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There's a reason companies like Twitter have terms of services. It's so that they don't get sued. - Mop May 26, 12:44
Your weird pelican/shoebill fact of the day -- (link) - TWuG May 26, 12:43 2
- Oh, Pelicans can do that too? -- nm - Mop May 26, 12:45
- That would be handy. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 12:44
oh, okay -- (link) - ty97 May 26, 12:38 4
- Samurai's did not use rifles -- nm - groiny May 26, 12:40 1
  - Nor did they have such a sweet ride. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 12:40
- Big if... ah hell, nevermind. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 12:39
- The real Tiger King -- nm - David May 26, 12:39
California is moving into Phase 3 of reopening with hair salons and barbershops allowed to reopen their doors in 47 of the state's 58 counties - Gov. -- nm - budice May 26, 12:36 3
- This will allow theme parks to reopen, too. -- nm - David May 26, 12:37 2
  - my pass expires in a week -- nm - budice May 26, 12:42 1
    - get over there quick!! -- nm - decline May 26, 12:42
The Justice Department is closing investigations into three U.S. senators for stocks trades made shortly before the coronavirus market turmoil -- (link) - ty97 May 26, 12:34 6
- So essentially a "nothing to see here, just millionaires making more money. Move along?" -- nm - JaxSean May 26, 12:43 1
  - The question is whether the trades were made based on confidential virus briefings they were getting. - ty97 May 26, 12:45
- Not a good sign for Burr -- nm - JackDawson May 26, 12:37 1
  - I figured things weren't going swimmingly for him when he resigned as committee chair -- nm - ty97 May 26, 12:38
- Closing with a guilty! -- nm - Spawn May 26, 12:34
- Investigation of Burr continues -- nm - ty97 May 26, 12:34
@MinneapolisPD fires four officers involved in Monday’s deadly in-custody incident. -- (link) - ty97 May 26, 12:33
I’ve seen some criticism that if WWE had done that Stadium Match we would have thought it was stupid. There’s is some truth to that. WWE would not... - Qale May 26, 12:31 2
- Sammy Guevara woke up Sunday morning as a star. -- nm - David May 26, 12:36 1
  - Sammy Guevara was a star on the very first episode of Dynamite, get outta here with that! -- nm* - Qale May 26, 12:46
What does it mean, maintenance wise, that our water heater suddenly runs 160' ? -- nm - zeitgeist May 26, 12:29 4
- you'll be braised the next time you take a shower -- nm - decline May 26, 12:31
- It means you should adjust the temp, obvie. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 12:30 2
  - Nobody has touched it since it was installed -- nm - zeitgeist May 26, 12:37 1
    - Ghosts! - Spawn May 26, 12:42
I finally got a concert (festival) cancellation notice - JD May 26, 12:16 [Attachment] 7
- I did not get an email, but the Green Day - Weezer - Fallout Boy concert at Wrigley Field Aug 13th has been "postponed" -- nm - groiny May 26, 12:27 6
  - I got an email from Ticketmaster last Tuesday about that tour - JD May 26, 12:30 4
    - I don't have high hopes that they will be able to reschedule it -- nm - groiny May 26, 12:33 3
      - I kinda respect all the tours that are postponing for exactly one year. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 12:34 2
        
        problem is, you have 3 big name acts, AND you have to juggle with the Cubs schedule. -- nm - groiny May 26, 12:36 1
        
        I guess that is true. For me that is The Reason I Go, The Band That I Watch to Get To The Reason I Go and The Band I Arrive During And Get My Drinks. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 12:48
  - Postponed until you can invite Spawn to attend. -- nm - Official Press Release May 26, 12:29
Plastic Disasters B+ , Beware the Slenderman A-, Meth Storm B, McMillions B+, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound A+, Rapid Response A, Escape fr - JD May 26, 12:10 1
- The Great E1-3, B+. Starts off strong. -- nm - con_carne May 26, 12:15
I mean, this is a point! -- (link) - ty97 May 26, 12:09
A hint from the most recent SEC filing for Take-Two is leading people to think that Grand Theft Auto VI will have a 2023 launch -- (link) - decline May 26, 12:08
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia now longest-running live-action comedy series ever after season 15 renewal -- nm - Beaker May 26, 12:06
This screenshot is making me very jealous of some people today. -- (pic) - Shaun May 26, 11:58 [Attachment] 2
- bery? -- nm - Spawn May 26, 12:00 1
  - It is not making me jealous, no. I don't have a copy. Or a boat. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 12:17
I do feel very bad for anyone actually named Karen -- nm - ty97 May 26, 11:58 17
- *death stare* -- nm - karebud si May 26, 12:01 9
  - Yup, our Kare has previously made it clear she's not happy about it - at all. -- nm - Meg May 26, 12:21 8
    - Yep, she was going to speak to her husband’s original manager about it. - Will Hunting May 26, 12:43
    - Yeah, we had to avoid her last year due to Hurricane Karen. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 12:23 6
      - Nothing like a disaster arriving on your doorstep -- nm - budice May 26, 12:26
      - See, I would love a Hurricane with my name. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 12:26 4
        
