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TGIF! -- nm - Beaker Nov 12, 18:36
I love that the Marvel Studios preview squeezed in some dancing Zemo. -- nm - Mop Nov 12, 18:26
Ovi passes Brett Hull; now 4th all time in goals. Only Jagr, Gordie and Wayne left to chase. Should pass Jagr in Feb/March -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 18:24
Love Boat: Supercut of all the guest stars -- (link) - Remlik Nov 12, 18:19 [youtube]
Desert Bus 2021 is live. -- nm - Tim Nov 12, 18:15 1
- Thanks for posting this—I was just wondering if they were still doing it -- nm - flavorize Nov 12, 18:32
is travel insurance a thing people buy? looking at flights for a 2 week trip next year. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 12, 17:43 9
- I have medical travel insurance, always. -- nm - Andie Nov 12, 19:49
- Your credit card may have similar coverage built in. -- nm - spamlet Nov 12, 17:58 6
  - Yeah, but who are you going to trust? Your credit card's underwriter, or your travel agency's underwriter? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 18:01 5
    - Well one you don’t have to pay extra for. -- nm* - spamlet Nov 12, 18:05
    - What the hell is a travel agency? -- nm - Ender Nov 12, 18:05 2
      - a guy that tries to convince you to take a cruise because then he gets kick backs -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 12, 19:43
      - A website that books flights -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 18:20
    - Or the underwear of the underwriters? Something has to hold things up -- nm - flavorize Nov 12, 18:04
- I do. American Airlines usually offers coverage for the flight for minimal cost. For longer trip/cruises I buy from Allianz to cover medical etc. -- nm - Meg Nov 12, 17:52
I think “disturbing” is an accurate description of that Simpsons short. The Olaf shorts are great, though. -- nm - Mop Nov 12, 17:35
Have we mentioned that we like this Australian show harrow on Hulu? -- (edited) - Pocket Jones Nov 12, 17:31
WSOP Main Event spoils. (Day 4 ongoing 600 out of 6700 left). - Will Hunting Nov 12, 17:25 1
- spoils - Strongbad Nov 12, 17:37
Now playing: Red Notice - con_carne Nov 12, 17:23 2
- I think the budget was 200mil. I don’t get Netflix moneys but are they going to get any return on that that wasn’t already baked in with prior subs? -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 17:32 1
  - Great question - con_carne Nov 12, 21:30
Anecdotally, I feel like there was indifference to Fearless (Taylor’s Version) but Red (Taylor’s Version) is getting rave reviews. - Tim Nov 12, 17:23 2
- I can only hear the Walk Off the Earth acapella cover of I Knew You Were Trouble, but either version of WANEGBT slaps. -- nm - Tim Nov 12, 17:33
- I love both of those songs. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 17:30
now amassing: ingredients for tomorrow's black bean pumpkin chili -- nm - prayformojo Nov 12, 17:14 4
- related-ish, I love this. -- (link) - amanda jeans Nov 12, 18:00
- Could you share the recipe? -- nm - Ender Nov 12, 17:30 2
  - Here - prayformojo Nov 12, 18:16 1
    - Thanks -- nm - Ender Nov 12, 18:28
So are we supposed to be able to follow what is going on in Tenet? -- nm - Jovian Nov 12, 17:09
Ender was right. That was a *lot* of nudity for a Wes Anderson film. -- nm - spamlet Nov 12, 17:04 8
- Unfortunately it’s all from Bill Murray and Frances McDormand. -- nm - Mop Nov 12, 17:20
- I thought it was the appropriate amount. - The Allfather Nov 12, 17:15 5
  - *looks up the cast*. Oh, she pretty -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 17:38 1
    - nm, that could be read different than intended -- nm* - spamlet Nov 12, 17:59
  - And did you realize who she was? -- nm - spamlet Nov 12, 17:21 1
    - Immediately because she was in James Bond last month. -- nm - The Allfather Nov 12, 17:33
  - Oh totally. It’s just not something I’d expect. -- nm - spamlet Nov 12, 17:20
- Right? -- nm - Ender Nov 12, 17:12
The Arkells to do half time at the 108th Grey Cup -- nm - Beaker Nov 12, 16:55
Well I'm definitely calling them this *now*. -- (link) - Reagen Nov 12, 16:45 1
- I don't recall them having any cream-filled ones, so they missed out twice over -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 17:40
I highly recommend sous vide for cooking pork loin. -- (pic) - Ender Nov 12, 16:44 [Attachment] 3
- Yes, you get great results, never overcooked, makes perfect fish like halibut which at 30 a pound you do NOT want to mess up -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 12, 17:56
- My cousin did a 4 hour smoke and then a *24* hour sous vide for pulled pork. That thing had to be basically butter. -- nm - Reagen Nov 12, 16:46
- Yum -- nm - Pippy Nov 12, 16:46
Britney has been released from conservatorship. This is amazing news. -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 16:44 3
- Britney Free! -- nm - Mop Nov 12, 17:36 2
  - Seriously, this is very significant. There is widespread abuse of conservatorships. If they can do that to Britney, imagine what can be done to you. -- nm - loosilu Nov 12, 17:38 1
    - Brit had money, several *guys* billing 10k a month, she had to keep dancing, I kinda felt like she was trafficked like runaway -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 12, 17:58
Coach Beard has something to say -- (link) - znufrii Nov 12, 16:39 1
- "Shut up, Thierry Henry!" -- nm - prayformojo Nov 12, 16:41
Visualizing The Most Widespread Blood Types in Every Country -- (link) - prayformojo Nov 12, 16:36 3
- how do they know so much about North Korea blood types? -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 12, 18:01
- No wonder I get a million calls and emails anytime I’m eligible to donate. - Tim Nov 12, 16:40 1
  - (I’m B-) -- nm - Tim Nov 12, 17:21
But WHY would it take so long to get the supply chain back on track? That's just ridiculous. - ty97 Nov 12, 16:03 29
- Because Democrats can’t get shit done! Bring in the Republicans to show us all how it’s done! -- nm - Mop Nov 12, 17:22
- As someone who studied supply chain management, it's because supply chains are incredibly complex webs - TWuG Nov 12, 16:17 11
  - And that is just the human capital challenge. It’s built to be economically efficient lest you introduce all those ‘ions in - Will Hunting Nov 12, 16:25 3
    - Yeah, efficiences are vastly underrated. Just in time and the various other names it uses have helped reduce costs - TWuG Nov 12, 16:29
    - That's the worst cover of INXS "Mediate" I've ever heard. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:28 1
      - 🤣 -- nm - JD Nov 12, 16:35
  - Imagine if we made some of that stuff here and didn't need to get it processed through a port.... -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 16:19 6
    - Guess what that'd give you? Also inflation. Because the cost to produce here is greater than the cost - TWuG Nov 12, 16:22 3
      - Also, we lost manufacturing over 50 years…we’re not rebuilding it in 6 quarters. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 16:24 1
        
