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*finally* printing out my taxes. -- nm - Mop Mar 15, 13:19
French perfume manufacturers switch production lines to antibacterial gel -- (link) - Reagen Mar 15, 13:18
Not all is joy and love in Italy -- (link) - Reagen Mar 15, 12:57 2
- I'm with the old guy. -- nm - David Mar 15, 13:02 1
  - This -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 13:02
Ohio Gov. shutting down bars and restaurants -- nm - Remlik Mar 15, 12:56 8
- Every governor should do this. -- nm - David Mar 15, 13:12 1
  - And what about food deserts? -- nm - Max Mar 15, 13:31
- IL anyone have a status update on them? -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 13:11
- IL has eminent domain'ed all restaurants and bars and are now running bootlegging operations into Indiana. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 13:10
- IL is looking into it. -- nm - Spawn Mar 15, 13:10
- IL just did the same. -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 13:08
- Illinois governor floated that yesterday but hasn't happened yet. -- nm - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 15, 13:07
- (For dine in. Can still do carryout and drive thru.) -- nm - Ender Mar 15, 13:07
Welp. -- (link) - David Mar 15, 12:48 13
- I’d expect us to have more just because of population. That’s not overly surprising. - spamlet Mar 15, 12:59 7
  - The growth is faster, is the point. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 13:01 6
    - And the data is inaccurate, is also the point -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 13:04 5
      - If anything, it's way low here. -- nm - David Mar 15, 13:12 3
        
        That's what I mean. The numbers could be waaaay different in real life, but because there is no testing ... it's all a WAG. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 13:20 1
        
        (I'd like to say that "was no testing" is more accurate, but I'm not so sure that it would be) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 13:20
        
        You mean with all our great testing? -- nm - Spawn Mar 15, 13:16
      - I'd agree that a conclusion is difficult based off that data. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 13:07
- Brazil is sitting exactly at that 150-ish mark. - Marlowe Mar 15, 12:57 1
  - I heard your beaches are as crowded as ever. -- nm - Spawn Mar 15, 13:02
- That's a damn fine soccer match going on there. USA! USA! USA! -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:49 1
  - GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!! -- nm - Spawn Mar 15, 12:50
- USA! USA! USA! -- nm - Spawn Mar 15, 12:49
Anyone else seen this for their state? Hospital capacity numbers? Jacks post below made me think about it. - Bacon Mar 15, 12:45 1
- Yesterday was listening to COVID radio and they were talking about many hospitals are set up for the number of bed expansions, but the additonal - Spawn Mar 15, 12:49
Trivia -- What baseball franchise has the worst W/L % for it's entire franchise history? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:44 39
- atlanta -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 15, 12:53
- Blue Jays -- nm - Beaker Mar 15, 12:53
- red or white sox -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 15, 12:52 1
  - or Black Sox -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 12:53
- giants -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 15, 12:52 4
  - 2nd best. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 13:05 2
    - :) and I went to see some horrible Giants teams in the late 80s -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 13:06 1
      - I wouldn't have thought the Giants were better than the Dodgers, but the sample size I know about is small small small -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 13:07
  - Bite your tongue!!! -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 12:52
- Padres!! -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 12:52 3
  - There it is! #1 worst franchise. They are 3,747 Wins, 4,389 Losses for a win rate of .461. - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:53 2
    - I should have known that they are in our division. I cannot remember a decent Padres team -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 12:54 1
      - Players now, Tony Gwynn, Trevor Hoffman, Fred McGriff -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 12:56
- cubs -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 15, 12:51 1
  - 25th -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:52
- pirates -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 15, 12:50 1
  - 21st -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:51
- Phillies. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 12:50 1
  - 5th -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:51
- Tampa Bay Rays -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 12:50 1
  - 6th -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:51
- Mets -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 15, 12:49 1
  - 10th -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:50
- Marlins? Brewers? -- nm - Krusty Mar 15, 12:49 1
  - (2nd) and (12th) -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:50
- Washington senators -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 15, 12:49 1
  - Neither the Brewers or the Twins make the Worst 10. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:50
- Mariners -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 12:47 2
  - 3rd worst -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:48 1
    - Dammit Crash, your team can't even be best at being worst! -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 12:49
- Expos -- nm - Beaker Mar 15, 12:47 1
  - Expos/Nationals (14th) -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:47
- Indians -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 12:45 1
  - 24th (this is a good thing -- Yankees are 30th) -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:46
- As? -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 12:45 4
  - 13th -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:46 3
    - Really. Figured all those years as the Yankees farm team would have taken a toll. -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 12:46 2
      - Larussa, MacGuire, Canesco, Eck et al years -- nm - Beaker Mar 15, 12:47 1
        
