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In the spirit of pfm's 10 Things, I mentioned I was doing a Wikipedia Hat Pick game with my 3 kids. This week's topics... - Mop Apr 2, 11:20 3
- Should be a "Sir" in front of John A. -- nm - VMan Apr 2, 11:24 1
  - Meh. He's a racist dickwad. I'll just call him Johnny. -- nm - Mop Apr 2, 11:38
- CRAP! The board's gonna roll! I might repost this the next board. -- nm - Mop Apr 2, 11:22
Covid Tracking Sites in one post: What sites are you using? - JaxSean Apr 2, 11:19 6
- This is the one with the model projections -- (link) - GregW Apr 2, 11:28
- Just the right corner of CNN or MSNBC -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 2, 11:27
- I'm tracking the Florida dashboard, if anyone else is interested. -- (link) - JaxSean Apr 2, 11:25
- worldometers. very easy to toggle between current day and previous day -- (link) - prayformojo Apr 2, 11:23
- CSV / Excel / API downloads if you want to play with the data -- (link) - JaxSean Apr 2, 11:21
- 19 year olds dashboard: -- (link) - JaxSean Apr 2, 11:20
Not sure if you guys saw, but Zach Braff and Donald Faison have launched a Scrubs rewatch podcast similar to the one the Office Ladies are doing -- (link) - oblique Apr 2, 11:11
Trump Org Estimated lost revenue: >$680K per day. Forbes estimates Trump has lost $1B in net worth already -- nm - decline Apr 2, 11:08 11
- Oh no! But I'm sure he can right this ship if he leaves office. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 2, 11:23
- Sucks, don't it? -- nm - Russ Hanneman Apr 2, 11:16
- So, almost all of his net worth. -- nm - Max Apr 2, 11:13 4
  - They estimated he was originally worth 3.1B - his real estate holdings are actually worth a ton of money -- nm* - decline Apr 2, 11:23 1
    - Which we are sure are just being held for his Russian handlers -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 2, 11:28
  - If he's earned less than $20 billion in slush funds, I'm surprised. - David Apr 2, 11:16
  - I believe his real net worth is NEGATIVE 1$B -- (link) - mud Apr 2, 11:16 [Backboard]
- Thanks for the silver lining. -- nm - David Apr 2, 11:10
- I hope he leaves office completely bankrupt. I'll add a wish for prison time because he deserves it. - TWuG Apr 2, 11:10
- No wonder he wanted to rise on Easter. -- nm - Spawn Apr 2, 11:10
- he's so good at losing tremendous amounts of money. the best. -- nm - colin Apr 2, 11:10
ONE MILLION (reported) CASES - Doctor Spawn Apr 2, 11:03 7
- 500,000 on March 26th, so we doubled in (less than) a week. We reached 250,000 on March 20th. - David Apr 2, 11:08 2
  - 26th was exactly a week ago. -- nm - Spawn Apr 2, 11:09 1
    - To be clear, I'm saying 6+ because it happens during the seventh day. - David Apr 2, 11:12
- You should have to count Quebec cases too. Spiking with returning snow birds who came home from Florida with it. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 2, 11:05 3
  - The site counts Canada or are you referring to something else? -- nm - Shaun Apr 2, 11:08 2
    - spoilers - Roger More Apr 2, 11:13 1
      - Ahhhhhhhhh. Stupid brain! -- nm - Shaun Apr 2, 11:14
And here we go. The game delays have begun. -- (link) - Shaun Apr 2, 11:02 4
- There had been a few already, I think. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 2, 11:05
- :( -- nm - decline Apr 2, 11:03
- It would be insane to release new consoles this year. -- nm - David Apr 2, 11:02 1
  - Seems like it, but damn, we are going to need a huge win come November and I really hope they don't get delayed. - Shaun Apr 2, 11:06
Godzilla Joins Magic: The Gathering in Kalju-Themed Expansion Set -- (link) - Beaker Apr 2, 11:00 1
- he seems under-powered... luckily, I have a B.F.M. from the unglued set. . . . -- nm - call me ishmael Apr 2, 11:27
New York is actively converting BiPap ventilators into invasive ventilators, so that Musk donation was neither half-assed nor unneeded - TWuG Apr 2, 10:57 3
- yeah, but he could have also worked with groups making the versions which dont require a ton of power (like GE and Ford are). - tRuMaN Apr 2, 11:02 2
  - He's using the Buffalo Gigafactory to build ventilators, so he's doing both -- nm - TWuG Apr 2, 11:05 1
    - Also, there's an immediate need that can't be filled with the purpose built invasive ventilators, so his donation WAS helpful AND informed - TWuG Apr 2, 11:08
It could take up to 20 weeks for some to get their checks -- (link) - oblique Apr 2, 10:55 2
- No one ever mentions that people who have not gotten a refund from the IRS will not have their bank info on file. -- nm - GregW Apr 2, 10:58 1
  - I've seen it mentioned a lot. -- nm - Diva Apr 2, 11:00
999,303... - David Apr 2, 10:54 4
- But look at all the people that survived! - oblique Apr 2, 10:56 3
  - All joking/politics aside, I'm genuinely grateful it's not a deadlier disease. -- nm - David Apr 2, 10:57 2
    - As am I. I'm just getting nervous for people like - oblique Apr 2, 11:02 1
      - We should get him posting over him regularly. Everyone needs a sense of community at the moment. -- nm - David Apr 2, 11:21
What is the given name of the lap cat in TN who has come to be known as 'The Hugger'? Asking for a friend... -- nm - Diva Apr 2, 10:48 8
- Jack-Jack, the pride of the University of Chicago. - David Apr 2, 10:52 7
  - I am virtually in love with him. -- nm - Diva Apr 2, 10:54 6
    - Here he is! - Dark Callisto Apr 2, 11:00 [Attachment] 5
      - *melts into a puddle* -- nm - B-A-ron Apr 2, 11:07
      - (On Kim's lap, of course) -- nm - David Apr 2, 11:02 2
        
