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The Individualist about the late, great photographer Ricky Powell is now available on Showtime. :-) I've waited a year to finish watching - Krusty Dec 11, 05:31 2
- Oh, it was that guy? I didn’t put 2 and 2 together. -- nm - spamlet Dec 11, 06:27 1
  - Yup. :-) "Homeboy, throw in the towel. Your girl got dicked by Ricky Powell." - Krusty Dec 11, 06:42
Inflation in meat prices driven by corporate profit taking -- (link) - Reagen Dec 11, 05:12 5
- Thank God for frijoles -- nm - con_carne Dec 11, 06:36
- I have a feeling we’re going to be seeing a lot of these stories in the coming months. -- nm - znufrii, boosted Dec 11, 06:21 3
  - I'm ready for the "so don't let em tell you it's workers who don't want to work" editorial -- nm - con_carne Dec 11, 06:35 1
    - Amazing how everyone who was 100% wrong about that has become suddenly very quiet. -- nm - znufrii, boosted Dec 11, 06:39
  - Yup. -- nm - Dark Callisto Dec 11, 06:23
LDBC DANGER! 45 minute drive in Lyft playing Sirius XMAS. -- nm - Diva Dec 11, 05:05
Happy birthday, Jovian! Woo hoo!!! 🎂🥳 -- nm - Krusty Dec 11, 04:13 5
- cheers ! -- nm - mud Dec 11, 06:49
- Happy birthday! -- nm - ty97 Dec 11, 06:05
- happy happy! -- nm - Diva Dec 11, 05:05
- Happy b, sir! (NM) - Marlowe Dec 11, 04:34
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker Dec 11, 04:28
Have we heard from all of our STers who might have been impacted? Death toll in Kentucky alone is horrifying. Spamlet, you were so lucky. -- (edited) - Andie Dec 11, 04:07 12
- Drone footage of Mayfield KY -- (link) - spamlet Dec 11, 06:29 3
  - wow -- nm - Remlik Dec 11, 08:08
  - Awful. How big was that tornado?! -- nm - ty97 Dec 11, 06:43
  - Heartbreaking. - Dark Callisto Dec 11, 06:39
- The pictures of that Amazon warehouse this morning… -- (edited) - spamlet Dec 11, 05:42
- David/Kim and us are waiting. It’ll be her around lunch -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 11, 05:34 2
  - (It will?) -- nm - kelly Dec 11, 05:36 1
    - Sure looks like it. - Dark Callisto Dec 11, 05:54
- Tennessee folks, check in when you can please. -- nm - Andie Dec 11, 05:16 3
  - Hi, we’re fine. We’re under a wind advisory until 4. Wind is crazy over here but otherwise everything’s ok. -- nm - kelly Dec 11, 05:36 2
    - Stay safe! -- nm - Andie Dec 11, 06:36
    - Roy keeps popping up and looking out the window as the wind is definitely noisy. -- nm - Dark Callisto Dec 11, 05:55
For Ryan Stiles and Who's Line is it Anyway? fans -- (link) - Beaker Dec 11, 03:24
re-watching Expanse S6E1 was even better than the first time (minor spoils) - Beryllium Dec 10, 23:36
Keiko Nobumoto, who wrote the original screenplay for the Cowboy Bebop anime, passed away this month. -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 10, 23:18
Just upgraded my PS5 hard drive. Hardest part was getting the face plate off, it required more pulling than I was comfortable with. - Ender Dec 10, 22:06 2
- I installed an NVMe drive for the first time today. That was weird. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 10, 22:47 1
  - Oh yeah. "That... can't be how that works, can it?" -- nm - Reagen Dec 11, 05:00
Where do most tornadoes occur in the US in December? Right where they are tonight. -- (pic) - Qale Dec 10, 21:28 [Attachment] 6
- Damn it. My watch that was supposed to end now (3am) just got extended to 5am. Going to sleep. And December ones here are not very common. -- nm* - Spawn Dec 10, 23:59
- There is one tornado that was on the ground for hours. Hours. -- nm - Andie Dec 10, 22:29 2
  - two hundred mile track -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 10, 23:05
  - goddamn -- nm - prayformojo Dec 10, 22:47
- ugh -- nm - prayformojo Dec 10, 21:53
