This Is Fine

Tim Stone

3:06 AM

Ahhhhhh inject it into my veins, Kansas Republican voters denied Kobach the Senate candidacy too

Just a thoroughly owned man

Stormblessed

3:34 AM

> Joshua Collins | 969 | 0.94%

lol

Tim Stone

3:45 AM

Missouri voters pass state constitutional amendment #2 to expand Medicaid

Tim Stone

3:55 AM

Cori Bush has ousted Lacy Clay in MO1

Another Justice Democrats upset

St Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner fends of primary challenge after facing opposition for being "too progressive"

Mad Scientist

6:15 AM

So the next thing 2020 throws at us are attacks by flying water towers ;-)

Nzall

7:01 AM

twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/1290899828415889409/photo/1

Wipqozn

11:08 AM

How scientists aim to make a safe COVID-19 vaccine in record time cbc.ca/news/health/vaccine-speed-1.5673960

@MadScientist nah, it was just trying to escape 2020 Earth.

To follow up on our reporting from last night, here's a perfect example of Blizzard's pay disparity and the massive salary leap that people can get by leaving the company:

Eh, fuck it. I hope this helps other folks in the industry. #GameDevPaidMe 💰
🙋🏻‍♀️ About me: Persian/cis f/26
> Blizzard Internship - $16.75/hr
> Blizzard Associate PM - $59K
> Blizzard PM - $74K
> Riot PM - $134K
> Riot PM II - $163K

MBraedley

is PM project manager?

Wipqozn

@MBraedley I assume so, yeah

Oh, links didn't get added

twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1290669205805826048?s=19

Wrigglenite

Oh, Jason Schreier

Wipqozn

It always is

MBraedley

product manager, so close enough

IMHO, it's not so much that Blizzard are underpaying (although they are a little), it's that Riot is overpaying. A lot.

Wrigglenite

11:26 AM

Last I heard Riot was bad for other reasons

Frank

11:53 AM

Depends on the area, really.

Nzall

@MBraedley Keep in mind that the cost of living in Irvine is about 5-6000 USD per month including rent, so getting paid 74K annual is barely enough to make a living

which is a problem in and of itself

Wipqozn

1:02 PM

@Nzall yeah, I was wondering where the office was

That seems like a lot of money, but when adjusted for cost of living it's probably not

Nzall

@Wipqozn Blizzard campus is located in Irvine California

twitter.com/davedisasterman/status/1290972101059510274

Wipqozn

I know Brian David Gilbery posted his salary was 85k back in June, and folks were pointed out that in NYC that's not as high as people seem to think.

I mean I'm pretty sure @InvaderScrooge continues to take the train from one state over to his NYC job because that's cheaper than actually moving to NYC

Nzall

The organization in control of the official DNA gene names has decided to change the names of multiple genes because they were often automangled by Excel

Wipqozn

@Nzall yeah, I wasn't sure, and didn't bother looking lol

So cost living is ~72K USD in irvine compared to ~ 10k USD in Halifax

oh nvm lol

this random result google returend didn't include rent: numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/….

but rent in halifax has gotten fucked in the past bit

Nzall

@Wipqozn yeah, I manually added up the monthly cost and the monthly rent cost

Wipqozn

1:10 PM

In anycase, there's certainly an argument to be made that Riot is overpaying perhaps, but Blizzard is definitly drastically underpaying given the cost of living there

@Wrigglenite yeah, they're a trash company

91°F/33°C on the shores of the Arctic Ocean in northern Canada today

We are in a climate emergency. https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/1290495852260122627?s=19

We're so fucked

Fuck the rich, oil companies, the GOP, and right leaning parties in general. So much of the blame for this falls squarely on them.

Frank

1:27 PM

@Wipqozn Aren't they more or less one and the same people?

