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This seems wrong on many levels. -- (pic) - Qale Apr 20, 06:31 [Attachment] 9
- The person is right but is very bad at communicating. There's a right and nice way to say that without it sounding threatening. -- nm - Krusty Apr 20, 06:42
- Eh, I get it. (At first I thought this was a Tiger King reference.) - JaxSean Apr 20, 06:39
- yeesh -- nm - mud Apr 20, 06:37
- It's a tiny thing in context but the cutesy job titles are a giant red flag. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 06:37 1
  - Yeah! What Reagen said! -- nm - Apple Store Apr 20, 06:40
- Broadly speaking, it's not wrong... -- (edited) - znufrii, stimulated Apr 20, 06:36
- How motivating. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 20, 06:36 2
  - All I can think from the message and tone is that if she has to beg her people to come back, this person must be a nightmare to work for. -- nm - pmb Apr 20, 06:38
  - Yeah, I'd love to work for her. In Hell. -- nm - Diva Apr 20, 06:38
Not sure how to feel about this. Guy who got laid off here who I helped on Friday to extract his contacts to his personal phone sent me a $10 - oblique Apr 20, 06:26 2
- Its fine. small personal gift -- nm - budice Apr 20, 06:33
- That's a nice gesture for you going above and beyond what was likely expected. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 20, 06:30
Well, our kitty took a sharp downhill turn this weekend. Just made the call to the vet :( - spamlet Apr 20, 06:23 18
- ahh, very sorry -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 07:02
- Thanks everyone :( -- nm - spamlet Apr 20, 07:02
- Ugh so sorry. -- nm - Shaun Apr 20, 06:42
- I am so very sorry. :-( - Krusty Apr 20, 06:40 1
  - We did. They said one person only (that’s been standard procedure for them since the SAH orders) -- nm - spamlet Apr 20, 07:01
- :( -- nm - Diva Apr 20, 06:38
- :-[ -- nm - mud Apr 20, 06:38
- So very sorry. We love them so much. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 20, 06:37
- So sorry. Always hard to lose a family member, but even harder now I think. -- nm - pmb Apr 20, 06:36
- Sorry to hear this. Your vet isn't doing drop off/come to the car kind of thing? - Cuzzin Todd Apr 20, 06:35
- Poor kee-kee. Poor spamlet. My heart goes out to you and your family. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 20, 06:33
- So sorry. It is hard to lose a furry family member especially in these times. -- nm - oblique Apr 20, 06:28
- oh, I am so sorry. (and I hate how vet things have to happen now.) -- nm* - Andie Apr 20, 06:26
- Aww. So sorry :( -- nm - JaxSean Apr 20, 06:26
- oh no :( -- nm - ty97 Apr 20, 06:26
- sorry to hear this -- nm - prayformojo Apr 20, 06:26
- I'm so sorry - give the kiddo a big hug from us -- nm - decline Apr 20, 06:25
- :( -- nm - znufrii Apr 20, 06:25
This would ruin so many movie plots. NY makes legal FaceTime marriages. -- (link) - Open Baron Apr 20, 06:14
Obesity appears to be a risk factor for hospitalizations for COVID for people under 65. - spamlet Apr 20, 06:08 2
- To your IM: not to mention Type 2 diabetes. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 20, 06:19
- I keep seeing articles about a lot of after effects. Kidney damage, etc. etc. I fear we're going to see a large amount of post-covid complications - oblique Apr 20, 06:17
The orange cake was really good. Nice and spongey, good flavour but not overly orangey. Could have done with a more icing-like drizzle instead of -- (edited) - Reagen Apr 20, 06:08 3
- Nice !I think this very light-looking carrot cake might be my next baking project: -- (link*) - Andie Apr 20, 06:24
- I made bavarian pretzels this weekend (my first pretzel try). They're not very uniform or pretty but sure do taste good -- nm - decline Apr 20, 06:13 1
  - I've done them a couple of times. Very tasty but a lot of work. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 06:35
Happy belated birthday to b.! Woo hoo!!! - Krusty Apr 20, 06:02 3
- HBD -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 20, 10:30
- cheers ! -- nm - mud Apr 20, 06:39
- Happy Belated Birthday, b! -- nm - JaxSean Apr 20, 06:36
weekend viewing: Bosch S6 B-, #blackAF S1 B, Belgravia last 2 eps.(of 6) B+ -- nm - mud Apr 20, 06:00 11
- Oceans 8. The Great Canadian Baking Challenge (perfect comfort tv). Rewatched Rocketman. I needed light this weekend. -- nm - Andie Apr 20, 06:29 2
  - Julia Chan seems like she's constantly auditioning for a role in The Great Gatsby. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 06:39 1
    - We are constantly commenting on the very wrong make-up choices someone made for her. -- nm - Andie Apr 20, 07:14
