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US Open Tennis to return to 100% capacity this year. -- (link) - Diva Jun 17, 08:42 1
- I've wanted to go. I should look into tickets this year. -- nm - Dano Jun 17, 08:47
The quality of the hospital is a greater factor in COVID survivability than age, income, or other medical conditions. -- (link) - Mop Jun 17, 08:38
Manchin releases outline of voting rights compromise. -- (link) - spamlet Jun 17, 08:29 10
- Stacy Abrams is behind Manchin. -- (link) - spamlet Jun 17, 08:31 9
  - That's a big deal. I've heard numerous interviews with her recently and how locked in she is on getting reform done -- nm - oblique Jun 17, 08:41
  - As long at the alternatives are flexible enough, I think that's good. And Abrams is pragmatic on this topic I think. This is *the* shot to make - ty97 Jun 17, 08:41 1
    - I love that it includes the provision for a public holiday -- nm - oblique Jun 17, 08:42
  - Thanks for that link, very interesting. "He also proposed requiring voter identification but allowing alternatives like utility bills to suffice as proof of identity." -- nm* - mara Jun 17, 08:34 5
    - The Feds need to be very clear on what the *minimum* allowances for those alternatives are and not leave it to the states - ty97 Jun 17, 08:40 1
      - we technically have voter ID requirements here but it's quite forgiving in reality - Reagen Jun 17, 08:49
    - I think the nuance of her position on ID is good and has been sorely missing from a lot of the debate. -- nm - spamlet Jun 17, 08:36 2
      - Signature matching is stupid and should be eliminated. -- nm - Reagen Jun 17, 08:52
      - Mostly because the right is insisting on a very restrictive list of harder to get IDs. Excluding student ID and utility bill type ID. - TWuG Jun 17, 08:51
Before Luca drops, Ringer re-ranks all the Pixar films. -- (link) - Volnelk Jun 17, 08:11 13
- The only Pixar’s I actively dislike are Good Dinosaur and Cars 2. Like, they are bad. - Will Hunting Jun 17, 08:52 1
  - I agree with yout first one at least. (NM) - Marlowe Jun 17, 08:55
- Dare I say...this is actually a really solid ranking? (Minus the insanity for Coco). -- nm - MDH Jun 17, 08:46
- Even though it is hard to argue against the top two, Ratatouille is my all time favorite Pixar -- nm - crash davis Jun 17, 08:40
- Is Luca dropping from the second floor? -- nm - JaxSean Jun 17, 08:32 1
  - Pretty sure I have seen it before. -- nm - Spawn Jun 17, 08:42
- Monsters Inc still probably my favorite but Coco is wonderful -- nm - eag Jun 17, 08:30
- Yeah, these rankings are crap - oblique Jun 17, 08:20 2
  - Ratatouille is second to last? BURN IT. BURN IT ALL. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 08:49
  - kid your face -- nm - crash davis Jun 17, 08:41
- Starring that kid from Good Boys and that kid from IT! (Oddly, they do not use this line in the promotion.) -- nm - Barontronic Jun 17, 08:17
- We are all very much looking forward to a Luca family movie night tomorrow. -- nm - Shaun Jun 17, 08:12
- I woke up to find my Roku wallpaper is no longer available and had been replaced with Luca. - Spawn Jun 17, 08:11
If you know of anything that discounted for having a .edu email address, please let me know. TIA! -- nm - crash davis Jun 17, 07:57 16
- For many online services, there's a single validating service (Hulu and Spotify use it, I think). If I can remember what it is, I'll tell you. -- nm - Mop Jun 17, 08:45 2
  - GET BACK TO WORK!!! -- nm - Mop's Boss Jun 17, 08:46 1
    - Surprisingly part of my responsibilities. -- nm - Mop Jun 17, 08:49
- https://collegeinfogeek.com/student-discounts / -- (link) - mara Jun 17, 08:36 1
  - thank you kindly -- nm - crash davis Jun 17, 08:37
- Lots of academic discounts for software -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 17, 08:36 1
  - I'm going to check into those -- nm - crash davis Jun 17, 08:37
- I have student subs for Spotify, YouTube Premium, and Amazon Prime. I would start there. -- nm - Shaun Jun 17, 08:13 4
  - thanks! -- nm - crash davis Jun 17, 08:14 3
    - They will redirect you to some sort of verification site, so make sure you can validate your credentials. -- nm - Shaun Jun 17, 08:14 2
