#10 and #19 Agree I took the March crash as a chance to jump in and now I'm sitting pretty. Lets face it the government will sell every last inch of the US to keep the market high so the game may be rigged but it's the only game in town. I'll ride the coat tails of the rich until the US dissolves into corporate city states and hope I own stock in one with low crime good jobs and lots of trees.

I didn't think Snow Crash was supposed to be prophetic but I've been wrong before.

#18 It's not just Trump supporters I hear a lot of parents desperate to get the kids back in school. They are going bat guano crazy.

#6

The video part will be a huge hit to Walmart+ unless they can add something. Echo also will be lacking which combined with Amazon music is nice. The fuel discount will be nice but unless they partner with a gas station chain or add a bunch of stations I don't know how useful that will be to a lot of people. Around here I only know of one Walmart gas station and it's like 20-30 minutes from me. Plus unless the discount is huge how much driving would you have to do to make up 98 bucks a year.

Capitalists can get a piece of the weed pie too. I get it two ways directly through Aphria and indirectly through Altaria.

Seems pretty easy for other capitalists to jump off the PIC train and on the weed train. I've made 15% this year on Aphria and another 5% on Altaria not even counting the massive dividend I get from Altaria. In fact given that GEO and CoreCivic are both down over 30% smart capitalists would be wise to end their bet on prisons and get on board the MJ train.

What's up with Scottsdale? That's where Amy's Baking was to.

That, that can't be real, can it?

#41

So 3 miles on a bike 20 minutes, by car 5 so round trip 40 vs 10 so right off the bat you are 4 times longer. Now the other part of the equation is how often you go to the store? If you go twice a week like I do then the question is how much you can carry on a backpack or saddle bags or both. I don't see much more than 2 days worth for a family so that's 3.5 trips a week. Not sure how often you go in a car but for me it's usually twice a week so I have 20 minutes round trip a week the biker has 140 so 7 times as long and we haven't dealt with check out times. I would say danforth is being generous with 9 times.

#30

You aren't even getting into the deeper problems. Back when we were broke as a joke we lived in a place where the oven didn't work and only 2 of the 4 burners worked on the range. Any baking had to be done in the toaster oven or microwave. We also only had 2 pots 1 large 1 small and only one sauce spoon. We did have 2 frying pans one large one small and a spatula. That was pretty much it for cooking tools. You are pretty limited to food choices with that kind of set up.

So yeah it's great to say you should cook meals, but without the tools and appliances to do so, that is not realistic.

Final point on trying to eat healthy when poor. Say you want to make a nice meal, well you probably don't have a stocked spice rack so you go buy all the ingredients you need including spices that will set you back but that's ok because they will last multiple meals. Then you cook a nice meal but don't have practice or good tools so it comes out inedible. Well you just dropped two days of your food budget on one meal, lots of time getting to the store, and you have to eat ruined food or else not eat. How many attempts will you make before just saying screw it and live on Michelina's

Trump wanted guarantees of a fully open convention two months in advance when information is literally changing on a daily basis.

Cooper is looking pretty correct right now as we run into 50k cases a day. So yeah blame Cooper for NC losing 50k potential carriers attending a super spreading event in one One of the densest populated areas of the state. Economically it's a hit but not nearly as bad a one as the potential surge it would cause would be.

Rat your link got my cat going. He is now convinced that I'm hiding a bird on my person somewhere.

#1

Blackskins?

Don't tempt the racists they can do so much worse.

#13

Yeah I started following all of those race much more carefully about 5 years ago. It started with the school board and some issues but once I got doing the research it snowballed into every state and local election since. My wife is less interested in politics so usually she just gets my slate of local candidates and goes with that but even so that puts her well ahead of 90% of local voters.

As to the judges we had one here who was kicked off the bench for public intoxication specifically he peed on a guys bush while drunk. He was not disbarred and became a lawyer instead. One of my buddies was arrested on 6 felony drug counts and he was the lawyer for him. The court session was impressive to watch. The guys boyfriend was charged with the same counts but had a different lawyer. So he goes up and she is a bulldog throws most of the charges back on my friend and the boyfriend gets off with some public service hours. So my friends lawyer gets up there and after this big impassioned defense I'm expecting something similar. Nope he stands up says "Your Honor my client is a good kid who made some mistakes and has learned a valuable lesson here, we are asking for the felony diversion program. Are we still on for tennis this Saturday?"

