This week like last, doesn’t really have terribly good (as in definitive) celestial alignments, but there are a rather larger number of transitory ones as both the moon and Mercury are zipping around as they are wont to do. So we’ve got events that are limited in their magnitude, but much more pinpoint in their timing. Expect on these days,
April 6: Moon-Earth-Sun = Increase at home, positive change
April 7: Sun-Mercury-Jupiter = Good luck
April 10: Sun-Mercury-Saturn = Bad luck
Aries keeps getting screwed by Taurus and Pisces, but sill a better-than-normal week. Venus has moved into Gemini, which means this is an auspicious time to set u something with that set of twins you’ve been interested in. The moon in Virgo means it’s a good time for meditation, reading, and other quiet pastimes. Girls and young women might be a bit less stable than normal.
The cards are predicting an unpleasant week overall, with 3/4 of the cards being reversed.
Aries: 9 of Cups reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfections
Taurus: Knight of Wands reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord
Gemini: 10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues
Cancer: Judgement – Change of position, renewal, outcome, total loss though lawsuit
Leo: The High Priestess – Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed, oral sex, silence, tenacity, mystery, wisdom, science
Virgo: The Emperor reversed – Benevolence, compassion, credit, confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity
Libra: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion
Scorpio: The Magician reversed – Physician, magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet
Sagittarius: 2 of Coins reversed – Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange
Capricorn: 7 of Coins reversed – Cause for anxiety regarding money, difficulty with money lent
Aquarius: Page of Wands reversed – Anecdotes, announcements, evil news. Also indecision and the instability which accompanies it.
Pisces: 5 of Cups reversed – News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects
Now, THAT’S a reason to shelter-in-place!
On-topic and FIRST, bitchezz!
Unless the girl is in your house…. help!
Thoughts & prayers.
“Virgo: The Emperor reversed – Benevolence, compassion, credit, confusion to enemies, obstruction, IMMATURITY”
The stars really do know me.
(937) representin’ up in here!
Yo, homey! As of yesterday evening (6 – 6:30ish), Meijer was NOT limiting entry nor policing shoppers. Found most of what we’d come for (missing only our preferred variety of Sunday brunch sausage, but we already had enough for today,) and walked right up to the self-checkout. So…not at all hateful. Fingers crossed that it stays that way.
Im either going there later, or Kroger.
I set myself up for a taste of irony when I commented yesterday that Home Depot was cray-cray. After I got home, I wanted to get the trimmer ready for the season, and on the 3rd pull the rope snapped. So I had to go to….Home Depot. The line was short-ish, only about a 5 minute wait. But when I was walking to the check-out, I heard some asshole loudly say “sure looks like a lot of non-essentials are being bought in here”.
Christ, what a cunte.
Did you walk over, inspect their cart, and remove everything you don’t think is essential?
I just wanted the fuck outta there, fingers crossed that the generic rope I got will work with the Stihl pull-starter.
They can be kinda anal about their parts from time to time.
I had a guy at Lowe’s tell me that (employee ). whatever asshole. went to home depot and got what i needed.
Of course they do, how else could they know your future?
Capricorn: 7 of Coins reversed – Cause for anxiety regarding money, difficulty with money lent
the Fed? mmmmkay?
“total loss though lawsuit”
Da fuq?
I don’t like that one bit, no sir.
OT: Law and order fears for NYC as nearly 10,000 NYPD and FDNY members call out sick amid a rise in burglaries while virus daily death toll DOUBLES in the city to 757
Translation: you’re own your own.
Apropos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__n5Bgxx-68
Well at least due to their diligent efforts at gun control there are very few firearms in NYC.
Just the criminal element has firearms, which is going to make things fun!
In Memphis, the most dangerous demographic is LEO. The only question for me is whether they are more dangerous when they are in or out of uniform.
Depends. Are you married to one?
well played, sir
Thin blue burned casserole again Karen?!
That’s saying something given how aggressive some of the bums downtown are, even in bright daylight.
*broad daylight
I didn’t know that at all. Maybe they’re attracted to nice guys, so you catch my share ?
