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Booking my seat for Thursday 8pm Dolby Black Widow (should have maybe done this before). Interestingly, AMC isn't blocking neighboring seats anymore - oblique Jul 6, 07:05 8
- Is it going to be on Disney+? That is where my seat will be, if so -- nm - crash davis Jul 6, 07:08 7
  - yup, we are getting it Sunday night -- nm - Beaker Jul 6, 07:11
  - Premiere Access for $30. It'll stay there for 90 days, then it will be included in Disney+. -- nm - Inigo Jul 6, 07:10 1
    - Thanks -- nm - crash davis Jul 6, 07:11
  - Yeah, but I resubscribed to AMC Stubs A-List after cancelling HBO Max so I'm not paying for movies individually anymore -- nm - oblique Jul 6, 07:10 2
    - I don't have my stuff together when it comes to subscriptions. I'm pretty sure I've got too many going right now. -- nm - crash davis Jul 6, 07:12 1
      - I need to figure out when some of mine end. AppleTV+ and Peacock are two that I have either for free or under a promo -- nm - oblique Jul 6, 07:13
  - Yes, premium price though. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 6, 07:09
I don't think other people have their poop in a pile. Thus I'm worried Trish may not get to come home a week from today. -- nm - crash davis Jul 6, 07:01 1
- :( -- nm - prayformojo Jul 6, 07:02
Nextdoor IPO via SPAC -- (link*) - budice Jul 6, 06:47
"Most patients may pay as little as $0" Which lawyer wrote the copy for this ad? -- (edited) - Baronnoo Jul 6, 06:34 2
- Botox for migraines? I think I saw that one last night. - znufrii Jul 6, 06:45 1
  - That's the one. I couldn't recall which drug ad it was. The mention of 15 or more migraine days a month sounded like pure hell. -- nm - Baronnoo Jul 6, 06:49
Disney’s Luca voice actor Jack Dylan Grazer, 17, reports he is bisexual in an instagram Q&A. -- (link) - Qale Jul 6, 06:34
July 6 Birthdays: Burt Ward (76), Stallone & Fred Dryer & GW Bush (75), Geoffrey Rush (70), Peter Hedges (59) - Max Jul 6, 06:14 [youtube]
Nintendo announces the OLED Switch. -- (link) - Qale Jul 6, 06:13 2
- The idea that this was gonna be a Switch Pro never made sense to me. - Inigo Jul 6, 06:41
- $350 on 10/8. 7-inch OLED screen, An adjustable stand, built-in ethernet port -- nm* - budice Jul 6, 06:18
Hugh Jackman with some interesting posts today. -- (link) - Volnelk Jul 6, 06:00 16
- No selfies with Jared and Ivanka? -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 07:06
- Multiverse of Madness is gonna be tight! -- nm - TWuG Jul 6, 06:26 4
  - Spoils spec - Will Hunting Jul 6, 06:33 3
    - The MCU folks have done a great job keeping surprises under wraps until films are released. I expect that MoM will have more than a few - TWuG Jul 6, 06:43 2
      - Well, if they keep anything a secret on Spidey, it’ll be amazing since Holland and Molina et al are apparently genetically incapable of secrecy. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 6, 06:53
      - I keep thinking this is the way you bring Reynolds (Deadpool) into the MCU as well through MoM -- nm - eag Jul 6, 06:53
- God doesn't love us enough for this. - Will Hunting Jul 6, 06:12 9
  - Yes he is. And Wolvie is supposed to be mature anyway. -- nm - Diva Jul 6, 06:33 2
    - Little bit of Nugenix and some vitamins, ready to go -- nm - budice Jul 6, 06:58
    - I think of guys like Roger Moore at 53 in A View to a Kill instead of Cruise at 57 in MI7….5 years of Hugh is good enough. - Will Hunting Jul 6, 06:56
  - I guess it depends on what the plan is for the mutant phase of MCU. He’s 52 now so if it’s a ten year arc, probably not. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 6, 06:15 1
    - Liam Neeson doesn't understand your post. -- nm - Diva Jul 6, 06:34
  - I have more faith in Jackman providing than Ford -- nm - oblique Jul 6, 06:14 3
    - 52 vs 78. So, yeah. Ford is not an action lead. He should be playing the Sean Connery role. -- nm - Inigo Jul 6, 06:47 2
      - That was the Shia rationale. But … *hand gestures to Shia* -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 6, 06:57 1
        