- Mostly finished Beastars: B+, but the theme song/opening animation gets an A. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 20, 06:20
- Wrapped up Killing Eve S01: A. -- nm - Shaun Apr 20, 06:10 2
  - It gets crazier. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 06:12 1
    - We watched S02E01 last night too. Great start. -- nm - Shaun Apr 20, 06:12
- Bulls Doc: A+ -- nm - Krusty Apr 20, 06:08
- Final season of Silicon Valley: B+. First half of Succession S1: A- -- nm - spamlet Apr 20, 06:07
- Finished Ozark S3: B+ Watched a bunch of other stuff too. Plowing through Discovery S2 to get to Picard before my trial expires -- nm - oblique Apr 20, 06:05 1
  - Until last week I had no idea that.....(not really spoilers) - prayformojo Apr 20, 06:25
Apparently NBC/USA and Fox both had to tell Vince McMahon they would not cut his money for airing previously taped shows (that are first-run) - Will Hunting Apr 20, 05:46
ST TS (tech support): I moved my desk to the closet this weekend. when I was in the dining room, when I closed my laptop, my monitors would stay on - amanda Apr 20, 05:44 10
- Control Panel -> Power & Sleep -> Additional Power Settings -> Choose What Closing the Lid Does -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 05:48 9
  - when I close the lid "do nothing" is selected. -- nm - amanda Apr 20, 05:51 8
    - Is "Do nothing" selected for both plugged in and on battery? -- nm - Inigo Apr 20, 06:00 1
      - yes. -- nm - amanda Apr 20, 06:07
    - Double check that the monitor you want on is still the primary display. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 05:55 5
      - yes correct. -- nm - amanda Apr 20, 06:07 1
        
        A more complex solution if that doesn't solve it - Reagen Apr 20, 06:10
      - (Found on a MSFT forum) - Reagen Apr 20, 06:00 2
        
        I will try this when my zoom is over; thanks. (it's very odd to me that it just started doing this when I moved.) -- nm - amanda Apr 20, 06:10 1
        
        it's like the old programmer's maxim: if it's working, don't touch it. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 06:11
There's a new ... Soul Asylum record? Is it back to 1998 again? I wouldn't mind it being 1998 again for a bit. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 05:42
Good news, everyone! I added a Date vs Delta graph to my Daily Electrical Use spreadsheet! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 20, 05:16 9
- how do you get daily use? from the power company or did you install a gdget? -- nm - amanda Apr 20, 05:49 3
  - Neither, unfortunately. Every morning I check the reading on the meter on the back of the house and enter it into a googleform -- nm - prayformojo Apr 20, 05:52 2
    - there are gadgets avail. I've been thinking of getting one since I got minisplits. -- nm - amanda Apr 20, 06:19 1
      - I'll have to look at this. It would make my mornings a lot easier -- nm - prayformojo Apr 20, 06:26
- Hopefully the solarman comes tomorrow and finishes installing my inverter, then I can too! -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 05:34 3
  - is the solarman a superhero? - prayformojo Apr 20, 05:53 1
    - he creates electricity from sunlight! Seems like a superpower to me. -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 05:58
  - Inverted -- (pic) - oblique Apr 20, 05:40 [Attachment]
- Quarantine Data Tracking buddy! -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 05:33
Good news everyone! My beehives arrive tonight! -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 04:59 2
- awshum! -- nm - Diva Apr 20, 06:12
- Yeah! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 20, 05:11
TV PSA: 911, Below Deck SY, Antiques Roadshow, Bachelor, Voice, Raw, Who's Line is it Anyway?, Celebrity IOU, Roswell New Mexico, Prodigal Son, -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 04:51 2
- Better Call Saul, Breeders, Plot Against America, Home Town, Dragnificent!, Baker and the Beauty, Songland, Andy Cohen, Dispatches from Elsewhere, -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 04:52 1
  - My Brilliant Friend: The Story of a New Name, Chopped Sweets, Dummy (Quibi), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 04:53
Interesting turnabout for Shake Shack -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 20, 00:32 20
- Good. -- nm - znufrii, stimulated Apr 20, 06:23
- Harvard, which has an endowment of $40B received $9M... -- nm - decline Apr 20, 06:15 5
  - 1) This was not through the PPP so they didn't take money from anyone 2) This is to cover student aid/housing/food for those that cannot leave campus. - MDH Apr 20, 06:27 3
    - Doesn't change the fact that they are taking money they don't need which could be applied to other schools that could really use the help -- nm - decline Apr 20, 06:48
    - Is it from the tax payer? -- nm - Krusty Apr 20, 06:46
    - Are they in session? If so, why aren’t the students who aren’t leaving not paying for their lodging as they would be anyhow? - Will Hunting Apr 20, 06:38
  - Would love to see how they justify that. -- nm - znufrii, stimulated Apr 20, 06:19
- Good. Others need to follow suit. -- (edited) - Krusty Apr 20, 05:59
- How did they get that that money so quickly? I haven't heard of anyone actually receiving anything yet. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Apr 20, 05:44 3
  - We've seen a few get their money. -- nm - pmb Apr 20, 06:36
  - When you big customer. You have contacts in place to make things happen. Normal small business not so lucky -- nm - budice Apr 20, 05:55 1
    - yes, this. KYC = Know Your Customer. -- nm - Diva Apr 20, 06:13
- So the loophole here is that any individual store in the chain has less than 500 employees. -- nm - Qale Apr 20, 04:50 7
  - Correct. If you’re in food service as long as each location has less than 500 employees they’re all treated as separate employers. -- nm - spamlet Apr 20, 05:01 4
    - ^^^^^ This. Since many locations operate independently. Many franchised fast food places will be treated as such -- nm - budice Apr 20, 05:14 3
      - You don’t have to be franchised. I don’t believe SS franchises and neither does Ruth’s Chris. -- (edited) - spamlet Apr 20, 05:20 2
        
        I'm not even 100% convinced franchises should have been allowed to qualify, maybe they should be the responsibility of their "parent" companies instead. -- nm* - znufrii, stimulated Apr 20, 06:16
        
        Such crap -- nm - Krusty Apr 20, 05:58
  - Maybe all technically owned by franchisees? -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 04:58 1
    - Yeah, I could see the franchisee thing being a legit need... Unless! That franchise owner owns enough of the chain to go over 500 themselves. -- nm - Qale Apr 20, 05:08
Good news, Everyone! I found it. THIS should be the ST compound. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 19, 23:53 7
- Dibs on the Angry Dome. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 20, 06:17
- It's *broken*. -- nm - loosilu Apr 20, 04:37 1
  - Waaaaanderful. Yes.... hhaahaaahaaahaaa. -- nm - Broken Matt Hardy Apr 20, 04:50
- Can we add a chocolatier? -- nm - . Apr 20, 02:12
- building should be condemned. There's serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it's completely inadequate for -- nm - our needs Apr 20, 00:20 1
  - And the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone. -- nm* - Egon Spengler Apr 20, 00:24
- excellent potential -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 20, 00:04
This is one reason why I haven't tempted a self-haircut. My clippers would totally die, they can hardly handle my beard at the best of times. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 19, 23:02
Oil prices down to 15 (WTI not brent) -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 19, 22:11 11
- May is thinly traded and the contracts expire tomorrow. June is trading at $23, that said it's down $2 in overnight trading. -- nm - Under the Influence Apr 20, 02:34
- Western Canadian Select, i.e., the one they wanted to send through pipelines and had huge protests over ... is trading negative today. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 19, 23:59 2
  - As in, -$0.15/barrel -- nm - Beryllium Apr 19, 23:59 1
    - last week Wyoming Sour -$0.19 and some of the smaller players in Texas were being offered $2:00 bbl. -- nm - Under the Influence Apr 20, 02:29
- I thought there'd been an agreement among oil producers to stop the freefall. -- nm - Mop Apr 19, 22:56 6
  - I don’t think they can pump it back into the ground, Mop. -- nm - Qale Apr 20, 04:53 1
    - Strangely enough they do. Lots of storage capacity is underground reservoirs. Especially natural gas. -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 05:01
  - demand is down by almost 30m barrels/day, agreement only cut production by 10m. -- nm - mafic Apr 19, 23:27
  - Brent started dicking around and that went out the window. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 19, 23:01 2
    - Ratner or Spiner? -- nm - Mop Apr 19, 23:01 1
      - I thought it was Brent Crude, but I was wrong, it was actually Brett Bunsen. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 19, 23:06 [youtube]
