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Bernie Sanders had a rally at the Tacoma Dome, packed it with 20,000...now reports are that's where a few people caught the c19 -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 7, 02:11
Game of Thrones: Saudi Brother and nephew of King held in detention -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 7, 01:09 1
- Because they were sleeping with each other? -- nm - Mop Mar 7, 03:48
Is that Marky Mark movie, "Spencer Confidential," a remake of Spencer For Hire? The two leads are named Spencer and Hawk. -- nm - Flavorize Mar 6, 22:51 3
- Hmmm... the short answer appears to be "yes". -- nm - Mop Mar 7, 03:46
- IMDb has this to say - Beryllium Mar 6, 22:53 1
  - Whereas spencer for hire says ... - Beryllium Mar 6, 22:55
Trump on Elizabeth Warren: "I think lack of talent was her problem. She had a tremendous lack of talent ... she is a very mean person... - Spawn Mar 6, 22:25 2
- Trololo -- nm - Qale Mar 7, 03:37
- Obviously he's trolling -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 22:36
5.5 earthquake in Baja, just south of the border. NBCLA says felt in San Diego County but I guess it didn't get this far. - Meg Mar 6, 21:59
graph showing the amounts the various candidates spent on super Tuesday ads -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 6, 21:42
on my fifth try to get charmin from a target. people are *extremely* worried about running out, apparently. - b. Mar 6, 21:04 4
- Need TP for your b hole. - Qale Mar 7, 03:38
- So went to walmart yesterday and tp section was gutted. Albertsons today fully stocked with tp. Cleaner sections the same WM gutted Albertsons full -- nm* - Bacon Mar 6, 22:38
- woo, already confirmed and ready for pickup. -- nm - b. Mar 6, 21:09 1
  - I was going to volunteer to shop for you & ship it. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 6, 21:23
Picard question - zeitgeist Mar 6, 20:45 1
- Spoilers - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:45
Update: Amy is coughing. Texted my BIL to get her a script for Tamiflu. He just arrived in Florida so he is also sending one for Logan in case we need - Spawn Mar 6, 20:43 6
- Oh, tell me about this brother-in-law who can get you prescriptions on demand... -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 22:14 2
  - Doesn't every family have a doctor? -- nm - Spawn Mar 6, 22:28 1
    - No! But check back next year. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 22:31
- :( -- nm - Pippy-with a side eye Mar 6, 20:54
- oh no :( -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:48
- Sorry to hear. masks might help stop spread -- nm* - budice Mar 6, 20:48
SpaceX launch in about 10 minutes -- (link) - TWuG Mar 6, 20:36 4
- 3rd time a Cargo Dragon has flown for the third time. Last time this version of Dragopn will fly. If the booster is recovered it'll be #50. -- nm - TWuG Mar 6, 20:49 2
  - Landing #50 successful -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:59
  - 50th successful booster recovery! -- nm - TWuG Mar 6, 20:59
- Hah, one of the payloads is from Delta Faucets. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:42
Onward Box Office likely won't reach $40M weekend ($35M-$38M) -- nm* - budice Mar 6, 20:24 3
- I honestly didn’t know there was a Pixar this weekend. - Will Hunting Mar 6, 21:11 1
  - There is? -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 22:41
- Well, at least they can blame corona virus. TBH I don't think it was going to do well even without that. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:30
This thread is probably popcorn-worthy. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:20
The process of making a video ... in 22 steps. - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:16 18
- Shoo cat off keyboard; erase excess text -- nm - Max Mar 6, 20:27 1
  - Another reason to film in the garage, the cats won't go there. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:27
- I use less than 5 steps. You are an over thinker -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 20:18 15
  - Wait after reading that list, you are an under thinker and not prepared -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 20:18 14
    - Laptop HD is 256GB, but I only have 3GB free. Heh. And I've only got 3 months of photos on it. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:22 11
      - How big is 3 months of photos, you ask? 72 gigabytes. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:25 8
        
        HOLY CRAP! -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 20:25 7
        
        Each photo is around 24MB in RAW, plus if I turn them into panoramas, that copies them into a combined file of 75-300MB (depending on how many photos) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:26 6
        
