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It's a little bit heartbreaking that A has stopped even mentioning the possibility of going to the playground when we are on our walks now. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 7, 09:17
Red Dead Redemption 2 is now on XBox Game Pass. - the wrong element, bad guy May 7, 09:07 1
- hmm, interesting -- nm - tRuMaN May 7, 09:16
"ViacomCBS and Google announced a multi-year distribution agreement to bring 14 ViacomCBS channels to YouTube TV" -- (edited) - David May 7, 09:05 8
- The lack of Comedy Central really bugged me when I had YouTube TV. Also, did I mention how awful the interface was? -- nm - Mop May 7, 09:16
- What are the other 6? - the wrong element, bad guy May 7, 09:08 6
  - Pop? Is that viacom? -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 7, 09:18
  - I can name at least 3 different MTV channels and two VH1 channels. - Mop May 7, 09:17 2
    - Oh, and is Nick Jr a separate channel? -- nm - Mop May 7, 09:17 1
      - Looking it up, those 8 are the new additions. - the wrong element, bad guy May 7, 09:23
  - MTV means MTV's The Challenge. -- nm - David May 7, 09:14 1
    - Sorry, that does nothing for me. - the wrong element, bad guy May 7, 09:19
Well that's not good -- (link) - ty97 May 7, 09:01 12
- Where has Obama been the last few days? -- nm - VMan May 7, 09:13
- Well. Not good for the *valet*, true. -- nm - Andie May 7, 09:10
- Omg his whole corona team could have it too. -- nm - Loyola May 7, 09:08
- or ... is it -- nm - JaxSean May 7, 09:08 3
  - it's not -- nm - ty97 May 7, 09:08 2
    - You say that like (acting) President Pence would be a bad thing. - the wrong element, bad guy May 7, 09:13 1
      - I don't think ty is talking about political consequences. -- nm - spamlet May 7, 09:27
- Well, if Trump's got it, the mask manufacturer staff has it, and then... -- nm - David May 7, 09:02
- I had been saying it needed to hit him closer to home. -- nm - Spawn May 7, 09:02 3
  - Exactly. Real life consequences. The man has no empathy, nothing else works. If this makes him smarten up -- (edited) - Andie May 7, 09:11 2
    - The only way this works is if Ivanka gets it. -- nm - Uhtred Ragnarson May 7, 09:21 1
      - It doesn't appear to be sexually transmitted -- nm - TWuG May 7, 09:22
Poll: Do you know offhand what your blood pressure is? Resting heart rate? - prayformojo May 7, 08:47 22
- not anymore, I suppose I could put some fresh batteries in mom's auto cuff, but it was controlled with a pill..I do know what my temp is though -- nm - zeitgeist May 7, 14:23
- Yes, after doc appt in Feb. - Max May 7, 09:37
- Yes, no. -- nm - kelly May 7, 09:21
- No. When I get BP checked there's always a comment on how "great" it is. So I've got that. -- nm - zunkskunk May 7, 09:16
- I have a reasonably clear idea. -- nm - Beryllium May 7, 09:11
- roughly. I have high BP so I check it periodically -- nm - decline May 7, 09:11
- Nope -- nm - Krusty May 7, 09:08
- nope, and probably (just because of smart watch) -- nm - JaxSean May 7, 09:07
- I know what BP is from doctor visits. I track resting heart rate regularly. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 7, 08:59
- BP, not currently. Resting heart rate in the low 60s -- nm - TWuG May 7, 08:55
- Mine generally varies about 20 points between sitting and standing. They always insist on taking it sitting first, then frown and shake their - Meg May 7, 08:54 1
  - wow, that's a big swing, isn't it? -- nm - prayformojo May 7, 09:03
- Yeah, I track at every doctors meeting. -- nm - Will Hunting May 7, 08:53
- More or less. I take a pill for BP so it's fairly constant. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 08:53
- Yup. On meds and take it everyday. -- nm - VMan May 7, 08:52
- Ballpark. I fall right at the high line between Normal and Risky. Even at my healthiest. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request May 7, 08:51
- HR is on my fitbit - BP I can ballpark from my last doctor's visit ... 6 mo ago? -- nm - Reagen May 7, 08:51
- No idea. -- nm - Loyola May 7, 08:51
- Hunky dorey. BP could actually be a touch higher. I tend to get wobbly for a few moments when I stand up. #TallProblems -- nm - Open Baron May 7, 08:50
- We track it each doctor's visit. We have an email we update. -- nm - David May 7, 08:49
- Not at present - znufrii, silly old man May 7, 08:49
- acceptable, last time my doctor checked -- nm - ty97 May 7, 08:48
Did Microsoft trademark "Smart Delivery?" I remember the good ole days when it was called cross-buy. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 08:41
That Joe Mangiello story is both cool and wtf? - Will Hunting May 7, 08:40 3
- *comically imagines Sofía Vergara complaining about Joe's friends playing their little game* -- nm - Mop May 7, 09:18
- BIg Show is a big time gamer. Loves Destiny and Halo. -- nm - Remlik May 7, 08:50 1
  - The best thing about his Destiny love is that he hates titans. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 08:54
