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Michael Jordan is the Michael Jordan of holding grudges -- nm - budice May 10, 18:33 3
- What'd you do, bet on him? -- nm - Max May 10, 18:45 1
  - I really thought he'd make it at baseball -- nm - Beaker May 10, 18:48
- Cocaine parties? -- nm - Spawn May 10, 18:37
great lockdown news. in India because all the beaches were closed, more turtles came ashore to lay eggs and more babies survived this year. -- (link*) - Peglegpete May 10, 18:26 1
- More soup for everyone! -- nm - Open Baron May 10, 18:30
Shanghai Disneyland reopens in 20 mins -- (link) - budice May 10, 18:07
The news below has changed: Pence will not self-quarantine and plans to be at the White House Monday -- (link) - bacon May 10, 17:22 4
- It’s okay. The important thing is that you didn’t try. -- nm - Qale May 10, 18:29
- It's insane. If you take NY/NJ out of the mix, cases are still rising. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 17:56
- yay? -- nm - Beaker May 10, 17:45
- This is fine! -- nm - Spawn May 10, 17:24
In local marine news ... marina goes up in flames. -- (link) - Beryllium May 10, 17:07 1
- yikes! -- (link*) - mud May 10, 18:17
I just learned that I can connect my Xfinity streaming box thingy to my XBOX and then the XBOX to the TV and save an HDMI slot for Switch. -- nm - Qale May 10, 17:02 3
- The world is an amazing place. -- nm - Spawn May 10, 17:15
- :O -- nm - budice May 10, 17:09 1
  - I know. I didn’t expect my devices to work like some kind of digital centipede. -- nm - Qale May 10, 18:31
While sitting lift your right leg and start moving your right foot in a clockwise circle. While doing so write the #6 in the air with your right hand. -- nm - Dano May 10, 16:28 11
- That's how the Hounds of Tindalos get in. -- nm - Open Baron May 10, 18:30
- I just summoned a demon you jerk! -- nm - bacon May 10, 17:20 1
  - Ooooo -- nm - Epiphany May 10, 17:35
- Does this result in some self-induced Vulcan nerve pinch? -- nm - Max May 10, 16:48
- dammit -- nm - prayformojo May 10, 16:41 1
  - haha, I did it on first try and I'm a mega mega klutz -- nm - loosilu May 10, 16:44
- I need a rec for a body pillow! -- nm - loosilu May 10, 16:40 4
  - can't go wrong with a classic -- (link) - mafic May 10, 17:35
  - This is the one I use -- (link) - Dano May 10, 17:13 2
    - ooooh! ok, what do you like about it? -- nm - loosilu May 10, 17:19 1
      - It’s substantial but it gives and forms well. I have another one that’s the same size but it feels really bulky. This one is a good mix. -- nm - Dano May 10, 17:38
Just heard about Kare's mom. Sending out a hug. -- nm - Spawn May 10, 16:18 5
- Oh, I don't think she is my FB friend. What happened? (NM) - Marlowe May 10, 17:55
- I missed. where can I see? -- nm - loosilu May 10, 16:39 2
  - on her fb -- nm - Remlik May 10, 16:45 1
    - she blocked or bannd me (frowny face) -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 21:27
- :( -- nm - budice May 10, 16:25
Oh, and fair warning: I used a bit of my Mango Mussilini stimulus to buy an XBox headset. With a microphone. So, soon, I'll be able to join y'all ... - ReluctantCynic May 10, 16:16 1
- You can download the Nintendo Switch app on your phone to voice chat with people when you are visiting or being visited in ACNH. -- nm - Qale May 10, 17:05
We played virtual bingo with the family today for mother's day - ty97 May 10, 16:14 1
- Nice did you use an app or just everyone had cards and someone called the numbers ? -- nm - JackDawson May 10, 17:36
I think this was 14 years ago. Me, my late Maman, and brother Lou -- (pic) - loosilu May 10, 16:10 [Attachment] 8
- That's a great photo! The good Father looks like he dipped a bit too much into the communion wine, though. - ReluctantCynic May 10, 16:32 5
  - lol! he was a brother at the time, and he drinks only rarely. That's just his dumb face. -- nm - loosilu May 10, 16:39 4
    - While many of us have to overcome RBF, your brother has ... - ReluctantCynic May 10, 16:41 3
      - Dano looks like that after his marathons, come to think about it. -- nm* - Qale May 10, 17:07
      - lol, he really doesn't. He has Resting Dork Face. -- nm - loosilu May 10, 16:41 1
        
