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Those terms basically boil down to earning it. Whether you're playing coy about sex and indulging in the forbidden mystique when you're behind closed doors or flaunting puritanical norms and feeling like you're just so cool for it, a lot of people (most people?) want sex but have an aesthetic desir...

“What I’m going to do is call you guys and see what suggestions you have for Phase 4 because we should start writing it right now,” Ms. Pelosi could be overheard telling Representative Richard E. Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Representative Nydia ...

https://www.budget.ny.gov/pubs/archive/fy21/enac/fy21-enacted-fp.pdf The 10.1 Billion in spending reduction from the levels proposed in the Executive Budget include an 8.2 Billion reduction in "aid to localities" a broad spending category that includes funding for health care, K-12 school...

Teevee wrote: Governor Cuomo: *trying to play down the seriousness of UI delays*
Reporter: is there a fundamental right to work when the government can't get me the money when I need it?
Governor Cuomo: You want to go to work? Go take a job as an essential worker.

Emphasis mine.

Kaelik wrote:But I'm glad we have you here to minutely analyze the slightest wording of a Cuomo conference on demand in this very important fact check thread where people regularly assert that the United States is going to break up into into multiple nation state pacts.

You're welcome.

Kaelik is in all ways and at all times acting in bad faith. Presumably he's talking about This . [...] His message specifically to the anti-lockdown protesters was that if they wanted to get to work so badly, they should get a job as an essential worker. https://youtu.be/DCatrAS5_YI?t=2779 Cuomo wa...

Kaelik wrote:Cuomo literally told people who can't afford food because the state is taking too long to respond to go get a job.

I really hate blue states that elect republican governors like Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York.

Can I get a link to the exact quote?

Kaelik wrote:Senate Democrats officially going to support another bailout, no money for states or cities, nothing for election protection or the post office, no oversight, no limits on fossil fuel bailouts, no food stamps, just give the banks another big pile of money.

Link, please?

Omegonthesane wrote:Protest marches don't have to defy social distancing rules. They could carry ladders between them to blockade areas they weren't physically occupying

And also hang banners on the ladders.

Frank, I'd like to hear your opinion on this: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Saturday that the city’s public schools would remain shut for the rest of the academic year, a decision that was widely expected given the scale of the coronavirus crisis in New York City. “Lord knows, having to te...

Were you replying to Frank's most recent post? Because I'm pretty sure that, at least in this one, he was holding up London Breed as the example of a "competent democrat" compared to De Blasio's "random left-of-center gadfly", not Cuomo. Yes he was ignoring the competent centris...

"Beaurcratic competence" of center leftists has never proved more incapable and unhelpful. Cuomo has been extremely competent in leveraging a pandemic to pass the medicaid cuts he wanted and locking up more people in jails where they continue to be infected and die. Its specifically becau...

Why New York has 12 times as many coronavirus deaths as California California is not in the clear yet, but its experience so far has some potential takeaways. [...] But California also acted more quickly than New York once it became clear that coronavirus was starting to spread in the US. The San F...

In other news, don't drink methanol, ethanol or bleach to cure Covid. That is a thing people are trying, but often only once. Ethanol is drinking alcohol. Small amounts (concentration appears to be irrelevant [1] ) of ethanol are nonlethal, just don't expect it to cure COVID-19, and don't drive aft...

Cuomo who has suspended Mortgage payments has not suspended rent. He now has issued a 90 day eviction moratorium. One of the reporters asked him what he will do at the end of 90 days when renters owe back rent despite mass unemployment and he said "We'll deal with that when we get to it."...

Should I assume that Frank's silence means that the plague is currently saturating the UK medical system?

You don't like playing any games like 'a 1 negates a hit' or 'a 6 counts as two hits'? What if you had a game where a 1 counted as 1 hit, a 2 counted as 2 hits, a 3 counted as 3 hits, and so on? :tongue: This would happen: https://anydice.com/program/1a78c Sort by "At Least" to get the ch...

State Will Organize National Guard, Building Unions and Private Developers to Identify Sites to Retrofit Existing Buildings and Convert Them to Medical Facilities - Goal of Creating 9,000 Additional Beds Directs Nonessential State Workforce Statewide to Work from Home Starting Tomorrow Directs Loca...

Since the monsters are magic, you could also give the monsters magic that protects them from normal bullets but not normal blades and whips. (Or even makes them more vulnerable to whips) "I come from a fantasy land where the only weapons are sticks and stones, so I'll use magic to protect my m...

That is, if you want the protagonists to have modern tech and iPhones and shit, then you want 'present day, present time' and if you want the player characters to be unironically using non-magical swords as a primary weapon you want to set things any time before 1836. If you want the players to hav...

So it looks like Shadowrun decided against violating our current knowledge of physics. Shadowrun ended up having to walk back its entire space based set of adventure locations because it turns out having to calculate radio wave travel times in the middle of an action sequence is fucking soul destro...

Someone claimed that the escalation pattern would look something like: UK Seizes Iranian ship, Iran seizes UK ship UK & allies lock down Iran's oil trade, Iran locks down the strait of Hormuz Something involving bombs To which I said, "so why not escalate to level 2 and stop, to increase oi...

So if clans don't dominate physical territory, how is your clan affiliation determined? If it is that you have a historical connection to an area that a thousand years ago became integrated, does it mean anything today? If your mother is Boar Clan and your father is Bear Clan, what does that make y...

Something I missed the first time through this:

One of the main sources of vitamin A is liver.

My condolences for your loss, both of you. I can only sort of imagine what it must be like.