An Outstanding Tiny Desk Concert by Hawaiian Ukulele Virtuoso Taimane [VIDEO]

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March 6, 2020 | Bob Boilen — So much magic unfolded in such short order. Within the first moments of Taimane’s stunning set, we hear her play fiery flamenco, a famous phrase from the opera Carmen, a touch of Bach and more than a nod to her Hawaiian homeland, all on her ukulele.

Taimane began playing ukulele at age five; these days, it’s seemingly become an extension of her body. Her band includes guitarist Ramiro Marziani, violinist Melissa Baethoven and, on Cajon, Jonathan Heraux. Together they were impassioned and tight. Then along came a surprise. In what is a first at the Tiny Desk, a dancer named Li’o performed in a hau skirt made from dried lauhala leaves, with a lei of white conch wrapped around his neck. His Polynesian dance, along with the stick percussion, added to the beauty and the intensity. And that’s just the first half.

Taimane chose to represent the elements of the earth on her latest album, Elemental, and she brought the most feisty of those elements to the Tiny Desk: “Fire.” This music draws inspiration from Cuban traditions, with moments that are sensual as well as ecstatic. Taimane is a beautiful singer and a dynamic performer. I was fortunate enough to see her live performance last year at SXSW in Austin. It was as unforgettable then as it was here at the Tiny Desk.

SET LIST
(Medley): “Carmen,” “E Ala Ē,” “Jupiter”
“Fire”
“Maluhia”

MUSICIANS
Taimane: ukulele, vocals; Jonathan Heraux: percussion; Ramiro Marziani: guitar; Melissa Baethoven: violin, vocals; Li’o: Polynesian dance

CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative director: Bob Boilen; Audio engineer: Josh Rogosin; Editor: Melany Rochester; Videographers: CJ Riculan, Jack Corbett, Maia Stern, Melany Rochester; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Executive producer: Lauren Onkey; VP, programming: Anya Grundmann; Photo: Laura Beltran Villamizar/NPR

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1
Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:00:08pm

From the previous thread:

re: #379 Cheechako

Chicken is cheaper than pork or beef.

2
BlueSpotinAL  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:00:42pm

Fuck Trump!

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SteelPH  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:02:52pm

re: #2 BlueSpotinAL

Fuck Trump!

Co-sign.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:04:32pm

In that Chelsea Clinton thread, lots of people say they are reporting the tweet sent at her.

As of yet, it’s still on Twitter (they haven’t removed it or the account). Must be because the person declares in their bio they are a Christian. /s

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:05:48pm

re: #2 BlueSpotinAL

Fuck Trump!

The only redeeming quality of the Coronavirus is its tenacity of going after Trump.

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Belafon  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:09:35pm

Something for the religious people here: Trump’s closest parallel in the Bible is the pharoah in Exodus. He gets information from experts, hardens his heart against that information, and his people are dying because of it.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:13:02pm

The shelves are empty in my local Ralph’s supermarket. Is this really necessary?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:13:11pm

Shocked when I went to Costco and the rotisserie chickens were sold out…and the lines…

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stpaulbear  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:14:10pm

re: #5 b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)

The only redeeming quality of the Coronavirus is its tenacity of going after Trump.

I wonder if it will delay global climate change a few days while industry and travel are shut down?

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:14:42pm

re: #8 Joe Bacon 🌹

Shocked when I went to Costco and the rotisserie chickens were sold out…and the lines…

It’s every man for themselves, we have no functioning federal government telling us what is what.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:14:49pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:14:53pm

Charles the shelves at the Ralphs 3rd/Vermont are empty of any paper goods, out of milk and soap.

Same at the Vons on 3rd/Vermont.

Got a half gallon of milk at the bodega by me but their shelves are just as empty.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:15:11pm

re: #6 Belafon

Something for the religious people here: Trump’s closest parallel in the Bible is the pharoah in Exodus. He gets information from experts, hardens his heart against that information, and his people are dying because of it.

Correction: God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, according to Exodus. God took away Pharaoh’s free will. A counter-apologist argument for that would be God needed to take his free will and harden his heart so he could rain down plague and death on the Egyptians (in other words, it wasn’t Pharaoh’s fault).

From the counter-apologist viewpoint, God is like Trump. All good things flow from him, but he is not responsible for any bad things (that’s the fault of sinful humans, despite Isaiah 45:7).

Christian apologists frequently argue Pharaoh did it to himself, but Exodus is pretty clear on that (Exodus 9:12, KJV)

But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh; and he did not heed them, just as the LORD had spoken to Moses.

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gwangung  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:16:48pm

re: #11 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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With WHAT testing facilities?

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stpaulbear  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:17:00pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

The shelves are empty in my local Ralph’s supermarket. Is this really necessary?

Will there ever be a run on McDonalds?

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Dave In Austin  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:17:35pm

Is there a party of some sort this weekend people are buying shit up for.

Did I miss something? Wife went to HEB here in CenTex and it was stupid. Costco was 5 times as bad. I told here to go in the middle of the nite. So that’s when she’s going.

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stpaulbear  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:19:09pm

re: #12 Joe Bacon 🌹

Charles the shelves at the Ralphs 3rd/Vermont are empty of any paper goods, out of milk and soap.

Same at the Vons on 3rd/Vermont.

Got a half gallon of milk at the bodega by me but their shelves are just as empty.

I bought some powdered milk from Amazon to have as a backup. It wasn’t cheap.

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Belafon  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:19:43pm

re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Correction: God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, according to Exodus. God took away Pharaoh’s free will. A counter-apologist argument for that would be God needed to take his free will and harden his heart so he could rain down plague and death on the Egyptians (in other words, it wasn’t Pharaoh’s fault).

From the counter-apologist viewpoint, God is like Trump. All good things flow from him, but he is not responsible for any bad things (that’s the fault of sinful humans, despite Isaiah 45:7).

Christian apologists frequently argue Pharaoh did it to himself, but Exodus is pretty clear on that (Exodus 9:12, KJV)

I tend to have a rather Jeffersonian view of the Bible, a lot of the things that happen don’t tend to need God to do them. Like Trump, it wasn’t God that hardened it; he would have easily decided that the things happening weren’t about his actions.

I also think that Joshua was the greatest general in the Bible.

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:21:00pm

re: #9 stpaulbear

I wonder if it will delay global climate change a few days while industry and travel are shut down?

We’ll have some data to look at anyways. After 9/11 they grounded aircraft and looked to see if contrails really did anything regarding environmental cloud cover heat impact (not analyzing the lack of penis shrinking contrail juice being sprayed )

bbc.co.uk

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:24:49pm

re: #18 Belafon

I tend to have a rather Jeffersonian view of the Bible, a lot of the things that happen don’t tend to need God to do them. Like Trump, it wasn’t God that hardened it; he would have easily decided that the things happening weren’t about his actions.

I also think that Joshua was the greatest general in the Bible.

Joshua is the bloodiest and cruelest book in the Bible, outside the flood story. It is full of death and slaughter of non-combatants, enslavement, combat rape.

And apparently Joshua himself needed to circumcise his army a second time for some reason (Joshua 5:1-8) … maybe he couldn’t recognise a circumcised penis, it grew back, or he was confused?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:25:47pm

OK now the Mar-A-Lard-0 Virus Count just jumped to 3.

Acting Brazil Ambassador Nestor Forster, who sat at President Trump’s table Saturday night during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago, has tested positive for coronavirus, the embassy said late Friday. Forster is the third person who visited the president’s South Florida resort last weekend to test positive for the novel virus.

washingtonpost.com

Don’t worry! Ginger Billy shows you how to defend yourself!

How Rednecks prepare for the CORONA VIRUS.

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jaunte  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:29:34pm

“…Workers on the stranded tug-barges would be better off—or they’d have a better chance of getting paid, at least—if the United States would join an international agreement for seafarers’ rights. The Maritime Labor Convention, created in 2006, enumerates protections such as the right to consistent pay and collective bargaining. “So when this thing went south, there was no one to help,” Oubre said. (Though many U.S. tug-barge operators are part of labor unions, Bouchard employees are not.) More than 90 other countries have ratified the agreement.”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:35:53pm

re: #22 jaunte

Gosh I wonder why that treaty wasn’t ratified by a Senate hamstrung by McConnell…

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:38:51pm

re: #22 jaunte

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that damn obama!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:39:26pm

Truman 1945-53 “The Buck Stops Here”

Trump 2017-Can’t wait till he’s gone “The Fuck Starts Here”

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:43:19pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:45:28pm

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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@jack sees nothing wrong with Republican memes.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:49:01pm

A Truth Sandwich On Barack Obama’s 2009 Swine Flu Response, For President Gateway Pundit (Wonkette)

Mind you, there may have been another factor rattling around Trump’s roomy, sparsely furnished brain case as he made the decision: A popular rightwing myth claiming Barack Obama botched how he handled the 2009-2010 H1N1 “Swine Flu” pandemic. So now Trump can start proclaiming he acted more quickly than Obama, just as long as you ignore how Trump’s actions have made the current crisis worse.

(more)

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:51:14pm

Trying to digest the Trump press conference.

Don’t get tested.
Dont worry, Google will tell you what to do.
Hospitals can now put beds in the hallways
Google has no idea what Trump is talking about.
We have plenty of tests but you don’t get one.
Wal*Mart is great and will beat the Coronavirus somehow?
Ditto for CVS?
And the same for the wingnut hated Target?
You should really be more afraid of the Obama N1H1 response.
Trump is canceling the cruises that the cruise lines already canceled
Time or timeframes do not exist in Trumlandia
Pence is very impressed with Trump.

That made the Dow go up 2,000 points?

What did I miss?

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:53:52pm

re: #29 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)

That is one of many reasons why I rather read what is in The Washington Post than watch DT.

