I love me some corporate pandering.

"I have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980, including voting for Donald Trump in 2016."

"And somehow that jerk thinks his opinion should matter now?"

He's just a Lincoln Republican. Democrats love those folks these days. Get in line.

Wow. In pace requiescat, Malik B.

"This is why."

Absent temporarily nationalizing the payroll and a nation-wide stay at home order, yeah.

"He should not be allowed to escape to Russia when he loses the election."

Trump is a man accustomed to pampered luxury. He's not going to leave the US. He's going to Florida.

"If the election is delayed speaker Pelosi leaves office first week of Jan"

I suppose California can still go ahead and hold their election.

"You really think Trump weighs anything carefully, other than Melania?"

That's hysterical. I'm willing to bet that there is language in their pre-nup that dictates what she can weigh, even during pregnancy.

"When I lived in Seattle, Bill Gates was adamantly opposed to Microsoft employees working from home."

That's his ideology talking. What works best for him personally he extrapolates out to everyone. Since he's so rich people assume there's some wisdom in his every utterance.

He's learned from Dear Leader how to appeal to the base while simultaneously being able to argue to centrists that it was all just an honest mistake. Everybody else wasn't going to vote for him anyway. The sad part, and more telling part, is that it's so effective with centrists.

"... as long as fast testing and widescale contact tracing was being done."

Emphasis added.

I'm listening to an fan audiobook of a fan fiction sci fi novel I've read a couple times now and it might be in my top five all time favorite novels. In many ways it is very much in the tradition of Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Dan Simmons, Orson Scott Card. But also in the tradition of Richard Feynman, Erwin Schrodinger, and Albert Einstein. Written by Eliezer Yudkowsky, an artificial intelligence researcher at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, it brings in science, math, sociology, and philosophy (logic, game theory, ethics, epistemology). It's also insanely funny, particularly if you know the material the story is based on.

Don't judge. Have an open mind. The name of the book is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It reinterprets the story of the original series from the premise that Harry was raised as an only child by his aunt Petunia and an Oxford professor in a loving home rather than in the abusive home of the original. His religion was the scientific method. He's the most precocious 11 year old that ever existed, smarter than most adults, and the lightning bolt scar on his head is a bigger influence on his personality than originally intended by Rowling.

If you have any appreciation for Harry Potter at all, and like science, math, philosophy, and sociology I highly recommend it.

"I don't know but couldn't U.S. patent holders go after Huawei for the same thing on violations of many patents?"

Using the legal system to attack those they feel slighted them? That's just Huawei using Trump's own tactics against us.

"Maybe that should be STILL drunk at 6 in the morning."

Here in NYC we didn't go out until after midnight and rested up in the early evening.

"He musta really had a snoot full."

That's probably true.

"New York City and New York State have been using their enforcement capabilities to terrorize, intimidate, harass, and shut down businesses for nearly a century" and these capabilities "have been aimed at minority owned businesses."

Minorities are less likely to be able to afford to defend themselves and less likely to complain to people with power to do something about it. Same reason you are more likely to be audited than a wealthy person.

Ironic twist, the Mongols want Trump to build the wall.

"Trump is lying to you but I can't openly tell you that because I don't want to desert the American people out of anger because, right now, y'all need me to keep telling you the truth about the Pandemic but I have to do it almost in a code so I don't get fired and let Trump appoint some crony to my position who will do nothing but lie to the nation."

Trump couldn't find an ID specialist with anywhere near the experience, stature, and gravitas of Dr. Fauci to parrot Trump's preferred talking points if he tried. And he knows it. Sure, he might be able to find somebody who has never done anything more important than run their own small private practice like those two ------- covid deniers from Cali a few months back but the scientific community would eviscerate them the first time they opened their mouths. So Fauci gets to be Trump's foil so long as he isn't overtly insulting when he contradicts him. You don't get to where Fauci is for as long as he's been there without having master level political instincts.

" I personally find this "Convenient" editing."

That image made its way to air because of the efforts of some low level production staffer who used the first image they came across. If Trump was in the image they found it was edited iwithout thinking through the implications but there are cropped images already in existence. I don't believe there was anything nefarious or deceptive happening here. There are other pictures of Maxwell and Epstein out there; you just have to make it to the second page of your Google search.

" 20 years of work at $50k per year and you only earn $1 million. $500 million to play a f'n for game for 10 years is disgusting and one of the many reasons we will fail as a nation. I love sports and Patrick has mad skills, but that number is beyond reasonable."

He only gets paid that much because of the amount of money fans put in the owners' pockets. That's on us. Or more accurately that's on the fans. I haven't followed pro sports in a significant way since I graduated high school.

He looks and acts like a cop. "I feel threatened!" He knows the language to justify any behavior.

"This is insane. "Her mother, a nurse, and a man identified in the report as her father, a physician's assistant,""

There's a not uncommon sentiment in nursing that they often know better than doctors what is best for a patient. This happens for a variety of reasons. One is anecdotal experienced interactions with doctors who are too busy to spend the time to know what is happening with a patient apart from what the patient's chart says and who under-appreciate input from nurses. A second is being aware of times when doctors just genuinely make a mistake. A third is doctors with a superiority complex and poor interpersonal skills who treat nurses like their experience and observations as worthless. Add this to your run of the mill inferiority complex that is envious of or doesn't respect the education and expertise of doctors and you get essential oil using, anti-vaxxer Karen nurses with degrees from Google University.

"That Judge's order will be overturned almost immediately."

My bet is that his attorneys will be able to delay an appeal ruling until after the election. Which is the whole point.

It's significantly higher than 17% but many just don't want to admit it.

" Don't forget the softcore porn aspect some of the gamer girls have, cameras aimed right at cleavage. I guess that's the entertainment category you mentioned :)"

My friend's girlfriend supplemented her income that way while she was in law school. She was pretty good at the games she played but I'm guessing a lot of her views had little to do with that.

"Watching people play video games??? If anyone ever catches me doing that please shoot me."

There's zero difference between watching people play a pro sport and watching people play video games at the professional level. You're watching people with years of experience and a high degree of skill do something at the top of their field. Stop being such a snob. It's not a good look.

#4 10 to 1 odds his racism wasn't contrasting with the point of view of most of his coworkers. He may have even developed that way of thinking at the fire department. That's how it worked with the guys I know.