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PM confirms that yesterday, a Royal Canadian Navy helicopter, carrying six members of the Canadian Armed Forces, went down with all - mud Apr 30, 08:32 2
- Nova Scotia having a bad year. - mud Apr 30, 08:34
- :( -- nm - Beryllium Apr 30, 08:34
so, at this point i'm totally expecting something on Jeopardy along the lines of ... - call me ishmael Apr 30, 08:23
AC: Valhalla is an EGS exclusive. And also, like Odyssey, you can play as a female character. -- (link*) - Shaun Apr 30, 08:16
It’s hard to trust redditors on a good day, but judging from the non dick-related screen names, it’s going to be crazy busy in Houston tomorrow. - Qale Apr 30, 07:54 34
- "created an account just to let you all know i'm going out tomorrow!" -- nm - colin Apr 30, 08:35
- Musk isn't getting his bonus by people sitting home on their asses. Gotta get him some money -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 08:29 2
  - Musk has proved yet again he's a colossal asshole. - colin Apr 30, 08:40 1
    - agreed. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 30, 08:49
- I’d be okay if we had more testing but we don’t. I know someone that is living with someone who tested positive and she can’t get tested. - spamlet Apr 30, 08:22 4
  - I got tested yesterday. one of the clients as I was in early/mid March had a staff person test positive - tRuMaN Apr 30, 08:50 1
    - you'd know by now im sure -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 30, 12:37
  - geesh. good thoughts for her -- nm - Pippy- silk pajamas in the sky Apr 30, 08:25 1
    - She can’t work and because she can’t get tested no one at work knows whether they’ve been exposed. - spamlet Apr 30, 08:31
- People are going to go out, not 100%, certainly, but obviously the core Trumpers (in addition to the people already out), and then others who consider - JackDawson Apr 30, 08:10 7
  - Like this whole idea that it's under control? More reported cases on April 29 than on April 1. And yesterday had the 6th most reported deaths. -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 08:18 2
    - It is quite plainly not under control. I think I'm missing your point, though? -- nm - JackDawson Apr 30, 08:48
    - LIBERATE MURICA!!! -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 08:19
  - It’s one thing to want to go out because damn 7+ weeks is a long time even for hedgehogs. But to do it as a symbolic protest? Y’all dumb. -- nm - Qale Apr 30, 08:14 1
    - Moronic, or worse -- nm - JackDawson Apr 30, 08:48
  - One HOPES that the States and localities have taken this time to be prepared for this, prepare contact tracing, increase tests, increase hospital faci - JackDawson Apr 30, 08:11 1
    - FOAM PARTY!!!!!!!!! -- nm - FLORIDA Apr 30, 08:15
- The inlaws want us to come visit - they live an hour north - Lake Conroe. - Pippy- silk pajamas in the sky Apr 30, 08:04 16
  - I intend to continue only spending time with the public when absolutely necessary. So basically work is it. And I’m trying to do that sparingly. -- nm - Qale Apr 30, 08:09 1
    - For the best. -- (edited) - Spawn Apr 30, 08:10
  - There's still time to dig pits and install punji sticks. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 30, 08:06 1
    - Ha! I had to look that up -- nm - Pippy- silk pajamas in the sky Apr 30, 08:07
  - No. Way. In. Hell. -- nm - Spawn Apr 30, 08:04 11
    - Noted. Can we take a poll or talk about: Spouses - is everyone in the house on the same page about how to start venturing out? - Pippy- silk pajamas in the sky Apr 30, 08:06 10
      - absolutely. -- nm - Diva Apr 30, 09:31
      - Yep. MrsJax is going into the office and I don't like it (neither does she). I'm WFH. But going anywhere publicly, we're on the same page. - JaxSean Apr 30, 08:52
      - no, I disagree with myself constantly on this topic. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 30, 08:51
      - I think we’re generally on the same page. -- nm - kelly Apr 30, 08:50
      - Mostly. We disagree a bit at times on the margins. -- nm - pmb Apr 30, 08:42
      - yup -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 08:30
      - I am probably the more reticent of us to venture out, but i am also the one going into the office once a week. i'm good staying home for a *while* -- nm - Andie Apr 30, 08:29
