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Musk just quit the President's council's -- nm - Remlik Jun 1, 13:08 1
- (as previously promised, if we withdrew.) -- nm - b. Jun 1, 13:10
"When you do the numbers, November 4th, 2020 is the date the U.S. will exit" the Accord based on procedure. - NPR Radio -- nm* - Max Jun 1, 13:08 1
- The day after the election. Oh, that won't be an issue at all. - Will Hunting Jun 1, 13:10
So Cuzzin Todd is having bee issues right when the Scripp's Spelling Bee is going on? -- nm - zork Jun 1, 13:03 1
- Coincidence?? - Cuzzin Todd Jun 1, 13:05
ty news - New 18-hour United flight to contend for title of world's longest -- (link) - crash davis Jun 1, 12:58 9
- It's basically an attempt to drive a United Airlines shuttle bus from Dulles to downtown D.C. -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 13:07
- Interestingly (to me!) United was already the only US carrier to fly US - SIN non-stop, and they just started that recently. - ty97 Jun 1, 13:02
- And...it loses. DOH-AKL remains longest at 9032 miles. But this one will definitely be Top 10 (probably top 5) at 8770. - ty97 Jun 1, 13:01 3
  - they meant longest in time, not miles (the doha flight being longest is covered in the article). -- nm* - b. Jun 1, 13:04 1
    - heh, I didn't even click b/c I knew what the route was. Time will depend on prevailing winds - ty97 Jun 1, 13:05
  - (silly boy, thinking I didn't know about this route within 5 minutes of announcement!) -- nm - ty97 Jun 1, 13:01
- how many of those hours are they beating passengers and killing pets? -- nm - Epiphany Jun 1, 12:59 2
  - 19. - Will Hunting Jun 1, 13:05
  - that costs extra -- nm - groiny Jun 1, 12:59
President Obama issues a statement on Paris Accord. -- (link) - pmb Jun 1, 12:53 9
- WTG Obama! States rights FTW! -- nm - Strongbad Jun 2, 05:21
- He shouldnt let anything slide. Forget that unwritten rule of previous Presidents not critizing the current President. - Jovian Jun 1, 13:08 1
  - agreed. the "rules" are in shambles. institutions are under attack (but fighting back). time for the ex-presidents to come out of hiding. - Mel Profit Jun 1, 13:12
- Silicon Valley and Gov. Brown are still dedicated to the accord. -- (link) - Meg Jun 1, 13:05
- All the Fortune 500 companies or something should sign the Paris Accord -- nm - oblique Jun 1, 12:59
- Come back :( -- nm - ty97 Jun 1, 12:57
- GOP governors are going to feel their hair standing on end with that last paragraph and start outlawing city green measures. -- nm - Max Jun 1, 12:56 1
  - our governor stopped a city from banning fracking - so....yeah, already begun -- nm - Epiphany Jun 1, 12:58
- Weird Al should issue a video with a Paris accordion -- nm - Max Jun 1, 12:54
I'm not sure how I feel about possibly eating groot. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jun 1, 12:37
BEE SWARM!!! *update 2* - Cuzzin Todd Jun 1, 12:37 16
- wow -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 12:56
- Was this who came by? -- (link) - Spawn Jun 1, 12:53
- how the hell do you coax 20,000 bees into a bucket? -- nm - oblique Jun 1, 12:46 3
  - carefully -- nm - ty97 Jun 1, 12:47 2
    - whenever I mow the lawn I have a pigpen like swarm of gnats around me - oblique Jun 1, 12:48 1
      - that is not just when you mow the lawn -- nm - groiny Jun 1, 13:00
- I sorta love that beekeepers still exist - ty97 Jun 1, 12:40 2
  - There are lots, a couple in our nabe, my friend the rose took a class -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 1, 13:52
  - I've always kinda wanted to keep bees -- nm - zork Jun 1, 12:55
- thatsalotta bees. good on ya for getting them taken care of the right way. :) - -(the "nice bee-ing, you!" nm) - b. Jun 1, 12:39
- How much is he going to pay you for your bees? -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 12:38
- good gravy. that's impressive. how the heck do you coax a swarm into a bucket? -- nm - prayformojo Jun 1, 12:38 3
  - Put the queen into the bucket, swarm follows the queen. -- nm - znufrii Jun 1, 12:39 1
    - This. And a little bit of Mop's. Guy went up into the tree branches and got lucky - a little digging in the swarm... - Cuzzin Todd Jun 1, 13:00
  - bee porn. -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 12:39
- that's pretty cool actually. -- nm - Andie Jun 1, 12:37
Step aside Teen Vogue, we have a new leader in issue journalism -- (link) - ty97 Jun 1, 12:32
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- I know, it was the last person in the office to repeat that worn out meme -- nm - amoxy Jun 1, 12:32
- An Inconvenient Sequel is going to make so much freaking money. -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 12:30 1
  - Well it will put Al Gore back in the news -- nm - eag Jun 1, 12:31
- Seductively? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 12:30
- What did you do now? -- nm - ty97 Jun 1, 12:29
For the first time since 2009 the US President has not issued a 6/1 statement recognizing Pride Month. - MDH Jun 1, 12:26 8
