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I'm watching baseball from South Korea and they put some cardboard cutout fans in the stands. :-) -- nm - Krusty Apr 15, 06:23 2
- 6 of the fans have been tended to for foul balls causing injury. 2 were rushed to medical facilities by a guy shouting wooo! Wooo! Wooooo! In a fake - Will Hunting Apr 15, 06:27 1
  - Haha! -- nm - Krusty Apr 15, 06:28
can I ask a dumb question? when Iused to misspell things on a webpage, they used to red underline. no more. it's like my chrome spell check died. - amanda jones Apr 15, 06:19 6
- If you go to google.com and right click in the search box, do you have the spellcheck menu and is it enabled? -- nm - oblique Apr 15, 06:24 1
  - yes. there are options under "use basic spell check" and "use enhanced spell check" -- neither seem checkable. -- nm* - amanda jones Apr 15, 06:28
- Answer: h - e - l - p. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 15, 06:24
- go to settings => language (is spell check on?) -- nm - decline Apr 15, 06:24 1
  - yes. (my chrome is outdated, let me update -- though this started like a month ago and chrome is seven days old.) -- nm - amanda jones Apr 15, 06:29
- I don't know the answer, but I rely on that feature so much. -- nm - ty97 Apr 15, 06:21
Judge to lawyers: Please get out of bed and put on a shirt for Zoom court hearings - B-A-ron Apr 15, 06:19 3
- Broward County Court of course ! -- nm - JackDawson Apr 15, 06:20
- Says robed person not wearing pants. -- nm - Qale Apr 15, 06:19 1
  - Zubaz count as pants! -- nm - ML si Apr 15, 06:24
Warren has endorsed Joe Biden for president -- nm - budice Apr 15, 06:10
all of my friends are stimulated and I am not. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 15, 06:05 1
- Worst bacchanal ever. -- nm - Qale Apr 15, 06:09
I mean, cool if true -- (link) - ty97 Apr 15, 06:04 5
- that looks like my Stud Detector -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 06:21 1
  - *points at self, makes loud BEEP BEEP BEEP sounds* -- nm - ty97 Apr 15, 06:21
- It’s literally this thing. -- (link) - mafic Apr 15, 06:13
- beepbeepbeepbeepbeep -- nm - Device That Detects Bullshit From 101m away Apr 15, 06:09
- Holy shit I swear I dreamt about this last night -- nm - JackDawson Apr 15, 06:07
I'm gonna repost this cause it cracks me up -- (link) - Beaker Apr 15, 06:00 3
- I don't know who that is, but that is a great wake-me-up this morning. - nmb - JaxSean Apr 15, 06:07
- This is amazing. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 15, 06:04 1
  - I nominate Woody Allen, Randy Quaid, Kevin Spacy and the Babadook -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 06:14
Eating out vs. dining in -- (link) - decline Apr 15, 05:59
Warren endorsement of Biden today -- nm - ty97 Apr 15, 05:59
Name checks out -- (link) - oblique Apr 15, 05:56 2
- My uncle Pat was going to be Peter, but their last name is Abbott. -- nm - mafic Apr 15, 06:06 1
  - though he still has a latent fear of McGregors. -- nm - Reagen Apr 15, 06:11
Chicago this morning -- (link) - oblique Apr 15, 05:45 4
- :( -- nm - budice Apr 15, 05:48
- What is on those cars? -- nm - ty97 Apr 15, 05:48 2
  - snow, ty97, snow. Based on the traffic reports coming into work today, I'm not sure there were any interstates open into Chicago this morning - oblique Apr 15, 05:52 1
    - So everyone is at home, yet accidents shutting down the interstates. *smh* -- nm - JaxSean Apr 15, 06:05
$1200 Stimulus: Get My Payment site is live for Filers -- (link) - budice Apr 15, 05:42 27
- this site is dumb. -- nm - Diva Apr 15, 05:50 6
  - it's still a baby - maybe it needs time to grow up -- nm - decline Apr 15, 05:53
  - Did it work for you? -- nm - Krusty Apr 15, 05:53 3
    - It didn't work at all at first. I tried it again and got the same error message listed below. -- nm - Diva Apr 15, 05:59 2
      - Hopefully they get their shit together today and it works later. I'll keep checking and let you know if I get through -- nm - Krusty Apr 15, 06:01 1
        
