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Tragic COVID story is tragic. Read at your own risk. -- (link) - Mop Sep 17, 14:34
Eww. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 17, 14:26
B99's last episode was pretty great -- nm - prayformojo Sep 17, 14:23
DTL: if you think you might want to join fake college hoops, rollover is tomorrow morning and a great time to join. -- nm - spamlet Sep 17, 14:19 2
- It's a fun game, too. Straightforward playing style, but a varied stat block mechanism and a sufficient number of variables (some known, some unknown) - ReluctantCynic Sep 17, 15:50
- Wooooo! 5th place! -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 15:17
NYC: Carmine's Hostess Attacked After Asking Tourists from Texas for Vaccination Proof to Dine Inside -- (link) - MDH Sep 17, 14:14 4
- "What do you do for a living?" "Bouncer-maitre d." "Nice euphemism." "No, it's an Italian restaurant, and the troublemakers aren't even drunk." -- nm - Max Sep 17, 14:35
- F*ck Texas. - znufrii Sep 17, 14:30 2
  - I may live here, but I am no Texan. -- nm - Qale Sep 17, 16:35
  - I’ve got my vaccine card. I’d show it before even asked. - Epiphany Sep 17, 15:13
40 foot shipping container was $2000 to go from China to US two years ago. Now its $25,000 and thats IF you can get one.....(link) -- (link) - Walt_Disney Sep 17, 14:13 2
- But you can fill it with anything you want! -- nm - Mop Sep 17, 14:37 1
  - That's a lot of loose pudding. -- nm - Max Sep 17, 14:40
Netflix executive pro tips by Pitch Meeting. -- (link) - Mop Sep 17, 14:10 [youtube] 1
- Huh. Is Screen Rant based in Montreal? That's definitely Montreal in the window. -- nm - Mop Sep 17, 14:14
Matt Gurney: If the moderates can't hold the CPC, Canada is in deep, deep trouble - Name Withheld By Request Sep 17, 14:07 66
- I think it's right take, but there's also no great solution. - Roger More Sep 17, 14:22 16
  - How about holding their own side to account for the demonization of the moderates? How about accepting that 80% agreement on most issues is... - Name Withheld By Request Sep 17, 14:30 15
    - I don't think there's much mood for that these days, and I can see why. It's like saying "vote for Faust" -- nm - Roger More Sep 17, 15:03
    - I don't get what he has done that is so devisive...mask and vaccine mandates? no machine guns? acknowledging climate change? -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 14:50 6
      - The utter shamelessness of announcing a vaccine policy on a Friday, calling an election on Sunday and then…. - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 14:59 4
        
        but haven't everyone but the NDP been actively voting for an election? every non-confidence vote they tried to have an election... -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 15:08 3
        
        Because they are the opposition. Seriously, it’s parliamentary tradition to vote against budgets, throne speeches, etc if in opposition. - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 15:30 2
        
        see, I get this (still wouldn't vote for O'Toole given his wishy washy "what's my policy on this again? the offical one or the one I just made up?") -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 15:34 1
        
        Sure. “He’ll say anytime to get elected” feels right about him and it is why I’m disappointed. But I don’t think for one minute that he isn’t better…. - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 15:41
      - Economics is what they need to work on the most. That would win my brother over (big-time Conservative (Peter McKay and him are buds)) -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 14:52
    - See, your words sound reasonable. Your original quote (not yours), less so. -- nm* - Andie Sep 17, 14:36 6
      - Yes, this is where I land as well. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 14:37 5
        
        Guys, with respect, it’s an op-Ed headline. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 14:44 4
        
        I ... don't know what that means for this discussion. That it was a waste of time and we should have ignored it? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 14:46 3
        
        Just that it is by design meant to be a provocative quote. It’s the idea is embedded in the piece that now. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 14:51 2
        
        I understand the first part, but the second part word not sense make -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 14:55 1
        
        Was using voice. Sorry. My point is that the headline is not how the piece shows be judged. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 14:59
- The Liberals have moved quite Left over the last 20 years though....they used to straddle the centre much more.... - Walt_Disney Sep 17, 14:20 12
  - Check your math. I think that means the centre has moved. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 14:23 11
    - I think the centre is still where it always was but too often the main supporters of each party have drifted more left and right. - Walt_Disney Sep 17, 14:31 1
      - It’s definitely drifted socially and economically leftward. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 15:02
    - (And the right has gone fringe) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 14:24 8
      - I mean, PPC is super fringe. But CPC only seems a bit more polite, not a bit more centred. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 14:39 7
        
