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Speaking of which, what’s everyone doing for Thanksgiving dinner? -- nm - David Nov 20, 10:40 8
- probably having a duck with just the two of us -- nm - ⌚👻🦃🏈 Nov 20, 10:57 1
  - That's exactly what i did. (pic!) -- (link) - Andie Nov 20, 11:22
- We're doing aged ribeye steaks, roasted potatoes, Italian bread stuffing w/bacon, corn, green beans and homemade ice cream for dessert. - Krusty Nov 20, 10:43 1
  - Ohhh can I come ov... oh right never mind. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 10:50
- We were supposed to have it at my mom's, but she canceled due to the Coves. nm - Johnny Lawrence Nov 20, 10:42 1
  - Mmmm, sweet pataters -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 20, 10:43
- Three pound ham, and some other things. Canned cranberry sauce, potatoes, corn... -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 20, 10:42
- We tried to get a frozen turkey breast from Walmart delivery yesterday and they were already out. Not honestly sure. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 10:41
See, 2020 is just an authentic thanksgiving. -- (link) - spamlet Nov 20, 10:37 [Image]
In happier news... -- (pic) - Spawn Nov 20, 10:30 [Attachment] 2
- We got the Goofy one yesterday. -- nm - David Nov 20, 10:34 1
  - That is #1. They do form a train, even though they are not train cars. #2 was my main target. And #10 (the last) the convertible with M & M. - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 11:02
I tried my best Colin to keep a friend like the anarchist you mentioned. Their zeal was its undoing and I was left behind after decades of friendship. -- nm - Qale Nov 20, 10:27
If you're bored and want something to watch/listen to right now, there's a Biffy Clyro Live at Wembley (2011) watch party on YouTube right NOW -- (link) - JaxSean Nov 20, 10:20 [youtube] 2
- Is no shirts kind of their thing? -- nm - Volnelk Nov 20, 10:22 1
  - Yup -- nm - JaxSean Nov 20, 10:25
This is the Lambo Vision GT. It's a "fragile" "beast" -- (edited) - 🦃 TWuG 🚀 Nov 20, 10:16 [youtube] 7
- It's beautiful, but the anxiety would never be worth it. Though I suppose if you could afford it, you could afford to mess it up. -- nm - Volnelk Nov 20, 10:43
- *puts 87 octane in it* -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 20, 10:41
- I love it! -- nm* - Krusty Nov 20, 10:34
- The Bolide will laugh at it. -- nm - Spawn Nov 20, 10:27
- "Panini Spaghetti" -- nm - Beryllium Nov 20, 10:21
- They should let the Taycan guy try to park it -- nm - decline Nov 20, 10:19 1
  - It took two guys over thirty minutes to unload it from the trailer. -- nm - 🦃 TWuG 🚀 Nov 20, 10:20
since it's important: sign up, send 50 post cards to probable non-voters in GA to encourage them to vote. -- (link) - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 10:11
NBC January Premiers. Zoey is moving to Tues at 8pm -- (link*) - decline Nov 20, 10:08 6
- ZOEY! -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 10:10
- I really thought that Superstore got cancelled at the end of the spring. -- nm - prayformojo Nov 20, 10:09 2
  - I *love* superstore. -- nm - amanda jeans Nov 20, 10:34 1
    - It’s really much better than it has any right to be. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 10:37
- 0 for me, This is us for the wife -- nm - Beaker Nov 20, 10:09 1
  - Watch Zoey - it's terrific -- nm* - decline Nov 20, 10:10
Porsche Taycan driver fails to park. - 🦃 TWuG 🚀 Nov 20, 10:07 [youtube] 11
- His poor insurance agent. -- nm - David Nov 20, 10:26 1
  - At least there's video. That'll make things a bit easier to sort out. - 🦃 TWuG 🚀 Nov 20, 10:30
- someone got their pedals messed up. oof. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 10:12
- What is this sh*t? Is these even a driveway? I'm outta here. -- nm - Taycan Nov 20, 10:11
- And they just happened to have a camera on that? I don't even understand what happened. Automatic parking system? -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 10:09 6
  - It's an EV, instant torque. Driver hit the go pedal too hard and the car went. - 🦃 TWuG 🚀 Nov 20, 10:14
  - Might be a door camera -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Nov 20, 10:10
  - It looks like a mounted camera of some kind, for security most likely. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 20, 10:10
  - I blame Tesla autodrive thingy -- nm - Beaker Nov 20, 10:09 2
    - You must be a major media outlet. I've always wanted to meet a major media outlet. 😂 -- nm - Beryllium Nov 20, 10:10
    - Flaming batteries everywhere!!! -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 10:10
and then there were three? -- (link) - mud Nov 20, 10:07 2
- The retiring guy finds some testicles. -- nm - pmb Nov 20, 10:11
- “And by demagoguery you mean...?” “By demagoguery I mean demagoguery.” “I thought so.” -- (link*) - znufrii Nov 20, 10:09 [youtube]
IN Daily totals: 1629, 1589, 1551, 1766, 2880, 2461, 2741, 2009, 2062, 2587, 3649, 3205, 3505, 2787, 3080, 2951, 3756, 4462, 4714, 5007, 4689, 4213, 4879, 5156, 6654, 5708, 8541, 6844, 5218, 5541, 6143, 7420, 6912 -- (edited) - Spawn Nov 20, 10:02 4
- :-[ -- nm - mud Nov 20, 10:05
- its going away. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 20, 10:04
- meanwhile here we've had 10 or so cases the last few days and the works are being shutdown again in the harder hit areas -- nm - Beaker Nov 20, 10:03
- 1 day downward trend -- nm - decline Nov 20, 10:03
Sherman Co., Oregon is using little solar powered trailers to try to bridge the digital divide and deliver wireless internet to people. -- (link) - Mop Nov 20, 09:57 1
- Do you guys ever even see the sun? -- nm - decline Nov 20, 10:04
nm -- nm* - budice Nov 20, 09:50
Heh -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 20, 09:49
Georgia certified. -- nm - David Nov 20, 09:48 13
- [keeps fingers crossed for January 5th] -- nm - mud Nov 20, 09:51 3
  - December 14 -- nm - ty97 Nov 20, 09:51 2
    - that too (I'm hoping for the long-shot senate) -- nm - mud Nov 20, 09:53
    - Today is Nov. 20th. You people are terrible at knowing the date -- nm - Krusty Nov 20, 09:53
- so Drump can now request a recount? -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 20, 09:49 8
  - They did the recount. It's done. -- nm - loosilu Nov 20, 09:55
  - The Trump campaign has until Tuesday to request a machine recount (which won't change anything as they've already done a hand recount) -- nm* - decline Nov 20, 09:53 3
    - I thought they were automatic in Georgia? -- nm - Strongbad Nov 20, 09:57 2
      - From what I read a hand recount is automatically done on *one* of the races. Your SoS chose to do it on the Presidential one. A machine - decline Nov 20, 10:01 1
        