- "First time since 2009" makes it sound like you're trying to give it more weight than that it was something started by his immediate predecessor. -- (edited) - znufrii Jun 1, 12:31 4
  - Clinton did it as well. Bush did not since he ran against gay marriage. -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 12:33
  - Yeah, 'Republican leaders in Washington are assholes to gays' is not exactly news -- nm* - ty97 Jun 1, 12:32 2
    - That too. There is a long tradition of assholery underpinning this omission that must be acknowledged. -- nm* - znufrii Jun 1, 12:38 1
      - It funny how they so closely represent that which they prefer we don't play with. -- nm - ty97 Jun 1, 12:38
- Who is smarter, Trump or Derek Zoolander? -- nm - amoxy Jun 1, 12:28 1
  - Derek Zoolander has more emotional intelligence. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 12:29
- It's still 6/1! -- nm - ty97 Jun 1, 12:26
Oh thats nice. They have a jazz band playing in the Rose Garden right now. -- nm - Jovian Jun 1, 12:24 1
- Are they playing the theme to Titanic? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 1, 13:54
STPoll: If you had to guess (and haven't already seen) how much have Alien: Covenant and King Arthur made worldwide? (Prod Budgets: $97M and $175M) -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 12:22 6
- I'll answer: Alien: $162.5M and King Arthur: $120.5M. Oof. -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 12:28
- 300, 350 -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 12:23
- I suck at Worldwide - those crazy china folks will watch anything - Alien C $ 250 mil, Arthur $ 175 mil -- nm - Epiphany Jun 1, 12:23 3
  - A movie called "Explosions" would make like $500M there. -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 12:24 2
    - How much did MacGruber make? It's basically the same thing. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 12:27 1
      - No China release, but nearly $800k in Russia. -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 12:28
andrea, thanks again for the wish.com tip! -- nm - amanda jones state university Jun 1, 12:19
THR reports that AJOLI may be the Bride of Frankenstein. -- (link) - Mop Jun 1, 12:12 3
- But does she have any movies coming up? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 12:22
- I'm really curious to see how The Mummy/this universe does. They are promoting the hell out of it -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 12:20
- She's re-marrying Billy Bob Thornton? -- nm - ty97 Jun 1, 12:16
what have we had for pop culture news stories since last Friday? so far I have..... - prayformojo Jun 1, 12:10 14
- Rossum married -- nm - Max Jun 1, 12:47 1
  - sigh -- nm - groiny Jun 1, 12:57
- Thank you, everybody -- nm - prayformojo Jun 1, 12:34
- Baywatch bombing at domestic box office. -- nm - Diva Jun 1, 12:17
- Puddles Pity Party. -- nm - Baronwatch Jun 1, 12:17 1
  - I was going to say that ventriloquist girl. -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 12:34
- The Lava thing that the kids are playing -- nm - ty97 Jun 1, 12:16
- The Lupita N'Yongo/Rihanna/Ava Duvernay/Issa Rae movie that was dreamed of on Twitter and was greenlit for Netflix. -- nm - Diva Jun 1, 12:14
- Wonder Woman, Rotten Tomatoes is a ruiner -- nm - Shaun Jun 1, 12:13
- drumpf pushing himself to the front of the photo, shoving some other minister out of the way, riding a golf cart while other's walked -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 1, 12:13
- all the goings-on at Cannes -- nm - Diva Jun 1, 12:10 2
  - I am still laughing at your Kate Moss/Mary J Blige post -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 12:11 1
    - the comedy wrote itself. -- nm - Diva Jun 1, 12:14
- Tiger Woods -- nm - groiny Jun 1, 12:10
High School Senior Accepted to Yale After Writing Essay About Her ‘Love’ of Papa John’s Pizza -- (link) - ty97 Jun 1, 12:08 12
- this essay is so "what the ivy league thinks of the ivy league." -- nm - amanda jones state university Jun 1, 12:18
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- Blech! I'd deny her instantly. -- nm - Krusty Jun 1, 12:13 3
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    - OLD -- nm - ty97 Jun 1, 12:22 1
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- Papa John's? Delusional. -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 12:10
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  - I agree with the IM, and eagerly await the opening of the nearby one. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 12:28
  - This thread went off the rails so suddenly, I got whiplash. And yet, the resentment will burn on for years. -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 12:13
  - I'm blaming you for this admittance. -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 12:11 1
    - Sbarro: “Let the airport come to you.” -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 12:16
Good lord. Baby number one, June, is 6 pounds, 7 ounces. IIRC, boy Oak is supposed to be bigger, still waiting on him. But man. That's a lot of baby. -- nm - Mara Jun 1, 12:08 10
- happiest of days. -- nm - Mel Profit Jun 1, 13:09