        They've been around for 120 years; those 5 seasons of winning may have evened out 100 prior losses. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 12:48
"But only for the United States" fuck off, bruh -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 15, 12:41 3
- that's insane. -- nm - colin Mar 15, 12:50 2
  - That's President SuperVillain stuff. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 12:51 1
    - Like, he clearly is watching all the same disease movies we are -- nm - JackDawson Mar 15, 13:08
Visit Estonia -- (link) - ty97 Mar 15, 12:36 1
- Future travel -- (link) - Beaker Mar 15, 12:38 [youtube]
Holy crap. Desperate times call for desperate measures I guess. Draft kings just sent me an email to bet on something -- (edited) - Bacon Mar 15, 12:34 2
- it's like you're not familiar with betting in the UK.. you can bet on ANYTHING.. it's great and horrible. -- nm - colin Mar 15, 12:41
- Man, I hadn't even considered what this would do to them and FanDuel. -- nm - David Mar 15, 12:34
Meanwhile in Tennessee -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 15, 12:33 1
- the 3rd stop to get the sanitizer. Good. fuck that guy. -- nm - Remlik Mar 15, 12:40
Chef Jose has closed all his restaurants & will transform some of them into community kitchens.... -- (link) - Remlik Mar 15, 12:32 2
- Exactly -- nm - JackDawson Mar 15, 12:37
- We need to get this guy on the Nobel list. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 12:34
An insanely bizarre outcome of this would be if the population in Red states went down significantly compared to Blue states. That seems insane, but.. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 15, 12:25 4
- I expect the opposite as we are denser and more populated -- nm - JackDawson Mar 15, 12:38
- If things go poorly, the voting demographics in the US could be completely reshaped. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 12:35
- The big city populations seem to be just as stupid about this as anywhere, though. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 12:26 1
  - This, and the suburbs, and rural. 75% of the people can do the right thing, and the 25% will negate all that hard work by being assholes -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 12:28
Just went to Lowe’s to pick up stuff to plant this week. The 78-year old cashier had no hand sanitizer, as Lowe’s sold out before they could save - kelly Mar 15, 12:21 6
- Our local Wal-Mart had to hide the store use sanitizer as customers stealing them. -- nm - Walt_Disney Mar 15, 12:33
- The current episode of Intervention I’m on is someone addicted to hand sanitizers. He would be so screwed. -- nm - Qale Mar 15, 12:24 1
  - CNN had a story about how people with OCD disorders are starting to have real bad problems with the current state of things. -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 12:31
- Not to steal your thunder, but I have a stash and have been giving it to some customers that work the register. Their dispensers are all out. -- (edited) - Bacon Mar 15, 12:24
- Well done -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 12:23
- that was very nice -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 12:23
I'm jonesing for new Stranger Things. If Netflix could move up production so it's available by Wednesday, that'd be great -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 12:12 8
- Check out the special they did for Sports Relief this weekend. -- nm - LMS Mar 15, 12:36
- I hate to be the one to tell you, but... - David Mar 15, 12:16 6
  - This is Wolfhard to accept. -- nm - Qale Mar 15, 12:21
  - rats -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 12:17 4
    - Animal Crossing out on Friday - get a Switch! :P -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 15, 12:18 3
      - (We actually almost bought you a Switch.) -- nm - David Mar 15, 12:29 2
        