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:57:08pm

re: #30 PhillyPretzel

That is one of many reasons why I rather read what is in The Washington Post than watch DT.

That was a big smoke screen with big names and fancy suits, they said absolutely nothing.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:57:15pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

The shelves are empty in my local Ralph’s supermarket. Is this really necessary?

No. Absolutely not.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Mar 13, 2020 • 8:59:43pm

re: #29 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)

Well done.

For some reason I read your fine summary in the voice and cadence of Ken Nordine spoken word performance art.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:00:43pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

This weekend I will be at my local Acme and see what is missing or out of stock.

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:04:09pm

re: #33 So Cal Greek Hippie

Well done.

For some reason I read your fine summary in the voice and cadence of Ken Nordine spoken word performance art.

thnx!

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:04:41pm

re: #34 PhillyPretzel

This weekend I will be at my local Acme and see what is missing or out of stock.

Anvils?

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:05:43pm

Beware the Deadly Contagion Spread by Blowhards (New York Times)

As a reminder, back in 2009 and 2010, conservatives were calling the H1N1 epidemic a hoax.

Today they are using it to deflect from Trump’s disastrous policies to claim Obama did nothing until his national emergency declaration.

That “hoax” in 2009 was claimed by the same people now claiming Obama did nothing, and conservatives are following right along with the prelates of their faith.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:06:09pm

re: #36 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)

The Acme does not carry those items.
acmemarkets.com

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NetworkKed  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:07:12pm

Sigh.

So the state of Indiana put up a map tracking confirmed coronavirus cases.

in.gov

They updated it a couple of times on Thursday. A case showed up in a county adjacent to me. Tellingly the state only claimed to have tested NINE people during the day.

Friday, they didn’t update the map or numbers at all. We’re into Saturday and it was still last updated Thursday.

I am not filled with confidence.

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:10:24pm

re: #38 PhillyPretzel

The Acme does not carry those items.
acmemarkets.com

I had no idea that Acne would be a real store. OMG, you live in the land of Yuengling.

We need to do a redo of Smokey & the Bandit where you guys bring us Yuengling from that unmentionable part of the country.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:11:07pm

re: #39 NetworkKed

Try going to The Washington Post and checking out the front page. When I went there coronavirus figures were in center of the page.

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retired cynic  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:11:51pm

WaPo is offering a coronavirus email newsletter for free. I tried to get the URL, but it just signed me up, as I’m already an e-subscriber. Google it, probably.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:12:42pm

re: #40 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)

Yes. I am from Philadelphia and yes the Acme has been here for a long time.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:12:55pm

Winter storm warning for the area.
weather.gov

US-385, US-26, and US-20 are closed (along with state highways and local roads).

We’re stranded.

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unproven innocence  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:13:11pm

British strategy— slow and broaden the peak:

Coronavirus: Europe at the epicentre of the pandemic - BBC News

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:13:39pm

re: #43 PhillyPretzel

Yes. I am from Philadelphia and yes the Acme has been here for a long time.

Shame on you for you hiding your Philly roots!!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:14:42pm

re: #42 retired cynic

WaPo is offering a coronavirus email newsletter for free. I tried to get the URL, but it just signed me up, as I’m already an e-subscriber. Google it, probably.

Sign up here:
subscribe.washingtonpost.com

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:14:53pm

re: #46 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)

I thought it obvious from screen name.

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:16:39pm

re: #48 PhillyPretzel

I thought it obvious from screen name.

nobody believes those!

signed
bill d….

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:17:21pm

re: #39 NetworkKed

Sigh.

So the state of Indiana put up a map tracking confirmed coronavirus cases.

in.gov

They updated it a couple of times on Thursday. A case showed up in a county adjacent to me. Tellingly the state only claimed to have tested NINE people during the day.

Friday, they didn’t update the map or numbers at all. We’re into Saturday and it was still last updated Thursday.

I am not filled with confidence.

I understand your trepidation considering the how Pence let HIV run wild when he was Governor.

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Belafon  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:17:30pm

re: #48 PhillyPretzel

I thought it obvious from screen name.

We all thought you were from Pretzel.

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:20:15pm

re: #51 Belafon

We all thought you were from Pretzel.

AHEM!

Freeport, ILLINOIS is the county seat and largest city of Stephenson County, Illinois.[5] The population was 25,638 at the 2010 census, and the mayor of Freeport is Jodi Miller, elected in 2017. Freeport is known for hosting the second Lincoln-Douglas debate of 1858, and as “Pretzel City, USA”, due to a popular local German bakery known for its pretzels in the 1850s.

en.wikipedia.org

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Dave In Austin  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:20:38pm

re: #36 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)

Anvils?

ACME anvils were a real thing. They were made by the Hay Budden Corp for Sears.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:22:07pm

re: #53 Dave In Austin

ACME anvils were a real thing. They were made by the Hay Budden Corp for Sears.

So Wile E. Coyote got his from Sears & Roebuck?

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:25:39pm

re: #53 Dave In Austin

ACME anvils were a real thing. They were made by the Hay Budden Corp for Sears.

I was always under the assumption that the ACME anvils were ok but it was their application that was wrong

Bad judgment and an ACME anvil? No Way!

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piratedan  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:31:56pm

re: #14 gwangung

not just that, with what kits?

Univ of Washington can test, as can the Washington State Dept of Health, supposedly both LabCorp and Quest have been given permission to set up shop to test it as well, but be that as it may, no one is testing because there are not enough kits. No kits=no testing.

Before anyone thinks I am mad at the State of Washington, I’m not, they are doing what they can, but while this was still a developing story in China, apparently all kinds of facilities starting placing orders for equipment to attempt to stock up. Those orders for supplies haven’t been filled and facilities are running out of equipment. Until production is geared up to get the kits, equipment, instrumentation into the hands that need them, its going to be painful.

Its the same crisis that Italy started facing over two weeks ago and frankly, cleaning Costco out of toilet paper will do little to alleviate it.

If someone wanted to follow a story, it would be to find out who makes the kits and why their production is lagging (then again, how do you plan for an epidemic?) and the same could be said for gloves, masks, specimen containers, cleaning supplies… Capitalism and the “goods to market” economies are not built for this because there’s little profit to be had in making these items until needed.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:34:48pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:38:52pm

re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:39:24pm

Tiger will have to wait a while for another green jacket.

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teleskiguy  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:39:37pm

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:40:00pm

re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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latest information and expert analysis

No mention of the government at all. No government guidance, recommendations or advisories.

It is really nice to know that the American public is safe until corporate America updates their terms and services click/agree wall.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:40:19pm

re: #55 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)

Traditional Anvil Shoot

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:41:05pm

re: #60 teleskiguy

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:41:50pm

re: #60 teleskiguy

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:42:11pm

Piecemeal approaches continue as the federal government fails under conservatism:

apple.com

Apple is taking its annual developer conference entirely on-line. They are providing $1 million in aid to San Jose organisations which will lose business as a result.

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:44:31pm

re: #60 teleskiguy

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Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:46:53pm

The next few weeks/months are gonna be miserable in my household. For awhile, my dad had stopped watching Faux to instead watch European and South American league football (soccer to we filthy Americans) and rugby like he used to back in the day when we were living in Sicily. But now that virtually every sport is either postponed or canceled for the immediate future, he’s back to getting a steady drip feed of stupidity and bile.

As Zod is my witness, I may have to lock the channel and tell him that Verizon pulled it off Fios…or something.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:47:10pm

re: #66 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:48:48pm

re: #67 Targetpractice

The next few weeks/months are gonna be miserable in my household. For awhile, my dad had stopped watching Faux to instead watch European and South American league football (soccer to we filthy Americans) and rugby like he used to back in the day when we were living in Sicily. But now that virtually every sport is either postponed or canceled for the immediate future, he’s back to getting a steady drip feed of stupidity and bile.

As Zod is my witness, I may have to lock the channel and tell him that Verizon pulled it off Fios…or something.

That’s why they call it “Parental controls.”

Besides if you’re paying for it, there’s no reason you have to allow that bile into your home.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:49:37pm

re: #67 Targetpractice

The next few weeks/months are gonna be miserable in my household. For awhile, my dad had stopped watching Faux to instead watch European and South American league football (soccer to we filthy Americans) and rugby like he used to back in the day when we were living in Sicily. But now that virtually every sport is either postponed or canceled for the immediate future, he’s back to getting a steady drip feed of stupidity and bile.

As Zod is my witness, I may have to lock the channel and tell him that Verizon pulled it off Fios…or something.

How does “Corona is a hoax!” on Fox play against football being postponed across the globe due to same virus play out in his head?

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Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:51:33pm

re: #70 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

How does “Corona is a hoax!” on Fox play against football being postponed across the globe due to same virus play out in his head?

“MEDIA HYSTERIA! THEY’RE ALL OVERREACTING! IT’S NO MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE FLU!!!”

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:51:41pm

I just got an e-mail from The Washington Post from the executive editor. They are going to make “ … we have made a substantial portion of our coverage free to all.” They are also a free newsletter. Although I got this information in an e-mail I am sure you find it on their website.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:52:12pm

re: #70 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

How does “Corona is a hoax!” on Fox play against football being postponed across the globe due to same virus play out in his head?

All religions have direct contradictions which you must accept to be part of the faithful. Conservatism is no different.

Liberals are snowflakes and simultaneously horribly violent thugs. Both are true to a conservative, and they believe both wholeheartedly.

“Doublethink” from 1984 is what applies here.

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:55:04pm

re: #68 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:57:00pm

Faux has him convinced that the reason that the House Dem bill to address the crisis was stalled by Senate Repubs is because “Nancy tried to sneak an abortion amendment into the bill!” It’s the exact opposite, the Repubs originally putting the kibosh on the bill because it didn’t include handouts to big businesses and then coming up with an excuse about the “Hyde Amendment,” but they’ve got him convinced that the Pelosi personally tried to sneak a stealth abortion bill through as aid.

