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Jeeeez%&@#, I just bought a sonos, trying to set up account, enter email address, they say sorry this email already has on account -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 13:06 4
- why do you need an account? download the app and stream via wifi/bluetooth? -- nm - JaxSean May 14, 13:17 1
  - Down load the app, set up account, enter email address, sorry that address has an account already -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 13:36
- I've used all my email accounts, each one says it is already in use -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 13:11 1
  - You already have sonos. -- nm - Holmes May 14, 13:22
Happy birthday to our employee of the quarter, Loosi! -- nm - David May 14, 13:04 1
- Happy Birthday Loosi! -- nm - . May 14, 13:21
Rasmussen: 23% (!) of Republicans think GOP nominee should be someone other than Trump, with 7% undecided. -- (link*) - mud May 14, 12:55 1
- It would be nice if some of them decided to just stay at home come Election Day, then. (NM) - Marlowe May 14, 12:56
Excellent op-Ed piece about what’s really the problem with how we are handling the Covid crisis - open or not - more broadly - JackDawson May 14, 12:52 2
- Part of the “American way of life” for at least some of these elected officials is keeping workers just poor enough to ensure that the “essential” - JD May 14, 13:09 1
  - It’s totally true when you can’t explain away things like construction or amazon non essential deliveries that even the N.Y. governor defended and tha - JackDawson May 14, 13:15
"Tampa Bay Rays ace Blake Snell says he will not play this season for a reduced salary, especially because the risk of contracting the coronavirus..." - David May 14, 12:44 16
- He is so tone deaf on this. - Todd Manning May 14, 13:06 14
  - But if one thinks about it, isn't playing kind of tone deaf? It'll be good for morale.. Isn't that just a version of having Amazon warehouses - JD May 14, 13:12 5
    - Putting it in different terms, let's say you expect to make $10 million in two years. - David May 14, 13:14 4
      - He’s complaining about making millions of dollars. He was at 7mil. To play a game for 3 months, pitch 15 times for maybe 100 innings... - Will Hunting May 14, 13:19 3
        
        That doesn't make his risk any less important to him. -- nm - David May 14, 13:26 2
        
        It seems like the risk isn't his issue when he brings the money in to it. - Todd Manning May 14, 13:33 1
        
        Right, he presented it terribly and comes across like a jerk. I understand his sentiment, but he needs a publicist. -- nm - David May 14, 13:41
  - He does, but the MLB minimum is $563,500. Half of that is $281,750. Owners are trying to negotiate down from there... - David May 14, 13:11 7
    - There are people risking their lives for a hell of a lot less than that. That's what makes him bringing the money up a bad look. - Todd Manning May 14, 13:26 4
      - They've already negotiated with the owners on this. Now the owners are telling the players to pray they don't alter the deal further. -- nm - spamlet May 14, 13:35 1
        
        Then the players should tell them to go screw. Just don't tell me your,meaning Snell, concern is heath when it's really money. -- nm - Todd Manning May 14, 13:41
      - I completely agree that a lot of what's happening right now sucks and is brutally unfair. He's not an asshole for wanting to stay healthy, though. - David May 14, 13:29 1
        