        This. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 10:01
  - That's Wisconsin I think -- nm - ty97 Nov 20, 09:51
  - I was under the impression that no. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 20, 09:50
  - Hand recount completed yesterday. -- nm - David Nov 20, 09:50
Yep, these are words. “The Undertaker Partnering With Rapper Snoop Dogg For New Merchandise Collection” - Will Hunting Nov 20, 09:44 2
- The brand will be called "Underdogg". -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 09:54
- it's going to make them both huge money. -- nm - Remlik Nov 20, 09:48
Kayleigh vs Kaitlan -- (link) - mud Nov 20, 09:38 6
- Kaitlan's response: -- (link) - mud Nov 20, 09:49
- Also, walks off the stage when asked “Do you understand what the definition of sedition is?” -- (link) - decline Nov 20, 09:40 4
  - I couldn't make out what she said -- nm - prayformojo Nov 20, 09:44 1
    - "I don't call on activists" -- nm - mud Nov 20, 09:46
  - heh, Karem -- nm - mud Nov 20, 09:42 1
    - He's the best. -- nm - loosilu Nov 20, 09:56
"We're working on mass distribution of the virus." — Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin -- (link) - budice Nov 20, 09:35 10
- Why is Treasury involved though? -- nm - mara Nov 20, 10:22 1
  - they'll mail you your own vaccine with trump's signature on it. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 10:27
- Yes. Yes they are. -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 09:54
- "virus ..vaccine ..wHATEver" -- nm - mud Nov 20, 09:39
- Hope they kept W's Mission Accomplished banner. -- nm - Reagen Nov 20, 09:37 1
  - I'm sure Evil John Oliver uses it as a bathrobe. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 20, 09:39
- Finally, honesty -- nm - ty97 Nov 20, 09:36
- "Perhaps I've said too much." -- nm - David Nov 20, 09:36
- Success! -- nm - zunkskunk+ Nov 20, 09:36
- "We can see that." -- The World -- nm - Beryllium Nov 20, 09:36
ESPN's website must have gone through a change at some point. I've stumbled about some articles in the past week - Strongbad Nov 20, 09:35
The Dems results *overall* in the election *were* a disappointment. There's no avoiding that. -- nm - ty97 Nov 20, 09:34 3
- And I think two key factors (oddly almost opposing factors) were - ty97 Nov 20, 09:36 2
  - Not being able to door knock was a bigger factor than people want to contend with. -- nm - Reagen Nov 20, 10:53
  - In 2018, they had the focus in health care. Covid just sucked the air out of the room this year. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 20, 09:38
you gotta understand the people on the ground that pushed Defund the Police - they're anarchists, socialists, progressives. they have as little in - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:25 33
- This always gets to the problem of "do you want to be right, or do you want things to change". I get it. Most of them are young and angry and don't - pmb Nov 20, 09:37 1
  - i don't think sitting down young activists and "telling them how it is" is good for anyone. deep down they know what the score is. but they are - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:43
- You can be passionate and amazing and brave and also wrong. - Reagen Nov 20, 09:32 11
  - they're not wrong, they're just unrealistic. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:37 10
    - Funny, I see the opposite. I think this generation (which I see through my kids) is somewhat nihilistic. They think nothing will change so they - pmb Nov 20, 09:40 9
      - we protested here hard.. state went into special session. state's response was to give all cops a bonus. that's it. hard to not be angry at dems. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:44 6
        
