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roll the board poll: does FB reinstate the donald? - zeitgeist May 4, 18:43 2
- I'm not on there anymore, so he can keep it. -- nm - IAmQale May 4, 19:08
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- nm - mud May 4, 18:51
Ooops. -- (link) - znufrii May 4, 18:38 1
- :-D -- nm - mud May 4, 18:51
~na-na-na na, na-na-na na, hey hey hey ..~ -- (link) - mud May 4, 18:28
So the Dentist said..... - eag May 4, 18:27 1
- good news, they won't have to drill a hole in your head, bad news, they gonna leave a hole in your head...not quite as bad though. -- nm* - zeitgeist May 4, 18:39
Valid testing remains the biggest challenge with online schooling. Had two cheaters on an online test who did in in the laziest possible fashion - Reagen May 4, 17:50 3
- "a million monkeys, Mr. S!" - mafic May 4, 18:03
- here the kids had a test moved to the home, the teacher just made it an open book test. can't do that for all of course, but an occasional one is ok -- nm - Beaker May 4, 17:55 1
  - I think open book is more reflective of my actual life. "ah hell, how do you calculate kriging efficiency again?" -- nm - mafic May 4, 18:06
I’m not giving them the click but apparently the WaPo believes all marriages are doomed because the Gates’ are divorcing. -- (link) - spamlet May 4, 17:49 2
- we said that about Hill Street Blue's Furillos -- nm - zeitgeist May 4, 18:36 1
  - my average client has been together 10-20 years, have his, hers and our kids, a house but one or both have a divorce in the past, now end of life ... -- nm - zeitgeist May 4, 18:38
It's funny how people, in the pursuit of capitalism, often forget basic rules of economics. -- (link) - Beryllium May 4, 17:16 3
- It's almost as if labour is subject to supply and demand. But that would be craaazy. -- nm - Reagen May 4, 17:47 2
  - Capital's biggest fear is the end of the labor glut. -- nm - znufrii May 4, 17:53 1
    - The $7.25 hourly wage is like, a fundamental constant of the universe, like c or pi. You can't change that! -- nm - Reagen May 4, 17:54
Broncos OT JuWuan James tore his Achilles today during working out at an outside facility. $10M contract in jeopardy since it was offsite. -- nm - Strongbad May 4, 17:05 5
- Broncos doctors are hoping he will not miss the entire 2021 season. -- nm - Strongbad May 4, 17:10
- Broncos prolly ask for waiver of some sorts to pay him -- nm - budice May 4, 17:09 3
  - More like Broncos will cut him since that’s a bitch of an injury. -- nm - Will Hunting May 4, 17:15 2
    - i had that once, it is a pain -- nm - budice May 4, 17:24 1
      - Oof. How long was the recovery? -- nm - Ear Victim May 4, 17:46
Poll for the night crew. 49.1% of Americans voted in 2020. What percentage gave money to a candidate that election? (PIRR) -- nm - spamlet May 4, 16:37 7
- 0.3125% -- nm - ty97 May 4, 17:58
- 0%. It all went to PACs. -- nm - Reagen May 4, 17:02
- 4% -- nm* - Strongbad May 4, 16:59
- It was poorly worded. The statistic is actually just to the Presidential campaigns, not all campaigns once I looked. - spamlet May 4, 16:45 2
  - 3.125% -- nm - Max May 4, 16:58
  - 31.25% -- nm - tRuMaN May 4, 16:55
- 22% -- nm - znufrii May 4, 16:41
Ooh, BC got a shipment of 188K vaccine doses today -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 16:36 5
- what flavour?! -- (edited) - mud May 4, 16:39 4
  - I don't know, but the BC CDC dashboard might say -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 17:14 2
    - more AZ coming -- (link) - mud May 4, 18:25
    - Seems like it might have been Pfizer -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 17:23
  - pineapple. ugh -- nm - Reagen May 4, 16:53
Tim, Qale, Spamlet --- I have looked up some card values in MTG -- from Weatherlight -- what are Lotus Vale, Scorched Ruins, Peacekeeper and Abeyance - Will Hunting May 4, 16:35 6
