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"I never heard this song before. Have you heard this song before?" -- (link) - znufrii, 2020 apocalypse bingo player Jul 22, 08:17 [youtube] 1
- ~Is lump fast asleep or rockin' out with the band?~ - Spawn Jul 22, 08:18
I've seen plenty of airplane graveyard videos and abandoned building videos. Here's an abandoned airport with abandoned airplanes. -- (link) - Mop Jul 22, 08:16 [youtube] 1
- Wow. If I grew up there I could have had a *lot* of fun. -- nm - Spawn Jul 22, 08:17
America -- (link) - ty97 Jul 22, 08:11 2
- Yup, had a 3-4 hour hospital visit a few years back. $9,000 bill. Basically given an IV for dehydration and sent home -- nm - the ice Jul 22, 08:14
- Even with the -$21,417.25 that is ridiculous. -- nm - Spawn Jul 22, 08:13
Kim K statement on Kanye gets two thumbs up from me -- (link) - ty97 Jul 22, 08:02 6
- I feel for her and agree with her, to a point. - Spawn Jul 22, 08:12 1
  - as with many celebs, it's possible that he has some enablers that do not have his best interest in mind. she can only do so much. -- nm - colin Jul 22, 08:18
- so. very. true. -- nm - Diva Jul 22, 08:08
- yup. -- nm - znufrii, 2020 apocalypse bingo player Jul 22, 08:06
- that's well said -- nm - prayformojo Jul 22, 08:06
- cool -- nm* - the ice Jul 22, 08:04
Yo 97 - convince me that I need to spend $14.99 for Go Fest this weekend. Ready? nm - Daniel Prime Jul 22, 07:59 2
- I'd totally do it if we weren't driving. - spamlet Jul 22, 08:20
- 20 hours of gameplay, increased shiny rates, unown, some rare pokemon, regional(s), early access to victini, all the cool kids are doing it. - ty97 Jul 22, 08:06
regarding Egyptology -- (pic) - prayformojo Jul 22, 07:59 [Attachment] 1
- Hee!! -- nm - Meg Jul 22, 08:45
(this is about coffee) I wonder if Bon Appetit's work from home series was it's downfall. -- (edited) - Mop Jul 22, 07:53 9
- i like that you signed your letter to the editor.. noticed some of the same (more inside) - colin Jul 22, 08:04
- Nobody cuts theirs diagonally? -- nm - znufrii, 2020 apocalypse bingo player Jul 22, 08:00 2
  - Diagonal or it goes in the trash -- nm - Krusty Jul 22, 08:02
  - Some of them definitely did, and gave a nod to the internet debate on the matter. Others were clearly dismissive. -- nm - Mop Jul 22, 08:01
- anyone who cuts theirs sandwiches horizontally is a monster -- nm - decline Jul 22, 07:54 4
  - Nah, grilled cheese should be cut horizontally. -- nm - Todd Manning Jul 22, 07:58 2
    - You monster! -- nm - Krusty Jul 22, 08:18
    - You are a horrible person. -- nm - Spawn Jul 22, 08:16
  - word -- nm - Spawn Jul 22, 07:55
Looks like we have our first Covid positive family member. Cousin was having a bit of a cough... - Daniel Prime Jul 22, 07:46 6
- Yeah, have a Cousin and his family with it too. Went to relo their kid for college in Jax, FL -- nm - the ice Jul 22, 07:48
- Okay everyone, time to put Jim into quarantine. -- nm - Spawn Jul 22, 07:47 4
  - I think I'm safe...haven't seen this cousin in a couple years. He's in Kentucky, I think. He's closer to my mom anyway...but we're safe...for now. n -- nm - Daniel Prime Jul 22, 07:58 3
    - A likely story. -- nm - Spawn Jul 22, 07:59 2
      - It could get closer to us here soon though...as I have a small announcement in a little bit. -- nm - Daniel Prime Jul 22, 08:00 1
        
        ... Covid baby!?! -- nm - Spawn Jul 22, 08:03
Did Trump comment on Ghislaine Maxwell? -- nm - Spawn Jul 22, 07:45 8
- not yet today! but Geraldo did! -- (link) - mud Jul 22, 07:52 7
  - I don't know anything about the case against her, but the argument 'charges are for crimes from a long time ago' is kinda ridiculous -- nm* - ty97 Jul 22, 07:57 3
    - Like, if it was 25 years ago, then the alleged crime no longer happened? Where's the logic here? -- nm - ty97 Jul 22, 07:58 1
      - you never hear of the Statue of Limitators? -- nm - mud soprano Jul 22, 08:00
    - Trump talked about grabbing women a *long* time ago, ty. -- nm - Spawn Jul 22, 07:58
  - If you ask me, we should burn her client list and not listen if she says anything. -- nm - Geraldo Rivera s.i. Jul 22, 07:55
