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It’s not that the Republicans picked up the CA seat (which we won’t know for a few days). It’s that the Democrats lost the Wisconsin seat by 14%. - Tim May 13, 07:24 4
- GA: Biden 47 Trump 46 -- (link) - Reagen May 13, 07:31 3
  - Maybe Alyssa Milano will flush away a few more Million down here and go 0-3. -- nm - Strongbad May 13, 07:49
  - LOL. Yes, GA is turning purple! Really! This time! We mean it! -- nm - Strongbad May 13, 07:49 1
    - Republicans should ignore the race then! -- nm - Reagen May 13, 07:57
DC is having major reopening drama right now. Mayor hasn't extended (yet), and due to end stay at home Friday. Businesses sending re-opening e-mails - MDH May 13, 07:15 2
- VA is still under orders until June 10. -- nm - loosilu May 13, 07:17 1
  - I believe Phase 1 re-opening starts Friday for everywhere by NOVA. -- nm - MDH May 13, 07:21
And it's snowing. I'd ask what fresh hell this is, but it seems pretty stale. -- nm - Reagen May 13, 07:05
I'm onto the 'G's in my lockdown CD listening party! -- nm - LMS May 13, 07:04 14
- Graham Coxon! - spamlet May 13, 07:39
- Geto Boys! -- nm - Diva May 13, 07:38
- Guns and Roses -- nm - VMan May 13, 07:37
- Gang Starr! - Krusty May 13, 07:26
- Great Big Sea -- nm - Beaker May 13, 07:17
- Gorillaz -- nm - tRuMaN May 13, 07:15 4
  - I've got them! Listening to Gomez first. -- nm - LMS May 13, 07:17 3
    - heh. -- nm* - tRuMaN May 13, 07:18 2
      - Selena Gomez has some decent songs -- nm - Beaker May 13, 07:18 1
        
        Selena Gomez is hot -- (edited) - budice May 13, 07:20
- Grateful Dead. -- nm - loosilu May 13, 07:13
- Gloria Estefan - The Rhythm is Going to Get You -- nm - budice May 13, 07:12
- Glorious Sons!! -- nm - Shaun May 13, 07:07
- Stop playing Godley & Creme on repeat. You're bringing us all down. -- nm - Open Baron May 13, 07:06
Guy purposely ridding his bike in-and-out of incoming traffic -- (link) - Flavorize May 13, 06:58
It seems SCOTUS heard this week arguments in a case regarding whether the entirety of eastern OK should be treated as a reservation. - Open Baron May 13, 06:54 3
- I like the California Beach Closures by Gov Mandate upheld by 1905 Supreme Court decision - Jacobson v. Massachusetts. Public Health over Freedoms. -- (link) - budice May 13, 06:58
- The scotus at a case two years ago said that there was a substantial legal question there so it’s less of a Hail Mary but the result appears to be for - JackDawson May 13, 06:55 1
  - Thanks, Jack! I appreciate the insight. -- nm - Open Baron May 13, 06:57
This is the best deep fake. -- (link) - Shaun May 13, 06:43 1
- Haha! :-) -- nm - Krusty May 13, 06:50
Even though there are fans at the games in Taiwan the concessions are closed -- nm - Krusty May 13, 06:43
If you're a Game Pass on PC person, Halo 2 joins the MCC today. -- (link) - Shaun May 13, 06:39
LYC I have a dentist appointment tomorrow. I did not reschedule it. - sycor May 13, 06:33 2
- I’d take the appointment. Yes there is an unknown risk. But the tooth issue is a known one. -- nm - Qale May 13, 06:34 1
  - Thanks that actually helps me feel a little better about my decision. -- nm - sycor May 13, 06:49
st poll: i'm bored reading these agreements for work, whats the last thing you purchased? and whats the last thing you shopped around for? - tRuMaN May 13, 06:33 13
- This for working out at home. -- (link) - pmb May 13, 07:27
- groceries last night -- nm - Beaker May 13, 07:17
- Sink shelf. -- nm - loosilu May 13, 07:16
- Wireless phone charging pad. -- nm - Open Baron May 13, 06:47
- Fitbit. Before that masks. Not really browsing. -- nm - Andie May 13, 06:44 1
  - My Ukrainian masks finally showed up!! took almost 6 weeks - decline May 13, 07:24
- Not counting food, the last thing I bought was a charity t-shirt. I've been looking for a new computer chair since Theresa needs a good one if she's -- (edited) - Krusty May 13, 06:39 4
