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How's your day going, I just went to Costco stayed in an 8 car line to get gas, when I got to the pump..I didn’t have my wallet, no card -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 15:27 7
- Oil up another 10% in pre-market -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 15:51 3
  - It was over $135 at one point. -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 15:52 2
    - It's interesting that it's ~100 for December. -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 15:57 1
      - Not surprised. Treating it as a supply shock right now. - spamlet Mar 6, 16:24
- Costco/SamsClub only stations with sub$5 gas around here -- nm - budice Mar 6, 15:48
- ouch, I hope you just left it at home and didn't lose it -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 15:31 1
  - Yeah. I switch jackets so often. Thought I had it because I felt my cellphone in the pocket -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 15:45
So you're telling me ... the same person who directed GoldenEye and Casino Royale also directed the movie this screencap is from? -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 6, 15:16 1
- Right? -- nm - TWuG Mar 6, 16:12
PricewaterhouseCoopers is to cut its Russian firm adrift .. -- (link) - mud Mar 6, 14:45 5
- Press release was scheduled for tomorrow morning. -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 15:20
- . -- nm* - spamlet Mar 6, 14:51
- I know it's a small part in the big picture, but imagine what this has been like for Russian accountants. -- nm - David Mar 6, 14:48 2
  - Now with more window offices to be fallen out of for not cooking the books for the bosses -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 15:47
  - EBITDAP. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, and Putin. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 14:52
This first photo of Rob Reiner holding his daughter Romy is terrific -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 6, 14:21
Independent Spirit Red Carpet: Daisy Edgar-Jones -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 14:09 41
- She needs posture to sell this look, standing limp like her hair is letting her down -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 15:49
- Tough crowd this evening. -- nm - Todd Manning Mar 6, 14:34
- Rachel Sennott -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 14:28 4
  - “Give me vibrant! Excited! …. Okay…how about apathetic handjob? Nailed it!” - Cameraman Mar 6, 15:12 1
    - Ouch, I mean you nailed it -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 15:50
  - Maybe look happy to be there? -- nm - znufrii Mar 6, 14:42
  - You're making some of these people up. -- nm - David Mar 6, 14:31
- Julia Fox -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 14:21 4
  - Definitely playing Debi Mazar in the Madonna biopic. -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 14:34 1
    - Or dying of an overdose this very night. -- nm - David Mar 6, 15:04
  - Make her go away -- nm - Pippy Mar 6, 14:22
  - NO, just NO -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:22
- Andrew Garfield -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 14:19 2
  - Not generally a big fan. But he looks great with those glasses. -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 14:22
  - whatever -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:21
- Dianna Agron -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 14:16 2
  - not a fan of bare midriff looks on the red carpet -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:20 1
    - ?! -- nm - mud Mar 6, 14:22
- Sydney Sweeney -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 14:16 1
  - better than average for the fashion for this event that I've seen so far -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:19
- Marlee Matlin -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 14:15 1
  - she looks great in this styling -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:18
- I do not like this dress, at all -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:13 3
  - The slouching is not helping -- nm - Pippy Mar 6, 14:15 2
    - You are both correct. -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 14:29
    - indeed -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:27
- Lily James -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 14:13 1
  - I don't like this look either -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:14
- Taika Waititi -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 14:12 5
  - Who decided this was the color for menswear this year? -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:15 4
    - salmon shorts of 2018 have spread to the entire body -- nm - colin Mar 6, 14:17 3
      - At this rate, salmon will seize control of the eastern seaboard by next January. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 14:18 2
        
        as long as it's that lousy Atlantic Salmon! We want the dwindling supply of Pacific for ourselves here -- nm - mud Mar 6, 14:20
        
