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My high school mascot is the Elks. And thus my name. I’m a Vol and an Elk. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 1, 14:41
TIL: Chuck E Cheese has a backstory -- (link) - JD Jun 1, 14:25
Marques Brownlee on the F-150 Lightning. Never forget that it's a moving battery. Power your house during a blackout. - Mop Jun 1, 14:09 [youtube] 6
- The "frunk" really changes things. It gives you a locked trunk space similar to a car. -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 14:47 1
  - I wonder how the new weight distribution changes the handling. I used to drive an F100 and when it was empty the back end was always - Meg Jun 1, 14:50
- To be honest, I totally don't need this. But I want it. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 14:45
- I've never been interested in a pick-up, but this is impressive. -- nm - pmb Jun 1, 14:44
- I WANT!!! Also the archaic CO warning sticker is great. -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 14:17 1
  - I've watched this review twice. The F-150 Lightning is now my new object of lust. -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 14:42
So... that's going well. -- (link) - Mop Jun 1, 13:44
Killshot. -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 1, 13:44 4
- From the video, it looks like they rescued them from the water which - if that's actually the case - *chef's kiss* -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 13:47 3
  - *waits* drives a little away "keep swimming, the current keeps pulling me away" *drives a little further away* -- nm - Beaker Jun 1, 13:59
  - yep, and perhaps a valuable lesson was learned in that act of kindness and forgiveness......or perhaps not -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 13:49 1
    - "Hey Bill, what happened to your boat?" "Gays used their gay powers to set it on fire! Man... don't mess with them!" -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 13:59
Oh, and this might surprise some of you... I'm going to record an episode co-hosted by Shades033. - Edward Havens Jun 1, 13:41 3
- Ed, Ed, and...? -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 13:43 2
  - Just Ed and Ed. And the person we're doing our episode on? Their middle name is Ed. -- nm - Edward Havens Jun 1, 14:37
  - The Warner Sister, Ed. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 13:46
(The original) Fanta was invented by Coca-Cola bottlers in Nazi Germany who could no longer produce Coke. - Mop Jun 1, 13:39 [youtube]
this speech Biden is giving in Tulsa is one of the best. -- nm - mud Jun 1, 13:36
So, there's a new episode of the podcast, on FilmDallas Pictures - Edward Havens Jun 1, 13:35 4
- Heh. I specifically checked for a new one just before I went on my run at noon! It wasn't there, so I listened to russian songs instead. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 13:36 3
  - Sorry. It's been a rough week. But I will hopefully be recording another episode tomorrow or Thursday. -- nm - Edward Havens Jun 1, 13:40 2
    - This wasn't a criticism! It was meant in fun. Means I have something for my run tomorrow. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 13:44 1
      - I'm very self-conscious about missing my own deadlines. You've always been very supportive, and I truly appreciate it -- nm - Edward Havens Jun 1, 14:41
".. basically a bat-signal for idiots." -- (link) - mud Jun 1, 13:31 14
- Maggie may be a robot for reporting what is said, but *someone* has to do that for history's sake, so why not a reporter? - Max Jun 1, 16:25
- If Trending was accurate it would be BTS 100% of the listings 100% of the time. It’s as manipulative as Facebook. I try to ignore it. -- nm - IAmQale Jun 1, 15:10
- My problem with it is that there's no sourcing and no context. I don't see that it's particularly good journalism. -- nm - mara Jun 1, 14:25 2
  - Its not, and by doing it she is helping his grifting. - Jovian Jun 1, 14:29
  - That’s where I’m at, and I think your point stands as a broad criticism of journalism in the age of Twitter, not just in this instance. -- nm* - znufrii Jun 1, 14:29
- Maggie has a rather quaint and outdated view of how reporters should report things, but "bag holder for Trump" is an insane read of her. -- nm - Reagen Jun 1, 13:58 8
  - Definitely not bag holder, though there has been a valid level of complaint over time of how she (and many other reporters!) have served - ty97 Jun 1, 14:08 3
