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Bomb blast AT WW1 Memorial in Jeddah Saudi Arabia -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 11, 12:26
A lovely cover of “Dreams”. -- (link) - Mop Nov 11, 12:25 [youtube] 1
- Nice. And people give Taylor Swift a hard time for singing about these things. -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 11, 12:30
8 states currently are showing a bigger swing to Trump than over 2016 - Reagen Nov 11, 12:20 4
- UT was a given (no McCullin). NY is still counting, though who knows, could hold? -- nm - ty97 Nov 11, 12:26
- FL stumped people, AR/MS kinda expected -- nm - budice Nov 11, 12:26
- That's an interesting assortment: 4 deep red, 3 deep blue, and 1 purple. -- nm - Apple Baron Betty 🥧 Nov 11, 12:25 1
  - Bigger swing may just be a few % diff. -- nm* - budice Nov 11, 12:26
bars and restaurants in NY with liquor licenses will have to close at 10 PM. -- (link) - ty97 Nov 11, 12:13 2
- @NYGovCuomo says private parties inside of residences will be capped at 10 people. -- (link) - ty97 Nov 11, 12:13 1
  - good luck enforcing it -- nm - budice Nov 11, 12:15
crash is sus. - tRuMaN Nov 11, 12:11 1
- once my situation is less fluid, I'll be able to schedule things -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 12:17
Current mood: -- (pic) - David Nov 11, 12:10 [Attachment] 6
- mine -- (link) - Pippy-wall to wall Raccoons Nov 11, 12:23 [Image]
- thats a weird thing for your new playstation to show. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 11, 12:16 2
  - I guess Playstation finally wanted not to suck. -- nm - David Nov 11, 12:21 1
    - I mean, if its showing the xbox logo, it kinda does. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 11, 12:24
- blue, with a white glowey center? -- nm - decline Nov 11, 12:11 1
  - ... slightly askew... -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 11, 12:11
The 'Stop the Steal' protests are getting massive! -- (link) - decline Nov 11, 12:07 6
- Fox = UN is wrong for so many reasons -- nm* - Mop Nov 11, 12:24
- I. Count. FIVE. People -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 11, 12:08 4
  - Sorry. We’re too busy celebrating all those losers in the military today. Come back tomorrow. -- nm - Mop Nov 11, 12:25
  - there are FOUR lights! -- nm - Beaker Nov 11, 12:15
  - and a very right leaning tree. - Pippy-wall to wall Raccoons Nov 11, 12:10 1
    - ST IS the crooked media!!! -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 11, 12:11
Fans demand more progressive politics from Hanson, drummer apologizes for Pinterest accoun -- (link) - ty97 Nov 11, 12:05 5
- I love that we have a resident Hanson Expert. The comments are mostly hilarious. - Pippy-wall to wall Raccoons Nov 11, 12:14
- Remember when the South tried to cancel the Beatles for saying they were Bigger Than Jesus? - Reagen Nov 11, 12:09 1
  - Raised religious in Tulsa, OK? They probably ARE progressive for their area - Pippy-wall to wall Raccoons Nov 11, 12:15
- that will bring justice to the world -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 12:08
- What happened to the board, indeed? - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 11, 12:05
sad zebra news. a baby zebra in the UK died from shock hearing Guy Fowlkes Day fireworks -- (link*) - Peglegpete Nov 11, 11:56 2
- Appears to have died from the impact with the fence, but very sad indeed. -- (link) - Megberry Sauce 🦃🥧🏈 Nov 11, 12:04
- that's horrible. -- nm - Andie Nov 11, 12:03
Fort Hood is named for a Confederate traitor. Is it time for ‘Fort Benavidez’? - crash davis Nov 11, 11:47 2
- my favorite military naming is still the Provo Privy in The Green Berets -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 11, 11:58
- He dipped the knife in the tabasco, that's what made him mean. -- nm - Max Nov 11, 11:53
Mop, Biden's lead has generally been *dropping* in AZ as Maricopa counts. It's just not dropping by *enough* for Trump -- nm - ty97 Nov 11, 11:47
The massive L.A. disaster you’ve never heard of. -- (link) - Mop Nov 11, 11:23 [youtube] 6
- She wrote a fantastic book called Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. - Green Bean Cuzzinrole Nov 11, 12:22
- The My Favorite Murder Podcast covered this back in June-ish and did a really good job reviewing it - decline Nov 11, 12:05 1
  - You have to xnay on the favoritea podcasta - Pippy-wall to wall Raccoons Nov 11, 12:08
- I have heard of this one, but we talk about a lot of engineering failures in engineering school - Reagen Nov 11, 11:52
- There's a Facebook group dedicated to the history of this. -- nm - Megberry Sauce 🦃🥧🏈 Nov 11, 11:45
- thanks. I love her stuff and always forget to subscribe -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 11, 11:38
I didn’t expect this mini-doc to be so emotional. They were best friends, then pen pals, until one day the letters stopped. -- (link) - Mop Nov 11, 11:17 [youtube]
Philippines with massive storms once again -- (link) - budice Nov 11, 11:00 1
- *shoots at storm* -- nm - President Duterte Nov 11, 11:02
Map drive-by post: GA Tech's COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool -- (link) - con_carne Nov 11, 10:59 1
- +20 SB Points! -- nm - Strongbad Nov 11, 11:18
If you want to turn your yard into soybeans so you can join FarmersOnly.com, I'm not going to stand in your way -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 10:57 13
- Country folk need lovin too, Crash! -- nm - Strongbad Nov 11, 11:18 1
  - hmmmmm -- nm* - Luke Bryan, working on his next album Nov 11, 11:19
- Mmmm, soy curry. -- nm - landbeck Nov 11, 11:12
