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Down to Earth with Zac Efron starts Friday on Netflix. It sounds *suspiciously* like Killing Zac Efron. - David Jul 6, 20:41
Trump Administration Considers Banning TikTok, Other Chinese Social Media Apps -- nm - Remlik Jul 6, 20:40
Erph. I made the mistake of checking a twitter trend and immediately saw a tweet that screamed for a reply, if only to prevent misinformation -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 20:35 1
- (This is probably going to end poorly for my notifications.) -- nm* - Beryllium Jul 6, 20:35
This is apparently a thing right now -- (link) - ty97 Jul 6, 20:20 8
- did the Robert Moses Cross-Bronx Memorial Parking Lot not make the cut? -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jul 6, 20:42 1
  - most of the folks responding seem to have never been above 96th street or East of Bushwick -- nm - ty97 Jul 6, 20:49
- I like Grand Army Plaza and the 86th st. station is far from the worst. -- nm - Marquis de Krusty Jul 6, 20:34 2
  - And who hates the aquarium? Fuck both of those people. -- nm - Marquis de Krusty Jul 6, 20:35 1
    - Someone said Bronx Zoo! And way too many of these people shop at the Columbus Circle Whole Foods -- nm - ty97 Jul 6, 20:47
- No Trump Towers? -- nm - David Jul 6, 20:27
- Uh. Bracket that! -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 20:21 1
  - PABT and Penn would be the final two -- nm - ty97 Jul 6, 20:49
Number of times Dano mentioned Imposters: Ten zillion. Number of times Dano mentioned that Eve from Lucifer was the female lead: ZERO. - David Jul 6, 20:03 5
- Link -- (link) - Dano Jul 6, 20:30 [Backboard] 4
  - I *knew* you would post this. That's just a picture! - David Jul 6, 20:33 3
    - She wasn’t Eve yet when I posted. I can’t help it if I’m a better judge of hot women than you! -- nm - Dano Jul 6, 20:36 2
      - You could have kept up for later when it became pertinent to the conversation! - David Jul 6, 20:39 1
        
        As soon as I read your post I was like I know I remember posting a photo of the hot lead actress to entice people. - Dano Jul 6, 20:43
Where's Marlowe? -- nm - ty97 Jul 6, 19:36 11
- my thought was Sao Paolo? -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 20:00
- In Brazil would be my guess. -- nm - Mop Jul 6, 19:54
- Probably chuckling in despair, because that's a thing that 2020 brought us. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 6, 19:42 8
  - I was going to let him report it -- nm - ty97 Jul 6, 19:42 7
    - He did, in his Brazilian Karen post down below. -- nm - Mop Jul 6, 19:55
    - Ah, sorry. (I think he did mention it in the past couple hours.) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 19:44
    - I mean - ty97 Jul 6, 19:43 4
      - I'll take the flip side. - JaxSean Jul 6, 19:47 3
        
        Right. If it takes one of these guys who are *willfully allowing people to die" on a ventilator to change the course of this, i will take that deal. -- nm - Andie Jul 7, 04:27
        
        this, yet Donny remains unscathed (I don't believe he had it and his hydroxy saved him, he's fat, old, out of shape, perfect victim) -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 6, 20:04 1
        
