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Salt-Bae just opened a restaurant location in Boston -- (link) - budice Sep 23, 12:55
Um, is this true (about apple pencils)? -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 23, 12:44
taking square cut to dan's tonoght to play mario (finally). sausage or bacon? sausage, right? -- nm - amanda Sep 23, 12:42 3
- Yes. -- nm - jnine Sep 23, 12:55
- Both! -- nm - decline Sep 23, 12:51
- Right. -- nm - zunkskunk+ Sep 23, 12:47
3.5 hours of PD in the books! 3 free 1 hour webinars and .5 for an internal audit expense claim course -- (edited) - Beaker Sep 23, 12:40
Ten in Ten starts when the board rolls. Reminder of the rules inside -- (edited) - Chuck Wrollory Sep 23, 12:38
Well that was fast -- (link) - ty97 Sep 23, 12:23
Fauci vs. Rand Paul. "If you believe 22% is herd immunity, I believe you’re alone in that." -- (link) - Max Sep 23, 12:22 10
- *punches Rand Paul in the face* -- nm - Rand Paul's Neighbor Sep 23, 12:37
- "you dumb motherfucker." -- nm - Reagen Sep 23, 12:31 3
  - not the first time these two have got into it. Paul is the worst ..(no, just one of them) -- nm - mud Sep 23, 12:35 2
    - and this stupid motherfucker actually had covid. fuck him and every stupid fucking evil thing out of Kentucky. -- nm - Diva Sep 23, 12:42 1
      - probly spread it quite a bit too -- nm - mud Sep 23, 12:53
- ".. because this happens with Sen. Rand all the time ..you're not listening .." -- nm - mud Sep 23, 12:26 3
  - In the replies -- (link) - Spawn Sep 23, 12:45 2
    - That's like the Sir Larry Wildman scene in Wall St. -- nm - Max Sep 23, 13:47
    - :-D -- nm - mud Sep 23, 12:46
- "The herd needs more cowbell." -- nm - Will Ferrell Sep 23, 12:23
Indiana moves to stage 5 reopening.... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 23, 12:15 14
- IL: 1,848 cases on 46,391 tests with 22 deaths (3.9% positivity). My county is flat at about 5.0% positivity. Highest rate statewide is 7.5% -- nm - oblique Sep 23, 12:57
- And we are inching backwards. Our group size restrictions just got made smaller, again. It all sucks. -- nm - Andie Sep 23, 12:41
- Based on .... absoltely no science whatsoever. -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 12:21 6
  - 51% President Trump vs. 36% CDC scientists -- nm - Spawn Sep 23, 12:25 1
    - Who are forced to lie by the Trump administration. -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 12:29
  - we don't need no science! -- nm - decline Sep 23, 12:24
  - yyuuuppppp -- nm - Remlik Sep 23, 12:23 2
    - Yesterday IN reported only 6795 tests and had a positive number of 599. That's 8% positivity rate. -- nm - Remlik Sep 23, 12:53 1
      - I guess if you're comparing yourself to Wisconsin's 13%, you're doing great! -- nm - oblique Sep 23, 12:55
- There's a stage 5? Is this when people are forbidden from being solo and must be in groups at all times? -- nm - ty97 Sep 23, 12:19 2
  - "if you aren't making out with someone, you are being anti-American." -- nm - Andie Sep 23, 12:42
  - stage 5 clinger -- nm - budice Sep 23, 12:21
- *sigh* -- nm - Spawn Sep 23, 12:19
- too soon. -- nm - mud Sep 23, 12:17
With Gene Raybaron's permission, I have the time and the categories for another round of america's favorite gameshow, ten in ten -- nm - rollo Sep 23, 12:13 2
- Approved. But you'll definitely need a proper gameshow ID. -- nm - Gene Raybaron Sep 23, 12:24
- wooooo! Wait how does this work? -- nm - ty97 Sep 23, 12:18
Daniel Cameron (kentucky AG), at Republican Convention last month -- (link) - mud Sep 23, 12:11
Krusty News Network: Bob's Burgers get 2 season renewal from Fox -- nm - JaxSean Sep 23, 12:04 1
