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Apple wanted to get out in front of Disney+ revealing massive numbers next week. -- nm - David Jan 28, 13:33
ST Guessing Game: Per a study of >700k stock portfolios of millennials, what are the Top 10 held companies by percentage of holdings? -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 28, 13:26 6
- Ali Baba, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Berkshire Hathaway,Exxon, Microsoft, Paypal - David Jan 28, 13:30 5
  - And I guess I should say Disney just so that I don't look like an idiot if they're on there. - David Jan 28, 13:33 1
    - Disney at 7. :) -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 28, 13:34
  - #10, Bonus answer, 2, 1, 6, 30, 5, 32 - Beron Cherry Jan 28, 13:33 2
    - Am I translating right that Berkshire Hathaway is #6? If so, that's truly remarkable, all things considered. - David Jan 28, 13:35 1
      - Yep, Buffett has his followers, and the B shares are quite accessible. -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 28, 13:36
Our long national nightmare is over. AI's backpack has been returned -- nm - decline Jan 28, 13:08
Lethal Weapon 5 being worked on. Original stars, Dick Donner all to return.... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 28, 12:58 5
- Lethal Weapon: Police Academy will use cgi to de-age them. -- nm - Max Jan 28, 13:23
- Joe Pesci renaissance continues! -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 13:20 1
  - The Pescissance! -- nm - Diva Jan 28, 13:35
- ahhh that explains why all of them were airing the last several days. - Jovian Jan 28, 13:00
- Lethal Weapon 5: I'm Too Old To Be Too Old For This Shit -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 12:59
Lifehack. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 28, 12:44 1
- OMG LOL -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 14:44
disgraced former Seal Eddie Gallagher names and shows faces of active duty personal as he launches personal attack against the one who spoke out -- (link) - Remlik Jan 28, 12:29 9
- In defending and supporting this POS, FOX 'News' seems to hate all the Navy Seals but him. -- nm - Diva Jan 28, 12:51 1
  - because they do. -- nm - Jovian Jan 28, 12:56
- That man is a hero! -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 12:33
- That's going to go over well. - TWuG Jan 28, 12:32 3
  - with the reveal of names/faces wouldn't that be enough to take his trident and rank? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 28, 12:51 1
    - Probably, though the current CinC may countermand any attempt to do so. -- nm - TWuG Jan 28, 13:00
  - literally nothing, absolutely nothing is going to happen to him. -- nm - Jovian Jan 28, 12:49
- I love our modern day Otto Skorzeny -- nm - Jovian Jan 28, 12:31 1
  - they guy wishes he was as competent as Otto. and Otto was dangerous. Hell Otto wound up working for Mossad. -- nm - Remlik Jan 28, 13:12
Shaun: looks like gas is going down 4 cents Thursday. so don't fill up for a couple days -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 12:06 12
- Already as low as $1.90/gal in the DFW area. -- nm - GregW Jan 28, 13:33
- Bleh. Filled up yesterday to take advantage of a bonus PC Optimum offer from Esso. Ah well. -- nm - Shaun Jan 28, 12:07 10
  - 4 cents on a tank is, what, $2? -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 12:22 6
    - 48 cents for me. -- nm - Ender Jan 28, 12:25 2
      - well, per liter, not gallon, but it isn't a ton. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 12:25 1
        
        Ahh, you people and your liters... -- nm - Ender Jan 28, 12:26
    - Spending less money on an equivalent product is fun. -- (edited) - Shaun Jan 28, 12:23 2
      - Sure, I just don't lose sleep about it - Reagen Jan 28, 12:28 1
        
        Bonus 30 per litre, ie. 3 cents worth. -- nm - Shaun Jan 28, 12:29
  - get a hose and siphon all the gas out onto your driveway and then go refill it on Thursday so you can save that couple of bucks -- nm - decline Jan 28, 12:21 2
    - Or buy some jerry cans. Heh. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 12:25 1
      - naw, fill a bunch of soda bottles with twist caps, when the revolution comes you're going to want a bunch of those 'cocktails' -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 28, 14:31
Kick-proof TV video! -- (link) - Shaun Jan 28, 11:48 [youtube] 4
- A lot of demand for that, 'eh? -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 12:15
- Make it the windshield of the Cyber truck. - Spawn Jan 28, 12:05
- Nah, this is the real video. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:49 [youtube] 1
  - That's a lot of effort to steal a TV. -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 12:17
Poll! If your city went into lockdown tomorrow (it won't, everyone relax) - would you be ready? what would you do if you were stuck in your home for -- (edited) - Andie Jan 28, 11:43 46
- Right now? I couldn't survive through Friday. -- nm - David Jan 28, 13:32
- We'd be good for upwards of a week or two. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 28, 13:09
- That's the dream right? - pmb Jan 28, 12:51
- If the power remains on we'd be just fine. -- nm - Diva Jan 28, 12:50
- Have an emergency kit ready for both my mom and I. Enough food and water (plus tools, batteries, etc.) to last 14 days for both of us. - ReluctantCynic Jan 28, 12:22 5
  - prepper -- nm - decline Jan 28, 12:23 4
    - I'd like to argue against that label, but I can't. - ReluctantCynic Jan 28, 12:34 3
      - Boy Scout -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 12:40 2
        
        did you see The Gentlemen yet? I think I like it better than Lock Stock. -- nm - Pippy -accidental racist Jan 28, 13:19 1
        
