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sharknado slashfic posted:Honestly for the last couple days I've been thinking about leaving SA permanently because I feel like it's becoming completely unhinged. Less here, but the hyperbole is through the roof. Gbs being a poo poo show? Yeah, duh. But d&d has inmates running the asylum. It's out of control. When Warren dropped I had already voted so I didn't need to come to terms. I just waited to see how it shook out.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-17/super-rich-stranded-as-private-jet-operators-say-no-to-travel Private jets telling rich people, nah.
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An old medic I served with is actively telling people that COVID19 isn’t real. Another guy from the unit that believes in crisis actors agrees.
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Dow is going to open at about 1k points down according to the news. Likely due to the reports that came out saying that 18% of Americans have either lost their job or had hours reduced. It's going to be a ride today.
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Mar 18, 2020 12:56
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Fallom posted:fuel - $5 million Elizabeth Warren wants to ban stock buybacks as a bailout condition, I'm lovin' it: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-laid-out-conditions-companies-accept-bailouts-coronavirus-crisis-2020-3-1029006340 let's end stock buybacks forever, they helped get us into this mess and are generally bad for the long-term economy: https://hbr.org/2020/01/why-stock-buybacks-are-dangerous-for-the-economy https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/have-stock-buybacks-gone-too-far/ https://inequality.org/research/stock-buybacks-finance-end/ https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/12/share-buybacks-and-the-contradictions-of-shareholder-capitalism/ tl;dr -- stock buybacks cripple corporate competitiveness and balance sheets in order to boost executive compensation in a way that generally avoids taxes as compared to, say, dividends that reward long-term investors also, https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1239981917057015809?s=20
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Mar 18, 2020 13:10
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Duzzy Funlop posted:No it's not. Yes, as another eurogoon: please vote against Donald Trump. poo poo affects the rest of the world. Just his withdrawal from the climate accords hugely undermines global response to climate change. And I can't imagine any democrat would've broken up Obama'sIran agreement, reigniting a loving nuclear arms race in the middle east. Another thing, in D&D you see a lot of the argument that if Biden wins another worse fascist will just use trumps play book to win afterwards. And I don't get why they are so confident in their predictions, I don't trust nostradamuses. Win the fight you've got right now first maybe.
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good morning thread here's a mood lightener before whatever wave of horrors wednesday holds in store:NightGyr posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/pazpaz/status/1239250511838265344
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shame on an IGA posted:good morning thread here's a mood lightener before whatever wave of horrors wednesday holds in store: This helped. Thank you.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:No it's not. Hard agree with all of this.
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Woofer posted:It’s all about that earnings per share, baby. roll a wall street ghoul if you want that max EPS best buffs are 'cocaine' and 'lambo' to really boost your EPS output Really though Joe is gonna be the candidate, I hate that Bernie lost but get Trump the gently caress out of office. The ripple effects up here have been poo poo, Alberta and Ontario have Trump-lites as premiers and it's been a complete gong-show. Hold your nose and vote Blue, his VP will be the real power anyways.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:48
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Let's just hope to god it's not Klobuchar.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:51
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If they're kinda smart: Warren. If they're actually smart: Stacey Abrams
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My money is on Kamala Harris.
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I’d bet on Kamala but I’d also no poo poo throw a few bucks on Hillary.
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Old Boot posted:Let's just hope to god it's not Klobuchar. I feel like he absolutely has got to give some kind of olive branch to progressives with a decent VP pick but this is the Hellfucker 2016 timeline. So probably not gonna happen and it will be an unending tide of VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO, NOW IS THE TIME TO RALLY 'ROUND AND BE UNITED.
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bird food bathtub posted:VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO, NOW IS THE TIME TO RALLY 'ROUND AND BE UNITED. WALK AROUND THE BURN BARREL is all this reminds me about. It's what they tell recruits on FTXs during the winter at Ft. Knox. And inevitably there are greedy assholes just standing next to it, absorbing all the warmth the barrel provides.
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pmchem posted:Elizabeth Warren wants to ban stock buybacks as a bailout condition, I'm lovin' it: Now that Warren is off the trail she's back to doing what she does best. She is really increasing her VP stock (see what I did there?) with all this.
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Is it wrong to hope for Tammy Duckworth as VP who then runs for president after?
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Sister tested negative Awesome news buddy! In other news My chud coworker believes this is all fake news spread by the media to keep the war going China started with us, along with the infection of all the medical supplies they make. His proof, Russia doesn't have reported cases. Syrian Lannister fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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Syrian Lannister posted:Awesome news buddy! My favorite part about pandemic talk is that I can figure out any of my coworkers political leanings by the way they talk about Coronavirus. Hint: they are all Chuds.
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bengy81 posted:My favorite part about pandemic talk is that I can figure out any of my coworkers political leanings by the way they talk about Coronavirus. I've heard Trump's Obama swine flu whataboutism recited almost verbatim from four different co-workers now.
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Mar 18, 2020 14:23
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https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1240267976059826178?s=19 Since I don't really have a reference point for this one - how bad is this earthquake?
