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Right up ST's alley: FanDuel has a fantasy game based around the show, Survivor--Its free (but you can win $)--per episode - Flavorize Mar 17, 22:45 3
- With casinos shutting down, online gambling is going to explode. -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 23:23
- This is for Episode 6 btw--I went: MVP Wendell, Parvati, Kim, Sophie, and Jeremy to round out the team. -- nm* - Flavorize Mar 17, 23:11
- Contestant says "I'm not here to make friends." 1 point -- nm - mafic Mar 17, 23:05
Hmm. Some of the stuff in this tweet is already in progress, with the push to destroy end-to-end encryption. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 17, 22:44
Out of all recent cold takes, Trump's business tax cuts might be the coldest. -- nm - David Mar 17, 22:27 3
- Trickle-down economics at its worst. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 22:34 2
  - COVID-19 needs a catch phrase like that, but in reverse. "Trickle up death drool" or some such. -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 22:36 1
    - what was that game you guys played, chick chick fox? healthy healthy death dealer, guess who it is -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 23:29
... new real estate listings keep coming out. Heh. Are they not checking the news? Or the markets? - Beryllium Mar 17, 22:27 3
- My friend listed her house yesterday. Crazy. -- nm - jnine Mar 17, 23:33
- Our car dealer asked if we were interested in anything. I can't even blame him for trying. - David Mar 17, 22:28 1
  - Right? Maybe I could get a huge amount off of a sailboat, if people need the money. (That sounds so cynical. Bleh.) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 22:31
Oregon institution McMenamins laying off almost all their employees so they can apply for unemployment benefits. -- (link) - Mop Mar 17, 22:25
Can we maybe just ban all churches in South Korea. I feel they're doing it wrong. -- (link) - Mop Mar 17, 22:24 3
- our crazy religious cults go to weird parts of the world and *we're* shocked when they return the favor? moonies were just the first -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 22:31 2
  - don't forget, America was founded by religious nut cases who were thrown out of the old world -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 22:33 1
    - And look how well that worked out for the people they stole it from. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 22:34
At least we are safe from the machines at the moment. "Alexa, can I give corona virus to my cat?" "would you like to shop for corona virus?" - crash davis Mar 17, 22:21
Homeschooling with Patton -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 17, 22:14
Those hatemongers at Slate spreading their hateful hate. -- (link) - Mop Mar 17, 22:04 7
- Ignoring everything else, any data taken before, like, yesterday is irrelevant. So much has changed over the last few days. -- nm - David Mar 17, 22:21 6
  - Those poor Republicans. -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 22:25 2
    - I mean, the message they've gotten is "This Chinese-Democratic hoax is nothing! Now, stay inside or you'll die!" -- nm - David Mar 17, 22:26 1
      - Why can't they just do whatever they want without consequences? -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 22:31
  - More importantly, this headline: "My Wife Wants Us to Have Sex With Her Brother...I’m not opposed in principle." - David Mar 17, 22:22 2
    - that's not a headline, that's spamola click bait, so they gave up on "and what he said next will take your breath away" -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 22:29
    - Never go full Slate -- nm - crash davis Mar 17, 22:23
oh no. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 17, 21:56
Apparently Gog is giving away all the Witcher games right now. -- (link) - Mop Mar 17, 21:49
MGM closing properties nationwide, not just Vegas. -- nm - Meg Mar 17, 21:29
Some Supernatural spoiler stuff. - . Mar 17, 21:16
I keep seeing the ‘We are on the same track as Italy, just ten days behind’ talking point but is that really a logical comparison? - Volnelk Mar 17, 21:04 10
- I think it's meant more as a generality of what could happen, though at the same time the numbers have lined up alarmingly well (so far) -- (edited) - ty97 Mar 17, 21:51 6
  - To that point. Google is telling me that the population density of Italy is 532 per square mile. -- (edited) - ty97 Mar 17, 21:57 5
    - So Italy is like Idaho in that respect - crash davis Mar 17, 22:10 2
      - Both start with the letter I and arguably end in vowels... - ty97 Mar 17, 22:12 1
        
        Brava! -- nm - crash davis Mar 17, 22:13
    - (obviously check my math on some of these, I'm sleepy and could have messed up) - ty97 Mar 17, 22:07
    - Yes. Remember that map Trump loved to show of all the places where he won the popular vote? That's rural America. - David Mar 17, 22:03
- It's a mathematical curiosity as much as anything, but it has worked remarkably well as an expectations model thus far. - David Mar 17, 21:17
- Let’s ask Loosilu -- nm - Pippy-with a side eye Mar 17, 21:17
- Nothing like sewing a bit of fear and panic to get eyeballs. -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 21:08
As a break from the penguins spend some time with the barn owls....... - Meg Mar 17, 20:31 3
- Do owls eat bats? -- nm - Flavorize— Mar 17, 20:44 2
  - They do -- (link) - . Mar 17, 21:18
  - I'm sure they would, but doubt they could catch them. These exist mainly on rodents with an occasional small bird that they probably find sleeping. -- nm - Meg Mar 17, 21:16
IL voter turnout was half (or less) of 4 years ago. Makes me worry about November if this continues. -- nm - pmb Mar 17, 20:20 20
- Young people don't vote. Trump voters will be dead. It's up to, basically... well, the 40-50 people on ST. -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 20:47 8
  - I vote Krusty. -- nm - David Mar 17, 20:50 7
    - I appreciate your support. -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 20:59
    - The "A sneaker in every pot stash" platform is a surefire winner. -- (edited) - Beryllium Mar 17, 20:54 5
      - i'm sure a pot stash in every sneaker is more practical -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 23:33
      - Wait. - znufrii Mar 17, 21:00 2
        