        he maaaaaay or may not be Aspie. -- nm - loosilu May 10, 16:43
- nice! Did your brother just wake up? -- nm - Remlik May 10, 16:22 1
  - he's just a dumbass. I picked the photo where I looked better. -- nm* - loosilu May 10, 16:39
Mother's Day Report: Donuts for breakfast; Roake's Drive In for lunch (a Portland-area institution since before WWII), and trip through ... - ReluctantCynic May 10, 15:48 1
- Shipping blows: 1 of 3 things ordered actually arrived. *sigh* - Epiphany May 10, 17:41
Dear Bulgaria: Please stop painting Soviet Monuments to look like American superheroes. Love, Russia -- (link) - prayformojo May 10, 15:37 3
- Now I'm curious about 1950s Soviet superhero comic books. -- nm - Max May 10, 16:49 1
  - I've asked this before. my MIL says there weren't any of either. comics were western and bourgeois, and superheroes went against Soviet ideology. - mafic May 10, 18:32
- Ronald McDonald, leader of the Justice League. -- nm - Spawn May 10, 16:02
Toyah & Fripp - Heroes -- (link) - mud May 10, 15:18 [youtube] 1
- for the rest of you, He is God and that's his wife -- nm - mud May 10, 16:46
Alberto Del Rio arrested for sexual assault.... -- (link) - Remlik May 10, 15:02 1
- For the rest of us, he is a wrestler. -- nm - Spawn May 10, 16:12
Vice President Mike Pence is self-isolating away from the White House -- (link) - Remlik May 10, 15:00 6
- Maybe they are sticking the nasal swab in the wrong orifice. -- nm - Qale May 10, 15:01 5
  - Maybe it's being done in the naval orifice - Beryllium May 10, 16:45 2
    - Walk the plank, Bery! -- nm - Qale May 10, 17:09 1
      - Already did that today. ("Pirate games" is this week's home entertainment) -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 18:49
  - I'm sure they're doing it right, as many times as he asks them to do it the other way. -- nm - pmb May 10, 15:03 1
    - Maybe both ways, just to be sure? -- nm - Mike May 10, 16:19
finished Upload - A-/B+ Season ended on a strong note -- nm - prayformojo May 10, 14:48 1
- Yup, glad there's a season two coming -- nm - JaxSean May 10, 16:40
Pulled out of my driveway and there's wrecked cars and cops all over the street - didn't hear a thing? :/ - Meg May 10, 14:36 5
- Well sure, EVs are pretty quiet. #science -- nm - Max May 10, 16:51
- Yeah! Actually, you weren't even in the country when it happened! -- nm - Spawn May 10, 16:00
- that's *my* parking space.... -- (link) - zeitgeist May 10, 15:19 [youtube]
- They were afraid you might be on the loose. -- nm - Qale May 10, 15:02
- Well, at least you didn't have to commandeer a chopper like the last time. - Beryllium May 10, 14:48
A doctor here in victoria has a brother who is a doctor in New York. -- (link) - Beryllium May 10, 14:10
Jeez, bride describes the location by referring to a restaurant outside the park. If she said Rose Garden would have saved a mile of walking - zeitgeist May 10, 14:06
active shooter situation in Carmel indiana with former Colts player Antonio Morrison -- nm - Remlik May 10, 14:00
count the fucks! -- (link) - mud May 10, 13:58