        What made you switch your mind? -- nm - Bacon Mar 15, 12:30 1
        
        How much popcorn do you get thrown at you on a given day? -- nm - David Mar 15, 12:34
Mayor of Chicago has had enough of the packed bars -- (link) - ty97 Mar 15, 12:07 3
- Awesome even less of a chance I get laid! -- nm - Qale Mar 15, 12:22
- We have had the half of capacity since Friday right? -- nm - JackDawson Mar 15, 12:19
- That seems to be missing a "whichever is fewer" fine print -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 12:11
Ed-wife texted me. It appears yesterday's shopping frenzy has subsided. Costco fully stocked, crowds are less than a regular Sunday. -- nm - Mop Mar 15, 12:07 1
- What you doin', texting with my wife? -- nm - Ed Mar 15, 12:25
Test -- nm - Walt_Disney Mar 15, 11:51 8
- I thought you were closed. - Cuzzin Todd Mar 15, 11:55
- Came to see all of the Americans are dealing with Covid - Walt_Disney Mar 15, 11:54
- WD! -- nm - budice Mar 15, 11:52
- tests? You've got tests? Where?! How many?!! -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 11:52
- Hooray... I remembered my NA, -- nm - Walt_Disney Mar 15, 11:52 3
  - Dang it. I remembered my name and pw -- nm - Walt_Disney Mar 15, 11:52 2
    - Did you get the scissors locked up? :/ -- nm - Meg Mar 15, 11:55 1
      - Lol...she's on to drawing but hiding the scissors is a good idea;) -- nm - Walt_Disney Mar 15, 12:04
aaaand there it is. NS schools closed for 2 weeks after spring break. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 11:42 3
- All the spring break camps are closing here ... so anyone who thought they had their childcare set up is SOL -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 12:06 1
  - Same. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 12:25
- Ours was announced on Friday. It's going to be a fun few weeks for parents. -- nm - Walt_Disney Mar 15, 12:05
fb post going around says the reason the WH or whomever made the decision NOT to accept the c19 test kits from WHO was because they are nonprofit - zeitgeist Mar 15, 11:39 2
- I thought we saw early on that Trump wanted to make money off of it. And that was why. -- nm - Spawn Mar 15, 11:57
- Phase 3! Profit! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 15, 11:42
Austria bans gatherings of more than *5* people - Reagen Mar 15, 11:35 1
- "Bart, it's you or Grandpa." -- nm - David Mar 15, 11:36
They definitely need to close gyms - completely non essential — selfishly I hope they stay open through the am because I was counting on 10 meals bein - JackDawson Mar 15, 11:34
Pittsburgh Marathon in May hasn’t canceled yet, but I’m not optimistic it’s going to happen. -- nm - Dano Mar 15, 11:31
\nm -- nm* - Beaker Mar 15, 11:31 1
- Derrick Henry definitely getting the Franchise Tag then I assume -- nm - Beaker Mar 15, 11:40
Ryan Tannehill new four-year contract with Titans $118m total $29.5m average per year $62m full guarantee $91m total guarantee -- (link) - budice Mar 15, 11:30 8
- guy on NFL Network figures it is essentially a 2 year deal unless he performs well -- nm - Beaker Mar 15, 11:45 1
  - I'm not sure how you fit a 91mil guarantee into a 2yr window for salary cap purposes. - Will Hunting Mar 15, 13:11
- Damn. -- nm - Dallas Cowboys Mar 15, 11:41
- Guh! GAH! - Will Hunting Mar 15, 11:36
- There’s no way they ever regret that. -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 11:35
- Well so much for Brady to the Titans talk -- nm - eag Mar 15, 11:34
- Oh no. Oh nonono. -- nm - David Mar 15, 11:32
- As part of the deal they gave one of their draft picks to the Ravens just because. -- nm - Dano Mar 15, 11:32
50 car barn find in PA -- (link) - Peglegpete Mar 15, 11:25 3
- It doesn't look like the YouTube channel mentioned has a video about this yet. I want to see them walking into that barn for the first time. -- nm - Mop Mar 15, 12:06
- That's cool! Great photos. I want that '65 mustang. :) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 11:44 1
  - yeah, that mustang is sick. of all of the cars, that and the yellow pickup peaked my interest. -- nm - colin Mar 15, 12:40
How income inequality exacerbates and reflects disease spread -- (link) - JackDawson Mar 15, 11:22
Germany restricting border crossings -- nm - Jovian Mar 15, 11:20 3
- "Papers, please. No, hold them up, so I don't have to touch them. Just a moment, I need to focus my binoculars." -- nm - German border guard speaking into megaphone Mar 15, 11:22 1
  - wouldn't me putting them on the scanner in front of me, and you looking at your computer screen be easier?? -- nm - random tourist Mar 15, 12:35
- *salutes* -- nm - Spawn Mar 15, 11:21

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