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The Ohio State Fair for 2020 has been cancelled -- (link) - TWuG May 21, 11:06
NC starts phase 2 of re-opening starting Friday. But people are freaking about because gyms aren't allowed to open. - sycor May 21, 11:05
David: AEW: Britt Baker going to get evaluated today, but they're saying it's a serious injury. -- nm - Remlik May 21, 11:04 2
- annnnddd Matt Jackson is injured. Something happened to his ribs. -- nm - Remlik May 21, 11:07
- I feel like if you dropped my 10 year old on my knee like that I'd have some serious damage, let alone a full size adult - Reagen May 21, 11:06
The upcoming Silence of the Lambs TV series from CBS will be set in 1993, “six months after the events” of the 1991 movie -- nm - Beaker May 21, 10:37 3
- The upcoming what-what? -- nm - Mop May 21, 10:50
- Season two of The Order premieres June 18 on Netflix. -- nm - Beaker May 21, 10:37
- Relatedly: Hannibal Rising isn’t bad. -- nm - Qale May 21, 10:37
On this day in 1992...Mtv stopped being polite...and got real -- (link) - Remlik May 21, 10:29 4
- Watched the first few seasons and I was entertained. -- nm - zunkskunk May 21, 11:17 1
  - And if you asked me when The Real World was canceled I would have said late 90's. -- nm - zunkskunk May 21, 11:20
- Huh. If you had quized me on what year The Real World debuted, I probably would have said late 80s. -- nm - JaxSean May 21, 10:41
- The day the music died............. -- nm - ty97 May 21, 10:32
ST Poll — If you had full liberty to decide and coronavirus was a non-issue, how many days per week would you go into the office versus wfh? - znufrii May 21, 10:29 19
- One maybe. As infrequently as I'm allowed -- nm - JD May 21, 11:07
- I’d do 4-5 -- nm - JackDawson May 21, 11:05
- I'm thinking about building a shed in my backyard to be my office. if I had that, I would be happy to work from home four days per week. - amanda May 21, 10:58 5
  - We're currently converting one of the upstairs bedrooms we don't use into an office so J doesn't have to be at the dining room table all the time. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 11:04
  - so a she-shed? -- nm - decline May 21, 10:59 3
    - yes, because I work in a woman profession. -- nm - amanda May 21, 11:00 2
      - If you do get one make sure to run an enclosed tunnel from your house to the shed so the kitties can come visit you while you're working -- nm - decline May 21, 11:04 1
        
        The tunnel floor isn't heated and it's too dark and scary in here MRROOOWWWW -- nm - Chubs & Ollie May 21, 11:41
- 5. Teaching remotely doesn't work for teenagers. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 10:56
- However many it took to get me a job. (NM) - Marlowe May 21, 10:55
- As much as I can. I have little desire to build a spacious home office with these rents. -- nm - con_carne May 21, 10:51
- I had meant to start working 1 day from home per week, but never did. So 4-5 probably again. -- nm - JaxSean May 21, 10:48
- Hard to see how WFH could happen in Curbside. Perhaps calling customers to go over substitutions could be a thing. Unlikely. -- nm - Qale May 21, 10:38
- Two days a week maximum. And not even full days. Just long enough to accomplish a decent amount of face-to-face conversations. -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 21, 10:36
- 5. It would seem a weird routine otherwise. -- nm - VMan May 21, 10:32
- I could see a split 4-3 days in office and 1-2 wfh. (I'm here 3 days a week right now as is) -- nm - decline May 21, 10:32
- 3-4. Though I'd love more for my employees to be able to WFH when necessary. - spamlet May 21, 10:31
- I have worked from home full time for years -- nm - ty97 May 21, 10:29 1
  - how do you possible have enough to complain about without a chubby cat driving you crazy all day? ALSO - amanda May 21, 10:59
The story doesn't usually go this way, but... - David May 21, 10:28
This seems overzealous -- (link) - ty97 May 21, 10:25 16
- If I’m a business, I’m not making promises I can’t be sure of. If I’m government, I damn sure ain’t. - Will Hunting May 21, 10:52
- Sounds like a big number, but really, not so much. What is the production rate after? I mean, in the best case where this works and is safe. -- nm - VMan May 21, 10:40
- lloyd lloyd null and void - prayformojo May 21, 10:37
- Sounds like a response he filled in on a form to get the 1 billion. -- nm - Loyola May 21, 10:37
- he could probably have it ready, but it won't have gone through trials. -- nm - colin May 21, 10:31
- May cause blindness, impotence, diarrhea, bleeding from the butt, eyes, ears and nose; deafness, loss of speech and death; otherwise fine -- nm - Beaker May 21, 10:30
- Delusional. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 10:26
- Doesn't say it will work or be effective. Just ready. -- nm - VMan May 21, 10:26 8
  - Or safe. -- nm - znufrii May 21, 10:27 7
    - Wait which tribe is the anti-vaxxer now? I've lost track -- nm - JackDawson May 21, 10:37 3
      - It's not an anti-vax position at all, but I would consider myself appropriately skeptical of an approvals process that doesn't include proper safety testing -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 10:46 2
        