    - “Reporting”, lol. -- nm - znufrii Jun 1, 14:27
    - Some people have forgotten how to exist off Twitter. -- nm - Reagen Jun 1, 14:23 1
      - hey! - mud Jun 1, 14:25
  - I feel a deep dive would just disgust me, so I'll just say "I'm on Maggie Haberman's side" and feel confident and good about that decision. -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 14:06 2
    - I think she's great. I hope Jovian doesn't think I'm implying he's an "idiot" though. I believe he's smarter than most. -- nm - mud Jun 1, 14:22 1
      - no I definitely do not think that! And I believe Maggie is a mixed bag. - Jovian Jun 1, 14:32
  - And would essentially mean a bunch of STers are the same since they have constantly repeated his BS. -- nm - spamlet Jun 1, 14:03
Okay shop dot nhl dot com, you and your supplier need a reality check on the price of this item -- (link) - crash davis Jun 1, 13:30 3
- Also - ty97 Jun 1, 13:34 [Attachment] 1
  - 😺 -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 13:37
- yikes -- nm - ty97 Jun 1, 13:32
someone on facebook just called me a racist b*tch because I refused to lower the price of an item I'm selling. - amanda jeans Jun 1, 13:19 10
- Raise the price $10 -- nm - Edward Havens Jun 1, 13:36
- Was the item listed: "$5 for white people, $10 for everyone else?" -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 1, 13:30
- "oh well I will definitely take 25% of now, thanks for calling me out" -- nm - Beaker Jun 1, 13:30 1
  - ha ha ha. -- nm - amanda jeans Jun 1, 13:34
- Was the item you were selling a signed copy of your "I am a racist b*tch" autobiography? - ty97 Jun 1, 13:27 2
  - it is, actually. should I have mentioned that? -- nm - amanda jeans Jun 1, 13:27 1
    - I feel like marketing missed the boat on this one. -- nm - Reagen Jun 1, 13:56
- incredible -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 13:25
- I was deemed a sexist by a former friend because I told her there are a lot better forums that Instagram to show her nipples. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 1, 13:21
- She’s Na’vi, so blue. -- nm - Qale Jun 1, 13:19
So, i'm looking at a dual-drive NAS system (my WD MyCloud is a single drive and aging). Would this be a reasonable option? - Will Hunting Jun 1, 13:12 13
- May I ask what you need a NAS for? I retired my NAS in favor of just slapping a big hard drive into my desktop PC - oblique Jun 1, 13:23 4
  - We have several different computers to feed into it and I like the idea of redundancy. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 1, 14:22 2
    - With RAID it's also easy, in theory, to pull a drive and put it in a safe place and then put in a blank drive to be filled up with the existing data. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 14:44 1
      - Right...this would be Raid-1 as a standard -- We have too much stuff I don't want to risk losing on aging storage devices. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 1, 14:48
  - I'm running a minecraft server in Docker on mine, as well as storing all my "raw" video files for editing, which don't fit on my laptop - Beryllium Jun 1, 13:38
- Synology is a well regarded brand, if that's what you're asking. -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 13:22 3
  - Yep. I've got a DS221+ and I like it. Only downside is that macOS time machine doesn't like it, but that's probably not an issue here. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 13:32 2
    - FWIW, I maintain 3 separate QNAP devices institutionally. I have no complaints about QNAP. -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 13:35
    - Oh, I got spinning rust instead of SSDs (in order to save about $800) and since it's in my bedroom I kinda wish I had got the SSDs instead. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 13:33
- Also, how easy is it to upgrade the RAM from the 2gb to the 6gb? Is it something you need legit tech skills to do? -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 1, 13:14 3
  - Looks like the RAM upgrade is a laptop SO-DIMM. Highly recommended model -- (link*) - budice Jun 1, 13:23 1
    - So that 4GB is a highly recommended model? -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 1, 14:25
  - In everything I've dealt with, the major difficulty in upgrading RAM is getting your big hands into a small space. No real tech skills required. -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 13:19
