Stunning Live Performance by Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, & Edgar Meyer: “Scarcely Cricket”

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Official Video by Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, ’Scarcely Cricket’ from ’Not Our First Goat Rodeo’ - https://goatrodeo.lnk.to/NotOurFirstAY

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:41:42pm
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Ace Rothstein  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:42:34pm

Damn it, of course I got CL’ed. Repost.

I want to apologize for getting something wrong earlier. I had mentioned the smallpox vaccine and how many lives it had saved. I knew that a vaccine had been developed in the 1700s (as it was pointed out by several of you), but I had thought that the vaccine had been “perfected” in the 1970s and had wiped out smallpox. What had really happened is the massive vaccine program that had started in the late 1960’s that led to the declared eradication of smallpox in1980. I also got the fatality numbers wrong. I had stated that 750 million had died in the 20th century. It’s said that it was actually between 300-500 million globally. Still a breathtaking amount. Anyway, I wanted to correct myself and thank you guys for pointing out what I had gotten wrong.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:44:16pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:44:46pm

It was just 5 weeks ago that I went to Florida and celebrated my 70th birthday with all of my children around me!

All I ever wanted to do is enjoy my retirement, travel & spend time with my grandkids.

Now that is taken away from me.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:44:59pm

When the jobs report comes out in April, the job losses reported will be staggering. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s in the millions.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:46:33pm

One disabled woman, trying to get food delivered. She hates hoarders. So do I.

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makeitstop  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:48:06pm

CL’d…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:49:28pm

Gaa.

There are no “rooms” on the Comfort. There aren’t compartments either, at least not for patients.
(1:49)

USNS Comfort Interior

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plansbandc  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:50:34pm

re: #2 Ace Rothstein

And my CL’d reply:

Well you certainly aren’t a Republican. :D

No worries!

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b.d. (We're on our own, Vote!)  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:51:16pm

re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Gaa.

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There are no “rooms” on the Comfort. There aren’t compartments either, at least not for patients.
(1:49)

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I heard that the ship was going to be used for non-Corona patients?

That makes sense

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:51:33pm

re: #7 makeitstop

CL’d…

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Time to make a contribution to amymcgrath.com. Maybe a literal collapse of society will finally be enough to get that piece of human offal voted out of office.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:52:18pm
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calochortus  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:52:51pm

re: #4 The Pie Overlord!

It was just 5 weeks ago that I went to Florida and celebrated my 70th birthday with all of my children around me!

All I ever wanted to do is enjoy my retirement, travel & spend time with my grandkids.

Now that is taken away from me.

I know. We’ve been strictly forbidden from seeing my granddaughter (and daughter and son-in-law) for our own protection, but it’s hard. She’s growing and changing so fast (as babies do.)

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:53:39pm

re: #11 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Time to make a contribution to amymcgrath.com. Maybe a literal collapse of society will finally be enough to get that piece of human offal voted out of office.

Warner is heavily favored here. I’ll make a donation Amy’s way tomorrow with you, BWS, Smith, & others in my border state brothers and sisters in mind.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:55:12pm

re: #13 calochortus

I know. We’ve been strictly forbidden from seeing my granddaughter (and daughter and son-in-law) for our own protection, but it’s hard. She’s growing and changing so fast (as babies do.)

My in-laws had to wave at my kids through the screen door when they dropped off our St. Patrick’s Day feast. My parents may have to postpone their interstate visit. It’s horrendous to be a grandparent and to be forced to watch the grandkids from the separation of social distancing.

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dnlS  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:55:49pm

Here’s a link to an excel (download) of the doubling times per day in US & Italy. Per million numbers and new cases per day also graphed.
drive.google.com

The US #’s increased a lot today as testing is catching up with the underlying numbers. Below is the doubling times in the US over time, by fitting 4 days of numbers to an exponential fit (R^2 are good). Initial numbers have been noisy.

