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I'm Thinking Of Ending Things is like if Shane Carruth felt like being slightly more narrative. -- nm - Reagen Feb 9, 08:37
Cool renewable energy concept. A brick tower. -- (link) - Volnelk Feb 9, 08:35 4
- they've been doing this with water reservoirs, pump water uphill at night when power is cheap/available, reverse downhill to power the generators -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 9, 11:10
- Our time has come. -- nm - Lego Feb 9, 08:46
- I'm not understanding what energy is used to lift the bricks? - JaxSean Feb 9, 08:45 1
  - It uses whatever excess renewable generation capacity is available. - znufrii Feb 9, 08:48
Because nobody cares, here's Snyder Cut Leto Joker. -- (link) - Shaun Feb 9, 08:25 4
- I care. - ReluctantCynic Feb 9, 08:40 2
  - The Queen is less over represented in films than the character of The Joker. -- nm - ty97 Feb 9, 08:43
  - Mmmhmm yes -- nm - Pippy Feb 9, 08:42
- I'm terrified... - Inigo Feb 9, 08:30
Am I hallucinating about what the C-SPAN2 captioning says on their webpage? - ReluctantCynic Feb 9, 08:14 2
- "week underway" i assume but this way is better -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 9, 08:20 1
  - I think you're right. - ReluctantCynic Feb 9, 08:32
I only just learned what a "point" blanket is, and now it's the only thing I want. - Mop Feb 9, 08:08 6
- i have wanted one for about 2o years. I am afraid The Bay might not survive the pandemic, so i might actually pull the trigger. -- nm* - Andie Feb 9, 08:21 2
  - I actually just suggested we buy this one (the classic coloured stripes aren't even available now - that's new) instead of doing anything else for - Andie Feb 9, 08:38 1
    - beautiful -- nm - Pippy Feb 9, 08:42
- It is damn well worth the investment. - ReluctantCynic Feb 9, 08:20 2
  - 6-point?! You can cover a house with that! -- nm - Mop Feb 9, 08:20 1
    - :-) - ReluctantCynic Feb 9, 08:37
The plight of the guitarist -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 9, 07:56
My internet is out. Oh darn. -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 9, 07:48 5
- Is MUG okay? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 9, 08:31 1
  - MUG misses all her frien... er, rivals. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 9, 08:33
- I blame the snow blowing neighbor -- nm - decline Feb 9, 08:27
- still warm -- nm - MUG Feb 9, 08:00
- ...then the murders began. -- nm - Mop Feb 9, 07:57
This is the third straight week that STL County receives no vaccines while 100 Walmarts in the state will start vaccinating. -- (link) - spamlet Feb 9, 07:47 14
- About the same here in Multnomah County, Oregon. - ReluctantCynic Feb 9, 08:23 2
  - I don’t even know what Philadelphia is doing, apparently they are getting theirs direct from the feds, so aren’t reporting data to the state tracker -- nm - znufrii Feb 9, 08:35
  - That's good to hear from a state that isn't predisposed to hating the urban areas. -- nm - spamlet Feb 9, 08:33
- same here for Jackson County (KC metro) -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 9, 08:10