Yeah, possibly. They were in a park and were harassing all passers by. We were in town for the marathon, staying in the race hotel, so there really wasn’t any other way to get to the race starting line.
At the time I was working in downtown Dallas, so I wasn’t unfamiliar with homeless people, but this was a completely different level of aggression.
So no different from normal?
There will be more burglaries of closed businesses. There will be less armed robberies, less victims on the street to rob. There will be less home break-ins…I ain’t breaking into a house…everyone is home. Probably more car theft since fewer people are driving
*fewer*
The number of deaths and hospitalizations dropped yesterday.
?
Might have the count wrong, but it doesn’t look like there were any deaths in VA overnight. Numbers don’t look too different from yesterday at all.
Don’t worry they can defend themselves with easily obtainable gu… Oh wait it’s NYC, they’re fucked.
winner winner chicken dinner.
“Girls and young women might be a bit less stable than normal.”
Attention single men or men in relationships that are probably sick of their partners already:
in a few weeks there will be millions of women with low self esteem dressing in baggy clothes and desperately seeking affirmation from men, so make sure to stay in shape and work on that aura of faux confidence – it’s our time to shine.
Godspeed.
Oh yeah, there’s going to be a lot of promiscuous sex once this is all finished. Maybe even before.
Instead of worrying about vaping and plastic bags and microaggressions people will want to have fun with other people.
How novel! Also, how fun!
America sucks, so this won’t happen, but I hope we can take cues from the Czech Republic after they emerged from behind the Iron Curtain and relax a bit.
Crusty, I don’t really care if you call swim trunks the “iron curtain”, but I’m not going to relax in your hot tub and let you Czech my Iron curtain
Both French Quarter Fest and Jazz Fest have been rescheduled for October. With nicer weather than their usual late Spring dates, they’re gonna get wild.
“Girls and young women might be a bit less stable than normal.”
can confirm.
What did you expect when they are plugged into social media 24/7 where people are photoshopping their bodies and posting their life’s highlight reel.
Can confirm this is crazy-making, soul-crushing, and otherwise utterly destructive.
Well, I suppose the astrology post is in some ways the right place to put this. Y’all are witnesses as to how good of a prognosticator I am.
I’m calling it for Georgia – we passed the peak in the 24h period that ended at 12pm on Wednesday, 1-April. That report from DPH had 31 deaths.
The days since then have all seen decreases both in actual # (24, 21, 17, and 10) and of course deaths as a % of previous total. The same report (12p on 1-April) was also the functional inflection point on hospitalization – where hospitalization numbers and % increase had been (most days) increasing, the 4 days since have all been consecutive decreases. Georgia’s on the downhill slope already.
Relatedly, as mentioned above, today’s report showed 10 related deaths in the preceding 24h. The IHME projection as of 1-April (which they left up and haven’t updated) predicted 31 for today, with a range of 22-43. The 10 is less than half of their low end. No wonder they stopped updating it – they realized that their models were exploding, and people had been itching to compare to actual, and their predictions now look awful. Maybe that’s why Bill Gates got himself on Fox saying (paraphrase) “the numbers can be a lot lower than 100k if we make sure the jackboots are applied nationally” – his own think-tank told him yesterday they were already tracking to be WAY less than that, and they’re about to run out of chances to blame Trump for not “doing more”.
Lumberjacked Dad Puts A Hurting On The Beta Boys Complaining About Their Precious Little Planet Fitness Closing
Alpha af
Also, leave my Planet Fitness alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unfortunately, The Chariot reversed form last week came to pass. Putting my summer tires back on, it was noticed that one of them had damage to the sidewall. Anyone know how much taking them off the rims stresses them? Would it be worth it to buy a second set of wheels and swap them that way?
spare rims seem like an obvious answer, an automatic yes for folks who can afford to prioritize such a purchase
but sidewalls are tough; it takes a lot more than a little case of the stupids at at the mount and balance stations; are you sure it isn’t road damage?
Yeah, it seems obvious, but I could get a nice gun for the price of a set of wheels. Then again, How many times swapping them myself would it take to justify the cost of the wheels, plus assorted equipment (like a floor jack)?
