Our neighbours have complained that Loki likes to sit on their windowsill, stare in and growl at their cat. I said he does the same to me ??????? pic.twitter.com/aTliBq0IJI
— Sara (@SaraAndHeart) March 29, 2020
Long live Sir Walter! ?? sending purregards from William the Conqueror pic.twitter.com/VbuHlk7Dqj
— _b Esq.'ess,?? (@bbountybb) March 29, 2020
Aaron Purr wishes he could see other cats from his perch. pic.twitter.com/xEljlTAr9M
— Pete (@PeteLikesBikes) March 29, 2020
Meh says “Hi!” to Walter pic.twitter.com/ALjd87ScQY
— Danilla Riyadi (@danillajpr) March 30, 2020
Not a mirror trick… Two brothers ?? pic.twitter.com/8Nc8NRhlaI
— Kirby (@Kirbymckirby) March 29, 2020
Harry taking in the rays ?? pic.twitter.com/vpi8WKrucZ
— CarolinaMoon ?????????????????? (@Carrie_L65) March 29, 2020
Walter's parents have created an insta for him for all your Walter-related updates https://t.co/BCTe3098NN pic.twitter.com/2TEoep3SrJ
— Sian Cosgrove (@sian_cosgrove) March 29, 2020
(I’m meh about the Big Lebowski, but Walter Sobchat is a great name for a big burly bicolor cat!)
cain
Wait.. was Aaron Purr, a host on the detective show ‘Furry Mason – the case of the missing tuna?” Maybe that was Raymond Purr.. oops.
RobertDSC-Work
Makes me smile that Walter got his own Instagram.
Betty Cracker
I’m just gonna park these two interesting tweets right here:
Also:
I sure hope Biden recorded that call because Trump’s totally gonna lie about it.
Mary G
trollhattan
Holy moly, that Twitter thread has the highest concentration of clever cat nyms I’ve ever encountered. And Meh really earns his name.
WereBear
We are all the abused dependents of a raging narcissistic Big Daddy now.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
If you’d like a concise, accurate summary, Kellyanne’s your gal!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@WereBear: are you watching the Follies? Is the Tone new again today?
JPL
@Betty Cracker: You know he did.
Ohio Mom
I’m trying to imagine what that Biden-Trump conversation was like. Biden wasn’t going to lavish praise and Trump was not going to be forthcoming — neither had anything to offer the other. Sounds very awkward.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker:
Favreau said earlier it was a Zoom interview, I don’t know if they posted the full video
Poe Larity
@cain: No, Hercule Purrot
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I will check it out — thanks!
Betty Cracker
@Ohio Mom: I’m not sure it was a good idea to rise to Kellyanne’s bait, but maybe Biden will figure out a way to turn it to his advantage. He surely knows none of the Trump people have any intention of acting in good faith.
trollhattan
Gavin Newsom’s presser today summarized temp overflow hospital space either available or in process. It will include our local discarded basketball arena, which apparently hadn’t fallen into disarray to the point of uselessness.
Newsom’s task is like dealing with a wildfire that’s two ridges away, while Cuomo’s in the middle of the fire. There’s a huge span of predicted peaks for California’s outbreak and Newsom is presuming later and larger than some models predict. Seems prudent and it’s okay to hope he’s ultimately wrong.
Miss Bianca
@Poe Larity:
Purrlock Holmes
trollhattan
@Ohio Mom:
As long as Joe worked in one “sir” somewhere….
WereBear
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I can’t. I watch Governor Cuomo’s presser every day and wait for the day’s debacle to get discussed on Twitter.
WereBear
@trollhattan: you mean you want him OVER PREPARED?!?!?!
I heard that was a bad thing.
Mike in NC
Per WaPo, the number of Americans to die from the Trump Virus has passed 10,000.
kindness
It’s starting to warm up some so I’ve been keeping the door between my kitchen and the garage open. There is a critter door in the back door of the garage so they can let themselves in and out. What is happening a lot now is the cats will let themselves out and within 5 minutes be sitting at the patio door off the living room wanting to be let back in. When I do they repeat and rinse within another 5 minutes. I got tired of it. I’m not leaving the living room door open and if they really want to come back in they have to go back to the garage door and come in on their own. They hate that part.