        Michael kicked ass a couple years ago. - Spawn May 26, 12:27 2
        
        just like you, produced a lot of noise, and fizzled out quick. -- nm - groiny May 26, 12:28 1
        
        Just like you to understimate. -- (link) - Spawn May 26, 12:33
        
        Prolly more suited for Typhoon or Earthquake -- nm - budice May 26, 12:27
- My step-mother. - Spawn May 26, 12:01
- One of my favorite and sweetest clients is a Karen. She works at a non-profit school in Harlem and does some good things for those kids. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 12:00
- It's wild people are still calling her Karen when *we know her name*! -- nm - Reagen May 26, 11:59 1
  - Because we know her character. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 12:17
- Think about all the Karens you do know - its pretty true - so I'd not give it much thought. -- nm - Pippy - Crazy Town Banana Pants May 26, 11:59 2
  - Honestly I don't think I've personally known a Karen that I didn't like. -- nm - pmb May 26, 12:10
  - I can only think of one I've known and holy moly was she not a "Karen". -- nm* - mud May 26, 12:00
Of all companies it seems Coca Cola is having production/distribution problems. Tried again for my Coke Zero flavors - Nada. Asked about it and - Meg May 26, 11:52 5
- Is Coke zero all that? Someone told me the sweeteners has just as much calories or some other thing that adds weight, as real Coke. -- nm - Loyola May 26, 12:02 2
  - It's light years better than Diet Coke for taste, but there's still an artificially sweet flavour to it. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 12:03
  - There are people who believe that your body reacts to it like sugar, but the calorie count is uncontroversial at zero. -- nm - Reagen May 26, 12:03
- Ive noticed the price of Coke remaining high while Pepsi is 99 center for 2L -- nm - budice May 26, 11:54 1
  - Ralphs had the 12-packs at 4/$10 which was the best I'd seen in forever so I was going to stock up :/ -- nm - Meg May 26, 12:18
From BB's and for Shaun: I just realized that our Heat pump has a dry setting also. I think today might be the day to test it out :) -- nm - Walt_Disney May 26, 11:48 1
- Nice! -- nm - Shaun May 26, 11:49
Japanese government officials are calling for action against cyberbullying, amid a national outpouring of grief after the death of wrestler -- (link) - ty97 May 26, 11:48 3
- She was so cool. -- nm - David May 26, 11:51 1
  - very pretty girl. -- nm - groiny May 26, 11:54
- “Whatever. Losers.” -- nm - Jack Dorsey May 26, 11:50
Funko Pop: Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic and PlayStation Legends. -- (link) - Shaun May 26, 11:41 3
- Revan and malak are musts for me. -- nm - Beaker May 26, 11:42 2
  - Probably going to have to snag a few of the PS ones. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 11:43 1
    - check EB Games, I see some on their site. no Revan or Malak though that I can find -- nm - Beaker May 26, 12:22
You're fired! -- (link) - Shaun May 26, 11:37 15
- I honestly do not know which part of that video offends me more..... - karebud si May 26, 12:24
- I apologized for nothing! -- nm - Karen version 2743.0 May 26, 11:50 1
  - I need more videos of Karens getting tased. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 11:50
- is she the one choking her dog? -- nm - Beaker May 26, 11:49 2
  - yeah -- nm - decline May 26, 11:50 1
    - They apparently took her dog too. - Volnelk May 26, 11:57
- That was quicker than I expected. - ty97 May 26, 11:47 6
  - They didn't really have a choice, IMO. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 12:24
  - Cue the right wing fundies -- nm - JackDawson May 26, 11:54 3
    - RP -- (link*) - znufrii, silly old man May 26, 11:57
    - Oh Candace Owen was already in full grift mode on this last night. -- nm - ty97 May 26, 11:56 1
      - I *loathe* this woman. A modern day Quisling. - Jovian May 26, 12:30
  - Well, all they do now is watch videos in their homes, anyway. (NM) - Marlowe May 26, 11:50
- Wow -- nm - JackDawson May 26, 11:41
- That's another person moving out of NYC -- nm - Krusty May 26, 11:41
I thought Qale was joking when he suggested moving the RNC to Jacksonville. Apparently not; Mayor Curry is lobbying for it. -- (link) - JaxSean May 26, 11:26 7
- It is where AEW and WWE are filming. So it was kind of a joke. -- nm - Qale May 26, 11:32 4
  - Curry's example is that Jax successfully did it for UFC. His example, of course, being that the event(s) had 0 spectators. - JaxSean May 26, 11:37 3
    - 0 spectators and some crew got the virus. -- nm* - jnine May 26, 12:15
    - I'd be more than prepared to let him go yell in an empty stadium. -- nm - Reagen May 26, 12:00
    - AEW seems to have more people at each showing. But not like normal of course. -- nm - Qale May 26, 11:39
- Trump IS the Jason Mendoza of politicians, at least intellectually. -- nm - David May 26, 11:29 1
  - does that make Stephen Miller Pillboi? -- nm - prayformojo May 26, 11:39
This stuff is scary. Local news just reading company produced scripts. -- (link) - Volnelk May 26, 11:23 5
- I assume this is Sinclair. It's been going on for quite a while. -- nm - pmb May 26, 12:12
- It's been going on for years. There's a lot of press releases that get reported on as news on both TV and radio. -- nm - spamlet May 26, 11:41
- But I hate Amazon... I’m so conflicted. - Qale May 26, 11:38
- "I don't trust the liberal news media" - Spawn May 26, 11:31
- Well, good for the one guy to own up to it. -- nm - David May 26, 11:27
FX has announced progamming slate through 2021...Y The Last Man is on the list -- (link) - Remlik May 26, 11:21 4
- I'll get excited when I start to see commercials and trailers for the show. They've fooled me one too many times -- nm - Krusty May 26, 11:33 3
  - "FX is currently looking to recast the role of Yorick over creative differences..." -- nm - Three weeks from now May 26, 11:49 1
    - RELEASE THE BEN SCHNETZER CUT!!! -- nm - four weeks from now May 26, 12:44
  - But they rrrreeeeaaaallllllllyyyy mean it this time! -- nm - Spawn May 26, 11:37
New York Birders... -- (link) - Beryllium May 26, 11:18 8
- That's one scary dude -- nm - decline May 26, 11:52
- Aside from the structural racism, this is another one if those incidents that shows how unwilling many people are to take even the *slightest* - Reagen May 26, 11:26 6
  - Well the irony of it is that that’s the sort of stuff that privileged liberal white people do ALL the time— get in your face about how to behave - JackDawson May 26, 11:43 5
    - Oh I'm sure there was a substantial amount of "how dare this black man tell me what to do" in it - Reagen May 26, 11:54 4
      - If you wanna be a policer do it but it does come across as douchey at times and causes problems - JackDawson May 26, 12:03 3
        
