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Happy Birthday Nathalie!
And congrats on being a Pisces!
There must be a cupcake shop open, where you can get one for your birthday!

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@1 That's a trade I'm willing to make. Go Biden!

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Happy Birthday, Nathalie! Thanks for working on your birthday and sharing your writing gifts with us each morning, it is much appreciated. In solidarity.

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republicans somehow managed to pass tax cuts for the rich to help the economy but when it comes to saving the economy from a pandemic-induced healthcare crisis they have nothing to offer. Even the payroll tax deduction they briefly entertained would have been a pittance and come at a cost to social security. Socialism for the rich, cake for the rest of us.

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UBI aint so dumb now, is it?

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What kind of hourly wage do employees at The Stranger get, and what kind of healthcare/retirement/life insurance/maternity/paternity/PTO benefits does it offer?

Wondering if it is a business that "deserves" to fail or not.

I will not donate, but what are you offering as far as investments go? How much for 10% of the paper?

I mean, what kind of idiot GIVES money to a capitalistic enterprise instead of investing in it instead?

"Oh no thanks, multi-millionaire media company owner, you can have my $20 for free, no need to pay it back!"

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Happy Birthday

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@8: Then just don't donate. It's totally optional. I don't recall The Stranger driving for contributions in the past, so it is logical to assume that ad revenue is actually down and that it's not a scam. The Seattle Times and the NYT have paywalls, yet I never heard anyone say "I mean, what kind of idiot GIVES money to a capitalistic enterprise instead of investing in it instead?" -- regarding them.

There's no reason to bore us with convoluted reasons for not donating.

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April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

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@13: Subscribing to a newspaper would be buying something, not donating.

Also, I do not feel like "lower and middle class people giving their hard earned and needed money to multi-millionaires for no reason is silly" is terribly convoluted.

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@15: Yeah, I see your point. It's not subscribing.

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You are all a bunch of cheapskate pansies who spend more of your time (which is money, friend) and attention here each day. Maybe you don't agree with Keck, but unless you want to donate to a separate gofundme for each individual writer, then maybe fork over a few bucks to keep this publication alive and distributed throughout the community.

Can't fork over a preroll's worth to support free speech and independent journalism? These must be trying times for you, be brave!

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I'm glad that it was Sarah Palin that got COVID-19 and that Tom Hanks and wife were on the Masked Singer.

All is right with the world ...

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Its awesome that Amazon can borrow money at 1% but we had to bump up student loan interest rates to over 6%. That's higher than any credit card rate I had in 2005. I guess we better cut Amazons taxes some more and borrow some money from China to get that wall up if we ever want to MAGA. Definitely do not provide free college we might get too many health care professionals trained up or mandate paid sick leave and that wont help the economy (or society) in any way.
Why would you want anyone working at IHOP to go to nursing school or stay home if they have the sniffles?

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You're the best SLOG AM writer ever, Nathalie, and I'm sorry you can't have the birthday you need and deserve this year. If it were me, I'd binge watch old episodes of Firefly and drink something pink and bubbly. I have a microwaveable cuddly bear (who is NOT Sarah Palin) for colds and flu; it smells of lavender which isn't really much use during a cold but might be a birthday sort of comfort.

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@21 a payroll tax cut is a really slow and stupid way to help out people who are NOT ACTUALLY COLLECTING A PAYCHECK BECAUSE THEIR WORKPLACE IS SHUT DOWN. It it's stupid solution that doesn't work fast enough and doesn't address the problem. Therefore it is a perfectly Trumpy solution.

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Happy birthday Nathalie! I hope you get to do something fun spaced 6 feet from other participants. :)
And I am glad to have chipped in to keep you employed. <3

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Sarah Palin has spunk, yet gets criticized for it by snooty and snippy highbrows. Get a life people.

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However, if Nathalie wants something simple for her birthday, I would be willing to send a pizza or something ot the office for her. Just give me the details, I am 100% serious.

@26: My wife watches that show, and Sarah Palin's performance was terrible. I had to look up form my book just to comment on how awful that tie dye bear was signing. "Baby Got Back:" is overrated anyway. "Monster Mack" is the superior Mix-A-Lot song, as is well known by all patrician men of culture and taste.

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@24 And it would do nothing for the people being laid off because everything is closing and sick leave isn't more widely available.

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@20. Mused and Herzog are excellent writers, you just don't agree with them. But did you read his transcendent Merman piece? Katie's croissant piece on Bremerton? You're a savant at cussing people out, but they don't deserve their unadulterated art and expressions denigrated because of a difference of opinion. Shame on you.

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Mudede**

A fitting autocorrect.

