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"Air India plane stuck under bridge" -- (link) - Andie Oct 6, 09:10
What time is Yanks/Boston game 2 tonight? - Jovian Oct 6, 08:46 6
- Last night was delish. -- nm - Spawn Oct 6, 09:07
- Fire everyone from Cashman down to Boone. Except Matt Blake, he gets to stay. -- nm - Krusty Oct 6, 08:52 4
  - Agreed. And trade Sanchez and trade Torres for pitching - Jovian Oct 6, 09:07 1
    - I don't see how they don't trade Gleyber. We don't have anywhere to play him after he showed us he can't play SS and 2nd is taken. - Krusty Oct 6, 09:14
  - I was gonna ask, does Boone get fired? -- nm - Tim Oct 6, 09:06 1
    - I will be upset if he doesn't. It's not all on him but he's done a poor job for a few years now. -- nm - Krusty Oct 6, 09:15
back to back to back to back calls take a break from 12-1!!! Now...eat breakfast or nap? -- nm - ty97 Oct 6, 08:42 19
- isn't getting COVID supposed to be like a snow day or some shit? Having to keep working seems like some bullshit -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 08:53 4
  - No. -- nm - Critical Infrastructure Employees Oct 6, 08:59
  - Welcome to WFH -- nm - oblique Oct 6, 08:54 2
    - Yeah, fuck that nonsense. If I ever get COVID, I'm straight up off. -- nm - Shaun Oct 6, 08:58 1
      - I've worked with a cold before. It made sense at the time, due to WFH. But my already stunted productivity was cut in half. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 09:00
- Nap and then eat while you work. -- nm - Krusty Oct 6, 08:53
- Nap. You don't want to get sicker -- nm - prayformojo Oct 6, 08:46 1
  - Well said. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:46
- um...aren't you taking some sick time as you have fucking COVID? (this is said with love and concern) -- nm - Diva Oct 6, 08:46 10
  - Just about any other week in the quarter I could. Not this week. -- nm - ty97 Oct 6, 08:57 5
    - :( Just remember, your employer doesn't care about you. They would do what is best for them...always - oblique Oct 6, 08:58 4
      - please say this to my husband, thank you. -- nm - Diva Oct 6, 09:21
      - I'm not going to risk my health, work is on notice that outside of these meetings I'm basically off/sleeping due to COVID. -- nm - ty97 Oct 6, 08:59 2
        
        Excellent. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 09:00
        
        The meetings will help me to not go stir crazy I guess -- nm - ty97 Oct 6, 09:00
  - The body needs to rest to recover. Having the brain tell the body to do crap that isn't resting overrides that and lengthens recovery. - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:47 3
    - There's actually a big movement now to stop waking up hospitalized patients now in the middle of the night to do routine things - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 6, 08:56 1
      - Gotta love those 4:00am blood draws. -- nm - Meg Oct 6, 09:38
    - this. points to this. look at this, ty97! -- nm - Diva Oct 6, 08:50
Active shooter in texas high school -- (link) - Remlik Oct 6, 08:42
Talk me out of picking the 1-3 Patriots in Survivor League this week. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 6, 08:36 13
- The Bucs appear to be a safer pick but it's not a terrible pick this week. Picking against Houston and Jacksonville seem to be the safest picks -- nm - Krusty Oct 6, 08:41 4
  - Most people have already taken Tampa by now. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 6, 08:42 3
    - Dallas is leading in picks right now. I don't care about what other people pick and just pick against the worst teams. - Krusty Oct 6, 08:48 2
      - (I meant that most people have already taken Tampa by now and can't choose them again, like me.) -- nm - Strongbad Oct 6, 09:04 1
        
        Ahh, I misunderstood what you meant. Got it. - Krusty Oct 6, 09:16
- might of peaked keeping it close against Brady Sunday night; let down game perhaps... -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 08:37 7
  - that said, they are my 14 pointer in my $$ confidence pick 'em - Beaker Oct 6, 08:38 6
    - Minnesota or Atlanta are my other options. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 6, 08:39 5
      - I would avoid Jets/Falcons completely. With the travel to London you never know how that will affect players. Also, I avoid home teams with any picks. - Krusty Oct 6, 08:44 4
        
