[HN Gopher] April Is Canceled ___________________________________________________________________ April Is Canceled Author : dannymx Score : 50 points Date : 2020-04-01 22:32 UTC (27 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (aprilcanceled.com) (TXT) w3m dump (aprilcanceled.com) | maxerickson wrote: | Or you know, just try to make it through to the other side in a | reasonably calm manner. That's fine too. | rad_gruchalski wrote: | That's what the post is talking about. | maxerickson wrote: | We have...different interpretations of _Annus mirabilis, the | year of wonders, that is the name of this period in which | calculus, law of gravitation, the color spectrum, these | discoveries changed the world forever._ and _Let 's all | become Isaac Newton this month._ | 01100011 wrote: | Eh, some of us just have to keep working. No time to work on our | magnum opus, because we're trying to remain productive in the | ersatz offices we've cobbled together at home. | faitswulff wrote: | Some of us are stay at home parents. | maguirre wrote: | I was just explaining to someone that I have to be: a parent, | a teacher, an engineer and a husband. I feel I am doing all | of them equally badly _sigh_ | na85 wrote: | That's okay, I was doing all those things badly before the | apocalypse. | mdonahoe wrote: | Issac Newton didn't have kids home from school, and didn't need | to attend Zoom meetings. | rad_gruchalski wrote: | Indeed. But you still have a job and you are (hopefully) | healthy. Think about it for a second. It could be much worse. | mdonahoe wrote: | I'm just saying I don't like the pressure of having to | compare myself to Issac Newton. | | Also everything could always be worse, so it's a mostly | useless argument. | morphogenesis wrote: | I know I'm lucky to still have a job at a company that seems to | be doing just fine despite the pandemic but I kind of wish I | could have a month of time completely to myself | ck2 wrote: | Nice but sadly also May (what did Newton do in his second month?) | | The IHME models they chose to use are too optimistic, too many | people aren't wise enough to understand or care how this works | and won't be told what to do, there are going to be rather | stubborn congregations for Easter. | | https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections | | Ventilators run out way before ICU beds. | tick_tock_tick wrote: | Love how the third paragraph starts all positive and reasonable | then suddenly segways into "Stop the Coronavirus Corporate Coup" | and then an article about how "Hyperbitcoinization" is coming and | how the modern economy is going to collapse from inflation. | Punkyou2 wrote: | I absolutely loved reading this! Thank you! | rad_gruchalski wrote: | Very inspiring, with a twist. Thank you! | thatfrenchguy wrote: | Sounds like a pretty privilege take by people like us that still | have jobs. | joncp wrote: | Or...if you still have to work, then find a way to help a | furloughed person be Newton for a month. Maybe a spouse or your | kids. Maybe a stranger (from six feet away). Doesn't matter. | mcv wrote: | I wish I had time for any of that. I keep reading ideas for how | to deal with the boredom of self-isolation, but nobody writes | about the stress. My wife and I have to homeschool two kids while | also doing our own jobs from home. We're lucky of course that we | have jobs, and we can do them from home, and we have two awesome | and healthy kids. But homeschooling while we work really is a bit | much. | etrk wrote: | In an alternate reality, Newton did five pull-ups instead of | inventing calculus. | ecopoesis wrote: | Honestly? Fuck this. Millions of people are going to die. It's | very likely some of your friends and family will be in that | number. It's okay to mourn. It's expected that we will all mourn. | The world we get out of this is going to be different and it's | going to be a worse one for almost everyone. | | You don't need to write King Lear or invent gravity. Just | surviving will be a miracle enough. | steve-benjamins wrote: | You could also rest. You don't need to force feed yourself | creativity and productivity. | | I don't mean to take anything away from the author, just seeing a | lot of this sentiment on social media. Thought it would be worth | voicing a counter balance. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-04-01 23:00 UTC)