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*throws hands in the air* -- (link) - ty97 Apr 1, 15:27 4
- But he should read the comnents. -- nm - . Apr 1, 15:34
- He's taking his rallies to network TV. -- nm - VMan Apr 1, 15:33
- *waves them around like he just doesn’t care* -- nm - Qale Apr 1, 15:28 1
  - Everybody say "Ho" -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 15:29
New Jersey parents charged with child endangerment for holding party with around 50 guests -- (link) - crash davis Apr 1, 15:25
I will say that I am pleased we live in an age where churches can stream to the Internet as a backup -- nm - ty97 Apr 1, 15:24 5
- It’s not nearly the same but it’s what has to be done. -- nm - spamlet Apr 1, 15:29 2
  - Compared to nothing, it's a solid backup -- nm - ty97 Apr 1, 15:30 1
    - I was shocked how quickly our congregation pulled something together the first week. - spamlet Apr 1, 15:31
- I'm trying to come up with a pun on Jesus take the wheel, but I can't think of a streaming word that rhymes with wheel. -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 15:28
- The Catholic church has been doing TV mass for decades. They are pretty good at workarounds. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 15:26
"Did you know I was number one on Facebook?" -- (link) - mud Apr 1, 15:24 6
- First against the Facebook wall -- nm - Beryllium Apr 1, 15:32
- Every reporter who praised his "sober tone" should get out of the business of reporting - Reagen Apr 1, 15:31 1
  - I keep wondering what they're holding a gun to to make him behave. -- nm - . Apr 1, 15:32
- "10,000, 15,000 people in the caravans. They were marching through Mexico. That's not happening anymore." -- (link) - mud Apr 1, 15:27 2
  - Fewer cases south. -- nm - . Apr 1, 15:30
  - That's because they are safer from the virus elsewhere -- nm - ty97 Apr 1, 15:28
Gov of Texas reopens Churches. Says they are essential. -- (link*) - Qale Apr 1, 15:14 27
- Churches are just as essential to some people's state of mind as going on a walk to the park is. If they only have people six feet apart and no peace - JackDawson Apr 1, 15:30 7
  - Sure, if they can meet distancing rules, but most I see can't - ty97 Apr 1, 15:33 1
    - There were some churches looking to do services at drive-in theaters, but there only about 300 of those across the country. -- nm - . Apr 1, 15:37
  - This just brought up a thought. Catholic last rites in this pandemic. How is that working or not working? Anyone know? -- (edited) - Bacon Apr 1, 15:33 3
    - IIRC there is "special" way for instances such as this. Can not remember clearly what is done. -- nm - VMan Apr 1, 15:38 1
      - That's good. -- nm - Bacon Apr 1, 15:39
    - They're not allowing this -- nm - JackDawson Apr 1, 15:38
  - Most are closed for services, but open for individuals to stop and pray. -- nm - . Apr 1, 15:31
- The Florida declaration from DeSantis said churches/synagogues etc were essential. I don't know if that overrides county rules or not -- nm - ty97 Apr 1, 15:18 1
  - Most individual churches canceled. DeSantis is a coward. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 15:20
- Natural selection. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 15:17
- Apocalyptic death cults, ftw! -- nm - znufrii Apr 1, 15:16 15
  - The churches seem to be more practical / smarter than the governor - JD Apr 1, 15:18 3
    - the POPE is doing all services online. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 15:20 2
      - yeah, but those are catholics.. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 1, 15:30
      - Yeah, my parents' church did an outdoor Communion only service this past week but they skipped even that. - ty97 Apr 1, 15:21
  - I mean, I guess if everyone gets their own pew and they’re not right behind or in front of everyone else... *shrug* I don’t need church to have faith. -- nm - Qale Apr 1, 15:18 9
    - As my mother pointed out (note that my parents are attending daily mass on-line from home) this Sunday is Palm Sunday. Next Sunday is Easter - ty97 Apr 1, 15:20 8
      - Yeah. This used to be my favorite time of the year for church. Not because of having to attend so much, but seeing all my ‘not school friends’! -- nm - Qale Apr 1, 15:27
      - Plus Passover is next week. -- nm - spamlet Apr 1, 15:24
      - The money baskets don't fill up if the pews are empty. -- nm - Bacon Apr 1, 15:21 4
        
