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This is a staggering number: "NATO says that up to 40,000 Russian troops have been killed, wounded, taken prisoner or are missing in Ukraine" -- (link) - decline Mar 23, 08:56 2
- Ukraine's going to have to arrange out-of-country POW camps to avoid having the Russians bombing the prisoners. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 09:00
- that's a lot. -- nm - mud Mar 23, 08:58
Speaking of the housing market, this is a very aggressive flip -- (link) - znufrii Mar 23, 08:41 2
- Plus you have to live connected to someone that has a bright yellow front door. -- nm - spamlet Mar 23, 08:47 1
  - And your Halloween game had better be on point, because that is the top of *the* block in town to go trick or treating. - znufrii Mar 23, 08:50
Now I'm curious. Sent a note to the garbage service we are moving. They said I have a "large credit" with them and asked for a forwarding address - oblique Mar 23, 08:36 14
- *pets his municipal trash collection* -- nm - znufrii Mar 23, 08:39 8
  - *laughs at your higher taxes* -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 08:44 2
    - Lower than most surrounding areas actually - znufrii Mar 23, 08:49 1
      - I tease. I mean, you are paying something for it but it is probably lower than our services. Trash is a service I do like to have some control over. - Spawn Mar 23, 08:54
  - Same. Thanks casino! -- nm - spamlet Mar 23, 08:41 4
    - Though I do wonder what’s going to happen once they run out of property to sell off to developers for money to keep the town running. -- nm - znufrii Mar 23, 08:45 3
      - child labor -- nm - decline Mar 23, 08:47
      - *Strong Towns has entered the chat* - spamlet Mar 23, 08:47 1
        
        Yup. You’ve mentioned them before, I think, and I read some of their stuff a while back, but I haven’t been keeping up recently. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 23, 08:53
- All these years the amount you have been paying monthly is actually what you owed quarterly? - Spawn Mar 23, 08:38 4
  - Got a note from our mortgage lender today that we're through underwriting and approved but I can't take out any new loans until after closing - oblique Mar 23, 08:40 3
    - I just took out a loan for some improvements and they told me not to file my taxes. I have no idea why, but I wonder how long a refund will take - jnine Mar 23, 09:00 2
      - Refunds get processed rather quickly, period. -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 09:04 1
        
        They are still working on last years. -- nm - jnine Mar 25, 20:06
Jets and Dolphins are in serious talks to trade for Chiefs’ WR Tyreek Hill -- (link) - budice Mar 23, 08:23 2
- If you're going to have Hill and Kelce and Juju you're going to have a lot of mouths to feed. -- nm - Baruno Mar 23, 08:41 1
  - But I shall have to mock my friend with this. He loves the Dolphins and hates Hill. -- nm - Baruno Mar 23, 08:42
LYC: I ordered the blue sunglasses. -- nm - Baruno Mar 23, 07:58 3
- snazzy -- nm - decline Mar 23, 07:58 2
  - Gonna be big pimpin' in my pimpmobile. -- nm - Baruno Mar 23, 08:05 1
    - spendin' cheese! -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 08:09
Unfortunately reported cases have rebounded strongly over the last two days here in Harris, County. - Qale Mar 23, 07:57
CTTP: Per Bloomberg what is the current central bank interest rate in Argentina? (It's now 0.25%-0.5% in the US) -- nm - spamlet Mar 23, 07:52 14
- The spiritual home of sovereign default? Gonna be something nutty. 35% -- nm - mafic Mar 23, 08:24 4
  - You got closest but weren't nutty enough. Was just raised to 42%. -- nm - spamlet Mar 23, 08:25 3
    - That happens to be the exact number our interest rate hit back in Asia-Russia-Argentina-Y2K Crisis. Not effective, but the target. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 23, 08:51
    - Glad I converted all my pesos to KirchBux. -- nm - Baruno Mar 23, 08:35
    - Well sure, that’s a normal number. Still a better buy than bored apes. -- nm - mafic Mar 23, 08:30
- 28.25%. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 23, 08:07
- -0.5% -- nm - Baruno Mar 23, 07:56 1
  - No, wait, I confused Germany and Argentina again. -- nm - Baruno Mar 23, 07:56
- 15.75% -- nm - znufrii Mar 23, 07:55
- 1,000,000% -- nm - decline Mar 23, 07:54 2
  - Slightly lower -- nm - spamlet Mar 23, 07:55 1
    - 999,999% -- nm - decline Mar 23, 07:58
- 3.125% -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 07:53 1
  - Slightly higher -- nm - spamlet Mar 23, 07:55
ST Plant Sale Poll - Decide my native shrubs -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 23, 07:42 13
- And who knows, maybe this is the year I finally get rid of the *goddamn* forsythia. -- nm - znufrii Mar 23, 08:02
- Witchalder surrounding a Witchhazel. Why get ground cover when you can get ground coven? -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 07:52 1
  - I like this idea. -- nm - znufrii Mar 23, 07:58
- what type of soil? shady or sunny? will you water them? DO you want to have to water them frequently? How much room for growth? -- nm* - Beaker Mar 23, 07:47 6
  - No idea, morning shade or full sun, maybe, NO, probably no wider than 3-4ft. -- nm* - znufrii Mar 23, 07:48 5
    - (I'd ask at a garden spot as you don't want them dying or get my wife to research it) :) -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 07:50 4
      - Common milkweed might get you monarch butterflies (but no idea what they require or if you have them in your area) -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 07:51 3
        
