Day 8: I spent the afternoon on a boat with my family. The lake was mostly empty. The death toll must be staggering.
If China didn’t cover up Tom Hanks Disease (THD), the number of cases could have been reduced by 95%.
People with blood type A might be more susceptible to Tom Hanks Disease (THD).
Waiting for all those Democrats screaming Hitler for three years to say something about this.
First congressman to test positive for Tom Hanks Disease (THD).
HUD to suspend foreclosures and evictions until end of April.
Trump signs $100 billion THD relief package. And has future plans to make it rain on the nation.
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you will a song and move along with my day.
No coronavirus links?
Apparently not, just rambling about something that afflicts semiretired actors.
THD = total harmonic distortion
Could be a problem for a sequel to ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood’ if the lead does not recover
‘Residents of Venice have reported spotting dolphins, swans and fish in newly clear canal waters after the usually bustling city went quiet as coronavirus spread throughout Italy.’
nitrogen dioxide in air down
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/dolphins-venice-canals-coronavirus-lockdown-italy-a4390686.html
Wait–I thought the canals were really really low/drying up….
I mean, good on ’em for a bounce-back, just kinda gob-smacked by that.
They built venice on a swamp island in a lagoon. If anything the city is constantly sinking.
Oh, I am aware…just https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51098129
Good catch. +1 point to Not Another Naked Digby
Oh…thank you! I had been inspired to learn a bit about them, back in the day.
You are welcome.
Gondoliers or classical music video makers hardest hit
Nice avatar of Adam Lanza.
Not necessarily doubting this, but I haven’t seen a single side-by-side before-and-after comparison that shows this.
The fish FWIW were always there whether we could see them or not.
Good Glibbs should be skeptical of the media. About 90% of Venice’s human waste still goes directly into the canals.
Along with most of their sewage.
/snark
*laughter*
Weeeeell……………..shit.
Again, unless you are really old, have serious preexisting conditions, or are really dumb, this thing is just another type of influenza. Keep that in mind.
…or have friends or family that are really old or have serious preexisting conditions.
That’s a given. This is a contagious flu, and it put people with other risk factors in a much higher risk situation. Understand that and work from that scope.
Why is that a given, but we must keep repeating, “If you’re young and healthy. Don’t worry about it.” It’s getting tiresome. How about, “if you’re young and healthy, don’t worry about yourself, but try to give a damn about others around you”?
/50 yr old asthmatic with elderly parents
President Trump Signs Coronavirus Emergency Aid Package
Between Mike and Jared, they’ve got this thing licked.
No racists here. It is “Tom Hanks Disease”, not Chinese or Wuhan.
How about The Coronavirus?
Sorry, are you asking about the Wuhan Virus?
Are you calling it ‘the Wuhan Virus’ at work and in personal/non-work life?
no one talks to me.
Is that bragging or complaining? / jk
Sorta like The Ohio State?
Not Kung Flu? Moo Goo Gai Panic? Sweet and Sour Disease? Yellow Fever?
MGGP FTW! ::wild applause::
Wu ping cough
ALOL
Punani Pathogen Disease?
We switching to talking about STDs?
Alex, my man! Sophie Trudeau Disease FTW!
I still like Winnie the Flu.
I believe that Tom’s wife got it first, so it should be called Lita Wirson Disease.
*Definitely Lacist.
Ha! My superior Type O blood will keep me safe!
Hold up, there’s a Mr. Yksehtnieip here to see me…
Yksehtnieip? That name lacks so much reality it is pie in the sky thinking.
Sounds transcarpathian to me.
No, he’s legit natal cis-carpathian.
How dare you, sir!?
Are you saying he’s a bastard?
It’s OK as long as Nephilium’s visitor does not self identify as natal cis-carpathian.
If Nephilium’s visitor is from southwetern Ukraine, then maybe they are getting together for My Happy Farm.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/100734/my-happy-farm
‘Type O blood will keep me safe!’
Not from these guys:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwYJYl5GUQ
Yes, Peter Steele died ten years ago, but that means he’s just now hitting his stride.
But he told us about the immune-system-boosting properties of cinnamon supplementation!
I’m O-neg. Universal donor. Utterly destroys my claim to be The One True Libertarian.
I gotta make a grocery run later this morning. Helpfully, all of my local stores have shortened their hours so that more people have to pack themselves into store at a time in order to do their shopping. This will save literally trillions of lives.
I suspect people are doing fewer shopping trips. I don’t get a lot of social interaction so used to go to the grocery store every day just to kill an hour and get some diversion.
My 24/7 store has decided to only open 7-10.
My favorite time to shop there is post-midnight because there’s never a crowd.
But nooo, they had to go an lock the damn doors.
Our 24-hour stores started going from about 7A-11P a couple years back.
I actually have two days’ PTO that I put in for back in December, but I’m going to have to go out and run a few errands.
This store was 24/7 until the Wuhan Panic. The temporary hours are on a little paper sheet taped to the door.
I think next time I’m there I’ll ask when they’ll be going back to their real hours, and phrase it that way.
Whycome u no open when I want, when no customers and run at loss???
What loss? They had staff in there for inventory/restocking/whateverelse regardless, and were running all the lights/HVAC/etc anyway, so the nighttime customers more than covered the marginal cost of having a register running.
Hmmm…reduced hours….maybe they do that earlier, and not when you want to shop?
Nope, it has to be something else…
Please let us know if it is their choice as their way to adapt to ‘the Wuhan Panic’ or if an external force (probably government) is imposing it on them.
Our store shifted from 6am – midnight hours to a new Slant Sicks schedule of 7:30 – 10pm, with 7:30 – 8:30 being reserved just for the elderly. The store, surprising no one here, is fully packed all day with people hoping we received groceries ([Ron Howard narration] – There were no groceries).On the plus side, my overnight shifts have involved some rousing games of spades (see, Army did teach me a skill) and a nap or two on the bare paper goods shelves.
“Slant Sicks”
…
Really?
Yeah, I’m beginning to find the “I’m so clever for coming up with a punning name for the virus” tedious, with “Slant Sicks” being by far the dumbest.
It’s only funny to Dodge guys?
/ Chevy guy
It made sense as a joke response when the idiots screamed that calling it Wuhan or a Chinese virus was racist, as a sort of “Ya call that a racist name?” silliness. Like most such jokes it loses the humor when no longer linked to the idiotic original claim.
“Block Insane Yomama”
Hong Kong Fluey
Uffda. I think I came up with that one I think.
It was mostly a why be halfway racist? If they are going to accuse you of being racist, lean in.
I thought it was a valiant effort.
I like it. Lighten up, Ted’S.
I DO come already cat-butted but, feel free.
I am not mad…. just disappointed.
Swiss, its thesis/antithesis. The more the Chinese propagandists and their wokester running dogs push, the harder normal people will push back.
“Oh, you thought “Wuhan” was offensive? Nah, brah. Try “Slant Sicks” on for size.”
Then I will go to the box and feel shame.
My social interaction is just talking to the bellowing hippie where I work and you guys. He’s a cool guy but a full-blown Marxist. I can get along with people like that so long as they remain non-threatening.
I would be soooo tempted to buy a Groupon for a city helicopter tour, and…
Well, I’ve said too much.
I actually got a glimmer of realization out of the Berniesis where I work that if politicians really cared about raising wages at the bottom of the ladder, they’d dramatically increase the standard deduction/exemption.
Or cut payroll taxes.
Or all taxes and the kinds of borrowing to be repaid by taxes. Economic stimulus!
Yeah, thank God Hogan shut down all the bars and restaurants so that all those people just stay home, since they all have the virus and don’t go anywhere else at all, and will certainly be less likely to do so now that their normal hangouts are shuttered.
Hey, but you know what’s going to be funny? When Trump gets his wall on the basis of controlling the spread of infectious disease from across the borders.
I think we’re gonna see a lot of “unintended consequences ” from this shit-show. Probably a D in office next year and The Supremes adding another Commie to the court. Brace yourselves, this will hurt. A lot.
Agreed on the unintended consequences, although I’m holding out some hope that some of them will be positive, like more employers allowing remote work, people being just a shade more skeptical of the government’s ability to solve problems, maybe a little healthy disgust with all the politicians (Cory Booker, for instance) blatantly and cynically using all this for political gain, and that sort of thing. But I think this will work in Trump’s favor, potentially. He’s about to cut a big fat check to a bunch of people to help with the economic hardship (God that was hard to type…) and suddenly the idea of controlling the borders more tightly looks less like bigotry and more like common-sense disease prevention. And bringing industry back from China is a much easier sell now. Who knows what happens closer to the election, especially if the economy stays in the shitter without a visible light at the end of the tunnel, but I think this could cement his second term.
I’m worried that you’re going to see a lot of small businesses going out of business, a crash in all real estate sectors, growing cries for socialism from the service industry people put out…
But I agree that WFH will now be more common and standard.
Impeachment and trial drove betting odds against President Donald J. Trump’s re-election to their longest shot since President Donald J. Trump’s election. Reputable bookies now have it at even money or close to it.
GOP wins three special House races in PA, including a Hillary district.
I don’t know. My money is still on orange man. The left went too far left and Biden is deteriorating daily. If we come out of this with a low death toll, trying to paint Trump as bungling this will be difficult and the economic rebound would be unprecedented.
That’s the thing. It all hinges on whether this plunges us into a recession or whether it’s a blip on the radar. Trump hitched himself to the economy, and he lives and dies with it.
If no recession is forthcoming one will be created.
Well, there’s also a very big sense (similar to the impeachment situation) that the media and Dems are driving the panic specifically to hurt the economy and thereby Trump.
So the pro-cheeto blowback from that may be significant.
Not saying it makes anybody switch sides, but it does entrench the Trump-leaners even more, on top of impeach-orama.
“Well, there’s also a very big sense (similar to the impeachment situation) that the media and Dems are driving the panic specifically to hurt the economy and thereby Trump.”
There is no sense here. It is exactly why the shitshow we are seeing is going on. One political party has decided that creating a real crisis and causing serious harm to the people they are supposed to be serving is not just a great strategy back to power, but they are going all out to cause the most harm possible in the hopes they get power back. These people would rather burn down the country than not be in power. Totalitarian shit.
Yeah (responding to AlexinCT), but what I meant by that is “where I live everybody’s figured that out here”. So I’m agreeing with you. There are some parts of the populace who don’t, but they’re mostly on the dole and on the D payroll anyway already.
Presidents are hitched to the economy and have been since Eisenhower. It’s not right but it is what is.
