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Aunt got a hospital room at 1am. -- (edited) - ty97 Aug 20, 06:46 1
- I hope she gets better quickly. -- nm - Krusty Aug 20, 06:47
Cool. Daughter's school district requiring vaccines for staff - prayformojo Aug 20, 06:42
murder hornets are coming for me! -- (link) - mud Aug 20, 06:40 1
- You know what you did! -- nm - Murder Hornet Squad Leader Aug 20, 06:41
NHL: King Henrik retires -- (link*) - budice Aug 20, 06:38 1
- Hahahah -- (link) - Will Hunting Aug 20, 06:43
STIS: Our (home) network seems to hiccup every so often. Is there something I can be running, or run, to see what's going on? - JaxSean Aug 20, 06:35 3
- There should be logging in the administration area of the router firmware. -- nm - spamlet Aug 20, 06:36 2
  - There's an Internet Port statistics, but not sure what this is showing me. Is it maybe something I need to enable? -- (pic) - JaxSean Aug 20, 06:47 [Attachment] 1
    - I think I found the logs. Under Advanced >> Administration >> Logs -- nm - JaxSean Aug 20, 06:59
Oof. Topps was going to go public through a SPAC merger later this year. -- (link) - spamlet Aug 20, 06:28 3
- This is going to be fascinating and likely kill the hobby. - Will Hunting Aug 20, 06:41
- well probably for the best that they didn't -- nm - ty97 Aug 20, 06:29 1
  - (I mean, even if they DID get the contract) -- nm - ty97 Aug 20, 06:30
Rafa Nafal is done playing for the year. Foot injury needs more time. -- nm - Diva Aug 20, 06:14 2
- And Federer had already announced he was done for the year. It really feels like the end of an era. -- nm - Dano Aug 20, 06:15 1
  - Yep. -- nm - Diva Aug 20, 06:16
You don't understand, I didn't shoot their house and slash their tires because I hate black people, it's just I hate what black people stand for. -- (link) - Reagen Aug 20, 05:39 6
- the census results is throwing white supremacists into a tailspin. - chicken daddy Aug 20, 05:50 4
  - The demographic changes have been predicted for ... decades though -- nm - ty97 Aug 20, 05:58 3
    - They just feel emboldened by years of one party telling them who was the enemy all the way up to calling them to arms. - Will Hunting Aug 20, 06:05
    - It's also partially better data. They changed the way they asked the race questions and it's more granular than before. -- (edited) - spamlet Aug 20, 06:04 1
      - werd. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 20, 06:40
- Do people even understand what 'personal' means anymore? -- nm* - ty97 Aug 20, 05:41
Reading a historical non-fiction book. There was guy noted in documents whose name was "Hugh Coc" I wonder if the pronunciations changed over time :P - Walt_Disney Aug 20, 05:38 3
- Maybe it rhymes with Soc from The Outsiders. sh-sound on the end. Or maybe it's missing a cedilla. -- nm - Baron and Barratry Aug 20, 06:28
- Likely a long time descendant of Biggus Dickus. -- nm - VMan Aug 20, 05:44 1
  - He has a wife, you know.... -- nm - Baron and Barratry Aug 20, 06:28
This will likely change, it often does, but Hurricane headed to Providence and Boston? -- (pic) - ty97 Aug 20, 05:37 [Attachment] 13
- What is S and H? -- nm - JaxSean Aug 20, 06:05 11
  - YOU LIVE IN FLORIDA -- nm - ty97 Aug 20, 06:32 2
    - Right? -- nm - spamlet Aug 20, 06:35 1
      - pfft. Like we care about S or H. We care about 2,3,4, and especially 5. - JaxSean Aug 20, 06:36
  - S = winds 39-73 mph. H = 74-110 mph -- nm - decline Aug 20, 06:19 6
    - Why don't they go 1,2,3,4 for the different Categories? -- (edited) - JaxSean Aug 20, 06:31 5
      - H tells you that is not likely to be horrific. M tells you to get out. - Will Hunting Aug 20, 06:48
      - S = storm H = hurricane -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 06:45 1
        
        I suck at reading. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 06:52
      - My guess is that is already difficult to predict these things, and predicting to that level of specificity would be fraught with error/low confidence -- nm - ty97 Aug 20, 06:35
