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From B2, ty97 Dua Lipa is following the Euro diva mold. She minor in the US but gigantic in Europe. She had 3 sold out nights at the O2. -- nm - MDH Apr 10, 14:02 1
- Is she minor in the USA? In gay circles she’s gigantic and didn’t she win several Grammys? -- nm - JackDawson Apr 10, 14:04
Osprey Webcam -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 10, 13:59
Dolittle is a waking nightmare of a movie. -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 13:55 6
- Dolittle did less. -- nm - budice Apr 10, 14:05
- #3 movie at the worldwide box office for 2020! (How was Jason Mantzoukas?) -- nm - Roger More Apr 10, 14:03 1
  - I'm barely 20 minutes in. Haven't gotten to his part yet. -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 14:04
- Why is he whispering?? -- nm - Max Apr 10, 14:00
- Bagpipes -- nm - Spawn Apr 10, 13:57
- I have a fondness for the first one, but then I haven't seen it since I was kid. -- nm - . Apr 10, 13:57
They already have contact tracing, currently it needs court orders, but cops check gps for phones near murder scenes routinely. -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 10, 13:52
smart toilets can now identify certain medical conditions -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 10, 13:48 1
- But they report it to you before you're done and their bedside manner is *horrible* -- nm - Max Apr 10, 13:49
Omg -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 10, 13:44 3
- LOL -- nm - Jovian Apr 10, 14:03
- And that is the short version. -- nm - Spawn Apr 10, 13:56 1
  - "Akilah! Come inside before they start the Purge!" -- nm - Beryllium Apr 10, 14:00
And of course the Labor Dept. is trying their best to f*ck things up, because heaven forbid we actually help people who need it. -- (link) - znufrii Apr 10, 13:41 4
- Some conservatives don't want government programs to actually help people. That would make government seem good and necessary. -- nm - mara Apr 10, 13:53
- I just finished reading that and now I'm nervous I won't qualify. :-/ -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 13:52 2
  - local news interviews with hairdressers etc, they are mostly self employed who rent chairs in salons and they are screwed -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 10, 13:53 1
    - Thanks for that boost to my already nervous stomach -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 13:55
Pompeii archeology news -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 10, 13:40 1
- WHY DIDN'T YOU STAY INSIDE. YOU IDIOTS. IF I HAD BEEN THERE I WOULD HAVE STABBED ANYONE OUTSIDE. -- nm - Italian mayors of the post-apocalypse Apr 10, 13:43
This is a unique moment in the history of mankind where all our most talented artists are basically stuck at home doing nothing. - Mop Apr 10, 13:36
The Brandin Cooks Trade Continues Bill O’Brien’s Awful Offseason for the Ages -- (link) - Beaker Apr 10, 13:28 3
- That Tunsil quote is amazing. That was right when Miami was saying they weren’t tanking...and they get a Godfather offer. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 10, 14:22
- Fsntasy Football at the highest level. -- nm - . Apr 10, 13:39
- The Cooks and Tunsil deals are both going to be discussed right alongside the Herschel Walker trade in years to come. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 13:32
Well, there we go. I only live once, right? And the economy needs my cash, I guess, right? (NM) - Marlowe Apr 10, 13:21 9