- My only experience with a tornado warning was in Kansas City between Christmas and New Year. -- nm - Meg Dec 10, 21:45
Have you heard of a tradition of putting a pickle ornament on a Christmas tree? - Krusty Dec 10, 21:14 13
- Yes, my mom gave me one. -- nm - Dark Callisto Dec 11, 04:55
- An ORNAMENT? Crap. I've been hiding a real pickle in my tree ever year. - Cuzzin Todd Dec 11, 04:43 1
  - That's how you get a Christmas mouse and Christmas roaches. -- nm - Krusty Dec 11, 06:25
- yes (we have one) -- nm - Beaker Dec 11, 03:19
- pickle sisters, maybe the original coneheads -- (pic) - zeitgeist Dec 10, 22:53 [Attachment]
- Not whatever part of Germany my family was from. Learned about it from Christkindlmarkt. -- nm - .📯 Dec 10, 22:24
- a lot of christmas traditions started there -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 10, 22:01
- of course -- nm - prayformojo Dec 10, 21:35
- It rings bells but I can't recall the melody. -- nm - Meg Dec 10, 21:24
- Yes -- (edited) - znufrii Dec 10, 21:24 3
  - From what I understand, the parents put it on the tree and the first to find it on Christmas morning gets an extra present or something like that. -- nm - Krusty Dec 10, 21:35 2
    - That's what Google says :) -- nm - Meg Dec 10, 21:44 1
      - Theresa was telling me about it while we watched this glass blowing show on Netflix where someone made one. -- nm - Krusty Dec 10, 21:45
Baaaaaad day at Bungie. - The Allfather Dec 10, 20:43 4
- ? -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 10, 20:48 3
  - Here. -- (link) - The Allfather Dec 10, 21:07 2
    - thanks. just crazy that the industry has not cleaned itself up before this. -- nm - Remlik Dec 11, 08:14
    - Thanks. I love deep dives. -- nm - Qale Dec 10, 21:09
Last night’s Final Jeopardy was tough. I’m surprised that one of them got it. - Mop Unleashed Dec 10, 20:38
Luke Cage and Evil’s Michael Colter was Spartan Locke in the Halo series Forward Unto Dawn. -- nm - Mop Unleashed Dec 10, 20:33 1
- It is known. -- nm - Spawn Dec 10, 21:18
Dana Gould as Dr Zaius as Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 10, 20:28 [youtube]
Speaking of kitties - orphaned mountain lions. -- (link) - Meg Dec 10, 20:09
Dug out the electric throw to get my feet warm. Minnie's a happy kitty 😻 -- nm - Meg Dec 10, 20:07 3
- If I was your stalker this year, I would have sent you a navajo throw blanket from Redbubble. they have the main chief design in lottsa colors -- (link) - Peglegpete Dec 10, 22:06 1
  - Mmm, if I ever get my downstairs renovated I want a rug like that over the hardwood floor. -- nm - Meg Dec 10, 22:10
- Awwwww! -- nm - The Allfather Dec 10, 20:44
Further proof that we are indeed in the end of times: DePaul mens basketball may actually be good this year -- nm - prayformojo Dec 10, 19:45 1
- Happy to see it. -- nm - zunk xometimes Dec 10, 20:02
Labor Dispute affecting local trash pickup -- (link) - budice Dec 10, 18:55 1
- Yup, I'm guessing our dumpster didn't get emptied today. Just as well I took the trash out yesterday :/ -- nm - Meg Dec 10, 19:23
Holy shit did we just get lucky. - spamlet Dec 10, 18:42 34
- Glad you’re safe. -- nm - znufrii, boosted Dec 11, 06:19
- Wow. Storms are getting us right now. -- nm - Spawn Dec 10, 21:19 1
  - stay safe! -- nm - prayformojo Dec 10, 21:20
- !! -- nm - mud Dec 10, 20:22
- Yikes.. -- nm - Marlowe Dec 10, 20:17
- Glad you’re ok. Was just coming here to post tornado warnings around here in mid-December. They’re saying that the wind speed at 30,000 feet is 140mph -- nm - pmb Dec 10, 20:16 4
  - Are you guys down here? -- nm - spamlet Dec 10, 20:23 3
    - No we’re in Chicago. MIL is there. Do we need to check on her? -- nm - pmb Dec 10, 20:33 2
      - If she’s still awake might be a good idea. - spamlet Dec 10, 20:38 1
        
