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Biden officially extends VP Consideration to Klobuchar -- (link) - budice May 21, 12:43 13
- Breaking news: "Person makes large "short list." -- nm - David May 21, 13:00
- (Can people really not read? It's to put her on the consideration list and people are acting like it's done) -- nm - Reagen May 21, 12:52 5
  - Right, that's what my 'duh' post meant. The NM gov is already being vetted as well -- nm - ty97 May 21, 12:55 1
    - Klobuchar was 100% *always* going to be vetted as a possibility -- nm - ty97 May 21, 12:55
  - Warren is the clubhouse leader from what I'm seeing. -- nm - Tim May 21, 12:53 2
    - Of course... - Will Hunting May 21, 13:08
    - Warren and the others, sitting in the clubhouse, feet up on the desks, smoking cigars and drinking brandy, making the big decisions. -- nm - Max May 21, 12:54
- but tell us how you really feel, Angela -- (link) - mud May 21, 12:50
- Not really a fan of this move. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 12:48
- Lets go -- nm - Jovian May 21, 12:48
- jemy klobiden!!!! -- nm - amanda May 21, 12:46
- I mean duh -- nm - ty97 May 21, 12:46
- big if true -- nm - Pippy - bluebird feather duster May 21, 12:44
Doddering old man dodders. -- (link) - Mop May 21, 12:42
Here you go, Dawson: The coronavirus recession will cause Trump to suffer a "historic defeat" in November, a national election model released by Oxford Economics predicts -- (link*) - decline May 21, 12:23 14
- I don't see how that will happen unless Biden announces a jobs plan to get the newly unemployed millions back to work. - Loyola May 21, 12:51 2
  - 10 years ago, voters rejected the guy with plans to salvage the Historically bad economy he inherited in lieu of people who said their plan - Will Hunting May 21, 13:10
  - You're assuming way more rational thought going into voting decisions than will happen. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 13:02
- that the model thought he'd get 55% to start should tell you everything you know about its value. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 12:35 7
  - In the bizzarro Ricky Bobby world of Trump: if he aint losing, he's winning. And I still think he wins if he holds national polls >40%. - Max May 21, 12:39 4
    - Also, my point is about the modelling more than anything. Can he win? Frighteningly, yes. But if your model says 55% PV, it's based on garbage. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 12:43 2
      - Obama 2 was 51%. With a good economy and Biden perhaps not as sharp as Romney, I don't see a shift to 55% as garbage. - Max May 21, 12:51 1
        
