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Why don't they just rename it "CBS: All Star Trek and some other things" -- nm - oblique May 15, 12:21
Wow. We got our business loan. All it says is, "Funds Transfer". WOOHOO!!! -- nm - Spawn May 15, 12:14 8
- PPP? congrats - decline May 15, 12:24 1
  - Nice. Thanks. -- nm - Spawn May 15, 12:26
- Awesome! Go spend it on something useful like Funko Pops for Logan! -- nm - David May 15, 12:18
- "Hide this." -- nm - Max May 15, 12:15
- Hookers and crack! -- nm - oblique May 15, 12:15 3
  - 75% has to be used for payroll, so that will be for the hookers and 25% for utilities and expenses so that will be for the crack! -- nm - Spawn May 15, 12:18 2
    - hey honey, where's the crack at? you ain't getting no blow if *we* don't get no blow, ya know? -- nm - unhappy hookers May 15, 12:55
    - The math checks out -- nm - oblique May 15, 12:18
I’m going to finally go to the laundromat. *crash of thunder, rain starts pouring* I am going to not go to the laundromat at all. -- nm - Qale May 15, 12:00
I'm having one of those moments where I can't find anything to watch on Netflix. -- nm - Loyola May 15, 11:59 5
- Thanks all. -- nm - Loyola May 15, 12:17
- I am enjoying Sabrina far more than I expected to. -- nm - Spawn May 15, 12:09
- There is a website for that. -- (link) - Qale May 15, 12:05
- "Maybe Hulu?" -- nm - SNL May 15, 12:02
- Stranger Things, The Witcher, Castlevania, The 100, Narcos, Narcos mexico -- nm - Beaker May 15, 12:02
I'm definitely giving off that middle-aged roadie for Motley Crue vibe right now. - David May 15, 11:59 2
- Looking for Crue Sluts? -- nm - Spawn May 15, 12:06
- "The shopkeeper was another story all together. Unfortunately, I had to beat him to death his own shoe. But Ozzy went on and had a great show." -- nm - Reagen May 15, 12:00
Arrest warrants issued for NFL defensive backs DeAndre Baker, Quinton Dunbar after alleged armed robbery -- (link) - spamlet May 15, 11:51
I still almost have 40 minutes of Age of Ultron. It is a hot mess. -- nm - Qale May 15, 11:24 21
- I liked it MUCH better on repeat viewings. There are some editing issues, though. -- nm - David May 15, 11:30 14
  - The Widow/Hulk pairing is the biggest oops in the MCU to date. - Will Hunting May 15, 11:50 7
    - I disagree completely. I love their story arc. -- nm - David May 15, 11:54 6
      - Except for them dropping it. -- nm - Spawn May 15, 12:07 4
        
        She liked the man but needed the monster. It's good storytelling. - David May 15, 12:10 1
        
        Hell, I have dated girls where this was the exact situation. That was why I waited so long to be tamed. -- nm - Spawn May 15, 12:19
        
        I dunno. That certainly made it pretty realistic. -- nm - Qale May 15, 12:08 1
        
        Nerd drops the ultra-hottie? - Spawn May 15, 12:10
      - Agreed. It’s the only thing holding the film together really. -- nm - Qale May 15, 11:58
  - Exactly. And seeing it fit into the entire phase of the MCU story. -- nm - Spawn May 15, 11:34 5
    - This is the only reason why I am going back to pick it up. It makes sense the human element is best part. - Qale May 15, 11:41 4
      - Producer meddling is why Whedon left the MCU after this. -- nm - David May 15, 11:46 2
        
        that and the hard release date that wouldn't be move. He was sleeping the in the editing rooms. -- nm - Remlik May 15, 11:53
        
