What’s the quarantine rules in Germany? The US has moved down to 5 days from the positive test and no need to test negative, just hide for 5 days and then get your booty back to work. Some heavily unionised companies and government jobs still have 10 days of paid quarantine which is nice, but it’s extra based on the guidance from our CDC.
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Yep! It’s gonna jump around a bit. 6 or 7 years before the events of Heat as well as immediately following the bank heist shootout (remember Val Kilmers character is still free at the end of the movie). I can’t wait! It also is set in a ton of different places including Chicago where Pacinos character is busy ruining his first marriage and getting good at chasing down crime crews.
It’s just too bad they didn’t do this sooner bc if it’s ever made into a film they will have to recast basically everyone which sometimes works, but when you’re only moving 6 years back and 1 day forward on the timeline… it’s less likely to work I think.
Its 5 days, unless you dont work at a hospital, doctors office or so on, then its still 10 day and you have to do a PCR-Test to end the quarantine.
At least thats what my nurse friend told me.
Oh, and of course you still get paid, because we live in a halfway civilized country 
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That pay thing is nice! I would still get paid but not my law. Just something my union was able arrange. All of my non organised working stiff friends and all my white collar friends are kinda on their own unless they can work from home.
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One workday down, three more to go then a two week vacation! Haven’t taken one since March so it’s long overdue. 
Hey @SilentWraith, been meaning to ask this but how have you been since the home break-in? I know it’s unlikely but by chance, has any of your property been recovered?
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Strangest taxi ride ever 
I just got off work (it’s 1am here). The dude is wearing a fishing hat and absolutely flooring it (75 / 80 miles an hour) while listening to Leopold Koželuch. I have never gone this fast while listening to classical music.
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Absolute Metal.
Unfortunately I’ve not gotten any of my stuff back, the police have been useless. I havent heard a thing since it happened and I have no idea if its still being investigated or not.
My home insurance covered all of my possessions, but I still had to pay a fair bit to repair the smashed windows and door. What really stings is that quite a few sentimental things were taken, along the lines of my grandparents jewellery and my dad’s currency collection he’s been building since the 70’s.
I’m a lot more security conscious now though, my house is built like a fortress and I keep my sentimental items in a storage facility now
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Not just in a safe at home or maybe a safety deposit box at the bank?
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They aren’t investigating, police almost never start or follow up on burglary investigations especially if there is no confrontation between you and the burglar, the same is true of carjacking, vehicular break-ins and other forms of petty robbery. You are always better off calling the insurance people before the police, all they will do is ask preliminary questions, mill about the house and then fuck off to go back to doing nothing.
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Oh come on, that’s not true. There’s always unarmed black people to harass/murder.
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It sounds quite dramatic but its basically just a deposit box at a storage place, and its quite a bit cheaper than I’d get at the bank, which is suprisingly expensive in my area
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A deposit box makes more sense though so I’m glad to hear that. I was thinking of those self storage places that are just not so secure looking.
One crew of pure idiots successfully burgled a row of units by breaking one open and then going through the side walls 
. They eventually got caught, but I’m sure the stuff was gone.
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I stumbled onto this. Fascinating.
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I hate orca whales. Never mind scary smart, they’re just plain scary. Of the two species that I wouldn’t mind humanity wiping off the face of the planet, one is orca whales. The other is tarantulas.
Oh c’mon bro! Read that article! They sometimes team up with humans to hunt. They have also saved humans from drowning and other whales from nets. They are just big and powerful but beautiful and interesting as well.
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So we’ve wrapped our Fringe Fest show now! That’s very exciting and cool. So proud of all of us involved.
Even cooler is that we managed 80% of the show without one of our main cast members/directors.
Yeahhh when I posed last week about having a great performance, the next day one of us got sick (not covid, but mono) and they had to be bedridden for the rest of the week.
So… mad scramble to cut their part out and re-allocate lines to the rest of us, and we pulled it off! Memorizing totally new content 3 shows into a run is terrifying, but We did it.
And I’m gonna get paid too yeaaah. It’s not gonna be a big payday, but it’s something. Which is awesome.
My first professional paid production, woohoo! 
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@zeroyear and @Yacob, none of those points matter. It’s a phobia; it’s an irrational fear that is not based on the idea that they can hurt me. Their very existence frightens me. It’s how my brain is wired, just as it is with anyone with any phobia. All the logical points about how that phobia is not something you need to be afraid of changes nothing. I’m inherently scared, for no reason and beyond all reason, of two animals on this planet, and I don’t care at all what their positive attributes are or how they contribute to the ecosystem, because it’s a fear I can’t control. I simply want them all dead, to make that fear stop.
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I get the reasoning, but why not read about said Orcas at least?
It can’t hurt you through the computer screen, and, well, you could “keep your enemies close” and all that! 
Trust me, I know all about them.
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