        I know Shia ruined his relationship with Spielberg, but.. - Inigo Jul 6, 07:13
Tropical Storm Elsa is near Key West now. May strengthen back into a hurricane before making landfall near Tampa (where's JaxSean & family?) -- (link) - decline Jul 6, 05:51 4
- Hopefully up in Jacksonville this week. -- nm - Krusty Jul 6, 05:53 3
  - Yup, drove back last night. We're in Jax for a few weeks now. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 6, 06:09 2
    - I don’t expect this storm to be that big of a deal. It’s been a minute since one has been through this area, though. Biggest threat is rain. -- nm - Qale Jul 6, 06:17
    - 👍 -- nm - decline Jul 6, 06:14
For all you Lego fans out there. -- (link) - Volnelk Jul 6, 05:33
Nikole Hannah-Jones (NYT, 1619 Project) turns down UNC tenured position, goes to Howard instead -- (link) - ty97 Jul 6, 05:28 2
- Good for her in making this choice and I hope it works out great for her. I'm sure it's not easy to pass up tenure. -- nm - Krusty Jul 6, 05:49
- Members of UNC journalism school call their university leadership racist for how they treated Hannah-Jones -- (link) - ty97 Jul 6, 05:29
eep. One of my old fieldies bought a Tesla and got custom plates, but misspelled them. Nobody’s brought it up and I don’t think I have the heart. - mafic Jul 6, 05:14 2
- WALHUGGER might get confused with the the burger -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 6, 11:54
- Maybe the variation with no E was already taken too? -- nm - sycor Jul 6, 05:17
LYC: So I'm doing my first ever FF draft through the MFL site (myfantasyleague.com) - Strongbad Jul 6, 04:54 2
- Speaking of CBS, is there a way to sort free agents into just rookies? We could before the draft, but that functionality seems to be gone. -- nm - Inigo Jul 6, 05:02 1
  - Looks like it's gone. I don't see it either. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 6, 05:21
DTL: don’t forget recruits are due today even though this might be your Monday work day. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 6, 04:41 2
- I'm in such a strange place with my recruits. I hope the next update clarifies some situations. -- nm - Baronnoo Jul 6, 06:16 1
  - I need a lot of help. My team is +50 and needed a last second shot vs the #251 team to win to go to 4&7. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 6, 06:59
Spelling Bee -- (pic) - prayformojo Jul 6, 04:35 [Attachment] 9
- Could it be? (sp) - Baronnoo Jul 6, 06:19
- MoltenBoob -- nm* - budice Jul 6, 05:51
- Tomb Lemon - an early air freshener -- nm - VMan Jul 6, 05:42
- BoomBottle -- nm - prayformojo Jul 6, 05:29
- Bonemelt, the new hip marrow-only restaurant. -- nm* - Reagen Jul 6, 05:24 2
  - MoonBeetle. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 05:27 1
    - Boltmen. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 05:40
- NobleTom -- nm - budice Jul 6, 05:13 1
  - *salutes* -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 05:14
oh no -- (pic) - ty97 Jul 6, 04:34 [Attachment] 1
- Our collective greatest nightmare -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 04:58
TV PSA: NBA, LEGO Masters, WWE NXT, America's Got Talent, Flash, America's Top Dog, Deadliest Catch, Mental Samurai, Capital One College Bowl, -- nm - Beaker Jul 6, 04:31 1
- Animal Kingdom, COPA America semi-finals, other stuff -- nm* - Beaker Jul 6, 04:34
Now Playing: Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) -- nm - Ender Jul 6, 00:01 1
- mmm, lichens -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 00:05
Now Playing: Twilight (2008) *nm* - Ender Jul 5, 21:52 22
- "Did this movie just get good?" "I think this movie just got good!" -- nm - Beaker Jul 6, 05:18
- Why are you doing this to yourself? -- nm - sycor Jul 6, 05:12
- #TeamBella -- nm - budice Jul 6, 05:11
- Guys, I didn't know they literally sparkled. I assumed "sparkly vampire" was just a euphemism. -- nm - Ender Jul 5, 22:49 3
  - I guess they can only sparkling vampires because they are not from Musée des Vampires et Monstres de l’Imaginaire in Paris -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 23:12 2
    - We also would have accepted "Russia". -- nm - Ender Jul 5, 23:20 1
      - damnit...that would have been a lot easier to keyboard -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 6, 00:12
- I don't understand why 100 year old vampires who can pass for 18 would willingly suffer through attending high school... -- nm - Ender Jul 5, 22:33 12
  - best not to think too much about... well anything at all for the next 5 movies. also he's clearly a perv. -- nm* - mafic Jul 5, 22:38 11
    - There are five? Oh...I'm so so sorry. -- nm - . Jul 6, 01:30 2
      - I had actually assumed there would be more, like 7 or 8. -- nm - Ender Jul 6, 01:44 1
        
