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In case you need this to argue with someone - lupus patients are still getting coronavirus while they're taking hydroxycloroquine. -- (link) - Reagen Apr 6, 07:25 7
- Well they are immunocompromised so more vulnerable to all sorts of infections, but still interesting food for thought. -- nm - B-A-ron Apr 6, 07:37
- Thanks! It's a mystery to me that this antimalarial is getting so much attention, instead of the antivirals. -- nm - mara Apr 6, 07:28 4
  - It's because President Stupid latched on to it. -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 07:37
  - There was a paper about it early on. Turned out it was a doctor that was banned from other journals for faking data but once Trump says something - spamlet Apr 6, 07:34 2
    - And when he says it over and over and over ... -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 07:38
    - It does seem that other countries have been running studies on it too so there has been some medical interest in whether it can help. -- (edited) - ty97 Apr 6, 07:36
- Oh, no, don't tell me both Bolsonaro and Trump are dirty liars. Please don't say it's so! (NM) - Marlowe Apr 6, 07:26
The Queen's speech was well-received, as was her green-screen of a dress. -- (link) - mara Apr 6, 07:14 1
- Her reelection chances are through the roof! -- nm - Mop Apr 6, 07:32
Edith Finch was a lovely game, but you might need a hug afterwards. - B-A-ron Apr 6, 06:57 5
- It was really great. It's also quite short, so if you are worried about the time committment, don't let that concern you. spoils - Shaun Apr 6, 07:00
- I played it a bit and an interactive story is a good description. (spoiler) - Krusty Apr 6, 06:59 2
  - spoils - Shaun Apr 6, 07:00 1
    - I played a little bit more after that scene. I was going to pick it up again later. -- nm - Krusty Apr 6, 07:04
- are there any cool laser guns? -- nm - decline Apr 6, 06:58
I remember when David posted the attendance for Chinese movie theaters. I didn't think this would happen after seeing nobody wanted to go to the - Bacon Apr 6, 06:55
TIL PBS is now only available on the “Ultimate” DirecTV package. PBS started airing daily lessons for each grade level but there’s no way I’m upping - kelly Apr 6, 06:51 6
- my local pbs station has a lot of that stuff online with a free account. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 6, 07:21
- Sounds like a public relations stinkup waiting to happen -- nm - con_carne Apr 6, 07:12
- Don't know how much will work where you are, but BBC are starting daily lessons from the 20th -- (link) - LMS Apr 6, 07:05
- maybe their website is offering the same thing? -- (link) - decline Apr 6, 06:58
- Isn't it a local channel? That's very surprising. Have you check the PBS app to see if it has what you're looking for? -- nm - Krusty Apr 6, 06:57
- We’re sorry to hear that. Would you like to donate at the $365 level to get a tote bag? -- nm - Qale Apr 6, 06:54
Just saw a hitchhiker. Wow -- nm - Spawn Apr 6, 06:30 2
- *pulls down shades* ~chick chick-chickaaaah ba-bow-bow~ -- nm - con_carne Apr 6, 06:39
- serial killers gotta eat -- nm - Beaker Apr 6, 06:34
Wells Fargo has already exhausted it's $10B capacity for small business loans -- (link) - oblique Apr 6, 06:28 1
- Wells Fargo, Bank of America, are supposedly telling homeowners who delay payments for C-19 that they will have to make a lump sum pmt at the end of 3 - tRuMaN Apr 6, 06:59
There are some early signs that NYC is seeing the number of new infections slowing down -- (link) - Krusty Apr 6, 06:23 7
- "A shortage of tests and stay-at-home orders for all but the most seriously sick makes a full picture impossible to obtain. Still, testing is on the - Krusty Apr 6, 06:24 6
  - Finally a sign of light. -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 06:54 5
    - Weren't they already testing the most per capita? I wonder what happened there -- nm - con_carne Apr 6, 07:19 3
      - What happened is that it spread way too far before anyone responded. The virus has such a long incubation, it was hidden. -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 07:20 2
        
        It was here weeks before anyone took it seriously so we were spreading it like crazy as we went about our lives. We mingle with strangers a lot more - Krusty Apr 6, 07:28 1
        
