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Idris Elba? JFC.

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I am the asshole type of attorney who never got around to doing my own will. So...I am doing one now. Do you know what you're doing? If not, there's a good chance you will do more harm than good by doing a will. If you die intestate, I am pretty sure it all goes to your wife. If you are going to tr...

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I am the asshole type of attorney who never got around to doing my own will. So...I am doing one now. Do you know what you're doing? If not, there's a good chance you will do more harm than good by doing a will. If you die intestate, I am pretty sure it all goes to your wife. If you are going to tr...

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I am the asshole type of attorney who never got around to doing my own will. So...I am doing one now. Do you know what you're doing? If not, there's a good chance you will do more harm than good by doing a will. If you die intestate, I am pretty sure it all goes to your wife. If you are going to tr...

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The DJIA is about 28 percent lower than its February 12 peak.

Good times.

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mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:55 am She's 55, dude.

Shh. I haven't been called young in a long time.

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Since I've already made this about me... Finally got around to going to a new therapist since my old guy retired at 92. Fucking quitter. After a couple sessions, she pauses and says, "your brain isn't normal. You don't operate the way most people do." As we continued to discuss the way my...

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Guys seriously how do you deal with this feeling of dread? I'm not so much scared of getting sick as I am of the way other people are going to act if this gets bad. All the medical professionals in my life are really highly concerned and it's starting to get me really churned up. I'm sure I'm overr...

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Gotta question - what would a national quarantine look like? Would they give notice for people to get back home, for instance? Quinn and his girlfriend are with relatives south of Asheville (he drove) in lieu of his school trip to France - and I need to make sure they can get back home - so... I do...

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Park City (Summit County) just closed all its restaurants, bars, churches, gyms, spas.

That’s gonna leave a mark.

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So ... a family member on my wife's side died unexpectedly a few days ago in San Antonio. We weren't particularly close to the person who died, but my wife's sister was. They're not having a funeral, but a really small viewing in a few days. My wife and I really don't want to fly there. Driving wou...

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So ... a family member on my wife's side died unexpectedly a few days ago in San Antonio. We weren't particularly close to the person who died, but my wife's sister was. They're not having a funeral, but a really small viewing in a few days. My wife and I really don't want to fly there. Driving woul...

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I just went to my local grocery store for a few things ... it was closed.

Apparently they've gone to reduced hours, so will open at 10 today. And if that's to allow more employees to stay home, I guess that's a good thing. But it was pretty eerie to walk up to locked doors in broad daylight.

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Eh, it's a one-year thing. And you can only play so many guys anyway. That's what I was figuring. There's already enough "unfairness" built into the system when one school has a bunch of kids graduate or leave all at once and the competition doesn't. It's not exactly the same thing, but a...

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DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 6:29 pmNo *known* cases within 60 miles of the county *yet*.

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Ehhh. Self-employed and terrified that money is going to stop flowing so just gonna try to get as much billable hours in as possible and hope that I'll still get paid come next invoicing cycle. That and a lot of edibles. I don't think I'm terrified, exactly, but otherwise, yeah. As a partner, I'll ...

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In-service for teachers, no school for kids on Monday. Online classes then start on Tuesday. The situation will be re-evaluated oh a week by week basis. Oh, forgot to report in. We're "atleast" 2 weeks starting immediately. Yup. We're closed for two weeks. Though one of those weeks is spr...

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Rush2112 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 3:57 pm Ivanka might have been infected after meeting with an Aussie minister last week.

It'll be hilarious when Trump ends up testing positive and Jared Kushner doesn't.

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NCAA athletes petitioning for another year of eligibility. Logistical nightmare to have seniors come back, given roles and minutes promised to recruits. That said, heartbreaking for these seniors. Heck, how do you even decide how many scholarships a team would have, just for next year? There's 13 f...