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 9:57:44pm

re: #70 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

How does “Corona is a hoax!” on Fox play against football being postponed across the globe due to same virus play out in his head?

The poor XFL, it’s not like they didn’t have enough against them.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:04:10pm

re: #76 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)

I know. One of co-workers believed that until today when we had one of the executives telling us that our sick day rules have been relaxed. Normally if you are sick with PPA you must wait for the phone call and a visit to your house to sign a piece of paper and then get a doctor’s note and that is for one time. Now one does not need the doctor’s note and the time taken does not count against us.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:05:42pm

The last dog pet?

Adapting to the situation

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:07:49pm

re: #78 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

The last dog pet?

Some of the replies to Mom’s message are pretty adorable

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:09:31pm

News flash from The Washington Post the relief bill passed. This is the top story at the moment. washingtonpost.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:11:54pm
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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:13:44pm

re: #77 PhillyPretzel

I know. One of co-workers believed that until today when we had one of the executives telling us that our sick day rules have been relaxed. Normally if you are sick with PPA you must wait for the phone call and a visit to your house to sign a piece of paper and then get a doctor’s note and that is for one time. Now one does not need the doctor’s note and the time taken does not count against us.

We have decided that if folks are sick then they should not be at work. They will be sent home at full pay until they feel better. I have been asked to make our policy discrete to anyone who would abuse it and reinforced to the folks who wouldn’t. I am fortunate that in my small Fort Worth location I know all of the folks and are lucky that I don’t have any obvious abusers. (except for maybe me….checking weather lol)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:14:28pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:14:58pm

HA!

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:33:21pm

re: #84 Targetpractice

I am not a beer drinker but I rather see that type of corona than the one that going around right now.

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Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:34:12pm

re: #85 PhillyPretzel

I am not a beer drinker but I rather see that type of corona than the one that going around right now.

Agreed.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:42:24pm
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Ace-o-aces  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:43:03pm

re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:44:34pm

On my way home from the last play I’ll see for a while (cancellations right and left), I stopped at the Walgreens on the way home. Most everything was in stock, except toilet paper and paper towels. Curiously, there was a plentiful supply of every variety of what we euphemistically call feminine hygiene products (ladies, if you had to choose one or the other, which would you rather be without?).

I think toilet paper hoarding is another virus, maybe activated by anxiety. I on the other hand, only stock up on sensible things, like chocolate.

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Ace-o-aces  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:45:55pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:52:44pm

re: #88 Ace-o-aces

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My dad and I were commenting upon that yesterday and discussing it again today. It’s bad enough ESPN has no sports to broadcast, but then you have to remember that they also have a lot of commentary shows built around commenting on the daily events in sports. At this rate, they’re gonna either be stuck showing old games or just filling their programming blocks with sports documentaries.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:53:13pm

THE CENSUS IS HERE !
THE CENSUS IS HERE !

MP4 Video

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Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:55:16pm

There’s also word that networks are pausing or even canceling production on shows until the crisis has passed. This shit may end up rivaling the ‘07-‘08 Writers Strike.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:56:28pm

re: #92 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

THE CENSUS IS HERE !
THE CENSUS IS HERE !

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Oh yeah.
And despite the mail hold I started three days ago, the USPS has yet again delivered my mail today

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:57:28pm

re: #94 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Oh yeah.
And despite the mail hold I started three days ago, the USPS has yet again delivered my mail today

I’m starting to have second thoughts about my support for Postal Banking

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 10:59:11pm

re: #93 Targetpractice

There is PBS. One can also get downloads from amazon. You can get PBS Passport and catch up with the many series that PBS has.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 13, 2020 • 11:03:17pm

re: #96 PhillyPretzel

There is PBS. One can also get downloads from amazon. You can get PBS Passport and catch up with the many series that PBS has.

With amazon prime, there’s another long list of things you can watch.

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Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2020 • 11:04:12pm

re: #96 PhillyPretzel

There is PBS. One can also get downloads from amazon. You can get PBS Passport and catch up with the many series that PBS has.

True. About the only show that I’m worried about right now is ST: Discovery, as there’s been word that they had to do reshoots post-production. There’s not a lot of ongoing shows I watch and I’ve got a backlog of movies and TV shows longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song (h/t Malcolm Tucker).

What I do wonder is how this lack of bread and circuses for the next few months is going to weigh on public morale.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 13, 2020 • 11:04:42pm

re: #97 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Oh yes and good shows too.:)

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Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2020 • 11:16:30pm

Life has really gotta suck if you’re somebody who invested in the XFL revival.

First you put your money into what looked like a sure bet in ‘16-‘17, when Trump and wingnut hatred towards the NFL for not punishing black players seemed to ensure a ready audience when the league restarted.

Then you spent years building up teams, recruiting talent, writing the rules books, and negotiating contracts with everybody to get this thing off the ground.

Finally, you start your season after the NFL hatred has ebbed and to little fanfare, only for the season to last a few weeks before getting shit-canned for the rest of year due to a viral pandemic that Trump turned into a national crisis. Every other sports league is down, this is prime viewership time, and yet you’re still forced to shut it all down.

I hope they saved the receipts.///

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 13, 2020 • 11:25:10pm
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Dave In Austin  Mar 13, 2020 • 11:30:29pm
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 11:36:30pm

re: #100 Targetpractice

#ETTD

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 11:39:49pm

LOL

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teleskiguy  Mar 13, 2020 • 11:44:16pm
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 11:45:21pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 13, 2020 • 11:49:01pm

So yeah, apparently the whole “Nancy tried to fund abortion!” BS is something I totally missed earlier today, mostly because the source was an “exclusive” given to the Daily Caller (aka “Tucker Carlson’s digital fish wrap”) by “White House sources.” According to these “sources,” the WH saw a section in the House Dem bill that included $1b set aside for reimbursement to medical labs for testing uninsured patients who didn’t fall under other provisions of the bill…as a Hyde Amendment “loophole” that would somehow set a precedent that allowed federal funding of abortions. And thus Repubs were not blocking a bill that did not include tax cuts or bailouts of their buds in the private sector, but instead opposition to a “slush fund” that would go to abortion clinics.

I just “can’t even” anymore.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 13, 2020 • 11:57:51pm

re: #107 Targetpractice

Conservative politicians lie. It’s what they do. Trump’s congenital lying is only the distilled essence of conservatism in service of power and money.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 14, 2020 • 12:01:26am

Governor of Nebraska issues a state of emergency.

governor.nebraska.gov

Essentially, it waives weight limits on certain trucks delivering goods to grocery markets and the like, and lifts certain statutory rules on appropriating money to deal with the epidemic in Nebraska.

It does not close schools or ban public gatherings statewide: for now that will be left as a piecemeal approach by towns and counties, just as Trump has done for the nation.

Gov. Pete Ricketts (R-Ameritrade) has not yet received permission from his handlers to do things such as make a bold decision on public gatherings and “government” schools.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 14, 2020 • 12:15:56am
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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 12:32:51am

re: #110 goddamnedfrank

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We all knew he was gonna find some way to weasel out of it. Faux earlier was trying to BS that this was all some sort of fucked-up benevolence on his part, putting off getting a test until after there were enough tests for all Americans.

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ozharas  Mar 14, 2020 • 12:34:23am

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 14, 2020 • 1:15:09am

re: #110 goddamnedfrank

During the Black Death in Europe, a lot of rich people fled cities, spreading the disease to other places.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 14, 2020 • 1:21:20am

re: #91 Targetpractice

My dad and I were commenting upon that yesterday and discussing it again today. It’s bad enough ESPN has no sports to broadcast, but then you have to remember that they also have a lot of commentary shows built around commenting on the daily events in sports. At this rate, they’re gonna either be stuck showing old games or just filling their programming blocks with sports documentaries.

They already have a channel for that, ESPN Classic.

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Ace-o-aces  Mar 14, 2020 • 1:28:17am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 2:13:48am
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Eventual Carrion  Mar 14, 2020 • 2:27:31am

re: #92 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

THE CENSUS IS HERE !
THE CENSUS IS HERE !

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Mine showed up in the mail yesterday. At least it looks official.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 14, 2020 • 2:34:30am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 2:51:29am

Apple closes all stores across world outside China due to Covid-19

Apple will pay employees as usual. But they can afford it, given Apple has a massive cash reserve globally.

Yet the real problem remains for the majority of retail outlets, which are small business, who can’t afford to do this.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 14, 2020 • 3:52:27am

re: #7 Charles Johnson

The shelves are empty in my local Ralph’s supermarket. Is this really necessary?

While not so bad here in Ostrava, Czech Republic, there’s definitely panic buying going on, mostly non-perishable foodstuffs. But not toilet paper, at least not yet.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 14, 2020 • 4:04:29am

re: #49 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)

nobody believes those!

signed
bill d….

I have no comment to make this am.

I’m just plastering my new screen name until this asshole loses in a humiliating landslide

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 14, 2020 • 4:06:31am

re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🎃

During the Black Death in Europe, a lot of rich people fled cities, spreading the disease to other places.

Yep….a lot of the elites fled the urban areas, thus inadvertently spreading to rural areas. The unwittingly brought their fleas with them.

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jeffreyw  Mar 14, 2020 • 4:21:35am

Hey

Good morning!

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Jay C  Mar 14, 2020 • 4:29:07am

re: #122 Dr Lizardo

Yep….a lot of the elites fled the urban areas, thus inadvertently spreading to rural areas. The unwittingly brought their fleas with them.

Well, things have improved a LOT since the Fourteenth Century.

We no longer have to rely on fleas to spread contagions!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 4:31:27am

The number of patients with coronavirus in Kazakhstan increased

A man born in 1958 is in Almaty . Self employed. He flew to Almaty on March 10 with a flight from Moscow.

