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statement from Sasse, Scott & Graham: -- (link) - mud Mar 25, 10:26 5
- they are afraid that someone would get more than their minimum wage job w/o benies?....many comps are now laying off so they can get Unemploy ins - zeitgeist Mar 25, 10:34
- Take it to a vote, let them go on record. -- nm - ty97 Mar 25, 10:30
- So, apart from their reservations being laughable on its face, what exactly is the problem here? -- nm - znufrii Mar 25, 10:30 1
  - We haven’t seen the bill so no idea if there is a drafting error in it so it isn’t laughable on its face. - spamlet Mar 25, 10:38
- I like that they have to say the equivalent of "We really mean this." -- nm - David Mar 25, 10:29
You know what would really freak me out. Sitting behind someone in traffic and smelling their tobacco smoke from in my car - oblique Mar 25, 10:16 4
- How about their weed smoke? Cause that's pretty much every time I leave the fuckin house. nm - Turd Ferguson Mar 25, 10:17 3
  - Can often smell it in the hallway of my building - ty97 Mar 25, 10:20 2
    - I gotta get out of this neighborhood. Every other vehicle looks like Spicoli's van. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Mar 25, 10:21 1
      - Duuuuude. -- nm - budice Mar 25, 10:25
At least some people are staying inside: White Mountain Puzzles is on a 2 week delay in shipping and can no longer take new orders. -- nm - MDH Mar 25, 10:10
Asian Americans in Hollywood Denounce "Chinese Virus" and Racist Incidents -- (link) - mud Mar 25, 10:07
... -- (link) - David Mar 25, 09:58
Aaaaaand there it is. Our countertop is delayed by a month, minimum. - Reagen Mar 25, 09:56 8
- Time to add to the daily chores chart for each family member: planking across the open cabinet framework during meal preparation. -- nm - Max Mar 25, 10:11
- Ugh. That sucks. -- nm - znufrii Mar 25, 10:03
- Get a plywood counter top for now and go to town staining and burning it. Good times. -- nm - colin Mar 25, 09:58 4
  - then save it as a quarantine trophy. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 10:01
  - We've got some "modular rustic butcher block" down - Reagen Mar 25, 10:01 2
    - heh. that's not too bad. you have a farmhouse style sink? - colin Mar 25, 10:09 1
      - Traditional undermount - Reagen Mar 25, 10:30
- How can they expect us to live like animals? -- nm - Spawn Mar 25, 09:57
Lucie or anybody, is there a *recent* survival rate for COVID patients once they're on a ventilator? I thought I saw early ones that were low. - mara Mar 25, 09:41 3
- heard it was originally 50-50, now with shortage of facilities the patient is much further along ... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 25, 10:31
- Not that I know of. So many factors. Age of patient, how long they waited before intervention, pre-existing conditions. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 09:46 1
  - WE're doing a global science experiment on human populations, basically. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 09:49
Good analogy. -- (link) - Shaun Mar 25, 09:40 1
- All that glitters is COVID. -- nm - Spawn Mar 25, 09:45
“Some of them will get sick, some may even die, I don’t know.” -- (link) - ty97 Mar 25, 09:37 20
- "Do you want Marxists? Because that's how you get Marxists." -- nm - Reagen Mar 25, 10:20
- When people tell you who they are, believe them. -- nm - David Mar 25, 09:44 1
  - COVID. Boy, I don't know. -- nm - Spawn Mar 25, 09:47
- Even anyone is that callous, why can they not see the difference between a death on the road and a death in a hospital bed using a ventilator? -- nm - Max Mar 25, 09:40 13
  - The car crash is in some ways worse - no warning and the person is gone -- nm* - JackDawson Mar 25, 10:20 3
    - What I mean is the deceased goes to the morgue, not the hospital care. In a financial crisis the concern is a run on the banks - Max Mar 25, 10:24 2
      - How many deadly crashes happen in a city in a day, how about 500 times as many -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 26, 01:19
      - I fully agree with you on these points -- nm - JackDawson Mar 25, 10:26
  - And also, if I drive past a car crash, I'm not going to catch a car crash a week later. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 09:59 2
    - Right what is morally repugnant to humans is selecting who dies. We prefer the wheel spin randomly and pick 40,000 random car crash victims. But the t - JackDawson Mar 25, 10:25
    - And the mechanic who works on a damaged car doesn't become more likely to be in a crash himself. -- nm - mara Mar 25, 10:04
  - And also not see the difference between a death on the road and an inevitable million car pile up if the road isn't closed for a while. -- nm - pmb Mar 25, 09:57
  - And even then, it's not like we say, "Hey go crazy out there on the road and drive like a lunatic!" -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 25, 09:53 4
    - In the extreme examples it’s do you kill an innocent baby in the cradle to save one million lives? What about 10? Contra, do you lose 200 million jobs - JackDawson Mar 25, 10:23 2
      - But it's not an A/B choice - Reagen Mar 25, 10:28 1
        