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First thing that jumps to my mind based on bk code is what would be the way for creditors to avoid loss of value of collateral and when could they (and what procedure) to get ok to foreclose/repo. To me this is just shifting the problem from debtors to creditors. Those creditors have financing arra...

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rass wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:49 am
Rex wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:33 am Everyone's complaining about the Jazz getting 58 people tested when all I want to know is how many of them came up positive.
Yeah, Utah. How many more, man?

ETA or "How many more men?" hmmm

Bring 'em young! Bring 'em young!

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A_B wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:32 am Didn't Italy just do this countrywide?

I know Italy suspended mortgages. That's where the idea came from.

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Yes, that's what I would assume. I don't personally need to know, but it's an important data point for people who are smart enough to actually use it. Also, Steve's post did say "They said that only two came back positive". I don't know if he meant that, but that's a big difference from w...

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Rex wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:33 am Everyone's complaining about the Jazz getting 58 people tested when all I want to know is how many of them came up positive.

They said that only two came back positive - Gobert and Mitchell.

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Help me save the economy. I've drafted the outline of a proposed bill to submit to my state legislators. The idea is to have the legislature declare a "suspension period", where pre-existing debts, rents, mortgages, utilities, and insurance premiums would not need to be paid. It basically ...

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I guess what my last question meant was, "if it's not "officially" counted for some reason, is there an argument to be made that it should?" I can't imagine this has as few consequences as it would seem. I don't think it's a matter of official versus unofficial counting. I think...

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I don't know enough about the specifics, but I assume that is part of the point. It doesn't sound good though. I guess maybe a simpler question is ... does what the Fed did today create a debt that requires repayment out of future federal budgets? My understanding is that it does not. And my follow...

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govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:06 pm I don't know enough about the specifics, but I assume that is part of the point. It doesn't sound good though.

I guess maybe a simpler question is ... does what the Fed did today create a debt that requires repayment out of future federal budgets? My understanding is that it does not.

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Arteta tests positive.

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Am I missing something, or is this a really dishonest tweet from Bernie? https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1238223131204030466?s=20 The way I understand it, what the Fed is doing is taking its own money and lending it to banks by buying bonds. It transfers money to the banks but gets financial a...

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My office closing tomorrow (just announced). Likely to extend much longer if I had to guess. It's like the fall of Saigon in here (only, you know, different) as people frantically try and move files to One Drive to work remotely and cancel depos and appointments etc. We just decided to basically cl...

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My office closing tomorrow (just announced). Likely to extend much longer if I had to guess. It's like the fall of Saigon in here (only, you know, different) as people frantically try and move files to One Drive to work remotely and cancel depos and appointments etc. We just decided to basically cl...

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Ten percent drop in the DJIA today. The index hasn't been this low since June 8, 2017.

The S&P is also basically where it was in the summer of 2017.

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(Honestly, in a weird way, a legit worst case scenario for the election in November is Trump dying in the next couple of weeks and Pence somehow pulling things together after.) Maybe I’m wrong but I think it’d be easy for any Democrat to beat Pence in a general election, even if Pence projects comp...

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P.D.X. wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:19 pm
mister d wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:32 am Madrid (do people refer to Real Madrid as just Madrid?)
"Real"

You called?

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Also those mid/low tier sports could go under because of this. Indoor Lacrosse suspends league and that league does not have a big buffer. I think there needs to be a nationwide "automatic stay" on all recurring payment obligations, including payment on debt incurred before the past coupl...

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mister d wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 1:23 pm God I need this so bad.

I know, right? If Tom Hanks and Donovan Mitchell get corona and Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump don't, WTF.

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mister d wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 12:47 pm Yeah, not worried about their direct health, more about what everything looks like in 2 months.

Yeah.

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degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 12:38 pm

As a Hawks fan, thank god.

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mister d wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 12:07 pm I can't even imagine what level of nihilism I'd be at right now if I didn't have kids.

Can you take any comfort in the fact that so far kids seem to be resistant to it?

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