      - If it was projected to get to Cat 3 or above the H would change to M for Major Hurricane for the portion of the track Cat 3 or above -- nm* - ty97 Aug 20, 06:32
  - Storm and hurricane -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 06:07
- Sunday is going to suck. I hope it moves out to sea more and spares everyone. -- nm - Krusty Aug 20, 05:42
i finally got banned from the conservative subreddit - chicken daddy Aug 20, 05:23 1
- facts don't matter unless it is their facts -- nm - Pippy Aug 20, 06:38
Good morning. Spelling Bee -- (pic) - prayformojo Aug 20, 03:51 [Attachment] 17
- PARROTHOOD, the state of being a parrot. -- nm - loosilu Aug 20, 06:46
- HARDHATPOPO - unnecessarily long slang term for SWAT -- nm - Max Aug 20, 05:57
- POORDADHAT the knock off Tilley -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 05:43
- ROADPHHTPHHT: banned on OnlyFans starting October 1st. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 05:33
- Phodrat - this soup isn't what I wanted -- nm - Max Aug 20, 05:30
- DOARPTH- the newly discovered measurement of the 5th dimension -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 05:22
- Phat drop -- nm - . Aug 20, 05:16
- HotPotatoDrop - The ultimate childhood faux pas -- nm - Dano Aug 20, 05:08 2
  - HodorPotato - Hot Potato for one player -- nm - Max Aug 20, 05:38 1
    - HODOR! -- nm - Hodor Aug 20, 05:41
- Darth Raptor - Barney's alter ego -- nm - VMan Aug 20, 04:33 1
  - Darth Proto - the first Sith -- nm - Max Aug 20, 05:28
- TRAPPHOOD - Gretl's tell-all memoir -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 04:14
- ROADTHPP: a travel show with Mike Tyson -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 04:06
- THROATDROP, the sequel to THROATBOMB -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 04:03 2
  - DEEPTHROAT -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 04:37
  - 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo Aug 20, 04:05
Reminiscence 42% (29/40), The Protege 68% (17/8), PAW Patrol 88% (21/3), The Night House 87% (80/12) -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 03:43
TV PSA: Burden of Truth, Gold Rush, Secret Celebrity Renovation, Smackdown, The Greatest #AtHome Videos, Dynasty, AEW Rampage, The Chair (NF), -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 03:25 1
- Ted Lasso (Apple), Annette (Amazon), Reminiscence (HBO Max), Sweet Girl (NF), Truth Be Told (Apple), Everything Will Be Fine (NF), Mr Corman (Apple), - Beaker Aug 20, 03:28
Just signed my severance agreement. My previous employer is great and I am not disparaging them in any way. -- nm - Ender Aug 20, 01:02 4
- blink twice if you need help... -- nm - Beaker Aug 20, 03:34
- (Former) leader is great, (former) leader is good? -- nm - spamlet Aug 20, 03:33
- ...but -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 20, 01:22
- remember, it's not disparagement if it's true. -- nm - mafic Aug 20, 01:14
“Let’s invade France.” -- nm - David Aug 20, 00:32
Also today at Tesla's AI day, they are building a computer capable of a quintillion FLOPS. - TWuG Aug 19, 23:33
Tom Segura, Disgraceful, 2018: "I think we are five years away from never leaving our homes again, and I'm pretty excited about it." -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 23:09
This week's What If..? was a lot of fun. -- nm - Mop Aug 19, 22:22
What if... wow. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 22:16 1
- On this plane, or the next. -- nm - Spawn Aug 19, 23:11
Twitch vs OnlyFans: "they're the same picture" -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 19, 20:56 1
- nice -- nm - budice Aug 19, 21:23
Brett Butler explains why she’s broke, her GoFundMe campaign, depression, and a potential comeback. -- (link) - Mop Aug 19, 20:52
Natalie Imbruglia is back -- (link) - budice Aug 19, 20:49 1
- I don’t know about this news. I’m… - Mop Aug 19, 20:51
Canadian football on ESPN2. -- nm - Mop Aug 19, 20:48