Different sites use different numbers, likely due to different cutoff times. I started with wikipedia’s global site, and use worldometers.info until wikipedia is updated. Once the US has things under control you will see the doubling time climb like in Italy. Its bad, but their controls are having an effect there.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:57:24pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:58:07pm

re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🎃

re: #10 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)

USNS Comfort isn’t going anywhere for a number of weeks.
I expect plans to change by the time it completes it’s maintenance cycle, loads supplies, and marshals staff.
Around mid-April

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 18, 2020 • 6:59:06pm

re: #15 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

My in-laws had to wave at my kids through the screen door when they dropped off our St. Patrick’s Day feast. My parents may have to postpone their interstate visit. It’s horrendous to be a grandparent and to be forced to watch the grandkids from the separation of social distancing.

Face timed with my mother today so she could see me and the kids. She’s in lock down in the nursing home I had to put her in just before this started and boy, do I feel like a pos.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:00:51pm

re: #19 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Face timed with my mother today so she could see me and the kids. She’s in lock down in the nursing home I had to put her in just before this started and boy, do I feel like a pos.

I’m going to make sure we do a FaceTime this weekend with my folks so they can see my kids. It’s been 3 months since they’ve seen them in person, and if we’re limiting interstate travel and visitations, it might be 3 more.

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gocart mozart  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:08:33pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:10:19pm

Wow. What makes someone think it’s OK to post something like this in public.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:11:15pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

Wow. What makes someone think it’s OK to post something like this in public.

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I’m a millennial Charles. The hatred of the older generations creeps me out.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:12:38pm
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jaunte  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:12:39pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:13:38pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:13:58pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

Wow. What makes someone think it’s OK to post something like this in public.

The Internet is anonymous, therefore it’s okay to be an asshole. The thing is, I have always treated my online persona as if it’s easily linked to my real-life persona (mainly because it is, but still). Some people seem to think that they are immune from discovery because they are online.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:14:15pm

When relatives say the Trump has been on top of the virus right from the start…you want to bang your head against the walll…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:14:38pm

re: #10 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)

I heard that the ship was going to be used for non-Corona patients?

That makes sense

Yes, it is, though it is still at Norfolk undergoing maintenance. It will still be some time before it can steam to New York.

The Mercy will be headed to San Francisco.

The problem with the two ships is much of the medical staff are reservists. To staff the ships properly, you have to strip them from their civilian jobs at clinics and hospitals. (This is similar to the problem presented when Gov. Cuomo demanded Army MASH units: They are also reservists and require the same.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:15:39pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:16:33pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon 🌹

When relatives say the Trump has been on top of the virus right from the start…you want to bang your head against the walll…

Yeah I’m seeing the same thing from one cousin. She’s a full on Trump cultist.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:22:13pm

re: #31 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Yeah I’m seeing the same thing from one cousin. She’s a full on Trump cultist.

My sister referred to the “flatten the curve” initiative as “that dumb curve”. I did my level best to call attention to her minimalization without bitchslapping her. I swear…

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:22:36pm

“…Next, somehow, the party of idealistic Teddy Roosevelt, pragmatic Bob Dole and heroic John McCain became anti-intellectual, by which I mean, almost reflexively opposed to knowledge and expertise. We began to distrust the experts and put faith in, well, quackery. It was 2013 when former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal said the Republican Party “must stop being the stupid party.” By 2016, the party had embraced as its nominee a reality-TV host who later suggested that perhaps the noise from windmills causes cancer.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:22:51pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon 🌹

When relatives say the Trump has been on top of the virus right from the start…you want to bang your head against the walll…

My sister had a one-on-one talk with our Texas brother — and she’s banging her head. First he said that Trump did not disband the pandemic team — he just assigned them to different positions where they were needed more — and Trump was aware of the coming pandemic but he was trying to calm the public. Our brother is not uneducated and he’s not an evangelical — brainwashing can warp practically any mind, regardless of education.