        I didn't say he's an asshole if he feels it's unsafe. -- nm - Todd Manning May 14, 13:34
    - He’s got a contract for 7mil. He’s already down to 3.5mil and estimates are a quarter. He is still going to clear 1.5-2mil this year. -- nm - Will Hunting May 14, 13:20 1
      - He'll make $43 million more after this year on his current contract. Why should he risk serious illness for $1.5-$2 million? - David May 14, 13:28
- Of all the sports, a pitcher is one of the best socially distanced positions there is!!! - Spawn May 14, 13:04
Local TV news, source of fraudulent unemployment assistance requests is likely the 08 equifax hacking -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 12:33 1
- Ohhh....that's brilliant in an evil genius type of way - JD May 14, 13:16
You can rest easy. Trolls: World Tour will be eligible for an Oscar. -- (link) - Mop May 14, 12:31 1
- It did play in drive-ins. -- nm - . May 14, 12:33
Tropical Storm forming off the Bahama's:the disturbance has the potential to bring heavy rainfall to portions of the Florida Keys, southeast Florida - decline May 14, 12:17 2
- This will wipe out Covid! -- nm - Trump May 14, 12:25 1
  - I just read a scientist say that a tropical storm will blow COVID away. Time to reopen America! -- nm - POTUS May 14, 12:26
Unemployment: CT overstated claims by 200K, 29K not 298K -- (edited) - budice May 14, 12:15 2
- The fingers you have used to report the data are too fat. To obtain a special typing wand, please mash the keyboard with your palm now. -- nm - Open Baron May 14, 12:47
- The same has happened with the number of US cases of COVID! -- nm - POTUS May 14, 12:18
Ok Survivor folks - gimme your Mt. Rushmore of Survivor players, now that we're 40 seasons in. (spoils) - Malcolm Bright May 14, 12:12 41
- Rob, Sandra, Parvati, Kim. (I still think Kim played the best season in history, and Rob is on despite my dislike of him) -- nm - MDH May 14, 13:22
- Is it known who the players are who made it to final vote with the most challenge losses or blocked council votes along the way? -- nm - Max May 14, 12:48 1
  - The Survivor Wiki probably has stats like that, but I have no idea. -- nm - Malcolm Bright May 14, 12:52
- we're going to need small life size statues at the base for honorable mention like the girls who took their tops off for PB & chocolat around season 4 -- (edited) - Peglegpete May 14, 12:44 1
  - Well, they did have their Playboy cover, which I still have autographed somewhere in the house. nm -- nm - Malcolm Bright May 14, 12:56
- Spinoff Pool: Mt Rushmore of "villain" Survivor players. Johnny Fairplay, Russell, Parv, Sandra -- nm - Beaker May 14, 12:42 7
  - I liked Jerri Manthey. -- nm - MDH May 14, 13:22
  - I'm ok with this. Sandra and Russell are on both. -- nm - zunkskunk May 14, 12:53
  - True Villians would be: Fairplay, Russell, Naonka, and Colton -- nm - Jovian May 14, 12:47 2
    - was colton evil enough to others? -- nm - amanda May 14, 13:11 1
      - Hmmm I dont he was. Okay lets swap him out with Russel's miserable brother. -- nm - Jovian May 14, 13:34
  - I struggle with calling Parv and Sandra "villains" - but if they are, then yeah, that's about right. -- nm - Malcolm Bright May 14, 12:47 1
    - I mean- I know they were literally on the villains tribe - but still. :) -- nm - Malcolm Bright May 14, 12:47
- Rob, Sandra, Parv, Hatch -- nm - Jovian May 14, 12:36
- Rudy -- nm - . May 14, 12:28 5
  - Rudy doesn't want to be on your [censored] monument. -- nm - Open Baron May 14, 12:29 4
    - Which is why he should be. -- nm* - . May 14, 12:30 3
      - Or just name it after him. -- nm - Open Baron May 14, 12:39 2
        
        Mt. Rudymore -- nm - Malcolm Bright May 14, 12:39 1
        
        *chef's kiss* -- nm - Open Baron May 14, 12:42
- I'm not enough of an expert, *but* (spoils) - zunkskunk May 14, 12:27 1
  - I just researched one of my choices to prove to myself I'm right. - zunkskunk May 14, 12:42
- actually changing one: -- (edited) - Beaker May 14, 12:25
- MBIS&F - who won last night? -- nm - prayformojo May 14, 12:21 1
  - Spoilers - ST Draft Analyst May 14, 12:23
- Sue Hawk. She'll chisel or dynamite off any others they try and place. -- nm - VMan May 14, 12:18
- I'm finishing up that season with Denise, and just watched the last hour of last night's. She's cool. -- nm - Max May 14, 12:17 8
  - She was easily the best remaining player after Kim got voted out. - ST Draft Analyst May 14, 12:19 7
    - Honestly - I don't even understand what your definition of a good Survivor player is anymore. (spoils) - Malcolm Bright May 14, 12:38 6
      - I almost agree with David, kind of. spoilers? - amanda May 14, 13:07 1
        
        Spoilers - David May 14, 13:12
      - Sure you do. (spoilers) - David May 14, 12:42 3
        
        You probably don't realize this - but practically no one else will agree with any of those takes. nm - Malcolm Bright May 14, 12:51 2
        
