You can’t use a gift card at a restaurant that’s out of business. Seems a bit of a risk.

I kind of want to go there on vacation.

Thinking the same. One guy in the work parking lot swapped his last weekend, I’ll probably do mine and my wife’s cars this weekend, getting pretty warm here, I think it's done snowing.

As someone else said online who I can't remember, "now I feel sorry for the virus."

That acronym is just so, so tortured. 

Yep. Shit is getting real up here now. Large companies in the area are sending people home, asking anyone who could possibly remotely have Covid to work from home.

Thanks, that’s what it sounded like, it took considerable effort to actually make this work, and a direct attack basically. Just wanted to make sure.

I was buying my wife a new gaming laptop with a 9th gen i9 this week. Is this serious enough that I shouldn’t? Should I buy a Ryzen instead?

We happen to be running low on hand sanitizer for normal use. My wife was unable to buy any today because the grocery store is cleaned out. I have to go to CVS anyway so I’m going to check, but I don’t have high hopes. These people I assume have running water and soap, and will be at places with restrooms at various…

I did one day, in a county court. I enjoyed it, I was the foreman, it was interesting.

There’s no anxiety quite like thinking you might have forgotten your LastPass password, and getting a hint that’s cryptic and mostly unhelpful.

You mean “mother” I assume?

The Royal mail was established in 1516. Did they bid on the contract every 5 years for like 200 years you think?

Luckily Trump said we can just use the flu vaccine that we already have, and we’ll have a specific vaccine in just a couple months. No worries... The best people are in charge.

Talking about Lexan like it’s some fancy material from motorsports is kinda funny.

They were able to declare when polls closed because of their exit polling. If you have good data from a number of places showing him with almost 50%, what’s the point in waiting? Exit polls aren’t exact, but they’re not going to be off by 30%.

So Sanders will cause unemployment on purpose? What's your supposed mechanism?

There’s plenty linked here.

Well, the data says your hunch is wrong, so I’m not sure I’m going to waste any more time on this.

I mean, they won’t immediately, but over time for sure. I’m a middle manager who sets pay and budgets and makes offers. If we weren’t paying $20k we’d certainly use some of that to attract talent. The profit margin is relatively fixed due to competition, risk and type of business.