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"Users are tasked with finding the identity of a mysterious Mr X, a dangerous agent dropping clues in your path." - amanda jeans Feb 4, 10:31 4
- I'd be in for this probably -- nm - JaxSean Feb 4, 11:03
- Sounds very interesting -- nm - Krusty Feb 4, 10:56
- oh, we would rock that. -- nm - Andie Feb 4, 10:41 1
  - basically cyberstalking. we would *excel.* -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 4, 10:42
That's not ominous *at all*! The week before the attack on the Capitol, Designated Survivor was the #10 most watched show on streaming. - Mop Feb 4, 10:30 7
- is there new sabrina? -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 4, 10:39 2
  - yup, final season -- nm - decline Feb 4, 10:46
  - Yup, the 2nd part of the last season. If you're a fan, this is where it wraps up. -- nm - Mop Feb 4, 10:46
- That can’t be a coincidence, can it? -- nm - Qale Feb 4, 10:31 3
  - And now we know what the "Q" in "QAnon" stands for. -- nm - Mop Feb 4, 10:32 2
    - Queefer Sutherland? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 4, 10:44
    - Qoddamnit. -- nm - Qale Feb 4, 10:39
Crash old buddy, to follow up on Amanda's suggestion, I would plow through a bunch of Trident Peppermint during tough stretches. Also a - rollo Feb 4, 10:24
McKinsey & Co. reaches $600m settlement over its role in the opioid epidemic -- (link) - znufrii Feb 4, 10:21 1
- Answering the question: How much is mass murder worth? -- nm - Mop Feb 4, 10:31
Impeachment managers requesting Trump testify under oath next week -- (link) - TWuG Feb 4, 10:18 3
- And if anyone could pull a Col Jessup in real life, it'd be him -- nm - TWuG Feb 4, 10:19 2
  - It would be interesting to see, but surely he won't comply. He'll refuse, they'll try to claim this proves something, his defense will say "Nonsense." - mara Feb 4, 10:29 1
    - Yes, they can subpoena him. -- nm - pmb Feb 4, 10:40
Raskin requesting Trump testify under oath "either before or during the Senate impeachment trial about his conduct on January 6." -- (link) - mud Feb 4, 10:14 2
- I should refresh the board before posting, shouldn't I? -- nm - TWuG Feb 4, 10:20
- I would REALLY love to. However, I have a tee time that day. SAD! -- nm - DJT Feb 4, 10:17
Now that the day crew is here, anyone interested in a NASCAR fantasy league this season? - ReluctantCynic Feb 4, 10:13
BK All Dressed nuggets: B-. Better than the normal ones, worse than the spicy ones. -- nm - Shaun Feb 4, 10:11
I'm shorting the Worst Man IPO over on HSX. It stars Pete Davidson and Colin Jost and I don't want to encourage Staten Island. -- nm - Diva Feb 4, 10:08 5
- I support this effort. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 4, 10:14
- "Worst Island" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 4, 10:09 3
  - Actually that would be fantastic. Love Island on Staten Island. I'd watch that. -- nm - pmb Feb 4, 10:11 1
    - love pmb more. -- nm - Diva Feb 4, 10:15
  - ha! -- nm - Diva Feb 4, 10:09
marj: "a media that is just as guilty as QAnon as presenting lies that divide us." -- (link) - mud Feb 4, 10:05 5
- sadly there is really only one solution for MGT's of the world -- nm - Jovian Feb 4, 10:14
- She’s talking about Fox News, etc. there, right? -- nm - znufrii Feb 4, 10:12
- Both sides do it! -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Feb 4, 10:11
- That's . . . something. So she both acknowledges that Q is presenting lies and dividing us and thinks the MSM does the same? - pmb Feb 4, 10:10 1
  - Yeah... that. She's acknowledging QAnon spreads lies? -- nm - Mop Feb 4, 10:32
MIAMI (AP) — Voting company Smartmatic files $2.7 billion libel suit against Fox News, Fox hosts, Giuliani and Powell. -- nm - budice Feb 4, 10:02 4
- Introduction: "1. The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election..." -- (link) - decline Feb 4, 10:37
- Now do Newsmax, OANN and My Pillow!! -- nm - pmb Feb 4, 10:07
- I am so enjoying watching these companies rake these "news" organizations over the coals. I hope it sets a precedent for other companies and - oblique Feb 4, 10:06
- *walks away quickly* -- nm - Newsmax Host Feb 4, 10:03
This morning when my alarm woke me I tried to silence it by saying "enormous snow". I have no idea why. -- nm* - TWuG Feb 4, 10:01
from BB's: Congrats to Dawson!!! And I may have to go to BK today and try those nuggets :) -- nm - Walt_Disney Feb 4, 09:57
LIR: I'd be up for a game night next week. Been playing Catan online recently, but I'd be up for anything, really. - ReluctantCynic Feb 4, 09:51 8
- I have 4 volumes of Jackbox Games plus a paranormal "Clue" style game called Mysterium. -- nm - Mop Feb 4, 10:49
- That's something I've never actually played. -- nm - spamlet Feb 4, 10:40
- Is it the "old" catan site or is there a new one? -- nm - rollo Feb 4, 10:20
- yeah - get on that Mop! -- nm - Andie Feb 4, 10:00 4
  - Mop, here. -- (link) - amanda jeans Feb 4, 10:16 [Backboard] 3
    - Mop, here. -- (link) - amanda jeans Feb 4, 10:19 2
      - What'd you guys get me into?! -- nm - Mop Feb 4, 10:48 1
        
