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boylagz

Monkey
Jul 12, 2011
558
61
SF bay area
Don't propagate the idiot's xenophobic naming. It's like calling the Bubonic Plague or Smallpox the White Man's Diseases, because they originated from bovine viruses and agricultural societies with poor sanitation (see Europe from 0AD until the 1800's)
Haha, broh I was joking. Im part Chinese, but it cracked me up on that exact press con, the moment he said it. And he was still defending himself that its not racist. I was like, cant this fool be any more illiterate?
 

Adventurous

Starshine Bro
Mar 19, 2014
10,869
9,913
Crawlorado
I completely agree. We've narrowed back my getting it from my Wife, who likely got it from a colleague who came to work after a trip to HI - despite being warned not to go on the trip. Neighbors across the street were a similar situation where the wife got it from a colleague who went out with a friend who had just returned from a cruise but conveniently forgot to tell anybody until she got sick.

I'm just hoping that we didn't get @Nick sick when he came over to get milk from us. I sprayed that shit down with Lysol before I dropped it outside (5min before he got there) and he stayed on the other side of the glass to talk with Haley for a while.
Shoulda mixed the Lysol in with the milk to make sure that wasn't contaminated too. I'd hate to see @Nick getting sick!
 

Toshi

butthole powerwashing evangelist
Oct 23, 2001
39,837
8,810

eric strt6

Resident Curmudgeon
Sep 8, 2001
24,449
15,236
directly above the center of the earth

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
22,005
7,895
Colorado
Trump says he won’t comply with key transparency measures in the coronavirus stimulus bill
The administration says it won’t provide documentation for audits into $500 billion in corporate bailout funds.

Line-item veto has already been determined unconstitutional by SCOTUS? Apparently that doesn't matter to the Constitutional Right!
 

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
22,005
7,895
Colorado
Bigly!


The hemorrhaging of American jobs accelerated at a record pace at the end of 2008, bringing the year's total job losses to 2.6 million or the highest level in more than six decades.
Market bottomed March '09

47mm vs. 2.6mm. Market dropped 56% Oct 2007-Mar 2009. 30% drop w/ rebound in <1m 2020. Yeah...
 

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
41,910
19,236
Riding the baggage carousel.
2008:
2.6mm jobs lost
7.2% unemployment
56% drop in mkt over 18 months

2020:
Potentially 47mm jobs lost
32% unemployment
30% drop in mkt over 30 days

Does that math add up to you?
If I could do math I'd have stayed in college and done something with my life.

But I think what you're saying is we're going to keep #WINNING?
 

dan-o

Turbo Monkey
Jun 30, 2004
6,499
2,805
I can’t speak for other businesses but we’re still booking jobs and planning on getting back to work when this passes.

In the meantime the furloughed employees are still getting paid. Every customer is still working, just from home. Granted the hourly/tips class aren’t my customer.

My entirely uneducated opinion is that comparisons to 2008 are useless. The economy popped because of covid, not due to its many inherent flaws.

It all boils down to how quickly this passes.
Covid fizzles before it cuts too deep and we can rebound with minimal casualties.
 

kidwoo

Artisanal Tweet Curator
The economy popped because of covid, not due to its many inherent flaws.
Our economy is a fragile little pussy based purely on unrealistic long term growth, all built upon a sketchy foundation of predatory debt. Capitalism is our heartfelt ideal but only until it might hurt the rich people, then we're socialist as fuck.

Seriously, if this is all it takes, our conomy' is a little bitch.
 

6thElement

Schrodinger's Immigrant
Jul 29, 2008
17,292
14,772
Our economy is a fragile little pussy based purely on unrealistic long term growth, all built upon a sketchy foundation of predatory debt. Capitalism is our heartfelt ideal but only until it might hurt the rich people, then we're socialist as fuck.

Seriously, if this is all it takes, our conomy' is a little bitch.
It's a ponzi scheme.