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D+: Oscar Isaac in Talks to Star in ‘Moon Knight’ Series -- (link) - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 26, 10:11 2
- I'd buy that for a dollar! -- nm - Spawn Oct 26, 10:15
- he'd be perfect -- nm - Booooooker Oct 26, 10:13
This business will get out of control. It'll get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -- (link) - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 26, 10:08 2
- hole would need to be precisely defined -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 10:13 1
  - Right - is it an opening in or through an object? -- nm - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 26, 10:16
Fights Erupt During ‘Jews for Trump’ Rally in Manhattan Eleven people were arrested, and protesters screamed at Rudy Giuliani. - crash davis Oct 26, 10:08 2
- "All have been released except for a 36-year-old man who threw eggs in the faces of two police officers, the police said." That guy was a dumbass -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 10:08 1
  - Well at least he didn't throw bacon. -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 26, 10:09
I went on an email unsubscribe purge this weekend. Instead of what felt like hundreds of emails in my Promotions tab in Gmail, today I have 8 - kilboooooo 👻 Oct 26, 09:54 4
- I do this and it makes no difference whatsoever -- nm - Epiphany Oct 26, 10:01
- I hope he wins, but Jaime Harrison can stop emailing me 5 times every day. -- nm - Dano Oct 26, 10:00 1
  - I think I get 50 emails a day from the dems -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 10:04
- Airlines, Cruise Lines, and Hotel groups - every day! -- nm - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 26, 09:58
It is done -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 09:50 8
- It’s finally Howie Hawkins’ time. -- nm - Tim Oct 26, 10:09
- Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite -- nm* - Epiphany Oct 26, 10:02
- Jo Jorgensen FTW! -- nm - Strongbad Oct 26, 09:59
- VNV! -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 09:54
- Nice -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 09:54
- TRUMP! -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 09:53
- For Frodo. -- nm - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 26, 09:51
- Woohoo!! -- nm - decline Oct 26, 09:51
Did we ever adopt that rule in Blood Feud where we keep five regardless of position? -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 09:50 7
- No. Spawn loses enough as it is. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Oct 26, 09:52 6
  - Yet I have the highest championship percentage. -- nm - Spawn Oct 26, 10:14
  - I'm going to try to get it passed before next season, for purely altruistic reasons, of course -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 09:55 4
    - I like the rule change idea. If we are ever going to do it, next year makes sense given 0 keepers. -- nm* - Strongbad Oct 26, 10:08 3
      - BS, we're having keepers off our 2019 team. I've worked too hard to go with zero -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 10:09 2
        
        Do you know how many trades Crash would need to make to get back all his Seahawks??? -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Oct 26, 10:11 1
        
