he reversed a previous order by Jackson, Miss., Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, explaining that he was rejecting “dictator models like China.”

I’ve always loved these, and this one’s about as clean as it’s reasonable to expect. The ask is almost too high; I’d be much more comfortable NP’ing it at 6500, and if I had the coin I’d be emphatically working the price down, but even where it is, it’s a reluctant and gritting-my-teeth NP.

Neutral: Been wfh for two weeks, and the city’s on shelter-in-place through April 30. Haven’t started day drinking yet. I’m calling that a win. Other than the luxury of having fresh air and a reasonable temperature “at work,” and the mild annoyance of having to use drive-throughs to pick things up—I hate…

If the governors were listening to the president, and they had enough testing kits, your one-million estimate would be low. But most are telling him to fuck off, and the supplies just aren’t there to confirm.

“It came up while we were tied down in the impeachment trial. And I think it diverted the attention of the government because everything every day was all about impeachment,”

America currently leads the world in number of cases. If the current upward trend continues—and there’s no reason to think it won’t—America will also become the world leader in number of deaths by the end of the week.

I’m all for the Becks and Patricks saying they’d be happy to die to water the economy with their blood. Put up or shut up, gentlemen. Fill out your wills, distribute your assets so they’ll flow into the coffers, then kill yourselves.

Neutral: Given past history and tenures of vehicle ownership, the over/under on my next vehicle purchase is October 2024.

the Republican Party go on Fox News to pitch mass-suicide to the shared GOP/Fox demographic.

“We were afraid of getting sick,” she said.

I guess it’s normal now that the president is so willfully, obtusely stupid and hated that he has to ask for information from reporters that he should not only know himself, but should be the one telling them.

Did you read what you quoted? The evidence is literally contained in those passages.

Not a terrible specimen. Has some issues, but is surprisingly clean in a surprising number of places. But the ask is $8300? Oh, my sweet, summer child.

(don’t dwell on that word choice)

He got away with murder—literally.

It means something else. (Looked it up because I was curious.)

Those scores were low because neither of those sites reviewed the actual game. They were reviewing the imaginary, fantasy game they thought it should have been while playing the actual game instead and—surprise, surprise—the reality came up short of their wish-fulfillment fever dreams.

This seems as good time as any to once again say that Alien: Isolation is an underrated gem.

When WHO classifies something as a pandemic, they’re not consulting the dictionary.