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Nice answer Senator Gillibrand -- (link) - decline Jun 20, 11:27 13
- COMFORT FOOD IS FOR PUSSIES! -- nm - Williamson Jun 20, 12:53
- look, i love veggies, but under no definition are they 'comfort food' without SOME qualifier. -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 11:32 2
  - yeah, Gabbard and Booker are trying too hard. - ty97 Jun 20, 11:37
  - When I eat veggies it comforts me to know at least someone is trying to do some good for the planet. #nojudgement -- nm - Booker Jun 20, 11:37
- Glad the NY Times is on the important items -- nm - ty97 Jun 20, 11:32 1
  - very important -- nm - decline Jun 20, 11:34
- This isn't Sparta, Williamson. -- nm - Max Jun 20, 11:31 3
  - Also WTF is Williamson? -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 11:39 1
    - His/her answer assures that nobody will find out that for a brief time, a robot was a candidate for president. -- nm - Max Jun 20, 11:45
  - How do you unwind after work? Williamson: "I do not unwind." -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 11:34
- Oh my. There is our VP. -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 11:30
- she's locked up my vote -- nm - prayformojo Jun 20, 11:29
- *moves her up the list* -- nm - Super Daddy Princess Jun 20, 11:27
The Nats just sent out an e-mail that they are expanding the stadium's netting on both baselines. -- nm - MDH Jun 20, 11:16 2
- And making broken noses mandatory for pitchers. -- nm - David Jun 20, 11:17
- good -- nm - decline Jun 20, 11:16
This photo of trump is not very flattering. Heh. -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 20, 10:59 11
- he's getting fatter. -- nm - Remlik Jun 20, 11:12 5
  - But at least his hands are getting bigger! -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 11:16
  - I kind of think there's an element of barrel distortion from the camera. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 11:12 3
    - That pic makes the room look tiny. -- nm - Max Jun 20, 11:14
    - Yes. But also. -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 11:13 1
      - *barrel* distortion. like he's about to cause a distillery to collapse. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 11:15
- Trudeau's face is so 'wtf are we talking about your god damned plane's paint colours?' -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 11:07 1
  - "I would not have come over if I'd known we were going to look at your models all night. Can we not get out the Sega?" -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 11:09
- The TWA model, heh. President of the 70s confirmed. -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 11:06
- Trudeau with the fancy socks. -- nm - Max Jun 20, 11:04
- Is there any that is? -- nm - Super Daddy Princess Jun 20, 11:00
Women's world cup spoiler - prayformojo Jun 20, 10:55 2
- They switched over from Canada/Netherlands literally ten seconds before. -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 10:57 1
  - yeah, that was perfect timing -- nm - prayformojo Jun 20, 11:09
So the Doc says I don't have Osteoporosis - Yet :/ But he recommends I start taking weekly meds anyway. -- nm - Meg Jun 20, 10:45 1
- That's good news. -- nm - Krusty Jun 20, 11:01
This is a first: The Tampa Bay Rays have received MLB's permission to explore becoming two-city team: the Tampa Bay area and Montreal area -- (link) - decline Jun 20, 10:45 44
- This sounds like a failure in the making, but one factor to consider is the number of Canadians who winter on Florida's west coast. -- nm - ty97 Jun 20, 11:10 9
  - which would be great if baseball was played in December and January. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:26
  - "winter". -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 11:11 5
    - When it comes to Florida, that's an official verb - ty97 Jun 20, 11:14 4
      - i know what it means. :) I was referring to the fact that baseball is NOT played in the winter. -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 11:16 3
        
        Winter in Canada is 10 months long -- nm - ty97 Jun 20, 11:32
        
        It only *feels* that way in April, May and October. -- nm - Diva Jun 20, 11:24 1
        
        :) -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 11:25
  - That's the theory behind the Florida Panthers and yet... -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 11:11 1
    - I don't think it alone is nearly enough to carry a team by any means -- nm - ty97 Jun 20, 11:15
- WHAT?! -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 10:58 20
  - let's split the team between 2 cites that baseball failed in! -- nm* - groiny Jun 20, 11:03 19
    - Montreal had fan support but it's impossible to overstate how bad Olympic Stadium was. -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 11:05 18
      - (and Loria fuuuuuuucked the team) -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 11:08 17
        
        then they should go back to Montreal and hopefully get a new park. - groiny Jun 20, 11:09 16
        
        I mean, probably. - Reagen Jun 20, 11:10 15
        
        right, that is what makes this even worse, you could have 2 cities in the vicinity, that would make alot of sense. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:19 14
        
        Toronto currently has a rugby team. They play in a BRITISH league. All the other teams are in the UK. - Andie Jun 20, 11:21 13
        
        that is a little different than sharing the team between 2 cities 20 hours apart. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:21 12
        
        But does that really matter? I'm sure both cities would have all the games televised. They'd still be able to go to games when they want. In this - pmb Jun 20, 11:27 2
        
        so you have 2 stadiums to keep up for 1/4 max attendance all the time. - groiny Jun 20, 11:29 1
        
        There are definitely challenges, but your starting assumption of 1/4 max attendance presumes a result that may not be justified. - pmb Jun 20, 11:33
        