        Manufacturing still happens in the US. What it doesn't require to the extent it did, is actual human workers. - TWuG Nov 12, 16:26
      - Even if we produced it here, even if we took that inflation hit, there's still COVID! -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:22
    - If the issues persist, it will return to being profitable to do so. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 16:21
    - Congratulations, inflation has now tripled. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 16:21
- How do you suggest improving a system designed to reduce excess and redundancy? - Will Hunting Nov 12, 16:15 1
  - I'm not an expert in the field, but it clearly needs some improving because *waves arms around* look at everything right now! -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 16:17
- Perhaps but we have the supply chain that we deserve? One optimized for normal supply and demand? - JD Nov 12, 16:13 12
  - And by optimized, we definitely mean for shareholder profits only. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:16
  - Step 1: Don't shut it all down in the first place. -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 16:16 10
    - We shut down non-essential businesses to stop a pandemic spread. Would you rather have every company acting like Tysons Food? - Will Hunting Nov 12, 16:21 1
      - Many miracles. Vaccines. Globalization working towards singular goal. Insurrection didn't succeed. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:25
    - There was a time when it was thought that packages themselves were spreading covid. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 16:18
    - Are you retroactively advocating that workers along the supply chain should have been thrown into the teeth of COVID? -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:17 5
      - A lot of the raw materials, etc, are automated. The shutdown were preemptive by the companies to control supply, not to protect workers. -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 16:18 4
        
