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An 18-Year-Old Will Join Blue Origin's First Human Spaceflight, After A Late Shuffle -- (edited) - JD Jul 15, 14:31 4
- So what kind of pick up line will he be using the next 10 years -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 15, 15:28
- i don't know anything about young Oliver, but i'm pretty sure he needs a punch in the dick. -- nm - chicken daddy Jul 15, 14:36 1
  - Perhaps but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that one doesn't get to chose to be born nor who your parents are - JD Jul 15, 14:40
- aka, "the check bounced." -- nm - JaxSean Jul 15, 14:34
snork -- (link) - Jovian Jul 15, 14:18 1
- 😁 - Krusty Jul 15, 14:48
LOL at this sign -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 15, 14:12 2
- Pay more or suck it up and operate it yourself dickhead. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 15, 14:21 1
  - Exactly. (I used to live on that island ... it's a half hour ferry ride to Vancouver Island to reach other gas stations) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 15, 14:23
Yankees-Sox postponed due to Covid -- (link) - prayformojo Jul 15, 14:01
I'm stoked. Today they added more artists to The Rock Boat: Bowling for Soup, Mayday Parade, The Blue Stones (I'm liking them a lot), and others - JaxSean Jul 15, 13:39 [Attachment] 1
- The Blue Stones are in the Highly Suspect/Rival Sons/Badflower/Royal Blood genre. -- (link) - JaxSean Jul 15, 14:05 [spotify]
I love the History Matters videos. The animations are always good for a laugh. They did a multi-part series on the history of Britain. -- (link) - Mop Jul 15, 13:35 [youtube] 1
- agreed. one of my favorites on Youtube (he also did a recent one on Newfoundland!) -- nm* - Beaker Jul 15, 14:10
Felt some nostalgia for some old music. Now playing Undertow by Tool. - nm -- (edited) - sycor Jul 15, 13:23 11
- "...Old?" *squint eyes sycor evily* -- nm - JaxSean Jul 15, 13:25 9
  - you lose your glasses, old man? -- nm - chicken daddy Jul 15, 14:36
  - get those Glenn Miller albums out old timer. -- nm - groiny Jul 15, 14:26
  - He's not wrong grandpa -- nm - ty97 Jul 15, 13:49
  - I'm not happy about it either. - sycor Jul 15, 13:27
  - About 20 years old, now? -- nm - Spawn Jul 15, 13:25 4
    - 28 years old. -- nm - sycor Jul 15, 13:27 3
      - When it was released? Sure! -- nm - Spawn Jul 15, 13:28 2
        
        Recorded 1992, released 1993. Ugh that hurt a little to type. -- nm* - sycor Jul 15, 13:29 1
        