        well, if you count 50 Shades of Grey and its offshoots there kinda is (50 Shades of Grey started as a fanfic of Twilight) -- nm - Beaker Jul 6, 05:43
    - There is no way Ender makes it through all five. I’m placing bets right now. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 23:37 2
      - I've put up with a lot of subpar films over the first 77... -- nm - Ender Jul 5, 23:44 1
        
        There is subpar and then there is an offending assault to the senses. -- nm - Qale Jul 6, 06:19
    - I looked it up to be sure, but he's legally in the clear in Washington state. -- nm - Ender Jul 5, 22:47 4
      - he's 100 and hanging around in high schools. definitely a perv. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 22:57 2
        
        “The great thing about high school…” -- nm - spamlet Jul 6, 04:50
        
        And also he gets held back a lot. One day he'll graduate. One day. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 22:59
      - I bet he looked it up, too. - Beryllium Jul 5, 22:52
- And you are back into the suck. -- nm - IAmQale Jul 5, 22:09
- needed more baseball. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 22:06
I'm opening the bookstore tomorrow!! Just about 16 months since they shut us down. *And* I have enough volunteers remaining to open 1 shift a day. -- nm - Meg Jul 5, 21:49 2
- I look forward to your lament that you will have to get used to it again. - IAmQale Jul 5, 22:10 1
  - Heh, I think I'll be good, but I'll be there every day this week making sure the rest of the crew are good. I wish you the same very soon! -- nm - Meg Jul 5, 22:22
I may love this Mets team more than any other team before, even the 2015 team that won the pennant. -- nm - Tim Jul 5, 20:22 2
- Mets fans crack me up. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 23:15
- next spring when they start their [hopefully season long] 60'th anniversary, I think a few past teams may shed a tear or 2 to your eyes. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 5, 20:36
Did anybody get snubbed to make way for Othani to be named as an All-Star pitcher? -- nm - JD Jul 5, 20:16 4
- I don't remember being asked. -- nm - con_carne Jul 5, 20:19 3
  - I'm pretty sure that it is possible to show that Sho was statistically better than you 😉 -- nm - JD Jul 5, 20:20 2
    - Though con_carne does have fewer earned runs allowed. -- nm - Ender Jul 5, 23:23 1
      - Technically true -- nm - JD Jul 6, 06:53
Supergiant games really did think of everything when building Hades. Minor spoiler. - IAmQale Jul 5, 20:04
Castellanos is a master of hitting homers at awkward times. -- (link) - Volnelk Jul 5, 20:00 2
- lol -- (link) - Tim Jul 5, 20:04 1
  - He apparently hit his first professional home run the night Bin Laden was killed. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 5, 21:38
Do any of the ST cyclists use power meters? I saw a quote from an older TDF rider that if you can't push 7 watts per kg then you don't have anything - JD Jul 5, 19:14 22
- I bet I could keep up with them on some of those Alps downhill sections where they're just coasting. - mafic Jul 5, 20:49 1
  - I wonder if my extra bulk would help - Beryllium Jul 5, 20:51
- Tour riders do 21-25 mph. That's average over all stages. My best is 19 mph for about a block. I can do 12-13 mph a lot of the time. -- (link) - . Jul 5, 20:39
- *does the math* nope, probably. -- nm - znufrii Jul 5, 19:37
- I've never considered it, really. My bike is not built for street speed, it would be a meaningless metric in my case. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 19:31 5
  - Road not street 😉 - JD Jul 5, 19:35 4
    - I come from the streets, not the road! ;-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 6, 05:14
    - It's relative, it's all streets around here. 😉 -- nm - . Jul 5, 20:47
    - It's a Brodie Holeshot mountain bike. Pretty hefty. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 19:58
    - well and if someone wanted to front me one of those 8k carbon fibre bikes, I'd be willing to see how far I could push it. -- nm - Reagen Jul 5, 19:38
- I average (estimated) 100W on a ride and could peak at maybe 800, for like a minute. -- nm - Reagen Jul 5, 19:20 11
  - Based on my Peloton output (which I think is watts) I can peak in the mid 500's pushing really hard for a short period of time (maybe 30 seconds). - pmb Jul 5, 19:36
  - 'gets out calculator". Oh. Though for a minute is still longer than I would keep up with Kipchoge in a marathon -- nm - JD Jul 5, 19:26 9
    - Yeah, I don't think I could even instantaneously hit a marathoner's pace. -- nm - Reagen Jul 5, 19:33 8
      - I’ve said that I’d like to try to start up front and see how long I could keep up with the leaders. About 100 meters is my estimate. -- nm - Dano Jul 5, 19:56
      - I think I could do it for like 100m, but that would be like a full sprint. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 19:43
      - You underestimate yourself. I think off the line you'd be there 🙂 -- nm - JD Jul 5, 19:38 5
        