        Change happens over time, not all at once. Ever. The work continues. I get the disappointment, but change can still happen. Just "fixing it" will - pmb Nov 20, 09:49 5
        
        Case in point: civil rights movement still is a work in progress. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 20, 10:08
        
        Change takes a long time to happen at all once, is they way I like to think of it. -- nm - znufrii Nov 20, 10:06
        
        i certainly get that, but i'm not going to tell activists to tone down their language for the sake of elected officials having an easier time. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:51 2
        
        I get that, but there comes wisdom with age that can be appreciated, even if it doesn't start with the leaders. Maybe you bring signs with a clearer - pmb Nov 20, 10:00 1
        
        they'll eventually transition into more action-based work.. this is just where they are now. the older activists are heavily involved in weed - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 10:08
      - Yes. More people need to adopt the Andy Dufresne method. Write a letter a week (metaphorically speaking) until there's some attempt at appeasement ... - Beryllium Nov 20, 09:44 1
        
        More people who are giving up, not the people who are already doing stuff, I mean. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 20, 09:50
- That’s fine, if you don’t care about enabling the people in power who would be more likely to be sympathetic to addressing the problems at hand - znufrii Nov 20, 09:31 11
  - as i said to spawn, the neoliberals running for office have the same chance of enacting changes to the police as republicans. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:35 10
    - Come on, you can do better than your parroting of “neoliberal” as an epithet against the insufficiently progressive left. - znufrii Nov 20, 09:41 9
      - the problem is... the funding of the police. not the messaging. the fact that dems are complaining about it shows they're not willing to be part of - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:46 8
        
