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I got a suspicious email from facebook this morning. My account is deactivated, though, so I don't think I should be getting anything ... -- nm - Beryllium Sep 29, 09:21 3
- LET IT DIE! -- nm - Foo Sep 29, 09:32
- ... looks like it's an account registered without a period in the email address. Curious. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 29, 09:24 1
  - I feel like attempting to recover it & then delete it would be some kind of trap. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 29, 09:31
Fargo season 2 is really, really, really good -- nm - prayformojo Sep 29, 08:59 4
- It is very good, but I rank the seasons: 1, 3, 2. -- nm - mud Sep 29, 09:11 2
  - *nods* -- nm - Jovian Sep 29, 09:18
  - Of course. -- nm - Spawn Sep 29, 09:13
- Yup. -- nm - David, Earth’s Mightiest Hero Sep 29, 09:08
Cain Velasquez Reportedly in Talks With WWE -- nm - Remlik Sep 29, 08:58
deNiro live on CNN: "fuck 'em. fuck 'm." (referring to FoxNews, etc -- nm - mud Sep 29, 08:49 4
- Is that an FCC fine? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 29, 08:55 3
  - nope. it's on cable. -- nm - Remlik Sep 29, 09:27
  - not for cable, I don't think -- nm - mud Sep 29, 08:59 1
    - vid: -- (link) - mud Sep 29, 09:08
ESPN: Antonio Brown about to submit 9 grievances/appeals worth $61 Million. -- (link*) - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 08:49 2
- I thought he was done with the NFL? -- nm - Spawn Sep 29, 09:33 1
  - But he's not done with tons of money. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 29, 09:34
McLaurin OUT. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 08:26 9
- CLE - Both starting CB's are out along with S Morgan Burnett. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 09:00
- CAR - Newton and Donte Jackson OUT. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 09:00
- Amendola OUT. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 08:56
- Seacrest, out! -- nm - Tim Sep 29, 08:51
- Burkhead IN. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 08:45
- TY Hilton OUT. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 08:43
- Edelman IN. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 08:42
- Stafford IN. Gordon expected to play with a snap count. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 08:26 1
  - DET is worried about Stafford playing all 4 quarters and have 3 QB's active today. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 08:53
Eliminator: Week 4, finally going against the grain. Going with the Rams today instead of Chargers. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 08:25 2
- I already used the Chargers so I am on the Rams as well. Still have thePats to use as well. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 29, 08:46
- Same here. Been River'd too many times to chance that. -- nm - GregW Sep 29, 08:27
Super Bowl Halftime Rumors: Pitbull is lobbying to appear with J-Lo and Shakira. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 08:14 3
- So it could get worse -- nm - Krusty Sep 29, 08:14 2
  - Given that the game is in Miami, I pretty much expect this to happen. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 08:16 1
    - I expected better after Jay Z sold his soul to the NFL to partner with them and handle music. -- nm - Krusty Sep 29, 08:24
I never thought I'd say this, but SNL needs Kenan Thompson. The skit with the political panelists was great. (spoils) - Will Hunting Sep 29, 08:11 1
- Spoils - Beryllium Sep 29, 08:15
I went to the club for the first time since NYE. I’m a pathetic shell of my former socialite self. -- nm - Qale Sep 29, 07:31 1
- 😆 Happens. Everything in cycles. You'll be back out there -- nm - JD Sep 29, 07:56
this doesn't bode well: "More Location of where all Atlantic Category 5 hurricanes first reached Category 5 strength. Lorenzo is highlighted in blue" -- (link) - prayformojo Sep 29, 07:07 4
- "I know hurricanes like no one else and what is a Cat 5? Never heard of it!" *strong-arms NOAA to agree by witholding funds* (NM) - Drumpf Sep 29, 08:28
- Looks to smack into Ireland in a few days as a no-longer hurricane strong storm. - Will Hunting Sep 29, 07:49
- *handwaving freakoutery* -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 07:25
- First ever category 12 hurricane! -- nm - Mop Sep 29, 07:12
I'm enjoying the Wu Tang series on Hulu but the dearth of actual music kind of sucks. *possible spoilers ahead* - Krusty Sep 29, 07:01
How "clever" is the Trump admin? Their attempt to conceal evidence actually preserved it in a way that can't* be undone - TWuG Sep 29, 06:47 7
- Shame on you for even asking that question. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 07:26 2
  - This is like WaterGate except Nixon has been replaced with America's Dumbest Criminals. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 29, 07:58
  - They really do like centralizing things, concentrating them into one area ... -- nm* - Beryllium Sep 29, 07:53
- Do we have any information as to what this system is? -- nm - Mop Sep 29, 06:58 3
  - Yes. It's a system designed and maintained to house code word sensitive materials. Trump used it to hide politically sensitive stuff that the system - TWuG Sep 29, 08:41 1
    - outstanding. -- nm - mud Sep 29, 08:44
  - I don’t know, but I bet it gets a ton of SQL errors. -- nm - Qale Sep 29, 07:29
Happy birthday, Inigo and MDH! Woo hoo!!! Have a great day, fellas! -- nm - Krusty Sep 29, 06:42
Ah, finally. It's been a while. One of my photos made it into Flickr Explore. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 22:38
Mara Jade is now part of Disney canon -- (link) - Peglegpete Sep 28, 22:24 5
- I'm not sure how I feel about this. *EU spoilers* - Strongbad, Champ Champ Sep 29, 07:29
- Luke Skywalker was married? -- nm - David Sep 28, 23:14 3
  - Major spoiler - Spawn Sep 29, 09:14 2
    - If that's what they go with; a really bad narrative mind. (spoils) - Will Hunting Sep 29, 09:34
    - Bad Idea Jeans -- nm - David Sep 29, 09:25
Holee sh*t! I iust saw the Bite Force vs Tombstone match. -- nm - Mop Sep 28, 21:43 13
- Damn, that was quick and brutal -- nm - Amoxy Sep 29, 05:51
- I have always wondered why no robots use liquid nitrogen or magnetics as weapons. -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 28, 22:21 9
  - I don't think liquid nitrogen would help, they'd be better off working on ways to overheat the opponents. - Beryllium Sep 28, 22:25 8
    - I have no idea of the build rules. I just want to see a robot freeze & shatter or go flying from locking down to the floor & reversing magnetic fields -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 28, 22:29 7
      - I don't think either of those are scientifically possible in that form factor, but I could be wrong. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 22:35 6
        