        The PPC will get a million votes on Monday. That’s fringe? Like, what do you want any Prime Minister to do to quell that anger? -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 15:02 6
        
        At the core of the PPC, they want capitulation on any number of policies that are not only intolerable on their face but will cause people to die - Reagen Sep 17, 15:08 4
        
        We have to live with them though. What’s the strategy? It won’t conflict away. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 15:24 3
        
        I don't know how to argue with lunatics. -- nm - Reagen Sep 17, 15:35 2
        
        So, wouldn’t that logically lead to, “Can’t argue with them. Need a new approach.”? -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 15:42 1
        
        Possibly? But policy concessions are non-negotiable to them. -- nm - Reagen Sep 17, 15:49
        
        5% is fringe though. The way the Greens are fringe. -- nm - Roger More Sep 17, 15:08
- Why is this never the case for the far left, who have never held federal power in Canada? -- nm - Reagen Sep 17, 14:16 1
  - I think it is coming. Just slower. Part of that is the move of the Liberals leftward. If they were Chretien or Turner era Liberals, the activists.... - Name Withheld By Request Sep 17, 14:27
- did O'Toole collude with Kenney to delay Alberta's emergency response? -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 17, 14:16 3
  - So I see what the narrative is going into the last couple days of the election. JT can go on vacation to Barbados at this point. - Mop Sep 17, 14:21 1
    - Trudeau: fighting hecklers and anti-vaxxers while getting rocks thrown at him. O'Toole: not answering staged questions in front of a backdrop -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 14:22
  - this is what I alluded to on B2. -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 14:19
- The Libs stake exclusive claim to the middle and the NDP remains the left. We don't anyone to the right of the Libs. -- nm - Mop Sep 17, 14:11
- honestly, that wording sounds like a threat. - Andie Sep 17, 14:09 28
  - I feel like the GOP tried that tack a few years ago, and look how that turned out. - Beryllium Sep 17, 14:21 15
    - it is what they are saying, but instead of controlling themselves, they are blaming it on people who DON'T vote for them. -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 14:23 14
      - That's a very paternalistic way of framing it. "Control themselves"? - Name Withheld By Request Sep 17, 14:25 13
        
        I think you're mixing up definitions of the word threat in this thread (completely accidentally, I mean). You're saying "this is a looming problem." - Beryllium Sep 17, 14:30 2
        
        I view it as a threat on par with climate change. I really do. It’s about existential social fabric in Canada/North America. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 15:03
        
        yes. this. -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 14:30
        
        The wording in your original post makes it sounds like the future of the Conservative Party will be out of the control of the Conservative Party if -- (edited) - Andie Sep 17, 14:29 9
        
        It's 2012 and "Binders full of women" making Romney out to be some sexist religious nut and landing Trump in 2016, then people rediscovering that.... - Name Withheld By Request Sep 17, 14:33 5
        
        Romney is sexist and has sided with the lunatic fringe much more often than not, just less than his counterparts. -- nm - No Longer Calm David Sep 17, 15:00
        
        So, the implication is to reward Romney so you don't get Trump...but if Romney isn't worthy, that's blackmail per se. - Will Hunting Sep 17, 14:55 1
        
        I get what you and David are saying here and maybe it is fair, but the broader point is that there is no leader of either party that will be able to… - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 15:37
        
        Lol. Nice to see the conservative persecution complex is alive and well. -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 14:43
        
        I think that incident, in tandem with the 47% video, showed exactly who Romney was - Reagen Sep 17, 14:40
        
        It's the dril tweet. "Keep yelling 'shut the fuck up' at me, it only makes my opinions worse" -- nm - Reagen Sep 17, 14:31 2
        
        It's not quite that though, at least with me. I think there are those out there that fit, but it's the lack of any humanity being put towards those... - Name Withheld By Request Sep 17, 14:36 1
        