        I don't know what this means. I don't believe there is automation so good it requires no human workers, at all, like at all. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:21 3
        
        If you automate steel production, fine, you produce steel without human workers. But steel doesn't construct itself into - TWuG Nov 12, 16:24 2
        
        as well as humans still have a way of goofing up systems. There's stories of companies doubling the quantity of chips they order -- (edited) - JD Nov 12, 16:29 1
        
        It's almost always easier to break something than it is to repair it after it breaks. - TWuG Nov 12, 16:33
    - Congratulations, half the world has now died from Covid. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 16:17
- Would actually make a good Documentary. We just assume supply chains work -- nm - budice Nov 12, 16:13
Is the dumpster fire out? Is it safe to post again? -- nm - Mr. Havens Nov 12, 16:01 3
- You'll have to be simultaneously more and less specific, so that we can figure out which one you mean without reigniting it. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 16:06 2
  - Our dumpster fire never extinguishes. It's like that famous light bulb. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:19 1
    - I think of it more like the Springfield Tire Fire -- nm - spamlet Nov 12, 17:56
Laptop got moved closer again. Dec 9th -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 15:50
Happy Disney+ Day! Here's a new Monsters Inc. short for you! -- (link) - Mop Nov 12, 15:29 1
- The new Olaf shorts are hilarious. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 16:11
“ YTTV: “What to watch: newly added Hallmark Channel, Latin GRAMMY®, and World Cup qualifiers”” -- nm - The Allfather Nov 12, 15:23 7
- It's as if they know you intimately, a little, and not at all. -- nm - Reagen Nov 12, 15:35
- Melina Kanakaredes and Hallmark. First two topics I run across this afternoon. -- nm - budice Nov 12, 15:28
- So you can watch true love, Bad Bunny and the thrill of jingoistic 0-0 ties. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 15:24 4
  - Or completely unbalanced matchups like England vs Albania which was 5-0 at halftime - JD Nov 12, 15:27 3
    - I don’t recall that SportsNight -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 15:28 2
      - It was somewhere between 7th place archer and shoe money tonight. -- nm - Cowboy BeBaron Nov 12, 15:32 1
        
        STPotW! -- nm - The Allfather Nov 12, 15:34
While nothing should be surprising anymore, it is somewhat stunning to hear this audio of Trump defending the "Hang Mike Pence" chants at 1/6 - pmb Nov 12, 15:17 7
- Did you not notice the extremely long line of other people Trump stabbed in the back previously? -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 15:47 5
  - Sure. I'm not at all surprised that he vilified Pence, I'm just surprised he didn't downplay the violent speech. Something like "they were just - pmb Nov 12, 15:51 4
    - They were doing it for him, ergo whatever they did was justified. It’s as simple as that. -- nm* - znufrii Nov 12, 16:09
    - A man who talked about shooting someone on 5th Ave? Who asked security to not be so gentle? Some good, fine people in Charlottesville? - Qale Nov 12, 16:07 2
      - Fair point. He just seemed to be taking the position that it was all peaceful and it was just a protest (still offensive). He seems to be ramping - pmb Nov 12, 16:13 1
        
