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Worf -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 07:54
To celebrate Canadian Film Day you can screen My Salinger Year free right now (Limited numbers). Starring Sigourney Weaver. -- (link) - Andie Apr 21, 07:40
Montero is entirely too catchy. -- nm - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 07:39 1
- Stupid sexy Satan Nas X. -- nm - IAmQale Apr 21, 08:14
Freeman and the Braves aren't holding contract negotiations. Freeman says it would be a distraction and he doesn't want to be distracted. - Krusty Apr 21, 07:26 4
- There are any number of questionable offseason decisions predicated on Liberty not wanting to spend money. - David Apr 21, 07:33 3
  - I kind of wish something would happen that would force these teams to open their books. There's no way the Braves can't afford to pay guys. - Krusty Apr 21, 07:36 2
    - Formula One lost almost $1 billion, and so they passed the cuts along to Atlanta. - David Apr 21, 07:39 1
      - Ugh! That's terrible. And yes, corporations should never own teams. - Krusty Apr 21, 07:42
The DOJ will be investigating Minneapolis police, per CNN -- nm - TWuG Apr 21, 07:15
Verizon lost 82,000 Fios TV subscribers in Q1, after losing 72,000 the previous quarter. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 07:09 8
- Rather than pay $200/mo to cable companies, pay $200/mo to streamers -- nm - budice Apr 21, 07:18 4
  - It's better because it's being paid in smaller pieces rather than one big chunk. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 21, 07:20 3
    - Streamers have all the best content r n -- nm - rollo Apr 21, 07:21 2
      - meh. I still don't want to pay for 10 different services to get it. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 21, 07:23 1
        
        This. Plus, by having cable I get multiple streaming services as well. I watch a lot of live sports and right now the best and only -- (edited) - Krusty Apr 21, 07:28
- where did they go? -- nm - decline Apr 21, 07:10 2
  - in the gap between the couch cushions? -- nm - colin Apr 21, 07:10 1
    - That's where I'd look. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 21, 07:18
The Show 21 is fun. I'm a 3B/pitcher for the A's. Currently just trying to make my way with the Midland Rockhounds. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 07:04 10
- It looks great and the gameplay is really good. - Krusty Apr 21, 07:11 7
  - You mean just a season without franchise mode ? -- nm - Eag Apr 21, 07:30 6
    - Yes. I just want to play as the Yankees and go through a full season and the playoffs. I don't want to play as someone I created, I want the real - Krusty Apr 21, 07:34 5
      - In franchise mode there are settings as to how much the player wants to micro manage or just AI do it - Eag Apr 21, 07:41 2
        
        Can I play the field, pitch and hit? I don't want to be the GM. -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 07:45 1
        
        Yeah you can just play and of course set your lineup and leave everything else to the computer -- nm - Eag Apr 21, 07:48
      - Has to be an option with the franchise mode, I would think. I didn't get that far. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 07:41 1
        