I got to post on FB an article about the Germans closing their borders within the EU; one friend commented, so Brexit doesn’t look quite so dumb after all.
That’s part of the problem. People thought Brexit meant closed borders.
Waiting for all those Democrats screaming Hitler for three years to say something about this.
Too easy… “he should have done this long ago.” My facebook feed is still full of outrage about how he cut some CDC jobs back in 2018.
They are still super pissed about his early denial of the problem. Look for that to be hammered throughout the campaign season.
His rhetoric was that of “don’t panic”, meanwhile his actions said otherwise. Unfortunately for him, soundbites are far more powerful.
Yet the same people complained when he restricted travel from China.
But that was racist.
I wish I could be as happy/proud as these people that are logically inconsistent and stupid constantly show me they are.
I would end up ashamed of being this stupid. But then again, I think for myself.
The wife had CNN on because irritating me gives her something to do now that we’re both stuck in the house for the foreseeable future, and I swear to God, even as she said, “Wow, you know, Trump has finally done something I actually kind of agree with”, that ridiculous hack Tapper asks his guest how she felt about the fact that Trump didn’t do it three weeks ago.
?♂️
Yeah, that’s pretty much par for the course. I have to avoid listening, lest I comment. My wife is all-in on CNN and TDS.
Yesterday they were talking about how much more dangerous Coronavirus is than flu – because of its ability to mutate.
Now, don’t get me wrong, viruses mutate a lot. And new strains are arising all the time….
But being able to rapidly change and gain new virulence factors is what the flu is all about. It has 8 chromosomes, and it infects pigs and birds as well as people. So you can have a pig, bird or person get infected with multiple strains – and then the 8 chromosomes from each strain will mix and match. A sort of sexual reproduction for viruses. You have multiple species for the virus to circulate and mutate in, and an opportunity and method to mix and match those mutations.
As far as mutability, flu is the champ.
So when Anderson Cooper and his MD expert start saying that the fact that there are already multiple strains of the Covid-19 demonstrating that it is much more dangerous than flu because of the mutations……. well, just shut up. Good lord…
I get that the dude has an MD, but that doesn’t make him a virologist. Your primary care physician is likely to try to prescribe tamiflu off-label for any viral infection. (yes, I had that experience. Dude wanted to give me tamiflu for something that was not the flu. When I asked what made him think it would work, he didn’t really have a good answer – just ‘we use it off label a lot’. Now, for those who don’t know, tamiflu targets the neuraminidase protein – the N in H1N1 flu. It is a protein that is unique to influenza. So it isn’t very likely to help with non-flu infections. But he didn’t know that. Because that’s not what garden variety MD’s do.)
Gah. It drives me nuts when the news media puts on “experts” that don’t have as much knowledge on a topic as a random (but knowledgeable) layperson. Hell, post the damn question on reddit first, if you can’t find a better expert. At least they could point you in the right direction.
Vincent Racaniello is media savvy, and he’s a flaming lefty. Why don’t they give that guy a call? At least their left-wing propaganda would be knowledgeable left wing propaganda.
If China didn’t cover up Tom Hanks Disease (THD), the number of cases could have been reduced by 95%.
Even still, “Coronavirus is like food, not everyone gets it.” – J. Stalin
Stop calling it that, Gretchen! It’s Flu Manchu!
Is it racist to eat Chinese food? Or are we just supposed to call it food?
If the links are correct, it’s now Tom Hanks food
I was looking at the google map of Inchon south Korea yesterday, and there was a restaurant labeled as Korean Food.
If you look at google maps of US cities, you can find restaurants labelled as american food.
Greetings, Sconnie-Man. When you can, check your email.
I saw it, but was to busy to reply. Today I’m going to try and catch up on contract work and stuff and will get to the reply.
Gotcha.
I hadn’t even thought of it until now but has anyone seen what the Norks have said about what I’m sure is a western capitalist plague?
Average age of Italian death from Tom Hanks Disease is 79.5, 99% were previously ill or had a pre-existing medical condition.
But we have to forcibly grind everything to a halt causing incalculable economic harm because reasons.
If it
ensures bad orange man’s defeatsaves just one elderly person’s life…Yeah, I’m up on that, provided its the ‘right’ elderly person. Not just some run-of-the-mill elderly person. We gotta be extra careful in these trying times.
Pulleeeeeeeeaze Four Score. You are totes safe.
Any corona virus thinking of infesting you is in for a rude surprise. They’d be in for more work than if they infected any 20 year old punk.
“What we have to go chop and haul more wood? Then more bee stuff? Man this sucks! My friend in that 26 year old gets to sit around all day playing video games”
Tundra and I are way better candidates. Lazy and getting up there in age.
Ahem. You are older than me.
But you are prettier. If you are a virus, who you gonna pick?
Yikes!
Good point.
That’s how you play that game, sir!
Just like we did in 2009 when h1n1 infected 60 million Americans, killing 12,000 or so.
If you point this out on Facebook/Twitter/etc., you’re guaranteed to get someone screeching “SO YOU’RE SAYING BECAUSE I HAVE A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION I’M EXPENDABLE AND SHOULD JUST DIE????!!!?!”
Just remember, both remaining candidates from the party that believes Trump is “literally Hitler” were advocating for enacting martial law on a debate stage the other day and nobody said shit. Meanwhile, I’m seeing about a month long delay on 80% lowers from a few places because of increased demand.
I saw a kid today riding his bike up the street and felt a glimmer of hope and then I witnessed his portly Mom huffing and puffing right behind him. What? Does she think that staying within touching distance is gonna save her Precious from the Flu Manchu?
Maybe he was the pace car?
More likely she’s worried about stranger danger, or him stopping to play with other children.
I have noticed higher than normal foot traffic in the neighborhood, and when I’m on my walks people seem more friendly than previously.
She’s training for the big fight.
Proper answer but she more resembled the rider rather than the runner.
I saw 3 kids, about 12 or 13, on a small bridge, fishing by themselves. Lake was about half covered in floating ice. No parents around, just some old folks out taking long walks on road around and to the lake.
I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand.
Better send lawyers, guns, and money.
please Don’t let us get sick from the chinese flu
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s.
Huh. How was his hair?
Perfect.
Zevon FTW!
You’re just an excitable boy, Swiss.
We have the kids outside all the time. Now especially as there is nothing that our betters will allow us to do.
My oldest saw his friend outside and went to play with her then her parents swooped in and took her inside. The friend’s mom is pregnant and has gone ape shit.
I can’t help but not view the family a little critically. I think my wife was a little saddened as she hoped that family had a bit more sense than the rest of her mom friends, and that she’d have one adult to talk to while I work nights
We were out with some of the neighbors last night. My pregnant wife was out there instigating most of it. Fear and panic have consumed most of the world around us, but our little rural cutout is less concerned. I saw more neighbors last night than in the preceding 3 months.
Waiting for all those Democrats screaming Hitler for three years to say something about this.
They are too busy getting their authoritarian on
The fact that people are allowing this shit to take place with no pushback makes me fucking sick honestly.
Right now there’s enough FUD and genuine lack of information that the risk is hard to accurately assess, so I think most people with at-risk family or friends are content to go along with it. Wait for two pay cycles to go through and see where we are. I seriously doubt most places could maintain closings into May without people just ignoring them and dealing with the consequences. Once the economic pain exceeds the fear of infection Coronacation 2020 will end, I suspect.
Miss 3 meals and everyone becomes a revolutionist
That’s why they want to mail out those US Treasury checks to everyone. Utility companies are suspending disconnects. Home forclosures are being suspended.
But as noted on earlier threads some businesses are or will quickly go speakeasy model.
Yeah, I don’t know how that is going to play out.
I saw that the county shut down the Tesla plant in California. All the coverage has been about waitresses and bartenders. But when they start closing down the main means of production and all those high-paying jobs for not a couple of weeks, but a couple of months? Yeah…. the government is paying people not to work here. I assume it is the same everywhere else too.
But businesses that are not multinational are not going to be able to do that for long.
I expect an immense number of bankruptcies from this. Most people are paycheck to paycheck, or maybe barely better than that. You slice 10% of their annual earnings away and a big chunk are going to really struggle to catch back up. But that’s not counting the businesses. Tesla can probably weather a setback at the California plant – but two years ago this might have bankrupted them. There has got to be a lot of companies that are in that boat – a single point of production, lots of debt to expand their line and they are shut down. Creditors are going to have to take some of the hit to avoid a bunch of medium sized businesses going under.
I expect an immense number of bankruptcies from this.
Count on it. It would take a sudden outbreak of rationality to prevent it, and that ain’t gonna happen.
They want the debt jubliee they were trying for twelve years ago.
Imprecise language above – I mean the government as an employer is paying people who are being told not to come to work. Schools here are closed -but they are getting paid anyway. Substitute teachers (who are not full time employees) are getting paid pro-ratta as if they are working their normal amount of hours.
But the company down the road that makes boating accessories can’t do that. And they employ 350 people. They might go under if this stretches beyond two months. Not only do they lose revenue but still have fixed costs, they lose 15% of their annual production and their customers will start looking for other suppliers. Longstanding relationships might be lost to another supplier – damaging the business for the long run.
Nobody is running that story at the moment.
Imprecise language above – I mean the government as an employer is paying people who are being told not to come to work. Schools here are closed -but they are getting paid anyway. Substitute teachers (who are not full time employees) are getting paid pro-ratta as if they are working their normal amount of hours.
What is doubly frustrating about this is that 1) this is only possible because the government is continuing to Tax people and businesses, despite closing services, and that those taxes are part of what is going to force those businesses under. and 2) these are the same people who have been bitching and whining about “Not being paid enough” for the last 20 years.
Yeah, it sure is annoying. But they do know how to take care of their own first. And with a government workforce that is closing in on half of the economy – well, I don’t see a lot of passion in the electorate behind cutting those government jobs.
^
So why does de Blasio think he deserves all the military hospitals? Why can’t he spool up a hospital? He already got a US Navy hospital ship in NY harbor.
Watch this guy closely. He’s going to slip sometime soon and make it clear that the first and foremost duty of the US government is to protect his city.
“Watch this guy closely. He’s going to slip sometime soon and make it clear that the first and foremost duty of the US government is to protect
his cityhis job.”Fixed that for you…
Wait, people actually voted these cuntes into positions of power?
Oversimplifying, if people were actually voting into power politicians in favor of limited government, this site would not exist.
There are rare exceptions currently in elected office, even in the First World.