        Generally I agree. The other rule I try to follow for NFL Survivor - Strongbad Oct 6, 08:46 3
        
        Also, the Jets are the favorite this week so it would be ballsy to take the underdog. Even if they're playing the Jets. - Krusty Oct 6, 08:51
        
        Oh, and never pick against a team that just fired their coach for the first few weeks of an interim. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 6, 08:48 1
        
        Yeah, I can see the players rallying around the situation and surprising people. -- nm - Krusty Oct 6, 08:54
Canada - All would-be travellers must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 30 to board plane, train or marine vessel -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 08:34 11
- good. -- nm - Andie Oct 6, 09:01
- "Deadline for federal public servants must be double vaxxed by October 28 or go on unpaid leave by Nov 15." -- (link) - mud Oct 6, 08:36 6
  - "A senior official said these employees will not qualify for employment insurance (EI) benefits." oh snap -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 08:41 5
    - Terminated for cause - Yup. -- nm - Meg Oct 6, 08:52 2
      - My preference, if I were in charge of things, would be to ramp up EI until it delivered a UBI for all canadians, regardless of cause -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:54 1
        
        (But, as things stand, you're quite right.) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:54
    - Wow. - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:45 1
      - woo! -- nm - Diva Oct 6, 08:47
- Good. -- nm - Diva Oct 6, 08:35 1
  - Yes, this. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:37
- all Federal Govt workers, contractors or Federally regulated by same date or put on unpaid leave -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 08:35
Oil spill in texas city refinery -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:33 6
- Which city? - ty97 Oct 6, 08:40 1
  - Heh -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:42
- "Where do we get oil? From the ground. We're just returning it, no biggie." -- nm - Marathon Oct 6, 08:37 2
  - "It's organic." -- nm - Marathon Oct 6, 08:40
  - Marathon, a subsidiary of Veridian Dynamics -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:38
- !!! -- nm - mud Oct 6, 08:34
Twitch: "We can confirm a breach has taken place." -- (link) - budice Oct 6, 08:30 2
- The Verge has confirmed the source code is includrd -- (link) - spamlet Oct 6, 08:54 1
  - Source code is a liability. I'm not sure that a leak helps competitors, but it really does help future hackers. - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:56
all together now: "shocking but not surprising!" .. -- (link) - mud Oct 6, 08:30
I didn’t exactly fact check this, but NYT’s Watching email suggests that every fall CBS drama show besides Bull is a cop or cop-adjacent show. -- nm - Qale Oct 6, 08:29 8
- FBI x 3, NCIS x 3, Blue Bloods, Magnum (more a PI show really), SWAT, Equalizer (~maybe~), SEAL Team = army, Bull -- nm* - Beaker Oct 6, 08:32 5
  - And CSI:Vegas! -- nm - Diva Oct 6, 08:35 4
    - : The Musical: The Series -- nm - prayformojo Oct 6, 08:37 2
      - L3! *dusts fingerprints off jazz hands* -- nm* - Diva Oct 6, 08:48 1
        
