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this is interesting -- (link) - Jovian Feb 24, 09:17 2
- I'll need like triple confirmation on this. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 09:29 1
  - It wouldn't surprise me though if we saw.this happen -- nm - eag Feb 24, 09:33
Poland, Sweden, and the Czech Republic demand FIFA and UEFA [pull their upcoming soccer games against Russia -- nm - Beaker Feb 24, 09:08 1
- FC Schalke dropping Gazprom as their sponsor. -- (link) - Volnelk Feb 24, 09:14
Stephan James cast as Jean-Michel Basquiat -- (link) - mud Feb 24, 08:36 5
- The cast of the 1996 movie was unreal—wonder who they'll get to be Warhol, in this one (and if Madonna makes it in as a character) -- (pic) - Flavorize Feb 24, 09:02 [Attachment] 1
  - wow -- nm - mud Feb 24, 09:18
- *holds out for Kevin James* -- nm - Beaker Feb 24, 08:54 2
  - Basquiat: Mall Cop -- nm - Dano Feb 24, 08:59 1
    - Basquiart -- nm - rollo Feb 24, 09:26
NASDAQ a little higher on the day. -- nm - zunk xometimes Feb 24, 08:26 1
- My clean energy portfolio has rebounded nicely since the open. -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 08:56
Moscow: -- (link) - mud Feb 24, 08:20 4
- London: -- (link) - mud Feb 24, 08:25
- Those guys are brave. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 08:22 2
  - absolutely -- nm - Andie Feb 24, 08:27
  - aye. -- nm - mud Feb 24, 08:23
I wish the Amazon music iOS app supported Siri Shortcuts ... oh well -- nm - Beryllium Feb 24, 08:15 1
- "Alexa, tell Siri to play Amazon Music". -- nm - zunk xometimes Feb 24, 08:27
Interview with my daughter at "Stamp The Wax". Basically talking about her music, production set up and her process. -- (link) - pmb Feb 24, 08:02 6
- 🔥—Awesome! -- nm - Flavorize Feb 24, 08:33
- 👍👍👍 That's cool to see how minimal her equipment is, given how much she can do with it -- (edited) - prayformojo Feb 24, 08:22 1
  - A huge amount of it is in the computer these days. -- nm - pmb Feb 24, 08:29
- she said a bad language word, Dad - decline Feb 24, 08:13 2
  - She has a foul mouth. - pmb Feb 24, 08:27 1
    - Heh. Offset it with a swear jar! -- nm - Max Feb 24, 08:55
When Orban is like "whoa whoa, too far buddy" -- (link) - Reagen Feb 24, 08:01 11
- that's the public face, privately I imagine he's sounding very much like you-know-hoo. -- nm - mud Feb 24, 08:15 3
  - Bobcat Goldthwaite? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 24, 08:16 2
    - I had someone more demented and unhinged in mind. -- nm - mud Feb 24, 08:29 1
      - Andy Dick. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 24, 08:30
- They don’t want to be next -- nm - Pippy Feb 24, 08:13 3
  - invaded? zero chance of that. -- nm - mud Feb 24, 08:19
  - Yup -- nm - ty97 Feb 24, 08:16
  - *ding* -- nm - spamlet Feb 24, 08:13
- translation: "Come on man, you gotta be a chill Authoritarian like me. No invasions or the like. They leave you be man." -- nm - Jovian Feb 24, 08:11 1
  - This is the wild thing. Like the West would have happily let him continue in forever inside his borders. He's the richest man in the world - Reagen Feb 24, 08:22
- oof -- nm - prayformojo Feb 24, 08:07
Some people owe Ted Lasso an apology! -- (link) - Reagen Feb 24, 07:57
I haven't paid close attention but apparently my alma mater is in 2nd place in the ACC in basketball? Wow, how much does that conference suck. - CinnaBaron Feb 24, 07:56 3
- I just noticed this myself yesterday and was as surprised as you are -- nm - rollo Feb 24, 08:48
- It's not a good season in the ACC. I'd say that at most three teams should get an invite but at one point I thought only Duke should get in. -- nm - Krusty Feb 24, 08:01 1
  - I'm voting Mike Brey ACC Coach of the Year anyway. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 24, 08:21
Russian Defense Ministry and Kremlin websites are down. -- nm - budice Feb 24, 07:56 5
- And also replaced with non stop nickleback videos -- nm - eag Feb 24, 08:01 1
  - That's ... Ok I'll look the other way this time. -- nm - Geneva Convention Feb 24, 08:06
- Probably just porn sites anyway -- nm - eag Feb 24, 07:59
- I hope this is us with a large cyber response. -- nm - Inigo Feb 24, 07:57 1
  - Anonymous and other hacker orgs werent happy either -- nm - budice Feb 24, 07:59