        RELEASE THE WHEDON CUT!!! -- nm - Spawn May 15, 11:47
      - Was about to post budice #5 below, but mine would have been Vision and Wanda. -- nm - Spawn May 15, 11:45
- It has some *great* pieces. But yeah, it is the weak sauce of the bunch. -- nm - Spawn May 15, 11:25 5
  - #5 Vision -- nm - budice May 15, 11:42
  - Piece #4: Iron Man vs The Hulk -- nm* - Spawn May 15, 11:33
  - Piece #2: Wanda's outfit. actually this may be #1. Piece #3: "Nobody would know..." -- nm - Max May 15, 11:31 1
    - I loved #3. Got a major LOL -- nm - Will Hunting May 15, 11:47
  - Piece #1: attempting to lift the hammer -- nm - Max May 15, 11:28
Oh, that pandemic plan? Of course they left *that* pandemic plan. I meant a specific one for COVID-19! -- (link) - spamlet May 15, 11:23 1
- And look, ours are in binders, and just happen to be right here. -- nm - Qale May 15, 11:25
Sheesh, I had the heat on just a couple days ago and now it feels like I need to turn on the AC -- nm - Dano May 15, 11:20 5
- yeah. we left a bedroom window open today, and it's really uncomfortable up there -- nm - prayformojo May 15, 11:24
- Yup. I'm close to turning it on. -- nm - Krusty May 15, 11:23
- 2020! We have "switched"... I want to say eight times so far? -- nm - Spawn May 15, 11:22 2
  - I haven't turned on the AC yet. Maybe I should try so in case it decides not to come on I have time to get it fixed before it gets real hot. -- nm - Dano May 15, 11:41 1
    - I always make a point to. - Spawn May 15, 11:47
I love when I get the same email from the parent and the student about an assignment or mark. I already responded to one of you, do you not talk? -- nm - Reagen May 15, 11:13 2
- "Oh hai Mark." "Guess again." -- nm - con_carne May 15, 11:21
- and there's another half grade off for lack of communication -- nm - decline May 15, 11:19
and for now I guess brunch: Grilled Ham and Cheese sandwich and a Racer 5 - JD May 15, 11:02
Its tonal inconsistencies keep it from grade A territory, but The Great on Hulu is an interesting project. Hoult and Elle Fanning are both terrific -- nm - prayformojo May 15, 10:47 6
- It's got Elle Fanning, I'll watch it. -- nm - Mop May 15, 12:21
- Have you seen The Favourite and can score the two against each other? -- nm - Max May 15, 11:04 1
  - this is much lighter than the favorite, and it shoots for satire more. I'm pretty sure they used some of The Favourite's sets -- nm* - prayformojo May 15, 11:17
- yeah, this looks good. -- nm - Diva May 15, 10:59
- Thanks. Russia plus "from the whatever of The Favourite" intrigues me -- nm - con_carne May 15, 10:51
- Thanks for taking the hit. I’ve seen a ton of ads and wasn’t sure. -- nm - spamlet May 15, 10:48
Phil May of the band Pretty Little Things dead at 75 -- (link) - Remlik May 15, 10:38
Eat your heart out, The Notebook! - David May 15, 10:31
Former Mets/A's manager Art Howe, whom Philip Seymour Hoffman protrayed in Moneyball, is in the ICU with COVID-19. -- nm - David May 15, 10:22 2
- Hoffman was so great, with his "what do you know, you stupid teenager, fire me?" grumbliness in that role -- nm* - prayformojo May 15, 10:24 1
  - He mastered posture in that role, even when he was sitting. -- nm - David May 15, 10:32
Canada Geese. -- (link) - Shaun May 15, 10:19 1
- LOL -- nm - Mop May 15, 10:40
LIR - Spawn. Last Vegas gathering was April 2018. -- nm - Meg May 15, 10:13
BC back to school date: June 1st. Voluntary basis. -- nm - Beryllium May 15, 10:12 4
- why the fuck would they even bother? -- nm - Beaker May 15, 10:14 3
  - Duh. To get your year book signed. -- nm - Spawn May 15, 11:08 2
    - I just signed your crack. -- nm - Qale May 15, 11:20 1
      - May the classics never die! -- nm - Spawn May 15, 11:37
ST What are you reading? -- nm - Beaker May 15, 10:05 14
- TWOT - just started book 4 -- nm - colin May 15, 11:17
- Well, the fun stuff is an audiobook for The Great Courses, The Foundations of Western Civilization by Noble -- nm - con_carne May 15, 10:43
- Exit Light by Justin Herzog. This is my 51st book this year -- nm - decline May 15, 10:34
- Threadjack: I share a Nook account with my father. At peak I had 22 unread books (he buys a lot/I wasn't reading much). Been working through, now = 0. -- nm - MDH May 15, 10:18
- Phineas Finn (Trollope) -- nm - mud May 15, 10:14
- The High House by James Stoddard. -- nm - Open Baron May 15, 10:14
- "Next" by Darrell Bricker - It's on Canadian attitude trends related to demographics/ "One Dumb Guy" by Paul Myers - Kids in the Hall bio -- nm - Name Withheld By Request May 15, 10:12 1
  - Strong Recommendation: Bricker's last book, with John Ibbitson, is called "Empty Planet" and is on global population declines. -- (edited) - Name Withheld By Request May 15, 10:14
- Savoring every word of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth -- nm - David May 15, 10:09 2
  - what. how?? -- nm - Jovian May 15, 10:26 1
    - Buckminster Fuller is who I want to be when I grow up. -- nm - David May 15, 10:28
- The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth -- nm - JD May 15, 10:09
- Not my email. -- nm - Beryllium May 15, 10:06
- just finished The Hobbit; Fellowship of the Ring next; also A Brief History of The Normans (in which I IDed an error) - Beaker May 15, 10:06
Working on a users' phone. His gmail icon has 35,711 unread. I just about had a panic attack just looking at it. -- nm - oblique May 15, 10:00 30
- My work email has 62,280 unread emails right now. -- nm - JaxSean May 15, 10:40 2
  - "You never responded. Have you been missing my emails?" "I wouldn't say I've been missing them, Bob." -- nm - Max May 15, 11:06 1
    - I get A LOT of technical monitoring emails (failures, alerts, etc). I got 578 emails yesterday, 3,400 so far this week. - JaxSean May 15, 11:38
- I would too. I'm an Inbox zero person. -- nm - MDH May 15, 10:22 4
  - Me too! - Dark Callisto May 15, 10:24 3
    - Work and personal for me. :-) *high fives fellow zero-er* -- nm - MDH May 15, 10:26 2
      - 0 unread in work and personal. i don't play that 'ignore' stuff. -- nm - Diva May 15, 11:11 1
        