        It's Sober-ing. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 15, 14:29
- All about that bass. -- nm - Spawn Jul 15, 13:24
NYT: Disney just said in an internal memo that it would move 2,000 consumer products and theme park jobs (Imagineering) to Florida from California. -- (link) - stim-mie Jul 15, 13:16 4
- Disney owns a lot of real estate in Florida. I always found it odd that they didn't have more of a corporate footprint there. -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 13:28 3
  - Cause nobody from corporate wants to live there -- nm - JD Jul 15, 14:19
  - I wish they would not dump so much tax revenue into Effedupland. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 15, 13:37 1
    - i guess rent/mortgages would be half as much, lower cost of living means they don't have to pay as much, at least the new hires -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 15, 14:17
Indie Film producer Dillon Jordan was arrested for allegedly running an international prostitution ring under the guise of a film business - decline Jul 15, 13:14 4
- Argo 2 -- nm - Max Jul 15, 13:57 1
  - "Argo f*** yourself" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 15, 14:00
- You just know Ethan Hawke was getting perks -- nm - Pippy Jul 15, 13:51
- Wow. That seriously one ups the barely running restaurants that I've joked were only there for money laundering purposes -- nm - JD Jul 15, 13:50
my Bloom County daily from 10-28-88. I hand picked it when the family was briefly selling them in the 1990's. -- (pic) - Peglegpete Jul 15, 13:09 [Attachment]
Anyone interested in a career change? -- (link*) - znufrii Jul 15, 13:03 6
- If there were a Director of Coke Drinking I think I'd have to compete with Spawn. - Max Jul 15, 13:58 [youtube]
- I heard about this on NPR. but "cooking." -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 15, 13:38 1
  - Plus it's a dirty temp gig. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 15, 13:56
- This has amanda written all over it. And she's looking for a new job! -- nm* - jnine Jul 15, 13:12
- Why, if I didn't already know this is an emerging labor space I would have supposed that this was some kind of marketing gimmick -- nm - rollo Jul 15, 13:11
- 'Taco Influencer' -- nm - decline Jul 15, 13:05
My two youngest girls have been at camp for two weeks. I expect to soon start getting inquiries from Netflix/Roblox/Steam/etc. asking if they're OK. -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 13:00
Netflix tells Stadia "Get the fuck out of the way. If you want it done right... let the pros do it." -- (link) - Mop Jul 15, 12:36 2
- It's no coincidence the Steam thing was announced today. The next generation of the console wars has just begun. -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 12:37 1
  - I could have some interest if I could "dock" it. Apparently that's not the case, from what little I have read. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 15, 12:52
SITV gives good recommendations... - Inigo Jul 15, 12:32 2
- Hades truly is an absolute masterpiece. -- nm - Tim Jul 15, 12:49
- ❤ -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 12:33
The Bloom County/Calvin & Hobbes thing is freaky. Looks like they're about to introduce an adult Calvin. -- (link) - Mop Jul 15, 12:32 11
- In the comments somewhere is the Reddit "story" from 2014 that needs to be read. -- (link) - JaxSean Jul 15, 13:24
- The coolest thing about this is (spoil) - . Jul 15, 13:04
- I'll confess I don't really get why this is happening or needed -- nm - rollo Jul 15, 12:50 7
  - because a creative person wants to do it. What more reason does one need? -- nm - Remlik Jul 15, 14:09
  - Bloom County and C&H had a long running tie-in so they've been loosely connected for a while. -- nm - oblique Jul 15, 12:59 4
    - MERCH!!! -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 13:00 3
      - Did you ever read Looking for Calvin and Hobbes? Watterson is a giant among men when it comes to humbly creating his art and not capitalizing on it - oblique Jul 15, 13:02 2
        
        The 3-volume set is a must have ... my kids went through that multiple times -- nm - rollo Jul 15, 13:08 1
        
