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I think that interviews where you're just meeting the hiring manager because the job is really weird and niche are my favorites. very personal. - amanda jeans Mar 7, 09:28 2
- And what is your new weird niche job? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 7, 09:39
- Do you get to chat about favorite music and shows? Or, should that be taboo like politics and religion? -- nm* - Max Mar 7, 09:39
Browns Franchise Tagged Njoku 😱 -- nm - Flavorize Mar 7, 09:16
I saw that Daisy Ridley was trending, so I clicked in... I must admit, I've never seen a hotel hallway carpet look so good. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 7, 09:05 10
- Mannn... she is good looking -- nm - Jovian Mar 7, 09:31
- *sputter* *click* oh. -- nm - Max Mar 7, 09:25 3
  - Could my choice of descriptive imagery have been phrased more delicately? Yes. Is it still quite accurate? Also yes. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 09:27 2
    - But better than, "Daisy Cutie Ridley". -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 09:32 1
      - You know there's a tabloid out there waiting to publish "Oopsie Daisy" if they haven't already. -- nm - Max Mar 7, 09:37
- Would have been a better choice for Lena Headley's daughter. -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 09:16 1
  - 100% -- nm - Volnelk Mar 7, 09:59
- Actually, that is pretty much the way I visualized The Wasp being in the movies. (comic book version, that is) -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 09:08 2
  - And also not a nutty anti vaxxer, probs. -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 09:17 1
    - Ooh, recast Ridley as Wasp? Do it, Disney! -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 09:24
... I just got cryptocurrency SMS spam for the first time -- nm* - Beryllium Mar 7, 08:41 5
- i have started getting a bunch of dick pill SMS spam. i don't know how to block it. -- nm - colin Mar 7, 08:52 4
  - Block it with your massive peen, obviously. -- nm - Qale Mar 7, 09:08 1
    - i'm swingin my huge dong all over but i'm just raking all the pictures off the walls, breaking windows, still can't block a text. -- nm - colin Mar 7, 09:10
  - MAOI inhibitors. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 7, 08:53 1
    - nice. -- nm - colin Mar 7, 08:55
I hope this is photoshopped (the person posting Toronto pics from Nova Scotia suggests it might be) -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 7, 08:37 3
- Yes, these went around social media here over the weekend. They're reportedly at Queen's Quay. -- nm - Roger More Mar 7, 10:37
- 100% believe this could be true. -- nm - Andie Mar 7, 09:03
- despite the lack of pixels, it looks real to my eye (as someone who does that kind of thing for a living sometimes) - Guigue Mar 7, 08:55
Chaotic Neutral. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 7, 08:32 16
- Chaotic Neutral -- nm - decline Mar 7, 09:47
- Neutral Good, though in the past I've flirted with all the alignments -- nm - crash davis Mar 7, 09:44
- Lawful Evil. True Chaotic Evil rips out the pages as they go. -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 09:42 1
  - That's how Trump reads. "Nope. Nope. Nope. Done." -- nm - Max Mar 7, 09:43
- I lay the book face down while open, this leaves a permanent separation in the binding so it will always fall open at that page. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 7, 09:28
- Chaotic to Neutral Good -- nm - Volnelk Mar 7, 09:21
- Chaotic good -- nm - znufrii Mar 7, 09:10
- Chaotic evil or lawful evil. -- nm - kelly Mar 7, 09:06
- Generally Lawful Evil, but full range of Chaotic on occasion depending on the book. -- nm - Meg Mar 7, 08:51