        Bit of a rigor mortis jig -- nm* - Beryllium Oct 6, 09:07
    - airing tonight! -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 08:36
- I'd lump Bull in with them, the non-Wolf laws and orders. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:31 1
  - yup, all about legalize and typically cops involved -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 08:31
Zodiac Killer identified as Gary Francis Poste, who died in 2018. -- (link) - budice Oct 6, 08:25 10
- Is that the guy they ID'd at the end of that David Fincher film? -- nm - LMS Oct 6, 08:50
- Here's a mug shot record of a Gary Francis Poste b. 1938 arrested for a domestic charge in CA in 2016 - Max Oct 6, 08:38
- I've been wanting to read more about this but I'm not giving Fox News a click. -- nm - Diva Oct 6, 08:28 3
  - There's info on the Case Breakers' website. -- (link*) - mara Oct 6, 08:54
  - Same. Strange that no mainstream news outlets have the story yet. -- nm - Mop Oct 6, 08:29 1
    - that was my thought...also I'll just wait till a legitimate new source like AVClub picks the story up :) -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 08:30
- Peeve: How are you going to show the sketches and then not show a side-by-side of the suspect? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 6, 08:27 1
  - they want you to go on to Fox News to see if it will be there. -- nm - Diva Oct 6, 08:28
- so it wasn't Ted Cruz after all... -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 08:26 1
  - That's what they want you to think. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 6, 08:35
Sometimes, I want Mates of State to put out new music so bad it hurts -- nm - rollo Oct 6, 08:22 3
- it hurts where? Does it hurt in your butt? In your heart? your brain? -- nm - mud Oct 6, 08:24 2
  - Mostly in the ventral striatum -- nm - rollo Oct 6, 08:31 1
    - [googles] .. ouch -- nm - mud Oct 6, 08:33
sitwap - in more hacking news; Syniverse, a company that routes hundreds of billions of text messages for most of the major US Carriers, was hacked. - tRuMaN Oct 6, 08:18
This kinda just hit me...when I was waiting at urgent care for my test, a woman walked in and up to the front desk... - ty97 Oct 6, 08:17 1
- sheesh -- nm - mud Oct 6, 08:23
Locke & Key Season 2 Trailer -- (link) - decline Oct 6, 08:06
In perhaps the least shocking news ever, "Investors" spent millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. And then they got scammed -- (link*) - oblique Oct 6, 08:01 3
- The good news is that the Bureau of Consumer Protection will be able to... crap. -- nm - Reagen Oct 6, 08:05
- Future Story: "Investors" spent many more millions on "Fight Back Apes" NFTs. And then they got scammed -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 08:04 1
  - Literally in progress right now. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:05
That AT&T/OAN news is just another example of the love of money being the root of evil -- nm - TWuG Oct 6, 07:58 1
- Just like when streamers act like theyre poor. Then Twitch Leak reports theyre multi-million earners not to mention sponsorships -- nm - budice Oct 6, 08:02
Kyrie should be excused from being vaccinated -- nm - Signed Epstein's Mother Oct 6, 07:49 6
- Meanwhile the Kyrie Eleison - one of the prettiest portions of religious musical liturgy is ~P-I-S-S-E-D~. -- nm* - Diva Oct 6, 08:16 1
  - Mr. Mister is none too pleased either -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 6, 08:31
- They can't even trade him if they wanted to. F***ing idiot! - Krusty Oct 6, 08:00 1
  - Simmons for Kyrie! Who hangs up first? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 6, 08:34
- Kyrie should be excused from being vaccinated -- nm - International Flat Earth Research Society Oct 6, 07:51
- this won't work for long -- nm - Evander Kane Oct 6, 07:50
For a minute there I lost myself. -- nm - Reagen Oct 6, 07:46 5
- And it starts, sometime around midnight. -- nm - Spawn Oct 6, 07:57
- Richard Kind's filmography is a thing of beauty indeed -- nm - rollo Oct 6, 07:50 3
  - The one time I met him he was not friendly. I've heard only good stories about him but my experience was not good. - Krusty Oct 6, 07:59 1
    - "More like Richard Jerk, am I right?!?!" -- nm - Reagen Oct 6, 08:20
  - Hearing George Clooney talk about the old days when they were roommates is always amusing. -- nm - Andie Oct 6, 07:56
Follow-up to yesterday: Sage Steele tests positive for COVID, because of course she did -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 07:39
Anyone else ever do something like this? When I was a kid and was bored, I used to play a game called Killer Outside. You had to find a place in the - prayformojo Oct 6, 07:38 12
- directly beneath windows is a pretty good spot. -- nm - daddy Oct 6, 07:55 1
  - oh or doorway. yeah, that's hard. -- nm - daddy Oct 6, 07:56
- Nice try. I'm not going in your attic. -- nm - oblique Oct 6, 07:54
- By doorway do you mean exterior doors, or does that include interior? -- nm - Spawn Oct 6, 07:43 5
  - Interior as well -- nm - prayformojo Oct 6, 07:46 4
    - Our house has none. And I don't think my last did, either. Seems like it might take a basement. (but I don't get *why* a killer outside could see me from an interior doorway) -- nm* - Spawn Oct 6, 07:59 3
      - The BASEMENT? Have you never seen a horror movie, Spawn? -- nm - Andie Oct 6, 08:04 1
        