        I mean, what currency would players even get *paid*in!?! -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 11:23 1
        
        Quebec Francs. -- nm - Shaun Jun 20, 11:27
        
        oh, it is, and i don't know if the sharing thing would work, but i can see a way that it might. -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 11:22 6
        
        and how would the players get paid? half their check taxed by Canada, the other half taxed by Florida? -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:23 5
        
        Probably, yes. As it is athletes have to pay taxes in all the states they play in on some basis. So it wouldn't be that much more difficult. -- (link) - pmb Jun 20, 11:37
        
        ::high five:: -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 11:25 2
        
        150 dollars. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:26 1
        
        (worth it) -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 11:36
        
        i assume the legal entity would exist in the country with the best tax laws for rich people. (aka, the US.) -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 11:24
- The Tampa Bay Montreal X-Rays -- nm - Jovian Jun 20, 10:56
- why????? -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 10:50 10
  - I would assume because the fan base isn't large enough in Tampa to sustain the team any longer -- nm - decline Jun 20, 10:55 9
    - they get 5 or 10 k a game now, is less games going to equal more people???? - groiny Jun 20, 11:01 8
      - It might help because there are fewer tickets to sell overall. A season ticket package will cost half as much. The person who sees 5 games a year - pmb Jun 20, 11:05 5
        
        I am sure I told the story before, I had tickets to the game there where Wade Boggs got hit #3000..... - groiny Jun 20, 11:08 4
        
        if you tried to drive to a Jays game, if you even found parking, it would cost you a billion dollars. - Andie Jun 20, 11:18 3
        
        and having seen the outside of your park, I was impressed with it. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:22
        
        Well, it is rather building locked. -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 11:21
        
        in a vacation town like Tampa, I would think you would want to offer parking for vacationers. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:20
      - I guess the answer to that is going to be part of the study. - Marlowe Jun 20, 11:03 1
        