        I could not trust you guys to promise to not draft them, that is for sure -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 10:14
Kazakhstan, Reversing Itself, Embraces ‘Borat’ as Very Nice After banning the first Sacha Baron Cohen satire, the country has created tourism ads adop - crash davis Oct 26, 09:48 1
- Clever marketing. I should visit that despotic country! -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 09:55
Overhead view of the DK Metcalf tackle from yesterday. -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 26, 09:46 4
- I see two players who could have blocked him but chickened out. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 26, 10:01 2
  - Yup. 98 had no excuse. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 26, 10:06 1
    - I just watched again. 98 was blocking Russelland was turned away from Metcalf. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 26, 10:10
- meh - only 2nd fastest -- nm - decline Oct 26, 09:50
IN Daily totals: 535, 652, 728, 920, 1199, 1155, 921, 879, 751, 965, 1171, 1495, 1429, 1096, 835, 990, 1302, 1488, 1832, 1945, 1572, 1581, 1569, 1172, 1962, 2328, 2521, 1629, 1589, 1551, 1766, 2880, 2461, 2741, 2009 -- (edited) - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 26, 09:42 1
- At least 1 new coronavirus death and 380 new cases were reported in Idaho on Oct. 25. Over the past week, there have been an average of 893 cases per - crash davis Oct 26, 09:45
For those who didn't see it here is the Rays trying to steal home last night in the WS -- (link) - eag Oct 26, 09:40 [youtube] 1
- oof. *almost* got away with it! -- nm - 🧛 pfm in a Sipowicz mask 💀 Oct 26, 09:51
Some folks in the house woke up feeling newly crappy this morning (not me! I maintained my normal crappiness level.) covid testing at 12:30... -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 26, 09:38 2
- I hope it is just the creeping crud and not Covid. Best wishes -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 09:40 1
  - Thanks :) given local case counts it would be extremely unlikely to be covid, but we'll see -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 26, 09:46
The best DK Metcalf chasedown tackle memes. -- (link) - 🧟‍♂️ Shaun of the Dead 🧟‍♂️ Oct 26, 09:16 6
- Ben Watson would have shattered social media. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Oct 26, 09:33
- DK Metcalf Rundown combined with Daniel Jones stumble -- nm* - Bud S Pumpkins Oct 26, 09:21
- The Cowboys one is brutally funny -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 09:18 2
  - That's the best one -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 09:37 1
    - Yep. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 09:37
- last 2 are the best -- nm - Booooooker Oct 26, 09:18
NASA's big Moon reveal is they found water on the Moon on a 'sunlit surface' -- (link) - decline Oct 26, 09:13 3
- Somehow, Trump pissed on the moon. -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 26, 09:15 1
  - Remember that minute when I was out of contact? I had a lot of coffee in the lander. -- nm - Neil Armstrong Oct 26, 09:21
- Comey Moment! -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 09:14
If you're after a soothing playlist this FolkAfterDark one wins for having the theme tune to Detectorists by Johnny Flynn -- (link*) - LMS Oct 26, 09:12
anyone else watch the world premiere of the Golden video by Harry Styles? (I really liked it to be truthful) -- nm - Booooooker Oct 26, 09:09 2
- and here it is...it's been out for like 12 minutes so my girls have watched it 4 times each so far... -- (link) - Booooooker Oct 26, 09:13 [youtube] 1
  - heh, it has 463k views and 581k likes (there were 300k likes before it even aired :) ) -- nm - Booooooker Oct 26, 09:14
And now it is raining -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 09:01 15
- Those are donuts, Homer. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Oct 26, 09:34
- We're having snow!! - pmb Oct 26, 09:12 1
  - No snow, but it was 19 degrees a few minutes ago. -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 09:24
- And there's no free pizza! -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 09:08 5
  - Actually some people came by about 20 minutes ago with pizza -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 09:32 4
    - Of course. We live up to our rep. I love this city! -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 09:42 3
      - It was deep dish -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 09:42 2
        
        He said pizza not a casserole -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 09:54 1
        