- Seriously - how the hell have they managed to fuck this up SO bad? -- nm - Johnny Lawrence Feb 9, 07:49 9
  - Does it make me miss Steve Stenger? It does not. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 9, 07:57 1
    - Could you even imagine him in charge the past year? - spamlet Feb 9, 07:58
  - Welcome to Canada - where are prepaid orders keep getting 'postponed.' All of Canada? Just over 1 million doses so far. -- (link) - Andie Feb 9, 07:51 2
    - 87.3% admin is crazy good. -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 9, 07:55 1
      - Sure, if we have them there are getting administered, we just can't get them. Both Pfizer and Moderna keep reducing our weekly expected orders - or - Andie Feb 9, 08:05
  - It does sound like maybe some of the hospitals have received some but they're being cagey about that. - spamlet Feb 9, 07:51 3
    - It's hard not to wonder why the lone blue area hospital in central PA can't get enough vaccine for HCW but red area hospitals half an - amanda jeans Feb 9, 07:54
    - Clearly. Friend of mine is taking his kid to Rolla to get the vaccine. He's immunocompromised and still has to take a road trip -- nm - Johnny Lawrence Feb 9, 07:52 1
      - I forgot add the Cape too. We had friends go down there to get it. - spamlet Feb 9, 07:54
*wonders if they sell Oatly in Canada* -- nm - Beaker Feb 9, 07:42 6
- We have other oat milks. Not sure if we have oatly. Oat milk is our goto. (we haven't bought cow's milk in years.) -- nm* - Andie Feb 9, 07:43 5
  - what does it taste like? -- nm - Diva Feb 9, 07:58 4
    - not much. it's not overly oat-y. -- nm - Andie Feb 9, 08:55
    - chicken -- nm - decline Feb 9, 07:58 2
      - *snort* -- nm - Pippy Feb 9, 08:27
      - heh-heh... -- nm - Diva Feb 9, 07:59
Marketplace Tech is doing a fantastic series this week on getting the internet to Indian country. -- (link) - spamlet Feb 9, 07:40
anyone else watching Resident Alien? wife and I love it -- nm - Beaker Feb 9, 07:40
You absolutely don't care - my itty bitty etrade account for nothing but pot stocks is in the black for the first time in two years. - Pippy Feb 9, 07:40 15
- we have so much right now we don't even know what to do with it. - Diva Feb 9, 07:53 3
  - that is a good problem to have. - Pippy Feb 9, 08:28
  - Aphria and Tilray are going nuts lately. (meant to post to znu) -- nm* - Reagen Feb 9, 08:03
  - ! -- nm - mud Feb 9, 08:03
- I’m a little annoyed that I’m only in an ETF, I don’t get any news about what specific companies are responsible for the price moves. -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 9, 07:44 9
  - Wahooo!! I see Reagan's(?) point though - if you own 1 ETF why do you need more? - Pippy Feb 9, 07:46
  - You can look up the ETF's holdings and make a watchlist of those to track movement, right? -- nm - ty97 Feb 9, 07:46 7
    - Seems like a lot of work. Why can’t Fidelity just do it for me? -- nm - znufrii Feb 9, 07:53
    - And if you are talking about POTX - ty97 Feb 9, 07:49 5
      - MJ, but yeah, probably similar. -- nm - znufrii Feb 9, 07:52 4
        