I don’t think it stresses them at all. I’ve been doing it for years and never had a problem. The only sidewall damage occurred when my daughter hit a pothole and bulged the hell out of the tire.
My vote? Buy the gun.
yes, it’s what they do in Colorado, rims can be cheap,
I only kept a separate set of wheels and tires for one car – my S4. Since then I just run performance all seasons.
I don’t know how much swapping them stressed them. What kind of damage is it?
This kind:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_20200405_123523-scaled.jpg
This was one of the summer tires, that was working fine when I drove it to be exchanged for the snows. Now it occurs to me that I never inspect them afterwards, since they are bagged up, but the guys who took them off didn’t say anything about it.
That’s pothole damage. Those short stiff sidewalls can’t take much. I took a very expensive tow truck from Ozona TX to Austin a couple of years ago due to similar damage. The tire that got replaced looks like this again despite only having 5k miles on it. Only now I’ve got a functional spare instead of the factory supplied fix-a-flat can in the trunk.
Tomorrow I’ll see if there’s any chance of getting anything back under warranty.
Mine was covered under road-hazard, but just the tire, not the $1,600 tow.
Seems like something that wouldn’t happen at a tire mounting machine in most cases.
Id look on craigslist for a second set of rims if you have the room.
yo’ Westernsloper?
Since you axed did I test it yet. I just did.
*hope your face heals
Damn! And my face is fine. Thanks though.
Meh, I needed parts for other projects. I can strip it.
It was free, anyhow.
Yeah, but if Jugsy can’t evict anybody any time soon, you’re not likely to scare up another freebie.
Truth.
But I got another 42″ still sitting in a box. This crib has entirely too many TVs
Benevolence, compassion, credit, confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity,
I like it,
Tenth!
but there are a rather larger number of transitory ones
We’re all going to become homeless!
Gemini: 10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues
Well now………….I got nuthin.
Libra: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion
Astrology is asshoe.
Back in the before times: Tom Brokaw takes on Broadcast News
Libra: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion
I’m so fucked.
Why does the new Trojan Man look like someone that absolutely nobody of any sexual persuasion would want to fuck? How’s that good marketing?
Today’s tasty treats:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/PHRH9I2ZSkiQEKU2IIx4vg.891OZmbpOx5qwoyCsbM3BG
Protection provided by Teutonic two tone goodness.
Tasty!
Nice! I just grabbed a ribeye at the store this morning to throw on the grill later. I’m currently snacking on white cheddar jalapeno cheetos and watching MST3000 because I’m barely an adult.
When I was at the store the other day I bought all the fixins to do a world class lasagna. I am so spineless all attempts at keto are out the window at the moment. It is literally amazing I can walk upright with the lack of spine I posses. This morning I woke up thinking about this wonderful lasagna I was going to make. I woke up in anticipation of meaty cheesy goodness. And then I remembered I don’t have an oven. I am going to buy an oven tomorrow.
Didn’t you build your own pizza oven (or am I mistaken)? Could you do it in that or the temp too hot?
Yes I did but I still have not finished the upgrades I have been planning for over a year. That is on the agenda for next week. I thought about cooking the lasagna in that oven or even on the grill but I don’t have enough charcoal.
LOL. That’s pretty funny.
Sagittarius: 2 of Coins reversed – Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange
At least its not the normal and has some positivity.
Also its happening…the Government banned Death. Well, Death Valley.
Cancer: Judgement – Change of position, renewal, outcome, total loss though lawsuit
Welp, I’m fucked. Was in a car accident on Friday. Lady pulled out of alley in front of my car, then managed to drive away.
My poor Jaguar didn’t fare so well. Had it towed to the body shop and should be getting a call Monday.
Not only late, my work is announcing more manager furloughs today. I’m going to survive this round but not sure how much longer. (Being the only “IT” guy in the portfolio is a nice spot to be)
I should clarify… it was a Hit & Run. Their are City Police cameras on the street overlooking the scene, but Police auto investigators don’t work on the weekend, apparently. (lol) I said screw it and decided to just go to the Police HQ to try to get some help, and OH guess what… Police HQ is closed to the virus. GREAT!
