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Oh my. -- (link) - Beryllium May 10, 15:28 5
- 1) this is wrong from all studies that have been done, he only thinks this because people are allowed to attack him on it - Reagen May 10, 15:42 1
  - On some level I think it's just that so much of the "conservative" end of the of the spectrum is represented by MAGA morons, that make constant stupid - pmb May 10, 16:02
- I shouldn't be shocked or outraged that "common sense" is considered a liberal value. -- nm - Mop May 10, 15:37
- Also based in San Francisco? Elon Musk. -- nm - Volnelk May 10, 15:33 1
  - Not anymore. He lives in TX Hill Country, outside of Austin. A liberal bastion in TX. -- nm - jnine May 10, 17:16
Let's say I have to pay a $47,000 bill. Can I go to the bank and say "Hey, can you cut a check from my account and send it to those people?" -- nm - Mop May 10, 15:11 5
- 4,700,000 pennies -- nm - Dano May 10, 15:55
- Sure. -- nm - Diva May 10, 15:22
- Yes. I believe it’s called a counter check and will probably cost you a couple bucks. -- nm - Volnelk May 10, 15:14 1
  - $1700 fee if I choose to pay via credit card. So "a couple bucks" sounds like a bargain. -- nm - Mop May 10, 15:17
- Probably? -- nm - znufrii May 10, 15:13
Even 69% of the quacks are vaccinated! -- (link) - Beryllium May 10, 15:08
Make sure you're in good enough shape before committing murder -- (link) - Reagen May 10, 14:51 3
- There was a writer's workshop for mystery, basically he had you bashing a fake head with a hammer, dragging 200lbs of beans and trying to load it into - zeitgeist May 10, 19:44
- Or ... don't. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 15:05
- I was literally just thinking about how I have to get into shape. -- nm - Jovian May 10, 14:55
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo May 10, 14:41 [Attachment] 8
- Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo May 10, 14:42 [Attachment] 7
  - Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo May 10, 14:42 [Attachment] 6
    - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo May 10, 14:43 [Attachment] 5
      - 2/2 -- nm - RelutantCynic May 10, 15:48
      - 0 -- nm - Peglegpete May 10, 15:38
      - 2/2 -- nm - znufrii May 10, 14:55
      - 2/2! In your face, geography! -- nm - The Allfather May 10, 14:54 1
        
        atta boy! -- nm - prayformojo May 10, 14:55
I think this was my fastest Quordle today. -- (edited) - pmb May 10, 13:58
The 2006 Prius my daughter loves needed a new AC compressor today (after $2600 brake actuator replacement in January). Very frustrating and now we're -- (edited) - oblique May 10, 13:56 10
- I’ve been putting off a ~$1000 ABS module replacement for our Honda -- nm* - znufrii May 10, 14:40
- I'm looking at $3000 for steering in order for my car to pass state inspection, but that's still a fraction of car replacement. -- nm - Max May 10, 14:16 1
  - Yup. Hence my pending new motor. *knocks wood* - Spawn May 10, 14:18
- compared to payments on a new car, 2-300 a month towards repairs is reasonable. - zeitgeist May 10, 14:03 1
  - *ding* -- nm - Spawn May 10, 14:05
- I wonder what the long term maintenance burden will be for the latest crop of EVs... - Beryllium May 10, 13:59 3
  - There's a lot less to break on them. I finally switched out my winters and I've almost worn them out (after only 20k km) - Reagen May 10, 14:28 1
    - I mean, if anyone could find a way to get it wrong, it's Ford. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 14:35
  - must a lot better, most anything goes wrong with an ICE, its 1,200 min, 5k or more yikes is common. otherwise, brakes, shocks, heater, wipers, - zeitgeist May 10, 14:06
- whoa -- nm - budice May 10, 13:59
Mario Batali found Not Guilty of indecent assault. -- nm - Diva May 10, 13:55 2
- Reading a bit about what came out in the trial, I don't understand how that's possible -- nm - prayformojo May 10, 14:00 1
