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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.

Charlotee Figi, the girl who pioneered using marijuana for seizure treatment, has passed from coronavirus.

Posted two pages ago, . Although this one doesn't require a sign-in to view which the last inexplicably did...

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.

Feds seizing coronavirus supplies headed to hospitals without informing or recompensing them

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, .

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.

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.

It's a critical swing state. It's Trump. Enough said. Administration didn't start ordering critical supplies until mid-March.

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.

Captain Crozier diagnosed with coronavirus.

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.

Isn't that because he wears weird like platform-esque shoes to make him taller?

Fountains of Waynes' Adam Schlesinger of coronavirus.

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.

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.

Oh, I know - but even if it's purely for a "I don't want them to be able to do that even though I'd be fine with it if it were my party" rationale, it's important that they ultimately shoot it down. They didn't post 9/11 because of an incredible pressure to "unite" + Bush's insane approval ratings post 9/11. Trump has gotten a big boost in approval ratings himself from coronavirus (lord knows why, he has been somewhere between bad and terrible in his response to the crisis), so I fear that the Democrats will once again not resist in the face of a crisis. Might be one of those times where our extreme polarization may save us, but we'll have to wait and see. Congress has also been busy trying to push through breaking end-to-end encryption with the EARN IT act. A disaster if they pass that through, too.

The Trump administration wanted to suspend constitutional rights as well. I pray that the Democrats don't 9/11 ourselves and go along with it again like last time.

Hungary transitions to dictatorship in face of coronavirus crisis? Prime Minister granted unlimited legislative power with no time limit.

I don't necessarily love her music, but I do really like her voice. I'm in the process of learning to like her music as well.

You/we sure picked a heck of a time to not be dead.

Michigan State Rep. Isaac Robinson dies of coronavirus. For those of us here that get sick (and it is statistically very likely at least some of us will), keep in mind that the line between "I'm alright, hanging in there" and "welp I guess I'm dead" is notoriously thin with this thing. There have been a number of cases where people thought their sickness was manageable and not getting worse for a few days, and then suddenly were overwhelmed and dead within just a few hours. Be very proactive in monitoring yourself (...and loved ones if they get sick). Going to the hospital during a pandemic sucks with all the risk factors, but if you're legitimately going to die at home anyways, you might as well try.

Wait, it's...the work PC that is a security risk to your home PC? If that's the case, sure, VMing is a good idea. Having a work-provided VPN would probably be a more elegant solution, but given that you aren't already on it and apparently the work network and PC is more or less totally unsecured, I assume it's not an option. Using something like Sandboxie to remote in might also be an option for something less resource-intensive than a VM (and Sandboxie is totally free these days), but I'd probably feel safer with the full-blown VM.