        I'm aware that the victor gets the spoils. - David May 14, 12:52 1
        
        your last line isn't wrong. -- nm - amanda May 14, 13:04
- It’s Rob, Sandra, Kim and Parvati. -- nm - ST Draft Analyst May 14, 12:16 1
  - I think you're right though I might drop sandra for hatch. -- nm - amanda May 14, 13:02
- Chicken! -- nm - con_carne May 14, 12:14 1
  - Damn! -- nm - Malcolm Bright May 14, 12:15
- Coach, the cute girl from season 1 - Colleen maybe?, Rupert and... uh.... I don't know any more. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 12:14 1
  - That's a good list and at least one of them will be on David's. nm - Malcolm Bright May 14, 12:16
The Big Easy, Days of Heaven - answers to ty's lir poll about best movie soundtracks. -- nm - . May 14, 12:09 2
- ‘Round Midnight, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Color of Money, Singles, Until the End of the World -- nm - Mr. Havens May 14, 13:11
- I watched Hobbs & Shaw the other night - its soundtrack is pretty freaking alright - Pippy - aka Odie May 14, 12:43
WA state barbers and beauticians have petition up about reopening, hell no, there's no protection material, they'll lose money -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 12:06
200 Goats in San Jose -- (link) - Reagen May 14, 12:04 2
- My 9th least favorite Elvis Costello song -- nm - prayformojo May 14, 12:20
- That one nerd crossing guard goat at the beginning is like "hey you gotta follow the signs - aw crap..." -- nm - Max May 14, 12:06
It's pretty easy to get a "# of tests/day in my state" and use that to get an "infection rate," but even then, that depends on who gets to be tested. - con_carne May 14, 11:55 11
- You really can't, since there are criteria for testing. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 12:06 4
  - Indy just went from "must have symptoms" to "apply and you might get tested". -- nm - Spawn May 14, 12:34
  - Yup. My fear is that we treat these numbers like a video game that gets tallied up automatically. But without knowing the initiatives of the people in -- (edited) - con_carne May 14, 12:34
  - Criteria's tighter or looser depending on the state. -- nm - . May 14, 12:30 1
    - You can have the same guidelines but still make it easier for people to get the test. -- nm - con_carne May 14, 12:45
- The testing done locally here tried to get a random sampling. They came away for a result of 0.2% of people are infected. - Mop May 14, 11:58 5
  - In NYC they got 25%, I think. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 12:06 4
    - What the...!! -- nm - Pippy - aka Odie May 14, 12:44 2
      - That's a good thing, I think. Well, assuming they have immunity, which we don't know for sure. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 13:01
      - Oh yeah. And Cuomo'clock is recommended viewing as "what might happen here but in the future." NY has a lot of toys you and I don't - con_carne May 14, 13:00
    - Jesus. -- nm - Mop May 14, 12:22
This is old news (so perfect for me!) NY AG says cable companies should give us a refund because sports networks aren't showing sports. -- (link) - Mop May 14, 11:47 2
- I have thought of adjusting my channel selection to remove most of the sports stuff. Put it back after. Might save like $5 a month. -- nm - VMan May 14, 12:16 1
  - How much is your time worth? Because that sounds like a pretty involved process to save yourself just a few bucks. - Mop May 14, 12:27
2 camels took a leisurely walk yesterday along the Las Vegas strip -- (link) - Peglegpete May 14, 11:32 10
- I've heard of wildlife running rampant during quarantine, but this is another level. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 12:06 1
  - If we don't show them who's boss, they're going to take over the planet! -- nm - Mop May 14, 12:21
- I wonder what James Caan would've said about that. -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 11:53
- They better not try that sh!t in Philly ! -- nm - decline May 14, 11:41 1
  - "Welcome to the Cameltown OC, bitch." -- nm - Max May 14, 11:43
- What day it is...guess what day it is -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 11:40
- Did troopers shoot them? -- nm - Mop May 14, 11:34 3
  - No, because it was Hump Day. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 11:43 1
    - *rimshot* -- nm - loosilu May 14, 12:05
  - nyet -- nm - Peglegpete May 14, 11:35
Oklahoma: Still racist -- (link) - TWuG May 14, 11:23 4
- And! he was dealing with deaths in his own family but still having to work. that is an awful story. -- nm - Pippy - aka Odie May 14, 12:41
- As the manager for several I will say, gated communities are the devil. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 11:53
- That's fucked up, man. -- nm - Mop May 14, 11:47
- It'll all be Indian Territory again soon. -- nm - Open Baron May 14, 11:46
Brent Spiner... -- (link) - Beryllium May 14, 11:16 2