..if it saves just 1 life…
It’s not as if they work on weekdays either.
Damn, that sucks. Sorry about the car. I got hit in a hit & run once in the hood. Car full of young dudes. I chased after them, but they lost me in the unfamiliar neighborhood. I wasn’t going to go full throttle in a neighborhood anyways. Probably lucky I didn’t catch up.
That’s an all around shitty day. Sorry Aus.
Hit and runs are dickheads.
Sorry.
Thanks all for the comments and for coming to my pity party! But seriously typing out these frustrations to pseudo-strangers on the internet is actually therapeutic.
“ Libra: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion”
Huh, my wife isn’t a Libra.
Too soon!
Tell me about it.
Amen.
“immaturity”
I know what you are, but what am I.
OT – A most heartfelt thanks goes out to all who participate in the Zoom groups. Y’all are really helping me maintain what shreds of sanity I still posses. Also, it tickles me that y’all enjoy watching me work.
Always great to see you there! Are the planned Friday “happy hour” sessions doable with your schedule?
Thank you. Yes, now that I’m aware of how late they run, it’s perfect. On work nights, I try to sleep from about 4 – 9.
You were making me dizzy with all the activity. Or it could have been the tequila.
Agreed. Thank you. Once a week seems too infrequent everything being what it is
Alright alright… I’ll schedule a Saturday one as well. Here you monsters.
If someone else is willing to take on hosting duties, I’ll schedule more. During the week I do like to make it a point to get out of the computer room for a while at least.
Cool man, thanks! What time zone is that?
I set it up for 20:00 Eastern. Based on previous experience, it’ll go on until way the fuck too late for me. 🙂
Thanks!
Now i have an excuse to purchase more beer…
I’d like to join one of these times.
Of course, 7 is when I start the bedtime routine.
It went on PLENTY long enough Friday, so you could certainly come on in after you get the bairn to bed.
Or did you mean YOUR bedtime?
Well I’m glad happy hour is shut the bar down!
Mental disease and disquiet sound about right. Not sure how much disgrace I can suffer when most of what I am doing is telling people I have no idea what programs they can take advantage of, because the rules are being written as we speak.
Not just girls and young women.
There’s a reason it’s called hysteria.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMzyleT2FqY
I have had a hysterectomy.
The Chairman of the Board would like to have a word with you. https://youtu.be/YT–YHYbwjs
Lots and lots and lots of post-apocalyptic scenarios out there in Fictiontown. Lots and lots of plagues wiping out humanity and a very few power-hungry villains stepping up to take advantage of the situation.
Any with a post-apocalyptic non-plague where civilization didn’t die at the hands of the actual plague, but as a result of propaganda?
Serious question here. I want to know which author was that prescient.
That is a good question.
Dystopian fiction was all the rage in YA lit a few years back after the Hunger Games phenomenon. Are we in for another surge, this time for grown-ups?
Seems to be a very popular genre.
Zardoz?
It’s not a contagious disease but “Nightfall” by Isaac Asimov is close.
OK, not exactly along the lines you asked about Larry Niven’s “A Gift From Earth,” has something analogous. Not post-apocalyptic though as it’s set on a colonized world.
The creators of the Netflix comedy/drama “Medical Police?”
Police Cops
None that I can think of. I was kicking around an idea this morning about a bio weapon let loose in the US which, kept away from the knowledge of the general public, caused mass sterility. Story starts ten years after, WW3 happened a decade before, the Unuted States lost, and people are just about to come to terms with it.
Those who knew what was happening at the time tried Winnie the Flu type measures, and when the death tolls never happened, the plan broke down. A large enough portion of the population fell victim.
Started working on the structure. Lead character is working for the defense of a former sitting President.
Cant see it going anywhere. The sterility is too close to “Children of men”
I had a similar one, but the premise was that all but the elderly and a few young childbearing-age girls/women were left. Took out the men like crazy except for the angry young men, alpha types, who had to fight it out for the women left. Only the strongest survived and staked out territory and had to defend it. Often the young women ended up with more than one mate, and they never actually got along. It was half matriarchal and half patriarchal. The women passed down their names because they weren’t often sure who sired which children. The men protected and provided, but it helped that they weren’t alone in the task.