  - I am a problem solver. -- (link) - Shaun May 13, 06:41 3
    - :-) I saw that one in an article about recommended chairs. I passed it along to her to check out. -- nm - Krusty May 13, 06:48
    - i have looked at those cause I dont like me home desk chair. -- nm - tRuMaN May 13, 06:43 1
      - The next time I truly need a new chair, I'll be getting one of them. -- nm - Shaun May 13, 06:47
- Bought these for my PS4 controller as my current ones are starting to degrade. - Shaun May 13, 06:38
- Cheap t-shirts to delay doing laundry longer. I haven’t been shopping around for anything. -- nm - Qale May 13, 06:35
I got a new weed eater the other day and the safety guard is a joke. Covers maybe 45 degrees of the cutting. I had more grass on me than - Will Hunting May 13, 06:19
?WHHHHAAAATTT? -- (link) - ty97 May 13, 06:14 [Backboard] 11
- He’s absolutely correct. -- nm - MDH May 13, 07:08
- I mean he isnt wrong -- nm - tRuMaN May 13, 06:31
- he's gone quarantine crazy -- nm - decline May 13, 06:21 1
  - Confined space dementia! -- nm - Reagen May 13, 06:29
- He's not wrong. -- nm - JaxSean May 13, 06:17 6
  - Most nachos are not really well made, so the chips get soggy. - Dark Callisto May 13, 06:47 3
    - Agreed -- nm - JaxSean May 13, 06:57
    - I like to dip the nachos into a jalapeno cheese. -- nm - Krusty May 13, 06:52
    - This is true. Crappy nachos are super crappy but excellent nachos are top tier. -- nm - Shaun May 13, 06:48
  - OK, who's driving Jax's wheelchair today? -- nm - ty97 May 13, 06:31 1
    - As always, Jake Jortles. -- nm - Open Baron May 13, 06:41
Manafort headed home. Will serve the rest of sentence on house stay, like the rest of us. -- nm - Volnelk May 13, 06:03
Just overheard on my wife's office Zoom that they're aiming for August to return, and only 35% capacity then. -- nm - Reagen May 13, 05:55 3
- My wife's staff zoom call yesterday said September and she almost cried. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request May 13, 08:43
- I love LA! -- nm - Spawn May 13, 06:01 1
  - ? -- nm - Reagen May 13, 06:03
Farmers and Flea Markets will likely be impacted by these events. I know there's a number that like to browse. Many Colleges around here offer these on weekends. -- nm* - budice May 13, 05:44 5
- The farmers markets here are doing crazy good business right now. They're bringing more food than ever and it's selling out. -- nm - Krusty May 13, 05:49 4
  - They’re still closed here. -- nm - spamlet May 13, 06:02 2
    - I was surprised they were open here -- nm - Krusty May 13, 06:10 1
      - i think they just opened here for the weekends, I considered going last weekend. -- nm - tRuMaN May 13, 06:34
  - No flea markets though and those were declining here before Covid due to their space being eaten up by developers. -- nm - Krusty May 13, 05:51
I don’t think this really counts as a spoiler, but to be safe, Survivor spoiler - Dano May 13, 05:42 1
- Yep. Spoilers. - Volnelk May 13, 06:05
Watching KBO Korean feed on my sportsbook app. Really digging how similar the commercials are to NA games. - Name Withheld By Request May 13, 05:36
TV PSA: Survivor, UFC Fight Night, AEW Dynamite, Property Brothers, Spy in the Wild, A Nature Miniseries, Challenge, Goldbergs, Masked Singer, WWE NXT -- nm - Beaker May 13, 05:22 3
- Real HW, Schooled, American Housewife, NOVA, Motherland Fort Salem, Single parents, Summer House, Celebrity Ghost Stories, Shark Tank, Ruthless BET+, -- nm - Beaker May 13, 05:24 2
  - What we do in the Shadows, Crank Yankers, Samantha Bee, Mrs America, other stuff -- nm - Beaker May 13, 05:25 1
    - 3: Survivor finale, Goldbergs, Schooled -- nm - Beaker May 13, 05:33
truman, God of War. Clearly. It doesn't take long to get properly interesting. -- nm - Shaun May 13, 05:07 12
- I believe I have god of war, uncharted collection, last of us, and horizon zero dawn to play. -- nm - tRuMaN May 13, 06:25 5