        Cat has good taste. -- nm - B-A-ron Apr 2, 11:08 1
        
        he's like, hugging her. -- nm - Diva Apr 2, 11:31
      - What a sweet baby! -- nm - Diva Apr 2, 11:01
LaMelo Ball just bought his Australian basketball team. - David Apr 2, 10:43
Should I feel bad that I'm waiting to file our 2019 taxes because it changes how much of the stimulus check we get - oblique Apr 2, 10:41 7
- I'm holding off filing Theresa's taxes because she's over by a lot this year but was below it last year -- nm - Krusty Apr 2, 10:51
- My non-judgmental question: Will you use the $2,400 to help people if you get it? - David Apr 2, 10:44 1
  - Depending on how things go, there's a high likelyhood it would (overshare) - oblique Apr 2, 10:49
- Depends on if what you expect to earn for 2020 is closer to 2018 or 2019. -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 2, 10:43 2
  - Actually I was wrong about that. If you get paid too much you keep it. The adjustment only works in your favor. -- nm - spamlet Apr 2, 10:52 1
    - Interesting. Good to know. -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 2, 10:53
- nope -- nm - Diva Apr 2, 10:42
This is some funny tiger king content -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 2, 10:41
huge comet "Atlas" is coming back this way at the end of the month -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 2, 10:40 1
- cool. -- nm - mud Apr 2, 11:07
I do think it's telling that two of the worst performers in this are the governors who stole 2018 elections. - David Apr 2, 10:39 1
- word. -- nm - mud Apr 2, 11:05
Now playing: Kim's Convenience season 4! Yay! -- nm - Krusty Apr 2, 10:31 1
- #okseeyou -- nm - Shaun Apr 2, 10:34
"There's no indication that the data that came out of China in terms of their infection rate and their death rate was falsified in any way." - Name Withheld By Request Apr 2, 10:30
Upstate NYers getting pissed -- (link) - znufrii Apr 2, 10:08 6
- I've heard stories of this from South Carolina and elsewhere - ty97 Apr 2, 10:31 1
  - Nobody likes NYers. -- nm - Spawn Apr 2, 10:32
- Can you blame them? Already it's affecting poorer people more. -- nm - JackDawson Apr 2, 10:14 3
  - Says the guy who flew away from NYC. - ty97 Apr 2, 10:33 1
    - Yes. I am happy to be told it was screwed up accept the responsibility and abide by whatever local consequences I face for the choice of made - JackDawson Apr 2, 11:11
  - Not at all. -- nm - znufrii Apr 2, 10:15
We're probably in our last 90 minutes of <1,000,000 cases. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 2, 10:06 4
- LOL. More like 60! - Spawn Apr 2, 11:08
- in reality, we've been over that for a long time -- nm - ty97 Apr 2, 10:34 1
  - *Official -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 2, 10:39
- *gets out 1,000,000 cases hat* -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 2, 10:29
Damnit, Chipotle. National Burrito Day with free queso + I normally get lunch from them today and their site is crashing -- nm - oblique Apr 2, 10:03 4
- buy a lightsaber. they are also known as: Burritos -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 2, 10:23
