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if you want to know why looting is happening, listen to a Black woman, Kimberly Jones, tell you. really, watch this entire video. -- (link) - colin Aug 10, 08:16 [youtube] 9
- I think a lot of us have seen this, and it's very articulate and explains the *why* it happens. -- (edited) - JaxSean Aug 10, 08:30 1
  - i don't think people that don't understand are going to suddenly understand. - colin Aug 10, 08:40
- I've seen that before and it's very moving and understandable. That doesn't make it ok or effective. -- nm - pmb Aug 10, 08:24 5
  - how condescending. -- nm - colin Aug 10, 08:29 4
    - Give me a break. -- nm - pmb Aug 10, 08:33 3
      - to be honest, you don't get a say in what's ok. your opinion on what's effective is noted. -- nm - colin Aug 10, 08:45 2
        
        I understand that argument and I have sympathy for it in general, but I don't agree with that sentiment when it comes to criminal behavior. - pmb Aug 10, 09:10 1
        
        to be clear... - colin Aug 10, 09:17
- Yeah, I saw that a while back. Very on point. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 08:21
All of Trump’s pandemic failures, conveniently gathered together in one place. -- (link) - znufrii, drinking heavily Aug 10, 08:08
Ugh. - znufrii, drinking heavily Aug 10, 08:06 1
- Adultish -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 08:10
My exciting news (exciting is relative in 2020) - our Condo pool has reopened for reserved time slots - one hour for up to 2 people. We have it -- (edited) - Andie Aug 10, 08:04 10
- Yay! -- nm - Epiphany -White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 08:21
- That sounds lovely! -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 08:15
- oh that's great. you know some many people going to have sex in that pool. -- nm - colin Aug 10, 08:12 3
  - heh, see below. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 08:22
  - i highly highly doubt that actually. (1) the pool is never busy in normal times, most of the time there is no one there and (2) we don't have a lot of - Andie Aug 10, 08:15
  - bring wipes -- nm - the ice Aug 10, 08:13
- Do the two people get to do whatever the want and the neighbor windows have to avert their gaze? -- nm - Max Aug 10, 08:08 1
  - Indoor pool! (Hence the lockdown) No one can see! (i mean, they could stare through the skylights i guess) -- nm - Andie Aug 10, 08:08
- OMG so jealous. -- nm - amanda Aug 10, 08:06
- Nice! When we got married, the inn had a gym with a small pool. We checked it out for the eve of the wedding. It was... awesome. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 08:06
I pulled an Andie!! Target was slow to remove me from the roster so they ended up mailing me the July coronavirus check of $200. - Qale Aug 10, 08:02 4
- Yay! -- nm - Epiphany -White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 08:34
- Nice!! -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 08:08
- Very nice! -- nm - sycor Aug 10, 08:04
- wooo! -- nm - Andie Aug 10, 08:04
Ok I made an ST league for the NHL playoffs bracket challenge. - Shaun Aug 10, 08:00 3
- MONTREAL WINS IT ALL! - Mop Aug 10, 08:15
- I had to sign in, then click the link again, but yeah. -- nm - mafic Aug 10, 08:13 1
  - Ok, good to know. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:27
I'm in a pub garden enjoying a pear cider and then I'm going to the cinema to watch An American Pickle. -- nm - LMS Aug 10, 07:47 9
- We can post from parallel universes now? -- nm - David Aug 10, 07:57 2
  - The Empty Man was far better than I expected. -- nm - Alt Universe Spawn Aug 10, 08:11
  - If so, did the screenplay for my Clone High/The Boys crossover movie get picked up by anyone? -- nm - prayformojo Aug 10, 08:07
- Uh huh, and what color is the sky in you world? - Spawn Aug 10, 07:55
- Nice! -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:55
- Sounds lovely. enjoy. - Epiphany -White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 07:49
- rub it in, why don't ya. -- nm - colin Aug 10, 07:48 2
  - Okay, I saw a TV advert for Tenet yesterday, in cinemas on the 26th August. -- nm - LMS Aug 10, 07:56 1
    - Although I get the impression Boris is itching to lock down London if the infection rate goes up much more as he hates the mayor. -- nm - LMS Aug 10, 07:59
Word association; steps/stairs, rug/floor, window/wall -- nm - landbeck Aug 10, 07:42 13
- seriously though: Roof/chimney? -- nm - Epiphany -White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 07:50 7
  - Roof/shingles -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 07:54 6
    - yes that is a better answer -- nm - Epiphany -White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 07:58 1
      - I would also accept roof/gutter. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 08:12
    - Oh look at this fancy guy with shingles on his roof -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:56 3
      - Roof/tarp! -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 07:57 2
        