        you volunteered! (which is to say that we volunteered you. but still!) -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 4, 10:50
SITWAP: This amuses me way more than it should -- (link) - TWuG Feb 4, 09:51 6
- I don't think I can ever embrace TikTok because I almost never have the sound on my phone -- nm - oblique Feb 4, 10:03 3
  - there should be these 2 little buttons on the side of your phone right next to each other. The one towards the top will turn the volume up -- nm - decline Feb 4, 10:06 2
    - witchcraft! -- nm - oblique Feb 4, 10:07 1
      - it's ok grandpa, I know these new fangled contraptions can be complicated -- nm - decline Feb 4, 10:38
- :-D -- nm - mud Feb 4, 09:58
- I prefer the earlier one, where the woman has an apparent existential crisis over it, but this is good too -- nm - Beryllium Feb 4, 09:56
Wan Davision non-spoilers -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 4, 09:40
ICLN really needs to get itself together -- nm - ty97 Feb 4, 09:29 7
- BEP +2.07% -- nm - znufrii Feb 4, 09:59
- My ST watch list is up 3.82% - great going guys! - Pippy Feb 4, 09:51 3
  - One I'm eyeing: CRSR. -- nm - Reagen Feb 4, 09:51 2
    - earnings report on 2/9. My step dad who only plays the OTC was up $ 33k yesterday. I was laughing so hard - Pippy Feb 4, 10:24 1
      - WSB is a river of tears -- nm - oblique Feb 4, 10:38
- SEDG is a rollercoaster lately. -- nm - Reagen Feb 4, 09:44
- multiple cleans. Like oil goes up and everyone wants to burn the world. -- nm - Max Feb 4, 09:38
I'm guessing that it asking way too much for the Dr Oz Jeopardy hosting to be a set up? - JD Feb 4, 09:26 1
- "I'm sorry, you mispronounced that" :) -- nm - Meg Feb 4, 09:40
Can’t wait until the Republicans take the House in 2022 and we get like two dozen Marjorie Taylor Greenes, Lauren Boeberts and Madison Cawthornes. -- nm - Tim Feb 4, 09:24 11
- I genuinely don't understand the confidence about Republicans taking the House. That's not the way the wind is blowing. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Feb 4, 09:50
- yep that is what the R party is now, a party for autocrats. -- nm - Jovian Feb 4, 09:29
- I... thankfully? have never heard of LB or MC. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 4, 09:28 8
  - You probably have. Madison Cawthorne is from NC and one of the youngest Congresspeople ever. He's in a wheelchair after a car accident. - Roger More Feb 4, 09:47 3
    - MC - is he also the guy who's been lying about being a Ranger and in the Paraolympic games? -- nm - Beaker Feb 4, 09:50 2
      - Tom Cotton was the one who said he was an Army Ranger, when he had only attended Ranger School. - Roger More Feb 4, 10:18
      - Yes. -- nm - pmb Feb 4, 09:50
  - Boeberts is the one that made the commercial about carrying her glock into the House floor. She seems delightful. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 4, 09:37 1
    - Oh. Yeah I knew the story but didn't recognize the name. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 4, 10:18
  - MC is a literal nazi! whee! -- nm - colin Feb 4, 09:30 1
    - But he is in a wheelchair so its fine. -- nm - Jovian Feb 4, 09:46
I have cuts all over my arms and legs from scratching dry skin, I need to moisturize more. Stupid winter. -- nm - ty97 Feb 4, 09:21 7
- Amlactin is a godsend, if I can remember to use it daily. -- nm - znufrii Feb 4, 09:44
- That reminds me. I need to moisturize my lizard elbows. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 4, 09:41
- check your feet. that's where my dry skin in winter starts -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 4, 09:23 1
  - Dumb question: how much winter do you all get there? - ty97 Feb 4, 09:26
- Some mornings I have to convince myself I haven't been sleeping with a poltergeist. -- nm - Max Feb 4, 09:21 1
  - ... others, I just go with it. -- nm - Max Feb 4, 09:22
- i would love a spray tan booth that just hoses out moisturizer. i'd pay for that every day. -- nm - colin Feb 4, 09:21
i watched Mank and Promising Young Woman. i'd rate both as... pretty bad. convince me i'm wrong... - colin Feb 4, 09:07 1
- PYM spoils - Dark Callisto Feb 4, 09:38
Interesting read if you are all caught up on WandaVision -- (link) - Volnelk Feb 4, 09:03 10
- show spec spoils - Spawn Feb 4, 09:12 9
  - Same. (more speculative spoilers) - ReluctantCynic Feb 4, 10:18
  - you've got some kinky dreams there pal -- nm - decline Feb 4, 09:19
  - I was thinking it might .. - mud Feb 4, 09:16 6
    - Oh... that could be cool on a number of levels. spoil - Spawn Feb 4, 09:21
    - Which one - eag Feb 4, 09:19 4
      - neither -- nm - mud Feb 4, 09:22 3
        