        Right? I read and file or delete everything. There are literally no e-mails, much less unread in my inbox. -- nm - MDH May 15, 11:27
- I probably have a few old mailing list collections that skip my inbox I should check on. -- nm - Max May 15, 10:13
- My phone email no longer has the ability to move an email to the deleted file easily. So I’m not wasting time doing like 3 clicks - Will Hunting May 15, 10:08 3
  - Go through and unsubscribe from that stuff. It's a lot easier and they stop bothering you. -- nm - spamlet May 15, 10:09 2
    - I unsubscribe from stuff all the time - and it doesn't work. I can't even send stuff to junk automatically. Google is the GD devil -- nm - Pippy - dollop of daisy May 15, 10:56
    - Ever so often I get something I want so it’s fine. - Will Hunting May 15, 10:22
- I HATE seeing any unread notifications on apps. I clear them all as fast as I can. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 15, 10:07 6
  - I just let em pile up and when I'm bored, I can see The Story Of My Phone. *shrug* -- nm - con_carne May 15, 10:53
  - and thus what was supposed to be useful device becomes a Skinner box -- nm - JD May 15, 10:21
  - yup -- nm - Beaker May 15, 10:20
  - Same. I clear everything as soon as I can -- nm - Krusty May 15, 10:17
  - I mostly disable them (except for apps where I care, like Flickr). My phone runs silent. It doesn't tell me what to do - I don't let it. -- nm - Beryllium May 15, 10:09 1
    - I do the same. But I clear it on the ones that I’ve kept. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 15, 10:10
- I mean, I guess a lot of that could be emails from retailers/websites, etc and not work or personal, but DELETE that shit! -- nm - TWuG May 15, 10:06
- I never delete anything in gmail. I'm sure I have way more. I have more in my work inbox as well. -- nm - pmb May 15, 10:05 1
  - Although my work ones aren't unread. Just still in my inbox. -- nm - pmb May 15, 10:06
- Fired. Someone like that should be fired. If you can't count on them to communicate in a constructive way, they can find a job elsewhere. -- nm - Mop May 15, 10:04 3
  - Your mistake is in thinking that email is for communication. That is just a side effect. -- nm - Beryllium May 15, 10:05 2
    - "As per my last e-mail..." - Mop May 15, 10:10 1
      - Oh, I didn't check my work one. That was just my personal one. Work has 2000+ unread, mostly (95%) automated messages. -- nm - Beryllium May 15, 10:13
- I turned off the Unread badge on my phone because I don't need that noise -- nm - Beryllium May 15, 10:03 1
  - Currently at 9,283. None of which require a reply or being read. -- nm - Beryllium May 15, 10:06
- mel's is kind of like that. I can't stand it at all. -- nm - Diva May 15, 10:02
Hair trimmer amazon Q&A -- (pic) - Beryllium May 15, 10:00 [Attachment]
I would be pleasantly surprised if SLS launches at all next year which would then move the manned flight out past 2022 - JD May 15, 09:57 1
- Definitely a different set of specs required to get to Lunar distances> Though SpaceX will use a Falcon 9 to put a lander on the Moon next year - TWuG May 15, 10:02
With Bezos looking to be the first trillionaire, time to bring back the 90% tax rate. There is no valid reason for any individual to hold that much - TWuG May 15, 09:56 24
- Hardly any of his wealth would be taxed though because it's paper gains. You wouldn't get anything until he sells stock. -- nm - spamlet May 15, 10:18 7
  - So what you’re saying is that the net worth flat tax is a better idea! -- nm - JackDawson May 15, 10:20 6
    - Wealth taxes are likely unconstitutional as an unapportioned direct tax. - spamlet May 15, 10:28 3
      - I was actually curious about your IM, in fact. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 15, 10:31 1
        
