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With the market tanking I'm thinking about the story (also discussed here) of many Gen Z kids putting stimulus money into damaged companies or ETF's. - zunk takes things literally Jun 11, 12:58 1
- didn't Hertz rebound 500% -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 11, 13:01
Lady Antebellum should change their name to Ex Post Facto -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 11, 12:58
STL County has said that they want anyone that leaves their house to be tested for COVID at one of their testing facilities. They can test 150/day. - spamlet Jun 11, 12:57
5 minutes to the PS5 live stream on YouTube... 600k viewers. -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 12:56 1
- 1.1M -- nm - Ender Jun 11, 13:00
Trump authorizes sanctions against the International Criminal Court and some investigators and their families. -- (link) - Mop Jun 11, 12:44 3
- Ummmmmmm. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 11, 12:48 2
  - This is fine? -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 12:56 1
    - waiting for Europe to post sanctions on republicans, esp Donald for promoting crimes against humanity -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 11, 13:00
If ever we needed proof that banning someone on Twitter makes them irrelevant... have we heard from David Clarke lately? -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 12:37
Chucky Cheese may very well be done and gone -- (link) - decline Jun 11, 12:28 7
- I imagine a lot of places like that are doing to be in trouble. Including Dave and Busters, buffet restaurants, etc. - sycor Jun 11, 12:37 1
  - Had a lot of fun there when the kids were little. - zunk takes things literally Jun 11, 12:50
- - -- (pic) - Jovian Jun 11, 12:36 [Attachment] 1
  - I mean really, this is something he should get behind. -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 12:37
- The Decoder Ring episode from last summer about Chuck E Cheese is good listening. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 11, 12:36
- John's Incredible may have similar issue. Boomers closed 80% of their minigolf places -- nm* - budice Jun 11, 12:31
- Bids 20 bucks for the basketball game and football game -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 11, 12:30
Dow: -1800 Sell sell sell. -- (link*) - budice Jun 11, 12:26
The weird part about those Hispanic numbers is that Biden is *also* up in Florida. -- nm - Reagen Jun 11, 12:22 3
- I hope he wins FL, and TX, and AZ, and GA, and NC, and PA, and OH, and IA, and WI, and MI! -- nm - mud Jun 11, 12:28 1
  - But I hope he loses West Virginia because they suck! -- nm - JackDawson Jun 11, 12:31
- So, fewer undecided? -- nm - loosilu Jun 11, 12:25
Pretty sure we are going ahead with our bathroom remodel. I just picked out the tile. Omg it’s going to look so nice. -- nm - kelly Jun 11, 12:18 15
- exciting! -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jun 11, 12:23
- what are some of your planned upgrades, extra body jets in the shower? heated floors? -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 11, 12:21 1
  - No upgrades. -- nm - kelly Jun 11, 12:25
- are you doing yourself? I really want to do my hall bath, but I am overwhelmed at the idea of WFH one room away from a reno. -- nm - amanda Jun 11, 12:19 11
  - Nope, hiring someone. We are ripping out the tub and putting a large shower there, and putting something (linen closet? shelves? sitting area?) where - kelly Jun 11, 12:24 10
    - I have a very old tub in my hall bath whose walls are about eight inches thick. I too want to put in a shower to reclaim some of the space the walls - amanda Jun 11, 12:40 6
      - The guy at the tile store told me that big showers are a huge selling point for people - as long as there is at least one tub in the house. - kelly Jun 11, 12:50 5
        
        I was going to build a shed out back to work from but it looks like we may be going back earlier than anticipated. maybe I will toss my shed - amanda Jun 11, 12:55
        
        Not the best picture, but here’s what we decided on. I wanted a “beachy” feel to it. - kelly Jun 11, 12:52 3
        
        Oops. Pic would be good. -- (pic) - kelly Jun 11, 12:54 [Attachment] 2
        
        that's going to look great! -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jun 11, 13:16
        
        is that white tile marbley too? that is *flames.* the white is so optic. -- nm - amanda Jun 11, 12:56
    - If it was just tiling, I’d give it a shot. - Will Hunting Jun 11, 12:28 2
      - just give N a sledge hammer and tell him to go to town -- nm - decline Jun 11, 12:28 1
        