  - not guilty on a technicality? -- nm - colin May 10, 15:04
Foosball shoot of the year -- (link) - zork May 10, 13:54 1
- Yeah, in college we had to make a rule to make it illegal. -- nm - Spawn May 10, 14:21
Hank and John Green had a moment in their podcast this week and it's prompted a question: "dandy-lion" or "dan-duh-ly-uhn"? - Mop May 10, 13:35 7
- Dan-duh-lion. -- nm - Krusty May 10, 16:12
- Daniel D. Lion -- nm - rollo May 10, 14:37 1
  - , Esquire -- nm - Spawn May 10, 14:45
- dandy-lion if you are a child. -- nm - Spawn May 10, 13:38 3
  - I am a child. -- nm - Qale May 10, 16:51
  - Well, we settled that quickly. -- nm - Mop May 10, 13:39 1
    - *snork* -- nm - Spawn May 10, 13:40
This made me chortle -- (link) - Jovian May 10, 13:29
$13.62 million for Dr. Strange today. - David May 10, 13:29 6
- I'll be going tonight -- nm - oblique May 10, 13:30 5
  - *lower lip quivers* -- nm - AMC May 10, 13:32 4
    - $5 Tuesday is my new normal -- nm - oblique May 10, 13:40 3
      - Wait, you make the drive? - Spawn May 10, 13:41 2
        
        Marcus Theater near the house -- nm - oblique May 10, 13:42 1
        
        So, does *everyone* do $5 Tuesdays? -- nm - Spawn May 10, 13:43
Penske Trucks: Top Mover Destinations for 2021 -- (pic) - budice May 10, 13:27 [Attachment] 3
- do they mention where the top ten cities they are moving from? -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 14:09
- The libs are coming to take your houses! -- nm - Mop May 10, 13:38
- Ah, the Penske file. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:38
Talk to your kids, boys too, about sex-extortionists trying to get content to use as blackmail. -- (link) - Qale May 10, 13:24
The Sea always wins in the end -- (link) - decline May 10, 13:23 1
- Now Bery just wants it more. -- nm - Mop May 10, 13:55
"Trump Kept Asking if China Was Shooting Us With a ‘Hurricane Gun’” -- (link) - decline May 10, 13:12 3
- Perfectly reasonable! -- nm - Jovian May 10, 13:34 2
  - the amazing thing is, as rediculous as some of these stories are getting is that nobody is making any of this shit up - zeitgeist May 10, 13:54 1
    - The really amazing and very sad thing is tens of millions dont care. - Jovian May 10, 14:08
James Cromwell glues hand to a Starbucks counter in New York City -- (link) - mud May 10, 12:55 15
- people will be flocking to that starbucks to get selfies with him....but be disappointed he won't give an autograph -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 13:57
- Huh. I didn't realize that Zefram was crazy. -- nm - sycor May 10, 13:42
- Vid -- (link) - budice May 10, 13:38 5
  - Oh, it's a PETA thing. Even better. He's not objecting to the price of alternative milks. He's objecting to cow's milk. -- nm - Mop May 10, 13:39 4
    - Why what? Why would someone protest cow milk? -- nm - Jovian May 10, 13:42 3
      - Ask a vegan. I wonder if they'll have an opinion on this question. -- nm - Mop May 10, 15:18
      - Because it is cheaper than plant based. - Spawn May 10, 13:43 1
        
        ... and probably subsidized, although that wouldn't be SB's fault -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:48
- That's not Starbucks' fault. They're more expensive at the grocery store, too. -- nm - Mop May 10, 13:33
- It seems like there might be more important things to protest, but given Starbucks union busting efforts, more power to stickin' jimmy here -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:11
- I honestly thought they were going to start doing the opposite and charge more for dairy. -- nm - Qale May 10, 13:06
- I'm guessing that his last royalty check could cover everyone that EVER came into that Starbucks' "extra charges for plant-based milks." -- nm - JaxSean May 10, 13:03
- James Cromwell is in Succession? -- nm - David May 10, 13:01 1
  - He's Brian Cox's brother. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 13:01