- Nice. We are okay but I have had to delay each of my paychecks (effin' renters) so far so our flow is tighter than usual. -- nm - Spawn Apr 10, 13:28
- Nice! I hope you love it. -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 13:24
- i just ordered my ps4 slim bundle... - tRuMaN Apr 10, 13:23 1
  - Pretty sure I still have you added on PS from PS3 days. -- nm - J Apr 10, 14:28
- Final Fantasy VII on PS4? -- nm - David Apr 10, 13:22 3
  - Well, first I'll wait for the PS4 itself, which I guess should be here in a few work days. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 10, 13:31 1
    - Hopefully. My windshield wipers I ordered are still set for a few more weeks. -- nm* - Spawn Apr 10, 13:33
  - I won't spoil it. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 13:24
- Once more unto the breach - Reagen Apr 10, 13:22
Patrick Stewart is passing his time reading sonnets. You could spare a minute to listen to him doing it. -- (link) - Mop Apr 10, 13:20
Indeed -- (link) - Reagen Apr 10, 13:19 5
- "He can't have ze duck." -- nm - L'Idiot Apr 10, 13:31
- Wish we had more of him during the housing/financial crisis. -- nm - VMan Apr 10, 13:28 1
  - He's like the anti-Santelli. -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 13:36
- Well said, Chamath. -- nm - David Apr 10, 13:26
- Oh my stars and garters! -- nm - Spawn Apr 10, 13:26
!!!!!!!! "A least 6,000 passengers remain at sea on cruise liners despite the coronavirus pandemic" -- (link) - ty97 Apr 10, 13:11 6
- I can understand the round the world cruises. My friends did one that took 108 days. And they have to be smaller vessels. Big ones have 2000-3000 each -- nm - Meg Apr 10, 13:52
- As a journalist, I'm having a hard time tracking down what's real vs. what's rumored. Everyone involved with cruises is in Full-On Liar Mode. -- nm - David Apr 10, 13:22
- At least 6,362 passengers are onboard the eight ships, several of which were scheduled as months-long, round-the-world voyages. - Mop Apr 10, 13:18
- I guess it's unlikely to see any (small, private) ghost ships due to modern comms, but imagine how eerie that would be. -- nm - Max Apr 10, 13:14
- wth??? -- nm - prayformojo Apr 10, 13:14 1
  - If they dock, the virus will get them. -- nm - Spawn Apr 10, 13:29
The CDC just extended the shutdown of cruises for another 100 days, which would be July 19th. - David Apr 10, 13:07 16
- We'll have to decide in late Sept whether we want to go on ours in Decemeber or not. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 13:12 3
  - Long term, this will be good for the cruise industry. They can't look the other way about Petri dish aspects. But you can't go until there's a cure. - David Apr 10, 13:28
  - Unless there is a vaccine by then (highly unlikely) I think the decision will be made for you -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 13:13 1
    - True. That assumes we will even have a choice. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 13:13
- Are the ships all in port somewhere? -- nm - Max Apr 10, 13:09 1
  - Not all. -- nm - loosilu Apr 10, 13:32
- It will extend again -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 13:07 9
  - The Disney Wonder reportedly has 38 infected crew members. - David Apr 10, 13:08 8
    - Are ships still sailing? -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 13:09 7
      - All Disney cruises are canceled. It's one of these ghost ships going around with no passengers but sick crew. -- nm - David Apr 10, 13:11 6
        
        There's a book/horror film in that. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 10, 13:15 5
        
        Ghost Ship! -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 13:27 1
        
        watched it again recently. best opening scene for a horror film - EVER -- nm - Pippy-with a cotton tail Apr 10, 14:05
        
        Jungle Cruise From Hell!! -- nm - Diva Apr 10, 13:24
        
        Disney characters doing the Five Freddy's at Night thing 😆 -- nm - JD Apr 10, 13:21
        
        Joe Hill! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 10, 13:19
If 2020 was a movie scene. -- (pic) - spamlet Apr 10, 13:03 [Attachment]
someone I follow in instagram has a cat she named Yngwie -- nm - prayformojo Apr 10, 12:54 3
- Yngwie Meowmstein? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 10, 13:29
- Does it unleash the fookin fury? -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 12:57 1
  - This post gives me happiness. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 10, 13:00
No, you did not get Covid-19 in the fall of 2019 -- (link) - znufrii Apr 10, 12:54 1
- But I had a cough that lasted for weeks! -- nm - Dano Apr 10, 13:14
Here's some fascinating data about Orlando International Airport. - David Apr 10, 12:49 12
- I'm pretty sure that drop percentage is in number of passengers. I'm not sure that any airport in the world is capable of the several thousand flights - JD Apr 10, 12:59 4
  - Yes, sorry. I wrote that terribly. -- nm - David Apr 10, 13:10 2
    - I found a number of 850 flights as an estimate for last year which still makes the percentages remarkable - JD Apr 10, 13:13 1
      - United fact sheet for their Newark hub says it runs an average of 404 flights to 164 destinations. Now: 15 flights to 9 destinations. -- (link) - ty97 Apr 10, 13:16
  - Yeah, that would make sense -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 13:01
- Passenger counts, which major airport tend to put out monthly, will be *fascinating* -- nm* - ty97 Apr 10, 12:51 5
  - It's ghoulish to say, but I can't wait to study the data. -- nm - David Apr 10, 12:52 3
    - Question #1: Dafuq is out there still needing to fly -- nm* - con_carne Apr 10, 12:55 1
      - Practically no one, thus the empty planes. But medical workers going to work in hotspots are flying, for example. -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 12:57
    - I don't find it ghoulish, it will be interesting. - ty97 Apr 10, 12:54
  - London Heathrow is *closing* 2 of its 4 terminals -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 12:52
- "Even with coronavirus, the TSA lines are long, packed, and full of rowdy children and parents who do not know how to fold a stroller" - ty97 Apr 10, 12:50
"I didn't think of it till yesterday. I said, 'This is going to be a big decision.'" -- nm - mud Apr 10, 12:48 9
- "Staying at home also leads to death" -- nm - Jovian Apr 10, 13:02
- wtf -- (link) - mud Apr 10, 13:00 1
  - projection, projection, projection. -- nm - Diva Apr 10, 13:12
- "That's my metrics." -- (link) - mud Apr 10, 12:58 5
  - And yet -- (link) - Reagen Apr 10, 13:09 4
    - But what Trump means is he'll tell Fox News viewers who are still employed to go back to work and they'll do it and call it a victory. -- nm - Max Apr 10, 13:36 2
      - Until they endvup in the hospital and the companies they work for have to close. -- nm - . Apr 10, 13:41 1
        
        "I didn't start it." -- nm - Max Apr 10, 13:53
    - This is the thing. All those unemployed millions aren't going to have any buying power in 2020. -- nm - Max Apr 10, 13:35
Did any Funko people order the PIAB exclusive? I did not. Looks cool, but a completely unknown character for the most part. -- nm - Shaun Apr 10, 12:46 4
- if you were interested I'd split the shipping charges to get one, but otherwise it is a pass -- nm - Beaker Apr 10, 13:17
- We got a Scott Pilgrim set a couple of weeks ago. Our cans suggested we got the first one from the limited edition. -- nm - David Apr 10, 12:50 2
  - Nice! -- nm - Shaun Apr 10, 12:51
  - wow -- nm - prayformojo Apr 10, 12:51
that article on sports coming back is really well written -- nm - prayformojo Apr 10, 12:35 4
- One of my neighbors has been watching sports at least a couple of times this week and I really want to knock on his door and find out what sport. - ty97 Apr 10, 12:48 1
  - NFL is showing classic games and old superbols. -- nm - VMan Apr 10, 12:49
- Especially that part about ripping out the hair follicles. -- nm - Spawn Apr 10, 12:37 1
  - It was tough but fair. -- nm - David Apr 10, 12:44
"Dear Prudence: My White Girlfriend Told My Black Mom That Eating Vegan Is Like the Civil Rights Movement" -- (link) - ty97 Apr 10, 12:32 15
- It's galaxy brain on his part. He can bring home literally any other woman now, and she'll look better by comparison. -- nm - David Apr 10, 12:45 2
  - And yet the letter did not start with "I broke up...." -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 12:47 1
    - Are you kididng? He's galaxy brain. Imagine how hot the sex is now that she's trying to get him to like her more than his mother! -- nm - David Apr 10, 13:08
- This, from the replies, must be parody. PLEASE LET IT BE PARODY -- (link) - ty97 Apr 10, 12:45 4
  - I'm going to eat some bacon just to get back at that -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 10, 13:18
  - I, for one, welcome our new viral overlords. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 10, 13:05
  - Best of Nextdoor is never not funny. -- nm - B-A-ron Apr 10, 12:58
  - (from the replies to the tweet where I saw the article, that is) -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 12:45
- I...just...what? -- nm - znufrii Apr 10, 12:37 4
  - I can only assume she thinks civil rights and promoting veganism are both causes meant to progress society. And then missed EVERY OTHER THING -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 12:38 3
    - Black rights = animal rights? -- nm - Spawn Apr 10, 12:39 2
      - "Civil rights leaders worked for a cause. I'm working for a cause. SAME THING!" (not the same thing. at all.) -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 12:40 1
        
        There is a link between veganism/vegetarianism and civil rights. However... -- (link) - . Apr 10, 13:01
- Who can forget those images of water hoses being turned on people who refused to eat a hamburger. -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 12:34 1
  - Pescatarian hangings. -- nm - VMan Apr 10, 12:37
So one of the key things that will need to be able to happen to ease stay at home orders is the ability to track and trace infections. Apple and -- (edited) - pmb Apr 10, 12:27 12
- 1) I absolutely trust government to keep data secure more than businesses. 2) If there were an iron-clad ability to secure the data, ok with me - Max Apr 10, 13:16
- Heeeeeeellll no. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 10, 13:13
- I'm very concerned that this would be like the "temporary" actions such as the Patriot Act that were never rolled back. I'm pretty sure that teerorism - JD Apr 10, 12:41 2
  - 100000% it would never go back -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 13:08
  - And add some public health mentality to our ridiculously bespoke private health care system first -- nm* - con_carne Apr 10, 12:46
- The government should team up with both Apple and FB. -- nm - Spawn Apr 10, 12:41
- Nope -- nm - Krusty Apr 10, 12:38
- I'm not that interested in doing any more heavy lifting for the stubborn interior states to benefit from. -- nm - con_carne Apr 10, 12:37
- Pass. -- nm - VMan Apr 10, 12:32
- Yeah....no. -- nm - znufrii Apr 10, 12:30
- NOPE -- nm - ty97 Apr 10, 12:29 1
  - Something like this is almost certainly going to a part of any end to the stay at home order. Here's an interesting article about that. -- (link) - pmb Apr 10, 12:39
How school will be if we go back early -- (link) - Reagen Apr 10, 12:24 [youtube] 5
- What is this, Catholic school?! -- nm - Mop Apr 10, 13:08
- It'll be translated into Swedish(?)? -- nm - . Apr 10, 12:54
- Subtitles I don't understand? -- nm - Spawn Apr 10, 12:44 2
  - your... ears still work, no? -- nm - Reagen Apr 10, 12:49 1
    - Amy was recording a video so I had no sound on. -- nm - Spawn Apr 10, 13:01
You people need to mop more. I missed Shaun's post about the Maggie Simpson short being on Disney+. My 11-year-old daughter told me. - Mop Apr 10, 12:21 1
- Pretty sure you have a good handle on doing it. -- nm - Spawn Apr 10, 12:39
A possible source of the stories of feds taking things from states. I'm not sure how reliable Business Insider is... -- (link) - . Apr 10, 12:11 [Backboard] 7
- What about LA Times? -- (link) - Mop Apr 10, 12:23 2
  - No, they are part of that new nation state. -- nm - POTUS Apr 10, 12:41
  - Much better source. Though the first looks like a rewrite of this to some degree. -- nm - . Apr 10, 12:33
- BI is dodgy. -- nm - loosilu Apr 10, 12:16 2
  - Definitely, it seems to be more second hand compiling of stories without sources. Sometimes the info is good sometimes it's who knows. -- nm - . Apr 10, 12:31
  - Oh you mean sketch -- nm - California si Apr 10, 12:21
- That's probably one of the discussions I'm remembering. -- nm - znufrii Apr 10, 12:16
*seizes B2* -- nm - the feds Apr 10, 12:07 2
- "Seize this, honkus!" -- nm - Max Apr 10, 12:09
- Don't send me back to Cuba! -- nm - B2 Apr 10, 12:09

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