- Yay!!! Woo hoo!!! Great news!!! -- nm - Krusty The Anarchist Sep 23, 12:53
another idiot: -- (link) - mud Sep 23, 12:02 1
- "But I don't want..." "Did I fucking stutter?" -- nm - Reagen Sep 23, 12:02
Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies - Max Sep 23, 11:57 2
- Too soon. -- nm - Spawn Sep 23, 11:59 1
  - Gone too soon indeed -- nm - rollo Sep 23, 12:01
Quinnapiac poll finds men are idiots. -- (link) - TWuG Sep 23, 11:42 14
- Good thing there are more than two genders now. - Qale Sep 23, 12:08
- I bet if they broke that out by race it would be even more idiot-er. - JaxSean Sep 23, 12:07 1
  - of course -- nm - mud Sep 23, 12:07
- We knew that, I had no hope in men with this election and just hope the women save us. -- nm - ty97 Sep 23, 12:02 3
  - so you like women now, not men?! - mud Sep 23, 12:07 2
    - We are yoink buddies! - Qale Sep 23, 12:08 1
      - but not "yoink" buddies! - mud Sep 23, 12:19
- idiots. -- (link) - mud Sep 23, 11:57 3
  - more -- (link) - mud Sep 23, 12:23
  - is "99" a black guy? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 23, 12:11 1
    - the guy in yellow? yeah, but he's not one of them. You can see he's with a cameraman -- nm - mud Sep 23, 12:16
- duh, says a male man -- nm - Max Sep 23, 11:48
- Like I've always said, women are night and day better than men. - New, Better David Sep 23, 11:47
- *holds a hand up to my head* I'm getting something, I think ... I think white men might be the idiotest of all the men. - Beryllium Sep 23, 11:44
No Man's Sky Update 3.0 Drops Today, Updates Entire Universe -- (link) - Beaker Sep 23, 11:38 6
- Apparently the original Unreal Tournament also got a patch. Not sure how. Or why. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 23, 11:41 1
  - I *LOVE* that game. -- nm - Mopsy Sep 23, 12:11
- nice. looks like I'll be giving it another run through - decline Sep 23, 11:41 3
  - Looks like another nice update. I'm the same. I try it out new every update. I don't stick with it too long though. I'm currently immersed in - oblique Sep 23, 11:45 2
    - Moya! -- nm - Spawn Sep 23, 12:05
    - Sandworms!! -- (edited) - decline Sep 23, 11:58
The best films of Toronto International Film Festival 2020 -- (link) - Beaker Sep 23, 11:37 2
- Nomadland is going to be the juggernaut until people are tired of it in late February resulting in another movie winning Best Picture, right? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 23, 12:59
- *sigh* i did NONE of this. I am a bad Torontonian (i was away for most of it, to be fair.) -- nm - Andie Sep 23, 12:10
Without any notice, catching journos by surprise, Lucashenko inaugurated as Belarus president -- (link) - zeitgeist Sep 23, 11:27
Who do you trust more on coronavirus via new Quinnipiac poll: DEM: 1% President Trump 97% CDC scientists REP: 51% President Trump 36% CDC scientists -- nm* - budice Sep 23, 11:15 7
- how does this break down for population though.. i thought most voters are "independent" or "undecided" in general -- nm - colin Sep 23, 11:35
- this is fucking insanity. -- nm - Diva Sep 23, 11:24 4
  - 133% CDC vs 52% Trump! But honestly, I am more amazed by the 1% than the 51%. -- nm - Spawn Sep 23, 11:26 3
    - those 1% are the folks who don't know what CDC means -- nm - decline Sep 23, 11:27 1
      - There are still a fair number of "ancestral Dems" who identify that way because great grandpappy did but are Republican in every other sense -- nm - Reagen Sep 23, 11:29
    - the real 1%-ers -- nm - budice Sep 23, 11:27
- So there may be some help for half the, uhhh, idiots? (NM) - Marlowe Sep 23, 11:20
