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Got 75 minutes into Drive My Car last night. My God was I bored. I think I've already read every line of Uncle Vanya... -- nm - Ender Mar 6, 11:15
Is "Z" the new swastika? -- (link) - mud Mar 6, 10:53 1
- The only way to stop this is regime change in Russia. -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 11:17
Wet Leg successfully Inceptioned me.....I woke up with Angelica going through my head -- nm - prayformojo Mar 6, 10:51
TikTok suspends uploading and livestreaming from Russia, citing 'fake news' law -- nm - budice Mar 6, 10:49
protest situation outside the Bolshoi in Moscow is weird. -- (link) - mud Mar 6, 10:48 1
- "I've never seen hundreds of protesters en pointe" -- nm* - crash davis Mar 6, 11:03
Visa and MasterCard ban in Russia apparently only impacts international transactions. Local charges are handled by a separate payments network. -- (link*) - znufrii Mar 6, 10:46 1
- American Express is halting service in Belarus as well -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 10:50
Soooo Mark Meadows. Turns out he’s a fraud, in terms of voting. -- (link) - Volnelk Mar 6, 10:29
Thomas Friedman - "The Cancellation of Mother Russia Is Underway" - crash davis Mar 6, 10:06 5
- “GLOBALIZATION HAS DEFEATED RUSSIA!” OK, settle down, Beavis. -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 10:36
- I'm sure there are parts of Russia that China wouldn't mind getting as part of a peace settlement if they're at the table. -- nm - Dano Mar 6, 10:15 3
  - Some of their Far East was Chinese as recently as the 1850s. -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 10:29
  - huh -- nm - prayformojo Mar 6, 10:17
  - *glares in Mongolian* -- nm - Mongolia Mar 6, 10:16
West Side Story is on D+ in Canada -- nm - Beaker Mar 6, 09:58 7
- To be blunt, I was bored. I appreciated it more as a technical achievement -- nm - rollo Mar 6, 10:07 6
  - I just watched it on D+ last night. I thought it had incandescent moments, but pacing seemed a bit slow perhaps due to the added material. -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 10:11 5
    - I was told it was a better movie than Spiderman: No Way Home so you are all clearly crazy. -- nm - Spawn Mar 6, 10:26 2
      - I haven't seen S:NWH, so I didn't say that. But is that the one with Dr. Strange? I want to watch that Spiderman -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 10:28 1
        
