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"Yankees have acquired RHPs Albert Abreu and Jorge Guzman from Houston for C Brian McCann and cash considerations." -- nm - ML Nov 17, 14:27 7
- It just popped up on my phone. I need to see if those pitchers are any good. -- nm - Krusty Nov 17, 14:31 6
  - Thanks, guys! -- nm - Krusty Nov 17, 14:36
  - Abreu is the 7th overall prospect in the Astros system, Guzman not in top 30. -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 14:33
  - Abreu is MLB.com's #7 Astros overall prospect. Guzman isn't listed in their top 30. -- (edited) - ML Nov 17, 14:33 3
    - Astros #7 not #7 in MLB. -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 14:34 2
      - yep, clarified thx -- nm - ML Nov 17, 14:35 1
        
        neither is in top 100 prospects for MLB - groiny Nov 17, 14:45
Heh. Steve Martin is playing Jerruh? - Reagen Nov 17, 14:14
this should work out fine, right?... - x Nov 17, 14:14 4
- 12 Monkeys. -- nm - jnine Nov 17, 15:14
- Don't worry, the new administration will do something... after the first outbreak. -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 14:27
- This is one of those things I think I would rather not know. So potentially the suicide bombers of the future could be people who are infected with - pmb Nov 17, 14:22 1
  - Netflix's "Containment" wrestles with this a bit -- nm - ML Nov 17, 14:29
Aaaand delayed again. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 14:13 4
- Buying a book was a good choice. On page 190 now. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 14:17 3
  - ouch....nm - x Nov 17, 14:18 2
    - And my preference for not eating much while traveling isn't working well for me - I haven't even left Victoria yet .... -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 14:33 1
      - Nobody here can go to sleep until Bery has reached his destination. - prayformojo Nov 17, 14:35
White Texas teens chant ‘build that wall’ at Hispanics during high school volleyball match -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 14:13
Tesla/SolarCity merger approved by shareholders. -- (link) - TWuG Nov 17, 14:09 1
- everything is coming up Elon! -- nm - Epiphany Nov 17, 14:10
Report: Prep School Football Coach Molested Students For Decades While Administration Looked The Other Way -- (link) - Beaker Nov 17, 14:08
ewwww -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 14:06 5
- eh. your body has about as many bacterial cells as human cells anyhow....nm - x Nov 17, 14:10 3
  - ewwww -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 14:11 2
    - without them, you'd die....nm - x Nov 17, 14:12 1
      - ewww. And then bacteria would eat his dead cells. ewww. -- nm - Max Nov 17, 14:36
- eww, diversity! -- nm - Max Nov 17, 14:07
So do they fire cannons in London at 11pm or has London fallen? -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 14:02
Breaking Provincial Canadian politics: Alberta MLA Sandra Jansen leaves PCs, joins NDP caucus -- (link*) - Beaker Nov 17, 13:59 11
- How's the NDP holding up in Alberta? Are people overall content with their choice or is it gonna be one-and-done? -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 14:02 1
  - It all depends who becomes the new PC leader - Reagen Nov 17, 14:06
- Words. Letters. Acronyms. I know nothing of these Canadian politics (What does this mean for you guys?) -- nm* - ty97 Nov 17, 14:00 8
  - Thanks all! -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 14:07
  - Inside Alberta, that's like a congressperson flipping from R to D (afaik). Outside Alberta, meaningless. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 14:01 1
    - although it's got the added wrinkle that she was vying for the PC leadership up until two weeks ago before being forced out by an organized harrassmen - Reagen Nov 17, 14:18
  - moving from furthest right to furthest left party -- nm - Andie Nov 17, 14:01 1
    - (though they've really governed pretty centrally) - Reagen Nov 17, 14:07
  - nothing. similar to a State Republican rep joining the Dems -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 14:01 2
    - the PCs owned Alberta for decades,now the NDP rule it (for now) -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 14:01 1
      - Will either of them be able to reduce their poverty problem? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 14:08
If there's one thing I hate about Florida (there are many!) it's Morgan and Morgan ads. Now John Morgan may run for Florida Governor -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 13:58 3