The Metropolitan Opera has cancelled the 2020-2021 season. - ryancoke Sep 23, 11:07 4
- This thing ain't over till the fat lady dies -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 23, 11:22
- Was that thing still on? -- nm - Spawn Sep 23, 11:15
- :( -- nm - prayformojo Sep 23, 11:14
- Wow. -- nm - znufrii needs to cancel his gym membership Sep 23, 11:14
the Peacemaker show is apparently a prequel for Cena's character (I liked the character better when he was called The Punisher...) -- nm - Beaker Sep 23, 11:02 8
- First appearance: November 1966. Suck it, Punisher! -- nm - Mopsy Sep 23, 11:07 4
  - next do TV appearances and seasons! -- nm - Beaker Sep 23, 11:15
  - Peacemaker average sell price 170 vs Punisher which is 3.2 k for its comic book -- nm - eag Sep 23, 11:13
  - Thomas Jane is a better actor than Cena, too. - New, Better David Sep 23, 11:12 1
    - I know he is. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 23, 11:14 [youtube]
- When i hear Peacemaker, i think of George Clooney. - Beryllium Sep 23, 11:04 2
  - When i hear Peacemaker, i think of Mentos. -- nm - Spawn Sep 23, 11:06 1
    - I took a big swig of Diet Coke after eating those Mentos and it was not very peaceful! -- nm - The Masked Baron Sep 23, 11:23
In terms of impact per dollar invested, the money spent by the Russians on the 2016 US election was just about the best money ever spent - prayformojo Sep 23, 10:56 2
- As I said recently, every time Time didn't name Pootin Man of the Year in the past 5 years was a mistake. - Marlowe Sep 23, 11:11
- One line that stood out to me in the Wind of Change podcast... - Inigo Sep 23, 11:00
AP: No direct charges in Breonna Taylor's case -- (link) - budice Sep 23, 10:53
Stolen from reddit: You can't time travel, but your phone has the internet from 5 years into the future. What's your first google search? -- nm - Inigo Sep 23, 10:51 38
- Did any BTS member start doing AV work? -- nm - Qale Sep 23, 12:12
- I think that one of the best ideas from Replay is that knowing "a" future doesn't mean you know THE future. -- nm - New, Better David Sep 23, 11:25 5
  - Odyssey 5 touched on why looking up sports bets is particularly bad. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 23, 11:49 2
    - I mean, if I ran through this again, I'd want to be a GM...and that would fuck up *everything*. -- nm - New, Better David Sep 23, 12:09 1
      - Yeah, it would somehow end up with you working for the Mets. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 23, 12:16
  - That's why I said what I said. But I didn't get it from Replay, I got it from The Peripheral. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 23, 11:37 1
    - Also, darkly amusing that the author of replay himself died of a heart attack. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 23, 11:40
- natural disasters and terrorist attacks -- nm - Max Sep 23, 11:24
- Years ago I toyed with the idea of writing a story about a person who started getting tomorrow’s newspaper -- (edited) - znufrii needs to cancel his gym membership Sep 23, 11:12 16
  - Iirc, the guy gets to make a wish, he asks for future newspapers, starts reading tomorrow's and spoilers -- (edited) - zeitgeist Sep 23, 11:17 3
    - Mine ended with nuclear armageddon, but yeah. -- nm - znufrii needs to cancel his gym membership Sep 23, 11:32 2
      - Short DOW futures, invest in prepper bunkers -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 23, 12:08
      - Please keep that in the cat book. -- nm - Spawn Sep 23, 11:33
  - was there a cat in it? -- nm - Beaker Sep 23, 11:16 5