Coronavirus has also been detected in a woman in Nur Sultan . She flew in from Warsaw (Poland).

Yet Russia only reports 47 cases. I wonder how much in Russia is being suppressed?

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 14, 2020 • 4:32:17am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 4:33:22am

re: #123 jeffreyw

Caught red handed winged.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 14, 2020 • 4:34:44am

re: #125 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The number of patients with coronavirus in Kazakhstan increased

Yet Russia only reports 47 cases. I wonder how much in Russia is being suppressed?

I imagine a lot.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 14, 2020 • 4:47:13am

re: #125 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The number of patients with coronavirus in Kazakhstan increased

Yet Russia only reports 47 cases. I wonder how much in Russia is being suppressed?

You’re not the only person wondering about that.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 14, 2020 • 5:17:34am

as of wednesday night there were 4 cases in broward county, florida (fort lauderdale, port everglades, all the cruise ships, etc)

friday there were 11

today there are 20

now the county with the most in the state

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 14, 2020 • 5:18:47am

re: #130 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

The approach Trump seems to be taking was perhaps best summed up in Shrek:

Some of You May Die

And Boris Johnson in the UK, too.

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ericblair  Mar 14, 2020 • 5:37:02am

re: #129 Dr Lizardo

You’re not the only person wondering about that.

The Russian response seems to be running like Trump’s: it’s all about diseased foreigners. They’re closing borders and kicking out/locking up Chinese. Stories are about people with all the symptoms trying to get a test: “been to China? No? Italy? No? Then you don’t have coronavirus” and then get sent home. Either that or suspect cases in hospitals don’t get reported up to the Health Ministry because the hospital fucked up the quarantine and they don’t want the ministry to know. So, yeah, grain of salt with those numbers.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 14, 2020 • 5:40:04am

The first few comments here are funny! (I think the main beneficiary of the pandemic will be some pets: “my humans are home with me all day long!”)

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jeffreyw  Mar 14, 2020 • 5:46:37am

The beginning of a beautiful frienship?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 5:50:21am

Typical:

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 14, 2020 • 6:06:10am

re: #133 Barefoot Grin

The first few comments here are funny! (I think the main beneficiary of the pandemic will be some pets: “my humans are home with me all day long!”)

Someone’s going to write the novel that tells about our times right now.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 14, 2020 • 6:14:10am

re: #136 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Someone’s going to write the novel that tells about our times right now.

I don’t doubt that one bit! “Love in a time of Covid-19.”

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 14, 2020 • 6:16:38am

The bill passed the lower chamber 363 to 40 with one abstention; the 40 were all Republicans and the abstention was Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI)

Zero D’s
40 r’s

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ericblair  Mar 14, 2020 • 6:20:24am

re: #129 Dr Lizardo

You’re not the only person wondering about that.

Conservative religion is going to be the death of a lot of people.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 14, 2020 • 6:20:27am

re: #138 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

The bill passed the lower chamber 363 to 40 with one abstention; the 40 were all Republicans and the abstention was Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI)

Zero D’s
40 r’s

You know I appreciate that Amash hates Trump but stop being a libertarian douchebag sometimes FFS. This is why I hope the Dems still are running against someone. He’s still part of this stupid libertarian mindset that led to Trump cutting the funds and response team that.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 14, 2020 • 6:21:58am

re: #137 Barefoot Grin

I don’t doubt that one bit! “Love in a time of Covid-19.”

I have a feeling that this time is going to be looked back with a lot of confusion. I can’t imagine how my niece feels. At least she has had the benefit of not just knowing but living with people of various generations. My heart aches for her though because I hate seeing kids go through this.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 6:31:02am

re: #60 teleskiguy

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 6:34:58am

re: #75 Targetpractice

Faux has him convinced that the reason that the House Dem bill to address the crisis was stalled by Senate Repubs is because “Nancy tried to sneak an abortion amendment into the bill!” It’s the exact opposite, the Repubs originally putting the kibosh on the bill because it didn’t include handouts to big businesses and then coming up with an excuse about the “Hyde Amendment,” but they’ve got him convinced that the Pelosi personally tried to sneak a stealth abortion bill through as aid.

That’s all over Twitter, too.

And of course…Fox to right wing blogs to top content on Google. Give them a link to something neutral and it’s LEFT WING PROPAGANDA!

We’re fucked in the era of Fox.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 6:40:53am

re: #78 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

The last dog pet?

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For now.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 14, 2020 • 6:56:21am

Found on faceplant.

Don’t shoot the messenger.
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 14, 2020 • 6:58:52am

re: #136 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Someone’s going to write the novel that tells about our times right now.

“Colove-19”: Quarantine kept them apart, but nothing stops love.

Cover of an impossibly-buff man, with a woman in a hospital gown arched back in the crook of his arm like she doesn’t have a lower spine, hair spilling down the back across sensor wires. A nurse in the background with a tray and a Forties-style nurse’s hat walks past in the hall beyond the glass.

Found in all good stores which carry potboiler Romance novels.

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:21:39am

re: #133 Barefoot Grin

I woke up this morning thinking about Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein during the “year without a summer.” Black swan literature.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:28:18am

re: #123 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Good morning to you!

I see you.
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:29:19am

Thread.

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:32:07am
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:34:07am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:39:37am

Why Twitter’s Dorsey May Not Be Here to Stay

Twitter (NYSE:TWTR), Elliott Management, and Silver Lake have come to a deal that keeps chief executive Jack Dorsey at the helm. But with Elliott Management and Silver Lake each getting a seat on the board and with Twitter needing to meet high thresholds, Dorsey’s days appear to be numbered.

[…]

Even without the coronavirus, Elliott’s targets may prove out of reach. Sure, more people should flock to Twitter during the run-up to the 2020 presidential election and the Summer Olympics, but it has already shut itself out of a big portion of those advertising dollars. Taking a stand on fake news and false information, Twitter recently banned all political ads on its platform. Instead of trying to police it, Dorsey decided to block it altogether. The move has resonated with users, but not with investors.

[…]

Elliot Management is Paul Singer’s company. Singer is a major backer of the Republican party, funds the concern-trolling Manhattan Institute, etc. If he gets his way, which in this case is growing Twitter’s revenue significantly, then we can expect Twitter to be selling ads to the usual atavists in the GOP-circle.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:43:21am
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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:51:05am
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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:51:27am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:52:49am

Awesome.

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garzooma  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:53:11am

re: #153 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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NEW: First death in New York. 82 year old woman in Manhattan.

Looks like deBlasio is not closing schools. And, to be fair, there is some evidence that it doesn’t help much. In any event, it looks like we’re about to conduct an experiment to test the hypothesis.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:53:23am
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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:55:14am

re: #157 garzooma

Looks like deBlasio is not closing schools. And, to be fair, there is some evidence that it doesn’t help much. In any event, it looks like we’re about to conduct an experiment to test the hypothesis.

Plus, where would kids who get their meals from schools eat?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 7:56:05am
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:05:11am

Morning Lizardim from the cold and cloudy wild north country. Spring has not yet sprung here - temperatures hover around 40 degrees F (4.4 degrees C) during the day, and 20 degrees F (-6.7 degrees C) during the night. Oh, and next weekend currently forecasts 4 inches of snow, as if the panic over the coronavirus wasn’t enough. How go things among the lizardfolk on this apocalyptic Saturday?

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A Mom Anon  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:11:56am

re: #159 Belafon

One community(where it is escapes me) is allowing bus drivers to deliver meals to kids that are on the meal program at school. So the cafeteria workers and bus drivers are still being paid while this is going on. There’s a way to do this, lots of food will go in the trash otherwise, so it saves money there as well.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:12:50am

Looks like there was a mass breakout from Milan last night.

Assault on the last trains heading south, a small-scale remake of Saturday night’s escape last week , when the first news about the decree that allegedly isolated Lombardy spread. Tonight at the central station full Milan-Syracuse-Palermo at 20.10 and, especially Milan-Lecce at 20.50. “There are no more flights, the only solution to leave Milan is this”, said a young traveler heading to Palermo.

Original, in Italian: milano.repubblica.it

These Wuhan-style lockdowns are almost inevitably going to lead to serious civil disturbances; you cannot confine people in their homes indefinitely.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:14:47am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:19:38am

re: #159 Belafon

Plus, where would kids who get their meals from schools eat?

In Montgomery County, MD, the PS system is setting up a mechanism for kids to get food…

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steve_davis  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:19:47am

in completely off topic news, this New Belgium Honey Orange Tripel is damned good, which it better be, considering 6 of the little bastards are roughly 15 bucks.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:21:59am

I agree with closing borders, not stopping global cooperation, of course. Nation states need to coordinate but containment is critical.

And because the US response has been god awful, I would understand other countries saying no to any of us trying to go there.

I can’t believe what’s going on. The House desperately trying to help US and the Senate not doing fuck all.

We’re a nation of guns. This is going to be bad.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:22:10am

re: #163 Dr Lizardo

Looks like there was a mass breakout from Milan last night.

Original, in Italian: milano.repubblica.it

These Wuhan-style lockdowns are almost inevitably going to lead to serious civil disturbances; you cannot confine people in their homes indefinitely.

This has been a fear of mine.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:23:13am

re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg

This has been a fear of mine.

And in America, guns will be involved.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:23:51am

re: #163 Dr Lizardo

Looks like there was a mass breakout from Milan last night.

Original, in Italian: milano.repubblica.it

These Wuhan-style lockdowns are almost inevitably going to lead to serious civil disturbances; you cannot confine people in their homes indefinitely.

I don’t even want to think about what will happen when Corona spreads to the US prison system…Orange is he New Black Death.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:24:13am

re: #60 teleskiguy

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:25:54am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:26:02am

re: #163 Dr Lizardo

Looks like there was a mass breakout from Milan last night.

