Wow, that's awesome of you homer. I am putting on the cap now. The spike through the cap is a nice touch.

I'm putting together a Bruno's Greatest Hits so to speak. Going to dive through his threads and make a compilation of sorts. The man never really got the respect he deserved, but its great to see people coming together to help him out.

Its "unmodified"?

Damn, that's a lot of TP. Wonder how they stacked it up at the top all neatly like that without knocking the whole shit over.

Happy to give you the 2 merits you needed to become a Hero Member for this contribution, unmodified or not.

For the record, before I call it a night, of course I think its a good idea to have savings. It's a smart plan that should be adopted by everybody. However, chastising people for not having savings helps nobody and changes nothing. The bailout has already been passed by congress, and most of it is going to the extremely wealthy anyway, who despite being extremely wealthy for some reason couldn't manage to save money for their billion dollar corporations.

Hopefully this situation will refresh everybody's memory as to why savings are important, but as homer said earlier, people tend to have a short term memory.

Nobody thinks they are going to be poor their entire lives.

This quote comes to mind:

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - Ronald Wright

Poor people have children because they want someone to take care of them when they get old -- doesn't seem like too much to ask.

Having said that, Catholic cultures in large do produce entirely too many offspring. They are afraid some of them are going to die along the way - and they usually do - but they still manage to overcompensate. Must be the whole anti-abortion, no condoms thing.

Certainly some people are in that situation because of spending beyond their means. Most people on the other hand hustle just to cover basic expenses. Living in America ain't cheap.

Some people recently out of work here are already contemplating suicide out of shame for not being able to feed their families. Were they over-spenders? Hell no. They lived broke, and they will die broke. Just like millions of Americans.

Dismissing 80% of the American population as being frivolous in their spending habits is lazy.

Too many good Trump memes out there, can't keep up.

You're talking about at least 80% of all American workers.

You didn't choose this world but you did choose to reveal being extraordinarily out of touch.

Anyway, right, bitcoin, almost forgot.

Right -- totally bizarre lapse of judgment on their part. By now you've probably seen the video of a senior advisor at WHO ignoring questions about Taiwan's handling of the illness. If you haven't, you should watch it, its weird AF:

https://twitter.com/ezracheungtoto/status/1243869774410469376

edit: this one is a bit more thorough: https://twitter.com/empressofmeme/status/1244008863885594626

Sure, as a whole, we should have been better prepared. But we weren't. All we can do now is learn some lessons the hard way and apply this newfound knowledge the next time around.

As my dad said, "it's amateur hour everywhere." Next time we won't be so green on what to do.

BRB, applying for a trillion dollar loan.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/federal-reserve-to-lend-additional-1-trillion-a-day-to-large-banks

I hope this isn't the case, but it could be. I haven't had the flu in about 20 years, and I never get flu shots. So I wouldn't be surprised if I never get this during the rest of my life.

I think the point is we didn't know this was a thing before January. Now that we know, we can better prepare for it. Right now its spreading like wildfire, and we need to contain the spread as it is already overwhelming healthcare infrastructures worldwide.

Once it is a bit more under the lid, then we can start to go back to our usual routines, keeping in mind that this thing is now out there. But for now, it is unwise to risk putting more pressure on doctors and hospitals. I don't mind sacrificing my personal freedoms for the time being if it helps speed up the return to normalcy.

You. You are scamming. He bullied you? Prove it. I can prove that you were bullying the USPTO:

https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Exclusion%20Order%20-%20Zoltan%20Konder.pdf

Should be pretty easy for you to prove your claim as well.


Seems like he's not a big fan of you either:


https://twitter.com/CyrusEfx/status/1244222748341100547

Well, the excuse is that the rest of America - and ostensibly the world - depends on the ongoings of NYC; especially Wall Street and the financial sector. Another thing was Trump's (now abandoned) narrative that its simply un-American to close down business to such a magnitude, and that everything will be fine.

OK, so I'm questioning the quarantine request...

- People remain at home.
- Those who are carriers can't spread the virus to other people.
- Those who don't have it can't get it.
- In total isolation with 100% follow-through rate, it would only take 14-28 days for the problem to subside completely.
- Seeing as how that is not a viable alternative, I think 60 days of fairly stringent quarantine measures is reasonable. People do have to go out to get food and supplies, and people do have to be present at workplaces to deliver them.
- Everybody else whose employment is deemed non-essential will suffer financially.
- A relatively large amount of people are going to die from inadequate medical care.

This is the best case scenario.

Do you disagree with any of these premises or conclusions?

They are also big on mask wearing. Same thing in China and Taiwan. Pretty certain cultures that do that already are one step ahead in the game.

Anybody who was paying attention to the videos coming out of Wuhan in February knows this wasn't "just a flu."

Sorry Lambie but you were wrong on this one.

Furthermore, nothing on that list is as contagious as this virus.

Not that Trump has been remarkably accurate about anything ever, but he has completely changed his tune from it being a hoax in the last 6 hours:

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1250772/trump-extends-virus-guidelines-braces-us-for-big-death-toll

All this and they still don't want to quarantine the virus epicenter, NYC.  

To be fair, neither does Governor Cuomo... That puts him in the same dumb camp as Trump as far as I'm concerned. Quarantine is the smartest thing to do at the moment.

Aren't you the ex-merit source guy who gave away a shitload of merits to scammers and spammers to prove that "the merit system isn't working"? What do you think most of those scammers and spammers were here for, promoting bitcoin? No, they wanted to either promote their scam or whatever ICO that was their bounty campaign.

The bounty hunter problem used to be much worse but thanks to the introduction of the merit system and waning of ICOs it has subsided and is now largely contained to a few specific sections of the forum. Just avoid those sections of the forum.

Of course the forum is for-profit. It's been that way for a long time. If you don't want to hear about altcoins, don't visit the Altcoin Discussion board. Pretty simple solution really. The mods do a great job of keeping things compartmentalized in that regard.

You also get +1 WO merit for this meme.

Yes, but with lessons learned in case we should have to endure a similar situation again.

I really don't think America can afford another pandemic. Our financial system is way too fucked. Every time there's a disaster we have to throw trillions of dollars at the corporate elite in hopes they won't decide to shut down the world economy?

Its really a hostage-taking situation being negotiated between big business and the Federal Reserve, where America is the hostage, and if the feds don't dole out $500 billion (1/4 of the total $2 trillion package) to big business, they just shut everything down. It is another bailout for people who made greedy choices, fucked themselves, and the rest of the country along with them.

We're gonna look back at the details of this bill and be horrified, just like what happened in 2008.

I am getting my hands on as much bitcoin as I can.

Somebody must have alerted him about the plagiarism rule because he edited the post a day earlier and put the remaining text in a quote. He should definitely still be banned though.

Coinsbit already raised funds through a token sale! What do they need another fund raiser for??? They already have a token: CNB. They don't need another one. I hope nobody is stupid enough to fall for this greedy scam.


This is obviously a Ponzi scheme. The price of this token will be crushed to zero shortly.

I didn't forget my password my computer forgot my password.

Nope. Whoever that address belongs to doesn't have control of your coins as they do not have access to your private keys. Your coins are fine.


And don't pay attention to this idiot. His account should be nuked for trolling.