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As of Monday my office is now working 4 days a week - still WFH (80%). Not shocked. -- nm* - Andie Apr 30, 06:29 29
- We're back to retail, golf, medical therapy and restaurant patios on Monday (with social distancing requirements). - Name Withheld By Request Apr 30, 06:47 10
  - yeah, I want our borders with NS and Quebec closed tight. -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 06:48 2
    - Big time. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 06:53
    - 2024: "Nope, still close them borders!" "But there's been no cases for 3 years..." "FERMEZ LA FRONTIERE!" -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 06:52
  - Ontario's biggest (very shameful and awful) issue has been the Long Term Care homes. -- nm - Andie Apr 30, 06:48 6
    - There’s no real way around it with nonsymptomatic transmission. -- nm - spamlet Apr 30, 06:59
    - I know it's an issue everywhere, it's just huge % of Ontario deaths. Ontario hit the 1,000 death mark on Monday. Of those, more than 700 were in - Andie Apr 30, 06:56 1
      - I've seen some analysis that ties 85% of all Canadian deaths to care homes, prisons, group homes and other institutional settings. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 30, 07:09
    - thats a problem in a lot of places I would think. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 30, 06:52
    - That's a Canadian problem. There isn't a province that has a remarkably better or worse situation on long-term elderly care. - Name Withheld By Request Apr 30, 06:49 1
      - yeah, it is crashing through a couple in Nova Scotia -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 06:50
- Does Toronto/Ontario have a timeframe to reopen things? -- nm - decline Apr 30, 06:30 17
  - Not Ontario but New Brunswick will loosen restrictions slowly over the next few weeks as long as no new cases. -- nm - Walt_Disney Apr 30, 06:40 7
    - 11 days now! Our Bubble Family is coming over Saturday for drinks and games -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 06:40 6
      - It's humorous how loudly your gov't is telling other provinces to not do bubble families as part of their reopens. Say it is dividing families. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 30, 06:45 5
        
        We've effectively been doing this from the start. There wasn't any way to not do this. -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 06:54
        
        what's a bubble family ? -- nm - decline Apr 30, 06:46 3
        
        Pick your favourite people to interact with. -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Apr 30, 06:48
        
        one where each family wants $500 -- nm - prayformojo Apr 30, 06:48
        
        as long as everything stays as is, you can have 1 family who you can visit, walk with etc. Would limit exposure if an outbreak but lets people see - Beaker Apr 30, 06:47
  - I quote:"We have a roadmap at this point, but not a calendar". -- nm* - Andie Apr 30, 06:31 8
    - (in case you missed it) Doug Ford rattles bars on cell as imposter continues to competently manage COVID-19 pandemic -- (link) - Beaker Apr 30, 06:37 7
      - "it turns out that Jason Kenney’s identical twin Mason Kenney is even more conservative and incompetent than he is." -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 06:42
      - I love this article. Pandemic Doug Ford is so different to previous Doug Ford. -- nm - Walt_Disney Apr 30, 06:39 4
        
        It's one of the reason I don't have any time for the "Trump's not responsible for the death numbers" arguments - Reagen Apr 30, 06:50
        
        It is SO TRUE! Everyone I know (who fundamentally hate the man) are happily giving him credit for his handling of all this. -- nm - Andie Apr 30, 06:46
        
        right? I think everyone expected him to go full Trump and be ordering everyone back to work and old people to suck it...but instead he's been good -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 06:40 1
        