        Yes.The movie that the Academy taught me was not a good movie, like WSS. -- nm - Spawn Mar 6, 10:34
    - We started it last night and my wife’s first comments were about how beautiful it looks. Visually it’s stunning. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 6, 10:21 1
      - Indeed. Rachel Zegler is a great find. The 2021 dancers out do their 1961 counterparts, but it just didn't blow me away the way I hoped it would -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 10:25
I've always admired the work that World Central Kitchen does, never more so than in the last week. The speed at which they're able to mobilize is - prayformojo Mar 6, 09:48 4
- Good thing Jose Andres wasn't in charge of logistics for the Russian troops. -- nm - Dano Mar 6, 10:06
- "Here we see a 40 mile long convoy of food trucks, cutting through the mud like a hot knife through brown butter." -- nm* - news Mar 6, 09:57
- World Kitchen is worthy of the hereto before unseen four happy cat salute 😺😺😺😺 -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 09:54 1
  - saw hetero for a sec there -- nm - budice Mar 6, 09:55
Sting -- (link) - rollo Mar 6, 09:48 3
- I sent you a scrim changing some things up if you wouldn’t mind. -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 10:08 1
  - Done - I'm experimenting a bit to figure out what to do with this motley bunch -- nm - rollo Mar 6, 10:48
- That's excellent -- nm - prayformojo Mar 6, 09:50
nerdlegame 46 4/6 - crash davis Mar 6, 09:46
SpeakingOfTrucks: Truck Shortage - Trucking firms turn to junkyards as they grapple with big-rig shortage -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 09:40 1
- Hmmm… -- nm - Discovery Channel Mar 6, 09:48
Supposed analysis of Russia's situation by an FSB agent -- (link) - Reagen Mar 6, 09:32 7
- One day, I would like to be told why they decided to go at this time of the year -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 10:29 3
  - Ground is frozen. Wanted to go a week earlier but the Chinese told them not during the Olympics. -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 10:45 2
    - even with the ground being frozen, fighting in cold weather creates additional logistic demands as far as clothing, food, fuel, etc etc -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 11:01 1
      - But then it’s mud season and Putin would have to wait longer. It costs money to keep everyone on ready alert like that. -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 11:19
- The voice of the author of this piece is intriguing - really illuminates the quagmire of the situation, assuming he's a reliable narrator -- nm - prayformojo Mar 6, 10:26
- If this is to be believed (nothing here is really news…) - Mop Mar 6, 09:58
- Here’s the threadreader version -- (link) - spamlet Mar 6, 09:50
#Worldle #44 1/6 (100%) - crash davis Mar 6, 09:24 5
- 1/6 spoils - znufrii Mar 6, 10:44 1
  - I never thought of it that way before, but I see exactly what you are saying now -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 10:58
- wow. I needed 6/6 - prayformojo Mar 6, 09:31 2
  - I've often dreamt of going on spoiler there and spoiler spoiler - crash davis Mar 6, 09:48
  - Worldle has given me a new appreciation for distance. “Oh wow. 3000 KM. I kissed by a ton.” Turns out not really. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 6, 09:40
"Nearly 4,000 people have been detained at anti-war protests across Russia on Sunday, rights groups and Russian authorities say." - prayformojo Mar 6, 09:12 2
- “What can they do? Send me to Siberia? I’m already here!” — Protester, probably. -- nm - Qale Mar 6, 09:14 1
  - Last week, one story suggested that the protestors would be conscripted and sent to Ukraine. Which sounded like the dumbest idea ever. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 09:20
spell it darby or say it derby -- nm - prayformojo Mar 6, 08:58 2
- ~English people don't say clerk, they say "clark"/anybody who says "clark" is a "jark"~ -- nm - znufrii Mar 6, 09:25
- nay -- nm - mud Mar 6, 09:07
The truckers new plan is to avoid DC. They are going to do “slow laps around the beltway” with an increasing number each day “until demands are met” -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 08:27 9
- "traffic plus the occasional flag" -- (link) - Reagen Mar 6, 10:16
- Wasting money on gas to own the libs! -- nm - Volnelk Mar 6, 08:42 1
  - I’d love that truck stop in Hagerstown to jack up the price. - Will Hunting Mar 6, 08:44
- Update: today’s goal is 2 laps then back to Hagerstown to rest for tomorrow. -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 08:41 1
  - Would I rather spend 4 hours slowrolling on the beltway or 3 hours in theater for The Batman? This is a tough choice for me. -- nm - Max Mar 6, 08:45
- And those are? -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 08:32 3
  - #demands. that is all you need to know. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 6, 09:02
  - They’ve been updated to include a few things including a congressional inquiry on the Dems handling of COVID protocols. (I don’t know) -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 08:39
  - To be allowed to leave safely before DC traffic kill them for driving 35 around the fucking Beltway. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 6, 08:33
Batman $44M Sat. $101M 2day, $128.5M OW -- (link*) - budice Mar 6, 07:36 12
- Run-time. -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 07:52 11
  - Not at all. It’s a gritty project following after a decade of suspect performing same IP. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 6, 08:03 3
    - Yeah, the real problem for this film is the timing of the release. This is pretty much the worst time imaginable for such a dark film. -- nm - David Mar 6, 09:31
    - And yes 100% agree there were other issues. And run time is certainly one of them. -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 08:06 1
      - There’s no evidence that run time matters. People watch what they want to watch. - Will Hunting Mar 6, 08:10
  - Second biggest weekend of the pandemic for a project that had question marks. -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 07:57 6
    - So many question marks. Even in the posters. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 09:00
    - And it underperformed even the base industry projections. This board alone showed run time hurt imagine general movie goers. -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 08:04 4
      - Industry projections are hype. -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 08:06 3
        
        Industry projections are purposefully low so they can exceed them. They missed it by $20M -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 08:07 2
        
        You're just making stuff up to fit your run time narrative. -- (edited) - Inigo Mar 6, 08:25
        
