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I think the most satisfying thing about yesterday's big event - Reagen Apr 10, 07:29
POTUS decided not to travel to Peru/Colombia as originally scheduled, sending VP instead. Staying to oversee American response to Syria. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 07:27 1
- Yes, physical possession of the capital is important in case of a coup. -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 07:30
Homeland security adviser Tom Bossert is out, per White House. -- nm - the Revolving Door Apr 10, 07:20 6
- I heard a rumor this morning that Carrie Mathison is being considered as a replacement. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 07:24 2
  - If they just arrested whoever she sleeps with, they'd systemically get rid of every spy/traitor in America. -- nm - Inigo Apr 10, 07:31 1
    - This goes along with my theory that the agency in 24 was just an elaborate mole trap. -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 07:33
- who? -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 07:21 2
  - He started yesterday. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 10, 07:22 1
    - LOL -- nm - JenBro Apr 10, 08:14
"In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round [...] including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto" -- nm* - ty97 Apr 10, 07:16 1
- those AMA's don't pay for themselves, ty -- nm - decline Apr 10, 07:16
NHL.com: Bracket pool reminder. Search for ST NHL SCP Bracket Pool - Shaun Apr 10, 07:16
Well, I'm retired. - Covington Apr 10, 07:14 12
- cool -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 10, 12:49
- Thanks everyone -- nm - Covington Apr 10, 07:25
- Congrats! -- nm - JaxSean Apr 10, 07:21
- YAY - and really hoping for respiratory recovery for you ASAP! -- nm - JenBro Apr 10, 07:20
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 07:19
- Nice! Go play some golf and start travelling more. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 07:18
- congrats! -- nm - Diva Apr 10, 07:17
- Woo hoo!!! Congrats! I hope you enjoy every minute of it! -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 07:17
- Congratulations! -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 07:17
- Congratulations! Treat yourself well, feel better and enjoy it. -- nm - Andie Apr 10, 07:16
- Congrats! -- nm - Shaun Apr 10, 07:16
- congrats! -- nm - decline Apr 10, 07:16
Black Panther is on Digital/Blu-ray on May 8th/15th. - Shaun Apr 10, 07:10
*Jim signal* Latios and Latias will switch regions on May 8, so you have time. -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 07:06 1
- Thanks for the heads up. -- nm - Ash Apr 10, 07:08
HBO Doubletimers: John Hawkes on Deadwood and Eastbound & Down -- nm - rollo Apr 10, 06:54 12
- Steve Buschemi - Boardwalk Empire and Sopranos -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 07:31
- Michael K Williams - Boardwalk Empire and The Wire -- nm - MDH Apr 10, 07:04 1
  - and The Night Of -- nm - rollo Apr 10, 07:05
- Not HBO, but one that shocked me was from The Americans and Billions. - Inigo Apr 10, 06:59
- Dayton Callie and Garret Dillahunt on Deadwood and John From Cincinnati -- nm* - rollo Apr 10, 06:56 7
  - Alexander Skarsgaard on True Blood and Big Little Lies -- nm - rollo Apr 10, 06:59 6
    - Ted Danson on Curb and Bored to Death -- nm - rollo Apr 10, 07:02 5
      - Laura Dern on Enlightened and BLL -- nm - rollo Apr 10, 07:02 4
        