LYC. Fares now Chicago O'Hare to Wrigleyville. Uber-$85. Lyft-$47. Cab-$42 (est). -- nm - zunk xometimes Jun 1, 13:11 7
- The one and only time I've ever been to Chicago (second weekend in September 2007), CTA was a nightmare, but I'll still take it over Uber or Lyft - Edward Havens Jun 1, 13:43
- Are the drivers making more money or just Uber? -- nm - oblique Jun 1, 13:26 1
  - I saw a story that drivers were intentionally (and in coordinated fashion) holding off on accepting fares to increase the fares to surge pricing. -- nm - pmb Jun 1, 13:52
- Uber is really struggling right now. Prices skyrocketed with less drivers. -- nm - MDH Jun 1, 13:14 1
  - this. and more drivers would rather just drop off stuff from Ubereats, doordash and grubhub. A sack of food doesn't give you lip -- (edited) - Diva Jun 1, 13:27
- Its getting to be that way in places. With surge pricing and costs -- nm - budice Jun 1, 13:12 1
  - CTA is only $5 from OHare but there's a transfer and not door to door. -- nm - zunk xometimes Jun 1, 13:16
Remember Segway? They're making ebikes now. -- (link) - Mop Jun 1, 13:09 [youtube]
When I redesign the English language, the plural form of elk will be elk. -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 13:03 17
- elken -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 1, 14:00
- Oko Liked This. -- (pic) - Qale Jun 1, 13:21 [Attachment] 1
  - Well if Oko is happy, I must be on the right track -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 13:25
- a group of elks is an order -- nm - budice Jun 1, 13:09 2
  - and they are benevolent and protective? -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 13:11 1
    - in certain parts of the county, a bunch of Elks are known as as a Windshield of Elk -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 1, 13:26
- elx -- nm - prayformojo Jun 1, 13:08 1
  - potential -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 13:12
- elkves -- nm - Dano Jun 1, 13:06
- It's...not? -- nm - spamlet Jun 1, 13:03 7
  - I mean you *could* but elks is the proper term. - Reagen Jun 1, 13:08 5
    - Everyone talks about an elk herd or elk herds. No one I know uses elks herd or elks herds. Not that people I know should be the standard, but still. -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 13:11 4
      - a cat herd, a herd of cats. -- nm - Reagen Jun 1, 13:57
      - now you're just being obstreperous - mud Jun 1, 13:23 2
        
        you're going off on a tangent by describing a moose ;p -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 13:26 1
        
        please don't redesign the English language, we'll meet your demands whatever they may be! -- nm - mud Jun 1, 13:28
  - Not in Edmonton -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 13:05
maybe if uyou would have worked on it friday, we could have avoided these surprises. -- (pic) - amanda jeans Jun 1, 12:55 [Attachment] 2
- I wonder if he's using the wrong tool to reimage. That would be funny, if he just kept destroying SSDs before giving you spinning rust. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 12:57
- Guess it’s time for that loaner. -- nm - spamlet Jun 1, 12:57
Illinois: Passing important legislation: Ends sale of pets from puppy mills. Juneteeth a state holiday. And cocktails to go continue as well as - oblique Jun 1, 12:52 1
- 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 -- nm - Krusty Jun 1, 13:08
You have one week to opt out of letting Amazon create its own network using your smart devices -- (link) - znufrii Jun 1, 12:46 6
- nmbfa! - IAmQale Jun 1, 12:57
- (again). This is at least the third time they've "reset" the option. -- nm* - spamlet Jun 1, 12:50 4
  - I had no idea it was a thing. -- nm - znufrii Jun 1, 13:11
  - I'm pretty sure I already disabled mine, but I don't have a Sidewalk option now under my account -- nm - prayformojo Jun 1, 13:08
  - Interesting. Mine is still disabled from when I set it before a month or two ago -- nm - oblique Jun 1, 13:04 1
    - I checked mine the other day when I saw it on reddit. It was enabled so I had to disable again. -- nm - spamlet Jun 1, 13:13
Pelosi offers 4 options: -- (link) - mud Jun 1, 12:46 5
- Is Option 5 possible? Fuck the commission - we KNOW what happened, how it happened and why. Put the time and resources toward ending or fixing -- (edited) - Dean Winchester Jun 1, 13:06 3
