15 minutes ago, StillUnknown said:

 

since the tracker opened

10 minutes ago, just654 said:

I am in the same boat. Been getting that message since April 15th checking everyday at 1030am to see if it updates.

Damn....hope you guys get the payment soon.

Was this posted? lol...

Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week

The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.

In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus?CMP=share_btn_tw

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6 hours ago, StillUnknown said:

 

I'm still on the "once we have your payment date, we will update this page. We will deposit your payment to the bank account below." stage

 

I'm fortunate that i am an essential worker and have not yet been furloughed so its not critical for me at this moment, but that situation is fluid.

How long have you been getting that message?

1 hour ago, Cooked Crack said:

His supporters now have the official line to run with.

2000s funk now...

5 hours ago, Dan T. said:

 

 

I just watched the interview.  The quotes above are actually a pretty accurate paraphrasing of things she said.  Scary but true.

yeah, I didn't need to "ham it up", did I lol...

1 minute ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

For a minute I thought they were actual quotes, but then I read the fake quote you quoted about the actual quote.

Just wondering....do you hold public office in Las Vegas?

58 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

I caught the end of it. You don’t need to ham it up...

If you only caught the end of it, how do you know I made up those quotes?

I'm watching Vivarium....may not be the best movie to watch during a quarantine lol...

7 hours ago, mistertim said:

My reenactment of that interview with the Vegas mayor:

 

"So you're saying you're going to punch me"

"Not at all. What I'm saying is that I want my fist to accelerate through the air and make contact with your head. Completely different."

 

"So you're saying that you think people should be able to speed"

"Of course not. I'm simply saying that people should be able to go over the posted limit. I don't know where you get this nonsense"

 

"So you're saying you're going to rob a house"

"I never said that. I'd never do that. Please stop putting words in my mouth. I'm just saying that if I see a nice place I will forcibly enter and remove certain things so that I can sell them later. I really don't see why you can't follow the points I'm making here"

Q: "So you're saying you want the casinos and hotels to open in the middle of a pandemic, exposing the people you govern to a highly contagious and lethal virus?"

A: "I didn't say that. What I said was that I wanted to open the casinos and hotels in the middle of what people claim is a pandemic but I don't think it is, and I want to use our proud citizens as a control group that will prove me right."

Q: "So you would go to the casinos yourself and walk among the crowds on the floor?"

A: "Are you insane? No. I have a family, Anderson."

Holy ****ing ****...we've given people like this woman power.

52 minutes ago, visionary said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Um.....I listened to this because a somewhat attractive woman on twitter liked one of my tweets and had this video as one of her last tweets lol...so I thought what the hell, take a listen.

One of the comments for this video said: "Death Grips sounds like what I imagine schizophrenia feels like."

(NSFW - language)

More 70s funk.... I think I may have to watch this movie tonight lol

On 4/18/2020 at 2:16 PM, Larry said:

Just wondering when we got to the point where the answer to the question "There's a uncurable, deadly, contagious disease, sweaping through the American population.  Do you think we should do something to try to reduce the number of people it kills?" became an answer that depends on your political party.  In fact, a way to prove your loyalty to the Party.  

 

Maybe it was around the time when the answer to the questions

 

"People are marching in the streets of America behind Nazi flags, to celebrate the fact that they won the election.  Good or Bad?"

or

"The Russian inteligence agency is actively working to elect one person to POTUS.  Good or Bad?"

 

became "depends on which Party you're in".  

 

It was right around the time I came to the realization that conspiracy theories drive the thought process of far too many in this country. I used to think that claiming someone has zero "critical thinking" skills was a generic internet insult. Not anymore.

52 minutes ago, twa said:

 

I was speaking of ya'll.

 

I hope ya'll survive.

That's what you deserve for listening...to us ?? Huh?

I would think saying that's what you deserve for not listening to us would be more appropriate lol...

On 4/16/2020 at 8:18 PM, Isifhan said:

The problem with that expansion, though inacted by the cares act, doesn't mean that states have the infrastructure to handle those people who would normally not qualify for unemploymenthe like gig workers or small business owners. Here they are automatically kicking those requests out of the system so even if you're supposed to get benefits you cant.