        it just seems like Florida is not a baseball state. - groiny Jun 20, 11:04
- That's kind of brilliant. I wonder how playoff games would work. - David Jun 20, 10:46
So I rewatched Good Night And Good Luck. Wondering why journalists today refuse to do a similar takedown of Trump. - con_carne Jun 20, 10:35 2
- Honestly, it's terrifying how Trump has vilified the press. -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 10:37 1
  - yes. fascism. found a nice home here in America. -- nm - Jovian Jun 20, 10:38
"Suns’ Josh Jackson accused of getting 4-month old daughter high on marijuana" - David Jun 20, 10:33 1
- 4 month old? It's not even healthy to get them high on *sugar* at that point ... -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 10:35
Ok...so the Potter...not as walkable as the Pokemon. - Cedric Diggory Jun 20, 10:29 2
- you're suppose to ride the broom -- nm - SyrDragon Jun 20, 11:14
- priorities, Cedric -- nm - decline Jun 20, 10:30
Reverse Texas! Oregon senate GOP walk out (again) to avoid a vote. - Mop Jun 20, 10:13 4
- Oregon. The new Battleground state for 2020! -- nm - Brad Parscale Jun 20, 10:37
- The Dem majority should pass a law that if you walk out you get fired -- nm - decline Jun 20, 10:16 2
  - One would assume they would definitely walk out rather than let that law get passed. -- nm - Ender Jun 20, 10:18 1
    - Right. -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 10:27
Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami. Heh heh. -- nm - con_carne Jun 20, 10:10
LYC - the Smart and Final store up the road from me - that opened just two years ago - is closing at the end of June. - Meg Jun 20, 10:06 3
- Hmmm, haven't some other stores near you closed recently? Is your area becoming food desert? -- nm - Harry Tuttle Jun 20, 10:52 2
  - Closest thing to me is the Ralphs. We have a couple of other majors within 2 miles, along with Costco, Walmart, & Target. Otherwise it's - Meg Jun 20, 11:00 1
    - Ooo asian markets have fresh produce and seafood - SyrDragon Jun 20, 11:16
The Rock brags about going 5 for 5 on a Jeopardy category. -- (link) - Shaun Jun 20, 10:05 1
- ❤️ -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 10:07
LOL @ the Slack ticker symbol -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 10:03 3
- Newspeak -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 10:10 2
  - It's the opposite of Slack. "WORK". -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 10:16 1
    - Right. That's my point. -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 10:16
Curry and Durant - David Jun 20, 09:53 7
- Meh -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 10:31 3
  - You picked Wilt. It's like you haven't watched basketball in the last 30 years. -- nm - David Jun 20, 10:37 2
    - Not watching basketball? Uhm, didn't the Durant/Curry team just LOSE!?! -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 11:01 1
      - See, you don't even know that Durant barely played in the series. -- nm - David Jun 20, 11:18
- Shaq and Barkley for the shitz und gigglez. -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 10:23
- Durant only looks out for one guy - Durant? -- nm - prayformojo Jun 20, 10:07 1
  - Yes, but he's unguardable! -- nm - David Jun 20, 10:15
Today's inexplicable earworm: The Payola$, Eyes of a Stranger -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 09:52 2
- I've been down the Paul Hyde rabbit hole for the last two weeks (since I heard this song on SiriusXM). - Mop Jun 20, 10:06
- I will listen to You're The Only Love, because Saturday is an important anniversary. -- nm - Max Jun 20, 09:56
Sounds like Trump is going to give Iran a pass on the drone - labeling it a mistake -- nm - decline Jun 20, 09:46 2
- Because Putin told him to back off -- (link) - Amoxy Jun 20, 09:52 1
  - rewrite: Putin ordered him to back off. -- nm - Remlik Jun 20, 10:08
Tariq Sheikh, Gary Gray (middle name Gyar, one assumes) -- nm - Today in names Jun 20, 09:38
Nicole Kidman turns 52 today. Errol Flynn would have been 110. - Max Jun 20, 09:23 1
- I'd still bang her. -- nm - The Ghost of Errol Flynn Jun 20, 09:36
Yeah - so Wizards Unite is live in the Google Play store. nm - Hercules Mulligan Jun 20, 09:21
Blew right past my limit order at 35. -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 09:21
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (from makers of Pokemon Go) out in US now -- (link) - ty97 Jun 20, 09:21 13
- Note that your WU friend code is different from your PoGo friend code - ty97 Jun 20, 09:37 4
  - 5504 3439 0139 Now I have to choose a house. And a wand. Decisions. The stress! -- nm - Hercules Mulligan Jun 20, 09:44 3
    - Um ..remember the wand chooses You not the other way around -- nm - eag Jun 20, 09:53 2
      - not in this game -- nm - Hercules Mulligan Jun 20, 09:57
      - yes, and, *no Sorting Hat*? -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 09:54
- Yup. Amy had saved up google cash for this one. - Spawn Jun 20, 09:25
- o.m.g. (of course, i have to wait.) -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 09:23
- Whoa!!! -- nm - Hercules Mulligan Jun 20, 09:22 5
  - From what I've seen of gameplay (they beta tested in some other countries) I don't think I'll wind up playing, but will download and check it out -- nm* - ty97 Jun 20, 09:24 4
    - Well, at first glance, the map looks exactly like Go - with a Potter overlay on it. I take a walk everyday at lunch... - Hercules Mulligan Jun 20, 09:29 3
      - Avada Kedavra!!! - Spawn Jun 20, 09:33
      - Yeah, PoGo used the map and 'portal' information from Ingress that pre-dated it, WU is using data from both. -- nm - ty97 Jun 20, 09:33
      - The map is the same as it is using the original Ingress data which is used by Pokemon Go -- nm - JD Jun 20, 09:33
Lebron and Wilt -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 20, 09:10
Alaska teens accused of murdering friend after US$9 million offer from fake millionaire (holy crap this story) -- (link) - Beaker Jun 20, 08:51 17
- Anyone who would murder you is not a good friend. -- nm - Roger More Jun 20, 09:15 13
  - I had a friend in college who posed the question: If forced to kill someone, would you kill a friend or a stranger? - Max Jun 20, 09:24 2
    - Seems like most people would rather kill themselves. -- nm - mara Jun 20, 09:54
    - *makes a mental note to rewatch the Trolley Problem episode of The Good Place* -- nm - Super Daddy Princess Jun 20, 09:41
  - I don't know, depends on the price. -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 09:19 4
    - I would off you for about 100 bucks. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 10:45
    - How about 9 million young man? -- nm* - Fake Millionaire Jun 20, 09:21
    - Why'd you look at me when you said that? You're sending some really confusing signals. -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 09:21 1
      - Every man has a price. - Spawn Jun 20, 09:26
  - What if you were turning into a zombie? -- nm - Ender Jun 20, 09:16 4
    - Don't say that. -- nm - Shaun Jun 20, 09:27
    - Zombies are already dead. -- nm - Roger More Jun 20, 09:17 2
      - but if you are only just turning into one, then you are only partly dead -- nm - decline Jun 20, 09:18 1
        
        Nah, zombies are people who have died and then been reanimated through Haitian sorcery. Anything else is cultural appropriation! -- nm - Roger More Jun 20, 09:26
- this will be made into a movie -- nm - decline Jun 20, 08:57 2
  - Heathers 2 -- nm - Max Jun 20, 09:14 1
    - more like Bully or Alpha Dog -- nm - decline Jun 20, 09:20
Doug Ford just dumped a bunch of his high profile cabinet ministers -- (link) - Beaker Jun 20, 08:42 6
- Fedeli getting booted is *chef's kiss* -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 09:23 2
  - No comment. -- nm - Roger More Jun 20, 10:01 1
    - "I'm wearing this party hat for unrelated reasons." -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 11:13
- The *BEST* people! -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 08:56 2
  - I feel the Finance guy is getting the toe to cover for all the cuts Ford made him put into the Budget - Beaker Jun 20, 08:58 1
    - Sure looks that way. -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 09:05
Toy Story 4 98% (169), Anna nsy, Child's Play nsy. Next week: Yesterday 67% (33) -- nm - Beaker Jun 20, 08:41 1
- -2% - Spawn Jun 20, 09:05

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