Can anyone here spot me 15 million dollars? I want to open a drive-in theatre and have just the perfect spot of land to do it on. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 19, 22:08 4
- That comment section is disgusting. Everyone is on topic and pleasent. -- nm - Qale Apr 20, 04:56
- What kind of drive-in do you build for 15 mil?! Any shitty parking lot will do! -- nm - Mop Apr 19, 23:01 2
  - Actually I want the property for other reasons, it's just that it would be very easy to set up a drive-in on short notice. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 19, 23:07 1
    - Ah, the compound ;) -- nm - Meg Apr 19, 23:16
Pandemic is *over* ...says Fox News -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 19, 22:01 1
- And that was about 2 weeks ago. -- nm - Spawn Apr 19, 22:25
This is brother's neighbor. He said he'd love to go over and help but, you know, quarantine 😉 -- (pic) - Meg Apr 19, 21:39 [Attachment] 3
- building a log cabin? or chopping firewood? -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 19, 22:00 2
  - I need to ask him. He said 'milling' but I don't know if the guy does it commercially or if this is for his own use. I know every house has a huge - Meg Apr 19, 22:04 1
    - Yeah, milling implies he’s making lumber of some sort? -- nm - mafic Apr 19, 22:41
Tuesday night CBS will have a tribute to Prince concert -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 19, 21:25 1
- Utube TV has it at 9pm EST. -- nm - Spawn Apr 19, 21:34
Hot take: while that Biden video bashing Trump and China is probably effective, it's still disturbingly racist in tone. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 19, 21:23
Every Final Fantasy VII Remake guide: "Beating Shiva is easy compared to previous boss fights." - David Apr 19, 21:03 1
- That's Sony for you. Just destroying and burying their brand. -- nm - mOP Apr 20, 06:08
I love my BFF and her husband (wife). They have been foundering for a couple of years, should have hung it up two years ago. The THREE weeks I spent -- (edited) - loosilu Apr 19, 20:57 4
- To be clear, the situation is not ok and you should not accept being treated that way. - ralph wiggum Apr 19, 21:09 1
  - Thank you rafe. It's complex. I appreciate outside validation. We will get through. -- nm - loosilu Apr 19, 21:48
- I hope your brother the Brother is doing well. I saw his boss on tv last week. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 19, 21:00 1
  - He's been a Father for 8 years! lives in Rome, doing well. -- nm - loosilu Apr 19, 21:49
You had me at, "Anna Kendrick and sex doll." -- nm - Spawn Apr 19, 20:55
If one finds Jennifer Connolly intrinsically fascinating, Max's proposition fails without further argument. -- nm - crash davis Apr 19, 20:54 5
- Jennifer’s work in Career Opportunities has earned her the Volnelk Lifetime Achievement Award. - Volnelk Apr 19, 21:22
- I find her much more appealing than Jennifer Tilley, who I originally thought this was about. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 19, 20:56 3
  - (Although Tilley did have one role recent-ish-ly that I thought was great) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 19, 20:57 2
    - (Modern Family, I think) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 19, 20:59 1
      - World Series of Poker, possibly? -- nm - crash davis Apr 19, 20:59
FB post about weird menu items in China, Well there's plenty of weird things we eat...Nutria, crawfish, rattlesnakes, scorpions, geoducks, possum -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 19, 20:53 4
- Kale, eggplant, raddichio -- nm - crash davis Apr 19, 21:02 3
  - we just had eat the chocolate Wabbit season -- nm - Elmer Fudd Apr 19, 21:08 2
    - was it Trevor Noah, or seth Meyers that point out that it was just last year we were eating Tide Pods -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 19, 21:15 1
      - (Wrong place) -- nm* - Andie Apr 20, 03:16
“The same people screaming about their right to protest all hate Colin Kaepernick. Change my mind.” -- nm - Volnelk Apr 19, 20:47 4
- My guess is they're also anti-abortion while screaming about the right to choose what they do with their bodies. -- nm - pmb Apr 19, 20:56 1
  - And they'll get ill and spread it to someone who tried to do everything right -- nm* - Andie Apr 20, 03:21
- WP: black guy gets shot, shoulda followed rules, WP: refugee seeking assylum? shoulds followed rules WP: being told to stay home, FUCK YOUR RULES -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 19, 20:51
- LIBERATE B1!! -- nm - Volnelk Apr 19, 20:48

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