What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[marurun]

Any chance you could past the data here? NYT has a paywall.

Here's the first couple paragraphs:

"In Britain, researchers reported in May that two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had an effectiveness of 88 percent protecting against symptomatic disease from Delta. A June study from Scotland concluded that the vaccine was 79 percent effective against the variant. On Saturday, a team of researchers in Canada pegged its effectiveness at 87 percent.

And on Monday, Israel’s Ministry of Health announced that the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 64 percent against all coronavirus infections, down from about 95 percent in May, before the Delta variant began its climb to near-total dominance in Israel.
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Israel’s Ministry of Health estimated that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is about 93 percent effective in preventing serious illness and hospitalization."

[PretentiousHipster]

Thanks. That helps a bit

Had a nightmare so bad that I couldn't go back to sleep

I was walking up an escalator and entered a place that is drinking bar after bar after bar, and then I stumble on a GIANT room of public washrooms.

I get attacked there. For what felt like an eternity there's me going through tons of torture. I think at that point I knew I was in a dream to an extent. To get out I then gotta go through the worst one involving shit, and vomit. I went through it and recorded it as my way out. When the torture starts, I hear those same 3 notes.

Someone tried to kill me and I ended up showing him the video when he said that would be my way out. He didn't accept it because he said it wasn't been in 24 fps and low quality. I then heard those 3 chords, and had the ability to put him through that torture instead. I'm starting to see that the torture was called tiao mon.

I just wanna get out now so I'm trying to clean the body up, then I keep hearing giggling. I go to another room and there is an Asian woman who seems obsessed with violence and torture. One again, she tries to kill me. I managed to subdue her by grabbing her barb wire whip, and then wrapping it around her and squeezing her to death with it. She then dies and I go back to cleaning up the first body. I then hear someone walking. I just want to get out, so I just carry what I cleaned so far, run away through a bunch of bars and then slide down the side of the escalator.

I then hear "hey!". I look up. It's her with her body still wrapped up, with her just smiling. She then says "do you know what's one thing I always wanted to try? Tiao mon!" I then hear those three chords.

I wake up at that point

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[REPO Man]

Let's say I were to start a GoFundMe to move to NYC. How much should I set my goal for? I'm thinking $3500, which would give me enough money to move into a place ($800/month maximum) and have money to live off of until I get a job.

So basically 4x my proposed monthly rent rounded up to the next multiple of $500.

Right now if I get to $10,500, that'd get me a year's rent ($800 x 12, or $9600) and $900 to live off of, and every additional $1200 would raise my threshold by $100 a month. So if I get to $11,700 I'd expand my threshold to $900/month.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I really don’t know, and I’m going to defer to your expertise on this topic, REPO. I do hope it’s successful, however, and I hope that you’ll post a link to your fundraiser on the forums so I can consider donating.

[PretentiousHipster]

Not saying this in a mean way, but I've noticed trans people having trouble achieving gofundme goals to move out of abusive situations, or getting necessary surgeries, so you achieving a gofundme goal for moving will be quite a small chance.

[Sload Soap]

I'll contribute some cash if you give me 5% of the earnings off any future projects (film, theatre, TV) and a producer credit.

[marurun]

You’re way under-estimating your required rent. $800 won’t get you anything. That said, I’ll defer to the current NYC crew to weigh in.

[PretentiousHipster]

This video on NYC apartments is scary

[Ziggy]

This video on NYC apartments is scary

I saw that video back when it was posted. My favorite is the bathroom in the second apartment they visit. Or I guess it's not so much a bathroom as it is a shower that happens to have a sink and toilet inside of it. I love how you have to turn sideways to get past the sink. The third place though is just horrific. So incredibly small, the bathroom is out in the hallway, and yet it's still $1200/mo.

[REPO Man]

You’re way under-estimating your required rent. $800 won’t get you anything. That said, I’ll defer to the current NYC crew to weigh in.

I've actually seen some pretty decent places for $800 or less on Roomi. And like I keep saying, I'm not renting an entire apartment by myself. I'm just looking for rooms for rent.

And I've seen that video.

Also any place with a working oven is already better than my current place.