not that I have a lot of followers here but I will be moving to @ThoughtPortal

PSA for those of you feeling like you're coming down with something since it's happening a lot right now: CDC data for last week indicated that only 0.7% of samples tested for influenza came up positive, so if it's between covid and flu you almost certainly have covid. This is helpful to know because it means you can try to get on paxlovid as soon as possible and significantly reduce your odds of complications

About once every ten years there's a huge scandal where it turns out the NSA has been spying on basically everyone on earth without a warrant, and there's a big angry blowup and Congressional hearings, and there's an agreement not to prosecute if the NSA agrees not to do it again. And then ten years later it turns out they kept doing it, or rather, shut down the old program and started up a new program doing the same thing in a new way. (1/2)

Sorry boss can't come into work today, as a large language model I'm unable to actually go anywhere but here is a list of common reasons human employees cite for workplace absences..