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Am I crazy? Is this really happening without widespread testing and contact tracing? Yes, it's really happening. But if the "procedures" involve keeping people generally apart and cleaning more frequently, I think it's probably fine. The restaurant thing seems a little iffy. I don't think...

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Am I crazy? Is this really happening without widespread testing and contact tracing? Yes, it's really happening. But if the "procedures" involve keeping people generally apart and cleaning more frequently, I think it's probably fine. The restaurant thing seems a little iffy. I don't think...

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So this was not a good time for me to decide to focus my practice on oil and gas work?

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brian wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 10:01 pm Sorry. Fuck Jordan.

Heh

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So, one of my best friends from college went to urgent care last night for a fever, chills, and aches last night and they found stuff on his chest x-ray. He has been labeled a "person of suspicion" and he, his wife, and kids are not allowed to leave the house for the next four days for an...

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Pruitt wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 12:00 pmI am torn - these are my neighbours (and friends in a couple of cases) - but I am tempted to rat them out...

Ratting out Jewish neighbors and friends? Yeah, that's never turned out badly.

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They just ran a live shot of a Florida beach on MSNBC with the chyron “People Flock to Beaches.” There was like 50 people there. All spread out.

Have these guys ever seen a “flocked-to” beach?

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brian wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:25 pm A friend’s father just died from COVID-19 in Michigan. His son was in Phoenix and wasn’t able to travel there to be with him and they can’t do a funeral or memorial service for quite some time of course. Just heartbreaking.

Man. I’m sorry, Brian.

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Funny thing - James Roday thought that being cast the as the second-tier bad guy in "The Dukes of Hazzard" was going to be his last shot at becoming a name actor. He and a bunch of other guys from our pick-up game went to opening night at what was then Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood ...

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I'm voting for Biden because I'd vote for a literal flaming bag of dogshit before I voted for Trump. And that's for personal reasons. See, I think this is the right attitude for anyone who doesn't like the Democrats. Regardless of what you think about Biden, people who place a priority on our democ...

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Funny thing - James Roday thought that being cast the as the second-tier bad guy in "The Dukes of Hazzard" was going to be his last shot at becoming a name actor. He and a bunch of other guys from our pick-up game went to opening night at what was then Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood ...

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Never change, Florida. https://twitter.com/BachmanANjax/status/1251260020370681857?s=20 This is definitely where I break with the Concerned Crowd. These people are out walking, and most of them appear to be keeping their distance. If the beaches were closed they would have to share the sidewalks or...

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TT2.0 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 8:59 am Just found out that the person im renting a room from is selling their property and i have to be out by april 30th. fuck.

Shit that sucks.

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Good time to buy services too. Tree guys gave me a great deal last week. Man, I would feel bad taking a discount from the service guys who are desperate right now. Yeah, depends on the discount though. 10 or 20 percent -- OK, maybe. If they're discounting to the point where I feel like I'm exploiti...

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Noam Chomsky - just another corporate shill.

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I saw the pineapple in season one, episode one. Never since. Season 2 Epiode 11, Gus used my favorite pickup line for the first time -- you hear about Pluto? That's messed up, right? Also it looks like there will be new episodes on USA in the fall The Pluto line is an all timer. The delivery, every...

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DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:24 am Oh...just the President inciting civil unrest during a pandemic...nothing to worry about...

Seriously, what the fuck. The last few days have been batshit even by Trump’s standards.

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brian wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:15 pm Never change, Florida.

I dunno. That doesn’t look too crowded. If the beach bars and restaurants and surf shops are closed, it’s probably not all that dangerous. I’d go.

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Well, this seems kinda appropriate.

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A_B wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:46 am Guys it’s threat level midnight here. Two teenagers. No internet. Trapped.

Time to take up race walking. But not the usual kind - for this kind you just try to see how long you can stay out of the house.

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I thought I was going to get through a lot of new shows, but I've been recording the Psych marathon and that's all I've been watching. Psych has been on a lot at our home, too. I love Maggie Lawson. Same. On both counts. A lot of people look for the hidden pineapple every episode, but they also see...