        (I don't mean you, I mean the original sentiment) -- nm - Reagen Sep 17, 14:41
  - It's an acknowledgement of a threat, yeah. - Name Withheld By Request Sep 17, 14:16 9
    - The Liberals ads they started recently are brutal for O'Toole imo. every misstep is being highlighted and beating him over the head with it -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 14:18 8
      - O'Toole and team have disappointed me by being seemingly flat-footed in response, but this is also why I always say those who.... - Name Withheld By Request Sep 17, 14:23 7
        
        I think the piece that's missing is that there's been a lot of societal change in the last fifty years, and the left wing and the right wing have - Roger More Sep 17, 14:46 1
        
        There's also the disinformation movement, which is less severe in Canada than elsewhere, but not nothing. - Reagen Sep 17, 14:58
        
        It's the tail wagging the dog, IMO - Reagen Sep 17, 14:28
        
        to be fair, if there were true moderates it might appeal. - Andie Sep 17, 14:27 3
        
        Think back to what they said about Tori when he was the leader of the opposition Siri it’s not an apples to apples comparison. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 14:50 2
        
        I was there, i know. What i am saying is you think people are entrenched and can't be swayed by changes in people, and i was using it as an example -- (edited) - Andie Sep 17, 14:53 1
        
        Sure, but they also elected Ford one election earlier so maybe it’s not the liberal electorate it feels in your circles. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 17, 15:43
  - Also: "If the fascists really are on the march, do you trust the the Liberals to stop them?" - Guigue Sep 17, 14:14
  - yup -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 14:13
19yr old, unvaxxed anti-mask Alabama city councilman hospitalised with Covid pneumonia. -- (link*) - . Sep 17, 14:06 3
- Sounds like he ran on an anti-mask platform, got elected in a county that is only 41% vaxed--Hope the sellout was worth it -- nm - Flavorize Sep 17, 14:36
- *19* SMH -- nm - Jovian Sep 17, 14:12
- He wants to be an EMT… - Will Hunting Sep 17, 14:10
The correct response is "Danity Kane". -- nm - Mop Sep 17, 14:05
OK, work people you can stop emailing analysis questions any time now. It's Friday afternoon. Go have a life. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 14:01
I've already watched 4 eps. of the new Sex Ed. S3 -- you what that means? - mud Sep 17, 13:58
Puma x Animal Crossing sneakers and apparel releasing tonight at 9pm. -- (link) - Krusty Sep 17, 13:48 1
- Nintendo releasing everything but more content for the game. -- nm - Qale Sep 17, 13:56
Friday afternoon Walk the Moon new song drop -- (link) - Pippy Sep 17, 13:46 [youtube]
article on the ancient giant penguins of New Zealand -- (link) - Peglegpete Sep 17, 13:46 1
- I was severely disappointed by their definition of "giant" -- nm - Dano Sep 17, 13:50
Long week at work. We've reached the periodically wiggle my mouse for a while and watch for IMs and emails from important people part of the week. -- nm - Dano Sep 17, 13:42
Oh wow, those thousand of migrants in Del Rio are reportedly *Haitan* migrants. - ty97 Sep 17, 13:29 3
- Let them in. Give them AirTag trackers and a date to report to the nearest whatever. - Qale Sep 17, 13:57
- Given the assassination and earthquake ... yeah. Yikes. I hope the US stops treating them like shit. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 13:42 1
  - I just never would have considered that immigrants from Haiti were arriving via that route. Takes some real determination. -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 13:43
USMNT drops out of top 10 FIFA ranking after lackluster start to World Cup qualifying campaign, now down to 13th. -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 13:27 5
- So...not much of a chance at that $440mil WC money. -- nm - . Sep 17, 14:11 1
  - They're currently in the field. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 14:15
- How dare they given how much we bribe them to inflate our ranking?! -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 13:33
- end of an era -- nm - prayformojo Sep 17, 13:28 1
  - heh -- nm - Diva Sep 17, 13:30
sure spawn already knew this, tomorrow is National Batman day. - tRuMaN Sep 17, 13:25 8
- Free Batman comics at your Local Comic Store while they last! -- nm - Remlik Sep 17, 14:54
- Oh, so I should hire an escort and then kill her with a chainsaw? -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 13:33 3
  - Seems drastic but you do you boo -- nm - Pippy Sep 17, 13:38 1
    - Sorry I misread. THought it said BatEman day. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 14:02
  - Oh no! Dem pearls! - Will Hunting Sep 17, 13:37
- and sunday is National Talk like a Pirate day. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 17, 13:26 2
  - Oct 3 is National kevin day. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 17, 13:30 1
    - Hmm. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 15:08
Laura Loomer, the crazy lady what chained herself to Twitter HQ, has COVID, and apparently a bad case -- (link) - Reagen Sep 17, 13:08 2
- Nothing of value would be lost. -- nm - TWuG Sep 17, 14:16
- saw this one this morning... *rest of my comment redacted* -- nm - Jovian Sep 17, 13:09
I basically can't print without it turning into cursive eventually. Max, that's a good comparison for NFTs. Baron, if you do understand them, they - Reagen Sep 17, 12:50 2
- Also Succession S3 giggity giggity goo. -- nm - Reagen Sep 17, 12:59 1
  - And I must have chosen my friend group well, because I never have any of the Insane People of Facebook on my feed, unless they're replying to one of - Reagen Sep 17, 13:04
The US and Australia just made some submarine deal and France is angry and recalled their ambassadors to both countries. Fridays man. -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 12:48 16
- Anyway, international relations are clearly taking a dive -- nm* - ty97 Sep 17, 13:52
- France lost a multi billion deal for 12 conventional power subs, we should just buy them, donate to Taiwan or SK, I know, Vietnam!!! -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 17, 13:12 2
  - Saskatchewan is landlocked! -- nm - Mop Sep 17, 13:25 1
    - Obligatory posting about maritime troubles in Saskatchewan. -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Sep 17, 14:10 [youtube]
- Freedom Fries making a come back baby! -- nm - Jovian Sep 17, 13:03
- yeah but wasnt this a news story yesterday? -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 17, 12:50 10
  - Yesterday they canceled the gala but that didn’t get enough news so they’re upping the temper tantrum -- nm - spamlet Sep 17, 12:53 9
    - Though if any ally cancelled a $90B deal with the US (and the parallel strategic implications) without notice, it would have a similar reaction. -- nm - Roger More Sep 17, 13:12
    - we should blockade all of their ports in retaliation! -- nm - decline Sep 17, 12:56 7
      - umm, what if we just stopped buying french wine for the weekend? -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 17, 12:57 6
        