FLCA womanGovernor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order last week allowing the state to commandeer hotels and other buildings so they can isolate and quarantine homeless people who’ve tested positive for coronavirus and left open the possibility of forcibly removing them from the streets using emergency powers. What he didn’t address was how the state was going to force people who will actively resist such an “offer” and who have underlying mental health conditions that could cause them to be violent or otherwise put healthcare workers and law enforcement officers at risk.
Such as this woman, who was running down the streets of downtown Los Angeles Wednesday morning, buck naked, with a dead rat in her mouth. She was caught on video (viewer discretion advised):
Do we have an Gliberinas missing today?
*sniffs* OUR Gliberinas do that in the privacy of their own home! *sniffs again* Oh God I got the plague! I’m dead already, right?
“Zombie Festus”
Dale a tu cuerpo rata Gliberina?
¡Ehhh, Gliberina! ?
Sir, you disparage the non-existent Libertarian women of this site!
Somebody knows how to pay up on a bet!
It’s a convenient excuse to round up the hardcore homeless. Unfortunately, he’ll probably need local police to do the actual rounding-up, so mayors will still take some heat from homeless advocates.
You gotta admit that chick provides a unique challenge to the NAP.
Now that’s what I call gamboling
*laughter*
WTF?
It must be a day ending in -y.
Shoot them up full of morphine?
National Park Service✔
@NatlParkService
Following guidance from the @WhiteHouse, @CDCgov, & local & state authorities, the NPS is modifying operations, including closure, for facilities & programs that cannot adhere to guidance. Where possible, outdoor spaces will remain open.
Everyone knows you are supposed to shut down open air spaces when you can no longer staff them.
The Obama administration would have posted armed rangers at those “closed” parks.
That particular incident really ticced me off.
But throwing blankets and tarps over statutes was good comedy.
The NPS closed the Arizona Memorial. I don’t know how they’d close the Appalachian Trail.
A few national guard patrols ought to do the trick.
NC shut down all forms of camping and the park visitor centers at its state parks, but is leaving trails and RESTROOMS open.
Based on FB comments half the people are wearing out their knee pads in expressing gratitude to our betters for their wisdom in closing campgrounds.
The other half are giving the poor intern in charge of the SP FB account a run for xer money. Including someone quoting the EO the SP system sites for the closures showing no need for camping closures.
Another favorite that was true at the time someone pointed out “so according to our gov and SP, restaurants and retailer can remain open to tens of people, but 6 or fewer people around a campfire will bring the end of civilization. Got it”. The intern could only sputter N’ah ah
To NC shame it was pointed out and I can’t be bothered to look right now, but South Carolina state parks still allow camping
I have checked private campgrounds as this declaration has ruined my camping plans for April and private campgrounds remain open
Yeah…. this whole “keep 6 feet apart” thing is hard to comport with “don’t have 5 family members who would be in a house together in a tent together, at an outdoor location!
Maybe they’ve never been camping? There isn’t really a lot of close contact among the adults…. kids play like kids do. So maybe that’s what they are targeting. Or maybe they worry that all the college kids who can’t go anywhere else are going to figure out that they can party at the campground?
Distilleries are making hand sanitizer, but they can’t sell it due to government regulations.
*cues up filmstrip show* “Your Friendly Government At Work!”
The modern moonshiners
Black market profit margin! /jk
not accessory before the fact or incitement to commit
https://babylonbee.com/news/mexican-drug-cartels-switch-to-producing-hand-sanitizer
Bathtub hand sanitzer
Doesn’t really make a lot of sense for a small distillery to make hand sanitizer. That industrial ethanol from corn country is cheap, cheap, cheap. The only reason for shortages is supply chain lag. Ramping up that production is likely limited by the supply of bottles and labels or trucks to ship it in more than ethanol supply. They dump that stuff in your gasoline just to get rid of it.
That was a long way to go to take a deadpan stab at ethanol subsidies that is so obscure that nobody is going to pick up on it …..
We’re closing doors to the public Friday night for an indefinite time. As far as I know I’m a critical on site employee and will be working, they called me yesterday (I’m on my ‘weekend’) to ask if I had any serious health problems that would put me at risk.
A radio station open to the public?
I’m not in that line of work any longer.
There is a special place in hell for those who send pretty formatted spreadsheets with trailing characters (spaces, tabs, etc) in fields and who manually format the phone numbers they want displayed.
There’s also a place in hell for health care providers whose business names spell “care” with a K or “kids” with a Z.
They have to do that so they can more easily trademark their name. You can’t trademark something descriptive and generic like corn flakes, but you can trademark Rice Krispies because “krispies” not a dictionary word.
^^
Also, it leaves an impression with the consumer.
How many cells have numbers that were pasted in from a Word document?
Probably too many.
Really it’s on me. I got bogged down in getting things stood up quickly, and didn’t get in front of this with an easy to fill out template for the end users. I just feel the need to bitch about it after having a batch job fail because someone put 3-4 spaces after every device name (instead of just giving me the variable we use to build the name, and letting me do it).
Years ago I was tasked with compiling (and normalizing/deduping) a master list from 100 odd local group’s lists, for a series of mass mailings and emailings. The number of ways people can screw up First Name/ Last Name/ Street/ City/ State/ Zip/ Email/ Phone was astounding, nevermind the group that photocopied a print out, or the one that sent me a handwritten list (in ornate cursive), or my favorite, the one that sent me a csv as a scanned pdf and could not understand what I meant when I asked them to send the original file.
This means someone intentionally Printed the CSV file, and then scanned it in to send to you. Did they then take a screenshot, and embed it in the email?
By screenshot you mean take a picture of the monitor with a camera, right?
What else would he mean?
One of the places I was at, a group was reporting an issue with a scanner not sending items to their e-mail. So I went over to see what the issue was. This department received faxes from remote offices which were converted to PDF’s and sent to a shared e-mail box. The group would then go through, print out the faxes, then scan them in so “they had a copy of them”. They got lost when I asked them, “Why don’t you just save the file from the original e-mail?”
After running the print out through the fax machine?
Don’t even joke about this. I had a client once text me a 19 page contract she wanted reviewed as 19 separate jpgs.
I hate Excel and only half because of the users. Excel cannot for the life of it figure out that not all numbers can be safely represented as binary floating-point and will inconsistently interpret dates that are put in the same column and the same format. Not to mention that the statistical functions of Excel were hot garbage (and, if you’re not careful, many still are, often for “compatibility” sake). Apparently nobody needs accurate statistical inference.
It’s probably better that the users put hyphens or whatever other characters in the phone numbers, unless your phone has a special dialing mode for 2.12555E9 that can also figure out the hidden/rounded away digits.
Mine can. It works by never being willing to call New York.
I wasn’t sure if it was that or San Antonio or DC…
Ahh… good times!
I had to learn about excel’s quirks the hard way. We negotiated a big deal with a multinational bank. The financial modeling was done in excel. So when the deal closed, we built a system on our sql servers to service the deal. The numbers didn’t match. WTF? Simple interest calculations and such. Didn’t match.
Look at excel help. It gives the formula that excel uses. Still doesn’t match. In fact, the formula doesn’t match the results that excel gives.
More research.
Plugging in my own copy of the formula in excel instead of excel functions gives yet another answer.
More research.
Turns out – excel rounds numbers different ways in different situations.
So the model they put together rounds here, but not there… to the penny here, but to the 6th digit there, but to a full float in another place.
Son. Of. A. Bitch!
It took us two weeks to run down all the nonsense and get it matching to the penny.
Next time – I told them to either round every calculation to the penny at every step, or stipulate that the final formulas would be written out and then agreed on by both IT departments. Everyone agreed that they would do it that way. (I’ll give you three guesses as to whether that actually happened or not. First two don’t count)
LOL I have similar tales from the Excel battleground. I was once on a project where the client wanted to feed us data via Excel. I pointed out the numerous flaws with that approach but I got shot down. Take a guess whether the project succeeded or not.
TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People and the Poor to Attract New Users
Well, I never!
There goes the neighborhood
*spit-take*
Quelle Surprise!
Yes, a lot of the videos on TikTok are by damn beautiful people, for some reason.
RACIST!
Jeremy Clarkson goes on a rant against idiot Aussies and Enviros.
And cash flow just got much much harder. Thanks Congress.
80 hours of paid sick leave to be paid back in payroll tax credits. That’s going to put a serious cash pinch on businesses that are shut down.
Nevermind the 12 weeks of paid family leave for people taking care of kids home from school. Again, to be reimbursed with payroll tax credits long after you’re bankrupt from cash starvation.
Sorry, buddy.
This worries me. Who gets the sugar? I’ve been working through the incendiary fire event. Do I get “danger pay”? What of Wifey? She’s missed a shit-ton of work with plain old household flu? Who gets the checks and even better who cuts them? Guys like me are gonna get fucked in the ass.
Baltimore Mayor Begs Residents To Stop Shooting Each Other So Hospital Beds Can Be Used For Coronavirus Patients
Not the onion or the bee…
Charm City
If only there was a special location where we could isolate the senseless violence offenders…
Italy?
…and then let them out again?
Hamsterdam?
Looks like Charm City needs USNS Comfort more than NYC.
Maybe they have finally found a practical use for the Littoral Combat Ships.
Parked on the beach and left to rot?
Sunk ships provide a fantastic starter for coral reefs.
If we started contract bidding today I’m sure the first LCS would be refurbished and ready for deployment in late 2022.
Optimist.
These things are nothing but expensive practice targets for any opponent that decides to turn them into new reefs.
Please clap.
*makes half-hearted jazz hands gesture*
*Up twinkles*
There was a police shooting in the local under-served community big-box store this weekend. Panic over hand sanitizer? Two worn-out dads trying to find baby formula?
Nope. Just a couple of late teen shoplifters approached by police pull out their iron and open fire on the police, who are in a huge crowd.
Jesus
Obligatory
“Two congressmen test positive for coronavirus: Florida Republican Mario Diaz-Balart, 58, and Utah Democrat Ben McAdams, 45, become the first infected House members and force colleagues to self-quarantine”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8128469/US-congressman-Mario-Diaz-Balart-tests-positive-coronavirus.html
I’m pretty sure congress is a gathering of more than 10 people.
Ehn. At least is was a bi-partisan effort.
Florida Republican Mario Diaz-Balart, 58, and Utah Democrat Ben McAdams
I’m very curious to see if Ben survives re-election.
*narrows gaze*
The “Fuck China” momentum is gradually building. I foresee them losing all trade status with the U.S. and permanent tariffs.
India rubs hands in gleeful anticipation.