        Ok thanks. -- nm - pmb Dec 10, 20:40
- That's scary. So happy you're ok. -- nm - zunk xometimes Dec 10, 20:05
- Two deaths reported in the nursing home :( -- nm - Meg Dec 10, 19:57
- Good lord. I’m glad you’re okay. -- nm - The Allfather Dec 10, 19:36
- Wow, so glad it missed you! -- nm - prayformojo Dec 10, 19:28
- Scary! -- nm - Meg Dec 10, 19:25
- glad you're OK -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 10, 19:22
- When ur stuck dining at the Local Texas Roadhouse -- (link) - budice Dec 10, 19:21
- Sounds like the Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville has collapsed. A line of ambulances over a mile long lined up outside. -- nm - spamlet Dec 10, 19:16 9
  - Another potential tornado heading right there but definitely 70+mph straight line winds. - spamlet Dec 10, 19:48
  - That makes three disasters this week for Amazon. Outage + log4j + this. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 10, 19:39
  - 50-100 people reported trapped. They’ve called out the regional search and rescue teams -- nm - spamlet Dec 10, 19:31
  - Current Look at the Amazon Warehouse -- (link*) - budice Dec 10, 19:25 1
    - Closer News viewpoint -- (link) - budice Dec 10, 19:27
  - (This was the cell that went over us) -- nm - spamlet Dec 10, 19:25
  - good lord -- nm - prayformojo Dec 10, 19:17
  - People trapped inside. 15 departments responding. -- nm* - spamlet Dec 10, 19:16 1
    - yikes -- nm - Tim Dec 10, 19:16
- Night tornados -and- jumpers are the worst. That you're getting them in fucking December is an outrage. -- nm - Qale Dec 10, 19:05 1
  - Coverage is already unpleasant as there are many reported injured, trapped. Some deaths. -- (link) - Qale Dec 10, 19:11
- glad you're ok -- nm - Remlik Dec 10, 18:57
- So glad you're all okay! -- nm - Krusty Dec 10, 18:50
- Yikes! Super lucky! -- nm - Beryllium Dec 10, 18:48
- glad ur ok -- nm - budice Dec 10, 18:47 1
  - this. stay safe -- nm - Beaker Dec 11, 03:24
Ted's wife from TED LASSO is Linda from BETTER OFF TED -- nm - Remlik Dec 10, 18:31 5
- Loves them Teds. -- nm - Ender Dec 11, 01:05
- famous show killer Andrea Anders -- nm - Tim Dec 10, 18:37 3
  - :( -- nm - prayformojo Dec 10, 18:39
  - She’s so great but it’s so true -- nm - spamlet Dec 10, 18:37 1
    - Joey, The Class, Better Off Ted, some short lived Matthew Perry show, etc. -- nm - Tim Dec 10, 18:39
STIS: which Hallmark channel app has all the holiday movies? - kelly Dec 10, 18:18 3
- Sadly, none of them. But Hallmark Movies Now has some. -- nm - The Allfather Dec 10, 19:37
- Netflix has added a ton of new ones as well -- nm - Beaker Dec 10, 18:29 1
  - I’ve watched most of them. -- nm - kelly Dec 10, 18:38
Tom Hanks Enlists To Help Tim McGraw Battle Of Antietam Flashback In Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Yellowstone’ Prequel ‘1883’ -- (link) - Remlik Dec 10, 18:05
There’s a Mr. Mayor Christmas special on Wednesday. -- nm - Mop Unleashed Dec 10, 18:04
50 years ago to the day, the Mets traded Nolan Ryan + 3 players to the Angels for Jim Fregosi. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 10, 17:46 1
- Is "ha-hah" the appropriate response? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 10, 17:47
priceless -- (link) - mud Dec 10, 17:37 1
- I've triple checked that I am in no way related to that senator. - .📯 Dec 11, 01:48
In his 2018 original ruling, the judge said the lyrics under debate were “too brief, unoriginal, and uncreative” to be protected under the Act. -- nm - Qale Dec 10, 17:17
It's late but I've got sucked in watching the sequel to Layer Cake. - LMS Dec 10, 17:10 1
- Hah -- nm - Beryllium Dec 10, 17:11
Best post on B3 -- (link) - Todd Manning Dec 10, 16:22 [Backboard] 1
- YEAH!!! -- nm - The Allfather Dec 10, 16:37
DTL: My recruit ranking shared doc has been updated. Here are my top 75. -- (edited) - Baron Please Come Home Dec 10, 15:25 18
- Who had the #1 recruit this cycle, and did he turn out great? - The Allfather Dec 10, 15:49 13
  - He ended up in Pensacola. Conference Freshman of the Year, 2nd team all conf. - Baron Please Come Home Dec 10, 16:02 9
    - What's a good average gamescore? We didn't have that when I was playing. -- nm - The Allfather Dec 10, 16:05 8
      - 18 gets you 1st Team All-Conference consideration in most conferences. - Will Hunting Dec 10, 16:14
      - For my conf, 2nd team all-conf is around 16+, 1st team is 19+ -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 10, 16:09 6
        
