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TV Poll: which show gets more minutes watched this Friday: ObiWan or Stranger Things? -- nm - Beaker May 25, 10:01 1
- ST -- nm - Shaun May 25, 10:04
Hawks PG Trey Young made $35 Million last night based on a contract clause from being selected 3rd team All NBA -- nm - Strongbad May 25, 09:58
What are the top 3 legislatively untouchable things in American right now? - Beryllium May 25, 09:35 7
- We never passed the women's rights amendment -- nm - zeitgeist May 25, 10:06
- Social Security and Guns are 1A and 1B IMO. Not sure about 3. -- nm - Strongbad May 25, 10:01
- Whatever the GOP deems untouchable. -- nm - ty97 May 25, 09:57
- 1) Guns 2) Social Security (too many boomers would lose their minds) 3) Taxes on the rich -- nm - Inigo May 25, 09:55 1
  - I think you're right. -- nm - amanda May 25, 09:57
- I would replace #3 with voting rights -- nm - oblique May 25, 09:38 1
  - Disagree, there's been a lot of legislation passed at the state level regarding elections. - Roger More May 25, 09:44
Yes, this. -- (link) - Reagen May 25, 09:15 9
- Sure, if we had the votes. But Sinema and Manchin... -- nm - Inigo May 25, 09:24 6
  - I can't tell if you're joking about being stuck in the loop or actually in the loop. -- nm - Reagen May 25, 09:29 5
    - No idea what you mean. The tweet is acting like getting rid of the filibuster is something that we could do, but are just scared to. - Inigo May 25, 09:35 4
      - No, that's a misread. No one is going "oh I had a thought. you know what a good idea would be..." - Reagen May 25, 09:41 3
        
        I'd say that take is a gross misunderstanding of why Sinema and Manchin won't vote to get rid of it. - Inigo May 25, 09:53 2
        
        It's also directed at Dems who are not Manchin and Sinema, who might be afraid of the filibuster "safety net" being lifted - Reagen May 25, 10:10
        
