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awhile back, I mentioned this might be happening - now it has. san francisco will be the first city in the country to offer workers fully paid - b. Apr 5, 16:24 4
- as if any parents could afford to live in the city -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 5, 17:03
- dano, get busy -- nm - the brain Apr 5, 16:25 2
  - finding someone to partner and parent with who lives in san francisco? -- nm - b. Apr 5, 16:27 1
    - dano (and b.'s) new house of the week -- (link) - the brain Apr 5, 16:29
Matt Damon producing historical pic about Bunker Hill (but i hope he uses contemporary Boston speech) -- (link) - the brain Apr 5, 16:23
If you are wearing socks with sandals, not only CAN you remove them without removing the sandals, you are now OBLIGATED to. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 5, 16:22 5
- If you are wearing socks with sandals in the first place, there's something very wrong with you. -- nm - znufrii Apr 5, 16:26 1
  - hey! true, but hey! -- nm - b. Apr 5, 16:28
- not always. -- nm - b. Apr 5, 16:26 2
  - I agree, I'm just dabbling in being a socks with sandals hater for comedic effect. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 5, 16:28 1
    - oic. -- nm - b. Apr 5, 16:29
The conference has an evening activity on Thursday night. Free pass and snacks at the movies. - Mop Apr 5, 16:19
Grrrrrrrrrrreat pic -- (link) - ML Apr 5, 16:18 2
- they're right....that was a crazy great shot that will get lost in history -- nm - prayformojo Apr 5, 16:21 1
  - Maybe. They might end up being paired in history. The drama of the game winner doesn't exist without that shot - JD Apr 5, 16:29
I'm auto-uploading my photos to Google Photos instead of Dropbox since I switched phones. Raw, original photos are not unlimited. I only have 105 GB. - Mop Apr 5, 16:13 2
- Just the raw ones I think. Otherwise it's unlimited. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 5, 16:17 1
  - Just wondering if 100 GB from Google Drive is standard these days. -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 16:27
Jackie Coakley, the fabulist at the heart of the UVA/Rolling Stone rape hoax, will be required to testify as part of a lawsuit against the mag. -- (link) - ML Apr 5, 16:09
I'm wondering how Dr. Teeth and Electric Mayhem set will go -- (link) - JD Apr 5, 16:04 2
- it'll be fine. they are one of the few bands who transcend age, race etc. everyone loves them. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 5, 16:09 1
  - Sure but can they play live? - JD Apr 5, 16:13
"When an SUV can make you vomit while out-accelerating almost every Porsche, Ferrari or Lamborghini ever made, Modena and Stuttgart have a problem." -- (link) - ML Apr 5, 15:59 2
- That....doesn't look like an SUV... -- nm - The Real Death Sceire Apr 5, 16:25
- it's no Canyonero! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 5, 16:06
Dear commercials that show someone's intestines: you're horrible and guaranteeing I won't buy your products. -- nm - David Apr 5, 15:57
Plaintiff attorneys are the Devil - Epiphany Apr 5, 15:43 1
- Better Call Saul -- nm - the brain Apr 5, 15:48
What's the first place I search for? Five Guys, of course! There's one a block away! -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 15:42 4
- When we were in Savannah, a Five Guys was right by the hotel. It was cruel walking past the place that many times without eating there. -- nm - David Apr 5, 15:54 1
  - Why would you not go? It's fantastic. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 5, 16:18
- Now walk right by it and get a nice salad -- nm - decline Apr 5, 15:46 1
  - And then stop at liquor store on the way back -- nm* - decline Apr 5, 15:47
I met Bob and Chad from the conference. I'm posting this here so I remember. And the girl at the front desk is totally into me. - Mop Apr 5, 15:27