  - Woke Geraldo! - Spawn Jul 22, 07:54
  - Geraldo.. no. -- nm - colin Jul 22, 07:53
"let them fight" -- (link) - mud Jul 22, 07:39 2
- You’d think a principled idiot like Rand would be the one not being a Trump bootlicker while Cheney would be party party party but here we are. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 22, 07:40 1
  - agreed -- nm - mud Jul 22, 07:42
Has anyone started to see 'Covid Fees' on their bills? -- (link) - decline Jul 22, 07:22 18
- Costs are up for ingredients. Better than permanent price increases. -- nm - Todd Manning Jul 22, 08:03
- Oh fuck that. -- nm - Mop Jul 22, 07:54
- California has "CA Surcharge" due to doing business in california (higher min wage, etc) -- nm - the ice Jul 22, 07:34
- wtf ..that doesn't even make any sense -- nm - mud Jul 22, 07:29 6
  - The other one I'm seeing people blowing up about is places rounding up the bills for people paying cash to avoid giving coins. Typically it is then - oblique Jul 22, 07:48 5
    - Or, pay with a freaking card like a civilized country. -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 07:51 3
      - [the government conspiracy of a cashless society has entered the chat] -- nm - oblique Jul 22, 08:01
      - I suspect the majority that do not can not *get* a credit card. - Spawn Jul 22, 07:56 1
        
        Debit card, you heathen. (But yes, even then it leaves out the unbanked) -- nm - Roger More Jul 22, 08:50
    - Yes, I rounded your $11.23 bill to $20. I am *helping* you. -- nm - Spawn the cashier Jul 22, 07:50
- (are twitter embed's broken for anybody else? stopped working for me this morning it seems) -- nm - decline Jul 22, 07:24 5
  - Hmm. On my new tablet it was doing that but I figured it was the device. -- nm - Spawn Jul 22, 08:15
  - It was broken for a while but something fixed it. -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 07:44
  - Only on my, like original I think, old iPad. -- nm - VMan Jul 22, 07:34
  - Nope, fine for me. -- nm - mafic Jul 22, 07:28 1
    - huh. weird. it's broken on slickertalk but not on slackertalk - decline Jul 22, 07:39
- I've definitely heard of it for dentists -- nm - ty97 Jul 22, 07:23 1
  - My dentist was trying to charge a $10 PPE fee. Being a state employee we were told they shouldn't do that for us based on our In Network agreement - sycor Jul 22, 07:32
[gag] -- (link) - mud Jul 22, 07:19 4
- So he's admitting now that he said the thing he previously denied saying? -- nm - Mop Jul 22, 07:58
- Also, did he fire his staffers that lied yesterday? (NM) - Marlowe Jul 22, 07:30
- What about her passion, her God and her country, which are the same? I'm assuming that the families are indeed different. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 22, 07:25 1
  - "I'm sorry I called you a fucking bitch but I love my country ..bitch" -- nm - mud Jul 22, 07:28
Want a 3" Android phone? Now you can have one! -- (link) - spamlet Jul 22, 06:53 2
- but are those Trump hands, or like Shaq hands? -- nm - mafic Jul 22, 06:59
- What is this, a phone for ants? -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 06:55
we've had our heat pumps for about a year now. For winter it has cut our energy usage by about a third. - Beaker Jul 22, 06:47 5
- My new place has a heat pump. I've only been here a couple of months but compared to last year my bills are indeed lower. -- nm - Mop Jul 22, 08:00
- I don't even keep track anymore. The heat is a lot better than baseboards, but the Dry setting is the killer feature. We almost never use Cool. -- nm - Shaun Jul 22, 06:51
- the flip around to AC is nice for the 6 days a year that's needed here. -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 06:49 2
  - here they call that "reverse cycle A/C". I find the distinction amusing. -- nm - mafic Jul 22, 06:57 1
    - Heating up the outside! - Reagen Jul 22, 07:41
So - just wondering - anyone know why curfews haven't been tried for helping the violence that seems to crop up at night? I know it's extreme - but - JenBro Jul 22, 06:40 12
