You know what’s better than having a car guy? A “retired” electrician who works for play money. Dude did all the work, put up with my six year old telling him random questions and was done in 3 hours. $65/hr plus $25 in materials. And its all right. He even drove a rod and grounded the pump. Something the last pump installer neglected in the lightning capital of the world. Some folks were asking me how my pump could pay for itself in 2 years. Here’s the deal: Old single speed pump drew 850W and ran for 8 hours a day at 3450 rpm. New variable speed pump draws 350W at 2400 rpm, and runs for 12 hours a day. So you used about 2/3rds the total kW/hrs. Moves the same amount of water.
We’ve also got the COVID-19 update. Positive tests up by 270, negative tests up by 2250. Ratio of positives is possibly starting to increase. Positives were 1100 and change Friday, so we’re up 50% in 5 days, but with rate increasing, so maybe 7 days to double. That would be closer to Korea than Italy.
Ugh. My local county has gone “stay at home”, although “non-essential” businesses are allowed to remain open. Of course, several authorities think their inferiors won’t do as they are told.
Whiskey webs used to fingerprint whiskeys. I’m certainly worried about all the counterfeit Jim Beam that’s probably circulating.
Another British Queen who isn’t gonna let coronavirus stop him.
Which one of you didn’t show up to comment this morning?
First, maybe, or close.
Is this day over yet?
It is a good day to die!
/Klingon
“Tawk-doooo!”
Translation: Widens gaze
Not yet. I have updates to push to production tonight at 8.
You know, I never noticed this before, but Digital Trophy Girl has a nice rack.
Trophy?
How could you miss that?
1st loser!
See, Tres Cool was at the fridge getting a tall can when I used the ‘Hey woman, get me a beer!’ and hist ‘post comment’ tactic. Brilliant I am!
Mrs. Hyperion: ‘You have to stop drinking, Mr Hyperion, you will die!’.
Mr. Hyperion: ‘Then the virus cannot get me!’.
*Waco Kid wakes up in cell, drinks entire bottle of whisky*
Sheriff Bart – “A man drinks like that, he’s gonna die!”
Waco Kid – (eagerly) “When?”
“little bastard shot me in the ass!”
I have it on good authority that ethenol denatures the virus. Of course sclrollis of the liver is kind of a bummer. Eh…Win some, lose some.
Watched my brother lose the battle. Not good…
I got a new variable speed pump about 3 months ago. It can also be programmed to run at different speeds at different times. Damn thing is so quiet that if it weren’t for water coming out the jets I wouldn’t know it was on.
I just quoted ten fan coils, first RFQ in 12 days.
It’s only related thus: noise is a function of pipe velocity (actually the pipes seldom go anywhere; it’s the water slinging around). So for office and residential work, I try to keep it below 4 FPS. The competition can go smaller and out (under-) bid me, so I need a contractor who trusts that I’m doing it the right way.
Selfish jerk – that could have used to make a ventilator!
If it saves one life
Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks closed to visitors Tuesday, taking another step in the effort to limit the spread of the new coronavirus.
The two parks announced the closure in a joint news release Tuesday morning.
The closure shuts off visitor access to the parks. Roads that cross park and state boundaries will stay open, however, such as the stretch of U.S. Highway 191 between Big Sky and West Yellowstone that passes through the park.
The move came two days after Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and local health officials from counties bordering Yellowstone urged the park to close to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The park is basically closed for the winter, anyway. the only road open is the road from Cooke City to Gardiner. But we want to be seen Doing Things to Protect the Public, I guess.
Where will I go for my pic-a-nic baskets?
STEVE SMITH HAVE IDEA…
I thought your park was named Jellystone?
Yellowstone’s envious neighbor?
Especially at Glibertarians, where pants sales were already lagging way behind the general population.
This was after a sudden rise in the sale of pants as most everyone was shitting theirs for awhile.
Well, Orange Badman is still POTUS, so I think pants manufacturers can at least count on shitty pants to boost sales for the time being.
Pants sales sagging…?
Nice!
I’m positive…that it’s boring working from home. I can’t wait til the Illinois Governor Prickster gets his orange jumpsuit.
Not until you have to.
Actually, none of my clients have closed their doors yet. I can go in, but I probably will not until I have to.
I fucking hate it. I can’t concentrate for shit at home, not only because of the kids fighting, and I end up eating all the damned time.
Yeah my month long food supply looks like 3 days now. Good thing all this fat will last the rest of the year.
You were mentioning ham yesterday? this is either the best or the second best one I’ve tried.
Thanks!
I’m eating better at home…the lone bright spot it seems. Even as an introvert I cannot get the hang of working from home all the time.
I haven’t weighed myself but I know I’ve gained back some of the weight I’d lost. Only question is how much.
“Even as an introvert I cannot get the hang of working from home all the time.”
It takes practice.
It’s a fuck ton more difficult with all these people here!!!
I’m saving money. At work, I buy lunch everyday from wherever I like. Runs about $25+ per day. I cook now and at the risk of sounding like Johnny Hubris, I cook really, really well.
I buy lunch everyday from wherever I like. Runs about $25+ per day
Holy shit. Caviar-encrusted foie gras?
Mrs. Dean makes my lunches, because she knows its far healthier than what I would get otherwise. We figured the cost once at around $2.00/day.
I cooked vegetables this week. Far too uncommon.
Chard & Chokes: chard, can of artichoke hearts, chop, oil/salt/pepper, heat till iz nice, squeeze of lemon)
also, salting eggplant is for suckers who wanted to avoid eating it anyway. Roast eggplant cubes, sautee zuch slices, add the eggplant and some smaller tomatoes quarter’d, oil/butter/salt/pep/paprika, heat till iz nice.
I remember those days.
Oh, wait. That was yesterday.
I get a LOT more done at home. It’s quiet here compared to the office and I can focus a lot better.
Same here. It’s amazing how much more work I get done without the boss around.
I am going to go out on a limb here and speculate that you don’t have a 9 year old and a 12 year old at home with you?
I have both those age groups at home, but they’re the same person. I married her. She says I haven’t quite reached the maturity of a 9 year old yet. But man I’m working hard on it!
Women are always saying that. It’s a shame they’re too immature to see the humor in fart jokes.
We’re all living in the same room until tomorrow, and even with the toddler bugging me every few minutes, it’s still less distracting than the open office. I was damn productive today!
Maybe if I had office space designed for productivity, the story might be different.
the toddler bugging me every few minutes
Allow me to suggest a solution.
Better.
Well, I was entirely unsurprised that the three local CoronaCovid19SARSChinaWuhanCCPFlu deaths were all at this nursing home that I grew up across the street from. I remember seeing fleeing
prisonersresidents from that place and the guys in white coats searching for them, and an older kid I knew who worked there would tell horror stories about it.” He even drove a rod and grounded the pump.”
Now, that is a euphemism.
Intentional grounding, adds $50 to the bill
Zing!
We’ll see how this “shelter in place” thing pans out. Mrs TOK goes to a small powerlifting gym that’s still open. Usually only 3-4 people are there at a time and everyone is expected to disinfect equipment before and after. The owner told the cops that go there and they said fine, but if someone orders him to close he’ll have to comply.
Yeah…here in VA, my gym was operating last week at “no more than 10 folks in at one time, only 6 AM – 7 PM” but Saturday she closed up for the next 2 weeks (not worth the hassle from Gov Blackface).
