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B12: 3 tickets: Nirvana, Blind Melon, Smashing Pumpkins ... their shows were a notorious mess but they represent peak grunge for me -- nm - rollo Jun 10, 12:45
CNN response: -- (link) - mud Jun 10, 12:43 2
- David C. Vigilante? -- nm - David Jun 10, 12:59
- The key part here -- (link) - ty97 Jun 10, 12:47
Shawn Michaels and another NXT producer got heated at Takeover over current events - Will Hunting Jun 10, 12:23 3
- Yes, I literally laughed out loud at the knowledge that he's now one of the good people in WWE management. -- nm - David Jun 10, 12:29 1
  - Imagine going back 20 years and telling people what DX would be doing today. -- nm - Tim Jun 10, 12:36
- Good I love HBK would hate to think he was on the wrong side -- nm - eag Jun 10, 12:27
Boomers (mini-golf, gokarts) just upped and closed basically 80% overnight. Other SoCal locations closed except Irvine. Bankrupt. -- (link*) - budice Jun 10, 12:21 4
- I have wondered how places like that have stayed in business through this. - Spawn Jun 10, 12:35 1
  - My dad used to say, they were tax payments, just enough income to let them hold out for a fat development -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 10, 13:00
- Sounds like some serious corporate shell game stuff - JD Jun 10, 12:33 1
  - Even in Late May, Fountain Valley one had committed to re-opening June 1st -- (link*) - budice Jun 10, 12:36
"How does that work in terms of physics?" -- (link) - mud Jun 10, 12:14 1
- How broken is his brain that he couldn't have made the simpler allegation that he "flopped"? - Reagen Jun 10, 12:19
"I don’t believe there’s systemic racism in the U.S.," top Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow -- (link) - budice Jun 10, 12:10 15
- I don't believe that there are certain species of sharks can live up to 500 years or that Nintendo was founded in 1889... - Dark Callisto Jun 10, 12:18 11
  - So is that like a great great great grandpa shark? - spamlet Jun 10, 12:35 1
    - I've got this. -- nm - The Rock Jun 10, 12:36
  - Soooo...are you telling me I should be able to catch a 500 year old shark in Animal Crossing? -- nm - John Murphy Jun 10, 12:25 1
    - I figure that whale shark has to be pretty old. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 10, 12:36
  - say what?! -- nm - mud Jun 10, 12:20 6
    - Greenland sharks can live a loooong time. Nintendo originally made playing cards. - TWuG Jun 10, 12:23 5
      - heh, I actually googled Nintendo (before my response) and was pretty surprised -- nm - mud Jun 10, 12:25 1
        
        I still don't believe it -- nm - Dano Jun 10, 12:44
      - Smartsharks came from somewhere -- nm - budice Jun 10, 12:23 2
        
        "I'm not going to do any biting, right? Because I do NOT do well around blood." -- nm* - Dark Callisto Jun 10, 12:39 1
        