  - I have been doing mostly Spider-Man since I ended FF7R, with a sprinkle of hard mode just to continue with the characters. (NM) - Marlowe May 13, 07:32 1
    - Oh, and I found Horizon Zero Dawn for cheap, so I bought that too. (NM) - Marlowe May 13, 07:33
  - That's a hot lineup. Start with GoW. -- nm - Shaun May 13, 06:32 2
    - also have the master chief collection and red dead 2 on the xbox to play -- nm - tRuMaN May 13, 06:37 1
      - Still GoW. -- nm - Shaun May 13, 06:41
- tRu has a PS4? -- nm - JaxSean May 13, 05:27 5
  - Any TLoU progress to report? Hmmm? -- nm - Shaun May 13, 05:57 2
    - No, started Red Dead Redemption II on xbox game pass - JaxSean May 13, 06:16 1
      - fwiw, RDR2 is a *MUCH* longer game than TLoU. -- nm - Shaun May 13, 06:42
  - He and Marlowe are recent PS4 owners. -- nm - Shaun May 13, 05:45 1
    - ayup. also want to go back into ff7r and find the other summons I missed - tRuMaN May 13, 06:21
Looks like Republicans won both special elections yesterday pretty easily. Is that a bad sign for November? -- nm - Inigo May 13, 03:59 3
- According to psephologists, the predictive value of off-cycle special election results is approximately crap-all. -- nm - Open Baron May 13, 06:37
- The CA seat is up again in November, this was just to fill the rest of the term. They expected the Republican to win because Dems don't vote in - jnine May 13, 04:04
- Wisconsin was a safe GOP seat. The California seat will be more competitive in November. -- nm - Tim May 13, 04:03
Subway BOGO foot long.... -- (link) - zeitgeist May 13, 01:59
Counterfeit goods are flooding the market, fake N95 masks and other PPE, fake drugs, inspectors used to looking for Gucci fakes now retasked…. -- (link) - zeitgeist May 13, 01:50 3
- Those are the exact masks we were looking to buy. It appeared that the first shipment people received were legit but second shipment came with ear loo - James Bond (aka Igor) May 13, 06:55
- Oh honey, I only wear Gucci PPE, dahling. -- nm - Qale May 13, 06:27
- The nurses at St. John's in Santa Monica are complaining they have no N95 masks, while the medical supply store across the street has a guy at the - jnine May 13, 03:53
The NFL’s Bird Gantlet is a thing the Cowboys will face this year. Can they emerge unscathed? - crash davis May 13, 00:36 1
- pfm had posted this earlier, but I decided to include the text -- nm - crash davis May 13, 00:37
This sounds like an interesting book. -- (link) - Beryllium May 13, 00:07
The rocket launch that the Chinese effed up? Space Force confirms that it missed NYC by fifteen minutes. - crash davis May 13, 00:03 6
- Listen, if you wanna go to space, you’re gonna break some eggs. -- nm - Qale May 13, 06:30 2
  - Which Kerbal expansion is that? -- nm - Reagen May 13, 06:33 1
    - Kerbal Mama 3 -- nm - Qale May 13, 06:34
- given the speeds involved 15 minutes is also probably like a quarter of its orbit. -- nm - mafic May 13, 00:10 2
  - Two things though, 1) the Chinese show utter irresponsibility in their launch paths; 2) I got to seriously mention Space Force -- nm - crash davis May 13, 00:13 1
    - I always wondered why they launched from beaches, when a high altitude would mean half the rocket power needed -- nm - zeitgeist May 13, 01:32
Millions of British self-employed workers will be able to apply for one-off grants of up to 7,500 pounds ($9,210) -- nm - zeitgeist May 12, 23:48
"Many Women Do Noble Things, But You Surpass Them All." -- nm - David May 12, 23:37
"I hope you're vaccinated for HPV because we're going to college!" -- nm - David May 12, 22:55 2
- "We... the locals call it Bane-ton! The way you remember it is it rhymes with plankton." -- nm - Reagen May 13, 05:47
- "We're too old for that vaccine." -- nm - Beryllium May 13, 00:08
Somehow missed this in 2018: Matt Pinfield (MTV, DJ) was hit by a car, nearly killing him. Today still struggling and recovering from COVID19. Sheesh - JaxSean May 12, 22:51 2