        (One robot could use magnets to latch onto another robot, though, if the other robot was made of ferromagnetic metal ...) -- nm* - Beryllium Sep 28, 22:35 5
        
        I was thinking clamping to the floor and reversing polarity to make them fly like Iron Man's repulsor rays -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 28, 22:56 4
        
        Except that that would only work if ... - Beryllium Sep 28, 23:00 3
        
        I care little of the mechanical details. It would just be fun to see. -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 29, 00:17 2
        
        My point is just that iron man repulsors don't exist. Magnets don't work that way. If they did, we'd use that tech EVERYWHRE. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 29, 08:16 1
        
        Sorry, I'm being extremely pedantic here. :-/ -- nm - Beryllium Sep 29, 08:24
- I think they made a mistake by not showing the match changing hit in super slow motion. I did and it's far more dramatic. -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 28, 22:19 1
  - The amazing part is that the tire isn't carved off. The violence of the collision *knocks* it off. -- nm - David Sep 28, 23:08
*Wonders how many Billie Eillish fans will be going on about how genius and original that walking on the wall and ceiling thing was* -- nm* - . Sep 28, 21:19 7
- I thought it was neat, but had to watch on mute because my tv's audio sucks -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 22:04 5
  - You got lucky. The music was awful. -- nm - David, Earth’s Mightiest Hero Sep 28, 22:10 4
    - Just Watched the clip on YouTube. Awful technically or musically? -- nm - JD Sep 29, 08:03 2
      - The old guys don't get it. - Spawn Sep 29, 09:31 1
        