        Roof/cardboard -- nm - Pixie si Aug 10, 08:01 1
        
        50 Spawn Points -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 08:02
- til the sweat..? - Epiphany -White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 07:46 4
  - To all these..? - Krusty Aug 10, 07:49
  - No no, keep going, you're 75% of the way to a Cardi B song. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 07:49 1
    - if only I had Cardi B's money - Epiphany -White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 07:50
  - saaame -- nm - colin Aug 10, 07:49
So NE-02 is definitely on track to split off in the electoral college. The wild thing is, NE-01 might too -- (link) - Reagen Aug 10, 07:38
Thundercats complete series $22 -- (link) - Remlik Aug 10, 07:38 3
- Looks like bait and switch. References the old show but the description is the 2011 remake. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 10, 07:44 2
  - the blu ray is the 2011 I thought. -- nm - Remlik Aug 10, 08:06 1
    - The thing gives me the dvd - 47.75 hours but there’s description talks about 26 episodes and Blu-ray. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 10, 08:11
Reagen, how to Oiler 2020 edition. -- (link) - Shaun Aug 10, 07:22 10
- The goal sequence in the Toronto-Columbus series was a bit streaky. - Dano Aug 10, 07:29
- Darnell Nurse was driving me insane that series. Turnover machine. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 07:28 8
  - Turnovers were a massive problem. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 07:32 6
    - Also, fire the puck on the net instead of chip and chase. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 07:33 5
      - And maybe not score a half dozen goals in your own net. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 07:37 4
        
        I'm far from the first to say this, but 29-93-56 should have been going from the start - Reagen Aug 10, 07:41 1
        
        Yup. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 07:48
        
        I feel bad for Bear on that one but he didn't have any business throwing his stick out that far. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 07:39 1
        
        Game 4 was own goal, def. zone turnover, def. zone turnover. How are you supposed to win like that? -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 07:50
  - Goodbyeeee, Nurse! -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 10, 07:29
12 of the 14 Presidents from the Big 10 have voted against having a Fall College Football season. Iowa and Nebraska were the two -- (link*) - the ice Aug 10, 07:13 4
- OSU and Michigan agree. Huh. I figure harbaugh would want to play at a time Ohio State might not be there. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 10, 07:22
- LOLIOWA -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 07:17
- Nebraska: It’s literally all we have. -- nm - spamlet Aug 10, 07:17
- Go Hawkeyes! - Cuzzin Todd Aug 10, 07:15
Covid stats: 1 out of every 2000 Americans alive at the start of the pandemic is now dead. - decline Aug 10, 07:03 2
- this is both interesting and horrifying at the same time -- nm - Epiphany -White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 07:47
- That's a 99.95% survival rate, decline. Why are you so negative? -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 07:20
This looting in Chicago is pretty nuts. Apparently a social media post went out calling for a caravan of cars to go downtown to start looting. - pmb Aug 10, 06:57 21
- I was wondering how it was 'coordinated' or what the impetus was that lead to it -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 07:05 12
  - police killed someone. over 150 cops, some with automatic weapons, swarmed the place as about 25 people in the neighborhood asked what happened. -- (link) - colin Aug 10, 07:30 11
    - That’s also nowhere near where the looting was. -- nm - spamlet Aug 10, 07:33 8
      - Although one of the common criticisms of riots is "why are they destroying their own stuff?" - to which these guys seemed to say "hey, right!" -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 08:08
      - real point is looting is a message and it has to be sent to people and companies that it will hurt. - colin Aug 10, 07:46 5
        
        I fully disagree with the idea that looting is a justifiable or effective tactic. And I don't know know that "organizers" in this context have - pmb Aug 10, 07:59 4
        
        there are 13,000 cops in Chicago... were all 13,000 in another part of town? - colin Aug 10, 08:07 3
        
        I understand it fine. I don't agree with it as a tactic or in its effectiveness. The answer to injustice is not anarchy. It distracts from the - pmb Aug 10, 08:14 2
        
        looting isn't the most effective form of protest, but it still is effective in it's way. -- (edited) - colin Aug 10, 08:25 1
        
        Still not with you. It brings it to the public eye, but not with sympathy for the idea. To the extent that it provokes police to overreact, maybe - pmb Aug 10, 08:32
      - there was looting in Richmond when George Floyd was murdered. what's your point? -- nm - colin Aug 10, 07:33
    - That escalated quickly -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 07:32 1
      - right? the police response was pretty insane. an onlooker said the man was unarmed at the time he was shot (was a shootout before then).. so... CYA? -- nm - colin Aug 10, 07:33
- this is nuts. -- nm - Diva Aug 10, 07:03
- May have begun with a police involved shooting. Police say they were shot at first (we'll see), but shot a guy on the South Side. Apparently a very - pmb Aug 10, 07:03
- Ugh. Hope it stops -- nm - the ice Aug 10, 07:01
- I was watching the videos, early this morning. Gut wrenching -- nm - Flavorize Aug 10, 07:00 3
  - what about it was gut wrenching for you? -- nm - colin Aug 10, 07:35 2
    - I would think a lot of people (myself included) don't equate the answer, or even the response, to an unjustified shooting to be the looting of a CVS. - JaxSean Aug 10, 07:54 1
      - i think the action and the message isn't really for you though - it's for the wealthy and for the police. - colin Aug 10, 08:11
- That's insane -- nm - decline Aug 10, 06:59
because I replied on B2, Fall Guys was the top game on Twitch for a bit and I tried to make a sense of it. - Tim Aug 10, 06:55 9
- Wow, that looks right up my alley. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 10, 07:25
- It looks like a lot of fun. Is it only on Steam? -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:10 2
  - Free for PS+ subscribers, as well. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 07:14 1
    - Lucky ducks. -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:16
- It's amazingly fun. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 06:58 4
  - that's the free game on PSN this month, right? -- nm - decline Aug 10, 07:12 3
    - Yep, PS+ freebie!! -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 07:14 2
      - I'll add it to my library. Still working my way through Act 3 of Ghost -- nm - decline Aug 10, 07:18 1
        
