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2 crew members were hurt on a Porter flight in Toronto today when the plane tried to avoid a drone. -- (link) - Andie Nov 14, 12:21 6
- 39 minutes until my flight. Oh good. -- nm - Roger More Nov 14, 12:28
- pilot was probably flying too low -- nm - decline Nov 14, 12:22 4
  - "Is that dangerous?" "It's only a part of every textbook landing." -- nm - znufrii Nov 14, 12:24
  - he was landing... -- nm - Andie Nov 14, 12:23 2
    - He was 55km out. How low did be need to be? -- nm - Roger More Nov 14, 12:29
    - see! -- nm - ty97 Nov 14, 12:23
Alshon Jeffery suspended for the next four games. -- nm - Doctor Spawn Nov 14, 12:17 7
- Gas station attendant! -- nm - David Nov 14, 12:22 1
  - "Suspension will cost him $3,435,058." - ML Nov 14, 12:25
- LOL - ML Galaxy Nov 14, 12:18
- What did I miss? I missed the game yesterday and purposely avoided reading about the debacle. -- nm - pmb Nov 14, 12:18 3
  - PED policy -- nm - ML Galaxy Nov 14, 12:18 2
    - Ah. I guess I'm not shocked. He's constantly trying to recover from injuries and he's in a contract year. -- nm - pmb Nov 14, 12:20 1
      - With Cutler unlikely to return, I think he'll be a FA now. - ML Nov 14, 12:24
Still no sign of driveway construction when I came in just now. The plan is to have it complete and re-opened by Wednesday night. - Meg Nov 14, 12:16
i love you guys. - Andie Nov 14, 12:14
Making a Murderer real life news spoiler - ty97 Nov 14, 12:11
new phone update - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 12:09 9
- awesome! now you can takes tons of pictures of your fireplace!! -- nm - decline Nov 14, 12:10 8
  - it's still the wrong color!!! -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 12:13 7
    - filters! -- nm - decline Nov 14, 12:16
    - use a camera app filter! -- nm - Max Nov 14, 12:15 5
      - I paid five f*cking thousand dollars for the thing. I am not using a filter. unrelated color related - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 12:17 3
        
        Wait a sec, if we stay with you will you do our laundry? - Doctor Spawn Nov 14, 12:21 1
        
        whites only. *nobody* touches the bleach except me. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 12:22
        