        thx sweetie. -- nm - Diva Apr 15, 06:05
  - I quite like the site that Bery built. - ty97 Apr 15, 05:52
- "According to information that we have on file, we cannot determine your eligibility for a payment at this time." -- nm - decline Apr 15, 05:45 17
  - If it helps, it's phased out after $75k, and really no check if over $99k. -- nm - MDH Apr 15, 05:55 13
    - That's why I don't understand our amount. We got $1100 in ours but were pretty close to the top end plus our kid turned 17 in December which I - oblique Apr 15, 06:00 10
      - Was your last filed tax return 2018? If so, kid was likely under 17 and you got the credit. That help at all? -- nm - MDH Apr 15, 06:04 9
        
        Will they claw it back then? -- nm - ty97 Apr 15, 06:05 8
        
        My understanding, based solely on discussions here, is that there is no clawback - znufrii, stimulated Apr 15, 06:10 6
        
        meaning the 2019 return? -- nm - Diva Apr 15, 06:12 5
        
        The credit applies to the 2020 tax year. The advance payment of the credit which is being paid out currently is calculated based on 2019 or 2018. -- (edited) - znufrii, stimulated Apr 15, 06:15 4
        
        That's essentially what our tax person told us also and why we waited to file for 2019. I'll file now that I have the stimulus -- nm - oblique Apr 15, 06:18 1
        
        oh, I get it now. -- nm - Diva Apr 15, 06:25
        
        but we're only up to 2019 returns, yes? We won't file for 2020 until next year. -- nm - Diva Apr 15, 06:17 1
        
        Correct -- (edited) - znufrii, stimulated Apr 15, 06:19
        
        Caveat, not providing tax advice (ha), and minimal individual experience, but my guess would be "no." More inside. - MDH Apr 15, 06:09
    - that's not the issue - the site simply doesn't work -- nm - decline Apr 15, 05:57 1
      - Understand, just trying to help with some limits if you wanted to calculate. -- nm - MDH Apr 15, 06:01
  - From Twitter it looks like everyone is getting this message -- nm - Krusty Apr 15, 05:49
  - I got the same thing. Did it a second time and got a different error. -- nm - Krusty Apr 15, 05:46 1
    - "What did we tell you the first time, go away Krusty!" -- nm - oblique Apr 15, 05:46
- Thank you! Hey, Diva!!! -- nm - Krusty Apr 15, 05:42 1
  - Not working for me. :-( -- nm - Krusty Apr 15, 05:45
March 2020 #food services and drinking places seasonally adjusted #sales were down 26.5% from February 2020 and down 23.0% from March 2019 -- (link) - ty97 Apr 15, 05:38 7
- Retail sales -8.7%, the worst ever - Prior record -3.9% in 2008 -- nm - decline Apr 15, 05:47
- that's... not as bad as I expected. -- nm - mafic Apr 15, 05:39 2
  - this doesn't mean you shouldn't go to taco bell!!! -- nm - amanda jones Apr 15, 06:07
  - partial month closures -- nm - ty97 Apr 15, 05:40
- March 2020 #motor vehicles and parts dealers seasonally adjusted #sales were down 25.6% from February 2020 which is an all-time low month-to-month -- (link) - ty97 Apr 15, 05:39 2