        God, I love you. -- nm - David Jun 10, 12:41
- Of course he doesn't...look at him. -- nm - John Murphy Jun 10, 12:14 1
  - This. -- nm - JD Jun 10, 12:35
- Has he not seen the "two internships" side by side photos? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 12:11
Capt Kirk had it right for today -- (link) - budice Jun 10, 12:01 1
- Everyone's a super hero, everyone's a captain Kirk -- nm - Member Berries Jun 10, 12:07
ICYMI: Destiny 2 will be 4k@60fps on PS5/XSX. -- nm - Shaun Jun 10, 11:49 8
- The new season pass exotic might get disabled soon. - the wrong element, bad guy Jun 10, 12:16 4
  - How do you get it? -- nm - David Jun 10, 12:36 1
    - From the season pass at rank one of the paid content or rank 35(I think) of the free content. - the wrong element, bad guy Jun 10, 12:43
  - I saw a few vids today explaining how broken it is. Funny. -- nm - Shaun Jun 10, 12:18 1
    - The weird thing is that it doesn't work all the time or against every boss. - the wrong element, bad guy Jun 10, 12:51
- Also, people on PS4 can play with people on PS5, same for XSX/XBOne. - the wrong element, bad guy Jun 10, 12:11 2
  - It's irritating that content purchases don't carry over for cross-save purposes. -- nm - Shaun Jun 10, 12:15 1
    - Agreed. I'm sure its an issue with Sony and/or Microsoft. - the wrong element, bad guy Jun 10, 12:25
*agrees with Baron's disparagement to extroverts on B15, but decides not to explicitly respond* -- nm - rollo Jun 10, 11:46 2
- I'd missed that. That's pretty good -- nm - prayformojo Jun 10, 12:17
- *nods* -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 10, 12:14
CGI? Nah, we're good. -- (link) - Shaun Jun 10, 11:43
Re: that pollster that's handling Trump bitch session - Reagen Jun 10, 11:41 1
- I’d love to see it be “Actually, the numbers were 55.4 to 40.6 but upon rounding, it became 55-41. We apologize for our rounding of the numbers.” -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 10, 12:27
Legal questions regarding Michael Flynn - Dano Jun 10, 11:36 7
- To answer one question: One question is about forcing someone to bring charges. The other is about dropping. Two very different things. - JackDawson Jun 10, 11:52 5
  - (And to clarify, some of the issue is that he did plead guilty with agreement in place and then they wanted to drop charges, yes?) -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 10, 12:15 4
    - Right, it's even harder to walk back once you've pled guilty for the reasons Will points out below (and integrity of the judiciary) -- nm - JackDawson Jun 10, 12:29
    - He’s tried to pull back the plea at least twice without actually filing the paperwork to do so. - spamlet Jun 10, 12:24
    - That’s the catch-22 for him. He pled and is now saying he didn’t do it so which time is he lying? -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 10, 12:20 1
      - He has a new lawyer because the other one was tired of his bullshit. He’s arguing bad lawyering - spamlet Jun 10, 12:23
- Non responsive but relevant: I know everyone has their battles, but to me this filing by Judge Gleeson basically says: "There is no rule of law in the - JackDawson Jun 10, 11:49
This is fine. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Jun 10, 11:31 16
- how many of our war jets fly into Russian space daily?? -- nm* - Peglegpete Jun 10, 12:01 3
  - None of course. -- nm - US Government Jun 10, 12:03 2
    - Well we left the Open Sky Treaty that allowed us to make monitoring overflights -- nm - JD Jun 10, 12:07 1
      - Uh huh. That’s what I meant. -- nm - US Government Jun 10, 12:14
- I was going to crack wise about the generations difference between the bomber and interceptor but the I remembered that the US still flies the B-52 - JD Jun 10, 11:57 5
  - those refueling tanker planes date back to the Korean war and are still prop planes, plans for new jets have been throttled in corrupt bidding 20 year -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 10, 12:00 4
    - Tankers are a mess but they're a little more recent than that 8-) They've been jets since uh, well 707 days but - JD Jun 10, 12:06 1
      - I live just off the end of the runway at McChord afb, they still fly the kc135 for the cargo jets support -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 10, 13:06
    - but we don't bomb like that anymore, now we fire cruise missles from 1000 miles away, use stealth jets for smart bomb targeting -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 10, 12:02 1
      - That cruise missile thing is one of the missions that keeps the B-52s as part of the active inventory -- nm - JD Jun 10, 12:08
- Doesn't this happen all the time? -- nm - Mop Jun 10, 11:32 5
  - It does. It's a sign of how weirdly insecure Russia is. -- nm - Reagen Jun 10, 11:36 2
    - just down load google earth, boom..done... -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 10, 11:47
    - Yeah... yeah... Russia. We'd never do that... -- nm - USAF Jun 10, 11:38
  - I mean Sarah Palin sees russian jets from her backyard all the time -- nm - eag Jun 10, 11:34
  - probably, gotta test those reaction times -- nm* - tRuMaN Jun 10, 11:34
In case you want to be really sure you know where the PS5 event will be on Youtube, the link is live. -- (link) - Shaun Jun 10, 11:27 [youtube] 2
- Microsoft -- (pic) - Mop Jun 10, 11:34 [Attachment] 1
  - Yeah 2007! -- nm - Shaun Jun 10, 11:36
You can't make this up. Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for a poll that shows Biden leading. -- (link) - loosilu Jun 10, 11:20 9
- I'm not sure, but I feel Trump may be upset about his latest poll numbers. -- nm - Mop Jun 10, 11:38
- If he weren't a rich celebrity, he'd spend all his free time writing 14 letters to the editor each week. -- nm - David Jun 10, 11:23 6
  - I resemble that -- nm - Twitter si Jun 10, 12:27
  - That takes too much focus. He’d be like any other twitter troll. -- nm - spamlet Jun 10, 11:48
  - He's the ultimate Karen. -- nm - loosilu Jun 10, 11:26
  - Also, who's dumber: Trump or Kevin Kline's character in A Fish Called Wanda? -- nm - David Jun 10, 11:25 2
    - Trump, easily. -- nm - mud Jun 10, 11:33
    - Someone should totally ask Trump what he thinks of the London Underground. -- nm - Reagen Jun 10, 11:26
- I'm sure they'll get right on it -- nm - JackDawson Jun 10, 11:20
