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SHowtime/WWE: Becky Lynch to guest star on Billions this weekend. -- nm - Remlik Apr 29, 11:39
LYC - Capital One is offering to redeem miles for meals and streaming services. - sycor Apr 29, 11:36 7
- Is Bonefish a good place? -- nm - crash davis Apr 29, 11:48 6
  - I think it really depends on the location. The one in Princeton got so bad they actually closed it down -- nm - decline Apr 29, 11:54
  - The food's pretty good but wildly overpriced, at least here. - David Apr 29, 11:52 1
    - Yeah it's a Franchise but it's still good. And they have a great Old Fashioned. -- nm - sycor Apr 29, 11:53
  - I like it. It's maybe a set above Outback, but for seafood. Bang Bang Shrimp is awesome. And their shrimp and scallops are yummy. - sycor Apr 29, 11:51
  - Bonefish Grill? We like it. -- nm - Spawn Apr 29, 11:49 1
    - I was told not to trust you on food. But then again, the guy who told me that looks like Lex Luthor. -- nm - crash davis Apr 29, 11:51
Nice. Canon's new software will turn select EOS and PowerShot cameras into webcams on Windows 10 -- (link) - oblique Apr 29, 11:33 3
- My 80d is on the list, but with ** beside it. Whatever that means. -- nm - sycor Apr 29, 12:04
- So Big Brother can watch us even better! -- nm - Spawn Apr 29, 11:36 1
  - No, so oblique can do web cam shows for us -- nm - crash davis Apr 29, 11:44
jfc, Bill DeBlasio is a dumbass. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Apr 29, 11:30 15
- What this time? -- nm - Krusty Apr 29, 11:34 9
  - When he put the entire NYC Jewish community on notice after the hasidic funeral incident yesterday. -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man Apr 29, 11:40 8
    - It wasn't the first time they've done something like this. They've gathered for other funerals, for weddings and for school. This is the first time -- (edited) - Krusty Apr 29, 11:46 6
      - I'm not saying he was wrong to call it out, just to seem like he was making it about all the Jews, instead of one particular subgroup. -- nm* - znufrii, silly old man Apr 29, 11:48 1
        
        I guess he could have been more direct in his remarks, that's true. -- nm - Krusty Apr 29, 11:50
      - True. Tone isn’t a New Yorker’s strong suit anyway. I particularly am amused by the very mature “But they were doing it too, dad” kind of excuse. -- nm - Qale Apr 29, 11:48 1
        
        No, it is not. I've been called out on it before. Hard to change though. -- nm - Krusty Apr 29, 11:50
      - Some backstory that (appears to be) is true: The NYPD actually coordinated this funeral situation. - ty97 Apr 29, 11:47 1
        
        I read that and that makes it so much worse. We shouldn't have allowed it to happen and then when they got their allowance they screwed it up by - Krusty Apr 29, 11:53
    - The presentation of the message was not great, true. -- nm - ty97 Apr 29, 11:43
- What? Any statement that starts with Listen up, Jews is a bad idea? -- nm - spamlet Apr 29, 11:32 4
  - Part of it (just part of it though) is that he doesn't thread his tweets. (Don't laugh I am serious here) - ty97 Apr 29, 11:45 2
    - To wit, this is the tweet getting attention -- (link) - ty97 Apr 29, 11:50 1
      - This is the tweet immediately prior, that the tweet above is a continuation of / reference to (thread your tweets BdB!) -- (link*) - ty97 Apr 29, 11:51
  - Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? -- nm* - znufrii, silly old man Apr 29, 11:33
ST Poll: if you live in a state that requires you to have an excuse to do vote by mail, is there any likelihood that will change by November? -- (link) - con_carne Apr 29, 11:14 4
- PA already expanded vote-by-mail, I signed up earlier this week. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Apr 29, 11:18
- Handy map so we can learn from/mock each other -- (link) - con_carne Apr 29, 11:17 2
  - Based on that, how does the US resolve/reconcile its election results? I mean, think of all the fraud that must be occurring. -- nm - VMan Apr 29, 11:20 1
    - I am more bothered by the fact that Connecticut and Rhode Island decided to move and didn't bother telling us -- nm - crash davis Apr 29, 11:38
watch out, East Coast - we're in for a butt kickin' tomorrow -- (link) - prayformojo Apr 29, 11:06 10
- awesome. Rain or shine my pup expects her walk - decline Apr 29, 11:53
- Yeah not looking forward to it. Luckily tomorrow isn't my day to go in to the office -- nm - sycor Apr 29, 11:24
- Ours is today. "Hurricane-like winds." -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 29, 11:07 7
  - Nathan argues with Alexa. “What is the wind speed?” “6.2mph.” “No it is not.” -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 29, 11:14 6
    - Sounds like you should get a home weather monitoring station. Could be a fun project. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 29, 11:48
    - That's 5.39 knots. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 29, 11:25 4
      - how many Don Knotts is that? -- nm - prayformojo Apr 29, 11:38 2
        