        I tend bar, and I listen. But I don't remember things reliably enough to not always be concerned about misremembering. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 21:07 1
        
        (Maybe picard S2 can have "defective guinan" ... although come to think of it, I would prefer detective guinan) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 21:07
      - Yeah! - Krusty Mar 17, 20:58
- And yet in FL (and likely AZ) where vote by mail is common and easy, turnout was up over 2016 -- nm* - ty97 Mar 17, 20:34 1
  - (so ya know, get on the vote by mail people) -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 20:36
- If this is still ongoing in the fall, the math indicates that many government officials will be dead by then. -- nm - David Mar 17, 20:27 8
  - Supreme Court deaths should be terrifying to think about -- nm - Bacon Mar 17, 21:39 4
    - You misunderstand my intent. If Coronavirus is still a significant problem in six months, governments may have collapsed. -- (edited) - David Mar 17, 21:46 3
      - One of the threads I read (e.g., grain of salt) suggested about 2 years before things can start returning to normal. - Beryllium Mar 17, 22:05 2
        
        It all depends on people's definitions of normal. I expect Americans to be out and about again in eight weeks.* - David Mar 17, 22:19 1
        
        I'm taking the "over" on that one. - Beryllium Mar 17, 22:33
  - *does the math* ... checks out. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 20:34 2
    - Come November, America needs to wash its hands of Conservatives. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 20:36 1
      - well, they should wash their hands, regardless... -- nm - znufrii Mar 17, 20:45
Biden won AZ -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 20:14
Damn, I just found out that Avatar 2 was delayed. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 20:03 8
- Why you killfile me? -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 20:46 3
  - I wasn't looking at ST, I was reading MickeyBlog via Feedly -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 20:53 2
    - YEAH!!! - David Mar 17, 21:04 1
      - Nice! -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 21:05
- — -- nm* - Flavorize— Mar 17, 20:43
- The good news don't stop coming! (NM) - Marlowe Mar 17, 20:15
- ...said nobody ever. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 17, 20:04
- There was an Avatar 1? -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 20:04
With Philip Rivers now officially the qb for the Colts—of course, Twitter spits out this unwanted sequel... -- (link) - Flavorize— Mar 17, 20:02
The wide range of mortality rates in countries with significant numbers is CRAZY from Korea at a very high 1% to Italy’s INSANE 8,7%. Fuck -- nm - JackDawson Mar 17, 19:50 4
- Age curve, or health infrastructure, or something else? -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 17, 19:54 3
  - Italy they say was because the sheer numbers of elderly...but also it broke wild n out of control and they were flooded with intensive care victims - zeitgeist Mar 17, 20:16 2
    - Italy have a small fraction of the per capita hospital beds South Korea has (and unfortunately we have a fraction of Italy's number). - con_carne Mar 17, 20:30 1
      - jeez, I hope it works, new York now has 160 hospitalized, 68 in ICU...here's a story about how they have to lie to dying patients in Italy -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 17, 20:33
PA Turnpike suspends cash toll collection, will rely on toll-by-plate for drivers without EZPass. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 17, 19:49 1
- Illinois tollroads as well. -- nm - . Mar 17, 20:38
I need kitchen tongs. Any recommendations? Super magic ones? Or whatever is cheapest at Amazon? -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 19:44 5
- I have a cheapie version of these. Work just fine for my needs. -- (link) - Meg Mar 17, 20:40 1
  - That works for me! Thanks! -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 20:48
- my best tongs came in the grille set. I have cheap metal ones for the occasional kitchen use. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 17, 20:14
- Mine have a sliding lock that I HATE -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 20:01
- I dislike silicon tips, the food just slips out. I have 3, some bamboo tweezer like, a longer chop stick kind, a u shaped metal -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 19:56
I have D+ but get like no use of it. my coworker who has a 20 month old says it's the only thing keeping him going. - amanda Mar 17, 19:28 10
- or you could just steal someone's kid for a few hours -- nm - decline Mar 17, 21:01
- I hope you have already seen today's penguin awesomeness (nmblink) - ralph wiggum Mar 17, 20:01 6
  - I'm pretty much all penguin all the time now. Just give me penguin content, non-stop. -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 20:03 5
    - Correct. Note too that I moved my home office downstairs because chubs is scared of stairs lately. Cats are important now too. -- nm - amanda Mar 17, 20:45
    - And... -- (link) - David Mar 17, 20:06 3
      - !!!!!!!! -- nm - amanda Mar 17, 20:45
      - Just the question I had. And the answer I needed. -- nm* - . Mar 17, 20:33
      - Gaaaaaaaaaaah! nm - ralph wiggum Mar 17, 20:09
