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Remember this beautiful love scene? -- (link) - zork Mar 7, 19:00
Glad that someone thought to do that -- (link) - zork Mar 7, 18:53
buzzer.beater. -- (link) - Remlik Mar 7, 18:41
Unsealed documents show Johnson & Johnson helped fund a study 50 years ago that involved injecting asbestos into mostly Black inmates -- (link) - ty97 Mar 7, 18:26 1
- You know I didn't feel like making dinner anyway -- nm - con_carne Mar 7, 18:31
Jean Charest will declare his candidacy for the Conservative Leadership in Calgary on Thursday -- (link) - Beaker Mar 7, 18:24 7
- I look forward to him being hammered by the party for acknowledging that vaccines work and that climate change is real. -- nm - mafic Mar 7, 18:29 1
  - "He probably doesn't even know how to drive truck, break arms, or arm wrestle." -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 19:03
- He’s less tolerant of the fringe right than Erin O’Toole. He’ll have trouble with those who removed O’Toole, but if he can get past them, he can beat Trudeau. -- nm* - Mop Mar 7, 18:28 3
  - he'll bleed alot of crazies to Bernier -- nm - Beaker Mar 7, 18:31 2
    - Maybe. Charest will not tolerate the crazies *at all*. I don’t see how he wins leadership, though. -- nm - Mop Mar 7, 18:33
    - and to be fair ~to be fair~ he wouldn't make me want to leave the country if he won -- nm - Beaker Mar 7, 18:31
- merde! -- nm - Pierre Poutine Mar 7, 18:25
Yo Yo Ma performed this morning with his cello outside the Russian Embassy -- (link*) - budice Mar 7, 18:10 5
- Popville is the DC blog I read! -- nm - MDH Mar 7, 18:57
- Longer video -- (link) - budice Mar 7, 18:17
- wow -- nm - mud Mar 7, 18:14
- Shouldn't he play at the Ukrainian embassy instead? Why should the Russians get to hear him? Let Yoko Ono play at the Russian embassy. -- nm - Ender Mar 7, 18:13 1
  - Officer thinking. Officer violating Geneva conventions, but still. Thinking. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 18:15
Just from an editing perspective this is amazing. -- (link) - Reagen Mar 7, 18:10 4
- Seems imprudent to be showing us what's outside his window. Could make it easy for the Russians to target him. -- nm - Mop Mar 7, 19:12 2
  - They would have figured it out when he sat down at his office desk... -- nm - Ender Mar 7, 20:11
  - Damn, I wonder if he knows the Russkies want him dead. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 7, 19:40
- Take that, Sorkin. -- nm - Max Mar 7, 18:33
and the madness is well underway with OT and craziness in the SoCon Championship -- nm - JD Mar 7, 18:07
Gas Prices are bad, For EVers - Lithium is worse $15/kg up to $78/kg in six months -- (link*) - budice Mar 7, 17:57 3
- that's mostly because nobody buys at spot. large majority of the lithium market is contract. -- nm - mafic Mar 7, 18:09
- I'm glad I filled up with lithium last week. -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 18:08 1
  - It's the ions where they really get you... -- nm - Ender Mar 7, 18:09
There's "missing the point" and then there's this ... -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 7, 17:47 3
- Let me guess... Benetton? -- nm - Mop Mar 7, 19:11
- Hmm... -- nm - . Mar 7, 18:08
- *smh* -- nm - znufrii Mar 7, 18:00
My parents record the daytime reruns of Dateline, then 20 seconds in go "seen this one", "seen this one", "the boyfriend did it"... - Ender Mar 7, 17:44 5
- Current episode: Snake wrangler found dead, police spend hours looking for a supposed 600lb killer anaconda. Coroner: Ummm... Dudes... He was shot 8x. -- nm - Ender Mar 7, 17:59 2
  - They like the "new format" much better. -- nm - Ender Mar 7, 18:07
  - Police spend several more hours searching for an armed 600lb killer anaconda -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 18:00
- Why don't you have a seat over there? -- nm - Qale Mar 7, 17:58
- I would watch a show about your parents. -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 17:46
The History of the 1969 Muppets Song “Mah NA Mah NA” or: The Song that Creeped Young PFM the F Out -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 7, 17:40 1
- Always loved it but I can understand what you're saying -- nm - zork Mar 7, 18:52
The signs in Toronto are real. Well, were real.... -- (link) - ty97 Mar 7, 17:39
TwuG news: They are installing TEN(!) Tesla branded electric stations at my work at the very back of the lot. - Qale Mar 7, 17:38
If true, fucking wow -- (link) - Reagen Mar 7, 17:37 10
- I’m guessing the additional planes have arrived. Without air superiority, the Russians are about to get destroyed. Oops. Too late. -- nm - Mop Mar 7, 18:31 8
  - Were they actually getting planes? The EU said never mind. -- nm - spamlet Mar 7, 18:45 7
    - Poland is giving them MiGs and you guys are giving the Poles replacement F-xxs -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 18:49 6
      - I saw that was proposed after the EU said never mind but didn’t see that it was final. -- nm - spamlet Mar 7, 19:02
      - and the Pistons get Kyrie? -- nm - mud Mar 7, 18:53 1
        
