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Covid is the perfect virus for America. We not only are defiant, we are gleefully so. Take that rest of the world! -- nm - Qale Apr 21, 09:50
though it doesnt come out until May I think, xbox games pass has Minecraft dungeons right now. - tRuMaN Apr 21, 09:39
Missouri AG files suit against Chinese government over COVID. Expect more of these from red state AGs. -- (link) - spamlet Apr 21, 09:37 5
- Josh! Oh wait -- nm - JackDawson Apr 21, 09:49
- And three people in Westchester County, NY have apparently filed a class action suit against the WHO. -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 21, 09:40 3
  - my class action lawsuit against the Number 19 is progressing rather nicely thanks. The Count is my surprise expert witness -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 09:44 2
    - Well im suing the makers of Corona beer -- nm - eag Apr 21, 09:53 1
      - I shall sue the rolling stones for giving us mom's 19th corona breakdown -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 11:09
I've had to look something up in Ori already. - Shaun Apr 21, 09:36
One of my brother's best friends. His daughter and son-in-law were 2 of the murder victims (my nieces were best friends with her) -- (link) - Beaker Apr 21, 09:29 6
- :( -- nm - znufrii Apr 21, 09:51
- Awful. So sorry. :-( -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 09:50
- Wow. So sorry. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 09:41
- Horrible. -- nm - loosilu Apr 21, 09:38
- this is so unbelievably sad. -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 09:37
- jfc, so sorry. -- nm - Shaun Apr 21, 09:32
This Glen Hansard fellow who Jax posted about sure seems a doppelganger of Subby -- (pic) - con_carne Apr 21, 09:19 [Attachment] 4
- I'm not sure if Subby or his wife would laugh harder at this. -- nm - Reagen Apr 21, 09:27
- Glen Hansard is one of my favorite performers. I don't do Instagram or I would like to see this. -- nm - pmb Apr 21, 09:22 2
  - create a fake account! -- nm - JaxSean Apr 21, 09:28
  - Falling Slowly was our first dance song. -- nm - Reagen Apr 21, 09:27
This made me smile. I guess since no Coachella reports this April, apparently it will be BioShock recaps - JD Apr 21, 09:07 [Backboard] 5
- Not a decade but seven years. Bioshock releases were in 2007, 2010, and 2013. - David Apr 21, 09:21 4
  - Oh. I read three years later and hadn't put together that it was three years after BioShock 2 - JD Apr 21, 09:36
  - JD has Bill Mitchell brain! -- nm* - Spawn Apr 21, 09:22 2
    - Whoa. Let’s not say things we can’t take back. -- nm - David Apr 21, 09:23 1
      - You are correct. I fixed it. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 09:24
The new world record for pulling a train ... using model trains. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 21, 08:59 2
- WE THINK WE CAN -- nm - Shrill Chorus Apr 21, 09:06
- I'd love to know the maths on that one... the weight of the train... the horsepower of the model trains... etc. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 09:06
2020 Name of the Year Tournament! -- (link) - Reagen Apr 21, 08:51
So there are 9 other people on my board and we're doing our board meeting electronically tonight. - spamlet Apr 21, 08:37 9
- 3 -- nm - crash davis Apr 21, 09:39
- 10 -- nm - JaxSean Apr 21, 08:51 2
  - So I'm going to lose it too? -- nm - spamlet Apr 21, 08:58 1
    - Can't you feel it all, slipping away? -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 09:01
- 5 -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 08:47
- I'd set the over/under at 6 -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 21, 08:42
- more importantly, how many of those people will be wearing pants for the meeting? -- nm - decline Apr 21, 08:39 1
  - As long as out of camera range, i don't care -- nm - spamlet Apr 21, 08:58
- 8 -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 08:39
Mrs Disney will not like this but: Quinoa is a boring tasteless food and no amount of stuff added to it improves it!!! - Walt_Disney Apr 21, 08:29 7
- you add it to good food which becomes less good but it becomes good for you -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 11:12
- Quinoa isn’t really supposed to taste like anything. It’s like tasty wheat. - Qale Apr 21, 09:53
- one of my favorite ads from a couple years ago said "It tastes like a dirty tree branch" -- nm - crash davis Apr 21, 09:46
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat -- nm* - rollo Apr 21, 09:24 2
  - Grab some napkins. Time to eat. - David Apr 21, 09:33
  - That was a good show. -- nm - Shaun Apr 21, 09:26
- It needs a blueberry component or cocoanut flavor -- nm - Pippy The Scamp Apr 21, 08:34
Someone doesn't understand how averages work. And that someone is Bill Mitchell -- (link) - TWuG Apr 21, 08:24 14
- Even mathematically, he’s wrong. Down to the penny, 30.38 is an even number, not an uneven one. - Will Hunting Apr 21, 09:16 6
  - Technically it’s a rational number -- nm - JackDawson Apr 21, 09:24 4
    - This the first intersection of Bill Mitchell and rational in the same discussion without a clear ‘not’ in the middle. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 21, 09:28
    - if someone figures out a way to donate an irrational amount of money, that'll be something. -- nm - Reagen Apr 21, 09:28 2
      - (this feels like it'd be a concept in a Terry Prachett novel) -- nm - Reagen Apr 21, 09:30 1
        