- LOL! That didn't go where I expected it to. -- nm - Mop May 14, 11:19 1
  - Uhm, it was right there in the description! -- nm - Spawn May 14, 11:25
Meanwhile, in Philadelphia: "Troopers shoot, kill runaway emu that was loose on highway" -- (link) - decline May 14, 11:16 6
- One more liberty mutual commercial and I'll shoot one myself -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 12:07
- This is great material for the new Netflix limited series, "Emu King". -- nm - Mop May 14, 11:56
- "Then what's partricide?" "Killing a partridge." "Victimless crime." "No it's not, Shawn." "Then who's the victim?" "The partridge!" -- nm - Psych May 14, 11:32
- the LIMU emu? -- nm - Peglegpete May 14, 11:24
- As if traffic on 422 isn’t bad enough on a regular basis. -- nm - znufrii May 14, 11:18
- Oh I'm sorry. I thought this was Americaustralia. -- nm - Emu May 14, 11:17
The funny thing about The CW announcement is that Swamp Thing, formerly a disaster project, probably turns a profit now. -- nm - David May 14, 11:13 4
- Just catching up. I see they've moving Swamp Thing to the "big leagues" (sorta) like Fox is doing with "LA's Finest". - Mop May 14, 11:16 2
  - I'd have thought Stranger Things would have been a get. CBS has a ton of stuff they can utilize. -- nm - MDH May 14, 11:25 1
    - It's all about who owns the property. Stranger Things will never be on anything other than Netflix. - Mop May 14, 11:33
- I sort of hope it does huge numbers on CW and they don't know what to do. -- nm - MDH May 14, 11:14
mud, that's Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn - whoever they are. -- (link) - Mop May 14, 11:08 [youtube] 4
- Tangential note: Masked Singer producers should invite Al to be a guest panelist. The man's a music encyclopedia. He'd be crazy good. -- nm* - Open Baron May 14, 11:16 3
  - But then you're asking the Masked Singer to be "good". It's not "good". Sure, it's entertaining. But I wouldn't call it good. -- nm - Mop May 14, 11:57 2
    - *starts to protest but concedes the point* Still, is it too much to ask that a show I enjoy aim higher? -- (edited) - Open Baron May 14, 12:09 1
      - What I dislike most in the Masked Singer is the audience reactions. - Mop May 14, 12:29
What $700,000 buys in NYC right now -- (link) - ty97 May 14, 11:07 24
- (Plus $1,600 per month in taxes and maintenance fees) -- nm - spamlet May 14, 12:18
- Eesh. The condo fees alone on some of those are almost as much as my mortgage. -- nm - znufrii May 14, 11:46 2
  - The PV of the fees alone at $900/mo adds a quarter million to the price. -- nm - spamlet May 14, 12:21
  - I don't love the house but it's semi-reasonable. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 12:08
- only 2/5 give the homes size. at spending $3/4M they should list the square footage -- nm - Peglegpete May 14, 11:28
- "East New York"? Fuckers don't want to say "Long Island"? -- nm - Mop May 14, 11:09 18
  - It's a neighborhood in Brooklyn. There's also a West New York in New Jersey. -- nm - ty97 May 14, 11:10 17
    - Technically on Long Island, but so is the rest of Brooklyn. -- nm - znufrii May 14, 11:47 1
      - I believe we've had this dust up before. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 11:49
    - A rough neighborhood that I don't recommend going to during daylight hours -- nm - Krusty May 14, 11:20 8
      - Is there any city that's [Direction] [Well Known City] that is a good place to be in? -- nm - Reagen May 14, 11:23 7
        
        West Hartford is the fancy part -- nm - JackDawson May 14, 12:00
        
        Our "west" places are pretty much all nice neighborhoods, but there is a cheat - con_carne May 14, 11:30
        
        North Vancouver -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 11:25 4
        
        Too hoity-toity! -- nm - Reagen May 14, 11:27 3
        
        West Van -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 11:31 2
        
        Too hilly! -- nm - Reagen May 14, 11:32 1
        
        North Saanich -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 11:46
    - In a West NY town a dead end world, the East NY boys and West NY girls -- nm - Open Baron May 14, 11:12 5
      - "I feel like we can tighten this up somehow" -- nm - Reagen May 14, 11:16
      - *Likes in Pet Shop Boys* -- nm - MDH May 14, 11:14 3
        
        Speaking of, they delayed their tour *1 year*. So Sept of 2021. - Spawn May 14, 11:17 2
        
        Petshop Boys and New Order together? They'll do songs from Electronic... right? RIGHT?! -- nm - Mop May 14, 11:22 1
        
        Acoustic. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 11:26
baby baby take off your dress, yes yes...but you can leave your mask on -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 11:07 1
- Can? - Spawn May 14, 11:11

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