Polyandry in a Mormon family. Now that’s tilting history on its head.
Anyway, I decided other people had done it better than I could.
only
…only the elderly and…
So Pine_Tree posted this site with CV projections last night. Predicting 1900 deaths in Ohio from CV
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
In 2017, we had 2243 deaths due to flu/pneumonia in Ohio.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/ohio/ohio.htm
You’re not pants-shitting properly, comrade.
Well given the lack of TP:)
“Last daily update on April 1, 2020.”
Is this a cookie thing?
No. Their 1-April version originally said they’d update it 4-April. Then last night they went vague on that. My theory for that behavior is that (see my post #8 above, and expand beyond Georgia) their models blew up, and they simultaneously realized everybody had been watching their predictions to see how they were doing.
So they went quiet.
I have lots of old jeans I could make masks out of, but I don’t know if denim’s at all appropriate. Anyway, I’m gearing up to make them then remembered I packed some DIYer masks away for the apocalypse.
Had no idea I could be that foresightful.
Mormons! Is there anything they CANT do ?
Drink?
Well, they CAN…..
Enjoy a damn fine cup of coffee?
Stay in one place?
Something good came out of The Great Mojeaux Prepper Panic of 2008!!!!
Chez GT is pretty well-stocked, too, thanks to the Mr. – and the wife who went along with it, in part to humor him. ; ) No masks, though, AFAIK.
I saw a picture yesterday of a man wearing a mask made out of a Gadsen Flag- he had it hanging under his chin and was smoling a cigar.
Classic.
The only reason I have to leave the house is to get groceries, and I can order those for curbside pickup… so to hell with this deluded mask business.
The masks are a stop gap measure to get people back to work quicker. (Imo)
I was thinking of going shopping wearing a luchador mask.
Coronavirus: what is ivermectin and how does it work?
I don’t get what is so hard about expediting studies? Why can’t they just pick a hard hit area start testing on people who agree to it and see what happens? It’s not a new drug, they know the effects/side effects.
I don’t get what is so hard about expediting studies?
There is a massive regulatory body and parasitic industry (disclosure: I’m a member) that relies on burdensome, drawn out trials that take years and insane amounts of money. Can’t show that there’s another simpler way that makes sense and is more effective.
It’s similar to the argument against a flat tax because of the number of IRS employees, CPAs, tax lawyers, etc. that would be put out of work.
The baseline assumption that do-nothing is zero risk is often wrong; I don’t know about today or every issue, but, for example, 100k people die every year from infections they got in hospital.
Conversely, I’m often annoyed when I hear that a surgery in a terminal case could not be pursued because the patient was deemed too weak to likely survive. Someone needs to take introduction to game theory over.
Oddly, it’s the same sort of people espousing both positions.
The baseline assumption that do-nothing is zero risk is often wrong; I don’t know about today or every issue, but, for example, 100k people die every year from infections they got in hospital.
Exactly. My educational program fairly worships the regulatory state, especially the FDA. My standard refrain is that the FDA has killed far more people from not approving effective drugs due to Type II errors than would ever be killed by serious adverse events. A drug like Vioxx dominates the news and makes the FDA much more risk-adverse. No one ever hears about the 10 rejected drugs who could have saved 1000x more people.
Conversely, I’m often annoyed when I hear that a surgery in a terminal case could not be pursued because the patient was deemed too weak to likely survive. Someone needs to take introduction to game theory over.
That shit is lethal too. It happened to me and my wife saved my life. The doc didn’t want to open me up when I was dying on the ventilator. He told my wife it was too risky. I’m not clear on what happened next. Rumor is her eyes turned solid red and a sort of darkness imbued her soul as Satan temporarily took possession. Whatever she said, they took me back immediately and opened me up. Another hour or two and it would have been too late. The surgeon wouldn’t make eye contact with her over the next month and my damn near emotionless father still laughs in remembrance (as the other person there).
Yeah, I remember you being gravely ill. Glad you’re still here, bud.
You’ve got a good missus and your dad is a funny, happy guy. You are lucky in so many ways, SSD and we’re glad that you made it in good stead.