        Jeremy Piven on Larry Sanders and Entourage -- nm - rollo Apr 10, 07:03 3
        
        Danny McBride on EB&D and Vice Principals -- nm - rollo Apr 10, 07:04 2
        
        Clea Duvall on Veep and Carnivale -- nm - rollo Apr 10, 07:05 1
        
        Adam Scott on BLL and Tell Me You Love Me -- nm - rollo Apr 10, 07:06
One week to the tax deadline. Are you done? -- nm - Beast of Baron Apr 10, 06:41 17
- taxes? only little people pay taxes -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 10, 12:50
- Nope, we need to get Ed The Normal our stuff. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 10, 07:33
- 3 weeks here; done; not filed yet -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 07:22
- No. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 10, 07:05
- Three weeks. -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 07:03
- Yes, and refunds already in. - Strongbad Apr 10, 07:00 1
  - Ugh. - znufrii Apr 10, 07:07
- Yup. -- nm - mara Apr 10, 06:58
- yep. rec'd state refund and have paid Fed. -- nm - Diva Apr 10, 06:55
- Yup. TaxAct and got my refunds from both already -- nm - SyrDragon Apr 10, 06:53
- No. -- nm - Shaun Apr 10, 06:47
- Mostly. Federal and six states accepted, waiting on 1 more state. -- nm - MDH Apr 10, 06:46
- Currently having work done on the house spending our refund which we already received. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 10, 06:45
- nope -- (edited) - ty97 Apr 10, 06:43
- Still need to file state and local, which are pretty straightforward, I’ve just been procrastinating. -- nm - znufrii Apr 10, 06:42
- waiting for my stuff from my accountant. Still have to write checks :( -- nm - decline Apr 10, 06:42
- Nope -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 06:42
All 30 Dow stocks are green. -- nm - decline Apr 10, 06:38
Are *all* Chechens so wackily entertaining, even those that work in somewhat grim professions? - prayformojo Apr 10, 06:35
Did China blink on the Trade War? -- (link) - Amoxy Apr 10, 06:31 1
- Nah, they also filed a thing with the WTO - it's all maneuvering -- nm - decline Apr 10, 06:33
While I was up itching til the wee hours of the morning, I watched a bunch of Schitt's Creek episodes on Netflix. It took me a few episodes to - kelly Apr 10, 06:21 2
- it just gets better. -- nm - Andie Apr 10, 06:23 1
  - I just started S2. -- nm - kelly Apr 10, 06:27
Disney should hire someone to do a last minute cut and rename the film LANDO. -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 06:20 1
- Would that it were... -- nm - Beast of Baron Apr 10, 06:26
Good morning. Here's a WSJ op-ed about the food stamp program. Written, as one would expect, by Moby -- (link) - ty97 Apr 10, 06:07 17
- I agree with it. -- nm - Bacon Apr 10, 06:47
- "There there poor person, let me tell you what you should be eating" -- nm - Guigue Apr 10, 06:21
- I mostly agree that there needs to be a push to get people to eat healthier but there's a good percentage of people that don't have fresh - Krusty Apr 10, 06:15 14
  - right, food deserts are a big issue in poor areas -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 06:27
  - I would not want to live in a country where the government mandates and defines what healthy eating is. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 06:22 8
    - Industry’s historical influence on the process of determining what is “healthy” notwithstanding, I don’t necessarily see that being the problem here. -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 10, 06:31
    - We have government departments set up just for that, the US Public Health Service. It's in the best interest of the government to promote good health -- (edited) - Krusty Apr 10, 06:30 6
      - I agree it's in the best interest of the government to promote good health. - Strongbad Apr 10, 07:02 1
        
        I would not be okay with them mandating what to eat but we need them to have the departments - Krusty Apr 10, 07:19
      - Advice, sure. But would you be okay with the government outlawing twinkies? -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 06:31 3
        
        No, but I’d be ok with them taxing the hell out of twinkies. -- nm - mafic Apr 10, 06:35
        
        Of course not. I'm not okay with them mandating what people eat. But they can do good things by promoting healthy food and a healthy - Krusty Apr 10, 06:34
        
        If Twinkies are outlawed, then only outlaws would have Twinkies! -- (edited) - prayformojo Apr 10, 06:32
  - How will they know poverty is bad if it's not a Dickensian level of suffering? -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 06:18 3
    - But why make it a Victorian hellscape when you could make it a *futuristic* hellscape? Hear me out: unlimited meal replacement pills! - mafic Apr 10, 06:29
    - Next thing you know, poor people will have cell phones and silly luxuries like that -- nm - Guigue Apr 10, 06:25 1
      - Refrigerators! Right in their houses! -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 06:29
huh -- (link) - ty97 Apr 10, 05:57 2
- "You’d think his personal lawyer would explain this to him. Oh...right." - prayformojo Apr 10, 05:59 1
  - no blue mark so I guess it could be a satire account, not sure -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 06:00
The MEG: Official trailer. Bah. Top of B2. -- (link*) - Shaun Apr 10, 05:44 [youtube] 14
- we're gonna have to have a slacker gathering for a viewing party -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 10, 12:52
- CHOMP. -- nm - Diva Apr 10, 07:34
- I'm just bummed they don't use "From the director of While You Were Sleeping" in the trailer. -- nm - Dano Apr 10, 06:01 1
  - I'm bummed it doesn't have purple hair. -- nm - Beast of Baron Apr 10, 06:03
- Is Jason Statham having money problems ? -- nm - decline Apr 10, 05:58 4
  - He's never been picky about roles - Will Hunting Apr 10, 07:30
  - Nah, this is his shot at top-lining a major release (rather than supporting/starring in a low-budget B-movie) -- nm - Roger More Apr 10, 07:21
  - works for the Rock. -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 06:38
  - evergreen question -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 05:59
- wut? -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 05:55
- I don't ever want to see that, and yet I have to. -- nm - Inigo Apr 10, 05:52 3
  - oh, I totally want to see it (but how is it not on SyFy?) -- nm - decline Apr 10, 06:07 2
    - I mean I'll be scurred the whole time, but won't be able to look away. -- nm - Inigo Apr 10, 06:08
    - I've been jonesing for it since I read the book - prayformojo Apr 10, 06:08
OneNote would be such a fantastic program with just some small tweaks like being able to insert page breaks - Will Hunting Apr 10, 05:42 3
- I want some markup. It's where I keep a lot of SQL code and formatting SUUUUCKS -- nm - JaxSean Apr 10, 06:36
- The only suggestion I've seen is to set the page format to an actual page size instead of "endless" (if that's an issue) which at least sets the pages - just oblique Apr 10, 06:27 1
  - Right -- that works for width, but I have repeated tables between 2 pages (one cut off , then repeated in full) - Will Hunting Apr 10, 07:31
Accurate. -- (link) - Reagen Apr 10, 05:36
Chris Davis is having an absurdly unlucky start to his year. - Will Hunting Apr 10, 05:22
Dear cyclist: please do not ring your bell at me when you are riding your bike on the sidewalk. -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 04:52 17
- ON YOUR LEFT! -- nm - Mop Apr 10, 05:56
- he was hitting on you, ty. You should have gotten his number -- nm - decline Apr 10, 05:44
- You probably know this, but - Strongbad Apr 10, 04:57 13
  - It's illegal here for anyone but children. Has been for a long time and I let them know if they ride past me. -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 05:53 7
    - (...with a stick in their wheel) -- nm - decline Apr 10, 05:55 2
      - I fantasize about clotheslining them off their bike. -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 05:59 1
        
