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Tomorrow is the last day to sell equities and have the sale settle in time to count toward 2020 taxes. -- nm - ty97 Dec 28, 12:57 3
- I better get on that then. Also... - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 28, 12:59 1
  - Right? -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 13:24
- Sell Everything!! -- nm - decline Dec 28, 12:58
Alberta taking it to a new level -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 28, 12:56 4
- Do they serve you a 'rona, too? - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 12:57 3
  - Literally, it’s called Rona. -- (link) - Mop Dec 28, 12:59 2
    - you mean to tell me, a Hardware store is giving Covid tests? - Pippy Dec 28, 13:13 1
      - Free healthcare! -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 13:24
Dec. 28 Birthdays: Nichelle Nichols (88), Maggie Smith (86), Martha Wash & James Foley (67), Gayle King & Denzel Washington (66), - Max Dec 28, 12:56 1
- ~googles Mackenzie Rosman~ . Oh! her. Huh, She hasn't worked since 2013 when her final film was the cinematic masterpiece Ghost Shark for SyFy -- nm - decline Dec 28, 12:58
a fun thing to track with Mandalorian is how many episodes rely on deus ex machina for the resolution. -- nm - Reagen Dec 28, 12:32 7
- I'm a fan of plain dumb Luck solving problems in Star Wars movies. -- nm* - budice Dec 28, 12:38 5
  - The planet killing device has one weakness, and here it is! -- nm - Mop Dec 28, 12:45 4
    - that's convenient plotting, but it is the whole macguffin of the movie. -- nm - Reagen Dec 28, 12:54 2
      - Also, there may be more ways to destroy it, but this is the one the developer knew and leaked. -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 12:55 1
        
        FOUR TIMES! -- nm - Mop Dec 28, 12:56
    - Anakin's missiles destroying the droid control ship, JarJar releasing the Boombas, Han Solo bumping into Boba Fett with Fett landing in the Sarlacc Pit -- nm* - budice Dec 28, 12:47
- all of them? -- nm - decline Dec 28, 12:33
So, Alex Smith, great story...killed DC’s chances to draft the future by being slightly better than corpse-like. - Will Hunting Dec 28, 12:25 4
- Kaep seems ok -- nm - budice Dec 28, 12:53
- you win and you win the Division. -- nm - Beaker Dec 28, 12:27 2
  - The best thing about winning the Special Olympics is they don’t make you play the non-Special Olympians after you get your medal. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 28, 12:50
  - So much winning! -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 12:32
So I got an Echo Show for Christmas from the in-laws. Using it as an alarm clock. Anyone else doing this? I'm a snoozer and this morning it seemed - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 28, 12:00 11
- Read Miracle Morning! -- nm - Yuletide Callisto 🎄🎄 Dec 28, 12:40
- I use my phone, multiple alarms. They work better than snooze. -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 12:21 4
  - Same. My phone one has enough -- nm - budice Dec 28, 12:24 1
    - Plus, the phone actually has a space *above* my head and the vibrations are what wakes me. When I am awoken by noises I tend to startle. -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 12:56
  - heh, I use my phone and my kindle and have multiple times set on both of them - decline Dec 28, 12:23 1
    - I somehow hit snooze instead of off on the first one this morning and chaos ensued. - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 12:24
- That is basically what mine is. But can't help with snooze problem. -- nm* - Andie Dec 28, 12:13
- The Famous GE Alarm Clock is making the rounds on the Internets -- (link) - budice Dec 28, 12:03 3
  - we have 2, we use one in our room and the oldest has one in hers -- nm - Beaker Dec 28, 12:25
  - I probably still have one tucked in a box someplace -- nm - decline Dec 28, 12:21 1
    - Different version but Amy's old tiny one died so she is using my old one as of last week. -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 12:23
Question of the day -- (pic) - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 28, 11:47 [Attachment] 17
- Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 28, 11:47 [Attachment] 16
  - Bonus question -- (pic) - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 28, 11:47 [Attachment] 15
    - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 28, 11:48 [Attachment] 14
      - My bonus question: -- (pic) - kelly Dec 28, 12:22 [Attachment] 5
        