        It's just funny to see vaccine skepticism make its way all around the political spectrum with EXACTLY the same arguments the anti-vaxxers make in disg - JackDawson May 21, 10:57 1
        
        Yeah. “I’d be happy to be proven wrong” is EXACTLY how anti-vaxxers sound. -- nm - znufrii May 21, 11:15
    - What do you have to lose?! -- nm - IMPOTUS May 21, 10:28 2
      - tested extensively on old people and half of them survived -- nm - Beaker May 21, 10:30 1
        
        Remember thalidomide? Not a vaccine but a disaster. -- nm - Meg May 21, 11:08
You know, my original plan for this pandemic was to only let approximately 10% of the population out everyday based on last digit of birth year. - Qale May 21, 10:21 4
- hmm, only two people in my family would land on the same day. - Beryllium May 21, 10:26 2
  - Um... -- (link) - Qale May 21, 10:57 [youtube]
  - Builds character. -- nm - VMan May 21, 10:27
- 1970. Yeah, first one out! *buys all TP in store* -- nm - VMan May 21, 10:25
Went to pick up food from our favorite around the corner restaurant last night, and no one was wearing any masks. - JaxSean May 21, 10:11 40
- Just went to the recycler. One of those with a container in the parking lot behind the market. *They* required masks and social distancing. - Meg May 21, 11:01
- I feel a little weird talking with you guys about this since ... here is fine, we largely have no cases, and no community spread right now. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 10:55 4
  - As long as your posts continue to be surgically precise joke bombs, sir. You are good -- nm - con_carne May 21, 11:01
  - stop dunking on us, canada -- nm - prayformojo May 21, 10:56 2
    - it's easy for them though - there's only like 5 people in the entire country and they're all isolated under feet of snow and hiding from polar bears -- nm - decline May 21, 10:59 1
      - I mean, it's just facts. -- nm - JaxSean May 21, 11:08
- Related - I have to tell you, the dude posting up Alex Jones on my FB feed the other day...yeah, he just got fired the other day for insubordination. - John B May 21, 10:44 7
  - Such moronic behaviour. "Hey we have a new company policy that states you need to be here by 9am." "Fuck you, I'll come in when I want!" - Shaun May 21, 10:47 6
    - What's crazy is, this place has uniforms. Required footwear. All that shit. Also - they're a union shop, but he's management. - John B May 21, 10:48 5
      - Would a union defend a guy refusing to follow safety rules? they're all 'we are in this together' and we want more safety gear -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 11:20
      - When this happens, I wish I had the time to search people's timelines to see if they have ever posted things like "slackers on unemployment!" -- nm - JaxSean May 21, 10:51 2
        
        lol - i don't have to search. I know he has. Chickens roosting and all that. Wish I could say I feel bad - but I just don't. nm - John B May 21, 10:52 1
        
