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NYC to implement 40-100 miles of road closures, sidewalk widening, and bike lanes as summer approaches -- (link) - ty97 Apr 27, 13:32
IL: +1980 cases on 12.6k tests. +50 deaths -- nm - oblique Apr 27, 13:30 2
- how many were at the house party? -- nm - groiny Apr 27, 13:42 1
  - 1000 Bob! -- nm - Pippy- walking planks in the morning Apr 27, 13:46
Extraction is an enjoyable albeit boilerplate action thriller. It's pretty much firing on all cylinders from the start. Spoilers - Mop Apr 27, 13:26
Finished BioShock Infinite which was something *spoilers* - JD Apr 27, 13:25 1
- I am considering playing it again, I loved the ending so much -- nm - JaxSean Apr 27, 14:31
PA opening up golf courses, marinas, and other outdoor recreation as of May 1st. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Apr 27, 13:17 10
- With or without golf carts. - . Apr 27, 13:39
- social distancing isn't very difficult on a golf course -- nm - Dano Apr 27, 13:22 3
  - unless you're playing a 20 plus scramble. That's what was happening here with the old timers. -- nm - Remlik Apr 27, 13:33
  - my father-in-law will be thrilled, I'm sure. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Apr 27, 13:26
  - it depends if you have a caddy or an electric cart -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 27, 13:23
- nothing like that here, but there was an awful lot of traffic in the area, compared to weeks ago. -- nm - groiny Apr 27, 13:18 4
  - When I went for a run on Saturday I noticed a lot more general traffic on the road -- nm - Dano Apr 27, 13:23 3
    - yup, definite uptick in traffic this weekend -- nm - decline Apr 27, 13:23 2
      - My mom broke quarantine today after a month to go to the grocery store. Mask, distancing, hand sanitizer, etc - ty97 Apr 27, 13:35 1
        
