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David Bowie (estate) has sold his publishing catalogue to Warner Chappell for $250M -- nm - MDH Jan 3, 14:41
So I saw something pretty stunning and terrifying earlier: an insurance company says working age deaths are up 40% in the US - ty97 Jan 3, 14:14 22
- Here's an article about it -- (link) - ty97 Jan 3, 14:36 1
  - That's a grim article all the way around. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 3, 14:47
- the wife has been dealing with post covid myocarditis for the last 4 months. - groiny Jan 3, 14:23 18
  - Jeebus -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 14:50
  - Ugh! I hope she gets much better very soon. -- nm - Krusty Jan 3, 14:45
  - Hoo boy, that sounds rough. I'm sorry. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 3, 14:43 3
    - I knew nothing about myocarditis until this, it is scary shit. -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 14:46 2
      - Yeah, it hasn't received the news attention it should over the past 2 years. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 3, 14:48 1
        
        and her covid virus was not even a bad case, she was just feverish and tired. - groiny Jan 3, 14:49
  - I'm sorry to hear that. I wish her a full recovery. -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 14:42
  - This is why I can't be blase about "oh we're all getting it". It's the world's shittiest lottery. -- nm - Reagen Jan 3, 14:41 7
    - for sure, the one thing that has bugged me about it is the "well the deaths are down" - groiny Jan 3, 14:43 1
      - Yes, it really is. - Dark Callisto Jan 3, 14:49
    - I certainly don't think we should be blase about it, though I feel pretty resigned to 'most everyone is getting it' at this point. - ty97 Jan 3, 14:42 4
      - This is exactly how I feel. -- nm - MDH Jan 3, 14:46
      - My hope is that omicron isn't just (in many cases) mild as an infection, hopefully it's long term impacts are also mild. - ty97 Jan 3, 14:43 2
        
        just in the volume of people I actually know first hand getting it, it is miles ahead of the old strain. - groiny Jan 3, 14:45
        
        Agreed. And my hope is the longer we keep from getting it, the "weaker" the variant we get will be. -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 14:44
  - So sorry, Wes. Hope it goes away quickly. -- nm - Inigo Jan 3, 14:36 1
    - thanks, it has been a long, stressful road. -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 14:40
  - ugh, that's awful, I'm sorry -- nm - ty97 Jan 3, 14:24
- I wonder if some of those weren't stress related? -- nm - Meg Jan 3, 14:18
DC released it's COVID update for last week. Cases are 25x the prior month. Hospitalizations are down 4.3% from last month to 3.7%. - MDH Jan 3, 13:59 10
- My brother was careful enough to avoid it in Arlington. Less than two weeks in the Dominican Republic and the whole family caught it. - Max Jan 3, 14:03 8
  - How long were they planning to be there? Do they have to extend their trip now? -- nm - ty97 Jan 3, 14:37 3
    - Just showed up to start work. My sister-in-law has a two-year stint at the embassy. - Max Jan 3, 14:40 2
      - ahh, so this isn't a little vacation trip :) -- nm - ty97 Jan 3, 14:41 1
        
        Not for them but her family came down to do Christmas there and ended up getting the gift of COVID. -- nm - Max Jan 3, 14:49
  - ugh, hope its not too tough on your brother and his family -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 14:07 2
    - He first thought he had food poisoning, which sounds different than the sinus effects I've heard omicron gives. - Max Jan 3, 14:09 1
      - I've actually heard the food poisoning thing -- nm - MDH Jan 3, 14:11
  - That IM is "eeesh" - so sorry to hear that -- nm - MDH Jan 3, 14:03
- Hospitalizations are a lagging indicator but data does seem to suggest that hospitalizations don't rise at nearly the rate of infections - ty97 Jan 3, 14:02
sitwap: covid deaths since July 2020 by state and partisanship -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 3, 13:58 1
- Oh I love this. Thanks. -- nm - Pocket Jones Jan 3, 14:44
Next Gen Intel CPUs announced -- (link) - budice Jan 3, 13:51
If you like the band Joywave, and like vinyl, this new campaign dropped today on Blood Records for their new album due in February -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 3, 13:50
Hey Qale! Wake up or we're gonna start drawing pennes on your face buddy. Them's the rules -- nm - con_carne Jan 3, 13:49 7
- Poor guy there he is holding down the TT fort like a champ with good music and this is how I treat. I take it back, new year new me! -- nm - con_carne Jan 3, 13:53 6
  - I think his ass lives in that room. -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 13:54 5
    - most of the times I have gotten into the room no one has been there, so I dont think so. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 3, 14:11 4
      - I have not checked in there for the last 3 weeks, but before that, he was always in there -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 14:13 3
        