        Exactly. have been enjoying/cringing reading different sites recasting. - Spawn Feb 4, 09:32 2
        
        Wha What? - eag Feb 4, 09:53
        
        say what?! -- nm - Giancarlo Esposito Feb 4, 09:34
Riverdale S5 doing a time jump cause why the fuck not -- (link) - Reagen Feb 4, 09:00 7
- Put your hands on your hips, and pull your knees in tight? -- nm - Qale Feb 4, 10:26
- The cast are all considerably older than high schoolers, anyway. So sure. -- nm - Mop Feb 4, 09:13
- may as well. It would match the real actors ages. -- nm - Remlik Feb 4, 09:07
- "Worked for the Avengers!" -- nm* - budice Feb 4, 09:02 3
  - MUG knows all. -- nm - Spawn Feb 4, 09:02 2
    - heh -- nm - budice Feb 4, 09:10
    - mud knows ..stuff. -- nm - mud Feb 4, 09:05
Mitt Romney has a plan to give parents up to $15,000 a year -- (link) - oblique Feb 4, 08:56 18
- I only glanced through this so I need to read more details, but on the surface looks like a good thing, I think? -- nm - ty97 Feb 4, 09:23
- Joint filers making $400k need child support? -- nm - Max Feb 4, 09:15 2
  - private schools are expensive, Max -- nm - decline Feb 4, 09:20
  - That’s the current phase-out level for the child tax credit. -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 4, 09:19
- I have a plan to give every member of the Patriot Party $100,000. -- nm - Trump 2024 Feb 4, 09:13
- Somebody's running for President... -- nm - Mop Feb 4, 09:12
- I really like this plan. Get stuff like this out of the tax code and the IRS to departments set up to do this. -- nm - spamlet Feb 4, 09:08 2
  - And once people are used to getting checks on the regular, won’t be a large jump to full-on UBI. -- nm - znufrii Feb 4, 09:10 1
    - If it’s a proposal similar to this where several overlapping programs are scuppered for it, great! - spamlet Feb 4, 09:32
- I love the idea in principle. Need to do more research on the trade offs though. -- nm* - znufrii Feb 4, 09:05
- Done. Let's go. -- nm - Democrats Feb 4, 09:03 5
  - Not at the expense of eliminating SALT deductions entirely though, I don’t think. -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 4, 09:06 4
    - I didn't see that part of it, but SALT deductions don't go that far as it is right now (at least for me). I also would be ok if they lowered the cap - pmb Feb 4, 09:16 3
      - I only say that because of the political inconvenience of it hitting wealthy people in blue states, not because it’s necessarily worth keeping on the merits. -- nm* - znufrii Feb 4, 09:18 2
        