        St Patrick's (which, along with the rest of the archdiocese of NY has canceled all Masses) does have a window asking for donations which makes sense - ty97 Apr 1, 15:23
        
        Say what you want about the Catholic church, and it's legit. They aren't stupid. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 15:22 2
        
        They might not be stupid, but they do have evil inside that church. -- nm* - Bacon Apr 1, 15:23 1
        
        I know. It's not that flavor of evil. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 15:25
      - The Pope will not hold Easter service. I don't even have to look it up. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 15:21
  - As long as they vote for me before they kill us all, I can live with it. -- nm - Gov. Abbott Apr 1, 15:17
I’ve seen 40 on the AV Club list. I should complete the list. -- nm - Dano Apr 1, 15:05 3
- My top 5 from the list: The Unbelievable Truth, Primer, sex lies and videotape, Halloween, Little Miss Sunshine -- nm - Dano Apr 1, 15:12 1
  - If it were based on trailers alone, Garden State would be my #1. -- nm - Max Apr 1, 15:15
- I'm amazed that you have let 10 slip past you -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 15:10
the Tropicana has been sold -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 1, 15:03
So we are sending PPE out of the country per El Presidente -- nm - Bacon Apr 1, 15:02 1
- America First! -- nm - Jovian Apr 1, 15:05
should go over a million total cases tomorrow -- nm - prayformojo Apr 1, 14:59 1
- Yesterday China admitted they were only reporting those that test positive and show symptoms. -- nm - Spawn Apr 1, 15:39
A Rochester, NY husband hid his coronavirus symptoms so that he could be at his wife's side when she gave birth -- (link) - ty97 Apr 1, 14:57 6
- See? -- nm - JackDawson Apr 1, 15:01 2
  - hush, go have a drink....never mind -- nm - ty97 Apr 1, 15:02 1
    - Mean!!! -- nm - JackDawson Apr 1, 15:06
- Selfish fucking prick!! People can't even be at families deathbeds and that selfish fuck wants to infect a ward in the hospital. -- nm - Bacon Apr 1, 14:59
- jail him -- nm - Remlik Apr 1, 14:57 1
  - that would be unfair to the other prisoners -- nm - Beryllium Apr 1, 15:17
ahhh I see the fascist has all his top thugs up there with him today -- nm - Jovian Apr 1, 14:55 4
- By the way. Re timing. The Senior Leadership Briefing (SLB) is at 5 pm every day. I doubt Great Leader attends. It's a full hour of information. But - loosilu Apr 1, 14:57 1
  - Standing shoulder to shoulder. - . Apr 1, 15:28
- Any professionals? -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:55 1
  - nope. just his thugs: Barr, Esper, O'Brien, and Miley -- nm - Jovian Apr 1, 14:57
Scientists Witness the Death of a Solar System, and the Birth of Necroplanetology -- (link) - crash davis Apr 1, 14:54
Netflix has a dreadful sounding series coming up about Jerry Garcia's missing partial finger. -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 1, 14:54
good news, we're starting up the war on drugs! and you'd better not attack us right now, you'll regret it! -- nm - colin Apr 1, 14:51 4
- Tomorrow Space Force will launch an attack on Mars -- nm - Bacon Apr 1, 14:52 3
  - Though the news cycle is so COVID noisy enough right now that Space Force had it's first launch back on Sunday -- (link) - JD Apr 1, 14:58
  - Thank God we saved a few bucks dismantling the pandemic response team, so we can have Space Force. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:53 1
    - right? finally something is going our way. -- nm - colin Apr 1, 14:56
Samuel L. Jackson Says Stay the F**k at Home -- (link) - Beaker Apr 1, 14:42 [youtube] 1
- I'm tired of these mf people in these mf parks. -- nm - Max Apr 1, 14:51
OMG NOOOOO I just jinxed it!! The state where my parents live in Mexico has deemed liquor production not essential - JackDawson Apr 1, 14:39 18
- I'm surprised they're not converting them to hand sanitizer operations. Several smaller distilleries here are doing that. -- nm - pmb Apr 1, 15:03 3
  - Even craft beer companies. -- nm - . Apr 1, 15:25
  - That's awesome. I love the war spirit of Americans. What a shame it is necessitated by the catastrophic failure of leadership. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 15:17
  - They may? They’ve already converted some things to mask production but China sent a bunch over to troll the USA I guess -- nm - JackDawson Apr 1, 15:07
- *eyes emoji* -- nm - ty97 Apr 1, 15:00
- check if airport duty free shops are open -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 1, 14:43 2
  - I'm not flying. I'm learning self-distilling recipes. -- nm - JackDawson Apr 1, 14:45
  - 1/4 of TSA agents are in self quarantine. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:44
- please be very careful what other industries you mention :) -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 14:41
- OK I have to ask. Did they shut the stores with warning or not? Because if they gave any warning at all, it's going to be mobbed. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:41 8
  - We had two or three days notice here, went on the day before the last day and it was busy, but not mobbed. -- nm - znufrii Apr 1, 15:09
  - this is what PEI did and had hundreds of people swarm their liquor stores -- nm - Beaker Apr 1, 14:44
  - They're getting mobbed is my reports and videos from family. Morons. -- nm - JackDawson Apr 1, 14:42 5
    - Never, ever, ever give advance notice. -- (edited) - loosilu Apr 1, 14:44 4
      - not only did they give notice, they gave short notice "closing tonight at 12" *headdesk* -- nm - JackDawson Apr 1, 14:56 1
        
