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Cruise lines which sail under foreign flags so the can f*k workers, the environment, the tax office get nothing from the bailout.

May they sink like the Titanic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/26/cruise-line-bailout/

HSA is a health insurance program where the account management company just steals $5 from you per month until the account is drained.

I want to post a picture of a quick bread just so I can hear the audible sigh of the yeast bread bakers.

society: What do we want?
us: National health insurance!
society: Oh, you want FSAs, HSAs & insurance to be a hybrid of pick 4 gambling, but none of simplicity or fun of gambling
us: Wait what? NO!
society: Good that's what you get. Roll D20 to see if you get reimbursed this time

pet peeve:
-The bank's name is "Bank Co"
-The real url to get your tax forms is http://bankco.paymentprocessors.com

Why not just pick a url of http://bankco.yeahwearenotaphishtrustus.com

I drove over to drop off masks at my son's appt yesterday. While walking one block to pickup donuts at least 1 person did a double take seeing me in a mask.

Leaving the liquor stores open is harm reduction. The alcoholics will start drinking cans of hairspray & so on-if they run out of safer alternatives.

If alcohol was a new product, it wouldn't get past FDA approval. Given endemic addiction & use, it is safer to do harm reduction.

Oh, great, I get $500 instead of $3400 because I haven't filed my 2019 taxes. (I got married last year). I guess I need to file taxes before Friday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/coronavirus-stimulus-check-calculator/

What I've learned doing the video conf thing:

I TALK ON ZOOM LIKE IM TALKING TO MY 1/2 DEAF DAD. Not on purpose, dunno why.

I always look bored. I'm not bored probably, really that is my entire emotional range.

Product endorsement: Purple Carrot meal kits. I've used them for over 2 years, they're good meal kits.

https://www.purplecarrot.com/upcoming-menus

But if the Administration is going to ban telework right after Easter (how else will they force a reopen? besides they hate telework), what point is there in that? https://x.com/jmillerWFED/status/1242866219289583617

Status:
Thinking about what I need next month so I can put an Amazon order in today.

Status:
- Wife is working out how to do curbside pickup from walmart.
- Working out quarantine & decontamination plan for the food packages

The country should stage a general strike if anything reopens before the epidemiologists, state governors make the call.

The Icelanders said it best in their wise political aphorism, "Helvítis fokking fokk"

And the prophecy said, "The mild to moderate will envy the dead"*

* (did you know Nikita Khrushchev 1st said, "The living will envy the dead"?)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-probably-have-a-mild-to-moderate-case-of-covid-19-i-dont-think-i-could-survive-worse/2020/03/24/740b4d10-6de2-11ea-a3ec-70d7479d83f0_story.html

Is this a plan to kill all the Christians? This is nuts. https://x.com/atrupar/status/1242537995103846400

Product endorsement- WFH & Where did my day go Edition
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Wakatime - Time spent coding in your IDE or editor
TimeSnapper - Record your whole day like a movie + stats
Rescue Time - Mac/Windows

Why? Because if you've logged 40 hours, stop working. It is easy to go overboard.

I can get behind this agenda. https://x.com/round/status/1055129672202289152

At about 10-15 days indoors, (my non-doctor estimation), either you don't have corona or it was asymptomatic. What cut off ranges for this "test" are y'all reading?

A sloppy joe is a bean soup on a plate with very large croutons.

Chane my mind.

I'm not worried about "this" conversation. I'm worried about "the" conversation.

The former is just about javascript anyhow. https://twitter.com/AmyDrummond/status/1242463958780579840

Hello world? I got work to do, so could you put all the breaking news on hold for 8 hours? Thanks.

Also, my farmer cousin in Maryland reports that taking livestock antibiotics is not an uncommon coping strategy for not having health insurance. https://x.com/kevrandom/status/1242428630107652098

Who invited George Boole to the Trolley Problem Philosophers Convention? https://x.com/ZachWeiner/status/631105419197308928

You are standing at a lever controlling the direction of an out of control trolley. Pull the lever & it kills 50 people who use the trolly question to justify murdering millions Leave the lever & it kills 75 who use it to justify murdering millions. How do you get it to back up?

Mass killing of the olds was good economic policy a few weeks and month ago ago, why weren't the people advocating for it now advocating for it then? Anyhow, advocates should go first.

I'm hoping the governors all ignore the president.

IDEA: Temporarily freeze all contracts. Every night the economy halts and resumes in the morning. Same for weekends. It restarts. Difference is at night, employers don't fire everyone because sales collapse a 3AM.

Best response to the "let's just quarantine the at risk & get back to work"-- there will be no medical system for the duration for anyone, at best only reduces deaths 50% from worst case scenario (here, 1 million vs 2 million), & lots of young people die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSLpDQx1bA

Smart thermometer shows where people are unexpectedly running temperatures: NYC is hot, all of BosNyWash is warm, Florida (Florida?) is on fire.

https://www.healthweather.us/

supply status: running low on covid jokes.

Okay VA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oo8QzDHimQ

This is better than the Australian one-- e.g. specifies what "difficulty breathing" means, it means you can't hold your breath for 10 seconds. https://twitter.com/EricSchles/status/1242153682252292098

No one wants to vote for fever+cough, seems like an unpopular option. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1242118338446327808

Tired of election betting odds? They got plague odds!

https://www.electionbettingodds.com/CoronavirusApril15US.html

We'll get through this like all crises. We appeal to 1-2% of people to personally take care of the problem on our behalf.

2% of people driving electric cars (global warming)
2% giving up meat (animal-derived plagues)
2% observing strict quarantine

& it is the same 2% of people

Health check: Within last week you had: