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Favorability among Republicans: Liz Cheney 7% favorable, 36% unfavorable. MTG Favorable 17% Unfavorable 20%. -- (link) - ty97 Feb 17, 09:21
Rush Limbaugh is dead. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 09:17 1
- thoughts and prayers - Jovian Feb 17, 09:25
Rush Limbaugh has died at 70. RIP. -- nm* - ty97 Feb 17, 09:17 4
- whoa -- nm - budice Feb 17, 09:18 3
  - IIRC he was battling advanced stage cancer -- nm - ty97 Feb 17, 09:19 2
    - Yeah this isn’t really a surprise. -- nm - spamlet Feb 17, 09:25
    - Stage 4 lung cancer. -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 09:25
STrivia: Going back to 1990, what are the 10 worst movies (by RT score) for which someone won an Academy Award for acting (lead or supp)? - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 09:16 18
- Crash -- nm - LMS Feb 17, 09:30 1
  - No one won an acting Oscar for Crash. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 09:31
- Joker. - Dark Callisto Feb 17, 09:27 1
  - I hate it so much I posted it twice! -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 17, 09:29
- Joker. - Dark Callisto Feb 17, 09:27 1
  - #7 (68%) -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 09:27
- Traffic -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 09:25 2
  - No, sorry. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 09:26 1
    - huh. surprised it had that high of a tomatometer score -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 09:29
- The Iron Lady -- nm - LMS Feb 17, 09:24 2
  - Yes, #1 (52%). -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 09:24 1
    - I worked on it for a short time until we rejected it. -- nm - LMS Feb 17, 09:29
- Life is Beautiful? -- nm - rollo Feb 17, 09:24 1
  - Nope. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 09:24
- Bohemian Rhapsody, Monster -- nm* - Inigo Feb 17, 09:18 3
  - Just because it's extremely unpleasant doesn't mean it's bad. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 09:21 1
    - It was smart of them to get morgan spurlock's makeup team, though -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 09:22
  - BR #3 (61%), Monster no. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 09:20
Happy anniversary to my parents, 48 years and counting! -- nm - znufrii Feb 17, 09:13 2
- Mazel. My parents' 50th was probably the biggest bash my family has ever held -- nm - rollo Feb 17, 09:21 1
  - I’ve suggested we should have a family trip to Hawaii to celebrate #50. Guess I should get on with trying to plan that, huh? -- nm - znufrii Feb 17, 09:27
*staring out at a junior high field* "Man, where's a sniper when you need one." -- nm - Classroom Transcripts Feb 17, 08:54 4
- tell me why -- nm - rollo Feb 17, 09:22
- ... in the Letterkenny sense, I hope -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 09:15 1
  - Unless this is a teacher's thought, in which case, never mind -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 09:15
- ! -- nm - mud Feb 17, 08:58
Texarkana, Arkansas has snow plows...Texarkana, Texas does not -- (link) - decline Feb 17, 08:48 8
- Texas? They don't need plows! They shoot at snow there to show it whose boss! -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 08:55 7
  - what I don't get is why the Texas side didn't just give the plow guys a couple of sixers and have them run up their side of the street - decline Feb 17, 08:58 6
    - FWIW, we're in Oregon. We don't have snow plows. We have public works trucks where we add a plow to the truck if necessary. - Mop Feb 17, 09:05 4
      - Takes up too much space from the guns!! -- nm* - Diva Feb 17, 09:13
      - us East Coasters do this too - hell, Philly has blades for all of their dump trucks for the winter time -- nm - decline Feb 17, 09:07 2
        