        And every Toronto team waits too long and gets nothing -- nm - zork Mar 7, 18:58
      - I've heard F-16s and/or F-22s -- nm - zork Mar 7, 18:51
      - "The Hand-Me-Down War" -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 18:51 1
        
        by Judy Blume? -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 19:03
- sweet! -- nm - mud Mar 7, 17:39
awwwww -- (link) - mud Mar 7, 17:26
Last week, I was Confident, Formal, and Friendly. And I had a new personal best for productivity. - David Mar 7, 17:26 1
- I may have written 63,421 words since covid started. And 3,421 of those were for Spelling Bee -- nm - prayformojo Mar 7, 17:27
DC metro had 180k riders 4 days in a row last week. Over 100% increase from 2021 and highest in a long time. Down from 650-700k daily pre pandemic. -- nm - MDH Mar 7, 17:18 1
- I've been WFH long enough I forgot how much traffic there is until I was out at 3pm today. - Max Mar 7, 17:22
Effing Landlords: Part Two. I go to the office, show them they have cashed the rent check on Mar 3rd. They said, they'd take care of it. - Qale Mar 7, 17:17 1
- "a SPECIAL kind of dumbfuck"! -- nm - mud Mar 7, 17:38
Re: add on services like b2. There’s a lot of people with a lot of money. There’s a whole new level of these services and they are only increasing. - MDH Mar 7, 17:07
Whoa, just found out about Leonardo's donation to Ukraine. Wow -- nm - zork Mar 7, 17:06
my girls have now started buying albums...don't have a record player...just buying albums - Beaker Mar 7, 17:02 10
- I vastly underrated my I tweets in buying albums. I love it. I listen every day. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 7, 17:41
- For some reason I just remembered the movie Perfectly Normal. - zork Mar 7, 17:12
- Perfect for their drug habit. -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 17:08
- $40 a record now! Which maybe keeps up with inflation, but man. -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 17:04 2
  - $25 for the Superbloom one, it replaced a March Break trip so a small price to pay...plus the oldest lost her mind when we found it -- nm - Beaker Mar 7, 17:05 1
    - and as mentioned, it looks very very cool -- nm - Beaker Mar 7, 17:06
- Related: we will likely be making an appearance in Boston the weekend of July 9th for the 5 Seconds of Summer concert. Will be asking some questions - Beaker Mar 7, 17:03 1
  - Leader Bank Pavilion in Boston...good? bad? -- nm - Beaker Mar 7, 17:09
- One of the biggest things I loved/miss about owning albums is the art. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 7, 17:02 1
  - Yes -- nm - zork Mar 7, 17:08
Now we're at 6.41/gal -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 16:59 6
- (This is 2.169/L Canadian) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 17:43
- just paid 1.699 per liter at Costco -- nm* - Beaker Mar 7, 17:24
- ~$6.75 here. ($1.78/l) -- nm - mafic Mar 7, 17:21
- Boris mentioned something about £2 per litre today. Must be about the same. -- nm - zork Mar 7, 17:10
- $4.69 -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 7, 17:04
- 4.05 for regular, spent $60 to fill the rental -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 7, 17:03
Chinese Defense Minster says Taiwan and Ukraine situations are totally different because Taiwan is part of China. -- (edited) - spamlet Mar 7, 16:56 5
