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watching the Miz on MasterChef Jr, the dude has more charisma in his pinkie than 99.99% of people -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 19:06
After 3 years, The Orville could have really used a good "previously on" segment to start with. -- nm - Ender Jun 3, 19:05 4
- hate shows that do that -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 19:14 1
  - It was somewhat of an emotionally heavy episode, too, which surprised me. (spoils) - Beryllium Jun 3, 19:16
- Well, that's not wrong, but it didn't matter for me (spoils) - Beryllium Jun 3, 19:10
- We just finished? Spoil - Spawn Jun 3, 19:09
Damn!! At least not a gun this time - which will please the GOP :/ -- (link) - Meg Jun 3, 19:03
They could do a Dominion War star trek series in the style of Band of Brothers, with the remaining DS9 cast returning as veterans commenting on it - Beryllium Jun 3, 18:55 5
- "Lieutenant, are you gonna shoot lefty all night?" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 3, 18:57
- Sisko could tell you about what he did during the war, but then he'd have to kill you. -- nm - Mop Jun 3, 18:57
- I'd watch that -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 18:56 2
  - (the Garak book the actor wrote of the post war Cardassia is also great just an FYI) -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 19:00 1
    - he and other cast members of DS9 are doing readings on Bashir's podcast/video series -- (link) - Remlik Jun 3, 19:14 [youtube]
If an order is placed and confirmed as 'curbside' how can it print out in the restaurant as 'takeaway'?? Just finished my cold Outback steak :( -- nm - Meg Jun 3, 18:52
Disneyland: Tarzan’s Treehouse and walls are now gone -- (link) - budice Jun 3, 18:34
Phillies with a "good riddance Girardi" game. -- nm - Tim Jun 3, 18:21 1
- Bryce Harper with +40HR and +100RBI from here -- nm - budice Jun 3, 18:25
Halos on track to lose their 9th straight. Back to .500 -- nm - budice Jun 3, 18:17
No, no, DOJ, this is not the way. -- (link) - TWuG Jun 3, 17:49 4
- Just to level set, we know nothing is going to come out of the 1/6 investigation right? -- nm - MDH Jun 3, 17:53 3
  - Oh no, THIS time we're getting Trump for sure. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 4, 04:36
  - Whaaaat? I was assuming that it would restore stable democracy, like such investigations do in every country they happen in. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 3, 18:47
  - Oh for sure. -- nm - Pocket Jones Jun 3, 18:43
Nope. No thank you. -- (link) - RelutantCynic (Oregon State Beaver Believer) Jun 3, 17:37 2
- you can listen to the radio signal -- (link) - Max Jun 3, 18:23 [youtube]
- 6EQUJ5, bitches! -- nm - Neutron star Jun 3, 17:54
Houston Astros, Yordan Álvarez agree to 6-year, $115M extension -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 17:20
fantasy artist Ken Kelly passed away today. he was 76. no mention of cause of death. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 3, 17:09
Survivor winner spoilers - Beaker Jun 3, 16:58 1
- spoilers - . Jun 3, 17:07
"why don't we put HER in charge?!" -- (link) - mud Jun 3, 16:57 1
- Give her a vest!! -- nm - Pippy Jun 3, 18:50
... still don't have the Escape back. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 3, 16:57 2
- So you can't escape in it? -- nm - . Jun 3, 17:08 1
  - Indeed. But sailing got cancelled so I dont really have anywhere to go anyway. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 3, 18:29
Coinbase putting themselves out there as big flashing warning light for the need for both crypto regs and, perhaps more importantly, labour regs -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 3, 16:40