        Sometimes they shoot low to do that, sometimes they shoot high to try and build buzz. -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 08:09
Bike mileage report: Last week 177.0 (high for the year); YTD: 1455*; Miles til 5K goal: 3545 - prayformojo Mar 6, 06:37 2
- Yes -- nm - Epiphany Mar 6, 08:42
- Nice work! -- nm - Flavorize Mar 6, 08:08
This Armchair Historian video on the Falklands War from the Argentine perspective is a timely analogy to the war in Ukraine. - Mop Mar 6, 06:32 [youtube]
Good morning. Spelling Bee. -- (pic) - prayformojo Mar 6, 06:07 [Attachment] 7
- "What was the most average play in the NBA today? Here's a 12-foot jumper from Tobias Harris in today's CAPABLE CLIP." -- nm - rollo Mar 6, 08:52 1
  - This should be a thing. -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 10:11
- PLICABLE - antonym of explicable; alternatively, synonym of inexplicable -- nm - prayformojo Mar 6, 07:55
- LAB PIECE - the hot assistant the scientist is having an affair with -- nm - VMan Mar 6, 07:54
- PLACIBLE: how you pronounce "plausible" in an outrageous accent -- nm - rollo Mar 6, 07:49
- ALPACA BALL - Andean polo -- nm - prayformojo Mar 6, 07:21
- EPIC IPECAC - for when you really, really need to puke -- nm - prayformojo Mar 6, 06:53
Wordle took me 4 today, but I got Nerdle in 2. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 6, 05:32
"I Jack, I Rob, I sin, Ah man, I'm Jackie Robinson Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen" -- nm - Krust Z Mar 6, 04:42
TV PSA: Equalizer, Simpsons, American Idol, Naked and Afraid, Great North, Bob's Burgers, NCIS LA, March, Family Guy, Transplant, Rookie, Outlander, -- nm - Beaker Mar 6, 03:57 4
- SWAT, Killing Eve, Walking Dead, Shining Vale, Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty, Circus, Courtship, Power Book IV Force, From, Billions, -- (edited) - Beaker Mar 6, 04:00 3
  - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Britannia, other stuff, Oak Island in Canada -- nm* - Beaker Mar 6, 04:01 2
    - Tournament of Champion III on the Food network too -- nm - Beaker Mar 6, 04:14
    - 6) The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, Great North, Killing Eve, Winning Time & Last Week Tonight - Biggest number of shows in a long while -- nm - Krusty Mar 6, 04:12
Happy birthday, Sycor! Woo hoo!!! 🥳🎂 -- nm - Krusty Mar 6, 03:12 16
- HBD -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 12:49
- and many more! -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 6, 10:23
- indeed -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 09:22
- Happy birthday! -- nm - Diva Mar 6, 09:12
- Happy birthday!! -- nm - jnine Mar 6, 09:02
- Happy Birthday!!! -- nm - Jovian Mar 6, 08:49
- Happy Birthday -- nm - Epiphany! Mar 6, 08:42
- Happy birthday! -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 08:05
- Happy b! (NM) - Marlowe Mar 6, 07:37
- cheers ! -- nm - mud Mar 6, 07:00
- Happy BDay! -- nm - budice Mar 6, 05:22
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - zunk xometimes Mar 6, 04:13
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - J Mar 6, 04:08
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker Mar 6, 03:52
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - . Mar 6, 03:28
- Happy Birthday to another, fellow Pisces! Enjoy Sycor! - Flavorize Mar 6, 03:19
Stolichnaya announces a rebrand. -- (link) - Ender Mar 6, 00:37 5
- it -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 6, 10:13 2
  - it's not enough. it's like kentucky fried chicken --> KFC. still fried. still russian. -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 6, 10:14 1
    - Not even that, even. About like me saying, "I am no lo ger Michael. My name is now Mike." -- nm - Spawn Mar 6, 10:28
- because vodka isn't my thing, I didn't know Yuri Shefler was exiled -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 10:09
- It’s no longer vodka. It’s “hard water”. -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 06:06
Watching 'expert rates movies' vids, I didn't know this: IV bags are no longer favorable - Max Mar 5, 22:36 [youtube] 1
- Wow. I didn’t know MASH was that realistic -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 5, 23:44
3/6 - David Mar 5, 21:53 11
- Wordle 260 4/6 - crash davis Mar 6, 09:22
- 4 - rollo Mar 6, 07:41
- 4/6 - Marlowe Mar 6, 07:25
- 6 today - spamlet Mar 6, 06:20
- 4 - decline Mar 6, 05:14
- 2. Lucky second guess. - Dark Callisto Mar 6, 05:01
- 6 - messed up - Diva Mar 6, 04:44
- 3/6 - oblique Mar 6, 04:31
- 4/6 - TWuG Mar 6, 03:50
- 3/6 - Tim Mar 5, 22:20
- 4/6 - Spawn Mar 5, 22:18
So it turns out that the sacroiliac is an actual thing. And my middle daughter has sprained hers. She’s laid up pretty bad. -- nm - Mop Mar 5, 21:50 2
- What havoc hath Maestro Fresh Wes wrought upon you? -- nm - mafic Mar 6, 05:29
- That sounds excruciating, sorry. -- nm - David Mar 5, 22:02
Wordle: is it better to eliminate vowels or consonants first? I do vowels, but a friend claims consonants are better. -- nm - loosilu Mar 5, 21:37 14
- Balance between vowels and common consonants, usually -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 6, 06:57
- I eliminate vowels first -- nm - Fuzzy Mar 6, 06:04
- Makes sense... Maybe words with one vowel, but lots of common consonants: STORY, SMART, etc. To me it's about getting it in less guesses - Flavorize Mar 6, 03:09
- I’m afraid I’m over Wordle. -- nm - Qale Mar 5, 22:42
- I play NYMPH BLITZ SQUAD FROCK every time to eliminate as many letters as possible. - Max Mar 5, 22:24 1
  - Yep, to your IM. Love the math attack strategy on this though. I time mine, so this would give a massive edge there too... - Flavorize Mar 6, 03:16
- My first guesses are usually 3-consonant, 2-vowel. I’m too lazy to do the math, but I feel like that gives me word structure faster. -- nm - mafic Mar 5, 21:47 7
  - Wordle algorithms suggest that Crane, Trace, and Salet. Some folks like audio to knock out the vowels, though. - David Mar 5, 22:07 6
    - ADIEU followed by STORY, though I adjust my 2nd guess based on the results of the 1st -- nm - Fuzzy Mar 6, 06:06
    - My favorite first word had been irate. I liked knocking out three vowels early. -- nm - Krusty Mar 6, 04:43
    - RAISE then MOUNT. -- nm - Spawn Mar 5, 22:21 3
      - MEATY and PIOUS especially for the multiple Wordles. STERN a lot of times as it's basically the free WOF letters. -- nm - VMan Mar 6, 05:40
      - That’s what my last date said. -- nm - mafic Mar 5, 23:23 1
        
        And when your wife finds out... -- nm - David Mar 5, 23:37

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