        I’ve seen a lot of it planted around here in the past year actually. - znufrii Mar 23, 07:53 1
        
        there are butterfly-loving plants around this area. I've seen lots -- nm - decline Mar 23, 07:55
        
        (something with good flowers for bees/pollinators would also be good I'd imagine) -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 07:52
- get blueberries! -- nm - decline Mar 23, 07:43 2
  - Would need to be one of the smaller varieties, but it’s a possibility. -- nm - znufrii Mar 23, 07:46 1
    - Blueberries are easy to grow and easy to harvest. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 23, 10:47
David what size are you? -- (link) - Remlik Mar 23, 07:39 1
- I was wearing my Freddie Freeman shirt yesterday. -- nm - The Allfather Mar 23, 09:15
It begins? -- (pic) - ty97 Mar 23, 07:28 [Attachment] 6
- things in not shitty areas are selling very fast here, but prices are easing a bit. -- (link) - amanda jeans Mar 23, 08:31 1
  - this location is untenable; price was dropped. -- (link) - amanda jeans Mar 23, 08:32
- That is definitely not the case here. Inventory is extremely low and things are selling almost immediately. -- nm - pmb Mar 23, 08:24 1
  - Word. We bought one and sold one all in the span of 72 hours. -- nm - oblique Mar 23, 08:26
- That's not an "even though". That's how supply and demand works. -- nm - Mop Mar 23, 08:02
- *fingers crossed* -- nm - sycor Mar 23, 07:40
The Yankees and Aaron Judge didn't reach an agreement on his 2022 salary so it might go to arbitration. Judge wants $21m and the Yanks offered $17m. - Krusty Mar 23, 07:21 7
- DO SOMETHING, YANKEES!!! -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 08:39
- They should just split it at 19 and called it a deal -- nm* - decline Mar 23, 07:36 2
  - Seems like the easy thing to do. I'm hoping they come to terms on a long-term extension and avoid him going to free agency. - Krusty Mar 23, 08:10 1
    - He wants to see if there's a sucker willing to pay him till 36. - Will Hunting Mar 23, 08:16
- At least it’s not $200k with your best SP - spamlet Mar 23, 07:33 2
  - Yeah that's just ridiculous. They'll definitely settle without going to arbitration. -- nm - Krusty Mar 23, 08:08
  - per your im, you'd think that would of come out during negotiations -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 07:41
Thomas Friedman - Xi, Putin and Trump: The Strongmen Follies -- (edited) - crash davis Mar 23, 07:21
nmbDavid, Falcons mock -- (pic) - Strongbad Mar 23, 07:17 [Attachment] 1
- another mock - decline Mar 23, 08:01
fashion - The Man in the Olive Green Tee How President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine transformed the meaning of a piece of cotton. - crash davis Mar 23, 07:04
This is crazy. Yuga Labs (the Bored Ape NFT guys) is now valued at $4B. 2021 revenue was $138M - net profit $127M. They only had 11 employees in January -- (link*) - decline Mar 23, 07:03 13
- I made the mistake of looking into what they are doing that would allow them to attract $450M -- (link) - Roger More Mar 23, 08:26 1
  - Thanks. I hate it. -- nm - znufrii Mar 23, 08:37
- I think the worst part of this is that every other NFT will point to this as a success for the industry as a whole. -- nm - Qale Mar 23, 07:53 1
  - I did see that Bill Murray is about to have some NFTs and I admit, I am a bit curious. - Spawn Mar 23, 08:19
- I assume most of that expense is just salary. -- nm - mafic Mar 23, 07:11 1
  - feeding the apes...or do I not understand something again? -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 07:12
- Lotta suckers out there -- nm - Reagen Mar 23, 07:07 6
  - And they have essentially zero overhead so of course the net margins are massive -- nm - Baruno Mar 23, 07:09 5
    - Although feeding the apes eats into it. -- nm - Reagen Mar 23, 07:16 3
      - They eat only the finest Madagascan bananas. - Baruno Mar 23, 07:18 2
        