        I’m sure B.S. Johnson figured it out at some point. -- nm - znufrii Apr 21, 09:39
  - Yeah, he should have used ( ), not "," for his pennies comment. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 09:20
- So the mode is foreign donations? Median is China? -- nm - VMan Apr 21, 08:44
- I award him no points and may God have mercy on his soul. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 21, 08:43
- Or they assume their audience won’t stop a second to think about it. -- nm - spamlet Apr 21, 08:31
- Some of the responses are great. And if that dude is serious, he’s..........I just can’t. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 08:31
- All I really learned is that some people live on Twitter. And that can’t be good. -- nm - Qale Apr 21, 08:30
- math is hard TWuG -- nm - decline Apr 21, 08:26
- Damn those average people! -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 08:25
Today's "what? I had it laying around" lunch meal: Duck and spinach omelet muffin. -- nm - Reagen Apr 21, 08:16 2
- Wow -- nm - Pippy The Scamp Apr 21, 08:35 1
  - (it was from 2018) -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 08:36
rhea Seehorn should get, like .. an award or something -- nm - mud Apr 21, 08:11
ty97 news network: Major domestic airlines are sitting on $10B in cash from customers who've cancelled flights -- (link) - decline Apr 21, 08:07
Did someone turn off posting in the ST Pokemon Group? - JaxSean Apr 21, 08:04 8
- Ok - the incense event was a bust for me - but I have shiny Lilipup and Charmander already this morning. Woo hoo! -- nm - Turd Ferguson Apr 21, 09:02 2
  - I want shiny Charmander! - spamlet Apr 21, 09:09
  - 4 hours now, 0 shiny. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 21, 09:04
- I'm just happy I don't have to Volbeat hunt as I got one when I was in Asia last year. - spamlet Apr 21, 08:12 4
  - I caught about 30 of them so far. - JaxSean Apr 21, 08:16 3
    - That's good that it isn't an event one that no one can catch -- nm - spamlet Apr 21, 08:42
    - Yep - brought plenty of Volbeat's home from Leiden in December. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Apr 21, 08:18 1
      - this was supposed to reply to spammy - but, whatever. lmao -- nm - Turd Ferguson Apr 21, 08:19
Just gotta say, this may be the Phillies' best season ever! Almost 1 month in and they are *still* undefeated!! -- nm - decline Apr 21, 07:53 6
- It is somewhat aggravating that they haven’t even talked about refunds for season ticket holders. Are they paying the stadium workers? -- nm - JackDawson Apr 21, 07:54 4
  - I'm a stadium worker. Applied for and received a $500 grant from a charitable fund set up by the Cubs. - zunkskunk Apr 21, 08:42
  - I know some are (the Phil's are paying workers through may) -- nm - decline Apr 21, 07:57 2
    - (Which means all the mlb posts this morning reminded me I’d forgotten about the Yankees who are about to receive my nasty emails) -- nm - JackDawson Apr 21, 07:58
    - That’s good. I finally found out that my gym is too which is fine, but I’m being that asshole emailing all the payments I’ve already made for refunds - JackDawson Apr 21, 07:58
- and yet, they have been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 21, 07:54
since I may have just been put in charge of coming up with a draft party event, any good drinking games? - tRuMaN Apr 21, 07:52 7
- any time someone says "upside" drink; mentions size of their hands = chug; any time someone says they don't like the pick chug -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 08:48 1
  - Thought these were the rules for spamlet’s board meeting above, and I was very confused. -- nm - znufrii Apr 21, 09:08
- There’s gotta be a “glitch” drinking game, since this is all online...one GM had an internet crash because his sons were streaming during the mock -- nm - Flavorize—father of Kraken Apr 21, 08:40
- Our local game is “Wait for the Bengals to not take Burrow. Drink into oblivion.” -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 08:32
- Are you mailing them their drinks? -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 07:57
- Get a drink. Drink. Rinse. Repeat. Drinking games are for high school kids. -- nm - Shaun Apr 21, 07:56 1
  - well, these are mostly overworked accountants, so same thing really -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 21, 07:57
Meredith Quill's complete Awesome Mix. -- (link) - Shaun Apr 21, 07:32 1
- No, I'm not gonna turn the beat around. I refuse to. -- nm - Mark Watney Apr 21, 07:57
$300 million of the $350 billion small business loan program went to 75 publicly traded companies -- (link*) - znufrii Apr 21, 07:28 26
- Related (don't be shocked znu!): Looks like banks shuffled the loan process to give these big companies money first so they could collect more fees -- (link) - decline Apr 21, 08:38 7
  - Based on what I saw from our bank clients, I think the larger customers had the advantage of personal relationships at the banks. I don't think it - pmb Apr 21, 09:14
  - If a big bank processed $10m in loans they should get the same fees regardless of # applicants but they'd sure save man hours processing biggest first -- nm - Max Apr 21, 09:05 5
    - It's an origination fee that pays out the largest amount for loans between $2M and $10M - decline Apr 21, 09:14 4
      - But that's backwards. If the percentage fee was higher for smaller loans they would be incentivized to do more smaller loans. -- nm - pmb Apr 21, 09:15 3
        