Have mentioned this before — but a small business owner friend of mine said that Trump is no different from many business acquaintances of his: boastful, arrogant, racist, and misogynist. That’s why they all like him: he represents their ideal of a leader.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:24:28pm

re: #32 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

My sister referred to the “flatten the curve” initiative as “that dumb curve”. I did my level best to call attention to her minimalization without bitchslapping her. I swear…

I’m getting so angry seeing the bigotry towards Chinese nationals and Chinese Americans. I hate that government but actual Chinese people? I’ve called them friend, classmate, coworker, client, & God knows what else.

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teleskiguy  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:25:16pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:25:59pm

re: #33 jaunte

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I’m here from the government and I’m here to you Gipper that you were a disgusting fraud who led the way from Trump.//

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:28:43pm

re: #35 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I’m getting so angry seeing the bigotry towards Chinese nationals and Chinese Americans. I hate that government but actual Chinese people? I’ve called them friend, classmate, coworker, client, & God knows what else.

Yeah. Look, if China engineered a plague, fine, be mad at the government, but the Chinese people? How many of them fucking died in this pandemic? Fuck you assholes, keep your racism to yourselves.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:30:10pm

The Kardashians have learned to grift the fundamentalists, just like Trump:

Kourtney Kardashian Thinks God Is Punishing Us With Coronavirus

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:30:54pm

re: #38 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Yeah. Look, if China engineered a plague, fine, be mad at the government, but the Chinese people? How many of them fucking died in this pandemic? Fuck you assholes, keep your racism to yourselves.

Xi has delusions of Maodeur but Chinese nationals and third of Chinese heritage don’t deserve this. We cannot turn this into another thing we claim was an aberration but ended up hurting people and even killing them.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:33:06pm

re: #40 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Xi has delusions of Maodeur but Chinese nationals and third of Chinese heritage don’t deserve this. We cannot turn this into another thing we claim was an aberration but ended up hurting people and even killing them.

I get that people are looking for an outlet for their anger, but the Chinese didn’t invent this, and even if they did, it was a select group of assholes and not the average Chinese person. Certainly not Chinese-Americans. Shit happens. Pandemics will happen. We fight them and we move forward. It’s not anybody’s fault. Direct your anger into your efforts to support relief.

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cat-tikvah  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:33:54pm

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Mr cat-tikvah is an emergency physician.
Thank you.

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:34:31pm

June bugs bashing their little heads on the window. Tap! tappity tap tap.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:34:47pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:34:59pm

re: #42 cat-tikvah

Mr cat-tikvah is an emergency physician.
Thank you.

I have a friend who is an ER nurse. I check in with him when he gets home every morning from his night shift.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:35:03pm

re: #41 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I get that people are looking for an outlet for their anger, but the Chinese didn’t invent this, and even if they did, it was a select group of assholes and not the average Chinese person. Certainly not Chinese-Americans. Shit happens. Pandemics will happen. We fight them and we move forward. It’s not anybody’s fault. Direct your anger into your efforts to support relief.

The same people who agreed with Trump about the “hoax” probably want to nuke Beijing right now. I’m so fed up with xenophobic horseshit.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:36:44pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:39:37pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

There were times in Japan, during the off hours, that the subways I rode were not only comfortable, but I’d go so far as to say my favorite form of conveyance.

But only during the off hours.

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Chrysicat  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:41:09pm
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garzooma  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:46:32pm

re: #23 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I’m a millennial Charles. The hatred of the older generations creeps me out.

TPM published a letter from one:

[…]
The thing is, I accept my social responsibility, but am also keenly aware that all of these sacrifices are primarily to protect the older generations from an illness that poses only minuscule threat to my personal health. Many millennials hold those same older generations responsible for the dreams deferred after 2008, not to mention the chronic underfunding of social welfare and health systems that could have mitigated the impact of this crisis. […]

While I value the life of all people, I have to admit that the prospect of losing my job, my home, and all possibility of future retirement is a massive gut punch. All the more so when it is in service of protecting the future of a generation that has failed so miserably at protecting mine.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:48:16pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:51:26pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:52:31pm

re: #50 garzooma

TPM published a letter from one:

Honestly I blame a lot of my generation for having unrealistic expectations of Obama after 2008. I’ll be the first to admit that the older generations have made mistakes but so has and so will mine.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:52:49pm

re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Kardashians have learned to grift the fundamentalists, just like Trump:

Kourtney Kardashian Thinks God Is Punishing Us With Coronavirus

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She’s not exactly wrong, if the name of the God is Mathematics. Because changing our behavior is literally the only way to have a meaningful impact on this murderous equation.