        Let's split up, you basement, you attic, me brightly lit room full of guns and ammo. GO! -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 08:06
      - Look, I didn't make the rul....wait. -- nm - prayformojo Oct 6, 08:01
- You're greenlit! -- nm - Netflix Oct 6, 07:42
- I've been the Kil....no, never -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 07:40
- Something *like* that, possibly. Exactly that? No. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 07:39
October 6 Birthdays: Anthea Sylbert (82), Britt Eklund (79) John Knoll (59), Elisabeth Shue (58), Amy Jo Johnson (51), Emily Mortimer (50) -- (edited) - Max Oct 6, 07:27 4
- My brain broke with Amy Jo Johnson's age. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 6, 08:28 1
  - Yes. She looks younger than that. - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:29
- Oh man that’s like a history of crushes right there. -- nm - spamlet Oct 6, 07:45 1
  - You had a crush on John Knoll? -- nm - decline Oct 6, 07:52
seems like Blade is dropping October 7, 2022 if a since deleted tweet from Marvel India is to be believed -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 07:16 10
- I'm out of the loop on this one. Do we know who's playing Blade? -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 6, 07:30 7
  - Mahershala Ali -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 07:31 6
    - Noice. Remy Danton gonna bust some heads. -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 6, 07:41
    - I love the guy but do not see him as Blade, at all. -- nm - Spawn Oct 6, 07:32 4
      - He's one of the few actors I see nowadays and I believe he could play anything. - Will Hunting Oct 6, 08:17 1
        
        Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with CW was entertaining. -- nm - Spawn Oct 6, 09:09
      - Heh, same, but I'm sure he's got the chips to earn it. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 07:32 1
        
        ... chops. 😂 -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 08:05
- (although word is it was likely a typo and they meant 2023) -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 07:18 1
  - Has to be they have there schedule through 2023 already -- nm - eag Oct 6, 07:21
For those interested in the new GOT House of the Dragon show, this is a great breakdown of all the characters in the teaser trailer -- (link) - Beaker Oct 6, 07:15 4
- Do I care? *shakes magic 9-ball* "Ask again later." -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 6, 07:23 2
  - Hey can we borrow that thing!? -- nm - Economists Oct 6, 07:33 1
    - Back off. You've already got a magic Klein bottle. -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 6, 07:42
- cool. -- nm - mud Oct 6, 07:17
Magic Arena: If you have to string together 5 extra turns to beat me, I really don’t consider that a win. - Qale Oct 6, 07:13 2
- I’m moved back to historic because I’m so sick of monogreen. The stats say it’s 10% of decks but I see it 75% of the time. - spamlet Oct 6, 07:23 1
  - And they need to either ban Brainstorm so I get my wild cards or let it live again. We've gotten two new sets since the suspension. -- nm - spamlet Oct 6, 07:24
ADP private payrolls +568k in September. We’ll see if that means anything for the government report out on Friday. -- (edited) - znufrii Oct 6, 07:00 2
- That's ... *checks entrails and chicken bones* ... GOOD NEWS! -- nm - rollo Oct 6, 07:09 1
  - But on the other hand.... -- nm - Economists Oct 6, 07:16
HUMP! -- nm - Beaker Oct 6, 07:00

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