@Horace said in Never realized there were good recessions until now: Well after all it does stand to reason that a shutdown will harm low wage earners more. The high earners are less immediately connected to the economic processes enabled by people going outside and spending pocket money. However they did get those sweet sweet stimulus checks. Agree

@Aqua-Letifer said in Breaking the Debate Rules: @Jolly said in Breaking the Debate Rules: @Doctor-Phibes said in Breaking the Debate Rules: "Mum, Joey did it first!" "Well Donny, if Joe jumped in the lake first, would you do it too?" If you walked into bar, and there was a guy sitting at the end of the bar sipping a beer, would you walk up and slap him? I know that I personally go out of my way to bump back everyone who bumps into me on the metro. Everyone. It takes a ton of time and it's started quite a few incidents, but I just say "hey, man, you started it." I mean if it was a punch I'd be doing exactly the same thing amirite? Bad comparison. If someone bumps into me by accident, I will apologize for being in his way and smile at him, shake his hand, make sure he's ok and knows I know he didn't do it on purpose. If someone purposely bumps into me, I will know the difference immediately, and I will stomp his ass into the dirt. It is silly to blame the victim when he responds to the aggressor.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Fact Checking the "Fact" Checkers: Did anybody fact-check the guy fact-checking the fact-checkers? Jolly.

What's fascinating to me is that he had no problem calling the police. In his mind, nothing about what he did was insane.

Using 2020 logic if this guy was a Trump supporter he would have injected bleach in himself and died without killing anyone.

I thought it was published by Toro’s snowblower division.

They use unobtanium enclosures to store antimatter.

As Larry David once said to someone who said, "Did you just look at my breasts?" with, "Yeah I'm sure you wore that shirt so I'd look at your eyes".

It’s a serving array modeled after the famous story of Goldilocks and the 36 bears. Momma bear who liked cream, papa bear who liked black, and their 34 baby bears, 6 of whom liked their coffee just right. I could tell you what happened to goldi but it’s pretty gruesome. A ravenous jacked up papa bear who exists on caffeine and zero calories.

There's nothing better than an animal having fun Yep.

I think it is.

That’s pathettic

Interesting thread talking about what this is and isn’t. https://twitter.com/tegnicholas/status/1311282961581473793?s=21

@Jolly said in The Third Quarter: @Doctor-Phibes said in The Third Quarter: BBC world news gets 99 million a week. I know, apples and oranges. Similarly, Fox is one conservative channel vs. multiple non-conservative. So all the cons watch Fox, all the libs watch one of 5 or 6 channels. Lies, damn lies, and statistics. In the U.S. or worldwide? My point was that it's an unfair comparison. If there are 5-6 liberal channels and one conservative channel it stands to reason that the conservative channel will get more viewers, if we assume that people tend to watch the channel of their side. The reason I brought up BBC World is that it gains far more viewers than Fox, but they're different viewers - it was a parallel example that quoting numbers without context doesn't provide an accurate basis for comparison.