[eric strt6]

Friend who works at a power plant is being quarantined and will live at work for the next two months. He isn't sick, he and ten others were picked to keep the power on as the world falls apart outside.

 

[jimmydean]

 

[SkaredShtles]

Flower:
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Peyote?

 

[Gary]

Is anyone here FB friends with Gary?

I don't have FB.
Just insta & tiktok

 

[kidwoo]

Flower:
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fuck yeah, hook a brother up!

 

[rideit]

I don't have FB.
Just insta & tiktok

Oh, good, your back, haggis breath. I was worried. You all good?

 

[Pesqueeb]

Dude. FLOWER.

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[Gary]

Oh, good, your back, haggis breath. I was worried. You all good?

Geting there. Yeah. thanks man.

 

[mandown]

Emergency

The Secret Service signed an 'emergency order' this week — for 30 golf carts

The Secret Service signed an "emergency order" this week to rent $45,000-worth of golf carts in the town of Sterling, Virginia, where President Trump has a golf course, The Washington Post reports. The 30-cart fleet, which the Secret Service is renting through the end of September, was described

news.yahoo.com

 

[6thElement]

Emergency

The Secret Service signed an 'emergency order' this week — for 30 golf carts

The Secret Service signed an "emergency order" this week to rent $45,000-worth of golf carts in the town of Sterling, Virginia, where President Trump has a golf course, The Washington Post reports. The 30-cart fleet, which the Secret Service is renting through the end of September, was described

news.yahoo.com

Fake news, he said he'd be too busy to golf while in office.

Trump Golf Count

Trump Golf Count: Tracking President Trump's golf outings so you don't have to!

trumpgolfcount.com

 

[mandown]

Watch out.
Zoom

A Must For Millions, Zoom Has A Dark Side — And An FBI Warning

Federal and state law enforcement are asking questions about Zoom's security and privacy policies, as millions flock to the videoconferencing service for meetings, classes and social gatherings.

www.npr.org

 

[mandown]

Are they really drawing the target around the arrow?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/03/jared-kushner-stands-trump-proceeds-offer-very-trumpian-claim-about-stockpiles/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2FDLwlrUmgNng-2SYYQF08qxgZ27qnfzcAHhViL5SCmCOTbo3zDTYLNSI

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Decades of Hospital Closures Led to This Disaster

The United States has been closing vitally needed hospitals for decades. Now, with a pandemic afoot and triage tents popping up in Central Park, we need to stop holding our hospital system hostage to the whims of the market.

jacobinmag.com

 

[dan-o]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Has Not Yet Accepted Remington's Offer to Help With PPE, Ventilators

townhall.com

 

[stevew]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Has Not Yet Accepted Remington's Offer to Help With PPE, Ventilators

townhall.com

i do not see him doing this.

 

[dan-o]

I wonder how she feels about social safety nets. I bet she's philosophically against them...

Gloucester Woman Tells Desk Girl She Is Suing For Slander Over Blog On Her Public Posts About Catching Coronavirus On Spring Break Miami - TB Daily News

Hannah Flaherty is a Gloucester mother who was featured in a blog yesterday when she allegedly came down with coronavirus after posting about her spring break trip to Miami and mocking the idea that it was a serious problem. She then created a fundraiser to pay her bills while she was in the...

tbdailynews.com

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Has Not Yet Accepted Remington's Offer to Help With PPE, Ventilators

townhall.com

Townhall.com:
These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.

 

[dan-o]

Townhall.com:
These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.

Aware, will look for objective sources like Jacobin going forward.

 

[dan-o]

i do not see him doing this.

Agreed, it's not THAT big of an emergency.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Aware, will look for objective sources like Jacobin going forward.

I guess that what I might suggest is that if we choose to share something from an opinionated source, we label it as such.

 

[stevew]

I guess that what I might suggest is that if we choose to share something from an opinionated source, we label it as such.

there is no such thing these days.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

there is no such thing these days.

There has never been any human observation that is unbiased.

However, with respect to "news" sources, there are some that verge to or constitute propaganda, e.g. redflag, jacobin, brietbart, fox...

 

[stevew]

"news"

i know what i am going to get from either side....whether i want to believe it....

 

[stevew]

fuck yeah, hook a brother up!

when i was last in california i visited a friend i had not seen since highschool.....in two of his kitchen cabinets were about 20-25 different mason jars....labeled....from the farm he worked on...

every morning when he woke up he would be like...steve... you mind if i take a rip....why the fuck would i....you are the one who is sick....smoke as much as you want....

 

[stevew]

@johnbryanpeters from the link you posted about hospitals....another story about a blueprint for a new party on the side....

To put the electoral possibilities of this approach into perspective, consider a few numbers. In 2014, there were 1,056 open-seat state-legislative races (races where no incumbent was running). The median winner spent only $51,000, for the primary and general elections combined. Two-thirds of the races cost less than $100,000. And in 36 percent of all state-legislative races that year — almost 2,500 seats — the winner had run unopposed.

interesting...