from bb's, here's a review of the new burger king angriest whopper. (I saw last night that wendy's has a new hot-peppers-y fried chicken sandwich.) -- (link) - b. Apr 5, 15:21 2
- also, prepare yourselves: thursday is national burrito day. some restaurants have special offers, etc. -- nm - b. Apr 5, 15:28 1
  - Knife and fork, ready -- nm - the brain Apr 5, 15:30
That was fast (SW:TFA spoils, I suppose) -- (link) - ML Apr 5, 15:21
Kerry Washington on photoshop: "It felt strange to look at a picture of myself that is so different from what I look like when I look in the mirror. " -- (link) - ty97 Apr 5, 15:07 1
- good for her and others who are calling-out that stuff, in polite ways like that. I would not have known that's her, ick. -- nm - b. Apr 5, 15:11
J.K. Rowling eggs on Twitter rivalry between Scottish libraries -- (link) - Beaker Apr 5, 15:05 2
- The public library in Boise is called "Library!" I thought you should know this. -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 15:26
- a scottish egg, one might even say -- nm - the brain Apr 5, 15:06
Pazuzu! -- nm - amoxy Apr 5, 14:57
THOR -- nm - ML Apr 5, 14:54
well that was useless: Marc Allen Feldman: 88%, Austin Peterson: 84%, Gary Johnson: 83%, John McAfee: 82%, Hillary: 73%, Ted Cruz: 72%, Bernie 71%. - ML Apr 5, 14:46 7
- MF/ML '16! -- nm - ty97 Apr 5, 14:54 1
  - campaign slogan: "Live The Life You Choose [Within Reasonable Limits]" - ML Apr 5, 14:56
- Are those your RP? I've never heard of the first two. -- nm - spamlet, spreading happiness and joy where he goes Apr 5, 14:47 4
  - What does RP mean? Apparently they are human beings running for President, but I've never heard of them either. -- nm - ML Apr 5, 14:49 2
    - Closers, it was an attempt at a callback. -- nm - spamlet, spreading happiness and joy where he goes Apr 5, 14:50 1
      - OK™ - ML Apr 5, 14:51
  - they're both libertarian candidates in mix at that site. they show up if you click to show all candidates. -- nm - b. Apr 5, 14:49
So car rental insurance...? Don't need it if I already have my own car insured, right? -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 14:45 9
- In most cases, no you do not need it. -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Apr 5, 14:47 2
  - Thanks! I looked up my credit card and Chase expressly tells me to decline the rental agency's coverage since Chase has the waiver. -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 15:32
  - "My lawyer, RC, informs me that I do not need this. Good day, sir!" -- nm - the brain Apr 5, 14:55
- It's not insurance, you're paying for them to waive their right to sue you or go after your insurance if you damage the car. - spamlet, spreading happiness and joy where he goes Apr 5, 14:47 4
  - it's worth checking ahead of time if one of your credit cards offers coverage. I can't find my post about it, but it can also be good for out of - b. Apr 5, 14:58 3
    - This...though ain't some pulling some of these features? -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 5, 15:29 1
      - some, yes; but others still have one kind of coverage or another and/or offer lower-price supplemental insurance. -- nm - b. Apr 5, 15:32
    - Usually it's only secondary liability that kicks in after your insurance pays unless your card has a fee. Then it might be primary insurance. -- nm - iSpam Apr 5, 15:01
- I believe that covers you for liability for damage you to do someone else. Probably not for damage to your rental car. -- nm - pmb Apr 5, 14:46
Ugh. I still need to do my taxes. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 5, 14:40 5
- yeah... - znufrii Apr 5, 14:42 4
  - got til the 18th this year - Epiphany Apr 5, 14:45 3
    - binge-watch kimmy schmidt on Friday, it is decided -- nm - the brain Apr 5, 15:21
    - extra procrastination powers, activate! -- nm - JaxSean Apr 5, 14:49
    - yup. - znufrii Apr 5, 14:46
Doom? -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Apr 5, 14:37 1
- relax. nothing can go worng. they are part of the national Sharknado defense. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 5, 14:41