    - How about a story where there is a cat that can tell the future? -- nm - Spawn Sep 23, 11:18 4
      - "that vase is gonna get knocked over...so is that pile of papers..." -- nm - Beaker Sep 23, 11:23 3
        
        And the cat is a real jerk about other news. "Did you know this was going to happen?!" "Yeah." "Why didn't you say anything??" *cat shrug* -- nm - Max Sep 23, 11:26 2
        
        Fuck you, that's why -- nm - Beaker Sep 23, 11:33
        
        I would watch that movie. - Spawn Sep 23, 11:29
  - That sounds familiar. -- nm - Spawn Sep 23, 11:14 5
    - It’s probably been done. - znufrii needs to cancel his gym membership Sep 23, 11:15 1
      - I could swear there's at least one Twilight Zone with that exactly plot. - loosilu Sep 23, 12:27
    - Early Edition starring Kyle Chandler -- nm - Dano Sep 23, 11:15 1
      - Never heard of it, honestly. -- nm - znufrii needs to cancel his gym membership Sep 23, 11:16
    - Never heard of it. -- nm - Kyle Chandler Sep 23, 11:15
- 2020 election results. Or maybe, "Trump was found guilty". -- nm* - Spawn Sep 23, 11:09
- First, I would search the wikipedia year-in-review pages. - Beryllium Sep 23, 11:07
- Super Bowl winners followed immediately by contact information for Las Vegas sports betting houses. -- nm - The Masked Baron Sep 23, 11:02
- my own name. -- nm - colin Sep 23, 10:57
- did znu eveer cancel his gym membership? -- nm - prayformojo Sep 23, 10:56
- Basketball reference to get the scores for tonight's game, followed by NHL and then soccer. - Krusty The Anarchist Sep 23, 10:56
- Mars ..no, Trump .....no, Mars! -- nm - mud Sep 23, 10:56
- historical lottery winning numbers -- nm - Reagen Sep 23, 10:56 2
  - this. then tech breakthroughs for investment purposes. then disasters for humanitarian uses of my stacks of money. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 23, 11:20
  - Family feud: “Good answer good answer!” -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 23, 10:57
- Best performing stocks since 2020 -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 23, 10:54
- Is anyone still there? -- nm - znufrii needs to cancel his gym membership Sep 23, 10:53
- finance.google.com -- nm - JaxSean Sep 23, 10:53
Hulu trailer to Hellstrom. All episodes, October 16th. -- (link) - Mopsy Sep 23, 10:50 [youtube] 2
- I'll be in my bunk. - Spawn Sep 23, 11:13 1
  - creepy -- nm - decline Sep 23, 11:26
On my recommendation, my 14 year-old son has read almost all of Replay and likes it a lot. Maybe even loves it. - Inigo Sep 23, 10:48 8
- Nice. And every reply to this post reminds me why ST can be stupid! - Spawn Sep 23, 11:07 2
  - I figured they were just doing a bit to get you and David fired up. :) - Inigo Sep 23, 11:10 1
    - My way of saying they were not funny! -- nm - Spawn Sep 23, 11:19
- I have four books sitting on my bookshelf in the "to read" pile and this is one of them. -- nm - The Masked Baron Sep 23, 11:04
- I don't think I'm aware of this book at all. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 23, 10:55 1
  - same, though i did just add it to my "to read" list -- nm - Beaker Sep 23, 11:06
- it's by Grimwood, right? -- nm - prayformojo Sep 23, 10:50 1
  - Correct. -- nm - Inigo Sep 23, 10:52
California Gov orders end to gas-powered cars by 2035. -- (link) - budice Sep 23, 10:45 1
- WH orders over rides that and says by 2030 all cars must be coal burning steamers -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 23, 10:48
Hump Day! -- nm - Beaker Sep 23, 10:45 1
- Beak, Beak, Beak, Beak, Beak, what day is it, Beak? -- nm - The Masked Baron Sep 23, 11:05

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