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They were going to replace our sewer system, whomever marked the utility lines fckd up now they are tearing up lawns 6 feet in - zeitgeist Sep 8, 12:45 [Attachment] 2
- bastards -- nm - decline Sep 8, 12:48
- SNAFU -- nm - budice Sep 8, 12:46
I am old. I do not get TikTok. I looked at the top 25 people of TikTok and recognize 4 names. Isn't TikTok just singing and dancing? I saw an ad the - sycor Sep 8, 12:28 8
- Though to be fair, I also really don't care about what other people are doing. Same reason I deleted facebook years ago. -- (edited) - sycor Sep 8, 12:43
- TikTok for me isn't about following the Top People. It's about letting the algorithm find you your fit faster than any other social media. - Qale Sep 8, 12:30 6
  - This. I just started liking and following any TikTok I thought was interesting, funny, entertaining, or otherwise better than average. - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 12:46
  - Check, check, check, check, check, er.....what? - JD Sep 8, 12:38 1
    - It’s not furry, just the others with cat ears. -- nm - Qale Sep 8, 12:45
  - I'm curious about how the onboarding actually works. As in, how does it start. Are you just shown random videos and it reacts to what you watch/like - oblique Sep 8, 12:36 1
    - It measures time watched, likes, sends, rewatches, comments, rewatches some more. And magic. It took maybe 40 min to start heading me to my area. - Qale Sep 8, 12:49
  - And. That 'effing. Song. -- nm - Spawn Sep 8, 12:33
OTD in Star Trek history: Geneviève Bujold films her first scenes as Nicole Janeway, before eventually leaving the series after two days. -- (link) - Remlik Sep 8, 12:21 6
- What? I may need several moments to figure out what to do with that information -- nm - JD Sep 8, 12:26 4
  - Yeah she signed on not really understanding how quick the pace of TV Production was. So she asked to be let out of her contract... - Remlik Sep 8, 12:34 [youtube] 3
    - Lindsay Wagner, Claudia Christian, Gary Graham, Carrie Ann Moss, Robert Picardo, Erin Gray among others up for the role... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 8, 12:35 2
      - Linda Hamilton. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 13:05
      - Oh...my....god -- nm - JD Sep 8, 12:39
- I am not even going to watch it because Kate Mulgrew was so perfect. -- nm - Spawn Sep 8, 12:26
World's biggest direct carbon capture plant goes online today. Sadly, it only can capture about 1% of yearly emissions from 1 coal plant -- (link) - oblique Sep 8, 12:14 1
- How much energy will it need to capture that carbon, probably two power plants??? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 8, 12:34
DTL: If you're in a recruiting tie with an interim team, I believe you should win 100% of the time. Computers don't have feelings. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 8, 12:11 2
- So, you're saying that having feelings is somehow better? A trait to be encouraged? -- nm - JD Sep 8, 12:14 1
  - Over 👏🏻 rated 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 -- nm - spamlet Sep 8, 12:20
GQ Video: Matt Damon breaks down his career. -- (link) - Mop Sep 8, 12:10 [youtube] 1
- Team America? -- nm - Spawn Sep 8, 12:14
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will be back in full this year. -- (link*) - Krusty Sep 8, 12:09 3
- Sure, sure. -- nm - Gamma Variant Sep 8, 12:26
- The balloons will be filled with the new form of Joker Gas, called Covid. -- nm - Spawn Sep 8, 12:10 1
  - and the balloons will be wearing face masks [not the superhero type] -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 8, 12:15
Twitter starting to test Communities -- (link) - oblique Sep 8, 11:55 8
- A blog post from the future, with a URL dated in the past. That tells me it's been in draft mode for a while. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 12:03 1
  - heh, yeah, that is weird -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 12:04
- Paintball? -- nm - Spawn Sep 8, 12:00 4
  - Advanced Dungeons and Dragons -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 12:01 3
    - Ah, I already won that. -- nm - Spawn Sep 8, 12:04 2
      - *sends a Mind Flayer your way* -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 12:04 1
        
