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I thought I could take a walk since the temp is 83 and feels like is only 92. Trololol. -- nm - Qale Jul 21, 12:53 1
- Heh. You knew better -- nm - Epiphany -As Above, so it is below Jul 21, 13:01
The major hospital chain where my parents live - ty97 Jul 21, 12:48 3
- Ugh stay healthy Mom & Dad 97! -- nm - Epiphany -As Above, so it is below Jul 21, 12:59
- Fun. My sister and her family live there also. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 12:54
- dammit -- nm - prayformojo Jul 21, 12:52
IL: 995 new cases on 29,745 tests (3.35%) with 23 deaths. Rolling 7 day positivity is 3.1%. One downstate region hit 7% positivity and moved back to - oblique Jul 21, 12:44
LIR: B2: What do you guys think of this? - oblique Jul 21, 12:32 5
- i'd put the last bit first: you're losing productivity due to this policy. that's the eye grabber and i think the rest is just good background and - colin Jul 21, 12:44
- Just a suggestion - Strongbad Jul 21, 12:39 3
  - maybe "employee morale and retention"? -- nm - JaxSean Jul 21, 12:48 1
    - Sure, that works too. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 12:49
  - Well said. -- nm - Spawn Jul 21, 12:40
Huh. There was a 2014 film starring The Rock that made $244M in the box office... that I've never even heard of before today. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 12:24 18
- It's pretty bad. -- nm - Shaun Jul 21, 12:54 1
  - Not as bad as the other Hercules movie that came out that year -- nm - decline Jul 21, 13:01
- Hercules? it's on tnt. -- nm - Remlik Jul 21, 12:50 2
  - Yes. That's what made me research, I didn't remember anything about this movie. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 12:51 1
    - "Ian McShane is hot right now, let's get him." "For what role?" "Playing the Ian McShane role, of course." -- nm - Max Jul 21, 14:02
- Looking at his list I've seen all his performances except Longshot, You Again, Empire State, and Jem and the Holograms. -- nm - Max Jul 21, 12:30
- It was a 100% generic unnecessary movie that had no business making a quarter-billion dollars. It’s also a movie - Will Hunting Jul 21, 12:30
- Me either. Trivia: "Dwayne Johnson (Hercules) wore a false beard in this movie, made of yak testicle hair." -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 12:28
- TIL: San Andreas 2 is in production. -- nm - Mop Jul 21, 12:28 9
  - Kylie Minogue is in the first first, although her role should have been larger -- nm - MDH Jul 21, 12:42 3
    - Who? -- nm - decline Jul 21, 12:42 2
      - Some singer. I hear she's gaymous. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 21, 12:49 1
        
        Oh! Was she an extra in the movie or something? -- nm - decline Jul 21, 12:52
  - You'd think after what happened in San Andreas people would have moved from that area -- nm - decline Jul 21, 12:36 3
    - "My Dutch Boy satellites will prevent the next earthquake." -- nm - Geostorm 2 / San Andreas 2 crossover Jul 21, 12:39 2
      - GEOSTORMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 21, 12:43 1
        
        👍👍 -- nm - JD Jul 21, 12:44
  - Oops, sorry. It's been "announced". -- nm - Mop Jul 21, 12:28
i found a donut place about 15 minutes away that makes kolaches. this is a game changer. -- nm - colin Jul 21, 12:24 4
- More TIL. Fruit is the original from spending seconds looking it up - JD Jul 21, 12:34
- This Texas girl wants to know.... the fruit filled kind or sausage and cheese kind? -- nm - Epiphany -As Above, so it is below Jul 21, 12:29 2
  - sausage and cheese. they also have a pizza one that isn't really canon, but i'll get them at some point. -- nm - colin Jul 21, 12:32 1
    - Nioce. Eh...pizza with the sort of sweetness of the dough of the kloache? You let me know -- nm - Epiphany -As Above, so it is below Jul 21, 12:53