        They don't just send Gritty out? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 09:09 1
        
        only if they're looking for mass destruction -- (link) - decline Feb 17, 09:13 [Backboard]
    - Southerners are quite neighbourly. When they aren't ... there's a story to tell. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 09:00
*sigh* Pentagon delayed promotions for women, minorities for fear of Trump's reaction. -- (link) - TWuG Feb 17, 08:42
Who broke the NASDAQ? -- nm - ty97 Feb 17, 08:35 5
- Oh, that's probably me. I bought an ETF today. -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 17, 09:13
- GME needs to fall faster. It's freaking me out a bit. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 08:40 1
  - *rocket emoji* -- nm - ty97 Feb 17, 08:46
- MUG; or, that one Tx mayor -- nm - prayformojo Feb 17, 08:36
- I blame you. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 08:35
Looks like the big Xbox news that's been rumored lately is a new wireless headset which is (frankly) pretty nice. -- (link) - Mop Feb 17, 08:26 4
- It sold out fairly quickly yesterday on the Microsoft store. -- nm - Shaun Feb 17, 08:35 2
  - *shrug* First day buzz. I expect it'll take a couple of months to shake out and see if it's really any good. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 08:37 1
    - If it's at least as good as the Pulse 3Ds at the same price point, you can't go wrong. -- nm - Shaun Feb 17, 08:38
- if it works like my current xbox headset does (same system as the controllers) then yeah, it would be nice. - tRuMaN Feb 17, 08:32
Walk off the Earth's cover of Thunderstruck proves the ukulele should be your instrument of choice when playing AC/DC -- (link*) - prayformojo Feb 17, 08:21 [youtube] 2
- Ukulele is surprisingly heavy. -- nm - loosilu Feb 17, 09:26
- Huh. This rolled right into Walk off the Earth's Video Killed The Radio Star featuring Sarah Silverman -- (link) - Mop Feb 17, 08:33 [youtube]
MS Teams Users - Microsoft reporting delays in receiving chat messages. -- (link) - budice Feb 17, 08:13 3
- Yeah, I'm starting to see weirdness on my end. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 08:45
- Got that heads up. It made me so happy! - Dark Callisto Feb 17, 08:30
- Thanks for the excuse to igno--I mean useful information. -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 08:17
from QotD's writeup on the Mariana Trench - prayformojo Feb 17, 08:05 2
- "A matter of minutes" seems like it's incorrect when talking about high pressure structural collapse. - Beryllium Feb 17, 08:39 1
  - He wasn't ready for that jelly -- nm - rollo Feb 17, 09:19
Does Disney really think Cruella is coming to theaters in May? Just push the blockbusters people, end of summer earliest. -- nm - MDH Feb 17, 08:00 13
- Disney+, you cowards!! And not that BS Premier Access thing either! -- nm - Shaun Feb 17, 08:58
- IMO, Disney is just appeasing theatre companies by not announcing delays for this and Black Widow. - Inigo Feb 17, 08:34 4
  - I'm good with that then! Go Disney/theater joint support -- nm - MDH Feb 17, 08:48 2
    - Doesn't it amount to just saving the stock price for a quarter while the public is once again fooled into thinking the pandemic is just about over? -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 09:03
    - Sort of. At some point Disney is going to announce delays. Probably in March or early April. -- (edited) - Inigo Feb 17, 09:01
  - This is correct. -- nm - David Feb 17, 08:40
- I'm rather certain they announced it was going to Disney+ which, frankly, having seen the trailer, is monumental. That's theater-class content. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 08:21 3
  - It was rumored but not announced. They said it would stay theatrical. -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 17, 08:31
  - Hmm, no. My notes confirm Pinocchio and Peter Pan & Wendy, but nothing firm on Cruella. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 08:24
  - Our Streamers will know better, but my understanding was that this was not a + title. -- nm - MDH Feb 17, 08:23
- Exactly. Most of us likely won't be vaccinated before the summer is over. I'd say push things to around the fall and go from there. -- nm - Krusty Feb 17, 08:07 2
  - Sep 17 AQPL2, Sep 24 Sopranos, Oct 01 Dune, Oct 08 Bond -- nm - mud Feb 17, 08:26 1
    - The WB movies aren't moving. They've been releasing them day-and-date since January. That's Sopranos and Dune. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 08:27
Democrat Alex Lasry, (son of a billionaire) is running for the U.S. Senate in 2022 for the seat currently held by Republican Ron Johnson -- (link*) - Beaker Feb 17, 07:46 1
- you will think running against a literal Russian agent will be a lock -- nm - Jovian Feb 17, 08:35
And just like that my childhood house is sold. Moving day. -- (pic) - Andie Feb 17, 07:38 [Attachment] 3
- :( It's a strange experience. I helped my parents move at the time. - Dark Callisto Feb 17, 09:18
- :( -- nm - budice Feb 17, 07:41
- Sad day :( -- nm - spamlet Feb 17, 07:40
Man, I can't get over all the stuff D+ is adding next week. The fact they included Canada is making me happy -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 07:23 9
- Keep it up and they'll improve to C-. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 07:28
- You're basically getting Hulu bundled into Disney+ under the guise of "Star". -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 07:27 7
  - I'll take it! I saw Helstrom was included so must be getting the HULU special made stuff too which is great -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 07:47 4
    - You looking at a list somewhere? -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 07:57 3
      - near top of B2. Reagen posted it -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 08:32 2
        