        bring it on! -- nm - Hector the Well-Endowed Sep 8, 12:05
- Facebook Groups... for Twitter. -- nm - Mop Sep 8, 11:58
ST What are you reading? -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 11:54 11
- Charcoal Joe, an Easy Rawlins mystery -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 8, 12:36
- "Death's End" (Remembrance of Earth's Past #3, AKA The Three-Body Problem #3), by Liu Cixin (NM) - Marlowe Sep 8, 12:21
- The Other Bennett Sister which is basically Jane Austen fanfic. -- nm - LMS Sep 8, 12:13
- He Who Fights with Monsters -- nm - decline Sep 8, 12:03
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi -- nm - JD Sep 8, 12:01
- Podcasting Made Simple (with a Podcasting Journal); a couple issues of the ABA Journal of Administrative Law; and The Quiet American. -- nm* - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 12:00
- Confessions by Kanae Minato. Just started last night but off to a firecracker start. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 8, 11:59
- Got a book of Scottish folklore/mythology. -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 8, 11:58 1
  - oh fun, what's the name? One the favorite things I did in Dublin was an Irish folklore dinner at Brazen Head Pub. -- nm - sycor Sep 8, 12:01
- just finished A Feast for Crows GRRM reread and now starting the Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 11:55 1
  - Crows and GoT TV show spoilers -- (edited) - Beaker Sep 8, 11:58
QV Draft 2021 is underway -- nm - budice Sep 8, 11:52
I'm late on this, but 4 episodes in and I'm really liking The White Lotus -- nm - prayformojo Sep 8, 11:50 1
- we're struggling to finish it -- nm - JaxSean Sep 8, 12:21
Soprano's... Leverage... what year is it? -- nm - JaxSin Sep 8, 11:50 6
- Just seen 24 is looking at another reboot. -- nm - LMS Sep 8, 12:14
- new Doogie show -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 11:53 2
  - But the new Doogie is a kid named after the otiginal,show, and she surfs. -- nm - . Sep 8, 11:54 1
    - She's also quite a bit older than the original Dr. Howser. -- nm - Qale Sep 8, 12:01
- I watched an Episode of Punky Brewster the other day. - sycor Sep 8, 11:53
- Screw that, I'm watching the Matrix! -- nm - Mop Sep 8, 11:53
First day back to school for my kids, first kid sent home because of a fever. -- nm - Mop Sep 8, 11:42
TikTok Star Addison Rae Signs Film Deal With Netflix -- (link) - Remlik Sep 8, 11:36 6
- Does what's her name D'Amelio really have a show coming out on Netflix? Or did I hallucinate that? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 12:01 3
  - No, she absolutely does not. - Mop Sep 8, 12:06 2
    - and the promo still shot is on every time I switch to Hulu - she is inappropriately hugging her....sister? looks oddly provocative. weirdos. -- nm - Pippy Sep 8, 12:10 1
      - So it's worse than I first thought? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 12:47
- I was going to MEH this, but the article mentions her work ethic being pretty good. So, good for her. - sycor Sep 8, 11:52
- He's Even More All That! -- nm - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 11:37
Is this the right Sting? You know, the Police and all that? Or is this the wrestler? -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 8, 11:28 14
- I know the Sting but I have zero context for the rest of it. Does he sing Murder By Numbers on the Only Murders in the Building show? -- nm - Max Sep 8, 11:46
- (Only Spoilers In The Building) - Beryllium Sep 8, 11:41
- Singer. Police. He's also on that Hulu show Only Murders in the Building which is what the tweet is referencing (in case that wasn't clear) -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 11:29 7
  - Also, Only Murders is on DisneyPlus in Canada, which made the cameos in the most recent episode extra odd. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 11:32
  - I originated the thread, I knew what I was referencing. It was the chin that threw me. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 11:30 5
    - *hat tip* - oblique Sep 8, 11:50
    - He used to sing for The Police. - Spawn Sep 8, 11:42 3
      - thought he was an actor from that new Dune movie... -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 11:47
      - oh, right, and he sang that song, Vertigo -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 11:44 1
        