        no! BLOCKAAAAAAAAADE! -- nm - prayformojo Sep 17, 13:03
        
        Chile hasn't done anything recently, have they? -- nm - Reagen Sep 17, 13:01
        
        Good thing I’m stocked up. -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 12:59
        
        and boycott French Fries! -- nm - decline Sep 17, 12:58 2
        
        WHOA NOW! -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 13:09 1
        
        They're Belgian anyway. - Reagen Sep 17, 13:13
Working the Dead shows at Wrigley tonight and tomorrow. Proof of negative test or vaccine required for entry. There's a 3rd party company with folks - zunk xometimes Sep 17, 12:46 2
- BTW, worked the GNR show last night. No restrictions. - zunk xometimes Sep 17, 12:52 1
  - This kind of info needs to be published, before the smoking ban was made, bars whined about loosing biz,in fact it increased - zeitgeist Sep 17, 13:09
Ghosts is cute -- nm - prayformojo Sep 17, 12:43 5
- Just started watching? Enjoy. -- nm - LMS Sep 17, 13:24 4
  - watched most of S1 this afternoon -- nm - prayformojo Sep 17, 14:08 3
    - Got a favourite yet? -- nm - LMS Sep 17, 14:24 2
      - of the ghosts? Kitty. or maybe Julian. -- nm* - prayformojo Sep 17, 14:32 1
        