now playing: Stranger Things S04E01 -- nm - prayformojo Jun 3, 16:36 1
- really dug that opening episode -- nm - prayformojo Jun 3, 18:00
Have we seen crash lately? *lights up the crash signal* -- nm - RelutantCynic (Oregon State Beaver Believer) Jun 3, 16:29 2
- crash is a figment of our collective imagination. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 3, 17:09 1
  - crash is our spirit guide - RelutantCynic (Oregon State Beaver Believer) Jun 3, 17:12
McCormick concedes, Doc Freak is the nom -- (link) - mud Jun 3, 16:24 4
- Ugh. -- nm - znufrii Jun 3, 16:48 3
  - Don't you think that improves Fetterman's odds? Seems like a better result for democrats. -- nm - pmb Jun 3, 16:55 2
    - Yeah, but Fetterman's heart condition really worries me--in terms of public perception. - RelutantCynic (Oregon State Beaver Believer) Jun 3, 16:59
    - hopefully -- nm - mud Jun 3, 16:58
A militia member (i.e. domestic terrorist) assassinated a former judge in Wisconsin. Had a list of names -- (link) - TWuG Jun 3, 16:14
Raised By Wolves canceled at HBO Max -- nm - Beaker Jun 3, 15:58 4
- Watched season one, but not yet season two. Worth it? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 3, 20:51
- poop -- nm - mud Jun 3, 16:10 2
  - My sentiments exactly. -- nm - RelutantCynic (Oregon State Beaver Believer) Jun 3, 16:55 1
    - to be replaced with Raising with Wolves - tRuMaN Jun 3, 18:18
well this is gonna have some fun ramifications -- (link) - Reagen Jun 3, 15:46 15
- THe SEction C stuff is horrible. Now I'm going to express an opinion that won't be popular. - loosilu Jun 3, 16:01 12
  - I understand your position but there are people who are women from birth who have those same heights and bone densities. - zork Jun 3, 16:30
  - I get what you're saying (as a fellow scientist and a biologist), but consider this. -- (edited) - RelutantCynic (Oregon State Beaver Believer) Jun 3, 16:23 7
    - But the top ten women vs the bottom ten men isn't representative. The mean is quite different. - loosilu Jun 4, 10:47
    - Better said than my post -- nm - zork Jun 3, 16:38 5
      - Only because I've been making these arguments since 2007. -- (edited) - RelutantCynic (Oregon State Beaver Believer) Jun 3, 16:45 4
        
        Too bad most social media crusaders would find no problem with your IM. It won't be them risking their asses on the streets when stuff does pop off. -- nm - con_carne Jun 3, 17:24
        
        Thing is I think this is about more than trans athletes, I think it's also about hurting women's sports and women in general. -- nm - . Jun 3, 17:04 2
        
        Oh God yes. - RelutantCynic (Oregon State Beaver Believer) Jun 3, 17:07 1
        
        People such as Lori Laughlin's daughter's taking up spaces is the real problem. - zork Jun 3, 17:27
  - You're not the only person here who has questioned this. I struggle with the issue myself. I don't have a perfect answer and why I struggle with - pmb Jun 3, 16:18 1
    - I like what you're saying. - RelutantCynic (Oregon State Beaver Believer) Jun 3, 16:48
  - It's not popular because it's incorrect. Women are women, trans or not -- nm - TWuG Jun 3, 16:15
- "turn to the side and cough" -- nm - budice Jun 3, 15:58
- JFC -- nm - prayformojo Jun 3, 15:55
“If you’re a Republican, you can’t even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they’re coming after you... Of course you’re gonna lie." -- (link) - Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) Jun 3, 15:30 3
- Gohmert is 200 pounds of stupid in a 50 pound bag. -- -- nm - Spawn Jun 3, 19:07
