Open Bar: Subpoenaed by Congress, but still refusing to testify

[Juana]

The governor is telling us not to expect schools to open back up for the remainder of this school year. Woof.

[Bruno]

Our schools are closed until the end of March, and for some reason a lot of people seem to think this whole thing will have blown over by then. 

I had a guy tonight tell me that the death rate won't be nearly as high here as it was in China because China is a third world country that doesn't have hospitals. 

[Cain]

The end of April will probably be the time we have a better idea what is going on. If the UK keeps to current trends, it will probably be like Italy is now at that point.

[Juana]

Mid April is when we're supposed to be considering re-opening but 🤷. Fresno may or may not be going on total lockdown starting at midnight anyway and who knows how long that'll last.

[Cain]

Hey well we've just decided to close down our schools. I mean, today. And England only after Wales and Scotland already said they couldn't afford to keep the schools open any more.

Our closure is "until further notice", so no idea on when it's going to be over.

[Doktor Howl]

Hey well we've just decided to close down our schools. I mean, today. And England only after Wales and Scotland already said they couldn't afford to keep the schools open any more.

Our closure is "until further notice", so no idea on when it's going to be over.

Our species' epitaph should be "We should let it work its way through the population" or maybe "It's a hoax."

[Doktor Howl]

None of this would have happened, had I been elected a few years back.

[altered]

None of this would have happened, had I been elected a few years back.

You were, in fact, elected to be our 21st Century, so this is actually all your fault.

[Juana]

None of this would have happened, had I been elected a few years back.

You were, in fact, elected to be our 21st Century, so this is actually all your fault.

[Zenpatista]

None of this would have happened, had I been elected a few years back.

You were, in fact, elected to be our 21st Century, so this is actually all your fault.

Don't blame me. I voted for Howl. Who was the running mate again? TGRR?

Anyway, our school has just stated they're planning to stay online through the first summer session. They'll decide go/no-go on May 1 whether or not to have activities on campus after July 1.

In the meantime, I've had 7+ zoom meetings in 2 days and their stock is soaring.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Hey well we've just decided to close down our schools. I mean, today. And England only after Wales and Scotland already said they couldn't afford to keep the schools open any more.

Our closure is "until further notice", so no idea on when it's going to be over.

Our species' epitaph should be "We should let it work its way through the population" or maybe "It's a hoax."

Here lies humanity.
"Herd immunity"
Didn't work.

[altered]

I'm on a train ride to some random place, Michigan right now. Train is surprisingly low occupancy, even considering COVID and no one wanting to go to Michigan. Not a total ghost town though.

I'm torn between laughter, tears, and rage, but I have to hold it in. I'm counting on me.

[The Wizard Joseph]

I'm on a train ride to some random place, Michigan right now. Train is surprisingly low occupancy, even considering COVID and no one wanting to go to Michigan. Not a total ghost town though.

I'm torn between laughter, tears, and rage, but I have to hold it in. I'm counting on me.

I'm rooting for you altered. Your ability to endure alone has earned my respect. The fact that you're also super smart and scrappy is just icing. You keep on trucking girl! I'll do the same.

[altered]

It helps to learn that a nu metal band so shitty even I can't find any reason someone would like them is getting bullied so hard by furries that they have tweeted 4700 times about how they have a ton of Pandora listeners. There is nothing about this shit that isn't funny.

Trapt sucks, by the way, and I say that as someone who LIKES THAT GENRE. Also they're Trump supporters and just look at this shit I'm dying on public transit https://twitter.com/chinchillazllla/status/1240372791892901888

[Al Qədic]

40 pages of this thread have come and gone, and I'm back again. I'll read through em some other time, I have a final portfolio to cobble together now that it's the end of the day and my other two class' final projects have gone unfinished. Last quarter was less astro-hyper-shitty than I thought it'd be; turns out I barely passed Greek I, and passed the other classes better than I thought I would. So that's nice.


Granted, I didn't buy the book for the class that I replaced Greeek II with this quarter, couldn't bring myself to write 7 pages about one of my favorite Tom Lehrer songs, and said class is one of the aforementioned two that have unfinished final papers. For another class, I could barely bring myself to read anything other than Assata Shakur's autobiography, and that's the *other* class I haven't finished the paper on, but I'm trying not to get bogged-down in the self-shit about all that too much. I keep getting bogged down by the holies, drop, and the acrid taste in my mouth from all the bullets I'm preparing to bite.


I am both itching to Do Things, and mortified to begin trying. But, c'est la vie. The only other thing I know for sure is I'm tired of self-induced radio-silence interspersed with sad whining and the wet sounds of placation. But, thanks to some of you mad bastards and your stupid meaningful words, I'm slowly becoming more ready to turn dials and flip switches in my brainmeat again.


Here's to The FUTURE.