        That is the thing though. It's legislative rigor mortis. Don't support it? Ok. Vote that way instead of using the can in the fake hope of some - Reagen May 25, 10:07
- I was about to replay with something very close to the first reply there, "The GOP is literally going to do whatever they want via the courts anyway" - Spawn May 25, 09:17 1
  - There are enough court-stops on the way to the Supreme Court to at least let us enjoy a better life before things get overturned. -- nm - Qale May 25, 09:19
STIF: Find me a kickass USB *desktop* dock (not some dinky little gadget for a laptop). -- nm - Mop May 25, 09:13 11
- is your machine a dell? I have two spare wd15s. - amanda May 25, 09:47 2
  - Those are nice. I'd happy take them, but I suspect you could sell them on Amazon Marketplace or Ebay for some spending cash. -- (link) - Mop May 25, 09:55 1
    - they don't have the ports you need. -- nm - amanda May 25, 09:59
- What kind of crap desktop do you have that needs a dock? :) - oblique May 25, 09:19 7
  - The one that's under my desk and often needs a half-dozen thumb drives plugged into it. -- nm - Mop May 25, 09:29 5
    - Buy dozens of these -- (link) - oblique May 25, 09:34 1
      - USB 2.0... how quaint. -- nm - Mop May 25, 09:43
    - just search for 16 port usb hub on amazon - decline May 25, 09:31 1
      - Indeed. If it is primarily for more USB ports then perhaps something like this -- (link) - JD May 25, 10:04
    - Buy a PCI-E card with extra USB ports -- nm - Guigue May 25, 09:30
  - I am curious as well. This doesn't make sense to me, given what I consider a laptop dock's function to be. -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 09:22
Is nausea but no coughing or fever a symptom of COVID? Or is it just nausea? -- nm - Mop May 25, 08:41 4
- I think there is C-19, flu, and an intestinal virus all circulating. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 25, 09:09 2
  - monkey flu? - Spawn May 25, 09:11 1
    - Coronapox. -- nm - Qale May 25, 09:18
- I think nausea is (was?) was of the more random sxs but usually accompanied others. -- nm - sycor May 25, 08:44
Our Flag Means Muppets -- (link) - Beryllium May 25, 08:33 1
- Yesterday was #OurFlagMeansDeathDay...? And I missed it?!! -- nm - Mop May 25, 08:40
One of yesterday's troubles. (The other was covid.) -- (pic) - Beryllium May 25, 08:21 [Attachment] 11
- Damnit, you guys are gonna f'n jinx me -- nm - zeitgeist May 25, 10:04
- My wife got her car towed yesterday too. -- nm - pmb May 25, 09:43
- 18 minutes is too long! We need to make room for other visitors! -- nm - HOA May 25, 09:05 1
  - Heh, we actually got the office building's permission to leave it overnight if necessary. Turned out not to be. -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 09:21
- Maybe pay your parking tickets? -- nm - Mop May 25, 08:40 1
  - Hah. I think I've only ever had one parking ticket in my life. Two, if you count the time I lent my Stratus to someone. -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 08:42
- your brakes went out AND you got Covid? - St. Epiphany May 25, 08:28 4
  - Well, not sure if I did. But my oldest kid did. I might yet. -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 08:32 3
    - I'm sorry. it is too much all at once -- nm* - St. Epiphany May 25, 08:59
    - frick -- nm - Spawn May 25, 08:58
    - :-[ dude! -- nm - mud May 25, 08:35
Biden to visit Texas -- (link) - mud May 25, 08:19 31
- He could come to Houston this weekend during the NRA meeting in which Cruz, Abbott, and Trump are due to speak. -- nm - Qale May 25, 08:43 11
  - Bill fucking Frist calling for something to be done. Man, what if *he'd* ever had power? -- nm - Reagen May 25, 09:20
  - great idea. Imagine if there was a huge protest and he spoke at it. It would be epic. -- nm - mud May 25, 08:45 1
    - Get him in the Popemobile, maybe. -- nm - Spawn May 25, 08:58
  - Or he could send a care package. - Beryllium May 25, 08:45 7
    - A big rubber foam middle finger -- nm - eag May 25, 08:59
    - It’s alright. I didn’t really much like being here anyway. -- nm - Qale May 25, 08:58 5
      - You'd be fine! And there'd be some cheap real estate after. -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 09:20 1
        
        I mean, sure, psychologically scarred. But the real estate! -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 09:36
      - y'all need to move up here. Seriously. -- nm Posted by mud May 24 '22, 14:16 -- nm - mud May 25, 09:01 2
        
        If I had no family here, in a heartbeat. -- nm - Spawn May 25, 09:02 1
        
        bring'em. bring them all. - mud May 25, 09:37
- Should Biden really be leaving the country at a time of crisis? -- nm - Reagen May 25, 08:22 1
  - :-] -- nm - mud May 25, 08:24
- That'll fix it. -- nm - Spawn May 25, 08:19 16
  - Its points to hilight concern. Also If Senate sends Bills up for vote. Maybe more exec orders (which may/may not hold up in court) -- nm* - budice May 25, 08:22 15
    - He’s useless. Much like Obama, he’ll say nothing that resonates while standing in front of the largest microphone on the fucking planet. - Will Hunting May 25, 09:05 2
      - What ya gonna say when 40% of the electorate doesn't even believe your the legitimate President -- nm - eag May 25, 09:16 1
        
        Speak to the 60. Or in this case, the 85%+ who support reform. - Will Hunting May 25, 09:22
    - Wouldn't it be nice if the Dems won the midterms, and then took that as a mandate for effective action - end filibuster, embiggen SCOTUS, and GSD? - Beryllium May 25, 08:39
    - nothing is going to happen. Nothing. we will have this conversation again in a year. - Andie May 25, 08:29 10
      - While probably true, such negative predictions serve no purpose but to adjust downwards your own expectations for you to avoid disappointment. - con_carne May 25, 08:58 4
        
        Yeah, lets all quiet down our outrage, 'mkay? -- nm - Spawn May 25, 09:10 2
        
        Simma down na! -- nm - Strongbad May 25, 09:33
        
        just deal with your disappointment better, Spawn. -- nm - Andie May 25, 09:11
        
        oh, so being angry about 19 dead kids is 'negative'? -- (edited) - Andie May 25, 09:09
      - (A week.) - Dark Callisto May 25, 08:35 2
        