amaranth flours are made from amaranth flowers. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:43 3
- wheat flours... -- nm - rollo May 10, 14:14 2
  - Are made out of lies and gluten. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 14:34 1
    - and wheat flowers -- nm - rollo May 10, 15:27
Driver stopped after going 308 kph on the QEW -- (link) - Reagen May 10, 13:38 12
- Aren't most cars in Canada software locked to 190kph? Maybe just the ones for the commoners. - Beryllium May 10, 16:59 4
  - I thought some provinces had them on commercial vehicles, but I didn't think they'd gone full public yet. -- nm - mafic May 10, 18:27
  - I’m assuming this was a track car. Most cars are limited far below that (even AMGs) -- nm - spamlet May 10, 18:22
  - Do you believe everything you are told? -- nm - Spawn May 10, 17:04 1
    - ev. ry. thing. -- nm - mud May 10, 17:15
- *googles conversion* 191 mph. jeebus. -- nm - JaxSean May 10, 15:25 3
  - Not bad. -- nm - Spawn May 10, 16:05
  - IKR...I can see sales of that 'sedan' going up now though, a Mercedes family car heading towards Veyron territory -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 15:29 1
    - Most cars have speedometers that go that high. It doesn't mean you should test it out. -- nm - JaxSean May 10, 15:30
- Teen. In dad's car. Awesome, have fun with insurance and your parents kid. Aside from being lucky to be alive. -- nm - VMan May 10, 15:11
- Holy shit -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 14:59
- great PR for Canada road safety Week. a high profile idiot to remind everyone to be smart & safe. -- nm - Peglegpete May 10, 13:52
From B2, I think the calculus is simpler on testing. A coordinated testing regime requires (a) competent people to put it together, (b) - pmb May 10, 13:18 23
- I don’t know why we even got into trump. I simply said I was shocked to know three people positive for antibodies and assumed the infection rate is ev - JackDawson May 10, 13:24 22
  - In large part because it does come back to him - Reagen May 10, 13:35 2
    - The number of real cases vs tested is assumed to be 10-30x times in most parts of the world — I’m not at all defending trump but it does not in fact -- (edited) - JackDawson May 10, 14:07
    - The reality is that it's never a question of strategy with Trump. It's personality (and more specifically personality disorders). There is nothing - pmb May 10, 13:42
  - I was just commenting on those arguments. My assumption is that the number of actual infected vs. positive tests is at least 10x too low. -- nm - pmb May 10, 13:26 18
    - people model this based on death rate and percentage of positive tests. last one I saw had the US detecting 15-25%. UK was the worst at 2.5-7.5% -- nm - mafic May 10, 17:34
    - But I'll add that one of the real problems with this disease is its stealthiness. There are asymptomatic infected, a false negative rate on testing - pmb May 10, 13:28 15
      - that 30% false negative rate is mostly BS. it's based on one study with <300 participants from the early days in China. - mafic May 10, 17:26 1
        