Well, now I know why they wanted to keep the location of the Van Gogh thing here a secret for so long. -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 19, 20:42 2
- local tv consumer reporter said there was 2 different shows, the one that didn't publish the location was sending red flags, not the original producer -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 19, 22:24 1
  - Yes. It’s been discussed here as well. - znufrii Aug 20, 05:01
I mean, if this is just Musk and Grimes taking the piss out of Boston Dynamics, it's a work of twisted genius. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 19, 20:38 5
- Most Tesla presentations have a "one more thing", but I don't think anyone expected this "one more thing". - TWuG Aug 19, 21:00 4
  - Wait, people are not recognizing a person in a mask? - Spawn Aug 19, 23:14 2
    - What was on stage isn't the bot. It was obviously a costume and was not said to be anything different. - TWuG Aug 19, 23:28 1
      - So it's vapourware then. -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 03:00
  - that's a pretty big "if" -- nm - znufrii Aug 19, 21:03
Heh. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 19, 20:36 1
- Actually, I have some wolfenite and prefer it over twinks, though if you prefer twinks, that's cool. -- nm - TWuG Aug 19, 20:57
Unredacted court filing shows the dirty tricks Google pulled to keep phone makers from pre-installing Epic’s Fortnite. -- (link) - Mop Aug 19, 20:35
Clifford the Big Red Dog pulled from release schedule, slot vacated at TIFF. -- (link) - Mop Aug 19, 20:30 1
- Clifford has some... skeletons in his closet. -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 02:07
25 rushes/193 yards/4 TDs--Those are Rhamondre Stevenson's stats over 2 preseason games - Flavorize Aug 19, 20:21
US expected to extend border restrictions with Canada another 30 days (because????????) -- (link) - ty97 Aug 19, 20:06 8
- its not like the moose varient is any worse than delta...but that explains why Larkin Poe cancelled their tour swing through -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 19, 21:50
- Because fuck Canada! That's why! -- nm - David Aug 19, 20:14 3
  - Wow, David is all happy and positive and supportive and Disney magic until Canada is discussed. -- nm - ty97 Aug 19, 20:29 2
    - And yet he goes real quiet and contemplative-like any time an ostrich is mentioned. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 20:33
    - This isn't about me! It's about FUCK CANADA! -- nm - David Aug 19, 20:32
- *whistles innocently as he passes Biden 20 bucks* -- nm - Mop Aug 19, 20:12
- pictured here, canada's reaction -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 19, 20:10 [yarn] 1
  - I mean, y'all shouldn't want to come here right now, but who are we to tell you no?! -- nm - ty97 Aug 19, 20:11
My library's ebook app has George Smiley #1 and #2, but does not have George Smiley #3. Aka, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 20:01 1
- I feel like I need to join another library and add it to Libby to get a better selection. Heh -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 20:40
Counter-counterpoint: these idiots would favour cheemo-therapy over chemotherapy. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 19, 19:51 1
- #cheetotherapy -- nm - bad idea twitter jeans Aug 19, 20:05
Interesting thread on OF banning sexually explicit stuff. They're not dumb, they just had no choice. -- (link) - Tim Aug 19, 19:42 14
- Freedom of speech gets punched in the face by air corporate overlords -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 20, 01:21
- Also other threads where no statement has been given to content creators directly. Basically saying nothing has changed (yet). Status Quo -- nm* - budice Aug 19, 20:20
- I'm having conversations along these lines at work.* My feeling is if kids got this information in school maybe explaining the business side - Max Aug 19, 20:04
- How do "cam-girl" sites do it? I mean, OnlyFans is just a cam-girl site with window dressing. -- nm - Mop Aug 19, 19:55 4