Original, in Italian: milano.repubblica.it

These Wuhan-style lockdowns are almost inevitably going to lead to serious civil disturbances; you cannot confine people in their homes indefinitely.

This (from the article):

Having tightened the police checks on the accesses, the agents strictly maintain the safety distances and require self-certification. But as one of them said, “it is not clear why all these people can leave, given that the latest ordinance stopped Italy”.

Seriously. WTF?

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mmmirele  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:26:39am

re: #133 Barefoot Grin

The first few comments here are funny! (I think the main beneficiary of the pandemic will be some pets: “my humans are home with me all day long!”)

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Boccaccio wrote “The Decameron”, one of the first literary works in Italian, in the direct aftermath of the Black Plague in 1348. The frame story is a bunch of wealthy Italians holed up in a villa for two weeks and telling stories to pass the time.

I’m also reminded that, while it wasn’t borne out of an epidemic, so many of our horror stories came out of the time Mary Shelley and others were confined to a house in Geneva due to awful rainy weather in summer. The weather was part of “1816 and froze to death”—caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. Mary Shelley wrote “Frankenstein” and John William Polidori wrote “The Vampyre” as part of Lord Byron’s challenge to come up with a ghost story.

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danarchy  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:28:47am

re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I don’t even want to think about what will happen when Corona spreads to the US prison system…Orange is he New Black Death.

Just a gut feeling, but I imagine the US prison population on average trends younger than the population at large so maybe it won’t be so bad? I mean, it won’t be good, but most healthy young people get over it on their own pretty quickly.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:28:47am

re: #172 jaunte

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:30:49am

re: #176 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This is what happens when people think shortsightedly about themselves and don’t consider the consequences of their actions.

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ericblair  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:31:46am

So, some guy who wanted Mexico to pay for the wall, another guy who wanted tourists to stay out of Venice, and another who wanted planes to stop flying are trying to track down that guy who sold them the monkeys’ paws.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:31:49am

re: #167 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I agree with closing borders, not stopping global cooperation, of course. Nation states need to coordinate but containment is critical.

And because the US response has been god awful, I would understand other countries saying no to any of us trying to go there.

I can’t believe what’s going on. The House desperately trying to help US and the Senate not doing fuck all.

We’re a nation of guns. This is going to be bad.

The peppers are thinking this is the day they have been prepping for.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:31:54am

re: #175 danarchy

Just a gut feeling, but I imagine the US prison population on average trends younger than the population at large so maybe it won’t be so bad? I mean, it won’t be good, but most healthy young people get over it on their own pretty quickly.

I mean riots and breakouts.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:32:22am

re: #179 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The peppers are thinking this is the day they have been prepping for.

It kinda is.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:33:37am

re: #181 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It kinda is.

It is, but now they find that the goods they have been hoarding for years are worthless to anyone but themselves.

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:33:49am
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:34:13am

re: #175 danarchy

Just a gut feeling, but I imagine the US prison population on average trends younger than the population at large so maybe it won’t be so bad? I mean, it won’t be good, but most healthy young people get over it on their own pretty quickly.

It’s the elderly inmates who will get cut down.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:35:00am

re: #162 A Mom Anon

One community(where it is escapes me) is allowing bus drivers to deliver meals to kids that are on the meal program at school. So the cafeteria workers and bus drivers are still being paid while this is going on. There’s a way to do this, lots of food will go in the trash otherwise, so it saves money there as well.

Here in Rockwall, the schools with the two largest concentrations of kids on free and reduced lunches will have the cafeteria open for kids to come get meals.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:35:14am

re: #182 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It is, but now they find that the goods they have been hoarding for years are worthless to anyone but themselves.

I thought that was the point. Isn’t it?

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:35:20am
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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:37:46am

re: #182 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It is, but now they find that the goods they have been hoarding for years are worthless to anyone but themselves.

Next he’ll be arrested for illegal dumping.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:38:25am

re: #186 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I thought that was the point. Isn’t it?

For some, maybe. I don’t know, the general sense I get is that there’s a significant angle of, “See, I was RIGHT, now bow down to me and maybe you’ll get some” involved, as well.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:40:01am

re: #176 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Local authorities should show up, pay a fair market value for the preowned goods, 30 cents on the dollar, and take the stuff.

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:41:40am
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:43:09am

re: #176 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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I’ll never understand what drives someone like that guy voluntarily becoming the public face of crass price gouging during a disaster.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:43:56am

re: #176 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Dumbshit is going to lose his shirt. The hoard/gouge scenario only works if supplies cannot be replenished in a reasonable amount of time. That is
obviously not the case here since the entire supply chain is still operating and making adjustments to meet demand.

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:45:05am

re: #192 goddamnedfrank

“Look Ma, I’m in the paper!”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:45:26am

re: #194 jaunte

“Look Ma, I’m in the paper!”

“Yes, but you’re an asshole.”

“But… I’m a famous asshole!”

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:45:51am

re: #194 jaunte

“Look Ma, I’m in the paper!”

Followed by, “Look Ma, I’m running from an angry mob!”

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:47:02am
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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:48:31am
Facebook and Twitter have disabled a sophisticated Russian-linked operation designed to stoke racial tensions among African Americans in the United States, the companies announced Thursday, raising fresh alarms about Kremlin interference ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

The malicious campaign relied on a mix of fake accounts and real people, who lived in Ghana and Nigeria, some of whom appear to have been duped into thinking they were aiding a nongovernmental organization. Instead, they helped amplify a network of inauthentic accounts, pages and groups on Facebook and Twitter that shared polarizing content around social issues including race and civil rights, the tech giants said.

washingtonpost.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:49:10am

Holy shit. This article. Wow.

Maybe the gene pool does need cleansing.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:49:19am

Just in case the toilet paper famine lasts longer than expected, I want to remind everyone that there are still good supplies of Ayn Rand books available.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:49:43am

re: #194 jaunte

“Look Ma, I’m in the paper!”

I did it ma! Top of the World!

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:51:56am

re: #197 jaunte

So true. I went to DiBruno Bros. this morning and they were a little short handed. The young lady who was ringing up my order was doing it for the first time. Although the manager was net to her and giving instruction she was still shaky. She got a little upset when the scanner would not register an item that I was purchasing. I said, ‘Try undoing the label a bit. That usually works.” It worked and my order was packed by the manager and we all wished each other a good day.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:52:36am

re: #197 jaunte

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I went to Kroger yesterday to get some bread. I first stopped at the Starbucks inside to get my kids something and right after I paid, a guy walks up and asks if he can pay for a few groceries there because, as I would find out in a few minutes, the store lines were long. The woman in the checkout said no they could t so he just dropped them into one of the baskets on a display there and walks off in a huff.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:53:00am

Unreal how far behind we are because of Trump.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:53:11am

re: #202 PhillyPretzel

I’m trying to show more patience in general, though the elderly lady who parked her cart in an empty parking space (which I was clearly waiting to pull into) so she could unload into her car did get my dander up a little bit. People in lines who are couponing, slower cashiers who are new or young (or both)… it’s not worth getting upset about.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:53:38am

re: #196 goddamnedfrank

Followed by, “Look Ma, I’m running from an angry mob!”

These lepertarian gouger wannabes never seem to realize that in the absence of all decency and law, a shotgun in the face will always beat simple possession as a determinant of ownership.

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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:54:01am

It would be cheaper to fly to another country to get tested.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:55:30am

re: #192 goddamnedfrank

I’ll never understand what drives someone like that guy voluntarily becoming the public face of crass price gouging during a disaster.

He thinks people will look at him and say “look how brilliant he is to have made do much money “. Nothing more than I am now rich. Doesn’t matter how he got there, he has the green.

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:56:01am

re: #203 Belafon

Isn’t the Starbucks a completely separate business?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:56:03am

Well, the law of unintended consequences with COVID-19 has surfaced - my local packy is now refusing to take returnable bottles.

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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:56:27am

I don’t know about ya’ll but be advised I’m going to spam LGF with cooking posts and dank memes. Because dank memes, like pineapple, don’t go on no pizza.

I think I’m going to try super thin crust pizza on my cast iron skillet.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:56:55am

re: #209 jaunte

Yep. But it’s inside the store, so it’s confusing for some.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:57:26am

re: #211 BigPapa

I don’t know about ya’ll but be advised I’m going to spam LGF with cooking posts and dank memes. Because dank memes, like pineapple, don’t go on no pizza.

I think I’m going to try super thin crust pizza on my cast iron skillet.

Pineapple does too go on pizza, you godless heathen.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:57:39am

re: #212 Belafon

Reload

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:57:48am

re: #205 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I am going to my local Acme early tomorrow morning. They open at 700 AM.

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danarchy  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:58:32am

re: #207 BigPapa

It would be cheaper to fly to another country to get tested.

Testing is important for the state and for society at large, but I don’t understand people who are sick freaking out about not being able to get tested. You are already sick, whether it is covid-19, the flu, or just a cold the treatment and your actions should be the same.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:59:02am

re: #213 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Pineapple does too go on pizza, you godless heathen.

The only true food abomination is eggs, apple, or nuts in tuna salad.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 14, 2020 • 8:59:46am

Someone pointed out that medium rare hamburger is going to be a hypothetically valid transmission vector for awhile. Not the most efficient vector, but valid.

Cook ‘em well or go for steak.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:00:16am

re: #217 Belafon

The only true food abomination is eggs, apple, or nuts in tuna salad.

Here in Czech Republic, you can get eggs and tuna on your pizza.

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:01:10am

re: #212 Belafon

Yep. But it’s inside the store, so it’s confusing for some.

“Why can’t I pay for my pants here?”
“This is the food court, sir.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:01:50am

re: #192 goddamnedfrank

I’ll never understand what drives someone like that guy voluntarily becoming the public face of crass price gouging during a disaster.