- What if I wanted to turn mine into...a shrubbery! - znufrii Nov 11, 11:06 5
  - One word: topiary. -- nm - Apple Baron Betty 🥧 Nov 11, 11:12 3
    - I tried to shape one of our boxwoods into a cuboctahedron a few years ago. Didn’t turn out too well. -- nm - znufrii Nov 11, 11:16 1
      - a 20-sided polyhedron would get you mad props from me -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 11:18
    - I would never do that. After watching Edward Scissorhands, I would feel totally inadequate -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 11:13
  - I'm not sure why you would want to join FarmersOnly, but shrubs are nice -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 11:11
- there was a thing about turning yards into vineyards -- nm - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 11, 10:59 2
  - it is pretty simple, you take a yard, you add vine and pluralize it -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 11:02 1
    - well lots to trellising to build -- nm - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 11, 11:04
- “Still cultivating fescue, ‘eh Bill? That’s certainly... a choice. You do you.” -- nm - Mop Nov 11, 10:59
AHHHHHH! What happened to the Board??!? -- nm - decline Nov 11, 10:43 3
- Moved to slockertalk.com -- nm - Apple Baron Betty 🥧 Nov 11, 10:45 2
  - Spoiler: it's just a forwarding address for Parler. -- nm - Apple Baron Betty 🥧 Nov 11, 10:47 1
    - son of a....! -- nm - Pippy-wall to wall Raccoons Nov 11, 10:54
I'm going to try an upgrade in a few minutes. I expect it will go smoothly, but if not, this is why. :) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 11, 10:42 1
- oh, apparently not. Have to reconfigure something locally first. heh -- nm - Beryllium Nov 11, 10:43
Survivor Quarantine Questionnaire: Jonny Fairplay on his infamous dead grandma lie -- (link) - Beaker Nov 11, 10:42 1
- Love to see him give some props to Rob C. -- nm - Johnny Lawrence Nov 11, 11:02
I don’t know Kaitlyn Bristowe, but apparently she did quite a tango to “Toxic” on DWTS. -- (link) - Mop Nov 11, 10:34 [youtube] 2
- Googles: wait, she's Canadian. How do you not know her? - decline Nov 11, 10:37 1
  - Because once the word “Bachelorette” enters the conversation, my body goes limp and I fall unconscious. -- nm - Mop Nov 11, 10:40
"Cabral argues that the 11-year delay between his 2007 indictment and 2018 arrest violated his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial." - Apple Baron Betty 🥧 Nov 11, 10:34 3
- IIRC the whole running from the law to evade prosecution stops the clock on statute of limitations thing -- nm - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 11, 11:03
- So you’re saying that playing keep away with federal marshals isn’t a valid excuse? -- nm - Mop Nov 11, 10:35 1
  - What's Portuguese for "chutzpah"? -- nm - Apple Baron Betty 🥧 Nov 11, 10:36
And down the rabbit hole I’ve gone; video essay on Shudder to Think, the alt-rock band from an alternate universe. -- (link) - landbeck Nov 11, 10:34 [youtube]
"fuck'em!" -- (link) - mud Nov 11, 10:29 2
- Legend. -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 11, 12:06
- *feels bad about watching Jeopardy 24 hours a day* -- nm - Mop Nov 11, 10:33
One of the things I'm looking forward too is the RNC going broke for enabling Trump - eag Nov 11, 10:26 2
- Koch bro, they're good for another billion or so, geo and donny's tax cuts gave them about 30b more of their fracking profits -- nm - 📆⌚👻🦃🦴🍗🍷🏈📺🍹🍺 Nov 11, 11:06 1
  - I thought Koch pulled back months ago? Hence the adds being pulled. -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 11, 12:10
ESPN has shuttered its entire esports division as part of its cuts. -- nm - David Nov 11, 10:26 5
- Good? Hot take? esports is dumb. -- nm - Qale Nov 11, 11:57
- "...its entire sports division" -- nm - what i read Nov 11, 10:28 1
  - Same here -- nm - eag Nov 11, 10:34
- On the one hand, it’s the only thing going on in the early days of the pandemic. On the other hand, ...anyone who cared about esports was watching it on Twitch. -- nm* - Mop Nov 11, 10:28
- How will I know which Korean beat the other Korean? -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 10:26
Saying He Was a ‘Scapegoat,’ Jeff Luhnow Sues the Astros - crash davis Nov 11, 10:18 4
- I look forward to him signing a settlement that involves a gag order. A trial would be a black eye for the Astros and MLB, and I assume that’s what he’s betting on. -- nm* - Mop Nov 11, 10:26 2
  - Last paragraph says he is writing a book. He may not want a gag order. -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 10:27 1
    - How much do you think you’ll make from your book? *whips out check book* -- nm - MLB Commissioner Nov 11, 10:29
- “The Astros concocted grounds to fire Luhnow ‘for Cause’ in order to save more than $22 million in guaranteed salary.”—Yeah—probably -- (edited) - Flavorize 🎄 😇 Nov 11, 10:24
Multi-team trade involves Jrue Holiday to the Atlanta Hawks and Hawks trading away #6 overall pick in the works -- nm - Flavorize 🎄 😇 Nov 11, 10:16 7
- Lost in the shuffle is that the 3rd team is Minnesota, so this may involve the #1 pick. -- nm - Volnelk Nov 11, 12:11
- I had to lookup what sport the Atlanta Hawks played. -- nm - Mop Nov 11, 10:18 5
  - You know, we here in St. Louis would probably take them back if you're tired of them. -- nm - Apple Baron Betty 🥧 Nov 11, 10:37
  - Fair—I think the Hawks have less YouTube followers than Brady Haran -- nm - Flavorize 🎄 😇 Nov 11, 10:23 3
    - I had to lookup what sport Brady Haran plays -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 10:24 2
      - Tommy Ball. -- nm - Mop Nov 11, 10:29 1
        