        It's one of my prized possessions. I love C&H. -- nm - sycor Jul 15, 13:21
  - Clicks. -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 12:56
- Serial Killer -- nm - Spawn Jul 15, 12:35
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Jul 15, 12:27 [Attachment] 10
- Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Jul 15, 12:27 [Attachment] 9
  - Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo Jul 15, 12:27 [Attachment] 8
    - Answer (spoiler) - prayformojo Jul 15, 12:28 [Attachment] 7
      - 2/2 -- nm - JD Jul 15, 14:14
      - 2/2 -- nm - JaxSean Jul 15, 14:06
      - 2/2 -- nm - Dano Jul 15, 13:00
      - 2/2 -- nm - rollo Jul 15, 12:51
      - 1/2 -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 15, 12:50
      - 2/2 -- nm - oblique Jul 15, 12:31
      - 2/2 -- nm - decline Jul 15, 12:30
Prime Video/IMDb TV gets streaming rights to Norman Lear series (All in the Family, 227, Maude, Jeffersons, Sanford & Son, Good Times, Diff Strokes) -- (link) - MDH Jul 15, 12:19 2
- Norman Lear, about 10 days away from his 99th birthday. -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 12:35
- Whoever eventually buys Sony's studios is gonna get the motherlode of content. -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 12:33
LYC. I am home alone for the evening and i might make myself an apple crisp and eat that for dinner. - Andie Jul 15, 12:17 11
- you need a scoop of ice cream or 2 so you can include dairy -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 15, 12:51 1
  - Officer thinking ... for the bones of course -- nm - rollo Jul 15, 12:54
- absolutely -- nm - decline Jul 15, 12:44
- We're adults, we can do whatever we want. -- nm - Max Jul 15, 12:42 2
  - annny—thing? -- nm - mud Jul 15, 12:45 1
    - AAANNNNYYYTHINNNGGG! -- nm - Gary Oldman Jul 15, 12:59
- 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo Jul 15, 12:23
- Tonight is my last home alone night. Quiet Place 2 at 7:30pm is my only plan thus far. -- nm - Spawn Jul 15, 12:22
- I made a keto-friendly peach cobbler dish the other day. Gluten-free so my wife can enjoy it also. - oblique Jul 15, 12:19 2
  - I also, am gluten free. -- nm - groiny Jul 15, 12:21 1
    - Im vegetarian-free -- nm - stim-mie Jul 15, 12:22
California lawmakers have approved the nation's first state-funded guaranteed income program -- (link*) - stim-mie Jul 15, 12:09
Sounds like Vance is in deep shit -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 15, 11:48 3
- Vance No Joy -- nm - rollo Jul 15, 12:07
- “Hey, Vance!” *ducks* -- (link) - znufrii Jul 15, 12:01 [youtube]
- Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration -- nm - stim-mie Jul 15, 11:58
Got our child tax credit x 2 today. - Volnelk Jul 15, 11:38 5
- We did not. Weird. -- nm - Inigo Jul 15, 11:58
- look at all that sweet, sweet cash and then think about how much more you could have if you had more babies!! -- nm - decline Jul 15, 11:43 1
  - plus the savings from leaving birth control off the grocery list! -- nm - Max Jul 15, 11:43
- I forget what the safe harbor cutoff is, but above that these payments are subject to clawback when you file (unlike the stimulus checks), iinm. -- (edited) - znufrii Jul 15, 11:41 1
  - Interesting. It’s confusing because my wife and I both teach so our ‘annual’ income is not the same as our ‘school year’ income. Makes it confusing. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 15, 12:25
the rain & winds last night took out a cactus. a medium size teddy bear. it took me 30 minutes to chop it up :(((( -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 15, 11:36
Kilbo, thanks for that tax article, it was very helpful. -- (edited) - znufrii Jul 15, 11:18 14
- It seems a bit crazy-pants that I can get essentially a risk-free 6% APY but I have yet to find the hole in the plan (or in the donut *rimshot*) -- (edited) - oblique Jul 15, 11:23 13
  - Well it’s not risk-free by any means. -- (edited) - znufrii Jul 15, 11:26 12
    - My main concern would be default risk w/r/t the value of ETH collateral. Death spiral potential there from compounding events. -- (edited) - znufrii Jul 15, 11:37 10
      - Are you actually investing in EDH or in a coin linked to it? - spamlet Jul 15, 12:03 5
        
        Looking into donut, which is a DeFi platform that uses a stablecoin to fund crypto loans on Compound collateralized by ETH, as I understand it. -- (edited) - znufrii Jul 15, 12:11 4
        
        Unsecured, non-margined loans linked to an unregulated market promising above market returns? What could possibly go wrong? - spamlet Jul 15, 13:07 3
        
        In a DIY DeFi investment, I would strongly agree. I think what is interesting about the extra layers here (Donut on top of Compound, etc.) is that - oblique Jul 15, 13:16 1
        
        Or it’s just another layer on top of this whole house of cards where nobody really knows what it’s standing on. :) -- (edited) - znufrii Jul 15, 13:35
        
        Ostensibly secured, but yeah. -- (edited) - znufrii Jul 15, 13:14
      - I'm digesting this, but this is a deep dive on the May ETH crash and how Defi held up -- (link) - oblique Jul 15, 12:00 3
        
        Eli5: gas prices? -- nm - znufrii Jul 15, 12:08 2
        
        GAS (IIRC) is the fee to transact on the ETH blockchain -- (link) - oblique Jul 15, 12:15 1
        