  - March 2020 #gasoline stations seasonally adjusted #sales were down 17.2% from February 2020 and down 18.0% from March 2019 -- (link) - ty97 Apr 15, 05:39 1
    - March 2020 #clothing and clothing accessories stores seasonally adjusted #sales were down 50.5% from February 2020 and down 50.7% from March 2019 -- (link) - ty97 Apr 15, 05:40
"The Wire: Way Down in the Hole" podcast dropped their first episodes today. I just started listening to the prologue episode. -- nm - Krusty Apr 15, 05:31
We've been partially stimulated but the amount makes no sense whatsoever. - spamlet Apr 15, 05:30 8
- 312.50? -- nm - Qale Apr 15, 05:45
- 2019 is the first year we haven't owed for years. I'm probably going to end up with a check 5 months from now with an idiotic Trump signature in the - Diva Apr 15, 05:38 1
  - We actually got a refund from 2019 so I filed a week before everything hit the fan. I should have waited so they could use 2018 but *shrug* -- nm - spamlet Apr 15, 05:39
- whoohoo! -- nm - znufrii, stimulated Apr 15, 05:35
- You may want to have a professional accountant look at it -- nm - ty97 Apr 15, 05:32
- if you use the numbers and relate them to a phone, do they spell T-R-U-M-P? -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 05:31 2
  - "$86,753.09? how'd they come up with that?" -- nm - mafic Apr 15, 05:35 1
    - heh -- nm - prayformojo Apr 15, 05:37
State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses (this is in the opinion section?) -- (link) - ty97 Apr 15, 05:29
This sums up a lot of the discomfort I have around the lionization of health workers during this -- (link) - Reagen Apr 15, 04:56 [Image] 7
- Fully agree. If someone sends me another video of NYCers clapping at them I’m going to kill them -- nm - JackDawson Apr 15, 06:10 3
  - I don't understand your issue with applauding them for all the work and effort they're putting in. I get that they're not getting the support - Krusty Apr 15, 06:28 1
    - For me, it's the equivalant of "thoughts and prayers." It's a worthless gesture that takes almost zero actual effort and solves/fixes nothing. -- nm - Shaun Apr 15, 06:30
  - Here they've been bashing pots and pans. It's like they want the health care workers to stay away. -- nm - Roger More Apr 15, 06:12
- Yeah, same goes with other essential workers. I mean Amazon is *firing* people for speaking out about conditions. -- nm - ty97 Apr 15, 05:22 2
  - *links another item on Amazon for others to buy* -- nm - SlackerTalker Apr 15, 05:26 1
    - I'm trying to think of how to order around them, from elsewhere. - ty97 Apr 15, 05:34
GOTD has a couple of nice windows programs for free today: Icecream Ebook Reader Pro 5.20, and PC WorkBreak 8.0. Both come with a lifetime license. - GregW Apr 15, 04:49
woo-hoo! -- (link) - ty97 Apr 15, 04:46 5
- You don’t have a car. Why are you so excited about this? - spamlet Apr 15, 04:47 4
  - I'm excited for the people who don't have to move their cars! -- nm - ty97 Apr 15, 04:49 3
    - empathy is a core value, spammy! -- nm - mafic Apr 15, 05:25 2
      - or so you've been told. -- nm - Reagen Apr 15, 05:29 1
        