        Aphria is their biggest holding at 12.03% -- nm - ty97 Feb 9, 07:55 3
        
        Also, a lot of their holdings are foreign-listed, so fidelity won’t let me even get quotes. -- nm - znufrii Feb 9, 07:57 2
        
        bastards -- nm - decline Feb 9, 07:58 1
        
        I mean, I’d have to click a button to sign up for it and everything. So unfair! -- nm - znufrii Feb 9, 08:00
- *rocket emoji* -- nm - ty97 Feb 9, 07:44
"That's my face! You can't wear my face!" -- nm - Mop Feb 9, 07:30
I was today years old when I realized there is a TV show called 'Alaskan Bush People'. -- nm - Diva Feb 9, 07:16 5
- Ironically, they all like the feeling of freshly shorn scrotums. -- nm* - IAmQale Feb 9, 08:14
- I liked the early couple of seasons -- nm - Krusty Feb 9, 07:26 3
  - How does it compare to Alaskan Palin People? -- nm - con_carne Feb 9, 07:27 2
    - Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty Feb 9, 07:34
    - 90% fewer references to Wasilla. Unfortunately also 90% fewer references to Portugal The Man. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 9, 07:33
I'll confess: I didn't recognize Travolta in the Superb Owl ad until they said his name. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 9, 07:16 3
- I recognized him sooner than in the Capital One Santa ad. He was dancing, so it was more obvious than sitting around with a beard on. It's all about the daughter, though. -- nm* - Mop Feb 9, 07:41
- yep. mel had to tell me who was dancing. -- nm - Diva Feb 9, 07:28
- Same -- nm - Ender Feb 9, 07:27
Fidelity got it together. A business day delayed, but they did. -- nm - ty97 Feb 9, 06:57 4
- Oh, good. -- nm - znufrii Feb 9, 07:19
- you should send them valentines candy as a thank you -- nm - decline Feb 9, 07:01 2
  - and mail it in March -- nm - Pippy Feb 9, 07:17 1
    - hee! -- nm - ty97 Feb 9, 07:43
The United Arab Emirates' Hope spacecraft will attempt to park in orbit around Mars today. The first of 3 missions arriving at Mars this month -- (link) - decline Feb 9, 06:45 3
- we don't want Sharia Law on Mars!!! -- nm - Beaker Feb 9, 07:07 2
  - How does the lunar calendar work when you're not on Earth? This carries some significant Ramadan complications. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 9, 07:12 1
    - I think The Expanse? Old man's War? some earth bound sci-fi book did something regarding this, just can't remember which one -- nm - Beaker Feb 9, 07:20
Mahomes will undergo surgery tomorrow to repair a torn plantar plate in his foot(turf toe) -- nm - budice Feb 9, 06:27
Legendary NFL coach Marty Schottenheimer, (77), passed away -- (link) - budice Feb 9, 06:19 1
- So long, Coach. You'll be dearly missed. - Fozzie Baron Feb 9, 07:00
WHO team not surprisingly toes the Chinese line on COVID. -- (link) - spamlet Feb 9, 06:07 11
- Or maybe it's the truth... -- nm - Guigue Feb 9, 06:30 10
  - We’ll honestly probably never know and the Chinese made sure of that. - spamlet Feb 9, 06:36 9
    - I'm with you on this and I'm normally very skeptical of conspiracy like ideas but this doesn't seem so unreasonable. - Krusty Feb 9, 06:39 6
      - I with you on the IM, not so sure about the whole conspiracy thats its a leaked bioweapon - tRuMaN Feb 9, 07:29 5
        
        Yeah, I just think there's a good chance they were studying it, an accident or mistake of some kind happened and it got out. - Krusty Feb 9, 07:38 4
        
        i mean the bat could have been a vampire - tRuMaN Feb 9, 08:12 3
        
        sexy sparkly vampire or ugly unattractive vampire - Pippy Feb 9, 08:30 2
        
        Tall Lady Vampire. -- nm - Shaun Feb 9, 08:37
        
        Ha! -- nm - Krusty Feb 9, 08:32
    - We still get to call it the China virus, though, right? -- nm - znufrii Feb 9, 06:39 1
      - 🙄 -- nm - spamlet Feb 9, 07:22
Woke up to 10” of snow. We aren’t going anywhere for a while. -- (pic) - Volnelk Feb 9, 05:50 [Attachment] 11
- The company that plows my development decided that last night was the time to finish clearing the parking lot in case of more today. Until 3AM... -- nm - decline Feb 9, 06:08 2
  - asshat across the street started snowblowing the three inches of snow we got last night at 445 am. I almost called the cops. -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 9, 06:34 1
    - *beep* *beep* *beep*...crunch...crunch - decline Feb 9, 06:51
- We got less than an inch but it iced first. Schools went virtual today and I’m waiting a bit before going into the office. - spamlet Feb 9, 06:04
- Ooh, nice. They keep saying we're getting snow today but nothing so far. -- nm - Krusty Feb 9, 05:53 6
  - also up to 6 inches more on Thursday -- nm - decline Feb 9, 06:00 5
    - Normally I'd be all for more snow but I have actual plans on Thursday. Doc visit, hardware store, thrift store and craft store. Ugh! -- nm - Krusty Feb 9, 06:04
    - I hope everyone is dripping their faucets. Don't want those pipes to freeze. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 9, 06:03 3
      - Is that a thing people have to do? How cold does it have to be for that to be necessary? - Krusty Feb 9, 06:06 2
        
