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Apep

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  1. I may say it sucked, but I'm more with Drew on this. For what it was and what it could have been, the mediocrity is galling.
  2. IIRC, the interim final guidance that Treasury released earlier this week said "Schedule C", not the whole return. Not 100% sure, but I keep hearing that plenty of banks are asking for more than what is required. If you push back, they might drop it, but banks kinda do what they want.
  3. Kim's an attorney and Mike used to operate the gate at the courthouse. They've met, though she might not remember him.
  4. IANAL, but you need to discuss this with your psychiatrist. FWIW, I've gotten unemployment in Texas when I quit on the advice of my psychologist and advised my employer of such in my resignation letter. I was already on an "improvement plan" and slated for termination, so maybe they just didn't fight it. That was about ten years ago and it seriously fucked up my career. But getting unemployment was better than nothing.
  5. The difference is that the Mandalorian didn’t suck. Picard needed to be twice as long and episodic or half as long and a purer serial.
  6. Typical Clone Wars, good enough, not sure how they'll wrap it up in time, but I trust that they will and it will be ever so slightly underwhelming.
  7. I bought some cloth masks with behind-the-head ties. Not that I'll be wearing them that long, but I've seen plenty of pictures of doctors and nurses with ears rubbed raw from elastic.
  8. One of my (tax) colleagues in Oklahoma, a local politician, is working his DC delegation over the purported drop from $10k to $1k per employee and the lack of payout. IOW, there will be Congressional pushback.
  9. Cartoons aren't WFH-friendly? Who knew?
  10. It wasn't good, but it wasn't that bad. There wasn't enough time to properly develop the new characters, even though they actually tried to flesh them out and answer questions. Mystery and open questions are okay. We don't need things wrapped up in tidy packages. And they failed on that score. So arcs could have been cut. I'd say diversity was the weak point, because there were too many humans and human-looking aliens. I'm not asking for much, maybe a Ferengi or an Andorian. A Breen would have been awesome. The deus ex machina solution at the end of the series was telegraphed a mile away. In typical ST fashion, they finally have a decent SF trope, I expect them to ignore the bigger implications forever. They want space soap operas, not SF.
  11. It may not be up for a vote, but I just saw them discussing it and taking public comments. We're probably still a day or two behind Dallas.
  12. Here is a good discussion of using CPAPs for less severe cases of ARD, a topic which I touched on last week.
  13. Tarrant County is currently having an emergency meeting to discuss shelter in place.
  14. Unsurprising. One of my friends lives near Baltimore and he reported having to go to the hood to buy TP that fell off a truck.
  15. That’s called an antibody test. China and Singapore have them. Not sure about us.
  16. Shaming people for quarantining or not quarantining? It's hard not to do the latter.
  17. For mild cases of ARDs, (acute respiratory distress), it sounds like CPAPs can be used as ventilators. They can even be improvised from standard ER equipment. They don't require much more than than hoses, masks, and a wall outlet. They can be used with O2 concentrators and a connector to supplement oxygen. If things are really that bad with ventilator supplies, shouldn't we start CPAP/BiPAP drives and decontamination procedures? For example, I have three working CPAPs, a primary, one for travel, and an old one that I never sold on the gray market.
  18. Can we have a major increase in our allotment of daily posrep for the duration of the pandemic? Until this past week I had never hit the cap. I'm hitting it every day.
  19. Good ep, but “I just know things” is kinda lazy writing.
  20. That's possible. It is also possible they knew the WHO pandemic announcement was coming and needed them in the WH. Even if that's not true, that's how they'll need to play it.
  21. The first presumptive case in Tarrant County is the rector at Trinity Episcopal. https://www.fortworthtrinity.org/about/news/covid-19-and-trinity/?fbclid=IwAR2gsK-IdFu2z_LyOxyTZD_vue-mQYMGvjcOXmIlo1nfdwGmBuzp9uw-cao
  22. If the teacher was writing to a third party robot league trying to blacklist the kid, won't he get crucified under FERPA?
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