The sculpture who designed this fountain in bolgna Italy in 1403 deft had a lactating kink and like imagine if pornhub didn’t exist and all those people with weird fetishes made freaky sculptures instead. IDK if that would be better for the rest of us but it would deft be better for their impotence problems.
Most companies are probably going to continue their regular food safety procedures, but a few things you can do to reduce some personal risk:
Buy hard, solid veggies and fruits (apples, melons) or ones with rinds (bananas are probably fine). Scrub the peel/rind thoroughly with soap and water before consumption.
The more solid and dense the meat, the less likely it is for contamination to spread very far. Buy your meat in solid cuts, NOT GROUND. Especially not ground chicken rn, salmonella bad.
Cook things thoroughly. Follow guidelines for the internal temperatures meat is supposed to reach and stick to those guidelines. Use a meat thermometer. Make your steaks well done for a while.
I’d stay away from shellfish as a whole if I were you. The diseases you can get from it are some of the nastier ones. No sushi for a while, too. If you have fish, make sure it was frozen following anti-parasitic guidelines and cook thoroughly.
AVOID LEAFY GREENS. This is where we’ve been seeing the most outbreaks lately, so be very careful.
The pregnant, elderly, immunocompromised, and the very young are the ones most at risk in an outbreak. If you are in one of these groups, be extremely cautious and avoid soft cheeses and prepackaged deli meats. Check on friends and family in these groups. Report symptoms of foodborne illness to a doctor so they can report to the state health depts that are still running.
Even with these in mind, remember that most outbreaks of foodborne illness are due to things like improper cooking and storage. Stay safe out there, folks 💙
Don’t use soap to wash your vegetables and fruits, even the ones with thick rhinds. Plain, clean water is fine. You can also use vinegar if you want to be cautious. You scrub thick rhinds with a vegetable brush.
Produce with a lot of nooks and crannies like broccoli should be soaked in cold clean water, about 2 minutes.
Don’t soak raspberries, put them in a sifter/strainer and mist them.
Wash your hands with soap and warm water before and after preparing food.
If you peel a vegetable or fruit, wash and clean the cutting board, knife, outside of the fruit, etc, before you cut it.
Stay away from cut produce in the grocery stores. Speaking as a former grocery store employee, even in the best of times its made from old produce that’s about to go bad. Right now? Don’t. Even. Risk it.
i hate how they market alexa as a ‘member of the family’ like that’s SO fucking blatantly insidious and terrifying also if i wanted an untrustworthy/cold/emotionless machine in my life i’d just talk to my fuckin father
on one hand I hope the creep gets what’s coming to him (both for this and for all the people he’s defrauded over the years), but on the other hand, if i’m reading this correctly, your ask fails to mention how this whole saga and his rationale played out like an arrested development subplot
the CEO of a major game developer keeps a whole bunch of highly confidential documents about transactions involving a number of big-name publishers (including a class-action lawsuit his company is facing after misleading consumers and embezzling funds for years) on a single thumb drive
this thumb drive is also where he keeps his “barely-legal” porn
he accidentally leaves this thumb drive in a medieval-themed novelty restaurant
a random employee from said novelty restaurant stumbles across this thumb drive and rather than alerting the authorities or even attempting to exploit this extremely valuable business information for monetary gain, offers to return the thumb drive to gearbox in return for free games (poor bastard)
randy pitchford is out of town at the time, just has him send the thumb drive to the studio
randy pitchford’s former lawyer, in conflict with him over mutual claims of financial exploitation (randy arguing that the lawyer misused company money on fitness products and the lawyer arguing that randy’s side company pocketed millions of dollars meant for employee bonuses), attempts to intercept the thumb drive, at which point randy panics and attempts to get his employees to destroy it before he returns
the employees decide to look at what the hell is on this thumb drive, and discover their boss’s taste in porn
around this time, randy spends a bunch of time on some random podcast talking about how he was completely baffled by how this (probably underage) camgirl managed to fake squirting, as he has an interest in amateur stage magic
he then claims that the only reason he kept it on his Important Corporate Thumb Drive is because he’s so baffled by this act that he wants to put the girl on the cover of a magician magazine he owns (which is a sentence in itself)
this only comes to light because of small footnotes in an otherwise fairly dry lawsuit over the misplaced employee bonuses
once this comes to light, the former vice-president of gearbox makes a cryptic tweet saying, “It’s true.”
like, i can just hear ron howard narrating all of this