        Also, the number of visitors from other countries helped as well. Being the most popular tourist destination in the US worked against us with this -- nm - Krusty Apr 6, 07:34
    - Exactly. We need some kind of good news about this because it's been nothing but bad news and rising numbers for a month -- nm - Krusty Apr 6, 07:00
I can think of maybe 2 days over the past week that I haven't seen someone from my building or block packing up and heading out. -- nm* - ty97 Apr 6, 05:58 11
- Anyone that left or leaves gets their rent doubled when they return. -- nm* - Krusty Apr 6, 06:13
- People leaving a viral hot spot for somewhere else. Always a good idea. -- nm - spamlet Apr 6, 06:05 1
  - What can we say, we're a net exporter -- nm - ty97 Apr 6, 06:06
- heading to the compound in the woods? -- nm - Beaker Apr 6, 05:59 7
  - -- nm* - con_carne Apr 6, 06:03
  - I didn't stop to take a poll of where folks were going. - ty97 Apr 6, 06:01 5
    - Just gave them all the traditional goodbye kiss with tongue. -- nm - mafic Apr 6, 07:10
    - this is like the part of Deep Impact where people who know people start getting the fuck out of Dodge before the asteroid hits -- nm - Beaker Apr 6, 06:02 3
      - Except they're taking the asteroid with them. -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 07:06
      - Why can’t it be the part of Deep Impact where Elijah Wood comes to live with me? -- nm - Qale Apr 6, 06:12 1
        