      - I just got my email, don't have my ID card yet. Should I wait for that? -- nm - crash davis Jun 17, 08:20 1
        
        Yeah I would want until you can fully login to the student portal or whatever, just to be sure. -- nm - Shaun Jun 17, 08:22
- Girls Gone Wild? -- nm - Spawn Jun 17, 08:05
- I'm sure there are lots of lists out there but the notable ones I think of are Amazon Prime, Spotify, etc. and things like Adobe software, etc. -- nm - oblique Jun 17, 08:04 2
  - Thanks, I was unaware of Prime. That is a biggie. I was thinking Microsoft 365 and possibly a Surface Pro -- nm - crash davis Jun 17, 08:06 1
    - 100% there is 365 for students BUT it is tied to specific institutions in some cases. I'm not sure about Microsoft hardware but I do know I got a - oblique Jun 17, 08:15
Amazon has removed all Aukey, RavPower, and MPow products from its website for offering gift cards for positive reviews. -- (link) - spamlet Jun 17, 07:53 13
- I've bought Aukey and RavPower products. Where are my gift cards?! -- nm - Mop Jun 17, 08:44
- I really like my Aukey mechanical keyboard. -- nm - Shaun Jun 17, 08:13 1
  - all my Aukey portable chargers seem way better than any other ones. -- nm - Andie Jun 17, 08:14
- I’ve gotten several such bribe offers. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 17, 08:01 3
  - yup -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 17, 08:31
  - Same. I always ignore but I really like Aukey’s stuff anyway so this stinks. -- nm - spamlet Jun 17, 08:24
  - And you keep refusing! - Spawn Jun 17, 08:11
- Aukey seemed ok. Not like only ones offering that -- nm* - budice Jun 17, 07:57
- I have a few of those MPOW products. I like them, but never did the reviews -- nm - JaxSean Jun 17, 07:56 2
  - You missed out on all those gift cards. -- nm - Spawn Jun 17, 07:56 1
    - meh. I've moved on to Wyze stuff. - JaxSean Jun 17, 07:59
- bastards -- nm - decline Jun 17, 07:54 1
  - I know! I have two of those things and never got bribed. -- nm - Reagen Jun 17, 07:55
Where were you when this went down?? -- (link) - budice Jun 17, 07:40 28
- Having a eight hour phone get to know you conversation with a girl I ended up dating for a few months. -- nm - Walt_Disney Jun 17, 09:49
- Watching the Knicks game at a bar -- nm - Jovian Jun 17, 09:08
- In a 4 hour shady motel. -- nm - groiny Jun 17, 08:42
- I was working at place called Tour Design, we made commercials for concert tours and did News radio ads as well. So we were super busy that day -- nm - Remlik Jun 17, 08:42
- Teaching a BI 211 summer school class. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 17, 08:37
- I was in a mcdonald's parking lot for part of it. -- nm - amanda's borrowed jeans Jun 17, 08:22
- I honestly don't recall. It was not as big a deal to me as it was the world. -- nm - Spawn Jun 17, 08:15 1
  - OJ wasn't a big deal to me at the time (he was the Naked Gun guy, and also had played football). But we only had three channels, so.. -- nm - Reagen Jun 17, 08:30
- Playing cards in a buddies' basement. -- nm - Shaun Jun 17, 08:14
- at a friend's parents house for dinner. she and i were in the backyard by the pool and her dad came out and told us (note, this sounds like we were - Andie Jun 17, 08:13
- I was in rehearsal. Saw it on news when I got home. -- nm - Diva Jun 17, 08:02
- Metro DFW, just got home from work. Flipped on ESPN. -- nm - budice Jun 17, 08:01
- Movie theater. We finshed watching Speed and came home to watch the Bronco "chase". Fucking surreal. -- nm - Dean Winchester Jun 17, 07:54
- No idea, don’t remember. -- nm* - znufrii Jun 17, 07:53
- I can remember standing in front of the tv at home. -- nm - Max Jun 17, 07:53
- Summer school at the University of Tennessee. Reese Hall, to be exact. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 17, 07:53
- At my parent’s best friends’ house. They were trying to watch the game. -- nm - spamlet Jun 17, 07:52
- I was out somewhere, but I don't remember where. I didn't know it happened until the following day. -- nm - Dano Jun 17, 07:51
- Walking into a sports bar in Mandarin (suburb of Jax) that is a cigar bar now I think. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 17, 07:50
