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Regal Theaters re-opening lineup for 7/10: Black Panther, Bloodshot, Rocky, Unforgiven, Empire Strikes Back, TDK Trilogy, Inside Out, Jurassic Park -- (link) - MDH Jun 24, 08:31 1
- Bastards. -- nm - Spawn Jun 24, 08:34
5511 new COVID19 cases in Florida yesterday. The highest daily total so far. 43 deaths. -- (link) - Inigo Jun 24, 08:12 13
- Wow. They need to lock it down, but aside from the governor being a moron, a lot of the population is too. -- nm - pmb Jun 24, 08:33
- I hope the last part of your IM turns out to be wrong -- nm - ty97 Jun 24, 08:31
- 44 daily deaths in IL (7 day avg.) lowest since April 8th ... I think IL is doing a good job -- nm - rollo Jun 24, 08:31 2
  - I think the state has done a really good job. But we move to Phase 4 next week so then we'll see if it holds (it has held through Phase 3 which I - pmb Jun 24, 08:34
  - yeah, they really controlled it well -- nm - prayformojo Jun 24, 08:33
- NBA its faaaaaaaaantastic! -- nm - Beaker Jun 24, 08:30 1
  - no wonder the odd player has started to back out. I expect that to increase significantly -- nm - Beaker Jun 24, 08:31
- insane -- nm - prayformojo Jun 24, 08:21
- They need to try harder to hide the numbers. -- nm - Mop Jun 24, 08:21
- REmember a few months ago when I said Florida would be the worst spot of all? -- nm - loosilu Jun 24, 08:19 3
  - I mean... you can say that about Florida any day. -- nm - Mop Jun 24, 08:21 2
    - The state bird is a chicken finger. - Bjarön Jun 24, 08:25
    - True, true. Found it! -- (link) - loosilu Jun 24, 08:22 [Backboard]
Signal detected. -- (link) - Shaun Jun 24, 08:10 6
- I forgot to breathe for a minute fifteen. -- nm - Mop Jun 24, 08:23
- Meh. You gotta show something -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 24, 08:15 2
  - They better bring the heat during the July event, whatever day that's going to be. -- nm - Shaun Jun 24, 08:18
  - I'M THE TOWER OF POWER, TOO SWEET TO BE SOUR!!! -- nm - Spawn Jun 24, 08:17
- Is that Randy "Macho Man" Savage? -- nm - Spawn Jun 24, 08:13 1
  - Sounds like Donald Sutherland -- nm - rollo Jun 24, 09:10
NYC Marathon scheduled for November 1st officially canceled. -- (link) - Dano Jun 24, 08:04 1
- Better that they cancel now than wait and hope and have to cancel in October after people have already paid for hotels and such. -- nm - Krusty without grass Jun 24, 08:11
Trump's 'Kung flu' slur, pervasive scapegoating recall a brutal decades-old hate crime -- (link) - Mop Jun 24, 08:02
Rhode Island is moving toward changing its state name -- (link) - ty97 Jun 24, 07:59 3
- They should sell the naming rights like an arena. "Come to Amazon Island" would do wonders for their tourism -- nm - Beaker Jun 24, 08:03
- "Rhode Peninsula" -- nm - Reagen Jun 24, 08:00 1
  - Rode Peninsula - Spawn Jun 24, 08:02
South Park's top 40 episodes -- (link) - Beaker Jun 24, 07:57
Remind me of the history, didn't Miami or Dade County go bankrupt or something once and that's why it is now Miami-Dade County? -- nm - ty97 Jun 24, 07:57
LIR: that is a great visualization from mandy. Here's the source article -- (link) - oblique Jun 24, 07:54 4
- My daughter is told that they will be doing in person classes at Northwestern this fall, but it's still not clear that it will mean every class. Also - pmb Jun 24, 07:58 3
  - I think pretty much everyone is doing online only after thansgiving. we are having no large classes. our rooms that hold 750-1000 are - amanda Jun 24, 08:01
  - Yeah. Bradley is removing fall break to limit travel. Longer winter break. Doing mostly in person classes possibly adding saturday classes -- nm - oblique Jun 24, 08:00 1
    - oh yeah. we are having no fall break and school on labor day. -- nm - amanda Jun 24, 08:01
More than a quarter of the people in Miami-Dade county who tested for Covid-19 yesterday came back positive, -- (link) - mara Jun 24, 07:43 1
- They need to test less sick people! -- nm - Mop Jun 24, 07:45
AP: federal appeals court orders the dismissal of the criminal case against Flynn. -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 07:38 13
- I listened to the hearing and didn't expect Judge Henderson to go that way. Shows what I know. -- nm - Bjarön Jun 24, 08:29 2
  - All is lost. - Spawn Jun 24, 08:33
  - Incredibly conservative jurist and the Trump appointee is oof -- nm - JackDawson Jun 24, 08:32
- Unbelievable. -- nm - loosilu Jun 24, 08:09 1
  - I mean, it is not like the guy admitted he was guilty or anything. -- nm - Spawn Jun 24, 08:10
- Bye bye America -- nm - JackDawson Jun 24, 07:51 6
  - now now, Jack -- nm - mud Jun 24, 08:11 5
    - There's no turning back from this. It has become obvious to the world and to Americans that you can muscle your way into power then abuse that power - JackDawson Jun 24, 08:27
    - he isnt wrong. Just wait till Durham and Barr pull their final act. -- nm - Jovian Jun 24, 08:15 3
      - impeach Barr! -- nm - mud Jun 24, 08:19 2
        