Wipqozn

@Frank Somewhat

BradC

1:52 PM

(Florida) Gov. Ron DeSantis Acknowledges State’s Unemployment System Was Built With ‘Pointless Roadblocks’ To Pay Out ‘Least Number Of Claims’

BradC

2:15 PM

Missouri voters approve Medicaid expansion, making it 38th state to do so

Good election result in my state

Federal agents are expelling asylum seekers as young as 8 months from the border, citing COVID-19 risks

> Under this new policy, the administration is not deporting children — a proceeding based on years of established law that requires a formal hearing in immigration court.
> It is instead expelling them — without a judge’s ruling and after only a cursory government screening and no access to social workers or lawyers, sometimes not even their family, while in U.S. custody. The children are not even granted the primary registration number by which the Department of Homeland Security tracks all immigrants in its care, making it “virtually impossible” to find them, Efrén C. Olivares, a lawyer…

Tim Stone

> The internal State Department watchdog who Trump installed after the abrupt firing of the previous IG has resigned, per internal document, marking another significant shakeup for an office sworn to root out malfeasance and wrong doing

> A video showing the before and after of Beirut's main port after Yesterday's explosion, using drone imagery from today

3

jfc

Wipqozn

@TimStone I wonder how long it'll take before people start telling the folks who lose their homes, jobs, et cetear due to this to "work harder" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps!"

"No freehandouts!", et cetera

Tim Stone

2:36 PM

> The Merritt Corrigan saga somehow gets even weirder. She now says the tweets that got her fired were actually sent by Jacob Wohl and/or Jack Burkman, whom she suggests took her phone. "I became involved with people who...conned me"

lmfao I don't believe this for a second but if it is true that's also hilarious

why would you do this

Mad Scientist

@TimStone WIth Wohl involved, the dumbest possible explanation has to be the truth.

Yuuki

3:33 PM

@TimStone Allegedly, this is a picture of the warehouse before the explosion.

Memor-X

@Yuuki the news here was saying and showing politicians being visibly upset......just before this it was reported that politicians were told this was a danger for years

Yuuki

@MadScientist I'm not sure we've reached Wohl-levels of absolutely dumb explanations yet though.

Memor-X

3:52 PM

a part of me wants to see this interview between Trump and an Australian Reporter

> Trump: we have this new phenomena, it's called in, it's called mail in voting
Reporter: new? it's been here since the civil war

Yuuki

I'm of the opinion that no Trump interview is worth the sanity/brain cells you lose watching and listening to him speak, no matter how big the Trumpwning is.

Nzall

@Yuuki if you watch too many Trump interviews, you risk your IQ dropping below your age

MBraedley

5:29 PM

Covid-19 tracing app produced by the Government of Canada is now available

Not explicit, but it looks to be built on top of Google/Apple framework.

Tim Stone

5:46 PM

Huh, Iowa governor Kim Reynolds is restoring voting rights to most released felons without a poll tax like Florida pulled

lol another Nunes lawsuit meets the shredder

Unionhawk

wait did he try to claim that "devin nunes moved to Iowa" was a defamatory statement

Tim Stone

It was defamatory that people don't like him for being dumb

Ahhh TMZ is reporting that FBInis searching Jake Paul's house

Unionhawk

The bar to not get something dismissed is so low and yet

(the bar for getting something dismissed is literally "even if everything you said was true, that's not against the law")

Tim Stone

6:03 PM

He is not a smart man

Unionhawk

lol the court really goes at it here

"Are any of these statements defamatory? No. But if they were defamatory was there actual malice? Also no. Plaintiff fails to state a claim, dismissed with prejudice under Rule 12(b)(6)."

MBraedley

@TimStone Still sitting here with my constitutionally guaranteed right to vote. Voting rights battles will continue until the US becomes proactive on the issue instead of reactive.

Tim Stone

7:34 PM

> In the past half hour, Kanye West has filed to be on the ballot in two swing states, Colorado and Ohio after filing to get on the ballot in Wisconsin yesterday

Kanye needs to screw off

BradC

7:49 PM

Not sure that its primarily being driven by Kanye

Republicans in at least four states are helping Kanye West gain ballot access

Tim Stone

He could just tell them no, though? His family could step in and say "Kanye you're having some kind of crisis let's not"

Nzall

8:03 PM

@TimStone Kim Kardashian has said that Kanye has Bipolar disorder

Tim Stone

Yes

Wipqozn

@TimStone I'm so excited for 4 more years of Trumptopua

Considering just.... Well... gestures to 2020, 4 more years of Trump could mean a whole host of people dying

Tim Stone

It's unclear whether it's even an effective strategy or if Kanye would just siphon off potential Trump voters at this point, but we could just not do the whole exercise

Wipqozn

8:19 PM

@TimStone Maybe he'll actually get elected

President Kanye

Frank

Anything would be better than Trump again.

Hell, just elect Groot.

Everybody, write it in.

Nzall

@Frank please don't. If you want to vote, for for Biden. I don't want to see another 65K in a swing state go to a dead gorilla

Frank

@Nzall That's Grodd