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Illusion of Terra

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  1. well, I usually stock up every two weeks as that is enough. Today however, the stores were almost empty. no toilet paper, no pasta, no sauces (to Southern Europeans that's as important as peanut butter and jelly is to Americans), almost no bread, flour etc. this is actually starting to grind my gears
    What the heck are people doing? If you sit on a pile of 40 bags of toilet paper, and someone else runs out that's not really great or communal. I am still covered for about two weeks but come on, this mass hysteria is getting out of hand and will affect people who are in need of things because of for example medical conditions etc.

    also just got an e-mail from work 'any course with more than one student is cancelled' What kind of course does not have more than one student?

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  2. 1 minute ago, SanguineTear said:

    Honestly though, the scariest thing about this to me was hearing someone remark "I guess I better start washing my hands."

    wish I could say that he was probably kidding. one of the reasons why we should abandon handshakes and adopt something like bowing in Japan. It's enough for me seeing people use the public restroom and heading straight for the door, not to mention the spread of various microbes they might be carrying

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  3. You would 'live' as long as that robot with your mind in it functions, so technically you could live very long.

    I don't own any pets, but when I way younger I always wanted a cat and I think they are great!

    If you could live in any time period since the beginning of the universe, including the current one but not future ones, what time period would you want to live in?

  4. Just watched that video and gotta say, that's a lot of toilet paper. do people stockpile for months? That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. If any kind of shutdown lasts for less than a month then you won't need all that toilet paper. If it lasts for more than a month then I assume you will have worse problems to deal with than toilet paper, such as no running water or electricity. Unless you have your own water and electricity supply, stockpiling for such a long time doesn't seem to make much sense.

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  5. no but I came pretty close a couple of times since where I lived was snake and scorpion infested (not joking, when you opened your door you would often see three or four scorpions on the steps, sometimes in the bath tub as well, although I don't know how they got there)

    what's the weirdest thing you have eaten?

  6. I think I will manage the language part. I looked into it a bit and Japanese doesn't seem too different from many European languages in its basic structure. Let's see if I still think that after a few months of study though 😂

    As for sticking out, I can guarantee that I would. I already stick out in the West because I often look like a mad scientist 😂 But for some reason people don't care too much when it comes to scientists/professors/etc. looking like that. Only thing I hope they won't ask is to shave often 😂 that's just too much work.
    I am still considering this, but nothing concrete yet.

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  7. I didn´t have the time (and since I live an almost hermit-like lifestyle, nor the interest) to look into it too much, but from the few studies there are and I´ve seen, it doesn´t seem to be that bad, especially not as bad as it is portrayed in the media. This doesn´t mean that it couldn´t theoretically mutate into something much worse though.
    Stockpiling stuff might not be that bad an idea, since I wouldn´t be surprised if stores in some places close because of the hysteria (also generally speaking it is not a bad idea to have reserves in case of unexpected incidents).

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