        I compare this to Sandyhook so I am at least hoping it is more along those lines in timeframe. - Spawn May 25, 09:00
        
        Yeah, I was about to say Andie was lovingly optimistic in her pessimism. (NM) - Marlowe May 25, 08:37
      - 2nd Amend. + corrupted SCOTUS + more guns than people + obsessive gun culture = this will go on for generations -- nm - mud May 25, 08:32
      - It is sad that Fox News gets something right. - Spawn May 25, 08:30
Remember their names. And remember who refused to protect them -- (link) - TWuG May 25, 08:10 3
- yeah! -- (link) - mud May 25, 08:16
- Well, it's not a bug, it's a feature for those people. (NM) - Marlowe May 25, 08:15
- I made it through five before having to stop. I will go through the whole list tonight when I am not at work. -- nm - Spawn May 25, 08:12
Truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love and a hard boiled egg. -- nm* - znufrii May 25, 07:57 2
- Excellent fort names. -- nm - Spawn May 25, 07:58 1
  - The scrambled egg and overeasy lobby might have issue with the last one -- nm - eag May 25, 08:05
From b2 Budice: Maybe your oil change shop can start accepting your pets.com gift certificates. -- nm - Qale May 25, 07:56 4
- $25 For Full Synthetic Oil, it was a deal. I only went there on price. But sbux nearby and other stuff helped -- nm* - budice May 25, 08:08 1
  - I have other options Ive been to before, closer to $30 for Full Synth Oil Change -- nm - budice May 25, 08:12
- What about Bed, Bath & Beyond coupons? -- nm - Spawn May 25, 07:57 1
  - I got a whole stack of AOL disks with, like, hundreds of free hours. Maybe those? -- nm - Qale May 25, 08:13
Windows 10 taskbar: Ongoing Alert! *click* nothing happens - oblique May 25, 07:53 6
- Is it about the continent-sized 'blobs' in the deep Earth? Because... DOOM! -- (link) - Mop May 25, 08:18
- *mushroom cloud* -- nm - budice May 25, 07:59
- Sorry. The Alert is that our Alerts are malfunctioning. Would you be willing to take a short survey and tell how we did in resolving your issue? -- nm - Windows 10 May 25, 07:55
- Alert! Your apes have been stolen! -- nm - Swilcan Baron May 25, 07:54 2
  - Also, they are no longer bored. -- nm - ty97 May 25, 07:58 1
    - All my apes are aroused! -- nm - Beryllium May 25, 08:14
DTL people - is the site down for anyone else? -- nm - Will Hunting May 25, 07:48 3
- It's back -- nm - spamlet May 25, 09:51
- Same -- nm - spamlet May 25, 08:05
- yep -- nm - rollo May 25, 07:49
I just joined a team at work where the person training me is in the habit of just always sending happy Teamses. Maria, my mighty heart is breaking. - con_carne May 25, 07:46
Pfizer to provide its drugs to 45 of the world’s poorest countries on a not-for-profit basis -- (link) - znufrii May 25, 07:44 3
- When I read this the first time, I thought it was about Trump. -- nm - Volnelk May 25, 08:34
- I'm sure they'll pay for it by raising prices in the US -- nm - decline May 25, 07:45 1
  - Which is perfectly fine. (NM) - Marlowe May 25, 07:48
NJ's fledgling cannabis industry made $24M in it's first month and the NJ gov't has issued a dozen more licenses for shops -- nm - decline May 25, 07:38 5
- $90 of that was from me! :) -- nm - Jovian May 25, 08:05
- we are still only medicinal. I wonder if seeing other states bring in rec bank will move the needle in our conservative legislature. -- nm - amanda May 25, 07:43 3
  - hahahahaha - decline May 25, 08:04
  - One can hope. -- nm - znufrii May 25, 08:03
  - They still bleep pot references here on the radio, which is funny. It's legal now! -- nm - Reagen May 25, 07:59
The Onion’s “No Way To Prevent This…” headline has its own Wikipedia entry and has been used 21 times since 2014. -- (link) - Tim May 25, 07:37
LIR decline, I didn't see anything super impressive on discovery+. I had a free offer too but I think I deleted it. Plus I think it will all be on HBO - sycor May 25, 07:06
I just remember Monday is a holiday. woohoo! -- nm - sycor May 25, 07:03 9
- Well, holiday pay anyway. -- nm - Qale May 25, 07:49 5
  - I remember my supermarket job. The holiday days are always so barbecue-centric. So much of the same items. -- nm - con_carne May 25, 07:52 4
    - At least it’s a Monday holiday. Monday is already busy, so more busy doesn’t really change things. -- nm - Qale May 25, 07:54 3
      - I wouldn't have thought of Monday being a big grocery day. -- nm - sycor May 25, 08:00 2
        