        It's the weirdest thing. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 06:42
      - ha! -- nm - Diva Apr 30, 06:38
Banana Splits Movie (B) and Fantasy Island (D) was one of the stranger double features I've seen -- nm - prayformojo Apr 30, 06:23 5
- There...was a Fantasy Island movie? Like, based on the TV show? -- nm - JaxSean Apr 30, 06:55 2
  - Considering the ST reviews, skip it and watch Assassin 33 A.D. instead. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 06:58
  - I watched the trailer it is based on the TV show but they went the horror movie route -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 06:58
- We wrapped up the latest season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine last night: A+ -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 06:24 1
  - Corner Gas The Movie: A (loved it) -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 06:38
Stuck with two tons of mint -- (link) - prayformojo Apr 30, 06:21 2
- Time to make the world's largest mojito - Reagen Apr 30, 06:25
- They're going to attract cats from miles around. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 30, 06:22
LYC: Couples in the middle of separating or divorcing are too often just evil to each other.... - Walt_Disney Apr 30, 06:18
Streets of Rage 4 Launch Trailer -- (link) - Shaun Apr 30, 06:14 [youtube]
The UniLions just blew this game open. It had been a close game with the Brothers making a nice comeback over the last two innings but - Krusty Apr 30, 06:13
dammit -- nm* - decline Apr 30, 06:10
Bengals are releasing Dalton. -- (link) - Shaun Apr 30, 06:10 11
- Unless there’s a big cap savings, I dunno if I like this. - Will Hunting Apr 30, 06:13 1
  - Does $17.7M do anything for you? - Volnelk Apr 30, 06:16
- Next stop, Jacksonville! -- nm - Open Baron Apr 30, 06:12 8
  - Yeah, I think he's going to New England. -- nm - Inigo Apr 30, 06:27 1
    - I could just see him turning in a 30-10 year with the Pats. The state of New England couldn't contain Bunnyhugs' head. - Open Baron Apr 30, 06:39
  - Looks like even odds between Jags and Patriots. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 30, 06:26 5
    - Outhouse or a Penthouse I don't think the odds are THAT even. Sorry Jaxsean, your team is a dumpster fire -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 06:36 4
      - Maybe he'd rather be in Florida like Tompa Brady! -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 06:37 3
        
        Jags new OC is Gruden, who drafted Dalton. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 30, 06:40 2
        
        the NFLPA warned players to avoid the team, that would be a huge red flag for me regardless of the coach (same owners) -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 06:41 1
        