      - Yes. I can imagine we'll be some of the last people to go out "normally." -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 08:26
      - Yes, we're both on the same page -- nm - Krusty Apr 30, 08:25
      - Yes. Amy and I are on the same page. That is part of why I married her! -- nm - Spawn Apr 30, 08:10
Damn. Ubisoft knows how to make cinematic Assassin's Creed trailers. Wow. -- (link*) - Shaun Apr 30, 07:51 [youtube] 5
- Uh, so what is the game exactly? -- nm - JaxSean Apr 30, 08:50 1
  - Assassin's Creed. You are a viking. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 08:52
- Yeah, that was good. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 30, 08:27
- That was great -- nm - J Apr 30, 08:01
- Wow. They should make an Assasin's Creed movie! -- nm - Spawn Apr 30, 07:59
Flying to India with the IT motivational tool is probably a bad idea right now, right? - spamlet Apr 30, 07:45 4
- Since you aren't in a position to tell them " I told you so" - I will say it for you - SPAMLET TOLD YOU SO! -- nm - Pippy- silk pajamas in the sky Apr 30, 08:05 2
  - You know that meme of the little girl smiling in front of the house fire? I’m the little girl and i so want to add it to the JIRA ticket. -- nm - spamlet Apr 30, 08:07 1
    - snort. seems appropriate - Pippy- silk pajamas in the sky Apr 30, 08:08
- Yes? All my India coworkers are definitely WFH. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 30, 07:46
my office's "office reopening plan" was emailed out today. in by June 15th, all restrictions are being removed for cleaning, only wear masks on the - tRuMaN Apr 30, 07:20 9
- They did ours yesterday but I can’t look at it since I’m on furlough. - Dark Callisto Apr 30, 07:42
- I’m in Texas - everything opens tomorrow! So, there. (I should probably leave huh) -- nm - JackDawson Apr 30, 07:29 3
  - Go back to the family compound in Mexico. -- nm - Pippy- silk pajamas in the sky Apr 30, 08:09 2
    - I do NOT leave the house when we are in Texas. Not even for food, we bring it all across and make it here. Texas scares me. This relatively small c - JackDawson Apr 30, 08:13 1
      - smart. SPI will be hit up hard this weekend with people come from all over Texas for fun -- nm - Pippy- silk pajamas in the sky Apr 30, 08:14
- We’re going back May 18th. No word yet on additional procedures. -- nm - spamlet Apr 30, 07:27 3
  - yeah the start date for this is 5/15 -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 30, 07:30 2
    - I take it that you have to go back to the office. -- nm - JD Apr 30, 07:40 1
      - i dont know, to be honest. I will probably try to do a thing of working from home 3 or 4 days a week if I can. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 30, 07:50
AP US History Master Class w/Lin-Manuel Miranda tomorrow at 12:00 pm ET on YouTube. -- nm - Diva Apr 30, 07:11 1
- I passed this on to my kid, who will dig it. Thanks! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 30, 07:26
Take of video tour of Maneater, the shark RPG. -- (link) - Shaun Apr 30, 07:09 3
- I oppose this game as it will only give bad ideas to young sharks. -- nm - Spawn Apr 30, 07:46 1
  - Youth violence among sharks has increased dramatically over the years. I'm sure videogame violence will only make that problem worse. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 30, 08:44
- They should run some commercials on SyFy. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 30, 07:19
There's a thread on Reddit about "what American foods do non Americans find insane" and I'm very surprised to learn that raw broccoli and cauliflower - Reagen Apr 30, 07:08 43
- i'll eat either lightly blanched or pickled, but not raw. yuk. -- nm - colin Apr 30, 08:36
- veggie trays are huge here for sure -- nm - Beaker Apr 30, 08:31
- Reddit is correct. *shiver* -- nm - Spawn Apr 30, 08:03
- I didn't know raw broccoli and cauliflower was a thing. - Loyola Apr 30, 07:50 9
  - Our jelly is what you'd call jam. -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 07:51 8
    - So what do they call our jam? -- nm - spamlet Apr 30, 07:56 5
      - jam++ -- nm - Open Baron Apr 30, 08:03
      - What *is* your jam?! -- nm - Loyola Apr 30, 07:58 3
        
