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Pence, head of the COVID task force, is apparently refusing a transparent divider for the VP debate. - Volnelk Oct 6, 11:52 2
- i thought the commission that runs them already said dividers were happening. -- nm - Candieman, Candieman, Candieman Oct 6, 11:53 1
  - Here. -- (link) - Volnelk Oct 6, 12:09
Booty For Biden is alive and well -- (link) - 🎃 Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 6, 11:44 1
- Forbidden Booty. -- nm - Reagen Oct 6, 11:54
SO, the Admiral has been at the office, but is currently quarantining at home. They're contact tracing. Sheesh, at least SOMEONE in the governemnt is - 👽 Scully 👽 Oct 6, 11:43 1
- (not nitpicking) is he technically government? or only military? -- nm - 🧛 pfm in a foodchem mask 💀 Oct 6, 12:27
"Okay, so what we've done has lost us a reliable constituency: voters 65+. Lets double down on our actions to get them back" - crash davis Oct 6, 11:40
Trump had his Twitter account locked Monday evening after tweeting the email address of a NY Post reporter -- (link*) - Boooooooker Oct 6, 11:33 4
- DRUMPF SMASH! RAGE! RAAAAGE!!! (NM) - Drumpf Oct 6, 11:36 2
  - Roid Rage Donnie is terrifying. -- nm - 👽 Scully 👽 Oct 6, 11:44 1
    - HULK TEAR SHIRT! ME TEAR MASKS!!! SMASH!! (NM) - Drumpf Oct 6, 11:47
- (Monday) -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 6, 11:34
Yeah, pick one -- (link) - Reagen Oct 6, 11:31
I'm guessing this came via Sapphire Reserve but I just got an email that LyftPink now includes Grubhub+ (free delivery) so that should mean that - kilboooooo 👻 Oct 6, 11:31 9
- *sends this sentence in a time machine to 2004* -- nm - Reagen Oct 6, 11:49 2
  - investment opportunity? -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 11:50 1
    - can you invest in befuddlement? -- nm - Reagen Oct 6, 11:53
- Sapphire Reserve sounds like the headliner at one of the clubs DJT visited when Melania was pregnant -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 11:35 2
  - LyftPink doesn't sound any better. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 6, 11:39
  - L4 -- nm - 🎃 Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 6, 11:36
- It all blends together. GrubDash, DoorPink, Lyfthub -- nm - 🎃 Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 6, 11:32 2
  - AppleTVHub+ -- nm - kilboooooo 👻 Oct 6, 11:39 1
    - AppleESPN++ -- nm - 🎃 Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 6, 11:41
umm -- (link) - ty97 Oct 6, 11:29 10
- Loosi's in charge now!! -- nm - decline Oct 6, 11:48 1
  - I know the Star Spangled Banner is difficult to sing properly, but we're not changing to Mmmmm-Bop -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 11:49
- And this is why we shouldn’t treat Coast Guard like a real military force. -- nm - Will Hunting 🧠’s Oct 6, 11:45
- well, quarantined after exposure, not necessarily positive (but, well... they won't all get off that easy.) -- nm - Candieman, Candieman, Candieman Oct 6, 11:35 2
  - alternately: Maybe it is time Canada invades and saves all your asses. -- nm - Candieman, Candieman, Candieman Oct 6, 11:36 1
    - You'll have to get past the Coast Guard, sister. - 👽 Scully 👽 Oct 6, 11:45
- maybe they're fed up and colluded to all call in sick. -- nm - mud Oct 6, 11:32 1
  - bad news comrades, all the generals are traitors -- nm - Reagen Oct 6, 11:34
- we were fine until the coves hit SpaceForce -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 11:30
- DON'T TELL THE RUSSIANS! -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 6, 11:30
GE is in trouble. SEC sent notice of legal action for Financial Probe -- (link*) - 🎃 Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 6, 11:22
Hurricane Delta - Dave is trying to Skype his brother (how they talk). Can't get a real connection but got audio for a few seconds once. Sounds like - Candieman, Candieman, Candieman Oct 6, 11:18 1
- Hope he stays safe. -- nm - znoooooooo!!! Oct 6, 11:29
I like the current GOP talking point of responding to criticism of the president with "Sounds like you're advocating a country wide lockdown" -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 11:16 2
- I wonder if W sits at home in front of a TV with a bag of chips and say "Jesus Christ, these people are so bad at spin" -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 11:22