        Yeah, he is rubbish. -- nm - JaxSin Sep 8, 11:46
- that's the singer -- nm - Remlik Sep 8, 11:29 3
  - It would've been much more accidentally funny on my part if it was the wrestler, given the context. :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 11:31 2
    - I'm slightly disappointed that you didn't recognize Sting the singer he has a verry recognizable face -- nm - eag Sep 8, 11:41 1
      - Oh yes, I know. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, for example. - Beryllium Sep 8, 11:43
A friend of ours just gave us tickets to tonight's Cards game. We used 2 and gave 2 to someone else. That Ballpark app is slick - spamlet Sep 8, 11:28 1
- What gets me is its taken this long for pro sports to implement tech on this level -- nm - budice Sep 8, 11:29
If you didn’t feel old already, Jonathan Taylor Thomas turns 40 today. -- nm - spamlet Sep 8, 11:21 8
- I feel old, because I do not recognize the name, and he must have had a career in some field where he became popular years ago -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 8, 12:07 3
  - Randy on Home Improvement, voice of young Simba. nm - John B Sep 8, 12:11 1
    - My brother legitimately had girls coming up to him with pictures to sign in the early 90’s of JTT. They looked similar. - Will Hunting Sep 8, 12:14
  - One of the sons on the Tim Allen show Home Improvement which was really popular in the '90s. -- nm - Krusty Sep 8, 12:11
- It did not. It only confirmed that teenage boy me was right to have a crush on him. -- nm - Qale Sep 8, 12:03
- Gawd I'm old. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 12:01
- whew did I overdraft him in dynasty -- nm - ML Sep 8, 11:24 1
  - 40 is the new 20 -- nm - budice Sep 8, 11:27
Dammit! NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed To December -- (link) - decline Sep 8, 11:20 3
- It's like the Star Citizen of telescopes -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 11:46
- my kids have a space book that mentions JWST launching in, IIRC, 2018 ... oops. :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 11:45 1
  - (Mentions it not as a fact, but as a forward-looking statement, I mean) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 11:45
Leverage Redemption trailer -- (link) - Remlik Sep 8, 11:09 12
- Marsters looks like Homelander and Picard had a baby in that photo. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 12:01
- wish Amazon would get the rest of the original seasons. only has the first 2 up here -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 11:28 2
  - I see all the seasons on IMDB through Prime -- nm* - sycor Sep 8, 11:30 1
    - haven't checked recently; will have to take a look. Thanks! -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 11:32
- Didn't watch, but new season already? I need to watch season 1 still -- nm - sycor Sep 8, 11:27 7
  - I'm a few episodes in - it's way better than I expected. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 11:27 6
    - Good to hear. I was a little worried. Honestly Sophie was my least favorite character. -- nm - sycor Sep 8, 11:49 4
      - Well, I have good news, and I have bad news. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 11:59 3
        
        yeah.... -- nm - sycor Sep 8, 12:02 2
        
        mild spoilers - Beryllium Sep 8, 12:06 1
        
        my opinion which you did not ask for spoils - Pippy Sep 8, 12:12
    - agreed. it has some cheesy moments but the original did as well. -- nm - Pippy Sep 8, 11:43
NBA: Ced Ceballos has COVID. 11th day in ICU. -- (link) - budice Sep 8, 10:55
FF: Somebody just offered me Tony Jones and a 3rd round pick in my Dynasty league for - Strongbad Sep 8, 10:54 2
- Best last round pick I ever made. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 8, 11:00 1
  - Yeah. I am trying to get Jones in my Dynasty League where I have Kamara and had Murray/Freeman. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 8, 11:02
What If zombies was pretty solid. I never read the book though so nothing to compare. -- nm - sycor Sep 8, 10:51 1
- the original limited series was awesome with some of my favorite cover art in recent decades -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 11:00