- that is a good size for a twin - congrats!! -- nm - Epiphany Jun 1, 12:57
- I find that most people, when told how much a baby weighed, will almost always say "That's big" no matter what the weight was. -- nm - zork Jun 1, 12:53
- yeah! -- nm - prayformojo Jun 1, 12:47
- whoa - congrats! -- nm - Diva Jun 1, 12:42
- Congrats #1! -- nm - znufrii Jun 1, 12:35
- question: if she would have been born in May, would she have been May? that is indeed a lot of baby. - amanda jones state university Jun 1, 12:33
- That is a large twin baby. Them babies were done. -- nm - Baronwatch Jun 1, 12:21
- That's a good size. Happy and healthy thoughts to the new parents! -- nm - Krusty Jun 1, 12:12
- happy birthday, june and oak; and congrats grandmara and dude and fam! :) - -- nm - b. Jun 1, 12:11
I'm sickened by this decision. We've become a terrible country and are no longer world leaders. -- nm - Krusty Jun 1, 12:00 12
- "At what point do they start laughing at us?" - Trump just now -- nm - Max Jun 1, 12:52
- but but, he is 10,000% sure he has to do this. -- nm - Jovian Jun 1, 12:08
- No longer? That was *months* ago! -- nm - Spawn Jun 1, 12:03 1
  - *snort* -- nm - Baronwatch Jun 1, 12:03
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  - I've been trying to avoid saying I'm embarrassed but it's truly how I feel right now as an American. -- nm - Krusty Jun 1, 12:10 5
    - I met a young man from South Africa a few weeks ago through Diva's traveling choir and I apologized to him for all of this. - Mel Profit Jun 1, 12:24 2
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        short of a colonoscopy in public - they can't be more invasive to me. - Mel Profit Jun 1, 12:30
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      - They've dropped the ball so much over the last few years. I've liked the Washington Post more of late and that - Krusty Jun 1, 12:15
- Such a shortsighted man -- nm - amoxy Jun 1, 12:02
Looks like we are out of Paris deal -- (link) - amoxy Jun 1, 12:00
Well I planned wrong and guessed right. The line for Aldi's stretched around the block and there was no parking anywhere near the bank. - Meg Jun 1, 11:53 2
- "you mutha fuckas must love shopping!!!!" -- nm - groiny Jun 1, 11:57
- :( -- nm - Epiphany Jun 1, 11:54
How do they know it is gravitational waves and not just a really big fart? -- (link) - oblique Jun 1, 11:47 2
- Turns out the universe is all just a big simulation and this is evidence of a glitch. -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 12:17
- Time lapse, I guess? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 11:51
~In your satin tights, Fighting for your rights And the old Red, White and Blue ~ -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 11:41 2
- ~let's do it for our country, the red white and the blue~ - groiny Jun 1, 11:43 1
  - ~Since history the pages turn, we watched as all the fired burned. A little hate in each of us, whoever said, "In God we trust". Black, white, and~ - Spawn Jun 1, 11:48
You can see how people really get malevolent with just a little power by watching what happens in a TSA line. -- nm* - Mel Profit Jun 1, 11:39 3
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- as I have stood in the middle of the line with my pants unzipped for the world to see, I would agree. -- nm - groiny Jun 1, 11:39 1
  - And that was before you even reached the TSA agent. -- nm - ty97 Jun 1, 12:05
I just bought Wonder Woman tix for Sunday night. There's a looooooooot of seats available.... -- nm - Andie Jun 1, 11:38 1
- got mine for Friday night, it was about half full as of last night -- nm - groiny Jun 1, 11:40
GA-06: Kathy Griffin once tweeted about Ossoff, so Handel/GOP have attack ad out about Ossoff on this -- (link) - ty97 Jun 1, 11:34 6
- *SMH* -- nm - Strongbad Jun 2, 05:23
- wonder what ted nugent would say -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 1, 12:05
- Snowflakes -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 11:35 2
  - nah, this is just standard dirty politics -- nm* - ty97 Jun 1, 11:37 1
    - its not even that dirty....I'd call it taupe politics - crash davis Jun 1, 11:39
- The Ossoff reaction is well played -- (link) - ty97 Jun 1, 11:35
That crack in the Antarctic ice shelf grew 11 miles last week! Only 8 miles remain attached - when that goes, an iceberg the size of Delaware will be -- (edited) - decline Jun 1, 11:33 8
- Delaware sized iceberg? All we need is a Pennsylvania sized glass of bourbon and we are golden -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 11:36 3
  - indeed -- nm - Epiphany Jun 1, 11:42
  - with a cuban cigar the size of Cuba! -- nm - mud Jun 1, 11:38 1
    - and a slice of roast beef the size of Texas -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 11:42
- Can I claim it as my own country? -- nm - Spawn Jun 1, 11:34
- We'll always have Paris... -- nm - znufrii Jun 1, 11:34
- Meh, Delaware is small -- nm - ty97 Jun 1, 11:33 1
  - meh, your moon is small -- nm - planetoid mud Jun 1, 11:36

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