Kasparov has some suggestions ... -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 24, 07:49 1
- Some good stuff—the 5th tweet is what gets me—Americans be pro-Putin because they are Anti-Biden is just wrong and unpatriotic. -- nm - Flavorize Feb 24, 08:36
And if octordle isn’t enough for you, there’s sedecordle (16) -- (link) - znufrii Feb 24, 07:48 3
- Waiting for someone to invent kilordle. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 09:27
- Damn close, but no cigar. - VMan Feb 24, 08:22
- And I failed - znufrii Feb 24, 07:58
Your pension elections were completed on January 20, 2022. - ty97 Feb 24, 07:43 3
- that's a decent turn around time -- nm - decline Feb 24, 08:11
- Pension? ok, boomer -- nm - oblique Feb 24, 07:45 1
  - *scowls* -- nm - ty97 Feb 24, 08:10
any Xboxers planning on getting Elden Ring? -- nm - groiny Feb 24, 07:42 6
- I'd like to get it, but I likely won't until I get the new gen XBox. So sometime right before never based on availability. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 24, 08:26 1
  - I'm with Cuzzin Todd on this one. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 24, 08:53
- If someone wants to gift me a month off. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 08:15
- afaik, there aren't many STers who are into the SoulsBorne games. I could be wrong. -- nm - Shaun Feb 24, 07:56 1
  - I have never played them, but this game looks pretty incredible. -- nm - groiny Feb 24, 08:14
- I'll look into it. I was glancing at a preview thing yesterday and assumed it was PC. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 24, 07:52
My first time trying quordle - that’s tricky. - kelly Feb 24, 07:41
Falcons QB Matt Ryan is currently scheduled to have a cap hit of $48,662,500 in 2022. -- (link) - budice Feb 24, 07:28
SITWAP: NFL Rumor mill, Aikman and Buck considering leaving FOX for ESPN/MNF. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 24, 07:24 4
- Buck has another year left on his deal they'd have to buy out or something -- nm - spamlet Feb 24, 07:30 2
  - Pass the Buck. dont need him -- nm - budice Feb 24, 07:43 1
    - [nods] -- nm - mud Feb 24, 07:45
- I wonder if that would be mean less baseball games called by Buck because that would be great. - Krusty Feb 24, 07:27
NRO: Let’s Not Forget Germany’s Abdication -- (link) - Strongbad Feb 24, 07:20
B2 PFM: we had our new tankless installed last week. Wife is happy with it. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 24, 07:16 7
- 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo Feb 25, 05:47
- but are you happy? -- nm - decline Feb 24, 07:33 1
  - That doesn't matter, but yes. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 24, 08:13
- I'll be right over to take a 30 minute hot shower. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 24, 07:28 3
  - That's nothing. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 24, 07:29 2
    - Well I'm not a teenager anymore.... -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 24, 07:32 1
      - give the tankless shower an hour to rest up and it will be good to go again -- nm - Beaker Feb 24, 07:38
Cory Doctorow has been waiting 15 years for Facebook to die, and he’s more hopeful than ever. -- (link) - znufrii Feb 24, 06:51 1
- 🤞🏼 -- nm - Krusty Feb 24, 07:17
There better be DEM. PEARLS. in The Batman. -- nm - Shaun Feb 24, 06:50
Canuckle in 5. I got caught in what I'm now calling the Shake Trap. - CinnaBaron Feb 24, 06:42
DOW -837 -- nm - mud Feb 24, 06:32 1
- International markets were already a dumpster fire earlier -- nm - eag Feb 24, 06:34
I guess what we're seeing is just Russin political discourse right? - eag Feb 24, 06:20 2
- 'legitimate Russian political discourse.' - Jovian Feb 24, 06:41 1
  - CPAC is today? yeesh -- nm - mud Feb 24, 08:31
Working from home because of the weather and the VPN is down. - spamlet Feb 24, 06:17 11
- Wanna help me review some document discovery? - ReluctantCynic Feb 24, 08:53
- SNOW DAY! -- nm - decline Feb 24, 06:20 9
  - It's year end, any time I lose I have to make up :/ -- nm - spamlet Feb 24, 06:22 8
    - worry about that later. Go sledding with your daughter! -- nm - decline Feb 24, 06:29 7
      - No snow, just ice. -- nm - spamlet Feb 24, 06:32 6
        