 

[Toshi]

 

[jonKranked]

Gloucester Woman Tells Desk Girl She Is Suing For Slander Over Blog On Her Public Posts About Catching Coronavirus On Spring Break Miami - TB Daily News

Hannah Flaherty is a Gloucester mother who was featured in a blog yesterday when she allegedly came down with coronavirus after posting about her spring break trip to Miami and mocking the idea that it was a serious problem. She then created a fundraiser to pay her bills while she was in the...

tbdailynews.com

 

[jonKranked]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Has Not Yet Accepted Remington's Offer to Help With PPE, Ventilators

townhall.com

is their facility even appropriately equipped to manufacture what they're offering to make?

 

[chuffer]

is their facility even appropriately equipped to manufacture what they're offering to make?

Euthanization tools...to treat those for whom there are no respirators. Tracks with corporate vision.

 

[Westy]

is their facility even appropriately equipped to manufacture what they're offering to make?

It is a free market, they don't need Cuomo to tell them what to do.

 

[StiHacka]

So, the US litigation happy society is finally realizing that lawyers won't save you when shit gets real?

Yea, I am sure we will learn that lesson.

 

[dan-o]

is their facility even appropriately equipped to manufacture what they're offering to make?

Any port in a storm.

 

[stoney]

Crowley Police use "Purge Siren" to signal curfew for city, says it won't happen again

In an effort to alert residents to the parish-wide curfew in Acadia Parish, Crowley Police instated an audible alarm but it's not what anyone expected.

www.katc.com

 

[jonKranked]

Any port in a storm.

Yea that's not exactly how manufacturing works.

 

[dan-o]

Yea that's not exactly how manufacturing works.

It kind of is.

Automakers Pivot to Produce Ventilators, Respirators, and Face Masks

Ford, GM, and others are making low-cost, simplified versions of critical medical equipment to aid in the coronavirus response

spectrum.ieee.org

Remington offered manufacturing space to an industry operating at capacity.
How hard would it be for 3M to set up production there?

Other companies have already utilized their tooling/staff.

Repurposed: New Balance footwear making thousands of masks

LAWRENCE — Workers at the city's New Balance footwear factory will be producing tens of thousands of protective masks as the fight against the coronavirus continues.

www.eagletribune.com

 

[dan-o]

You can't make this shit up.

First 2020 Quarter Celebrates American Samoa | U.S. Mint

U.S. Mint will release a quarter honoring the National Park of American Samoa in Utulei, American Samoa. The quarter is the first release of 2020.

www.usmint.gov

 

[jonKranked]

It kind of is.

Automakers Pivot to Produce Ventilators, Respirators, and Face Masks

Ford, GM, and others are making low-cost, simplified versions of critical medical equipment to aid in the coronavirus response

spectrum.ieee.org

Remington offered manufacturing space to an industry operating at capacity.
How hard would it be for 3M to set up production there?

Other companies have already utilized their tooling/staff.

Repurposed: New Balance footwear making thousands of masks

LAWRENCE — Workers at the city's New Balance footwear factory will be producing tens of thousands of protective masks as the fight against the coronavirus continues.

www.eagletribune.com

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No it's actually not. Certain processes and equipment can be retrofit while others can't. So asking if their facility is capable of manufacturing what they're offering is absolutely a relevant question.

 

[dan-o]

No it's actually not. Certain processes and equipment can be retrofit while others can't. So asking if their facility is capable of manufacturing what they're offering is absolutely a relevant question.

Obviously there are limitations but a lot of what's needed is basic.
Here's two examples of completely unskilled labor/facilities taking up slack.
Making shit isn't black magic.

Vulnerable prisoners 'exploited' to make coronavirus masks and hand gel

Inmates making masks and hand sanitiser to ease shortages are among most vulnerable to Covid-19, prison reformers warn

www.theguardian.com

'On Monday the governor of New York announced the state will also be using prison labour to produce 100,000 gallons of hand sanitiser for schools, prisons, transportation systems and other government agencies.'

'Women inmates at the Lo Wu prison in Hong Kong have reportedly been asked to work night shifts to make 2.5m face masks a month after a huge rise in demand according to Reuters.'

 

[mandown]

 

[jonKranked]

Obviously there are limitations but a lot of what's needed is basic.
Here's two examples of completely unskilled labor/facilities taking up slack.
Making shit isn't black magic.

Vulnerable prisoners 'exploited' to make coronavirus masks and hand gel

Inmates making masks and hand sanitiser to ease shortages are among most vulnerable to Covid-19, prison reformers warn

www.theguardian.com

'On Monday the governor of New York announced the state will also be using prison labour to produce 100,000 gallons of hand sanitiser for schools, prisons, transportation systems and other government agencies.'

'Women inmates at the Lo Wu prison in Hong Kong have reportedly been asked to work night shifts to make 2.5m face masks a month after a huge rise in demand according to Reuters.'

Retraining manual labor is easy. That's not the gating factor. What good is having enough laborers to build a thousand parts a week if the subcomponent suppliers can only provide enough parts to make a hundred?