Leo: The High Priestess – Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed, oral sex, silence, tenacity, mystery, wisdom, science
Sure, and I’m the Queen of England.
Beg pardon your Majesty milk and two sugars tally ho Charles Dickens.
There’s nothing stopping you from sucking a guy off.
My being straight does.
Prude
BIGOT !
Prison rules? Lol.
So, if balls don’t touch the chin, it’s not gay?
Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?
still funny to me
I went to the outfitters yesterday and went upstairs to were all the winter stuff was. I was the only customer. I found 2 red bandanas like train robbers wear. Cool thing about them is they have velcro strips sewn into them for ease of keeping them tight. I also have some crappy dust masks, I guess I could combo them with the bandana for a paranoid aesthetic
Try a Tractor Supply or Western style store, get the authentic bandana. Covers the head if necessary, the neck as required and the face when needed.
This one is absolutely full sized. I love it. I’m still gonna use after this crap is over, especially in the summer…I’ll out it in cold water and around my neck
So it’s a hydrophobic gay bandana?
I went with the camo bandana.
I found list of political dystopias. There is Delirium where love is designated a dangerous disease and you have to get The Cure when you turn 18. Seems a little late to me:) Not really the same but would obviously require a lot of propaganda.
https://guides.mysapl.org/c.php?g=485165&p=3318009
Supposed to be reply to Mo.
I’ll add my contribution to the list: Isaac Asimov’s “Nightfall”
How does “I, Robot” rate as a dystopian novel?
Isn’t it an anthology and not a novel?
This just showed up in my feed after doing that search.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/04/us/peter-may-lockdown-coronavirus-book-trnd/index.html
Sununu sezs… ya gotta pay your rent and mortgage
Gov. Chris Sununu modified his emergency order temporarily prohibiting evictions and foreclosures Friday night to make clear if tenants and property owners can’t pay rent or mortgage now, they will still have to pay in full when the state of emergency is lifted.
“Let me be clear: Emergency Order #4 does not relieve a tenant of an obligation to pay rent. We all have an obligation to be good neighbors and treat each other fairly, and this extends to both landlords and tenants,” Sununu said in releasing Emergency Order 24 Friday night.
Sununu also extended the state of emergency on Friday for an additional 21 days.
Landlords around the state had publicly expressed concern that they could lose their property without tenants paying rent.
Sununu encouraged all tenants who have difficulty paying their rent to work with their landlord to develop a payment plan and pay what they can. Many tenants should be able to pay using the expanded unemployment benefits to pay all or part of their rent.
Works at a nuclear power plant terrified of a virus
Contractors working during a refueling project at the Limerick Generating Station are “terrified” they’re working in a “breeding ground” for COVID-19 and expressed concerns about the company’s safety practices during the pandemic.
“I’m in a constant state of paranoia. In my opinion, it’s just a complete breeding ground, a cesspool for this,” said one man, who spoke on condition of anonymity to MediaNews Group out of fear of losing his job.
The contractor said supplemental workers began showing up at the plant days before a Unit 1 refueling outage began on March 27. Montgomery County officials have said they were informed that up to 1,400 contractors may have been summoned to work on the project as a coronavirus outbreak was taking shape in the county.
So…. why are you working at a nuclear power plant?
workers. I profread gud.
There once was a man who feared COVID
He dick was covered in chancroid
He stuck it in nuke waste
And became quite chaste
Now his balls have exploded
+1 Southpark
Crap. Syllable miscount.
Now his balls have both exploded
Now that his balls have exploded
Limerick Generating Station:
There once was a virus from China bats
scared the shite out the public like that
They closed up the shops
And fecked up the jobs
And before too long the economy shat.
You had me at ‘oral sex’.
What if the the High Priestess card was reversed? Anal?
69 time
^^ Smart kid. ^^
I don’t that’s how kids get started.
But yeah, cute bub!
think*
Off topic.
I hadn’t realized tos killed hit and run. Holy shit I haven’t gone there in a year to even peek in?
And more pop ups. It looks like a fucking scam site now. Why don’t they just make all their articles 10 pages so they get more ads?
Because they nobody reads the articles.