        Jam on it! -- nm - Qale Apr 30, 08:12 1
        
        Yeah, yeah, we know, we know - Spawn Apr 30, 08:27
        
        Somewhere between jelly and preserves. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 30, 08:05
    - It must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 30, 07:54
    - Oh I'm gonna try that. -- nm - Loyola Apr 30, 07:53
- Princess Disney loves raw broccoli. Its usually in our house. -- nm - Walt_Disney Apr 30, 07:48
- I saw something yesterday about PB&J is not a thing outside of the US. I found that very surprising. - nm - JaxSean Apr 30, 07:17 4
  - Some of this is language barrier - Reagen Apr 30, 07:19 3
    - I had a roommate from Norway who would leave the kitchen area if I opened a jar. She said she'd had it once and never again. -- nm - Max Apr 30, 07:59
    - But they also don’t eat peanut butter like we do. -- nm - spamlet Apr 30, 07:27
    - Ah ok. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 30, 07:19
- Cauliflower sucks, but raw broccoli is mostly ok. Broccoli burps are the grossest thing though. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 07:14 11
  - Cauliflower is a vehicle for ranch and does an amazing job at it. - sycor Apr 30, 07:16 8
    - If you're going to smother it in ranch, use celery. Cauliflower sucks. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 07:18 7
      - Celery is only good with PB or pimento cheese. Celery is too gross and the ranch doesn't hide the flavor enough. -- nm - sycor Apr 30, 07:28 5
        
        I used celery for stew last night and stopped to think, "What *is* celery flavor?" -- nm - Max Apr 30, 08:01 1
        
        I'd say vaguely earthy and herbal. -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 08:04
        
        Celery is a top tier dipping veggie. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 07:31 1
        
        built in spoon! -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 07:32
        
        Celery and hummus is great. -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 07:29
      - F*ck celery. Worst food ever. - JaxSean Apr 30, 07:24
  - I personally don't like them but I don't find anything odd about doing so. -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 07:15 1
    - Yeah, not a raw cauliflower fan but broccoli sure! -- nm - ty97 Apr 30, 07:24
- I was reading that earlier. That one surprised me too. Like are veggie trays not a thing outside the US? -- nm - sycor Apr 30, 07:10 11
  - Not really. Most people in the world seem to steam, stir fry or do something else to their veggies. Raw is uncommon -- nm - Krusty Apr 30, 07:15 5
    - Huh. This surprises me given that we....aren't known for eating our veggies in the US -- nm - ty97 Apr 30, 07:24 4
      - Maybe if we cooked them more often we'd like and eat them more. -- nm - Krusty Apr 30, 07:29 3
        
        probably not -- nm - Pippy- silk pajamas in the sky Apr 30, 08:11 2
        
        Ha! True. -- nm - Krusty Apr 30, 08:26 1
        
        It's not like cooking them makes them less expensive and tastier than freedom fries. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 08:27
  - I also came across an Asian person at a farmer's market once that couldn't get their head around the idea of eating garden peas not as pea pods. -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 07:14 2
    - garden peas? Like green peas you get frozen or in a can? -- nm - sycor Apr 30, 07:15 1
      - Like they were selling the pea pods that you would have to shell and this person was like "these are way too far gone", expecting snow peas. -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 07:17
  - Apparently not! -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 07:11 1
    - but crudites is a French word!! -- nm* - Diva Apr 30, 07:14
Hey tech people. If your 5 year old computer had an OS hard drive failure, would you just replace the drive or get a new computer? - sycor Apr 30, 07:07 33
- 5 years? How nice was it? I'd likely get a new one, but then I usually buy cheap ones. - JaxSean Apr 30, 07:19
- To me it depends on how good the PC was when you bought it 5 years ago. Primarily, what is the processor. Everything else is pretty generic. - oblique Apr 30, 07:18 5
  - Good point. I think its an i5 4th gen. Any easy way to tell what the processor is since it won't boot? - sycor Apr 30, 07:27 4
    - Was this a name brand unit? If it is, you should be able to look it up based on the serial number/service tag on their support site. - oblique Apr 30, 07:29 2
      - Sorry my internet decided to go out for a bit. It was a Dell. I can't get logged in to Dell's site to check my info but pretty sure it was an i5 4th - sycor Apr 30, 08:23 1
        