- at a college friend's apartment watching it on TV -- nm - decline Jun 17, 07:49
- weren't we all on TT talking about it? :) -- nm - oblique Jun 17, 07:49
- At my old apartment (really half a house) in Bloomington. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 17, 07:48
- in the burbs, doing school work. my parents avoided the entire thing like the plague. -- nm - colin Jun 17, 07:48
- at work in Alaska -- nm - crash davis Jun 17, 07:47
- Going into a depo, came out in time to see the end. I lived in Brentwood, it was tough getting home. -- nm - jnine Jun 17, 07:46
- I was 7, and pretty sure I watched parts of it from the couch in the house I grew up in. -- nm - MDH Jun 17, 07:46
- watching the first day of the World Cup, Arnold Palmer's last US Open, the NBA Playoffs, the NYR victory parade and - Reagen Jun 17, 07:43
- I was with my friends watching the Knicks game -- nm - Krusty Jun 17, 07:43
Also SCOTUS today in a unanimous decision said Philadelphia violated the First Amendment when it cut ties with a Catholic social services agency that - decline Jun 17, 07:30 1
- ... so if that group gets reinstated, does that mean they can now be sued for discrimination? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 07:32
Supreme Court rejects GOP challenge to Obamacare, upholding health care law (for the third time) -- (link) - decline Jun 17, 07:20 3
- aka Obamacare: 3, GOP: 0. -- nm - Spawn Jun 17, 07:58
- Just means *another* case in three years once it winds it’s way up with individual defendants. -- nm - spamlet Jun 17, 07:32
- "Thank you, Mr Cowboy, I'll take it under advisement. Hit it *again*." -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 07:23
ST Poll: What streaming services do you currently have? Changes coming? -- nm - Beaker Jun 17, 07:10 38
- Sling and Hulu. -- nm - mara Jun 17, 08:38
- Netflix, Amazon, D+, SlackTV, Tubi, Plex and a few others through Chromecast. -- nm - Walt_Disney Jun 17, 08:02
- Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ bundle, Paramount+, HBO Max, Night Flight, Peacock, Apple TV+, Night Flight -- nm - JD Jun 17, 07:53
- Prime, Hulu, HBOMax, Netflix, Disney+. Twitch (free with Prime), may add Discovery and Paramount when I bring Trish home -- nm - crash davis Jun 17, 07:51
- Most of them. Disney+ and Apple TV+ matter the most to me. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 17, 07:51
- Too many. Netflix, Hulu, Prime, HBO Max, Showtime, Paramount+, Peacock, MLB, share Disney+ with a friend. There are things I want to see on Apple tv, - jnine Jun 17, 07:44
- Prime, Netflix, HBO Max, D+ (I got D+ as a gift but I've never actually watched it so when it runs out I won't renew) -- nm - Dano Jun 17, 07:42 3
  - But ... but ... MODOK! -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 07:44 2
    - (on Hulu in the States) -- nm - Reagen Jun 17, 07:44 1
      - Oh, that makes sense then. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 07:54
- Netflix, Disney, Prime, Hulu, HBO Max, Peacock. Going to add Paramount at some time pretty soon. -- nm - pmb Jun 17, 07:37
- Disney, Paramount paid a year upfront, Peacock and Apple TV were free. I’ll drop Apple TV when it expires. - IAmQale Jun 17, 07:37
- NF, D+, Prime, Crave. Considering axing Crave. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 07:36
- Netflix only, everything else is begged, borrowed, or stolen. -- nm - colin Jun 17, 07:35 1
  - scratch that, T-mobile pays for streaming. but we have HBO go and Hulu (no ads) -- nm - colin Jun 17, 07:35
- Crave, D+, Netflix. Can't see adding more or eliminating. - Reagen Jun 17, 07:33
- Netflix, Disney+ (paid for a year). Use my brothers' Amazon and Plex. Nothing is going right now. -- nm - Andie Jun 17, 07:31
- Pay: HBO Max, Netflix, Prime (for shipping). Downloaded/free: PlutoTV, Peacock, Apple+ (won't keep when pay) -- nm - MDH Jun 17, 07:30
- Pay for: Netflix, D+, Spotify Premium Student, YouTube Premium Student, Prime Video by default. Crave from inlaws' account. -- nm - Shaun Jun 17, 07:28 2
  - I guess I also have NHL.tv, which I split with someone else. -- nm - Shaun Jun 17, 07:40
  - I've been funding my son's subscription to Dropout.tv also so I guess that counts -- nm - oblique Jun 17, 07:29
