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heh, "they've shot their load! they're bored!" -- (link) - mud Jun 8, 13:02
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Jun 8, 13:00 [Attachment] 5
- Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Jun 8, 13:00 [Attachment] 4
  - Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo Jun 8, 13:01 [Attachment] 3
    - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Jun 8, 13:01 [Attachment] 2
      - 2/2 - my first month on HSX -- nm - Meg Jun 8, 13:10
      - 2/2 (another really hard day!) -- nm - decline Jun 8, 13:02
Ontario lifting most remaining mask mandates (including public transit) on Saturday -- (link) - zork Jun 8, 12:50 2
- Woohoo! Time to Party!! -- nm - decline Jun 8, 12:56
- Food allergy news tipped it. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:50
BBC News - D-Day ration pack last in the world, Dorset museum says -- (link) - zork Jun 8, 12:46 2
- Russian Army says hold my vodka.... -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 8, 13:00
- ASMR unboxing video coming up next! -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 12:50
Berlin driver hit school group. 1 teacher killed, a bunch injured including students -- (link) - zork Jun 8, 12:44 1
- John Barrowman happened to be a witness to it. -- nm - LMS Jun 8, 13:07
EU lawmakers back ban on new fossil-fuel cars from 2035 -- (link) - oblique Jun 8, 12:41 4
- High Gas Prices helps push environmental policy, alternate fuels -- nm - budice Jun 8, 12:42 3
  - I think it's a convergence of that and the reliance on Russia for fuel. It's a national security issue too. -- nm - pmb Jun 8, 12:45 2
    - What significant sources of oil aren't international aholes? (and lets be fair, we can't take the USA off that list) -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 8, 13:07 1
      - um, i think we are the largest exporter of crude oil to the US. - Andie Jun 8, 13:08
Chicago woman says stranger moved into home for sale and refuses to leave. Police unable to determine that she isn't supposed to be there -- (link) - oblique Jun 8, 12:33 5
- This is what scares me about roommates, here they have same rights as any renter, you could be stuck with an asshole in your house for a year - zeitgeist Jun 8, 13:03
- She is VIP. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:36 1
  - Very Indigent Person? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 12:38
- this is why and how someone like me if this happened to me, goes to jail for murder. -- nm - Jovian Jun 8, 12:35 1
  - Old West Rules, coming soon to an American frontier near you. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 12:35
"designed for massacres, not for killing varmints." -- (link) - mud Jun 8, 12:31 3
- If you need anything larger than a .22 to shoot gophers, you've got a problem with your peepee. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 12:52 2
  - Or unusually large gophers -- nm - Dano Jun 8, 12:54 1
    - And don't mind spending waaaayyy more than you need to on bullets. -- nm - zork Jun 8, 12:58
45*, Junior & Ivanka to be deposed by NYAG -- (link) - mud Jun 8, 12:28 1
- ahhhhh now the NYT puff piece today on these two makes total sense. -- nm - Jovian Jun 8, 12:29
Sobeys is dropping Air Miles for the Scene program. "this kills the Air Miles" -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 12:19 6
- I gotta use my mile sthen. this is massive -- nm - Beaker Jun 8, 12:54 1
  - I always just redeemed for cash so it's probably no big deal for me -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 12:58
- bastards -- nm - decline Jun 8, 12:31
- I haven't heard if this affects Thrifty Foods, a subsidiary of Sobeys, but I expect it does. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 12:29 2
  - It'll be all their brands, yes. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 12:44 1
    - I hope scene points are useful for more than just movies, because I'm still avoiding theatres. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 12:51
ST Price Quiz, PIRR in effect - Strongbad Jun 8, 12:07 15
- you didn't say what kind of insulation, IIRc vermiculite has to be treated like asbestos -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 8, 13:05
- $9500 Bob -- nm - Walt_Disney Jun 8, 12:37
- $5200 -- nm - jnine Jun 8, 12:27 1
  - WINNER!!!!!! - Strongbad Jun 8, 12:42
- $1 -- nm - Dano Jun 8, 12:21
- $6850.00 -- nm - Jovian Jun 8, 12:19
- $3999 -- nm - JaxSean Jun 8, 12:14
- $7,001 -- nm - Reluctant Cynic (God of Twigs and Berries) Jun 8, 12:13
- 1 million dollars -- nm - decline Jun 8, 12:13
- $7k -- nm - Beaker Jun 8, 12:11
- 3,125.00 -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:11 1
  - GOOD ANSWER GOOD ANSWER! -- nm - slackerfamily feud Jun 8, 12:13
- More than a gallon of gas -- nm - oblique Jun 8, 12:10
- Are you doing it with a rental vacuum or hiring someone? -- nm - David Jun 8, 12:09 1
  - Hiring someone -- nm - Strongbad Jun 8, 12:41
Ezra Miller has been accused of supplying an underage girl with alcohol, marijuana, and LSD, as well as grooming the minor. Parents in court -- (link*) - budice Jun 8, 12:03 9
- no way Flash gets released right? -- nm - Remlik Jun 8, 12:54 2
  - No MKEAT Batman will make me hate Ezra Miller for the rest of my days. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:58 1
    - heh -- nm - mud Jun 8, 12:59
- For some reason I totally thought this was about Ezra Levant. Oops. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 12:28 3
  - I read Ezra Klein -- nm - oblique Jun 8, 12:32 2
    - I was thinking it was Ezra Miller who made all the ski films, but that's Warren Miller. - JaxSean Jun 8, 12:39
    - That might be the best Ezra so far. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 12:33
- The abused often become abusers. I just keep thinking they are in that mold. -- nm - Qale As Folk Jun 8, 12:27 1
  - Yeah, they give me that feeling as well. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 8, 12:39
I'm sorry, but why shouldn't SCOTUS Justices just arm themselves if they want to feel safe. It's what's being asked of us -- nm - TWuG Jun 8, 11:46 11
- It sounds like the current level of security worked. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 12:45
- Agreed -- nm - Epiphany! Jun 8, 11:57
- Royalty must be protected. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 11:54
- Because Democrats better do what I said. -- nm - McConnell (A-Hole, KY) Jun 8, 11:48 7
  - "by sunset!" -- nm - mud Jun 8, 11:49 6
    - He might be more likely to say "sundown". -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:53 5
      - I see what you did there. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jun 8, 11:59
      - "No more fiddling around with this, they need to pass it today …before the sun sets.” -- (link) - mud Jun 8, 11:58 3
        