        That's pretty decent. I'd go the SSD route -- nm - oblique Apr 30, 08:36
    - That's the only way to know if it doesn't boot. If it has a name and model sticker you can google that to know. -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:28
- The HD on my PC died a few months ago now. I opted to replace the HD, mostly because there were a couple 500gb drives laying around the office. - Shaun Apr 30, 07:17
- Depends on many things. I assume that is a SATA drive at that age. You can get an SSD drive pretty cheap and speed that sucker up. - bacon Apr 30, 07:11 18
  - This. Dropping an SSD into an older SATA computer seems like a huge performance boost because those spinning hard drives are so notoriously slow -- nm - oblique Apr 30, 07:18 1
    - so it makes things go Zoom Zoom? -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 30, 08:03
  - Yeah I was thinking SSD. Just using onboard video, don't really game. 8G RAM I think, I honestly don't remember. - sycor Apr 30, 07:14 15
    - If you don't game, and don't use programs that are taxing (video editing, etc), SSD is a cheap way to go to get it up and running. - bacon Apr 30, 07:16
    - for now I would say consider buying an SSD (they can be pretty cheap, $50 ish, depending on the capacity) and then see if you can manage to rescue - tRuMaN Apr 30, 07:16 13
      - Hopefully all the data is backed up on my external drive. So not too worried about that. But it was a 1TB drive so going to a SSD is going to lose a - sycor Apr 30, 07:18 11
        
        the other benefit of dropping an ssd in is that the system performance will increase a lot, so if it was fine for you before - tRuMaN Apr 30, 07:24
        
        I just checked, a 1tb SSD drive is between $100 and $150 on Amazon. They really got cheep. A few years ago that would be over a thousand bucks -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:20 3
        
        This one gets an 83% 5 Star Rating. I used to worry about brand name but lately I don't if the reviews are tight. -- (link) - bacon Apr 30, 07:22 2
        
        Fakespot grade = D -- (link) - Shaun Apr 30, 07:23 1
        
        Ouchie! Crucial below should be higher. Check that one -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:24
        
        1TB SSDs aren't stupidly expensive, the last time I checked. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 07:19 5
        
        Crucial 1tb ssd $118. -- (link) - tRuMaN Apr 30, 07:23
        
        Samsung EVO 1TB SSD = $170 -- (link) - Shaun Apr 30, 07:21 2
        
        That's what I have now -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:22 1
        
        Oops I just checked. I went 2TB Samsung Evo, but I know it was under $200 when I got it. -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:24
        
        The prices fell drastically in the last 2 years -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:20
      - Also the good thing is, when you finally do get a new pc you can move the SSD over to that one as a backup drive. (so not wasting money) -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:17
- With as cheap as computers are now if there's a major failure I replace. -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 07:10 2
  - The one I'm looking at is $600. No exactly cheap, but I guess I could go cheaper realistically. -- nm - sycor Apr 30, 07:12 1
    - Like to me, that's crazy cheap but I'm used to buying gaming rigs that are 1500+. -- nm - Reagen Apr 30, 07:14
- 5 years used to be a lot longer in tech than I think it is now. I’d weigh the costs, but still likely replace. -- nm - Qale Apr 30, 07:10 2
  - In the old days 5 years old was a dinosaur. Right now I am using a computer I built 5+ years ago and it's still smoking fast. -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:11 1
    - Yeah the computer seemed to be fine other than the hard drive just suddenly dying. -- nm - sycor Apr 30, 07:14
Stay home! -- (pic) - Shaun Apr 30, 07:07 [Attachment] 2
- My county is lifting SH orders and defaulting to state orders. So they means more stores can re-open. - sycor Apr 30, 07:08 1
  - Hit the music! -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 07:24
i think today I may listen to the RTJ austin city limits concert from a few years ago. - tRuMaN Apr 30, 07:05 1
- Ooh, I think I'll throw it on after the baseball game -- nm - Krusty Apr 30, 07:17
B1! -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 07:00 3
- B1-2 -- nm - Qale Apr 30, 07:07
- Bingo! -- nm - pmb Apr 30, 07:06
- B.O. -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:01

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