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SteelPH  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:53:05pm

re: #51 goddamnedfrank

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God that is such a weaselly word salad of a non-answer from the Dotard-in-Chief.

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:53:32pm

re: #50 garzooma

“…primarily to protect the older generations from an illness that poses only minuscule threat to my personal health”

I think I see the flaw in the reasoning.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:54:20pm

re: #55 SteelPH

God that is such a weaselly word salad non-answer from the Dotard-in-Chief.

Always. He always says almost exactly the same thing. Always.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:54:23pm

In the week since I found the Johns Hopkins CSSE Corona dashboard site, COVID19 deaths in the US have gone from 38 to 150. The latter is up from 88 yesterday morning. It’s coming on fast now, as predicted by all rational people and denied by idiots, GRU dupes, and other Republicans.

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:54:28pm

“What happened to all the doctors and nurses?”

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:55:15pm

re: #56 jaunte

I think I see the flaw in the reasoning.

Absolutely. It’s this all about me mindset is toxic bullshit. I’m sorry but I’m starting to really dislike part of my generation for being exactly what they accuse boomers of being.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:55:43pm

re: #57 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Always. He always says almost exactly the same thing. Always.

Says little by saying a lot.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:56:08pm
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SteelPH  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:56:51pm

re: #61 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Says little by saying a lot.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone in my life who talks so much, but says so little.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:57:17pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:58:23pm

re: #55 SteelPH

God that is such a weaselly word salad of a non-answer from the Dotard-in-Chief.

“We’ll see what happens” is an expression he likes to use. It means “I have no fucking clue.”

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:58:33pm

Lre: #63 SteelPH

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone in my life who talks so much, but says so little.

His stream of consciousness word vomit.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:59:04pm

re: #65 The Pie Overlord!

“We’ll see what happens” is an expression he likes to use. It means “I have no fucking clue.”

He has a lot of these.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 18, 2020 • 7:59:34pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:01:28pm

I guess a lot of us will share our coping stories here. I just moved my wife who is high risk to her mom’s house with the expectation of being apart for months. How many more days I can work remains to be seen. I can not work from home, it’s too much of a hands-on make the metal, grab the torch kinda thing. Our neighborhood is entertainment dollar dependent and that is crashed out. The LA County case count is still pretty low even if you have a multiplier in mind for lack of testing. But *shudder* I fear our very poor and homeless are going to be culled hard. Some cold hearts will welcome that.

Hardest days in our lives, and it’s still early.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:02:34pm

re: #69 Rightwingconspirator

I guess a lot of us will share our coping stories here. I just moved my wife who is high risk to her mom’s house with the expectation of being apart for months. How many more days I can work remains to be seen. I can not work from home, it’s too much of a hands-on make the metal, grab the torch kinda thing. Our neighborhood is entertainment dollar dependent and that is crashed out. The LA County case count is still pretty low even if you have a multiplier in mind for lack of testing. But *shudder* I fear our very poor and homeless are going to be culled hard. Some cold hearts will welcome that.

Hardest days in our lives, and it’s still early.

Heart breaks for you both. There are so many consequences of this that Trump has never considered because Trump only cares about Trump.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:03:57pm

re: #24 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

One conservative vs. one of the radicals who have usurped the name.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:04:08pm

re: #68 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

HOLY SHIT!

It’s Bette Davis Time!