- Yes, god dammit. Lock down, you fools! -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 6, 11:22
Pittsburgers gonna have 5500 fans back at Heinz Field for next home game -- (link) - 🎃 Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 6, 11:15
ST poll Over/Under how many days before Donny checks back into Walter Reed and how do they spin it or he spins it -- nm - eag Oct 6, 11:15 20
- He won't check back in. He'll die in the White House before he admits he has to go back to the hospital. nm - Arby Oct 6, 11:46 1
  - Agreed. -- nm - znoooooooo!!! Oct 6, 11:52
- Should we use a betting pool grid? Oh, look I made one! -- (link) - Candieman, Candieman, Candieman Oct 6, 11:30 16
  - spawn took what was my first guess :) -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 11:43 3
    - You are smart! - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 6, 11:46
    - You took mine! -- nm - marum scarum Oct 6, 11:44 1
      - just remember it is spawn's fault! -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 11:46
  - Is it one name per square? -- nm - marum scarum Oct 6, 11:43 3
    - yes - only one can win! -- nm - Candieman, Candieman, Candieman Oct 6, 11:50
    - I wouldn't think so -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 6, 11:44 1
      - Trying to add my name to crash's square seems to overwrite him. -- nm - marum scarum Oct 6, 11:45
  - I guess I don't know how to use those -- nm - mud Oct 6, 11:40
  - Well I mean its not a death pool so you know -- nm - eag Oct 6, 11:40
  - Nice! Is this something we're doing? Should I send an edit request? -- nm - marum scarum Oct 6, 11:39 1
    - i think you can comment now. Most tasteless pool ever? Probably. -- nm - Candieman, Candieman, Candieman Oct 6, 11:41
  - won't let me put my name in -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 6, 11:39 3
    - hmm -trying to find the settings, it's usually obvious, and yet... -- nm - Candieman, Candieman, Candieman Oct 6, 11:40 2
      - try again -- nm - Candieman, Candieman, Candieman Oct 6, 11:41 1
        
        yep thanks! -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 6, 11:41
- 3 days. They try to sneak him in. -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 6, 11:16
Don the con's feeling well, what are the chances that the docs gave him the 60's Dr feelgood mega dose of vit B and a pinch of crystal meth? -- nm - ⏲👻 Oct 6, 11:03 1
- Owsley LSD would be more interesting -- nm - PumpkinheadPete Oct 6, 11:08
'The 355' trailer -- (link) - mud Oct 6, 10:58 5
- Click through from Twitter to Hollywood Reporter to YouTube or... here's the YouTube link. -- (link) - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 6, 11:09 [youtube] 4
  - does it give the whole movie away? or is it a good trailer? -- nm - Booooooker Oct 6, 11:10 3
    - Is there really much of a plot to give away? It's what you would expect, only... not very good. - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 6, 11:14
    - I like it. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 6, 11:12 1
      - I think this is the first international picture China has let Fan Bingbing do since her tax scandal. -- nm - mud Oct 6, 11:16
65 year old arrested for killing 80 year old during argument about mask wearing (and other things). -- (link) - Diva Oct 6, 10:56 1
- this virus is rough on seniors -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 10:59
Friend asking if you’re doing Sober October this year can fuck all the way off -- (link) - Boooooooker Oct 6, 10:48 5
- Really? I am. -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 6, 11:24
- *slapped money on the table by Oct 3* "I'm out." -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 6, 11:00
- Wait...that’s a thing? -- nm* - znoooooooo!!! Oct 6, 10:51 2
  - It’s “Dry July” here. -- nm - mafic Oct 6, 11:03 1
    - Yeah, did that too. -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 6, 11:24
I'm not sure how this works. The wiki page for Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut mentions a tourist economy but has an official population of zero -- (link) - crash davis Oct 6, 10:48 13
- Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. -- nm - Baron Someday🎩 Oct 6, 11:04