- note that I am much more likely to keep streaming services if they let me pay annually. -- nm - amanda's borrowed jeans Jun 17, 07:24 2
  - Same but anally. -- nm - IAmQale Jun 17, 07:38
  - yep -- nm - decline Jun 17, 07:27
- AAAAAALLLL of them!!! -- nm - Mop, Montreal Canadiens Fan Jun 17, 07:21
- netflix, prime, disney, Paramount+. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 17, 07:20
- Netflix, Prime, Disney+, whatever else is packaged with cable (at least one that is used constantly). Star+ is coming in a few months. - Marlowe Jun 17, 07:17
- Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, HBO & Spotify we pay for. I have passwords from friends and family to use others like Disney. -- (edited) - Krusty Jun 17, 07:17
- Spotify, D+ bundle, Netflix, MLB.tv, Prime (but for shipping) -- nm* - spamlet Jun 17, 07:17 1
  - Oh, HBO MAX and Apple TV+ but get them both free -- nm - spamlet Jun 17, 07:17
- Disney+ bundle with HBO Max Peacock and Paramount which might be dropped oh and Prime -- nm* - eag Jun 17, 07:17
- Netflix, Prime, D+, Hulu = keeping. Paramount+ = prepaid until 2022. HboMax = prepaid until next month - decline Jun 17, 07:15
- HBO Max (ending Jun 22), Peacock, AppleTV+, Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify Family - oblique Jun 17, 07:14 1
  - I think I watch hulu least. I don't think we will get again after the promo ends in november. -- nm - amanda's borrowed jeans Jun 17, 07:22
- Have: Netflix, Prime, Hulu, Disney, HBOMax. Probably keeping them all, though I've considered getting rid of HBO for a few months - JaxSean Jun 17, 07:13
- D+, P+, Amazon, HBO Max, Showtime -- nm - budice Jun 17, 07:12 1
  - HBO Max & Showtime come with the Cable Package -- nm - budice Jun 17, 07:23
- Netflix (keeping), Disney+ (keeping), Amazon (Keeping, free delivery benefit is a huge plus). -- nm - Beaker Jun 17, 07:10
Supreme Court rejects Texas’s suit on Obamacare 7-2 on standing. -- (link) - Volnelk Jun 17, 07:09 4
- "On standing" can mean we agree with you, but you're just the wrong person suing though, right? -- nm - Dano Jun 17, 07:53 1
  - Sure can. Breyer wrote specifically that they were not ruling on validity. -- nm - Barontronic Jun 17, 08:15
- So Alito and Gorsch were the 2 dissents I'd expected Thomas to be one - eag Jun 17, 07:28
- Did we stutter? -- nm - SCOTUS Jun 17, 07:18
prophets of rage is probably not the best music to start your day off at work when you have to deal with annoying people. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 17, 07:03 1
- Orrrrrrrr it’s the perfect music, depending on how you’d like your day to unfold. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 17, 07:10
Closing on 24 hour call back time. -- nm - Reagen Jun 17, 07:02 1
- Who are you again? -- nm - Westjet Jun 17, 07:03
i've been 100% off alcohol for 20 days, taking my iron 5 days a week, lost 11 lbs, just had a blood test. hoping for good things as a result. - colin Jun 17, 07:01 11
- I’ve been cutting back, or at least intending to, with mixed success. - znufrii Jun 17, 08:00
- This episode of the Colin show is saucy. - IAmQale Jun 17, 07:41 2
  - i still like alcohol, but it needs to be treated more like a party drug ;) -- nm - colin Jun 17, 07:48 1
    - Welcome to the party, pal. -- nm - Spawn Jun 17, 08:47
- keep up the good work! -- nm - crash davis Jun 17, 07:40
- Glad to hear you're doing well. -- nm - pmb Jun 17, 07:36
- Glad you're feeling better and that you're giving your health more focus. Hopefully you continue doing well with the changes you're making. - Krusty Jun 17, 07:13 1
  - part of it was to see if my diet is really THAT bad.. i think i eat well, but i don't lose weight. - colin Jun 17, 07:37
- Nice! -- nm - JaxSean Jun 17, 07:11
- glad you found an alternative that is working for you - oblique Jun 17, 07:03 1
  - yep, sobering up and being wide awake in the middle of the night isn't the best. -- nm - colin Jun 17, 07:36
Meanwhile, the DoJ can’t believe it has to remind Missouri that the Supremacy Clause is a thing. -- (link) - spamlet Jun 17, 06:59
hmm, maybe. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 17, 06:57

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