Fasten your seat belts boys, it’s going to be a bumpy ride…

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teleskiguy  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:04:23pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:06:10pm

The pissants like fresh air and sunshine and they could even get paid in the process, rather than draining their education funds for booze and debauchery.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:08:16pm

re: #73 teleskiguy

I’m stealing that at once.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:09:02pm

Blizzard warning replaced with a new one.

…MAJOR WINTER STORM TO BRING WIDESPREAD SNOW…WIND…AND
TRAVEL IMPACTS TO SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
BEGINNING THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY…

…BLIZZARD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THURSDAY TO 6 AM MDT
FRIDAY…
…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS CANCELLED…

* WHAT…BLIZZARD CONDITIONS EXPECTED. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS
OF 5 TO 8 INCHES AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF A LIGHT GLAZE. WINDS
GUSTING AS HIGH AS 50 MPH.

* WHERE…AREAS ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM DOUGLAS TO
ALLIANCE. INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF
WHEATLAND…TORRINGTON…CHEYENNE AND PINE BLUFFS IN SOUTHEAST
WYOMING. TOWNS IN THE SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE INCLUDE
SCOTTSBLUFF…KIMBALL…SIDNEY…HARRISBURG AND BRIDGEPORT.

* WHEN…FROM 6 AM THURSDAY TO 6 AM MDT FRIDAY.

* IMPACTS…AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW COULD SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE
VISIBILITY. CONDITIONS WILL BE HAZARDOUS TO LIVESTOCK AND
NEWBORN CALVES. TRAVEL COULD BE VERY DIFFICULT. THE HAZARDOUS
CONDITIONS COULD IMPACT THE MORNING OR EVENING COMMUTE.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:10:51pm

re: #23 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I’m a millennial Charles. The hatred of the older generations creeps me out.

Thanks. Plus a lot of us have cookies. /s

I’m not a big fan of hatred of younger generations either.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:14:35pm
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cat-tikvah  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:14:45pm

re: #75 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I’m stealing that at once.

I already did.

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cat-tikvah  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:18:11pm

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:21:08pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:21:58pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:24:43pm

Now, this is just wrong. Funny AF though.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:25:28pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

I said something downstairs. Summary: Those assholes are all of a piece. They hate on olds and disabled at the drop of a hat. They’re cute when they’re with friends and the mask slips. Disabled Twitter knows all about them; they’re the people who tell us to choke on plastic straws, who say that Mother Nature has no use for the disabled. We know.

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gocart mozart  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:29:16pm

Karpf is the guy who holocausted Brett by calling him a bed bug a few months ago

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teleskiguy  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:32:24pm

The county is partnering with United Biomedical and subsidiary c19 to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will be the first in the United States to test an entire county with UBI’s COVID-19 blood test. The testing is being offered free of charge by UBI and c19 and will be administered by the Public Health Department of San Miguel County, with the goal of detecting and containing community spread, and providing a more accurate assessment of disease prevalence.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:36:26pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:37:18pm

re: #69 Rightwingconspirator

I guess a lot of us will share our coping stories here. I just moved my wife who is high risk to her mom’s house with the expectation of being apart for months. How many more days I can work remains to be seen. I can not work from home, it’s too much of a hands-on make the metal, grab the torch kinda thing. Our neighborhood is entertainment dollar dependent and that is crashed out. The LA County case count is still pretty low even if you have a multiplier in mind for lack of testing. But *shudder* I fear our very poor and homeless are going to be culled hard. Some cold hearts will welcome that.

Hardest days in our lives, and it’s still early.

[[virtual hug, with 2m distance]]

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William Lewis  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:38:09pm

re: #84 Sherlock Hound

I said something downstairs. Summary: Those assholes are all of a piece. They hate on olds and disabled at the drop of a hat. They’re cute when they’re with friends and the mask slips. Disabled Twitter knows all about them; they’re the people who tell us to choke on plastic straws, who say that Mother Nature has no use for the disabled. We know.

Shanidar Cave shows us what humanity says to Mother Nature about that. F&ck the idiots with a rusty pitchfork.