        Are we still doing phrasing? -- nm - B-A-ron Apr 6, 06:22
Dow Futures +748. - B-A-ron Apr 6, 05:57 2
- Back away from the keyboard hobbit! -- nm - ty97 Apr 6, 05:58 1
  - *hisses* Nasty tyses. We was just tryins to be nices, wasnt we Precious. -- nm - B-A-ron Apr 6, 06:05
Metacritic: Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 1. -- (link) - Shaun Apr 6, 05:55
Florida: Biden 46, Trump 40 -- (link) - Reagen Apr 6, 05:54 4
- That's still 14% undecided, ugh. But those numbers on trusting Trump re virus info are encouraging. - ty97 Apr 6, 05:56 3
  - undecideds would have to break 75% for Trump in that poll (not impossible, but very unlikely). -- nm - Reagen Apr 6, 05:59 2
    - And delegates aren't winner take all they are split up accordingly, right Ty97? He finally got me to remember the right answer. -- nm - Bacon Apr 6, 06:47 1
      - If that's the primary poll, Biden is in really big trouble. -- nm - Reagen Apr 6, 06:48
I watched Altered Carbon: Resleeved last night. It was awesome. I watched it with the original Japanese audio track with the English subs. - Shaun Apr 6, 05:37 2
- Onward: B ; Castlevania season 3 A- ; Washington part 2 B -- nm - Beaker Apr 6, 05:45 1
  - Onward was such a bland, inoffensive movie. I feel like Pixar has had more of those of late. -- nm - TWuG Apr 6, 05:49
ST Poll: Will you be subscribing to Quibi? 90 day free trial? -- nm* - Beaker Apr 6, 04:53 11
- Still tryin to make Fetch happen -- nm - budice Apr 6, 05:55
- I've barely grasped what it is from the ads, and based on that I don't feel like exploring more. So no. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 6, 05:52
- WTF is a Quibi? One of the Oogieloves? -- nm* - B-A-ron Apr 6, 05:50 1
  - WTF is an Oogielove?! -- nm - znufrii Apr 6, 07:21
- nah -- nm - decline Apr 6, 05:49
- No, I don’t hate myself. -- nm - mafic Apr 6, 05:49
- Negative. -- nm - zunkskunk with the bad take Apr 6, 05:42
- Already have my 90 day trial going but I doubt I’ll use it enough to to justify the 10 bucks a month after that. -- nm - J Apr 6, 05:36
- Fuuuuuccccccckkkkk no. A paid service that is mobile only *and* has ads? Get proper fucked. -- nm - Shaun Apr 6, 05:28
- Pass -- nm - Beaker Apr 6, 05:28
- Hmm -- (pic) - spamlet Apr 6, 05:26 [Attachment]
TV PSA: Antiques Roadshow, Home Town, Neighborhood, Voice, Raw, Who's Line is it Anyway, Bob Hearts Abishola, All Rise, Below Deck SY, Driven, -- nm - Beaker Apr 6, 04:49 2
- Better Call Saul, Plot Against America, Roswell New Mexico, Breeders, Bull, Broken Places, Andy Cohen, Manifest, Dispatches From Elsewhere, other stuf -- nm - Beaker Apr 6, 04:50 1
  - My Brilliant Friend: The Story of a New Name, Never Too Small (Youtube), also Quibi drops content today -- (edited) - Beaker Apr 6, 04:52
I think today is the last day to get Regions of Ruin for free -- (link) - zork Apr 6, 04:28
Coronavirus lockdown: Gallery pieces become online jigsaw puzzles -- (link) - LMS Apr 6, 04:12
previous tests show that looking for trace SARS virus in sewage can give a weeks advance notice of community outbreak before first patients show up... -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 6, 01:46
As John Oliver pointed out tonight, the day after the WHCA booted OAN from the White House press room, they were back at the invitation of the WH. -- nm - Mop Apr 6, 00:24 1
- Even when you're wrong, you're right -- nm - crash davis Apr 6, 00:49
Watching television commercials I recorded two months ago feels like a glimmer of an alternate universe. - David Apr 5, 23:38 11
- I feels odd when I watch strangers shake hands on a tv show. -- nm - . Apr 6, 00:07
- Ah, this probably means that Funko Pops announcement you just posted about was from three weeks ago. -- nm - con_carne Apr 6, 00:00
- We got one for Princess Cruises the other night. Yipes. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 5, 23:54 8
  - I'm starting to think this is a ten-year hit for the cruise industry. -- nm - David Apr 6, 00:00 7
    - What cruise industry -- nm - con_carne Apr 6, 06:09
    - Easily. -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 03:57
    - The Ruby Princess is basically a plague ship in Australia right now. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 6, 00:17 2
      - We've had several over her. -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 03:58
      - ditto the Artania, except that's mostly dealt with now. -- nm - mafic Apr 6, 00:32
    - I had an argument with another STer about this about a week ago who seem to love cruises - eag Apr 6, 00:14 1
      - As well as being floating petri dishes, the massive cruise ships produce a staggering amount of pollution as they only use cleaner fuel near the coast - LMS Apr 6, 04:04
Lin-Manuel and the original cast surprise a 10 yo super fan with an online rendition…. -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 5, 23:05 4
- Aw, you spoiled the surprise I posted about just two threads below! -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 23:08
- Did you just 'Mop,' Mop? -- nm - Flavorize Apr 5, 23:08 2
  - Yes. Yes he did. -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 23:08 1
    - I had no idea what krasniski's pod cast was about (have no speakers) and saw that bit on twitter and thought that's cool. -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 6, 01:39
"if a sexual harassment claim f**ked a Toyota Camry* -- nm - crash davis Apr 5, 22:37
JD, you heard Louisiana has a new parish? - Meg Apr 5, 22:25 1
- the jewish 'ghetto' of NOLA is called.... - zeitgeist Apr 5, 22:46
Episode 2 of Krasinski's Some Good News has a pretty awesome reunion over Zoom. -- (link) - Mop Apr 5, 22:11 [youtube] 1
- I'm not crying, you're crying -- nm - oblique Apr 6, 05:34
Reading earlier posts it just now dawned on me - I'm a Boomer!?! Guess I'll have to start being offended. -- nm - Meg Apr 5, 22:02 6
- Oh, great. In the middle of a pandemic, I've managed to piss off Meg. - David Apr 5, 22:09 1
  - We'll talk about it when you finally come to Disneyland :-) -- nm - Meg Apr 5, 22:19
- okay, Meg - crash davis Apr 5, 22:03 3
  - Although, maybe not? First site said 1944, another one said 1946. I'll go with the latter :-) -- nm - Meg Apr 5, 22:05 2
    - it was so much easier before the kids were given website edit control. When the first atomic bomb was dropped, baby boomers started. -- nm* - Peglegpete Apr 5, 22:55 1
      - All due to the troops coming home from overseas. It was easier for the Brits who could get home across the channel for weekend leave :) - Meg Apr 5, 23:11
I'd be tempted to keep Toy Story, JP, and TDK -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 5, 22:01 3
- Pulp Fiction, Empire, Toy Story -- nm* - znufrii Apr 6, 07:37
- anyone who picks Space Jam gets fired into the sun. -- nm - mafic Apr 5, 22:47
- Infinity War, Inception, Toy Story - David Apr 5, 22:10
Now Coronavirus has gone too far. - David Apr 5, 21:55 2
- They're essential because homeschooling parents use them for art class on how to make every pop culture character look the same. -- nm - con_carne Apr 5, 23:40 1
  - Boom. Roasted. -- nm - Qale Apr 6, 03:00
This is impressively stupid. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 5, 21:53 4
- Too funny -- nm - crash davis Apr 6, 00:15
- Jesus Christ. -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 23:18
- Right up there with "I'm a light-house" 😉 -- nm - Meg Apr 5, 21:59 1
  - Yes! Exactly :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 5, 22:01
I think I'd like to watch The Hollow Crown. -- nm - crash davis Apr 5, 21:52
1.344M reported cases - that was an error -- (edited) - Spawn Apr 5, 21:45 1
- 8,880 fewer new cases yesterday, growth rate of only 7.5%. Things are looking up. -- nm - David Apr 5, 21:47
Me to Asus: I'd like you to fix my broken laptop case. Asus to me: Sure, you'll have to send it to China to get the job done. - David Apr 5, 21:43
So the wife and I went to bed after watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire, I asked wanna have sex, she said no, Is that your final answer?..... - zeitgeist Apr 5, 21:36
I say that I've stopped hate-watching shows, but then I play episodes of How to Get Away with Murder. - David Apr 5, 21:32 7
- I hate watched The Bachelor this past season and it just reinforced some negative things I think of the younger generation. That wasn't healthy - crash davis Apr 5, 21:36 6
  - Ugh. Don't grow into one of those people who swears that kids these days do everything wrong. People under 30 are awesome. - David Apr 5, 21:40 5
    - I was going to say I'm obviously not one of those, but then I realized Russell Wilson is 31 -- nm - crash davis Apr 5, 21:44 4
      - Jay Buhner is 55. People age, Crash. It's how the construct of time works. - David Apr 5, 21:46 3
        