My office lost power for about an hour this morning. A goose flew into a powerline and took out the whole area - decline Sep 8, 10:46 3
- peace was never an option -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 10:49
- Goose Game come to life -- nm - budice Sep 8, 10:47
- So you're saying your goose was cooked? -- nm - JaxSean Sep 8, 10:47
For funsies, used the fantasyowner.com tool to grade my team. Boy does it hate my RB. I mean, I do too, but that's just rude. -- (pic) - Tenetennbaron Sep 8, 10:42 [Attachment] 20
- Astro: QB: B+, RB: B-, WR: A, TE: B+, K: D-, DEF: C+ -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 12:01
- I feel like my WRs are overrated but otherwise it seems fairish -- (pic) - Krusty Sep 8, 12:00 [Attachment] 4
  - Heh. I have that same kicker with the same grade :) -- nm - oblique Sep 8, 12:23 1
    - They seem to have him ranked much lower than anywhere else I've seen. They have him at 19??? Most rankings I've seen have him in the top 10 -- nm - Krusty Sep 8, 12:25
  - Okay, good. Now it's on you if your team isn't very good! -- nm - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 12:03 1
    - Heh. :-) I'm quite happy with how the draft turned out. Thank you and Kim so very much! -- nm - Krusty Sep 8, 12:21
- Mixed praise for my Astronauts team: QB C+; RB A; WR A+; TE C+; K A-; DEF B+ -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 11:58
- *flexes* -- (pic) - spamlet Sep 8, 11:32 [Attachment]
- I have an F in both RB and WR. - Will Hunting Sep 8, 11:19 [Image]
- D+ for Devonta Smith??? -- nm - David Sep 8, 11:18 3
  - Your outrage is misplaced. They gave an A- to Ridley. Minus? -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 8, 11:24 2
    - I mean, they're off a quarter to a half there. With Smith, they might be off by three full grades. - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 11:29 1
      - I think they're just saying I reached there on an unproved player. I mean, what's he ever won? ^^ -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 8, 11:59
- It hates mine, too. And gives Ryan Tannehill an A+. -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 8, 11:05 4
  - As a QB1 or QB2? -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 8, 11:07 3
    - 2, maybe? It didn't seem to care what order I input them, so maybe it is choosing according to starter vs. not. -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 8, 11:09 2
      - It sorts them by internal criteria. The grades are relative to their positioning. So compared to all other QB2 he's deemed excellent. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 8, 11:20
      - (And listening to Aaron Rodgers on ESPN's Kenny Mayne show, I understand why it hates him.) - Dark Callisto Sep 8, 11:09
- Ewww. -- nm - Shaun Sep 8, 10:47 1
  - Heh, 22nd RB off the board. You take what you can get. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 8, 10:55
Speaking of crypto: I've been DCAing Bitcoin for a month now on a weekly basis. Avg cost is 43320. Highest buy so far is 49,302. Lowest was 38,008 - oblique Sep 8, 10:39 3
- Isn't the SEC planning to sue companies over the whole DeFi thing? -- nm - decline Sep 8, 11:05 2
  - I heard about the Coinbase one. Should be an interesting thing to watch - oblique Sep 8, 11:24
  - At least Coinbase -- nm - spamlet Sep 8, 11:08
Sopranos new trailer -- (link) - Remlik Sep 8, 10:38
LIR: If you want to follow along with the statistical analysis I'm playing around with, the link is provided below. - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 10:36 3
- Do you have any sources for the assumed proportional percentages of deaths? - JaxSean Sep 8, 10:44 2
  - Proofreading has never been one of my strong suits. :-) - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 10:59 1
    - Gotcha -- nm - JaxSean Sep 8, 11:00
that cruise ship / crypto article was great. What a bunch of dimwitted rich people -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 10:21 1
- whatever happened to taking over former oil well platforms in the north sea to announce 'countries' like SeaLand -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 8, 11:42
JF mentioned that it was doing well. Minoru Suzuki's theme song is now #1 on iTunes. -- (link) - David Sep 8, 10:15

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