        I looked at a bit and it seems like it's more about being the GM. *shrug* I'm still messing around with the game so I'm not sure about much yet. -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 07:45
- Trying to push Shaun for the ST Baseball Alter Ego MVP award? -- nm - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 07:10
- "The Show 21" is a modern "Who's On First?" gag. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 07:06
is the J&J vaccine evaluation today? -- nm - amanda jeans Apr 21, 07:02 5
- Even if they clear it, I can't imagine people going to get it now. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Apr 21, 07:04 1
  - is it like the AZ vaccine? mainly people who are 25-50 getting clots? -- nm - amanda jeans Apr 21, 07:05
- My sis got it a few weeks ago. Normal after-vax symptoms but is ok -- nm - budice Apr 21, 07:03 2
  - I thought the FDA was re evaluating whether we should be using the J&J vacc inUSA. -- nm - amanda jeans Apr 21, 07:05 1
    - Got it before the pause -- nm - budice Apr 21, 07:05
So, that's pretty good. -- (link) - David Apr 21, 06:54 5
- If he has a kid, and said kid is male, he would be Corbin Burnes' son, and now you've got a set-up joke for Major League IV. -- nm - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 07:06 1
  - Except the kid wants to go to law school instead -- nm - rollo Apr 21, 07:07
- yeesh -- nm - prayformojo Apr 21, 06:57
- And just think...once he’s out of the game, you get Devon Williams and Josh Hader. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 21, 06:57
- Multi-Pass -- nm - budice Apr 21, 06:55
"You've collected 2,000 points playing Question of the Day." Woo, can I trade those in for Amazon Bucks? -- nm - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 06:47 1
- *An angry line forms outside PFM's house* -- nm - rollo Apr 21, 06:52
No Justice. No Peace. No Preservatives -- Annie's Shells and White Cheddar - rollo Apr 21, 06:40
SNAKE! -- (link) - Beaker Apr 21, 06:26 6
- And a second time if I posted it. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 08:12
- "And that's how we broke up." -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 07:04
- He's sleeping alone for a while. -- nm* - Krusty Apr 21, 06:48
- Better Nate Than Lever -- (link*) - budice Apr 21, 06:34
- That's grounds right there. -- nm* - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 06:33
- oh, that's just mean -- nm - decline Apr 21, 06:33
Soooo, two inches of snow on the ground, I'm assuming that golf league is probably off for this afternoon then? -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 06:13 2
- Sure. FOR WIMPS -- nm - mara Apr 21, 06:19
- just use orange balls -- nm - decline Apr 21, 06:18
SPAC mania has come to a screeching halt. Only 10 new deals this month following a record of 109 SPACs in March -- (link) - budice Apr 21, 06:12 3
- stupid SEC -- nm - decline Apr 21, 06:18 2
  - Freakin’ Vanderbilt. -- nm - mafic Apr 21, 06:55 1
    - Enjoy the veal. -- nm - budice Apr 21, 06:56
Roku Is Rebranding Quibi Shows as ‘Roku Originals’ -- (link) - budice Apr 21, 06:01 1
- false advertising! -- nm - decline Apr 21, 06:06
heh @TheRickWilson -- (link) - mud Apr 21, 06:01
Happy birthday, Pippy!!! Woo hoo!!! -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 05:39 16
- Pippy strutting around in her birthday suit? Oh lawd. -- nm - IAmQale Apr 21, 08:18
- Happy happy! -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 08:14
- Happy birthday! Hope it's a great one! -- nm - zunk xometimes Apr 21, 07:28
- happpippy day! -- nm - colin Apr 21, 07:10
- Happy birthday, my fair lady Debauchery! -- nm - David Apr 21, 06:55
- Happy Happy Day! -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 06:41
- Happy Pippyday! -- nm - pmb Apr 21, 06:34
- bappy hirthday pippy. -- nm - tRuMAN Apr 21, 06:30
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - MDH Apr 21, 06:27
- Happy birthday! -- nm - ty97 Apr 21, 06:26
- Happy bday -- nm - Eag Apr 21, 06:24
- Happy Birthday!! -- nm - Shaun Apr 21, 06:20
- Happy Birthday!! -- nm - Jovian Apr 21, 06:00
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - decline Apr 21, 05:53
- *wink* indeed -- nm - oblique Apr 21, 05:53
- happy happy birthday!!🎂 -- nm - Diva Apr 21, 05:42
So, apparently the school shooting in Knoxville was a result of a teen romance turned violent and some chaotic policing - Will Hunting Apr 21, 05:02 11
- Cops seem to be going into every situation with the assumption that it's going to be violent - Reagen Apr 21, 05:22 10
  - Well, that it might turn violent, at any rate, especially if a Black person is involved, and from there it’s just a matter of confirmation bias. - znufrii Apr 21, 05:51
  - I think you have to once a weapon is mentioned. I haven’t seen any dispute the kid had a gun. - Will Hunting Apr 21, 05:40 7
    - Are you sure about the gun part? -- nm - David Apr 21, 06:53
    - I don't think it's just that they don't have it. I think they have little interest in it. Once there's a weapon their view is "shooting is justified - pmb Apr 21, 06:46 1
      - We've been watching "The Rookie" on ABC. They actually had a plot line along these lines in their last episode. New rookie is ex-military. - oblique Apr 21, 06:49
    - It's not all of them, but there's a bunch that seem to see their jobs as some kind of "pest control" - Reagen Apr 21, 05:46 3
      - Behind the Bastards podcast had a really good mini series on the explicitly racist origins of the police in America (eg, Slave Patrols... - ralph wiggum Apr 21, 07:19
      - Also, they're trained to respond with violence if necessary. They're not trained to de-escalate. -- nm - Inigo Apr 21, 05:57 1
        
