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Random. Some dude built a robot that prints, then burns, Donald's tweets -- (link) - ty97 Mar 31, 07:17 2
- Some robots just want to watch the world burn -- nm - Putin Mar 31, 07:25
- well, that is an epic waste of paper. poor trees. -- nm - groiny Mar 31, 07:22
Browser plugin that randomly accesses websites in the background to 'make some noise' and randomize your browsing history -- (link) - decline Mar 31, 07:09 1
- genius. in air combat this is called "chaff" - Mel Profit Mar 31, 07:16
I'm working today from Heather's office downtown. This is such a cool building. I could totally get used to this -- nm - prayformojo Mar 31, 07:08 2
- You should do it! Just take over a desk and start showing up every day and see if anyone notices -- nm* - decline Mar 31, 07:10 1
  - never go full Costanza -- nm - rollo Mar 31, 07:23
I'm waiting for this drumbeat to begin ... all present admin agenda stuff needs to be shelved - legislation, SCOTUS nominee, etc. - until we can be - rollo Mar 31, 07:04 5
- If I'm a Dem Senator who thinks they can run/win in 2020 this is all I want to talk about all day, every day. -- nm - rollo Mar 31, 07:26
- I'm hoping Flynn has a bombshell admission but know, realistically, it's probably confirmation on things we already suspect. - Mel Profit Mar 31, 07:09 2
  - still, its staggering for a man who once stated that those requesting immunity are guilty to request immunity. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 31, 07:14 1
    - don't get me wrong - I didn't think I'd enjoy anything more on tv than watching Yankee Fan dispair (save Diva) until that quote from Flynn - Mel Profit Mar 31, 07:19
- Where do you live, rollo? I have friends coming to see you -- nm - Putin Mar 31, 07:06
Destiny 2 has been preordered. I wanted early beta access. -- nm - Shaun Mar 31, 06:55 10
- UGH -- nm - groiny Mar 31, 06:56 9
  - 20% off Amazon Prime preorder discount too. -- nm - Shaun Mar 31, 07:08 8
    - that available for everyone (the discount)? -- (edited) - tRuMaN Mar 31, 07:17 7
      - not for us, just them syrupy canadians -- nm - groiny Mar 31, 07:19
      - I think it's a .ca only perk, but I'm not sure of .com's offerings. -- nm - Shaun Mar 31, 07:18 5
        
        nevermind -- nm* - decline Mar 31, 07:19 4
        
        I do not see it on my amazon page? -- nm - groiny Mar 31, 07:21 3
        
        the page I was looking at was not the page I thought I was looking at -- nm - decline Mar 31, 07:22 2
        
        I almost ordered it, the 20% was the straw that broke it, but alas. - groiny Mar 31, 07:23 1
        
        actually, its giving $12 off on prime right now (once you add the non-digital version and checkout). - tRuMaN Mar 31, 07:29
I may have just channeled Tom Hardy in 'Taboo' to get something I wanted from my Manager. It worked. But not in a knife-y way. -- nm* - Diva Mar 31, 06:49 25
- willed your prime spot cubicle to assets departmet to fend off a take over from those dirty birds in accounts receivable? - Epiphany Mar 31, 06:54 1
  - this will be the next thing I conquer. -- nm - Diva Mar 31, 06:55
- You were wearing pants when you left the train this morning... -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 31, 06:53 18
  - *snort* -- nm - Epiphany Mar 31, 06:54 17
    - I love the show. - Mel Profit Mar 31, 06:58 16
      - and you know... spoil - decline Mar 31, 07:01 6
        
        but spoilers - Diva Mar 31, 07:17 2
        
        spoil - decline Mar 31, 07:18 1
        
        spoiler - Diva Mar 31, 07:19
        
        I have to go back and rewatch the finale - I may have been "over served" that night. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 31, 07:02 2
        
        with your Taboo drinking game - I'm sure you were sloshed by the 1st commercial break -- nm - Epiphany Mar 31, 07:12 1
        