- If you're going up that way would you mind getting me a caribou parka? - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 6, 10:54 3
  - you should send 1/2 of your sneakers up there, its going to be our new zombie proof compound -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 10:57 2
    - I won't make it in that cold and so far from a good pizzeria -- nm - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 6, 11:00 1
      - Don't let the cold dominate you. Funny you should mention pizzerias, guess what your compound job is? :) -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 11:02
- Maybe people live there seasonallly? -- nm - 👽 Scully 👽 Oct 6, 10:51 7
  - Yeah, a lot of people in Nunavut live semi-traditionally. Nomadic in the hunting months, settled the rest of the time. -- nm - mafic Oct 6, 11:02 1
    - in gorgeous downtown Rankin Inlet -- (link*) - crash davis Oct 6, 11:04 [Image]
  - I'm going to move there full time so I can be the best looking guy in town. -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 10:52 4
    - and you can take the title Emperor of Bathurst Inlet! -- nm - decline Oct 6, 10:54 3
      - and then I will invade and annex Umingmuktog -- (link) - crash davis Oct 6, 10:56 2
        
        and then we will go back to the old license plates -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 11:00 1
        
        you'll rule something like 1/3 of Canada at that point! -- (link) - decline Oct 6, 11:03 [Image]
Orange County Health Care Agency Recommends Disneyland Resort Parks Reopen -- (link) - 🎃 Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 6, 10:46 4
- "California has dangerously low cases of COVID-19" -- nm - Reagen Oct 6, 11:11
- What does The Governor of the state with the most weekly Covid deaths say? -- nm - Epiphany Oct 6, 10:57 2
  - disneyLAnd is in LA. :) -- nm - 👽 Scully 👽 Oct 6, 10:59 1
    - I thought Cali took over FL last week? I can’t keep up! -- nm - Epiphany Oct 6, 11:02
LIR: I am WFH, no he is not in my house, ha ha. He is at HQ on 1st deck, my group is downstairs on 5th deck. -- (edited) - 👽 Scully 👽 Oct 6, 10:37 12
- So all the bigwigs on 1st deck are probably home quarantining - you should go into the office and hang out up there. Take some selfies and such -- nm - decline Oct 6, 10:47 1
  - Good question. They're probably rotating. That's what FEMA is doing. -- nm - 👽 Scully 👽 Oct 6, 10:50
- Also my friend in the Canadian navy introduced me to the term “stone frigate”, which is objectively hilarious. -- (link) - mafic Oct 6, 10:39 4
  - I've been called something similar a few times -- nm - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 6, 10:55
  - Nice. USCG doesn't do that, though they do share Navy ranks. - 👽 Scully 👽 Oct 6, 10:41 2
    - He worked in an office building christened “HMCS Cataraqui”. -- nm - mafic Oct 6, 10:45 1
      - I live near HMCS Naden, which I think counts as that -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 6, 11:24
- shush, I'm already halfway through my new horror script "The Admiral In The House" -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 10:39
- */loosi has a boyfriend\* -- nm - mafic Oct 6, 10:38 3
  - I actually didn't know his name until today. - 👽 Scully 👽 Oct 6, 10:38 2
    - I'm sure that is what you WANT us to believe. Is he hawt? - Pippy's Brew Oct 6, 10:40 1
      - No clue. I think I've seen the admiral for my own office maybe twice. -- nm* - 👽 Scully 👽 Oct 6, 10:41
loosi news alert: Endangered baby sea turtles may have a new savior: fake eggs with GPS trackers -- (link) - marum scarum Oct 6, 10:28 1
- nice!!! -- nm - 👽 Scully 👽 Oct 6, 10:33
but I wanna go to the Oval!!! -- (link) - 45* Oct 6, 10:25 1
- He needs to worry about them shutting down the White House and not the Country - cause that's very likely. -- nm - Pippy's Brew Oct 6, 10:28
I'm quite impressed with my youngest daughter and her friends. They're honestly quite on top of getting ready for the vote. - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 6, 10:25 17
- It's his vote. He should do what he wants with it. -- nm - Baron Someday🎩 Oct 6, 10:46 4