        If Twitter and Facebook hadn't clipped his wings as much as they have, he'd have never slipped from the forefront of every.goddamn.news.cycle. - Qale Nov 12, 16:15
- Not surprising at all to me. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 15:32
NPR Marketplace discussion: [3-4 years of supply chain issues] "are not outside the realm of possibility." -- nm - Max Nov 12, 15:07 8
- I dunno about the rest of you, but I'm just not that interested. If it's on the shelf, I'll buy it. If it's not... eh, I'll buy something else or not. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 15:48 6
  - That’s fine for small things. Now think larger. You need a kitchen appliance because the stove broke. It’s 4-6 months out. Big problem. - Will Hunting Nov 12, 15:54 2
    - We went to an appliance store for a refrigerator, was told they were 3 to six months back ordered, we ended up with something we really didn't want -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 12, 18:07
    - I get that. But I think my point does broaden to larger scale as well. America consumes, it's what we do. We can and should be doing more with less. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:13
  - I think the part that is most of interest to you (and most people) is that it's driving inflation. -- nm - pmb Nov 12, 15:52 2
    - One of the things driving inflation, at least. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 16:13
    - I'd be more concerned about inflation if it was only the US experiencing it and it wasn't directly related to a pandemic. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:10
- Just in time for President Trump to save us! -- nm - Mop Nov 12, 15:16
LIR: oblique ... What kind of fish biologist? - ReluctantCynic Nov 12, 15:07 1
- An icky one, perhaps? - Beryllium Nov 12, 15:51
Okay, an additional red notice thought - Beryllium Nov 12, 15:05
DTL: To keep Akron from blocking all my shots, I ramped set my 3-pt shooting to More, which was great in principle but not in practice - Cowboy BeBaron Nov 12, 14:44 13
- Hey, RC. Don't forget to go into My Team / OOC Reqs and confirm the Exhibition Game requests -- nm - Cowboy BeBaron Nov 12, 15:22 1
  - Aha! Thank you! - ReluctantCynic Nov 12, 15:52
- Made the NTT at 53. Not quite 55 but must have been one of the last. -- nm - spamlet Nov 12, 14:51 9
  - I take credit for creating those last two slots. - Cowboy BeBaron Nov 12, 15:05 6
    - I owe you! - spamlet Nov 12, 15:10 5
      - I'll get there. Bruised, battered, and a little bitter, but I'll get there. My PG made 2nd team all-conf. My SF got hosed. - Cowboy BeBaron Nov 12, 15:23 4
        
        We're T-4th in the nation in asst, 18th in pts, 22nd in TO, 29th in Reb. We're doing something right. -- nm - Cowboy BeBaron Nov 12, 15:27 3
        
        You ever consider fast tempo? You’re up against top teams…run em. - Will Hunting Nov 12, 15:32 2
        
        This squad is much more smart (+15) than athletic (+6). Racing up and down the court is not for them. - Cowboy BeBaron Nov 12, 16:01 1
        
        From what I’ve seen fast just really increases your shot totals so if you have good shooters you should be running it. - spamlet Nov 12, 18:00
  - Looks like you were the next to last at large team. -- nm - Dano Nov 12, 15:03 1
    - Thanks waiting for French Dispatch so on mobile. -- nm - spamlet Nov 12, 15:11
- ...but at least they kept to the strategy and kept shooting -- nm - JD Nov 12, 14:47
Finally got my Tesla Safety Score to 98 today. FSD access for 98 scores is still 10 days away. So now I need to keep it there. -- nm - TWuG Nov 12, 14:44 4
- If you go down to 97 while FSD driving on the highway, what happens? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 14:45 1
  - Nothing. I think once you're in, unless you ignore warnings to maintain oversight of the car, you stay in. - TWuG Nov 12, 14:49
- Flashy Sideways Driving? -- nm - Max Nov 12, 14:45 1
  - Full Self Driving. Basically, it'll drive everywhere: Highways, surface streets, parking lots, etc. - TWuG Nov 12, 14:50
Jon Gruden sued the NFL and Roger Goodell today in Nevada district court -- (link) - Strongbad Nov 12, 14:43 4
- wants them to pay him off before it hits discovery and ALL the emails hit the public -- nm - Beaker Nov 12, 18:35
- Dammit, somebody needs to take responsibility for my actions! -- nm - Gruden Nov 12, 14:49 1
  - Partly, he did get fucked over. An investigation into another team, and after millions of emails, only his somehow leaked and the NFL is refusing - Will Hunting Nov 12, 15:21
- ignoring arguement #1. if he didn't do that shit, none of what we did would have happened. -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 12, 14:45
Summer Vervos got *paid*. (drops her defamation lawsuit) -- nm - Jovian Nov 12, 14:40 5
- Bummer. I wanted that lawsuit to happen. She must have gotten a lot of money. -- nm - pmb Nov 12, 14:41 3
  - The NY Daily News headline says $0. - The Allfather Nov 12, 14:47 2
    - She dropped after the anti-SLAPP motion that could have put her on the hook for his legal fees if frivolous. -- (link) - spamlet Nov 12, 14:54 1
      - Interesting. -- nm - Gruden Nov 12, 15:03
- ugh. bad first -- nm - Jovian Nov 12, 14:40

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