        Bear in that I am a HS teacher so it comes with the territory and is hard to turn off. -- nm - Reagen May 26, 12:35
        
        On the other hand, if people weren't such complete self-absorbed assholes and can't follow simple rules, the policer person ceases to exist. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 12:06 1
        
        Yes this is true I mean I have ZERO empathy for the person needing policing. Just not 100pct full empathy either for the policer and I know when th - JackDawson May 26, 12:24
a ton of new EB Games/Gamestop exclusive Funkos announced today. Darth Revan and Darth Malak being 2 I will be after -- nm - Beaker May 26, 11:16
I hate to say it, but Big Night really didn't do it for me. B/B- - prayformojo May 26, 11:16
If Americans were sane, I'd consider Portland, Seattle and Napa Valley. -- nm - Reagen May 26, 11:14 4
- Personally, I'd go for Sonoma over Napa. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 26, 11:15
- And no one is even going to question you on the first part. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 11:15 2
  - Yeah, you just can't trust them. - Spawn May 26, 11:16 1
    - I'm afraid I can't help it. - Reagen May 26, 11:31
Watch it before it gets taken down: the Stadium Stampede. -- (link) - David May 26, 11:12 [youtube] 15
- Ok, that was fun. -- nm - pmb May 26, 12:54
- I normally do not condone such, but I am suddenly unemployed so... here. -- (link) - Qale May 26, 11:26 4
  - Alright, I’m on part 4. And I love that it starts with that ramp spot! Unscripted Violence, Moxley! -- nm - Qale May 26, 11:46
  - We can just send you our login info if you want to watch all their PPVs. -- nm - David May 26, 11:28 2
    - You can ask Kin if she wants any fake paintings from Redd though. 😂 -- nm - Qale May 26, 11:36
    - I thank you but it is okay. I got it. -- nm - Qale May 26, 11:33
- so fun -- nm - Remlik May 26, 11:21
- This is the worst thing to ever happen on that field ever. -- nm - JaxSean May 26, 11:16 4
  - You should be quiet. Kim was talking about rooting for the Jags this year because of this match. -- nm - David May 26, 11:26
  - how do you watch movies and tv shows? - Remlik May 26, 11:22 2
    - Hangman was living his best life in the bar scene. -- nm - David May 26, 11:28 1
      - that was pretty amusing -- nm - Remlik May 26, 11:33
- Do I have to? -- nm - Spawn May 26, 11:14 2
  - You really should. Sincerely. - David May 26, 11:25
  - Aw hella yeah. Hooooooo! -- nm* - Hacksaw Jim Duggan May 26, 11:15
Full Deadline article about this Labyrinth sequel -- (link) - oblique May 26, 11:10 3
- Tilda Swinton is the logical choice as the Goblin King/Queen -- nm - Remlik May 26, 11:36 1
  - Or Gaga. -- nm - Open Baron May 26, 11:47
- More hawt Jennifer Connelly -- (edited) - budice May 26, 11:17
cruel but fair. -- nm - mud May 26, 11:09 1
- The rabbits foot episode was perfection. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 11:15

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