Uncle Cosmo
@trollhattan: Presumably Joe laid in a “Mr. President” wherever & whenever appropriate. On the principle that (as the military puts it) you salute the rank, not the person holding it. (Though the words probably tasted like ashes on his tongue.)
Adam L Silverman
@Mike in NC: That’s the official number. The really number is much higher.
Chyron HR
@Ohio Mom:
“We’re going to kill you, Donald. That’s not a political metaphor, I mean you are going to be tried for crimes against humanity and fucking executed, you evil son of a bitch.”
trollhattan
@WereBear:
Right? Demonstrably UNpresidential as measured against the current paradigm.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WereBear:
That’s the route I take too.
Ohio Mom
Trollhattan @17: Yes, a “sir” or two, definitely a “Mr. President” in the mix — I agree with Betty, we have to figure Joe Biden knows what he is doing, he’s an old-fashioned politician used to dealing with all types.
But he has nothing to learn from Trump and there is nothing Trump is interested in hearing about from anyone else so I assume it was a brief call.
germy
James Bond Pussy Galore Actress Honor Blackman Dies At 94
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
NYT seems to be the first with reporting.
WereBear
@trollhattan:
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I used to think the Republican base fell for the “veneer of statesmanship” with a good suit and spouting the correct platitudes.
But Trump could appear in an actual clown suit and they’d say he was trying to boost morale.
Baud
@germy:
RIP best character name ever.
germy
Honor Blackman was great in The Avengers.
Baud
@Baud:
NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/06/828341826/biden-and-trump-discuss-coronavirus-response-by-phone
Steeplejack (phone)
Goddamn. Turned on MSNBC to watch Ari Melber and found Trump still in full baying/preening mode. I could take only five minutes before I had to turn it off. He is lying about everything. And the lies are becoming more outlandish.
germy
Why not donate the food?
japa21
@Baud: I’m really not interested in how the conversation went. I want to know Biden’s first words after he hung up.
Baud
@germy: Transportation costs?
SiubhanDuinne
@Poe Larity:
Friend of Miss Meowple, I assume?
Baud
@japa21:
I believe protocol demands that the first words after finishing a conversation with Trump be “Christ, what an asshole.”
Baud
Schumer picks Warren staffer for coronovirus commission.
A Ghost to Most
No cat is truly free that never gets to go outside.
germy
Schumer taps Warren aide for new coronavirus oversight commission
Elizabelle
If any of you have wingnuts telling you that Obama depleted the emergency stockpiles: ProPublica was curious about that too. And the answer… is not what the wingnuts are expecting.
How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus
Fiscal restraints imposed by Republicans in Congress in the early years of the Obama administration left the U.S. less prepared to respond to the coronavirus pandemic today.
Cermet
Considering between 1 billion to 4 billion small animals & birds are uselessly slaughtered by cats every year, isn’t it irresponsible to allow pet cats to roam freely outside?
Steeplejack (phone)
@germy:
RIP. Too bad she got tagged with that one role, because she was quite good in a lot of other things, including The Avengers pre-Emma Peel.
germy
@Steeplejack (phone):
Yes! As much as I like Diana Rigg, Honor was my favorite.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I hope someone posts this video
Mnemosyne
I just discovered Miette, the overdramatic (and sometimes French-accented) cat.
“Jail for Mother! Jail for Mother for one thousand years!”
https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/let-me-tell-you-about-my-pet-patricia-lockwood-miette.html
Mary G
I’m so old that I remember when Jon Karl was considered a conservative cheerleader.
germy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Sab
@A Ghost to Most: Nonsense. My cats ( all rescues) hate to go outside. They have been there and done that. Every cat I had as a kid eventually got hit by a car ( within 2 to 5 years.) My guys are all well over ten years old.
I adopted my dad’s cat. He did well outside, except for the time he broke his leg, and the time he almost got his ear chewed off, and he is blind from toxoplasmosis in his eye from eating the wrong rodent. Plus tapeworms occasionally. Indoor cat now.
He likes windowsills with open windows.
daize
@cain: Or Adam Meowgliesh? :-)
NotMax
@Steeplejack
“Failed Captain Crozier stole the strawberries.”
//
cain
Of course. He was a fanastic lead figure in “The Murder of Roger Ackmeow” The greatest detective since Furlock Holmes.