        here. ALOT of stuff -- (link) - Beaker Feb 17, 08:32 1
        
        Found a different site that picked out the original content. It's a rather short list. - Mop Feb 17, 08:41
  - Disney - All Dressed -- nm - crash davis Feb 17, 07:32 1
    - If Hulu had been a failure, we'd be getting Star integrated into Disney+, as well. Damn you, Hulu, for being such an astonishing cash cow for Disney!! -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 08:28
*snort* -- (link) - Reagen Feb 17, 07:09 2
- That Cruella trailer might not be for children. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 08:17
- The Helena Bonham Carter Story? -- nm - crash davis Feb 17, 07:15
sitwap: North Daktota wants to force apple and google to allow customers to side-load apps, skipping the app stores essentially. -- (link) - tRuMaN Feb 17, 07:06 13
- Incredibly powerful multinational corporations - finally, the war to determine if we need two Dakotas has begun. -- nm - crash davis Feb 17, 07:26 3
  - but if there is only one dakota, how could people tell if they are in the south or north? -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 07:34 2
    - the GPS app on their phones -- nm - crash davis Feb 17, 07:36 1
      - are you sure? -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 07:53
- Is this different than the bill that just got voted down? -- (link) - Mop Feb 17, 07:21 5
  - I guess not, Ars didnt talk about a vote, just about the bill (which was written by the group that Epic started to fight the App stores) -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 07:24 4
    - Don't mean this as chastising, but news sites need to stop saying "State X wants to do Y" just because some crazy-pants legislator introduces a bill. - Mop Feb 17, 07:59 3
      - well techinically a lobbiest group wrote the bill and then found someone to endorse it, but yes. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 08:07
      - Hey, the car manufacturers could've made one version of cars that pass CA emissions and then another version of the rest of the country - JD Feb 17, 08:06 1
        
