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If a bunch of Boomers die, maybe I can afford some vacation property upnort dere.

 

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You better be careful on what you wish for on the boomers cause stats are showing its infecting millennials as well.oke:

It kind of has to.

A bunch of old Boomers thinking they'll shake it off while they take their hundred ailment pills from a pez dispenser probably aren't going to fair as well as a bunch of snowflakes hiding in their Mom's basement.

 

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There must be a lot of sickly boomers over in Chelsea. I know a lot of boomers who are healthy as a horse...

I know some pretty sickly horse boomers.

The problem is that they aren't staying in/isolating.

 

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Roads were OK today. I'd say busier than they were on Friday.

I plan on staying home except to go to the gas station to buy assloads of cheap gas and diesel to store away. I think I'm at $750 in the last 5 days.

Thankfully it's only a mile between home and the station. If I got pulled over I'd be fined.

 

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You're allowed to buy fuel and things, so I doubt you would get fined.

It's kind of iffy to carry more than 10 gallons in unaffixed containers and past iffy to use them on modified cans (not certified once you replace the Florida nozzle with a standard one)... and definitely not good if you are using containers that haven't been certified in the last 5 years.

So having 6-10 5+gal containers in the back of your truck loose that are all older than 5 years and all have modified nozzles... yeap.

 

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That's what tonneau covers are for. I don't see any cop harassing you about the age of your gas can or nozzle unless you have commercial tags. Quantity yes maybe, they might think you're headed to a riot :sonicjay:

Yeah, I don't have a granpappy cover. Working on the gray hair and already have the Get Off My Lawn attitude.

I have enough unapproved gas cans that are actually red to get to California and most of the way back. Definitely more than enough to fill up the bed of a pickup.

When I lived in Dayoop I used to drive down to Baraga and fill up a gaggle of gas cans at the indian station. One time I got pulled over solely for my gas cans by a state police officer and that's when I learned of the law. I ended up having a couple friends drive down and give them the gas otherwise I was going to get fined. After that I kept them in a toolbox in the back of my truck so they had to search my vehicle. I don't have a toolbox big enough for my cans for my current truck.

 

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Since when did having a tonneau cover to keep items hidden and dry make someone an old man?

Sounds like the police in the UP don't have much to do. :sonicjay:

I drive a grandpa grocery getter as a truck, not a grandpa grocery getter to get groceries. People with a tonneau cover, especially a 1/2/3 piece hard top, usually don't actually use their truck as a truck.

I tried one once. It was faster for me to grab my toolbox out of the shed and bolt it down in the rare events I needed secure storage space in the back of my truck than the billion times I had to take the tonneau off or climb in to fish something out that slid past the barrier I made at the wheelwells.

Might as well just get a topper.

Blue tarp?

They'd probably pull me over assuming I had dead bodies under it.

 

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I went and got more fuel last night at about 8pm...

In the 25 minutes it took me to fill all my cans I saw 1 car drive by. It was a delivery person for Cottage Inn pizza. Other than that, only semi trucks. Usually Chelsea is a rocking place.

 

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It really doesn't seem that dead up here. Could be just because it's a smaller city and there less nonsense traffic, but I don't think that people here are taking the stay home order seriously.

My wife works at the pharmacy and she has said that ever day there's tons of people there, whole families (mom, dad, 5 kids)...etc. We live right on the main road, and traffic is slower, but you'd never know there was any kind of quarantine order in place. Just seems more like a weekend.

It hasn't hit here yet, at least none reported, but it's going to happen. And right now, Alpena has just been lucky, rather than smart.

My parents live in Owosso. They said the road traffic hasn't slowed down. My parents finally started taking the nogo serious last Thursday. They can probably hide in place for a good 9 months except cat litter.

I'm in the country, but in Bishop Airports Flight Path, it is reminiscent of 9/11 here. Quiet, no contrails, nothing by the chirping birds and trees. Traffic is way down on the main road and the expressway that are a way's away, I normally can somewhat hear those if I listen taking the trash out at night.

Our UTV and motorcycle traffic has been the same or increased though as people bomb around and in between the fields before they get planted.

I used to have family in Lennon. Weird if M13 or M21 has no traffic.

 

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I wish the steel place would open up. I put a new 2/0 lead on the big welder and want to weld some big stuff with it.

Vacation property is still expensive.

 

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I'm 99% sure the overproduction isn't really overproduction. I believe it's due to the elimination of waste. The amount of food waste from commercial operations (institutional or restaurants or otherwise) is insane.

Even though we've been home for a month now and we haven't been out to eat since the first week of March, our trash creation at our house is down to less than a kitchen bag. Normally we're a bag and a half kind of place. I'm pretty sure half that trash is from me in the garage (spent grinding wheels, etc). I'm sure most other people are the same. The difference is we compost most of our food waste but we've actually had *less* except for baked goods.