        We stayed home all weekend (I skipped two movies). Just felt like resting. I *need* to see it, though. Might sneak and see it by myself tomorrow. -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 13:27
- yeah, plenty of food in the freezer. Would get boring, but we'd be fine. No power/water? Probably still.. a few hundred gallons of non-potable - colin Jan 28, 12:12
- Easy peasy. Netflix, Amazon Prime and the Switch - we have plenty to keep ourselves busy. nm - Turd Ferguson Jan 28, 12:04
- We'd run out of milk but we'd be fine for food/water/alcohol. I need more chocolate though -- nm - Pippy -accidental racist Jan 28, 12:03 2
  - c'mon over. I have more than enough chocolate. and steaks dry aging -- nm - peglegpete Jan 28, 12:04 1
    - Uhm, I don't think you understand what the "lockdown" part of the question means! -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 12:08
- I'm low on food so I wouldn't last long if I couldn't get to a store -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 11:58
- I've got a month of booze supply in my basement. I'll be peachy. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 11:58 3
  - MIL moving in to be safe as well though -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 12:03 1
    - *revises supply down to three days* -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 12:04
  - when it comes time to barter for food you are GOLDEN. -- nm* - Andie Jan 28, 11:58
- Oh, you mean I'm not? Can I go out? (NM) - Marlowe Jan 28, 11:58
- food, pot, powerball & megamillions tix good thru 2/29. I'm set. -- nm* - peglegpete Jan 28, 11:57 2
  - Powerball 400m -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 28, 11:58 1
    - yes, I was worried yesterday as I went to state line to get my monthly tix. luckily, there was only a 10 minute line. -- nm - peglegpete Jan 28, 11:59
- We'd be good for a week. Scrape out another week if we had to, i think. A lot of scrabble and netflix, i guess. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 11:55
- Make a stop tonight and as long as power and internet were up, we'd be fine. -- nm - Shaun Jan 28, 11:55
- a quick stop or two first, yes -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 11:55
- would we still have the internet? I'd be just fine - decline Jan 28, 11:53 1
  - Of course, I would have to be able to take the dog out - decline Jan 28, 11:58
- Food, water, alcohol, cable, we're good. -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 28, 11:53
- The bodegas would still deliver, so I'd be fine. -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 11:51 2
  - assume everyone is told to stay home, EVEN BODEGA OWNERS! -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 11:57 1
    - pppffffftttt, like that would happen -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 12:00
- there's always Plan B -- (pic) - prayformojo Jan 28, 11:51 [Attachment]
- Good thing I just stocked up on some chicken breasts that were on sale to put in the freezer. - znufrii, human scum Jan 28, 11:51
- Stuck in my home for a week? I would go insane! Wait, that's how I spend most weeks anyway. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:48
- As long as power and water are good we are too -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 11:47
- Given three minutes, we could be ready. - Will Hunting Jan 28, 11:45 8
  - I've got a case of water in my garage, and a few packages of ramen. I suppose that's my emergency prep kit. -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 12:18 1
    - your taps work. you have water. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 12:19
  - Hunting said this? - Spawn Jan 28, 12:01 1
    - After a week, I'm forming a raiding party but I think we have a fair bit of pasta and such to last that long. - Will Hunting Jan 28, 12:16
  - you must be really thirsty -- nm - decline Jan 28, 11:54
  - We’d also need time to grab insulin and diabetes supplies... -- nm - kelly Jan 28, 11:46 2
    - Don't you have a gajillion of them? -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 12:00 1
      - Never mind. - kelly Jan 28, 12:14
M7.3 quake in Jamaica, tsunami warning issued -- (link*) - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:36 22
- I hope, at a minimum, this was nowhere near land -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 11:46 2
  - Off in the water. USGS says low expectation of fatalities and economic losses, so hopefully it is all minor. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:47 1
    - Tsunami indicators are very small for this one -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 28, 12:26
- Are all of STers... off of boats now? -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 11:43 5
  - My first thought was them, but I think they all disembarked 2 nights ago. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 11:45 4
    - Safest place to be is on a boat in the middle, then all you get is a wave of a foot that lifts the boat for a longer spell than normal -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 28, 11:51 3
      - Middle, sure. Near port though? -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 11:59 2
        