        Answer (Spoiler) -- (pic) -- (edited) - kelly Dec 28, 12:22 [Attachment] 4
        
        1/1 -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 28, 12:47 1
        
        well, aren't you just Mr. Smarty-pants -- nm - decline Dec 28, 12:50
        
        0/1 -- nm - decline Dec 28, 12:33
        
        0/1. dangit - nm - JaxSean Dec 28, 12:23
      - 1/2 -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 28, 12:14
      - 2/2 -- nm - loosilu Dec 28, 12:02
      - This is some intense bullsh!# - crash davis Dec 28, 11:54
      - 1/2 -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 28, 11:49
      - 2/2 (got the bonus by elimination) -- nm - decline Dec 28, 11:49 3
        
        This. I was also questioning the first one (spoils question) - JaxSean Dec 28, 12:22
        
        I've actually read it. -- nm - loosilu Dec 28, 12:02 1
        
        heh. I've read the other 3 -- nm - decline Dec 28, 12:05
Trish turned down lunch because it was "Oven-fried fish with tater sauce". I've lived a long time in Idaho and I have no idea what tater sauce is. -- (edited) - crash davis Dec 28, 11:43 10
- Tater sauce is clearly ketchup, but I'm sure she meant tartar sauce, which is mayo-based. -- nm* - mara Dec 28, 11:45 7
  - I called the hospital back and got clarification. The kitchen doesn't use spell check and Trish was mocking them for it. I will invent tater sauce - crash davis Dec 28, 11:49 6
    - Put Tater Sauce on your sliced tomatoes for Reverse French Fries! -- nm - JaxSean, Tater Sauce Infomercial Spokesman Dec 28, 11:55
    - Awesome. -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 11:55
    - It is pretty funny to google "tater sauce" to see how often it is misspelled and where -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 28, 11:53
    - recipe - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 28, 11:53 1
      - Fried taters. Mashed taters. Boiled taters. Roasted taters. Sweet taters. Creamed taters. -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 28, 11:54
    - LOL -- nm - mara Dec 28, 11:52
- tarter? Not everything is a tater, Idahoan -- nm* - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 28, 11:43 1
  - tartar sauce would make sense, she clearly said (and I made her repeat it several times) "Tater sauce" -- nm - crash davis Dec 28, 11:46
I"ve been stalked!! - Pippy Dec 28, 11:17 1
- Nice! -- nm - JaxSean Dec 28, 11:32
LYC: I've been attempting to track our internet bandwidth usage to figure out why we were going over the 1.2 TB per month data cap. -- (edited) - JaxSean Dec 28, 11:17 33
- Cut the cord? HAH! You still gotta pay! -- nm - Comcast Dec 28, 11:35
- What device are you streaming through? Fire TV stick or something else? -- (edited) - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 28, 11:30 1
  - No, Samsung SmartTV -- nm - JaxSean Dec 28, 11:31
- Netflix used to have a setting to throttle bandwidth but not sure about the others. -- nm - spamlet Dec 28, 11:26 6
  - a quick google search say Amazon Prime has the same - but I'm sure whether the setting is there is device dependent -- nm - decline Dec 28, 11:27 5
    - Yeah, I found you could do it on some devices (Fire, Firesticks, computers, etc), but not TVs. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 28, 11:32 4
      - so it may behoove you to stop using the samsung app and start using a firestick -- nm - decline Dec 28, 11:33 3
        
        Hm. That's officer thinking there. Thanks! -- nm - JaxSean Dec 28, 11:33 2
        
        This was going to be my suggestion as well -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 28, 11:34 1
        
        It just makes perfect sense. -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 11:35
- One possible work around would be to change the max data rate for a particular device at the router level. -- nm - JD Dec 28, 11:24 3
  - but won't that just cause the video to hang since it'll still be pulling at the high rate but throttled at the router (Mop, help!) -- nm - decline Dec 28, 11:27 2
    - I was thinking that the TV app would realize that it isn't getting the high quality stream it was expecting and change the request until it settled - JD Dec 28, 11:48 1
      - I think there's a solid chance of this happening, yes. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 28, 12:45
- that's a long time to stream - decline Dec 28, 11:24
- The only thing we can't figure out is, "what changed?" - JaxSean Dec 28, 11:20 17
  - They finally caught you. -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 11:22 16
    - We've used 1.6TB thus far in December. - JaxSean Dec 28, 11:31 15
      - Nope. They just enabled the 1.2TB data limit for most folks -- nm - decline Dec 28, 11:32 14
        