        You need an external 10TB HD to move them over there -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 20:27 5
        
        Yes, very much. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:27 4
        
        What would be cheaper that or renting cloud storage? -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 20:28 3
        
        The HD, for sure. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:28 2
        
        (I currently copy all my photos to a 3TB HD, and then sync them to a cloud storage provider. One on-site backup, and one off-site.) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:29 1
        
        I have some cloud storage with my Microsoft Office subscription. I need to start using that. -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 20:33
      - Put all your video on an external HD -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 20:24 1
        
        (and yes it will be slower, but still faster than using only that little bit you have) -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 20:25
    - In this case I don't have the space to be prepared. I need to buy a place for recording. - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:20 1
      - You just described my main reason for buying our house. Each house we looked at had to have the right dimensions for my youtube studio. - Bacon Mar 6, 20:23
Huh. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:02 5
- the impact of a covid19 virus against the bronzer on Donald's face? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 20:19
- Looks like a bb hole in a window. -- (link*) - . Mar 6, 20:06 [flickr] 3
  - Or a pellet hole in an arm. (Which, yes, I've seen.) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:07 2
    - That I haven't. -- nm - . Mar 6, 20:08 1
      - I was only 10 or so, but I vividly recall the 2 or 3 millimetre deep hole in the other kid's skin. (No, I didn't shoot him, his brother did.) - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:11
*adjusts* -- nm - b. in a blue bonnet Mar 6, 19:31
I was going to post comments as I hate-watched Oogieloves for PFM's entertainment, but I tapped out after like six minutes. - David Mar 6, 19:31 3
- WTF is an Oogielove? -- nm - znufrii Mar 6, 20:13
- OK. I am pre-emptively hating you as that sounds so much like a challenge that at some point I'm going to end up watching that movie - JD Mar 6, 19:46 1
  - Look at is this way, you only have to make it to 7. -- nm - . Mar 6, 19:47
Wouldn't it be easier and more effective to publish soapmaking instructions? It could help create small businesses, too. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 19:16 8
- Begin by starting a fight club -- nm - Dano Mar 6, 20:05
- When we go to the county fair I like to buy the homemade soaps. They are the best. Slightly off topic, but I love homemade soap -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:58
- the end product is probably a lot easier to source at retail than anything to make it. And soap isn't really in short supply. -- nm - TWuG Mar 6, 19:18 5
  - ... yet it's more effective against covid-19 than hand sanitizer. Funny, that. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 19:19 4
    - not enough people carry sinks or gallons of water around with them. shame on them. -- nm - b. Mar 6, 19:29 3
      - Well, we're in the 20s now. If anything sounds like an aesthetic for the 20s, it's a personal wash station fashion statement. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 19:33 2
        
        nm but: -- (link) - b. in a blue shower cap. Mar 6, 19:36 1
        
        Hah! -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 19:37
From b2 for ty, my mom is on the cruise now. Started Wednesday. 8 or 9 nights. Fingers crossed! St. Maarten tomorrow... (Holland America) -- nm* - Andie Mar 6, 19:13 2
- Maho Beach on St. Maarten is awesome!! (I know this wasn't what the post was about, but I highly recommend that beach) - Bacon Mar 6, 19:20
- Also. People in my office that i interact with closely were at AIPAC. -- nm - Andie Mar 6, 19:17
You're welcome, ST. -- (link) - David Mar 6, 19:07 [youtube] 2
- Thank you, David. - ReluctantCynic Mar 6, 19:18
- Was there some belief in the 80s that posing had aerobic benefit? Either way, this is brilliant! -- nm - Krusty Mar 6, 19:16
Army and Citadel have lost in their conference tournaments so they will both continue their streak of futility. -- nm - Dano Mar 6, 19:04
I didn't know so many corona cases in NY now. Wow. state by state breakdown - Bacon Mar 6, 19:01 57
- What states have the major, international airports? -- nm - Flavorize Mar 6, 22:37
- Virginia is for healthy lovers. -- nm - Max Mar 6, 19:12
- And since they're not testing folks, the numbers of walking infected are probably tenfold or (soon) a hundredfold. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 19:07 54
  - Yeah, none of these numbers are near accurate. I expect it's in all 50 states -- nm - ty97 Mar 6, 19:33
  - The sheer lack of testing is mind boggling in the US. - Andie Mar 6, 19:21 51
    - I've been wondering: what good is testing if there's no treatment? -- nm - Max Mar 6, 19:24 18
      - Isolate sick people so they don't get more people sick? -- nm - ty97 Mar 6, 19:34 2
        
