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How has Snowpiercer been for the first few eps? - Max Jun 7, 18:45
trending on twit is campaign slogans for Donald's last stretch....mixed in was this reworking of the famous apple 1984 commercial -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 7, 18:44
Now Watching: The Grand Tour, Season 3, Episdode 13 (The Mongolia Special) -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 7, 18:36 1
- Really good. Sadly need to wait for additional episodes. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jun 7, 18:44
$10 says you can't jump thru that window into the pool. -- (link) - Shaun Jun 7, 18:24 8
- The glass wall was a mistake in the first place. -- nm - Spawn Jun 7, 19:13
- Uh, is that dude dead? -- nm - JaxSean Jun 7, 18:31 6
  - spoilers - ty97 Jun 7, 19:08
  - At speed it looks like it hits his neck, on pause more like below the clav- oh right, he's drowning for sure. -- nm - Max Jun 7, 18:35 4
    - I feel that video needed about 2 or 3 additional seconds. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 7, 19:00 3
      - At that point the water would have turned a deep red and you wouldn't be able to see anything anyway. -- nm - Max Jun 7, 19:02 2
        
        But then we'd have closure! - JaxSean Jun 7, 19:05
        
        "Oh, I'm so embarrassed" - pool water -- nm - Beryllium Jun 7, 19:04
Protest crowd in Hollywood estimated at 10,000 to 16,000. Blvd is full from Hollywood and Highland to Hollywood and Vine. -- nm - Meg Jun 7, 18:03 4
- 20-30 marching here in lakewood -- (link*) - zeitgeist Jun 7, 20:33
- Vegas: BlackLivesMattter March on the Strip. -- (link*) - budice Jun 7, 18:57
- pic -- (link) - budice Jun 7, 18:04 1
  - Estimate updated to 20,000 -- nm - Meg Jun 7, 18:17
Something good today: For Mom's regular Sunday lunch outing with her and friends, we decided to try Catfish Lane, a food truck about 5 miles away. - ReluctantCynic Jun 7, 17:46 2
- cool -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 7, 18:42
- nice! -- nm - ty97 Jun 7, 17:51
NXT spoiler - Tim Jun 7, 17:35 4
- Spoilers - David Jun 7, 17:54 3
  - I expect if they can’t get a deal done, you’ll see a title change on live tv. AEW hasn’t don’t that yet so a bit of ‘news’. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 7, 17:59 2
    - I cannot figure out who's next. - Tim Jun 7, 18:03 1
      - SI thinks Cole quietly extended when NXT went to USA. -- nm - David Jun 7, 18:07
Lilly from AT&T is back. - Spawn Jun 7, 17:26 3
- Anna Kendrick should be nervous that Lilly's gonna steal all her roles. -- nm - Max Jun 7, 18:58
- Thanks for playing. -- (link) - Mop Jun 7, 18:49 [Backboard] 1
  - I'm so disappointed in you boys. -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 7, 19:04
One day, PFM will document Kim and my descent into madness during the quarantine. -- (link*) - David Jun 7, 17:22 5
- And it will be called “Inside Job” - Dark Callisto Jun 7, 17:23 4
  - the appearance of puppets mark the final act -- nm - prayformojo Jun 7, 17:31 3
    - "I do not have puppet cancer." -- nm - Tim Jun 7, 17:37 1
      - You're a wee puppet man!! -- nm - Beaker Jun 7, 17:39
