And I would expect a not-insignificant portion of the other 55% of businesses expect to hire new people at a lower wage than the previous workers had been making.

Yeah, this thing is going to have a huge issue with false negatives due to user error. That’s not just “spit in a vial” or “prick your finger and put a drop of blood in the testing module”. Nobody’s going to intentionally jam a swab so far up their nose that it about gags them (except for a couple dumbasses that will…

Reader’s accusation is a clearly calculated trap. Hard to say if it’s being driven by more extreme elements in the party willing to burn everything down because their candidate lost, by the Republicans, or by foreign intelligence services that just want to sow hate and discontent. No matter how you cut it, it’s…

It’s because Americans are idiots.

In the words of Alton Brown, you should only have one unitasker in your kitchen.

A lot probably also has to do with how their pipeline of content is being restricted by the pandemic. They can’t produce much new material in this environment, so they’re digging deep to have something...anything...to put out until it passes.

I’m pretty sure that kind of thing ends with riots in the streets of major metropolitan areas.

In what world are $130 wireless earbuds “cheap”? I mean, they’re not completely unreasonable vs AirPods, Pixel Buds, Galaxy Buds, etc...but they’re a long way from being a $30-$50 set of JLab or Anker buds.

No, I’m sure if he became a doctor or a successful stockbroker or some other professional/executive position, he wouldn’t be under nearly this degree of scrutiny - especially if he was open about who he had been and how the rejection of that experience helped him become successful. The problem here isn’t so much that…

I get it, and I’m all for people changing and learning from their mistakes. If he had gone on to try to do something socially productive - or even just innocuous - I’d say that he should be left alone.

Yeah, he might get a “we were all young and stupid once” pass if he had become an addiction counselor or a social worker or an art teacher after he turned things around from his hateful, misspent youth. I’d like to think people can change and learn from their mistakes.

No doubt. But the flailing and mental gymnastics to gaslight away a couple of cabinet members ending up on ventilators from COVID-19 would turn the crazy up to 11.

Let’s see how enthusiastic the White House is to throw everything wide open again when a few of their own fall ill with the virus...

Y’all end up hog-tying a lady at gunpoint for wearing a stormtrooper costume on May 4th (Star Wars day)?

For future public appearances, Mother is now recommending Mikey dress more appropriately:

The only way of knowing that with any certainty would be dramatically more widespread testing, even (and especially) of asymptomatic individuals.

I’m pretty sure if my employer asked for feedback on one of their policies and I responded with a 10 page manifesto (much less one I CC’ed half the company on), I’d be met at the door the next morning by an HR rep and a security guard with my personal effects in a box.

Elon’s a couple bad days and a polite request to wear a mask at Costco away from going completely Andrew Ryan and trying to build an underwater (ok, maybe orbital) libertarian utopia.

Because unless you’re in rural Mississippi (or someplace else with a dirt cheap cost of living) or you’re otherwise content living in a tiny, run-down apartment in a bad part of town, eating nothing but ramen and PopTarts...you’ll want to make more than $2k a month?

Jiro Dreams of Sushi is pretty amazing in a quiet, intense kind of way. If I ever hit the lotto, I’m totally taking a vacation to Tokyo to eat one of his meals.