And why the hell not? “The Last Centurion” really was a prophecy.
John Ringo or Rory Williams?
There are way, way too many Very Important People whose lifestyle depends on maintaining the status quo with China for that to ever happen.
Even they have a nasty habit of falling out of favor and losing importance.
LeBron isn’t that important.
“I foresee them losing all trade status with the U.S. and permanent tariffs.”
So, Operation Nose, Despite Face proceeds, eh?
Hey, let us not change the way we do business, let us simply go to autarky!
Other outcomes would be more likely if China admitted responsibility, stopped their bullshit and bullying. As the world has to deal with their fuck-up, they really shouldn’t be acting like assholes. And yes, forgoing their cheap slave labor will hurt a bit for a while.
Good luck with any attempt to stop authoritarians from first and foremost doing whatever makes sure they shouldn’t have to deal with challenges to their authority/power.
So don’t contract with them when they demand IP access, forced plant locations, etc. But “China is asshole, have big tariffs” for simple goods….hurts consumers.
That was one thing about 20 years ago…but these days, I’m not sure you could open a factory in China without giving up any of those – from what I’ve been seeing about the regulatory environment, etc.
How’s open trade with China helping consumers right now?
Free fever with every cheap plastic bauble!
Are you making truck parts?
Imma stick with one thing right now….you want I could drop a 100 product list. But if you want mercantilism, just say so.
Depression, here we come.
Baltimore
“I want to reiterate how completely unacceptable the level of violence is that we have seen recently,” Young said. “We will not stand for mass shootings and an increase in crime.”
“For those of you who want to continue to shoot and kill people of this city, we’re not going to tolerate it,” Young implored. “We’re going to come after you and we’re going to get you.”
He urged people to put down their guns because “we cannot clog up our hospitals and their beds with people that are being shot senselessly because we’re going to need those beds for people infected with the coronavirus. And it could be your mother, your grandmother or one of your relatives. So take that into consideration.”
“We’re going to come after you and we’re going to get you.”
So they’re going to send the cops to shoot and kill them?
It’s amazing nobody thought of trying that before.
Did drugs fall out of the mayor’s ass?
(This being Baltimore, the answer is probably “Yes”.)
I thought it was bribe money?
Why not both?
PRISON WALLET FTW!
At-least we can all rest easy now that the companies which massive pension debt will receive a bailout. Talk about a crisis, those union members and retirees were a hair’s breadth away from from a $5 medical co-pay.
You guys only have a $5 copay?
Maybe RAHeinlein is a union member at American Airlines.
Yep, I’m a flight attendant: New York to Paris – First Class.
There appear to be a variety and diversity of occupations represented by the commentariat at this web site.
That was sarc.
So what do you actually do?
FBI Informant.
Saw this thread this morning: https://twitter.com/BrennanSpiegel/status/1240350588207894528
Worth a read just in case.
Not listed in the THD standard symptoms, but looks like nearly 50% of cases presented with gastro issues initially – before respiratory issues started showing up – some never even had respiratory issues.
Interesting link – thanks.
Scary shit. Expand the comment by John Mandrola, MD. Issuing Tyvek coveralls instead of full bunny suits — highly reminiscent of “Hunt for Red Oktober” where they didn’t have radiation suits because Soviet Central Supply sent them chemical protection gear as a substitute.
It is, especially since they won’t test people without very specific symptoms.
That’s interesting, maybe the toilet paper hoarders know something we don’t.
I’m confused between his first and second posts: first says 48.5%, second says 1 in 5. I must be missing something.
I don’t think all digestive “symptoms” are as serious as those that the 20% had.
“Belly pain”
Fuuuuuuuck, that’s exactly the symptoms I’ve had for the past few days.
Yeah…I have constant esophagitis or something like that – always iffy day in day out….but generally just gas discomfort, not pain (and not something as conveniently treatable as acid reflux).
I’ve had low grade flu-like symptoms for a week. Sniffles and such. Once in awhile a soupy-poopy. Wifey has been as ill as hell since last Thursday. My belly pain is my body not liking the mesh that the surgeon put in there. If you were really sick you’d know it, t’out suite.
I thought you had a sore throat and low temperature?
Yes. I’ve been ignoring the stomach stuff because I thought it was just stress.
Kids…. I hate kids
“Among those who have died from the Wuhan virus in Italy, more than 76 percent of them had high blood pressure, more than 35 percent had diabetes, 33 percent had heart disease, and more than 24 percent had atrial fibrillation”
My dad had a number of those and went into the hospital for an a-fib issue. Plus he was Italian. Hmmm…
Seriously though, he had fluid buildup around his lungs that tested negative for pneumonia and it seems like the staff were always trying to treat a symptom instead of the cause. But if the coronavirus got to my dad who never went anywhere in December in a suburb of Houston then we all have it.
Hope the senior McGinty is out and about by now and playing golf (alone, of course, we can’t be too careful)
I golf alone, I prefer to golf with myself https://youtu.be/4E9ydw_aDMg
in other words, they are old.
Did he ever get tested for it?
I don’t think so. This was around New Year’s so I doubt it was on their radar. They took a lot if blood samples but mainly to check the oxygen or CO2 levels if I remember. They would take his temperature a few times a day and the highest I remember being was low 99 degrees. And he said he was mainly hot from the oxygen mask as it pumped warm and humid air. It’s probably just me looking for answers to it all. We’ll never know for sure.
76 percent of them had high blood pressure
Well, shit.
My 24 hour gym is down to 6AM to 8 PM and limited to 10 pax at a time for distancing purposes. Owner isn’t sure how long she can stay open if Gov Blackface comes down hard.
Still looking forward to starting a new job on the 30th that should be a “mission essential” role – but a long commute until I finish my move (prob early May). At least I’m getting closer to finishing the house contract.
And lo, did a decree go out from Caesar Cuomo, Imperator Mundi saying that them who bought or sold or made or served may no longer do so, save that they only have 50% or fewer of their employees on site at any given time… unless you made it worth his while.
From corporate:
Where does he presume to get the authority to make such decrees?
Throw him in the Hudson and watch him float out to sea in the oil slick cause by his own sleaze.
Oversimplifying, if people were actually voting into power politicians in favor of limited government, this site would not exist.
There are rare exceptions currently in elected office, even in the First World.
But, you repeat yourself.
Yes, but it answers your question.
No, it doesn’t.
States have police power, which is historically very, very expansive to fight plague. They can firebomb a plague ship.
It was the last sentence that caused me to completely flip my shit.
I was saying what is, not what should be.
Ok so this opinion will strike some controversy (maybe). Kinda makes me think of the German War Industrialists. Not talking about the ones who used Prison Camp Labor. The left will use the fact that industry worked with the Nazis as proof that the Nazis were capitalists and that is why capitalism is so evil, but in this “microcosim” of sorts we can see that businesses are just doing what they can to try to keep their livelihood going.
Same power he has used to shut down everything else. The power of people giving up and listening to him. Can’t blame them, I don’t own a business in this state so I can hardly make calls from the outside. But the old man works in several gyms in the area. If they don’t lift the ban on that soon I doubt they’ll be able to recover.
Microsoft reporting service degradation and problems running Skype for business – hopefully that translates to cancelled conference calls.
No one will know the difference, it’s not like Skype in any form was any good.
*checks tiny square of electrical tape covering camera on lap-top* Yep! Still good!
MS Teams crashed earlier this week, WebEx was having issues the other day, Zoom has still been working.
Doom!
Given the economic climate, I am less inclined to be contentious with clients when I disagree with a course of action, so bad connections give me an out – “I’m sorry I didn’t hear that”
I’ve shut down some stupid panic moves already for the company I support. If they want to keep pushing, I’ll defer to the account manager and have him get a quote for a rush job for what they want. We have been busting ass to convert a very large company to being able to WFH (at least from the phone system side of things) over the course of this week. Our internal contacts have been very grateful for what we’ve done to help them out.
They are trying to switch us to Teams at work…well, they are trying to unify a bunch of stuff, and teams seems to be the choice. No one is happy about it.
Yesterday we tried to set up a group chat in Teams.
Couldn’t get it to work, so everyone shut down the program.
We use Matters Most in my office, I like it.
My company bought a half dozen smaller companies over the last few years, and we are trying to get everything integrated to same place. It can be painful bringing all that together.
We use Slack — so far so good on calls.
Used Teams this morning – we’ve always been remote from our contract leads (in another state), and normally we only had 2 telecons a week, but now that everyone’s working from home, they want a 15 minute Teams meeting every morning.
Oh well, seems decent if nobody uses their camera.
Had a Teams meeting an hour ago and people were being muted randomly.
Feature, not bug.
Seriously!
Our mail and calendar is Google *grumble* so we’re using Google Hangouts.
CBS News✔
@CBSNews
“If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I’m not gonna let it stop me from partying”: Spring breakers are still flocking to Miami, despite coronavirus warnings. https://cbsn.ws/33sb67i
They are basically swimming in alcohol so they should be alright.
“Big Gay Jeff” was freaking the fuck out over this at work tonight. He must love his parents a lot more than I did at that age…
What I find strange is on articles about the quick reaction of south Korea leftists are screaming at the US, but the problem with the US was CDC and FDA and shitty government bureaucracy, not even Trump that much. They are screaming at their own cherished institutions and do not realize it. Many off course say it is the fault of greedy private business which is staggeringly ignorant and makes no sense. Which enforces my opinion that everything leftists know is objectively wrong, and most of it is also stupid and very illogical.
Word.
When government fails, they blame non-marxist politicians. When something goes right, they would like people to believe it is because of marxist politicians and collectivist systems. It’s about the propaganda value of every crisis. Fuck how many serfs suffer, or even die. The cause uber alles.
‘A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.’ — Ronald Reagan
Today’s younger Leftists find Lenin and Marx TLDR.
Relativity’s Lorentz transformations are based on the premise that all other physical terms change their reality to keep the speed of light in vacuo a constant.
Today’s Leftism has to modify topics to make their pet peeves the root causes.
It helps to think of the Leftist sheep who want the boot at their necks as ‘covert narcissists’.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/toxic-relationships/201901/all-you-should-know-about-covert-narcissist
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/romance-redux/201802/is-what-everyone-should-know-about-covert-abusers
Also, the one quick decisive action Trump did take, halting flights from China, was excoriated by the same leftists now caterwauling about how inadequate his actions have been.