        we get it if we continue liking music. David does not. -- nm - mud Sep 29, 09:35
    - This seems to happen a lot on SNL. -- nm - Qale Sep 29, 07:36
- Probably about as many as when Lionel Richie did it. -- nm - GregW Sep 28, 21:21
Thanks Tru -- nm - Remlik Sep 28, 21:01 1
- The game has given me three of this rocket launchers. So I gave you one. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 28, 21:20
SNL about to begin. -- nm - Spawn Sep 28, 20:27 9
- Was there an audio issue with Eillish or was that just the song? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 21:14 1
  - Song - Spawn Sep 28, 21:16
- "I'm like plastic straws..." -- nm - Biden Sep 28, 20:56 1
  - hilarious -- nm - Jovian Sep 28, 21:02
- Who's playing sanders? Larry david? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 20:54 1
  - Yup -- nm - Spawn Sep 28, 20:56
- "I told you, Mr President, Ray Donovan is a fictional character. I'm Liev Schreiber. I'm an actor." "Can you connect me to John Wick?" - Beryllium Sep 28, 20:37 1
  - "I hate to be a grammar nazi, God knows you hate one of those." -- nm - . Sep 28, 21:23
- And I'll care as much as usual! -- nm - David Sep 28, 20:32
Just how tall will Starship be? A comparison chart. - TWuG Sep 28, 19:48 2
- That's knee deep in the hoopla -- nm - Bacon Sep 28, 20:40 1
  - The imperial system makes no sense to me. What's a hoopla in hogsheads? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 20:42
Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire is 30 years old today. 59 people are named in the song. Only 5 are still alive. -- (link) - Tim Sep 28, 19:30
Plan is for Starship to fly to 20km & land again in 1-2 months. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 18:39 21
- I'm a moron. I've been trying for hours to wrap my head around going only 20 km but somehow stay aloft for 1-2 months ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - JD Sep 28, 20:34 2
  - I read it in a similar way. I thought they were going to go 20km into the sky and then just fly for a month or two. *shrug* -- nm - Krusty Sep 29, 05:03
  - I can see how confusing that would be. And how that could be confusing. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 20:40
- They gonna riiiiddddddeeee, ride the tiger! -- nm - zunk xometimes Sep 28, 20:19 1
  - A full stack Starship will have twice the thrust of a Saturn V rocket. -- nm - TWuG Sep 28, 20:22
- no time is a good time for goodbyes -- nm - Tim Sep 28, 19:29
- Nothing's gonna stop them now. -- nm - Reagen Sep 28, 19:28
- the orbiting Tesla needs servicing -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 28, 19:27
- Ceramic hexagonal tile heat shield. Steel construction. I've got a bad feeling about this, unfortunately. Hopefully they can prove me wrong. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 18:55 5
  - The 301 stainless steel is apparently a very resilient material at high and low temps. - TWuG Sep 28, 19:53 2
    - Yeah, but I can't shake the bad feeling. I hope it works exactly as well as they say. And orbital refueling looks awesome. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 20:06 1
      - It won't matter for that next test -- nm - JD Sep 28, 20:38
  - "It slightly reminds me of the scene from Spaceballs" heheh -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 19:00 1
    - If it doesn't have a "We Brake For Nobody" bumper sticker on it somewhere, Musk will lose some nerd cred -- nm - TWuG Sep 28, 19:55
- Worst version of Jefferson Starship. -- nm - Spawn Sep 28, 18:50
- free rides to Jorma, Jack & Grace :) -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 28, 18:45 2
  - Yes, except Jorma never played for Starship or Jefferson Starship (according to wikipedia) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 18:52 1
    - they are the only living members of JA. without them there is no starship. -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 28, 18:59
- Musk is still terrible at public speaking. Inspires me to try it some time. 😂 -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 18:41 2
  - I'd put him somewhere on the autism spectrum. -- nm - TWuG Sep 28, 20:23 1
    - Maybe. I don't think that has anything to do with his public speaking style, though. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 20:27
Danny, the problem with Zombieland 2 is that 10 years is an eternity. I was thinking 30, so the tracking sounds almost right to me. -- nm - David Sep 28, 18:16 3
- I would take the over on that. -- nm - Spawn Sep 28, 18:51
- I can see that. I’m thinking 45 minimum though. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 28, 18:42
- A lot has happened in the past decade. The zombie trend is on the downswing. But we as a society need a f***ing break, so it might pull in some $$$. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 18:20
Dawson gets quoted at Dark Horizons... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 28, 18:00 1
- I may have to arrange a trip to NY to make sure I will see this in a proper screen. - Marlowe Sep 28, 18:06
NmbTim. - Qale Sep 28, 17:56 1
- Yep. - Tim Sep 28, 18:16
trivia: the word Axiomatic has only been used 3 times in ST's Archive, by 2 users, and within 1 year of each other. - Max Sep 28, 17:45 7
- open a dictionary to page 1 and count how many words you know each page until the end -- nm* - Peglegpete Sep 28, 18:08 2
  - That would be ineffective, because then I would know all of the words. -- nm - Drax si Sep 28, 18:09 1
    - the Farce is strong in this youngling -- nm - Yoda Sep 28, 18:29
- David and Loosi -- nm - Amoxy Sep 28, 17:53
- I used it in a meeting last week. -- nm - Spawn Sep 28, 17:47 2
  - That’s a strange word to moan while masturbating. -- nm - Qale Sep 28, 17:57 1
    - Don't judge me! -- nm - Spawn Sep 28, 21:17
Is it strange that we won't be getting flu vaccines here until mid-October? That seems strangely late to me. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 17:43 7
- Got mine earlier this month when I went to pick up my meds. -- nm - Meg Sep 28, 18:08
- got ours today -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 28, 18:07
- Mid-October is when my doctor said I should get mine. -- nm - Qale Sep 28, 17:58
- We got them mid-August. -- nm - Tim Sep 28, 17:45 1
  - I spied on the form that we'll be getting protection from strains with such exotic names as Brisbane, Kansas, Colorado, and Phuket. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 17:46
- (It's been this late before, so it's not unusual in that sense - it just seems a bit oddly timed, as it did then.) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 17:44 1
  - Down here they have been advising people go get them for well over a month as it is expected to be a bad season. - Spawn Sep 28, 17:45
I had a bad banking experience this morning, due to bad UX on the bank's updated mobile app. - Beryllium Sep 28, 17:38
Fun with headline juxtaposition. -- (pic) - Dano Sep 28, 17:26 [Attachment] 5
- L4.5 -- nm - Max Sep 28, 17:34
- lumped-together news stories are a thing that has been bugging me lately -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 17:27 3
  - The scary thing is when I first read it, I didn’t automatically assume they weren’t related. Space Force! -- nm - Dano Sep 28, 17:45 2
    - "...; Ruby Rose shares surgery video" -- nm - Max Sep 28, 17:56
    - "...; White House holds farewell ceremony for outgoing staff" -- nm - Max Sep 28, 17:50

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