- I agree that the China/Taiwan situation is completely different. But not really for the reason that was given. -- nm - Qale Mar 7, 17:21
- China should fill in all the water between them & Taiwan and claim it's a peninsula -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 7, 16:59 2
  - Don't give such brilliant ideas -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 7, 17:11 1
    - if they do it, I want a 10% concept/creator's fee. I'll split it with you. It should be trillions to cross the almost 150 miles and be 20+ miles wide. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 7, 17:23
- ok Vanilla Ice -- nm - Max Mar 7, 16:58
how many times will I have to explain "the package was delivered as addressed, but contained the wrong items" today? definitely more than 2. -- nm - mafic Mar 7, 16:54
this seems like pretty big Walking Dead news -- (link) - Beaker Mar 7, 16:32 9
- Just cast them as Thomas Wayne Batman and Martha Wayne Joker already damnit! -- nm - Remlik Mar 7, 17:57
- OMG! he's still alive?! He's the reason I dropped that show like hot garbage in season six! -- nm - mud Mar 7, 17:29
- Are they like dating on the show or something? -- nm - David Mar 7, 16:36 5
  - Uh, no. It has been a question of if she is going to kill him. -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 16:40 4
    - Isn't that just marriage? -- nm - David Mar 7, 16:52 1
      - Oddly we all bet that Kim's answer would have been "yes" by now. -- nm - spamlet Mar 7, 17:51
    - Mr. & Mrs. Smith 2 -- nm - Max Mar 7, 16:46 1
      - Don't tease me, I've wanted that for nearly 20 years now. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 7, 18:06
- "The dead in Walking Dead were the survivors all along!" -- nm - TWuG Mar 7, 16:34
NFL informs teams 2022 salary cap is set at $208.2 million (up from $182.5) -- (link) - Beaker Mar 7, 16:29 1
- *phew* -- nm - Saints players Mar 7, 16:34
IBM OUT -- (link) - mud Mar 7, 16:26 7
- IBM: "Renames Russian business Watson, begins turning out computers to aid in the subjugation of Ukraine." -- nm - TWuG Mar 7, 16:29 4
  - *watson rebels, defeats Russian forces with massive trivia onslaught* -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 16:31 3
    - The Russians might take this more seriously if the outcome were decided over a game of chess. -- nm - Max Mar 7, 17:00
    - it wasn't just Watson -- nm - Crick Mar 7, 16:51 1
      - *unconditional surrender* -- nm - Russian forces Mar 7, 16:58
- Well when you've lost IBM ... that's how you know you are *seriously* on the wrong side of history. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 16:28 1
  - IBM, VW and Nestle "this is too much for even us" -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 16:38
Pentagon says 100% of Russian combat power committed to Ukraine. - TWuG Mar 7, 16:17 13
- Seriously, Moldova and Georgia. It’s now or never. -- nm - Mop Mar 7, 18:49
- Reuters: "nearly 100% of pre-staged forces" which were the ones on the border, not nation/worldwide. -- (edited) - Max Mar 7, 16:20 10
  - This is what I suspected (and presumed on B2). Still and all, they're getting hammered and having to bring in non-milspec - TWuG Mar 7, 16:26 9
    - that train where they slapped white Zs on like VW vans was amazing. -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 16:37 7
      - I can't even guess at what Putin thinks the endgame is at this point. - TWuG Mar 7, 16:46 6
        