        I am FILLED with christ's love! -- nm - mafic Apr 15, 05:37
I'm onto the 'C's in my CD listening party! -- nm - LMS Apr 15, 04:42
TV PSA: Survivor, AEW Dynamite, Black Ink Crew, Chicago Med, Fire, PD; Property Brothers, Challenge, Riverdale, Masked Singer, Goldbergs, WWE NXT, -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 04:11 4
- Real HW, Schooled, American Housewife, Blood Sugar Rising, Nancy Drew, Motherland Fort Salem, LEGO Masters, Sistas, True Terror With Robert Englund, -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 04:13 3
  - What we Do in the Shadows, Single parents, Eating History, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Samantha Bee, Mrs America, Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu) -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 04:14 2
    - Outer Banks (Netflix), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Apr 15, 04:15 1
      - AMC to air the first season of Shudder's Creepshow revival -- (link) - Beaker Apr 15, 05:38
Happy Not Tax Day everyone. -- nm - ty97 Apr 15, 03:21 2
- so now there's only one thing in life that's certain? -- nm - mafic Apr 15, 05:25
- I mean, yeah, but I still paid mine on time. -- nm - Qale Apr 15, 04:47
99 year old WW2 veteran aimed to raise £1,000 for NHS charities by completing 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden. He raised quite a bit more. -- (link) - LMS Apr 15, 02:46
And now for something completely different: Jeff Lowe’s nanny, Masha. -- (link) - Mop Apr 15, 00:22 3
- She says she was paid to fly out there for that photo. That seems more believable. - spamlet Apr 15, 04:43 1
  - Who doesn't want a violent scumbag that still dresses like he's 17 when he's 50? -- nm - Reagen Apr 15, 05:00
- moderately uninteresting Russian fact I learned recently: Masha is a nickname for Maria (and Dasha for Daria). -- nm - mafic Apr 15, 01:24
New York Times Magazine: ER doctor tells what it’s like in a NYC hospital. There’s an audiobook version of the article, too. -- (link) - Mop Apr 15, 00:17
Heh. Work in progress. -- (pic) - Beryllium Apr 14, 22:22 [Attachment]
2M reported cases - Spawn Apr 14, 22:15 1
- And 6 million more unreported. -- nm - tY si Apr 15, 05:35
Weather - nice through Thursday, possible rain again on Friday. What month is this again?? -- nm - Meg Apr 14, 21:55 2
- Mapayune -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 14, 21:59 1
  - And as a rule we don't get the monsoons that tear through the Southwest in July/August. I'd say all bets are off for this year. - Meg Apr 14, 22:05
"The president is not an authorized signer for legal disbursements...The checks will instead bear Trump’s name in the memo line." -- nm - Jovian Apr 14, 21:52 5
- Glad I will be able to get direct deposit, then. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 22:16
- Wondered about that. I know what a hassle it can be to change the signers on business and society accounts. - Meg Apr 14, 21:57 1
  - It's not like it's his money even. It's taxpayer money. -- nm - . Apr 14, 22:29
- when the Greek wrote plays about Ego, they new about Trump right? - tRuMaN Apr 14, 21:54 1
  - I like the Stan Lee & Jack Kirby Ego stories better. -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 14, 22:11
the USPS provides a lifesaving service, your regular delivery will note if an elderly resident hasn't picked it up an knock, call in a welfare check - zeitgeist Apr 14, 21:20 2
- Happened to a woman a block away. She was laying on the floor overnight and the post person noticed she hadn't picked up the mail from the day before - . Apr 14, 22:28 1
  - I once forgot to take in the mail the day before and our guy knocked to see how mom was. -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 14, 22:34
I've only had three of these. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 14, 21:15 6
- 1,3,4,5,6,8,9,12 are the ones I've had. But let's go 4,6,12. -- nm* - Shaun Apr 15, 05:30
- I know I've had 5 of them. - the wrong element, bad guy Apr 15, 04:30
- 1, 5, and 6 for me -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 23:12
- 1, 5 & 12 -- nm - Krusty Apr 14, 23:07
- 6, 5, kind of don't care after that, as long as I still have chipotle/adobo. -- nm - mafic Apr 14, 22:21
- 6, 7 (which I didn't know existed, but I'm very intrigued), and Franks of course -- nm - rollo Apr 14, 22:16
Reading the backboards I realized I don't remember a single thing about the Super Bowl that I supposedly watched a scant 10 weeks ago -- nm - rollo Apr 14, 21:05 7
- you don't remember the sexy entertainers at half time giving vapors to the virtuous old white men?...oh and the 9rs lost which saved thousands of live -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 15, 02:45
- this makes me sad -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 14, 21:43
- I can't remember the teams, the score, who won ,who did the halftime. But I do remember watching it with my neighbors -- nm - TWuG Apr 14, 21:32 4
  - Sounds like it was a Nothingbowl -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 21:39 2
    - distinctly average bowl -- nm - mafic Apr 15, 05:39
    - I seem to recall I didn't find it very exciting. -- nm - Meg Apr 14, 21:58
  - JLo, kids in cages. -- nm - Mop Apr 14, 21:35
We are screwed. A patient said two phlebotomist at the lab weren't wearing masks while drawing labs. - James Bond (aka Igor) Apr 14, 20:37 5
- according to the news if you clip a photo of your face to your chest, you can wear a Venom or Deadpool mask. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 14, 21:07
- masks are supposed to be in such short supply, maybe they aren't issuing them to non front line -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 14, 21:01 1
  - So far masks have been "optional" but luckily going to mandatory on Thursday. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Apr 14, 21:16
- Just don't get sick on Wednesday. -- nm - Mop Apr 14, 20:58 1
  - And whatever you do, don’t be two days away from retirement. That shit always causes trouble. -- nm - Qale Apr 14, 21:35
I did think Frozen 2 was missing a musical number entitled "Kristoff, We Don't Have Time For Your Shit Right Now". -- nm - Reagen Apr 14, 20:20
$20M penthouse is most expensive home ever sold in Brooklyn -- (link) - budice Apr 14, 20:08 3
- Gorgeous. -- nm - Mop Apr 14, 20:24
- If they had included a roof and exterior walls they probably could have gotten millions more. -- nm - Max Apr 14, 20:20
- Outdoor space looks nice -- nm - ty97 Apr 14, 20:11
AMC Theaters just trolling the Internet -- (link) - budice Apr 14, 20:01

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