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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:46 pm
by tifosi77
Today - June 17th, 2021 - I had a lunch that was a salad from a grocery store salad bar that I prepared myself using common utensils for the first time in over 470 days. I wasn't even hungry, I just wanted to make a salad.
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:03 pm
by Shyster
That's it, you gonna die.
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:56 pm
by Gaucho
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:08 pm
by tifosi77
Salad bars have been shut down since March 13, 2020. Only pre-packaged grab-and-go items. It's actually one of the weird things I found I missed the most about the Before Times that I want expecting to miss. Just a complete sign of normalcy returning.
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:10 pm
by Shyster
Yeah, no salad bars, no olive/antipasti bars, no hot-food bars. Not sure when Giant Eagle is bringing those back. They weren't back as of last weekend.
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:11 pm
by MalkinIsMyHomeboy
I’m sure there are worse things than COVID in those salad bars
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:14 pm
by NTP66
I do miss the olive bars. Our local Fresh Market gets their stuff directly from Delallo’s, which is outstanding. They have been prepackaging certain items and storing them in the same bar area, but the choices are limited.
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:26 pm
by faftorial
No more buffets or salad bars for me. Think of all the unwashed hands on those serving utensils.
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:32 pm
by PFiDC
Think about all the unwashed hands on:
Elevator buttons
Door handles
Tables
Chairs
Stair rails
The cash you get back as change
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:33 pm
by NTP66
Speaking of cash, where has @Willie Kool been?
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:47 pm
by MalkinIsMyHomeboy
Think about all the unwashed hands on:
Elevator buttons
Door handles
Tables
Chairs
Stair rails
The cash you get back as change
Strippers
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:21 pm
by PFiDC
Think about all the unwashed hands on:
Elevator buttons
Door handles
Tables
Chairs
Stair rails
The cash you get back as change
Strippers
I guarantee you there are not any hands on a stripper...
...unless you go to the champagne room
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:23 pm
by blackjack68
False
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:36 pm
by PFiDC
False
I worked at Blush for a year. You can touch in a room, not on the stage.
But then again there's the tables so I'm sure there's a lot of touching there.
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:59 pm
by faftorial
The cash you get back as change
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:45 am
by Gaucho
Salad bars have been shut down since March 13, 2020. Only pre-packaged grab-and-go items. It's actually one of the weird things I found I missed the most about the Before Times that I want expecting to miss. Just a complete sign of normalcy returning.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 5:49 am
by Gaucho
Delta is coming.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:25 am
by MrKennethTKangaroo
bros,
civilization has survived since like 3000 bc. humans can handle touching the same ice cream dispenser without facing the end of times
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:28 am
by Troy Loney
What else happened last year?
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:31 am
by NTP66
lol, what a clown.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:35 am
by count2infinity
It actually got me wondering... what are the major contributors to green house emissions:
36% is from transportation... so yeah, the lockdown certainly had a huge impact. Obviously not all of that 21% came from that, but a huge chunk probably did.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:38 am
by Kane
I know my car was little used.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:47 am
by Troy Loney
There were upstream and downstream impacts to the lockdown beyond not driving. Oil demand plummeted, which would have reduced extraction and thus lower emissions.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:58 am
by MrKennethTKangaroo
WSJ has been running some interesting articles on the cost to mine bitcoin. One of the ways china is trying to reduce emissions is to discourage bitcoin mining because it uses too much energy. Iran blamed a bunch of rolling blackouts on mining. Some cops in England thought they were busting up a suspected grow house for weed that ended up being a bitcoin mining operation that was stealing electricity. interesting stuff.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 9:02 am
by Troy Loney
WSJ has been running some interesting articles on the cost to mine bitcoin. One of the ways china is trying to reduce emissions is to discourage bitcoin mining because it uses too much energy. Iran blamed a bunch of rolling blackouts on mining. Some cops in England thought they were busting up a suspected grow house for weed that ended up being a bitcoin mining operation that was stealing electricity. interesting stuff.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/15/chinas- ... odus-.html
China is kicking out more than half the world’s bitcoin miners – and a whole lot of them could be headed to Texas
https://abc13.com/texas-power-grid-heat ... /10797198/
ERCOT continues request for Texans to conserve power
