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  • Hitting Pause on Reopening

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    jon-nycJ

    And Texas.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/504680-texas-to-shut-bars-restaurants-to-stop-virus

  • How exactly do you catch COVID-19?

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    LuFins DadL

    How do I catch COVID-19? With a big box and a stick with a rope tied to it. I bait it with my 75-year-old neighbor.

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  • We've reached a new peak of new cases

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    89th8

    @89th said in We've reached a new peak of new cases:

    Can someone please check the poop tubes (sewer) to see if it predicted the uptick?

    Hello? Is someone on this or what?

  • *Thump!* on the window ...

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    AxtremusA

    Perhaps different regions use different terminologies, perhaps you are more familiar with the spelling "window grilles" or the term "window grids". In any case, the following picture shows an example of what I mean:
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  • Today I found out...

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    MikM

    Multi-purpose. And to answer your question? 64. Almost 65.

  • How to make a Nacho Table!

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  • A bracelet prediction

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    JollyJ

    @Mik said in A bracelet prediction:

    Not true. His are purple.

    Are we still talking about handcuffs?

  • *Trump!* on the window...

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    George KG

    @Mik said in *Trump!* on the window...:

    On a pink Cadillac? Srsly?

    Is that really a Caddy? How can you tell?

  • Competition

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    JollyJ

    Hard to social distance in a tank.

  • Hey MainerMike

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    RainmanR

    Wassup Mainer Mike, you around?

    There's a moose with its very own thread. And video. Really! Not kidding. Video of an angry moose, right here on TNCR. From Maine of course. And it was all for you, so hope you can find it (the moose topic, I mean, not Maine, you're there so, well, duh, you know that and all).

  • Thought Experiment-Biden as President

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    taiwan_girlT

    @xenon said in Thought Experiment-Biden as President:

    If there was somehow a way to get data on all the drivers of the economy (or let's say the top 100) - you could run a regression on that data.

    My view is similar to TG's - what you'd see is that the President is a non-zero coefficient, but other things like tech progress, size and health of global markets, earnings of domestic firms, etc., etc. - would dwarf any direct actions from the President.

    Now you can see in the long arc of history the government sets the rules of the game (patent law, anti-trust law, regulations, etc., etc.) and the President has influence there - but those sort of changes have an effect on a scale of decades and even centuries.

    In times of crises, the President's coefficient get's a lot bigger.

    But if you were to make that equation, and look at the coefficient on Presidential actions - it wouldn't be accurate to say things like "Trump's economy" or "Obama's economy"

    Maybe their coefficient is greater than any other single person - or maybe the Steve Jobs of the world beat them in some years.

    Thank you Xenon. You said it better than I ever could. 🙂

  • "Not my instrument"

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    RainmanR

    @Horace said in "Not my instrument":

    Another example from sports is the Patriots, who have to adjust to the real rules every away game. It’s such a seismic shift from video/audio of the opponent sideline and huddles, deflated balls, and totally fraudulent officiating. It shows great adaptability.

    I know even less about baseball.

  • For the Foodie Who Has Everything

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    JollyJ

    Solar ovens work ok, given the right circumstances, but even in poor countries most people don't use them...

  • Cancel Funding

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    L

    @Rainman said in Cancel Funding:

    @Loki
    It's spelled grand.
    Was I right?

    Lol. You have one of the words right!

  • Mooses are scary

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    Aqua LetiferA

    Meesemeat is delicious.

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    MikM

    It's an interesting look into human nature. Discrimination of one sort or another will always be with us.

  • For the Wimmenz

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    JollyJ

    Over the years, my wife has worn two of those. Still wears one of them.

    BTW, Chanel No.5 is not nearly as good as Coco, Coco Chanel's personal fragrance...

  • Happy Birthday George!

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    MikM

    Best Copper Birthday Cake Ever.

    My daughter and her English teacher pals assigned each other teacher an Animal Farm animal. They were the chickens. It was remarkably astute.

  • Meanwhile in Baltimore

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    CopperC

    @89th said in Meanwhile in Baltimore:

    Imagine if the races in this video were reversed, think this would get covered by media?

    I imagine that we would all be paying reparations before the day was out.

  • Covid curve by region

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    89th8

    Maybe have masks with the Confederate flag on the front. BOOM, problem solved. Flag everywhere, COVID nowhere.