        If you are going to structure an argument, don't contradict yourself right off the bat. Jay Buhner is timeless. -- nm - crash davis Apr 5, 21:48 2
        
        Only if you don't believe the construct of time, Crash. - David Apr 5, 21:56 1
        
        I thought I started by saying hate watching isn't healthy. But the conversation devolved, so I do believe in entropy -- nm - crash davis Apr 5, 22:02
Mojo, we came to Money Heist late. We are only 4 episodes into season 2. Spoilers. - Volnelk Apr 5, 21:32
It's, like, I think I'm someone who doesn't mind change...but then I start using a new version of Word. - David Apr 5, 21:14 12
- re B2, the new books that will come out of this mess: Will ralph get the price wrong on them? -- nm - crash davis Apr 5, 21:15 11
  - Does sasquatch crap in the woods? -- nm - Bacon Apr 5, 21:16 10
    - Did I miss the memo declaring this Strafe Rafe Day? nm - ralph wiggum Apr 5, 21:30 9
      - like we'd be dumb enough to leave a paper trail - nm - crash davis Apr 5, 21:32 2
        
        You too, frendo. Always. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 5, 21:34 1
        
        That word worries me, in a Javier Bardem type way -- nm - crash davis Apr 5, 21:35
      - Own up to costing me an extra dollar!!! -- nm - David Apr 5, 21:31 5
        
        I provide at least $1 of entertainment every day! nm - ralph wiggum Apr 5, 21:33 4
        
        You count beans like Baldrick. -- nm - David Apr 5, 21:35 3
        
        I provide at least a very small casserole of entertainment. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 5, 21:37 2
        
        Yes, you're a laugh riot, Mistress Ploppy.* - David Apr 5, 21:41 1
        
        Those long winter evenings...nm - ralph wiggum Apr 5, 21:43
We watched About A Boy for family movie night and it is just as delightful as I remembered. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 5, 21:13 3
- yup -- nm - prayformojo Apr 5, 21:22
- And now Skins to see how Marcus grows up -- nm - JD Apr 5, 21:21 1
  - Oh my. -- nm - Qale Apr 6, 03:04
the Mississippi delta was shinning like a national steel guitar -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 5, 21:11 2
- Damn! Now that things going to play in my head all night. I've had to stop playing the CD in the car because it gives me the worst earworms ever :-( - Meg Apr 5, 21:44
- Well I taught that weeping willow how to cry cry cry, Taught the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 5, 21:27

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