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And now in very NYC considerations -- (link) - ty97 Mar 16, 14:15 1
- non-NYC translation? -- nm - JaxSean Mar 16, 14:26
jebus -- (link) - mud Mar 16, 14:14 1
- The layoffs in Las Vegas that started today are going to be substantial. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 16, 14:17
okay, seriously, HSX, stop it. - call me Ishmael Mar 16, 14:11 3
- Down 10.5 today,almost 80 since Thursday. -- nm - Shaun Mar 16, 14:18
- Logged into my account for the first time in many months. - JaxSean Mar 16, 14:16
- If I'm doing the math right, I've lost $102mil this month. - Will Hunting Mar 16, 14:16
A thought I just had as I was outside and then came back in and washed my hands. - ty97 Mar 16, 14:08 4
- Everything -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 14:13
- You are welcome! -- nm - IPOTUS Mar 16, 14:11 1
  - 10/10 -- nm - mud Mar 16, 14:15
- word -- nm - Flint MI Mar 16, 14:11
*rubs hands* -- (link) - Reagen Mar 16, 14:06
*sigh* - oblique Mar 16, 14:00 8
- *starts a new fund ANTIKLB* -- nm - prayformojo Mar 16, 14:06
- New rule! You can only post stock activity if it comes from HSX. -- nm - Max Mar 16, 14:04
- Daytrading in a pandemic is "juggling lit dynamite" levels of risk. -- nm - Reagen Mar 16, 14:04 1
  - I couldn't even call it that since I can't "daytrade". Swing trading maybe? It is really telling that I felt myself "needing one win" to walk away - oblique Mar 16, 14:13
- Dude, *please* start spending your money on hookers and crack. You're killing us. -- nm - David Mar 16, 14:04 3
  - Let's just call this whole thing performance art for all of your collective amusement? -- nm - oblique Mar 16, 14:10 2
    - I mean, the crypto market had been on a three-year bull run. Wall Street's, what, nine years? You're Bacon but for money! -- nm - David Mar 16, 14:22 1
      - Eleven. -- nm - znufrii Mar 16, 14:23
Saturday Night Live: the season is over. -- nm - Remlik Mar 16, 13:57 3
- Oh nooooo. We *need* them now...more than ever -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 14:19
- No more barfly face-licking for Kate McKinnon. -- nm - Max Mar 16, 14:10
- John Krasinski did it to himself! -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 14:03
Mail in voting? LOFL. I received in today's mail an insurance billing statement that was mailed nearly a month ago. - Spawn Mar 16, 13:55 1
- We have official dropboxes as an alternative option. -- nm - psilotum Mar 16, 13:59
Every time I hear Trump is going to speak I start imagining Charlie Brown's schoolteacher. - Meg Mar 16, 13:54
Ohio governor says no in-person voting tomorrow, voting extended to June 2, but doesn't have power to do this himself so will file suit. - ty97 Mar 16, 13:47 2
- . . . in courts that are not currently open. -- nm - pmb Mar 16, 14:19 1
  - Yeah this is going to be messy. We have a school levy on the ballot. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 16, 14:22
Trump uses FEMA to turn US into a Dictatorship -- nm - budice Mar 16, 13:45 6
- That was supposed to be Obama's thing!!! -- nm - Mop Mar 16, 13:52 3
  - I'm glad this didn't happen under Obama, or you'd have all kinds of Tea Party types holding mass gatherings just to stick it to him. -- nm - mafic Mar 16, 13:55 2
    - as it is they're doing it. -- nm - Reagen Mar 16, 13:57 1
      - probably fewer tho. -- nm - mafic Mar 16, 13:59
- Please don’t sound like the right wing crazies wheee this is just the government taking over everything. -- nm - spamlet Mar 16, 13:48
- You are doing a helluva job, Trump! -- nm - POTUS Mar 16, 13:46
ooohhhhh Divaaaa: Hamilton Casting Call.... -- (link) - Remlik Mar 16, 13:42
I'm seeing exponential growth in interesting exponential growth parables -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 16, 13:36 2