I’m too lazy to try and make space to work out here inside while I’m packing to move and it’s still too wet/chilly for my traditional run outside. Hopefully next week when I start my new job I can work out in the base gym but I’m guessing it’ll be closed as well – at least there I can run outside at lunch time and not feel guilty.
NewWife does her hour every day with her crew via web meeting.
I think she misses the boxing the most; I don’t have any gloves, so her flow might be atrophying.
Mrs TOK goes to a small powerlifting gym
You chose wisely.
Some folks were asking me how my pump could pay for itself in 2 years. Here’s the deal: Old single speed pump drew 850W and ran for 8 hours a day at 3450 rpm. New variable speed pump draws 350W at 2400 rpm, and runs for 12 hours a day. So you used about 2/3rds the total kW/hrs. Moves the same amount of water.
Are they doing any 12V pool pumps yet? It is my understanding that is where pumpage is going in the residential home world these days. (I am drawing a blank for what application I heard this was being applied. Floor heat maybe?)The way my non degreed engineer brain understands it is a DC motor uses a lot less energy than and AC motor, inverters are cheap these days and being built in. I imagine it would take multiple pumps to move big pool amounts of water though. I plan on plumbing my summer pool with one and hopefully a coleman propane camp shower heater if the economy doesn’t tank completely and I have to spend my time at the river catching trout to subsist.
I don’t know the application, but the problem is delivering power: 12V requires a lot of amps. Let’s take the pump above and round for easy math: 360W/12V = 30A, and that’s before conversion inefficiencies. 30A is the biggest wire most houses have.
I don’t know much about small stuff like this, but inverters and frequency drives are kissing cousins: both are infinitely cheaper than they were just a few years ago. So both solutions are getting more affordable.
Ya, I am not thinking big 12V pumps because I know fuckall about such creatures, I am thinking multiple small pumps. Maybe even a small battery bank kept charged by even a normal charger, or even better solar like the RV’s use.
nothing wrong with your theory
ceteris paribus, smaller pumps are less efficient; if the pumps run in parallel on one header, you end up adding check valves, so that’s more head to overcome; and you’re paying for more parts and labor
fun notion: this is self-load-leveling unless you’re the kind of guy who swims when the sun don’t shine
I wrote here about maximum pipe velocity for noise. There’s probably a minimum pipe size for scum: you want to keep all the snot suspended and moving, I’d imagine, treatment chemicals notwithstanding. Min around 2FPS I’d guess . . . something to look up.
I am no pool designer but I was thinking multiple pumps around the perimeter for water rotation/movement. No header. Pump straight lined to a couple jets. I imagine the pipe size probably depends on the size of the pool as far as scum removal goes. Who knows, I tend to think of shit I will never do after the first cocktail. It has led to some ideas that have worked out in time saving inventions in numerous situations over the years. But always self built or with the help of some machinist or welder in some third world country were we don’t speak the same language.
I don’t know a thing about it. I thought the pump was mostly for filtration.
It sucks in through a filter and then shoots out the clean water to move/rotate for scum removal and is why it has to be such a large pump afaik. Disclaimer I don’t have a pool. Why not use multiple small pumps for water rotation and another small pump for filtration. Might be a dumb idea and use as much energy, but like I said it is a cocktail hour brain exercise.
I suspect it’s mostly about the filter: you’ve got to get so many turns per day.
How you return it to the pool is a trivial load by comparison, I would guess. Averaging things out is just a nice side-benefit: you’d probably get all the benefit by simply pulling from the near side and discharging to the far end.
I find that I need at least 1HP to properly run the skimming action of the weir. Lower settings are fine for turning over the water via the filter and adding chlorine from the Trichlor system, but I put the pump on a higher setting to skim the leaves, bugs etc out for 2 hours before I expect to use it.. usually say 1-3PM. I’m sure you could design a weir that works with a lower flow, but the standard ones want a certain rate.
These newer digitally controlled variable speeds pumps are efficient.
http://www.inyopools.com/Products/00200017074678.htm
The pipes in my fish tank say that the number may be much higher than that.
No doubt: big difference between mammals splashing around in something and fish breathing something; you’re a critical case. What does the FDA say about this!?
And your tubing and flow are tiny? Not like it’s a distracting noise anyway?
Mine’s nearly silent. The carbon dioxide bubbler is an order of magnitude louder than the pump, and it’s roughly equivalent to a recently opened soda bottle.
115 gph (~0.03gps) filter with ~1″diameter hosing (~36cu in/ linear foot) or (~0.15 gal/linear foot) means I’m getting 0.2 FPS, give or take.
My apologies, I was off by more than an order of magnitude on my guess of the pump’s flow rate. It explains why the pipes are so scummy after a while.
move big pool amounts of water
cheesy rule of thumb for water at STP: HP: GPM x head(ft) / 3000
60GPM x 20FT / 3000 = 0.4HP that’s what I was guessing on stuff like this
the pure number is 3960, but then you also need the pump efficiency: I just threw in 75% for quick and easy, but I have no idea what kind of shit China sells normal people in these situations
I have no idea what the filter on those things requires; that’s probably half the load.
Brushless motors, We use them in some HVAC applications, far greater speed/ power control, and cheaper
This could be the application I heard it was being used. Perhaps geothermal pumps.
Still shocked at the evilness of the Nevada Governor.
Did you see that the state’s health commissioner, who is the one who told the governor to bar doctors from prescribing that stuff, isn’t even licensed to practice medicine in the US?
What the hell is going on out there, Pat, I mean what the everloving fuck?
Hi Brett,
My state just went to “shelter in place” for another 2 weeks. And as usual, no details at all about what are considered essential businesses.
I made the mistake of going to the Red Star for details and the comments there were astonishing. People are really bad at math, economics and logic.
Fuck it, I’ll buy.
This is going to help Republicans in November. We have a $2T pork give away but we don’t want to pay poor people thrown out of work too much. Do these guys work for the DNC?.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-senators-oppose-coronavirus-bill-error
The Dems will try to extend these benefits as much as possible and want to tank employment numbers. I get the optics, but the Senators calling this out are correct. It’s absurd to have an unemployment benefit that exceeds your actual wage and will create a massive disincentive to work.
I agree. The whole damn thing shouldn’t happen, but that’s a pointless dream.
nice. I’m so fucked I need a screamy song – https://youtu.be/xBKyBlJ_JN8
Yippee! I get a hall pass* from H.R. Suck it, Copper, I’m legal.
* “essential transportation” exemption. We build luxury transportation SMDH
I’ve got two exemption e-mails I can print out, as well as an ID badge I can carry that show I’m “essential”.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ET6H19nXkAIp5bm?format=jpg&name=small
Local Dollar Store, several people
Grocery Store, a few (2-3 besides 3 of us)
Hardware store, alone with my 2 helpers
Normal Wednesday this time of year
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8138813/Demi-Rose-poses-topless-swimming-pool-swing-throwback-endures-coronavirus-lockdown.html
Fattening the curve.
*widens gaze*
Science me this
“If the president decides to go 180 on us and open by Easter, that will create chaos and confusion. That is the prescription for a depression,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told CNN Business.
The goal of the health restrictions is to slow the outbreak, buying precious time to prevent the nation’s hospitals and doctors from becoming completely overwhelmed.