        I'm still on Act 2!! I have the 3 requirements done. I'm just doing all the side stuff since it's actually quality content. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 07:22
FYI. If you're interested in choir/singing in these pandemic times, the National Association of Teachers of Singing and others are holding a Q&A - oblique Aug 10, 06:55
Rachael Ray's home burned down last night (this is where she's been filming all her shows and stuff) -- (link) - decline Aug 10, 06:52 2
- The photos are pretty dramatic. How awful. -- nm - loosilu Aug 10, 06:56 1
  - She left a burner on. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 08:25
How is he so bad at this? -- (link) - Reagen Aug 10, 06:51 2
- Farther down the thread it appears this is all a joke -- (link) - oblique Aug 10, 07:29
- looks like someone is trolling people.. but not lil' ben -- nm - colin Aug 10, 07:28
Kodak loan blocked. Robinhood traders hardest hit. [Edit: I cannot flippin' type this morning.] -- (link*) - Blue Punch Baron Aug 10, 06:49 1
- Kodak snapped -- nm - the ice Aug 10, 06:51
Has anyone watched the PBS Great Performances on In The Heights? -- (link) - oblique Aug 10, 06:45 3
- From a couple of years ago right? I remember liking it. -- nm - MDH Aug 10, 07:04
- It came on last Friday here and I forgot to DVR it. -- nm* - Diva Aug 10, 06:56 1
  - -3 LMM points. Your new total is 13,574,112. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 10, 06:58
d1 had the loot cave. d2 seems to still have the afk forge. - tRuMaN Aug 10, 06:42 4
- Wait that's still a thing? I thought they fixed that a long time ago. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 06:46 3
  - I was watching videos over the weekend in which people were still saying its a thing. - tRuMaN Aug 10, 06:50 2
    - it looks like the fix was to not have the game auto-load you into a new session once you lose - tRuMaN Aug 10, 06:54
    - Ahh. Haven't played since mid-July. Ghost of Tsushima is just sooo good. It's one of my fave games this gen, easily. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 06:54
headache! oh, headache! I hate you. you stink. - tRuMaN Aug 10, 06:36 1
- I like this poem but not the contents for Dear Truman. - Epiphany -White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 07:57
From the NYT: NYC Subway Car Ventilation info for Coronavirus -- (link) - ty97 Aug 10, 06:27 7
- The moral of the story: stand in the middle of the car if you have to ride the subway. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 06:53 4
  - Also, there are fewer people in the middle. People tend to congregate at either end of the cars. -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:12
  - And right by the door where you get some nice fresh air at the stops. -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:11 2
    - I'm normally toward the ends because that is where the sweet sweet A/C vents are -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 07:23 1
      - (not all the way to the end of course, that's where the A/C *units* are so no vents. Never stand there) -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 07:24
- That's a really good use of multimedia -- nm - prayformojo Aug 10, 06:33 1
  - Yeah, I don't always love their interactive stuff, but this one works well -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 06:36
McDonald's says it's suing ousted CEO Stephen Easterbrook, alleging he had multiple relationships with employees and destroyed evidence. -- (link) - the ice Aug 10, 06:27 10
- Man, what is this world coming to? They just want to destroy all of the perks that CEO's obviously deserve -- nm - decline Aug 10, 06:38 1
  - i know right. I mean all they may have left soon is the outrageously high wages, the corporate travel perks - tRuMaN Aug 10, 06:39
- CNBC reported he authorized a large stock grant to one of the employees while in the relationship. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 10, 06:33 6
  - Plus, they always skimp on my fries -- nm - prayformojo Aug 10, 06:34 5
    - Next time you'll know you should diddle the CEO. -- nm* - Blue Punch Baron Aug 10, 06:37 4
      - Im not sure he wants his extra frys that bad -- nm - eag Aug 10, 06:43 3
        
        I mean his meal might get upgraded to super size too. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 10, 06:43 2
        
        Yeah, why be so salty about it. -- nm - Qale Aug 10, 06:44 1
        
        Finger lickin good apparently -- nm - the ice Aug 10, 06:48
- Was that wrong? -- (link) - Beaker Aug 10, 06:31 [youtube]
I recommend watching this until the end. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 10, 06:26 6
- heheheh -- nm - Max Aug 10, 08:10
- Oh, the humanity!!! -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 07:53
- (Cinnamon can absolutely go with beef and chicken though) -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 06:45 1
  - sure, but NOT LIKE THAT -- nm - colin Aug 10, 07:25
- Hahaha!! -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 06:37
- Ha, nice. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 06:28

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