- Faulty alarmist math doesn’t help, it’s not doubling daily for one -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 13:41
- Day 25: 3.1250% -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 13:38
Updated chart -- (pic) - Reagen Mar 16, 13:31 [Attachment] 4
- I keep thinking I'll stop saying "He's such a moron" but... -- nm - David Mar 16, 14:00
- [trombone] -- nm - mud Mar 16, 13:37
- 10/10 -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 13:36
- Ha -- (edited) - JaxSean Mar 16, 13:34
I want to know two things from pollsters right now: 1) % of Americans aware of coronavirus/COVID-19 (my guess would be 98% are) - Tim Mar 16, 13:31
Poll: Should the Democrats put the rest of the primary calendar on hold for the time being? (If so, til approx. when? Conventions: July/August) -- nm* - JackDawson Mar 16, 13:22 9
- yes, but also Sanders should drop out. -- nm - mafic Mar 16, 13:46
- Coronavirus won the election -- nm - budice Mar 16, 13:43 1
  - I'd still vote for it over Trump. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 16, 14:07
- No. They should switch to mail voting immediately. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 16, 13:31 2
  - I agree with this generally. The presidential primary is not the only thing on the ballot. I don't know how long you can hold this off without - pmb Mar 16, 14:17
  - Unite behind that, get the winner dialed in, and then nail the fucking incompetent fucks to the goddamn wall. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 16, 13:31
- Announce Biden as the winner Unite the Party -- nm* - budice Mar 16, 13:26
- 'on hold' might not be the wording I'd use, but they should be pushing out the primaries, yes. -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 13:23
- yes -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 13:23
This isn't a bad video about the importance of social distancing; -- (link) - Loyola Mar 16, 13:18 [youtube] 1
- I figured this was the matchstick one. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 13:21
I didn't realize this. Some airlines (no US ones at this point) completely stopping flying temporarily -- (link) - ty97 Mar 16, 13:16
Cisco is pulling its funding of the NFP that keeps the internet safe from bad guys. They need $400k like now and $1.7m annually. -- (link) - spamlet Mar 16, 13:14
Rep. Louie Gohmert is holding up the House-passed coronavirus relief bill and preventing it from being delivered to the Senate for a vote -- nm - decline Mar 16, 13:11 4
- isn't he the guy on the jazz who has COVID? -- nm - amanda Mar 16, 13:15 3
  - No, that's Rudy Gobert. Louie Gohmert is the the actor who costarred in An Officer and a Gentleman. -- nm - Max Mar 16, 13:22 1
    - "Gobert.....Gohmnert" -- nm - Letterman Mar 16, 13:24
  - Then pretty sire he is also a Russian superspy. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 13:16
Wait, The WWZ guy is Mel Brooks son? -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 13:10 19
- Yeah, that was a surprise to me when I learned this. And Joe Hill is Stephen's King son. Fascinating stuff. -- nm - Mop Mar 16, 13:24 8
  - Joe Hill I knew about, that one is obvious -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 13:27 7
    - How is King/Hill obvious and Brooks/Brooks isn't? - Cuzzin Todd Mar 16, 13:39 2
      - Probably because Joe Hill looks just like his dad. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Mar 16, 13:54
      - They are clearly both writers, CT. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 13:46
    - who then is Jonah Hill? -- nm - Jovian Mar 16, 13:29 3
      - he's the guy that owns the Avenue 5 -- nm - mud Mar 16, 13:31
      - Beanie Feldstein's brother. -- nm - Reagen Mar 16, 13:31 1
        