County won't release US flags from storage for our VFW to place on graves for Memorial Day. -- (link) - znufrii, silly old man May 7, 08:37
Heh. -- (link) - Beryllium May 7, 08:29 1
- the language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. -- nm - gandalf May 7, 08:34
Espn is ranking the best player seasons of the 90’s in MLB. They rank Ripken’s 1991 as #84 and include this blurb. - Will Hunting May 7, 08:13 5
- But that's the Chicks dig the long ball era ;-) -- nm - JD May 7, 08:28 4
  - *unzips* -- nm - Tommy Lee May 7, 08:53
  - When did they stop digging it? Was there a hard and fast date agreed on beforehand? Was it phased out over a long period of time? -- nm - prayformojo May 7, 08:52 1
    - When women realized the methods inherent in procuring the long ball also shrunk the balls. -- nm - Will Hunting May 7, 08:55
  - They have some amazingly bad choices without long balls. They do get #1 right though. - Will Hunting May 7, 08:29
Do we really need a long ass Madden promo? -- nm - Shaun May 7, 08:12 1
- They'll never top Madden 16. -- (link) - Reagen May 7, 08:14 [youtube]
I see that Killer Kross gets the good intro. -- nm - David May 7, 08:02 3
- That was pretty kool, -- nm - Tim May 7, 09:10
- He sure looks the part of psycho killer. - Will Hunting May 7, 08:16 1
  - In AAA, he somehow looked scarier than Cain Velasquez when they wrestled. -- nm - ST Draft Analyst May 7, 08:18
Survivor (spoils) - Uhtred Ragnarson May 7, 08:01 8
- spoiler - the wrong element, bad guy May 7, 08:53
- no! - mud May 7, 08:09 6
  - I like (spoils) - Uhtred Ragnarson May 7, 08:11 5
    - spoils - Jovian May 7, 08:15 3
      - Yeah, that's the closest we've seen to Tyson in Heroes v Villains (spoils) - Uhtred Ragnarson May 7, 08:20 2
        
        spoiler - the wrong element, bad guy May 7, 09:01
        
        last night exposed (spoils) - Jovian May 7, 08:39
    - it's been impressive but (spoil) - mud May 7, 08:14
Is this real? I don’t think this is real, but it also might just be a war crime. -- (link) - mafic May 7, 08:01 8
- They lost me at the microwave. They make microwaves with doors that flip up like that? -- nm - Mop May 7, 09:21
- *Luke_amazing_every_single_thing_is_wrong.gif * -- nm - Reagen May 7, 08:12
- There so little tea in that it’s basically cinnamon sugar water. -- nm - spamlet May 7, 08:08 5
  - Looks like the start of a "tea" syrup - Reagen May 7, 08:44
  - that's alot of cinnamon -- nm - mud May 7, 08:10
  - Sounds superior to tea, then. -- nm - Spawn May 7, 08:09 2
    - Clearly but there’s lying to yourself and then there’s this. -- nm - spamlet May 7, 08:20 1
      - Tea is good for your health! -- nm* - NotAWonderWoman⁷ May 7, 08:23
Shit just got real, y'all. -- (link) - Beryllium May 7, 07:46 1
- The. Last. Straw. - Volnelk May 7, 07:59
Biz-Unemployment Claims - 3.2M this week, 22M continuing Claims, 33.5M since the shutdown -- nm - budice May 7, 07:46 9
- Are there any reliable estimates for how many untimely and early deaths unemployment of this nature causes? -- nm - JackDawson May 7, 07:59 8
  - Here's one study I found - Unemployment increases changes of dying by 140% in the US, if I'm reading it correctly. -- (link*) - znufrii, silly old man May 7, 08:40
  - I'm guessing we will see a further increase in "deaths of despair", but I don't know if anyone has calculated a specific correlation. -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man May 7, 08:09 6
    - Suicides have been a Republican talking point for at least a month. -- nm - Qale May 7, 08:45 1
      - crocodile tears -- nm - mud May 7, 08:46
    - Should these be counted as COVID caused deaths? -- nm - JackDawson May 7, 08:26 3
      - In my opinion, certainly. I'd consider excess deaths from any cause, beyond a statistically reasonable range above the historical trend, to be such. -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man May 7, 08:29
      - I would in a "grand economic scale" calculation but not in a epidemiological one - Reagen May 7, 08:29 1
        
        Yeah, I’m definitely approaching the question from a grand reckoning perspective, not an epidemiological one. -- nm - znufrii May 7, 09:14
I started an outdoor project to hang lights on our patio. Bought small platners, 8ft 2x2, cement, lights of course. We set the poles in concrete - oblique May 7, 07:42 1
- I've been thinking of the same thing. We already have lights against the house but I want to string them *over* the patio (which is ground level). - zunkskunk May 7, 08:07
You've probably seen this, but it's the smartest thing I've read in a while. -- (link) - David May 7, 07:38 3
- Charlie Warzel's op-ed from a couple days ago also compares it to gun deaths. -- (link) - mara May 7, 09:00
- Some people have an election to win. Economy Stall, Virus big issues. -- nm - budice May 7, 07:49
- The beatings will continue until morale improves. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 7, 07:39
