately began wearing masks."
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Scott Stapp reached spectacular, undeniable heights of commercial success while also inspiring intense vitriol from vocal haters — and then publicly unraveled.
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We probably can’t tell yet just what we’re missing out on when we transfer social life from the real world to the virtual.
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We all have to find a way to float together.
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We have repeatedly made it clear that you may venture wherever you please in this house, and are even willing to work with the fact that you are a 16-pound Pomeranian-Shetland mix who lacks opposable thumbs by opening doors when you need them opened.
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"I can go two to three hours without talking to another human being because we are all in our own departments staying away from one another."
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Scott Stapp’s breakdown was uniquely extreme, detailed and vivid, especially given his and Creed’s strong messaging about redemption.
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Without any alternatives, we’ll all have to get used to virtual stand-ins, and fast.
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Obscene amount of Creed got blasted while doing this absurd pet project of a story. Dreams really do come true! c/o
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Loved reading @ilyashov on what it was like to be fascinated by Scott Stapp's Christianity, as a cultural Jew theoutline.com/post/8933/cree
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Dearest Nora,
It gives me no pleasure to write you this letter, especially in a forum as public as this one; however, your recent actions have left me no choice in the matter.
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During Creed’s heyday, Scott Stapp became synonymous with Christian rock, long locks flailing as he belted lyrics about overcoming his struggles through faith. Then he unraveled.
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The most enlightened of all hot-beverage vessels is a stout, narrow ceramic mug shaped like a cylinder, exactly as wide at the brim as at the base. All else is folly.
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We have found ourselves in the midst of medically necessary self-imposed isolation during an era when more people are living alone than in quite possibly any point in human history.
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At the moment, masks carry with them a social cost — namely that wearing one might make you look goofy. We got you some cooler inspiration.
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Reardon was hospitalized — with his partner, who works at a hospital, taking him in “because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at me.”
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The essential problem is this: if a system is a joined whole, then the U.S. does not have a health care system.
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You should be wearing a mask. For ~fashion~ inspiration, here are some masks throughout history.
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Creative boredom can become a form of radical hope, and if it doesn't it can provide the entertainment of getting magnets stuck up your nose.
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The U.S. does not have a health care system, it has a collection of disparate and competing public and private companies who are in the business of selling beds, doctors, and medications like products.
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here is some mask inspo for all you cool cats and kittens
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If you’ve got it, a mask will help prevent you spreading the virus to others.
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Dr Daniel Reardon, the Australian who got magnets stuck up his nose during a pandemic, is the hero that we all need right now.
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Setting out to love yourself because that’s the only way to gain love from others is a knot that undoes itself when pulled.
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I wrote for about how the rationing of health care we're seeing is hardly new, and how #coronavirus has only exposed what has long been true: there is no U.S. health care system.
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“We’ve been able to operate under a mass delusion that our country actually has good health care because so many people are blocked from ever encountering it.”
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"In my 26 years as a patient in American hospitals, I’ve experienced rationing of all kinds."
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"If there was a plan to, say, close the store, put things on pause, and furlough people, it would be different."
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"I’m not the first or last person to pretend to be another person on the internet — it’s a tentpole of joking around on Twitter."
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Some people chill their casu marzu to slow the larvae down, while others place it in an airtight container to suffocate them to death just before eating it to avoid maggoty sparks flying all over. But of course, the grubs are still there.
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Minute-to-minute weather forecasts are fake, say meteorologists, and they would like the world to know they have nothing to do with them, thank you very much.
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"It would be impossible, unrealistic and insane to expect people to be working in close proximity to each other in order to make sweet coffee drinks."
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"I also was literally just tweeting as a dead guy, being like, 'Hey guys, vote for Bernie. I’m dead.'"
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For all of the cultural and legal baggage surrounding it, Sardinians still make and eat literal tons of casu marzu when it’s in season in the late summer and early fall.
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