- The most trusted price source is generally TCGPlayer. And yeah, those are all worth a bit. - Tim May 4, 16:42 3
  - They're basically unplayed since I suck at the game so yeah.... good condition. - Will Hunting May 4, 16:43 2
    - I highly recommend either selling them as soon as possible — many believe this is a bubble — or forgetting you have them again. Leaning more to sell. - IAmQale May 4, 17:26
    - Congrats on the car payment! Your best bet to sell them is eBay, otherwise sites will just give you buylist prices which are around 50% of market. -- (link) - Tim May 4, 16:47
- Depends on condition. You can get quotes at ChannelFireball but I have no idea if that's the best way to go. -- (link) - spamlet May 4, 16:37 1
  - The sell your cards link is in the top right corner -- nm - spamlet May 4, 16:38
Ranger players call for firing of NHL Head of Player Safety after Wilson is not suspended for incident with Panarin -- (link) - spamlet May 4, 16:24 1
- Alternate IM: Do you want a line fight because that’s how you get a line fight. - spamlet May 4, 16:26
"I now baptize you in the name of the Father, the Gun, and the Holy Squirt." -- (link) - TWuG May 4, 16:18 1
- "I'm trying, Ringo. I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd." -- nm - Max May 4, 16:28
Disney + has been down all day -- nm - Remlik May 4, 16:17 2
- It's working for me. -- nm - Ear Victim May 4, 16:21 1
  - ugh -- nm - Remlik May 4, 16:26
Netflix cancels 'The Irregulars' after 1 season -- nm - Beaker May 4, 15:57 10
- That sounds kind of irregular for them. Doesn’t everything usually get at least two? -- nm - IAmQale May 4, 17:32
- That sounds like it might have been interesting. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 4, 16:53
- wasn't it just the number 1 streaming show? -- nm - Remlik May 4, 16:16 2
  - It was! -- nm - Ear Victim May 4, 16:17
  - Retiring undefeated, baby! -- nm - Max May 4, 16:17
- This week's Nielsens are gonna be *fascinating*. -- nm - Reagen May 4, 15:58 2
  - Oh I'll have some fun with that. -- nm - Tim May 4, 16:34
  - Seriously. This is the first tangible data we're gonna have about what passes for a success or failure on Netflix. -- nm - Mop May 4, 16:00
- 'Big Sky' renewed for season 2 ahead of finale -- nm - Beaker May 4, 15:58 1
  - ohhh my sister will be thrilled (its the only thing she watches on tv) -- nm - Jovian May 4, 16:03
I really have no idea what's going on here but this is a pretty incredible monologue even out of context -- (link) - Reagen May 4, 15:50 [youtube] 11
- "It takes effort for him not to talk like this all day" ... someone should put him on a podcast with David -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 16:28 1
  - I’ve been doing 1930s movie pre-show narrator since we watched Mank. Kim loooooves it. - Ear Victim May 4, 17:17
- OK this show is incredible. -- (link) - Reagen May 4, 16:09 [youtube] 4
  - I feel like Adam Savage should be on this show. -- nm - Max May 4, 16:11 3
    - That host is the son of Robert Reich! - Reagen May 4, 16:35 2
      - You can totally tell. -- nm - spamlet May 4, 17:48
      - what in the world wormhole did this come from -- nm - Max May 4, 17:00
- GOD---! -- nm - Mop May 4, 16:08
- Not SNL? -- nm - Max May 4, 16:05
- That’s... oddly compelling. -- nm - Will Hunting May 4, 15:54 1
  - Keeping his metaphor mythologically consistent was a wonder. -- nm - Reagen May 4, 15:57
Celebrate the Taco Moon - JD May 4, 15:50
"[Kenneth Chenault] went on to run American Express for 17 years, one of just 19 Black chief executives ever at a Fortune 500 company." -- (link) - prayformojo May 4, 15:46
If you told me 2 years ago that the GOP would be drumming Liz Cheney out their party, I would have told you were effing insane. - Jovian May 4, 15:43 2
- If things are this upside down, does that mean if she switched parties to D, that she'd have a shot at being reelected anyway? -- nm - Max May 4, 16:08 1