        Which is funny, considering "Perfect Victim" is how he's played his entire career. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 20:07
For my 2018 taxes, I owed New York $3. This is common, I normally owe them a tiny amount. I'm getting $827 back this year? -- nm - ty97 Jul 6, 19:09 7
- but what about Yonkers? -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 19:19 4
  - I did not work in Yonkers! -- nm - ty97 Jul 6, 19:43 2
    - of course you didn't, but you got the form. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 20:01 1
      - Hey TurboTax *waves arms around like a magician* do your thing! -- nm - ty97 Jul 6, 20:04
  - (This is an inside joke for anyone who pays income tax in NYC) -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 19:33
- You just won an AUDIT. Congrats -- nm - Epiphany Jul 6, 19:18 1
  - I dumped a couple of loser funds in 2019, I think that explains it -- nm - ty97 Jul 6, 19:37
many 10,000 year old flint artifacts/figures have been found in Jordan burials -- (link*) - Peglegpete Jul 6, 19:07
Just watched the first episode of “Don’t”. Which US State is closest to Africa? Spoilers. - Volnelk Jul 6, 19:06 29
- If you extend the western border of Russia straight down, you would eventually reach (among other countries) Namibia. The eastern border: the USA. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 20:24
- Halifax is closer to Brazil than it is to Vancouver. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 20:18 2
  - Temperature-wise, as well. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 20:20 1
    - (Well, maybe in June-July-August. Not so much dec-feb.) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 20:20
- Brooklyn Borough Hall is further West than the United Nations -- nm - ty97 Jul 6, 19:42
- the earth throws a mean curve ball -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 6, 19:29 1
  - That deaf dumb and blind kid. -- nm* - loosilu Jul 6, 19:30
- my geography fun fact of the day: Anchorage is closer to Australia than LA. -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 19:26 15
  - The southernmost point in canada is further south than the northernmost point in california. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jul 6, 20:02 4
    - more than half the US states have land above the southernmost point of Canada. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 20:06
    - shut up. prove it. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 20:05 2
      - California's northern border is the 42nd Parallel -- (link) - znufrii, silly old man Jul 6, 20:08 1
        
        Windsor being south of Detroit threw me for a loop when I learned it. -- (edited) - ty97 Jul 6, 20:10
  - I can’t figure how that works. Anchorage is less than 4000km from LA. It’s about 10000km from Cape York. - Roger More Jul 6, 20:01 7
    - Anchorage to Australia < LA to Australia. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 20:06 2
      - yeah, I worded that poorly. distance from Anchorage to Australia is less than the distance from the continental US to Australia. -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 20:21
      - Oh, now that I look even closer... -- nm - Roger More Jul 6, 20:08
    - only slightly tangential. Michelle Shocked, who i fucking loved in the 90s, started attacking me on twitter maybe 5 years ago. - loosilu Jul 6, 20:05 3
      - This seems a little more than “slightly” -- nm - Roger More Jul 6, 20:06 2
        
        I don't have any words to describe how it felt. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 20:22 1
        