“If people are panicked because hospitals are overflowing and loved ones are dying, the hit to the economy will be even worse than if we remain in lockdown,” said Zandi, who advised Republican presidential nominee John McCain in 2008. “It’s a massive gamble — and one without science on his side.”
If the aliens attack while we’re distracted by the plague, we won’t stand a chance.
I love how they are implying Zandi is a Republican.
…Zandi, who advised Republican presidential nominee John McCain in 2008.
Yeah, that little blurb isn’t instilling me with any confidence in this guy.
So it was this guy’s idea to pick Palin as a running mate?
Increased economic activity will cause a depression? Pull the other one.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8152663/Rita-Wilson-reveals-writing-new-music-quarantine-flaunting-rapping-skills.html
Be careful, Tom Hanks Disease can turn your wife black.
Obama-approved rapping skills LOL
I’m pretty sure that’s a porn genre
“We’re at a Volcker moment,” said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM, referring to former Fed chief Paul Volcker’s painful decision in the late 1970 and early 1980s to put the United States into a recession to tame runaway inflation.
“The federal government is slowing the economy down to try to terminate the virus. It’s a conscious policy choice,” Brusuelas said.
Do they have editors at CNN?
“That would be closer to Korea than Italy.”
For some reason, North Korea stats not showing up on any of the trackers.
But fatal cases percentage in USA is about exactly the same as South Korea, and has been. Around 1.4% today. I think it we stay below 2% for another week or so, it’s a good sign. It’s bad, but not the apocalypse.
“For some reason, North Korea stats…”
Probably the same reason the PRC’s numbers have hardly budged in several weeks.
Yeah, I have this feeling that those reasons are very related.
The coronavirus tried to attack the populace of North Korea, alas it died of starvation too.
As a further measure to curb the spread of coronavirus, the Pinellas County Commission on Wednesday unanimously directed the county’s nearly 1 million residents to stay at home except for essential activity like trips for groceries, medical needs and jobs deemed essential.
Fuck.
So, our oldest daughter, who works in the ER, has come down with a fever, chills, and sweats. They had a patient that tested positive for Kung Flu. Her flu test came back negative. Her Kung Flu test should come back tomorrow. She’s young and healthy but has an auto-immune issue with her digestive tract, so that’s a complication.
We’ll see.
Prayers, Animal.
Best wishes.
She’s also female, which apparently also improves her situation. Sounds like this thing is a lot worse for men, for some reason they don’t understand yet. Hope all is well, bro.
Prayers for her.
All the best for your daughter, Animal.
Is it Ulcerative Colitis/Crohn’s Disease that affects her GI tract?
No, it’s something else, I can’t remember the name at the moment.
I”m worried enough about this whole thing that I’ve started wearing protective gear.
Good luck to the young Miss Animal and share your gear ifnecessary
The Jackalope makes the room.
Prayers for your daughter.
I’m ready, too.
N0
My protective gear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV_BPDi8Ems
Hope for the best Animal.
My middle daughter found out she was exposed to a COVID+ patient last week. She works in a step-down unit. She’s quarantined until the 27th, I believe. As long as she remains asymptomatic, her work has said she can return.
And I hope there are no issues with your daughter, Animal.
Same in return. It’s a weird time.
Prayers and best wishes for you both.
Hoping for a good outcome.
Sorry, Animal – hoping for the best.
I hope she is OK.
Prayers for a swift recovery.
Best wishes to your family
Fingers crossed, Animal.
Have we heard anything from Florida Man? Is he still ‘trapped’ in Costa Rica?
Yeah, I think he got back a few days ago, all was/is well, AFAIK
As one is wont to do. Oh wait, no that’s not actually what one does with bourbon.
Engineering profs and alcohol are miscible as alcohol and water.
I never worked with any UL product. Maybe just an outlier, but you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a useful MissSt or A&M guy.
I have to admit, that I am a EE and I had no idea that bourbon evaporated.
Must take extremely controlled conditions in a lab? I’ve never seen it happen in the wild.
Waste of good bourbon – even for science.
“One can’t help but think this is just a naked expression of the president’s own narrow electoral interests,” RSM’s Brusuelas said.
But Brusuelas urged Trump to put the national interests ahead of his own political ambitions.
“If you reopen the economy prior to the termination of the virus, you’re creating a better probability of second and third waves that shut the economy again,” he said. “The US is better off taking a one-time hit.”
Bad Orange Man is bad.
Only a monster would want people to be able to go back to work. Only a monster would want people to be able to resume some sort of normal life routine.
The fact that these same people who have been freaking the fuck out over Trump for the past 4 years, still hope for anything, even a pandemic, to prevent Trump from remaining president, is surprising… not at all.
Yesterday San Francisco Mayor London Breed also called Trump horrible for giving people hope that there could be an end day in sight for all this, even though that end date is still 18 days away, four days longer than the typical quarantine. I think many of the California Democrats would love to see this go on for years, unlimited power, and every single resident needing to beg just to go outside.
Breed also said, “Why is anyone listening to the President at all? Just stop. He doesn’t believe in SCIENCE!”
(btw Breed’s SCIENCE credentials are a BA in political SCIENCE from UC Davis, and a Masters’ in Public Administration (yes, there’s really such a thing) from the University of San Francisco, a small Jesuit school next to Golden Gate Park.)
But if people go back to work, how can we save them with muh socialism!?
“No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.” — William Levitt
Did most people at TOS die of the virus and they had to close down? So that we’re getting the overflow?
Absolutely. This is the perfect storm for the tyrants.
Fear allows them to impose any restriction their black heart can come up with. And by doling out money they are also setting themselves up as the “savior” of the masses.
What’s not to love if you are a politician?
The bullet destined for your forehead.
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1242722860583366657
Larf!
I’ll bet my Trumpbucks that we see ‘grim milestone’ headlines when we get to 1,000 deaths.
No bet.
I’m sure the articles are already written.
Newspapers used to pre-write celebrity obituaries so that all they’d have to do was put a couple of paragraphs at the top with the details of death and recent life. It kinda makes sense.
I have a celebrity obit article ready to drop here when a beloved person (to me) dies. Although still active, his best days were decades ago.
I saw similar verbiage in news stories in NH when the NH confirmed cases number went above 100, so no bet.
Hansel and Gretel ground their wheat at the Grimm Millstone.
3 million Americans left us last year, I missed a few funerals but not too many
My favorites are the grim statements about how the death toll rose again. The only way for the death toll to decline is if the victims are named Jesus.
And even he was dead for three days.
“COVID-19 is a gendered crisis.
Nurses, nurse aides, teachers, child carers and early-childhood educators, aged-care workers and cleaners are mostly women.
They are on the frontline of this public health crisis and carry a disproportionate risk of being exposed to the virus.”
https://twitter.com/MehreenFaruqi/status/1242713728048455680
OFFS!
My office is near a large hospital and I walk through there all of the time (until very recently) and I didn’t see any male healthcare workers there over the past 10 years. Nope, not even a one!
And it’s killing men at about a 7 to 3 out of 10 ratio. Wiminz hardest hit, again.
Those dead men are the husbands and sons and brothers of women, so the women are hardest hit.
Yeah, I see we can’t use that in reverse. Hmm, I give up.