But can you still find Tony shitting up the comments, and John ranting at him?
Really?!
Peter Bagge has been back for some time, I just found the other day.
Went food shopping at three separate places today (SuperStore, Wholesale Club, Safeway). The end of the world appears to have been postponed once again — the aisles were full for the most part. Exceptions were the pasta/flour/dried beans aisle at Wholesale Club (picked over, but still stuff there) and rising prices at the Safeway meat counter (unsurprising — the wholesale price of beef has cratered in Western Canada, so farmers are withdrawing supply). There are inexplicable sales on a number of desirable items, too, such as 50% off of Balderson (Quebec) 2-year old cheddar. Yeah, that’s odd.
TP?
Bob Evens pork sausage patties in stovetop smoker with some hickory. Smells wonderful. Gonna put on toasted English muffins with egg, cheese, and mayo. Maybe a little chopped scallion.
Nice. I chopped up the left over brisket and scrambled some eggs for breakfast burritos.
Love breakfast burritos. Will have to do that with my leftover sausage patties:)
Would it be worth it to buy a second set of wheels and swap them that way?
Yes. Steel wheels for the winter.
A little while ago, i got a news alert on my phone from Bloomberg. The headline was about “SCIENTISTS concerned about risks of trying new treatments for virus!!!”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t scientists the guys whose job it is to test hypotheses by experimentation?
They’re not talking about scientist-scientists, but the scientist-priests of the new faith.
I’m beginning to conclude that most SCIENTISTS are stupid assholes.
Try this headline: “PATIENTS concerned about risks of not trying new treatment for virus!”
Today is my wife’s 45th birthday. Usually we’d go do some bar-hopping; many cocktails and fine dining for dinner. Instead we must shelter in place. Went to the butcher yesterday and got a standing rib roast and some lobster tails. Surf and turf, cobb salad, and plenty of martinis and wine.
Happy Birthday to the missus.
Sounds like a good plan.
I second both.
Happy bday Ms Gould. At least you got the proper spread laid down.
It’s also my oldest son’s bday. He’s happy as could be despite not getting a party.
Happy birthday!
A great alternative birthday plan.
Happy birthday!
Bonne anniversaire nonetheless!
Sounds great!
All my best to you and the missus!
Sounds like you might get lucky:)
Random thoughts:
1. NY looks like it may have peaked on deaths. Last 3 days (Thu-Fri-Sat) were 562-630-594. My prognosticating says that NY will keep declining in the coming week.
2. CA had 3 new deaths yesterday, bringing its total to a whopping… 322 – while New York’s is 4159. Total for the US is 9326. Eventually they will put 2 and 2 together and someone will realize that Covid19 has already happened in CA because of the ~7k Chinese people each day that were visiting LA/Cali for months before we ever knew about this..
3. My total death prediction is less then 20K for the US when it’s all done, more likely closer to 15K, but at those numbers and given the problems in identification, doesn’t matter.
4. As death numbers keep going down, the pressure will mount as people get stir crazy. Watch the media narrative start to shift.
On-topic:
Everything I said above should be read in that context. Sorry I missed the Zoom; I tried to log into Friday’s but couldn’t get on. I think that was tech issues here at home, however.
Best to everyone.
Yup, CCP vírus was absolutely here by late December/January. I haven’t heard much mention of it (besides some commenters here and a conjecture or two on the internets), but if it is true, as I have suspected, then it totally changes the narrative. I expect the legacy media and politicians here to be the absolute last to figure that out. Or if they figure it out just say we can’t risk any new infections anyway.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-china-us-flights-430000-people
Guaranteed that the overwhelming majority of those landed in California; and I say back up the dates a little bit, too. California is already achieving herd immunity.
“… and I say back up the dates a little bit, too. ”
Yeah, i’d back the date up to Thanksgiving. My wife and I both flew from Seattle to San Jose before and after Thanksgiving. She got a real nasty flu. My gut instinct is she had the CV.
Over half the deaths are NY/NJ.
Last night, at the girlfriend’s house, we watched “Knives Out” (excellent), and then we watched something on CBS, I think. Holy fuck, the propaganda machine is running at supersonic speed. Commercial after commercial about how we’ll all die if we don’t do exactly as the EXPERTS tell us.