  - I think it's answered later in the thread. - Tim Aug 19, 20:12 3
    - Man, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes here I didn’t know about. -- nm - Mop Aug 19, 20:15 2
      - My guess is that they either don’t do age checks or don’t do adequate ones. -- nm - spamlet Aug 19, 20:25 1
        
        Pressure from credit card companies finally got PornHub to clean up their act. -- nm - Mop Aug 19, 20:29
- with so much cybercoin they could get around it without suffering too much -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 19, 19:44 4
  - As explained in the thread, those executives would like to have a personal life with a credit rating someday. -- nm - Mop Aug 19, 20:02
  - Exfil points are still blocked for SWs, and I've heard that many cryptocurrency wallets themselves are also anti-sexwork. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 19:47 1
    - had no idea -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 19, 19:48
  - lolololol -- nm - MDH Aug 19, 19:45
- Well, we had a good run. -- nm - Only Fans Website Owners Aug 19, 19:44
11 year old was wearing his step counter for less than an hour before he handed it to the 6 year old to amp up the stats -- nm - Beryllium Aug 19, 19:37 1
- Already delegating responsibilities. Kid's bound for the c-suite. -- nm - Mop Aug 19, 19:59
Welp. This is certainly *not* playing into the evil villain trope. Nope, not at all. -- (link) - TWuG Aug 19, 19:15 11
- And, to answer questions 1 through 1000, yes, you can have sex with it. -- nm - Mop Aug 19, 20:00
- don't forget, this guy also made flame throwers, so he's halfway to Terminators already -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 19, 19:42 1
  - "Let's call our internet sats Sky Net" "Uh, perhaps we should rethink?" "Ok, how about Starlink?" -- nm - TWuG Aug 19, 21:02
- Coming next year, so 2022 has some potential to out WTF 2021 AND 2020 combined. -- (link) - TWuG Aug 19, 19:40 2
  - (Prototype) -- nm - Spawn Aug 19, 23:16
  - I've seen how this movie ends. It's gruesome. -- (pic) - Beryllium Aug 19, 19:42 [Attachment]
- Crash Test Data -- nm - Max Aug 19, 19:39
- Now, is it a ComfortUnit or a SecUnit? - Beryllium Aug 19, 19:38 2
  - both -- (pic) - zeitgeist Aug 19, 19:47 [Attachment]
  - It is kinda sexay looking, I guess. -- nm - TWuG Aug 19, 19:41
- You’re facing an Assaultron class war machine. I’ll give no quarter! -- nm - Qale Aug 19, 19:35
First come cases, then come the deaths. Texas COVID deaths are up +149% over the last 2 weeks. -- nm - Qale Aug 19, 19:06 3
- to be fair, here in Liberal land with better than 50% vax rate (would be 70 but for east wa) hospitalizations up higher than ever since beginning... - zeitgeist Aug 19, 21:55
- Is that a lot? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 19, 20:15
- of course they are. 😥😥 -- nm - loosilu Aug 19, 19:10
Hope everything goes well tomorrow, volnelk - but: why is the first day of kindergarten on a Friday -- nm - prayformojo Aug 19, 19:03 2
- It gives parents a weekend to get themselves together. -- nm - . Aug 19, 19:06 1
  - very good point. -- nm - loosilu Aug 19, 19:10
I just loaded a FF13-3 saved game from 2014. -- nm - David Aug 19, 19:02 1
- Least favorite FF of them all -- nm - Strongbad Aug 20, 03:27
I don't have children, I've never had children. The thought of the first day of kindergarten as a parent has given me anxiety every year for a while. - ty97 Aug 19, 19:00 4
- Princess Disney likes school and so first days have always been easy for us. -- nm - Walt_Disney Aug 20, 05:46
- Logan went from daycare to preschool to kindergarten so smoothly I was not concerned. -- nm - Spawn Aug 19, 20:30
- I'm weirdly unaffected by it. she goes to daycare already, pre-k next year will be functionally the same. -- nm - mafic Aug 19, 20:07
- College has been a little harder, especially with this being our younger. - zunk xometimes Aug 19, 20:01
NOW! -- nm - Beaker Aug 19, 18:55

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