        The problem isn’t funding though, it’s the institution of policing. You’ve just decided that’s the only acceptable way to address it. -- (edited) - znufrii Nov 20, 09:54 7
        
        some systems are too broken to fix. replacement is much better. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:55 6
        
        Baby, bath water. -- (edited) - znufrii Nov 20, 09:57 5
        
        the A in ACAB stands for "all", if you forgot. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:57 4
        
        Another pithy but ultimately counterproductive slogan. -- nm* - znufrii Nov 20, 09:58 3
        
        you just cost yourself that bottle of bourbon. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 10:01 2
        
        Heh - znufrii Nov 20, 10:03 1
        
        man, here's hoping. being in the US sucks out loud right now. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 10:09
- "and blaming them for hurting an election is more of a compliment than an insult :)" - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 09:30 5
  - let's say neoliberal wave instead of blue wave. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:34 4
    - Bear in mind that I'm not in the position of blaming then for the results (I think that's reductive and in a close election, 1000 things matter) - Reagen Nov 20, 09:37 3
      - Biden pledged to put more funding towards police. that's about as clear of a message as you can give to that issue. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:40 2
        
        "Kamala's a COP!" *eyeroll* Can't take you seriously -- nm - ty97 Nov 20, 09:41 1
        
        fine, former cop. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:50
- i'll drop it at this. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:27
LOL James Franklin. -- (link) - Strongbad Nov 20, 09:25 4
- Hey, he did the thing at Penn State that he did at Vanderbilt! Surprise! -- nm - David Nov 20, 09:35 2
  - It’s not like PSU has issues with criminal coverups. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 20, 09:45 1
    - "How good are you when it comes to coverups?" was literally on the hiring questionnaire! -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 09:52
- I see that Penn State's football team is on the road back to respectability. "I'm gonna Sandusky you." -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 09:30
ESPN: Saints will start QB Taysom Hill instead of Jameis. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 20, 09:24 1
- Jameis jamais! (NM) - Marlowe Nov 20, 09:24
The upshot is I can start licking doorknobs again with impunity. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 09:21 16
- your diagnosis might mean that hot sauce is HSA-able. (keep on keepin' on!) -- nm - amanda jeans Nov 20, 09:54
- Your order for "100 doorknobs" has shipped -- nm - spamlet's Amazon Nov 20, 09:31
- Di-plo-ma-tic im-pu-ni-ty -- nm - Strongbad Nov 20, 09:25
- It would be irresponsible not to. -- nm - Reagen Nov 20, 09:23
- He weeps, for he has but one small tongue with which to taste an entire world. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 20, 09:22
- Hope you keep feeling alright and that your wife and kid stay safe. -- nm - Tim Nov 20, 09:22
- LIR: Fatigue is the symptom that people keep talking about here. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 20, 09:22 9
  - My friend who has it is miserably exhausted. She and her husband had to rest four times while changing the sheets. - Commies Cancel Baby Yoda Nov 20, 10:04
  - Yes, I've heard a lot about this, both physical *and* mental fatigue -- nm - spamlet's Amazon Nov 20, 09:32 5
    - Like almost a mental haziness -- nm - ty97 Nov 20, 09:32 4
      - So, no change for him -- nm - Krusty Nov 20, 09:36 3
        
        Honestly it would be tough to tell sometimes. I always have trouble with words and names. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 09:43 2
        
        same -- nm - Beaker Nov 20, 10:07
        
        I'm with you on names. So frustrating. - Krusty Nov 20, 09:49
  - Thanks. I know with baseball players that was the big one to look for. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 09:30
  - I've had covid for 40 years! -- nm - JaxSean Nov 20, 09:24

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