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I'm still going to be sad that he isn't working on Akira. I think he could have had some real fun with an over the top live action adaptation.

Good question. It wouldn't have to just be China, though. I do believe she's also be eligible had she traveled to Italy, Iran, or South Korea. However, she didn't know about any of those limits the first time she went in, so I don't think she could just make up that she forgot she was just in Italy a couple of weeks back. Maybe? No idea. I should send her a message saying to just go to a hospital out of the previous one's network and say she had been to Italy recently.

I was just talking to my mother about this and how her cousin is also deathly ill with...something. She's also high risk, works with the elderly, and is showing all the symptoms. Unfortunately, even after two trips to the ER, she doesn't qualify for being tested. She hasn't been in contact with any known infected here in Massachusetts and she hasn't been outside the country in the last couple of weeks. That sure is reassuring.

Of course they are. Since there's no longer a penalty/tax on coverage it will now be ruled as unconstitutional. This was always the plan here.

It's was ALL about the outside screen. Neither the razr or the Flip really have easy to open screens. I have a Wear OS watch, but that one is synced up to my personal phone. While I can switch my watch between two phones, it's a pain in the ass. I would love it if I could get both phone's alerts on my one watch, but that's just not possible. My use case is way to niche, it would appear. Seeing that neither phone is a quick flip to open, I went with the phone that has an actual usable outside display. It's worked great. Say, I get an email fro work. On the Flip, I'd get the Outlook icon and maybe the sender info. On the razr, I can actually read the contents of the email, archive it, delete it, or choose to reply. If I reply, opening the phone will drop me directly into the screen where I can go on to type up a message and send it. The exterior display makes these flip phones work. Samsung understood that much with the Fold, but I think they went too conservative with the Flip. I may have chosen the Flip over the razr if it had an actual usable screen on the outside. That said, the fingerprint reader on the chin also works really well. I'm not a big fan of those side power button fingerprint readers. It forces me to hold the phone in one specific way. I'm right handed, but keep my phone in my left-hand pocket. That means I'd have to take the phone out with my left hand and switch it over to my right to unlock it thanks to the sensor being on the right side of the display. I've tried doing the same with an index finger on my left hand, but that just feels all sorts of awkward. Either way, that means I can only use the phone that way since bringing up LastPass, my banking app, or anything else that needs biometrics can only be unlocked from that side of the phone. It also means the phone can't be unlocked while lying on a desk. I'll often have my phone on my desk while I'm working. If I get a text, I can just touch the sensor on the chin and quickly read the message without having to pick up the phone to get to the sensor on the side or flip it open just to read the message on a screen that isn't so tiny. The tech in the Flip is certainly better than what Motorola has going, but it doesn't seem like a better everyday phone just from the user experience.

In case anyone is interested, here are my week and a half later impressions of the razr. The main camera sucks. It's fine in well lit areas. Maybe I just need to use the flash more often. However, I'm very spoiled by the low light performance of my S10 so I rarely use the flash on my main phone. I kind of wish Motorola had gone with a crappier phone and not been stuck with the camera bump. However, that's just me being bitter about the fact that I accidentally put the razr in my pocket with the camera side facing my S10's screen and wound up with a circular scratch on it. I keep both phones in the same pocket which is why I went with a smaller phone as my second phone. My previous second phone was the Palm Phone, which worked great, but was also so small I often avoided using it, much to the chagrin of anyone from work trying to get a hold of me. Either way, I'm worrying less about scratching up the screen and it seems to be holding up fine. I sometimes forget that all phones had plastic screens because before we switched over to glass slabs. At least the razr closes flat with no real gap. I'm also less worried about the hinge now that I know how simple it is. If thew only gears are those that are externally visible, then I'm not too concerned about crap getting in there. I can easily clean that out. I will say that I already have some chipped paint on the inside of those pins in the video thumbnail. That is, not chips on the sides of those pins that are outward facing, but the ones you can only see when the phone is open. Watching the tear down, that makes sense. The paint wear is exactly where those springs press up against the phone to hold it open or closed. If you look closely while the phone is closing, you can see the metal grinding up against the metal. I wonder if that means the hinge won't hold the phone open as tightly in the future. I'm not worried about holding it closed for the same reasons since the phone has some strong magnets in place to help is stay closed. It relies on the springs to keep it open, however. Also, this phone is a wild head turner. My old Palm Phone was also a head turner on account of how small it is, but the second anyone sees this phone flip, I get questioned about it. However if that's all you care about, go get a Palm Phone. It's WAY cheaper and it's almost novelty small. It's hard to believe the size of the screen on that thing isn't that much different than the size of the first iPhone of HTC G1.