        *finger to nose* - Mel Profit Mar 31, 07:17
      - I have one more episode of Legion, and then I can go back and start this. -- nm - groiny Mar 31, 07:01 8
        
        I'm going to be sexist and state that I don't think men will like Big Little Lies so ya'll can skip it - Epiphany Mar 31, 07:14 5
        
        you think Mel does not want to see Alex Skarsgaards penis? -- nm - groiny Mar 31, 07:18 1
        
        I...I...truly thought I had mis-seen that - then I just went to look online - it was supposed to be his dick - Epiphany Mar 31, 07:39
        
        imma binge this hard. -- nm - Diva Mar 31, 07:18 2
        
        it starts slow but builds - great acting - its worth it. Its allegedly a murder mystery but its really about relationships - Epiphany Mar 31, 07:25 1
        
        everyone i know who watches it digs it. -- nm - Diva Mar 31, 07:35
        
        "Legion" is my next binge. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 31, 07:03 1
        
        it took me a long time to get through, because I actually have watched every episode twice. - groiny Mar 31, 07:07
- did you grunt a lot ? -- nm - decline Mar 31, 06:51 3
  - maybe a little after I won. He had something I wanted and I told him 'I have a use for this...'. - Diva Mar 31, 06:53
  - " I've got a use for you" -- nm - Diva Keziah Delaney Mar 31, 06:52 1
    - pretty much. -- nm - Diva Mar 31, 06:53
GA-6 Update: Bob Gray and Bruce Levell are now fighting amongst themselves on who is the "real Trump candidate" - Strongbad Mar 31, 06:40 1
- "No, you are!" "NO! YOU ARE!" -- nm - David Mar 31, 06:46
Summary of the Trump Presidency thus far -- (link) - ty97 Mar 31, 06:34 4
- 2 blocked travel bans. -- nm - Mop Mar 31, 08:28
- Goes along with the upcoming Economist cover, which is on point. -- (link) - MDH Mar 31, 06:48 [Image] 1
  - Nice. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 31, 06:49
- this post brings up a question. why do I see so many twitter user photos taken from inside a car? -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 31, 06:38
A grad student at MIT created a graphic that shows off the color palettes of U.S. and Canadian transit lines. -- (link) - ty97 Mar 31, 06:30
so is there any speculation as to why that section of highway near atlanta collapsed (did the fire break something)? -- nm* - tRuMaN Mar 31, 06:18 2
- Nothing official yet - Strongbad Mar 31, 06:24 1
  - The latest - Strongbad Mar 31, 06:37
Would You Rather...? Poll, stolen from a podcast. Would you rather be trapped for days with a person who drives you insane in real life, or a famous -- (edited) - Andie Mar 31, 06:06 12
- The first. There won't be nearly as many eyes on the investigation into how they wound up dead. -- nm - Ender Mar 31, 07:22
- Famous person. It's be good a good story for parties and hey maybe they would give you a bunch of money. - Shaun Mar 31, 06:53 2
  - Yup. With basic needs and comforts taken care of, I could stand anybody for three days. Might as well be the better story. -- nm - mara Mar 31, 07:13
  - Your IM is a very good reason. -- nm - Andie Mar 31, 06:55
- Backwards - family -- (edited) - Will Hunting Mar 31, 06:27
- I don't have people in my life who drive me insane. -- (edited) - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 31, 06:17 2
  - so, being trapped for three days with, say, Donald Trump would be okay? -- nm - Andie Mar 31, 06:19 1
    - *shrug* - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 31, 06:20
- The famous person (explanation) - Strongbad Mar 31, 06:11 3
  - This. -- nm - MDH Mar 31, 06:25
  - did you think of two specific examples? (who'd ya pick?) -- nm - Andie Mar 31, 06:13 1
    - Best I could come up with - Strongbad Mar 31, 06:27
#FakeNews NYT reporter caught rushing to be First without fact-checking -- (link) - Strongbad Mar 31, 05:34 39
- I am so fucking sick of hearing the term "fake news." -- nm - Callisto Buffalomeat Mar 31, 06:18 10
  - It's useful when used correctly, but nobody does any more. -- nm - mara Mar 31, 07:13
  - me too -- nm - Epiphany Mar 31, 06:41 5
    - Sad! - Diva Mar 31, 06:43 4
      - you better be glad you're beautiful! - Epiphany Mar 31, 07:15 1
        