        Aha! So it DID just change. -- (link) - JaxSean Dec 28, 11:35 12
        
        Thank you! Knowing that it wasn't just our viewing habits or anything I had done differently helped. - JaxSean Dec 28, 11:41
        
        It appears for $30/mo you can get out from under the cap -- (link) - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 28, 11:40 10
        
        Yeah, I had seen that. Going to have to weigh that one out, now that I know. - JaxSean Dec 28, 11:44 9
        
        I grudgingly gave into AT&T a couple years ago on this - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 28, 11:48 5
        
        AT&T fiber doesn’t have caps if that is an option. -- nm - spamlet Dec 28, 11:51 4
        
        Available in every neighboring town but ours. Also hate that -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 28, 11:52 3
        
        They say it's available at my house but it isn't. - spamlet Dec 28, 11:54 2
        
        F*ck AT&T. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 28, 11:56
        
        bastards -- nm - decline Dec 28, 11:56
        
        yup, I basically had to change my habits. - decline Dec 28, 11:47 2
        
        Yeah, those are our 2 as well. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 28, 11:51 1
        
        It took about 6 months but I don't mind the silence now :) -- nm - decline Dec 28, 11:58
        
        yup. JaxSean is the reason we can't have (cheap) things. -- nm* - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 11:33
So after the two nights, has Trump signed any more pardons? -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 11:13 3
- Jolene - Pippy Dec 28, 11:34 1
  - Thanos - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 11:47
- Gríma Wormtongue -- nm - mud Dec 28, 11:23
Warner Bros. Planning Multiple DC Spinoff Series for HBO Max -- (link) - Remlik Dec 28, 10:56 7
- Multiverse here we come -- nm* - budice Dec 28, 11:02 1
  - Perfect opportunity to see which shit sticks, then make *that* the main 'verse. -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 11:05
- This comes from the NY Times article I was just reading. I was so disinterested, my eyes glazed over after the 1st paragraph. -- (link) - Mop Dec 28, 10:58
- Hey guys, let’s do everything Marvel is doing without the foundation of creative success they have. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 28, 10:57 3
  - (from Day One) -- nm - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 11:05 2
    - I mean, it was an admirable goal on Day 1... just the execution failed...time and time and time again. - Will Hunting Dec 28, 11:13 1
      - Oh, agreed. But it is like they keep watching, and then trying to copy, again-and-again. - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 11:17
Guys! Guys! Wonder Woman 1984 set records at the box office! -- (link) - Mop Dec 28, 10:48 2
- It kicked the ass of whatever was in theaters in 1919! -- nm - Reagen Dec 28, 10:50 1
  - Now, they had a runaway train that was a runaway box office hit -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 28, 11:41
Streaming into the Void episode 23 is live! Wonder Woman 1984 and Soul come home for the holidays! -- (link) - Mop Dec 28, 10:37 [spotify]
New York will pass new ban on evictions -- (link*) - budice Dec 28, 10:27 1
- I have a guy that is a *year* behind in his rent, now. He is still working, but instead of paying what he can afford which is what he was doing, he - ✨Spawn✨ Dec 28, 11:09
Work portal adjustments: made. Car inspection: completed. Aside from 10 min daily work check-in, I have no more responsibilities until next Monday! -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 28, 10:21 4
- Hooray! -- nm - spamlet Dec 28, 10:25
- oh, and 2021 household budget spreadsheet: assembled! -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 28, 10:22 2
  - Unbelievable. -- nm - Pippy Dec 28, 11:35
  - I had today all scheduled - and then it rained :/ If the recyclers open it's good. Otherwise, next on the list was Costco - but I need the trunk empty -- nm - Meg Dec 28, 10:29
