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To be honest, not the first lockdown and not this we should face have not much effect on me...
If I can commute I do, otherwise working from home...
But! There are a few - or even more than a few - who lost their job (including my big brother, who was on unpaid leave for a few months)... As I understand this time there will be no restrictions on the workforce, except if the nature of the work implies crowd (like sport, theater, hotels, restaurants and such)...
At my office we keep distance in an average day, so not much changed there... Probably part of the colleges will work form home, to keep an eye on the kids, but as my wife works from home most of the time anyways, no problem there either...
The only problem that we are under extreme pressure to enable full online learning - including exams... A lot of work...
(because of the holiday season I have only 7 days of work left until the end of the 3 weeks lockdown planned)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Well...
- As a result of the behavior of many of the ministers and other bigwigs during the last lockdown and since, the Government has very low credibility.
- Israel is an extremely diverse country. We have a serious problem of disobedience to the Coronavirus regulations among certain groups.
- We have a Prime Minister who is under trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust, refuses to resign, at least one minister under suspicion of the same, and weekly protests calling on the Government to resign.
- We have very high unemployment, businesses have closed, etc. The tourism, entertainment, and retail businesses have been worst hit, but everyone has been affected to some extent.
In short, the actual Coronavirus is the least of our problems.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: the Government has very low credibility You phrased that very gently... Maybe you meant that 'low' === 'converges to zero'...
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: We have a serious problem of disobedience to the Coronavirus ANY regulations among certain ALL groups. FTFY
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You make that sound like a much larger country!
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The best parfumes and the worst poisons come in small bottles
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Sorry it's late
Casual farewell before a dog attacked the gourd. (8)
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Cucumber?
Total guess, and I know it's wrong ... but it's the only gourd I can think of with eight letters ...
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A good start... think generic.
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List<Cucumber> ?
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Solution:
C U casual farewell
CUR BIT dog attacked
definition - Gourd
Guess I'll have to think up another one tomorrow.
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Got the word (with google help), but I couldn't get the solution. Although I only spent a couple mins on it.
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Curbit is not 8 letters
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... but CUCURBIT is.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Take the word for "good or bad luck, viewed as resulting from one's actions" for example.
It's spelt as "K-A-R-M-A", but pronounced as " "
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You mean: 💩 happens!!?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I have heard it described as a mixture between latin languages, where all vowels and consonents are pronounced in a consistent manner, and character based languages like Mandarin.
So - trough, bough, though, thought are essentially character based words as the pronunciation of the "ough" is different in each.
Which leads to fish being spelt ghoti.
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― Christopher Hitchens
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Even stranger is that this is closely connected to the concept of 'Schadenfreude', wich you don't have a word for.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That's because we would never delight in another's misfortune, no matter how deserved it was.
(And I managed to type that with a straight face, as well!)
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Big mistake. Rub it in, otherwise they will never learn.
Wer den Schaden hat, spottet jeder Beschreibung.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I suppose most readers know English is tough stuff[^]. If not, it is worth a try at reading out loud!
(The refererence to Nato at the top is BS - the poem was first published in 1929 or 1930, fifteen years before Nato was established. There is a longer version of the poem, but this one - which is one commonly presented - is bad enough...)
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My wife, who is a USian, managed about 99% of that. Curiously, she didn't know what a "granary" was.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Dogs of C-Kennel: Monopoly 2020 Edition[^]
Yeah, they nailed those rules.
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@Peter-in-2780
Where's the CCC?
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