        I want the job done. - Will Hunting Jun 11, 12:31
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a reallly emotional movie. -- nm - Jovian Jun 11, 12:12 3
- It's a Beautiful Day -- (link) - Peglegpete Jun 11, 12:19 [youtube] 1
  - My wedding... oh, nevermind. -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 12:20
- Mr. Rogers is a dick! Just answer the questions! What are you hiding?! -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 12:14
Trump snubs Dallas’ top law enforcement officials, all black, for talk about policing and race in Dallas -- (link) - Remlik Jun 11, 12:11 3
- Two of them are also female. -- nm - . Jun 11, 12:45
- He's not even trying to hide his racism any more. -- nm* - Mop Jun 11, 12:13 1
  - Wait . . . he was hiding it? - pmb Jun 11, 12:13
i am wondering if its worth a CPU or GPU upgrade on my home pc. - tRuMaN Jun 11, 12:10 5
- GPU usually better invest, most CPUs underutilized. Also upgrade to SSD if not already done so -- nm - budice Jun 11, 12:12 1
  - have an nvme already. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 11, 12:20
- How old is it? Is something wrong with it? I've done a lot of research on this topic the last month because of a PC crash. -- nm - sycor Jun 11, 12:11 2
  - i cant remember how old it is. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 11, 12:26 1
    - Anything more than 4 years and it's going to be harder to find the parts. - sycor Jun 11, 12:36
TWUG already posted it, but kudos to my city for ripping down Davis. Police went and carted away their stupid statue in fear of it tumbling (it's at - colin Jun 11, 12:09 1
- to clarify, there is a police memorial statue that's been vandalized, they've removed it for safekeeping. - colin Jun 11, 12:10
Checked the Funko stock, I never did buy it back around $4, a little disappointed. Then a noticed a link to a Yahoo Finance post about possible fraud -- (link) - sycor Jun 11, 12:06 1
- I did. That has also dropped back down quite a bit. - JaxSean Jun 11, 12:15
One hour to go and there are almost 73k people already in there waiting. -- nm - Shaun Jun 11, 12:01 1
- Haircuts? -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 12:05
Joe Biden is done with Trump. He's campaigning against Faceboook now. -- (link) - Mop Jun 11, 11:58 1
- *donates entire bank account* -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 12:05
Today is right on the edge of midday walkable in Houston. 87 degrees with a slightly cooler heat index. -- nm - Qale Jun 11, 11:58
Seriously failed presidential candidate, Senator Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, just introduced an Amendment on the renaming of many of our legendary - Spawn Jun 11, 11:56 21
- polka haunt us -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 11, 12:16
- why on earth is defending the confederacy his hill to die on? that's pretty wild. - colin Jun 11, 12:03 14
  - Because he needs the racist vote. -- nm - loosilu Jun 11, 12:08 7
    - He already had it! He's not convincing anybody already in his camp, just driving away people on the fence. -- nm - colin Jun 11, 12:10 6
      - this!!! this!!!!! -- nm - amanda Jun 11, 12:41
      - His entire strategy is motivating his minority base enough and suppressing enough opposition vote enough, to pull off a win. He doesn't think he can - pmb Jun 11, 12:15
      - How can anyone be on the fence at this point? -- nm - loosilu Jun 11, 12:13 3
        
        there is no one on the fence at this point - Jovian Jun 11, 12:14 1
        
        only people he is driving away at this point are people who voted for him. -- nm - Jovian Jun 11, 12:17
        
        if you are all for a 2nd civil war, you're not on any fence. -- nm - colin Jun 11, 12:14
  - He has no clue about people in general, he's just listening to his advisors, Fox News, and OANN. -- nm - mara Jun 11, 12:07 2
    - precisely. -- nm - mud Jun 11, 12:10
    - i think this.. he's so hurt by being criticized, he's only listening to people who praise him. -- nm - colin Jun 11, 12:09
  - Conservative Evangelical Southerners...he's cementing that base -- nm - Remlik Jun 11, 12:06 2
    - when Pat Robertson turns on you, you've lost that base. -- nm - colin Jun 11, 12:11 1
      - nah. they want the courts. that's what it's all about for them. Get rid of woman's choice and other issues -- nm - Remlik Jun 11, 12:12
- Roy Blunt: “Braxton Bragg was probably the worst commanding general in the Confederate army." -- (link) - Reagen Jun 11, 11:59 1
  - He has *two* bases named after him. - Will Hunting Jun 11, 12:15
- If we won a couple of world wars we probably have some victorious replacement names for those bases. -- nm - Max Jun 11, 11:58
- dig up -- nm - mud Jun 11, 11:57 1
  - I've seen a few tell on themselves. "Maybe they shouldn't be, but I don't want you to win!" or words to that effect. -- nm - Reagen Jun 11, 12:01
Stock markets gave back two weeks of gains today. -- nm - Reagen Jun 11, 11:53 16
- fuckers -- nm - Remlik Jun 11, 12:07
- They realized that were still in the midst of a PANDEMIC! - eag Jun 11, 12:01
- Why ? - Will Hunting Jun 11, 12:01 1
  - Federal Reserve released its economic projections - znufrii, silly old man Jun 11, 12:08
- I was definitively told that stocks can only go up. -- nm - Tim Jun 11, 12:00
- Me, to my wife on Monday at 3:30pm: "I'm feeling antsy, thinking I should take the profits." - JaxSean Jun 11, 11:59 9
  - What are you in that dropped 50%?!?! -- nm - Reagen Jun 11, 12:02 8
    - sorry, to clarify: - JaxSean Jun 11, 12:21
    - spoils - JaxSean Jun 11, 12:13 6
      - If you don't mind me asking, why cruise lines? - Spawn Jun 11, 12:19 3
        
        A few reasons - JaxSean Jun 11, 12:25 2
        
        Hmm. I see it as a dying industry post COVID. Maybe people forget, but I don't think so. -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 12:36 1
        