        I mean duh -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 13:44
- also, he's kinda cute? (though married) -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 13:13 5
  - Uh. Fuck. I think coronavirus causes hallucinatory spells too guys!!!! -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 13:19 4
    - I am less bothered by that than the intial post. - Spawn Mar 16, 13:22 3
      - I read the book, not the audiobook -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 13:24 2
        
        ST talked about this at length. - Spawn Mar 16, 13:26
        
        I mean is Garth Brooks related to them? How was I supposed to know?! -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 13:24
- you're so pretty -- nm - decline Mar 16, 13:12
- oh boy. -- nm - Diva Mar 16, 13:11
- right? -- nm - prayformojo Mar 16, 13:11
- Oh, honey. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 13:11
wap? "[DC] Cherry blossoms reach penultimate stage, ‘puffy white,’ with peak bloom likely in a few days" -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 16, 13:07
We're a little over 300 points away from the stock market being below where it was on Trump's Inauguration Day. -- nm - Inigo Mar 16, 13:02 1
- "I love you three thousand!" -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 16, 13:06
closing bell. Dow -2999, NAS -970, S&P -325! -- nm - mud Mar 16, 13:02 9
- Worst drop since Black Monday. -- nm - Reagen Mar 16, 13:26 3
  - Bigger than that, it's the worst drop in the index ever, except for Black Monday, not just since then. -- nm - znufrii Mar 16, 13:55
  - So is this Plaid Monday or what? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 16, 13:40 1
    - Trumpday -- nm - JaxSean Mar 16, 13:41
- Welcome to the Enron Ride -- nm - budice Mar 16, 13:17
- Missed it by THAT much. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 16, 13:03 2
  - I blame kilbo. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 13:04 1
    - I doubt buying 1 share of L brands was enough to move it that much. -- nm - Ba Baron Ron Ron Mar 16, 13:12
- 2999.99 plus tax. -- nm - Max Mar 16, 13:02
Good Job Florida...you morons.... -- (link) - Remlik Mar 16, 13:01 5
- Do you count more than 50 people? -- nm - David Mar 16, 14:02
- When you have a president that says the virus dies in the sun/heat... -- nm - JaxSean Mar 16, 13:14 3
  - Evidence says it does at about 85 degreesish. - spamlet Mar 16, 13:18 2
    - *coughs on everyone at the beach* -- nm - JaxSean Mar 16, 13:28
    - "General, nuke the clouds" -- nm - President Loyola Mar 16, 13:21
How would you rate your performance in response to the crisis...I rate myself as a 10 -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 13:00 2
- About a 6 through yesterday, but improving. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 16, 13:14
- 7 -- nm - JD Mar 16, 13:12
there it is -3000 -- nm - mud Mar 16, 12:58 15
- Guess I should pay more attention to when the orange one is going to talk. Could've eeked out a few more % gains today on my shorts before pulling - oblique Mar 16, 12:59 13
  - you are SHORTING stocks?! as in, borrowing on margin!? Dear lord I'm going to have a heart attack - JackDawson Mar 16, 13:00 12
    - Kilbo, no. Seriously. NO! -- nm - David Mar 16, 14:23
    - lol -- nm - znufrii Mar 16, 13:56
    - I would hope so. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 13:00
    - I think he is buying a shorts ETF (but I could have misunderstood) -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 13:00 7
      - I'm learning I'm just not cut out for active investing especially in unprecedented times. I'm sure some people are but not me. I took my 20% profit - oblique Mar 16, 13:02 3
        
        Despite the cockiness and over-confidence and faux boasting you may read online, THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of people are not cut out for active - JackDawson Mar 16, 13:24 1
        
        New reality show: kilbo stitches his own wound with one hand, while trading on the other hand, while arguing in court. -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 13:48
        
        Don't do that. - Spawn Mar 16, 13:03
      - oh ok less bad phew *still hyperventilating* -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 13:01 2
        
        I literally have the WORST timing in history when it comes to individual investing. I've never held a true brokerage account before mid-Feb - oblique Mar 16, 13:18 1
        
        Holy timing! - psilotum Mar 16, 14:04
    - Dude. Inverse ETF -- nm - oblique Mar 16, 13:00
- 20,134.67 -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 12:58
He talking, why not stonks go up? -- nm - Reagen Mar 16, 12:55 9
- Why do they let him talk in the last hour of the market? -- nm - spamlet Mar 16, 13:11
- "Does the buck stop with you, and on a scale of 1-10 what would you give yourself for your [response to the crisis]?" "I give myself a 10." -- nm - Max Mar 16, 13:01
- I read this in the voice of a golden retriever. Which is probably about right. - Dark Callisto Mar 16, 12:58
- Free. Free fallin..down 3000, heading to 20k -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 12:58
- stonks, heh-heh... -- nm - Diva Mar 16, 12:57 4
  - mess. he's such a stonk -- nm - prayformojo Mar 16, 12:58 1
    - and gross. -- nm - Diva Mar 16, 13:01
  - I always pause when Logan speak hits ST. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 12:58 1
    - :-D -- nm - mud Mar 16, 12:58
-2,802 will he autograph that? -- nm - Jovian Mar 16, 12:54 1
- 20,373.02 - Spawn Mar 16, 12:55
And I just got as jury summons for April 13th. I should be surprised if I actually have to go at this point, right? -- nm - znufrii Mar 16, 12:54 6
- Jury duty buddies! -- nm - Ba Baron Ron Ron Mar 16, 12:55 2
  - juries are still deliberating in manhattan federal court right now, FYI. -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 12:59 1
    - St. Louis city courts have suspended jury trials through Apr 10, so I'll be in the first group back. - Ba Baron Ron Ron Mar 16, 13:11
- Magic 8 Ball says Likely No -- nm - Strongbad Mar 16, 12:54
- Go in a hazmat suit. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 12:54
- *shrug* -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 12:54
This morning the radio station played "What A Wonderful World" and "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" B2B and I thought - Reagen Mar 16, 12:51 1
- more Sam Cooke -- (link) - Peglegpete Mar 16, 12:54 [youtube]
Freeland describes the situation in BC as a “significant outbreak” -- (link) - mud Mar 16, 12:51 4
- Who/what is Freeland? -- nm - Mop Mar 16, 12:53 3
  - Deputy Prime Minister of Canada -- nm - mud Mar 16, 12:54 2
    - Prime Minister of Canada 2021-???? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 16, 13:01
    - Pff! Let me know when the Sheriff Prime Minister of Canada has something to say. -- nm - Mop Mar 16, 12:55

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