  - Nope. She'd just be sketchy to both sides of the political divide. - Will Hunting May 4, 16:50
Jamie Dimon lasted all of 13 months of using videoconferencing before he broke. -- (link) - Max May 4, 15:29 16
- I occasionally miss sitting on the train and reading for a half hour. otherwise, I mostly work alone, I don't need an office building for that. -- nm - mafic May 4, 18:08
- I'd be going back into an office to use Email and WebEx/Teams. Our CEO has same options. IT has invested hardware & routers to have people take calls from home. -- nm* - budice May 4, 17:31
- Old man yells at cloud. -- nm - Mop May 4, 16:05 1
  - *sigh* Points. -- nm - Reagen May 4, 16:23
- I actually agree with him for the most part. Not for every business, but for his (and mine) I think it's true. Sure, people will do more remote - pmb May 4, 15:40 3
  - relationships within the company to. I pity new people coming into our company now. I know pretty much everyone so have no problem calling or emailing - Beaker May 4, 18:27
  - This. -- nm - Diva May 4, 16:34
  - On the relationship side, sure. On the ops side, probably not so much. -- nm - znufrii May 4, 16:06
- I went back in Monday. I couldn’t handle it any more. I needed legitimate human interaction. -- nm - Will Hunting May 4, 15:38 3
  - My own hybrid ideal is I work in the office instead of at home, and all my coworkers work at home instead of the office. - Max May 4, 15:39 2
    - We are week in, week out to cut down on the population -- nm - Will Hunting May 4, 15:48
    - huh -- nm - prayformojo May 4, 15:41
- Our CEO: Hybrid office/remote model is the future of work. -- nm* - znufrii May 4, 15:35
- He might as well announce his retirement if he wants to sound that old. -- nm - Ear Victim May 4, 15:33 1
  - I think it's a combination of that & he's accustomed to moving through the world in a way that benefits him, and zoom strips him of that. -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 15:35
- "Who?" -- Djimon Hounsou -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 15:31
Tom Cavanagh is exciting The Flash. Maybe now he'll have time to finally make a shot-for-shot remake of Ed that can be streamed. -- nm - Ender May 4, 15:25 8
- I thought he already had. -- nm - . May 4, 18:54
- But they can only license music from Papa Roach. -- nm - Mop May 4, 15:58
- dammit. I wanted him to do a shot by shot remake of MR. ED. -- nm - Peglegpete May 4, 15:39 1
  - You're both going to get a shot by shot remake of Old Yeller instead. -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 15:46
- ~Too Many Wells~ -- nm - Reagen May 4, 15:36
- Carlos Valdes, too! -- nm - Ear Victim May 4, 15:29
- but who will tell Barry he has to run faster than he has ever run before??!! -- nm - Beaker May 4, 15:28 1
  - "OK, hear me out... to go faster, first you must go... slower." - Reagen May 4, 15:44
I'll be going into the office for the first time in almost 14 months tomorrow. I just had my "training" for going into the office. - pmb May 4, 15:23
So MrsJax agreed to try playing D&D with her family. Any pointers to get started? - JaxSean May 4, 15:06 6
- Watch the Dexter's Lab episode where Dexter and his sister play. -- nm - Strongbad May 4, 17:00
- Try to give Wizards of the Coast as little of your money as possible. -- nm - Qale May 4, 15:32
- Dndbeyond makes character creation so much easier. -- nm - Ender May 4, 15:17
- Don't ask me, I was never allowed to play because back then everyone thought D&D was some kind of accidental murder cult or pagan worship vehicle -- nm - rollo May 4, 15:17 2
  - Back then it WAS a murder cult... or was that just my group? -- nm - Ender May 4, 15:18 1
    - "I'm not saying things didn't get a little out of hand..." -- nm - Reagen May 4, 15:24
Who else is shipping QEII and Bill Gates? -- nm - Ender May 4, 15:02 2