        I'd go on a cruise tomorrow if it were super cheap. - JaxSean Jun 11, 12:44
      - I mean, that's basically just gambling. -- nm - Reagen Jun 11, 12:19 1
        
        sure -- nm - JaxSean Jun 11, 12:25
- bastards -- nm - decline Jun 11, 11:55
SeaWorld - Orlando apparently not enforcing masks / protocols. Causing people to leave. -- (link) - budice Jun 11, 11:53 5
- shocked not shocked -- nm - Beaker Jun 11, 11:56
- In other news: SeaWorld is still a thing. -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 11:55
- But what about Shamu? -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 11:54 2
  - Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep a mask on a whale? -- nm - decline Jun 11, 11:56 1
    - But see, I would pay money to see that! -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 11:56
Background watching Iron Man 2. Sure it's not great, but it's ScarJo's amazing entry into the MCU. So yeah. -- nm - Shaun Jun 11, 11:51 5
- "Give me a phat beat to beat my buddy's ass to." - Spawn Jun 11, 12:02
- There is a ton of good there. -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 11:52 3
  - The senate hearing in the beginning one of the best part -- nm - eag Jun 11, 11:55
  - Rourke is great. -- nm - mud Jun 11, 11:55 1
    - Rockwell, as well. -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 11:57
Microsoft joins Amazon and IBM in not selling their facial recognition software to the police. -- (link) - Mop Jun 11, 11:50
Talk about timing. Today is Phil Spencer's 30th anniversary at Xbox. -- nm - Shaun Jun 11, 11:49
Some of you may be interested, the Live PD host guy just had a meltdown on CNN when discussing the show and unshown footage -- nm - MDH Jun 11, 11:48 5
- Here he is on Twitter telling us about his upcoming appearance on CNN (and Fox News). Maybe mom shouldn't have watched. -- (link) - Mop Jun 11, 11:54
- Brianna beat him up. -- nm - mud Jun 11, 11:51
- Sally Field or Col Jessup? -- nm - Reagen Jun 11, 11:50 1
  - Col Sanders -- nm - budice Jun 11, 11:52
- probably when they asked when they destroyed the additional footage from an incident where a man was killed - tRuMaN Jun 11, 11:50
Expedia refund: successful! Now, if I can get a refund on my hockey tickets, I'm all done! -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 11:32 2
- I'm assuming you charged them. is there anything in the charge card rules/regulations that can help? -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 11, 11:33 1
  - Oh, I know I can get the credit card company to refund the charge. I just assumed that when they said they'd refund my tickets, that they'd, you know - Mop Jun 11, 11:36
the Camden police chief mentioned, one of the reforms was to stop making worthless arrests, stop rating cops for numbers of arrests but convictions -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 11, 11:21 6
- I do think for a large amount of the small crimes sitting in a jail cell overnight is sufficient punishment. -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 11:45
- At the moment I can't think of a reason to pull over drivers other than erratic/drunk behavior suggesting imminent danger. - Max Jun 11, 11:31
- Having been on a grand jury... - Mop Jun 11, 11:26 3
  - So what you are saying is that justice lies in the hands of the people? -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 11:28 2
    - the first line of the Sith code. Peace is a lie. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 11, 11:38
    - The 2nd Amendment is the solution! -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 11:29
Accounting prof. at UCLA suspended because he's a dumbass. - Mop Jun 11, 11:20
New Brunswick needs to read the room... -- (link) - Beaker Jun 11, 11:18
NASCAR Truck was always the thing you saw on the Ocho and you're reminded "oh, right, this exists" -- nm - Reagen Jun 11, 11:17 13
- that guy will be a sports reporter for OAN -- nm - Remlik Jun 11, 11:53
- Dude had 18 races over three years, no wins, and only one top ten finish. Such a loss for NASCAR. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 11, 11:38 1
  - Things were about to change for him. - Spawn Jun 11, 11:46
- oof -- (link) - ty97 Jun 11, 11:31 1
  - damn. -- nm - colin Jun 11, 12:03
- give the guy credit - he's more famous now than if he had won a 1000 of those races -- nm - decline Jun 11, 11:30
- It's Outlaw racing or nothing, for me! -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 11:22
- Though I suppose good for him that he's following his convictions? -- nm - Dano Jun 11, 11:21 4
  - Same could be said for Hitler, though. -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 11:27 2
    - Hitler quit NASCAR truck racing? -- nm - Dano Jun 11, 11:32 1
      - If he wasn't kicked out of NASCAR truck school after art school, WW2 would've never happened. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 11, 11:33
  - right. it really should just be a "cool story bro" moment and just move on. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 11, 11:24
- I mean seriously, if they still had flags would anyone even notice? -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 11:18
"Moist. *Moist*." -- nm - Max Jun 11, 11:15 6
- what was funny for me was in the early scene .. - mud Jun 11, 12:01 1
  - spoils - . Jun 11, 12:58
- That was hysterical. -- nm - David Jun 11, 11:17 1
  - Not if it's genetic, like those poor cilantro cases. -- nm - con_carne Jun 11, 11:19
- 172 posts? - Spawn Jun 11, 11:16 1
  - 173! -- nm - Mop Jun 11, 11:18

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