        But also, don't you get into a scenario of trying to test everyone every day because they could have been infected since their last clean test? -- nm - Max Mar 6, 19:41 1
        
        Not really. If they have symptoms and test negative, they have something else. If they worry that you were exposed, you stay isolate and only get test - Andie Mar 6, 19:45
      - Well, the ship has sailed now (literally and figuratively), but the first step of containment is knowing who needs to be contained. - Beryllium Mar 6, 19:26
      - There is treatment. Just no "cure." Plus, you then aren't running around infecting more people. -- nm - Andie Mar 6, 19:25 13
        
        There is data collection I guess. But if a 20something presents with low fever and slight cough, I don't think the hospital wants them. - Max Mar 6, 19:32 3
        
        Here they are sending those people home to recover and public health keeps tabs on them. But people they were in contact with are notified and tested - Andie Mar 6, 19:34 2
        
        I mean what about all the people showing up to their doctors with no symptoms but scared they've been exposed and demanding to be tested. -- nm - Max Mar 6, 19:49 1
        
        What about them? If they have symptoms, test them. If not, send them and tell them they're fine. -- nm - Andie Mar 6, 19:52
        
        The president says we should go to work. -- nm - . Mar 6, 19:30 8
        
        Please don't make me defend Donald Trump. I heard that live, and he said people were going to work when they didn't know they were sick. - Bacon Mar 6, 19:33 7
        
        Neither of us has it right... he said people get better by going to work.. - . Mar 6, 19:37 4
        
        Yeah, I wasn't using a quote, that is what he said. He doesn't say go to work when you are sick -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:38 3
        
        The quote makes it sound like they're going to work when they know they're sick. -- nm - . Mar 6, 19:45 1
        
        I could see that interpretation. I heard it as some people don't even know they have it because the symptoms are so mild for some. -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:50
        
        You didn't say that either on ST but that is the claim made on social -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:39
        
        Please don't make me attack you but he was just rambling and you're trying to put actual meaning to his words. - ty97 Mar 6, 19:35 1
        
        Saying he said something he didn't say, gives his critics a chance to say SEE!!! Here is the actual clip and this is what they claim he said. - Bacon Mar 6, 19:36
    - It really does seem like that, yes. It'll go down in history books, if any historians are left, as a debacle of the highest order. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 19:22 25
      - History will be able to tell, but the blame here is in China. That is where it needed to be stopped. Once it wasn't stopped there it went everywhere -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:24 24
        
        Well, there's an amount of truth to that, yes. But they did contain what they could, and AFAIK their infection rate has bottomed out. - Beryllium Mar 6, 19:27 21
        
        We have human rights, the U.S. government can't order the state of Washington to stay home for 14 days. -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:28 20
        
        Like I said, the ship has sailed. But the lack of testing means that the data will be compromised. -- (edited) - Beryllium Mar 6, 19:32 15
        
        Dude, look at the world numbers. It's not the U.S. it's the entire planet. Italy has our healthcare system? South Korea? Come on, the U.S. bashing - Bacon Mar 6, 19:34 14
        
        You do know the US has the highest death rate, anywhere, right now? -- (edited) - Andie Mar 6, 19:39 12
        
        Because we aren't testing enough people? okay -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:42 11
        
        I was commenting on the U.S. being a breeding ground. That was the target of my comment. - Bacon Mar 6, 19:46
        
        Yes, that's how math and statistics work. There are ways to adjust for it instead of using raw numbers, but it's best to have more data. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 19:44 9
        