        I think mine is Robin or Pat. -- nm - LMS Sep 17, 14:51
From B2: I'm just glad the problematic mediocre musical is getting its comeuppance. -- nm - MDH Sep 17, 12:40
FDA advisory panel soundly rejects a plan to offer Pfizer booster shots against COVID-19 to most Americans. -- (link) - decline Sep 17, 12:34 18
- There's specific wording about "safety" and "effectiveness", and I'm betting they just didn't have usable effectiveness data -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 13:09 1
  - Israel does and it's pretty persuasive. I'd be interested in why they're discounting it. Part, I know, is that it focuses more on the elderly, but - pmb Sep 17, 13:52
- Now review shots for under-12s! -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 12:51 2
  - right? fuckin' christalmightyalready -- nm* - Reagen Sep 17, 12:51 1
    - They really do not want that one kid with some unknown condition and dies..Google Reyes syndrome -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 17, 13:21
- and it wasn't even close: Vote was 16 to 2 -- nm - decline Sep 17, 12:47
- I'm mean sure okay, everyone is already getting them. Something is going on at the FDA -- nm - MDH Sep 17, 12:38 11
  - Could be weighing the fact that the world needs billions more doses just to get basic inoculation done in many countries. - ty97 Sep 17, 12:40 10
    - I think that's what they were thinking, but I'm still not sure I agree with it. Especially given Israel's studies. - pmb Sep 17, 13:01
    - I doubt it. - znufrii Sep 17, 12:50
    - We already have a billion-dose surplus iirc -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 12:42 2
      - We being the US? If that's the case what are we doing with it? Letting it expire? - ty97 Sep 17, 12:43 1
        
        The industrial nations...iirc there was a link last week -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 12:44
    - Total agreement with your IM and understand if that's their thinking (I do). But I thought that was outside the review scope? -- nm - MDH Sep 17, 12:42 4
      - I'm not sure it is for the Advisory group though. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 17, 12:46
      - It may well be, I have not idea how the system works! -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 12:42 2
        
        I'm counting on you to know these things! -- nm - MDH Sep 17, 12:43 1
        
        It's been a busy week! -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 12:44
And there it is, Friday afternoon news dump that we actually drone killed civilians including 7 children, not ISIS K bombers headed for the airport - ty97 Sep 17, 12:31 9
- Driving a white Toyota, the most common vehicle in the mideast, the story is they followed the bad guy, confusing it in traffic -- nm* - zeitgeist Sep 17, 13:15
- ahhh. good so we can see Fox switch from all the Nicki Minaj and Gabby Petito breaking news stories tonight. -- nm - Jovian Sep 17, 12:39 5
  - there's no silver lining on this one, pal -- nm - mud Sep 17, 12:46
  - Perhaps. BUT WAIT! -- (pic) - ty97 Sep 17, 12:45 [Attachment] 3
    - oh right. right. they just got permission to use their drone back today! -- nm - Jovian Sep 17, 12:47
    - I've already been texted this pic from my republican friend today. no double ups -- nm - Pippy Sep 17, 12:46 1
      - haha -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 12:49
- "but refutes framing of question calling [the strike/the Afghanistan war] a total disaster." -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 12:37 1
  - We set out to bomb a thing and we bombed a thing so we get partial credit I guess? -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 12:38
Wow, so dead that our IMAX is showing Ghost in The Shell (95) at 7 and 9:15. - Spawn Sep 17, 12:29 1
- That just means your IMAX is cool, man. Wanna hit up Hot Topic later? -- nm - con_carne Sep 17, 14:02
I think a lot of these local GOP people actually eat what they are cooking. They are being misinformed by Fox, OAN, etc too. - ty97 Sep 17, 12:28 11
- i think they believe it, but they have blood on their hands. Is the outcome of manslaughter better than murder? -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 12:30 9
  - US law certainly thinks first degree murder and involuntary manslaughter are very different things. I would guess Canada does too? -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 12:32 8
    - i was talking about the outcome. The person is still dead. the result is the same. That's how i see this. -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 12:35 7
      - We'll all agree that I don't want anyone running anti-mask, anti-vaccine ads or propaganda - ty97 Sep 17, 12:36 6
        
        For every conservative antivaxx radio guy who dies of covid, I do believe an angel gets their wings. -- nm - Jovian Sep 17, 12:41
        
        i totally appreciate that you feel that way, and it's good that you do. I see it as "this person spreading disinformation and probably causing other's - Andie Sep 17, 12:39 3
        
        Yes. It's not joy. It's ... an observation of an appropriate outcome. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 12:51 2
        
        this I didn't see the reporting of any of the information as joyful or celebratory. It was reporting what is happening. -- nm - Diva Sep 17, 13:24
        
        A completely avoidable outcome, but for the one thing that put them in the scenario: their own promulgation -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 13:10
        
        *remains silent* -- nm - Alanis Sep 17, 12:37
- My point stands. -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 12:29
Slow down, B2. -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 12:25 2
- You move too fast -- nm - JD Sep 17, 12:26 1
  - " do it doucement" -- nm - Pippy Sep 17, 12:29

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