        *mwah!* -- nm - Diva Mar 31, 07:19
      - Very unfair. -- nm - Shaun Mar 31, 06:49 1
        
        I love how much of a toddler he sounds like when he starts whining about "unfair". - Mel Profit Mar 31, 07:02
  - Agreed. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 31, 06:24
  - yes, also this -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 06:24
  - And, this. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 31, 06:19
- On the hard-hitting political topic of the White House Easter egg roll, nonetheless. -- nm* - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 31, 06:13
- And you know, if you had said something like "NYT reporter incorrectly criticizes President on Twitter, has to correct herself" I wouldn't have even - ty97 Mar 31, 06:00 1
  - If I implied anywhere that this was a NYT article that needed to be redacted or corrected, I apologize. - Strongbad Mar 31, 06:04
- i dont really dont understand how mistakes can be classified as fake news. but whatever. - tRuMaN Mar 31, 05:42 6
  - Because IMO it wasn't an honest mistake, it was a rush to be first without doing due diligence journalism. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 31, 05:47 5
    - which is an honest mistake to me, as defined by society in this day and age. also I agree with ty, tweets arent news by default, they are tweets. -- (edited) - tRuMaN Mar 31, 05:55
    - IT WAS A FUCKING TWEET -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 05:47 3
      - So Tweets aren't subject to being labelled Fake News? Got it. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 31, 05:48 2
        
        Tweets aren't labeled as news, period. -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 05:48 1
        
        OK. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 31, 05:49
- Can you link me to the original NYT story on this? -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 05:41 16
  - nmbl -- (link) - Strongbad Mar 31, 05:46 15
    - That's not a link to the NYT -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 05:47 14
      - Look at the original post. "NYT Reporter" -- nm - Strongbad Mar 31, 05:49 13
        
        I'm aware that she is an NYT reporter, I'm just trying to figure out where she filed her (fake) news report on this topic. -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 05:49 12
        
        A journalist didn't do her homework. She was caught. Thankfully, she quickly owned up to it and backtracked. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 31, 05:50 11
        
        That's the difference...there are news sources which hold themselves to a standard. If mistakes are made and how could they not be, they are corrected - Mel Profit Mar 31, 06:38 2
        
        She deserves credit for owning up to it and correcting herself, I agree. - Strongbad Mar 31, 06:44 1
        
        The alarming part now is how easy it is to inject a completely false world view into people who will believe it. -- (edited) - Mel Profit Mar 31, 06:46
        
        So you expect journalists to source and fact check every tweet from their personal Twitter accounts. -- (edited) - ty97 Mar 31, 05:51 7
        
        I expect journalists for well-respected unbiased* media sources like the NYT to fact-check before they criticize the POTUS, yes. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 31, 05:53 6
        
        I expect that too, in stories that they write for the NYT -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 05:55 5
        
        IMO, a journalist who "Covers the White House for The New York Times" should be held to a higher standard than this. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 31, 05:58 4
        
        The double standards about political coverage drive me nuts. Like 80% of right wing news sites openly make things up. This person made a mistake. - David Mar 31, 06:46
        
        in all honesty, do you view people who get on the news and just speculate in the same manner? - tRuMaN Mar 31, 06:01 2
        
        just like any person who represents a company, I think you want that person accountable for what they tweet - groiny Mar 31, 06:56
        