        Day off? I would expect so. -- nm - Spawn May 25, 08:34
        
        Sunday, Monday, and after work Tuesday. -- nm - Qale May 25, 08:15
- And I'm taking off Th/F b/c I'm maxed on PTO. Work motivation level is waning fast. -- nm - Swilcan Baron May 25, 07:26
- Weekend forecast: Rain Thursday -> Sunday - decline May 25, 07:05 1
  - Rain Friday. Sunny the rest of the weekend 81, 85, 89. - sycor May 25, 07:08
LIR, so I don't get caught up in the renewal issue for Sirius/XM - how much should I pay monthly? what can I talk them down to? -- nm - St. Epiphany May 25, 06:42 5
- When I subscribed in March I paid $78 for a year plus got a free Echo. And that was after taxes and fees. So, $6.50/mo -- nm - sycor May 25, 08:03 2
  - thanks everyone -- nm - St. Epiphany May 25, 08:29 1
    - $ 7.16 a month was the best I can do. -- nm - St. Epiphany May 25, 10:02
- We had gotten 6 months free for buying concert tickets. We let it lapse then they offered (by mail) $6.06 per month for a year. That's what - zunk xometimes May 25, 07:40 1
  - yeah it's on my calendar to cancel. I'm not willing to pay much more as little as I drive now. -- nm - sycor May 25, 08:04
Gang, thanks for all the supportive messages about Mac yesterday. Very much appreciated -- nm - prayformojo May 25, 06:42 16
- I missed your post, just wanted to say good job with the whole thing. Sounds like you are knocking this parenting thing out of the park. -- nm - sycor May 25, 07:03
- I’m glad she has a strong extended support system, many kids do not. -- nm - Tim May 25, 07:02
- I kinda wish there was a world where all the ST kids met once. I think they would get along pretty damn well. -- nm - oblique May 25, 06:53 13
  - ST Kids, coming this fall to the CW Saturday Mornings! -- nm - Mop May 25, 09:14
  - I’ll make sure to bring my actual totally legit real adopted child Nestor. -- nm* - Qale May 25, 07:50 2
    - That's just you in a hoodie, isn't it? -- nm - Mop May 25, 09:15
    - The ST kids would love Uncle Qale :) -- nm - oblique May 25, 07:51
  - they'd all sit around and talk about how their parents are nerds - St. Epiphany May 25, 06:57 8
    - They'd have to look up from their phones first. -- nm - Mop May 25, 09:14
    - "Hey kids: cake or pie?" -- nm - The InSTigator May 25, 07:13 6
      - Pie. The cake is a lie. -- nm - ST kids si May 25, 09:00
      - "And welcome to the first annual ST Parent Draft!" -- nm - The InSTigator May 25, 07:43
      - I'll have one slice of Boston Cream Dessert, please. -- nm - Swilcan Baron May 25, 07:36
      - More like "Who wants hotdog sandwiches" -- nm - sycor May 25, 07:24
      - I have one of each. -- nm - Reagen May 25, 07:14 1
        
        Lord Palmerston! -- nm - G s.i. May 25, 07:16
100 days until LotR:TRoP S1, 88 days til HotD S1, 44 days til THOR4 -- nm - mud May 25, 06:40
Jessie is a friend -- nm - Swilcan Baron May 25, 06:38 2
- You know, I wish that I had Jesus's girl. -- nm - Mop May 25, 08:17
- Did you see he is releasing new versions of some of his stuff? - Spawn May 25, 07:42

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