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I ended up buying an lot of the first 5 books on eBay, used paperbacks. Very excited to read at least the first 3. Figured it was a good idea. I'm trying to read more fiction anyway.

Because we live in a culture that punishes people for taking care of themselves and others and we have unlearned the habits that would have come with such a mindset. Take the concept of sick days for example. A lot of people don't even get sick days. Or they get punished for using them. So people don't stay home, they come to work. Worrying about yourself and the people around you doesn't matter when your job is on the line. We don't have the excess hospital capacity to handle sickness because the healthcare system is set up only to make insurance companies, lobbyists, and congressmen rich, not provide care. Like Woody noted earlier, our hospitals are normally already overwhelmed before a crisis like this springs up, and that's because someone out there needs the spreadsheet to look good. It doesn't need to be like this, but there are a lot of people out there getting rich off of it being this way.

I really hope they found a way to get him in as an extra, just in the background of a scene or something. It would be great if they managed to keep it under wraps until the premier. Kyle MacLachlan too.

They...they look like maxi pads.

I am VERY excited for the new DUNE. I'm one of those people who actually likes the David Lynch movie, but I definitely think it deserves this remake. Apparently Villeneuve decided that this needs to be TWO movies to really give it the proper depth and I couldn't agree more.

I thought it was good. Not one of the stronger Pixar entries but I'll still watch it again some time.

I don't know about that. I think for Larry it's just going to be about the best opportunity. Most teams aren't going to pay him any more than the Sabres would. It's just going to come down to whether or not he wants to stay here in the face of an offer from somewhere more interesting.

This was the same for me in the 90s. Jeanneret on my walkman, trying to stay awake to hear the end of the game. I distinctly remember the series against Ottawa in 97. Effing Ron Tugnutt.

You'll have to see what media conglomerate owns that local station. We get the same junk here. Sinclair in particular loves pushing out of state stories that fit their "brand" to all their affiliates. It's basically propaganda.

Pizza Plant by the arena okay?

I've got a cousin who is a corrections officer and his family is terrified for his health and safety. That's not a thing that just happens. Prisons are starting to see huge spikes in prisoner deaths from this. Prisons are our society distilled down to its essence, and they're in big trouble. Expect that to dominate the news in a week or so, people who were already serving just punishment being essentially condemned to death. Not great.

I love Rick. Like, real love. When he retires I'm going to cry. His voice is a piece of my soul. We're never going to be satisfied that the Sabres didn't win a Cup with him on the call. Hopefully they manage to at least win one in his lifetime. He deserves to see that happen.

I think this is a fair take on things. The system was already a mess.

I think the trick is that mortality rate was really never the concern here. They focus on deaths because it gets people to take things seriously, but over loading the healthcare system was the real problem all along, right? It was about avoiding a surge that results in death by health care system incapacitation. The disease itself probably isn't more deadly, it's the situational factors that make it so.

So I guess NYC interning more bodies than normal on Hart Island because morgues are overcrowded is just propaganda? They went from two dozen a week to two dozen a day. The effects of COVID seem pretty obvious, even for fact checking skeptics.

New receiver was totally worth it, especially since Crutchfield has them marked down. Wow. These speakers just went from good to amazing. I'm a believer in Yamaha now. https://www.crutchfield.com/p_022RS202/Yamaha-R-S202.html

I mean, you've got prime tuna melt ingredients going on there.

Folks, it's wing season https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/08/chicken-wings-coronavirus-march-madness/

Fortunately I was wearing a heavy (but very very very shabby) old flannel shirtjacket thing, so that kept me from getting burned. And it was cheap coffee, so no major loss ?

Sat down on the couch with my afternoon cup of coffee, dozed off with it resting on my stomach, startled myself awake, and spilled it all over myself. So I guess it's laundry day now.

If the world is going to end, I'm going out with a good soundtrack.

That's why it'll be interesting to see who gets tapped. If it's anyone like Klobuchar or Harris then reading the tea leaves will make it plain that party leaders don't think the left's social policies will carry them to victory. They're probably right, but I'm not confident given how badly they botched 2016. They should have been able to tell Hillary was a bad candidate and they picked Tim Kaine to run with her. Talk about uninspired. And then they didn't even run a good campaign on top of that. I hope the DNC does a better job this time. Biden, in my honest opinion, sucks, but he's popular with the base. So they need to pick a VP who can shore Biden up, and then actually RUN A CAMPAIGN. I still think it would be smart for the Dems to decline having any debates against the GOP ticket. I'd rather see them focus on reaching out to the people who want to vote Democrat instead of participating in a Trump-centric media circus.

It's funny, all the reviews for these speakers said that they tended a little towards the "bright" side and lacked bass, but I'm finding the exact opposite. It's probably because my receiver is not the best quality, but I've found I have to push the treble up a lot to get these speakers to come to life, especially at low to medium volume (easy listening while I work). I've got a Yamaha 2 channel receiver (bluetooth! fancy!) coming tomorrow so it'll be interesting to compare the sound from that music-oriented receiver against this ~15 year old Sony AV Receiver that I picked up at Radioshack.

Oh it's making me crazy. Getting these speakers on some stands will allow me to center everything so I can stop losing my mind.

I think this is right as well, but only because it comes down to straight demographics. Hillary lost to Trump because no one liked her, not even the people who voted for her husband. Biden is a pretty dumpy candidate, but the base likes him. The people who will actually show up and vote like him. My Twitter is awash with 20-35 year olds who are big mad about Biden, but they still haven't figured out that their age group, my age group, sucks at actually showing up. And at the end of the day, politics is really only about the people who show up.