        To be fair, that was racist Tom Coughlin causing a lot of that. - JaxSean Apr 30, 06:44
More new music for Dano - Pup - Anaphylaxis -- (link) - Reagen Apr 30, 05:56 [youtube]
Streets of Rage 4 is out today, and is free if you have Game Pass. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 05:55
Well, that was nice, all staff got a thank you email from Dave Grohl today for the Times Like These charity single. -- nm - LMS Apr 30, 05:47 4
- so now you have his personal email address? -- nm - decline Apr 30, 05:55 1
  - No, it came from internal communications email address sadly. -- nm - LMS Apr 30, 06:02
- Awesome! (Be better if it was from Simon, but still cool) :D -- nm - JaxSean Apr 30, 05:54 1
  - Just checked my alerts and saw this. -- (link) - JaxSean Apr 30, 05:58
Masked Singer Panelist Scoring Update (4/29/20 broadcast) - Open Baron Apr 30, 05:47
Hrm. Kinda crappy. Work announced today that by 7/1 (2 months) we have to use any vacation we acrue in the first 6 months of the year. That's - oblique Apr 30, 05:43 13
- That stinks. It amazes me how places are encouraging people to earn and burn their vacation time. - sycor Apr 30, 06:55
- With mat leave building up a back log, we had to use almost four weeks of extra days in 2019. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 30, 06:40
- My wife's company is making them burn accrued vacation time at ~1 day per week - Reagen Apr 30, 06:05
- Sudden Policy Change? -- nm - budice Apr 30, 05:45 2
  - Yes (overshare) - oblique Apr 30, 06:00 1
    - I was thinking more #2 tbh -- nm - budice Apr 30, 06:08
- nasty. At my work you typically lose prior year vacation days not used after the end of march, but they stayed that and carried everything over -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 05:44 6
  - We get five carryover days, ordinarily to be used by March 31st, which they've extended through the end of the year. -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man Apr 30, 06:33
  - We can carry five days over. They’ve suspended losing vacation if your anniversary is before June 30. -- nm - spamlet Apr 30, 06:18
  - We have a maximum bank where if you roll over enough you can stop acruing if your total banked hours gets too high -- nm - oblique Apr 30, 06:00 3
    - Yeah. Mine is 640 hours. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 30, 06:07 2
      - Whoa! And I thought our max was high. They bumped it last year from 22 to 33 days. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 30, 06:13
      - I really don't understand how companies allow accruals like that (but good for you) -- nm - decline Apr 30, 06:11
John Bolton's book delayed again -- (link) - Reagen Apr 30, 05:41 2
- They keep finding more pages in his moustache. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 30, 05:49 1
  - Shut your mustache! -- nm - Qale Apr 30, 06:13
Happy 100th birthday Captain Tom who has now raised £30m for the NHS. -- (link) - LMS Apr 30, 05:39 1
- That's awesome and happy birthday to him! -- nm - Krusty Apr 30, 05:45
3.8 million new unemployment claims last week, 30 million over the last six weeks. -- nm - znufrii, drinking an 18 year-old scotch Apr 30, 05:36 1
- BIG drop in claims in Pennsylvania down to 130K -- nm - decline Apr 30, 05:55
Assassin's Creed Valhalla trailer is due at 11am Eastern today. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 05:33 2
- Do you think there will be Vikings? -- nm - decline Apr 30, 05:39 1
  - Hmm, not sure. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 05:50
Reality TV bracket Elite Eight -- (link) - Beaker Apr 30, 05:29 5
- My Survivor/Challenge ticket is running strong. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 30, 06:10
- I smell a Snooki v The Situation for the finals. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 05:31 3
  - as voting stands now the Final Four would be Snooki, Probst, Situation, CT -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 05:48
  - Probst will be hard to beat -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 05:43 1
    - *shoves cocktail sticks up Probst's nostrils* -- nm* - Gordon Ramsay Apr 30, 06:10
TV PSA: Jersey Shore, Katy Keene, Last Man Standing, Parks and Recreation Special(s), Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Young Sheldon, Flip or Flop, -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 04:11 3
- Man With a Plan, Flipping 101, Station 19, Total Bellas, Shaq Life, Real HW, We're Here, Broke, Better Things, Council of Dads, Siren, Tommy, Top Chef -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 04:12 2
  - HTGAWM, Stars In The House (YouTube), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 04:14 1
    - 4: The Parks and Rec specials (one of which is a new episode), Top Chef, Station 19 -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 04:51
can of ethical worms: amazon bought thermal cameras to check workers body temps from a blacklisted Chinese co. - zeitgeist Apr 30, 00:24
Today's Cuomo'clock was a lot of sweet sweet DNC keynote speech sounding stuff. Orale! - con_carne Apr 29, 23:24
What do you call someone who cleans a vacuum cleaner? - JD Apr 29, 23:04 2
- Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy? -- nm - spamlet Apr 30, 05:18
- *German Shephard head tilt* -- nm - . Apr 30, 00:02
I just realized that the lady who got the Janet Jackson answer correct was the Chaka Khan lady. -- nm - ty97 Apr 29, 22:32 1
- She's probably thinking 'okay, this takes the heat off of me. Ariana Grande bwahahahha' -- nm - ty97 Apr 29, 22:32
Ok, whoever said Borderlands isn't a FPS...is your grading scale: holding a gun controller = FPS? ;-) - JD Apr 29, 22:30 21
- Whoever said it wasn't an FPS is wrong. It's the pure definition of first person shooter. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 05:22 4
  - For some FPS only = Halo/Doom/Quake and the RPG nature of it pushes it out - Reagen Apr 30, 05:31 3
    - Yes. That was where I was going with it. I feel it needs to be differentiated from the call of Duty types. -- nm - Qale Apr 30, 06:19 1
      - I agree. It's a shooter, but not exactly the same genre as COD, Destiny, Doom, etc. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 30, 06:54
    - That's a dumb argument, but hey, people like being wrong I guess. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 05:32
- someone said it's not FPS? I mean, open word RPG FPS, but still FPS. I just got 3 on sale last week, it definitely has scalable difficulty. - mafic Apr 30, 02:19
- We have played with bery. After that kind of chaos, anything is tolerable. Are you playing BL2? Which character? -- nm - ST Draft Analyst Apr 29, 22:38 14
  - I was using Battle Royale strategies before it was a thing. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 29, 22:58
  - Did start with Borderlands 2 and just remembered that I was downloading 17 GB textures update in bkg so wonder what it will look like next time - JD Apr 29, 22:45 12
    - I'm a wanderer, it's why I like playing the campaigns on my own. - JaxSean Apr 29, 23:20 11
      - Same. I need to explore and can't play it with others. - Krusty Apr 30, 04:49 9
        
        The nice thing about the BL model is that you can jump in and out of that style as needed. -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 05:40 8
        