- The Mayor of Portland imposed curfews for about a week back in late June. The only real effect was ... - ReluctantCynic Jul 22, 08:16
- I think they tend to backfire, particularly as they enforce racist policy. -- nm - Judge Bane Jul 22, 06:47 1
  - It was a mixed bag here. The curfew lead to a lot of confrontations that I'm not sure would have happened if they weren't trying to enforce - Krusty Jul 22, 06:53
- Honestly, the curfews seemed to be used as a tool to promote altercations with the police, not curb them -- nm - oblique Jul 22, 06:43 1
  - this right here. Richmond used it as an excuse to deploy tear gas on large crowds doing nothing. once that happened, even after curfew ended, they - colin Jul 22, 08:09
- they have been, but what're you gonna do, arrest 20,000 people? - mafic Jul 22, 06:42 2
  - Why arrest 20,000 when it's more fun to club and kidnap 50? -- nm - ty97 Jul 22, 06:45 1
    - Executive level thinking. -- nm - VMan Jul 22, 07:01
- They were tried early on. It didn't really work -- nm - ty97 Jul 22, 06:41 3
  - ah ... ok - thanks! -- nm - JenBro Jul 22, 06:53
  - plus I don't think the police would listen when they're told to go home at 11. -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 06:42 1
    - Feds out by 11! -- nm - Spawn Jul 22, 07:57
We're getting the tracks for solar panels laid down today - guy goes up on the roof and says, oh, there's a problem, you need a new roof first - Reagen Jul 22, 06:30 26
- does NSP have a rebate program for that? -- nm - Beaker Jul 22, 07:49 2
  - Not the power company but the province, yes. -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 07:50 1
    - cool. -- nm - Beaker Jul 22, 07:52
- My parents finally got their new roof last week like how many years after Irma damaged it? - ty97 Jul 22, 06:53
- I'm super-tempted to do this even though we are probably moving from our house in 2 years. From what I gather, we would just pass the "payment" on to - oblique Jul 22, 06:51 8
  - It's on our 10-year list, though I'd probably prefer to buy them upfront rather than some sort of lease arrangement. -- nm - znufrii, 2020 apocalypse bingo player Jul 22, 07:41
  - You need to look at the contract VERY CAREFULLY. A lot of them have gotchas in them that could require you to pay them to dissemble if sold. -- nm - spamlet Jul 22, 06:54 6
    - interesting. here the hardware and warranty transfer with the house, by law. -- nm - mafic Jul 22, 07:01 5
      - For a real answer, are the panels typically owned there? Here they are leased with "nothing up front". - spamlet Jul 22, 07:17 2
        
        Yeah, this is straight up purchasing them - Reagen Jul 22, 07:40
        
        Yeah. Used to be “install and get massive 10-year feed-in subsidy.” Now is “install and get instant 35% rebate.” Fully owned in both cases. -- nm - mafic Jul 22, 07:23
      - Must be nice to live in a country whose government is functional. -- nm - spamlet Jul 22, 07:16
      - (and the warranty is usually 25 years for panels, 15+ for inverters) -- nm - mafic Jul 22, 07:02
- sounds like agovernment job -- nm - prayformojo Jul 22, 06:48
- So put the solar on that half of the roof. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 22, 06:36 1
  - Luckily it is the right side. -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 06:37
- incidentally I got a Huawei inverter which appears to have died after three months (though could easily be an installation issue). - mafic Jul 22, 06:36
- "miscommunication, two crews! we'll come back and fix it." -- nm - mafic Jul 22, 06:34
- Did you pay for the whole roof? - sycor Jul 22, 06:33 1
  - The replacement would have been well before we moved in. -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 06:34
- did you only get charged for 1/2 the replacement? -- nm - decline Jul 22, 06:33
- Meaning they replaced half the roof or checked half the roof? -- nm - spamlet Jul 22, 06:33 4
  - well both - Reagen Jul 22, 06:36 3
    - Ah! The previous owner of our house fancied himself a handyman. We've spent 18 years now fixing stuff correctly. - spamlet Jul 22, 06:40 2