        Basically, people are getting tired of 100% quarantine and are adapting a bit -- nm - ty97 Apr 27, 13:36
Seems accurate. (First tweet in the thread does something similar for Britain). -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 27, 13:12
I posted it on FB, but man, I *really* needed that video about The Rock Boat today. I don't know if it translates to anyone, but it helped. -- (link) - JaxSean Apr 27, 12:50 [vimeo]
2 in 5 Canadians employed in February are now receiving the COVID Canadian Emergency Relief Benefit. -- (edited) - Name Withheld By Request Apr 27, 12:45 3
- FWIW, in Canada you have to be unemployed to receive the benefit. In *SOCIALIST* America, you just need to be breathing. -- nm - Mop Apr 27, 13:16 2
  - Because it's not intended to help people in America, it's intended to be fed to corporations. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 27, 13:28 1
    - ^-- this is dumb, don't bother responding. :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 27, 13:29
IN: 963 new cases (whoa), 31 deaths -- nm - Spawn Apr 27, 12:09 3
- NB: 9th straight day with no new cases. -- nm - Shaun Apr 27, 13:08 2
  - I did a Google search hoping lack of testing isn't the reason for this. I came up with this. Heh. -- (link) - con_carne Apr 27, 13:22 1
    - Ha, yup! -- nm - Shaun Apr 27, 13:50
Ohio consumer retail and services to open May 12th. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 27, 12:04 5
- i dont see a tweet. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 27, 12:13
- The replies to the tweets make me want to cry. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 27, 12:06 3
  - “I DONT SEE WEARING A MASK ANYWHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION!” Fucking people. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 27, 12:12 2
    - Or pants, either! -- nm - Mop Apr 27, 12:26
    - COVID-1776 was no joke! -- nm - Spawn Apr 27, 12:13
Homemade hamburger soup for lunch in the Instant Pot. delicious. -- nm - Beaker Apr 27, 12:03 3
- link to recipe please -- nm - Pippy- walking planks in the morning Apr 27, 12:12 2
  - Here. was super easy and fast (we added a big carrot some and zucchini too) -- (link) - Beaker Apr 27, 13:14 1
    - thank you! -- nm - Pippy- walking planks in the morning Apr 27, 13:18
Wow this Oxford vaccine sounds really promising good news -- (link) - JackDawson Apr 27, 11:56 4
- pfft -- nm - Cambridge Apr 27, 13:17
- Seattle started human testing 2 weeks ago -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 27, 12:19
- " But more than 28 days later ..." - Pippy- walking planks in the morning Apr 27, 11:59 1
  - Although cured of COVID-19, all six rhesus macaque monkeys exhibited extreme signs of rage. -- nm - Mop Apr 27, 13:19
Super Mario World coming to Universal. -- (link*) - Volnelk Apr 27, 11:51
New York has cancelled its Democratic presidential primary due to the coronavirus -- nm - budice Apr 27, 11:42 3
- but not any of the other races on the ballot. sketchy. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Apr 27, 11:44 1
  - I mean it’s over so... -- nm - spamlet Apr 27, 13:07
- *daydreams about October surprise* -- nm - POTUS Apr 27, 11:44
From Naughty Dog. -- (link) - Shaun Apr 27, 11:33 1
- spoiler - Spawn Apr 27, 11:35
ReOpen NC leader says she tested positive for COVID-19 -- (link) - Remlik Apr 27, 11:19 20
- Although not particularly clear, it seems she's coming up on the end of her two week quarantine. The question: Did she go to a protest knowing? -- nm - Mop Apr 27, 11:45 5
  - It sounds as though she didn't - Reagen Apr 27, 11:52 4
    - "no comment" is the official statement. -- (link) - Reagen Apr 27, 12:35 1
      - I'm glad someone thought to ask. That seemed like the most salient fact of the whole story. Did she catch it at the rally? Or bring it to the rally? - Mop Apr 27, 13:36
    - Yeah but she was also quoted as saying she denied her 1st Amendment right of freedom of religion for being - sycor Apr 27, 12:17 1
      - How does it deny her freedom of religion? -- nm - . Apr 27, 13:37
- One of the public faces of "covid is fake, all hail Bozonaro" died over the weekend. Yeah. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 27, 11:30 2
  - folks doing Karma's work for her. -- nm - Diva Apr 27, 13:06
  - Good -- nm - Jovian Apr 27, 12:15
- Unless she dies she will be held up as the reason it makes sense to ease the orders. - pmb Apr 27, 11:22 8
  - What I don't get is how, with being asymptomatic, she was able to get tested. I know people who have sxs but can't get a test here in NC. - sycor Apr 27, 11:31
  - She will say that now but the damage is already done - eag Apr 27, 11:25
  - I mean, by idiots - Reagen Apr 27, 11:25 5
    - Sure, but that's her audience. -- nm* - pmb Apr 27, 12:29
    - The line I've been seeing repeatedly now is that because they're reporting every death *with* COVID as *from* COVID (supposably) then we're all being - oblique Apr 27, 11:38 3
      - Except looking at deaths from all causes, it's pretty clear Covid deaths are being underreported. So yeah, idiots. -- nm* - znufrii, silly old man Apr 27, 12:03
      - Again, by idiots - Reagen Apr 27, 11:47 1
        