My friend got felony diversion which according to the law with 6 counts and the quantities involved he should not have even been eligible for. That was the moment I realized how screwed up our judicial system is, I mean yay for my friend but, man that's messed up.

------- enhancements?

Apparently not subtle enough to get around the censors, good grief.

------- enhancements?

Too subtle a way around the censors for you?

Danni and Donner, Phester is half correct. The young and reckless and trump supporters are both thumbing their nose at this. The young cause they figure they will be fine and the trump supporters because it is a hoax.

It is convenient for Phester to ignore the Trump supporters out there refusing to wear masks and marching with ------- enhancements for muh fredumbs and it is convenient for liberals to ignore the young partying because they are invincible.

The bad news for the Trump supporters is the young are pretty much are invincible and will pay a very small personal price for their actions, the Trump supporters are older and in worse health and therefor will pay a much higher price for their belief that it is a hoax.

#32

Yeah I read about that, freaking snowflake.

Actually it's a dude who has a history of suing video game companies. I imagine the hope is to settle out of court for a fraction.

#13

Should look at what percentage of severe cases and death are/were stoners.

I would think that if cannabidiol provided much protection California wouldn't be seeing a spike. Would be nice if it did though.

#10

Tao for president 2020 :)

Can't lay it all at Trumps feet not sure about that one but cost is a big factor and that type of test typically runs 45 per test not counting the initial equipment costs. So it would require a pretty big outlay which congress seems unlikely to approve.

Perhaps an effective leader could force it through but with folks like Rand Paul and Mitch in there I doubt it.

#8

So wait 4 people didn't have brains and three people had an extra lung? Wild, man!

It's too late to read the study but from your synopsis I don't see a cause of anything going on with the heart but I thought heart disease was a risk factor in COVID. Am I missing something or are they thinking the heart disease thing was just a random similarity in patients and not anything to do with COVID.

Also the stroke factor had kind of dropped off the map for me with all the other information until this reminded me.

So I guess that makes us one of the countries Trump was referring to when he said "-------- countries"?

He doesn't think he is lying that's the story he was told.

What southern state is not having a spike right now? NC because Cooper has done a reasonable job. Meanwhile his Lt. Gov and opponent for election is suing him to open faster. Yet all right wing media will talk about is Coopers "failure". Right now I put it at 60/40 that Forest is Gov. come November and we can take 2 steps back.

How we manage to be so stupid in such a great state is beyond me.

#27

I was never great at CS generally first person shooters are not my thing. UT was the one exception and I thought I was good till I played some of the tournament guys. Yeah I might have been better than average but in no way was I good. I was always a RTS guy and I hate that the genre has died off.

I met Mark Rein back in 98 I was his go to guy for testing computers because I could take off the shelf ones and customize them to the specs he needed same day. He was an incredibly loyal customer after the first time I bailed him out when he needed 5 systems set up just so and his normal place couldn't do it. He came in with his list and 3 hours later rolled out 5 computers with upgraded ram and video cards. He was a very lucrative customer for a commission sales person to have, he would do that a few times a year. Anyway as thanks for that first time he gave me a copy of Unreal so I was playing that from jump. He also gave me UT about a month before the release and over the years various video cards and ram chips that they were done testing on. From '99-'02 I had pretty fly build your own computers partially from that partially because Intel would hook up sales people. My last computer I built before getting out of computers was a P4 3.06GhZ with hyper-threading a GeForce TI4400 video card and 512MB ram. In 2002 it was just blazing! It's still running.

Of course now thanks to Fortnite he's one of the richest guys in town and owns a hunk of the Carolina Hurricanes. Since I haven't been in computers for years we've lost touch. He lives in a gated community and when I was in there for another customer I dropped a business card in his mailbox. Maybe if he needs his fireplace repaired he'll hit me up and I can score some Canes tickets if hockey ever comes back. BTW he's a super nice guy, if you didn't gather that, despite at the time driving a Porsche. Until I met him I assumed only douches drove Porsche.

#10

Be careful touting the drop in deaths, it is just now long enough to start seeing deaths from the surge in cases from early June. I hope as I said on another thread that the declining average age of cases will protect us from a spike in deaths but it's too soon to know and you're going to look really dumb if they start increasing again over the next few days/weeks.

Let's hope for all of our sakes that doesn't happen.