  - Only the voter knows what they do in the booth, but if you're going to throw it out for discussion, people can campaign for their candidate. -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 6, 11:11
  - If start letting people vote for how they want, they might start three-starring Replay. - David Oct 6, 10:52
  - Absolutely. Then everyone else should call him an asshole for doing it. -- nm - mafic Oct 6, 10:48 1
    - this -- nm - Boooooooker Oct 6, 10:49
- It's nice that your daughter doesn't immediately cut off her stupid friends. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 6, 10:35 1
  - You mean we aren't supposed to do that? - Pippy's Brew Oct 6, 10:40
- It's also a point that will likely never be driven home. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 6, 10:34
- I have been *incredibly* impressed with all of the young people (Gen Z, Millennials) who absolutely are engaged and encouraging friends to vote. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 6, 10:31
- I too voted third party once when I was young and idealistic. -- nm - Dano Oct 6, 10:30 2
  - Same. First vote I ever cast. -- nm - pmb Oct 6, 10:47
  - Yep me too. - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 6, 10:38
- I have someone like that. Finally just gave up. He's in Illinois...so, his little protest vote won't matter much. -- nm - Arby Oct 6, 10:27 3
  - My friend’s father-in-law in Illinois voted Trump in 2016 because “I just don’t like Hillary, it won’t matter in Illinois, and he won’t win anyway.” -- nm - mafic Oct 6, 10:32
  - (As long as he votes for good down ballot candidates) -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 6, 10:31 1
    - I have no idea what he's doing down ballot - but he's all Jo Jurgenson all the time. And from what i can tell - she has a great meme game - Arby Oct 6, 10:35
- nice. I hope they convince him! -- nm - mud Oct 6, 10:26
in today's Good Bad Music Video installment, Heart's What About Love -- (link) - 🧛 pfm in a foodchem mask 💀 Oct 6, 10:23 [youtube] 1
- It raises questions about safety protocols in a post-modern metallurgy workplace -- nm - 🧛 pfm in a foodchem mask 💀 Oct 6, 10:24
Also last time I was in Nunavut the licence plate was the polar bear. Think they’ve changed it since, but it’s still bear-adjacent. -- nm - mafic Oct 6, 10:22 8
- I guess I should not be shocked that there is a separate Wikipedia page dealing with Nunavut license plates -- (link) - crash davis Oct 6, 10:25 6
  - that new one's a damn mess. it looks like someone is trying to TP the polar bear.. -- nm - 🧛 pfm in a foodchem mask 💀 Oct 6, 10:31 1
    - I didn't see the TP until you mentioned it. Now I can't stop seeing it -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 10:35
  - I mean, the design isn’t great, but at least there’s still a polar bear. - mafic Oct 6, 10:29 3
    - I need to stay alert for Nunavut design competitions. It looks like not many people enter them. -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 10:30 2
      - They might be officially open to the public, but they’re not exactly open to the southern public. -- nm - mafic Oct 6, 10:35 1
        
        I'm sure they don't know all 35,944 residents. -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 10:41
- Bear Approved even? -- nm - 🎃 Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 6, 10:23
I fell for the ole mean temperature joke. -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 10:22 3
- It also has no trees. -- nm - mafic Oct 6, 10:23 2
  - When I went to Bethel, AK they had one tree -between the airport and the town. Inevitably, someone got drunk and ran into the only tree in 100 miles -- nm - crash davis Oct 6, 10:27 1
    - target fixation is a thing. -- nm - Reagen Oct 6, 11:12
Fun fact: Australia has had 10-15% of its typical flu deaths so far this year. There are so few cases they can’t assess vaccine efficacy. - mafic Oct 6, 10:18 5
- What about the movie theaters? -- nm - Max Oct 6, 10:22 1
  - They’re... open? — nm - mafic Oct 6, 10:24
- True, but Australia also has the nightmare of tapeworm larvae that invade your brain -- (link) - decline Oct 6, 10:21 1
  - I favour unreasonably large subsidies to tapeworm farmers. -- nm - mafic Oct 6, 10:22
- Greatest 1st ever! -- nm - Pippy's Brew Oct 6, 10:20

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