        Maybe they can't tell the morons any more in Illinois -- nm - con_carne Apr 27, 11:59
- I don't like to wish ill on people, but good. I just hope she did not spread it to someone else during a protest. -- nm* - sycor Apr 27, 11:21
- Shocking. What are the odds? -- nm - Volnelk Apr 27, 11:21
PoGo remote raids live for Level 40 -- nm - ty97 Apr 27, 11:14 3
- should I start playing again? -- nm - amanda Apr 27, 11:48
- 3 passes for 1 coin in the shop but us serfs cant buy it yet. -- nm - spamlet Apr 27, 11:31
- PoGo is such an elitist game -- nm - decline Apr 27, 11:16
Robert Plant has put his podcast on youtube...here's the playlist -- (link) - Remlik Apr 27, 11:11 [youtube]
Ummm, Disney+...? -- (link) - Shaun Apr 27, 10:57 6
- If I owned Twitter I'd make a public refutation, and take away their check mark."Ok, boomer. Here are *our* Terms of Use" -- nm* - Max Apr 27, 11:00 3
  - *buys Twitter* -- nm - Disney Apr 27, 11:23 2
    - "I miss the old Times Square Twitter, it was full of peep shows and grit and real people." -- nm - in the year 2021 Apr 27, 11:45 1
      - *waves* -- nm - Tumblr Apr 27, 12:39
- that's some facebook shit right there. -- nm - colin Apr 27, 10:59 1
  - “By using our hashtag #trump,you agree to have your income garnished for twenty years.” -- nm - Volnelk Apr 27, 11:26
leaders in history who used the phrase "the enemy of the people": - mud Apr 27, 10:50
49 years ago today the Beach Boys showed up at a Grateful Dead concert and jammed with them on a few songs -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 27, 10:47 4
- yeah, talk about punching above your weight -- nm - mud Apr 27, 10:51 3
  - yeah, it's not like when Peter Green or Duane Allman sat in and they did songs like Darkstar & Lovelight and held their own -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 27, 10:56 2
    - that'd be nice. Did you have the fortune to be there? I'm sure you have recordings. -- nm - mud Apr 27, 10:59 1
      - I was 13 & in Cleveland when these events took place. I only have the shows on cassette and you tube files from others posting them. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 27, 11:12
Fortnite just isn't slowing down. -- (link) - Shaun Apr 27, 10:25 21
- I think it's slowing down a lot, though still a big force to be reckoned with. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 27, 11:01
- what they do really well, is they modify their game just enough to keep people engaged. - groiny Apr 27, 10:41 14
  - Is it you playing or a family member when I see you logged in? - J Apr 27, 11:15 1
    - it is me, my son has his own account now -- nm - groiny Apr 27, 12:03
  - Wish Logan did not grow board with it so quick. In some game he was playing yesterday he had a 30 kill streak. Then got the usual "STOP USING HACKS" - Spawn Apr 27, 11:10 11
    - Now I'm imagining Logan like Neo in the Matrix just swatting Agent Smiths while doing his nails -- nm - oblique Apr 27, 11:14 10
      - It is rather insane to watch him. He had a game where all 7 of the other players rage quit on him. "F- YOU AND YOUR AIMBOT!" - Spawn Apr 27, 11:22 9
        
        Someday we should probably have some kind of Halo kids vs. STers tournament. -- nm - oblique Apr 27, 11:25 8
        
        I'm a turncoat. I'd pick JaxSean's daughter's team. -- nm - David Apr 27, 12:07 5
        
        We all know the kids would win. Logan is truman, but cranked up to 11. -- nm - Spawn Apr 27, 12:10 4
        
        Evan is so much better at the game than I am, my reflexes are just not fast enough to build and shoot at the same time, - groiny Apr 27, 13:17
        
        To keep it fair, we could make the kids take Reagen, and he has to drive a Wraith the whole time. -- nm - David Apr 27, 12:13 2
        