- I believe Matt still does voice over work for Lithium among other rock satellite stations. -- nm - Qale May 13, 06:33
- LA is open season for pedestrians. I try to avoid crossing major streets as much as possible. It's worse now with the reduced traffic, people are - jnine May 13, 04:02
Photoshopped, but funny -- (link) - Beryllium May 12, 22:13 1
- reply to ALL: -- nm - zeitgeist May 12, 23:39
Freeway chase of the night, circling central O.C. near Disneyland. Hwy 55, 91, 57. Now WB 22 just south of me. -- (link) - Meg May 12, 22:08 5
- Past me headed towards Long Beach. News chopper having problems dealing with restricted airspace over Disneyland :) -- nm - Meg May 12, 22:13 4
  - Off at Beach Blvd and back on the freeway eastbound. -- nm - Meg May 12, 22:14 3
    - Crazy seeing how little traffic on the roads he's been on. It's never like this :) -- nm - Meg May 12, 22:21 2
      - Pulls into a driveway and gets out with what looks like a takeout box in his hands :) -- nm - Meg May 12, 22:23 1
        
        he better have eaten in the car. the cops won't let him take it to jail. -- nm - Peglegpete May 12, 23:19
ALIAS got added to Prime Video - Flavorize May 12, 21:37
Hmm, universities and colleges are starting to offer contact tracing courses - some for free, even. You could be a Blade Tracer! -- nm - Beryllium May 12, 21:32 1
- you don't actually get to execute the skips, not without a master's degree anyway... -- nm - zeitgeist May 12, 21:42
Underworld movie 1 spoiler question. I’ve got a 5 minute massage riding on it - Epiphany May 12, 21:31 1
- Marcus Corvinus, Viktor, and Amelia. - David May 12, 22:00
CA expecting to cancel university classes this fall -- (link) - zeitgeist May 12, 21:15 3
- Cal State will close its campuses and hold online classes. Nothing yet from the University of California system. -- nm - Meg May 12, 21:19 2
  - UCs hinted at that in prior emails. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) May 12, 21:36 1
    - Yep, as mentioned earlier I'm wondering how this will affect our scholarship applicants. Most of them attend one of these two systems. -- nm - Meg May 12, 21:45
That Australia story is awful. -- nm - ty97 May 12, 21:07 2
- I want to show it to everyone who is about to drink heavily or do drugs. -- nm - David May 12, 21:12 1
  - But that guy sounds like he was a complete and utter dick even not under the influence. It doesn't strike me that he just went off on a bender - JD May 12, 21:34
New Jersey -- (link) - ty97 May 12, 20:33 1
- Haha! -- nm - Krusty May 12, 20:39
David, is ‘enhanced cloud DVR’ what gets rid of the ads in playback? -- nm - Volnelk May 12, 20:29 1
- Clarifying: I have no idea. I thought you meant regular Hulu, not the skinny bundle. We have YouTube TV. - David May 12, 20:40
My Day at the Shanghai Disneyland Grand Re-Opening - JD May 12, 20:29 3
- Sounds like it was lacking some Johnny Deppth -- nm - Beryllium May 12, 21:03
- You had hair the last time I saw you - ty97 May 12, 20:34 1
  - Though in your defense, no hair is a rather recent thing -- (link) - JD May 12, 20:37 [Backboard]
my wife made me take off my bathrobe to greet guests. what's the point of even working from home then? -- nm - mafic May 12, 20:02 7
- What about the Wizard hat? -- nm - JaxSean May 12, 21:49
- Oh....so you're that couple.... -- nm - JD May 12, 20:18
- ... did she make you put clothes on, or was that a separate concern? -- nm - Beryllium May 12, 20:07 4
  - I was wearing normal clothes underneath. it's chilly in the morning! -- nm - mafic May 12, 20:15 3
    - Heh, I did this a couple of weeks ago. Then a heatwave hit. -- nm - Beryllium May 12, 21:16
    - Normal clothes under a bathrobe? Were you smoking a pipe too? -- nm - Max May 12, 21:13
    - your normal clothes, or hers? -- nm - Peglegpete May 12, 20:22

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