        I don’t think I’m saying it’s A/B of course it isn’t. I’m just saying that the pearl clutching over lives will be lost is silly. Everyone is saying th - JackDawson Mar 25, 10:32
    - Well that’s the thing. We accept death because we can minimize it and control it. The point is a good point if crass. They teach it in my law school a - JackDawson Mar 25, 10:22
- Well, making sure he earns his name. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 25, 09:39
- You first, Dick -- nm - decline Mar 25, 09:39
- Okay, boomer. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 25, 09:39
Seems appropriate -- (pic) - JD Mar 25, 09:34 [Attachment]
"And the nominees for Best Picture are: Bad Boys For Life, The Invisible Man, Onward, Sonic the Hedgehog and Doolittle." - Will Hunting Mar 25, 09:30 9
- I'm still looking forward to Tenet, Dune, JB25, the Chicago 7 & the Sopranos picture anyways -- nm - mud Mar 25, 10:03
- Emma., Just so they can feel like they're trying. -- nm - Reagen Mar 25, 10:02
- Dang, I'd watch the hell out of some Bad Boys 4 Life right now. Release it digitally you cowards! -- nm - Shaun Mar 25, 09:33 6
  - it was kind of weak. and it's already on... other digital platforms. -- nm - colin Mar 25, 09:59 5
    - Maybe I haven't actively looked. Thanks. -- nm - Shaun Mar 25, 10:01 4
      - do you have a plex account, by any chance? -- nm - colin Mar 25, 10:09 3
        
        Yup, just the free one. -- nm - Shaun Mar 25, 10:13 2
        
        shoot, i'm not seeing it now. swore there was a legit release. if i see it, i'll let you know :) -- nm - colin Mar 25, 10:17 1
        