        Do they have an app yet? -- nm - spamlet Jan 3, 14:25 2
        
        I think so, I have it on my phone -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 14:26 1
        
        scrap that, I have it, but it is just a link to the website -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 14:27
zeit: Did you get my entry from last night? Just wanted to confirm. -- nm - MDH Jan 3, 13:41 2
- M... hoff.... ? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 3, 14:15 1
  - Yes sir, oops forgot to put the nick. -- nm - MDH Jan 3, 14:38
Andie - nope, not me. -- nm - kelly Jan 3, 13:40
On this day in 1973: Ohio ship builder George Steinbrenner and other investors buy the NY Yankees for $10 million from CBS. -- nm - Krusty Jan 3, 13:31 10
- Based on inflation that would be a whopping $65 million today! -- nm - Max Jan 3, 13:50 1
  - I think it would 10x as pretty much everything from late 60s to early 70s is 10x as much gas, mortgages 15x booze restaurants fast andslow -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 3, 14:17
- He wanted the Cleveland Indians, but he could not get the owners to sell. He settled on the Yankees as a last resort. -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 3, 13:48 1
  - thank god for that. Gave me several championships during my lifetime. Certainly wont be seeing any more of them. -- nm - Jovian Jan 3, 13:53
- and now being run into the ground by his feckless son -- nm - Jovian Jan 3, 13:41 5
  - and let me be clear on what Im saying. Its a business and only a business to Hal. He gives zero shits on winning a WS. - Jovian Jan 3, 13:46 4
    - I think he wants to win. He definitely isn't willing to be the spendthrift that his father was but he has given out big contracts. - Krusty Jan 3, 13:58 3
      - Yea I agree, but yet Cashman still there. - Jovian Jan 3, 14:00 1
        
        Cashman should go but he seems to have a job for life. - Krusty Jan 3, 14:08
      - *flexes* - Giancarlo Jan 3, 13:59
Huh, surprised this wasn't a streamer: USA Network Scores Cable Rights To Ryan Murphy Drama Series "9-1-1." (starts Wednesday) -- (link) - MDH Jan 3, 13:20 5
- Wouldn't be surprised if they sold the streaming rights separately. -- nm - Mop Jan 3, 13:48 4
  - Ah good point. Interesting too that they didn't mention the spinoff 9-1-1: Lone Star. -- nm - MDH Jan 3, 13:51 3
    - Lonestar is so bad even I can't watch. -- nm - Pocket Jones Jan 3, 14:43
    - Cable channels (and streamers) generally want all shows in a theme (like Law & Order or Chicago PD/Med/Fire) but each show is licensed separately. - Mop Jan 3, 14:00 1
      - Makes sense. End of this season episode totals: 9-1-1: 78, 9-1-1 Lone Star: 42. -- nm - MDH Jan 3, 14:03
Tough Giants QB "Iron" Mike Glennon needs season-ending surgery on his wrist -- (link*) - budice Jan 3, 13:15 3
- And by prepared to play, they mean dressed in uniform. If he’s backing up Fromm who isn’t prepared to play, he’s got no business on the field. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 3, 13:20
- Did anyone else see the 11 minute Joe Judge rant, from yesterday? Unreal and painful -- nm - Flavorize Jan 3, 13:17 1
  - Im starting to believe that this guy has something over John Mara - Jovian Jan 3, 13:24
That is a *tough* 8 inches that we got. The bottom two layers have a ton of moisture. The snowblower was more or less useless - prayformojo Jan 3, 13:02 8
- Ugh that's the worst type of snow. -- nm - ty97 Jan 3, 13:41 5
  - yellow snow is the worst - Pippy Jan 3, 13:42 4
    - don't lie, they had you at 8 inches -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 13:44 1
      - #facts -- nm - Pippy Jan 3, 13:49
    - but the tastiest! -- nm - Patches O'Houlihan Jan 3, 13:43
    - 8inches of yellow snow - budice Jan 3, 13:43
- We got a little over 8" it seems (in the city!) -- nm - MDH Jan 3, 13:16
- *flings iceballs at your windows* -- nm - snowblower Jan 3, 13:04
My mom tested positive for Covid today and is in a nursing home. No symptoms, thankfully. -- nm - Krusty Jan 3, 13:01 9
- yikes, best wishes for sure -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 3, 14:19
- Prayer her way -- nm - ty97 Jan 3, 14:00
- good thoughts. I assume she was vaxxed and hopefully boosted? -- nm - JaxSean Jan 3, 13:44 1
  - Yup, vaxxed and boosted. -- nm - Krusty Jan 3, 13:53
- Hopefully Mama Krusty stays asymptomatic -- nm - spamlet Jan 3, 13:32
- Sorry to hear about the test, but glad for the lack of symptoms. -- nm - MDH Jan 3, 13:27
- I know I would hate that anyway. All faith and best wishes to the staff -- nm - con_carne Jan 3, 13:25
- ugh best wishes sir -- nm - Remlik Jan 3, 13:23 1
  - Thanks! -- nm - Krusty Jan 3, 13:25
ST Turntable is happening with me and Qale. He might be afk tbh, but at least I'm awake! Come and play! -- (link) - con_carne Jan 3, 12:54
‘Space Force’ returns February 18 !! woooHooo! -- (link) - mud Jan 3, 12:40 3
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 13:07
- Ensign Mariner! -- nm - Remlik Jan 3, 13:00
- *loses a bet* -- nm - Mop Jan 3, 12:59
If the court system won't do in-person trials, why should the school system do in-person teaching? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 3, 12:37 6
- They should be doing in-person trials and the vast majority of kids learn better in-person. -- nm - spamlet Jan 3, 12:44 5
  - Not with the current wave in BC, no thanks. If fully vaccinated people aren't willing to go in-person, why should partially or unvaccinated children? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 3, 12:56 4
    - Because they’re much less at risk of developing severe cases and the benefits of in-person learning far outweigh the risk. -- nm - spamlet Jan 3, 13:08 3
      - I suppose there's some truth to that, but since even mild cases can trigger lifelong health effects, it would be wiser long-term thinking to avoid it. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 3, 13:16 2
        