“everything leftists know is objectively wrong”
I don’t know about everything but a lot is. One of my friends was derp-book ranting the other day about Trump’s corruption in pulling the testing kits from CDC & FDA in order to give it to one of his friends who could sell them for lots of money. He was completely unaware about the FDA/CDC screw up with the test kits.
In any complex equation all you have to do is get one thing wrong and the solution ends up being wildly off.
Which enforces my opinion that everything leftists know is objectively wrong, and most of it is also stupid and very illogical.
Which makes their animosity to religion all that more ironic.
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!
I’m about to go out and beat some people up over the hysteria. Wanna come with?
My work told me to work from home.
The mop didn’t call for me, I AM THE MOP! Sounds like hijinx, I’m in!
Say when and where, my man. Lets go practice our md Kung Flu skillz!
Going to install some AMC filters. There is some airborne tin that literally my toolset is the only one sensitive enough to detect. Which means of course that it’s not a production problem, but the SPC chart is showing a trend dammit! Fix the chart!
I am listening to a very stupid conference call – just from my home office instead of my work office (which allows me the luxury of hanging – virtually – with ya’ll).
On se calme le pompon, d00d.
Kung Flu update that people like us get.
“This is their design…” By any means necessary, by hook or by crook they mean to bring The BadOrangeMan down. I’m not shitting you.
So in the end was it true or not Trump wanted exclusive access to the German vaccine?
Everything relating to Trump is a quantum fact. It can be both true and untrue simultaneously depending on the observer.
Schroedinger’s hat?
However, like Hubbell’s constant it must always be bad for OrangeMan.
Of course not. The notion that any Kung Flu vaccine could be made exclusive is ludicrous. For starters, you think the Germans would allow a German vaccine to not be used on Germans?
Actually, I can see Merkel insisting that migrants and foreigners get the vaccine before the German people
I’ve heard from two different people that we are “Exactly on track as what Italy had”, but not actually seen the data. One of them made me think it was just the Raw Numbers, which if that is the case then we aren’t actually ‘Exactly on track’.
PANIC! PANIC!! ORANGE MAN BAD! ORANGE MAN’S FAULT! THE SKY IS FALLING!
/progtards not letting a crisis go unused
How many 40 y/o American men still have their moms do their laundry for them?
I’d have one if I didn’t chase him off when I took over the pride. Kid is basically helpless.
The raw numbers are tracking Italy very closely with about a 10 day delay.
But that means we won’t have the issues Italy had, as we have way more medical facilities than italy for that same raw number.
You mean not adjusted for population? If that’s the case that’s actually not bad news.
It is still exponential growth and Italy has a natural limit quicker than we do.
If we flatten the growth at some point, it is good news. If we dont, are numbers will shoot way past Italy.
Gotcha, thanks.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
Not sure how relabel the figures are but USA seems far away from it for now. It can still spike of course. Give it another couple of weeks.
I’m tepidly of the opinion the cure will be worse than the disease.
Why can’t we be Germany?
OFFS! My company just established an “if you see something, say something” coworker reporting hotline for Tom Hanks Disease.
“The CEO is acting like a ChiCom, he must be infected with the China Virus!”
:opera applause:
Wash your hands before slapping that hot new intern’s ass is all
You misspelled groping but will allow…
There were reports of people calling 911 to report their coughing neighbors
This is worse than i feared. Do you have a link?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/californians-calling-911-coughing-neighbors
Thanks, You get a H/T in my next article.
I can’t find a link but I saw the same story on Breitbart or some such site.
Don’t be a rat, Trashy.
But he could get carried around by a naked chick in LA if he is.
Call in and report the CEO and head of HR
Gad Saad on twitter: It is disgustingly racist to blame a country for the spread of a virus simply because of horrifying sanitary conditions at wet markets, animal cruelty involving sickening cross-contamination, & dictatorial suppression of information that could have averted this global pandemic
You gotta like Gad. He don’t fall for this shite.
Silver lining?
Factories were shuttered and streets were cleared across China’s Hubei province as authorities ordered residents to stay home to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
It seems the lockdown had an unintended benefit — blue skies.
The average number of “good quality air days” increased 21.5% in February, compared to the same period last year, according to China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
And Hubei wasn’t alone.
Satellite images released by NASA and the European Space Agency show a dramatic reduction in nitrogen dioxide emissions — those released by vehicles, power plants and industrial facilities — in major Chinese cities between January and February. The visible cloud of toxic gas hanging over industrial powerhouses almost disappeared.
“This is the first time I have seen such a dramatic drop-off over such a wide area for a specific event,” says Fei Liu, an air quality researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “I am not surprised because many cities nationwide have taken measures to minimize the spread of the virus.”
And all it took was cratering the world economy. Take notes, Greta!
“It was done in an ebrious state after drinking your generous wine too abundantly… I am anxious that it should not be circulated”
Wine glass
Wine glass
A hungover James Boswell suffering from morning-after regret having sent the C18th equivalent of a drunk text about Sir Joshua Reynolds (1792)
https://twitter.com/EJBrand/status/1240218685337415680
“Ebrious state” is going in Grandpa’s wallet. You are amazing, Vlad!
I’m glad that i’m not the only one who uses cursive to cover up horrible hand writing.
Fabulous!
Who needs a stock market, restaurants, sports, bars, concerts anyways? Learn to live without, you selfish bastards.
Artisinal products will be the next to go.
Millennials get their first taste of socialism.
Yep, retirees and government workers take all.
I have heard many of them are loving the fact that they can still stay in momma’s basement playing video games all day. And now even more of their friends are home because of this virus. They are loving this virus now.
I’m not seeing this at all – every millennial/Gen-X with whom I have spoken is quite upset.
That the microbrewery that creates the pumpkin infused banana peel beer they sip is shut down?
That’s it – almost verbatim.
WHOAWHOAWHOA…….don’t you go lumping us in with the fucking Millennials now! Their music is total shit.
There were these movements around here about people wanting to make sustainable communities that live in cob houses (which I understand are magical. My great grandmother had a dirt and straw house which was a adequate dwelling overall but kinda meh, but it was not actually cob and cob is great) and feed themselve3 with some supergreat permaculture (which is possible I suppose) with an average of an acre per family. It does have some idyllic shire hobbit kind of appeal I must say, the slow and quiet life.
” It does have some idyllic shire hobbit kind of appeal”
Sure, if you haven’t actually done it.
If they can now shut down any kind of travel except for those with the right papers, and move all the serfs into small shared living areas in concrete monsters, we can finally have utopia and save Gaia.
Maybe it’s all 10D chess and Trump is readying us for the Democalypse to come? Nah, that couldn’t be it. We’ll be stepping on rakes. Forever.
Winter ain’t over yet on a snowy Thot Thursday.
http://archive.li/pT4En
Sometimes I feel like just dying but #30 and #34 are worth living for. Happy news! The pole-dancing academy has not shut down during this panic which means that I still get my nightly dose of milfy eye-candy as I cruise past on the way to site #1. You go girls!
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oklo Inc. (Oklo) announces its submission of the first combined license application (COLA) for an advanced reactor to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Oklo’s application is a landmark milestone in the development of advanced fission technologies. In addition to being the first application for an advanced reactor, Oklo also pioneered a modernized and novel application structure for advanced fission technologies. Oklo’s application is also the first privately funded application for a commercial advanced reactor.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200317005470/en/Oklo-Submits-Combined-License-Application-Advanced-Fission
The California-based company began pre-application for the Aurora powerhouse with the NRC in 2016. The Aurora is an advanced fission power system that generates approximately 1.5 megawatts of clean power. In 2018, Oklo piloted the new application structure with the NRC. The structure of the application was based on the regulations, completed interactively with NRC review and feedback to drive efficiency and effectiveness for future applications.
Lol
https://twitter.com/tarah_dactyl_/status/1240266287500210176
One of the better memes in the two women and cat genre (i have no idea where that meme originated but it is everywhere )
The WHO gets to tell people what to do. I didn’t know that.
Nice. I don’t know why but i really love that meme format. It just gets me all the time.
Scrolled down thread to see this
https://twitter.com/mskarlakay/status/1239827157951496192
Congratulations?
What’s wrong with her? If you’re the best at something, never do it for free.
I have not been able to find it to link it here, but he best meme I saw was the one I was sent on my phone in which this hot chick on all fours on a couch is asking the guy plowing her doggy style if this was really the Corona virus vaccine……
Tangentially, does everybody but me know the source of the “two women” pic in that meme? I have no idea who they are or why there’s a (now) famous pic of them.
I was told it was from one of those “Real Housewives” shows
Linked below that one:
https://twitter.com/DianaWintah/status/1240378457676267522
Ba-zING!
Holy fuck that was savage.
Mammary-holed.
That meme died a little while ago.
I keep reading that Chloroquine is successful against chianavirus. I interpret this as drink more gin and tonic.
Chloroquine?
:put’s away chloroform:
That explains why i wasn’t getting results
Well. Results, but nothing to help with flu…
Appears to be no data to support that. Yet another internet hoax, albeit a largely unharmful one.
And Pat blows my comment up.
See here.
Don’t countries where malaria is still a problem tend to be poor? Maybe they’re suffering from a dearth of test kits and the virus is going unrecognized. That being said, chloroquine was apparently run in a Chinese study and was found to be helpful in both disease severity and duration.
My thought exactly. Until they factor in the rate of testing, I’m not sure it makes any sense to talk about the rate of infection.
Its also possible that having a herd immunity to malaria helps with Kung Flu resistance.
But if chloroquine actually helps treat it, that would be awesome, as I think its cheap and easily manufactured. We might even get the FDA to allow it by, say, 2022 under their emergency protocols.
Ever the optimist RCD!
Also tropical. Which might be a factor. I don’t think flu is as prevalent there either.
One of the main oddities to me this whole time has been that India, Bangladesh, etc. haven’t shown large numbers.
Those are places that have lots of the same risks as China, and a lot less ability for the state to suppress the message.
Maybe this is part of it…
Well, 10,000 people could die in India without anyone even noticing. Hell, 10x that number might not raise any eyebrows. They have 1.3 billion folks, and a huge chunk are quite poor.
Data of sorts
Alcohol kills the virus. Sounds like a multi-drug approach to me.
The Aussies are supposed to be curing COVID19 with chloroquine and an HIV drug.
That was coming out of the early Korean and Chinese cases too. I’ve seen a few reports saying that Chloroquine had some effect, but don’t have any on hand at the moment.
+1 British Empire
A Gregory Pagano who is an advisor at the Stanford school of medicine was just on Tucker Carlson making this same claim that Chloroquine has been found 100% effective against THD.
Light at the end of the tunnel?