In Ohio, the state government has let those who don't normally qualify for unemployment benefits that there will be a portal in place in May for those people specifically to apply for UI, and to not use the current UI portal to apply.  The federal government guidelines were not adequately in place for them to open one earlier. They also said that the benefits are retroactive so they will start as early as Feb 2020 9I'm guessing if you can show that the pandemic affected you as early as February).

@twa -

"Job losses cause extreme suffering. Every 1 percent hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3 percent increase in drug-overdose deaths and a 0.99 percent increase in suicides, according to data from the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet."

I'm having some problems with just buying this outright.

For starters, the implication is that the lower the unemployment rate, the lower the drug-related death rate. The stats don't back that up. The study that article talks about covers the years between 2000-2014. It appears to link the rise in drug-related deaths to the sharp rise in unemployment between 2009-2011. It also appears to compare the number of drug-related deaths in 2000 to the number of drug-related deaths in 2014. Since I'm only reading an overall synopsis of the study perhaps it goes into far more detail in terms of seeing a noticeable spike in drug-related deaths that coincides with the significant spike in the unemployment rates, but the stats don't seem to suggest that occurred.

Further, the opinions reached from the people who conducted the study seem to be all over the map (at least from the synopsis). Apparently, two factors that played a role in the increase in drug-related deaths were the loss of health insurance and reduced public funding for substance abuse treatment. This would seem to point to coming up with government plans to provide better health access to all and better funding for substance abuse treatment centers far in advance of any possible global pandemic instead of relaxing guidelines during the pandemic once we're in the middle of it.

But stranger still, another conclusion apparently reached was that the results of the study do NOT suggest "a substantial impact of factors like lower incomes or greater leisure time (which could be used to engage in health-promoting behaviors like exercise or drug treatment programs)".

Did you catch that? lol...reduced public funding for substance abuse treatment during recessions is a culprit in the rise of drug-related deaths, yet the lack of income and unemployment would mean more people would have the time to--wait for it--participate in drug treatment programs lol...

Their final conclusion, though, was "we suspect that the dominant factor linking macroeconomic conditions to adverse drug outcomes is that the fatal and near fatal abuse of opioids often (and increasingly over time) reflects a physical manifestation of mental health problems that have long been known to rise during periods of economic decline." This brings me back to what is confusing to me: the implication that the lower the unemployment rate, the lower the number of drug-related deaths (or at the very least a slowing down of the increase). Better access to healthcare, better funding of substance abuse programs, and less likelihood of an increase in mental health problems that the stress a recession and high unemployment can cause. But the stats don't seem to back that up very well. Their study stops in 2014...the charts below start in 2010 and go up to 2018.

The unemployment rates between 2010 - 2018, and the drug-related death totals during that same timespan. They seem to be going in different directions.

And them overlapping...

I personally chalk it up to a significant rise in opioid/fentanyl use this past decade, but the increase in opioid use dates back to the last decade as well, which this study even mentions (along with heroin being cheaper). So like I said, I'm not buying that higher unemployment means a significant increase in drug-related deaths, especially to the point that it causes more of those deaths than the COVID-19 deaths the stay-at-home orders prevented.

Tylor Swift wasn't too shabby... better than I would have expected.

7 minutes ago, Dan T. said:

Billy Joe Armstrong-When September Ends. Just beautiful..

That really was...I've never heard him sing or any of Green Day's stuff before. Never knew he walked on the moon, either lol...

Not sure how much of the Rolling Stone's perforane was pre-recorded but it sounded great regardless. Kinda disappointed that at the beginning they didn't have Mick yelling into the camera "You're on mute, Charlie...unmute yourself. Unmute...Charlie! Unmute yourself!!"

2 minutes ago, Dan T. said:

 

A little rough, but he participated.  The Roots and Jimmy  rocked “The Safety Dance.”

 

They definitely did.."Everybody wash your hands" lol....

A few too many times Elton sounded like he was doing an impression of Buckwheat pronouncing those words. Ain't gonna complain, though, it was still good to listen to.