- His Magic Trick commercial will haunt me until the day I die. - JaxSean Nov 17, 14:26
- from personal experience - god help all of the Florida peeps if that happens. - Epiphany Nov 17, 14:09 1
  - That state has a history of electing pretty terrible governors it seems -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 14:09
So I just did a conference call with work. This is as close to a vacation as I get. -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 13:57
None of it is news at this point, but the New Yorker's summary of Trump's first week would be hilarious if it wasn't so frightening. -- (link) - Mop Nov 17, 13:52
Whoa -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 13:52 7
- I assume though that's just the tiles. Not the infrastructure to convert and store or use the electricity in the home. I have no idea how much more -- (edited) - pmb Nov 17, 14:18
- stuff like this, and France shuttering its coal plants, is why I'm cautiously optimistic about climate for the next four years - Reagen Nov 17, 14:13
- #believe it when I see it -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 13:54 3
  - I'm cautiously optimistic but... damn. This could change the world. -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 13:56 2
    - Strangely, our condo had an engineering study performed this summer and they concluded that solar on our roof wouldn't make sense for us. - Max Nov 17, 14:07 1
      - The house battery adds to the benefit of solar, although it can be beneficial even without solar. -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 14:28
- I'd like to see this pitched on Shark Tank so they can question the unit cost. -- nm - Max Nov 17, 13:53
ST I need to share something with you - ty97 Nov 17, 13:51
Hmmm that was a terrible bathing suit JLaw was in. - Jovian Nov 17, 13:49
Genital jousting -- (link) - oblique Nov 17, 13:48 2
- doesn't load for me -- nm - Karl_S Nov 17, 14:17
- "Things I do with EmRata for $500?" -- nm - budice Nov 17, 13:51
Describe this picture in one word -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 13:42 15
- "Before" -- nm - Reagen Nov 17, 13:57 2
  - "After" -- (link) - Max Nov 17, 13:59 [Image] 1
    - not even any cool flamethrower guitars. -- nm - Reagen Nov 17, 14:08
- loathsomes -- nm - philip k mud Nov 17, 13:57
- Check out the far right. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 13:55 1
  - (Because I think that's the only black guy in the whole photo) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 14:00
- *censored* -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 13:48
- Mislabelled -- nm - Roger More Nov 17, 13:48
- Whitewash. -- nm - pmb Nov 17, 13:46
- Diversi... - oblique Nov 17, 13:45 2
  - "White" was my answer -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 13:49 1
    - I saw the pic on my FB feed a little while ago with the caption "They look so happy with their hoods off" -- nm - oblique Nov 17, 13:51
- Imperial -- nm - zeit spiced geist Nov 17, 13:44
- white-folks-be-like... -- nm* - Beaker Nov 17, 13:44
- Squares. -- nm - Max Nov 17, 13:43
‘Do not say mean things’: Kids are writing to Donald Trump, asking him to be a kind president -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 13:39 1
- if only young German jews thought of this 80 years ago. -- nm - Jovian Nov 17, 13:49
Meanwhile in Canada -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 13:38 19
- Whatever the choice, Quebec won't like it. -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 14:30
- #TeamCanadaGoose -- nm - Krusty Nov 17, 13:51 2
  - Even worse than loons! -- nm - mafic Nov 17, 15:03
  - while they have their merits, here they are frequently noted for pooping up lawns - so very slippery. -- nm - b. Nov 17, 13:56
- I didn't know there was a gray jay -- nm - Roger More Nov 17, 13:49
- That's a nice looking bird -- nm - prayformojo Nov 17, 13:45
- that's a good pick....nm - x Nov 17, 13:41
- debating the important issues up here. -- nm - Andie Nov 17, 13:39 11
  - (but i do have an opinion, it should have been the loon. - Andie Nov 17, 13:40 9
    - Loons are jerks. Whiskeyjacks are cool. -- nm - mafic Nov 17, 15:01
    - That would be my first choice. -- nm - Meg Nov 17, 14:12
    - sorry MN has already claimed it try the Canada goose -- nm - ML Nov 17, 13:43 6
      - those fuckers are assholes, you can have em. -- nm* - Reagen Nov 17, 13:51 1
        
