They are trying to restart basketball this week. The NBA has created a "bubble" where all players have to stay for the duration of the rest of the season. No travel. This would appear to be smart. Last week, a star player left the bubble for ...

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Looks like Senate Republicans are going to put Judy Shelton, a goldbug, on the Fed.

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Suspension of disbelief is a neat little human cognitive function that allows people to willingly trick themselves into a false state of mind that allows them to fully experience and enjoy poetry, fiction, movies... Using it to experience and engage ...

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Happy birthday, good sir. If you were a beam of light, and sometimes I think you are, and last year you decided to leave earth, you could have now been 5,878.5 billion miles away. Provided you made it past the mofu...

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Closing up shop again here in California. All indoor shops, restaurants. Good. No brainer. Have a daughter, high school senior due to go back to school in the fall, they've been talking about attendance on campus. I'm thinking that's not going to ...

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SC rules Trump not immune to state prosecution.

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Counterpoint:

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True. In my case, not a large position. Just enough to peg my wtf meter.

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Houston, 4th largest US city, now has filled all its ICU beds.

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Can't believe equities are positive. Covid cases growing at faster rate than earlier peak. The rest of the world is putting the US in quarantine and asking us to stay away. States are now halting further reopening plans and reversing some openings. ...

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Can't have more cases if you stop testing. If this was a movie, people would walk out.

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The so-called "village idiot" may have found a way to lower the number of cases today.

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Fun fact: “Countries led by women do seem to be particularly successful in fighting the coronavirus,” noted Anne W. Rimoin, an epidemiologist at UCLA. “New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Norway have done so well perhaps due to the ...

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I'll add a happy b'day to you. You missed a chance to quote one of the greatest opening lines ever: "Call me Ismail."

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How reassuring to have a former skin model running a FEMA briefing on hurricane preparedness as Cristobal gathers strength for its run at the gulf coast.

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Cristobal just got made, aiming for NOLA. Stay safe.

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My sister-in-law lived that. She's an owner/chef of a very fine restaurant. Closed for CV, after some time did limited take-out to make ends meet. City okayed dine-in and was set to re-open 4 days ago, Booked reservations for every table they had. ...

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US cities on fire, no signs of abating, stock futures up. whatever works.

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Trump terminating US relationship with World Health Organization. I guess we'll just add that to the list: JCPOA INF treaty UN arms control treaty Paris Agreement on climate change Soon to be trashed : Open Skies treaty. NEWSTART treaty. Nuclear ...

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