        I don't really watch cable news. - Strongbad Mar 31, 06:06
- AP WH Reporter caught too. Oops. FAKE NEWS -- (link) - Strongbad Mar 31, 05:37
The tweets of Reinhold Niebuhr are now protected. But not before this -- (link) - ty97 Mar 31, 05:30
Pretty good prepper list -- (link) - Beaker Mar 31, 05:10
Missouri House bill would allow utility companies to charge customers with solar an extra fee - tRuMaN Mar 31, 05:09 8
- did a Nevada/Vegas utility do something like this as well? -- nm - Beaker Mar 31, 05:26 1
  - Florida tried to but it was voted down by the people. -- nm - Krusty Mar 31, 05:27
- Not surprised at all. Utility companies in Georgia pull crap like this all the time. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 31, 05:24 3
  - its frustrating. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 31, 05:56 2
    - Our story - Strongbad Mar 31, 06:01 1
      - that's just crap. -- nm - Andie Mar 31, 06:14
- That's a terrible reason to add a fee to the people that use solar. It's not about fairness for the ratepayers, it's about making sure the power - Krusty Mar 31, 05:23 1
  - It's clearly a power company written bill to slow or stop the spread of solar power. I'd call my state rep. and congressperson and let them know this - Krusty Mar 31, 05:26
This hotel gives you a phone with data and international calling to walk around the city with - Reagen Mar 31, 04:15 2
- I had that same "handy" at our hotel in Paris this week. -- nm - James Bond (aka on phone) Mar 31, 05:50
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TV PSA: Grimm, Last Man Standing, MacGyver, Rosewood, Originals, Dr Ken, Bellator MMA, Gold Rush, Hawaii 5-O, Reign, Sleepy Hollow, Blue Bloods, Bill - Beaker Mar 31, 03:05 2
- is LMS on vacation? hasn't posted since the 24th... -- nm - Beaker Mar 31, 04:47 1
  - I think she is. I believe she's in Spain. -- nm - Krusty Mar 31, 05:30
I do my best work after midnight. - David Mar 30, 23:37 8
- except in video games. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 31, 05:57
- Sometimes I do my best work after one beer. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 31, 04:26
- Do you let it all hang out? -- nm - Strongbad Mar 31, 03:56
- Me too. - Beryllium Mar 30, 23:55 4
  - I just think some peoples internal body clocks work better late at night and should never be out of bed before noon. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 30, 23:57 2
    - Yes. Sadly, I'm the opposite. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 31, 05:22
    - This sounds like paradise. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 31, 00:00
  - well, technically after 10pm for me - but not tonight. No, tonight I've been sucked in by "If it's tuesday it must be Belgium". Thanks, Reagen. -- nm* - Beryllium Mar 30, 23:55
The Hague airport is comically small for one that serves the World Court and Netherlands' Parliament. -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 23:26 4
- Where are you off to? -- nm - David Mar 30, 23:37 2
  - London for a day then home. - Reagen Mar 30, 23:54 1
    - Just going to miss you. I'll be there Sunday morning. -- nm - pmb Mar 31, 00:13
- Tiny judges. The tiniest. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 23:36
Have you heard of the semicolon project? Its founder, Amy Bleuel, appears to have died by suicide. - landbeck Mar 30, 23:20 2
- So sad. :-( -- nm - Krusty Mar 31, 05:30
- I heard about that earlier this evening. Sad. I follow a few folks on twitter with semicolons. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 23:22
I fear that GOTG2 might give away too much of the movie in the trailers, but so far they've been doing well. spoils - Beryllium Mar 30, 22:57 2
- The trailer I saw kinda sucked. -- nm - . Mar 30, 23:11 1
  - I'm not expecting an A+, but it would be nice to get that. - Beryllium Mar 31, 00:51
Amazon and Walmart are in an all-out price war that is terrifying America’s biggest brands -- (link) - Mop Mar 30, 22:44
The Miz has been amazing for months, and he's going to job at WrestleMania just so Cena can propose to Nikki at the end of the match. -- nm - Tim Mar 30, 22:01 3
- Which is sad and pathetic for John and Nikki. Why make your hero look awful? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 31, 06:29
- I'm still kind of amazed they've relegated Cena to a gimmick match at WM. Mixed tag team? - pmb Mar 31, 00:20
- Everyone would be raving about the year he's had if not for Styles. -- nm - David Mar 30, 22:13

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