EE Football team -- nm - Beaker Jul 21, 12:24 3
- Electrical engineers can't play football. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 21, 12:26
- a step in the right direction *sad trombone* -- nm - the ice Jul 21, 12:26 1
  - At least they're being proactive in distancing from the previous name. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 12:29
Cool. I get to work on a Covid study using our hospital data. Who wants to touch me? - Blue Punch Baron Jul 21, 12:21 6
- we're just gonna be over here waiting patinetly, bro -- nm - HIPPA/FERPA Cops Jul 21, 12:44
- Making charts or just interacting with patients? -- nm - the ice Jul 21, 12:24 4
  - I'm on the data analysis side. No patient contact for me. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 21, 12:31 2
    - Which software tools will you be using? -- nm - Max Jul 21, 12:32 1
      - We're a SAS shop. Not sure what they're using for data collection (Redcap?) but it will be converted for me. - Blue Punch Baron Jul 21, 12:37
  - Yeahhhhh....we need to know this FIRST -- nm - Epiphany -As Above, so it is below Jul 21, 12:30
Thanks to the FilmJerk podcast: TIL Kelly Preston was in Metalstorm - JD Jul 21, 12:21 4
- That wasn’t a Rainier Wolfcastle film? -- nm - spamlet Jul 21, 12:24 3
  - Soooooo..that's another TIL - JD Jul 21, 12:31 2
    - Wait, they let you be a Prophet? I thought that was prerequisite. -- nm - spamlet Jul 21, 12:35 1
      - *laughing* They let me join their mailing list and in what must be a desperate for content move, they let me originate a column - JD Jul 21, 12:38
2 Judges have now recused themselves from the Atlanta-Georgia lawsuit -- (link) - Strongbad Jul 21, 12:16 3
- The judge discussed a prior opinion with an appellate court judge that could have bearing on the lawsuit, and soon after disclosing recused herself. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 12:18 2
  - How do reassignments work, random? In order? B/c the next one assigned was like "hey I worked for Kemp and he might assign me to a state role" -- nm - ty97 Jul 21, 12:23 1
    - I assume it's some kind of list they go down? (I have no idea) -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 12:25
Apparently Trump gets tested multiple times a day for Covid. So he's definitely nearing the "urine in bottles" stage of paranoia. -- (link) - TWuG Jul 21, 12:14 7
- But.. but.. If he doesn't get tested, he won't have it.. Stop testing, Orange President. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 21, 12:41
- "And I always pick the elephant!" -- nm - David Jul 21, 12:32
- eh, Secret Service should be insisting on this whether it was Obama, Trump, or Biden. -- nm - Max Jul 21, 12:16 4
  - Multiple times a day is completely unnecessary. Once a day and monitor for symptoms. -- nm - TWuG Jul 21, 12:21 2
    - Maybe there's a temperature, blood, and visual portion of the test. "Is that COVID19?" "No, that's an elephant." "Good job, Mr. President." -- nm - Max Jul 21, 12:23 1
      - That test was so hard. They told me no one else could pass that test. -- nm - spamlet Jul 21, 12:27
  - Plus, lots more negatives for the % numbers! -- nm - Spawn Jul 21, 12:19
Naked protester in Portland last night. -- (link) - Mop Jul 21, 12:05 22
- and full 70's bush to boot! -- nm - groiny Jul 21, 12:44 2
  - always trust the naked ladies to bring groiny to the yard - oblique Jul 21, 12:45 1
    - to be fair, I was on B2 as well -- nm - groiny Jul 21, 12:45
- Wait. The shielding guy kinda materializes there, all of a sudden. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 21, 12:42 1
  - OK, I see him walking. Very sneaky. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 21, 12:44
- I'm curious about the bright light from the line of feds. Was it a flashlight or a camera flash? -- nm - Mop Jul 21, 12:26