The rest is due to no one buying our shit. Usually we export tons of food continuously, we aren't doing that right now.

The dairy industry is not a good indicator. Wisconsin has had 300 or so dairy farms closing per year for the better part of half a decade. Dairy prices were up so everyone started hormones again. My Aunt and Uncle own a dairy farm in mid-Michigan and they haven't turned a profit in 7 years. People just don't buy dairy like they used to, including Canadians (we export more to them than they do to us).

 

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Tucker is a different kind of guy, that's for sure. His approach s not what we have become accustomed to for a opinion host.
He does ask the hard questions and brings up great arguments. He did hit whitmer right between the eyes with his piece on her and called her out for being somewhat of a over reaching nazi with her tactics.
Myself I kinda like him. He does act like a little kid at times with how he laughs at some of his guests.

I find that this coronavirus only attacks male and female genders. Why is it not attacking the trans community? I really surprised they haven't started a boycott or something because of it. They say they have some 50 or 60 other genders but we don't hear about those cases. UMMMM, I wonder why?

The two of them seem to have some of the highest ratings. I don't watch either of them on a daily basis. Maybe once or twice a week if that.
That's enough for me.
What I can't see is how the left has the group of left wing talking heads but I suppose they say the same about who we have on the right.

I would never have guessed you would like a right-wing blowhard bigoted, racist, and homophobic piece of afterbirth.

Purge 2020!

 

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I suppose we all have an opinion about one thing or another but you're downright hateful.
Have a nice life.:thumb:

I'm not hateful, I'm honest. Have you seen the shit Tucker Carlson has said? I kid you not, Google it and listen to the recordings. Sexist, racist, homophobic, bleh bleh bleh. And then he's a bigot with a side of hypocrite. Literally one of the worst people ever, but he's got ratings like the Kardashians.

And it seems that you like these people best. You can't pick a person to quote, a website to link, or anything else that isn't full of polarizing pieces of shit. If I listened/read/watched the reality TV garbage you watch I'd be just as whatever the hell it is you are.

 

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As a society we accept the deaths of 50 to 60 thousand deaths from the flu every year.
We have accepted the deaths through abortion and heart disease and drunk driving and the list goes on.
Why have we not accepted the death from corona? Why now do we not accept what we will all get? Study shows that from the antibody testing that has been done is that many more carry the antibody that we had first thought.

This is not a norm yet. This is like HIV/AIDS, but you can get it without touching. It spreads easily and readily without the person showing symptoms. With influenza you quickly show symptoms and it pretty well incapacitates you limiting the spread. Once we get used to it we won't think much about it. Hopefully it will kill off the stupid people.

I'm thinking if mother nature/God wanted to deal with overpopulation he would flood the world, Oh wait he already did that and everybody died.
This is nothing more than a virus infecting people. We have had pandemics in the past that has killed many more people than this.
Did you know that you could put every person on the planet in Oakland county. Everyone could have their own 2x2 square to stand on and the rest of the planet would be empty.

I see no evidence of the world flooding, ever. I think the Earth has had her once insatiable need for plastic filled and is deciding to reduce the plastic users.

We have the technology and the capability to reduce pandemics. However, people are still stupid. Pandemics do not proportionally affect the stupid, it affects the poor. Plenty of rich stupid people around. Social distancing is a luxury.

I kind of wish they left the churches open. Thin the herd some more.

 

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Yes, because only stupid people go to church, right?

Those who would go there right now and sit shoulder to shoulder, yeah pretty much. Many religious people are smart and wouldn't do it, but plenty are stupid and would.
People would do the same if sports arenas or bars were open, and they're stupid too.

There are morons of every faith, belief, income level, sexual orientation, race, whatever. The per capita idiots may be higher or lower in some than others, but morons are everywhere. These regulations are to protect both the morons from each other, and the smart people from the morons. The smart people wouldn't need the regulations, but the morons ruin it for everyone as usual. This virus is an equal opportunity killer, it attacks morons as well as smart people. Morons are just more frequently the ignorant and/or indifferent carriers.

On a personal level, I find this insulting.

I'm pretty sure all smart people know that church isn't essential. You can worship whichever god you believe in from the sickness-evading comfort of your own domicile. If you told the population that church was AOK the smart ones still wouldn't go. The stupid ones would assume that if church was AOK it was time to start licking doorknobs again, heathens or otherwise.

So I'm saying let people go to church. We can call it the Inverse Crusades <- for Alber, as he likes to talk about the great things Christianity has done for the world.

