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american hitler has something to say about FB again today -- (link) - Jovian Jun 8, 14:34 3
- The fundamental lack of understanding of what the First Amendment does and doesn't do in that statement is not surprising given the source, but - pmb Jun 8, 14:41 1
  - Oh he knows he cant. This is just performative art for the mentally deficient portion of his base. - Jovian Jun 8, 14:46
- Let them fight. -- nm - IAmQale Jun 8, 14:35
I like the guy that plays Ray on Panic. -- nm - Todd Manning Jun 8, 14:31
So being mostly a stereotypical US sports fan (skip the Everton thing), ELI5 what are the unwritten rules of the NHL - JD Jun 8, 14:25 7
- goons fight other goons not star players -- nm - Beaker Jun 8, 14:31 2
  - Are there 'new' goons? Or are goons kind of like the previously grandfathered in no helmet players and being aged out of the league? -- nm - JD Jun 8, 14:34 1
    - not so much goons anymore as "tough guys", Lucic, Tom Wilson -- nm - Beaker Jun 8, 14:36
- Don’t touch the opposing goalie I think is the most important one. -- nm - spamlet Jun 8, 14:29 1
  - With the kind of sort of related, heaven help the dick head goaltender who spends extended time out of the crease? - JD Jun 8, 14:42
- Rule #1: Punch first. -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 14:28 1
  - (I don't actually watch the sport) -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 14:28
Anyone got any good ideas for resto/dinner in Portland, ME? -- nm - Diva Jun 8, 14:25 4
- You know I got you. -- nm - MDH Jun 8, 14:30 3
  - Tandem Coffee and Bakery -- (link) - MDH Jun 8, 14:31
  - East Ender -- (link) - MDH Jun 8, 14:30
  - Duckfat -- (link) - MDH Jun 8, 14:30
SITV-Q: Can/will Kaep be interested in XFL/USFL? Will the new orgs seek to counter the systemic racism of the NFL? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 14:13 2
- If they follow the original plan and not try to compete with the NFL for draftees and free agents then they won't pay him enough -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 8, 16:55
- Those are good questions! -- nm - Mop Jun 8, 15:15
Peruvian presidential election, final result projection -- (link) - ty97 Jun 8, 14:08 11
- Good luck, Peru. -- nm - spamlet Jun 8, 14:27 6
  - I feel like they had a lose-lose choice -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 14:28 5
    - Neither was a great option but when one is pro-Chavez the other is the better choice. -- nm - spamlet Jun 8, 14:30 4
      - I dunno, when the other one is gonna pardon her former President father for human rights violations related to a death squad, there is no better. - ty97 Jun 8, 14:33 3
        
        I do hope that Peru has a strong legislature to keep in check whichever one ultimately wins though -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 14:34 2
        
        Peru is honestly a total mess right now. They had three presidents just in November. - spamlet Jun 8, 14:37 1
        
        oh I forgot about that month! -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 14:39
- History repeating itself. - ty97 Jun 8, 14:11 3
  - That's my #1 favorite Propellerheads song. -- nm - Dano Jun 8, 14:24
  - Zeno's Paradox, but elections -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 14:15 1
    - as a victim of pop culture, I read this as Zemo and was really confused -- nm - JD Jun 8, 14:19
High resolution photos of Ganymede taken June 7th -- (link) - oblique Jun 8, 14:02 3
- a liquid ocean under Io? yea I dont think so -- nm - Jovian Jun 8, 14:08
- Incredible -- nm - prayformojo Jun 8, 14:02
- boring, just looks like the one we got. -- nm - colin Jun 8, 14:02
Infrastructure negotiations between WH / GOP are over -- (link) - ty97 Jun 8, 13:58 3
- There's a shocker. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 8, 14:08 1
  - and so is this -- (pic) - JD Jun 8, 14:10 [Attachment]
- can't wait to read what fucked up stuff is in it now. -- nm - colin Jun 8, 14:01
These "The #1 whatever on your such and such birthday defines your yadda yadda" things make me wonder one thing... - Cuzzin Todd Jun 8, 13:58 6
- It makes me wonder who is collecting the tracking data -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 14:00 1
  - This. -- nm - spamlet Jun 8, 14:18
- I turn 50 in 3 months or so - oblique Jun 8, 13:59 3
  - Here's the worst thing about 50. - Cuzzin Todd Jun 8, 14:02 2
    - I...don't look at it that way? - ty97 Jun 8, 14:14
    - :-( -- nm - mud Jun 8, 14:12
Productivity - 9.5 on a scale of 1 - 10. - Diva Jun 8, 13:54 11
- Damn! 👏🏼 -- nm - Krusty Jun 8, 13:59 2
  - last week I was around 3-ish. 🤣 -- nm - Diva Jun 8, 14:02 1
    - That's a good average -- nm - Krusty Jun 8, 14:11
- posting here just cost you another half point -- nm - colin Jun 8, 13:54 7
  - well-work ended earlier than usual because I got up and started bright and early which of course gives me more points. Now I'm checking in with ST fam -- (edited) - Diva Jun 8, 13:58 6
    - oh shoot, dang. you're probably actually at a 10 today. -- nm - colin Jun 8, 14:02 5
      - She's the Simone Biles of Productivity. -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 14:02 4
        
        but the judges won't give me the correct degree of difficulty because they want the field to get closer. - Diva Jun 8, 14:05 2
        