        Well he's a political prisoner, so... -- nm - Reagen May 21, 10:54
      - That's even better. Good gravy. -- nm - Shaun May 21, 10:50
- i don't get customers not wearing one, or businesses not requiring customers to wear one, but i do get kitchen workers not wearing masks.. - colin May 21, 10:33 1
  - Hinders communication, too. Likely would be pulling it off constantly and ruin any benefit. -- nm - VMan May 21, 10:35
- Still required here to go in anywhere. People are pretty good using them for curbside pickup as well. -- nm - znufrii May 21, 10:25 5
  - are you still red? -- nm - amanda May 21, 10:37 4
    - Yup. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 10:52 3
      - I'm thinking Mid-June to Yellow and August-Sept to Green -- nm - decline May 21, 10:55 2
        
        Montco is still hovering around 100 daily cases on average, and our target is 30 to go to yellow. - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 10:57 1
        
        Bucks is at 63 and need to get to 22 - we had a spike Monday though -- nm - decline May 21, 11:01
- it's been about a 60/40 split of people coming into my store with masks. and case numbers are climbing -- nm - Remlik May 21, 10:22 1
  - I don't quite understand people -- nm - ty97 May 21, 10:23
- My neighbors don't wear masks for the most part. I do. Stores seem ok because they require masks -- nm - budice May 21, 10:18
- The low-income grocery store I went to today was *much* better with the mask usage. I’d say close to 100%. Compared to conservative Pearland at < 60%. -- nm - Qale May 21, 10:17
- It was predictable, most people seem to have collectively agreed they are "over the whole thing." - MDH May 21, 10:14 6
  - Yeah, the messaging was not 100% clear in that flatten the curve did not mean eliminate the curve or all infections - JackDawson May 21, 10:39
  - And as far as 'done with it' I think we all are. - ty97 May 21, 10:18 2
    - Yes, agreed. I mean "over" the change in life and all. -- nm - MDH May 21, 10:19 1
      - Craving a "normal" that cannot currently exist. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 10:20
  - It seems that a number of folks think now that the curve is flattened, everything's fine -- nm - ty97 May 21, 10:15 1
    - "The flatter curve just means there's more space in the ICU for you and your parents." -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 10:16
- Florida has 1,204 new cases today. Most since April 23 -- nm - decline May 21, 10:13 6
  - where do you see this? -- nm - prayformojo May 21, 10:18 3
    - This is the FL state dashboard (that the manager was fired for, because she wouldn't falsify/change data) -- (link) - JaxSean May 21, 10:22
    - It's on both the state dashboard and the tracking site here -- (link) - JaxSean May 21, 10:20 1
      - thanks -- nm - prayformojo May 21, 10:21
  - And I don't even trust those numbers. - JaxSean May 21, 10:17
  - And that's with headlines all over the place that they've gotten caught lying about case reporting. -- nm - David May 21, 10:17
Ah, I post there is no progress and there is progress. Bad progress, but continued vigilance... - Qale May 21, 09:55 3
- Boooo! That sucks. - Dark Callisto May 21, 10:17
- Sorry this is happening. -- nm - Diva May 21, 09:57 1
  - I’m sorry I don’t have a strong union. :( - Qale May 21, 10:04
Speaking of FC Seoul ... They shouldn't have done it but this seems like quite an overreaction. -- (link) - Reagen May 21, 09:50 2
- Meh, the fine is probably cheaper than the cost of the dolls in the first place. -- nm - Qale May 21, 10:10 1
  - Seriously. That may be a record fine, but it's chump change. -- nm - Mop May 21, 12:41
wap? One of us (I think) posted this on FB -- (link) - prayformojo May 21, 09:45 [Image] 1
- Yup, that was Taurus II -- nm - Meg May 21, 09:56
I’m a name! -- nm - Bane May 21, 09:44 1
- "I want to sustain or overrule, but.. it's indecipherable!" -- nm - Reagen May 21, 09:46
Time to wet your pants, kids. This week's free game from Epic Games is Civilization VI. (GOD DAMMIT, Shaun!!!) -- nm - Mop May 21, 09:35 10
- I used to be into Football Manager until the graphics specs got too onerous for my laptop. -- nm - Loyola May 21, 10:12
- And wow, Grand Theft Auto 5 was 2013? I would have said 2015. -- nm - Tim May 21, 09:47 1
  - It came out on the last-gen consoles, so 2015 would've been much too late. -- nm - Shaun May 21, 09:50
- It’s a 4 year old game and doesn’t include the expansions (though if they’re on sale, I’ll probably buy them here). -- nm - Tim May 21, 09:43 1
  - (It’s amazing that Fortnite was so wildly successful it enabled them to do this.) -- nm - Tim May 21, 09:44
- Hey, better late than never. -- nm - Shaun May 21, 09:38
- Also new DLC being released bimonthly starting today. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 09:36 3
  - Any reason I should "get" this if I own it already on Steam? -- nm - Strongbad May 21, 09:42 1
    - No reason you *shouldn't*. -- nm - Mop May 21, 10:46
  - That's what I heard. -- nm - Mop May 21, 09:37
The continuing odyssey of Cheryl is cracking me up. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 09:29 2
- Carol? Or do you mean Sheryl from Harley Quinn? -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 09:33 1
  - I wish I had a Frank. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 09:34
spotted on twitter: "Who knew an entire country could fail the marshmallow test?" - Beryllium May 21, 09:25 1
- Yes. The issue is that they are disgusting. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 09:26
I look forward to the eventual NASA vs Space Force battles. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 09:24
Oh wow WFH for our company extented to September - eag May 21, 09:16 11
- No earlier than September 1, for the substantial majority of our company. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 09:23 10
  - All of our folks are being asked to do 1 day a week in the office starting June 1. - Strongbad May 21, 09:48
  - There are a lot of businesses that are going to regret picking wrong on this. People will know who they want to work for. -- nm - David May 21, 09:26 7
    - I think the issue for us is far less about being in the office than people having to commute. Our office is effectively socially distanced, but - pmb May 21, 09:46 1
      - Yup -- nm - JackDawson May 21, 10:17
    - I don't see any reason why large corps would go back into the office any time soon, if ever. -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 09:29 4
      - I will say it worked out great for us in negotiating our new lease extension (which began late last year and continued up until we just agreed on - pmb May 21, 09:59 3
        