        3.7 Love Gods and one Reluctant Astronaut. -- nm - David Apr 29, 11:55
        
        Way too many. -- nm - Spawn Apr 29, 11:38
      - nm -- nm* - budice Apr 29, 11:28
re: what David et al were saying .. -- (link) - mud Apr 29, 10:59 3
- Credit where it's due: Reagen is better at this stuff than I am. -- nm - David Apr 29, 11:29
- Unless he starts thinking more about the economy past reopening, he may long for the April 29 poll numbers. -- nm - crash davis Apr 29, 11:03 1
  - yea, makes sense -- nm - mud Apr 29, 11:05
Another day, another aviation incident involving Harrison Ford... -- (link) - Diva Apr 29, 10:54 10
- I already crash around the clock!! -- nm - Qale Apr 29, 11:50
- The Aviat Husky looks like a fun little plane. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 29, 11:03
- do we think ' drinking while flying'? I mean.. -- nm - Pippy- Bingo Caller to the Stars Apr 29, 10:55 2
  - I'm more thinking he's gotten 'too old for this sh!t'... -- nm - Diva Apr 29, 10:57 1
    - true - on the other hand - he is quarantining with Callista Flockart - so..... -- nm - Pippy- Bingo Caller to the Stars Apr 29, 10:57
- He's 77 ... maybe he should ... not? -- nm - Reagen Apr 29, 10:55 4
  - Yup, I worked at a facility that was the base for a retirees flying club. That was an adventure. -- nm - Meg Apr 29, 11:20
  - He also had his left turn signal on the whole time. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 29, 11:11 1
    - Can't stay airbourne only doing 35 mph. -- nm - VMan Apr 29, 11:13
  - "Do you know the odds of being able to successfully fly at your age?" -- nm - Beryllium Apr 29, 10:59
LIR: kids liking 'evil' characters...its an old unspoken trope that the evil are the only ones really having fun, power, wealth.... - zeitgeist Apr 29, 10:53 7
- Batman had a cool car. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 29, 11:04 2
  - Well, he had the "power, wealth,". -- nm - Spawn Apr 29, 11:10 1
    - notable exception, good gothamites were having fun, living large, it was the dirty dark side fomenting blue collar evil until the professionals showed -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 29, 11:44
- When I was 9 on Halloween I dressed as Darth Vader. -- nm - Mop Apr 29, 11:04
- I pity the fool dissing on the A-Team's van. General Lee was boss. KITT, Stingray, etc. The defense rests. -- nm - VMan Apr 29, 11:03
- How dare you diss Starsky & Hutch's Gran Torino. - crash davis Apr 29, 10:55 1
  - Hell yeah! -- nm - Spawn Apr 29, 11:09
*good news* -- (link) - mud Apr 29, 10:46 4
- So what you’re saying doc, is that the boil on my ass... I’m supposed to be grateful for that? -- nm - Qale Apr 29, 11:51
- It is fascinating to watch him flail when finally confronted with a situation he can't talk himself out of -- nm - crash davis Apr 29, 10:53
- Hate. So much hate for him and everyone in his admin -- nm - Krusty Apr 29, 10:52
- I mean, we're in like 46th place in the world out of tests per 1 million population! - Dark Callisto Apr 29, 10:50
If you still get HBO, check out the first story on Real Sports. Basically, one soccer goal devastated Italy. Scary and fascinating. -- nm - crash davis Apr 29, 10:46
Fauci likes remdesivir -- (link) - mud Apr 29, 10:42 14
- I saw another article about it being a failure in trials, so, science-jury's out. (Ah, yes, it "flopped" in the China trial last week) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 29, 10:50 2
  - but Gilead quickly pointed out that was an incomplete, too-small test which data got leaked. -- nm - mud Apr 29, 11:02 1
    - Yep. China ran out of covid patients. Heh. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 29, 11:03
- I got the pill right here, its name is remdesivir and the doctor says that if the corona's a fear, this pill can do.... -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 29, 10:46 1
  - I'm picking chloroquine cause on the presser line the prez has got it figured it'll work this time. Has chance.... -- nm* - Open Baron Apr 29, 10:55
- So a cure, but not a vaccine yet. We can go out and get sick now, because we'll be OK! -- nm - Mop Apr 29, 10:43 8
  - not a cure -- nm - mud Apr 29, 10:45 7
    - a treatment -- nm - crash davis Apr 29, 10:48
    - a 10-20% less likely to die drowning in your own fluids...but 20-30% chance of dying later in life from kidney failure (just guessing) -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 29, 10:48 1
      - I like those odds! *goes bowling* -- nm - Mop Apr 29, 11:00
    - Imagining Janet saying this :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 29, 10:46 3
      - *grumbles some more about not being able to change his Alexa's name to Janet* -- nm - Open Baron Apr 29, 11:22 1
        