Dr. Anthony Fauci says WHO's remark on asymptomatic coronavirus spread 'was not correct' -- (link) - budice Jun 10, 11:19 1
- By the end of March, I'd already stopped checking WHO for updates. Kim got tired of hearing me vent about them. -- nm - David Jun 10, 11:21
Changes to the board of Academy of Motion Pictures... - Remlik Jun 10, 11:13
Great idea Meg - let's walk down to the library before it gets too warm. Currently 90F (real feel 100) I survived!! -- nm - Meg Jun 10, 11:12 3
- oof. how far is that? -- nm - colin Jun 10, 11:15 2
  - Eh, only about 1.4 miles round-trip. More than I walked all of yesterday :-) -- nm - Meg Jun 10, 11:23 1
    - oh not too bad! nice work. -- nm - colin Jun 10, 11:27
Interesting stat I heard from John Oliver, 1 in 1000 black deaths are at the hands of the police. - Loyola Jun 10, 11:10 9
- I wonder what it is for white deaths? -- nm - Spawn Jun 10, 12:08 3
  - I found the source paper. Short answer: Black men are 2.5 more likely than white men to be killed by police. -- (link*) - loosilu Jun 10, 12:10 2
    - The relevant stats C&P inside - TWuG Jun 10, 12:14 1
      - That last one is amazing. -- nm - loosilu Jun 10, 12:22
- its that low? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 10, 11:49
- the woman at the end of joh oliver this week was amazing. -- nm - amanda Jun 10, 11:32 2
  - I just watched it. Rock on sister. -- nm - Loyola Jun 10, 11:49 1
    - here, my dudes. this link has swearing. -- (link) - amanda Jun 10, 11:50
- Black males. -- nm - loosilu Jun 10, 11:20
4 new COVID cases in NB -- nm - Beaker Jun 10, 11:07
From B2, I can't say for sure, but the impression I have is that the organizers of the evening protest are connected to the existing local political orgs -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man Jun 10, 11:02 7
- my feeling on it is this is protesting police, there should be no collaboration. it's meant to be disruptive to police and community. organizers are - colin Jun 10, 11:12 5
  - I disagree, because cooperation in the form of providing notice, possibly helps prevent more -- (edited) - tRuMAN Jun 10, 11:17 2
    - it might prevent it, but police need to feel like they are not in control. - colin Jun 10, 11:19 1
      - i disagree. -- nm* - tRuMaN Jun 10, 11:35
  - Yeah, we're a mostly white town of about 10,000 people, and public services are pretty tightly knit into the community so that dynamic here would be - znufrii, silly old man Jun 10, 11:16 1
    - that's tough.. same with my county. everybody is buddies with police, it's going to be very hard to get any real change moving. -- nm - colin Jun 10, 11:18
- Most of the student ones around here have coordinated with police. - spamlet Jun 10, 11:09
LOL. My gym isn’t a “corporation,” it’s owned by one dude and pays for using the Crossfit brand— that said, I should say PAID because he immediately - JackDawson Jun 10, 10:58 13
- *shrug* still a business. Still leveraging a horrific event for an exercise regimen. But less offensive than the I-can't-breathe version, because it's - Beryllium Jun 10, 11:11 6
  - It probably just reinforces your position but there's an entire series of named workouts that are named after people who died. Typically in service - JD Jun 10, 11:39 2
    - No, I'm coming around. I'm seeing the honorific aspect. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 11:57 1
      - (The "I don't care" bit below was supposed to be funny by virtue of calling it out as a lie in the IM, but ... it's not as funny as was intended.) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 11:58
  - It's like, for LGBT Pride, they organize a workout, advertise it as such, and then do the regime based on the date of the Stonewall riots (which is am - JackDawson Jun 10, 11:17 1
    - I don't care, I'm not going to go to a gym that does stuff like that. - Beryllium Jun 10, 11:23
  - "leveraging"? -- nm - JackDawson Jun 10, 11:16
- I think that's one thing that does get missed when we stop business with a brand. - Dark Callisto Jun 10, 11:04 5
  - Yeah, our Chick Fil A franchisee really impressed us when he spoke about the company's homophobic policies. -- nm - David Jun 10, 11:22 1
    - Yup. I'd probably prefer that a local company disassociate from the corporate umbrella if it's really really evil, but I'm also not one to go into ca - JackDawson Jun 10, 11:30
  - My problem with that arrangement is that it forces us to reward bad actors for the sake of supporting local businesses - znufrii, silly old man Jun 10, 11:20 1
    - I mean you don’t have to do anything. Whether or not you choose to shop somewhere is up to you. -- nm - spamlet Jun 10, 12:01
  - It gives so much fodder to the nut jobs saying that we are just a mob of pitchforks and torches, but I do understand that many people are more interes - JackDawson Jun 10, 11:10
Hot Take: the new Bill & Ted movie looks like hot garbage -- nm - Beaker Jun 10, 10:53 28
- It's a teaser. We don't even *really* know what it's about yet. -- nm - Reagen Jun 10, 11:28 1
  - Yes! I, for one, will reserve judgement until I understand fully the artistic vision of the filmmakers. What message are they trying to get across? -- nm - Mop Jun 10, 12:01
- So did the other 2. They were fun. This one looks that way as well. -- nm - Remlik Jun 10, 11:14
- looks like a cash grab, sadly. -- nm - colin Jun 10, 11:06 2
  - No, he doesn't *need* the cash. I am sure he liked the script and hoped it would deliver. -- nm - Spawn Jun 10, 11:15 1
    - not by keanu.. he seems great and all, but he signs on to some really garbage scripts, so i don't know that i'd take him as an authority on a good - colin Jun 10, 11:17
- Im not sure why Keannu would do this - eag Jun 10, 11:00 11
  - because he read the script and said it looked fun. -- nm - Remlik Jun 10, 11:12 1
    - as well as I think he wanted to work Alex Winter again -- nm - JD Jun 10, 11:47
  - Keanu is in a spot right now where he does exactly what he wants, regardless of what it is. Maybe he wanted to have some lighthearted fun on set. - Shaun Jun 10, 11:07 3
    - Oh thats fine im sure there are of plenty of comedies he could be in - eag Jun 10, 11:09 2
      - What movie industry have you been watching recently? Regurgitating old IP is the new movie business nowadays. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 10, 11:14 1
        