        all the popped collars in the world cannot save us -- nm - colin Mar 6, 14:18
- Maggie Gyllenhaal -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 14:11 2
  - I'll confine my comments to the accented shoulders. No -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:16 1
    - I think she was supposed to remove the hangar. -- nm - pmb Mar 6, 16:08
- Michelle Yeoh -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 14:11 1
  - I like this one -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:16
- Kristen Stewart -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 14:10 1
  - NO -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:17
Netflix shuts down service in Russia. (This conveniently solves their "how to get around carrying 20 state broadcasts" problem.) -- (link*) - Ender Mar 6, 13:56
The balls on this Russian POW... -- (link) - Ender Mar 6, 13:28 3
- He did not sound under duress and he is concerned about his fellow soldiers being cared for and not killed -- nm - Pippy Mar 6, 14:14
- that's great but I thought it was decided to be against Geneva Convention: -- (link) - mud Mar 6, 14:07 [Backboard]
- That was incredible. Thank you for posting. -- nm - David Mar 6, 13:56
DiCaprio donates 10 mil to Ukraine -- (link) - mud Mar 6, 13:27 1
- Uh. That's a jaw-dropping amount. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 13:27
Britney Spears digging Vegas treatment as a guest. -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 13:17
huh, Zola (which made my top ten) is up for 7 Independent Spirit Awards! -- nm - mud Mar 6, 13:10 1
- I was pleased that they really stuck to the "Independent" part of their name in their nominations this year. -- nm - Dano Mar 6, 13:13
This may sound weird but I find Jeri Ryan more attractive now than I did when she was on Voyager. -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 13:10 11
- It’s the effect of being the butterfly that led to President Obama. -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 14:29 1
  - I totally forgot her role in all that -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 15:10
- I'm with you. -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 13:51
- when she showed up in season 1 of Picard it was like, dang. -- nm - Tim Mar 6, 13:12 7
  - I shouldn't reduce a woman to an object, but I just played Picard Season 2 Ep 1 and she is a fine wine. I mean that as a compliment. -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 13:26 6
    - speaking of - spoilers - Beaker Mar 6, 13:30 3
      - I'm not an oenophile, but I would assume Picard beats the Klingon Blood -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 13:34 2
        
        I'm pretty sure being an oenophile is illegal in 13 states... -- nm - Ender Mar 6, 13:52 1
        
        fewer than I would have guessed -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 14:09
    - more hotties: -- (link) - mud Mar 6, 13:30 1
      - They are beautiful and like their less attractive colleagues, they are heroes. And I curse Putin for endangering them -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 13:32
Answering my own question from yesterday, I played a bit of the Humankind demo - Reagen Mar 6, 13:02 1
- Only 68% positive on Steam. -- nm - Tim Mar 6, 13:03
I didn’t think dining plans is where I’d throw up my hands and give up in the collegiate process. -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 12:58 7
- more complicated than our day? -- nm - Tim Mar 6, 13:02 4
  - We had one plan. It was at the dining halls. You ate when they were open. -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 13:04 3
    - Ha. We had either a straight meal plan or a dining dollars account. - Tim Mar 6, 13:09 2
      - They seemed to have closed most of the dining halls to turn them into restaurants (turn an expense into income, brilliant!) - spamlet Mar 6, 13:30 1
        
        Okay, yikes. -- nm - Tim Mar 6, 13:32
- too many options? too much math? -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 13:00 1
  - Yes -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 13:00
NFLCombine: Punt God with 80yd punts -- (link) - budice Mar 6, 12:58 2
- Rodger Sherman is in love...and has been for months now -- (link) - Beaker Mar 6, 13:18 1
  - ST Poll. What round does he go in? -- nm - Dano Mar 6, 13:58
This boat has just come up for sale. What do you think the asking price is (in Canadian dollars)? -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 6, 12:56 [flickr] 8
- Since it looks like it can convert to a submarine, I’m going to go $5M Canadian -- nm - Flavorize Mar 6, 13:04
- I can't get enough info from this one photo to guess -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 12:59 6
  - It's a 28 foot power boat with an inverted bow and two 300hp outboards. It can go fast... but it's not a cruising boat. No shower. - Beryllium Mar 6, 13:06 5
    - If I ever started smuggling Canadian Bacon, this is the boat I’d use -- nm - Flavorize Mar 6, 13:19
    - $750K -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 13:13 3
      - A little under half that, actually. And IMHO it's overpriced. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 6, 13:15 2
        
        (and, yes, I've been aboard that boat. Albeit only at the dock.) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 13:16 1
        