        Yeah I had a look in my usual spots. Nothing more than cams at the moment. -- nm - Shaun Mar 25, 10:23
Thoughts and prayers. -- (link) - Shaun Mar 25, 09:18 2
- ERMAHGERD CORNTEEN! -- nm - Beryllium Mar 25, 09:20 1
  - Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, cornteen,eleventeen, appleteen, twenteen. -- nm - pmb Mar 25, 09:29
The prison hand sanitizer thing may not have been true -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 25, 09:17 2
- If there are any non-violent hand sanitizers in prison right now, we should let them out immediately. -- nm - Max Mar 25, 09:18 1
  - I saw a tweet yesterday talking about possibly releasing people charged with misdemeanors and one of the replies was... - ty97 Mar 25, 09:21
Amazon workers in 8 warehouses test positive -- (link) - oblique Mar 25, 09:14 2
- just keep throwing more people into the warehouses. Worked for Stalin in WW2 -- nm - Bezos Mar 25, 09:21
- ! Don't be cruel, amanda! -- nm - Max Mar 25, 09:17
Happy birthday beaker :) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 25, 09:11
ugh Lindsey Graham, seriously? -- (link) - ty97 Mar 25, 09:10 7
- He's just a vile person. #3 on the list of people who need to lose this November. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 25, 09:46 3
  - I assume #2 is turtle. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 09:47 2
    - Ya big meanie! -- (pic) - Turtle Mar 25, 09:51 [Attachment]
    - yes -- nm - Don Homer Mar 25, 09:49
- How about not incentivizing employers to lay them off so they don’t have to pay them? -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 25, 09:41 1
  - This is perfectly stated. -- nm - David Mar 25, 09:47
- I really wasn't thinking about it, but now he's put the idea in my head. This is a perfect time for me to go on EI. Uh, nah. No, thanks. -- nm - VMan Mar 25, 09:25
Last night, I watched Jesse Pinkman, Marshawn Lynch, and Aech from Ready Player One rob an ATM. -- nm - David Mar 25, 09:04 2
- Lol. I thought the same. But not for Marshawn. I wouldnt be able to recgonize him on a good day -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 09:50
- You've reached the end of the Movie Universe and your are teetering on the edge of oblivion -- nm - decline Mar 25, 09:07
My daughter just got accepted into the MBA program at Northwestern! Very excited for her and that she'll be moving back to the city. -- nm - pmb Mar 25, 08:55 25
- Congrats!!!! -- nm - Walt_Disney Mar 25, 10:31
- yay! -- nm - Diva Mar 25, 10:11
- Great news! -- nm - colin Mar 25, 10:01
- Yay, nice! Great program, and I visited the place, it's quite nice, too. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 25, 09:38
- Congrats! -- nm - znufrii Mar 25, 09:27
- Congratulations! Go Cats! -- nm - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 25, 09:22
- Sweet! - Max Mar 25, 09:16 1
  - Not certain, but I think she's interested in doing some sort of brand management. -- nm - pmb Mar 25, 09:27
- Wow that’s great congrats! -- nm - JackDawson Mar 25, 09:12
- Thanks all. -- nm - pmb Mar 25, 09:10
- Wow! Great school! -- nm - Strongbad Mar 25, 09:09
- Cool! Congrats. -- nm - Shaun Mar 25, 09:05
- huge congrats! We all need good news. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 09:05
- Yay! Though I would have liked for her to be at University of Chicago with our cat. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 25, 09:03 3
  - They could be roommates in a sitcom! -- nm - David Mar 25, 09:15 2
    - That would be excellent. -- nm - pmb Mar 25, 09:27
    - I was about to suggest Pixie write the script. Then I remembered - Pixie/Cats, don't mix ;) -- nm - Meg Mar 25, 09:23
- Wow, that's great!! -- nm - Don Homer Mar 25, 09:01
- NICE! -- nm - Remlik Mar 25, 09:00
- awesome -- nm - decline Mar 25, 09:00
- That's awesome! -- nm - Krusty Mar 25, 08:59
- Wonderful! -- nm - David Mar 25, 08:59
- nice -- nm - mud Mar 25, 08:58
- Great news! -- nm - ty97 Mar 25, 08:56
- wow, that's a tough program to get into! congratulations to her! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 25, 08:56
$100 million Netflix fund for halted productions. -- (link) - Mop Mar 25, 08:55
Fridge & pantry are stocked and I'm back in bed :) Saw a couple of friends and neighbors in line and every one was pretty mellow. - Meg Mar 25, 08:49 2
- Did you social distance, young lady? -- nm - Qale Mar 25, 08:50 1
  - As best I could. With the width of the store aisles and a lot of stocking ongoing you have to fight past employees and other customers. -- nm - Meg Mar 25, 09:11
Whole lot of slowness issues from the company users this morning. Gonna be a loooong day. - budice Mar 25, 08:43 1
- We're seeing that here at home the last few days. Not sure how this works but could the providers be slowing speed to increase capacity? -- nm - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 25, 08:51
The before times for me was March 11 when schools in Europe started closing... - Walt_Disney Mar 25, 08:40
I really need to pet and play with a dog right now. I saw a bunch the other day while walking to the store but I can't stop and pet them like I used - Krusty Mar 25, 08:39 3
- Shelters here are really pushing fostering harder than ever. I know that trick! I won’t fall for that! -- nm - Qale Mar 25, 08:44
- and you've broken three windows throwing a ball for her. -- nm - Reagen Mar 25, 08:39 1
  - She's only jumped out once -- nm - Krusty Mar 25, 08:40
“WHAT we were getting bombed on every day during the war, now I sit in my house all day with WiFi!!” -- (link) - mud Mar 25, 08:34
"It's not complicated what we are asking you, .. stay in your home." -- (link) - mud Mar 25, 08:31
Maryland schools to stay closed through April 24. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 25, 08:28
There was no Justice in the League that day. -- nm - David Mar 25, 08:24 3
- Let's be real, that's coming to S2 of The Boys. -- nm - Reagen Mar 25, 08:40 2
  - Eep. -- nm - David Mar 25, 08:40 1
    - (Phrasing) -- nm - David Mar 25, 08:41
Lol Trump! Omg trump is so sad. He sees how popular cuomo is and stealing the spotlight he’s both jealous and like sucking up to him like the snivelin - JackDawson Mar 25, 08:24 22
- Cuomo's on CNN now. Apex estimated to be in 21 days... -- nm - oblique Mar 25, 08:27 17
  - Are we doing a betting pool on when things somewhat resemble normal? -- nm - Qale Mar 25, 08:45 6
    - Fall. First day of school. -- nm - Spawn Mar 25, 09:51 1
      - I'm going with this one. Reset button. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 10:03
    - Easter! - Cuzzin Todd Mar 25, 08:54 1
      - I’ve comically suggested Fourth of July. -- nm - Qale Mar 25, 09:11
    - I'm wondering if we can use that time frame to project peak wherever we live, based on first confirmed case. - loosilu Mar 25, 08:47 1
      - OK. I think I know where they got this from, and days to peak is based on what measures are taken. - loosilu Mar 25, 08:55
  - Their first confirmed case was March 1. That's 46 days from discovery to peak. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 08:35
  - Did he give a source for that? -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 08:32 8
    - Late last week he estimated 45 days, yesterday he said it coming faster, in 2-3 weeks (I think) but he has never sourced it that I know of - ty97 Mar 25, 08:55 5
      - Yeah, I think everyone is just doing math and guessing. -- nm - David Mar 25, 08:59 2
        