        Pelosi: "They're going to be having a hearing today .. " -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 08:25
        
        Impeach? They arent going to even be able to get him testify under subpoena. A subpoena that still hasnt been issued. - Jovian Jun 24, 08:25
- POLITICO: -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 07:39
Get Tolkien style maps of whatever place you like. -- (link) - Mop Jun 24, 07:34 2
- I'll look at this closer later, but pretty cool stuff from what I saw. Thanks! -- nm - sycor Jun 24, 07:47
- Hic sunt dracones. -- nm - Bjarön Jun 24, 07:45
I'm starting to see heavy rotation of in-app ads for HBO Max. Also, Doom Patrol episodes 1-3 are free on YouTube right now. -- (link) - Mop Jun 24, 07:33 [youtube]
According to Cuomo, New York has the lowest corona contagion rates right now? Someone told me that -- nm - JackDawson Jun 24, 07:29 2
- If they mean transmission rate, that wasn't true a few days ago. -- (link) - mara Jun 24, 07:31 1
  - This is probably where it's from but I thank you -- (link) - JackDawson Jun 24, 07:33
Weird. Fortnite is going to start showing movies. -- (link) - Shaun Jun 24, 07:28 3
- More weird or less weird than concerts? -- nm - Qale Jun 24, 07:36 1
  - *shrug* It's impressive that they are continuing to innovate though. -- nm - Shaun Jun 24, 07:37
- *GENIUS!* -- nm - Quibi Jun 24, 07:33
computery question. Comparing a 1TB drive to a Commodore 64 ... the drive as 16.7 million times the memory capacity of the C-64? Did I do math right? -- nm - rollo Jun 24, 07:26 3
- thanks to you both -- nm* - rollo Jun 24, 07:40
- It's a bit of apples to oranges question. The C-64 had 64 KB of *RAM* and no internal storage. - Mop Jun 24, 07:31
- slightly less - Reagen Jun 24, 07:30
I don't like this feeling that seeing "the 60+ crowd" and it seems like "old people," when I'm getting very close to being in "the 50+ crowd." - JaxSean Jun 24, 07:26
Some films have been announced early for TIFF - LMS Jun 24, 07:26 2
- Yesterday they laid off 31 full time employees. -- nm* - Andie Jun 24, 07:39 1
  - :-[ -- nm - mud Jun 24, 07:42
by a 41-8 margin, Republicans think relations between the US and Canada have improved over the last four years -- (link) - Reagen Jun 24, 07:23 2
- And let us tell you how it's Trudeau's fault... -- nm - McLeans Jun 24, 07:37
- how high were those 41 I wonder? -- nm - Beaker Jun 24, 07:29
The Story of “Blame Canada” at the Oscars -- (link) - Beaker Jun 24, 07:21 3
- Fantastic article. It's basically a microcosm of late 90's pop culture. Brought back a flood of memories. -- nm - Mop Jun 24, 08:21
- The best thing about that performance is that it was preceded by the other 4 nominees, all typical sappy Oscar bait things. - Bjarön Jun 24, 07:40 1
  - whoa whoa whoa on calling Save Me that. -- nm - Reagen Jun 24, 08:04
Numerous phone calls but finally my doctor sent in my Rx refill.....to the wrong CVS - ty97 Jun 24, 07:21 2
- Uhm, you did not give them the store #? - Spawn Jun 24, 08:08
- This is all Tim’s fault probably. -- nm - Qale Jun 24, 07:24