        yup - Pippy Feb 9, 07:21
        
        I do if the overnight temps are in the teens or lower. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 9, 06:30
Super Bowl LV brought in 96.4 million viewers across all platforms -- nm - budice Feb 9, 05:29 4
- I expect millions of viewers were lost to no SB parties or bars. -- nm - Reagen Feb 9, 05:44 1
  - How do they count that anyway? Do they watch us through our TVs and see how many people we have over to watch the game? -- nm - Krusty Feb 9, 06:14
- If accurate that’s the lowest in more than a decade. -- nm - MDH Feb 9, 05:41 1
  - I sort of think The Weekend was not a big enough name for a half time show. There I've said it. - Pippy Feb 9, 07:22
RC posted about Viking beard products the other day, and today they're on Amazon for 20% off -- (link) - JacSean Feb 9, 04:39
Streaker from the SB supposedly made a $50k bet that there would be a streaker...paid $374k - Flavorize— Feb 9, 04:39 11
- Seems like there should be some fine print about that somewhere. -- nm - znufrii Feb 9, 05:26 7
  - There definitely is -- nm - Flavorize— Feb 9, 05:45 6
    - At least he wasn’t eating a pie -- (link) - znufrii Feb 9, 06:28
    - No doubt. Almost surely will not be able to collect. - Fozzie Baron Feb 9, 05:52 4
      - And besides that if you don't go full monty, it doesn't count. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 9, 05:58 3
        
        I was thinking this as well. He had his clothes on so that's not streaking. -- nm - Krusty Feb 9, 06:07 2
        
        I'll allow the bra because guys in bras are never not funny. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 9, 06:23 1
        
        Can confirm. -- nm - Pippy Feb 9, 07:40
- Seems like offering that bet is just asking for it. -- nm - Reagen Feb 9, 04:53 1
  - I'm surprised he was able to get that much down on it. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 9, 09:20
- you make your own luck -- nm - Beaker Feb 9, 04:41
Biden takes first steps to replace DeJoy at USPS -- (link) - Reagen Feb 9, 04:16 1
- GOOD! -- nm - crash davis Feb 9, 07:50
Hmm, we get movie theaters back on Friday. -- nm - Reagen Feb 9, 04:08
TV PSA: NHL, NBA, Two Sentence Horror Stories, To Tell the Truth, NCIS, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Resident, This is Us, FBI, Oak Island, Big Sky, -- nm - Beaker Feb 9, 03:59 1
- FBI Most Wanted, Trickster, Prodigal Son, black-ish, mixed-ish, Nurses, Queen Sugar, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Feb 9, 04:01
ST Stolen From Twitter Poll: Name some amazing, Marvel one-shot comics -- nm - Flavorize— Feb 9, 02:36 2
- If one-shot = one issue, I can't really think of any others than the joint DC-Marvel Superman vs Spiderman -- nm - JD Feb 9, 08:11
- #MaxsHole -- nm - mafic Feb 9, 04:36
#MyHole -- nm - Max Feb 9, 01:05
I got caught up watching an episode of Star Trek TOS while playing a call of duty battle Royale ... - Beryllium Feb 9, 01:04 1
- The Omega Glory, S2E23. An average or below-average episode with a charmingly quaint anti-communist message. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 01:19
Okay, I watched Equalizer. Sure, some of it was predictable, but overall quite enjoyable. Looking forward to more. - Beryllium Feb 9, 00:09 8
- honestly, seems more like a revamp of Person of Interest to me, just with genders reversed. Cop intrigued by mysterious helper of people who has - Beaker Feb 9, 03:54 5
  - they even use the POI noises and using computer glitches to make people "disappear" -- nm - Beaker Feb 9, 03:58 4
    - works for me. I hearted POI. -- nm - Diva Feb 9, 06:42
    - Maybe POI was a revamp of the Equalizer. -- nm - . Feb 9, 04:22 2
      - maybe thats what the computers want us to think -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 9, 06:32 1
        
        It's just Have Gun Will Travel all the way down -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 07:35
- They should re-do Leon: The Professional as a tv series. - Max Feb 9, 00:22 1
  - a 13 yo 'cleaner' or Leon who's life is complicated by being the adult of a kid who's always getting into trouble? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 9, 02:28
An error occurred while processing this request. Usually this just means the board is freshly-rolled, with no posts yet. Go ahead and start a convers -- nm - Spawn Feb 8, 23:24
happy birthday, wish you were still with us. Frank Frazetta. 2/9/21 - 5/10/10 -- (pic) - Peglegpete Feb 8, 23:23 [Attachment]

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