        And it’s not as seamless. I think office work certainly in our industry will come back eventually if slowly and with a lot of care while there’s a - JackDawson May 21, 10:22
        
        The training is by far the biggest impediment for me. You're in a similar situation where you don't really learn anything in school. - spamlet May 21, 10:17
        
        The culture and training piece is hard, I agree - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 10:09
  - September 8th but of course subject to change -- nm - eag May 21, 09:24
THE LARCH -- nm - Spawn May 21, 09:09 2
- heh. A classic from ep 3 -- nm - mud May 21, 09:12 1
  - And it actually pops up again later! -- nm - Spawn May 21, 09:21
A bit of local wildlife wandered through the yard a couple days ago. -- (link) - Beryllium May 21, 09:07 [flickr] 4
- aw. -- nm - loosilu May 21, 09:54
- See? Even the wildlife is agreeing to wear masks. -- nm - Mop May 21, 09:39
- there's been one in a tree in our courtyard on two mornings recently, I gotta get a pic. The crows going mental at 5 AM! -- nm - mud May 21, 09:09 1
  - tweet from last July: -- (link) - mud May 21, 09:10
No further movement on my work situation. I did regain control of my 401k access by butchering the url to stop redirecting me through sites... - Qale May 21, 09:02 2
- what is UI? (and progress!) -- nm - JaxSean May 21, 09:16 1
  - Unemployment Insurance. -- nm - Qale May 21, 09:19
Pigs in Space! -- nm - Beaker May 21, 08:59 1
- Dude. Do it right. - Spawn May 21, 09:10
C'mon in, guys! -- nm - con_carne May 21, 08:57 4
- The water is fine and is only 25% filled with pee! -- nm - Qale May 21, 09:04 3
  - There is a clearly marked Pee In Pool Area in the back, thanks. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 09:10
  - It's sterile and some people like the taste. -- nm - Open Baron May 21, 09:05 1
    - Patches? Is that you? -- nm - VMan May 21, 09:15

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