        Skeleton looks fun! -- nm - Krusty Feb 24, 06:41 1
        
        Skeleton will be all that’s left of you after trying to go down head first. :) -- nm* - How the sport got its name Feb 24, 07:30
        
        that'll just make you sled faster! -- nm - decline Feb 24, 06:39
        
        You have to build up enough speed zipping down Art Hill to shoot across Lindell unscathed. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 24, 06:36 1
        
        COM-PANY! -- nm - spamlet Feb 24, 06:43
        
        Go bobsledding with your daughter. -- nm - zunk xometimes Feb 24, 06:35
Maybe now’s the time for Japan to take a long hard look at the Kurils. -- nm - mafic Feb 24, 06:13 4
- One word: Alaska. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 24, 07:07
- Finland could use some Lake Ladoga-front property. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 06:20 2
  - I mean, how is Kaliningrad even a thing! C'mon, Poland! -- nm - Mop Feb 24, 06:51 1
    - I mean Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her backyard - eag Feb 24, 07:07
Nothing like a scintillating scotoma (visual migraine) to start the day. *sits back and watches the light show* -- nm* - znufrii Feb 24, 06:06
Is that a crossbow in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? -- (link) - decline Feb 24, 06:03
Kasparov: "Putin's Achilles heel is that he and his mafia keep their money, assets, and families in the free world they say they despise." -- (link) - mud Feb 24, 06:01 6
- Yup. Slam the door shut. It won't be without cost but it will devastate them. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 06:05 5
  - Chelsea should be a Royal Asset by dinner time. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 24, 07:03
  - The UK has taken in so much Russian money I doubt they’d do this. That’s why we won’t disconnect them from SWIFT -- nm - spamlet Feb 24, 06:10 3
    - That, and it encourages development of a SWIFT-alternative by countries that don't want the same treatment -- nm - Roger More Feb 24, 06:23 2
      - Much like pandering to the Russians so they don’t start their own Olympics, that ship has sailed. They’re either part of the world community or not. -- nm - Mop Feb 24, 07:16 1
        
        It's less about Russia than China - and then other countries (eg Iran, North Korea) joining that system and being able to avoid US/Western sanctions - Roger More Feb 24, 08:03
Wordle 5/6 (spoilers) - oblique Feb 24, 05:58 30
- 5 - Shaun Feb 24, 07:51
- 4/6, but that's a much more common word in Australia -- nm - Roger More Feb 24, 06:28
- Also 5. We had the same 4th. I was quickly running out of letters to try. - CinnaBaron Feb 24, 06:24
- in 2 ... lucky - rollo Feb 24, 06:08 3
  - *that* was your second guess? impressed! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 24, 06:08 2
    - I'm taking back the WWW title from you this week -- nm - rollo Feb 24, 06:22 1
      - by several touchdowns, apparently -- nm - prayformojo Feb 24, 07:20
- I've heard rumblings that the chosen words have gotten more difficult since the NYT takeover -- nm - prayformojo Feb 24, 06:03 22
  - Someone analyzed and did a thread about this. NYT did not add any words to the Wordle list, and in fact removed too difficult ones. -- (link) - MDH Feb 24, 06:48 1
    - I don't know where the article I read is but they also quoted people from the NYT that said they did make some changes like taking out obscure words - Krusty Feb 24, 07:26
  - They have to a degree. The NYT said they made adjustments to the word list. They removed some words and added a bunch of new ones. - Krusty Feb 24, 06:29 16
    - I am all about Quordle now. I play both it and Wordle first thing every morning, but i love Quordle more. -- nm - Andie Feb 24, 06:33 8
      - Just tried it for the first time (spoilers). That's a challenge for sure. - oblique Feb 24, 07:05
      - I never really looked into the off-shoots that popped up over the last month or so. What's Quordle's deal? -- nm - Krusty Feb 24, 06:41 6
        
        It's four words at the same time. What you enter applies to each one at the same time and you have to solve all four in certain number of tries. -- (link) - Andie Feb 24, 06:43 5
        
        There's also an 8 word version called Octordle or something. -- nm - TWuG Feb 24, 06:50 3
        
        doing it now! -- nm - Andie Feb 24, 07:41 1
        
        i got 7, but missed the last word. -- nm - Andie Feb 24, 07:48
        
        Fun - znufrii Feb 24, 07:15
        
        Interesting. I'll give it a try. - Krusty Feb 24, 06:48
    - Yeah, the inventor was smart to sell at exactly the right time -- nm - Roger More Feb 24, 06:30 6
      - For sure. I think they also switched it to American spelling for words which I'm sure made a few countries unhappy. - Krusty Feb 24, 06:40 5
        
        That was pre buy out. - Reagen Feb 24, 06:44 1
        
        Or right, sorry, the one Andie mentioned. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 06:45
        
        it already was American spelling - when the answer was RUMOR i was annoyed. -- nm - Andie Feb 24, 06:44 2
        
        Bruce and Demi's oldest -- nm - rollo Feb 24, 06:51
        
        Ahh. I thought it was changed later. -- nm - Krusty Feb 24, 06:48
  - To which I quote The Bard when I say "Forsooth, thou shouldst suck in thy venter as one goblet made of butter." -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 24, 06:28
  - "I thought you came here looking for a challenge." "Duh! A challenge I could do!" -- nm - Roger More Feb 24, 06:24 1
    - heh. precisely -- nm - prayformojo Feb 24, 06:32
TV PSA: Young Sheldon, Station 19, Joe Millionaire, BattleBots, Law & Order, United States of Al, Legacies, Call Me Kat, G0-Big Show, Grey's Anatomy, -- nm - Beaker Feb 24, 05:58 1
- L&O SVU, B Positive, Bull, L&O OC, Big Sky, Take Note, Bel-Air, Raised By Wolves, ST Discovery, Wasteland, Below deck GT, Ghosts, Pivoting, grown-ish, - Beaker Feb 24, 06:05
Ukraine names things like they got a deal at Crazy Vaclav's House of Ys. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 05:58
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Feb 24, 05:55 1
- chat -- nm - Dano Feb 24, 05:56

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