        Guaranteed mob. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 15:18
      - The videos I'm seeing online of these lines right now are disturbing. All caution to the wind. -- nm - JackDawson Apr 1, 14:53
      - Right, with notice: mob. Without notice: Looting. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 1, 14:51
"rational decision makers in government" I was alive back when we had rational decision makers in Government. IT was something to be amazed by. -- nm - Bacon Apr 1, 14:33
Seriously: Are liquor stores essential? -- nm - JackDawson Apr 1, 14:29 36
- LA has changed its laws for now so if you get takeout, it can include alcohol. Everyone is giving huge discounts on wine. Mexican restaurants are - jnine Apr 1, 15:23
- And cannabis stores, too. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 1, 14:42 1
  - for now, all Nevada stores are deliver only -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 1, 14:46
- This from the man who posted .... -- (link) - . Apr 1, 14:41 [Backboard]
- Sadly, there's a number of neighborhoods in our country where the corner liquor store is also the primary source of groceries for lower income people - Mr. Havens Apr 1, 14:36
- No! says the Prohibition Party that amazingly still exists and is chaired by Phil Collins. -- nm - Max Apr 1, 14:36
- Interestingly the wine shop around the corner from us which included a bar and sold some appetizers, has added a big selection of fresh produce that - pmb Apr 1, 14:35
- I feel like America tried to ban alcohol once before. -- nm - Qale Apr 1, 14:35
- not everyone has a still in their backyard -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 1, 14:31
- Well gun shops are, why wouldn't liquor stores? -- nm - Turd Ferguson Apr 1, 14:31 1
  - For the gunaholics! -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:31
- Yes, because of alcoholics. They are addicts, and you can't suddenly make them withdraw. It can be lethal. -- (edited) - loosilu Apr 1, 14:30 24
  - This is what I have heard from medical professionals -- nm - ty97 Apr 1, 15:01
  - So, kill the liquor store employees to save the alcoholics? (I don't mind utilitarian thinking at all, but this seems like the wrong utilitarian appr - JackDawson Apr 1, 14:31 22
    - Here they're doing curbside pickup and some delivery. -- nm - . Apr 1, 14:42 1
      - That works great ! -- nm - JackDawson Apr 1, 15:01
    - Tangential question, are we not arresting heroin dealers during this quarantine either? Or are we just worried about legal addicts? -- nm - Volnelk Apr 1, 14:33 4
      - I bet methadone clinics are staying open -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 14:43 1
        