        surrounded by bad ideas -- nm - Max Nov 14, 12:19
      - heh -- nm - decline Nov 14, 12:16
Another depressing Guardian commentary: Trump, the first president of American decline -- (link) - znufrii Nov 14, 12:06 7
- not me! -- nm - decline Nov 14, 12:16
- I'm going to say again what I stressed in the months leading up to the election. - David Nov 14, 12:10 5
  - It's hard not to see the trend starting with Goldwater or Reagan... - Mel Profit Nov 14, 12:27
  - This of course sounds like contempt but it's the dimwitted logic used by his supporters that grates on my brain. - Max Nov 14, 12:18 2
    - Right. Worrying doesn't really help, but it is very scary. What happens when we a terrorist attack occurs during his presidency? - Inigo Nov 14, 12:23
    - As someone who has pointed out many times how disastrous the W. votes were, I obviously agree. - David Nov 14, 12:21
  - *shrug* -- (edited) - znufrii Nov 14, 12:15
I love that the star of the Step Up series is Greg Evigan's daughter. - David Nov 14, 12:06
I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS!! -- (link) - ML Nov 14, 12:05
Hmm. A (good) deleted scene from Suicide Squad. -- (link) - Doctor Spawn Nov 14, 11:58 2
- Haven't even seen the movie, but question - Guigue Nov 14, 12:00 1
  - Uhm, because he was not going to stop for her. - Doctor Spawn Nov 14, 12:01
endometrial cancer diagnosed at end of 2015/early 2016. Took brief leave from Newshour in April due to treatment. Sought privacy per Stelter -- (link*) - ty97 Nov 14, 11:54
LOL -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 14, 11:54 7
- Mine was settled over... - budice Nov 14, 11:59 4
  - Okay, I can never divorce Kim. -- nm - David Nov 14, 12:05 2
    - I was trying to get the joke but they all seemed mean-spirited. -- nm - spamlet Nov 14, 12:06 1
      - Our digital media collection might be worth more than our cars. -- nm - David Nov 14, 12:13
  - ! -- nm - Andie Nov 14, 12:00
- The War of the Roses 2 -- nm - Max Nov 14, 11:57
- The stories the divorce lawyers in my office can tell are just...wow. -- nm - ML Nov 14, 11:55
So are we watching that NaGeo drama "Mars" tonight or nah -- nm* - ML Nov 14, 11:53 1
- I think I will watch Total Recall instead. -- nm - Doctor Spawn Nov 14, 12:08
Does anyone here use Playstation Vue? Is the DVR feature like a real dvr (record anything and fast forward commercials) ? -- nm - James Bond (aka on phone) Nov 14, 11:49 1
- I have it, but I've never played with the DVR functionality. -- nm - David Nov 14, 11:52
Watching Pete Williams report on the death of his friend is heartbreaking. -- (link) - ML Nov 14, 11:41
Jim Caldwell has lots of nice things to say about 2-7 Jaguars. "I think they've done a tremendous job." -- nm - ML Nov 14, 11:36 1
- If he's only watched tapes of the 4th quarter, they're the 85 Bears. -- nm - David Nov 14, 11:37
So I'm really struggling to figure out the best way forward for those that oppose Trump. On a personal level some approaches are more obvious (give - pmb Nov 14, 11:34 62
- they should blow up Parliment -- nm - groiny Nov 14, 12:20 2
  - It was Hillary Clinton who lost. Not George Clinton. -- nm - pmb Nov 14, 12:21 1
    - tear da roof off the sucka -- nm - groiny Nov 14, 12:22
- Maybe not the right place to post, but I am hearing that he was softening on Obamacare towards the end of his campaign? -- nm - Doctor Spawn Nov 14, 11:51
- Educational infographics might help. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 14, 11:49
- anything that promotes unity, truth, and education. I think the lack of unity between classes in the US caused this. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 11:43 6
  - A bunch of mostly white voters just elected a guy who hates most people with non-white skin. How do you get -- (edited) - ty97 Nov 14, 12:06 2
    - Stop calling Trump supporters racist!!! -- nm - Dp3 si Nov 14, 12:20
    - I mean honestly you have to force it on them. make the nonwhites vote. get their voices out there. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 12:11
  - I think the lack of unity is causing the pre-existing problem to worsen. (That problem is the in-built pendulum effect of the republic) - Beryllium Nov 14, 11:50 2
    - Because it swung *so far* to the left under Obama (spoils: no, it didn't) -- nm - znufrii Nov 14, 11:51 1
      - From their perspective, it did. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 14, 11:52
- I'm narrowing my focus, volunteering time with someone (an email has gone out) and donating to other organizations. - Mel Profit Nov 14, 11:42 34
  - Agreed and understood, but I'm kind of trying to look at the bigger picture. I get that it starts with individuals, but for the next 4 years, what is - pmb Nov 14, 11:49 3
    - Sit and wait for Trumponomics to implode, and catch the next wave of populist outrage? -- nm - znufrii Nov 14, 11:54 2
      - Reagan had the unregulated savings and loan scandals, bush had the wall street gone wild , what will DT'S economy nuking issue be? -- nm - zeit spiced geist Nov 14, 12:11
      - It'll implode just about the time we get Dem control or course. - ty97 Nov 14, 12:07
  - I wonder if I can volunteer to do tax returns for people who would otherwise get fleeced going to H&R block. hmmm. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 11:44 29
    - Do it. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 14, 11:51 25
      - I did. what else can I do? maybe help with resumes somewhere? (where do you do that?) -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 11:52 24
        
        Well, if you want, we could set up resumecreek.com to be a free resume advice service. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 14, 11:53 23
        
        how difficult would this be? -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 12:01 2
        