        Oh, and we've got our own version of gasoline and that doesn't impact that rest of the country -- nm - JD Feb 17, 08:07
- Google has always allowed this. Apple forcing it is an issue, but the real issue is distribution. The app stores - decline Feb 17, 07:20 2
  - Google has really really discouraged side loading with the last few updates to Android. -- nm - spamlet Feb 17, 07:21
  - while I do understand that the 30% tax on sales seems steep, I agree with you. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 07:20
This is how the Apocalypse starts -- (link) - decline Feb 17, 06:59 8
- Lame -- nm - Murder Hornets Feb 17, 07:14
- POLL: What will be released next to kill the parasitic wasps? -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 07:11 1
  - spider-cats -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 07:16
- 28 Days Later... -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 07:04
- or a good day for spiders. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 07:03
- Or the start of a very odd anime. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 07:01
- I too cheris the CNN MadLibs Headline Generator -- nm - prayformojo Feb 17, 07:01
- Next up, zombie pigs. -- nm - znufrii Feb 17, 07:00
I didn't know how young Fred Hampton was when he was assassinated. He was only 21 years old. I can't imagine a 21 year old today leading - Krusty Feb 17, 06:50 6
- I really dug Daniel Kaluuya's portrayal in Judas & Black Messiah. -- nm - prayformojo Feb 17, 06:58 1
  - He was great! Really good film. -- nm - Krusty Feb 17, 07:09
- Maybe not exactly the same, but David Hogg and Greta Thunberg come to mind. Movements are more decentralized nowadays. -- nm - Dano Feb 17, 06:57 3
  - They both came to mind, I deleted them in my IM, but definitely not the same as what Fred Hampton was doing. -- nm - Krusty Feb 17, 07:03 2
    - I'm thinking Malala Yousafzai -- nm - crash davis Feb 17, 07:07 1
      - Good choice. -- nm - Krusty Feb 17, 07:12
It looks like CNN and NBC each paid $35k to a rioter to get footage of the insurrection. -- (link) - spamlet Feb 17, 06:46 1
- They should be raked over the coals. -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 07:46
Spring training starts today! Woo hoo!!! -- nm - Krusty Feb 17, 06:25 16
- And on this day in 1990, the NY Yankees signed the 🐐 Mariano Rivera as an amateur free agent out of Panama. :-) -- nm - Krusty Feb 17, 06:36 3
  - I think that signing might work out. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 06:40 2
    - He's only got one pitch. Not sure he's worth it. -- nm - spamlet Feb 17, 06:47 1
      - You're probably right. He'll fit in better with the Mets. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 07:08
- sadly, some teams never leave spring training... -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 06:35 10
  - Sorry, buddy. :-( -- nm - Krusty Feb 17, 06:37 9
    - its ok, I at least have the chiefs. Are the Royals like the Jets, in their level of constant failure? - tRuMaN Feb 17, 06:49 8
      - Not quite as you've seen the Royals win the World Series twice in your lifetime. I haven't even seen the Jets make the Super Bowl. -- (edited) - Krusty Feb 17, 06:54 7
        
        And I think the Royals will be back to being a good team in the near future. -- nm - Krusty Feb 17, 06:55 6
        
        that royals team feels more like a fluke, based on a combination of luck on cheap contracts, and rookies. - tRuMaN Feb 17, 07:03 5
        
        No team in MLB loses money. What teams have done and are doing is wrong and there needs to be major spending changes. There needs to be a floor - Krusty Feb 17, 07:05 4
        
        oh I agree, but owners have figured that they can keep a low effort team, and then get a bonus from the big market teams that spend over the cap - tRuMaN Feb 17, 07:09 3
        
        Major changes are needed but I'm not sure the owners see the problems the rest of us see. -- nm - Krusty Feb 17, 07:25 2
        
        “Sorry, didn’t hear you there, was too busy swimming in a pool of money.” -- nm - Owners, probably Feb 17, 07:29 1
        
        Pretty much -- nm - Krusty Feb 17, 07:37
- Hope they're using day-glo balls. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 06:31
Trump Plaza in AC fall down, go boom -- (link) - decline Feb 17, 06:13 7
- Heh -- (link) - decline Feb 17, 07:03
- Did that used to be the Playboy casino? I spent a lot of time at Ocean 1 Mall (the pier at the end of that video). -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 06:39 1
  - that, I don't know -- nm - decline Feb 17, 06:57
- Shaka, When the Walls Fell -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 06:30
- *nodding* -- nm - Vera Coking Feb 17, 06:24
- I love the engineering behind these things - I'm always impressed with how graceful they seem -- nm - prayformojo Feb 17, 06:15 1
  - That was beautiful. Textbook. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 17, 06:19

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