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Bartimaeus

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  1. Coincidentally, I've been watching some old NFL games, and saw him in Favre vs. The Packers I back in 2009 just yesterday. Rick May, most famous for Soldier in TF2 and Peppy Hare in Star Fox (...and also I remember his line as Genghis Khan in Age of Empires II), passed of coronavirus yesterday.
  2. Mathematican John Conway of coronavirus.
  3. Need to lock down your browser, my good man. There are Google trackers even on the Obsidian forums...
  4. uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Smart HTTPS, Canvas Defender, Disable WebRTC, NoScript, User Agent Switcher, Tampermonkey, Dark Reader, Behind the Overlay. I recommend any and all for Firefox. NoScript is the one that takes the most work to upkeep, since you basically have to build a library of trusted sites as you go along, and casual browsing of foreign websites (i.e. ones you haven't visited before) will frequently lead to them breaking.
  5. I enjoyed the first four seasons, thought the fifth one was alright but getting weaker, and bowed out early into the sixth. How many more could they have made? ...Oh my gosh, they made ELEVEN seasons? ...I guess it's not The Simpsons or Spongebob levels of beating a dead horse, but still, that must have been a number of seasons too many.
  6. Charlotee Figi, the girl who pioneered using marijuana for seizure treatment, has passed from coronavirus.
  7. Posted two pages ago, . Although this one doesn't require a sign-in to view which the last inexplicably did...
  8. The AM5, either the first or second generation I think, will probably be when I upgrade from my 4770k, which is getting a little long in the tooth these days (although my 32GB of RAM still makes it more than good enough for most everything). Looking forward to a ridiculous amount of cores and threads with great power-to-performance efficiency. Intel's current ridiculous lineup of hot and power-hungry 14nm+++s are sadly not terribly to my liking.
  9. Feds seizing coronavirus supplies headed to hospitals without informing or recompensing them
  10. Trump immediately removes oversight keeping track of where trillions of the coronavirus stimulus funds go. Wow, coincidentally, Trump has very suddenly became the world's first trillionaire! Good for him, .
  11. Acting Navy Secretary that called Captain Crozier stupid resigns. Sometimes, given the insane amount of turnover in the Trump administration, I feel like some of these guys deliberately do or say stupid stuff to have any reason to resign.
  12. Captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt coincidentally does what Theodore Roosevelt did during Cuban War Synopsis written by someone else: During the war in Cuba in 1898, Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter to the press to change public opinion to demand the Secretary of War reverse his position and allow sick soldiers with malaria and yellow fever to be returned to the United States to be quarantined. It worked. Troops with the disease were quarantined on Long Island and probably saved hundreds of lives. Roosevelt later was put up for the Medal of Honor which was then rejected by the same Secretary of War.
  13. It's a critical swing state. It's Trump. Enough said. Administration didn't start ordering critical supplies until mid-March.
  14. That's usually the right decision to make. Any time I lose like more than 15m of progress in a situation like that, I turn off the game, and often wait a day to return to it.
  15. I was gifted a bottle of hot sauce (...same person). Dragon in the Clouds by Hot Ones. One: it's really hot. Two: it tastes like trash (super bright and fruity, which I don't really like for hot sauces). I made some fried rice with yesterday and I've had heart burn since - must've really screwed up the chemical balance of my stomach or something for it to persist this long. Nearly ruined the rice with it flavor-wise, too. I asked the person if they would take it back - turns out they got two bottles of it and have barely used the one they opened, hence why they gave it to me. Threw it directly into the garbage after I learned that. I like spicy food, but I can do without that, thanks.
  16. Isn't that because he wears weird like platform-esque shoes to make him taller?
  17. Fountains of Waynes' Adam Schlesinger of coronavirus.
  18. I'm shocked he didn't say the opposite to deflect blame ("I was too busy defending myself from the impeachment to realize what a risk it was!"). Of course, he may not have realize that saying the opposite *would* deflect blame - this is Trump we're talking about, after all.
  19. Trump with a sobering pivot today: “It's not like the flu. [...] I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead. We’re going to go through a very tough two weeks.” White House now officially projects between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths...IF states and people follow these "social distancing" guidelines.
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