PleasePleasePlease!
Before they cripple the economy any further.
Summary of different treatments currently under investigation
https://sph.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-Science-Report-Therapeutics-13-Mar.pdf
There’s not enough of it in gin. You’d probably died from alcohol poisoning first to get enough.
Zinc also has properties which may slow the virus.
This might be a dumb question, but if I want to set some funds aside in a direct mutual fund through my bank (not my IRA – just a shorter term, easy access thing). How long do I want to wait (or watch it dip) before I buy a S&P 500 index fund?
Good luck trying to time this shitshow.
Don’t try to catch the knife. Dollar cost averaging is your friend.
This.
Sorry, translation?
I know the average always trends up and I’m not in a hurry, just trying to make the most of my funds.
Dollar cost averaging is a strategy where (as an example), let’s say you want to invest $1200 a year. Instead of trying to time the purchase at the low point, you split it up. So you instead invest $100 every month. Assuming standard trends (here’s the dangerous part), you’ll do better unless you get really lucky at guessing that timing.
Cost averaging means you should invest the same amount of money periodically (say, every month) instead of trying to time your purchases.
And ignore my comment below, Neph handled it.
For what it’s worth, I thought it would probably hit equilibrium and bottom out at around 2100. But I underestimated the level of stupidity we’ve seen so far, so who knows.
It probably can dip lower but timing these things can be tough. Even if you go in at near bottom – if you can figure that out – you’d be ahead in the long-run. The market will run back up. It all hinges on how far officials are willing to throttle economic activity for this.
Then what you do is keep buying as Nephilium points out to maximize DCA.
If you’re young go for it.
Dollar cost average it. If you had, say 10k, to invest, invest 1k per week for 10 weeks. You will get the bottom somewhere in there, probably.
Makes sense. Better than dropping a large amount at one time too.
Except that we know the top is 30% above where we are now, and we’ll be there inside of 2 years. So if you have “not in the next two years” money, drop it in the market now for a guaranteed 30% at some point.
These things tend to recover explosively. It could bounce back 80% in a day or two before profit-taking gives the rally a haircut.
But where’s the bottom? I’ll let you know when it bankrupts me. That’ll be the bottom.
English football postponements just got extended out to April 30.
With no Euro, they can extend play thru most of the summer. They may have to start next season late in the fall.
I was listening to a Scottish football podcast yesterday. They were suggesting the current season would run into August, then a two week break, then start again in September. The bigger problem right now is contracts: most players have contracts through the end of June – at least in the lower leagues.
There’s also, apparently, been some talk about having promotions but no relegation this year then smoothing things out after that.
My DVR surprised me with a recording of an AFL match last night.
*presses play*
Brucey standing in an empty ‘G… Looks like it’s actually going to proceed. Will watch tonight – w00t!
Yes, it was played.
No relegation is a bad idea, I don’t want to miss West Ham get relegated.
As long as they take Aston Villa with them.
Maybe with the oil crash Man Shitty will lose out on that Emirati money.
I like where your head is.
Kill Carabao forever and reduce the number of international breaks.
How will the handle expiring contracts?
Yeah, that’s the big question. I don’t know all the details, but a contract expiration date at the end of June is, apparently, some kind of FIFA rule. So FIFA would need to waive the rule, or allow for extensions.
What do the Scandanavian and other summer leagues do? I am sure they don’t have a June expiry date, that would be chaos.
Good point. I assume it’s end-of-season + x days/weeks.
Hi Banjos!
Thanks for assuming lynx duty again.
I hope you all had fun on the boat! One really under appreciated aspect of boat ownership is the boat launch. Of course, with the lake empty yesterday you didn’t get to marvel at your fellow man’s sheer incompetence.
But you will. And it will be glorious. In the meantime, just do a search for ‘boat launch fails’ and you will laugh and laugh.
Great song selection! Here’s my contribution.
Have a fantastic day!
I got close to punching some jerk at the boat launch last summer. A younger me probably would have.
The target of my ire was blocking the launch with no regard to the other guy and I who were waiting. The other guys were too nice. After about 2 minutes I tromped over to the bastard (and his fat wife) and used my Marine training to chew his ass. Told him to either get his fucking jet ski on his trailer now or pull out and let us go. What almost got him punched was when he started whining about how that wasn’t fair.
Eagle? With the already shitty launch?
Yup. Guy was sitting in the launch and waiting for a jet ski to pull up. The jet ski finally gets there and instead of loading it and getting out of the way they just switch jet ski riders!
That is when I stomped over to yell at the jackass. The guy had the temerity to say that they were just testing an engine repair and she’d be right back and then they’d load up and go.
I told him in no uncertain terms that his turn was over and he better to to the back of the line. I was really pissed.
Friends have a cabin on Eagle.
In Ottertail county. Tiny and nice
Battle Lake! Nice town.
There are at least a dozen Eagle Lakes in MN. We have a lot of lakes, but not a lot of creativity.
The Eagle in question is in the Pope’s and my town. Good fishing, but a bad launch.
The nice thing about that shitty launch is that it keeps traffic on the lake down. My little boat has no problems getting in/out. Look at the disaster zone Fish Lake is on a weekend because of their nice launch.
Medicine is the absolute worst. It’s always a clusterfuck.
*Looks at current headlines, nods sadly in agreement*
Hey Tundra! Before I check out I just wanted to say that your positive posts are appreciated even by a third-rate Glib such as myself. So much doom and gloom in the world. It’s nice to read some good vibes!
Nice of you to say, Fetus.
I appreciate You People a lot.
Even Ted”S”.
*considers making posts more positive*
Nah. I am all out of bubblegum.
One really under appreciated aspect of boat ownership is the boat launch. Of course, with the lake empty yesterday you didn’t get to marvel at your fellow man’s sheer incompetence.
Oh man. When I was teenager, we used a boat ramp that didn’t quite extend far enough. My dad backed the trailer just a little too far and the trailer wheels went off the end of the ramp and into the mud. The vehicle didn’t have enough power to pull the trailer back up onto the ramp. We ended up having to get a wrecker to come out with a crane to lift the trailer back onto the ramp. Not our proudest moment. The city eventually extended the ramp, but until then, I started hitting the ramp with an oar so we knew before reaching the end.
To add salt to the pride wound, the boat ramp was right next to a 15 or 20 story apartment complex. All of the balconies faced the boat ramp. As we waited for the wrecker, those balconies gradually became filled with a lot of beer drinking, pointing, and laughing.
Hey, it goes both ways. Every one of us has a boat launch horror story or three!
I recall a partially sunken duck boat in very cold late October waters. Apparently, you need that drain plug!
Rob O’Donnell
@odonnell_r
Due to the coronavirus crisis, Philadelphia police will no longer be making arrests for all narcotics offenses, theft from persons, retail theft, theft from auto, burglary, vandalism, bench warrants, stolen autos, economic crimes such as passing bad checks, fraud, & prostitution.
Surely citizens will be encouraged to practice armed self-defense since the city will not be policing crimes that have victims.
theft from persons, retail theft, theft from auto, burglary, vandalism, bench warrants, stolen autos, economic crimes such as passing bad checks, fraud, & prostitution.
All of these are horrible… But burglary really. Will you be arresting people for blowing burglars away?
The victimless crimes and bench warrants I can understand but the other stuff seems like a stretch. Seems like a license to steal and if the cops don’t handle it people will handle it themselves.
Oh yeah, didn’t see that one in there. Prostitution too.
Also, why bother announcing this? if that is the policy, just keep it to yourself. But don’t announce it so that everyone knows that their stuff is on open season.
They weren’t making any arrests on that front anyway.
Right on! Hooker Hunt!
No season and screw the limit!
I see what you did there….
Outrageous.
Naturally, with the cop workload vastly reduced, many cops will be furloughed, without pay other than accumulated PTO. Right?
Late 16th Century Venetian beaded and silver embroidered bag.
https://twitter.com/drapedinhistory/status/1240295700165996544
Wealthy Venetian wife: Like my new purse, honey?
Husband: You trying to tell me something?
Lachowski is / was ? a time traveler.
Maybe something one of their famous prostitutes would have owned?
Dick art: universal and timeless.
Have some 80’s
Sorry, I tried that once in the 80’s. Not going to fall for that again.
classic
Before the video I got a Halls ad.
God, the 80’s really sucked. I hated it then and nothing has changed since.
I loved them.
I feel like we got short changed. The 70s had free love and the pill. We got AIDS with minimal understanding of its transmission rate and the expectation that it was going to wipe us out like THD.
Yeah, coming of age through that was a real downer.
Must have been doubly awful as a gay person coming of age.
I was in college and law school. Managed to enjoy myself – I was in the 18 yo drinking age cohort, drugs were widely available, and college chicks were still college chicks. Our frat parties in college and mixers in law school were packed with undergrad hotties.
No complaints.
You got to be fucking kidding me. MARVEL LAUNCHES NEW HEROES, INCLUDING “SAFESPACE” and “SNOWFLAKE.”
WTF is wrong with the young?
Well what do you know? I saw that yesterday and thought it was a parody.
Plenty of good youtube vids about this already. Such hot trash while the comic market’s about to crash and burn. look up “screentime” and how he got his powers from “experimental internet gas”.
Farts?
Well, unicorn farts to be precise.
Internet…..gas? I wasn’t aware the internet generated any gases.
Well, this is coming from a guy who went on record saying that he didn’t read the book he now works on back in the 90’s because it was “too cool for him”.
The guy’s a moron.
It’s not the Young.
It’s the cluster of people who’ve infested Marvel.
If the problem were with the young, these products might actually sell, instead they flop, repeatedly, and embarassingly.
On the bright side, it made me figure out how vampires work in the tarnished sterling setting. It’s the same disease as the zombie plague, but genetic differences between populations lead to different symptoms.
Yes, current events may have inspired some of my thoughts.
Next up: the debut of Fruitloop and Space Cadet.
Naw too Silver Age.
Silver Age
David Kibblesmith File Photo
When I watched the movie Ideocracy for the first time I thought that while it was hilarious, the adventurous spirit of your average American would never allow that to come about. Then i get to read stories like this.
I guess a pimp’s love is really, really different from that of a square.
Their first move should be expulsion/firing of the editorial board of The Daily Princetonian.
wut
“We’re going to indoctrinate them all stupid.”
/Handicapper General.
Harrison Bergeron was NOT a “How To” manual you stupid fucks!
The US took a sharp downwards slide when we stopped teaching The Lottery and Harrison Bergeron.
