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WandaVision's final episodes were re-edited because they didn't align with popular fan theories (spoils) -- (link*) - budice Mar 8, 12:18
Kim's Convenience ends with Season 5 -- (link) - budice Mar 8, 12:14 1
- Damn. :-( -- nm - Krusty Mar 8, 12:15
Row row row your boat - ty97 Mar 8, 12:07 5
- I saw a whole debate on whether you can use picnic anymore. The person saying it's racist said its origins were from lynchings. That is not true, from -- (edited) - jnine Mar 8, 12:14 2
  - yeah, there's a bunch of 'folk' origins that don't hold up. -- nm - Reagen Mar 8, 12:24
  - Offs. -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 12:18
- are you going ? -- nm - decline Mar 8, 12:11
- Sweet! -- nm - Krusty Mar 8, 12:10
haha, didn't fool me this year! - ty97 Mar 8, 11:57 [Attachment] 1
- but are you going to wait for the corrected 1099 you will receive in October? -- nm - tRuMAN Mar 8, 12:00
Has he tried "Getting Punched In The Face Therapy"? -- (link) - Reagen Mar 8, 11:54
Lula's convictions overturned, clearing way to run against Bolsonaro in 2022 -- (link) - Reagen Mar 8, 11:46 6
- Yep. Every chance of having a decent runoff is gone now. - Marlowe Mar 8, 12:08 1
  - "Fresh outta jail and our country's best hope!" -- nm - David Mar 8, 12:20
- Sorry Marlowe. -- nm - spamlet Mar 8, 11:50 1
  - Speaking of Low Bar Theatre! -- nm - Reagen Mar 8, 11:52
- Glenn Greewald is gonna be insufferable now -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 11:49 1
  - n...dammit -- nm* - Reagen Mar 8, 11:51
Tesla loses more than $244 billion in a month as rally fizzles -- (link) - budice Mar 8, 11:41 7
- In market value. -- nm - zunk xometimes Mar 8, 11:50
- They had a good run. -- nm - Spawn Mar 8, 11:47
- I know! I've lost a whole month's worth of PayPal tendies. *eyeroll* -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 8, 11:45
- Jeff Bezos is counting his money from his shorts. - ty97 Mar 8, 11:43 3
  - Gets divorced, loses half his worth, and still manages to be on top -- nm* - budice Mar 8, 11:44 2
    - Makes up for his wife already remarrying, I guess. -- nm - Spawn Mar 8, 11:48 1
      - "Find me Grimes' non-union equivalent!" -- nm - Reagen Mar 8, 11:53
Cosplayers already have the Scarlet Witch outfit wired -- (link) - budice Mar 8, 11:38 3
- "PhD in DILF anthropology" -- ooookay -- nm - David Mar 8, 11:45 1
  - I mean let's not be ... *checks...23* so judgey! -- nm - Reagen Mar 8, 11:47
- Noice. -- nm - Shaun Mar 8, 11:43
Sorta wild seeing Brits react to this interview that the UK couldn't possibly have any anti-Black racism issues. - Reagen Mar 8, 11:38 9
- "He's in his 60s and he's from South London. Of course my dad's a little racist!" -- nm - David Mar 8, 11:52 1
  - ~ He’s here, he’s there, he’s every-fuckin-where! Roy Kent!!!~ -- nm* - Will Hunting Mar 8, 11:55
- I'd like to hear from the Black people on how they feel things are. Also, the population of Black people in Britain is surprisingly low. -- (edited) - Krusty Mar 8, 11:44 6
  - Premier League players report racial based social media threats and posts against them all the time. The players kneel immediately have the start of - JD Mar 8, 11:47 1
    - yeah, this. -- nm - tRuMAN Mar 8, 12:02
  - It's a common affliction here in Canada to go "Well we're better than the Americans on [issue X]." - Reagen Mar 8, 11:45 3
    - Yeah, we're so bad on some issues that we definitely shouldn't be the mark for a country to clear. -- nm - Krusty Mar 8, 11:48 2
      - I get the defence of the institution from Brits. I'm one foot in, one foot out so there's a bit of a "back off our thing" to it - Reagen Mar 8, 11:56 1
        
        You have the beloved son who’s put his ass on the line via his military service and he’s saying this stuff... maybe, just maybe..... - Will Hunting Mar 8, 11:57
The Michigan Catholic Church has come out against two of the vaccines. - David Mar 8, 11:32 15
- The St. Louis archdiocese called them morally compromised, but they also said if that's your only choice, take it. - Baron on the Cairn Mar 8, 11:44
- AZ isn't even available here. New Orleans diocese came out against JNJ. AFAIK, this conflicts with what the Vatican has said on the matter IINM -- nm* - ty97 Mar 8, 11:41 4
  - Correct. The Pope has said that people have a moral obligation to get the vaccine as soon as possible. These church "leaders" are putting personal - Krusty Mar 8, 11:47
  - It's so weird that AstraZeneca did clinical trials in the US but then didn't apply. -- nm - David Mar 8, 11:44 2
    - The data wasn’t clean enough due to dosing errors in the trial, iinm. Probably figured it wasn’t worth the risk of having their application rejected. -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 11:51
    - Dawson just had his latest blood draw last week from that study -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 11:48
- Couple others have as well. *smh* -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 11:35
- Which? -- nm - Spawn Mar 8, 11:33 6
  - J&J and AstraZeneca -- nm - David Mar 8, 11:33 5
    - I *personally* do not care for them, but still. -- nm - Spawn Mar 8, 11:37
    - without reading, I presume it is because of the use of fetal tissues during testing or whatever. It's been a pretty common criticism in religious - oblique Mar 8, 11:36 3
      - but I thought all of the covid vaccinations did, so its a weird issue to me. -- nm - tRuMAN Mar 8, 12:20 1
        