        This is 150K cheaper. I'd much rather have this. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 6, 13:26
I know, youre like "Can't one board go by without pfm posting a Princess Di clip?" And Im like "I know, but trust me, watch this - you won't be sorry" -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 6, 12:36 2
- Nice. She was full on rebellion by 1991 -- nm - Pippy Mar 6, 14:25
- sweet -- nm - mud Mar 6, 12:47
This same judge sentenced a woman to 6 years for voter fraud despite woman being told she was allowed to vote. -- (link) - TWuG Mar 6, 12:31
Because it's sunday, and sunday is the time for silly discussions (well, actually, Friday is - but that's a discussion for another day) -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 6, 12:30 1
- I’d say, slam dunk “wheels” but I’m sure I’ll be wrong if I click to find out more -- nm - Flavorize Mar 6, 13:07
Kremlin claims the Ukraine defense is building "dirty" bombs...as in radioactive material -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 6, 12:24 3
- Pandering to their internal supports at this point, and no one else. -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 12:27 1
  - Yeah, but if they are building towards using it somewhere, it's bad. - Marlowe Mar 6, 12:29
- Russian government agitprop can go fuck itself. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 12:26
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Mar 6, 12:15 [Attachment] 3
- Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Mar 6, 12:15 [Attachment] 2
  - 1 -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 6, 12:36 1
    - 1 -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 12:39
US in talks with Venezuela, ostensibly over potential security concerns w/r/t Russia, but I’m guessing also oil. -- (link) - znufrii Mar 6, 12:06
Happy birthday, Sycor! -- nm - David Mar 6, 12:03
The Batman $128.5, Uncharted $11.0 ($100.3), Dog $6.0 ($40.0), Spider-man NWH $4.4 ($786.5), Death on the Nile $2.7 ($37.1) -- (link) - Beaker Mar 6, 12:01 1
- NWH gonna hit $800M Domestic -- nm - budice Mar 6, 12:04
started a rewatch of The Expanse - minor spoilers - Beaker Mar 6, 11:56 1
- I finished S3 of my rewatch last week, and now on pause (too much else to watch for awhile) -- nm - mud Mar 6, 11:58
Longwood clinches an NCAA bid, their first since becoming a Division I team in 2007. That's 18% of a Futile Four drought. -- nm - Dano Mar 6, 11:45
*pitches Star Trek Public Defenders in which interstellar lawyers search for loopholes (wormholes?) in Federation law to allow Captains to do whatever - crash davis Mar 6, 11:39 3
- There have been many episodes of Star Trek with space lawyers. And space police. I don't see why there shouldn't be a Wolframverse SpaceLaw & Order. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 11:44 2
  - I would subscribe to ST L&O in a heartbeat -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 11:50 1
    - and since Starfleet is a naval force, this will be ST L&O NCIS. It will make the most money ever! -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 11:56
Hmm. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 6, 11:33
I’ll give you one guess who was responsible for designing my birthday cake. -- (pic) - znufrii Mar 6, 11:27 [Attachment] 9
- It’s only missing the unicorn -- nm - Roger More Mar 6, 13:22
- You. Clearly. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 6, 12:10
- *swoon* -- nm - David Mar 6, 12:02
- very nice ! -- nm - mud Mar 6, 11:56
- Looks yum! Happy Birthday! -- nm - Dano Mar 6, 11:40
- And it will be the best cake you’ve ever had. -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 11:33
- That smile sells the cake :) -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 11:30
- Taste the Rainbow -- nm - budice Mar 6, 11:29
- ... an expert. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 11:28
Mop, re B2, my simplified take is as this goes on the sanctions cut deeper and deeper. The risk to Putin going all in on this - crash davis Mar 6, 11:21 5
- Except they don’t need troops to put down an insurrection, just arm some (more) nationalist thugs. -- nm - znufrii Mar 6, 11:52 4
  - Which is something they do -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 13:50
  - There is a fault line in protests where the protest gains so much size that the paramilitary, police, and intelligence services can no longer grapple - crash davis Mar 6, 11:57 2
    - This. There’s some inverse math here. The more violently the protests are put down, the more protesters there will be. -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 12:26
    - Correct. -- nm - David Mar 6, 12:03
Russian police are forcibly spot checking the phone messages of people on the street. -- (link) - Ender Mar 6, 11:20 2
- If the cops here did that to me, I'd demand that now that they've seen it then they are obligated to deal with auto warranty spammers -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 11:33 1
  - Do you want to buy my house too? -- nm - spamlet Mar 6, 11:34
in the crock pot: black bean pumpkin chili, to be used for chili cheese fries tonight -- nm - prayformojo Mar 6, 11:19 3
- There's a lot going on here... -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 6, 12:09
- I had chili cheese fries last night and felt guilty. I ate so healthy last week leading up to that and the meal felt decadent. BUT IT WAS GOOD -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 11:24 1
  - 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo Mar 6, 12:14
I love the smell of dark roast coffee in the morning. -- nm - Colonel crash Mar 6, 11:17

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