*Laughs in charter school*
Didn’t they pull this same kind of shit after the 2016 election?
Link to Chinese chloroquine study info (letter to the editor) for anyone interested:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0282-0?fbclid=IwAR1DeWaS1w2LD3MrW
Bellwether?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/gop-wins-3-special-pa-house-races-including-a-hillary-district
The fact that the usual fake news outlets are not talking about it and are ratcheting up the “orange man apocalypse” talk, tells me it might be scaring the shit out of team blue and fake team red anti-orange man asshats.
No, it’s only a bellwether when democrats win republican seats!
/MSM
I’ll point out that a lot of folk here refused to see the signs of the 2018 election (and some still refuse to see it as Democratic Win), in the special elections preceding it.
It’s confirmation bias all the way down to the turtles
It wasn’t a Democratic win. It was a Republican loss and in a big way.
It was hardly the “blue wave” many on the left were predicting, though.
They did better than I thought they would. Technically, I think their pickup was within my error bar, but I can’t be arsed to check.
This election is getting interesting, though. I’m assuming the economy will be shit through the summer, which is bad for a President. However, in times of National Disaster ™, the incumbent usually does well.
And, of course, there is the Dem shitshow of a nomination process/nominee. I’m of the opinion that nobody really wins elections, they just don’t lose them, and I’m having hard time seeing the Dems not losing this one.
this isn’t a very usual national disaster though.
With a propaganda machine headwind, anything other than a quick recovery is gonna make it tough.
Not me. My prediction was within 5 seats. *Does told-ya-so-dance*
It is so very, very sad that I’m so pleased about GOP successes due to the utter and total repulsiveness of the Democrats. Talk about ambivalence.
The Repubs are doing an excellent job of reminding us that the least bad alternative can still be pretty fucking bad.
My Walmart decided its hours are 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. It was bad enough when they were 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. There are NO 24-HOUR stores in my area (save Walgreens and CVS, which are fine for candy runs).
I am oddly unsettled by the lack of 24-hour access to food. I know it’s weird, but it’s like there’s a cushion there, a safety net. Why? No idea.
Because the store becomes an extension of your pantry, and if you need something at any time you can just go buy it.
or at least that’s how I see my 24 hour store when it’s open 24 hours.
“an extension of your pantry”
Excellent way to put it and very precise.
I was well into adulthood before Louisiana got rid of it’s blue laws.
Relax, it is a pain in the ass but we will survive.
To take my mind off it, I am currently contemplating new craft supply cabinets.
I can still window shop.
I’m probably one of the few who remembers when the convenience store chain 7-11 was only open those hours – and at the time that was extreme.
I’m shocked that they closed down just before lunch.
Poll: Nausua Medicine. Does it even work?
Every time i’ve ever taken any kind of Nausua medicine, it has induced me to vomit. Now maybe that is the strategy they are going for, but it doesn’t work for me.
My kid was plagued with chronic nausea for years and ever since my ulcer developed, I was too.
Omeprazole cleared mine right up. She’s on both omeprazole and famotidine, and I haven’t heard any complaints.
I have an ulcer. Doc thinks she might, too. That, or gastritis.
You’ve both been tested for H. pylori infection, I assume?
Ackshually…. no. ???
Can’t do it right now, obvs. I’ll talk to the doc about that when things lighten up, Francis.
My eldest brother had a stomach ulcer for decades, and was one of the first people in Canada to be tested for H. pylori once the infectious link was understood. Sure enough, he had the infection. He got antibiotic treatment and has been ulcer-free for the better part of 25 years, IIRC.
I use meclizine for motion sickness. Whether it’s the placebo effect or not, it works for me.
Me too – works well.
Oddly not very well for me. But I have good luck with Dimenhydrinate.
However, years of riding the trains to and from work and reading on them have greatly reduced my susceptibility to motion sickness.
Trains don’t bother, and cars rarely do now. Flying is what gets me.
Weren’t you in the Chair Force? 😉
I use meclizine
Two guesses how I first read that. And the second one doesn’t count.
Don’t mescaline shame him.
I saw the same thing.
Shame? That was envy.
hahahaha….same here
ditto
Promethazine is a miracle drug. Of course it’ll make you sleep for 24 hours as well.
Tesla now selling a software “upgrade” that adds video and removes AM/FM/SiriusXM radio.
https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/tesla-infotainment-upgrade-2020
Video in a car while removing alternatives? Seems a bit dangerous.
Such a Tesla move.
I give up. You automated car people win. We are too stupid to be trusted with a couple tons of high-speed steel.
You automated car people win. We are too stupid to be trusted with a couple tons of high-speed steel.
John has a sad, but I will do a victory dance!
Interesting.
Model 3 hardware has FM plus all the stuff mentioned in the article. The upgrade for the older Models S and 3 involves a computer swap. I guess they did the calculation and saw minimal radio usage.
SW – The video services are locked down and not usable why the vehicle is in motion. You have Slacker and Spotify for music which works while in motion. Plus bluetooth from any service your phone can use.
You have Slacker and Spotify for music which works while in motion.
What’s the internet connection for them?
And why remove the satellite radio option?
In the US Tesla uses AT&T for their wireless provider. Comes with the higher cost models and is $10 month on the Model 3 after the first year.
You can also use your phone as your streaming source.
This is specific to older Model S and X. They are getting a new bit of hardware that doesn’t include a satellite radio receiver. I’m guessing Tesla saw the usage and said it wasn’t worth it so didn’t bother to add it on the new hardware.
Or Tesla wanted a cut of the SatCast subscriptions and Liberty Media told them to get bent.
So, unless my math is wrong, it looks like Italy’s mortality rate from corona is 8.3%. 2,978 deaths out of 35,713 confirmed infections. And it sounds like a lot of deaths are going unreported because their systems are overwhelmed.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/italys-virus-death-toll-on-the-cusp-of-overtaking-chinas-11584626731
They are stacking the dead in gymnasiums because the hospital morgues are out of room.
Their system is overwhelmed and they have been able to test and report on only a fraction of the people that actually got the thing. As several people in the field have pointed out, the fact that for other serious viral infections (like the flu) they determine mortality/r-naught numbers based on a statistical number of expected cases vs. total deaths, and for this Kung Flu one we are doing the math using verified cases vs. total deaths, is going to lead to skewed and much higher mortality rate for victims of the Wuhan virus.
SF’d the link
Was not a link. I SFed the HTML tagging.
Note there are several articles touching upon this, but look here and here for points contending this is all over stated by bad calculations or assumptions. Also, the dire need to sell panic by the media hoping this craters the economy and hurts orange man at the polls. The sad fact is hurting America and Americans serves team blue politically.
The number we’ll never know is the number of cases that occured but were never confirmed.
They do have the oldest population but that seems excessive. Ours is down to about 1.5% now and we haven’t tested shit.
I’m not sure of the exact numbers, but Italy has a fraction of the ICU beds per capita that the US has.
I think its around 1/3 per capita. And ICU beds aren’t necessarily comparable across countries.
Plus, what Alex said. Whether from ignorance or malice, numbers are being flogged that are not comparable at all.
Any idea what was the death rate at the Life Care Center in Washington? I’m seeing 35 Covid deaths associated with the center (108 residents), but have no clue what associated means.
No, but the first place it hit was not just a nursing home, but one for the very ill that had left hospitals. Basically a hospice location. More than 20+ death cases came from there.
Again, what would the typical death rate have been? How many of those patients were actually on hospice or at least palliative care?
Your typical “home” (as opposed to inpatient) hospice patient dies within a couple of months (I could find out the actual data, but this is my impression from our hospice operation).
If you’re in skilled nursing, you are likely a bundle of chronic comorbities and prone to decompensating at any time. One more bug . . . .
99% of Italians had other illness.
49% had 3 other illnesses.
I would anticipate nearly 100% of the elderly have at least one pre-existing condition. The CDC considers 60% of American adults to have at least one chronic disease and 40% have two or more.
https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/infographic/chronic-diseases.htm
And the avg age of dead there is 80 years old. Italy is also the country that had like 20k deaths from a heat wave. Whatever they’re doing as a country should be studied and avoided.
Living with their kids and grandkids (and GGKs), apparently. Re the heat wave, probably dearth of A/C.
“But Lincoln, you are a bad boy yardie, and bad boy yardies are supposed to know what to do with bodies!”
“What? I CREATE the bodies, I don’t ERASE the bodies!”
Somehow, I find the phrase “surplus corpses” very disturbing.
“Look, we have a corpse quota. If we don’t meet it, there’s paperwork. If we exceed it, there’s paperwork. What part of “corpse quota” don’t you understand?”
It’s even more disturbing that they are being stored in restaurants.
Welp, my sister, a bitter socialist crisis junkie who last week professed melodramitcally that she was dying (she thought she perhaps felt a cold coming on), looked at me darkly and scowled “no”, in response to my comment on the shutting down of everything being “too much”.
People that like totalitarianism and panic, like it good and hard, man.
I’m sitting here staring at a spreadsheet, unmotivated.
I’m supposed to be putting together a plan and schedule to upgrade one of our pieces of software in conjunction with a change at the enterprise level.
All I’ve done is sort the data.
Sorting data is a start.
so what sorting routine does excel use anyway?
Donno, there are only 16 rows of data representing 13 servers.
I am sitting here getting bombarded with requests that are all “urgent”, mostly stupid ideas, and all from the company I work for part time on salary which is keeping me from getting to the billable project I have been trying to get to since yesterday morning. I’m getting cranky.
I’m quickly reaching my burn out point. Which means that I’m now double checking my e-mails I’m sending out to make sure none of them can easily be interpreted as rude.
One of the people sending in lists of agents to configure phones for thought we were looking up each agent to see if they had a direct line, shared VM boxes, etc. on their regular phone before configuring the soft phone for them.
If they included the direct line and said they needed it, we did include it. But no way in hell were we going to go through line by line and build everything to match.
Zero risk options for Treatment of Covid-19
Expanding on some of the stuff above.
The flu is not a coronavirus, Wuhan is in Hubei province, and SARS broke out in Guangdong province.
I did not make it past the opening.
Can they survey the people who were on the Diamond Princess, and compare infection rates for people who took chloroquine or other antimalarial drugs vs. those who did not?
Vacation scheduled starting tomorrow. Nowhere to go though since everything is closed. Was thinking about postponing it but my boss and boss’ boss have sufficiently annoyed me to the point where I don’t care if I spend the week chilling at home.