This is just the latest example of what fucking low lifes every leftist leaning group are. They’re just taking it to a new low. Which is exactly what we would expect and they once again, prove it.
“Never let a crisis go to waste.” -Saul Alinsky
In other news: hurricane ravages East Coast, women and minorities impacted most.
I just heard that a huge tsunami is headed for the West Coast, and the frogs have left the water. I’m starting to worry.
Nurses, nurse aides, teachers, child carers and early-childhood educators, aged-care workers and cleaners are mostly women.
Due no doubt to institutional misandry!
…
Did I do that right?
*(air) high five*
Interview with a fourth-generation violin maker
Audio here (about 10 minutes)
Nice, thanks.
As of an hour ago, Sununu says no “stay-at-home” order in NH
Gov. Chris Sununu rejected a direct plea from one executive councilor for New Hampshire to join the growing number of states whose leaders were shutting down non-essential businesses.
During Wednesday’s Executive Council meeting conducted remotely, Sununu said he will monitor whether the outbreak calls for further restrictions, a day after Vermont Gov. Phil Scott had issued the stay-at-home order for his state.
Sununu said the spread of the disease is more severe in Vermont.
Also from the article, emphasis mine:
In other matters, Sununu said he’s seriously considering an order that would put off the filing of state tax returns such as those who earn enough unearned income to pay NH’s 5 percent tax on interest and dividends.
I think the Nebraska governor made a similar statement in response to a media question in a recent press conference. He also made the point several times that Nebraska probably won’t be like NY because NE acted more promptly.
Any idea what kind of ducks these are?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiHFmUW1Ga8
aren’t all domestic ducks just mallards? kinda like a dog is just a wolf bred for deportment?
Related
proven: human company is expensive . . . . very expensive
No, Mallards are an invasive species, that dominate other species males and take their women, I learned this just yesterday,
Serious
https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2009.1159
Fortunately the females have their own built-in birth control.
No these are neither Mallards nor Muscovies, and that exhausts the extent of my duck knowledge.
Mallards are native to North America and eastern Asia. They’ve been introduced all over.
They’re right tasty, too.
Can confirm. Om-NOM-NOM-NOM-NOM . . .
It’s a domestic bird. Pretty sure it’s a Call Duck.
Yup.
Makes sense, the video is Dutch.
But, then I’d expect a Dutck.
*duqs*
https://twitter.com/JLCauvin/status/1242515702688485376
LOL! Seriously, I’m… that is great!
Fucking fuck.
Idaho has now joined the cower-in-place club.
N00b?
Nah. Just longtime lurker. Was at TOS starting about 2008ish and here since the beginning pretty much.
Since nobody else has managed to…..
FUCK OFF TULPA!
Better late than never I suppose.
Doods and Doodettes! Hudson’s been here forever (longer than me).
Do none of you people PAY ATTENTION?!?
Huh? What’d you say?
I was working.
*waves at Rufus*
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen you here before.
With a pic of his name from Aliens.
I lost the Aliens avatar during the avatar purge.
I should probably go back to it since we’re all gonna die, man.
Game over.
Fuck off, Tulpa!
Welcome to the loony bin.
We all float down here.
You’ll float too!
We’re all floaters in the great toilet bowl of life.
I dunno. Some people are more like the toilet brush. Dropins, at least.
Yep. Didn’t even need the gubmint to tell us too.
“Don’t worry about the coronavirus. Worry about the flu.”
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1222546399847428096
Like a fine wine.
I have noticed that the same people who scoffed at the virus being a problem and said “Flu kills XX thousand people every year!” are largely among the most panicky people now.
Went into the office for about a half an hour this last Sunday. Downtown Minneapolis is really quite scary. And I say this a someone who used to do street-based outreach to homeless kids there at night. The only folks on the Nicollet Mall are very shady. They have always been there, but as my boss said, there’s no one else on the street to dilute their presence. Hopefully I won’t have to do that again for a while.
Yet another formerly great city gone to shit. Nice work, proggies!
Meh, Downtown Minneapolis still is way nicer than it used to be in the ’80s when Hennepin and Block E were going strong.
Probably more fun back then though. I know it was quite the educational experience for a young rube from NW Minnesoda who shall go unnamed.
Illinois’ shelter-in-place order really isn’t one… but it does thin out the normies enough to make the creeps a lot more noticeable.
Well our brand new shelter in place restrictions don’t seem too draconian.
And of course abortion clinics are being allowed to stay open…
I’m pretty squishy on abortion, but if you are going to close nonessential businesses, those clinics should be included.
WOMYNS’ HEALTH IS ESSENTIAL!!!!!1111!!!!1
We have 26 people in the hospital but we need to shut everything down because we are close to swamping the hospitals.
WTF?
Look at the map. There were 15 cases in all of Minnesoda north of the Twin Cities. 15 fucking cases and we need to shut down everything?
All to protect Fourscore. Hope you’re happy.
Yeah, I just did the math on PA. We have on the order of 35000 hospital beds, and we have as of this moment low-1100 cases. Serious/critical average for the country is about 2.5% of confirmed cases. So we are on lock down because we ONLY HAVE a little over 1000 beds per potential patient.
Damn, I think I may have shit my pants.
I do IT for a hospital system in GA. Earlier this week our main hospital was at the lowest occupancy, I’ve ever heard. We are at level IV infection control and all non-emergent procedures, visits, diagnostics, etc., have been postponed.
From the article, it appears that all clinics are considered essential.
I have a hard time making it all the way through those articles without rage quitting. And I didn’t see his remarks directly. Maybe the reporter spun his comments to make him extra proggie in the quote above.
I just saw the line about him specifically calling out clinics that provide reproductive health services as essential and rolled my eyes. They just can’t leave it alone. (to be fair, I’d roll my eyes just as hard at gov’s who use shutdowns to specifically close abortion clinics too).
Like I said, I’m squishy on abortion and it would be nice if there was one thing that ever happened and both sides didn’t use it to push their own views on their hobby horse.
That wasn’t a challenge – apologies if my response came across that way. I was curious whether they specifically allowed abortion clinics to stay open while closing other medical services.
No worries. Your comment actually gave me a little hope that the order just referred to clinics as essential and the reporter was the guilty party.
We’re cool.
Let’s get back to jumping in Hudson. Fuck that Tulpa!
*scurries away*
As a counterpoint, an abortion isn’t something that can just be done 6months from now.
PASTRIARCHAL OPPRESSION!
[that was a typo I started to correct and then decided I like the neologism.]
Just read a health care industry dispatch today that ERs in hundreds of hospitals across the country are seeing record low numbers of patients and are thinking of cutting staffing temporarily. But of course, Heartthrob Governor Cuomo of New York can demand 30,000 ventilators, and unless Trump gets them to him yesterday, he’s personally killing thousands of people!
I heard that on the radio news this morning. Doc interviewed said they have never seen this low of traffic in the ER’s. No more ER visits for a stuffy nose.
Random virus musing of the day:
I suspect there will be an unusual number of Christmas an Christmas-adjacent births this year.
Those drugs already fell out………
Counterpoint: all the damn kids are home so parents can’t get it on.
Incorrect.
^this, old and devious……..
Tundra is correct. As the Mexican birthrate would asttest, shared space is not a significant impediment to baby making.
Furtive gopher sex for the win!