- If you ever want to watch Frozen 2.... -- nm - znufrii Mar 17, 19:31
- I wonder if the netflix plugin that lets people synchronize watch videos works with d+ -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 19:30
Wasserman has called IL-03 for Newman -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 19:26 1
- Jerry is gonna be mad. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 17, 20:04
Things that might be harder than I thought: Needing to continually explain to a three year old why the playground is still closed. -- nm* - znufrii Mar 17, 19:22 4
- Tell her the monsters are playing there now -- nm - decline Mar 17, 21:01 1
  - She'll probably insist on being Elsa and using her magic to turn them into nice monsters. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 17, 21:05
- Your kid and Bery's kids should have a playdate while you guys get stoned. -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 20:57
- Also harder than I thought: watching other parents teach their kids social distancing in real time, as A and I were out for a walk around the block. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 17, 20:36
A bunch of Square Enix stuff on sale for Switch -- (link) - spamlet Mar 17, 19:18
TB12 is expected to sign with TB. -- nm - Shaun Mar 17, 19:14 1
- Last thing we need right now is a TB outbreak -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 20:01
Nevada is closed. Gov. Sisolak orders all non-essential business closed for 30 days. Banks, grocers, gas stations and similar bus. will stay open. - Peglegpete Mar 17, 19:06 1
- pot dispensaries are part medical, and are not sure if they will be considered an essential business by the state, yet. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 17, 19:12
Dove beauty bar soap claims that it is not soap. IS IT SAFE?? Heh -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 19:05 1
- Dove Beauty Bar is people!!! -- nm - Bacon Mar 17, 19:10
Point -- (link) - ty97 Mar 17, 18:57 8
- Yes, but each one of those days lasted a week apiece. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 17, 18:59 3
  - I was talking with Subby yesterday and he said "Well back on Saturday, which was... Jesus, two days ago..." -- nm - Reagen Mar 17, 19:10 1
    - I'm laughing but also dying a little inside. -- nm - David Mar 17, 19:17
  - It doesn’t help that I worked on Sunday, but how is this week not over already? -- nm - Dano Mar 17, 19:03
- also -- (link) - ty97 Mar 17, 18:58 3
  - Heh. -- (pic) - Beryllium Mar 17, 18:59 [Attachment] 1
    - yep - ty97 Mar 17, 19:00
  - Yup. -- nm - David Mar 17, 18:59
Well this is not a great number. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 17, 18:44
Something to remember about this administration. It manipulates the media. - David Mar 17, 18:41 7
- The only issue is that headlines like that will make the market sink further and faster. -- nm - Bacon Mar 17, 19:12 3
  - Okay so going by your line of thinking. The further the market drops the bigger the rise will be when we get on the backside of this. - Bacon Mar 17, 19:14 2
    - From a week ago...... -- (link) - Meg Mar 17, 19:28 [Backboard]
    - *ding* -- (link) - znufrii Mar 17, 19:16 [Backboard]
- They WILL brag later -- nm - JackDawson Mar 17, 18:42 2
  - Trump will find some way to swing this into reelection, I'm sure of it. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 18:44 1
    - and will do *anything* for it (like throwing $T out there) because it's curtains for him on inauguration day. He belongs in prison. -- nm - mud Mar 17, 18:54
NASCAR: Drivers like Kyle Busch, Dale Jr, Hamlin going the e-driving route. FOX considering airing their first "race" this weekend. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 17, 18:40 2
- Watch them get smoked by some ten year old -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 18:53 1
  - I would watch commercials to see it. -- nm - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 17, 19:01
Close race in IL-3 primary between incumbent conservative Dem Dan Lipinski and Marie Newman -- (link) - ty97 Mar 17, 18:40 5
- Yeah they primaried him in 2018 as well. -- nm - spamlet Mar 17, 18:47 4
  - Yeah I recall that, I think it may have even been the same opponent? -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 19:06 3
    - Could be. It was a close race then too - spamlet Mar 17, 19:13 1
      - They actually knocked the literal Nazi off the ballot for the general -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 19:15
    - wait, I just checked and he was *not* challenged in 2016? - ty97 Mar 17, 19:08
Apocalypse day seven: the virtual assistants are starting to undermine me. -- nm - David Mar 17, 18:40 1
- Bixby you virtual slut. -- nm - Qale Mar 17, 18:48
Dawn of Justice -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 18:40
Watching X2 on Disney+. The transfer isn't great. -- nm - Shaun Mar 17, 18:40 3
- The Fox/Disney integration has been a nightmare. Fox just quit trying when employees found out about the buyout. -- nm - David Mar 17, 18:40 2
  - Honestly, were they trying before? -- nm - spamlet Mar 17, 19:14 1
    - That's certainly what people have loudly wondered. Disney studio folks were horrified by the Fox people's work ethic. -- nm - David Mar 17, 19:16

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