Spanky
@Mary G: Well, it’s actually true that Karl is a third-rate reporter. What are we supposed to make of Trump saying that?
debbie
@Baud:
And an insulting tweet in 5…4…3…
Splitting Image
@germy:
Can’t complain about living until 94, but she’ll be greatly missed.
Aside from playing opposite Patrick Macnee (also very much missed), Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg share a little bit of Bond trivia: they were the only two Bond girls from the 1960s who were older than Bond in their respective films. (Connery for Blackman, Lazenby for Rigg.)
cain
@Steeplejack (phone):
She continued to be a devilishly attractive dame .. she aged well.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
They’ll just come back with the lie that they were too preoccupied with impeachment.
cain
@Splitting Image:
I was wondering given her age. Connery is like 89 or something. (just looked it up..woot.. I’m good)
She looks younger than him in that movie. Way younger.
debbie
Since it’s an open thread, Jesus friggin’ Christ, what has this come to?
cain
@Steeplejack (phone):
Did he lie and said he shot the Sheriff and blamed it on the deputy? That’s something he would do.
NotMax
@cain
Easier to compare had his Bond been wearing the Zardoz outfit.
:)
Mary G
@debbie: OMG.
NotMax
@debbie
With street traffic so severely reduced, digging up the pavement fronting a certain Tower ought be considered.
debbie
@NotMax:
That I wouldn’t mind.
WereBear
Thanks. I needed the laugh. @NotMax:
Sab
@debbie: He was too preoccupied with golf.
Where the hell was Rob Portman? By February anyone with any awareness knew this was barrelling at us. And he was okay with Trump as president for the duration.
Mary G
Mnem alert!
Steeplejack (phone)
General note: If you don’t want to watch Trump’s briefing rallies but want to follow along at a distance or occasionly dip in, Aaron Rupar (@ATRupar on Twitter) is your guy. He covers them all and posts video snippets.
Duane
@Mary G: You’ll never make it? I’m so old I remember when Jon Karl was young and not conservative.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@germy: thanks
@Mary G: didn’t Karl publish something a week or so ago calling on the press to be less adversarial with The Beast?
Martin
@germy: To who? Farmers don’t sell to grocery stores – they sell to distributors. The food banks don’t really have a distribution system, and the grocery distributors aren’t willing to do that.
States should step in here and do that at the state level. The food banks have a sorta-kinda distribution system, but I don’t think it’d be capable of working at this level where getting the goods from market to market is the hard part.
chopper
i love twitter. 1.2 million likes for…asking a cat’s name.
Martin
@debbie: Hart Island has always been a thing.
Jacob Riis photo of potters field on Hart island.
Fair Economist
The Kinsa internet thermometer fever report lost a lot of its usefulness for the last two weeks, because of plummeting rates of non-COVID illness disguising any change from COVID. *But* now in many parts of the country, fever rates have dropped to *zero* – that’s right, literally nobody running a fever – and so the report is starting to have uses again, although the graphics aren’t too helpful, because they’re tuned to much higher baseline fever level.
The best graphics comes from the “trends” report I linked. It’s a bit misleading, because the fire engine red mostly comes from places that hit zero now reporting a small number of cases. Probably a bad thing in the current environment, but not really showing a massive increase.
A couple of comments:
Covid-19 looks to be spreading geographically. It looks like a wave of initial infections that presumably came off the West coast is now reaching the Mountain West, a similar wave from Greater NYC is in West PA to Virginia, and a northbound wave from NYC is entering Maine. The areas behind the wave have higher fever rates and presumably COVID rates, but they show bluer colors indicating continuing drops because they never got to 0%. As I said, the graphics still have problems.
There looks like there is a ferocious epidemic spread going on along I-65 from Nashville up to Indianapolis. It’s probably further down to Birmingham at least, which still has substantial fever rates, but that’s blue possibly because the infection hit before non-COVID infections disappeared. There’s also spread going on in southern GA and AL. These are, I suspect, from spring breakers on the FL panhandle aka the “Redneck Riviera” going home. DeSantis killed a LOT of people delaying the closure orders.
It looks like the Bay Area CA may be winning the second round against COVID (after being an initial outbreak center). Fever rates are dropping to near zero throughout the area in the last day or two. If they stay down, I anticipate new case rates will plummet in about a week, followed by hospitalizations and death. The rest of the West Coast is generally heading in the right direction, but is not bouncing on 0 yet.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
so anybody who needs “inspiration” for next November…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@RobertDSC-Work: The kid’s kitten, Lexibumpy has her own instagram.
