Quick google search says 4/23 is the first day of Ramadan, at sunset. Sounds like someone is reaching to fit their narrative, but I can’t quite make out what that is.
there's been some posts itt today that made Finland rise up to my top spot my last name is norwegian and i'm tall and snow white so I'd be eyeing scandanavia.
For the purpose of this thread...if you can hold out a little bit, this may be a huge relief for small business. Basically two months of govt supported payroll, rent, and utilities. Supposedly will be approved in one day by any authorized SBA bank. Will count as a grant if you maintain your staff payroll within the formulas. Section 1106. Loan Forgiveness Establishes that the borrower shall be eligible for loan forgiveness equal to the amount spent by the borrower during an 8-week period after the origination date of the loan on payroll costs, interest payment on any mortgage incurred prior to February 15, 2020, payment of rent on any lease in force prior to February 15, 2020, and payment on any utility for which service began before February 15, 2020. Amounts forgiven may not exceed the principal amount of the loan. Eligible payroll costs do not include compensation above $100,000 in wages. Forgiveness on a covered loan is equal to the sum of the following payroll costs incurred during the covered 8 week period compared to the previous year or time period, proportionate to maintaining employees and wages: Payroll costs plus any payment of interest on any covered mortgage obligation (which shall not include any prepayment of or payment of principal on a covered mortgage obligation) plus any payment on any covered rent obligation + and any covered utility payment. The amount forgiven will be reduced proportionally by any reduction in employees retained compared to the prior year and reduced by the reduction in pay of any employee beyond 25 percent of their prior year compensation. To encourage employers to rehire any employees who have already been laid off due to the COVID-19 crisis, borrowers that re-hire workers previously laid off will not be penalized for having a reduced payroll at the beginning of the period. #187
due to loans and the need to maintain similar levels of earning potential for that, and ease of doing it, it's new zealand ez #1
also a whole lot of wasted space in this thread today. please keep this thing to discussion on the crisis and response to it. if you have a disagreement with someone from a year ago, please take that elsewhere. I am keeping up with this thread pretty regularly and if I see people spamming this thing with useless shit then I will issue a 24 hr thread ban beer posts are ok
really hope it doesn't get bad in Nashville. Thankfully they've got some really solid healthcare options in the city and surrounding counties got a neighbor in her late 80s who is like a grandmother to me and my parents are in their 70s so it's kind of scary having to just hope for the best even scarier when people with real local influence like Bob Corker are echoing that TX Lt Gov fool Corker contends that it's time for the country to quickly resume work and commerce. That's in an effort, he says, to save the economy from lasting damage imparted by measures intended to slow the spread of COVID-19, a highly contagious virus that has wreaked havoc on healthcare systems and killed nearly 20,000 worldwide. "Should my generation be willing to have a degree of sacrifice and risk so that younger generations can have a better life?" Corker, 67, said in an interview Tuesday evening. "I think so."
Still contend that the future House hearing with Fauci is going to be fucking lit. And if we're lucky, the hearing will be in October.
I was impressed by Germany when I visited a couple years ago. Felt pretty much at home. Very easy transition. Guessing Scandinavian countries would be pretty ideal, too.
without job concerns or loan concerns Denmark would probably be #1. wouldn't make in the same stratosphere of money but quality of life would probably be higher. love those functional societies.
yeah, my job is why I don’t really see myself moving. Plus Cali mostly secedes itself from federal stupidity.
yeah count my blessings every day we live in a largely blue dominated state not run by idiots. had already decided a few years ago we'd never move back to a GOP dominated state for very obvious reasons right now, but still pretty obvious years ago.
So i just heard a stat that 287k people traveled on planes in the US today, (which is down 87%) and thought about those huge walled imaginary borders between all the states are super powerful against the spread of corona. The fact that Trump is holding onto any State being able to avoid this with these dumb policies is fucking criminal.
Yeah, spent time in Munich, Berlin and Dresden and really loved it. Have heard great things about Denmark and was hoping to make a side trip when I was at the Euros this summer. Alas ...
I didn’t find Germany to be that bad. Then again, I’m near Los Angeles, so I’m used to expensive. Have heard things about Scandinavia, though,
Your trip to the Euros and my wife and I's trip through France and Spain this summer, in the shitter. At least we have competent state and local government.
Yep. Just hope to reboot the trip in 2021. But yeah, it’s an incredible bummer. Had tickets to matches in Wembley, Amsterdam, Rome and Glasgow.
stripping of the bernie unemployment expansion amendment just failed regular bill will pass here in a few minutes
My wife may go kicking and screaming because she has a huge family but we are out of here come next year. My company has english-speaking offices in Sydney and Dublin, so it will likely be one of those two destinations
have cancelled two trips already, a third seems likely (Iceland in late May) hoping August in France holds together at this point
True. POV and all that. My relatives in Wiesbaden spend $5,000/month for a 2 bedroom. Munich is very expensive. Berlin is not. Most cities in the old East are very reasonable. In rural Germany you can find good deals too.
Yeah, I definitely noticed that Munich was pricier than Berlin, which is strange since it’d be like Chicago being more expensive than NYC. Of course, once you cross the border to Prague it’s almost impossible to spend a lot of money.
seeing all these old ass senators not even close to social distancing is concerning mother fuckers stop whispering to each other unless it involves mitch then it's ok