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austin_blue  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:39:57pm

re: #15 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

My in-laws had to wave at my kids through the screen door when they dropped off our St. Patrick’s Day feast. My parents may have to postpone their interstate visit. It’s horrendous to be a grandparent and to be forced to watch the grandkids from the separation of social distancing.

I hate this term. It’s an oxymoron.

It’s the voluntary and government encouraged human detachment from the rest of humanity. It’s the total opposite of “social”.

Sounds good, though. Just another bullshit meme.

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austin_blue  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:47:30pm

re: #23 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I’m a millennial Charles. The hatred of the older generations creeps me out.

I think we wish you would be better Americans and vote as a cohort to be better citizens and make this a better country.

Is that asking so much? Just get each other to vote and be better citizens.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:50:11pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:50:26pm

re: #87 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Never let a crisis go to waste.—Tucker Carlson, maybe

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:50:27pm

Best Buy is changing their hours:

The situation we’re facing as a company and as individuals is unprecedented and changing at a pace all of us are working to keep up with. We are making the best decisions we can with two goals in mind: protecting employees, customers and their respective families, while trying our best to serve the millions of Americans who rely on us for increasingly vital technology that keeps them connected to their school and work, and for the appliances necessary to help them store and prepare food. Demand is high for these necessities, including for the millions of children who will now rely on technology to continue their education online.

Even as we meet this demand, we’ve already adjusted how we operate in many ways to improve safety. We believe it makes sense to keep our stores open in those places where it is allowed and advisable. We are, however, making a series of changes:

Starting Wednesday, March 18, store hours will be reduced to 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time. We will revisit on an ongoing basis the decision to remain open with shorter hours, but our intention is to operate this way through Sunday, March 22.

Starting Monday, March 23, and at least for the next two weeks, we will serve our customers through limited access to our stores and curbside pickup. This will be done with the intent of substantially reducing the number of people in stores (only 10-15 customers at a time) and hours will remain 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time.

There will only be a few employees in the store, and customers will be able to:

Take advantage of limited services within the store, including finding a specific product. Customers will be escorted by an employee, maintaining the recommended social distancing separation of 6 feet and following the official guidance to not allow clusters of 10 or more people
Pick up a product at curbside that they ordered ahead of time on bestbuy.com or the Best Buy app
Drop off a product for Geek Squad repair
Of course, customers can still order on bestbuy.com and have their products shipped directly to their homes. Deliveries and installations will continue wherever permitted and under strict safety guidelines. All in-home consultations will be done virtually as of Wednesday, March 18.

These changes also require fewer employees working at any one time, and we intend to give employees not working two weeks’ pay. We have also relaxed our absence policy and will not penalize employees for missing work.

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austin_blue  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:55:13pm

re: #94 Belafon

Best Buy is changing their hours:

No real service is going to be universally embraced! Just go full on-line delivery, and pay your employees until this blows over.

Oh, wait, not your business model.

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:56:18pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 18, 2020 • 8:57:04pm

re: #83 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Otoh, this is a real model kit, so “Corona Panic” may not be all that far-fetched.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:00:40pm

re: #95 austin_blue

I still like to buy stuff in person if I can, especially electronics. Yes, I will probably have to change that some, but I would also prefer to pick up some things at a store rather than have them delivered and left on my porch. This was also in the email that had a link to what I copied:

As for our employees, let me start by saying this: We will not make any employee work if they aren’t comfortable doing so. Further, if an employee is sick or needs to take care of their children home from school, we are paying them. Additionally, with our reduced hours and less staff in the stores, we are paying affected employees for their regularly scheduled hours.

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plansbandc  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:03:41pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:04:30pm

re: #98 Belafon

I still like to buy stuff in person if I can, especially electronics. Yes, I will probably have to change that some, but I would also prefer to pick up some things at a store rather than have them delivered and left on my porch. This was also in the email that had a link to what I copied:

We don’t have any Best Buy stores here, but “order on-line” does not work in an area where “on-line” costs a minor fortune. (Aside from food, Internet service is our highest expense. It costs more than gas, electric, water, and telephone put together.)