GOP lawmaker sues Pence in bid to overturn Biden win -- (link) - Remlik Dec 28, 10:21 7
- "Pence gets to decide which Electors count" was a theme during Christmas With a Trumper - Dano Dec 28, 10:38 6
  - Then there's this about the Nashville explosion. - Dano Dec 28, 10:55 2
    - Dan Brown wrote books with thinner material than that -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 28, 11:44
    - Yes, person, I still think you are crazy. (NM) - Marlowe Dec 28, 11:01
  - Riiight. -- nm - znufrii Dec 28, 10:51
  - seems weird that it's never come up before. -- nm - Reagen Dec 28, 10:47
  - That's true, you know. As the President of the Senate he also gets to write and pass whatever legislation he likes. -- nm - Mop Dec 28, 10:41
IN Daily totals: 6059 ,6434, 5700, 4535, 4335, 5713, 5518, 6655, 8527, 8003, 7793, 6678, 5700, 5457, 5853, 6604, 7360, 7542, 6025, 5050, 4347, 6283, 6458, 6088, 7017, 6558, 3978, 3758, 4731, 6205, 5563, 3893, 1844, 2494 -- (edited) - Spawn Dec 28, 10:04
Wapo: 2020 has been 97 months long, so here’s everything you forgot about in this memorable year. I was able to read it without signing in. -- (link) - GregW Dec 28, 10:04
LIR Mop - Pippy Dec 28, 10:02 8
- Yeah my internet rate is probably going back up. Will need to go through that again. -- nm - spamlet Dec 28, 10:26
- I continue to have major success in private Tweets to Comcast. I’m sure the next time will be my day of reckoning, but 7 years so good. -- (edited) - Qale Dec 28, 10:07 1
  - Yep. Just closed out a transaction with Comcast via Twitter. I’m paying nearly $40 more/month but I get more channels and gigabit internet. - Mop Dec 28, 12:43
- I wish YouTube TV was better. And it's not like I'm gonna get my internet from CenturyLink. -- nm - Mop Dec 28, 10:03 4
  - What's wrong with YouTube TV? I'm probably under using it so the flaws aren't apparent to me. I can watch Red Zone and it records the few things I - JD Dec 28, 10:18 2
    - Well, come hell or high water, I still need internet from Comcast and the last time I used YouTube TV, I busted my data cap. - Mop Dec 28, 10:32
    - I dunno. We love it. -- nm - Yuletide Callisto 🎄🎄 Dec 28, 10:30
  - I used to do what you do, but got tired of the run around and that's when I dropped cable - decline Dec 28, 10:11
Padres are deep into talks to acquire Yu Darvish from the Cubs. -- (link) - budice Dec 28, 09:56 12
- Padres have reached an agreement with Ha-seong Kim -- (link) - budice Dec 28, 11:07
- N.L. Central is all yours, cardinals. -- nm - zunkskunk+ Dec 28, 10:00
- Damn...that’s how you complete a rebuild. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 28, 09:59 9
  - And I guess that's how the Cubs signal they're into rebuild mode (instead of just re-tooling) as well. -- nm - pmb Dec 28, 10:01 8
    - The Cubs bother me more than the Rays on how they’ve handled baseball finances. People should boycott those cheap bastards. - Will Hunting Dec 28, 10:13 6
      - Wrigley renovations probably cost $750 million. They have a lot of debt. You're right, they've handled revenue poorly. They are cash poor. -- nm - zunkskunk+ Dec 28, 10:20 5
        
        The owner is worth 5billion and the first year of the renovation was spent on building out their advertising space. They aren’t spending because - Will Hunting Dec 28, 10:56 3
        
        Don’t forget the losses on the Cubs tv network that isn’t carried by anyone! -- nm - spamlet Dec 28, 11:01 2
        
        It's carried by all the major cable companies now, but I think they had to cave on pricing to get that done. And they had a short season. -- nm - pmb Dec 28, 11:48
        
        There’s a baseball network more useless than Masn? -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 28, 11:17
        
        4th highest MLB payroll in 2020. They clearly want that lower. -- nm - zunkskunk+ Dec 28, 10:25
    - Yes. -- nm - zunkskunk+ Dec 28, 10:03

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