I mean, the ESRB may call itself a “regulator” but that doesn’t make it so in any meaningful sense of the word. They don’t have enforcement power that the developers couldn’t override if they collectively felt like it.

Yep this is basically my routine. I also go at store open at 6 a.m.. While it does help with actually being able to get a non-panic purchase packet of TP/Paper Towel, the fact is that even though other people are now doing that, it’s still way less foot traffic at that time than if I go at my usual time right after…

Car-less New Yorkers are rolling their eyes at me right now.

The quote said it all. The ESRB isn’t a “regulator”. It exists to explain to parents things in a way that’s palatable for gaming companies what’s in the game. If the ESRB gets too lax, and doesn’t explain it well enough, parents complain and cut their kids off, which causes gaming companies to go back to the ESRB to…

I never said their current revenue was zero Jerry.

No one is being a “Disney apologist” Jerry, you’re just delusional if you think ESPN and Disney + subscription fees can support a $100 billion a year expense business for long.

Corporations may be saying that publicly, but I suspect privately healthy corporations are already doing the hard math on how long they can do things like continue to pay benefits for furloughed employees before they risk their financial health and ability to continue paying employees who are either “essential” (In…

“If the rent payments drop off significantly, [landlords] won’t be able to pay their staffs, they won’t be able to pay their mortgages, they won’t be able to pay their utilities,” Bibby said. “They won’t be able to pay the managers who manage their properties for them.”

Although, yeah...if you’re not going to be driving it for awhile, go ahead and drop the insurance.***

Even in your case the risk of accident is lower because there is a lot less traffic on the road.

It’s really hard to understate how meaningless all of those numbers are right now. This is the problem with a global pandemic.

If we’re still in a full lockdown situation one year from now and those workers have been unable to return to work for even stretches of time in the intervening year the world will have so throughouly turned on it’s ear that who knows what employer sponsored healthcare will even mean.

No one at the State Department of Health

If your family members are panicking about the Asian people they see around them in every day life or traditionally Asian businesses, then they are being racist. Tell them that whatever the CCP did in China has got nothing to do with any Asian that is in America.

This is probably better than the alternative.

Man whatever. I live deep in Trump country.

That’s true. Though I would point out that licking groceries in the midst of a pandemic is probably a lot more damaging to others than it is if you lick groceries ... not in the middle of a pandemic. I’m not saying terrorism charges make sense, but I’m also not sure a misdemeanor charge is reasonable either.

Easing the notice requirement is probably not a bad thing. Being able to meet on a moment’s notice if markets start seizing up is what you want your central bank to do. This procedural nicety was actually a problem for the Fed in 2008. Businesses running out of cash to do things including meeting payroll because…

The facts are a bit mixed up in this article.

The facts are a bit mixed up in this article.