        *applause* great comeback! -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 10:06
- ~Blame It On The Rain. Yeah yeah.~ -- nm - Milli Vanilli Oct 26, 09:06 1
  - ~And the Rain don't care~ -- nm - Milli Vanilli Oct 26, 09:06
- at least it's not snow -- nm - decline Oct 26, 09:04 1
  - it was so weird to see the Colorado wildfires blunted a bit by snow, of all things -- nm - 🧛 pfm in a Sipowicz mask 💀 Oct 26, 09:10
- Voter suppression! -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 09:01 1
  - I am far too stubborn to be stopped -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 09:02
Well, that is a first. I look to lose *all* my fantasy leagues this week. Thanks for not taking it easy on a guy when he is down! -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 26, 08:44 5
- You were building a pretty good streak in True Blood -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 09:07 3
  - My injuries across all leagues have never been this bad. Mack, Prescot, Chubb, Barkley, Beckham Jr, Ertz, Coleman, Mixon, JBrown, Hooper, Mostert - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 26, 09:13 2
    - that is brutal -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 09:15 1
      - I have *5* 3-3 teams and one 5-1 team, currently. - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 26, 09:20
- Here, this will cheer you up. I lost, too. -- nm - David Oct 26, 08:50
“Just so you all know, once you cross the street it’s about another hour and 15 minutes” - ty97 Oct 26, 08:39 2
- I won’t be making my 1:00 -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 08:41
- Voter suppressor!! -- nm - Qale Oct 26, 08:40
ST Tech Support: I got 2 larger monitors from the office (and a docking station), but while they seem to be capable of 2560x1440, I can only get it to - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 08:36 [Attachment] 17
- Why three? Many graphic chipsets have a maximum total resolution they can display across all monitors. With 3 going you may be limited to what you - kilboooooo 👻 Oct 26, 09:19 3
  - I have my laptop (screen), and 2 monitors attached to the docking station. - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 09:26 2
    - you may need to go into your power settings and change what happens when you close the lid to prevent sleep -- nm - kilboooooo 👻 Oct 26, 09:48
    - try closing your laptop lid and see if it works with just the two monitors -- nm - kilboooooo 👻 Oct 26, 09:47
- Well, the good news is *I THINK* the Intel HD Graphics 630 is supposed to be able to support 2560x1440. So... -- (link) - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 09:07 1
  - it seems like it, since it was when I initially plugged it in. -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 09:13
- how are the monitors connected? - tRu🦇aN Oct 26, 09:04 4
  - I had both as DP but switched one to HDMI just to see if that helped, so now 1 displayport, 1 hdmi -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 09:07 3
    - more detail: - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 09:13 2
      - look at page 17-18 on the user manual here. I think it's because of the multiple monitors going through the docking station (it's a bandwidth limit) -- (link) - decline Oct 26, 09:16 1
        
        thanks - I suppose that, to my primitive caveman mind, that makes sense. -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 09:28
- No idea. I can't get my new phone and my Echo Dot in the basement to talk to stream my podcasts over the speakers. - spamlet Oct 26, 08:51
- Hey, while reading I noticed a group of jaguars is called a shadow. Do you use that in any merchandising or advertising? If not, they should. -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 26, 08:41 4
  - A group of wild cats being called a "destruction" was the other that caught my eye, but that is not as on point for the team. -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 26, 08:42 3
    - No on either, that I'm aware of. -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 09:01 2
      - Fan zones should be Shadow Zones, at least. -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 26, 09:06 1
        
        I don't think the Jaguars need any additional shadows looming over them. They're in deep enough as it is. -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 09:08
Morning update: Now at 60.5M votes- up 1.8M from yesterday! 43.9% of 2016 total. Of 2016 totals: TX hit 80%!, MT hit 70%, FL hit 60%, NV 50%, SD 40% - MDH Oct 26, 08:28
"HOW TO MAKE YOUR LITTLE BLACK DRESS WORK FOR EVERY PARTY!" - David Oct 26, 08:26 7
- HOW TO MAKE YOUR HUGE BLACK DRESS WORK FOR EVERY PARTY! -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 26, 08:54
- Uhhh... I think that was meant for me. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 08:40
- Do Dress It Up Mondays at Home, just to feel like you went somewhere. -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 08:34
- they saw you raiding Kim's closet -- nm - mud Oct 26, 08:28 2
  - Like Kim's stuff could ever fit me. -- nm - David Oct 26, 08:29 1
    - "this tank top fits weird." -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 08:35
- Hike it up over your nose to also act as a mask? -- nm - znoooooooo!!! Oct 26, 08:27
We're all LIR, but I wouldn't mind a discussion on the risk of flying. I admit I have not researched deeply, but my gut doesn't like it at all. -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 08:21 21
- I don’t want to fly. ME. -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 09:00
- I scheduled my flight to Atlanta for New Years Eve Eve. But my mom knows that if I feel like it isn’t reasonable, I will postpone. - Qale Oct 26, 08:58
- I think for me I'll be waiting for the infection rate to go *way* down. Don't plan any trip where I can't drive for at least a year. -- nm - Meg Oct 26, 08:57
- Anecdotal: I've flown twice (RT), both in Sept. Double mask on the whole time, hand sanitizer, and curl up in my window seat and try not to move or - 🐺Rollooooooooooooo🌕 Oct 26, 08:48 1
  - Realistically, my anxiety wins this. - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 08:51
- One recent study we came across -- (link*) - znoooooooo!!! Oct 26, 08:23 3
  - That's the one I saw as well. -- nm - spamlet Oct 26, 08:27 2
    - My wife was googling as I was driving over the weekend so I haven’t read it fully, but the gist of it seemed reassuring. -- nm* - znoooooooo!!! Oct 26, 08:28 1
      - It's partly reassuring - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 08:32
- Maybe have that discussion on Thursday when we're out... -- nm - David Oct 26, 08:23 11
  - Not sure if you're joking. We can definitely wait. -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 08:25
  - Will they let you bring one of your kitties on board as a support animal? -- nm - Bar N Furter 🧛‍♀️ Oct 26, 08:25 9
    - They only let you bring canarys. -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 08:29
    - Our cats can't drive two blocks in a car without throwing a tantrum. - David Oct 26, 08:28 4
      - Maybe if you did the driving instead of them they would do better. - pmb Oct 26, 08:57 1
        