- It's getting to be you can't even break the law around here without getting arrested! -- nm - Mop Jun 3, 19:00
- Yeah, *sad trombone*.. (NM) - Marlowe Jun 3, 15:41
Have a bollard for your troubles. -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 3, 15:30 7
- counterpoint -- (link) - gort Jun 3, 17:17
- this one is impressive -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 3, 15:30 5
  - *JAMES BOND THEME TRUMPETS* -- nm - Max Jun 3, 18:37
  - surprised it doesn't say SWIFT on the truck. -- nm - Reagen Jun 3, 16:26
  - "Way to commit, Otto!" -- nm - prayformojo Jun 3, 15:56
  - loooolomg and he keeps going. he was so mad... like Im still going to drive like this! -- nm - Jovian Jun 3, 15:55
  - ! -- nm - mud Jun 3, 15:32
Go 2 years without COVID. Get it twice in 12 weeks -- nm* - Karl Jun 3, 15:28 7
- Fuck! -- nm - Mop Jun 3, 19:05
- Ugh! Sorry :-( -- nm - Krusty Jun 3, 16:27
- Sorry dude. Get better quick! -- nm - spamlet Jun 3, 15:49
- Frick -- nm - Spawn Jun 3, 15:41
- :-( -- nm - mud Jun 3, 15:32
- wow. ugh. -- nm - prayformojo Jun 3, 15:30
- Sorry, my man. I didn't even know that was possible. -- nm - Swilcan Baron Jun 3, 15:29
Leto has the Morbius 2 script -- (link) - budice Jun 3, 15:20 2
- WBDC has greenlit it. -- nm - Spawn Jun 3, 15:42
- haaaaah -- nm - Beryllium Jun 3, 15:24
"If true, Macron will get special places in both the history books and the Guinness Book." -- (link) - mud Jun 3, 15:06
LOL -- (link) - Green Grape Tim Jun 3, 14:34
"what they did to me today violated the constitution." -- (link) - mud Jun 3, 14:32 11
- I'm pretty sure it's Constitutional as well. -- nm - . Jun 3, 15:35
- "bug-eyed gibberish" -- (link) - mud Jun 3, 15:12 1
  - Delish -- nm - Spawn Jun 3, 15:46
- those farging iceholes? -- nm - Reagen Jun 3, 15:02 1
  - "claims he's not from there!" -- nm - prayformojo Jun 3, 15:07
- He's representing himself without a lawyer too. -- nm - pmb Jun 3, 14:38 1
  - Of course he is -- nm - spamlet Jun 3, 15:11
- leg irons.... okay sure they did Peter -- nm - Jovian Jun 3, 14:36 3
  - I hope that’s true. -- nm - The Allfather Jun 3, 14:46 2
    - oh I agree. but this was all performative art outside the courthouse. It is his entire schtick. -- nm - Jovian Jun 3, 14:48
    - I hope he does time but he probly won't. oh well -- nm - mud Jun 3, 14:48
DTL: Glad I stayed on Ahl when he started a top 10 MR. He's just a 1/1. - spamlet Jun 3, 14:21 4
- 2/2 2/2 1/1 0/0 and thanks for the STI banner! -- nm - rollo Jun 3, 15:35
- 5/5, 4/4, 2/2, 1/1, and no net to speak of. This is gonna be rough. -- nm - Swilcan Baron Jun 3, 15:05 2
  - I’ll try to figure out what I’m doing tomorrow and can let you know if anything shakes loose. What are you looking for? -- nm - spamlet Jun 3, 15:11 1
    - Probably a swingman SF type. I've got two different guys who've played there as the backup but am unsure if either is worthy of starting next year. - Swilcan Baron Jun 3, 15:29
The officers that stormed the classroom were an ad hoc group that were acting against specific orders. -- (link) - spamlet Jun 3, 14:16 11
- If not for that group, the stand off would still be going. -- nm - Spawn Jun 3, 15:49 3
  - OK, but he had a gun. What do you expect ...cops... with guns to do? -- nm - Reagen Jun 3, 16:31 1
    - Pretend he was black? -- nm - znufrii Jun 3, 16:37
  - indeed. -- nm - mud Jun 3, 16:27
- And yet nothing will change. Again. And again. And again… -- nm* - znufrii Jun 3, 14:41
- aw, shit -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 3, 14:33
- What was the leadership waiting? For all kids to be dead to counterbalance the surplus of children created by Alito vs Woman, I mean, er, anti-RvW? NM - Marlowe Jun 3, 14:19 4