(Hey, don’t laugh — the spousal unit and I have practised FGS in many a situation where the horny has overridden common sense and fear of discovery.)
Or double wrapping. Watch for a run on spermicides.
So you are saying that the next round of supermarket fisticuffs captured on cell phone is going to happen in the family planning aisle over digaphrams and Jimmy hats?
Nice. I need to pick up some popcorn.
You whippersnappers. Here’s how we did it. You see, we either locked the kids out of the house, or locked them in the broom closet. Geez, you kids can’t figure anything out on your own.
Vaseline on the outside bedroom door knob. Generational trick
So you have to stand in the hallway to get it up your butt? I don’t see how that applies.
Kid(s) hands slip off the door knob
You guys need to learn new old tricks
Plus, the kids will learn to associate sex with vaseline!
+1 mommy’s just praying, go back outside and play!
Mommy, are you OK?
Yes, dear, I just had a cramp in my leg. Go back outside to play.
The Irish have managed to do so forever.
The most powerful aphrodisiac in the world is having all your kids down for a nap at the same time.
Well, since Capricorns are the best peoples, it should be that way.
Totes!
Kids born to freshly divorced moms.
Just checking in. Looked at the links….good grief, how do you get into a dispute at the grocery store?
The guy is a loon.
Someone was squeezin his Charmin?
man, if you can get through the day without someone taking a dump in an aisle, it’s a good day
/ grocer’s son
Meanwhile, at the Post Office…
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/man-points-gun-at-women-in-masks-feared-coronavirus-police-say
I’m pretty sure he’s looking at federal charges as well for evening thinking about a gun while within 100 miles of a post office, but I could be off since I don’t have that particular code memorized
last I know of: No guns on post office property, says U.S. appeals court
A federal appeals court said a U.S. Postal Service regulation banning firearms on postal property is constitutional, and reversed a lower court ruling that would have let people keep weapons inside their vehicles in post office parking lots.
Circuit Judge David Ebel said the right to carry firearms does not apply to federal buildings such as post offices, and that while it was a “closer question” he would not second-guess the Postal Service’s extending the ban to its parking lots.
fuck yo permit
Reagan appointee, product of Ann Arbor
“…the right to carry firearms does not apply to federal buildings…”
One shortfall of our constitution is that they forgot to include the ability to read in the requirements for various offices.
Now do free speech on government property…
Who is John Galt?
I know. I know who is John Galt. He’s a guy who really really likes the sound of his own voice.
He’s a character with the longest speech ever in a book.
Or was that Reardon? Oh well. *sizzles off
No! Rearden’s the awesome one. Galt can go pound sand.
Dammit! My staycation has been cancelled by some commissioner in Podunk County. I was going to shelter in place along a nice peaceful river. No offer of refund from VRBO either.
Oops, sorry Mojo. Operator error.
63 pages, I believe.
Evergreen opinion: The Fountainhead is the better book of the two.
Yep
*falls asleep again thinking about it
I concur. The Foutianhead had characters that were more than ideology delivery mechanisms and self inserts.
Rearden was the only character in AS that had any depth.
But Ragnar Danneskjöld got shit done.
Ragnar Danneskjöld… hmm. I wonder if the world is ready for an Atlas Shrugged expanded universe ala Star Wars?
The exploits of Ragnar could be an interesting read.
I wouldn’t have minded a Scotch-fueled raging overnight with Dagny, though.
Hey, look. The action between Rearden and Dagny before she got stupid was nothing to sneeze at.
Anthem was better than either.
I struggled with The Fountainhead. I prefer AS.
Absolutely correct.
I struggled with The Fountainhead too the first time. I read it before AS and then preferred AS. Then because reasons I read The Fountainhead again and that time it stuck.
https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1242592278276759553
Unfortunately, I have every reason to believe that screenshot is real.
“That’s a stunning combination of the “didn’t happen” genre, and the “woke Olympics” genre.”
OK, which one of you is that?
I mean, it is:
Saira Rao. Ran for congress in Denver. She’s a member of that duo that charges white people $2.5K for a dinner to talk about white supremacy.
I’m still waiting on a virus that only kills SJWs
Yeah she’s the grifter that does those “pay me 2500 dollars so I can tell you what a racist you are” dinners.
So I’m surprised she has two friends, but not at all shocked she had to toss in ‘white supremacy’.
If she’s giving people what they want/pay for it’s not grift.
Helps whip up hysteria about white supremacy; charges gullible people $2.5K for indulgences. It’s certainly grift-esque.
I’ve got a vial of holy water that had a sliver of the True Cross soaked in it. If you drink it, all your sins will be forgiven. $5k.
Fair enough, I don’t know what she actually promises these people. If she is engaging in fraud (selling snake oil), okay that’s grift. If she’s just charging a lot of money to lecture/harangue people that want to be lectured and harangued at then ‘meh’. And I don’t think that the lecture can be considered snake oil, the lecture is exactly what she claims it is, holy water that had a sliver of the True Cross soaked in it is not.
I think there is a difference between being someone with a humiliation fetish and someone convinced that they are morally inferior. A dominatrix is an honest profession, expiating White Privilege is not.
It’s a fine line and I could be convinced that I’m wrong, but I see a difference between selling someone a magnetic copper infused bracelet that might help their golf game and selling those same duffers a lecture series on ‘mindfulness’ that might help their golf game. And honestly if the magnetic copper infused bracelet really is a magnetic copper infused bracelet than that’s not really grift either. In my mind a grift should involve some deception, the reason the bracelet is usually grift is the spiel part where they push you over when you aren’t wearing the bracelet and then pretend they can’t push you over when you are. It’s the difference between giving a carnival tent tarot reading where you’re peddling bullshit and cold readings, and the contrived seance where you have accomplices in the crowd and rigged up effects to fool the mark.
holy water that had a sliver of the True Cross soaked in it is not
Let’s assume it was. The claim is that it will absolve him of all his sins, how can the fraudulence of that claim be assessed?
how can the fraudulence of that claim be assessed?
It can’t that’s why the fraud must be some decption involvong the actual product or as I mention above some chicanery where they have some ‘gimp’ in the audience take a swig an then miraculously dance a jig ala the Mac and Jack wonder potion.
Depends…what’s your take on the old Catholic practice of indulgences. Afaict, this is about the same.
^This.
I wonder if we are seeing something akin to The Reformation, only it is the church of secularism that being being called out for its excesses by dissidents.
being being… boing boing.
*facepalm*
One of the few utilities of Twitter, aside from winding up the perpetually outraged, is it uncanny ability to know who is least likely to survive the collapse of civilization.
https://twitter.com/Struggle_Tweet/status/1242634563853017088?s=20
Never enough
The Senate’s $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill may be the largest rescue package in U.S. history, but it doesn’t provide nearly enough for New York state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.
The bill, tentatively approved early Wednesday, “would really be terrible for the state of New York,” Cuomo said at his daily briefing in Albany.
Cuomo’s criticism came as White House officials made clear that President Donald Trump plans to sign the massive relief bill into law as soon as Congress sends it to him.
Cuomo said the bill provides $3.8 billion for New York State, of which only $1.3 billion will be sent to New York City.
“Sounds like a lot of money,” Cuomo said. But it’s far below the shortfall in revenue that the state projects it will face, which the governor said could total $15 billion.