- I’m going with Neutral Good. A Magic the Gathering land card is not a scrap of paper and more a bookmark. -- nm - Qale Mar 7, 08:50
- chaotic evil, but only on books i own. -- nm - colin Mar 7, 08:50
- Lawful Evil -- nm - Dano Mar 7, 08:43
- Lawful Evil (95% of the time its the receipt from the purchase of it. So kinda scrappy) -- nm - Jovian Mar 7, 08:41
- Neutral Good -- nm - MDH Mar 7, 08:37
- At various times NG, CG, CN, LE -- nm - rollo Mar 7, 08:36
- Samesies. -- nm - CinnaBaron Mar 7, 08:34
nerdlegame 47 3/6 - crash davis Mar 7, 08:06
LIR: Weekend Viewing: Kane Brown: A- -- nm - JD Mar 7, 08:06 28
- Finished Inventing Anna - A. -- nm - Diva Mar 7, 10:55
- West Side Story 7/10, finished Peacemaker S1 10/10 -- nm - crash davis Mar 7, 09:45
- Batman: C- or D+. Whatever a 3 out of 10 is. -- nm - The Allfather Mar 7, 09:31
- started season 2 of Raise by Wolves and STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHATS GOING ON -- nm - colin Mar 7, 09:11
- The Batman - B+, The Ipcress File ep1 (new TV version) - B-. -- nm - LMS Mar 7, 08:55 4
  - Ipcress? As in Harry Ipcress? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 08:56 3
    - Harry Palmer, I mean -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 08:57 2
      - Yes, with Joe Cole and Tom Hollander -- (link) - LMS Mar 7, 09:20
      - heh -- nm - michael caine Mar 7, 08:59
- Not much. Finished Afterparty on AppleTV+ : A. On EP4 of Maisel (B+ so far but gaining steam). Caught up on some network TV (just garbage watching) - oblique Mar 7, 08:54
- Winning Time (HBO) ep.1. B+. -- nm - zunk xometimes Mar 7, 08:41
- Santo and The Treasure of Dracula: F -- nm - Qale Mar 7, 08:36
- *Really* liking The Tourist - A/A- through 3 episodes -- nm - prayformojo Mar 7, 08:34
- Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (Netflix, A) -- nm - JaxSean Mar 7, 08:33
- A Fish Called Wanda: A - Cuzzin Todd Mar 7, 08:32
- I've been uber-binging Star Versus the Forces of Evil with my daughters all weekend (not our first viewing). DAMN, that show is good. A+ -- nm - Mop Mar 7, 08:29
- "Inventing Anna" - A++ - Mel Profit Mar 7, 08:27 4
  - To your IM I thought Anthony Edwards acted the hell out of his role as a sucker -- nm - rollo Mar 7, 08:37 1
    - yep -- nm - mud Mar 7, 08:42
  - It was great. -- nm - pmb Mar 7, 08:36
  - I watched the first three a couple weeks ago... and haven't gone back yet. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 7, 08:32
- The 355: C+ -- nm - Max Mar 7, 08:23
- Wrapped up Goliath S4: A-. Laws, I love Nina Arianda on this show. Can we get her an Emmy nomination? She and Rhea Seehorn can fight it out. -- nm - CinnaBaron Mar 7, 08:19 1
  - yes! -- nm - mud Mar 7, 08:41
- STDisco S4 E1-8: A. TWD latest: B. The Rookie latest: B. -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 08:13 1
  - Picard, S2E1 - WOW. Go big or go home! A- -- nm - Mop Mar 7, 08:30
- The Batman - A-. Much better than I expected. A few annoyances though it didn't really take a lot away. -- nm - pmb Mar 7, 08:10
- Free Guy - A- -- nm - Volnelk Mar 7, 08:07
MDH, I know you try to post venue size sometimes. I just read 'stadiums' as 'arenas' - ty97 Mar 7, 08:06 14
- ummm....There's stadium tours and then there's arena tours 8-) - JD Mar 7, 08:08 13
  - Yup! Two different types :-) -- nm - MDH Mar 7, 08:38
  - yes....... -- nm - ty97 Mar 7, 08:12
  - ::googles "stadium vs arena":: - Spawn Mar 7, 08:10 10
    - Stadium… Toyota Center. 19,000 for concerts. Arena… NRG. 80,108 for George Strait concerts. -- nm - Qale Mar 7, 08:42 4
      - Grandson next week is at Scout Bar. Capacity is 500. -- nm* - Qale Mar 7, 08:43 3
        