        so yeah, Canada! - ML Nov 17, 14:12
      - the Canada Goose is not an especially beloved bird. -- nm - Andie Nov 17, 13:45 3
        
        Nope. They are a menace. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 13:54 2
        
        Yeah, when a politician here suggested they be culled and fed to the homeless, the response was "that's mean to the homeless" -- nm - Roger More Nov 17, 14:21
        
        Yep, we have a large population in the pond by the library...messy!! -- nm - Meg Nov 17, 14:15
  - envious that things are going so well for you guys that this qualifies as a problem (seriously!) -- nm* - ty97 Nov 17, 13:40
The President-elect is going on tour -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 13:37 8
- It's been over a week since his last big rally and he needs the adulation. -- nm - Romney Nov 17, 13:44 2
  - I guess you don't want that State job after all, huh? -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 13:49 1
    - heh -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 14:07
- what a fucktard -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 13:43
- And to the rest of the states, you just landed on his enemies list. -- nm - Max Nov 17, 13:39 2
  - He's going to work (and maybe live) in DC which overwhelmingly voted against him and then come home to his tower in NY - ty97 Nov 17, 13:41 1
    - Just like the Berlin Airlift. -- nm - Max Nov 17, 13:42
- That seems like a bad idea. -- nm - Loyola Nov 17, 13:38
Bobbi Kristina Brown's partner, Nick Gordon, ordered to pay $36 million in damages in wrongful death case. -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 13:35 2
- i didn't even know there was a case. -- nm - Andie Nov 17, 13:35 1
  - same here -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 13:36
Good news everybody! -- (link) - ML Nov 17, 13:33 3
- Ahhhh! Ahhh. Oh. Oh god. First I was making out with a fembot and then all of a sudden I'm being chased by Chinese supercomputer through a maze. -- nm - DeepMind Nov 17, 13:41
- "DeepMind announced the creation of an interface that will open [...] Starcraft II to machine learning software." - ML Nov 17, 13:36
- Unsupervised...Unsupervised AI? -- (edited) - oblique Nov 17, 13:34
Go to Epcot David tells me. It will make you feel better he says. -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 13:29 4
- dear dear ty: digging through trash barrels is not on the recommended list for Epcot activities. -- nm - b. Nov 17, 13:53 2
  - (It's a fake site anyway.) -- nm - David Nov 17, 14:00 1
    - (I figured, just on the name alone. :) -) -- nm - b. Nov 17, 14:50
- Well, did it? -- nm - David Nov 17, 13:46
Welp -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 13:27
Second pyramid found inside Kukulkan at Chichen Itza in Mexico -- (link) - ML Nov 17, 13:20 2
- Dresden! -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 13:32 1
  - speaking of when the fuck is Butcher going to finish Peace Talks?! -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 13:32
"Empathy isn’t a favor I owe white Trump voters. It has to go both ways." - ty97 Nov 17, 13:19 1
- I agree that those who want empathy should show it. This is an "admit how much you suck" argument though. -- nm - Roger More Nov 17, 13:39
I'm done. -- (link) - ML Nov 17, 13:12 1
- I hear it's the frontrunner for Secretary of Health and Human Services. -- nm - Ender Nov 17, 13:13
Not that I don't trust you, but I confirmed for myself Battlefield 1 is $27 at Walmart on Black Friday - crash davis Nov 17, 13:09 4
- nice!!!! -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 13:53
- can that be ordered online? -- nm - Remlik Nov 17, 13:23 2
  - just get your ass out to Walmart. -- nm - groiny Nov 17, 13:55
  - that i honestly don't know -- nm - crash davis Nov 17, 13:28
Grilled cheese sandwiches and chicken wings for supper! - Beaker Nov 17, 13:01 1
- Best dad ever! The kids will surely want to move in with you after... well, you know. -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 13:03
The theater playing Wicked is behind my hotel. It's a sign. -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 13:00 1
- A big one. Hanging right there in front of the theater. Can't miss it. -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 13:04
Ok, delta rebooked me on Alaska. Nice. - Beryllium Nov 17, 12:59 4
- Not exactly but they are partners. -- nm - iSpam Nov 17, 13:11 3
  - They are frenemies currently. Still have a codeshare deal, but Delta has been building up in Seattle, a fortress city for Alaska - ty97 Nov 17, 13:17 2
    - And Alaska also partners with AA, right? -- nm - Meg Nov 17, 13:22 1
      - Correct. Aslaka's a slut. -- nm - ty97 Nov 17, 13:23
huh....Steve Bannon owns a piece of Seinfeld.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 17, 12:57 5
- he used to co-own wellspring media too. put out dvd's of tons of art films like russian ark, stuff by godard and fassbinder etc....nm - x Nov 17, 13:04 1
  - I am going to go and throw up very soon from now. -- nm - philip k mud Nov 17, 13:08
- interesting -- nm - Beaker Nov 17, 13:00
- Never liked that show anyway. -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 12:59
- I saw that on Charlie Rose last night. Apparently that's how he got his start and his money. -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 12:59
Like, G. Gordon Liddy is still alive, why not him? -- nm - Reagen Nov 17, 12:55 4
- Oliver North, he's got international experience -- nm - zeit spiced geist Nov 17, 13:42
- Criminal record? -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 12:59 2
  - pardoned! -- nm - Trump Nov 17, 13:00 1
    - "I shall call you... Mini President!" *pats head* -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 13:02
Crazy Ex Girlfriend spoiler - Todd Manning - 57 days till Monster Trucks Nov 17, 12:51
Teacher Fired After Calling Black Students “Punk Ass N******” Who Were “Gonna Get Shot” -- (link) - ty97 Nov 17, 12:51 6
- She was clearly having a bad day but, unlike parents who lose their shit, teachers are supposed to deal with situations like these. -- nm - Mop Nov 17, 13:01 2
  - It's not like I've never yelled. It just never has anything to do with race. -- nm - Reagen Nov 17, 13:52
  - My bad days don't involve racism. -- nm - kelly Nov 17, 13:22
- *adds her to EdSec short list* -- nm - znufrii Nov 17, 12:56 1
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- Was the idea about having guns in schools to arm kids? Because surely that kind of teacher talk would go down... -- nm - Max Nov 17, 12:53

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