    - You hope... -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 7, 17:37
Reebok cuts ties with CrossFit after the CEO's insensitive tweet -- (link) - Krusty Jun 7, 17:16 1
- bruh, I'm shocked bruh! -- nm - mafic Jun 7, 17:20
is Esper fired? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 7, 17:07 1
- sorry, mom thought she heard that -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 7, 17:59
Inside Man is a great movie! -- nm - prayformojo Jun 7, 17:05 3
- How does it compare to Inside Job? -- nm - David Jun 7, 17:14 1
  - It packs much more of a yawp -- nm - prayformojo Jun 7, 17:20
- the pron parody? -- nm - Beaker Jun 7, 17:05
A takedown of Rowling using her own books. Specifically, one sentence in one book. -- (link) - TWuG Jun 7, 16:55 3
- WTF is she saying? All this over a pronoun that seems accurate to me? -- nm - GregW Jun 7, 18:11 2
  - It’s a split between old school feminists that say they are erased if you erase the difference in the sexes and newer ones. -- nm - spamlet Jun 7, 18:14
  - JK Rowling is transphobic, but fully understands the conceptual handling of pronouns in that situation, as demonstrated by her own writing. So she's - Beryllium Jun 7, 18:12
Police Accountability: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) -- (link) - Beaker Jun 7, 16:54 [youtube]
A decent article that talks about the movement to defund/abolish the police. -- (link) - TWuG Jun 7, 16:41
You cannot fast travel into and out of nuclear blast zones. -- nm - Qale Jun 7, 16:35 5
- again, you do not have the latest tech. :(((( -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 7, 18:23
- I've fast traveled to and away from the Scortchbeast Queen event. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 7, 17:55
- In Borderlands 2, you can! -- nm - David Jun 7, 17:27 1
  - People are nuking Helvetia, the West Virginia town that celebrates Fashnaut. Which is both funny and awful since it is effecting lots of new players. -- nm - Qale Jun 7, 17:37
- Can I still travel by map? -- nm - Ba'rona Beast Jun 7, 16:39
"promotional consideration paid for by the following" - Tim Jun 7, 16:21 1
- OW! -- nm - Remlik Jun 7, 16:38
I'm willing to entertain the idea that the series of "plagues" that have occurred during the Trump presidency - TWuG Jun 7, 16:19 2
- I’m still waiting on the frogs... -- nm - Roger More Jun 7, 17:38
- "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake;" - ReluctantCynic Jun 7, 17:33
Today is a day of reckoning. -- nm - Mop Jun 7, 16:16 2
- National Caffeine Day -- nm - Spawn Jun 7, 16:35
- But enough about JK Rowling. -- nm - Ba'rona Beast Jun 7, 16:20
Keep this one Confederate statue because it is sooooo bad it pretty much acts as its own refutation of the South's cause. -- (link) - TWuG Jun 7, 16:13 7
- @MNateShyamalan is a fantastic twitter handle - prayformojo Jun 7, 17:07
- Impressive. It's actually worse than the Lucille Ball statue. -- nm - Ba'rona Beast Jun 7, 16:27 1
  - Heh - that was my first thought as well. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 7, 17:11
- can't sleep statue will eat me -- nm - Beaker Jun 7, 16:24
- The eyes follow you everywhere. -- nm - David Jun 7, 16:23