        It’s one thing for the crazies to deny science - they’ve been doing that for millennia - it’s quite another for normal people to fall into those habit - JackDawson May 10, 17:39
      - What’s the source for the high false positives antibody? I thought the scientific community agreed that the roche and Abbott tests are over 99pct effe - JackDawson May 10, 14:06 12
        
        the Roche and Abbott tests detect the virus, not the antibodies. antibody tests are harder to develop, and haven't been entirely nailed down yet. -- nm - mafic May 10, 17:47
        
        Here is one article. It's possible that it's improved since then, but I have heard many stories about this. It's also very possible/likely that those aren't the only tests being used. -- (link*) - pmb May 10, 14:11 10
        
        Here's another. -- (link) - pmb May 10, 14:15 9
        
        Yeah...that article says that there are three antibody tests— as of three weeks ago — that did not delivery false positives over 99pct of the time. - JackDawson May 10, 14:26 8
        
        Yes, but there are 14 tests on the market. Those 3 aren't the only ones being used. Also, even those 3 gave false negatives at least 10% of the time - pmb May 10, 14:53 7
        
        These are anti body tests. Undercounting just means people will not know they’re immune which is a problem that leads to more safety not less - JackDawson May 10, 14:57 6
        
        You're ignoring the other 11 tests that exist. It's great that there are accurate ones. Those are not the only ones being used at this point. - pmb May 10, 15:01 5
        
        I’m not ignoring them and I’m not saying the effective ones are available widely. All I’m saying is that the tests that do work suggest that the - JackDawson May 10, 17:36 2
        
        Who was disputing that? -- nm - pmb May 10, 18:07
        
        sort of kind of? you can model all of this. large-scale studies in places where they're estimated to be getting almost all symptomatic cases - mafic May 10, 18:07
        
        On the flip side, the first thing that I've found hopeful in a while was a Dr. on George Stephonopolous' show today who expects to begin clinical - pmb May 10, 15:13 1
        
        nice -- nm - mud May 10, 15:19
    - At least. Yep. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 10, 13:27
Guess that's an improvement. One item from Amazon, due next weekend, shipped yesterday, delivery tomorrow. Other item still pending shipment. -- nm - Meg May 10, 13:09 1
- I had something ship from Amazon today that I'd ordered about 3 hours earlier -- nm - prayformojo May 10, 13:19
School in parts of Quebec tomorrow...142 deaths and 735 new cases in 24 hours... -- (link) - Beaker May 10, 13:01 4
- I don't understand the politics of this in Quebec. Does anyone have a broad, general explanation? -- nm - loosilu May 10, 13:16 3
  - looses something in the translation -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 14:01
  - It's a crisis in Montreal but not in the rest of Quebec, and the premier is one of those businessmen-turned politicians who believes that - Roger More May 10, 14:00
  - It doesn't make much sense to us either. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 13:41
mothers day movie poll. major mother presence/role in a film. Mommy Dearest, Big Bad Mama, Gypsy, etc. -- nm - Peglegpete May 10, 12:58 17
- The Goonies -- (link) - Max May 10, 16:48 [youtube]
- That one with the hotel. -- nm - Spawn May 10, 16:14
- psycho -- nm - Peglegpete May 10, 15:26
- Norma Bates -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 14:01
- Monster In Law -- nm - Shaun May 10, 13:50
- Mildred Pierce -- nm - Peglegpete May 10, 13:45
- Throw Momma From The Train - Beryllium May 10, 13:20
- A Christmas Story. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 10, 13:19
- Serial Mom -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 10, 13:15
- Does grandmas boy count? -- nm - tRuMaN May 10, 13:03 1
  - don't judge me monkey -- nm - Beaker May 10, 13:12
- Aliens, T2, Raising Arizona -- nm - mud May 10, 13:01 2
  - Terms of Endearment, Rosemary's Baby -- nm - mud May 10, 13:06 1
    - yeah -- (link) - mud May 10, 16:52
- The Blind Side -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 13:00
- Bad Moms. Mother, Jugs and Speed. Aliens. Not Without My Daughter. Hereditary. Kill Bill. On Golden Pond. Mr Mom. Mama Mia. Mother's Day. Juno. Terminator series. -- nm* - Spawn May 10, 13:00 1
  - love Mother. -- nm - Beaker May 10, 13:02
Hmm, may not have been wise to walk a brisk 3 miles after less than a mile a day for the last 9 days. Ankle hurts :/ -- nm - Meg May 10, 12:57
yes!!!!!!!!! -- (link) - mud May 10, 12:51
Say hi to your mothers for me, okay? -- nm - Mark Wahlberg May 10, 12:23 1
- I did. She said "Where's my donut?" -- nm - Open Baron May 10, 12:37
~We got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveryyy, we got to move these refrigerators~ -- nm - Reagen featuring znufrii May 10, 12:19 1
- so mark knoeffller got his stimulus check, bought some poultry for his country house...he got money for nothing and his chicks for free -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 13:57
Mother's day board -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 12:18

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