        *rages at SALT cap for completely selfish reasons* -- nm - ty97 Feb 4, 09:27 1
        
        To a degree, yes. Though I think it's the unfairness of its application that annoys me most. -- nm - pmb Feb 4, 09:31
- Personally? *raises hand* Mitt, over here, I'm a parent! -- nm - VMan Feb 4, 08:59 1
  - Me too! And a grandparent 😁😀 -- nm - Meg Feb 4, 09:38
Feb. 4 Birthdays: Jerry Adler (92), Gary Conway (85), John Schuck (81), Florence LaRue (77), Dan Quayle (74), Alice Cooper (73), Michael Beck (72) -- (edited) - Max Feb 4, 08:37
I guess someone wanted to get married before he turns 40. *Barely* made it! -- nm - ty97 Feb 4, 08:29 15
- with Hotkiss not around and i the youngest person on here? -- nm - colin Feb 4, 09:00 10
  - Wonder what Hotkiss is up to these days -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 4, 09:13 4
    - Was she recently in Myanmar? -- nm - Reagen Feb 4, 09:20 1
      - heh -- nm - Beaker Feb 4, 09:33
    - she's doing well... seems happy. -- nm - colin Feb 4, 09:19 1
      - Yup. She seems to be enjoying life as well as anyone can these days. -- nm - Krusty Feb 4, 09:33
  - It's Nathan's birthday, he'll start posting here soon. - JaxSean Feb 4, 09:03
  - MDH, JamesBond -- nm - ty97 Feb 4, 09:01 3
    - oh yeah... probably? early 30s now? -- nm - colin Feb 4, 09:11 2
      - I think my first Secret Stalker package was from Hotkiss, with a note on college ruled notepaper :) -- nm - Meg Feb 4, 09:35 1
        
        Oops, move that up under Krusty's post -- nm - Meg Feb 4, 09:36
- I was *JUST* thinking of this and my heart started swelling and my eyes watering. Clearly I'm unwell. -- nm - Mop Feb 4, 08:50
- Is the couple registered anywhere? Crate and Barrel, Modus Vivendi, Fire Island Beach Resort? -- nm - Qale Feb 4, 08:48
- *Congra...oh. -- nm - Spawn Feb 4, 08:36 1
  - Just think of how old that makes u.....you! -- nm - ty97 Feb 4, 08:48
SAG Award Noms -- (edited) - budice Feb 4, 08:29 2
- Bridgerton twice in Best Cast? Pretty sure that's a typo. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Feb 4, 09:52
- It's sad how many of these I'm not able to name the movie/show for just based on the actor name. -- nm - Dano Feb 4, 08:34
It never ever should be Three Doors Down though, that's for damn sure. -- nm - Qale Feb 4, 08:24
zoom, fucking, zoom -- nm - oblique Feb 4, 08:23

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