        They showed some of the buildings in Japan designed to withstand against the tsunami, they did a good job too, until the freighter slammed into them.. -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 28, 14:34
        
        as long as you don't get sucked into a current ... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 12:00
- Possibly upgraded to M7.7 -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:41 4
  - buildings in Miami evacuated due to shaking.... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 28, 12:22 2
    - more... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 28, 12:23 1
      - that's terrifying -- nm - decline Jan 28, 12:26
  - wow -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 11:41
- Upgraded to 7.7 already -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 11:41
- In the ocean between Cuba, Jamaica and the Caymen Islands -- (link) - decline Jan 28, 11:38 6
  - Oh no! Not the Caymans! -- nm - Rich People Everywhere Jan 28, 13:21
  - so obviously puerto rico is going to take another major hit -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:40 4
    - Cuba is in the way, but Haiti could get smacked by the tsunami if there is one. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 11:41 3
      - That's where we were Friday night/Saturday morning. But on the western side of the islands. -- nm - Meg Jan 28, 11:59 1
        
        Which is exactly where it was :/ Must have sailed right over that fault. -- nm - Meg Jan 28, 12:01
      - Fair, fair. I was just joking about their run of bad luck lately. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:46
Netanyahu indicted. -- (link) - TWuG Jan 28, 11:12 1
- Isn't this again? -- nm - Jared Jan 28, 11:14
Yikes. Bungie's latest hotfix to Destiny 2 is deleting some currency/materials from people's inventory. -- (edited) - Shaun Jan 28, 10:47 1
- oopsie -- nm - decline Jan 28, 10:56
game over, man. - mud Jan 28, 10:34 7
- conspiracy post...there is a biological research company where the virus originated with a logo that damn near looks like the Umbrella Corporation -- (link) - Remlik Jan 28, 11:42
- supply chain disruption coming to Apple because of the virus.... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 28, 11:37 1
  - dammit, I'm going to be stuck with this albatross phone forever. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:38
- Moosehead releases virus to compete with ‘Corona’s virus’ -- (link) - Beaker Jan 28, 10:41 1
  - Report: Outbreak of idiocy spreading 10,000 times faster than coronavirus -- (link) - Beaker Jan 28, 10:45
- pacifico virus more my speed -- nm - budice Jan 28, 10:40
- Plague Inc. says it's time to shutdown all transportation in an out of the country -- nm - decline Jan 28, 10:39
R.I.P. Reed Mullin (Corrosion of Conformity), 53 -- (link) - mud Jan 28, 10:32 4
- Hey 2020, WTF is your problem with drummers!?! -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 11:00 3
  - *gets nervous* -- nm - Tommy Lee Jan 28, 11:04 2
    - Hey 2020, please remember I am not really a drummer anymore. -- nm - Dave Grohl Jan 28, 11:05 1
      - "Best musician? I'm not even the best drummer in the band!" -- nm - Taylor Hawkins s.i. Jan 28, 12:23
yikes, think this is ever accepted by the Palestinians? -- (link) - mud Jan 28, 10:27 23
- let's check in and see how they feel -- (link) - Remlik Jan 28, 11:47 1
  - Or as they call it, Wednesday -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 11:57
- The proposal includes details for developing a resort on the Dead Sea... -- nm - decline Jan 28, 11:23 6
  - Newark Bay is not that polluted anymore, certainly not dead -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 28, 11:35
  - I...don’t know if you’re joking or not. - znufrii, human scum Jan 28, 11:29 4
    - Right? I honestly don't know -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jan 28, 11:38
    - I kid you not -- (link*) - decline Jan 28, 11:38 2
      - Offfs. -- nm - znufrii, human scum Jan 28, 11:45 1
        
        You can't build a stadium without luxury boxes, znu. -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 28, 12:12
- Already rejected, IIUC. Palestinian PM said it'd be the end of the Palestinian cause -- nm - TWuG Jan 28, 10:39 5
  - I don't know, if they build high enough walls around it they might survive what is to come. -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 11:00 4
    - Jordan has also rejected the plan as untenable. This thing is dead in the water -- (edited) - decline Jan 28, 11:04 1
      - Untenable? JUST BUY MORE FABRIC AND MORE STAKES! - Jared Jan 28, 11:07
    - They'd probably need Chinese laborers to build that wall...so..... -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 11:00 1
      - Tell Trump he can put his name on it and it will happen toot sweet. -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 11:04
- Did Jared just give the Palestinians New Jersey? -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 10:36 3
  - This made me look up the numbers: 8729 sq. miles for NJ, 8550 sq. miles for Israel -- nm - Max Jan 28, 11:31 1
    - Sounds doable, I'm sure donny still holds a grudge against NJ after the casino bankruptcy -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 28, 11:57
  - [snork] -- nm - mud Jan 28, 10:46
- "He gerrymandered Israel." -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 10:28
- West Bank-Gaza Tunnel? HA! No. -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 10:28 2
  - actually that's the one part I believe is inevitable -- nm - mud Jan 28, 10:30 1
    - Tesla to the rescue -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 10:33
One thing's for sure ... The Circle owes royalties to Survivor Spam -- nm - rollo Jan 28, 10:26

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