        Gotcha. -- nm - znufrii Jul 15, 12:16
    - The podcast had a couple points where it touched on the energy use of crypto. It was informative but a bit dismissive of it. Essentially they - oblique Jul 15, 11:33
AppleTV+: My reckoning day is July 18th. No more free lunch. I guess the only question is do I go in for the year ($50) or do month to month - oblique Jul 15, 11:14 19
- $4/month and you can have all the Apple + shows you want... -- nm - chicken daddy Jul 15, 14:38
- Just in time to miss Season 2 of Ted Lasso! -- nm - Mop Jul 15, 11:44 1
  - right? terrible decision -- nm - Beaker Jul 15, 14:12
- $50. There will always be the next thing. Especially if Apple does actually buy A24. -- nm - Qale Jul 15, 11:25
- AMC A-List instead. -- nm - Spawn Jul 15, 11:22 11
  - I traded HBO Max for A-List -- nm - oblique Jul 15, 11:24 10
    - You chose... poorly. -- nm - Spawn Jul 15, 11:26 9
      - I got rid of HBO Max in favor of A-List? - oblique Jul 15, 11:27 8
        
        HBO Max is second only to Netflix, for me. -- (edited) - Spawn Jul 15, 11:28 7
        
        I didn't expect it but HBO Max has become my #1 easily. There's so much stuff on there to watch. -- nm - MDH Jul 15, 12:00 2
        
        Yup. We get it for free through AT&T but I was shocked when I saw everything on there. -- nm - spamlet Jul 15, 12:05
        
        heh - decline Jul 15, 12:02
        
        I dropped HBOMax last week because I realized there just wasn't enough content on it for me to watch - decline Jul 15, 11:29 3
        
        I have Prime, HBOMax and Disney+. I rotate though them and watch something on each one. If I run out, I may consider a change. -- nm - Spawn Jul 15, 11:35 2
        
        HBO Max is worth it just to have the Ghibli films in the background. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jul 15, 11:53
        
        -- -- -- nm* - mud Jul 15, 11:40
- Aug 27 - See S2, Sep 24 - Foundation -- nm - mud Jul 15, 11:21
- Short-Term monthly unless needing to see it on an ongoing basis. Im not sticking around just For All Mankind and Lasso -- nm - stim-mie Jul 15, 11:16 1
  - I have something I would watch well into October so far. In theory I could subscribe and binge stuff but I'm also quite lazy - oblique Jul 15, 11:20
This guy's good. -- (link) - Tim Jul 15, 11:12 5
- some days you just feel like the snow man -- nm - Max Jul 15, 11:30
- BANANA!!! -- nm - Spawn Jul 15, 11:27
- my fave is the sneeze -- nm - mud Jul 15, 11:24
- he's magic! -- nm - decline Jul 15, 11:20
- those are pretty slick -- nm - prayformojo Jul 15, 11:14
I have successfully renewed my drivers license. Getting the big boy RealID version and everything so I can go on airplanes. -- nm - Baronnoo Jul 15, 11:07 8
- NOW YOU’RE IN A GOVERNMENT DATABASE! -- nm - MOGOP Jul 15, 11:36 2
  - Enjoy jury duty! -- nm - rollo Jul 15, 11:39 1
    - Psssh, like they don't already call me for that all the time. -- nm - Baronnoo Jul 15, 11:45
- I'm glad we all have passports so we can mostly ignore this RealID thing -- nm - oblique Jul 15, 11:08 4
  - As I understand it the RealID effective window is short (v. a passport's 10 years) so anyone with a passport should just stick with that. -- nm - rollo Jul 15, 11:32
  - just hope you don't need to renew the passports any time soon -- nm - decline Jul 15, 11:25 2
    - 2028 maybe? We did it maybe 3 years ago. I definitely have a "fat kilbo" picture so maybe it could have been longer but it was pretty recent. -- nm - oblique Jul 15, 11:26 1
      - you should be good. I'm sure the current delays will not last very long - decline Jul 15, 11:31
What are you doing sitting down? You should be horizontal now. -- nm - Dano Jul 15, 11:02 2
- for some reason, the way she chews the apple is hilarious - prayformojo Jul 15, 11:05
- you are right, I do need a nap. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 15, 11:02

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