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Mirren nearly as good in Caligula, though (well, Caligula was awful in its own right lol). I completely forgot that Patrick Stewart and Liam Neeson were both in Excalibur as well. Excalibur was like the Game Of Thrones for 14-year-olds back then lol...

Absolutely yes to both of these lol... Helen Mirren stood out like a sore thumb, though...both because she was easily the best actor on the screen, and it wasn't even close, and because she was pretty sexy.

For me, it's Helen Mirren...mad crush on her ever since Excaliber.

To me, this makes no sense. It was incredibly easy to tell that the IHME model was WAYYYYYYYYY off in its predictions, which played a gigantic role in any ridicule the model received. We were sitting at around 60,000 deaths at the end of April and IHME was still predicting 74,000 deaths by August 4th? Seriously? Yes, there was a range from like 56,000 to 200,000 or whatever the numbers were, but government policy was being formed based on the actual predicted number and not the range. And that number has gone from 60K to 74K to 137K to 147K in about 3 weeks. Meanwhile, epidemiologists who were already predicting 150K or more deaths 3 weeks ago were criticized for fear-mongering. The reason these latest predictions aren't ridiculed is that they seem far more realistic. The more realistic the prediction, the less ridicule. The methodology IHME uses may have changed to those used by most epidemiologists, which if so would explain the rapid change in predictions. I'm hoping you're not suggesting that people are wanting to believe the worse or are being manipulated into it which has lead to ridiculing more positive predictions. That would be incredibly shallow thinking.

I think this is gonna be the 2nd day in a row with less than 800 new deaths...unfortunately it's gonna be interpreted in exactly the wrong way.

^^ These last two posts are quite the juxtaposition...

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I also think it's just a headshaking level of ignorance, both willful and innate. He doesn't understand and purposefully doesn't want to know. That, plus Trump appears to have a conspiracy theorist's mindset anyway...no matter how many valid and proven facts you present a conspiracy theorist, they will rationalize it away in order to continue believing what they believe and stay the course.

Didn't consider the "lure" aspect lol...

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2020, ladies and gentlemen....

At the store I go to, they have plexiglass between the cashiers and the customers, all employees are required to wear masks, they have markings on the floor as to where to stand when in line, The first hour the store is open is only for shoppers 60 years and older, They have a limit on the number of people allowed I the store at one time, they wrapped the debit/credit card payment machine in plastic that gets changed every hour, and about 75% of the shoppers are wearing masks. But there are numerous times when you're definitely within 6 feet of someone, it's almost impossible to avoid. But everyone is REALLY courteous lol...never heard so many people say "After you", "no, after you, I insist" in my life. For me it's more the logic (or lack of) behind believing this type of stuff. Like you said, wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out some hospitals ended up attributing some deaths to COVID and being motivated by money when they do...but the idea that it's being done on such a massive scale as to call into question the legitimacy of the COVID death count boggles the mind. And it would be sooooooo damn easy to prove, too lol...

My feed has been getting the "Hospitals are counting all deaths as COVID-19 deaths to get more money" tweets lately...thankfully not from anyone I follow but because those I follow end up responding to the nonsense and it gets put on my feed. One woman said she has family members that work at a hospital and since March they were instructed to report all deaths as COVID deaths, and that the actual death total from COVID is much lower than being reported. I said, "So, if you checked the hospital where your family members work, there would be zero deaths recorded from heart disease, cancer, gunshot wounds, car accidents, drug overdoses, etc., and just 100% deaths from COVID?"...she said she didn't know because she doesn't work there lol 😂...

Prince had a series of concerts in London that were $10 bucks a show....I mean, damn lol. At one point, a show was advertised at $70 a ticket and people were lined up around the block ready to buy, and he changed it so that it was back to $10 instead.

I've been using webex and gotomeeting for online meetings for like 12 years. Never needed to see anyone else. Plus, the UI tells you who is talking at any given moment, and we can share our screens to show the interface work we're conducting or the usability test results PPT. We've had a few perspective clients use video on their end to talk to us and it always come across as tacky and unprofessional. Bad lighting, half-drawn horizontal blinds, trash can in the corner, etc, etc...it's distracting, actually. Much prefer talk-only meetings where you just pay attention to what's being said.

Thanks for that update...that story pissed me off to no end.

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2020 in a nutshell...

Stimulus Proposal: $2,000 Payment Plus $1,000 Per Month Until 1 Year After Crisis Ends 😐 I feel like the government knows something is about to happen...

We survived the Bowling Green Massacre, we can survive Covfefe-19!! #OpenTheStripclubsNow