Xbox Series X Gameplay Reveal: T-27 minutes. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 07:33 10
- That...pretty much sucked overall. And these are all 3rd party games too. Just a whole lot of meh. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 08:47 1
  - TO be fair (~ to be faiiirrrrrr ~) that would've also sucked if it was a PlayStation branded reveal. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 09:04
- Damn, that AC:V gameplay reveal was foolishly short. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 08:32
- A Japanese language game on Xbox. Weird. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 08:26
- An anime looking game on Xbox? Weird. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 08:24
- link? -- nm - Remlik May 7, 08:08 1
  - Go! -- (link) - Shaun May 7, 08:09 [youtube]
- There's already been too much talking. Just show games dammit. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 08:02 2
  - 1st game is Bright Memory Infinite. FPS with what appears to be a female protagonist. Looks sort of Crysis-y. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 08:06 1
    - 2nd game is Dirt 5. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 08:08
My power bill was like a third less than I was expecting, based on what I was tracking but then I notice that they suspended meter readings - Reagen May 7, 07:31 1
- Mine’s gonna be GIANT since we were running heat lamps non-stop for the chicks before the solar was installed. - mafic May 7, 07:55
"Only a crazy person would try to wrestle a gun away from someone. Case closed." -- nm - Reagen May 7, 07:28 5
- Every damn person in authority in this story so far has accepted the presumption - TWuG May 7, 08:14
- “Look, we chased him with a truck and a shotgun AND HE KEPT RUNNING. What else could we do?” -- nm - mafic May 7, 08:02
- There's gonna come a day when conservative political operatives realize they have no control over the nutjobs they've incited. -- nm - David May 7, 07:38 2
  - If they are still winning elections they won't care. -- nm - MDH May 7, 07:40 1
    - Yup. It's a feature, not a bug. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 7, 08:20
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has sold 13.41 million copies globally, including digital sales. It was released March 20th. -- nm - Qale May 7, 07:26 2
- How does that compare to others? (Shaun?) I don't think it's a record (which is GTA V I believe) -- nm - decline May 7, 07:40 1
  - Nix this. I believe that source I posted is extremely out of date. -- nm* - Qale May 7, 07:56
Neiman Marcus files Bankruptcy -- nm - budice May 7, 07:21 1
- But the cookies are OK, right? -- nm - Open Baron May 7, 07:34
Stupid thing I want linked. ST: Convince me I don't need it and shouldn't get it OR convince me I should get it. -- (edited) - Cuzzin Todd May 7, 07:18 13
- I remember when you were posting a photo a day of things in your house - your collection needs this. -- nm - JenBro May 7, 08:36 1
  - I think that was 2012... I could probably do a new list with new crap. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 7, 08:38
- Do it. Do it. - Spawn May 7, 08:00 1
  - Finally, someone talking some sense. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 7, 08:03
- Lately for me, it's a "but what does it *do*" analysis. -- nm - Reagen May 7, 07:32 5
  - It sits on my desk and looks cools and says Mr Handy things periodically. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 7, 07:58
  - Shits fire. -- nm - Will Hunting May 7, 07:44 1
    - It's like Todd's therapy robot from Bojack Horseman. -- nm - Open Baron May 7, 07:46
  - What does art do? It just hangs there -- nm - Krusty May 7, 07:40 1
    - Decor's a thing, I'm not arguing that - Reagen May 7, 07:48
- dammit. I just got the standard model last week, and the articulation *really* leaves a lot to be desired. -- nm* - prayformojo May 7, 07:22
- I’m a pretty big Bethesda fan boy and even I don’t think they deserve that much of your money. -- nm - Qale May 7, 07:20 1
  - I agree with this guy right here^ -- nm - groiny May 7, 07:25
Once again, world health hinges.....on a llama -- (link) - prayformojo May 7, 07:18 9
- What about the duck? -- (link) - Cuzzin Todd May 7, 08:01 [youtube] 1
  - You think with this bank statement you can have the duck? -- nm - Reagen May 7, 08:13
- NOT STUPID LLAMA! -- nm - Spawn May 7, 07:50
- Poor Kuzco -- nm - David May 7, 07:20 5
  - Pull the lever. -- nm - Open Baron May 7, 07:33 4
    - Oh right, the poison for Kuzco. The poison specifically designed to kill Kuzco, that poison? -- nm* - Reagen May 7, 07:35
    - Why does she even have that lever? -- nm - David May 7, 07:34 2
      - Squeak squeaker squeakum squeak. -- nm - Reagen May 7, 07:54
      - Barking crocs gotta eat. - Open Baron May 7, 07:45
B1. -- nm - Shaun May 7, 07:17 2
- O-69 -- nm* - Qale May 7, 07:18 1
  - Nice. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 7, 07:21

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