        And everyone is using Italy as the real world worst case. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 09:02 1
        
        Waaait for it.... -- nm - USA Mar 25, 10:21
      - There are many people who model it. I can't imagine he'd put out a specific number if it wasn't based on good modeling. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 08:57 1
        
        I would assume so too -- nm - ty97 Mar 25, 09:05
    - Sorry, no. He just said it. -- nm - oblique Mar 25, 08:50 1
      - I trust that it's based on reliable modeling and he didn't do a Trump. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 08:51
- I think it stings more because it's NY, where poor little Trump always wanted to be loved. -- nm - loosilu Mar 25, 08:27 2
  - absolutely. And NYC hs always known he's a fucking joke. -- nm - Diva Mar 25, 08:55
  - Yup -- nm - JackDawson Mar 25, 08:27
- Is he sending us the thousands of ventilators we need? He can suck his dick on Fox News, just send us the equipment we need. -- nm - Krusty Mar 25, 08:25
Most Dangerous Game | Official Trailer | Quibi (starring a Helmsworth and Christopher Waltz) -- (link) - Beaker Mar 25, 08:23 [youtube] 5
- Interesting. Does anyone know anything about this Quibi? Ads are everywhere lately. -- nm - Krusty Mar 25, 08:27 4
  - It’s a mobile only video service with everything broken into 10 minute chunks. They’re hoping you’ll pay for that. - spamlet Mar 25, 08:32 3
    - Meh. I pay for enough apps and sites to watch things. I don't need another. -- nm - Krusty Mar 25, 08:36 2
      - They're offering a 90 day free trial right now, but yeah I don't see myself paying for this -- nm - decline Mar 25, 08:38 1
        
        Thanks! I might check out what they have for the trial but I'm good on TV/movie services. -- nm - Krusty Mar 25, 08:40

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