  - That is not how abortion calculus works! That is not how any of this works! -- nm - Sir Isaac Newton si Jun 3, 15:23
  - They wrote off that classroom and it’s occupants because they were afraid of the gun. - Will Hunting Jun 3, 14:30 2
    - I will not say that I hope they never have a sound night of sleep ever again and see those kids in their dreams forever and ever, but.. - Marlowe Jun 3, 14:42 1
      - yep -- nm - . Jun 3, 15:38
the only problem with the other Is It Cake? is that I don't know what bands could plausibly be mistaken for Cake. -- nm - Reagen Jun 3, 14:14 2
- Devo -- nm - rollo Jun 3, 15:34
- Metronomy? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 3, 14:32
Well, guess I don't have to worry about what to make for our friends tomorrow night. - oblique Jun 3, 13:58 3
- So many people that I know are getting it lately. (Shocking, I know.) - JaxSean Jun 3, 14:01 2
  - Same. HUGE bump in people I know with it the last 3 or so weeks/ -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 3, 14:03 1
    - :-[ -- nm - mud Jun 3, 14:49
This Calgary chef took to Instagram to post the sad news her restaurant was closing — then everything changed (sorry for headline but it's actuallyCBC -- (link) - zork Jun 3, 13:54 2
- There's been a few places that closed before people hot motivated to go, always meant to but never got around to it -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 3, 14:53
- That's my old neighbourhood. - Reagen Jun 3, 14:13
Top Gun 2. A+. So great. (Spoils) -- (edited) - Will Hunting Jun 3, 13:53 1
- This informal panel of real Top Gun pilots reacting after the movie pretty much confirms these points - Max Jun 3, 14:03 [youtube]
Gohmert is 200 pounds of stupid in a 50 pound bag. -- (link) - TWuG Jun 3, 13:50
Woman finds $36,000 stuffed inside free sofa from Craigslist -- (link) - znufrii Jun 3, 13:44
Buy my book! Help me pay my legal bills -- (link) - Jovian Jun 3, 13:39
Putin Treated for Cancer in April, U.S. Intelligence Report Says. Also assassination attempt in March supposedly. -- (link) - zork Jun 3, 13:39 14
- Try harder, cancer! -- nm - TWuG Jun 3, 13:51
- I'd like a different source on this -- nm - spamlet Jun 3, 13:50 11
  - Hmm, thanks all -- nm - zork Jun 3, 14:41
  - Ummm, Newsweek generally has a good reputation and was owned by WaPo for 50 years -- (link) - zork Jun 3, 13:58 3
    - Here is an article I have posted before about Newsweek. -- (link) - pmb Jun 3, 14:19
    - Just look at the headlines on the right side of the page. That will tell you what you need to know. -- nm - spamlet Jun 3, 14:08
    - *had :( -- nm - Jovian Jun 3, 14:01
  - lol yep. Newsweek? pfffft -- nm - Jovian Jun 3, 13:55 3
    - Not anymore. -- nm - pmb Jun 3, 14:00 2
      - Sorry this was supposed to be under Zork. -- nm - pmb Jun 3, 14:03 1
        
        yep no worries I know :) -- nm - Jovian Jun 3, 14:08
  - US Ignorance Report? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 3, 13:51 1
    - Something other than Newsweek (check the side stories) -- nm - spamlet Jun 3, 13:55
- "I was just trying to kill the canc-" said his oncologist on the way out the window. -- nm - Max Jun 3, 13:48
Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-NY) who lost week announced his support for gun control legislation, announced today he will not be seeking re-election -- (link) - Strongbad Jun 3, 13:38 1
- Sounds about right. -- nm* - znufrii Jun 3, 13:55
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Jun 3, 13:36

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