        The argument I've heard people make here is: You're guaranteeing your kids don't learn/develop versus a extremely minute chance of any impact. - MDH Jan 3, 13:26 1
        
        One of them is already getting fucked around by the system, we've been considering pulling him next year. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 3, 14:03
Do they have 3 trillion caps? cause Apple just became the 1st company to hit a 3T market cap -- (link) - zeitgeist Jan 3, 12:35
Too bad JenBro isn't closer to L.A. and she could include the Betty White 'Naked Hot Dog' at Pink's. -- (link) - Meg Jan 3, 12:22 1
- love it -- nm - JenBro Jan 4, 09:10
TV PSA: NFL, 911 Lonestar, Kenan, Neighborhood, Bachelor, Raw, Bob Hearts Abishola, That's My Jam, NCIS, NCIS Hawaii, Cleaning Lady, Below Deck, -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 12:12 9
- Four Lives starting now in the UK (true story with Stephen Merchant playing a serial killer) -- nm - LMS Jan 3, 13:03 2
  - [spittake] ..wha ? -- nm - mud Jan 3, 13:04 1
    - News story here -- (link) - LMS Jan 3, 13:24
- Big Leap, Ordinary Joe, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 12:14 5
  - wait what? more big leap? -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 3, 12:32 4
    - hiatus, replaced by The Cleaning Lady -- nm - Max Jan 3, 12:55 2
      - you buried the lede! "A whip-smart Cambodian doctor comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her son.." DOCTOR SHOW. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 3, 13:01 1
        
        Is a crossover with 9-1-1 Lonestar inevitable?? -- nm - Max Jan 3, 13:28
    - :higher and faster -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 3, 12:35
dang. didn't realize the powerball buy in was closing (has closed) -- nm - sycor Jan 3, 12:06 1
- The drawing is tonight, I think -- nm - Flavorize Jan 3, 12:24
znu. The Shore got 10" of snow this morning... -- nm - decline Jan 3, 12:00 1
- Wow. -- nm - znufrii, exceeded expectations Jan 3, 12:07
We secretly replaced Trish with David. Let's see what happens. -- (link) - Todd Manning Jan 3, 11:53 [Backboard] 1
- Unleashing Mr. Darcy, a reimagining of Pride and Prejudice in the dog show world. A Cinderella Christmas, a modern take on the tale, where people are attractive but have minimal acting talent -- (edited) - crash davis Jan 3, 12:04
funny chart: -- (link) - mud Jan 3, 11:49
I think $50 is too low. I would charge $75 for one, $125 for two. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 3, 11:47 3
- agreed. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 3, 11:49 2
  - because if you charge too little, you might drive too much traffic and quality might suffer. you want the curious, the enthusiast. not the cheapskate. - amanda jeans Jan 3, 11:50 1
    - thanks! -- nm - JenBro Jan 4, 09:11
Crash, you are exactly right. My team is the worst I’d ever had. Calvin Ridley was in a good frame of mind till he saw my roster. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 3, 11:40 42
- I’m probably going to keep my entire team. Except for Tyler Bass, he can fuck right off. -- nm - samara Jan 3, 14:51
- Oh and I'd be interested in Kelce. - Strongbad Jan 3, 11:54 39
  - I've got Michael Thomas if we're trading people who missed 2021 -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 11:59 2
    - MT’s base salary goes from $1M to $15M, next year, so probably see him start to try again -- nm - Flavorize Jan 3, 12:26
    - plus Tyler Higbee, and the corpses of Darrell Henderson, Leonard Fournette, and Kenyan Drake -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 12:10
  - Let’s see where everything settles out thru the SB so no Matt Corral stuff happens. - Will Hunting Jan 3, 11:58 35
    - OK. If you're looking for draft picks then I'm not your guy. - Strongbad Jan 3, 12:32 34
      - Yeah, I think I'm keeping at least 10. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 3, 12:36 33
        