        since that doesn't work, just call her *Busty* Alexa. She seems to dig that -- nm - prayformojo Apr 29, 11:31
      - lol - yeah! -- nm - Pippy- Bingo Caller to the Stars Apr 29, 10:48
I don't know if this can hold but even the *possibility* should give Republicans cold sweats -- (link) - Reagen Apr 29, 10:38 12
- on one hand - Beto almost won against Cruz. on the other hand its Texas. I see more Trump stickers on trucks that I can even fathom. -- nm - Pippy- Bingo Caller to the Stars Apr 29, 10:50 10
  - I’d argue that was not much more than a good candidate running against satan’s spawn. - Will Hunting Apr 29, 11:16
  - Winning Texas isn't strictly necessary, but man would it ever stick a dagger in the eye of Trumpism. -- nm - Reagen Apr 29, 10:54
  - Liberals don't like stickers so... - Krusty Apr 29, 10:53 7
    - At lunch I was behind a hybrid with an *old* Trump 2020 sticker on it. It was sort of banged up, and the sticker was over a huge dent. Driven by a - Spawn Apr 29, 11:19
    - Yeah, I'm not putting a Biden sticker on my car. - Dark Callisto Apr 29, 11:06
    - Liberals don't like getting their cars keyed. -- nm - Reagen Apr 29, 10:54 4
      - Yup, same reason I was afraid to put the 'Darwin' fish on mine :/ -- nm - Meg Apr 29, 11:25
      - I was joking but that could be an issue -- nm - Krusty Apr 29, 11:03 1
        
        Kinda goes along with my whole, "the only reason Trump has not been shot is that his supporters are the ones with the guns" thing. -- nm - Spawn Apr 29, 11:28
      - truly why I don't have one. Texans are mean -- nm - Pippy- Bingo Caller to the Stars Apr 29, 10:57
- “Don’t defend Trump,” -- (link) - mud Apr 29, 10:45
So, a baby was born without ears. - Will Hunting Apr 29, 10:28 3
- People who actually wear glasses can *see* that punchline coming from awfully far away -- nm - con_carne Apr 29, 10:53
- 👍 -- nm - decline Apr 29, 10:39
- Hahaha! -- nm - Krusty Apr 29, 10:35
Bah, nobody wants my FLACCID money. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 29, 10:24
Now playing’ Lady Love by Lou Rawls. - ST Draft Analyst Apr 29, 10:09
Bruce Campbell haircut went about as well to be expected -- (link) - budice Apr 29, 10:02 18
- I dunno, I think he looks hot. - Dark Callisto Apr 29, 10:26 14
  - I second this motion on the floor - Pippy- Bingo Caller to the Stars Apr 29, 10:48 2
    - "sharing is caring" -- nm - budice Apr 29, 11:14
    - Pippy, that’s not what motion on the floor means. Please stop writhing. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 29, 11:07
  - I mean, that's what I'm hoping happens. -- nm - Mop Apr 29, 10:41
  - Well, this is *great* news for me in 35 years! -- nm - David Apr 29, 10:28 9
    - you're 27? -- nm - mud Apr 29, 10:33
    - *does the math* - Will Hunting Apr 29, 10:29 7
      - Go back to figuring out apostrophes! -- nm - David Apr 29, 10:31 6
        
        Sky commas. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 29, 10:33
        
        At your age, do you want to spend what could be your last hours on earth worrying about punctuation in jokes? -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 29, 10:33 4
        