First - and only - phone call I've received on my new phone is Sprint doing an off-boarding conversation. -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 14:29
Muslims Used To Love Living In Tennessee — Now It's A Nightmare -- (link) - ty97 Apr 5, 14:29 3
- Very sad, and I think it will get worse before there is a possibility before it gets better -- nm - amoxy Apr 5, 15:23
- One of the Buyers in my office is Muslim, and I try to gently ask once in a while if he's experienced any backlash. - landbeck Apr 5, 15:03
- reverting to the mean -- nm - the brain Apr 5, 14:30
dear Alan Grayson, hope you weren't planning on that whole senate thing working out -- (link) - the brain Apr 5, 14:29
Huh. Well, this SW:TFA revelation is rather dark. -- (link) - ML Apr 5, 14:27 16
- Interesting...I assumed they were... - Mel Profit Apr 5, 14:35 13
  - But who would have had them in the intervening years? - zork Apr 5, 15:49 1
    - Luke or Leia could have had them. - pmb Apr 5, 15:55
  - Though if that were the case... - Roger More Apr 5, 15:35
  - yah. the explanation is kind of odd to me. -- nm - b. Apr 5, 15:01 2
    - kind of doesn't make sense. Feels like one of JJ's after thoughts again. (spoilers) - Mel Profit Apr 5, 15:02 1
      - not just.. (spoilers) - b. Apr 5, 15:09
  - related the supposed plot points in Rogue One (spoils) - ML Apr 5, 14:54 2
    - one of the new Darth Vader comics - "All I am surrounded by is Fear...and dead men" -- link -- (edited) - Beaker Apr 5, 15:07
    - agreed. (spoilers) - Mel Profit Apr 5, 15:01
  - yonh. -- nm - Diva Apr 5, 14:44
  - word -- nm - Beaker Apr 5, 14:44
  - yup -- nm - groiny Apr 5, 14:40
  - Me too. -- nm - pmb Apr 5, 14:36
- Now why did the marketing guys think he'd be the big seller? -- nm - nic to be determined Apr 5, 14:34
- true dat... - budice Apr 5, 14:31
So... Boise, 'eh? The approach is as terrible as Denver on the other side of the Rockies. -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 14:26
BIG American Airlines news - ty97 Apr 5, 14:26 6
- nice. -- nm - znufrii Apr 5, 14:42
- Did they kiss and make up with Casey? -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 14:27 3
  - It would be a smart move for them -- nm - J Apr 5, 16:27
  - I hope they ban him! -- nm - ty97 Apr 5, 14:28 1
    - You're just jealous. If you made videos of your travels, you'd be concierge as well. -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 14:29
- Flew them last night, I got pretzels :-) -- nm - MDH Apr 5, 14:27
Tom Cotton (R-AR): Americans re-elected Obama to nominate justices — but they elected me to stop him -- nm - MDH Apr 5, 14:22 3
- If he thinks that what his job is it's time for an adult to take over for him. -- nm - Krusty Apr 5, 14:44
- (America did not elect you) -- nm - ty97 Apr 5, 14:22 1
  - Yeah, I'll go with the 65 million who voted Obama over the less than 500,000 who voted for Cotton. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 5, 14:24
This video game looks awesome: Dangerous Golf -- (link) - ML Apr 5, 14:19
Oh, Volnek, thanks for posting. It looks like isidewith may have updated the questions based on the election cycle. Time to re-take! -- nm - ty97 Apr 5, 14:03 16
- Stein 89, Bernie 85, Clinton 85, Johnson 77, Cruz 46, Trump 37 -- nm - spamlet, spreading happiness and joy where he goes Apr 5, 14:46
- looks similar to me, except they took out candidates who've moved along. there's only one candidate with whom I have less than a 51% match. - b. Apr 5, 14:31 3
  - yah, it's skewed. looking at what they say bernie and I match for, they don't even have answers for him for a whole bunch of questions, yet they put - b. Apr 5, 14:46 1
    - I agree. I know there are some of the answers where I differ from Sanders, but whether it's because there isn't enough nuance in the answer or - pmb Apr 5, 15:41
  - the bern has been felt -- nm - the brain Apr 5, 14:42