“That is a drop in the bucket” compared with what New Yorkers need, he said. “How do you plug a $15 billion hole with $3.8 billion? You don’t.”
That won’t even keep the Museum of Modern Art open.
Where did that “shortfall in revenue” come from?
My wife and I are above the cut off (humblebrag?) so no Trump bucks in the kinnath household.
We were then, not now.
*Sad trombone
The revenue got on a plane and went to FL.
Wow, that’s enough to give every New Yorker a billion dollars!
How do you plug a $15 billion hole
“Stop digging” would be step one.
STEVE SMITH HAVE IDEA
I’m not sure that all this whining and special pleading on behalf of New York City will play the way they hope in the rest of the country.
No, and if they start getting the idea that just because Cuomo is a heartthrob for NYers right now, that he should be on the national ticket, well, let’s just say that kind of shtick usually doesn’t play well west of the Hudson, and besides, they’ve already got NY’s electoral college votes in the bag.
“The LameStream Media is the dominant force in trying to get me to keep our Country closed as long as possible in the hope that it will be detrimental to my election success. The real people want to get back to work ASAP. We will be stronger than ever before!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1242905328209080331
I hope it happens soon. This is ridiculas.
My husband informs me that things he does not want to hear me say include:
“I need a 3-incher.”
in Florida I’m told they measure a fish between the eyes IFYKWIM
You can always just ask him to do you twice.
He doesn’t want to exceed your expectations?
No one needs more than 27 millimeters
Give em 27mm and they’ll take 1.609km, I mean, ammirite?!
I larfed
Sadly, I have no 4-inchers
Well it is difficult for a husband when his wife puts such unrealistic expectations on him. Stop stub shaming him! Do you really want to push him into becoming a shorty acceptance activist?
At least that is what my friend tells me.
We’re not talking about penis math here.
“No, honey, that’s EIGHT inches. […] Now, don’t go getting out the tape measure. Don’t you trust me?”
I’m not bragging or anything, but when I do penis math, always use a pen because I don’t make mistakes.
It always depends one where you measure from.
I use the “stern of the taint” method.
You’re strict. I prefer to stand next to a wall and measure from there.
Cheeks flexed or relaxed?
Flexed, of course.
I just figure it’s “how far can I bury it and still have her squealing with pleasure.”
aka “Ballparking”
I use the “swap the label with the metric tape measure” method.
Reminds me of the Ron White bit about his penis isn’t long, but the girth is massive “it’s like a cheesewheel down there”.
Hung like a tuna can. AKA, “pussy puncher”.
To be honest, one that’s too long can hurt. Cervices don’t like battering rams.
Too skinny– Pound sand.
Too fat– We can work with that. Pass the lube.
Too short? Well…depends on how fat or skinny.
Fair enough, now let’s talk about what I find acceptable in labia.
Alright, you got me, the answer is “wasn’t previously a scrotum”.
But, no, men are the ones doing all the objectifying, right?
Here’s a handy guide on which states are doing what to whom, I was curious,
https://www.nga.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CoronavirusStateActionsChart_25March2020.pdf
That’s off. It has MA with a stay at home order and no non-essential business closure. It’s the other way around: There is no stay-at-home order and non-essential (defined by the government of course) businesses are closed. NH’s public gathering limit is now 10, but only for scheduled gatherings.
I noticed yesterday when I was out, that there were more than the usual amount of cops driving very slowly around the neighborhood.
There is no stay at home order, but I’m more than a little worried that cops are going to use this to hassle people who would otherwise be left alone.
“there were more than the usual amount of cops driving very slowly around the neighborhood. ”
New Zealand cops say hold my beer.
“When asked how police would enforce the rules and make sure those out and about were out for a good reason, he said police officers may follow you.”
“he said police officers may follow you.”
What is not good about those good quotas!?
Thanks, I was wondering too.
“Pee Napkin” Prompts Fight, Domestic Bust”
Minnesota Man takes a shot @ becoming FloridaMan
Doesn’t matter, had sex.
A dude that ugly should thank the invisible sky gods for getting laid and just forget about getting pee napkin on him. Then again, we haven’t seen her yet.
Wasnt this guy.
If I ever form a band again, without a doubt I’m naming it “Pee Napkins”.
Wee Herman and The Pee Napkins
Best band name since Pauline and the Soup Bean Boys.
Pinto Pauline.
Fuck, they weren’t even trying.
Lamestream Media and the Pee Napkins
meh. we also rejected AlexinCT’s suggestion of DNC Operatives With Bylines and the Pee Napkins
Never cross the ‘Streams.
yes, their 2nd album, what’s your point?
Relevant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbBfxVqL1zU
It’s a Minnesota band, anyway.
(image might be NSFW, but ain’t no one at work anymore)
I’m not certain I’ll ever stop laughing…
Stores banning reusable bags, putting up shields to keep workers safe
https://www.startribune.com/groceries-banning-reusable-bags-cleaning-more-to-keep-workers-safe/569097522/
HAHAHAHA
I’m it’s not like advocates of single-use plastics pointed out that reusable bags are vectors for disease.
Just got the announcement from Giant Eagle that they’re doing the same. And this is after they sent out their big e-mail about how they were committed to getting rid of single use plastic bags at the beginning of the year.
Or single use cups, utensils, and condiment packets….
So the Coronavirus has revealed that the Dems want to go full communist and very willingly to eviscerate civil liberties. They are mad that Trump isn’t nationalizing and banning everything despite calling him a tyrant. Let that sink in…
That are options are all at Trump or worse?
Sorry could you rephrase that?
That we are in a bad place where all our options are Trump “King of Debt” or worse.
Yes, that it was I’m saying. And I’m not sure the rest of the world is in a better place…
Also Trump seems to want this to be over sooner than later. Whether or not this is due to business experience or because he fears a long shutdown will hurt his re-election chances or both I can’t say. I mean the guy is no libertarian but he seems to more libertarian in this instance than his opponents. Think about that…
“So the Coronavirus has revealed that the Dems want to go full communist and”
And they’ll be overjoyed when they get there, until they unexpectedly find their back up against a wall with their shocked faces.
“…the Coronavirus has revealed that the Dems want to go full communist and very willingly to eviscerate civil liberties.”
No it didnt. The mask has been off for a long time. Their party’s platform has been identical to the policies of the USSR since little George was president.
RIP Larry McDonald.
They really are that dedicated to instituting TOP.MAN rule that they will keep pushing power to the presidency even while Trump sits in the White House. Yes, they ARE that devoted to their ideology.
Marxist screed formatted and sent off to client for approval.
Next up: How the prosecution of George Zimmerman fucked up but good.
Same client?
Nope.
Wasn’t he the guy who owned the Mens’ Wearhouse and always said “I guarantee it”?
No, that was “Hair Club for Men” dude
I was so hungry I broke out the crackers and Vegemite.
I’m no longer hungry.
Yes, but did you eat any of it before you decided you weren’t hungry?
I’m still eating it, tbh.
I think you have to have Dwarf bread for the full effect.
In non plague related good news, my 80% lower, jig, and tools arrived today. Not sure I should advertise that since I am in awe such things are legal in this day and age.
If the router you’re doing the mill work with doesn’t have a “soft start” option, seriously think about replacing it.
Somebody oughta make an inline soft start for low-voltage stuff that you just plug into the wall or your extension chord.