Los Angeles County now leading the nation in coronavirus cases. -- (link) - budice Jun 24, 07:08 2
- They ALWAYS have to try and one-up New York. -- nm - mafic Jun 24, 07:17 1
  - New York is on notice, they produced Trump and Giuliani. Thankfully, we won't be one-upping them on that score -- nm - con_carne Jun 24, 07:56
We watched Destination Wedding on Prime last night with Keanu and Winona. It was actually pretty funny. - sycor Jun 24, 06:52 7
- Thanks. I'm running out of movies I'd want to watch. - Epiphany -wearing a wig Jun 24, 06:59 6
  - Tubi! -- nm - Qale Jun 24, 07:24 2
    - heh - I don't even know what that is!! - Epiphany -wearing a wig Jun 24, 07:26 1
      - It’s a free streaming service. I started crowing about it when Fox bought it and put actual content on it. -- nm - Qale Jun 24, 07:27
  - Here's what's coming to Amazon Prime in July -- (link) - Beaker Jun 24, 07:19 1
    - Gracias -- nm - Epiphany -wearing a wig Jun 24, 07:25
  - Yeah I still have stuff on my lists but nothing I really want to watch. She picked this one and I enjoyed more than I thought I would. -- nm - sycor Jun 24, 07:05
With Segway going under, I wonder if people will start spelling segue properly again. -- nm - Reagen Jun 24, 06:52 4
- With Segway going under, now's the perfect time for the Wedway People Mover to reclaim power -- nm - rollo Jun 24, 07:23
- No, they'll spell it seuge. See rogue vs. rouge. -- nm - Bjarön Jun 24, 07:15
- I think that’s a very stretched segue way. -- nm - Qale Jun 24, 07:02
- “What’s a see-gyu mr. S?” -- nm - mafic Jun 24, 07:01
Last night, couldn't sleep, so watched 13th and Cracked Up (Darrell Hammond story) on Netflix. - JaxSean Jun 24, 06:49
Isn't the bottom line that there is still too much time left for things to move? Remember how much they moved in Sept-Nov 2016? - JackDawson Jun 24, 06:46 46
- Are we less than five days out yet? - Spawn Jun 24, 08:02
- Nope. It's over. Mission accomplished. Trump has already lost. I'm gonna go back to bed. Everything is fine. -- nm - Mop Jun 24, 07:38
- My opinion: I trust polls much less than most people. - Strongbad Jun 24, 07:10 11
  - I feel like voting will be the same as protesting when it comes to COVID. Those invested will decide it’s too important to miss. -- nm - Qale Jun 24, 07:17 8
    - I disagree. I am very interested to see how it will effect turnout for 60+. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 24, 07:19 7
      - I’d be more concerned about the number of available poll workers as that is usually their age range. I should look up how to become one. -- nm - Qale Jun 24, 07:31 1
        
        That too. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 24, 07:40
      - Most 60+ can vote by mail. -- nm - mara Jun 24, 07:29
      - Probably if it weren't for the COVID hoax, those 60+ would have come out in droves and Trump would have won, because this country wants Republicans - JackDawson Jun 24, 07:21 3
        
        I don't know. I think the over 60 Trumpers come out anyway because they're just like him. Polls show him losing ground with that age group so we'll - pmb Jun 24, 07:26 1
        