        I think the assumption in the lawsuit is that the banks figured out it was a finite amount of money that would run out and that their SBA groups -- (edited) - decline Apr 21, 09:23 2
        
        And I'm saying, that based on my experience with the banks it wasn't that they planned to maximize their fees by doing it that way. It just worked - pmb Apr 21, 09:48 1
        
        banks are evil pmb - decline Apr 21, 10:02
- I'm fine with some of the public companies getting money - just because they're not profitable or paid a fine doesn't mean they aren't paying workers. -- (edited) - decline Apr 21, 07:42 4
  - Yes, though even there, these are in the restaurant businesses that are getting hammered. In order to get the loans they have to keep 90% the - pmb Apr 21, 08:57 3
    - In that sense the money is fungible - a worker at one company is as needy as another - but the application should have asked for cash-on-hand numbers. -- nm - Max Apr 21, 09:00 2
      - There simply isn't time to process on that basis. Banks were doing no diligence. The idea was to get it out as fast as possible. -- nm - pmb Apr 21, 09:09 1
        
        Applications required excluding employee earnings above $100k. If they could include that in the calc, they could have included current cash. - Max Apr 21, 10:42
- shake shack, when called out on this, agreed to "give the money back", that still makes me laugh. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 21, 07:31
- psst (million) -- nm - decline Apr 21, 07:30 11
  - Right. I also saw that 70% of PPP loans were under $150,000. So I don't know that the skew was as bad as it's being made out. -- nm - pmb Apr 21, 08:13 8
    - Well, they ran out of money, for one. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 08:22 7
      - Understood, but that definitely was going to happen. A second round is coming. -- nm - pmb Apr 21, 08:30 6
        