Steeplejack (phone)
Good news: Ari Melber finally on.
Bad news: Talking with Thomas Friedman.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WereBear:
Well, you’ve seen the way he dresses.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
Trump’s grandmother’s maiden name was Christ*.
*Also Fred’s middle name.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
all the things wrong with this….
Miss Bianca
@germy: She’s hot in that photo, and you know the best thing of all? Absolutely no work done on that face. Wrinkles, smile lines, skin that looks like skin and not some poreless plastic material. Sigh. Those were the days, my friend…
James E Powell
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Was there ever any doubt?
zhena gogolia
@Mary G:
That is so sweet!
trollhattan
@Fair Economist:
Here’s hoping your Bay Area analysis proves correct, because that would be yuge if it proves out. Over in the Valley, a pretty big deal is this development:
Before today one needed a doctor’s referral, so they are either caught up with testing or have expanded capacity.
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Only Tim Apple knows for certain.
mrmoshpotato
A “Turn your pet into a soldier” ad. Hahaha
Jim, Foolish Literalist
so in addition to spending two hours of every day having extended tantrums and airing all his grievances, trump in the middle of an international public health and economic, trump has time to watch reruns of old superbowls
Miss Bianca
@Mary G: Aw, I got teary watching that – particularly the little girl’s reaction!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Miss Bianca:
So, the antithesis of Lou Dobbs.
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: I’m getting CCTV_Idiots and others under More Tweets, and it’s a blast!
trollhattan
Jacinda Ardern maintains first place in my ranking of the world’s best PMs: ‘Tooth Fairy and Easter bunny are essential workers’ Top that, rest of the world’s PMs.
TS (the original)
@Betty Cracker:
Trump will just take Biden’s ideas/information and pass it off as his own. If Biden goes down the path of “bipartisanship” my head will explode.
Sister Golden Bear
A tale of two companies….
Cancelled my Comcast internet (last story, but back when I bought the house it was the only provider available) because I’ve gotten a 1 GB dedicated fiber optic line installed.
Waited more than two hours on hold, but at least the customer service agent actually wasn’t too unhelpful when I told him (white lie) that I’d moved outside of the service area.
(FYI, they will ask you for a ZIP code of your new location so check with a service finder like this one to make sure they don’t service the area. I used 96923, which is a hamlet high up in the Sierra Nevada).
Also cancelled DirecTV, which I’ve loved until AT&T bought them out and has steadily been running things downhill, plus my neighbors refuse to cut their trees which was causing reception problems. Final straw was when the receiver died, and I realized with being laid-off it was time to cut the cord.
With DirectTV, I got an agent within two minutes, who didn’t even bother verifying the my “new” ZIP code, although I did tell him semi-truthfully that I couldn’t get reception.
Signing up for Hulu Live, which has almost all the channels I want at less half the cost I was paying. A $60/year donation to PBS provides PBS content. The only major annoyance is that Hulu Live doesn’t carry the Science Channel, and it’s related brands.
TS (the original)
@Baud:
But of course they are – their reward for but her emails and getting trump elected.
trollhattan
@TS (the original):
Biden’s suggestion” “Mr. President, if I were you I’d start NASCAR back up and attend the very first race. Don’t sit in the sky box, sit in the stands with your dedicated fans. Do it soon, sir, they will love you because they miss you so very much.”
Would he steal that idea?
cain
@Fair Economist:
Once it happens though, we need to start building the industry and start focusing on PPE equipment and ventilators and start building the engines and start getting those to all the states.
I think the west coast states will have to lead and definitely ignore trump and FEMA and hiding the operations from them. They cannot be trusted. Definitely undercut the market while they are at it so that nobody goes to FEMA either.
Feathers
I confess to sometimes seeing “The Avengers” and thinking that they were talking about John Steed and Emma or Cathy or even Tara (I came around eventually). It doesn’t happen often anymore, but I’m still kinda annoyed to realize that they’re talking about the MCU.
I have the complete Emma Peel DVD boxset. Wish I’d picked up the Cathy Gale as well, but I was between jobs when they came out.
Gin & Tonic
@trollhattan: RI’s governor had a news conference late last week just for kids, and in answer to some boy’s question she also clarified that the Easter bunny was considered an essential employee.