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austin_blue  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:05:27pm

re: #97 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Otoh, this is a real model kit, so “Corona Panic” may not be all that far-fetched.

[Embedded content]

Yup, there you go. Urban refugees escaping to rural ares, then meeting Sheriffs in Weatherford on the highway:

“Have you got your plague clearance signed by a validated Federal Authority for you and your family? Otherwise, we are going to have to turn you around and send you back to Fort Worth.”

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:09:24pm

re: #101 austin_blue

Yup, there you go. Urban refugees escaping to rural ares, then meeting Sheriffs in Weatherford on the highway:

“Have you got your plague clearance signed by a validated Federal Authority for you for you and your family? Otherwise, we are going to have to turn you around and send you back to Fort Worth.”

It’s being arranged as we speak.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:11:26pm

City Modifies Public Access in Response to COVID-19 (Goes to the Sidney, Nebr. Sun-Telegraph, more at the link)

The City of Sidney is modifying access to its public offices in reaction to the corona-19 virus.

The Sidney Public Library and Hillside Golf Course is closed through March 27. The city transit Stageline Bus service will also be idled through March 27. Additionally, the city building will be closed to walk-in traffic through March 27. Business can still be conducted by appointment or by the drive-through window. Bills can also be paid online by visiting cityofsidney.org and clicking on the “Online Payments” tab. The public may still conduct business with the City Inspector and City Economic Development Director by appointment only. Please call the City Office at[no phone numbers allowed] to request an appointment.

In other news, Sidney bought Cabela’s aircraft hanger.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:13:08pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:14:26pm

re: #102 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

It’s being arranged as we speak.

Our town barricaded itself in the 1918 flu pandemic with the marshal and a village posse. I imagine if people from two hundred miles away keep coming to strip our store bare, I imagine the town will do it again.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:15:12pm

re: #104 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Where are we going to find a virgin billionaire? /s

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:17:01pm

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Where are we going to find a virgin billionaire? /s

We’re going for naive, not virgin. “But I thought money would save me!”

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Citizen K  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:18:00pm

re: #90 austin_blue

I hate this term. It’s an oxymoron.

It’s the voluntary and government encouraged human detachment from the rest of humanity. It’s the total opposite of “social”.

Sounds good, though. Just another bullshit meme.

It’s no more of an oxymoron than ‘social isolation’ is? Social is a descriptor meaning what kind of ‘distancing’/’isolation’ you’re talking about, rather than the literal, physical sort?

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:18:54pm

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Where are we going to find a virgin billionaire? /s

Barron Trump

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:24:22pm

re: #62 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I hope he gets to see what prison justice is all about.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:28:20pm
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mmmirele  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:28:53pm

I went and had dinner with my brother and mother today. I realize that sounds kind of nuts, but we’ve been isolating for a week and have already come to the conclusion that if mom gets sick, we’re both going to have to be there. If my brother gets sick, I will have to be there to take care of mom.

My brother finally sat down and had the coronavirus discussion with mom, explaining what was happening. What really got through to her was the Bay Area shelter in place order. She was born in Contra Costa County and lived there half her life, so this really hit home. She’s also (still) smart as a whip, and once you get through her severe hearing impairment, she asks the right questions about what’s going to happen and what do we need to do and have you gotten your sister (not me, my sister who lives in Houston) on the phone so I can talk to her? I suspect my sister is overworking herself for the huge medical company that is even larger than my too big to fail employer.

My brother is still obsessing about paper money as the carrier of the virus. Seriously, I don’t think it’s quite the issue he thinks it is. The next time he brings it up I’m going to ask him when was the last time he used paper money. I have paper money but it’s in my wallet. This isn’t Japan, where having paper money is necessary for so many things.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:32:42pm

re: #112 mmmirele

I would think if paper money was the big risk some are making it out to be, everyone in the Nebraska Panhandle would already be dead.