        It's only a possibility if you don't consider polling *at all*. - Reagen May 21, 12:55
    - He's running a point ahead of 2016. *but*. Biden is running 3 points ahead of Clinton. - Reagen May 21, 12:42
  - yeah that's bogus -- nm - mud May 21, 12:36 1
    - It's like predicting the Lakers will beat the Bucks 173-57. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 12:39
- Welp, there's the headline Trump will repeat until the end of the line if he steals another election. -- nm - David May 21, 12:32
- That is nice as he will have a good excuse for why he gets his ass kicked. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 12:29
- Oh God from their lips to God's ears. -- nm - JackDawson May 21, 12:28
skin this man alive (*very disturbing*) -- (edited) - Jovian May 21, 12:22 4
- Unless there's some capybara joke in here I'll miss because I won't watch, I think there is an eventual limit to reasonable ST content this crosses. -- nm - Max May 21, 12:26 3
  - Agreed. This seems like it would be horrifying. If so, can it be changed to a link to a news story? -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 12:33 2
    - hey Bery, I moved the link into the message itself. -- nm - Jovian May 21, 12:35 1
      - Thanks. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 12:40
Roger Waters: David Gilmour has banned me from the Pink Floyd website. -- (link) - Peglegpete May 21, 12:21 2
- Well...he did quit the band. And he's had nothing to do with them since 1985 outside of the reunion. Though David should really share that stuff of - Remlik May 21, 12:33
- OFFS -- nm - Spawn May 21, 12:27
KRanski sold SGN to Viacom will air on CBS All ACcess, no longer hosting -- (link) - Remlik May 21, 12:16 7
- so...its no longer accessable to most people AND the lovable host is missing? WTF? I'm not happy about this - Pippy - bluebird feather duster May 21, 12:36 1
  - The country's reopening, Pippy! Streaming services need to reopen, too! -- nm - David May 21, 13:02
- #missingthepoint - spamlet May 21, 12:29
- Blunt and him are absolutely brilliant business people. -- nm - David May 21, 12:18 2
  - Not too genius. - Will Hunting May 21, 13:01
  - The minute anything moves the needle the days, bidding wars start online -- nm - budice May 21, 12:20
- "Good news, everyone! Wait. That's not good news at all!" -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 12:17
I just wrote the ‘bad guy gets to talk with the good guy’ at a public event so nothing can be done to him trope and I liked it. -- nm - Qale May 21, 12:13 1
- But it turns out that the public event was a ruse and all of the people were Hired Goons! - Beryllium May 21, 12:16
Universal Studios Orlando just asked to come back on June 5th. - David May 21, 12:11
UDFA Bill Murray signed by the Patriots. As you would expect, queue up the puns. -- (link) - GregW May 21, 12:08 1
- "I mixed these two grasses, you can play a round of 18 on it and get stoned to the bejeezus belt after" -- nm - budice May 21, 12:12
Glen Hansard is live now on FB if you want to listen, live from The National Library of Ireland. -- (link*) - JaxSean May 21, 12:05
Love that he just says the quiet parts out loud now - Jovian May 21, 12:05 2
- My mom who has advanced Alzheimer's favorite word is " dummy". - Pippy - bluebird feather duster May 21, 12:08
- He is just paving the way for TNN. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 12:06
Caption this -- (pic) - prayformojo May 21, 11:44 [Attachment] 4
- A moment between takes on the set of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with stars Audrey Hepburn and Mickey Rooney. -- nm - Max May 21, 12:01 1
  - heh -- nm - mud May 21, 12:37
- If you pee on my leg 1 more time, you're dead. -- nm - Peglegpete May 21, 11:56
- Obviously you can't read. That's my chair. -- nm - VMan May 21, 11:46
I'm curious about the desire to go back to the office. Routine and the actual cube are a couple of things I saw on the previous board - JD May 21, 11:37 35
- Our scholarship search by email was frustrating but ultimately successful. Now there's a suggestion to hold board meetings by Zoom. - Meg May 21, 12:16
- 90% of my desire to return (a couple days a week like always) to the office is social. - Cuzzin Todd May 21, 12:12 1
  - Yeah, sexual harassing the help from home is not quite the same. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 12:14
- Yesterday our staff Zoom meeting dropped twice because "Someone is trying to use the account for another session." and the rest was my boss saying - Max May 21, 12:05 8
  - Though is your office one that will never figure it out? That sounds like a learning curve issue as opposed to something fundamental - JD May 21, 12:08 7
    - Unless you stick to strict Roberts Rules, I think multiperson conference calls are fundamentally inferior to in person meetings. - Max May 21, 12:16 6
      - Zoom! -- nm - Spawn May 21, 12:19 5
        
        2/3rds of our staff don't a camera on our Zoom calls, and I think it's unfair to expect people to do so even if they own one. -- nm - Max May 21, 12:22 4
        
        Tablets? Phones? -- nm - Spawn May 21, 12:31 3
        
        It's the issue of bringing coworkers into your private space. - Max May 21, 12:43 2
        
        And this should be 101. You have a plain wall behind you. Always. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 12:49 1
        