        Ah, from Banana Antananarivo. -- nm - Reagen Mar 23, 07:29 1
        
        celebrity spokesband = Bananarama -- nm - prayformojo Mar 23, 07:31
    - I'm going to start a contrasting NFT called ChimpAMPZees. Who wants to give me money? I've got the Colorforms clip art all lined up. -- nm - Baruno Mar 23, 07:12
Pro-Israel lobbying group supporting politicians with pro-Israel stances shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone, should it? -- (link*) - znufrii Mar 23, 06:57 1
- I agree with their pro-Israel policy...but not their kill all Jews policy....I'll still give them all the money -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 07:01
Gamestop up $16 so far today to $139 and change -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 06:54 6
- bah, my meme stock is AMC. (not much, but still.) -- nm - Andie Mar 23, 07:01 2
  - up .56 to 18.82 currently -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 07:11 1
    - it hit over $20, but, that's nothing really. -- nm - Andie Mar 23, 07:12
- The hedge fund guy that runs it said his firm bought 100k shares so it shot up. -- nm - spamlet Mar 23, 06:57 1
  - That's a tight float. -- nm - Baruno Mar 23, 07:13
- man, it flucuates like crazy on the live tracker between 137 and 139 -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 06:55
USFL rules announced -- (link) - Beaker Mar 23, 06:52
nerdlegame 63 4/6 - crash davis Mar 23, 06:49
#Worldle #61 1/6 (100%) - crash davis Mar 23, 06:39 4
- Total brain fart. - VMan Mar 23, 07:20 3
  - You were flossing all over the region. -- nm - Baruno Mar 23, 07:22 2
    - Yup. Had it surrounded and kept swearing I knew the shape. Oh well. It's an interesting learning experience. Especially for how far things are. -- nm - VMan Mar 23, 07:23 1
      - indeed -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 07:26
The Lost City 84% (31/6), Everything Everywhere All at Once 96% (43/2), Infinite Storm 67% (6/3) -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 06:34
So to summarize the Republican's positions from the second day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Senate hearing: - decline Mar 23, 06:34 2
- and today Tillis going on about "court-packing" is the height of hypocrisy - ACB replacing RBG was nothing else but! -- nm - mud Mar 23, 07:13 1
  - “I’m not an attorney. I watch Law & Order from time to time.” -- nm - mud Mar 23, 07:18
the Russian in Black Widow is worse than my Russian, and my 3-year-old speaks it better than I do. -- nm - mafic Mar 23, 06:32 1
- The movie drove me crazy in that regard but I thoroughly enjoyed Pugh's scenes in Hawkeye. -- nm - Max Mar 23, 06:46
"Boris, don't be a git." -- (link) - mud Mar 23, 06:24 4
- Actually one person was killed due to Brexit (MP Jo Cox), but otherwise he's correct. -- nm - LMS Mar 23, 06:34 1
  - yes, that's important - her name should never be forgotten. -- nm - mud Mar 23, 07:07
- "wot?" -- (link) - mud Mar 23, 06:25 1
  - It's a pity they cut the continuation of his speech: "... and we don't care, they can't enter our glorious country without a visa, period!" (NM) - Marlowe Mar 23, 06:33
If you're like me, you'd just assumed that Zihuatanejo was Stephen King's invention for Shawshank -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 23, 06:14 2
- I've been there! -- nm - pmb Mar 23, 07:10 1
  - Yup, favorite place to go -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 23, 10:52
5 hours of useless training on Teams today. Kill me now. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 23, 06:14 4
- Just be glad you're not a SCOTUS nominee facing *a third day* of useless hearings. -- nm - spamlet Mar 23, 06:52
- "and now you are all masters of the color coded file tab system." -- nm - Reagen Mar 23, 06:39
- 5 HOURS? -- nm - Andie Mar 23, 06:37
- tape a couple of pictures of eyeballs to your eyelids and just take a nap for most of it -- nm - decline Mar 23, 06:36
I literally can't believe all american is still on. I have a very high threshhold for trashy teen tv, and I quit after three episodes. - amanda jeans Mar 23, 06:10 2
- I don't even know what this is -- nm - decline Mar 23, 06:43
- renewed for season 5! no word on the spinoff renewal though -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 06:15
Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Works Safely in Young Children, Company Says -- (link) - spamlet Mar 23, 06:02
ha ha -- (link) - mud Mar 23, 05:46 7
- Sounds like he found an excuse to withdraw the endorsement for someone who was likely to lose the primary with his endorsement. -- nm - Dano Mar 23, 05:50 6
  - *ding* there have been a ton of reports about how terribly he’s doing in polls. -- nm - spamlet Mar 23, 05:58 4
    - Though I wonder what is the cart and what is the horse these days. -- nm - Reagen Mar 23, 06:37 3
      - They were trying to find a way to pull support from him. There’s been a ton of money for him (and Trump) and he just keeps dropping. - spamlet Mar 23, 07:05
      - Who gives a fuck. -- nm - con_carne Mar 23, 06:58 1
        