        I'm just a little unclear on how it pertains to geography. Did I miss a pun? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 20:30
  - another one: Atlanta is closer to Chicago than Miami. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 19:34
  - You are a witch and you live upside down -- nm - con_carne Jul 6, 19:28
- without looking, my guess is spoilers - loosilu Jul 6, 19:20 1
  - it turns out I was right, I guessed it because spoilers - loosilu Jul 6, 19:21
- My guess was going to be (spoilers) -- (edited) - ty97 Jul 6, 19:15
- if you draw a straight line - Reagen Jul 6, 19:07 2
  - You think you're so smaht about geography. -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 19:22
  - yeah but still -- nm - ty97 Jul 6, 19:16
Tonight’s activity: Putting together a new cat tree. -- nm - Dano Jul 6, 18:57
Attempted Lynching by Neo- Nazi's at Lake Monore, basically Bloomington Indiana's back yard. -- (link*) - Remlik Jul 6, 18:53 2
- Really hard to tell what’s happening in that video clip, but here’s a link where the victim recounts everything. -- (link) - Mop Jul 6, 19:17
- protesters at Monroe County Courthouse tonight, was breaking up and someone drove through the crowd at high speed. -- (link*) - Remlik Jul 6, 19:01
Some ACNH content -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 6, 18:36
"Even Susan B Anthony could not escape the pervasive sense of impotence." - documentary I'm watching about women's suffrage -- nm* - Max Jul 6, 18:31 1
- sidenote: The production value of historical documentaries cracks be up sometimes. I nearly watched one where it was a dude and overhead projector -- nm - budice Jul 6, 18:35
lyc: There's a long-standing GameStop here that shutdown overnight. Remember it being here the year I moved to the OC (2000). -- nm - budice Jul 6, 18:28
Hamilton spoils - Will Hunting Jul 6, 18:20 5
- Yes, I've thought about it so much over the past couple of days. - David Jul 6, 18:35 4
  - And it very easily could have (spoils) - Will Hunting Jul 6, 18:39 3
    - Spoilers - David Jul 6, 18:48
    - My Shot still has it beat. -- nm - mud Jul 6, 18:43 1
      - I'm feeling we don't have consensus here -- nm - mud Jul 6, 20:07
backboarding: Japadog (Japanese-influenced hot dogs) exists because Vancouver wouldn't licence any food carts/trucks except for hot dogs until ~2012. - mafic Jul 6, 18:19 6
- I’ve been to Japadog. Photo inside for the curious - Roger More Jul 6, 18:34 [Attachment] 3
  - Nothing about that is a hotdog. -- nm - David Jul 6, 18:48 2
    - it's Japanese street food with a hot dog attached. -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 19:57
    - Indeed. However, context suggests it is in fact a japadog. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 18:53
- and they've owned that spot on Burrard at Smithe for YEARS -- nm - mud Jul 6, 18:25 1
  - yeah, they started when I was still working in downtown Vancouver, so like 2005-2006? -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 18:35
Top 5 cases: 1)USA 2)Brazil 3)India 4)Russia 5)USA (July only) -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 18:11 5
- I wonder what the actual numbers would be if every country could magically get a true count. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 6, 18:23
- I did not have "number 1 AND number 5" on the bingo card -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 18:17 2
  - Peru really snuck up on everyone. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 18:19 1
    - They learn secret Peruvian ninja and fluting skills in their ... jungle of darkness? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 18:29
- dammit -- nm - prayformojo Jul 6, 18:14
Brazilian Karen story. - Marlowe Jul 6, 18:03 10
- Bozonaro has appeared sick for weeks. How is he only now testing positive? -- nm - Mop Jul 6, 18:06 2
  - He developed symptons over the weekend. He has a naturally pasty complexion, I guess. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 6, 18:07 1
    - Just referring to this cabinet meeting from back in March. -- (link) - Mop Jul 6, 18:50
- (Eh, my joke was in exceptionally poor taste. Deleting.) -- nm* - Beryllium Jul 6, 18:05 6
  - Now I am curious. -- nm - Marlowe Jul 6, 18:10 5
    - It was about waxing. (And I'm over my waxing joke quota for today) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 18:11 1
      - You were over with the FIRST one -- nm - Epiphany Jul 6, 19:19
    - It was easily the worst thing I've ever read on ST! -- nm - Spawn Jul 6, 18:11 2
      - My eyes roll to this as if the sun itself rises and sets. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 18:12 1
        