        That is good, I was afraid Brady Haran was Boko Haram's cousin -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 10:30
Idiom Deathmatch: "Cut the grass" or "Mow the lawn"? You decide! -- nm - Apple Baron Betty 🥧 Nov 11, 10:16 29
- Mow. - znufrii Nov 11, 10:39
- I say cut the grass, before it happens, and then mowed the lawn, after it happens -- nm - Flavorize 🎄 😇 Nov 11, 10:37
- Water is a diminishing resource, and lawn is the earth’s most prevalent crop because... Victorians? The sooner we abandon this nonsense, the better off humanity will be. -- nm* - Mop Nov 11, 10:31 20
  - I never water my grass. It is hearty. If it turns brown, it rains, and it turns green again -- nm - oblique Nov 11, 11:14
  - I live next to the ocean. I basically never water the grass. -- nm - Reagen Nov 11, 11:12
  - lawns are pretty stupid in North America. We don't even use native grasses. -- nm - Andie Nov 11, 11:04
  - where did you get that factoid? -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 10:32 16
    - Look, my county is the biggest grass seed producer in the world. I’m literally surrounded by grassy fields. But this madness needs to end. -- (link) - Mop Nov 11, 10:40 5
      - from your very linked article: If you add up all of the acres of corn grown, it is more than grass. Farmers harvested about 80 million acres of corn - crash davis Nov 11, 10:48 4
        