        give them Mop too so he can laser his own team. -- nm - groiny Apr 27, 13:19
        
        Operation Cleansing Fire -- nm - Reagen Apr 27, 12:15
        
        #ResurrectSTHalo -- nm - Shaun Apr 27, 11:26 1
        
        NO -- nm - groiny Apr 27, 12:04
- what was the Travis Scott event? -- nm - decline Apr 27, 10:31 4
  - Some type of live concert from what I gather. -- (link*) - Shaun Apr 27, 10:32 3
    - it was interesting, I have no idea who it is, but it was a fun in game thing -- nm - groiny Apr 27, 10:39 1
      - It was no this. -- (link) - Spawn Apr 27, 11:11 [youtube]
    - With 12 million attendees -- nm - Beryllium Apr 27, 10:34
Race between 3M cases globally and 1M US. -- nm - Spawn Apr 27, 10:24
Master level trolling in GA -- (link) - decline Apr 27, 10:15
SoCal: OC Fair cancelled -- (link) - budice Apr 27, 10:12
"The Los Angeles Lakers have returned approximately $4.6 million that they received from a federal government program intended to help small business" - David Apr 27, 10:04 11
- Beat L.A. -- nm - Diva Apr 27, 10:57
- There seems to be a lot of corporate accountants out there who don't know the difference between "I can" and "I should". -- nm - Mop Apr 27, 10:31 2
  - “Here’s some free money” “hmm, should I take it?” -- nm - spamlet Apr 27, 10:44
  - or "I didn't realize anyone would find out about this." -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man Apr 27, 10:36
- They have fewer than 500 employees? That surprises me. -- nm - spamlet Apr 27, 10:09 6
  - I think that most sports teams have a surprisingly small number of direct employees. 12 players, coaching staff, medical staff, head office - JD Apr 27, 10:36 3
    - google says they have 87 employees. google also says the owner is worth $12 billion -- nm - decline Apr 27, 10:53 1
      - uh, yeah, that's because I leave barely any money to pay the serfs, and now there's no money to pay them! -- nm - owner Apr 27, 10:59
    - That’s true. -- nm - spamlet Apr 27, 10:44
  - there seem to be a lot of loopholes in that 500 employee rule -- nm - decline Apr 27, 10:12 1
    - Really only for restaurants. You have to be a certain set of SIC codes to qualify. - spamlet Apr 27, 10:14
I think one reason politicians have a hard time making the single payer case is that your taxes will be higher but your overall expense will be less. - Dano Apr 27, 10:02 21
- Bernie always skirted around this and when pushed and he said this it would still fall flat. I think the reason is that people are generally - pmb Apr 27, 10:36
- Even John King, who is smart enough to know better, was hard pressing Warren to say "taxes" when she was trying to explain lower overall cost. - Max Apr 27, 10:35 2
  - They really have to stop avoiding saying it though because it just makes people not believe them. They have to be upfront and argue the real costs. - pmb Apr 27, 10:42 1
    - I was annoyed with both of them in that interview. Him for biting on the blurb and her for dodging it. -- nm - Max Apr 27, 10:43
- Exactly. And also trying to explain effects on health insurance premiums versus health care costs (individually and overall). -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 27, 10:08 1
  - The game of "increase the price so insurance pays it who then jack up the premium" lays it all bare for me. -- nm - Reagen Apr 27, 10:14
- Yep. I'm all for it. I get annoyed every time I have to start thinking about health insurance decisions through my employer. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 27, 10:04 14
  - Here are things we don't have - deductables. In/out of network discussions. Fucking *bills*. -- nm - Reagen Apr 27, 10:11 13
    - This year I have a good policy (though pricey). I figure next year we'll go back to shitty ones with monster deductibles. - Dark Callisto Apr 27, 10:31 12
      - yep, but I blow through that number just on chiropractor visits. -- nm - groiny Apr 27, 13:20
      - I finally got on to my work plan this year once I realized they were actually paying me to have it once their HSA contribution was accounted for. - znufrii, silly old man Apr 27, 10:41 1
        
        Before all our merges, my company contributed to my HSA. - Dark Callisto Apr 27, 10:43
      - I don't even spend 1500 a year in premiums. -- nm - Reagen Apr 27, 10:37 8
        
        Our most expensive employees have family plans billed at $30k per year, of which they pay a third. - Max Apr 27, 10:42 4
        
        But that's the other issue with single payer. - Dark Callisto Apr 27, 10:44 3
        
        Oh, I wouldn't mind it at all if it were through taxes, because that's the larger pool. - Max Apr 27, 10:47
        
        So you're saying people have no idea how insurance actually works? -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man Apr 27, 10:45 1
        
        If you are a good driver you get 6o pay less, some folks want that applied to health insurance -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 27, 11:52
        
        *sigh* - Dark Callisto Apr 27, 10:41 2
        
        I hope it's clear that I'm just angry for you, not trying to dunk. -- nm - Reagen Apr 27, 11:54 1
        
        Oh, it is. The amount of money we spend on healthcare is astonishing. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 27, 12:58
and another thing, why can't i get reasonable dental coverage? i both like and hate the term "luxury bones" - colin Apr 27, 10:02
LIR: If y'all are interested in cost-comparisons among competing single-payer and related plans, the Kaiser Family Foundation has great information. -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Apr 27, 09:58 1 1
- Thanks this is helpful. I’ve saved for when I’m not on my phone. -- nm - spamlet Apr 27, 10:05
WLIR - Diva, I'm with you on the weird stimulus amounts. Mine was a nickel more than the calculation in that link - I thought - Meg Apr 27, 09:56 2
- Our amount was x amount of dollars and 85 cents. That part gave me a chuckle. -- nm - Diva Apr 27, 10:58 1
  - Exactly :) -- nm - Meg Apr 27, 11:44
Word. -- nm - Uhtred Ragnarson Apr 27, 09:53

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