        Sounds like it might not be too difficult. HelpMeAbstract is open source, so potentially i could base it on that. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 14, 12:03 1
        
        FWIW I got some interest from the owner of helpmeabstract and other participants. Graham in particular likes the idea. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 14, 12:04
        
        If you did, I'd probably send at least one customer a week to you. I wonder if it would be worth it to incorporate as a nonprofit. -- nm - mara Nov 14, 11:57 18
        
        I'd help. I've reviewed resumes as a manager before so that's the extent of my training/ability. - Mel Profit Nov 14, 12:05 3
        
        The "who" would be low-income, ex-cons, etc. You'd get multiple referrals a day from public libraries once the word got out. -- nm - mara Nov 14, 12:14
        
        The abstract site is for developers who are getting started on the conference circuit. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 14, 12:12 1
        
        Other devs in the community help out -- nm - Beryllium Nov 14, 12:12
        
        who's in charge of that? is that a spamlet question? (I wouldn't mind doing this, honestly. heavy volume would be an issue but - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 12:00 4
        
        More of MDH. I have helped incorporate one non-profit and it was mostly painless from a tax perspective. - iSpam Nov 14, 12:02 3
        
        so poombah and wiggie are in charge. and counselor lafarrow. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 12:03 2
        
        I'm happy to help. -- nm - pmb Nov 14, 12:15
        
        Well, if Bery went that route, it would be incorporated in Canada. -- nm - mara Nov 14, 12:14
        
        I think it would have to be a nonprofit, I wouldn't really feel comfortable charging folks - Beryllium Nov 14, 12:00 8
        
        I don't mean nonprofit vs profit. I mean incorporating rather than just doing it informally. -- nm - mara Nov 14, 12:08 2
        
        But I mean, from the perespective of me wanting a "lifestyle business", it wouldn't work -- nm - Beryllium Nov 14, 12:11 1
        
        Right, that's one of the reasons I wondered if it would be worth it (worth your time, for one thing) to incorporate. -- nm - mara Nov 14, 12:15
        
        do we have to *incorporate* to help people? -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 12:06 4
        
        Certainly not at first. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 14, 12:10 2
        
        so whatever. I'm in. right? mel is too. so if you feel like setting it up, let me know what you need from me. - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 12:13 1
        
        Ok. Can't guarantee a rush, of course, but progress is nice. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 14, 12:21
        
        No, but if you do, you can get grants and donations and stuff. -- nm - mara Nov 14, 12:09
        
        Like this but for resumes instead of conference talk abstracts -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 14, 11:56
    - VITA is what you're looking for. -- (link) - spamlet Nov 14, 11:45 2
      - Ooh, shiny! -- nm - znufrii Nov 14, 11:49
      - yeah, I just signed up. I don't have any talents besides math. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 11:46
- So far, on a personal level, I've come up with the following: - znufrii Nov 14, 11:40 2
  - I'm with you on that. I'm looking at the bigger picture though. -- nm - pmb Nov 14, 11:42 1
    - *shrug* - znufrii Nov 14, 11:47
- Work with school boards to bring classes in civics, budgeting, and scientific method to grades 4-12. -- nm - Max Nov 14, 11:37 11
  - I love the idea, but here's the thing. I live in an urban area in a very blue state. Local for me personally is not the issue. And the areas that -- (edited) - pmb Nov 14, 11:46 8
    - You don't think schools in your area need those things? -- nm - iSpam Nov 14, 11:56 4
      - The schools in my area are actually quite good and have very active parental involvement. I no longer have kids that age that would make my -- (edited) - pmb Nov 14, 11:59 3
        
        Don't you work downtown? I'm sure that CPS could use the help. -- nm - iSpam Nov 14, 12:00 2
        
        There might be some opportunity. I can see. But it still doesn't really get to the issues I'm struggling with. Yes, keeping the democratic base - pmb Nov 14, 12:08 1
        
        I think in 2020 the Dems need to nominate a dog for POTUS. - Doctor Spawn Nov 14, 12:10
    - Fine! Screw it! We're doomed! *kicks garbage can* -- nm - Max Nov 14, 11:48 2
      - Understood. I think I'm in the depression stage of grief today. -- nm - pmb Nov 14, 11:51 1
        