What I don’t get. We’re getting all this deficit spending which, in theory lol, the US will have to pay back in the future. I suppose that would be fine if you had lenders out there, but with the entire world soon to get in on their own versions of this, aren’t you just guaranteeing a destruction of the dollar? Also, if everybody is looking to borrow, there will come a point when it’s just adding zeros to a bill and the price tag rises to match. You need a lender in order for a borrower to exist.
I’m wondering about this kinda too. Is it better to Spend your Trump bucks or save it. Generally i would say save. But unless i can get a return that would overcome the inflationary aspects, another part of me says it is better to put the money in something that has real value.
Save for the Mojo Family. We want to get out of this place without spending any more money on it, particularly the new roof it needs, like, last year.
#metoo
As much as I want to spend it on firearms, I need to finance a cross country move this summer. Thanks, adulterous yet bread-winning, spouse.
Keep your head on straight and you can work your way out of it.
Damn man. I’m sorry. I knew you were having troubles, but i didn’t realize the extent of the perfidy. I’m sorry about that man.
Thanks. I made the mistake of doing a little investigative work and learned things I kinda wish I never did. Life goes on.
Tis better to know, no matter how hard the knowledge hits you, and then make informed decisions that will be painful (at first), so you can eventually move on with your life l0b0t. The tendency to want to go back to the old times when things felt like they were secure/stable is something we all will have, but the ostrich approach is at best going to delay, and in the worst case, not going to allow you to move on. It sucks that their are children in the middle and that they are so young, but do your best to keep yourself in their lives while moving on with yours.
l0b0t, sorry about that again.
I can’t remember (forgive me), but are there kids involved?
Where are thinking to move?
Kansas City is in the process of Denverizing and prices are going up.
Thanks. Yeah, I’m forced to leave a 9 year old girl and a 6 year old boy and I hate wifey all the more for the situation it puts them in.
Aiming for New Orleans, I have a job (well, we’ll see if this panic lasts through summer) and cheap rents abound ($1500 in NYC gets me a 1br or studio. $1500 in NOLA gets a 3 or 4 br house with garage and yard) but I have absolutely no clue how I’m going to get down there. I’ve been a housewife for the last 9 years and my part time grocery job doesn’t pay all that well. Meh… I’ll muddle through.
Pay debt off with it.
+1 trillion dollar coin
We should do what the Obama administration’s finance advisers recommended, and print at least 20 to 100 of these, so we can then have our government spend all the fooking money they want!
To understand this from Wall St. perspective? Where else are you going go? That’s essentially been the dollar’s strength.
The reason countries actually want an inflation rate is it blunts the interest cost.
(Also heaven help me if the dollar’s purchasing power declines in terms of unit to that of the yen. I can’t stand dealing with figures that large for everyday purchases. Couple that with usage of the “man” unit of 10,000 and I hate everything to do with large quantities in Japanese.)
I get the cleanest shirt in the laundry argument. But that relies on having purchasers of dollars. Countries aren’t going to be buying dollars (could be wrong) and will instead be spending them. That is the worst case scenario for the dollar.
The best way I have seen it described is as follows:
When I owe the bank which is worth a cool $100 million $100K, they have got me by the balls. When I owe that same bank $90 million (or orders of magnitude more), I have got them by the balls.
I find the analogy, despite the fact that there is truth to it, horrible disconcerting, because all it leads to is an excuse for those that feel money grows on trees.
May as well go right to the source!
“If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.”
― John Maynard Keynes
“A million isn’t really a lot of money these days.”
Well, every game ends some time. I’m not rooting for a dollar crash, but it’s coming and with this massive jolt I think it would be wise to consider that maybe the time is closer than we think. What’s really propping up the dollar is the US military and the threat of getting blasted out of the water if someone were to actually challenge it.
Yeah, our problem is that the people doing the perfidious shit think that because a collapse will fuck over everyone people will go along indefinitely with these abuses straff. They simply can’t see some event suddenly making the collapse itself inevitable.
India is at least as bad. Search for lakh (100,000; they write it 1,00,000) and crore (10,000,000; they write it 1,00,00,000) and the top results will be how to convert these unitless quantities to U.S. dollars (the currency is called the rupee).
Yup. I had a friend mention that to me and Japanese quantities seemed it a little less awful.
Just think of yen in terms of cents and it roughly works out.
Yes but 1 million in Japanese is 100 man. So that’s the issue – the extra unit you have to contemplate after the 10k mark.
Ah, yeah, Chinese has the same thing.
Arabic numbers are easier to convert mentally.
With a unit for 100,000,000 (yì) so 1B is 10 100M (shí yì).
Picking up a quick access safe for the bedside. Any recommendations? Money is of no concern, thanks to Trump bucks. I’m kidding, would prefer it be in the $100 range.
I have these installed in the bedroom.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1435554-REG/gunvault_sv500_speedvault_gun_safe.html/?ap=y&ap=y&smp=y&smp=y&lsft=BI%3A514&gclid=CjwKCAjwsMzzBRACEiwAx4lLG1JsTeWRg6AV6BnE8-7GM8at-RUvDo_9UogzAPh0HNjnHr2YaqJ9eRoCzdYQAvD_BwE
Get a biometric one. Getting the thing open fast is what is important.
Get one with a Simplex interface. Getting the thing open fast, and it actually working when you want it to, is important.
Get one without a door, so you don’t have to waste time getting it open.
Tulsi Gabbard drops out and falls in line. Bonus points for mentioning coronavirus.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-suspends-her-campaign-and-endorses-joe-biden/
Is there a guide on how to link in comments?
Very disappointing.
So the one good thing she had in common with Bernie, anti war, she throws away and goes with Joe. C U next Tuesday.
“After the terrorist attack by al-Qaeda on our country on 9/11, we stood together as Americans, motivated to serve, marshaling our forces to defeat our common enemy,” Gabbard said. “I and so many others enlisted in the military to do just that. Likewise today, as Americans and all of humanity, we face a common enemy. It is once again time, as Americans and as neighbors in this global community, that we stand together, and work hand in hand to defeat this new enemy — the coronavirus.”
I thought for sure she was gonna say “Trump”.
Haha nevermind, I guess I know how to post links now.
I made the horible mistake of looking at my 401k this morning. If I had moved my investments to bonds a couple of weeks ago, I’d be $100k richer today.
Yikes, I went against direct advice from my org’s financial advisor and that saved my ass. Sorry to hear it.
It will be back, ride the wave.
^^^THIS^^^
You have only lost the value if you panic sold the investments. Your 401K is not a day trading mechanism, it is a long term growth strategy tool. People retiring soon or over 72 and being forced to sell at the loss we have now are the ones getting screwed, but if you are not in those categories, you should not let this shit go to your head.
Yup. More people have gone broke trying to time the market than hunkering down and riding out volatility.* What kills “buy and hold” in times of volatility is . . . wait for it . . . leverage. No leverage + buy and hold + a decently long investment horizon = untold riches.
*Yes, I speak from personal experience.
Just think what we could do if the glibertariat could pool together all the money we have lost from fucking stupid decisions?
And I am not even counting stuff like failed businesses, that is just the breaks. Just stupidity in the stock market.
News for Pie……..
Well, specifically this.
I sure hope this guys is right.
US economy can restart as quickly as it shut down, ex-NYSE chief says
I’m tempted to put what little cash I have in my investment account into stuff like Thermo Fisher and LabCorp, but I’m feeling chicken right now.
Buy the dips (like this one). I joke that the way to make a profit is to buy low & sell high, but that is really the way it works.
the way to make a profit is to buy low & sell high
Oh, now you tell me.
i’ve been MIA since this homeschool epidemic first rocked the nation.
has anyone discussed the rights/responsibilities imbalance of shutting down our nation so people over 70 with preexisting conditions wholly owed to their own lifestyle choices can live a few extra years?
After you pry my Ciggies from my Cold, Dead hands,
so say ten years from now?
We did have a short discussion about how the country seems to have revolved around the same Age Cohort for the last 50 years….
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.ifunny.co%2Fcrop%3Ax-20%2Cresize%3A320x%2Ccrop%3Ax800%2Cquality%3A90x75%2Fimages%2F8f465c6bf9217df4c4d7ffc314bd98a66c8b61967ecf45bf076e8d5777b8f3e9_1.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
Gen X isn’t consequential enough to waste emotional energy on.
I’d be pissed but I’m too cynical to give a shit.
I only tease cause i love you.
Meh, I guess.
-Signed, Gen X’er
Indeed. A very tiny cohort. My birth year saw the lowest birth rate since 1950.
Read the whole site. It’s great.
Missed it by one year.
ditto. Mojo is one year older than me.
But I have a bigger issue, the y axis doesnt have a zero. It greatly exaggerates the dropoff.
Yeah that bothered me too
We had better music than the boomers or the millennials.
Won’t argue there.
Boomers had a longer period of great mainstream music. I think Gen X had a better, shorter peak of mainstream music. But if you listen to non-mainstream music, there has never been a better time in human history than right now.
yeah, there’s some really awesome non mainstream stuff out there. and it really makes the mainstream stuff sound like garbage.
“wholly owed”
Wow, it’s like you think government has only been fucking people over for the last 30 years.
govt? huh?
“ Watch Live: Trump Expected To Detail Range Of New Covid-19 Therapies At Thursday Press Conference”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-white-house-task-force-holds-thursday-briefing
Not going to watch but good.
Good – now lift the knockdowns on everything except retirement and nursing homes.
My company had a positive COVID19 test yesterday, so it’s full on panic. The person was a visitor and went to a site that does not include where I or hundreds of others work.
But we are all banished home now for the greater good.
FREAKOUT TIME!!!
The Greater Good!
Frozen, single-serving meals were one of the few types of food not sold out at the grocery store yesterday. They were probably made months ago and kept frozen since then. Seems like a safe bet for taking lunches to work next week. Hit the microwave in the kitchenette at work and avoid everyone in the cafeteria.
Except, . . .
The kitchenettes are being closed down at work. No access to microwaves. This is fucking nuts.
That’s silly, just wiping down exposed and frequently touched surfaces with alcohol or something similar several times per day would mitigate the risk. Sure beats being hungry.
Bring in your own. Charge $5 a pop to use it. Unless its that hot chick from accounting; she gets to heat things up for free.
Iceee what you did there.
she gets to heat things up for free.
She already do.
That’s asinine.
Weird Al knows we still need humor.
Woe on all those that look down upon the elite progressive leadership’s move to socialist utopia!
Fuck, these people just feel anything that shows the masses they are being bamboozled by the fucking idiots running the clown car, is such a travesty and a stain on humanity.