Or maybe homegrow one with a capacitor?
If that’s cheaper than a new router, then you’ve got the toy forever for everything.
just spitballing
6VMD1 ~ $100
not as easy as I hoped not that it’s hard, but the postage on the pieces are more than just getting one from Square D
I was planning on using my small Bosch. It is variable speed. I am not sure what soft start is.
Basically an inrush limiter
I mean, I know what soft start is, I have just never seen that on a router. The ones I have go from silent to screaming when you turn them on. TI have never ran the bosch at anything but highest setting.
My Bosch router has soft start. And it’s probably 15 years old or older.
“Bosch”
Tool Elitist!
Please.
Festool? Yes.
Fein? Probably.
Bosch? Not elite. But good stuff you can buy at Menards.
You’re too good to use the Craftsman! Elitist!
Bosch ROCKS.
(All my electric hand tools that I expect to see heavy use are Bosch. The others are just “whatever is cheapest and will do the task at hand.”)
“Bosch ROCKS.”
I have a lot of Bosch tools. They’re solid.
Oh sure, look at this guy with the new tools.
Some of us weren’t lucky enough to have a father to inherit their tools from.
#DecentParentPrivilege
lol…..my Dad was the cheapest going when buying tools. Black and Decker stuff that won’t sell at a yard sale. All my stuff I bought back in a former life when I actually used it to make a living.
When I talk about my tools, assume corded. I don’t do cordless.
Inherited tools:
1 Craftsman drill older than I am that has torque that could pull a 5th wheel
1 circular saw with weird size blades whose cord has been sawn and taped twice–once by my dad and once by me. Still works, but it’s now too heavy for my rotator cuffs. It too is 50+ years old.
Bought off Craigslist:
1 old Craftsman router with bits aplenty
1 old Craftsman belt sander
Bought new:
cheap B&D palm sander that’s 20+ years old
cheap Craftsman palm sander that’s 3 years old and already replaced once
cheap Porter Cable air compressor and nailer
cheap Harbor Freight tack nailer
not-cheap framing nailer whose brand I can’t remember
cheap Craftsman circular saw my husband got for me when he saw me struggling with my old saw
I DID have an old Craftsman table saw, but the reason I got it didn’t materialize so I sold it.
Lots and lots of foreplay.
A “silent-to-screaming” router is going to have some kick when it fires up, especially if you have to take one hand off the handle to switch it on. Since you’ll be milling in a fairly confined space, it’s easy for that kick to cause the mill head to contact something you didn’t want it to. The “soft start” will make this much less likely.
Ya, that is the same as running any router jig, be it doors or whatever. You turn it on and then enter the jig. I assumed this would be the same. I guess I should watch the video.
My buddy helped me out with mine last week after his tools came in. He’s really psyched too. Hopefully I’ll work on the build later this summer after things clear up.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/25/coronavirus-patients-do-not-resucitate/
Hospitals on the front lines of the pandemic are engaged in a heated private debate over a calculation few have encountered in their lifetimes — how to weigh the “save at all costs” approach to resuscitating a dying patient against the real danger of exposing doctors and nurses to the contagion of coronavirus.
The conversations are driven by the realization that the risk to staff amid dwindling stores of protective equipment — such as masks, gowns and gloves — may be too great to justify the conventional response when a patient “codes,” and their heart or breathing stops.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago has been discussing a universal do-not-resuscitate policy for infected patients, regardless of the wishes of the patient or their family members — a wrenching decision to prioritize the lives of the many over the one.
Here we are folks. Death Panels.
Well, I guess since we’re just going to let everyone die, we can get back to work now. Party!
On a more serious note, it’s obviously why the death rate is so much higher for Italy. Why are so many dying? Because you’re letting them!
Italy has single payer and it is beyond abysmal. I know three people who went there and needed care and in all three cases they were unable to get any care at all due to lack of supplies and personnel. Apparently they have lots of bean counters and very few doctors or nurses.
Sounds like what I’ve heard about Cuba’s world-class hospitals.
Didn’t they cure cancer years ago? I guess we can ask Obama about that.
I know wishing cancer on people is gauche, but I just want Obama to get it so he has to explain why he’s not going to Cuba for treatment.
Don’t ex-presidents get to cut in line at Bethesda or better ?
Coronavirus also reminds me despite all the blatherings about science, reason, logic, the law, civilization, civil liberties, constitutions, modernity, norms, etc. humans can get scared pretty easily and will want TOP MEN to save them or at least let TOP MEN tell them what do if frightened.
And you never know where some serious crisis can pop up which the statists will exploit and ruin the impending Libertarian Moment…
That why you try to set up a society in which men have as little power as possible over other men, and you make it very difficult to increase that power.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOURSOLUTIONDOESN’TIMMEDIATELYBRINGABOUTLIBERTOPIATARD
Just made a food store run to the local Safeway, at the behest of the spousal unit. Even though this particular store is under renovation, pretty much everything’s back to normal except the fresh meat counter (they’re still in the process of re-building it). There was virtually no sign of the panic buying of a week ago. They even have the better part of an entire aisle of TP! ;-)
And they finally started baking their awesome Hot Cross Buns for Easter (around here, Safeway HCB’s are damn near legendary). Mmmmmmmm, hot cross bunnies . . .
What you get when you pour coffee down a rabbit hole?
Coffee stained bunnies?
One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns.
You’re more braver than me. I’m going to make my big hoarding run around 9am on Friday, about 30 miles from the city. If I’m not successful, I’ll report and let ya’ll know that we’re all fucked.
So, you know, folks. This virus is soooo deadly that living in the first world has nothing to do with the death rate of those infected.
Which is why the death rate per infected in Zimbabwe, Sudan, And Gambia is around 34% while in the USA it’s 1.4% as of today. Science, you deniers!
I’m going to say since testing is just getting started and many if not most people who have it don’t ever have symptoms, even that 1.4% is way higher than reality.
“1.4% is way higher than reality.”
Of course it is. It doesn’t take scientist to figure that out. But it goes against the narrative.
Who is the fucking genius who thinks the numbers of tested matches the numbers of actual infected? We could all have it by now and they wouldn’t have a clue.
I think it’s more deadly than the actual flu, but the mortality rate will be well below 1%.
It sort of pisses me off they’re comparing this with the Spanish Flu, one of the if not the deadliest viruses in history. I’m not even sure how they’ve explained how it was so deadly, but at that time, most of our species were still isolated from each other almost all of the time. That situation has not been true for a very long time.
Well damn people. First toilet paper, then flour and yeast, and now crowlers are out of stock.
We can’t possibly survive a week without those, it’s all over.
End times.
One of the local brew pubs sent a plea out to the homebrew community for clean, unlabeled 12 oz beer bottles, because they are out of crowlers.
One of the local bars has been offering to fill anything resealable at the price of a growler fill ($5 “domestic”/$15 craft).
Nice…I’ll have to see if that’s happening around here.
Most of the brewpubs were only offering new growlers (no refills, based on requests from the health department). Planning on ordering some fish and chips from this place Friday, and getting some growlers filled. I’ll be polite, and only bring my actual growlers. Showing up with a 5 gallon keg or a 6 gallon carboy seems like it would be a bit rude.
Looks like the panic buying here has run its course. Everything is fully stocked in the local stores. Still, I am not putting my apocalypse guns back in the safe just yet.