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Syrian Lannister posted:Awesome news buddy! Russia has 147 cases according to this: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/03/18/coronavirus-in-russia-the-latest-news-march-18-a69117
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1240267976059826178?s=19 A good ride. Will knock stuff off shelves. Maybe collapse really lovely brick facades off.
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Mar 18, 2020 14:33
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1240267976059826178?s=19 Moment magnitude isn't as important as damage. Moment magnitude just tells you how much energy was released. An intensity scale tells you how much the ground shook. This is affected by things like the characteristics of the local bedrock. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/uu60363602/shakemap/intensity
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COVID-19 is having a measurable effect on the air quality of Southern California. When we are doing this through the summer and the avg temperature goes down, is it still just part of the cycle of the planet?
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Mercalli intensity is way more useful for the common man than Richter magnitude. It is less directly quantifiable, but is better at answering "are people's houses ok". The perceived shaking and predicted damage rows of the table from USGS in the link above are probably from some version of or something like a modified Mercalli scale. There are so many factors involved, though. Local bedrock geology and surface geomorphology, yes, but also local building codes and so forth. On my active tectonics field course, we went to look at a little neighborhood of ruins by Springdale, UT that was flattened by the St. George earthquake in 1992. It had roughly the same middling intensity as this morning's SLC quake, but flattened a bunch of houses 50 miles away because they were built right next to a hillslope that contained a layer of gypsum about 50cm thick -- some of the material overlying that relatively squishy gypsum just kinda sloughed right off and destroyed all those Zion NP vacation houses. Buildings a quarter mile away or on the other side of the highway were fine. Edit: i should explain that the Mercalli describes an earthquake in terms of "knocks poo poo off of your shelves" or "breaks parts of your house" or "kills everyone in Seattle" rather than numbers that are largely meaningless to non-seismologists or -tectonicists US Berder Patrol fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1240267976059826178?s=19 I'm about 30 miles south and it felt like my cats were violently shaking my bedroom door trying to get in. My coworker who lives 15 miles closer had a bunch of stuff fall from shelves.
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US Berder Patrol posted:Mercalli intensity is way more useful for the common man than Richter magnitude. It is less directly quantifiable, but is better at answering "are people's houses ok". The perceived shaking and predicted damage rows of the table from USGS in the link above are probably from some version of or something like a modified Mercalli scale. Soil liquefaction is pretty crazy.
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Woofer posted:COVID-19 is having a measurable effect on the air quality of Southern California. I heard on NPR that net neutrality advocates are monitoring the huge upswing in data use now that so many folks are working from home and streaming entertainment. They said since most major carriers in the US have lifted data caps due to the crisis and the system hasn't melted down due to "congestion", basically the companies are full of poo poo. They're hoping to push to regulate internet service as a utility if they can eliminate the old arguments for having data caps/rationing service based on price.
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There was a very minor earthquake in CT one year. I was lying on the couch in a mid morning haze and thought there was a large dump truck driving past the apartment, but then I realized I didn’t hear an actual truck.
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Anyone had any luck ordering refills from the VA in the last week or so? I ordered mine last week before the world COMPLETELY lost its mind and I’m on hold just to see what the status is/make sure it was mailed out.
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egyptian rat race posted:I heard on NPR that net neutrality advocates are monitoring the huge upswing in data use now that so many folks are working from home and streaming entertainment. They said since most major carriers in the US have lifted data caps due to the crisis and the system hasn't melted down due to "congestion", basically the companies are full of poo poo. They're hoping to push to regulate internet service as a utility if they can eliminate the old arguments for having data caps/rationing service based on price. Ajit Pai and his dumb loving mug have already demonstrated that arguments don't matter and it's all about enriching the telecoms.
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TCD posted:Soil liquefaction is pretty crazy. That gypsum layer OP mentioned is more like a really lovely spring. Soil Liquefaction is more like the vibration caused the soil to behave as a liquid at the molecular level and voila no foundational pressure and everything sinks.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:That gypsum layer OP mentioned is more like a really lovely spring. Soil Liquefaction is more like the vibration caused the soil to behave as a liquid at the molecular level and voila no foundational pressure and everything sinks. Oh that's cool (the mechanism).
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Woofer posted:Anyone had any luck ordering refills from the VA in the last week or so? I ordered mine last week before the world COMPLETELY lost its mind and I’m on hold just to see what the status is/make sure it was mailed out. Yeah something I ordered through the mail service 3 weeks ago still hasn't shown up. Thanks for reminding me. I need to check up on that.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Now that Warren is off the trail she's back to doing what she does best. She is really increasing her VP stock (see what I did there?) with all this. I don't think she'll be vying for VP. I don't get the sense she will be, anyway. If Dems somehow take back the senate she'd make a much better Senate Majority leader. Probably not as likely now, but IDK, it's possible I'm spending way too much time on SA/Twitter listening to all the incensed yelling to get a sense of perspective on where the usual base and undecideds happen to be right now.
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