On the other hand, a hard-plastic credit card: How many people disinfect them every time they use them or hand them over to a clerk?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:36:38pm

(12:10, goes to Utah Outcasts, caution for coarse language)

Pat Robertson on Christian Scared of Lightning

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Chrysicat  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:44:10pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:44:52pm

re: #104 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:46:46pm

re: #110 Ace Rothstein

I hope he gets to see what prison justice is all about.

He’ll likely reside in the prison hospital, given all the medical problems he’s claimed

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Chrysicat  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:47:50pm

re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🎃

I would think if paper money was the big risk some are making it out to be, everyone in the Nebraska Panhandle would already be dead.

On the other hand, a hard-plastic credit card: How many people disinfect them every time they use them or hand them over to a clerk?

Who’s handed their credit card over to a clerk in 4 years?

Oh, crap. Me, because I used the drive-thru at CVS on Sunday, but I mean before that it’d have to be the last time I personally paid when going out to eat someplace that didn’t yet have a card scanner at the table.

But aside from restaurants, where you’d already be boned anyway from the food were the server infected, I pretty much don’t see anywhere where there isn’t a scanner available to the customer directly. And in fact, none without a chip slot for 19 months.

[edit] And of course because I’m pseudoephedrine-dependent and you can’t enter your information yourself for the Feds, my driver’s license, which has a similar composition, gets handled almost as much as a pageant contestant around IQ45.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:49:34pm

re: #115 Chrysicat

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:50:07pm

I happen to be an apartment resident. Small building, two dozen units or so. One thing I happen to have at hand is an extra “pesticide sprayer” in 3-gallon size. We use it to water orchids with R.O. water. It’s a spare so starting tomorrow it’s a bleach-based disinfectant spray gun. That sprayer will be used to spray all the common areas. Front and rear gate, mailboxes, stair rails. Laundry room etc. This is an all-hands “not a drill” time. Bring what ya got to the effort.

FUCK TRUMPFLUENZA

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:51:49pm
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Dread Pirate  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:54:47pm
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Belafon  Mar 18, 2020 • 9:55:36pm
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Chrysicat  Mar 18, 2020 • 10:00:55pm

re: #121 Belafon

[Embedded content]

For some reason following the link to the intervening page that all embedded tweets now force, gave me the parent tweet for this thread as one of my suggested “related Tweets”:

Fucking Branch Bernidians.

Would they have been this dangerous if Bernie had decided to pull out when his heart literally told him to or if the doctors hadn’t saved him?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 10:03:18pm

re: #118 Chrysicat

Well, the few places here which do take credit cards do have the personal pads (except for the places which use Square and have a little doodad plugged into something where they have to swipe the card).

No one’s card readers accept the chip thing. (They all have something like a card inserted in the slot with Do Not Use or something on it.)

As for the card reader itself, how many people wipe down the buttons and the stylus for signing the screen before using them?

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2020 • 10:04:13pm
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Belafon  Mar 18, 2020 • 10:07:35pm

washingtonpost.com

Bernie Sanders signaled Wednesday that he was open to ending his presidential run after another round of landslide losses to Joe Biden, and new signs emerged of communication between the two camps as some Democrats hoped for a swift end to a bruising primary.

Sanders campaign officials said the senator from Vermont planned to leave Washington and return home, where he and his wife, Jane, would talk to supporters and determine the future of his presidential run. The campaign also suspended its Facebook ads and, uncharacteristically, made no request for donations in an email to backers updating them on the situation.

Biden deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said that aides to the two candidates have been in touch regularly to discuss the public health crisis that has gripped the country, disclosing talks that could form the basis of a broader agreement on policies and might make Sanders more comfortable leaving the race.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 10:16:17pm

Good ol’ “trending on Twitter”—this one at #2, some funny stuff in there though.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 18, 2020 • 10:18:09pm

re: #127 Belafon

If Sanders does bow out, this will go as I predicted: By the time the primary hits my state, there will only be one active candidate.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 18, 2020 • 11:37:08pm

re: #104 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel


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