Sister Golden Bear
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Because the Founders’ original intent was that the Republicans should rule as minoritarians, amirite? //
WereBear
@Sister Golden Bear: what the hey, does Comcast have to give you permission to cancel?
mrmoshpotato
@WereBear:
1. Ewww.
2. We’ve been abused dependents since Jan 20, 2017.
Feathers
@Sister Golden Bear: The donation to PBS is good, but you can also get an indoor HDTV antenna to get all your over the air channels. It works very well for me. I have a Roku TV and it even lets me pause live TV for up to 90 minutes. You need a thumb drive, but it is super easy. In theory you can also record programs but I’ve never actually gotten it to work. Maybe time to try again, they’ve upgraded the TV listings since the last time I tried.
WereBear
@Feathers: Tara? Never. Weak tea.
mrmoshpotato
Need some headbanging music with your cat gifs?
Here you go.
Brachiator
@Splitting Image:
Blackman and another Bond Girl, Shirley Eaton, also appeared in episodes of “The Saint.”
I was really impressed by Blackman in “Goldfinger.” And later I also thought she was cool in “The Avengers.”
TS (the original)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’m sure Sen Collins is concerned. Then again, she will only win via vote suppression, so maybe not.
debbie
@Sab:
He’s such a god-damned mealy mouth. I need to lay off emailing him for a while or I’ll be put on a stalker list.
TS (the original)
@trollhattan:
I don’t believe Biden would say it – he is just too much into the “good governance” role.
debbie
@Martin:
Yeah, but this will be in a “public park” — probably next to the children’s playground. //
Sister Golden Bear
@WereBear: Comcast will only let you quit after you sacrifice your first-born child. They’re notorious for lengthy semi-abusive hard-sells to get you to keep from cancelling. Telling them you’ve moved out of their service area is quite literally the only way to avoid this. And then you need to call back again to double check that they’ve actually cancelled your service, and make sure they credit you for the returned equipment.
Last time I moved, they sent me to collections for “missing” equipment even though I had the receipts showing I’d returned it. Thankfully a Comcast office was still open, so I declined the offer to mail it, dropped it off at the office, and took photos of it on their return cart. Initially, the Comcast employee didn’t want to give me a receipt (saying the warehouse would check it in), but I made damn sure she gave me one.
So we’ll see if they try to screw me over again.
@Feathers: I thought about a getting an HDTV antenna, but then I’d need to get a DVR as well, since I usually don’t watch TV live, except for the news. Hulu Live has the local channels that I care about, and includes DVR functionality. But it’s an option if needed.
japa21
@TS (the original): Kind of curious as to the legal reasoning they gave. After all, states dictate election rules. For example, in Florida in 2000 the SCOTUS would never get involved in how the state handled the counting… oh wait
Sister Golden Bear
@mrmoshpotato: I see your metal musicians, and raise you Norwegian Death Metal Cats.
PenAndKey
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: You know, there aren’t many times I’ve been more disgusted to have been born and raised in Wisconsin than I am right now. Our legislature is currently being led by two men, Vos and Fitzgerald, who have effectively stated that they’re perfectly fine murdering their fellow citizens, even if it’s through malignant neglect, if it means they stay in power. And the US Supreme Court has just sided with them.
Between the State Supreme Court just giving Ever’s last ditch attempt to move the election out of the peak pandemic week and this the GOP isn’t even trying to hide the fact they care more about power than anything else. Milwaukee is practically shut down and only has a handful of polling stations that can even be opened. Madison is the same way. They’re blatantly trying to stack the deck in their favor, and they don’t care at all that they’re doing so in a way that will lead to more deaths.
trollhattan
@Sister Golden Bear:
I discovered [shock] one may not cancel SiriusXM using their website. One must call, at which point one is speaking to somebody in the Philippines whose jerb is to propose various price-saving deals to forestall a cancellation. Heaven forfend.
After a significant chunk of an hour the deed was done. Now I get daily emails and weekly mail from SiriusXM trying to lure me back.
Just another slice of our shiny digital future.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think this is a bullshit decision, but it is not invalidating thousands of ballots. Absentee ballots must be hand delivered by 8pm tomorrow or postmarked by tomorrow and received by April 13. I got my absentee ballot today, but I am going to go deliver it in person tomorrow.
Source.