        They have to. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:45
      - Every jurisdiction is different. Here liquor stores are owned by the state, so I'm sure its a question of revenue. -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 14:35 1
        
        that is a tangential answer to a tangential question :) apologies for being way off the mark -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 14:40
    - It's easy enough to use safe protocols. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:32 14
      - This seems fine to me, I just wonder if there are not other businesses that we are letting fail that could be easy enough to use safe protocols too - JackDawson Apr 1, 14:37 1
        
        Agreed about arbitrariness. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:38
      - right, in one this morning. They have 2 guys at the door asking questions and checking for symptoms; then a plexiglass barrier between checkout and - Beaker Apr 1, 14:35 10
        
        You can also limit the number of people allowed inside at one time. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:36 9
        
        you can do that for any sort of establishment though -- nm - JackDawson Apr 1, 14:38 7
        
        Disagree. You can't do it for personal services. Hairdressing, massage, nails, etc. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:39 6
        
        "any" is wrong, but restaurants where they only allow 1/10th of the capacity? movie theaters with screenings at 1/10th full (how they operate anyway?) - JackDawson Apr 1, 14:40 5
        
        Gun stores are bullshit (IMO). Liquor stores, close them and bad things happen. Looking ahead, I'm seeing years and years of - loosilu Apr 1, 14:43 4
        
        I would join those lawsuits. There's no rhyme or reason to it except maybe what limousine liberals consider essential in blue states and rednecks in - JackDawson Apr 1, 14:48 1
        
        Fair. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:50
        
        Problem is the people who think they are have guns, and lawyers. -- nm - . Apr 1, 14:46 1
        
        Totally agreed. Piss off gun owners, especially gun owners who believe they are in apocalyptic times. Bad choice. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:47
        
        Ours are doing curbside. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 1, 14:36
      - Yep. I'm seeing most of the ones who advertise with us specifically talk around the safety measures being used. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 1, 14:33
Crash, from b2. I'm WFH, but my workplace is now requiring universal temperature scans when you enter. Some people do have to physically show up. - loosilu Apr 1, 14:26 2
- :) Two things. 1) When I said temp measures, I meant temporary measures. 2) Temperature measures are coming for all. - crash davis Apr 1, 14:31 1
  - Ohhhhhhhh. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:33
CNN said some labs have a back log of 160,000 tests, wonder if that's what is taking Tim's so long -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 1, 14:22 5
- You could get test results back negative by the time you actually have had the virus for 2 weeks. -- nm - Bacon Apr 1, 14:31
- There's no universal system of labs, so no efficient way to route tests. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:22
- sounds like some of them wont' be valid by the time they test them. -- nm - colin Apr 1, 14:22 2
  - I've heard reports they get 20-30% false negatives, so they're missing a lot o people. -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:25
  - For those that get well and are positive it does have value. Yeah, the rest not good. -- nm - . Apr 1, 14:23
For those of you who might remember KROQ or the show MV3 back in the 80s... - Mr. Havens Apr 1, 14:21 7
- WTG! -- nm - crash davis Apr 1, 14:46
- That is damn cool. I used to listen casette tapes of KROQ shows my friends would mail to me. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 1, 14:43
- well done! -- nm - JD Apr 1, 14:31
- noice -- nm - JaxSean Apr 1, 14:26
- oh heck yeah, congrats! -- nm - colin Apr 1, 14:22
- I know him just from First Wave. :) Congrats! -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 1, 14:22
- Congrats! -- nm - loosilu Apr 1, 14:22

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