        So if the U.S. had tested every citizen, the world wouldn't have a pandemic? - Bacon Mar 6, 19:47 8
        
        It isn't hate. It is more incredulity. Letting sick people run around infecting more people, while criticizing China who locked down cities seems a - Andie Mar 6, 19:50 7
        
        BTW on the China front. It's less about me criticizing China and more saying if it was going to be contained that is where it had to be - Bacon Mar 6, 20:01
        
        Not just locked down cities, kept the news of the virus from getting out and allowing it to spread farther as a result. -- nm - . Mar 6, 19:58 2
        
        At first. Yes. -- nm* - Andie Mar 6, 19:59 1
        
        I got it backwards. Not allowing the neww out lead to locking down the cities, which was a little late. -- nm - . Mar 6, 20:04
        
        People are infecting other people not knowing they are sick. My personal example. - Bacon Mar 6, 19:56 2
        
        Of course. Everywhere that happens. But if people who do go for medical treatment are not tested that isn't in anyone's best interest. - Andie Mar 6, 19:59 1
        
        Great question, and here is how our thought process worked on it. - Bacon Mar 6, 20:09
        
        And look how they're handling it. South Korea has drive-through diagnosis stations. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 19:35
        
        The downside of a free society -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:29 3
        
        BTW where the U.S. really fucked up? My parents where in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand for 3 weeks and flew back with zero issues or health worker - Bacon Mar 6, 19:31 2
        
        also this. nm but: -- (link) - b. in a blue bonnet Mar 6, 19:35 1
        
        Ding!! But that Mexico Wall!!!! That will keep the bad hombres out of the country. -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:37
        
        China took some pretty intense actions, really. -- nm - Andie Mar 6, 19:26 1
        
        They did, and they can because they don't have human rights to worry about...but...they couldn't stop it - Bacon Mar 6, 19:28
    - We don't have enough testing kits. -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:22 5
      - That's not the worst part. The worst part is that your entire society is structured so that the poor don't have access to healthcare. - Beryllium Mar 6, 19:24 4
        
        Oh well if we go there. We also don't have guaranteed sick time (Oregon does, we get 1 week a year mandated), but yes our medical system is a fucking - Bacon Mar 6, 19:26 3
        
        China doesn't have the medical infrastructure to handle a major outbreak. -- nm - . Mar 6, 19:33 2
        
        No country does... -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:35 1
        
        They had to build "hospitals" in weeks. -- nm - . Mar 6, 19:42
  - I would think in states like Washington 100 or 1000 fold, probably California also -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:18
NBA has sent a memo to its franchises explaining that, due to coronavirus outbreak, teams should be preparing to play games without fans -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 18:58 4
- The Bulls: we’ve been training for this for years. -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 19:14 3
  - As a Bulls fan, I hate you (for making me laugh). -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 6, 19:19 2
    - Hey, they don't suck as bad as last year. - . Mar 6, 19:28
    - Bulls fan? Move out of Portland now you traitor!!! -- nm - Bacon Mar 6, 19:20
11year old Syrian girl will compete in the Olympics. -- (link) - Will Hunting Mar 6, 18:57
Your a little star struck innuendos Inadequacies an' foreign bodies, And the sunlight shining through the crack in the window pane -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 18:41
Okay, social media engagement question: I am posting a youtube video. Should I make it public ASAP (right now) and start tweeting about it, or ... - Beryllium Mar 6, 18:40 6
- get it up Sunday afternoon. That way they can figure it out BEFORE Monday -- nm - Remlik Mar 6, 18:52 2
  - Oh, it's not helpful in that sense. But I could make one that tries to be helpful. 😂 -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 18:54 1
    - Actually, this gives me an idea ... hmm -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 18:57
- based on some people I follow who make their livings from YT, morning pacific time on weekdays seems to be the best timing. -- nm - b. Mar 6, 18:43 2
  - like so.. nm but: -- (link) - b. Mar 6, 18:43 1
    - Hmm. On the one hand, it seems like that's bad news. On the other hand, Monday morning is when a lot of newbies are going to be starting their first - Beryllium Mar 6, 18:51

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