        Shouldn't I die the way I've lived? -- nm - David Apr 29, 10:35 3
        
        “I live my life five paragraphs at a time.” -- nm - Qale Apr 29, 10:37 2
        
        outstanding -- nm - Spawn Apr 29, 11:13
        
        brilliant - Pippy- Bingo Caller to the Stars Apr 29, 10:59
- Not bad for using a chainsaw. Only downside is that now he looks like Matt Leblanc. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 29, 10:16 2
  - I really think that's just because of the Who Farted? look on his face. -- nm - Open Baron Apr 29, 10:21 1
    - "Acting!" -- Matt Leblanc -- nm - Beryllium Apr 29, 10:51
Good article on how what we are doing isn’t actually helping. Krusty and others have had these actual experiences and may be interested - JackDawson Apr 29, 09:59 14
- It's not helping everyone directly because it's not designed to. That doesn't mean it's not actually helping. -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man Apr 29, 11:01 2
  - I don't think the article, if you read it, says that we should wait until we've fixed those before doing anything - JackDawson Apr 29, 11:18 1
    - I was mostly responding to the dismissiveness I read in your subject line there, not the substance of the article. -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man Apr 29, 11:24
- Pp #1: Maybe we all just need to Karen up. Pp #3: Oh crap, the Karen's of America are the problem. -- nm - con_carne Apr 29, 10:38
- I can't speak to the NY state program they mention, but Democrats getting any social program past Citizen McConnell is a major accomplishment. -- nm - crash davis Apr 29, 10:18 5
  - I respect your right to have your opinion, but your statement in the BBs that "empirical data" does not support my position is vague and non-responsiv - JackDawson Apr 29, 10:22 4
    - I have an answer for you. But first, looking back at that, I think we started to talk about two different things and I'll take partial blame for that. - crash davis Apr 29, 10:42 3
      - Would you care to share the empirical data, out of curiosity? - JackDawson Apr 29, 11:10 2
        
        The second map on this article has got a great hover feature that lists the individual plant and number of reported cases. - crash davis Apr 29, 11:36 1
        
        And to lob on to that, my point is questioning whether the reason those infection rates are so high is not simply the nature of the work but the crimi - JackDawson Apr 29, 11:53
- And things will get worse as states cut social services and many public programs in the name of plugging massive budget holes. What they won't do is - Krusty Apr 29, 10:13
- This is precisely why Universal Basic Income makes so much sense. - pmb Apr 29, 10:04 2
  - Also, in an emergency like this, you already have the "mailing list", can easily jack payments, track, etc. -- nm - VMan Apr 29, 10:21
  - I do too but I think a lot of even limousine liberals would oppose it. The Warren Campaign has exposed a lot of that IMO. - JackDawson Apr 29, 10:08
How do you turn a duck into a soul singer? - Will Hunting Apr 29, 09:59 8
- You need an apostrophe cheat for that to work. -- nm - ST Draft Analyst Apr 29, 10:16 6
  - Boo. Where is your sense of joy? -- nm - crash davis Apr 29, 10:21 5
    - I've beaten Final Fantasy VII Remake. I have *plenty* of joy. -- nm - David Apr 29, 10:28 4
      - Joy + David + PS4 = HUH?!!?!? -- nm - Shaun Apr 29, 10:33 3
        
        Right? But Doom Eternal arrives tomorrow, so I can back to forgetting about my PS4. -- nm - David Apr 29, 10:35 2
        
        Be sure to share your thoughts on DE. I am debating it. - Spawn Apr 29, 11:38
        
        DE looks good for sure. Don't forget Streets of Rage 4 tomorrow too!! -- nm - Shaun Apr 29, 10:42
- I'll give you points for that -- nm - crash davis Apr 29, 10:13
St. Louis Blues will be laying off non-essential staff beginning Monday, laid off staff will continue to receive health benefits and salary -- nm - budice Apr 29, 09:55 5
- That sounds more like a furlough to me. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 29, 09:58
- So they're laid off... but still employed? -- nm - Mop Apr 29, 09:57 1
  - Laid off, with benefits! -- nm - Spawn Apr 29, 11:28
- I'm not sure they understand what "laid off" means. -- nm - pmb Apr 29, 09:55 1
  - Or maybe they are the only ones who understand -- nm - con_carne Apr 29, 09:57
ACNH: Don’t buy anymore eBayed amiibo cards. Nintendo is reprinting them. -- (link) - Qale Apr 29, 09:53 1
- I want Nan. Dunno why. Just like her. - Dark Callisto Apr 29, 11:07
It's almost time for my weather radio's monthly test (okay, fine, one week from now) -- (link*) - Beryllium Apr 29, 09:50 1
- Ours was this morning and that’s what made me think of it -- nm - spamlet Apr 29, 10:01

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