        On the flip side, that dude in the video singing "bike lane" to the tune of the Star Wars theme is a personal hero. -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 06:30
    - Same here (GA). Offhand, I know FL is one of the exceptions where it's still legal. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 05:54 3
      - As if Florida didn't suck enough. -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 05:57 2
        
        FL does a lot of things well when it comes to bike/ped safety, but this is not one of them. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 06:24 1
        
        To paraphrase a wise man, The sidewalk is for regular walking not fancy walking or bicycles. -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 07:07
  - I mean, there's literally a bike lane next to the sidewalk I was walking on! -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 05:13 4
    - My boss, who is a bike advocate/activist - Strongbad Apr 10, 05:43 2
      - There's a bike trail along the Hudson. -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 05:56
      - In a perfect world every city has the room for that. - Krusty Apr 10, 05:54
    - Not gonna lie, little disappointed you didn’t take the opportunity to yell “I’m walkin’ here!” at someone. -- nm - mafic Apr 10, 05:41
- *ring ring* -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 04:55
Russell Westbrook needs 16 rebounds tomorrow night to average a triple-double for the season for the second year in a row. -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 04:44 1
- "Paul and I gave Carmelo a green light to shoot 40 times." -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 10, 05:14
TV PSA: America's Next Top Model, Lethal Weapon, Deadliest Catch, NBA, Roseanne, Flash, Shadowhunters, Voice, Smackdown, Middle, Blackish, -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 03:48 4
- Black Lightning, LA to Vegas, Elton John, Challenge, Rise, New Girl, Real Housewives, Andre the Giant, Splitting Up Together, Chicago Med, Legion, -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 03:49 3
  - For the People, In Contempt, Civil War Gold, Tosh.O, The Last OG, Jim Jeffries, Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G., other stuff -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 03:50 2
    - why are people in contempt? -- nm - decline Apr 10, 06:29 1
      - Crooked Hilary. -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 06:39
huh, so we were looking at google street view in the office today, and my wife was digitally removed from street view of our house. there's a floating - mafic Apr 10, 01:33 10
- [Black Mir/ror] -- nm - prayformojo Apr 10, 05:18
- is that new, removing people -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 10, 01:34 8
  - My face is blurred in my Google Street view moment. -- (link) - Shaun Apr 10, 06:45 5
    - Huh, why is Shaun always in front of the Liquor store... -- nm - decline Apr 10, 06:53 3
      - "when is he NOT" -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 10, 12:53
      - Don't pretend you're shocked. -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 07:04 1
        
        Where else are you supposed to be after work on the way home in the summer when it's sunny and hot outside? -- nm - Shaun Apr 10, 07:11
    - nice! -- nm - Andie Apr 10, 06:47
  - They've generally blurred people for privacy. There's also always been artifacts from having to stitch multiple pictures together of each view. -- nm - Ender Apr 10, 04:28
  - the google streetview of our house is over 2 years old, shows our old (sigh, I miss Kermit the green Saturn suv) car. -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 10, 01:39
wake up! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 10, 01:18
Seth Meyers wife had a baby, his story was really funny -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 10, 00:52
So I started watching Open Range. It's alright so far. Cheerful. - Beryllium Apr 9, 23:24
There's *always* an old tweet...even the tweeter in chief's lawyer has old tweets come back .... -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 9, 22:40
sperm whale that washed up on a Spanish beach died from gastric shock caused by 64 pounds of plastic in his digestive system -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 9, 22:22 1
- :(((((((((((((((((( -- nm - peglegpete Apr 9, 22:39
American city suite -- (link) - peglegpete Apr 9, 22:14 [youtube]
Give me your strength. CHARIOT! -- (link) - David Apr 9, 22:01 [youtube]

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