- ~ ass up please don't shoot me ~ -- nm - Lullaby Nudist Jul 21, 12:19
- I always wonder a few things here. At what point did they disrobe? And where are their clothes now? And what happens after they walk away? -- nm - Spawn Jul 21, 12:16 4
  - [gets idea, begins stripping] , friend (or nearest stranger): "whoa! what the fuck" , stripper [finishes]: "here, hold these" , "dude!" -- nm - mud Jul 21, 12:22
  - this reads like someone who has never been naked in their life.. -- nm - colin Jul 21, 12:21 2
    - I have ran naked down the middle of a highway, thank you very much. -- nm - Spawn Jul 21, 12:39
    - no. Spawn's a total slut. It is known. -- nm - mud Jul 21, 12:24
- Not just some Portland stripper, either. Note the lack of tattoos. - Mop Jul 21, 12:13 1
  - Definitely a higher quality than you typically see in a naked protestor. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 21, 12:24
- She perfected the Westworld naked android walk. -- nm - Inigo Jul 21, 12:11 1
  - Halle Berry cat walk -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 21, 13:10
- she wasn't naked! she had a hat and mask on! -- nm - decline Jul 21, 12:10 1
  - If she was truly brave she would have not hidden like that! -- nm - Spawn Jul 21, 12:12
- love how that guy is trying to shield her from the rubber/pepper bullets and she's having none of it -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 21, 12:09
- WTF is groiny!?! -- nm - Spawn Jul 21, 12:07 2
  - Mop is the new groiny -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 12:08 1
    - Nah, a little too ambiguous. - Spawn Jul 21, 12:11
Actual wiccan/pagan old school practitioners are horrified by what these 'fluffy bunny' tiktok witches are doing, opening mummy crypt lvl in 2020??? -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 21, 12:03
SpaceX successfully recovered both fairing halves from yesterday's launch. Videos at the link - TWuG Jul 21, 11:55 1
- Woot! There's a milestone - JD Jul 21, 12:02
Trump signs order targeting undocumented immigrants in the US census -- (link) - oblique Jul 21, 11:47 13
- Can someone explain their point on this? Is it just deflection? - decline Jul 21, 11:53 12
  - It's unconstitutional only if the Supreme Court says so, and they're eyeing flipping a seat when RBG leaves. -- nm - Max Jul 21, 12:07
  - They're collecting other info (driver's license data) from the states to help them do it. It may backfire, though -- (edited) - TWuG Jul 21, 11:57 2
    - Only count 3/5 of every one! -- nm - Mop Jul 21, 12:07 1
      - It's a bit of a change for the racists, as they wanted to count enslaved people fully, but the northern colonies balked, didnt - TWuG Jul 21, 12:11
  - Undocumented immigrants tend to cluster in cities. If you don’t count them more representation goes to rural areas. -- nm - spamlet Jul 21, 11:54 6
    - but how do you not count them ? the census doesn't differentiate them in any way, right? -- nm - decline Jul 21, 11:55 5
      - They're trying to discourage undocumented people from filling out the census. Scare tactic. -- nm - Inigo Jul 21, 12:06 1
        
        *ding* -- nm - Spawn Jul 21, 12:07
      - You asked why not whether it was legal. - spamlet Jul 21, 11:58
      - Partly, this announcement is also aimed at putting fear of the census into certain communities which will lead to undercounts -- nm - TWuG Jul 21, 11:58 1
        
        ^ This -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 12:00
  - By the power of Barr! -- nm - Spawn Jul 21, 11:53
West 72nd Street One-Bedroom With Nine-Foot Ceilings Wants $575K -- (link) - ty97 Jul 21, 11:46 11
- mortgage plus coop fees? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 21, 12:05 2
  - Yes. Like people in houses pay mortgage plus maintenance, bills, etc etc. -- nm - Andie Jul 21, 12:08 1
    - yes but, condo, coop fees can be thousands -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 21, 13:12
