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Eastwood

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  1. Seriously, though, if the 3G Dam goes, that would cripple Wuhan, yet again. A major flood back in the 50s left standing water in Wuhan for over 3 months. Imagine the damage this thing would have today. And as a reminder for those of us who were surprised at the population when COVID hit it, the city itself has 8 million people in it and a total of 19 million people in what we would consider the metropolitan statistical area.
  2. Some of the olds will take a victory lap and claim it's proof that us younger folks and Twitter are stupid, but they're the ones that I have to keep telling that they didn't actually win the Australian National Lottery, so please don't give the man who cold called you your bank account number.
  3. Lol. They'll pose for pictures with it then make their underpaid wait staff throw it all out rather than let them take it home.
  4. I wonder how feasible it would be to allow those who can to take a 100% online option, but those who want to do in-person instruction have a flex schedule. Half of the in-person students have the A schedule and the other half have the B schedule. A and B schedules alternate days on campus. One week, A schedule will be on campus 3 days a week, B schedule 2, the next week B for 3, A for 2, and so on and so forth. There is no perfect solution out there, but we need uniformity across the state. If all parents are in the same boat as far as childcare and scheduling, that sets a state-wide expectation that will allow employers to adapt. Also, it will force companies with a national footprint to adapt to Texas, rather than pressure employees to make decisions they are uncomfortable with due to Texas being so varied all the way down to the ISD level.
  5. I think we are getting "piecemealed" on what will be an eventual full closure as far as schools, extracurricular activities, and society in general. Last time they announced a full shutdown up front, people rioted and acted a fool all over social media and in public. Grocery stores were hit hard, hoarding spiked, and civil unrest spiked with the proper catalyst (George Floyd). I think the approach now is to slowly trickle the idea of closures and becoming gradually more restrictive every couple of days until we are locked down the way we should be. Kind of a "cooking the frog" type scenario. It can be quite the gamble, though. We're essentially redlining the population to try to keep order and the economy afloat.
  6. Man, New York is really rubbing off on you.
  7. Do your DD first, folks, but just a reminder that Citigroup was 2nd to last, with WFC the only bank behind them, as far as outstanding vulnerable credit. Citi is the bank behind a lot of retail CCs. As soon as unemployment and PPP funds dry up, they might get hit real hard.
  8. Around that time, I got a WSJ alert reporting that the US is about to reject various Chinese maritime claims in the South China Sea.
  9. Well, we all wanted a stable oil price. We were just hoping that would be around $60 or $70. The longer it sits at $40, the longer the investment money stays out.
  10. The answer to the joke is "I've never had a garbanzo bean on my face."
  11. Also, the way their health care system works, those who need to be hospitalized in Europe for COVID won't have to face possible life-changing hospital bills that have the potential to bankrupt them. We're probably about 3-6 months away from articles being published about the crushing individual financial cost of a COVID stint in the ICU. The hospital bills from the earliest stays should be hitting mailboxes soon.
  12. I've printed out probably 100 pages of Paw Patrol: Power Pups for my 5 and 3 year old over the last 4 months, so this hits close to home.
  13. No, because adverse possession, at least in Texas, is governed by statute.
  14. Here's what is dangerous about society and the virus, at this point. There is a segment that is doing their absolute best to social distance, mask up, and exercise general caution in all things. Then there are those who don't think this is a big deal, at all, and no harm will come from this. This has led to people outright ignoring guidelines because they see no harm in their actions and there are real consequences to this. A concern in my own family, which has a large number of people not taking this seriously, is that family members will lie to get us to visit. We are comfortable visiting with a small number of people that we absolutely trust in. We are beyond comfortable when they assure us that they have been staying home and masking up when it is absolutely necessary to go out. Then there is the contingent in our family that don't think this is a big deal. If they strongly believe that there isn't any real danger in COVID, what's to keep them from telling what would be, to them, a little white lie to get us to come over? In their mind, no harm will come from telling us what we want to hear. This has led to uncomfortable conversations between us and certain family members that my wife and I have identified as possible offenders of this. Unfortunately, the majority of these possible offenders interact closely with the obviously at-risk members of the family. And those at-risk in my family are less educated and from a time and place where technology and general science was unnecessary to their survival. They see no value in it. So they get their information from sources they trust, begrudgingly do the bare minimum, and don't verify that others are doing the same before seeing them. I unfortunately find myself, in a morbid and selfish fashion, hoping that someone close enough to our family, but outside of it, gets real sick with this so that my family will finally take this seriously and protect themselves. I've said it before in this thread that some people won't listen until they get a newspaper on the snout. I said that out of personal experience.
  15. The honest and reasonable answer is: some people will and some people won't. Just like some people view those who kneel as hating all of America rather than protesting certain conditions in America. Just as some will think that those who stand fully support those certain conditions that cause people to kneel.
  16. Well, we always joked that when a big time program breaks a rule, the small time programs better watch out. I wonder what Alabama did this time...
  17. GameStop short interest is now 109.65% of float. There are more shares lent than there are actual shares of the company. People made fun of Michael Burry for buying 3% of the outstanding shares back in September, but a massive short squeeze would make him a two time investing genius.
  18. Wasn't enough to save my PFE 40 07/17/20 calls that I bought back in May, looks like. Their breast cancer treatment news sank me and took all the pop out of the vaccine news.
  19. Last I saw CHK's assets being valued, it was shown at $9 billion and that was early this year before the shit hit the fan. Hard to see how that number could almost double between now and then.
  20. Also, he's already on the bad side of large segments of the military due to constantly belittling their generals. Being unpopular with the military is one thing. Having a soft response to military deaths is a whole other thing. Combine the two and you've lost the support of what is, in my opinion, the biggest visible symbol of the power of the executive office.
  21. "The Twitterer in Chief was on yet another tax payer funded golf outing." - Every Fox News talking head from 2008 - 2016. 50 years from now, people are going to have a hard time believing that people openly accepted such blatant hypocrisy.
  22. "Reported" was a poor choice of words. Basically, my wife was in the restaurant business for a long time and still has many contacts in the industry. The word from reliable sources is that people are working COVID positive. Managers need the people to work and the people need to work because they're paycheck to paycheck to begin with. Lawsuits won't happen, IMO, for 2 reasons. 1.) you have to prove that you got sick there and in our CenTex counties COVID is spreading like wildfire. Can you prove that it was at the restaurant that you got sick and 2.) we have zero contact tracing, so even if someone gets sick, how in the world would they know it was from the restaurant to begin with?
  23. Emergency alert just went out over cell phones in Bexar County to stay home and that hospitals are near capacity.
  24. Upon further sleuthing, she's from Lubbock. The Raider Rash ate Mike Perry's brain.
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