Greedy and not bright. If his daddy had money he’d be the next GOP POTUS candidate.

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danarchy  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:02:08am

re: #215 PhillyPretzel

I am going to my local Acme early tomorrow morning. They open at 700 AM.

Thinking I may go to the 24 hour Price Chopper sometime after midnight tonight. They usually stock after hours and there is never anyone there late night. Not that I need anything beyond regular weekly groceries, but when I went to stop and shop yesterday surprisingly almost the entire meat and chicken section was wiped out.

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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:02:14am

re: #217 Belafon

The only true food abomination is eggs, apple, or nuts in tuna salad.

Apple in tuna salad would require a little of the ol ultra violence.

So all those dopes who post pictures of empty store shelves and say “Socialism sucks, see?’ sure feel stupid now, right? Oh, that requires self awareness. My bad.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:02:20am

re: #216 danarchy

Testing is important for the state and for society at large, but I don’t understand people who are sick freaking out about not being able to get tested. You are already sick, whether it is covid-19, the flu, or just a cold the treatment and your actions should be the same.

I think people don’t understand that there’s very little that can be done about viruses once you actually get one. In most cases, it’s just treating the symptoms and giving your immune system enough time to gear up and fight it off. Which is why the elderly and those with suppressed immune systems are so vulnerable during flu season and viral epidemics like this, and why vaccines against viral infections are so bloody important.

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mmmirele  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:02:30am

re: #218 goddamnedfrank

Someone pointed out that medium rare hamburger is going to be a hypothetically valid transmission vector for awhile. Not the most efficient vector, but valid.

Cook ‘em well or go for steak.

Gosh, then my 80 YO mother should live forever. She likes her meat burnt.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:02:45am

re: #194 jaunte

“Look Ma, I’m in the paper!”

Like the TV show Cops. “Hey, maw, I’ma gonna be on the TV!”

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:05:01am

re: #217 Belafon

Waldorf salad. It might not have tuna but it has all of the other ingredients. I believe Salade Nicoise had tuna amongst other ingredients.
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:07:42am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:08:20am

re: #216 danarchy

Testing is important for the state and for society at large, but I don’t understand people who are sick freaking out about not being able to get tested. You are already sick, whether it is covid-19, the flu, or just a cold the treatment and your actions should be the same.

Behavior changes depending on what virus a person is carrying: if it’s a cold, in practice, most people carry on with their normal lives, even if they might be passing it on to someone else. Colds are not particularly lethal. But this disease is far more serious and you present a far greater danger to the well being of those around you.

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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:11:53am

Egg on pizza? Yeah, we got that.

Egg on pizza
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:13:05am

re: #230 BigPapa

Egg on pizza? Yeah, we got that.

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That’s not pizza.

That’s a nightmare straight from the depths….nay, the very bowels of Hell itself.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:14:54am
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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:15:03am

re: #231 Dr Lizardo

That’s not pizza.

That’s a nightmare straight from the depths….nay, the very bowels of Hell itself.

No. You can’t have a piece.

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jaunte  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:15:04am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:15:12am

re: #231 Dr Lizardo

That’s not pizza.

That’s a nightmare straight from the depths….nay, the very bowels of Hell itself.

I’d eat it. 😁

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BeachDem  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:16:35am

re: #203 Belafon

I went to Kroger yesterday to get some bread. I first stopped at the Starbucks inside to get my kids something and right after I paid, a guy walks up and asks if he can pay for a few groceries there because, as I would find out in a few minutes, the store lines were long. The woman in the checkout said no they could t so he just dropped them into one of the baskets on a display there and walks off in a huff.

Went to Publix at 11 this morning. Only sections that weren’t fully stocked were toilet paper and hand sanitizer (there was still some of each, but some empty sections.) Bakery, deli, meat, beer and wine, etc.—all as normal (bought a key lime pie because it’s PI DAY.) Short lines at checkout—had some checkers standing outside their lanes asking people if they were ready to check out.

So that’s three grocery stores in three days and the same business as usual experience. YMMV (and obviously does.)

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:17:48am

re: #235 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’d eat it. 😁

Not just the egg, those ovals appear to be eggplant. I’m with Belafon.

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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:19:39am

re: #237 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Not just the egg, those ovals appear to be eggplant. I’m with Belafon.

Roasted zuch and eggplant with olive oil and balsamic, before going on the pie.

I’d eat anything with an egg on it. And I know how to get in my Wife Unit’s good graces. (eggs).

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NetworkKed  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:20:03am

Egg on pizza sounds like a good idea, but it probably would get drowned out amid the sauce and cheese, and possibly other toppings. And that particular image is just a mess of bad design with the egg and yolk clustered in the center where slicing the thing will cause it to just fall/drip through and make a mess underneath.

…mmm, chicken salad pizza.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:21:41am

re: #235 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’d eat it. 😁

….after making a careful incision excising the offending center

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:21:58am

re: #236 BeachDem

Went to Publix at 11 this morning. Only sections that weren’t fully stocked were toilet paper and hand sanitizer (there was still some of each, but some empty sections.) Bakery, deli, meat, beer and wine, etc.—all as normal (bought a key lime pie because it’s PI DAY.) Short lines at checkout—had some checkers standing outside their lanes asking people if they were ready to check out.

So that’s three grocery stores in three days and the same business as usual experience. YMMV (and obviously does.)

That’s mostly what I experienced. In MI I was able to get most of what I wanted (I didn’t go into the store, I ordered pickup where they shop and bring it out). I got hand sanitizer a week ago and antibacterial hand/dish soap a couple of days ago.

Today I went to a store in Canada. Almost no rice or frozen veggies. I didn’t check for TP.

If I was hording, it would be food not TP.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:22:37am

re: #237 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Not just the egg, those ovals appear to be eggplant. I’m with Belafon.

Eggplant on pizza is awesome.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:23:45am

re: #241 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I just want a loaf of bread.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:24:03am

re: #242 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Eggplant on pizza is awesome.

Eggplant is an abomination wherever it appears.

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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:24:40am

re: #244 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Eggplant is an abomination wherever it appears.

It’s like I don’t even know who you are any more.

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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:27:02am

Before the eggplant flounces start I’d like to change the subject: WaPo is offering a free subscription for COVID-19 coverage in front of their pay wall. Way to go WaPo.

More importantly, I’m thinking of changing my nic to 4-Ply, which is my dad rap supergroup handle.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:28:51am

re: #246 BigPapa

Yes it is a good offer.
littlegreenfootballs.com

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NetworkKed  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:28:59am

Eggplant is the food of the gods. With a little help, anyway.

If you don’t believe me, go to your supermarket frozen foods, probably in the medium/family-sized entrees, and pick up a box of Michael Angelo’s Eggplant Parmigiana - it’s even good microwaved. If you don’t enjoy that, you’re not human.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:29:59am

Only time I allow eggs near anything pizza-like is when they’re scrambled eggs on a “breakfast pizza.” Which isn’t really a pizza, but we all have to make sacrifices.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:31:43am

re: #249 Targetpractice

Only time I allow eggs near anything pizza-like is when they’re scrambled eggs on a “breakfast pizza.” Which isn’t really a pizza, but we all have to make sacrifices.

I haven’t had a breakfast “pizza” in a long time.

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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:33:22am

I didn’t know there was such auberginaphobia rampant at LGF. This is difficult to eggsplain.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:36:00am

re: #251 BigPapa

I didn’t know there was such auberginaphobia rampant at LGF. This is difficult to eggsplain.

Not sure too many here will know that an aubergine is an eggplant.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:37:29am

re: #252 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Jamie Oliver has one of his shows on PBS. Check the 400PM listing. :)
njtvonline.org

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:37:36am

re: #251 BigPapa

I didn’t know there was such auberginaphobia rampant at LGF. This is difficult to eggsplain.

In my defense, my palette is so stunted that I’ve never actually tried eggplant.

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makeitstop  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:38:52am

Personal…

I got a call from my nephew last night letting me know that my oldest sister had passed away. She’d been in a nursing home for some time with advanced dementia and had developed a number of severe medical complications in the past few weeks. My wife and I got to go out to Lancaster to see her a couple of weeks ago. I got to spend a half hour with her, holding her hand and talking to her. I’d like to believe that for a moment she realized who I was, but that might be false hope talking.

While talking to my nephew, we both admitted to a certain amount of relief that she’s gone. She seemed extremely uncomfortable when I saw her and there was little that could be done to calm her down.

She and her husband (who passed away from dementia 10 years ago) never hesitated to help me, even paying my college tuition for a year when I was unable to afford it. They called it a loan at the time, but when I was finally able to repay them they told me not to worry about it. I only hope I can show that kind of help and love to my family in return. Sad day here, but also a little gladness for her life.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:41:58am

re: #255 makeitstop

Personal…

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Sorry to hear that man. Your sister and brother in law sound like they were damn good people.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:42:08am

re: #255 makeitstop

I am sorry to hear of your loss. The only thing I can say is that she is at peace. You and your family are in my prayers.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:42:11am

Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a tabletop device that incorporates robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and near-infrared and ultrasound imaging to draw blood or insert catheters to deliver fluids and drugs. The robotic device can accurately steer needles and catheters into tiny blood vessels with minimal supervision. The system uses AI and advanced imaging solutions to distinguish blood vessels from surrounding tissue, classify them, estimate their depth, and track motion. Said Rutgers’ Martin L. Yarmush, “Using volunteers, models, and animals, our team showed that the device can accurately pinpoint blood vessels, improving success rates and procedure times compared with expert healthcare professionals, especially with difficult-to-access blood vessels.”

rutgers.edu

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makeitstop  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:42:57am

re: #256 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Sorry to hear that man. Your sister and brother in law sound like they were damn good people.