        Member Bill & Ted? Excellent! -- nm - Member Berries Jun 10, 11:24
  - He gets to do something fun and whimsical. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 10, 11:05 4
    - I almost see it to the equivilant to when Jim Carey did the 3rd Dumb and Dumber movie -- nm - eag Jun 10, 11:07 3
      - There’s a 3rd D&D? -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 10, 11:21 2
        
        Well there was that 2nd film which was a prequel -- nm - eag Jun 10, 11:29
        
        6 films so far. -- nm - Spawn Jun 10, 11:22
- It’s been 30 years...the first two were not exactly mature adult films. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 10, 10:59 6
  - The first one was way smarter than it looked. -- nm - spamlet Jun 10, 11:20 5
    - The second....was not. -- nm - znufrii Jun 10, 11:34 2
      - but, but STATION! Actually William Sadler's Death is one of my favorite movie characters / performances -- nm - JD Jun 10, 11:50 1
        
        "Four out of Seven?" "Damn straight!" -- nm - Reagen Jun 10, 11:54
    - It's apparently the gold standard for Baroque costuming. -- nm - Reagen Jun 10, 11:27
    - Exactly. And largely the reason I will give the third a chance. - Spawn Jun 10, 11:22
- Mop? -- nm - Spawn Jun 10, 10:55
- Though I seem to remember Bogus Journey looking that way in the marketing -- nm - JD Jun 10, 10:54
- Yeah the trailer was really not impressive -- nm - sycor Jun 10, 10:54

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