        No, pfizer and modena used chimp dna as the genesis -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 8, 14:13
      - Yup. -- nm - David Mar 8, 11:41
- Devil juice!! -- nm - decline Mar 8, 11:32
Vegas: median price of an existing single-family home was $355,000 — up 12.3% since last February. -- nm - budice Mar 8, 11:21
In 1982 a man claiming to be a professional race car driver talked his way into NASCAR’s Winston 500 and then disappeared, leaving a trail of bounced - Krusty Mar 8, 11:21
Meanwhile, Georgia republicans seemed to have learned their lesson -- (link) - znufrii Mar 8, 11:11 8
- So frustrated and disappointed. - Strongbad Mar 8, 11:32 2
  - Yeah, I can imagine. Sorry. -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 11:38
  - stop the steal -- nm - oblique Mar 8, 11:35
- They know how to win, prevent democrats from voting. -- nm - Krusty Mar 8, 11:15 4
  - *shakes fist* No-excuse absentee voting is for wimps! -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 8, 11:27 3
    - Reminds me, I need to put in our vote-by-mail applications for this year’s municipal election cycle. -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 11:30 2
      - ~Get him up against the wall!~ -- nm - GOP Mar 8, 11:33
      - mailed mine in on Friday -- nm - decline Mar 8, 11:32
Starbucks linking with Aeroplan -- (link) - Reagen Mar 8, 11:10
Shoe Zone replaces Foot with Boot -- (link) - Reagen Mar 8, 11:09 2
- I just read on Twitter than Nintendo America is run by a guy with the last name Bowser. Ha! -- nm - Krusty Mar 8, 11:18
- ouch -- nm - Spawn Mar 8, 11:11
also 9 of 10 provinces and 1 territory. -- nm - Reagen Mar 8, 11:07 6
- Oh and only one province (BC) but I need to rectify that. -- nm - spamlet Mar 8, 11:16
- have you been to the Arctic Circle? - decline Mar 8, 11:10 4
  - closest i've been was Iceland (which is further north than Whitehorse, Yukon, i just checked). Iceland is still south of the Arctic Circle. -- nm - Andie Mar 8, 12:34
  - never all that close - Reagen Mar 8, 11:17 2
    - I thought your IM would be that you circled it. -- nm - Spawn Mar 8, 11:21 1
      - I thought it ran right through the middle of the classroom. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 8, 11:22
Wow. That Zamundan Palace in ‘Coming 2 America’ is rapper Rick Ross’ real-life house. -- (link) - decline Mar 8, 11:05 1
- whoa -- nm* - budice Mar 8, 11:12
what I learned from that wapo map: I traveled a LOT for work here and at ZH. -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 8, 11:04
Krusty - B2 - right now I'm looking (tentatively) at Portland for June 2022. I'd look at this fall but that's a busy time for non-profits :/ -- nm - Meg Mar 8, 11:03 2
- I'm pretty sure I'll only get to travel once this year so Portland will likely have to wait until 2022. But if we set up an ST meetup for 2022 I'll - Krusty Mar 8, 11:13 1
  - I'm looking at a 5-day river cruise starting Monday, June 13, which would put me back in Portland on the Friday in time for that weekend :) - Meg Mar 8, 11:35
NYT investigation into the Lincoln Project -- (link) - budice Mar 8, 10:56 3
- It's called capitalism. -- nm - jnine Mar 8, 12:15
- NYT investigation: Water is wet -- nm - decline Mar 8, 11:01
- Republicans gonna Republican. -- nm - Mop Mar 8, 11:00
I've only legitimately been to 10 states. 3 more airport only. - Baron on the Cairn Mar 8, 10:53 2
- I can easily mark off 37 states I've been to. I'm guessing that I could probably mark off 3-5 more for minor visits (passing through going elsewhere) -- nm - oblique Mar 8, 10:59 1
  - I have at least 29. I've for sure not seen a lot of the plains states or New England, but I'm a little fuzzy on some of the east coast. - Meg Mar 8, 11:38
Oilers are going full power line tonight against the Sens. 29-97-56. -- nm - Shaun Mar 8, 10:53 2
- Sittler record or bust. -- nm - Reagen Mar 8, 11:04 1
  - Well with Koskinen in net tonight, we may need to score a lot. -- nm - Shaun Mar 8, 11:15
ST Stolen From Twitter Poll: Choose 2 Dips -- (edited) - Flavorize Mar 8, 10:52 [Attachment] 16
- C & G, G being Onion Dip. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 8, 12:26
- Onion is the one dip to rule them all. -- nm* - jnine Mar 8, 12:09 1
  - Yup! -- nm - Krusty Mar 8, 13:05
- B and E -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 11:49
- B & D -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 8, 11:36
- D, just D. But I'm from Maryland -- nm - MDH Mar 8, 11:28
- A and B. B is a top tier food. -- nm - Shaun Mar 8, 10:57 2
  - This. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 8, 11:46 1
    - I make a variation of B, it's more of a chili cheese dip with ground beef/turkey in it. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 8, 11:58
- C and E. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 8, 10:56