        I’ve thought about it a bit since it gets raised every once in a while. I don’t know if I’ve seen anything like that on point though. - spamlet May 15, 10:40
      - Under the 90% tax no one counted unrealized gains as income, but I was being flippant about the flat tax point -- nm - JackDawson May 15, 10:29
    - If you want to crash stock prices, right? - Will Hunting May 15, 10:23 1
      - There's trillions of ways (no pun) to monetize stock wealth without selling stock. Stock loans, etc. -- nm - JackDawson May 15, 10:30
- I was just thinking that he's seemingly trying everything to keep himself a billionaire. Got divorced, funding a space program that currently has no - JD May 15, 10:18
- Rather than the "valid reason" perspective I prefer the "extreme wealth in the hands of the few is incredibly inefficient for economic growth" stance. -- (edited) - Max May 15, 10:15 4
  - "Capitalism until I get mine, then Feudalism" -- nm - Reagen May 15, 11:00
  - I would add that I think it's ultimately counterproductive for the rich as well. This level of wealth inequality is ultimately destabilizing. -- nm - pmb May 15, 10:30 1
    - I agree with you 100% though it's one of those "well climate change will screw someone else over not me" thing for some people (not the smarter or mor - JackDawson May 15, 10:33
  - Perhaps the most persuasive reason for it (if only people understood it though) -- nm - JackDawson May 15, 10:16
- I sometimes read stories about billionaires making each other feel bad about the size of their yachts/planes. - David May 15, 10:01 7
  - Buffett still lives in a modest two story ranch house. -- nm - Reagen May 15, 10:54
  - Though you'd never get 'that' type of rich as you'd give it all away along the way 8-) - JD May 15, 10:08 1
    - Yeah, vacations would be our one splurge. - David May 15, 10:10
  - If I were a billionaire, I'd find a way to become a millionaire. -- nm - Beryllium May 15, 10:07 1
    - I love this perspective. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 15, 10:20
  - I mean, millionaires do that. My sister just had a caravan of...100+ cars drive by for her bday? Enticed with gifts -- nm - JackDawson May 15, 10:02 1
    - But... why? - Reagen May 15, 10:55
- duh -- nm - JackDawson May 15, 10:00
- Though there is a difference in being able to fund Blue Origin. -- nm - JD May 15, 09:59
Now Playing: Avengers Age of Ultron. I had skipped this one before so we shall see. -- nm - Qale May 15, 09:49 2
- it is like Boyhood, only with a murder robot -- nm - Beaker May 15, 09:53 1
  - Filmed over a series of years in real time! -- nm - Qale May 15, 10:05

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