- Call me crazy, but that ain't bad at all. -- nm - MDH Jul 21, 12:01
- that doesn't seem crazy to me. -- nm - Andie Jul 21, 11:55
- am I missing the total sq ft? - JaxSean Jul 21, 11:49 5
  - 150 sqft -- nm - prayformojo Jul 21, 11:55
  - I don't think they said, think of it as a math project and calculate! -- nm - ty97 Jul 21, 11:52 3
    - So ~400 sq ft based on the photos. $1,437 per sq foot -- nm - JaxSean Jul 21, 11:55 2
      - maybe a hint bigger. -- nm - Andie Jul 21, 11:57
      - (double posted) -- nm* - Andie Jul 21, 11:57
B2, I would detail in a presentation to the boss the structure employee x must follow in order to ensure productivity is at least maintained by wfh. - Loyola Jul 21, 11:39 1
- Here's a template that I used for my 2 people moving to permanent WFH (they both moved to other cities in the midst of this). - Judge Bane Jul 21, 11:43
CFL: Edmonton Eskimos say they will make a major announcement at 3:15 this afternoon. -- (link) - the ice Jul 21, 11:38 20
- Edmonton Big Malls -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 12:47
- Canada FC -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 12:46
- Edmonton Blueskins -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 12:45
- Edmonton CFL Football Club -- nm - Dano Jul 21, 12:42
- Edmonton Oilers -- nm - Mop Jul 21, 12:28
- Edmonton Why Do People Live Here? -- nm - spamlet Jul 21, 12:28 2
  - For access to the West Edmonton Mall of course. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 21, 12:32 1
    - GO MAULERS! -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 13:12
- Edmonton Eleemosynaries. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 21, 12:23
- Edmonton Football Team! -- nm - Shaun Jul 21, 12:10
- Edmonton Seal Clubbers -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 21, 12:06
- Edmonton Pysankas. -- nm - Reagen Jul 21, 12:03
- Edmonton Politeness -- nm - David Jul 21, 11:56
- Edmonton Calgarians -- nm - prayformojo Jul 21, 11:51
- Edmonton Maulers! -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 11:47
- Edmonton Redskins -- nm - Spawn Jul 21, 11:46
- Eagles! -- nm - mud Jul 21, 11:44
- Edmonton Warriors? -- nm - ty97 Jul 21, 11:43
- Edmonton Poutines -- nm - decline Jul 21, 11:43
- Edmonton Inuit? -- nm - VMan Jul 21, 11:40
I'd like to argue that it's the Trumpets & Freedom Caucus that are the RINOs but too many folks believe they're all a .. - mud Jul 21, 11:38 2
- I'd like to argue the same. - ReluctantCynic Jul 21, 11:43 1
  - If it wasn’t Newt, it would have been someone else. - Will Hunting Jul 21, 11:53
Jacksonville's sheriff says he doesn't see how he can safely provide security for the RNC -- (link) - Reagen Jul 21, 11:34 1
- DHS stormtroopers to the rescue!! -- nm - decline Jul 21, 11:35
This is fascinating: "100 Movies That Saved Cable" the most played movies on Cable TV for the past year -- (link) - MDH Jul 21, 11:34 5
- 15/100 -- nm - Max Jul 21, 12:11
- I would’ve guessed that Shawshank’s number was at least 5 times that. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 21, 11:58 1
  - I can not remember the last time I saw it playing. - Spawn Jul 21, 12:04
- heh. I watched Roadhouse the other night -- nm - decline Jul 21, 11:35 1
  - 50 Spawn Points -- nm - Spawn Jul 21, 11:52
oblique, I left you something on B2. - ReluctantCynic Jul 21, 11:32 1
- gracias -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 11:37
Walmart stores will close on Thanksgiving Day this year -- (link) - oblique Jul 21, 11:32 1
- ::rubs hands together:: -- nm - Amazon Jul 21, 11:42
Next on stage tonight: Theodosia and the TikTok Witches! -- nm - David Jul 21, 11:28 2
- The CW would like a word. -- nm - Reagen Jul 21, 11:30 1
  - Good news: I sell out cheap! -- nm - David Jul 21, 11:43

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