- Sec. Clinton 90%; Jill Stein 86%; Sen. Sanders 82% -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 5, 14:28
- Bernie 96, Hillary 94, Stein 94, Trump 13, Cruz 8 -- nm - pmb Apr 5, 14:26
- Bernie 99%, Stein 96%, Clinton 91%, Cruz 23%, Trump 17% -- nm - David Apr 5, 14:15
- Bernie 97, Jill Stein 95, Hillary 95 - ty97 Apr 5, 14:15 1
  - Yeah, I may vote for her in the general. - Dark Callisto Apr 5, 14:17
- Yep - I got Jill Stein 96%, Bernie 96%, Hillary 93%. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 5, 14:07 3
  - Pretty much the same, but I figured as much -- nm - CQ Apr 5, 14:19 2
    - Yep, it's about where I've been with slight adjustments. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 5, 14:20 1
      - In the version many months back that had less detail, I came in a bit weaker on Hillary I think. - ty97 Apr 5, 14:24
- Yeah. It's pretty detailed. Especially if you click on 'additional' questions for each section. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 5, 14:03 1
  - I did this in most cases. Glad they have expanded and remained current. -- nm - ty97 Apr 5, 14:15
yep - this officially blows. -- nm - Diva Apr 5, 13:59 11
- That happened to me a few years ago and but a while later, it came back (and has been good ever since). A possible workaround ... - zork Apr 5, 14:54 2
  - thx. - Diva Apr 5, 14:57 1
    - Might want to try. Sometimes things install anyway. -- nm - zork Apr 5, 15:51
- Do you think they targeted the site or just a software update with a new basic list of blocked sites? -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 14:31 1
  - I have no idea. this happened before once years ago. -- nm - Diva Apr 5, 14:46
- Would an incognito window work? -- nm - nic to be determined Apr 5, 14:16 2
  - I can't pull that up at work. -- nm - Diva Apr 5, 14:28 1
    - Ah well, that's my only idea. -- nm - nic to be determined Apr 5, 14:32
- sorry to hear that. atleast one thing is going your way today -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 5, 14:03 [Backboard]
- :( - -- nm - b. Apr 5, 14:02
- :( -- nm - prayformojo Apr 5, 14:01
"You know how to bite a dick, Eugene." - David Apr 5, 13:59 5
- did you like them any better? - prayformojo Apr 5, 14:02 4
  - The glacial pace is never going to do anything for me, but I liked the episode with Alicia Witt as the captor. -- nm - David Apr 5, 14:05 3
    - that might be my favorite episode of the series (spoilers) - Mel Profit Apr 5, 14:33 1
      - I completely agree. - David Apr 5, 14:40
    - that was a good ep. -- nm - Diva Apr 5, 14:05
Also, glad to see my bribe to Diva's IS&T dept. finally went through. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 5, 13:59 2
- i knew you were behind this, hunting. -- nm - Diva Apr 5, 13:59 1
  - Well, if you hadn't put me behind your port, I wouldn't have needed to be behind this! -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 5, 14:14
Groiny -- Machado had SS-3B eligibility which should give him the edge over Donaldson/Correa/Arenado - Will Hunting Apr 5, 13:58
BO: BvS 3.19 on Monday -- nm - Beaker Apr 5, 13:50 3
- Yeah, it's headed for a delist multiplier under 2.0 -- nm - Roger More Apr 5, 13:57 1
  - and the Zack Snyder groveling has already begun -- (link*) - the brain Apr 5, 13:59
- Just your standard 79% week to week drop. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 5, 13:57
The hell are "waffles"? -- nm - the brain Apr 5, 13:49 7
- Mmm....waffles... -- nm - znufrii Apr 5, 13:57 4
  - WAFFLES! -- nm - Donkey Apr 5, 16:14
  - No! -- nm - Znu Doc SI Apr 5, 13:58 2
    - He said no pizza, cheesesteaks, hoagies, ice cream or fried foods. He didn't say anything about waffles! -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 5, 14:45 1
      - I saw it - good start! :) - -- nm - b. Apr 5, 14:47
- Waffle-knit shirt, long-sleeved, usually round-neck or Henley -- nm - mara Apr 5, 13:53 1
  - oh, a John Bender -- nm - the brain Apr 5, 13:56

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