- I hope it never comes to life. What a wretched existence it would have. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 7, 16:20 1
  - It looks straight out of Scooby Doo - TWuG Jun 7, 16:25
Hmm. -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 7, 16:11
LA Pursuit. Started on OC-22. Bout to end around San Bernardino on I-10 -- (link) - budice Jun 7, 16:09
Is anyone here going to buy Bolton's book on June 23rd? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 7, 15:55 8
- Michael? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 7, 17:11 3
  - It's a polemic on the evils of office printers. -- nm - Ba'rona Beast Jun 7, 17:14 2
    - ~This is the tale/of Captain Jack Sparrow~ -- nm - Reagen Jun 7, 17:56
    - PC LOAD LETTER - Cuzzin Todd Jun 7, 17:16
- Not for me, but I've ordered it for my library. -- nm - mara Jun 7, 17:04
- I am slightly amused that what he probably expected to make major bank is now not even front page news. - Max Jun 7, 15:57 1
  - Seriously overtaken by events -- nm - TWuG Jun 7, 15:58
- Nope. I'll just follow Twitter to see what BS CYA stuff he spews. -- nm - TWuG Jun 7, 15:57
Oh, fun, my sinuses are tingling. Allergies? Weather-change sensitivity? Early stages of a cold? Who knows! - Beryllium Jun 7, 15:54 9
- Sticking M&Ms up there won't solve anything. - Max Jun 7, 15:55 8
  - My first trip to the hospital was a cooked carrot piece to the nose. - kelly Jun 7, 17:22 2
    - My sister stuck beans up her nose. I let her. - Dark Callisto Jun 7, 17:25 1
      - Dying. -- nm - loosilu Jun 7, 17:40
  - Ours was nearly gum. We did get it out with tweezers. - spamlet Jun 7, 17:16
  - You kill me. -- nm - loosilu Jun 7, 17:00
  - Heh, same for my oldest son ... minus the sneeze. The doc popped the pea out very quickly though. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 7, 15:57 2
    - With daughter it was a raisin, but we were able to grab it with tweezers :/ -- nm - Meg Jun 7, 16:03 1
      - At the time I was deeply concerned that a home retrieval attempt would just push it deeper ... and the kiddo was too young to self-eject it. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 7, 16:07
Mitt Romney joins a march protesting the death of George Floyd: "We need to stand up and say that Black Lives Matter. -- (link) - Remlik Jun 7, 15:47
Mitt Romney marches outside the White House -- (link) - budice Jun 7, 15:46 19
- Missed opportunity by the other 534 members of Congress. -- nm - Max Jun 7, 15:51
- If trump resigns, would Mitt be the likely GOP replacement choice? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 7, 15:47 17
  - Tom Cotton. -- nm - mara Jun 7, 17:05 1
    - This. And this scares the hell out of me. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 7, 17:34
  - It’s go Donald Jr, Pence, Ivanka, Haley. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 7, 16:01 7
    - LOL Jr is a complete asshat -- nm - loosilu Jun 7, 16:57
    - Here are the odds from the bookmakers -- (pic) - Flavorize Jun 7, 16:11 [Attachment] 5
      - If DJT leaves, one of his kids will step up to defend his good name. And there’s a reasonable amount of people who love him to do it -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 7, 16:26 4
        