        I think you’re hung up on the “irrigated” part. The fact that most corn isn’t irrigated is *GOOD*. - Mop Nov 11, 10:56 3
        
        Here is what I'm hung up on: " lawn is the earth’s most prevalent crop" -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 10:58 2
        
        Yes, yes. Mop’s subject line is not in-line with the words of the research study. Mop dumb. -- nm - Mop Nov 11, 11:00 1
        
        I am not against what I think your ultimate point was supposed to be. But don't exaggerate things, you're stepping on the Donald's toes -- nm* - crash davis Nov 11, 11:06
    - It’s a book and occasional thought experiment. -- (link) - landbeck Nov 11, 10:37 3
      - wild prairie grasses are not lawn, Mop said "lawn" and Mop said "earth" and now I'm getting non-lawn and US-specific answers -- nm* - crash davis Nov 11, 10:50 2
        
        They are collectively grassland. Grains, whether long grain or crops. -- nm - landbeck Nov 11, 10:57 1
        
        You're not wrong, but it isn't what I'm questioning Mop on :) -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 10:59
    - Mop grew up in the Victoria Era. -- nm - Apple Baron Betty 🥧 Nov 11, 10:36
    - Here’s the first source I found, for the us at least. -- (link*) - znufrii Nov 11, 10:34 4
      - yeah, I'm calling leprechauns on that right now - 1) from their statement "That makes grass – not corn – America’s largest irrigated crop" - crash davis Nov 11, 10:46 3
        
        If we all grew corn in front of our houses, we’d be better off. -- nm - Mop Nov 11, 10:53 1
        
        I'm just going to assume a squirrel has taken over Mop's account -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 10:53
        
        Video with sources in the comments. -- (link) - Mop Nov 11, 10:52 [youtube]
- When you mow the lawn, you cut the grass. -- nm - Mop Nov 11, 10:29
- Both. No preference -- nm - 🦃 TWuG 🚀 Nov 11, 10:22
- This is funny. In my head i think i say "mow", but, when i say both out loud, i think i might actually use 'cut' more often. Though both sound normal - Andie Nov 11, 10:20 1
  - I tell my son it’s time to throw in with trees’ war on the grass. -- nm - landbeck Nov 11, 10:27
- Mow -- nm - Volnelk Nov 11, 10:16 1
  - 👍 -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 10:20
Google changing storage rules. As of June 1, new photo or video in High Quality will count against your 15GB. Also new Docs, etc will count against -- (link) - oblique Nov 11, 10:09 11
- I mean... didn’t it already? - Mop Nov 11, 10:25 2
  - If you didn’t backup in original quality, it was unlimited. -- nm* - spamlet Nov 11, 10:26 1
    - Hmm, thanks. I’ll have to look into that. -- nm - Mop Nov 11, 10:36
- Of course. -- nm - spamlet Nov 11, 10:24
- The last 2 years I've had to pay Amazon an extra $80/yr for photo/video storage, mostly because of videos. - JaxSean Nov 11, 10:23 2
  - Hrm. Yeah, I think this is what I was using Google for (unlimited video). *sigh* -- nm - oblique Nov 11, 10:32
  - I guess I pay $60 for 1TB. 5GB is free, $144/2TB, $180/3TB, $240/4TB. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 11, 10:30
- bastards -- nm - decline Nov 11, 10:12 3
  - My three headed photo backup beast is going down to two now. Going to be Amazon for RAW + JPG and OneDrive for JPG. Will have to double check - oblique Nov 11, 10:15 2
    - We have one drive for all the pics we want to keep. and I just use google for easier transfers. Guess I’ll do something else. -- nm - spamlet Nov 11, 10:25
    - ha. see above. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 11, 10:23
The Buttermilk-Brined Turkey of Your Thanksgiving Dreams - crash davis Nov 11, 10:09 3
- Buttermilk-Brined Roast Turkey - crash davis Nov 11, 10:11 2
  - Subscribe Now for Full Access - here endeth the buttermilk brined turkey breast and the buttermilk brined roast chicken -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 10:12 1
    - $1.25 a week...hmmmmm -- nm - crash davis Nov 11, 10:15

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