- Together they can reignite the flame of the Empire. -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 15:03 1
  - Once Gates activates his microchipped army, they'll be unstoppable! -- nm - Dano May 4, 15:05
How many years can you neglect a hobby before you realize that you should probably get rid of all that crap you’re never going to use? -- nm - znufrii May 4, 14:55 3
- I have a ton of photo gear haven't touched in 10 years, a couple boxes of lapidary 'scrap' and my veggie garden is a blackberry farm, what did you ask -- nm - zeitgeist May 4, 18:35
- Does not compute. -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 15:03
- If you’re asking you’re already past whatever that amount is. -- nm - spamlet May 4, 14:56
Heh. I want one. -- (link) - Beryllium May 4, 14:42
Did you say "NBC Smorts"? -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 14:29 3
- if this is about SITV everyone had trouble making words this week. -- nm - Reagen May 4, 14:31 2
  - ~Me speaking, or saying, is lacking in words. I need to make the talk that is not bad.~ -- nm - znufrii May 4, 15:05
  - 2020-2021 has taken a mental toll. Heh -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 14:33
Huge thanks to everyone for job talk. It really helped a lot. -- nm - loosilu May 4, 14:23 2
- my only regret is we were not in a bar drinking with you while helping :))) -- nm - Peglegpete May 4, 14:27 1
  - no worries, I'm doing that here! -- nm - loosilu May 4, 14:31
Interesting info out of the press conference here today about vaccines - Reagen May 4, 14:23 1
- Just give me ALL THE VACCINES! -- nm - Dano May 4, 15:03
Pfizer submitting for EUA for ages 2-11 this September -- (link) - Reagen May 4, 14:22 3
- Yesssss. -- nm - kelly May 4, 15:13
- Excellent! -- nm - znufrii May 4, 14:55
- Next thing you know, they're gonna want to vaccinate your toddlers! -- nm - rollo May 4, 14:33
"We may have to wait until next week to see the insects arrive in great numbers." - prayformojo May 4, 14:16 2
- So all we have to do is carve off a chunk of the Larsen Ice Shelf and drop it on the forests and we're good? -- nm - Max May 4, 14:48
- "...he then added, 'Soon we shall taste free air and cleanse the land of the vertebrate horde... I mean... should be interesting.'" -- nm - Reagen May 4, 14:21
From a teacher perspective, "no more snow days" means you've gotta have a throwaway lesson tucked in your back pocket at all times. -- nm - Reagen May 4, 14:15 12
- Plus, you have to be ready to pivot to online with short notice. -- nm - JaxSean May 4, 14:28
- If you are a teacher who doesn't have one, you suck at your job. -- nm - loosilu May 4, 14:17 9
  - OK kids, today we’re going to learn about something called “calculus”. Can you say “cal-cu-lus”? -- nm - Mop May 4, 14:30 1
    - Ah, dentistry lessons. -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 14:45
  - I mean that depends on subject and grade. - Reagen May 4, 14:19 6
    - respectfully disagree, I taught bio lab and we had one or two prefabs in our pockets. -- (edited) - loosilu May 4, 14:24 5
      - but to teach from home? With uncertain attendance and equipment? - Reagen May 4, 14:26 4
        
        I hear ya. During quarantine, there is a community of scientists who did home lessons, including chemistry. My grad school friend Susan did some. - loosilu May 4, 14:30 3
        
        With notice I can do tons. Currently in the middle of online teaching. One day? Get ready for chaos! -- nm* - Reagen May 4, 14:31 2
        
        For today's snow day lab: Observations of the change of state of matter. We're gonna melt snow -- nm - JD May 4, 14:57 1
        
        Or observations on the change of state of Family Matters. Everyone cue up S1E1 and ... let's begin -- nm - rollo May 4, 15:18
- Being married to one for 18 years I know teachers are just as excited about snow days as kids. - spamlet May 4, 14:17

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