        !!! -- nm - JD Mar 7, 08:45 2
        
        It’s crazy. I was like, how is this possible? -- nm - Qale Mar 7, 08:48 1
        
        I just saw that he's in Orlando and Tampa next week, and I can't go. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 7, 09:35
    - Mebbe I've got too much of a concert mind but to me Stadium = 50-80K attendance and the headaches of going to NFL game vs Arena = 12-20K and going to - JD Mar 7, 08:13 4
      - The capacity one that's tough is "Amphitheater." Those can generally be 20-25k, but so many mid-size ones have popped up. -- nm - MDH Mar 7, 08:41 1
        
        Amphitheaters must have GA lawn space in addition to assigned seating - my rules only -- nm - rollo Mar 7, 08:45
      - 12-30K or so but I agree with your distinction -- nm - rollo Mar 7, 08:38
      - In my mind they have always been the same. And I grew up with Market Square Arena, even. -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 08:19
I really liked The Batman, but I have a big gripe with DC (spoilers) - Inigo Mar 7, 08:05 20
- Yeah, but spoil - Spawn Mar 7, 08:08 3
  - Spoilers - The Allfather Mar 7, 09:33
  - (spoils) - Inigo Mar 7, 08:16 1
    - Joker always has been quite intelligent. Fleck.... was not. - Spawn Mar 7, 08:18
- Matt Reeves wasn't interested in doing anything connected neither was Todd Phillips. -- nm - Remlik Mar 7, 08:07 15
  - I think that's willfully ignoring reality by both of them. - Inigo Mar 7, 08:13 4
    - It really is the old way vs the new. And at this point, DC does not want to tie a new movie to an anchor that might drag it down. -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 08:15 3
      - It was a billion dollar movie. It's not going to tie them down. (spoils) - Inigo Mar 7, 08:19 2
        
        I suspect Reeves has zero interest in his Batman matching wits with that version. Especially after he just faced a Riddler of this caliber. -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 09:00 1
        
        yup. And teasing Hush -- nm - Remlik Mar 7, 09:09
  - It is a minor gripe of mine as well though. Spoils? - pmb Mar 7, 08:12 9
    - They've embraced the Multiverse concept. The one smart thing I think WB execs have decided recently is that there will be a 'core' set of films - Remlik Mar 7, 08:22 5
      - Except Reeves is making a trilogy. -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 09:01 4
        
        maybe. -- nm - Remlik Mar 7, 09:09 1
        
        Don't make me cut you. - Spawn Mar 7, 09:20
        
        really?! - cool -- nm - mud Mar 7, 09:03 1
        
        I don't know many details other than he does NOT want Superman in them! -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 09:04
    - My other minor annoyances were (spoils) - pmb Mar 7, 08:14 2
      - I lived in Liverpool for a year - LMS Mar 7, 08:24
      - I think the movie could have been 20 minutes longer. There were a few things that could have been more fleshed out. -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 08:16
I feel like a financial BSD. I had to call my broker to authorize my shares to be submitted for a tender offer. -- nm - CinnaBaron Mar 7, 08:03 2
- I take my investing advice from Billy Joel: Leave a Tender Moment Alone -- nm - rollo Mar 7, 08:17
- Swipe right? -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 08:05
#Worldle #45 5/6 (100%) - crash davis Mar 7, 08:01
Kirk Herbstreit to Amazon TNF -- (link) - budice Mar 7, 08:00
Did we talk about the jobs report? Unemployment down to 3.8%, Jobs at 678,000 for February, previous months revised up. -- (link) - Inigo Mar 7, 07:58 1
- The 3.8% left without jobs are ‘activists’ and ‘protestors’ against vaccines, masks, and reality. (Except for STers, of course.) -- nm* - Qale Mar 7, 08:49
Wordle 261 4/6 - crash davis Mar 7, 07:53
I didn't realize making the bases larger was something that was being discussed. I don't remember ever hearing people calling for larger bases. - Krusty Mar 7, 07:51 13
- Yay for pitch clocks -- nm - JD Mar 7, 08:21
- Kind of surprised the union pushed back against robo umps. I assume it's looking at things from the pitcher's side and wanting to be able to work the - pmb Mar 7, 07:55
- The banning of shifts is stupid - eag Mar 7, 07:54 8
  - I think the idea is fine. The result of the shift is what I have an issue with. The game is fundamentally different. - Volnelk Mar 7, 08:05 3
    - Or, and hear me out. Players can learn to adapt their hitting. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 7, 08:50
    - Wait. There's a thought that getting rid of the shift will lead to a reduction in the three true outcomes approach to batting? -- nm - JD Mar 7, 08:19 1
      - I think that's the idea. It's not because of how it looks. It's about what it forces the offense to do. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 7, 08:28
  - I wouldn’t mind what they did in the minors. - spamlet Mar 7, 08:03 1
    - Yeah I'd be fine with that. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 7, 08:06
  - Hit 'em where they ain't. (Edit to edit: I was right the first time) -- nm* - CinnaBaron Mar 7, 08:01
  - This. -- nm - znufrii Mar 7, 07:58
- I hadn’t either until this weekend. I think the theory is to give the fielder more room to avoid a runner due to replay. - spamlet Mar 7, 07:53
- (no treble) -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 07:52
‘Muppets Mayhem’ ? ! -- (link) - mud Mar 7, 07:50
Will: Does your theater do both equity and non-equity? Curious and wondering if you'll notice a difference between shows. -- nm - MDH Mar 7, 07:34 12
- What’s that? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 7, 07:37 11
  - Diva can describe better, but more work gets earns "points" to join Equity/union. Equity is more experienced, and productions are bigger/have more $$ -- nm - MDH Mar 7, 07:44 3
    - They changed membership rules last year, I think, now anyone who has performed for pay can apply to be a member, iirc. - znufrii Mar 7, 07:50 1
      - Heh gotcha -- nm - MDH Mar 7, 07:52
    - DC example: Kennedy Center is equity only. National Theatre is equity and non-equity. -- nm - MDH Mar 7, 07:45
  - Equity is the labor union for professional actors and stage managers. Tours can be organized under either equity or non-equity contracts. - znufrii Mar 7, 07:41 6
    - How would a normie know which is which? -- nm - spamlet Mar 7, 07:43 1
      - They generally wouldn’t, I don’t think. - znufrii Mar 7, 07:48
    - From what I can tell, we get the national tour groups. The faces on Come From Away and the Mean Girls cast are the names on Wiki. - Will Hunting Mar 7, 07:43 3
      - Yeah, first national tours are generally equity shops, I think. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 7, 07:47 1
        