        Coincidentally, we call one of our cats Toonces. -- nm - David Oct 26, 09:04
      - Still, two blocks is impressive for a cat. -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 26, 08:43
      - Awww. I send them all kitty hugs. -- nm - Bar N Furter 🧛‍♀️ Oct 26, 08:34
    - They can catch COVID too. -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 08:26 2
      - Quit it. -- nm - David Oct 26, 08:26 1
        
        SOrry. -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 08:28
This was my favorite ST exchange in ages. -- (link) - David Oct 26, 08:19 [Backboard]
Streaming into the Vooooid folks should know that I obtained a free year of Apple TV+ with my iPhone 12 purchase. So inflated subs FTW! -- nm - Qale Oct 26, 08:18 10
- That's how we have ours, too. -- nm - Dark Callisto, Halloween Aficionado Oct 26, 09:01 1
  - It’s shocking that I’ve made two significant Apple purchases this year without being able to go in store and agonize about them multiple times. - Qale Oct 26, 09:13
- Ted Lasso is literally the first Apple+ show we watch. (And agreed with Remlik, don't skip it people. Bill Lawrence is doing good work here.) -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 26, 08:33 3
  - If AppleTV has the lowest number of things to watch, I imagine I could get through their entire catalogue in a year. And that’s with them adding to it -- nm - Qale Oct 26, 08:41
  - Now that I know it's his show I'm interested. Quit burying the lede here people -- nm - spamlet Oct 26, 08:37 1
    - I had heard about that and forgotten until watching the first episode. His vibe is all over the show and characters. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 26, 09:09
- Me too! We were actually excited we can (legally) watch Wolfwalkers when it debuts -- nm - spamlet Oct 26, 08:21 1
  - I scare them off! -- nm - Qale Oct 26, 08:22
- Yeah, I think a lot of people did since Apple gives it away with free product purchases. -- nm* - David Oct 26, 08:20 1
  - Yesh. AppleTV+ came after the iPhone 11 release, so this will be the first huge amount of people buying in. -- nm - Qale Oct 26, 08:23
Me at 10:50 - ty97 Oct 26, 08:17 5
- Yeesh. I hope you brought a drink and a snack -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 08:28 4
  - I figured this made sense to you. Me: words words words -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 08:37 3
    - Ha! -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 08:57
    - gobblegobblegobblegobble... -- nm - Bar N Furter 🧛‍♀️ Oct 26, 08:43
    - Google maps! -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 08:40
Lucky the Pizza Dog is apparently gonna be in Hawkeye. -- nm - David Oct 26, 08:17

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