        Ok, then -- nm - Reagen Mar 23, 06:59
  - *ding* -- nm - mud Mar 23, 05:52
Wordle 3/6 - oblique Mar 23, 05:43 10
- Wordle 277 4/6 - crash davis Mar 23, 06:37
- Wordle in 4. Worldle in 1. - Baruno Mar 23, 06:31 1
  - Canuckle in 3. - Baruno Mar 23, 06:32
- 4/6 - TWuG Mar 23, 06:25 2
  - And it screwed up my stats. I haven't failed in 40+ days, but lists my current streak as 2 - TWuG Mar 23, 06:28 1
    - bastards! -- nm - decline Mar 23, 06:34
- 5 - Inigo Mar 23, 06:06
- 4 - VMan Mar 23, 06:05
- 5 - rollo Mar 23, 05:59
- 6 - decline Mar 23, 05:59
TV PSA: Survivor, Goldbergs, AEW Dynamite, Masked Singer, Conners, Wonder Years, Domino Masters, Kung Fu, A Million Little Things, Home Economics, -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 05:40 6
- Flash, Good Sam, Temptation Island, Good Trouble, Snowfall, Astrid & Lily Save the World, Nova, NHL, NBA, Bloods (HULU), other stuff - Beaker Mar 23, 05:43 5
  - LIR: CW renews: The Flash, Riverdale, Kung Fu, Nancy Drew, Superman & Lois, Walker, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Masters Of Illusion, - Beaker Mar 23, 05:48
  - and these are shows? That are on TV? -- nm - tuzzin codd Mar 23, 05:48 3
    - I'm waiting for this crossover: Good Sam is in Good Trouble with the Good Doctor -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 05:59 2
      - in The Good Place, with The Good Wife, fighting The Good Fight? -- nm - mud Mar 23, 06:08 1
        
        you just spoiled seasons 3, 4 and 5! -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 06:15

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