WereBear
@Sister Golden Bear: Sounds like trying to cancel Sirius radio.
BeautifulPlumage
@Feathers: have you heard this song?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DkskwZW9iQNM&ved=2ahUKEwi_g7jhi9XoAhVXpZ4KHSmZCGMQwqsBMAF6BAgGEAg&usg=AOvVaw3kRfJQAkTdRq-edFBJ0ncD
?BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: I had a trial subscription to SiriusXM when I got my Prius, got snail mail for months from them when I decided I didn’t want it and let it lapse, thank FSM they didn’t have my email addy.
jl
Thanks for cut kitpix.
I never wondered what a cute cat’s or dog’s name was when they were cutely fiddling around, or lazing around a window.
But now I will. ‘Thanks,’ Balloon Juice!
Patricia Kayden
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden: Sounds like that worked out well.
PenAndKey
Someone should really tell Modly and his lackeys the first rule of hole digging.
Gravenstone
@trollhattan: Most places do that. Order new features online? Sure. Cancel anything online? Not on your life! Spent 50 minutes on hold with DirecTV the other day to cancel my MLB package for the season we currently aren’t having. At least it was a pleasant enough 5 minute conversation with the young lady – from Ecuador (I think that’s what the post-interaction survey claimed).
Gravenstone
@PenAndKey:
I’ve argued elsewhere that if any of the (predominantly older) poll workers becomes ill in the coming weeks and dies from this stunt, I want those two and their entire legislative caucus charged as accessories to manslaughter. Never happen of course. Republicans can never have agency nor receive blame for their malfeasance. But yeah, they’re willfully jeopardizing people’s lives here. All to retain their own power.
Origuy
The Declaration of Arbroath was signed on April 6, 1320. It was a letter from Scottish nobles and bishops to the Pope, rejecting English rule over Scotland and declaring Scottish sovereignty. It has been called a declaration of independence and almost certainly influenced America’s. The most famous passage from the document goes as follows:
Amir Khalid
Fuck it, I’m going to finish my last bag of Aussie cheddar cheese popcorn today. Even if the supermarket is all out of it on my next trip.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: Same here, Costco didn’t have the big bags of Skinny Pop(spoiler: it doesn’t make you skinny).
mrmoshpotato
@WereBear:
For the life of me, I can’t fathom why you’d even hallucinate a “veneer of statesmanship.”
Mary G
Acting NavSec Modly issues apology:
raven
@Sister Golden Bear: Youtube tv has PBS now.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Dump Tower seized and turned into a giant crypt. I wish I was completely joking about this.
Eric S.
@mrmoshpotato: Nothing against Metallica but for hard rock kitties I go here.
Amir Khalid
@Mary G:
In other news, Liverpool FC has rescinded (and apologised for) plans to furlough non-playing staff during the pandemic. The plan would have seen these members of staff paid 80% of their salaries out of public funds and 20% by the club. The anouncement of the furlough plan had infuriated fans and prominent former players, who denounced Liverpool’s owner the Fenway Sports Group for disrespecting the values of the club and the spirit of its anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone.
Amir Khalid
@Patricia Kayden:
“We just fucked your captain over, we’re going to fuck you over too, and YOU ARE ORDERED TO KEEP QUIET ABOUT IT.”
Jeffro
@Martin: Wow.
Between that and North Brother Island, a lotta history out there.
Elizabelle
@Amir Khalid: Weirdly, and per CNN reporting I have not yet seen elsewhere, looks like Trump and Modly are trying to walk their stupidity back WRT dissing Captain Crozier.
CNN report: is this Trump gaslighting, or did they get a clue how terribly Modly’s rant went over? And how much the Navy and others will remember this debacle on election day??
Trump says he may ‘get involved’ in case of Navy captain removed from duty
When I saw the headline, my heart sank. I was afraid Trump was going to fire Crozier on the spot. But … Modly is actually out on the plank.
Jeffro
@trollhattan: Moms think of everything! =)
Jeffro
@WereBear:
@mrmoshpotato:
“End The Abuse: Vote 11/3/20” isn’t a half-bad Dem/GOTV slogan (and it fits on a bumpersticker, too)
lol chikinburd
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: We know the plan now: Trump’s going to win a bunch of states’ electoral votes five votes to four. He’ll win Wisconsin’s 5-2 and then 5-4, but that was somewhat clear even before the pandemic; now, the tactic’s sure to spread.