- B & D I think. It depends on if I have unlimited choices of what to dip in them as well. - JaxSean Mar 8, 10:55
- 🤢🤢 -- nm - Krusty Mar 8, 10:54
- *runs away* -- nm - Spawn Mar 8, 10:54
- A and F -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 10:53 1
  - nm -- nm* - Strongbad Mar 8, 11:33
- C. D. -- nm - decline Mar 8, 10:52
"In the last week, an average of 2.16 million doses per day were administered, a 24% increase over the week before" -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 8, 10:51 6
- David and I are set up for shot #1 a week from today. Woo hoo! -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 8, 10:52 5
  - Yay!!!! -- nm - Pippy Mar 8, 12:05
  - wow! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 8, 11:11 2
    - I’m Friday now. Kelly keeps finding earlier times. One day, I’m going to wake up with a sore arm and a vaccination card on my chest. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 8, 11:58 1
      - *snort* -- nm - Pippy Mar 8, 12:06
  - Yay!!! -- nm - Krusty Mar 8, 10:54
Tech still getting slammed, where is it even safe to invest?! -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 10:50 13
- Pharma. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 8, 11:04 4
  - Yep -- nm* - Flavorize Mar 8, 11:09 1
    - I invite you to buy the ones I own to drive up their prices. :) -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 8, 11:29
  - And finance. Lots of good value in both. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 8, 11:07 1
    - I don't quite *trust* the financial sector -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 11:50
- FSR -- nm - JaxSean Mar 8, 11:01
- Gambling, Pot, and Streaming Services -- nm - Flavorize Mar 8, 10:52 2
  - Seems like streaming service was the place to be a year ago. When folks start getting outside again, not so sure -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 10:57 1
    - Then, theaters! -- nm - Spawn Mar 8, 11:04
- Land. -- nm - Lex Mar 8, 10:51
- GME! -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 10:50
- pork bellies -- nm - decline Mar 8, 10:50 1
  - orange juice futures -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 8, 10:57
think I have 4 States: Florida, Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire -- nm - Beaker Mar 8, 10:47 2
- 3 of those 4 make sense -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 10:48 1
  - Cleveland for a work thing when with a Big 4 firm :) -- nm - Beaker Mar 8, 11:20
Roger, MD and MI count. VA is iffy, but I lean toward no. -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 10:41 2
- That's where I land as well, but I want to make sure that people aren't inching ahead of my states on a technicality! - Roger More Mar 8, 10:57
- Actually official ruling on VA is no. - ty97 Mar 8, 10:42
Spammy I figure you've seen this? -- (link) - ty97 Mar 8, 10:38 6
- Why do you think she wants to go? - spamlet Mar 8, 10:39 5
  - haha, it's actually a very beautiful area -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 10:41 4
    - It is lovely. -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 10:58 1
      - and much more laid-back than Denver -- (edited) - decline Mar 8, 10:59
    - That's what I've heard but DEN is the only experience I have in the state :) - spamlet Mar 8, 10:57
    - If you don't mind paying tolls on the rental car, taking the E-470 toll road from DEN airport toward Boulder is the way to go. -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 10:42
I’ll slide Missouri to Likely R at the moment because it’s an open seat. They’d have to have another Todd Akin situation to lose it, though. -- nm - Tim Mar 8, 10:36 9
- Even then I’m not sure. - spamlet Mar 8, 10:40 8
  - The urban areas aren't enough to give the republicans a challenge? What happened that it's so red these days? -- nm - Krusty Mar 8, 10:43 5
    - The Democrats completely abandoned the rural areas. - spamlet Mar 8, 10:46 3
      - Looking at the numbers that was a complete failure of a plan with so many people living outside of the bigger cities. - Krusty Mar 8, 10:48 2
        
        Yup. The national party doesn't help saying things like there's no room in the party for those that are pro-life but the local party just effed up - spamlet Mar 8, 10:55 1
        
        That sucks. Obama barely lost but the writing was on the wall at that point. -- nm - Krusty Mar 8, 11:01
    - I see 1/3 of the population is rural. And I see the urban areas only have a little over a million combined. -- nm* - Krusty Mar 8, 10:45
  - I like Jason Kander a lot, but he’s already said he’s out. -- nm - Tim Mar 8, 10:43
  - I was going to add that with how things are now, Akin would probably win. -- nm - Tim Mar 8, 10:41

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