They were. I’m hoping when it’s all done I’m remembered as someone as good as them.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:43:12am

re: #258 Belafon

Wow. That is great.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:44:05am

re: #258 Belafon

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rutgers.edu

You know, a junkie would be quicker. They’d find a vein on the first go and have you out of there in just minutes.

I can’t take credit for this one, Christopher Titus figured it out first.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:45:40am

Reuters just flashed up a news alert that Britain and Ireland have been added to the travel ban.

Glad to know that little oversight only took three days to fix…///

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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:46:38am

Trump said he’s been tested… now we await to see how much money I won.

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stpaulbear  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:46:55am

re: #192 goddamnedfrank

I’ll never understand what drives someone like that guy voluntarily becoming the public face of crass price gouging during a disaster.

Pandemi-bro.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:48:01am

re: #263 BigPapa

Trump said he’s been tested… now we await to see how much money I won.

Robin Hood Men In Tights: Bullshit

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BeachDem  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:48:08am

re: #252 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Not sure too many here will know that an aubergine is an eggplant.

A friend of mine once wanted to open a bed and breakfast, paint the building purple and call it the Auberge Aubergine.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:49:06am

Oh, and on the subject of aubergine/eggplant, I only know about this…because of Archer.

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plansbandc  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:49:34am

re: #225 mmmirele

That generation of ladies was taught to cook the living hell out of meat. My mom used to cook hamburgers into hockey pucks and burn the shit out of pork chops.

Good thing my dad liked burnt meat. Not so good for the rest of us. But hey! We didn’t get horrible meat diseases.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:51:44am

re: #268 plansbandc

That generation of ladies was taught to cook the living hell out of meat. My mom used to cook hamburgers into hockey pucks and burn the shit out of pork chops.

Good thing my dad liked burnt meat. Not so good for the rest of us. But hey! We didn’t get horrible meat diseases.

My wife will not eat meat that is the least little bit red

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:51:51am

re: #261 Targetpractice

You know, a junkie would be quicker. They’d find a vein on the first go and have you out of there in just minutes.

I can’t take credit for this one, Christopher Titus figured it out first.

I’m searching for my mainer
I said I couldn’t hit it sideways
I couldn’t hit it sideways
Oh, just like Sister Ray said

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NetworkKed  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:53:12am

re: #268 plansbandc

I hated steak for the first 17 years of my life. It was the most awful dead burnt flavor ever. Then I was at a banquet and the plate of food they brought out was a dripping red steak, with butter smeared on top. It was a revelation. Ketchup wasn’t even necessary to swallow it.

Mom’s not all that good cooking vegetables, either.

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plansbandc  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:54:58am

re: #269 Belafon

My mom won’t either. She’s a well-done kind of gal. Not burnt anymore though.

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stpaulbear  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:56:03am

re: #205 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I’m trying to show more patience in general, though the elderly lady who parked her cart in an empty parking space (which I was clearly waiting to pull into) so she could unload into her car did get my dander up a little bit. People in lines who are couponing, slower cashiers who are new or young (or both)… it’s not worth getting upset about.

I got a little upset the other day because the woman in front of me wanted to keep talking with the clerk after her food was rung up. The guy behind me says “I guess this is the conversation line”, and I said I’d end that. I wasn’t mad at the cashier but I find that I sometimes get mad at some of the people in line.

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ericblair  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:56:44am

re: #262 Targetpractice

Reuters just flashed up a news alert that Britain and Ireland have been added to the travel ban.

Glad to know that little oversight only took three days to fix…///

Aaaaand, is it all travel, or non-US citizen travel? The EU travel ban exempts US residents and a bunch of others. They fucked up that announcement and haven’t learned a goddamn thing.

Also, shitgibbon hasn’t taken a test, doesn’t need to take a test, oh wait yes he did, and he has to shake hands because he’s expect to, because he’s not in charge of anything or whatever. Got it, confidence level 110%

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:57:23am

re: #155 Belafon

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Guess they need to avoid Trump press conferences in the future.
//

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 14, 2020 • 9:57:49am

re: #273 stpaulbear

That is why I plan to go early tomorrow to the store. :)

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:00:25am

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SteelPH  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:00:38am

re: #263 BigPapa

Trump said he’s been tested… now we await to see how much money I won.

Either way he’s lying/going to lie about it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:00:57am

re: #255 makeitstop

My deepest sympathy to you and your family. She and her husband were wonderful people.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:01:22am

re: #161 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Morning Lizardim from the cold and cloudy wild north country. Spring has not yet sprung here - temperatures hover around 40 degrees F (4.4 degrees C) during the day, and 20 degrees F (-6.7 degrees C) during the night. Oh, and next weekend currently forecasts 4 inches of snow, as if the panic over the coronavirus wasn’t enough. How go things among the lizardfolk on this apocalyptic Saturday?

Sunny and warm west of Philly so far today. Was quite windy last night.

From my limited people observation it’s seems like a normal Saturday with families outside and doing stuff like grocery shopping.

I’m drinking coffee, catching up on news, and deciding whether or not to risk a grocery run tomorrow early in the morning.

(Of my three planned outings between now and mid-April two have already been cancelled and I expect the third to be cancelled shortly. The cribbage club I play with has cancelled meeting for the next four weeks. And I am doing my taxes remotely with my accountant rather than meeting with her in person.)

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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:02:10am

My mom still thinks chuck steak marinated in oil and soy sauce for 24 hrs is ‘steak.’ I hated that shit. If you chewed too long it would get white and I was looking for the dog.

Only later did I go to a friends how to swim all day and dad asked ‘you want steaks for dinner?’ and all the kids were like ‘Yeah Dad! Steaks!’ and I was terrified because they didn’t have a dog, only to be rewarded with something almost burnt outside and pink inside that I could chew and actually swallow.

She almost fucked up asparagus and spinach too. Luckily those are saved.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:04:47am

re: #271 NetworkKed

Mom’s not all that good cooking vegetables, either.

In addition to the cook meat to death was the idea that boiling was the way vegetables should be cooked. Now that I’m out doing the cooking in my family, vegetables are palatable. Dry heat; except for some things like beans that can be blanched.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:05:50am

Thank you all again for helping me stay sane during this.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:06:58am

My mom followed the example of Julia Child. Cooked yes but not to death. It was very tasty.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:09:00am

re: #209 jaunte

Isn’t the Starbucks a completely separate business?

The coffee stop at Wegman’s is their own and I’ve seen them ring out other items there. So the guy might have been able to pull it off there, or maybe been less of a dick and ordered a coffee along with getting all his stuff paid for.

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:09:33am

My wife is starting to go nuts, though. She’s hearing that there might be a month during deliveries, so she’s wanting to run around to find meat and some other things.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:09:51am

re: #283 Eclectic Cyborg

Thank you all again for helping me stay sane during this.

No problem, it’s nice to talk to someone before the nurses come by to feed me my meds.

//

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:11:39am

re: #285 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

In most cases where there is a franchise in another store (Starbucks in a supermarket) they can only ring up their stuff. Sometimes managers can ring up store merchandise but in most cases no.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:14:23am

Possible upside: This crisis may go along way in teaching narrowminded people that we really aren’t all that different after all.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:14:47am

re: #254 Targetpractice

In my defense, my palette is so stunted that I’ve never actually tried eggplant.

Next time you eat Chinese food see if they have eggplant in garlic sauce!

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:15:51am

re: #290 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Next time you eat Chinese food see if they have eggplant in garlic sauce!

Will do.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:15:52am
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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:16:28am

My mother was a gourmet cook, so my dislike of eggplant honestly doesn’t owe anything to bad preparation (I think it’s the texture as much as anything).

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:17:56am

re: #230 BigPapa

Egg on pizza? Yeah, we got that.

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Is that Zucchini on pizza too?

Almost as unappetizing as Koreans putting octopus, kimchi and potato slices on pizza…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:18:04am

re: #274 ericblair

Aaaaand, is it all travel, or non-US citizen travel? The EU travel ban exempts US residents and a bunch of others. They fucked up that announcement and haven’t learned a goddamn thing.

Also, shitgibbon hasn’t taken a test, doesn’t need to take a test, oh wait yes he did, and he has to shake hands because he’s expect to, because he’s not in charge of anything or whatever. Got it, confidence level 110%

I think he’s been tested repeatedly already. So it’s still bullshit.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:19:17am

re: #282 Colère Tueur de Lapin

In addition to the cook meat to death was the idea that boiling was the way vegetables should be cooked. Now that I’m out doing the cooking in my family, vegetables are palatable. Dry heat; except for some things like beans that can be blanched.

There is a reason English cuisine (other than breakfast) was feared for centuries.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:19:44am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:20:06am

I am currently out having lunch with some friends. Place is maybe 1/3 full at the moment so plenty of room for “social distance”.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:20:10am

re: #255 makeitstop

Personal…

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BigPapa  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:20:11am

re: #294 Joe Bacon 🌹

Is that Zucchini on pizza too?

Almost as unappetizing as Koreans putting octopus, kimchi and potato slices on pizza…

That sounds delicious!

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:21:14am

re: #297 Dread Pirate

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So what they’re saying is that Jared is just like his father-in-law: A sociopath that is totally unable to feel any empathy for other human beings.

I coulda told ya that!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:21:15am

re: #286 Belafon

My wife is starting to go nuts, though. She’s hearing that there might be a month during deliveries, so she’s wanting to run around to find meat and some other things.

There’ll be temporary shortages of some things, but essential things like food deliveries will continue.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:21:37am

re: #292 Dread Pirate

If only we had a Pandemic response team that could draft some nationwide testing guidelines…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:21:51am

re: #288 PhillyPretzel

In most cases where there is a franchise in another store (Starbucks in a supermarket) they can only ring up their stuff. Sometimes managers can ring up store merchandise but in most cases no.

