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You can stop the trolley at any time, saving all the people it's going to hit because there is just the one track, but if you do, CEO bonuses won't be as big in the 3rd and 4th quarters.

Won't somebody think of the beneficiaries of stock buybacks in these trying times?

Economies recover, it's really hard to permakill one, but it's a lot harder to start an economy back up when you're trying to figure out what to do with an actual mountain of corpses and a populace just slightly bothered by suggestions like "...I dunno... burn 'em?"

I mean, hey, once we're sure the stock market has bottomed out, funerary services, crematoriums, coffin manufacturers, whichever vulturous branch of the insurance industry feeds off of collapsed life insurance companies, ptsd therapy programs, all seem like they might be horrifyingly hot stocks to catch on the rebound.

You need a lot more sand and a larger pipe for that kind of chick, my lady-obtaining powers amounted to unloading my lifetime supply of smoothness in a chatroom 17 years ago this June.

It does make sense though that having the lifted material pushing against the sides/the rest of the material as it slides up the ramp should be less damaging than having the ramp spin it up forcefully because the spinning case should let the material lift itself while remaining more loosely packed.

Perhaps the comparison should be moving the broom vs moving the dustbin? A spinning screw is the moving dustbin, while spinning the case lets the rest of the material act as a broom that is only as hard as itself, and less likely to crush and grind stuff up.

It isn't bashing for unrelated reasons, he is almost singlehandedly responsible for the US handling this pandemic like a failed state, it is so much worse here than it had to be, and while blame doesn't always trickle upwards it does when you're dealing with a moron who takes every opportunity to do the right thing and uses it as another chance to own the libs by crashing the economy and ranting about old scores he wants settled.

Meanwhile in the US we're on a countdown to see whether Trump is properly chastened (hah!) by the results of spring outbreak--which is what I predict it will be called after we realize we should have canceled that shit sooner--or if he gets his way and starts trying to trigger a restart of the economy while encouraging people to go mingle again in two weeks.

I was explaining to the missus how I'm still grateful he's such a stupid fucking moron, because he's shown clear admiration for strongman leader types, because if he wasn't so unlikeable, so allergic to expertise, so incapable of leadership, so inexperienced at governing, and so utterly certain anyone who feels as I do must be wrong... he could have made an alarming amount of progress towards installing himself as a more enduring fixture because by and large our defense against presidents trying that has been that you'd have to be absolutely despicable and impossibly corrupt to even consider it seriously given how much disrespect it entails for the office itself so we just elected people who respected the office... until Trump.

I mean, even Nixon had some respect for it, the sense that part of his legacy would be the condition he left it in for his successors, none of which Trump has.

How can you think you're infected if you have no symptoms?
Basically what you are saying is, everybody stay home, including doctors, supermarket workers etcetera, because you just *might* have corona even though you feel fine.

Yeah I'm literally saying that.

Also I just made up Johnny Applepox and I am proud of it.

Granted yes there are literally essential workers we need, but no, the vast majority of people are not in any way essential right now, and are far better served by not helping spread shit, freeze everything, give people money to stay home, carefully and slowly restart once we have it under some semblance of control.

Yeah, couldn't remember the whole thing but you see it in the background text on shit all over various media when you look for it.