        Would rather the 86% get half their money now, half in a month so a bunch of smaller fish would not starve. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 08:33 5
        
        Who is the 86%? -- nm - pmb Apr 21, 08:46 4
        
        $300M. Yeah, should have said the 75. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 09:01 3
        
        Sure, but that's .085% of the total. It's not a massive piece. -- nm - pmb Apr 21, 09:08 2
        
        Now I have znu brain. 300B -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 09:25 1
        
        I think you need a nap. It was $300 million out of $350 billion. -- nm - pmb Apr 21, 09:45
  - Yeah, misread that. Fixed. -- nm - znufrii Apr 21, 07:31 1
    - I was happy when I first read the post. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 07:44
Gaming rumour: The Xbox Series S is going to be announced soon. -- nm - Shaun Apr 21, 07:22 1
- cause when you cant win the market, you flood it with a cheaper version and hope? I am not sure how this helps the the market that greatly. - tRuMaN Apr 21, 07:24
remember when you could fill up the gas tank for no more than 15 bucks? -- nm - call me Ishmael Apr 21, 07:16 4
- 25 cents a gallon, one day it shot up to 40, I swore I would not drive again till it came back down to reality -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 11:16
- I remember when gas went over $1.00. We were furious. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 08:34
- Yeah, about 2 years before I got my license to drive. Really felt gypped at the time. -- nm - GregW Apr 21, 07:26
- No. ;-) -- (edited) - Krusty Apr 21, 07:18
Happy birthday Pippy! -- nm - Tim Apr 21, 07:16 9
- HBD -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 11:17
- indeed -- nm - crash davis Apr 21, 09:42
- Happy bday! -- nm - SyrDragon Apr 21, 08:20
- Thank You! -- nm - Pippy The Scamp Apr 21, 08:13
- Social distancing for private dances sucks! -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 08:04
- Happy Birthday!! -- nm - Jovian Apr 21, 08:01
- Happy birthday! -- nm - loosilu Apr 21, 07:59
- Happy birthday! -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 07:55
- cheers ! -- nm - mud Apr 21, 07:47
TV PSA: warning: Legends of Tomorrow shows as a repeat for me; please check your recording devices as it is new...same for Flash I believe -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 07:08
Current and former WoW players: Blizzard has extended the 100% XP buff until release of the next expansion. Great time to level up those alts! -- nm - Open Baron Apr 21, 06:57
7 Wisconsin virus cases linked to in-person voting, health official says -- (link) - ty97 Apr 21, 06:56 1
- Any links or studies about links to voting by mail and counting such things? -- nm - JackDawson Apr 21, 07:06
Chargers new uniforms. -- (link) - Shaun Apr 21, 06:51 7
- Needs a bit more powder blue...Don’t hate the yellow but the right powder blue is a classic design -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 21, 07:16
- Other than the yellow pants they're pretty good. -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 06:56 5
  - I’m not sure why they need the royal (particularly because of the Rams). Love the navy. Love the rest. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 07:14 4
    - I just saw a good pic of them and I no longer hate the yellow but do dislike the royal blue unis. -- (link) - Krusty Apr 21, 07:22 2
      - 2/3/5/6 are great. 1 is trash. 4 is meh; that yellow overwhelms the white. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 21, 07:35 1
        
        1 is the worst and should be thrown in the trash -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 07:42
    - I like the light blue they use. I think the Royals were also going back to that color more this season. -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 07:17
I'm sure he does love some triple stacker action. -- nm* - Shaun Apr 21, 06:40 3
- I'm on the Michael Phelps diet! -- nm - Shaun's baseball avatar Apr 21, 06:53 2
  - Jacking bombs takes many calories. -- nm - Shaun Apr 21, 06:57 1
    - or cocaine and roids... -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 21, 07:31
[an error occurred while processing this fake Renaissance painter’s artwork] -- nm - Qale Apr 21, 06:39
Wait, JLo might be buying the Mets? -- nm - MDH Apr 21, 06:38 1
- well, she and A-Rod are putting together a bid -- nm - decline Apr 21, 06:43

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