- Finally got it through. Hopefully that worked -- nm - oblique Apr 2, 10:17
- Our VPN circuits just crashed -- nm - budice Apr 2, 10:14 1
  - Burritos clogging the tubes -- nm - oblique Apr 2, 10:15
DeSantis' order explicitly bars local govs from closing down religious gatherings -- (link) - Reagen Apr 2, 09:52 7
- Reporters need to start asking these assholes 'Why do you want more people to get sick and die?'. -- nm - Diva Apr 2, 10:37 2
  - Better to be dead than wrong in the eyes of God. -- nm - znufrii Apr 2, 10:42
  - Because the survivors will vote for him! -- nm - David Apr 2, 10:38
- ME!! -- nm - Jesus Christ Apr 2, 10:12 1
  - Just put the wafer in my mouth and let's share a cup, already. -- nm - Spawn Apr 2, 10:13
- apocalyptic death cults, ftw! -- nm - znufrii Apr 2, 10:11
- He wants to get the churchies sick! He's a monster! -- nm - Mop Apr 2, 09:59
Biz: Wall St Analyst on CNBC saying Grubhub/Food Delivery won't ever make money -- nm - budice Apr 2, 09:47
I wanna poll something, but I feel like you guys have already done it, so I wont. - tRuMaN Apr 2, 09:47 7
- I enjoyed 'Uncorked'. Courtney B. Vance is really wonderful in this. -- nm - Diva Apr 2, 10:41
- I'm working so not really on staycation. I keep trying to find time to watch bombshell. -- nm - amanda Apr 2, 10:20 1
  - I watched it Sunday. Pretty entertaining, though I thought the main criticism was pretty justified and undermined the film to a degree. -- nm - pmb Apr 2, 10:22
- Yes. -- nm - Mop Apr 2, 09:58
- I dunno. Message from the King? Idiocracy? Outbreak? Weekend at Bernie's? Who even knows. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 2, 09:51
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire.. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 2, 09:47 1
  - this -- nm - Diva Apr 2, 10:38
Front lawn done. DNC pushed the convention into August while I was working. I hope your discussion of the move was interesting. -- nm - TWuG Apr 2, 09:45 20
- Gives Obama more time to choose someone? -- nm - Spawn Apr 2, 09:50 18
  - Gives more time to find someone for Obama to choose? -- nm - mud Apr 2, 09:52 17
    - Gives more time for Obama to choose himself? -- nm - Strongbad Apr 2, 10:01 16
      - In all honesty, I keep thinking how differently this would have all gone if Obama was president right now. - pmb Apr 2, 10:09 15
        
        The Jade Helmers would have gone *Absolutely* insane. -- nm - Reagen Apr 2, 10:46 1
        
        It's pretty apparent they were never concerned with government overreach, but with a black guy in charge. -- nm - TWuG Apr 2, 10:52
        
        Could have still been caught off guard. A lot of non-Trump leaders lagged on their decision-making because of the scope and speed of the problem. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 2, 10:32 9
        
        There would have definitely been an off-guard element, I think...95%? of world leaders have been a little flat footed - JackDawson Apr 2, 11:03
        
        Pandemic funding would not have been cut. Obama would have accepted scientific advice more readily. Obama's response to Ebola worked. -- (edited) - Roger More Apr 2, 10:53 4
        