        What's the grade for your worst starter/best backup? - The Allfather Dec 10, 16:13 5
        
        My starting line-up is 16.9, 18.3, 13.0, 15.0, 15.7. Makes you wonder how I went 11-13. - Baron Please Come Home Dec 10, 16:20 1
        
        Here's a fun stat, nearly 71% of my FG (579/816) this season were assisted. That ranks 5th in the country. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 10, 16:31
        
        My top 20 team has 3 guys ranging from 13.7 to 17.5 and 1 guy at 21.7 - Will Hunting Dec 10, 16:17 2
        
        So, 13.5-14 is the cutoff for starter vs. backup? Is that fair? -- nm - The Allfather Dec 10, 16:37 1
        
        Mostly. A specialist can be real good at 14 but a well-rounded player should ge above - Will Hunting Dec 10, 16:52
  - The #1 recruit this cycle in my system also ended up on the 2/1 Class -- they finished #13 overall (I beat them in the last game) and he - Will Hunting Dec 10, 16:02
  - Rollover is tomorrow morning. I don’t think anyone is on him from our group. -- nm - spamlet Dec 10, 15:58 1
    - I'm on the #2 most recruited this time. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 10, 16:02
- Also, confirm your OOC Requests! -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 10, 15:41 3
  - Who hasn’t? -- nm - spamlet Dec 10, 15:58 2
    - Just the Reluctant One now. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 10, 16:04 1
      - We’re playing dnd so I’ll bug him -- nm - spamlet Dec 10, 16:30
Does enchilada sauce work on to-go chimichanga orders or does it turn into a soggy mess? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 10, 15:24 3
- Mrs. zunk says soggy mess. Get it on the side. -- nm - zunk xometimes Dec 10, 15:42 2
  - Right. Although if it were covered with cheese and then baked, I... think I might be a bit hungry right now -- nm - con_carne Dec 10, 16:01
  - Maybe I'll just get a burrito -- nm - Beryllium Dec 10, 15:42
Ooh, it's Michael Dowse. I should have been informed. -- nm - Reagen Dec 10, 15:01
This tweeter might being a bit over dramatic. But not by much. -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 10, 14:56 5
- In English please? -- nm - pmb Dec 10, 15:03 4
  - Anyone can apply a virtual can opener to any company or software product that uses Java. Crack them open for their juicy secrets. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 10, 15:04 3
    - Good thing Java is not that widely used… -- nm* - znufrii, boosted Dec 10, 15:54
    - Yes, that sounds very bad. Very bad. -- nm - pmb Dec 10, 15:42 1
      - Every enterprise on Earth is in full panic mode. There’s a patch. It’s a race against the clock to get everything updated. -- nm - Mop Unleashed Dec 10, 15:48

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