      - One of the joys of us living in a 100 year old house - znufrii, 2020 apocalypse bingo player Jul 22, 07:37
      - my house was built by "old man hutchison" -- building it was a weekend project for him. everything is quarter-assed. -- nm - amanda Jul 22, 07:15
The Pittsburgh Blue Jays??? -- (link) - Krusty Jul 22, 06:21 1
- And the Toronto Penguins. -- nm - spamlet Jul 22, 06:22
FL Sen Rick Scott: Open Schools!! also Rick Scott: "My daughters are going to be more focused on distance learning right now to make sure their children are safe,” -- nm* - decline Jul 22, 06:04 3
- I mean, he can't even convince *his own family* -- nm - mafic Jul 22, 06:21
- Skeletor and his skelletings should be immune. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 22, 06:19
- "I mean christ, they're not *poors*." -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 06:13
Good morning Tropical Storm Gonzalo. Still way out in the Atlantic, but he's got plenty of room to grow -- (link) - decline Jul 22, 06:01 3
- Good lord, this is so early to be this far in. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 22, 06:13 2
  - The G storm in 2005 (The Katrina year) formed on July 24. - Reagen Jul 22, 06:15 1
    - june too soon, october all over. -- nm - mafic Jul 22, 06:17
Winnipeg will host whatever CFL season takes place this year -- (link) - Reagen Jul 22, 05:58 1
- The Pittsburgh Blue Jays -- (link) - Reagen Jul 22, 05:59
I shipped sneakers to the Netherlands and they're vintage so I added insurance in case they got lost. What I didn't realize and what the person there - Krusty Jul 22, 05:57 13
- d'oh! -- nm - JenBro Jul 22, 06:41 6
  - 17% on sneakers. 0% for computers. Here we can import up to $800 before we get an import tax so it's not something that even crossed my mind. - Krusty Jul 22, 06:50 5
    - Also, he just told me that if he doesn't pick it up in five days they add another 8% on top. Damn! -- nm - Krusty Jul 22, 06:57
    - it's a bummer, but really - what choice did you have? -- nm - JenBro Jul 22, 06:55 1
      - Not much other than not insuring it for it's real value. Though, I'm sure there's some sneaky way of getting around the import duties, VAT, etc. -- nm - Krusty Jul 22, 06:58
    - the Dutch protecting their local wooden sneaker industry. -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 06:51 1
      - It does explain their slow sprint times in the Olympics. -- nm - Krusty Jul 22, 06:56
- Sounds like the buyer should have known and it's on them. -- nm - sycor Jul 22, 06:13 1
  - I agree and really wish he had given me a heads up about this. -- nm - Krusty Jul 22, 06:20
- In brief searching it seems that eBay sellers tell or eBay tells buyers they are responsible for all customs/import taxes. It is unfortunate that - oblique Jul 22, 06:01 3
  - I'm already splitting the cost of the shipping which was expensive or I'd make that offer. - Krusty Jul 22, 06:08 2
    - Yeah, if you told him that I don't see a problem on your end -- nm - oblique Jul 22, 06:09 1
      - Thanks. I still feel bad and hopefully he can get them to lower it. -- nm - Krusty Jul 22, 06:19
needs some vertical integration with Uber. -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 05:53 5
- Double decker Ubers? -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 22, 07:24
- open app, order espresso, it matches me with a local mobile barista who comes to me and makes it there. can't lose! - mafic Jul 22, 06:06 3
  - I think eventually you might need to centralize operations. And then you could cut down on costs by allowing people to come to you - Reagen Jul 22, 06:46
  - Nonono. It costs $5 so you can build up a userbase. -- nm - spamlet Jul 22, 06:21 1
    - right! need to blitzscale. $3.50. -- nm - mafic Jul 22, 06:28
TV PSA: AEW Dynamite, Challenge, Property Brothers, Tough as nails, Real HW, United We Fall, WWE NXT, Bulletproof, Game On!, Ultimate Tag, Oval, Arena -- nm - Beaker Jul 22, 05:49 1
- SHIELD, Corporate, Samantha Bee, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jul 22, 05:51

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