        Maybe, but take Canada as one example, we "accept scientific advice" and it still spread like wild fire in many areas. - Name Withheld By Request Apr 2, 10:58 3
        
        we have unquestionably done better. Half the rate of cases and one quarter the rate of deaths. -- nm - Reagen Apr 2, 11:03 2
        
        Yes, but my original point wasn't that there wouldn't be improvement. Just that we keep it in perspective that there would likely still be... - Name Withheld By Request Apr 2, 11:06 1
        
        But in response to pmb's point that this massive shutdown and crisis would have gone differently under Obama. -- nm - Roger More Apr 2, 11:11
        
        Unlikely, given they had pandemic response teams established and walked the incoming Trump admin through a response plan that Trump largely ignored. -- nm - TWuG Apr 2, 10:50 2
        
        I'm not suggesting there wouldn't be improvement. Just that there is a wide variety of nations facing a tremendous burden on this. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 2, 10:57 1
        
        more than anything the death vs. economy balance is one that no leader of a capitalist nation is able to take lightly -- nm - JackDawson Apr 2, 11:04
        
        Or Clinton. Or Dubya. Or the other Clinton. Or HWBush. Or an inanimate object. - Spawn Apr 2, 10:12 2
        
        Given how skilled at bureaucracy he was, I’m stunned in hindsight how badly Bush Jr fucked up Katrina - Will Hunting Apr 2, 10:17
        
        All hail the inanimate carbon rod. -- nm - VMan Apr 2, 10:12
- heh -- nm - mud Apr 2, 09:46
where is that COVID tracker made by that kid that RC suggested to us? -- nm - amanda Apr 2, 09:36 1
- This one? -- (link) - JaxSean Apr 2, 11:14
"Putin made a statement a couple of hours ago. he extended the weekend until the end of April. no quarantine" -- nm - Spawn Apr 2, 09:36
Top Gun moving to December 23rd (head to head with Tomorrow War), Spongebob moving to July -- nm - MDH Apr 2, 09:36
Quiet Place Part II in theaters Sept. 4 -- (link) - mud Apr 2, 09:34 6
- Not going to happen -- nm* - ty97 Apr 2, 10:36
- Lame. Release it digitally now, you cowards! -- nm - Shaun Apr 2, 09:35 4
  - agreed -- nm - mud Apr 2, 09:36 3
    - No, John said it needs to be experienced in the big screen in mass. -- nm - Spawn Apr 2, 09:37 2
      - Just like Wonder Woman 1984! -- nm - Shaun Apr 2, 09:39 1
        
        And just like the first Wonder Woman I will wait until video! -- nm - Spawn Apr 2, 09:44
982,000 cases - Spawn Apr 2, 09:34
lyc, its thunder-storming outside -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 2, 09:29 2
- God is unhappy about what you did to HSJ, tru. -- nm - Mop Apr 2, 09:30 1
  - naw, probably just clapping that I finally pulled that trigger. - tRuMaN Apr 2, 09:49
It was not even two provinces! -- nm - Reagen Apr 2, 09:28
Spawn or others is that kid still updating that site and if so could you link me again? Sorry, lost it -- nm - JackDawson Apr 2, 09:27 3
- On my phone and copying addresses is not working. -- nm - Spawn Apr 2, 09:35 2
  - Ncov2019.live/data -- nm - Spawn Apr 2, 09:38 1
    - Cause Spawn is lame. -- (link) - Shaun Apr 2, 09:39
Italy and Spain combined account for nearly half (47.6%) of the total worldwide deaths so far -- nm - prayformojo Apr 2, 09:22 4
- Hold my beer. -- nm - US Apr 2, 09:30
- in large part due to one soccer game. -- (link) - Reagen Apr 2, 09:30 1
  - wow -- nm - prayformojo Apr 2, 09:34
- "reported" -- (link*) - mud Apr 2, 09:27 [Backboard]
Hardly trolling! -- nm - JackDawson Apr 2, 09:20 2
- poor band name. decent album title. -- nm* - tRuMaN Apr 2, 09:22 1
  - yada yada third yada yada Bloodhound Gang. -- nm - Reagen Apr 2, 09:25

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