- "Okay everybody, if you'll all take 1 large step to your right, we'll get on with it at register 2." -- nm - rollo May 10, 13:00
God, I hate stupid managers - Will Hunting May 10, 12:47 3
- For their next trick, they will review the changes, declare them unhelpful, insist you change it back, and deny they ever told you to change it. - Baruno May 10, 12:56 2
  - I have more tabs hidden with old ideas than anyone should -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 13:56
  - This is why you always save old code. - Strongbad May 10, 13:13
Somebody needs to make this story into a movie: Man charged with killing mother at sea to inherit estate - decline May 10, 12:46 2
- He reportedly said 'my mother was the main problem' out on the boat. Dude. -- nm - Diva May 10, 12:54
- Once Upon a Time in Burlington -- nm - Max May 10, 12:48
What could possibly go wrong? -- (link) - znufrii May 10, 12:36 1
- bond villains are requesting subscriptions to her newsletter -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 14:13
Yes, please -- (link) - spamlet May 10, 12:35
Oof! Peleton lost almost a billion dollars last quarter and is burning through cash and borrowing from Wall Street to stay afloat -- (link) - decline May 10, 12:32 5
- Sounds like they could us a martini -- (link) - JD May 10, 13:11 [youtube]
- Maybe if they backpedal hard enough -- nm - Max May 10, 12:46 1
  - i dunno, no matter how much effort they put into it, they never seem to go anywhere -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 14:15
- The Wheels are off -- nm - budice May 10, 12:33 1
  - The wheels on the Peloton go round and round - Strongbad May 10, 12:46
Jesse Williams has a Broadway surprise out on the Internets -- (link) - budice May 10, 12:30
I chuckled. Doubly so at the bottom right one. -- (link) - Beryllium May 10, 12:24 1
- I still think I prefer "person with coke habit" over "coke habit person" because the former lets me pretend I still have some control. -- nm - Max May 10, 12:31
some jerktini who use to work at my new company favored using SUMPRODUCT over, say, SUMIF. - amanda May 10, 12:18 2
- I love that there is a whole "excel world" of optimization and shit that probably mirrors what we in IT encounter when we come into a new job - oblique May 10, 12:39 1
  - "Like really? Couldnt use VLOOKUP?" -- nm - budice May 10, 12:41
Apple says iPod Touch is available while supplies last, hinting it’s the end of the line for the music player. -- (link*) - Qale May 10, 11:54 3
- "from my cold dead hands ..!" -- (pic) - mud May 10, 12:08 [Attachment] 2
  - Still rocking two of the black 160 gig ones -- nm - Remlik May 10, 12:15 1
    - That is only because they are part of your Lobot cosplay. -- nm - Spawn May 10, 13:45
EA Sports has announced FIFA 23 will be the last game with the FIFA name, replacing it with EA Sports FC. -- nm - Strongbad May 10, 11:44 1
- (EA lost FIFA sponsorship) -- nm - budice May 10, 11:48
In not really news: The new Lord of Twitter declares he will allow American Mussolini back on the platform. -- nm - Jovian May 10, 11:28 17
- What are the tech and legal challenges to someone just skinning Twitter and making their own version? - Reagen May 10, 13:51
- Simple enough. For every time Trump tweets something objectionable, Twitter will now be held accountable under safe harbor provisions. -- nm - Mop May 10, 13:37
- i never use it, but i was saving quitting and closing my account until something like this happens. Any day now. -- nm - Andie May 10, 12:53 2
  - I'll keep it unless it becomes a cesspool. I ignored Trump for 4 years on twitter and can continue to do so. Now if they switch to a subscription - decline May 10, 12:59 1
    - I won’t support any service that actively sides with treasonous Americans. Musk is doing so. -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 13:58
- "If there are tweets that are wrong and bad, those should be either deleted or made invisible, and a suspension, a temporary suspension is appropriate - decline May 10, 12:09 1