        Not if you want to show off your wealth. -- nm - spamlet May 21, 13:02
- so I work in finance and I desperately miss the ability to drop by with an invoice and be like, WTH is this? email and teams are not the same. -- nm - amanda May 21, 11:52 2
  - Partially this. It’s easier to hash things out quickly and I hate, hate, HATE talking on the phone. - spamlet May 21, 12:23
  - Heh. Hide me, Amanda's looking for me -- nm - JD May 21, 11:56
- The tech isn’t 100seamless. Not being able to quickly meet or discuss or know who’s available to discuss sucks. Not having the same access of Two scre - JackDawson May 21, 11:48 8
  - all this, plus we deal with a ton of paperwork and wet signatures that just isn't possible remotely -- nm - decline May 21, 11:54
  - I may need to set up a better home office in the near future than what I have currently. - Dark Callisto May 21, 11:52 4
    - I really want a dedicated home office, but we don't have the space for it. And my suggestion of using a sailboat for that has not gone well. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 12:09 2
      - Me and my dad make models of clipper ships. Clipper ships sail on the ocean. Clipper ships never sail on rivers or lakes. I like clipper ships. -- nm - Big Boss Man Tate May 21, 12:10 1
        
        I'll take a 40' Bermuda-rigged catamaran. That'd be a swell office. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 12:12
    - teams has really been a game changer for us. we're IMing about something and suddenly it's like "this would be easier with voice" and you just teams - amanda May 21, 11:55
  - *nod* The first part is something that tech only sort of works for (but it does require that everybody goes back). The second part though... - JD May 21, 11:51
  - Yeah, commercial colour copier is a huge plus. Plus, free Wifi! -- nm - VMan May 21, 11:50
- I'm a Level 2 Tech Support manager, dealing with code issues / research all day. We colocate with most of the development teams. - JaxSean May 21, 11:43 1
  - This I get. I'm lucky enough that additional clarification with my contacts means calling / talking with them instead of emails -- nm - JD May 21, 11:46
- We're an office of... 20 or so. 1 person early on asked to come in every day. She's been pretty much our only staff in the office. - Strongbad May 21, 11:42
- Too lazy to set up an actual home office. So, miss office and workstation. Online meetings suck. Miss co-workers. Cannot go to site. Etc. - VMan May 21, 11:41 2
  - I think you're over thinking the office part 😉 -- (pic) - JD May 21, 11:45 [Attachment] 1
    - If the company's going to splurge for my own full size colour plotter, I'll reconsider. The rest, they've basically said to expense it. -- nm - VMan May 21, 11:52
- I do too. I'm MUCH more productive from home. - Dark Callisto May 21, 11:39 4
  - I am MUCH more productive until I need people to answer questions. -- nm - amanda May 21, 11:56 1
    - I get this but sort of in reverse as I was the one being asked all the questions - JD May 21, 11:59
  - 👍 and 👍👍👍 to the IM -- nm - JD May 21, 11:41
  - And the coffee is better. I mean, seriously. (We didn’t even get coffee.) -- nm - Qale May 21, 11:40
What Your Favorite Requiem Mass Says About You -- (link) - prayformojo May 21, 11:22 1
- Missing Schnittke, which is one of my faves. -- nm - znufrii May 21, 11:36
Somebody is going to burn down her she-shed. -- nm - Qale May 21, 11:19 2
- Nobody burned down her she shed Qale -- nm* - TWuG May 21, 11:22
- effin' Cheryl. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 11:21
I live in Shitty COVID County, USA and I know where to get my dose of empathy when I need it (read: NOT on the Internet) - con_carne May 21, 11:19
A Pastor in Cameroon claimed he had the healing touch and could cure Covid-19 with his hands...you know where this is going -- (link) - decline May 21, 11:18 2
- didn't quite think this one through, he should have boasted that he could 'prevent' someone from getting it...well JC visited epileptics so.... -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 11:28
- Thoughts and prayers -- nm - JaxSean May 21, 11:23
Victoria's Secret? 46% loss in sales, 250 stores closing. Spin-off sale cancelled. -- (link) - TWuG May 21, 11:18 5
- We're gonna have to trim the employee uniform budget. -- nm - Max May 21, 11:39
- You don't need sexy underwear when you're not going to hook up. -- nm - David May 21, 11:23 2
  - In the Netherlands they’ve strongly supported the idea of single people getting a sex buddy during the pandemic. Because they know that... - Qale May 21, 11:42
  - I mean if people in NYC are dating and hooking up right now... -- nm - JackDawson May 21, 11:24
- COVID killed ROMANCE! -- nm - Spawn May 21, 11:20
My English sister-in-law comes up with the best stuff........ -- (pic) - Meg May 21, 11:15 [Attachment] 1
- heh :) -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 11:42
"ESPN Sets Deal With Tom Brady For 9-Episode Series On QB’s Remarkable Career" - David May 21, 11:12 34
- Meanwhile Tom Brady is selling immunity vitamins at $45 a pop -- (link) - Remlik May 21, 11:39 3
  - Can people in Indiana not read IMs? -- nm - David May 21, 11:44 2
    - Nothing of value in there! :) -- nm - Remlik May 21, 11:53 1
      - What does that make the value of the post you made?! -- nm - David May 21, 12:01
- I accidentally watched a few minutes or their stupid morning programming today. - Strongbad May 21, 11:37
- I wouldn't even hate watch that. He's not Jordan with worldwide love -- nm - Krusty May 21, 11:33
- John Oliver's marble races will get better ratings -- nm - Peglegpete May 21, 11:24
- who the fuck would watch this shit? -- nm - Beaker May 21, 11:20 22
  - After The Last Dance? - Loyola May 21, 11:23 2
    - Yeah, probably watching Ultimate Tag instead. -- nm - Strongbad May 21, 11:59
    - Tom Brady is to Michael Jordan as Phil Mickelson is to Jack Nicklaus. -- nm - David May 21, 11:25
  - People in New England and only people in that area. - David May 21, 11:21 18
    - Yup. -- nm - Krusty May 21, 11:33
    - "What if The Last Dance but less relatable?" -- nm - Reagen May 21, 11:23 1
      - "And the person turns heel the instant he gets successful!" -- nm - David May 21, 11:24
    - Now now. -- nm - Tampa Tom May 21, 11:22 14
      - You should read IMs. -- nm - David May 21, 11:24 11
        