        familyguyskincolortest.gif -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 21, 06:05
  - First thought is to protect their own ass when walking into a situation. Dealing with the public in any job can be so random -- nm* - budice Apr 21, 05:27
Netflix is getting hammered. Any idea why subs are so low? It could be people getting back to work, but I haven't heard anything about a trend. -- nm - GregW Apr 21, 04:54 4
- Because we haven’t found any other inhabited planets in the galaxy yet. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 07:10
- I would assume bubble as previously said, and COVID and weather. We went from COVID lockdown to winter. Now things are getting slowly better and - sycor Apr 21, 06:16
- There was a subscriber bubble during quarantine. So this is an after-effect. People getting out more means less eyes on screens -- nm* - budice Apr 21, 05:17
- At some point, you hit a reasonable threshold where you exhaust the subs base. There’s no “must see” show to entice them so you’re at the top. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 21, 05:04
Happy Birthday Pippy! - Beaker Apr 21, 04:39 7
- Happy b, Pippy! (NM) - Marlowe Apr 21, 06:03
- Happy BDay -- nm - budice Apr 21, 05:50
- have a great birthday, Pippy! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 21, 05:32
- Thank you!! I’m on the road today but know I loves all of ST! - Pippy Apr 21, 05:31
- cheers !! -- nm - mud Apr 21, 05:22
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - GregW Apr 21, 04:51
- Happy birthday! -- nm - spamlet Apr 21, 04:43
TV PSA: Masked Singer, NHL, Property Brothers, AEW Dynamite, Chicago Med, Fire, PD; Goldbergs, Home Economics, Price is Right, Conners, SEAL Team, -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 04:07 2
- Call Your Mother, A Million Little Things, Queen of the South, SWAT, Deadliest Catch, Zero (NF), Tell Me When (NF), Good Trouble, Snowfall, The Pole, -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 04:10 1
  - The Challenge, NOVA, Kung Fu, The Circle (NF), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 04:11
Ted Nugent, professional ahole who spent the last year saying covid was a hoax, calling mask wearers sheep, yeah he got it -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 21, 00:42
All but three must go, Part 2 (nmblink) - ralph wiggum Apr 21, 00:35 7
- The Sting, Casablanca, The Godfather Part II (American in Paris just misses the cut) -- nm - David Apr 21, 06:47
- Godfather, Godfather Pt II, My Fair Lady -- nm - mud Apr 21, 06:06
- *sheesh* But I'm in the exact same boat as you. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 21, 06:02
- Marty, In the Heat of the Night, Annie Hall -- nm - MDH Apr 21, 06:00
- Casablanca, Sting (my all time top two films) and Godfather II. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 21, 04:47
- Casablanca, Sound of Music, Godfather 2. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 21, 04:42
- Midnight Cowboy, Godfather, On the Waterfront -- nm - mafic Apr 21, 01:15
Columbus police release body cam video of teen girl shooting, she was trying to knife another girl she was fighting with -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 21, 00:24 [youtube]
Burlesque icon, Tempest Storm has passed on at 93 -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 20, 22:32
This video about midair doctory amused me. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 20, 21:57 [youtube] 1
- "when would I ever get a setup as good as that" -- nm - Max Apr 20, 22:40
Press conference on that Columbus shooting -- (link) - Ender Apr 20, 21:49 [youtube]
The Arch. Soc. offers research grants along with our scholarships, but we rarely get applications for them. I received one today - - Meg Apr 20, 21:47
There's a line of dialog in the Without Remorse trailer that is making me weep for the whole project. It could have been great. - Beryllium Apr 20, 21:41 2
- “He’s out of control! He’s behaving without any regret or guilt for his actions!” -- nm - Mop Apr 20, 21:53 1
  - Pretty close, yeah. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 21:57
apparently steamrolling other teams is a lesser-known long covid symptom -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 20, 21:10
I'm currently watching Rookie of the Year and I'm flabbergasted that 5 years after his accident Gary Busey seems completely cogent. -- nm - Ender Apr 20, 20:57 5
- which accident. if I remember right, he had several. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 20, 22:14 1
  - Motorcycle. He also had an drug overdose and a removed sinus tumor. -- nm - Ender Apr 20, 22:18
- I love that movie -- nm - MDH Apr 20, 21:10 1
  - "Rosenbagger!" -- nm - Krusty Apr 20, 21:53
- possibly even more than before. -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 21:02
Heh. Seems accurate. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 20, 20:20
Wow, Meg. That is obscure. Nice job. -- nm - colin Apr 20, 20:13 4
- I chose the same wrong answer, Colin. - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 06:45
- We spent one night in Copenhagen on a European camping trip but didn't have time to go to Tivoli. -- nm - Meg Apr 20, 20:57 2
  - Been to Copenhagen many times, don't think I ever ventured inside Tivoli -- nm - o-reo Apr 21, 06:18 1
    - I really enjoyed it. Especially at night when it's all lit up. All of the "zoo-lights" and things like that get done around here around Christmas - pmb Apr 21, 06:48
Tucker Carlson. Not at all a lunatic. -- (link) - Volnelk Apr 20, 20:08 9
- He sounds like a nice kid that was dropped in his head from the fifth floor in his infancy. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 21, 06:19
- He, the face of white supremacy in America, was in total full meltdown mode tonight. -- nm - Jovian Apr 20, 20:59
- Isn't that just how he is? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 20, 20:39
- Is MN heavily boarded up? DC hasn't been for a long time now. -- nm - Max Apr 20, 20:35 2
  - These particular lying racists insist that every city is boarded up and bombed out. -- nm - Diva Apr 21, 05:49 1
    - I mean you did trade Mel for canned goods recently but that was an unrelated incident. -- nm - Reagen Apr 21, 06:04
- Shut your mouth, Tucker, you are still not a codfish. -- nm - IAmQale Apr 20, 20:33
- Did he not take his meds today? -- nm - Pippy Apr 20, 20:23
- Oh god. -- nm - colin Apr 20, 20:11
It’s super fun watching your opponent play Magic: Arena by themselves. Stupid Alrund’s Epiphany. Seriously. -- nm - IAmQale Apr 20, 19:59 5
- I got hit with the red infinite loop deck in historic. Was kind of hoping opp would rope themself doing it. - spamlet Apr 21, 03:27
- Say what now? -- nm - Pippy Apr 20, 20:02 3
  - A dumb card that gives you an extra turn. -- nm - Tim Apr 20, 20:05 2
    - Seems legit - Pippy Apr 20, 20:09 1
      - Worse, it produces two birds! Like that’s insult to injury man. -- nm - IAmQale Apr 20, 20:32

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