        Did you ever see that treadmill that they set up at marathon record pace to see how long you could keep up with it. -- (link) - pmb Jul 5, 19:53 [youtube] 1
        
        The last time I ran the California International Marathon, they had that setup for the expo. I had zero ego to embarrass myself on the belt -- (edited) - JD Jul 5, 19:58
        
        I just looked at one of my downhill dead sprints. Translates to a 2.5 hr time - Reagen Jul 5, 19:42 2
        
        See! You and I could sprint all out. Watch the race pull away at 200 meters or so, 'run' a cool down to 400 meters or so and go find a bar to watch - JD Jul 5, 19:49 1
        
        The question for me is whether I'd make it as far as the bystander's sign. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 20:00
"Half an hour is one year of our lives" - you're just asking for it in the pullquotes, M. Night. -- nm - Reagen Jul 5, 19:09 3
- That stood out to me. But their kids become adults and they’re shocked. Soooo they didn’t see them for 9-10 hours? -- nm - Volnelk Jul 5, 19:13
- why don't they leave the beach -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 19:11 1
  - They try but they black out. If I recall correctly in the trailers. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 5, 19:12
Here's one of those fun things where you reveal your birth date by choosing a silly name. This one is, shall we say, safer than most. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 5, 18:53 1
- whoa -- nm - mud Jul 5, 18:55
NBC’s been eulogizing their 16 years of coverage of the NHL. They wouldn’t need to do this if they’d only been willing to pay a little more. -- nm - Mop, Montreal Canadiens Fan Jul 5, 18:45 5
- Its not like the ESPN Hockey coverage of old either. Bunch of fresh faces. -- nm - budice Jul 5, 19:48
- on the plus side, if NBC ever gets the World Series again, Bob Costas has a deal to call the games. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 5, 19:30
- it's a shame their amazing coverage will be ending THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 18:56
- Weren't you comparing about their seemingly random choice of NBC networks earlier in the playoffs? Isn't the end of NBC contract a good thing for fans -- nm - JD Jul 5, 18:53 1
  - Oh, no doubt. They gave their hockey coverage no respect. The fact that they got outbid on the new contract is a reflection of this. - Mop, Montreal Canadiens Fan Jul 5, 19:14
[an error occurred while processing this directive needing somebody to shove] -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 18:44
in Australian quarantine news, yesterday a lady scaled several balconies and kicked down a door to escape hotel quarantine, and some dude in Perth - mafic Jul 5, 18:38 6
- here's a news story about the WA guy. seems he didn't plan his escape particularly thoroughly. -- (link) - mafic Jul 5, 22:29
- what is the penalty? months? years? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 21:59
- This is how zombie movies start. -- nm - Mop, Montreal Canadiens Fan Jul 5, 18:45 3
  - it is known. -- nm - mud Jul 5, 18:48
  - World War Oz -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 18:48 1
    - I'd watch that -- nm - mud Jul 5, 18:50

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