        Tom Brady is too much of an asshole for that. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 11:25 10
        
        All kidding aside, I'm realizing one of these episodes will be a scientist spending 20 minutes talking about football air pressure. - David May 21, 11:26 9
        
        I mean, here's the thing about that stupid incident - they were exactly right - Reagen May 21, 11:29
        
        I was actually wondering if his mobile phone habit would be mentioned. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 11:27
        
        Maybe there'll be an Indy-NE rivalry with Peyton as a guest person. That could be ok. -- nm - Shaun May 21, 11:27 6
        
        The Bird/Jordan exchange after the Bulls won game 7 made me laugh. A *lot*. Wish we could hear what Bird (smartly) whispered to him. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 11:28 5
        
        I should really watch this. -- nm - Shaun May 21, 11:31 4
        
        Pretty great. -- (link) - Spawn May 21, 11:39 3
        
        [snork], thx -- nm - mud May 21, 11:43 2
        
        Another highlight was Reggie Miller talking about him. - Spawn May 21, 12:35 1
        
        :-D -- nm - mud May 21, 12:39
      - Tompa Bay! -- nm - Shaun May 21, 11:22 1
        
        Trampa Brady! -- nm - Spawn May 21, 11:24
- *twitch* -- nm - Spaun May 21, 11:13
- I would prefer to see him get a haircut. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 11:13 2
  - I would prefer to see Giselle give him a .. haircut -- nm - mud May 21, 11:18
  - He's been preparing for that his whole career! -- nm - Reagen May 21, 11:14
TV Networks are getting desperate -- (link) - decline May 21, 11:08 5
- Acquire the rights to air some Canadian and British shows you dummies!!! -- nm - Todd Manning May 21, 13:24
- CBS/Viacom has literally thousands of hours of archives they could start tapping into. Content they don’t even provide their streaming service. -- nm - Qale May 21, 11:18 2
  - I really haven’t understood this. I bet reruns of Cheers get more viewers than whatever crap they’re going to run out there. -- nm - spamlet May 21, 12:26
  - instead we get haircuts -- nm - decline May 21, 11:20
- THIS IS FINE -- nm - Spawn May 21, 11:12

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