        No one hates Donnie more than his kids. -- nm - loosilu Jun 7, 16:59 2
        
        I doubt it, not unless ivanka hacks his head off and stuffs some cum stained party dress down the hole -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 7, 17:11 1
        
        Eww. I'd appreciate it if you could tone this one down. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 7, 17:24
        
        I am not convinced. If DJT falls, I liken Junior's political future to that of Corey Lewandowski's NH Senate run. -- nm - Jovian Jun 7, 16:33
  - 0% chance. They'd run with Pence. - Reagen Jun 7, 15:49 4
    - Still, it would be hilarious if he ended up resigning over something that really wasn't his fault, in light of the stuff that IS is fault -- nm - Beryllium Jun 7, 15:51 3
      - Having the election come down to Kang and Kodos seems more likely than Trump resigning. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 7, 17:33
      - Why would he? He stopped the riots. -- nm - spamlet Jun 7, 16:53
      - its very unfair! -- (link) - Jovian Jun 7, 15:58
  - not a chance, the base see him as a traitorous RINO -- nm - ty97 Jun 7, 15:48
  - no. It'd be Pence. The Evangelicals would LOVE him -- nm - Remlik Jun 7, 15:47
zunk: yes, but in cities that have their own police forces (like Victoria and Oak Bay), the RCMP don't do local law enforcement ... - Beryllium Jun 7, 15:46 4
- And the "local replacement structure " would be what? New cops? -- nm - zunkskunk Jun 7, 16:25 3
  - Making it so that the people who hand out traffic tickets aren't the same people who respond to mass shootings, for a start. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 7, 16:39 2
    - ... and you don't need shock troops to investigate car crashes, either -- nm - Beryllium Jun 7, 16:46 1
      - A lot of things need to be decriminalized and dealt with by some entity other than the police. - TWuG Jun 7, 16:49
Zunk, no one is talking about abandoning any and all armed response. You know they aren't so don't argue as if that's what's being proposed. - TWuG Jun 7, 15:44 7
- Who does the traffic stops? Are they armed? -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jun 7, 16:24 3
  - Traffic enforcement. Probably shouldn't be. - TWuG Jun 7, 16:27 2
    - I am assuming the traffic enforcement would check your license and see if an outstanding warrants? What if an arrest needs to be made? -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jun 7, 16:30 1
      - Call in the properly trained officers to deal with it. - TWuG Jun 7, 16:34
- Ok, I genuinely don't know what is being proposed. But you seem to be describing a police force that is smaller and better trained. Call it what you - zunkskunk Jun 7, 16:22 1
  - It's probably better to think of what Minn is doing as abolishing this particular police force and replacing it with something - TWuG Jun 7, 16:30
- It's worth noting that in many jurisdictions, training to be a cop can take as little as 8-12 weeks. Hairdressers require more time and education to - TWuG Jun 7, 15:50
ST: What are you reading? -- nm - Beaker Jun 7, 15:36 22
- White Fragility (as well), and Dark Force Rising, book 2 in the Thrawn Trilogy. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 7, 17:35 2
  - Dark Force Rising? Really??? - Cuzzin Todd Jun 7, 17:56 1
    - I didn't choose this book. It chose me. - ReluctantCynic Jun 7, 18:22
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Cuzzin Todd Jun 7, 17:30
- Finished listening to Station Eleven (highly recommended); now on a psych/suspense called Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier. -- nm - mara Jun 7, 17:10 3
  - Mandel's books couldn't be more different from each other. -- nm - TWuG Jun 7, 17:16 2
    - I've wondered that! I need to decide if I want to listen to another one. -- nm - mara Jun 7, 17:19 1
      - I've enjoyed them all, but do NOT expect a repeat of Station Eleven. And I can't even tell you which would be the easiest - TWuG Jun 7, 17:25
- reality: I am ADHD ish, I struggle to get through a book. -- nm - loosilu Jun 7, 16:58
- Need to get back into Killers of the Flower Moon. -- nm - Meg Jun 7, 16:17
- Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook. -- nm - Ba'rona Beast Jun 7, 16:13
- IQ by Joe Ide -- nm - JD Jun 7, 16:05
- Nothing the library has been closed for 3 months. -- nm - Under the Influence Jun 7, 16:03 5
  - I almost never get physical books from the library, almost all are for Kindle. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 7, 17:31
  - No curbside? -- nm - mara Jun 7, 17:12 3
    - Ours are opening book-drops on the 9th, curbside on the 16th. We've been completely shut down since late March. They do have an - Meg Jun 7, 17:19 2
      - Ah. So I'm just curious (have I asked you this before?) -- do you do ebooks at all? -- nm - mara Jun 7, 17:24 1
        
        The library? Ebooks and audio books. This is the eLibrary -- (link) - Meg Jun 7, 17:46
- Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson. She has a wonderfully fluid and descriptive style that is easy to read while - TWuG Jun 7, 15:48 2
  - I *love* her. One of my favorite writers. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 7, 15:51 1
    - Apparently, I watched the Jackson Brodie TV show a couple years ago. I bought the first book without remembering that - TWuG Jun 7, 15:55
- Fellowship of the Ring and 1984. Recently finished A Brief History of the Normans and A Time of Contempt (The Witcher series) -- nm - Beaker Jun 7, 15:39
Fun Board -- nm - Spawn Jun 7, 15:34 4
- Positive weekend experience: I spent a few hours researching my new in-law family tree and found info on their grandparents they didn't even know. - Max Jun 7, 15:37
- Tonight we are young -- nm - ty97 Jun 7, 15:35 2
  - Heartache to heartache, we stand, no promises, no demands. - ReluctantCynic Jun 7, 17:36
  - And thus ends my knowledge of Fun. -- nm - spamlet Jun 7, 15:38

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