        You sir, have I offended my delicate sensibilities. I say to you, good day. - Spawn Jul 6, 18:18
Poll! This is my favorite Scandanavian Herding Call. What's yours? (if narrowing down is too hard, post your top 5) -- (link) - prayformojo Jul 6, 17:59 1
- "Kissa, kissa, kissa" -- nm - . Jul 6, 20:48
New York hospitals released more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes at the pandemic's height. -- (link) - Marquis de spamulette Jul 6, 17:48
The DS9 radio show on B2 is fun. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 17:47
Well it was all worth it then. -- (link) - Marquis de spamulette Jul 6, 17:42 4
- What revenue stream did they lose because of the pandemic? -- nm - Mop Jul 6, 18:07 1
  - Can’t hook up if you can’t leave the house. -- nm - Marquis de spamulette Jul 6, 18:51
- "We could have saved 70, but honestly this was better" -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 18:01 1
  - Okay, you're forgiven for the Moana post...but not the other one. -- nm - David Jul 6, 18:04
I'm wondering what would it be like for other single elimination tournaments if they were like the TBT and losers had to immediately leave - JD Jul 6, 17:29 1
- "ohhh, and that's all for the Astros! Back to the plague zone for them." -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 17:49
Mojo cat, who for all his 7 years has refused people food, has discovered melted mozzarella?!? Fights me for my grilled cheese sandwich :) -- nm - Meg Jul 6, 17:28 2
- Did you say "Noo, kitteh, it's mah grilled cheese! Bad kitteh!" -- nm - Baron Burr Jul 6, 17:35 1
  - I shared, of course :-) - Meg Jul 6, 17:39
I've always resented the fact that, in Los Angeles, the nearest White Castle is in freaking Vegas. -- nm - Mr. Havens Jul 6, 17:25 5
- grocery stores have carried their burgers for over a decade. look in the frozen foods. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 6, 18:20 1
  - I've sold them at my theatre. Warmed up from frozen. It ain't the same. -- nm - Mr. Havens Jul 6, 19:35
- I've seen that White Castle! I did not try it. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 18:03 1
  - Good. That might not have stayed in Vegas. -- nm - Spawn Jul 6, 18:07
- That is what I would call a safe distance. -- nm - Spawn Jul 6, 18:00
I'm waiting for confirmation from the Academy, but that Hamilton "rule" posted on B2 only applies to the Best Documentary category. - Mr. Havens Jul 6, 17:24 6
- I don't expect the question to get (accurately) answered until later in the year. -- nm - David Jul 6, 17:47 2
  - I've already gotten an answer from the Academy. I've asked a secondary question. Don't expect an answer until tomorrow. -- nm - Mr. Havens Jul 6, 19:35 1
    - Several people have. That doesn't mean it's the right one. - David Jul 6, 19:48
- This is one of those "It's so obvious we don't need to wait for confirmation." -- nm - MDH Jul 6, 17:40 1
  - Well, it does, because Disney could claim it to be a dramatic narrative when it files the Oscar Submission Form - Mr. Havens Jul 6, 19:34
- thx -- nm - mud Jul 6, 17:25
i've always resented the fact that the nearest Sonic is 25 miles away -- nm - prayformojo Jul 6, 17:21 13
- We actually have one that opened not too far from us a few years ago. I've never been. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jul 6, 18:16 1
  - Decent food, great drinks. I’m usually a grilled cheese and tots guy but their hamburgers aren’t bad either for fast food. -- nm - Marquis de spamulette Jul 6, 19:03
- I see their commercials constantly but I've never seen an actual Sonic store. I guess they're in NJ which is why I see their commercials so much -- nm - Marquis de Krusty Jul 6, 18:13
- Order before you go and you might actually get it when you arrive. - Qale Jul 6, 17:52 3
  - So it’s not just ours? They’re terrible. - Marquis de spamulette Jul 6, 17:54 1
    - It has been years since I’ve gone, but there was one next to my Pizza Hut. -- nm - Qale Jul 6, 17:58
  - Drive by the one here tonight to pick up dinner. At least 8 cars in the drive thru. -- nm - Tim Jul 6, 17:53
- that close? where is it? -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 17:26 3
  - Manasas -- nm - prayformojo Jul 6, 17:29 2
    - oh wow. I had no idea. Thanks! -- nm - loosilu Jul 6, 17:30
    - I've been to one in Fredericksburg a few times, I always thought that was the closest. - Max Jul 6, 17:30
- HA HA! My closest one is only 18 miles away. Suck it! -- nm - Mr. Havens Jul 6, 17:24
- You've eaten at one, right? - Cuzzin Todd Jul 6, 17:23
So wait. Is that right? Kayne West received $2.5m in PPP stimulus money? - Jovian Jul 6, 17:17 6
- Of course. And it had Trump's name right there on it. -- nm - Spawn Jul 6, 18:02
- Moscow Mitch and his wife received $30 Mill -- nm - Remlik Jul 6, 17:39 2
  - The WaPo says less than $1m. Where are you seeing that number? -- (edited) - Marquis de spamulette Jul 6, 19:18
  - #giveitback -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jul 6, 17:58
- Jesus walks and money talks. -- nm - Baron Burr Jul 6, 17:21
- man what a doopy first -- nm - Jovian Jul 6, 17:17

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