  - Okay, does that same argument apply to someone who repeatedly pisses on subway trains? Or do transit authorities dole out permabans for that? -- nm* - Beryllium May 10, 12:10
- I left 10 days ago, ish, and it feels like I was never there. It's wonderful. I'm getting stuff out of RSS and it's more than enough for me. (NM) - Marlowe May 10, 11:44 5
  - Same, I'm surprised how I don't miss it at all - Guigue May 10, 12:48
  - I enjoyed the web site's pinterest like cascade of various posts in different themes, they killed it 3 years ago, now it's a wall after 1 st message -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 12:19
  - I stopped posting a while ago, but I still read it. I might stop. I'm still paying for Blue, but I'm keeping a weather eye on their actions ... -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 11:52 2
    - Cloudy with a chance of Stupid. -- nm - Diva May 10, 12:12 1
      - Buwhaaaa -- nm - St. Epiphany May 10, 12:35
- thred: -- (link) - mud May 10, 11:33 2
  - One of them was angry at spam filters today. It's never been about speech, they're angry that people don't *have* to listen to them. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 13:57 1
    - bingo! and recall its no fun yelling at people who agree with them. they want that captive audience -- nm - St. Epiphany May 10, 14:05
- Cheeto Benito? -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 11:33
Westworld season 4 teaser -- (link) - Beaker May 10, 11:28 [youtube]
Early Review: Top Gun 2 == Paddington 2 -- (link*) - budice May 10, 11:13 1
- Actually, does not =. -- nm - Spawn May 10, 12:54
25 years ago, Bruce Willis made the most decisive Sci-Fi movie ever. -- (link) - spamlet May 10, 11:09 16
- I didn't make it through the first time I tried watching. Have not tried again. -- nm - zork May 10, 13:52
- Uh, Bruce Willis did not "make" Fifth Element, Luc Besson did -- nm - Guigue May 10, 13:22 2
  - He didn't make it, but he made it. -- nm - Spawn May 10, 13:40 1
    - ah Ha -- nm - mud May 10, 13:46
- It had a deep lack of Replicants and Getting Your Ass To Mars. -- nm - Qale May 10, 11:46
- Was expecting Armageddon :) -- nm - oblique May 10, 11:28
- I'm gonna go listen to the soundtrack right now. -- nm - Max May 10, 11:28
- Horrible then. Horrible now. -- nm - Inigo May 10, 11:27 1
  - # 1 How dare YOU - St. Epiphany May 10, 12:36
- thought OK on first watch...but have since watched it a dozen times plus. great, fun movie. I won a moolti-pass in a contest and have it at home -- nm - Beaker May 10, 11:18 2
  - and Ted Lasso stole his dart game quote from this movie.... - Beaker May 10, 11:20 1
    - Where's your army of little machines now? -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 11:49
- and he looks great in that strappy bikini. -- nm - Max May 10, 11:17
- It's not a good movie per se, lots of plot whole and silliness, but I love it. -- nm - sycor May 10, 11:15 2
  - Yep the plot is meaningless but it's pure cheezy fun -- nm - eag May 10, 11:18 1
    - I adore its glorious messiness. Nobody cares about details. Give me a show. -- nm - Baruno May 10, 12:13
Took my love to the station, her suitcase in my hand, it's hard to tell, so hard to tell when all your love's in vain -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 10:59 4
- ~you watch them as they fall, oh baby they all have heart attacks/ They stay at the carnival, but they'll never win you back!~ -- (link) - mud May 10, 11:09 [youtube]
- So you find yourself at the subway, with your world in a bag by your side. -- (link) - David May 10, 11:00 [youtube] 2
  - oh! now I gotta rewatch that too -- nm - mud May 10, 11:05 1
    - That scene is one of the most brilliant representations of the creative process ever filmed. I'll die on this hill. -- nm - David May 10, 11:07

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