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Don’t you give it to me, give it to me
It’s just a matter of time, carona
Or is it just RSV, RSV
My throat burns like flames, carona
Always throwing up, fever touch
Of the medical kind, my my my
My my my carona

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@35: We're not talking fixing all of society's problems now. Love how you lefty loony highbrow elites describe some extra dollars in a paycheck as just a "pittance".

Yes, let them have a pittance of cake!

Your humanity is seriously deficient.

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@40: Yes, like that nutty professor who stirred up so much "bold truth" noise that he was 86'd and had to redo his Slog account.

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Just been musing: rather unfortunate that Elizabeth Warren is out of the presidential race. This is looking an awful lot like a 2008 situation here. Because of extraordinary circumstances then an extraordinary thing happened: a black man was elected president of this godforsaken land. Could have, should have, a (highly competent) female president for the first time. Instead, we'll have to settle for doofus uncle Joe. Well I guess both of the geriatric front-runners could succumb to the virus, then maybe Warren could jump back in.

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A public SLOGice announcement from the ever never humble shape-shifting pixel-fluid ghost:

If you get the coronaplague (TM) STAY HYDRATED. Well hydrated. Don't of coure be a silly loon and gallons of drink water until you f-up your electrolytes. But hydrate. If it gets in your lungs, the more effectively you expel mucus by coughing the better off you are as far as not having a bad outcome. If you are not hydrated, your mucus is thicker and can't be as easily expelled when you cough. You want the opposite, fluid mucus. So hydrate.

It's a marginal benefit, but it's one of the very few things you can control to influence your outcome. I'm no panicky hoarder, but do have a little cash of Gatorade and other fluids in the house just in case so no one needs to go to the store.

And this just doesn't go for if you're sick - no reason whatsoever to not be well-hydrated all the time now, so if you do get it your not sick as a dog with a fever and having to try to catch up on your hydration under bad circumstances.

Stay hydrated now just in case, get plenty of rest, don't drink a lot or do a lot of drugs, get a nice long brisk walk in outside every day if you can, eat a good diet. If you do get it, being battle-fucking-ready is a way better plan than run down, dried out, hung over and stressed.

Also, control your allergy symptoms regularly now everyday. No need to pile extra mucus draining from your head on top of a potential lung infection. If you're a seasonal Flonaser may as well get that ramped up (takes 7 days) now, tree pollen is already going anyway ....

Lastly there's better than marginal, but not at all conclusive or total, real medical research evidence that in some cases zinc can shorted common colds and make them less severe. Causal speculation is that the zinc works directly on virus in your mouth and throat, need to be taken right away before it gets a strong foothold, and lozenges are the best way because it localizes the zinc where it works. Don't be a dumb ass and poison yourself by overdosing on a supplement, but outside of that get your daily recommended zinc regularly, maybe have some lozenges in case, if it helps a little fine, if not then no harm no foul.

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@41. To be fair, they did the same to me. Mostly for posting too much and using words they didn't understand.

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I the pixel-fluid ghost refuse to redo my account after my banning, the bar for which is apparently somewhere way above making multiple and specific death threat like for instance auntie grizelda.

I must have then been very, very, very bad! And will pay my penance by no longer being a real person like the rest of you floating around behind your fake names and pictures.

On the plus side the snarky post scripts are a gas!

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gotta agree that here, and for once, @50 Ken-dog quacks the truth. As far as tax cuts go it's far better distributed than most. And it definitely definitely returns money to people who will nearly entirely consumer spend it, not the rich who don't because they already spend as much as they can and are tired from swiping their Black Cards.

But w-w-w-w-will it work K-K-K-K-Ken? Likely very little. It's a trickle that most people won't even notice. And it will trickle into the economy, not delivering a shock large enough to jolt the patient off the table. It would be way better to keep the payroll tax and issue a $1k check to every household making less than 100k. Then do it again in 2 months.

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41: You confuse "smarter and more informed" for nutty.

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Soon as conservatives and Trumpists encounter anyone smarter or more informed than themselves, they immediately start throwing around terms like "crazy" and "elitist" and crying foul. Nothing ProfessorHistory has said has been in the least bit weird, unhinged, or elitist. He's just informed and thinks critically.

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@31:

Yeah, $10 whole dollars a week in their pocket now, versus whatever less they'll receive in Social Security income down the road - totally worth it, amiright?

And where are they going to spend that $10 if all the restaurants, sports arenas, movie and live theatres, and who-knows-what-all else gets shut down in the meantime? I guess they can reinvest it into their expansive stock portfolios and just watch that money grow, Grow, GROW!

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The Masked Singer is my guilty pleasure but I will never be guilty of normalizing Sarah Palin. Won’t be watching that episode. Will probably send bitchy input to show.

Blech!


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