Jeffro
@Elizabelle: trumpov saw the video of the sailors cheering a fired Crozier, and ‘thinks’, “uh oh…dis bad…maybe I can be a SuperMuricanHero here by somehow stepping in, even now…”
Never mind that, as the phrase goes, Everything trumpov Touches Dies…
I’m sure he’ll tell us all about it at tomorrow’s “ME!” rally, er, WH presser. Maybe someone in the WH press corps will ask him about pardoning that SEAL psycho, or follow up on today’s question about the ‘second half’ of trumpov’s supposed physical…
Elizabelle
@Jeffro: I desperately hope that does not work, that it becomes obvious that Trump wanted Crozier fired.
Modly, though, and his theatricalism. What a nut job.
Martin
Data time:
At some point there’s an inflection off of the exponential curve were it starts toward something like a gaussian integral function. The graphs you may be seeing of infection is being modeled to a gaussian function because the historical trend for the number of infected is a gaussian curve, but because fatalities don’t drop, it looks like the integral of that function. The point of my models is to try and predict when that inflection point happens.
Historically, the gaussian is the result of herd immunity taking over, which we aren’t (hopefully) relying on here, so I don’t quite know how to model out the world after that inflection because we don’t know how effective various approaches are, where herd immunity is much more of a natural and therefore more predictable function. So, I’m looking for the point where the local (7 day, in my case) trend goes to 0, meaning zero growth in new cases over 7 days (people still dying fast, but the rate isn’t gong up) – that’s the first part of the inflection, but the slope doesn’t go negative as immediately as a gaussian function would suggest – it kind of plateaus out for a while – and then goes negative – the 2nd part of the inflection. I’m also looking for that point.
I also have a theory that fatalities takes 21days to show the first inflection and then another 10 or so days for the 2nd. That’s based on China’s data (which may not be accurate).
So, I think the x days since lockdown only works for the first lockdown, which makes sense. We’re not dumb, so we start taking precautions before we’re told to. The question is – how effective are those voluntary actions. In the case of Italy and Spain looking at China, not at all effective. In the case of Spain looking at Italy, possibly very effective. So, the US may degrade into a similar red vs blue situation where states that looked sympathetically (the populace, not the governor) toward CA and WA see outcomes the trend toward CA and WA timelines, and states that look antagonistically toward those states see outcomes that act more independently. This is foreshadowing toward American exceptionalism, by the way…
Conclusion – I’ll keep doing this but it’s already showing diminishing value. Googles travel data by destination is maybe among the most compelling data showing the effectiveness of the various lockdowns – both state mandated as well as voluntary social distancing, and would probably give us a lot of insight into how various states will bend their local curves. My guess is that we’ll not hit the most catastrophic predictions for near term fatalities, we’ll not hit a number like 10K per day, but we’ll get stuck between 1K and 5K per day and stay there for a long fucking time as the mechanisms to get out of that state don’t get implemented because of federal inaction, and political objection to the kinds of big brotherish steps that would be necessary.
Citizen Alan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: If they were capable of introspection, every single person who literally mocked the idea that judicial nominations should play a part in who they voted for would be out in the streets in sackcloth and ashes begging random strangers for forgiveness. But they’re not, so they aren’t.
Citizen Alan
@Feathers: LOL. I had the exact opposite experience in 1979 when I saw “The Avengers” in TV Guide when I was about ten or so. I stayed up late w/o permission to watch it expecting to see Iron Man and Thor and got some British guy in a bowler hat. Very frustrating at the time, though I became a big fan when I was older and more able to appreciate Mrs. Peel’s charms.
Citizen Alan
@Brachiator:
Pussy Galore was always one of my favorite Bond girls. My only objections to Goldfinger (though it’s a pretty big one) is that Goldfinger would have won in the end had Bond not literally raped Pussy into changing her allegiance.
eachother
The 8PM outdoor howling was amazing. I never heard anything so beautiful. I’ve heard cats howl. I’ve heard dogs, wolves and coyotes howl. The human howling tonight communicated every message across the spectrum of feelings a howling can generate. I got the message and returned in kind.
mrmoshpotato
Well well well…
I humbly accept this compliment.
(Click the tweet and have a laugh.)
Steeplejack (phone)
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Lou Dobbs was the worst Bond girl.