 

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This virus really doesn't care if you're smart stupid rich or poor. For some reason it has not attached the transgender community
As far as the flooding...there is plenty of evidence. You will not find it in any history books from school case they will not teach it. If you are interested I can forward you a few links.
If all the people from the churches did leave I could see the world getting in a real bad place quickly. The Christian church does more for humanity than you know.

The virus does not care. Transmission of a virus spreads best among the uneducated/ignorant and the economically-limited.

This is because stupid people do stupid things. Poor people don't have the luxury of having someone get them shit at the store for them (Shipt, etc). Poor people don't have unlimited credit cards to order overpriced goods from Target. Instead, they're still going to McDonalds drive through and getting gas. They certainly didn't have the luxury to buy PPE. Poor people are the ones doing the work for the rich. Pandemics always have impacted the poor more. Likely always will. Isolation is a luxury.

How many transgendered people do you know? It is a very small population of people. Do you think when they put it on a death certificate there is a box for "Bruce/Kate Jenner"?

If all the ice were to melt in the world, the sea level would rise less than 250'. We're at 700' or so above sea level in lovely Michigan. I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit like pretty much everything else you say and I don't need any links from flat earthers, bigots, racists, homophobs, or anything else you can find that makes you think you're correct. It's fine to be ignorant and arrogant, but please try to keep it to yourself, we don't need any more in this world. It's fine that you believe in some god. Plenty do. You need not force your will upon others.

If all the [whichever denomination of whatever deity that alber thinks is superior] were all to die, what do you think is really going to happen?

 

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I bought a 6 pack of toilet paper yesterday. I didn't need it, but the price was good. Haven't bought toilet paper for us since February I believe.

I did buy a bunch of paper towels. Menards at both locations had hundreds of packages. I didn't realize how many we went through when cooking. Pretty much a small roll every 2 days or faster is toast. So we burned through most of my 80+ roll surplus pretty quick. It hurt not to get the P&G $10 off $40 rebate. Paying full price for paper towels seems unamerican.

Some of the stuff that is still out at grocery stores is weird. Like canned ham. Ghee. Who is eating canned ham and ghee at such great quantities? It's not like either one is cheap. Dak hams are like $4 (but make great raccoon bait because it literally never goes bad) and ghee is like $11/lb. Neither of which literally lasts forever if you never open the package.

 

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You have been in lock down way to long, go outside, you'll be fine. And you will feel better. Never know you just might be more tolerant.

Orly?

Have you never been outside in your entire life? It would explain a lot with what you have postulated.

 

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For those who are working remote, has your company given any time frame on when they plan on having office personnel return to work on site? As of now I'm being told I will be working remotely for the foreseeable future. My wifes girlfriend will be working remote until August, and my fathers company is saying late June / early July before office personnel return. Just wondering what others have been told.

We're supposed to work remote if we can. They're trying to be tight lipped about return to work. Most of us think we won't even talk about it again until July.

Starting yesterday you have to wear a mask at work. That just removed any incentive I had to be in the office. There is literally no one in there and I have my own office with a door and no windows. I would say I'm about 75% effective now. I did grab a monitor tree yesterday so I can stack some more monitors. Hoping it gets better. I have lost drive to work because it's *too hard*. It's just too much work to do work.

It is really irritating because we have bedchecks to make sure the inmates are doing what they're to do. I'm supposed to have daily meetings with my team (but I don't, didn't, and won't) to perpetuate the bedcheckness. My boss quit having them with his direct reports last week and I'm pretty sure he was only having them because his boss would "drop in". We're still having them with his boss. Which is super irritating, because it just goes to show how little he knows and how he adds zero value. If you're dumb enough to say you have a problem he postulates asinine solutions that only aber would try. At his level he should be setting vision and solving resource problems of which there is little evidence to support he is capable of such and certainly no evidence that he would do it anyway. Past performance is often an indicator of future performance.

The work is picking up, which is irritating because most of what my team does is as a team with another team on the line, remote, in realtime, solving real problems, on equipment that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Having a giant Teams, Skype, or conference call is a clustertruck. Most of the guys in the field have Toughbooks which are clunky, and where they're at is usually noisy and nowhere to set a laptop. Before, when we were only doing some work and a lot of it was new equipment it wasn't as stressful. Starting today we were back to pretty much full capacity in field work.

 

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You are such a piece of dried shriveled up dog shit. You encouraged people to go to flint to protest what you believe in but against protest for others for what they believe then.


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No, alby is a bigot. A walking talking Karenized NIMBY. There are lots of them in this world, just somehow gl4x4 managed to largely have very few. The only reason anyone notices is because of the constant contradictory behavior. Otherwise, just another fucking sheep in the herd.