There is no praise too effusive for the people responsible for this little tearoom of sanity. Creators and participants.
Glen Campbell rocks.
That is all.
and Jimmy Webb
And Michael Martin Murphy.
Wildfire is one of my favorite songs of all time.
Glen Campbell had it all. Looks, voice, and an amazing guitar player.
You forgot a good right hook…
IIRC (because I can’t be arsed to look it up), that was Jimmy Webb’s forte.
Sense of humor, too. One of my favorite scenes from The Carol Burnett show was Carol, dressed as a nurse, at patient bedside. She uncovers the face, it’s Glen Campbell, who cheerily says “Hi! I’m Glen Campbell!” She pulls the sheet back up over his head while saying “I’m sorry, we don’t have a cure for that.”
Surf and turf, cobb salad, and plenty of martinis and wine.
Cheers and Happy Birthday.
Is it just my imagination, or are the news idjits using the NYC total deaths from all causes interchangeably with plague deaths?
Well, the news media is terribly provincial. And not too bright.
I have a feeling you could make that line into a sketch
I expect the legacy media and politicians here to be the absolute last to figure that out. Or if they figure it out just say we can’t risk any new infections anyway.
If they get trapped into admitting how far off their numbers were from reality, they’ll claim it was because of their excellent pre-emptive measures. Sure, the unemployment rate quadrupled in two weeks, and it will take a year or more to get the supply chain for food and consumer goods back to some semblance of normal, but we saved hundreds of thousands of lives!
Just look at the rock we have that prevents tiger attacks!
Ha! Mine does both tiger and lion. Even keeps them out of the yard, ‘course I got an upgrade plus a 4 year contract if anything, anything at all, breaks down, I’m covered for the cost of the rock plus I get a replacement. Only have to cover shipping and handling.
Did you get the undercoating, too?
Question. Could the real victim of all this be an end of trust in science? Imagine being 13. You’re starting to question what makes reality. You see signs from a decade ago in a national park saying that by 2019 the glacier, that’s right in front of you, is supposed to be gone. You remember being a teen and your mother freaking out over Moo Goo Flu. Experts telling you one thing, your eyes telling you different.
Does that generation become Juggalos, not knowing how magnets work and not asking a scientist because “they be lyin'”?
Do they turn to religion? Metaphysics?
Hopefully it end with a complete distrust of the government. We all know the spin but some will question. Its the economic turmoil that will take years to recover from.
My kids are so over it. Well, they were never actually into it. Both of them have roll-the-eyes attitudes.
I was at our farm store with XY and there were probably 10 feet between each person in line. I muttered to XY that the “social distancing” thing was bullshit and he muttered, “Duh.”
Suddenly their schoolwork has gotten more difficult and intense, and yet…I just gave XX a permission slip to work full time. This is a test (she doesn’t know that). We will see how she does.
Working?? When we’re supposed to be cowering in place!?
Right?!
Butlerian Jihad?
The society that has manifestly demonstrated that it cannot distinguish science from sciencism (global warming!) deserves it good and hard.
Could the real victim of all this be an end of trust in science?
That’s a scary question. Considering our current cultural propensity to learn exactly the wrong lesson from everything, and to forcefully deny objective reality in favor of some sort of emotional security blanket, I can see it happening.
In another decade or so, I won’t have to worry about it or deal with the fallout. So I got that going for me.
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Despite the bodies lining the streets, the sickening sweet smell of charcoaled flesh coming from backyard pyres as families bid farewell to loved ones that have passed due to this pandemic….I still made it back from Meijer. Successful in my quest to procure g̵u̵z̵z̵o̵l̵i̵n̵e̵ Milwaukee’s Best Light.
They actually had TP and paper towels, but for some reason no hot-dog buns and very few hamburger buns. And someone keeps buying all the damned frozen spinach.
It is fascinating me trying to figure out the commonalities of the shortages. My store is out of about half the brands of dog food, all paper products and the name brand canned veggies (with odd exceptions like hominy and collard greens) and has been out of those same things for weeks.