        I'm being 100% sarcastic. -- nm - JackDawson Jun 24, 07:31
        
        I've seen *a lot* of older people here out without masks. - JaxSean Jun 24, 07:23
  - I also believe that both sides are going to unleash heavy artillery come Aug/Sept/Oct that they're saving now. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 24, 07:15 1
    - I Agree. The fall will be just brutal. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 24, 07:18
- I'm pessimistic that they'll do everything in their disposal to not give up power. - JaxSean Jun 24, 07:04
- but her emails? -- nm - budice Jun 24, 06:56
- agreed. another awful thing is that Pig's numbers tend to creep up for no good reason until another horrific thing happens and as per usual he fucks - Diva Jun 24, 06:56 2
  - I have to say how much I love this post. It perfectly captures my own exasperation with, well, everything and everyone these days -- nm - rollo Jun 24, 07:24 1
    - I just want to throw my hands and guts up all. the. time. -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 08:02
- Step on his neck and start grinding the heel. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 24, 06:55
- I think the consensus is that Trump is down by a good margin, but still has plenty of time to close the gap. - Inigo Jun 24, 06:54
- There's no way I can feel optimistic after the last election. I'll feel good when I start to see swing states called for Biden and not - Krusty without grass Jun 24, 06:49 9
  - I won’t be optimistic until Trump is back on Monday Night Raw where he belongs. -- nm - Qale Jun 24, 07:04 2
    - and some 300 lb. musclehead 'accidentally' punches him in the face. -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 07:07 1
      - Big Show turns face once more! -- nm - Qale Jun 24, 07:18
  - My biggest hope is to get MI, WI and PA back. Can never rely on OH and FL. -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 06:52 5
    - My prediction? We won't get all three of them. As per the below, I just think it's fallacious to think that the last outcomes repeat - JackDawson Jun 24, 07:10 2
      - we need more good polling in PA. -- nm - Reagen Jun 24, 07:11 1
        
        and less Karens. -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 08:00
    - And, in theory, if the country *has* swung as much as polls suggests, you would think those minimal margins for Trump in those states is wiped out - ty97 Jun 24, 06:53 1
      - chawl. -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 06:57
- I'm Mr. "push for 400 EV" so you don't have to sell me on keeping the pressure on. -- nm - Reagen Jun 24, 06:48 14
  - I will agree with the caveat of don't be pushing for AZ or TX or GA if you don't have MI/WI/PA shored up. -- nm* - ty97 Jun 24, 06:54 13
    - Or accept that Pa/Wi/Mi might not be ‘shorable’ given a change in the economic demographics. Give them the message - Will Hunting Jun 24, 06:58 2
      - I'm not convinced there's been any permanent shift in those states yet. The best quality pollsters have Biden up outside of MoE in all of those. - Reagen Jun 24, 07:03
      - eh, they were so close in 2016 I won't accept that at this point. -- nm - ty97 Jun 24, 07:02
    - Or do both, but start with, and concentrate on the swing states. - Inigo Jun 24, 06:57 9
      - Well, it WAS a strategic mistake in 2016, a huge costly one for her and the nation to think she had it sown up in some states right? -- nm - JackDawson Jun 24, 07:04 1
        
        Correct. It was one of the main reasons she won the popular vote but lost the election. -- nm - Inigo Jun 24, 07:08
      - I'm just saying, shortly before the 2016 election, Hillary was in Arizona. Why was she in Arizona? -- nm - ty97 Jun 24, 07:00 6
        
        Agreed as per above. Contra: It's potentially fallacious to expect the last result to replicate and to act based upon it - JackDawson Jun 24, 07:07 2
        
        Let's assume Happy Premise #1 that Biden wins. In that even there will *definitely* be some leaps of logic as to how electorates have changed - Reagen Jun 24, 07:14 1
        
        Also true. -- nm - JackDawson Jun 24, 07:18
        
        Oh, no doubt she ignored those swing states. That was a huge mistake. - Inigo Jun 24, 07:03 2
        
        Agree with most of the IM. - ty97 Jun 24, 07:11
        
        Arizona doesn't even feel like a stretch this time. -- nm - Reagen Jun 24, 07:04
Crews are removing the John C. Calhoun statue in Charleston. Good. -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 06:40 8
- I remember The Battery in Charleston having an engraving about Ft. Sumter that was annoyingly pro-Confederate. I don't remember the wording, though. - Inigo Jun 24, 06:46 2
  - I found this -- (link) - ty97 Jun 24, 06:56 [Image]
  - I know exactly what you're talking about. The group I travelled there with all had some major side-eye going on when we saw that trash. -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 06:49
- How will we ever know how much of a dick he was if he doesn't have a statue?! -- nm - Reagen Jun 24, 06:46
- Hope somebody is guarding the Lou Holtz statue. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 24, 06:45
- Now THAT guy needs to be CANCELLED -- nm - JackDawson Jun 24, 06:44 2
  - he was the effin worst. -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 06:47 1
    - Yale's going to have to cave this time -- nm - JackDawson Jun 24, 06:48

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