        Russian judges -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 8, 16:51
        
        I watched every hour of men/women's gymnastics that aired this weekend. I was enraged at points. -- nm - MDH Jun 8, 14:06
        
        bless the person who puts simone biles highlights in my twitter feed. she is on another level right now. like Diva! -- nm - colin Jun 8, 14:03
Teach for America won’t send any more volunteers to St Louis schools because the kids are too dumb -- (link) - spamlet Jun 8, 13:42 1
- Though officially "TFA believes that more experienced educational leaders are necessary to accelerate the pace of change for students," - JD Jun 8, 13:51
Supposedly the song that was #1 on your 14th birthday defines your life. -- (link) - loosilu Jun 8, 13:38 57
- Aka, tell us your birthday without telling us your birthday. -- nm - znufrii Jun 8, 14:25
- Heh, "Poor Little Fool by Ricky Nelson." -- nm - Meg Jun 8, 14:14
- Ghostbusters! -- nm - Dano Jun 8, 14:04 1
  - I think this is my favorite. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 14:11
- Let your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers. -- nm - pmb Jun 8, 14:00
- Say Say Say by Paul McCartney And Michael Jackson. - how does this define my life other than I love both artists -- nm - Walt_Disney Jun 8, 14:00 1
  - That's the next board discussion when we discuss how we think how the song / life thing works ;-) -- nm - JD Jun 8, 14:01
- Truly by Lionel Richie -- nm - TWuG Jun 8, 13:59
- didn't use the page linked, but mine is Everybody Wants to Rule The World by Tears for Fears -- nm - JaxSean Jun 8, 13:57
- Well, I won this challenge HANDS DOWN. -- (link) - MDH Jun 8, 13:56 [youtube] 7
  - Was the winner the one with the worst song? You win! -- nm - JaxSean Jun 8, 14:06
  - For those not clicking, mine is Madonna "Music" -- nm - MDH Jun 8, 14:01 3
    - Wow, just did it for the bf, his is Madonna's Take a Bow -- nm - MDH Jun 8, 14:03 2
      - so you both got mediocre Madonna songs, how sweet! -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 14:13
      - Ha! -- nm - Krusty Jun 8, 14:10
  - Nothing compares to me! -- (edited) - Krusty Jun 8, 13:57 1
    - Mine is CHariots of Fire. I crossed the finish line hours ago. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 14:14
- Every Breath You Take, The Police -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 8, 13:53
- I Just Called to Say I Love You. At least it's Stevie. -- nm - Dean Winchester Jun 8, 13:51
- Oops, did it wrong. It's actually Nothing Compares To You by Sinead O'Connor -- nm* - Krusty Jun 8, 13:50 9
  - what was it before? -- nm - colin Jun 8, 13:53 1
    - Yeah! By Usher, Lil Jon and Ludacris. I accidentally put in my 14th birthday so it gave me the #1 from 2004. -- nm - Krusty Jun 8, 13:54
  - You are a decade younger than I thought. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 8, 13:52 3
    - Yeah, I put in my 14th birthday as my actual birthday. I was not born in 1990. Lol -- nm - Krusty Jun 8, 13:53 2
      - i'm trying to do the math here, but my brain is literally not working. -- nm - colin Jun 8, 14:02 1
        
        I was born in 1976 but instead of putting that in I put in 1990. So it gave me the song from 2004 which was the wrong year. -- nm - Krusty Jun 8, 14:14
  - *slowly raises hand* -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 13:52 2
    - ahh, you fixed it now -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 13:54 1
      - 👍🏼 I fail at reading comprehension so much these days. -- nm - Krusty Jun 8, 13:55
- Ain't No Mountain High Enough. Diana Ross -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 8, 13:50
- If you really want to know how old I am, just ask! - zunk xometimes Jun 8, 13:48 1
  - Anyway, I don't see how "Venus" by Shocking Blues defines anyone's life. But, a few days later, "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" was #1 - zunk xometimes Jun 8, 13:53
- Nope. Mine's terrible... -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 8, 13:48 3
  - Worse than Mac Daddy and Daddy Mac? -- nm - Strongbad Jun 8, 14:05
  - MJ? -- nm - oblique Jun 8, 13:51
  - David admitted to Maniac. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 13:48
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine -- nm - mud Jun 8, 13:47
- But now I'm only falling apart. There's nothing I can do. A total eclipse of the heart -- (link) - JD Jun 8, 13:47 [youtube]
- Maniac by Michael Sembello -- nm - David Jun 8, 13:45 5
  - Wow, you all are so much older than me -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 13:51 4
    - That really doesn't seem right. -- nm - David Jun 8, 14:03 3
      - You can double check it here -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 8, 14:08 2
        