        I think I'll land in the 7-9 range. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 13:01
        
        So you wouldn’t think Kelce is worth a 3rd and an 11th? - Will Hunting Jan 3, 12:44 31
        
        What I'm saying is that any team that keeps only Kelce and one other player and gives up their first pick also is screwing themselves. - The Allfather Jan 3, 13:30
        
        Kelce is worth a lot, but if David wants to keep 10, he would have to throw eight of the people he wants to keep back into the draft pool. - crash davis Jan 3, 12:51 29
        
        Crash's IM is correct. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 3, 13:31 7
        
        That’s genuinely dumb. It’s dumb enough if that’s the way it is, I think I’m out. Needlessly complex. Even in the pros, you trade from your annual - Will Hunting Jan 3, 14:16 6
        
        You're not thinking this through. If I trade you my first round pick, it's the equivalent of round 13 or 14. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 3, 14:21 5
        
        Also, if Crash and you both offer me their 2nd pick, in your example, if you keep 9 and he keeps 6…I lose 3 rounds of picks taking your offer. - Will Hunting Jan 3, 14:34
        
        No. I get the 3-11 pick for Kelce. You spend your 11-11 to keep him and 9 others. - Will Hunting Jan 3, 14:23 3
        
        But I don't have a 3-11 pick. My first pick wouldn't be until 11-11 if I keep 10 players. - The Allfather Jan 3, 14:34 2
        
        And I set the draft thread … I put each keeper up with a round:pick #. I even made a joke about Crash keeping the worst Seahawk as his #1 pick just -- (edited) - Will Hunting Jan 3, 14:45
        
        Keepers get set *after* trades are done. Each of those picks were legitimate picks. They were just retained picks. - Will Hunting Jan 3, 14:38
        
        No. It means I get your third round pick. You just lose the 1st,2nd,4th,5th …. On down. You have 15 picks to spend however. - Will Hunting Jan 3, 12:56 20
        
        Hunting's post is super-duper-mega-wrong. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 3, 13:31 1
        
        so a normal Hunting post, then -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 13:49
        
        If this is possible, I'll give you the fifth overall pick for Kelce right now. But I don't think it is possible. -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 13:04 5
        
        Oh, we execute the trade right now before we announce our keepers? Lets do it! -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 13:10 4
        
        I think we need clarification because there’s a large gap in potentials here. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 3, 13:12 3
        
        That we do, but if it is possible to trade draft picks before the keeper round, I'm offering up my #1 -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 13:13 2
        
        Crash, what you should be doing right now... - The Allfather Jan 3, 13:39 1
        
        yep, I think Michael Thomas is my best offer -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 14:04
        
        We'll need David to weigh in on this, now or later. - Strongbad Jan 3, 13:02 3
        
        If you trade a third round pick, you're saying you will only keep two players. - The Allfather Jan 3, 13:37 1
        
        This makes sense. Thanks. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 13:47
        
        Keepers are your highest picks. Otherwise, trades have no foundation. “I’ll take your first pick”. You keep 10 guys. I get an 11? - Will Hunting Jan 3, 13:08
        
        This approach makes more sense to me, but to my understanding, as of the last time i brought it up, it hasn’t actually been determined how it will work going forward -- nm* - znufrii, exceeded expectations Jan 3, 13:01 7
        
        It was determined because some people made trades and needed clarification. - The Allfather Jan 3, 13:33 6
        
        I'm with Will that it makes more sense the other way as he explains more specifically elsewhere in this thread. - znufrii Jan 3, 14:28 5
        
        Trades have already been made for 2022. So, I don't follow your logic...and I definitely don't follow Hunting's. - The Allfather Jan 3, 14:38 4
        
        I think that approach overcomplicates things, tbh. - znufrii Jan 3, 14:44 3
        
        Everyone doesn't start with a pick in each round. - The Allfather Jan 3, 14:50 2
        
        I understand just fine how you have constructed it. - znufrii Jan 3, 14:56
        
        No. You spent the first 12 rounds on keepers. They don’t magically appear depending on your keepers. Every pick is a choice. Keep or draft. Keep - Will Hunting Jan 3, 14:52
- Over in my $$ league, somehow I managed 3rd highest points scored in the league with Saquon, Ridley and Mike Davis as my first 3 picks. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 11:50
rofl -- (link) - Jovian Jan 3, 11:30 2
- Meanwhile, we're all doing the Marge Simpson grumble -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 3, 11:34 1
  - or the Nelson "ha ha" -- nm - mud Jan 3, 11:45
rrowrr -- nm - Cthulhu Jan 3, 11:25

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