        Then hell if I know. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 7, 07:49
      - National Tours can be equity and non-equity now -- nm - MDH Mar 7, 07:44
Gas poll: $4.99/gallon (Costco/SamsClub) -- nm* - budice Mar 7, 07:32 22
- I paid $5.45 at the cheap station 2 days ago for premium. It's $5.61 now. That's not LA. It's a small town in Northern California. -- nm - jnine Mar 7, 12:01
- $4.40, filled up last Monday at $3.90. -- nm - colin Mar 7, 08:51
- $4.29 -- nm - Jovian Mar 7, 08:45
- I filled up for $4.14 yesterday I believe -- nm - oblique Mar 7, 08:30
- USD 5.59 / gallon -- nm - JD Mar 7, 08:04
- Up 11% week over week, largest weekly increase since 2008 (?) -- nm - rollo Mar 7, 07:58
- CAD$1.95 this morning (though it's a ride share so we didn't really pay). AFAIK though, it's still not enough for people to change their habits -- nm - Guigue Mar 7, 07:44 2
  - Electric cars are favoured on fuel cost at about 3500km/mo now. -- nm* - Reagen Mar 7, 07:59
  - Most of our cities and towns have been resistant to the changes needed to allow people to change their habits. That itself is what needs to change - Beryllium Mar 7, 07:48
- ~$3.90 -- nm - JaxSean Mar 7, 07:38
- CAD$1.85 a liter. Which this calculator tells me is equal to US$5.51 a gallon. -- nm - Andie Mar 7, 07:38 5
  - We need LMS to respond, I guarantee that she would 'win'. -- nm - Andie Mar 7, 07:39 4
    - There's no such thing as a winner of a gas war. -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 07:42 1
      - Hansel. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 7, 07:43
    - Yikes, by a wide margin -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 07:41 1
      - one of the Welsh relatives just showed their price - it converts to US$8.55 a gallon. -- nm - Andie Mar 7, 07:43
- 1.753/L, equivalent of US5.20/gal -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 07:37
- $4.09 over the weekend, which was still $4.09 as of last night according to gasbuddy. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 7, 07:34
- 194.9/L -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 07:34 1
  - US$5.78/gal -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 07:35
- $3.59 on Saturday. Won’t leave house today. -- nm - spamlet Mar 7, 07:33 1
  - Gas buddy says half the stations at 3.59 and half at 3.79 -- nm - spamlet Mar 7, 07:42

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