No the strike was always scheduled to end tomorrow so this is just the two being co-ordinated. They're giving us a return date of 1st May but that's obviously meaningless.

Glad things are relatively OK for you. I'm in pretty much the same boat. Safe for now but long term? Who knows?

Stay safe

good to know you’re safe for now. sorry about your friends.

time to start making preparations for what will be an inevitable recession (we’re there already?), probable depression if governments don’t get their shit together.


way to steal your thunder though.

yeah impossible to know what’s going to shake out

i’m ready to hunker down for about 12 weeks and after that i’m not sure what.

i’ve ordered exercise gear, vitamins/medicines, haircutting shears, chemicals, cooking equipment... basically all kinds of useful things given the need to avoid contact with people in the near future. plus it offers money-saving options (not that this would be good in the aggregate during a depression.) my local stores were also out of olive oil so i bought a couple of one-liter cans.

i’m sticking to ebooks for the time being, except for the stuff i checked out of the library and get to hoard after they closed doors.

my thinking is the economy comes out at the other side of this looking very different from today.

eta: trying to be systematic about this

Glad to know you're ok too. Keep safe.X

Thanks.

Hoping for the best but preparing for the worst, as they say.

I work at a martial arts and fitness equipment manufacturer/distributor. It's insane the amount of increased sales we have had over the past few days. It feels really odd in comparison to all the misery developing around me too... Odd times for sure.

Sorry Peterpuff, i started a rumor that exercising prevents infection. I just want a fit society!

is that why the aerobics band worn in your profile pic? :D

demand is always changing and now it changes faster

there was a sharp increase in coccooning after 9/11 too

while that was for psychological reasons, this is more out of immediate practical necessity. but it think it will leave marks. everyone their own bunker.

sadly it's a screengrab from a music video. I wish i was a mega hot female like that. I have to settle on mega hot male.

sub "hot" for "cute" and you got me :p

According to my Maths teacher, the rumour is that Thursday (tomorrow) is going to be the last day before it gets canned. Fingers crossed, I've got a test on Friday I don't really wanna do.

it’s an 80s video yeah? looks very 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetW6R9Jxs4


2004 actually but with some 80s style vibe

bundas!! :D

oh damn the instantaneous infatuation

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eta great great video except for dennis fucking reynolds in it

delete him

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deanne berry

im probably too late to be her stalker now haaaa haaaa haaaa

And all these years I figured you were just a really big fan of Olivia Newton-John - Physical

I've never been to a gym in my whole damn life. Never had any gym paraphernalia at home either. Got out of PE in high school (suckers!). Still slim as ever. Good metabolism and not that much food, I guess. Lotsa Coke, though.

Hey, is anybody else having dismal internet speed? I bet you do - it's because everybody's holed up at home using the AlGoreWebs! People, get out to the yard or the sidewalk for a bit, kick a football around and pretend you can bend it like Parminder Nagra or someone. It ain't gonna kill ya (I don't think)!

I experienced shotty streaming at home today, especially with YouTube. However, my wife & daughter were watching Netflix with no issues when I left for work. I plan to do a new scan of our digital antenna and also hang it in a new spot. It’s perfect on clear days, but if it’s cloudy and windy, a few of the local signals from Beaumont (ABC & NBC) aren’t recognized. However, I can usually pick up the same affiliates in Lake Charles (about an hour away).

Today my daughters school district suspended classes through Friday, April 3rd.

We’ve reduced the hours at our flower shop (9-3) and my wife has made sure the funeral homes have our numbers. Our County hasn’t mandated that bars & restaurants close as we still have zero confirmed cases. My job is steam rolling at my regular 40 hours per week. Courts closed last week, but the courthouse and other county offices are still open. If our commissioners and county judge decided to close normal county operations, I’m fortunate to be one who will receive pay at an accelerated emergency/disastrous rate for the duration of he closure......and possibly overtime if we move to 12 hour shifts, but I don’t anticipate that.

Tomorrow makes a week since this avalanche of closings and cancellations started, anxious to see what the next week brings.

At home, we will be working on yard projects. Redoing our flowerbeds, pruning limbs & branches and burning yard waste. Lots of grilling and cooking at home, but we will also patronize local restaurants offering curbside pickup as we want to help spread the $$ long as they stay open.

As an aside, I gotta say her new single is great. Eesh, feel dirty saying that.

I'm reading an e-mail from my country's equivalent of an HMO:


"Self-care measures:

[...]

- Extremely avoid greeting others with handshakes, hugs or kisses"


It took ages and a zombie apocalypse, but finally the world realizes I've been right all along.

Do you want to get paid 25% less?

she’s still singing? lol i had no idea

not sure i wanna look for this though, honest :D

Here's a graph of the amount of infected people per city in my province Brabant. Eindhoven where I live is still relatively OK even though it's a large city. Breda and Tilburg are quite bad. You can click on a line to filter, but it's a bit tricky to select some due to overlaps.
Still no TP at the supermarket if anyone can give (a link to) an explanation for the 3 shells option, I'm willing to give it a try ;-)

Something that I should have done ages ago, but now really handy: I bought a tiny freezer (30liter) so I can freeze bread and meat. And icecream!

I’m catching up on a bunch of reading, Nation and Harpers mags, then maybe onto the monster stacks of books I’ve amassed thru Xmas, birthdays, book sales, etc...got a great comfy chair out in the back 40, in the sun, birds serenading me.

My question, anyone (US) have plans for their Mitt bux?

say hi to genovefa! and give her some ice cream, poor girl :D

Running out of fresh veg already. But we have tree collards outside, had some for dinner last night with homemade green sauce, scrummy! Our local party is getting some folks to do shopping runs for others...not sure if I’ll do that yet, but sure not ready to do store runs again in a hurry. Cat fud supply is EXCELLENT!

Who all (US) has plans for their Mitt bucks? You can look on it as a way to spend your taxes yourself, rather than funding Israel or golf outings!

6. buy toiletpaper

Which is what I did

that is the best image in the history of the board

buy food too or else you won't have any shit to shit and the toilet paper will last you years.

thinkin of buying back in......

talk me out of it?

i'm investing my mittbux/trumpobux in a cache of the stickiest icky and the most concentrated dab I can find.......

actually, best thing to do is likely take that money, wait until VISA stock bottoms out (any day now. It has dropped from 220/share to 141/share in like a week.), and buy as much VISA stock as you can. You wil probably double your investment by the winter....

Well... things are going disastrous in my country with this fucking virus, I hope you and your loved ones are OK, greetings from the sad/sunny Spain.

we haven’t yet seen the full effects of this and $2000 per person won’t bootstrap the economy just like dubya’s stimulus check or whatever that was called.

only possible solution would be something like andrew yang’s plan

Schools are shutting here in sunny England. Buckle up, buckaroos it's gonna get bumpy.

it took a plague to make me eat tofu again. i bought a box, i don’t know, 2 months ago? and was looking at it, and looking at it, but nothing, until today

finally ate it, in a stir fry, it was tasty cuz i hid the soy flavor the best i could (red peppers, shallots, coconut oil soy sauce, etc... forgot the bacon! tomorrow, with the other block)

for more on such things:
https://slate.com/business/2020/03/c...permarket.html

that works with a big amount, but if you’re getting $1k, doubling that gets you another $1k and that’s it, whereas if you can get gear that can save you $200 a month, that’s $2400 year in, year out, for the rest of your life, plus tax free cuz “not spending” isn’t taxed (yet, lol)