        When you're playing with a group it's hard to leave and go back. You feel obligated to stick with the group. Could just be me that feels that way -- nm - Krusty Apr 30, 05:43 7
        
        I always wander off when I played bl3 with groiny, so did he. - tRuMaN Apr 30, 06:55
        
        I've always found overall with Borderlands, that even though it's open, it's still fairly linear. -- (edited) - Shaun Apr 30, 05:50 5
        
        That's true. It's not open world like Fallout. But I still like to wander around and grab items which you can't do in multiplayer. - Krusty Apr 30, 05:53 4
        
        I think we probably pace similarly - Reagen Apr 30, 05:59 3
        
        Exactly. -- nm - Krusty Apr 30, 06:09
        
        Especially in Borderlands. Kill a major boss and it takes 30 mins to sort out all of the loot shower. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 06:03 1
        
        Yup. There is so much to go through after each battle -- nm - Krusty Apr 30, 06:10
      - I've realized I'm wanderer as I have no sense of direction. I manage to get lost even with the map - JD Apr 29, 23:27
*sigh* remdesivir might slightly improve outcomes in severe covid cases, but it ain't stopping it. -- (link) - mafic Apr 29, 22:17 1
- CHINA found no difference but the US study showed 25% more suvivors and 1/3rd faster recovery, shorter time on vent so that's "something" -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 30, 00:01
Lincoln has axed their Rivian-based EV SUV -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 29, 21:44
FWIW, I have Forza 6 for the Xbox one as well. - JaxSean Apr 29, 21:25 1
- Great! And right, I think a few of us have it. I played it last night and after a few races all is good and you'll all lose as usual. -- nm - Krusty Apr 30, 04:49
NY funeral home stored 100 bodies in Unrefrigerated Uhaul truck and a couple vans, cops found it after neighbors complained -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 29, 20:37 2
- I keep seeing some angry friends posting on Facebook about how unhappy they are about the shut downs, using nearly empty hospitals as their reason, - landbeck Apr 29, 22:35 1
  - If they’re already using the ‘look how empty this hospital is’ line of thought, I don’t think there is anything that can persuade them. - Qale Apr 30, 06:25
I feel for the person that said Chaka Khan on Jeopardy. -- nm - Tim Apr 29, 20:21 3
- It's very clear that she knew it was Chaka/Shaka, said the wrong thing and was immediately like 'STUPID STUPID STUPID!' -- nm - ty97 Apr 29, 20:24 1
  - right -- nm - prayformojo Apr 29, 20:46
- People said they could tell that the real answer occurred to her immediately after. So, yeah. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 29, 20:22
What **IS** going on with Jeoprady this month? -- (link) - ty97 Apr 29, 20:20 6
- She's from 'SC, enough said. -- nm - jnine Apr 29, 20:52
- I would have given money for the guy who got it right to buzz in with "Who is *looks to his left* what did she just say?!?!?!?!" -- nm* - ty97 Apr 29, 20:31
- The guy in the middle shaking his head is all of us -- nm - Krusty Apr 29, 20:29
- I'm always impressed at Trebek's self-control. -- nm - mafic Apr 29, 20:23 1
  - like if it was me "Who is Babe Ruth?" "That's stupid. Nathaniel?" -- nm - mafic Apr 29, 22:18
- Oh my god. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 29, 20:21
And I'm one day closer to moving. Tomorrow is my last gasp. - Mop Apr 29, 20:19 2
- You found some old boxes in the attic and used them??? Have you learned nothing from PFM? -- nm - ST Draft Analyst Apr 29, 21:23 1
  - or like, horror movies? -- nm - mafic Apr 29, 22:11
Governor Newsom will announce the closure of ALL California beaches and state parks effective May 1st in response to recent beach crowds in OC -- (link) - budice Apr 29, 20:18 1
- thanks a lot, Seth. -- nm - mafic Apr 29, 20:20
It's 11:15pm, which only means that we're just that much closer to Harrison Ford crashing yet another plane -- nm - prayformojo Apr 29, 20:15 2
- I knew a helicopter pilot that trained him, said he was not good at it, and almost completely unwilling to accept instruction. - mafic Apr 29, 20:19 1
  - I heard that about the movie too. -- nm - jnine Apr 29, 20:53

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