Yep. Wegman’s does their own in order to keep the revenue other than farming it out. But their “pub” and alcohol sales in Pennsylvania still uses separate registers I think. Beer and wine sales with the recent changes only use a few registers - that’s either to track things better or it might be so that only a few register lines are ID-ing everyone per the alcohol purchasing requirements.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:21:55am

re: #297 Dread Pirate

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Jared is a psychologist along with being a world class diplomat and a public health expert I see. What can’t Jared do!

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Belafon  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:22:20am

re: #292 Dread Pirate

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This is part of why we have to overreact and test as many as we can.

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SteelPH  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:22:29am

re: #305 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Jared is a psychologist along with being a world class diplomat and a public health expert I see. What can’t Jared do!

Competence.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:23:06am

re: #292 Dread Pirate

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This is pretty much why I’m in semi-isolation already. By the time there is notification that there are cases nearby it will already be too late.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:23:17am

re: #289 Eclectic Cyborg

Possible upside: This crisis may go along way in teaching narrowminded people that we really aren’t all that different after all.

I would like to think that maybe you are correct. I do not think that you are, though. Sorry.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:25:02am

re: #308 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

This is pretty much why I’m in semi-isolation already. By the time there is notification that there are cases nearby it will already be too late.

I wish I had that excuse. I’m in semi-isolation because I have no social life.

/

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:25:35am

re: #308 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

This is pretty much why I’m in semi-isolation already. By the time there is notification that there are cases nearby it will already be too late.

Some of the earliest cases in my state were just a few miles from me. I’m basically figuring that we’re at ground zero for the community epidemic and just waiting to see how it plays out. I am planning on keeping to life as normal as much as possible until that is no longer practical or advisable, though.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:31:58am

re: #311 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Some of the earliest cases in my state were just a few miles from me. I’m basically figuring that we’re at ground zero for the community epidemic and just waiting to see how it plays out. I am planning on keeping to life as normal as much as possible until that is no longer practical or advisable, though.

“Hottest” spot currently in Pennsylvania with the most known cases is just south of me. And unfortunately my main social activity spots are almost ideal transmission zones due to the clientele, location, and fact that I am seeing too many young people who seem very blase’ about this disease to date.

I usually get breakfast on Sunday mornings at a local diner before the church crowd turns up. Not sure how safe that is nowadays even.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:33:14am
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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:35:26am

re: #312 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

“Hottest” spot currently in Pennsylvania with the most known cases is just south of me. And unfortunately my main social activity spots are almost ideal transmission zones due to the clientele, location, and fact that I am seeing too many young people who seem very blase’ about this disease to date.

I usually get breakfast on Sunday mornings at a local diner before the church crowd turns up. Not sure how safe that is nowadays even.

I’m still eating out at off hours because I don’t want all the people whose places I’ve patronized for years to starve. That said, food is not a major vector of covid-19. I sit well away from other customers, order hot stuff and wash my hands after eating.

No symptoms so far.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:36:06am

re: #304 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Yep. Wegman’s does their own in order to keep the revenue other than farming it out. But their “pub” and alcohol sales in Pennsylvania still uses separate registers I think. Beer and wine sales with the recent changes only use a few registers - that’s either to track things better or it might be so that only a few register lines are ID-ing everyone per the alcohol purchasing requirements.

Yes, the Country Fair here in my town (NW PA) has a totally separate line for beer and wine now that they are allowed to sell it. I think it is an LCB mandate that it be separated from all other transactions.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:38:49am

re: #313 Dread Pirate

I could not agree more.

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Mescalero09  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:39:58am

re: #255 makeitstop

Our condolences to you and your family. Sounds like good people. Need more of them.

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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:40:53am

re: #282 Colère Tueur de Lapin

In addition to the cook meat to death was the idea that boiling was the way vegetables should be cooked. Now that I’m out doing the cooking in my family, vegetables are palatable. Dry heat; except for some things like beans that can be blanched.

The internet has been huge in improving everybody’s food, if you find reliable sources. I subscribe to america’s test kitchen (OK, I use my brother’s log in), and milkstreettv (my own subscription, allow my brother to use it).

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:42:48am

re: #314 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

I’m still eating out at off hours because I don’t want all the people whose places I’ve patronized for years to starve. That said, food is not a major vector of covid-19. I sit well away from other customers, order hot stuff and wash my hands after eating.

No symptoms so far.

Diner is small enough that sitting well away from other tables is difficult. I still might risk it tomorrow very early since I do like giving them business since they’re local.

And might mix it in with a Wegman’s run to top up supplies.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:43:07am
321
Ace Rothstein  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:44:24am

Fifty bucks says Trump has not been tested for the virus.

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Targetpractice  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:44:38am

re: #320 Dread Pirate

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They are totally playing this shit by ear and only doing so on sufferance. Remember, a week ago, they were saying that they thought the answer to the whole damned thing was yet another massive tax cut.

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HypnoToad  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:44:40am

I went this morning to a Southern California Stater Bros. at 7:00 AM. (I’m prepared, but my elderly mom demanded a grocery run & delivery to her place) There were already 80 to 90 people in the store with all checkout lanes active and a half dozen plus lined up for each. Canned goods 50% depleted, meats of any kind nearly gone, produce 40% out, bread sparse, and frozen veggies gone except for a few unpopular ones. Oddly, they were fully stocked on cold and flu remedies and other over the counter medicines. They were restocking as fast as they could with all hands on deck.

That said, it was a surprising experience. Lines moved fast, and EVERYONE was unfailingly courteous and friendly, customers and employees alike. I got the distinct vibe that they all wanted to avoid the situation from devolving into some dystopian struggle. I overheard two conversations about ‘flattening the curve’ and others about supply and medical capacity issues. Here at least, people are taking things seriously. Some hope anyway.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:48:52am

re: #289 Eclectic Cyborg

Possible upside: This crisis may go along way in teaching narrowminded people that we really aren’t all that different after all.

Surely you jest that the 40% will learn anything

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:49:30am

re: #323 HypnoToad

I went this morning to a Southern California Stater Bros. at 7:00 AM. (I’m prepared, but my elderly mom demanded a grocery run & delivery to her place) There were already 80 to 90 people in the store with all checkout lanes active and a half dozen plus lined up for each. Canned goods 50% depleted, meats of any kind nearly gone, produce 40% out, bread sparse, and frozen veggies gone except for a few unpopular ones. Oddly, they were fully stocked on cold and flu remedies and other over the counter medicines. They were restocking as fast as they could with all hands on deck.

That said, it was a surprising experience. Lines moved fast, and EVERYONE was unfailingly courteous and friendly, customers and employees alike. I got the distinct vibe that they all wanted to avoid the situation from devolving into some dystopian struggle. I overheard two conversations about ‘flattening the curve’ and others about supply and medical capacity issues. Here at least, people are taking things seriously. Some hope anyway.

Yea, but California is a bunch of socialists!
///

(Glad to see people in some places are being reasonable about this.)

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BeachDem  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:54:20am

re: #310 Targetpractice

I wish I had that excuse. I’m in semi-isolation because I have no social life.

/

My mantra:

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stpaulbear  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:57:38am

re: #311 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Some of the earliest cases in my state were just a few miles from me. I’m basically figuring that we’re at ground zero for the community epidemic and just waiting to see how it plays out. I am planning on keeping to life as normal as much as possible until that is no longer practical or advisable, though.

I’m trying to do the same. It sounds like my office is going to start giving people the option to work from home. I know that everyone who works around me is going to take that option, so I’m actually thinking I’d prefer to come in (not if I’m feeling sick). If this goes on for months there’s no way that I can avoid having to go to grocery stores or gas stations.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 14, 2020 • 10:59:25am

re: #326 BeachDem

My mantra:

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I love mankind
It’s people i cant stand

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Flying Squirrel Girl  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:02:45am

re: #296 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I spent 3 months working at Baden Powell House (Boy Scout youth hostel in London) in the 90’s and developed a love for baked beans on toast for breakfast.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:05:05am

re: #319 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Diner is small enough that sitting well away from other tables is difficult. I still might risk it tomorrow very early since I do like giving them business since they’re local.

And might mix it in with a Wegman’s run to top up supplies.

I expect you can also order to go.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:13:35am

re: #327 stpaulbear

I’m trying to do the same. It sounds like my office is going to start giving people the option to work from home. I know that everyone who works around me is going to take that option, so I’m actually thinking I’d prefer to come in (not if I’m feeling sick). If this goes on for months there’s no way that I can avoid having to go to grocery stores or gas stations.

I already work from home so that is a given. But there is also no way I can not go to the store for at least something for more than a month. But I can also do it early in the morning with the regular precautions.

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unproven innocence  Mar 14, 2020 • 11:23:34am

re: #321 Ace Rothstein

Fifty bucks says Trump has not been tested for the virus.

I’m inclined to believe he’s been tested multiple times already, but with complete privacy. And as soon as 2 or so such consecutive tests turn out negative, then those 2 results will be made public. (And routine testing will continue.)

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Semper Fi  Mar 14, 2020 • 12:08:01pm

re: #299 Joe Bacon 🌹

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fern01  Mar 14, 2020 • 3:21:36pm

re: #89 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

On my way home from the last play I’ll see for a while (cancellations right and left), I stopped at the Walgreens on the way home. Most everything was in stock, except toilet paper and paper towels. Curiously, there was a plentiful supply of every variety of what we euphemistically call feminine hygiene products (ladies, if you had to choose one or the other, which would you rather be without?).

I think toilet paper hoarding is another virus, maybe activated by anxiety. I on the other hand, only stock up on sensible things, like chocolate.

Probably defines who is doing most of the hoarding - men and/or older women


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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ...
Cheechako
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A Closer Look at the Eastman State Bar DecisionTaking a few minutes away from work things to read through the Eastman decision. As I'm sure many of you know, Eastman was my law school con law professor. I knew him pretty well because I was also running in ...
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Yesterday
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