  - I can't fathom a system where you could in theory win 59-1 and not get something passed. 54-35 is 60%+. How is that *STILL* not enough? -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 1, 13:14 2
    - If there's any time to make them actually filibuster, it's this. - spamlet Jun 1, 13:19
    - Right. Ask any 6 year old "the score is 54-35, who won?" nm - Dean Winchester Jun 1, 13:15
- option 2 is the only viable option. Option 1 would just be a repeat of last week. And options 3 and 4 will accomplish zilch. - Jovian Jun 1, 12:49
Webb telescope launch date slips. I sure hope this thing doesn't explode when it launches -- (link) - oblique Jun 1, 12:31 1
- Loaner rockets work as well as loaner laptops -- nm - budice Jun 1, 12:33
I like this NYT Essay because it's packed with a lot of tossed away juicy examples from his own career. James Bond writer hopes Amazon keepsit special -- (link) - con_carne Jun 1, 12:27 1
- I hope that Amazon creates a version of it that utterly drops the misogyny. - Beryllium Jun 1, 12:54
Happy Birthday Kelly! - Pippy Jun 1, 12:24 3
- Thank you!! -- nm - kelly Jun 1, 12:59
- HBD -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 1, 12:36
- & many many more!!! -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 1, 12:33
Oh hey my identity was stolen again because some third party UHC contracts with didn’t destroy old health data for me. - spamlet Jun 1, 12:10 6
- Spammy Express Card, never leave home without it -- nm - budice Jun 1, 12:34
- Fuck -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 12:25
- Can I ask what you mean by that? Were accounts opened? I'm genuinely curious because I've pretty much resigned myself that my shit is out there - oblique Jun 1, 12:12 3
  - No activity got a letter from two companies I’ve never heard of that their systems were accessed and my data was stolen. - spamlet Jun 1, 12:25 1
    - 3rd party processors are like some lady who does the insurance forms for the healthcare providers from her home. - zeitgeist Jun 1, 12:44
  - so many fraudulent unemployment claims for me. so many. -- nm - amanda jeans Jun 1, 12:25
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Jun 1, 12:06 [Attachment] 10
- Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Jun 1, 12:06 [Attachment] 9
  - Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo Jun 1, 12:07 [Attachment] 8
    - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Jun 1, 12:07 [Attachment] 7
      - 2/2 -- nm - Dano Jun 1, 12:37
      - 2/2 -- nm - rollo Jun 1, 12:35
      - 2/2 -- nm - JD Jun 1, 12:30
      - 2/2 -- nm - Pippy Jun 1, 12:24
      - 2/2 -- nm - oblique Jun 1, 12:14
      - 2/2 -- nm - Diva Jun 1, 12:13
      - 1/2 missed the first one -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 1, 12:08
My fave part is that the baby bears knew well enough to leave that sh!t alone. -- nm - Diva Jun 1, 12:02 1
- Momma bear seemed like she was tired of that yappy shit and was going to smack that bigger one till that lady swoped in for the rescue -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 1, 12:46
lol omg -- (link) - Jovian Jun 1, 12:02
Since they now need a manager, I wonder if Everton can hire Steven Gerrard. He seems to have recent success as a manager - JD Jun 1, 12:00 1
- That was kind of out of nowhere. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 1, 12:08
Honest Trailers | Army of the Dead -- (link) - Beaker Jun 1, 11:59 [youtube]
Took me too long to find. Seurat. A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 11:50 6
- ~Sunday, by the blue purple yellow green water.~ -- nm - znufrii Jun 1, 12:37
- It's not like it's small. -- nm - Barontronic Jun 1, 12:25
- Art Institute in Chicago. - ty97 Jun 1, 11:54 3
  - I couldn't remember the name of the art or artist, but it's the one that the Hiddleston pic on B2 reminded me of -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 11:57 1
    - I kept thinking it was Chagall, but I couldn't even remember *that* name. I had to look up Notting Hill trivia for that. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 11:58
  - Yup -- (pic) - spamlet Jun 1, 11:56 [Attachment]
Spider-Man: Far From Home Sweet Home Alone -- nm - Spawn Jun 1, 11:47 1
- Alabama? -- nm - eag Jun 1, 11:55
would anyone like an update on my computer? here it is: -- nm - amanda jeans Jun 1, 11:47 1
- welp -- nm - budice Jun 1, 11:52

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