        (I mean that Ty is younger than us.) -- nm - David Jun 8, 14:23 1
        
        He posts like he's 64. (Will you still need him, will you still feed him?) -- nm - JaxSean Jun 8, 14:36
- Papa Don't Preach ... not entirely inaccurate -- nm - rollo Jun 8, 13:44
- Jump by Kris Kross -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Jun 8, 13:42
- One Sweet Day by Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men. lol, no. -- nm - colin Jun 8, 13:41 2
  - ahh, that was a good song. -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 13:51 1
    - lil evangelical homeschooler colin was not aware. -- nm - colin Jun 8, 13:52
- hmm. Love Will Never Do (Without You) by Janet Jackson. seems legit, sure it does. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 8, 13:40 1
  - Sidenote: That's among my favorite music videos -- nm - JD Jun 8, 13:48
- St. Elmo's Fire -- nm - oblique Jun 8, 13:40 1
  - and so I learn that David Foster's instrumental never made the top 10 -- nm - JD Jun 8, 13:53
- I was shocked to discover mine doesn't suck. -- (edited) - loosilu Jun 8, 13:39 [youtube]
- no. -- nm - amanda's borrowed jeans Jun 8, 13:39 2
  - this -- nm - Beaker Jun 8, 13:41 1
    - I"m sorry you got a bad song. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 13:41
my sister is 68. she has no idea she will be 25,000 days old in 12 days. I have contacted her kids to do something fun. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 8, 13:35
colin, re b2 - tRuMaN Jun 8, 13:34
Hope you aren't holding Lordstown Motors stock. Not long for the world -- (link) - TWuG Jun 8, 13:22 2
- Well that's unfortunate for the employees -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 13:36
- if you believed a single word they said from the start, you made a mistake. - colin Jun 8, 13:24
Zillow Listing -- (link) - Strongbad, Champ Champ Jun 8, 13:22 9
- I thought for sure that was multiple townhomes in one building. - JaxSean Jun 8, 14:39
- Streamer house with a Johnny Unitas jersey. Okay. -- nm - David Jun 8, 13:33 3
  - Unitas is football Jesus in Baltimore. It’s like Peyton here except more successful. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 8, 13:37 2
    - But they're Colts fans... -- nm - David Jun 8, 13:44 1
      - Ya know how some teams get to steal the name and others don’t? Yeah, Johnny is Baltimore and fuck Irsay. - Will Hunting Jun 8, 13:55
- That's so... bland. - Cuzzin Todd Jun 8, 13:33
- Those fences are not big enough, it needs a moat - Guigue Jun 8, 13:26
- is this a tech startup house? -- nm - colin Jun 8, 13:25
- That’s a block away from my SIL -- nm - znufrii Jun 8, 13:25
"The Washington Generals of superhero teams" - Jovian Jun 8, 13:19
Hacks renewed for season 2 by HBO Max -- nm - Beaker Jun 8, 13:16
Shaun: EB Games had a Playstation Clicker Funko there if interested. -- nm - Beaker Jun 8, 13:13
LA times says a tip, apparently a photo (car camera?) was enhanced to reveal license plate led to Aiden shooting couple. -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 8, 13:11 1
- We are not so far from widely deployed in car cameras being able to provide evidence in cases like this - oblique Jun 8, 13:36
New plant based tuna coming to restaurants in 2022 -- (link) - oblique Jun 8, 13:08 10
- There are vegetarians that are saying "I miss the taste of seafood"? or is it a environmental thing -- nm - Walt_Disney Jun 8, 13:35 4
  - both -- nm - Andie Jun 8, 13:54
  - I would miss the taste of seafood. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 13:42
  - Both. My wife is vegetarian and she enjoys these products primarily because the alternatives aren't terribly tasty or nutritious in and of themselves - oblique Jun 8, 13:38 1
    - environmental is huge. it's starting to get to where we really shouldn't eat anything from the ocean. -- nm - colin Jun 8, 13:53
- i have no desire to eat fake fish (other than that weird sugar crab stick stuff). -- nm - colin Jun 8, 13:23
- what is the stock play? beyond meat? -- nm - Pippy Jun 8, 13:14
- Dammit! Look, I *just* got this stuff straight! -- nm - Jessica Simpson Jun 8, 13:10
- Soybean of the Sea? -- nm - Dano Jun 8, 13:10 1
  - Tofuna -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 8, 13:12
I know nobody can do me no harm (ooh, oh, yeah) Because Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is (bang, bang, shoot, shoot) -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 8, 13:08 1
- The Breeders cover of this is (one of) my favorite cover(s) -- nm - rollo Jun 8, 13:37
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Jun 8, 13:06

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