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mister d wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:50 am Do you trust the party is fully vetting the current accusation and doing everything they can to get ahead of any possible future allegations?

I guess I'd assume so? I figure they want to win and if we've thought of it, someone there has?

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Big day yesterday at the local grocery store - not only did they have a 12-pack of toilet paper (our usual brand, even), but also isopropyl alcohol by the quart, which we're using to disinfect credit cards, keys, phones, etc.

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But you can also see where, if you've developed a reputation as a toucher, people would be less willing to believe you wouldn't cross a line versus someone who has always respected boundaries? And again, before the accusation that's clearly not enough to say "oh, he probably does this", b...

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There's a long way from "physically inappropriate" touching of the kind Biden seems to do to throwing a woman up against a wall and forcing your finger into her vagina . Red is what he's known to have done and do, blue is what he's accused of, and fuck you if you don't support him for the...

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There’s also tons of video out there of Biden being physically inappropriate with women and girls at public events. People try to excuse it as a generational thing buy I haven’t seen Mike Bloomberg, Bernie Sanders or Chuck Schumer sniffing teenage girls’ hair at political events. And we’d all be ri...

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Stats cited earlier about voting percentages increasing with wealth and education, knowledge that older people vote more than younger people and that in general older people skew more conservative than younger people, logical conclusion reached as to why Republicans work so hard at voter suppressio...

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Anyone who is going to vote Republican does; there's a massive pool of non-voters who would vote Dem if given the incentive. What is the evidence for this? Or, more appropriately, what is the evidence that if the Dems gave more of an incentive to voters who ideologically align with you, they would ...

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Guess that ghouls at the gates of the Ohio Statehouse on Monday had some effect: https://twitter.com/wdtnbrooke/status/1250850663183106048 DeWine seems relatively smart and non-insane (except about abortion). So I expect, or at least hope, that his "reopening plan" will be expressly conti...

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mister d wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 1:07 pmLook at poverty rates over the last two decades?

The Dems have had legislative power for two of the past twenty-six years.

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Yeah, my father-in-law was in a bad way for quite a while, in a nursing home in Pensacola. Man, that was depressing.

He died back in November. But holy shit, I can only imagine how terrified we would be if he were there now.

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(Also, I like that you included women here given the developments of the past month or so.) By "developments of the past month," you mean the accusation by a woman who desperately wants to see Biden lose and who is so far around the bend that she was singing Putin's praises not that long ...

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Its irresponsible to prop up Biden as the only alternative to Trump. Ooh, can I play? It's irresponsible to continue in a primary once it's become clear that you've lost half your support and that if you continue, the nominee will be Joe Biden. Just yesterday you said that Warren would be a bad VP ...

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... those people being hurt are the ones who won't turn out and its because they don't gain under Biden. This is so crazy wrong in so many ways. First, you're assuming that Greenwald - who has absolutely no credibility whatsoever - is correct that the people who are going to refuse to vote are the ...

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mister d wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:59 am Its irresponsible to prop up Biden as the only alternative to Trump.

Ooh, can I play?

It's irresponsible to continue in a primary once it's become clear that you've lost half your support and that if you continue, the nominee will be Joe Biden.

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I don't trust these people. Well, yeah. No one should trust any of these people. I'll be legit curious to see what these guys are saying about Biden after he takes office if he wins. When it comes time to nominate a replacement for RBG, etc. I suspect they'll go back to their old ways, but the enem...

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Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:48 pmI don't trust these people.

Well, yeah. No one should trust any of these people.

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I would listen to the song, form an opinion and then possibly change that opinion based on what I learn about the artist. Same as what I've done with Conway and would do in the Grimes hypothetical because the same word-for-word comment written by ten people can have ten different meanings. Sure, an...

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sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:32 pm Just found out that the guy who was my boss, mentor, and huge help to me in the corporate minefield just tested positive for Covid-19.

Damn again. Good luck, guys.

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I guess I don't believe that all public figures' words should be taken at face value, especially if you can easily ascribe self-interest. I guess my question is - when it comes to political argumentation, what is there besides face value? He's putting words and concepts together and circulating the...

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