        Чому не обидва? -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 16:59 2
        
        Google translated this as "Why not offended" but I think you said "Why not both"? -- nm - TWuG Mar 7, 17:04 1
        
        depends if you go from Ukrainian or Russian. -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 17:05
        
        I think he believed the 'welcomed as liberators' story, and now that it's obviously not true he's burning the country down so nobody can have it. - mafic Mar 7, 16:52
        
        Are you gonna be the one to tell the tyrant the truth? -- nm - spamlet Mar 7, 16:49
        
        If it's that he feels he was misinformed, I suppose we'll start seeing a lot more dead generals *outside* Ukraine. -- nm - Max Mar 7, 16:48
    - IT'S GOING TO PLAN OKAY -- nm - Putin Mar 7, 16:27
- kill 'em all. -- nm - metallica Mar 7, 16:19
SCOTUS votes 6-3 to deny GOP challenge to state-court redistricting decision in North Carolina -- nm - Beaker Mar 7, 16:15
Prepare for your heart to melt more than a Chernobyl reactor -- (link*) - zork Mar 7, 16:12 3
- That really tugs at the elephant's footstrings. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 16:14
- I'm not crying! You're crying! -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 7, 16:14 1
  - Oh, I most definitely am crying -- nm - zork Mar 7, 16:16
This just in: Phil Mickelson announces his new Russia backed golf tour. -- nm - Dano Mar 7, 16:10 2
- If you miss the putt, just call in a mortar strike to make the hole where your ball is. -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 16:11 1
  - *takes out the crowd in the stands by "mistake"* -- nm - Russian forces Mar 7, 17:04
I dare him to grow the biker stache -- (link) - Reagen Mar 7, 16:08 2
- Pierre Poutine would have a fit. -- nm - mud Mar 7, 16:10
- National Post with the hard hitting journalism -- nm - Beaker Mar 7, 16:10
McEwen rink over Nunavut today 18-1 -- nm - mud Mar 7, 16:01
Dear Calvin Ridley: STEP AWAY FROM THE TWITTER! -- nm - Beaker Mar 7, 15:49 3
- Football Reddits rolling like the Falcons Boards -- nm - budice Mar 7, 15:54 2
  - "If Calvin Ridley is suspended for 2022, can he bet on the NFL this season?" -- nm - David Mar 7, 16:13 1
    - Watch the Giants try to plant a betting slip in Kenny Golladay's locker. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 7, 16:27
Canadian flag patch spotted! -- (link) - mud Mar 7, 15:43 2
- 16,000 is *massive*. If even a fraction of those are trained professionals, that’s gonna be worrying to the Russians. -- nm - Mop Mar 7, 18:38
- 👍 -- nm - zork Mar 7, 16:19
Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov is a Russian General of the Army, the current Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, - Beaker Mar 7, 15:40 1
- Apparently different guy with a similar name. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 7, 15:43
on "the essence of fake news" -- (link) - mud Mar 7, 15:35 1
- Alternative facts -- nm - zork Mar 7, 16:31
Ukraine bagged another Russian General. -- (link) - Reagen Mar 7, 15:33 8
- reading that thread...Russians don't have secure communications -- nm - Remlik Mar 7, 17:36 1
  - Yeah, early on their promitive radios were found. -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 17:56
- He should have bought his body armor where CNN does -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 7, 16:01
- That kind of sounds like taking out a Norman Schwarzkopf level general? Or maybe not if he was Chief of Staff. -- nm - Max Mar 7, 15:53 1
  - It’s the equivalent of a 2-star general if I read right. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 7, 15:54
- *fist shake* -- nm - Beaker Mar 7, 15:40
- 👍👍 -- nm - mud Mar 7, 15:36 1
  - the second half of that should make any military tactician break out in hives. -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 15:39

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