I’d have to move the TP out of the safe if I wanted to put the guns back in.
Speaking of which….day before yesterday I was putting out food for bees and my neighbor came down the road on his 4-wheeler. He saw me and came up the drive to chit-chat for a bit. He was wearing a pistol. I was wearing a pistol. As we talked the neighbor across the road began target practice behind his house. We could hear another neighbor down the road a bit shooting also.
Anyone from most other places in the country and especially from other countries would be horrified. People here in Grant Parish just call that Monday.
Sounds like paradise, except for the humidity and mosquitoes:)
Ugh. It is gnat season. They just started this past weekend. Those fuckers drive me nuts as they go for the eyes and they are relentless. They will be gone in a week or two.
Heh. Neighbor said he wasn’t going to stop cuz socialdistancingcoronaapocalypse but he saw me smoking and thought I might be smoking a joint. I had to laugh. Nah, just a cigarette. I never had any use for pot and never fooled with the stuff. Poor guy, he had knee, shoulder and neck surgery and has prescription pain killers and he is trying to get off of them. We have medical Maryjane here, which I didnt know, but it is damned expensive and he cant afford it.
Probably cheaper to find some kid to buy it from on the black market.
if I’m reading correctly, dude has land, in a warm climate.
Obtaining source material seems to be the only hurdle.
I call it walking my Dog at the Park every morning, Open Carry FTW!
Are there any places near you for sale right now?
Seriously. I’m already working from home full time.
There was one place about half a mile from here. Very nice and private but as you can imagine it got snapped up very quickly.
I am sure there are plenty of others in the parish.
https://www.zillow.com/grant-parish-la/
Come on down. I will help you burn some gunpowder and boil some crawfish.
how many rounds does it take to bring a cauldron to boil?
Thanks, Suthen. We’re looking to buy, sooner than later…
I’ve been still hearing about TP being out here. Probably going to venture out tomorrow to try and find a package along with a few other items. Not an issue yet, but don’t want to wait until it is.
Suthen. Just shoot the dirty hippies on site and we’ll all be OK.
I was in Fresh Market yesterday and all I wanted was to buy some butter because my wife asked for it. There wasn’t very many people in the store, but when I approached the dairy section, I see these two old crony dirty hipsters in that section and I backed off.
Seriously, I am not going near those people, their Priuses are probably infected with shit that makes Coronavirus seem like the common cold.
I know I sort of sound mean, but dirty fucking hipsters who haven’t taken a damn shower in years, fuck that shit, and their fucking germ infested reusable grocery bags.
So much this, thank God you can spot them a mile away.
And smell them.
REFRESH!!!
While not as accurate at a mile, smell isn’t restricted by Line of Sight, so…
Every place here I went into today had a ban on re-usable plastic (or other) bags. No exceptions.
Didn’t matter much for the liquor store — I always end up needing a case anyways. ;-)
We dont have a lot of those around here. You see a lot more cowboy hats, boots and pickup trucks.
Still panicky here, although not as bad as last week.
I ran to the store for the folks today. I thought the panic buying was over when I saw TP back on the shelves. (very limited supply) then walked down the dry bean isle which is what they asked me to go get for them. They eat lentils with every meal and mom panics if she gets under 6 lbs on hand even when not in freak out times. Not a dried bean in the store.
Just heard the Gov came down with a statewide stay at home order. I expect the panic buying to ramp right back up. I don’t have words for how much this is pissing me off.
Well, I’m only telling my friends here. And I’ll update you all with how much it works. But my research has indicated that as far as you can drive away from a metro area, the more full shelves you will find.
Interested in alternate opinions / experience.
County of 20,000. Town with the stores 7,000 ish. Stores ransacked last week.
no TP in West Memphis yet
Once again, CASH IS KING
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Yep! You can buy stuff with it, or wipe your rear with it.
The finished product.
Jack is very happy the brisket is done.
Very nice! Excellent smoke ring and groovy pup!
Enjoy!
Thx.
looks a little dry.
Tough crowd.
Considering his die hard contrarian nature, that he posted at all is probably an indication that he likes what he sees, argument-incitement aside.
Sounds about right.
NO ITS NOT!
Yeah, I lurk more than post, but I’ve been around long enough. My attempt at a dead-pan reply was probably lacking.
in that case, I might have gone with “Sigh, You’re right.”
Excellent.
That is beautiful! Might I recommend a re-purpose for leftovers. I once made brisket eggs benedict and it was da bomb. Way better than canadian bacon.
Wanton Wednesday won’t be doing any social distancing.
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I AM FULLY SELF-AWARE!
She obviously needs a firmware update.
lol……..almost be worth it to wade into the comments to see how many naked hair brushing coworkers references there are.
Tons.
So…I’ve noticed this several times – most recently with a Samuel Smith Yorkshire Stingo tonight.
A number of times now, I’ve tried beers that just did not work out for me – don’t really know enough to tell if they were skunked or just if tastes change – but then I go back a few years later and try them again and find that they really work for me.
Hitachino Nest White – first bottle was garbage, but having it on tap at a little joint in Singapore was amazing.
etc.
Is there a clear distinction for recognizing if something is skunked when you open it? Don’t recall smells or anything…or if it was just me.
Same experience with brown liquor. I had a bottle of single-malt that tasted like rat’s piss a few years ago. Same brand half a decade later? Mother’s milk.
No idea why.
Skunking is caused by light interacting with hops. You can detect it because it smells like skunks. It is literally the same chemical.
Maybe your tastes (figurative, not literal) are changing. Many beers and boozes that I tasted years ago and hated now taste delicious to me. Scotch and stouts and porters being the most glaring examples.
Maybe. One of my department heads bought some “fancy” bottle of scotch for the wardroom during a dining out in Da Nang back in 2013 – tasted like battery acid to me. Haven’t tried any of that kind of liquor since then – although now that I’m moving back to the area, I do want to try some whiskey flights they have at a local pub.
I’ve only been wading into whisk(e)y for a few years now, but it seems to me that Scotch has the widest range of flavors of all of them. I’d try a few before swearing it off.
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Face down, ass up.
Doggie Style fucking rulez. Amirite?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The spousal unit just sent me this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r2bfwbqfM8
Yeah, tough choice. ;-)
Ummm…
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We have sometimes regretted that we weren’t able to have children. Not these days, though. ;-)
You know, I spent years and years wishing for a husband and children and then I got them. They come with their own set of problems.
I can look back and say, “Maybe I shouldn’t have had children. Why did I want children? Was it because it was because it was what I was taught to want?”
But I have that luxury because I have been both childless and childful. We just don’t know what we don’t know.
Being with or without children is tough. They’re not EQUALLY tough, but you don’t know that when you don’t have children.
Granted I have a son that is the perfect kid. You couldn’t dream up a better kid.
I wouldn’t change having him for anything in the world. I would dynamite the levee and wash away the entire parish if that is what it took to save him. I dont have a lot of use for those other people anyway.
There was never any question in my mind. He is the reason I was born, and now I have two grandchildren that are just like him.
News: Promising treatments for Kung Flu.
Rapid results testing developed
promising vaccine developed and being tested
infusing patients with plasma from people who have recovered showing good results
I guess we are gonna live through yet another end of the world.
My niece, who has postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and my nephew, who has severe asthma, are going to be undergoing this.