        (I was just teasing. I'm fully with you on feeling helpless to come up with an effective plan of attack.) -- nm - Max Nov 14, 11:52
  - I think this is the best idea I've heard to date. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 11:38 1
    - you know it - Max Nov 14, 11:47
"Brendan Dassey to be released pending appeal" -- nm - ML Nov 14, 11:32
Guys, I said stop it! -- (link) - Trump Nov 14, 11:24
FF: Giants WR Victor Cruz (ankle) to miss MNF against Bengals (per espn) -- (link*) - Beaker Nov 14, 11:22
Visiting my parents is not exactly going well right now. - ty97 Nov 14, 11:21 2
- Dude, I'm being serious right now. Grab your keys and head to Epcot. -- nm - David Nov 14, 11:30
- Maybe you should not have had that shoot out on the way there? -- nm - Doctor Spawn Nov 14, 11:23
TV PSA: Bengals @ Giants, Supergirl, DWTS, Gotham, Lucifer, Kevin Can Wait, Voice, Raw, Man With A Plan, 2 Broke Girls, Jane the Virgin, Odd Couple, -- nm - Beaker Nov 14, 11:20 2
- Martha & Snoop, Scorpion, Conviction, Timeless, Samantha Bee, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Nov 14, 11:20 1
  - Lucifer and Supergirl for me -- nm - Beaker Nov 14, 11:24
so uhhhh how do I get to facebook marketplace? am I dumb? -- (link*) - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 11:19 3
- yep, it's linked from their announcement but doesn't work -- (link) - Max Nov 14, 11:23 1
  - also, I don't trust buying stuff on Craiglist, what makes them think I want to meet up with random people from Facebook? -- nm - oblique Nov 14, 11:24
- I've only ever seen it on mobile. The little "hut" icon at the bottom of your FB app -- nm - oblique Nov 14, 11:21
My favorite recurring joke in these Hallmark movies is that the other woman competing as a love interest is always a yoga expert. -- nm - David Nov 14, 11:19
Westworld spoilers. - Marlowe Nov 14, 11:16 3
- I thought that number - Remlik Nov 14, 11:18 2
  - It could be both, spoilers - crash davis Nov 14, 11:20
  - Nope. (spoilers) - Marlowe Nov 14, 11:20
Man, Washington Week was great and I hope that show continues - con_carne Nov 14, 11:14
sitwap: AdultFriendFinder hacked. 400M accounts exposed -- nm - decline Nov 14, 11:11 9
- please let one be trump please let one be trump -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 14, 11:18 8
  - it would be under Robert something...uh Baron, yeah that's it Robert Baron -- nm - z Nov 14, 11:23
  - Please let one be Melania. That would piss him off more. -- nm - ty97 Nov 14, 11:22
  - He'd get a pass on that. Now Pence on the other hand .... -- nm - crash davis Nov 14, 11:21 4
    - looking for a dude. -- nm - Diva Nov 14, 11:43 1
      - that.would.be.amazeballs. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 14, 11:59
    - obviously why he doesn't want his emails released -- nm - Beaker Nov 14, 11:23
    - Please let it be Pence. Please let it be Pence. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 14, 11:23
  - it just confirms his vitality and virility -- nm - Beaker Nov 14, 11:21
Max, I'm not sure. I recall she moderated a Bernie/Hillary debate though so she was active relatively recently. -- nm - ML Nov 14, 11:11 1
- CNN says she moderated two VP debates -- nm - z Nov 14, 11:19
They should cast Grace Park to start messing with us. -- nm - Reagen Nov 14, 11:11 2
- And Katee Sackhoff too -- nm - crash davis Nov 14, 11:22
- I would like to see The Hound as a regular barfly. -- nm - Max Nov 14, 11:11
It doesn't look like anything to me. -- nm - Max Nov 14, 11:08 1
- oh my, you're a replicant! -- nm - philip k mud Nov 14, 11:52

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