Even with coronavirus, the US toilet paper supply remains strong. Interesting article for supply chain nerds.
“Barring a new craze for mummy costumes, the actual use of toilet paper is unlikely to increase.”
He comes to talk to his dad every day since the nursing home is on lockdown www.reddit.com/r/pics/co…
Anbara Salam on Twitter:
“As a public service in these stressful times I’d like to offer, as a palate cleanser, the most embarrassing moment of my life.”
The lobster pool float completes the tale.
The Man With 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer Just Donated Them
Cut the guy some slack. He’s in a perfectly legitimate business, he saw an opportunity and he overreacted.
If you hate the guys who hoarded all that hand sanitizer, wait until you find out that a few hundred people have hoarded half the wealth in the country.
And they’re not keeping it in their garage, either.
P.S. If you sent this guy death threats, he’s not the asshole. You’re the asshole.
Cory Doctorow: TikTok’s secret guidelines require moderators to suppress videos from old, ugly, fat, disabled and poor people.
How to prepare for coming layoffs: Good advice from Cory Doctorow, who’s been self-employed for nearly 20 years. :)
Cory Doctorow: An Italian hospital fixed its ventilator with 3D printed parts.
Went to the store. Did not buy extra TP. Did buy extra coffee.
It’s called “priorities.” Look it up.
NBC’s Saturday Night Live Various Artists Arista Records/USA (1976)
The opening to Chiller Theater scared me when I was a kid. I couldn’t watch it.
Still scares me now but I’m a grown-ass adult so I made myself sit all the way through.
Republican blogs are pushng the meme that Uncle Joe has dementia. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at that, because the Republicans are also criticizing the Bidens for nepotism. I expect they’ll next criticize Biden for having a bad combover and orange spray-tan.
I’ve seen the videos that purport to show Biden’s senility and I just don’t see it. In one he wanders off-camera during a Facebook Live chat. In another, he stumbles over when he would take office as President. In neither case does this seem like anything other than a gaffe.
Sure, I’ll watch the debate closely tonight to see if Biden seems to have all his faculties. But even if Biden is so deep in dementia that he doesn’t know his own name, I’d still vote for him over Trump.
He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them
On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death was announced, Matt and Noah Colvin started a three-day, 1,300-mile journey from their homes in Chattanooga, Tenn., filling up a U-Haul truck with hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes. Then Amazon cracked down on price gouging.
“It’s been a huge amount of whiplash,” [Matt Colvin] said. “From being in a situation where what I’ve got coming and going could potentially put my family in a really good place financially to ‘What the heck am I going to do with all of this?’”….
Mr. Colvin said he was simply fixing “inefficiencies in the marketplace.” Some areas of the country need these products more than others, and he’s helping send the supply toward the demand.
“There’s a crushing overwhelming demand in certain cities right now,” he said. “The Dollar General in the middle of nowhere outside of Lexington, Ky., doesn’t have that.”
He thought about it more. “I honestly feel like it’s a public service,” he added. “I’m being paid for my public service.”
The “tragedy of the commons” is junk science developed by a racist who espoused eugenics and white supremacy.
We’ve stocked up on about two weeks of emergency supplies, like you’re supposed to. It wasn’t a stretch – we buy in bulk anyway.
All but coffee. We only have a few days of coffee because it’s really best if you brew it soon after it’s roasted and grind it just before you make it, with a burr grinder rather than a blade grinder, and I guess I’m a hipster now where’s my moustache wax?
I have two important videoconferences scheduled for Monday, and I spent much of the day getting the office in shape to be seen – or, rather, the part of my office visible from the Mac camera,
I used the Photo Booth app to photograph the office from the perspective of the Mac camera, and I picked up clutter to make everything nicer. But only within the cone of space visible to the camera.
There are five steps from my office to the yard and I went up and down them a million times, carrying out junk. My Apple Watch Activities app is giving me high fives.
I’ve been working on an article assignment that has me thinking about how work has changed from the beginning of my career to now. This is one of the ways. In the first half of my career, if I had an important meeting, I put on a suit and tie, made sure my shoes were polished, showed up a few minutes early, etc. Now, this.
Cory Doctorow: The CIA’s information security is really terrible
