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There's a pandemic on the go mate. You sound like the isolation is getting to you, hence the outpouring of drivel. Stay safe Robert. Try and get some air and clear your head. |
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To clarify, $1200 checks are ONLY going to some w/social sec numbers, NOT immigrants w/ tax IDs (ITINs). Thanks to GOP, these checks will be cut off the backs of *taxpaying immigrants,* who get nothing. Many are essential workers who pay more taxes than Amazon. Wall St gets $4T |
Don’t check in here very often. Isolating with family, working from home, 5 year old pre-school son with autism in one bedroom apartment, company-wide salary cuts by 20%. Still have a job and health insurance, wondering how long I will be able to say that. Almost bought a Drifter Les Paul copy guitar on eBay the other day, glad I passed it up now.
Horrors playing out across healthcare systems, scale will increase continuously Interesting explanation why bats harbor so much virus: https://youtu.be/iJ2jDPgvbTY |
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i'm sorry things are tough, but with a job and health insurance it's a "count your blessings" scenario i think. also the fact that you're in a one bedroom apartment not keeping a mcmansion is a very good thing. yes a 20% cut is tough but not a mortal wound. maybe too soon to talk about this, but you might find it helpful, so i'll just risk being tactless or tone-deaf and say it anyway in case it's usable: per some financial formulas (eg. elizabeth warren's "balanced money formula") it's good to have your essentials at 50% of take-home pay because that's what unemployment covers. yes i know it's difficult etc. but she's got her reasons, worth listening to, in book form. and i know timing is perhaps bad, now maybe the budget reviews are happening by surprise, but maybe check out her book if you're curious (title is "all your worth"). it's a good framework, there are others, but for the employed person looking for some financial stability that's what i would recommend. i read mine at the library ages ago, and now libraries are closed but there are probably some *cough* pdf copies floating out there and i don't think she'd mind... |
Something to cheer you up from Associated Press:
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The most anti-science, anti-playbook, anti-healthcare-plan Administration in modern American history will now bumble its way through this crisis.
And they will probably win the next election. |
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Incredibly, even his friends at The New York Post (yes, POST, not Times, and the NY Post's Editorial Board at that) are sick of the fucker:
Trump must stop winging it after panicking tri-state area over coronavirus lockdown "Please, sir, we all have enough to worry about these days." |
You must be so confused in the USA. On one hand, some are warning of the crisis still to come, and the sustained actions that must be taken to flatten the curve. On the other hand, Trump is seen signing papers in crowds huddled together, and is droning on about re-opening the economy really soon. These mixed messages, not to mention the constant lies, will cost lives.
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I just try to forget he exists.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...through-end-of
Well damn. Maybe everything won't be ok by Easter afterall. I'm shocked. SHOCKED I tell you. |
At this rate, the only person i'm ever supposed to see in person again...is my brother.
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He looks like a fucking genius now.
And it seems the Moron In Brazil has been convinced to see the light. That guy makes even Trump look like a very stable genius. |
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Fauci: millions of cases, up to 200,000 deaths in the United States
Skuj, I share your view that Trump can fuck everything up, or do fuckall, and get reelected anyway, but if the "numbers" (aka PEOPLE) reach that point (that's half WW2, three and a half Vietnams, forty Iraqs, seventy-seven World Trade Centers), he's fucked. The electorate will instinctively need someone to blame and it won't be Xi Jinping or a flying rat. |
They will blame Obama.
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this thread has become as useful to deal with corona as tits on a rooster
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Wait.....you thought it would be useful?
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i figured it would be some sort of helpful communication not just another bitch session about the ubiquitous orange shitbird. which, mind you, has its own thread. also you never replied to the pk3 (who needs a dash?)
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P-Q4. Bitch.
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So what is everyone doing during quarantine? Getting high or what?
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I'm very lucky, living in a sparsely populated area with much greenspace. I get out lots, alone, avoiding people, for walks. I'd go nuts otherwise. I used to be a hardcore runner, but I quit that in Jan 2019 and started hardcore swimming in Feb 2019. But now I can't fucking do that!
Also, I have a job that has not been affected, because I am deemed "essential". (Actually, I am at "work" right now.) :) I think it is very important to continue with music listening, film viewing and book reading during this. My wife decided that we should get divorced as this crisis struck. When it rains, it might as well pour. |
Ha! I heard divorce rates in China skyrocketed because of this.
I am sorry, I hope it is for the best. |
My shtick these days is: "Oh man, what a fucking disaster 2020 is so far. Everything in my life has been turned up-side-down. It's just so fucked up. Plus there's the whole Covid-19 thing."
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Hmm, well, I can report that the puma situation has had a happy end.   This cat (heh) came down all the way from the Andes mountains to the semi-deserted metropolis and everybody lost their shit - COVID-19 ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, NATURE'S TAKING OVER! It was captured, a battery of tests were performed (blood, X-rays - I'm serious, that species is protected by law; too bad people aren't) and then placed back in the Cordillera.  According to one veterinarian, wild animals are not invading the city; it's us mooks who are expanding our shit and they are trying to figure out where the limit is now. Humans ruin everything, really. |
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I’m at work as I type, but I’ll have the next three days off. We’ve been doing small projects around the house and working in the yard. Cleaned out the garage this past weekend and cleaned out gutters yesterday. Hopefully I’ll be finishing up some mixtapes on my days off......and maybe mailing them out Friday? I’ve really been enjoying: Hunger! ************************************* On Sunday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott mandated that Louisiana drivers self-quarantine for 14 days, but as this news report shows, very little is being done to enforce the new law. This Texas Monthly interview with Billionaire Tilman Fertitta has me thinking in multiple months rather than a short term return to normalcy. 3,174 Deaths from coronavirus in America......will we hit 10,000 deaths by the weekend? Michigan Governor Whitmer to sign executive order closing schools for remainder of school year. With President Trump calling for 30 additional days of social distancing, I’m guessing the earliest American kids might return to class is May. I wonder how it will take for other States to follow Michigan??? Believe our 17 year old daughter is starting to realize that a proper graduation ceremony might not happen. |
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NICE KITTY here we're starting to have deer in public parks which is awesome |
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not sure if this useful to you or anyone else but check it out https://vitals.lifehacker.com/how-to...aut-1842549279 |
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d7-d5 (p-q4) |
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I saw a mouse outside my apartment... |
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that’s gross ans i hope you guys got a good exterminator make sure to seal the space under your door cuz the fuckers will crawlmin through a hole the size of a dime, then piss and shit all over your stuff make sure to keep food in cans or glass not bags yikes! i fucking hate mice. proof that walt disney was evil. — ps- has the forum server really slowed down the past couple of years or is it just me? |
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Dis you mean the last couple of WEEKS? If you did, it's absolutely not just you. I have time to make myself a sandwich every time I wait for a SYG page to load. No disrespect to the Mod mods. |
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couple of weeks is more accurate but i lost track of time server got corona’d |
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I mentioned on this thread that I've been getting crap speed overall (but mostly here), because everybody's using the damn thing. I guess sex went out of style. Anyway, I should've just replied with: It Isn’t Just You: The Internet Is Actually Super-Slow Lately More: https://news.google.com/search?q=int...S&ceid=US%3Aen |
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