That looks really good. I'm always up for good horror and this didn't look like a boring jumpscare-fest.

Correct, as I said in the other thread, the loss of productivity with a poorly handled pandemic could cause some serious problems. Hopefully, it doesn't come to that.

I think you underestimate China's control over the narrative here, even if it meant covering up death totals. Check out this brief story. If anyone thinks that a couple of nurses decided to submit this letter to a medical journal and then choose to reach out the next day, of their own accord, to tell the journal it was all a lie then I know of some Trump casinos that would make for excellent investments. EDIT: And just to drive home this idea. The Chinese government has also had Plague Inc pulled from stores.

I'll count my first gaming PC as the first PC I bought with my own money. Let me think, this was back in 2000... AMD Thunderbird @ 1.something Ghz 256MB RAM 2x 40GB HDD Radeon All In Wonder I, honestly, don't remember why I went with an All In Wonder. I don't remember ever using the tuner in that thing, but even still, I do know I upgraded to the Radeon 9000 All In Wonder a few years later. However, in that case, I build a Media Center PC on Windows XP.

While I don't trust China's numbers, let's say we do. They got to that small a number by quarantining whole cities and shutting down large factories. China put like a third of the US population under lockdown. I don't think what has happened there is at all comparable to what would happen here. I'm not all doom and gloom like others, but at the same time it's silly to not be a little concerned when the federal government has been so lax on keeping an outbreak under control.

Sure, a lot of working age folks aren't dying but the loss of productivity due to how contagious the virus is what should be extra worrying for folks. I'm dealing with vendors who aren't sure they'll be able to fulfill orders in a couple of months if things don't clear up in China soon. What would happen if half of your office has to call out sick for a week? Half of your city? That might be extreme, but that's also what's going on in China right now.

Yeah, I'm buying this.

Hey, I grew up on government cheese. Nothing like getting a big, ol' log of yellow cheese stuffs.

I think the court ruling dictates that Americans in those situations would be able to sue. Had the kid been on American soil, his family would also be able to sue. Since he wasn't, however, his family can't sue. At that point, it's likely on the Mexican government to demand compensation. However, I doubt that would fly very well with a Trump White House.

I knew Crunchyroll was already toying with original animated series, but I didn't realize they were so far ahead with four of the series being animated by their own in-house studio. I don't have the time I'd like to watch as much anime as I had in previous years, but I still read a whole heaping of manga and manhwa. That said, I cannot recommend Noblesse and Tower of God enough. They're both based on comics available over on Webtoons and they're both brilliant.

Cool, a lot of the mesh systems these days are pretty straight forward and simple to set up, but I quite appreciate the extra features Orbi offers.

The biggest difference between the two is how the writers expect you to feel about the shitty people in their shows. Seinfeld knows their characters are mostly awful human beings and you wind up laughing at them. Friends expects you to like their characters and find their awfulness as fun and endearingly quirky. If you can't get over that hump, Friends will never work for you.

Rejoice, looks like he's found a new job as a 911 dispatcher.

None of that matters to anybody that feeds into that sort of propaganda. Fox and right wing publications will hammer these stories and other conspiracy theories into a bloody pulp. We just have to acknowledge that nobody ingesting news from there outlets isn't actually an undecided. These folks were always going to either vote Trump or not vote at all. There is zero reason to try to reach out to them. Trump is such a wildly extreme president, there's literally no reason for anyone being undecided on this year's election. Anyone that says otherwise is lying to themselves and everyone around them.

Nintendo needs to put him in Smash and make sure his Challenger video includes Isabelle.

He was already fired thanks to this new game.

Ha. I just get annoyed by anything that isn't like a whole bird taking an entire hour in the oven to bake.

The other problem is they'll also charge more for sets that have more original, will never be used in another set, pieces. That affects licensed sets more than architectural set #7592.

No. 5-10 minutes, nothing more than that. Even then 10 minutes is way too long unless you have some wildly cold eggs. 5 minutes for soft boiled, 10 for a hard, and whatever for in between. Take the eggs out of your fridge and allow them to come up to room temp while you grab a pot and bring the water to a boil. Eggs aren't sweet potatoes where you toss them in the oven and have to wait until the following week to eat them.