        We're in danger of accountability! -- nm - David Jun 8, 12:08
        
        Hmm, I stand corrected. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:59 1
        
        (as do I!) -- nm - mud Jun 8, 12:06
NBA: LA Clippers New Stadium to have surround scoreboard ala SoFi -- (link*) - budice Jun 8, 11:41
WWWWAAAAAIIIIIITTTTTT, I didn't realize who the director of the Madonna biopic was. -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 11:38 5
- The theater is about to be wild for this opening night. -- nm - MDH Jun 8, 12:19
- Wait til you see who the writers are -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:53 1
  - FedEx? -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:07
- Is it Madonna? -- nm - spamlet Jun 8, 11:43
- Guy Ritchie would have been the better choice -- nm - Roger More Jun 8, 11:41
Hey Kilbo, what kind of router did you get for your home? - David Jun 8, 11:37 6
- We have an Orbi at our old house, and the Nighthawk AX3000 mesh here. I love the Nighthawk. -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 8, 12:12
- I have nest and love it. ask me almost anything. note that I am a google home home, so I love that the APs are also google home speakers. - amanda Jun 8, 11:59 1
  - How is your connectivity in those previously problematic spots? -- nm - David Jun 8, 12:03
- I've had a UniFi Security Gateway (USG) for a while now. EDIT: My access points are also UniFi (AC models I believe) -- (link*) - oblique Jun 8, 11:47 1
  - We have this too. -- nm - pmb Jun 8, 12:01
- Does the Nest have a dedicated backhaul channel? That's what you really need to watch for with mesh systems. - spamlet Jun 8, 11:41
Ooof. I need to get back to running. A1C is out of control. -- nm - Dano Jun 8, 11:21 3
- Is that one of those Korean boy bands I keep hearing about? -- nm - Swilcan Baron Jun 8, 11:29
- A1C is out of control and out of touch with real America. -- nm - GOP ad from a House district no where near NY Jun 8, 11:27 1
  - I see I'm not the only one who thought "Who is A1C and why are they out of control and needing to be outrun?" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:51
Uvalde: Justice Department bringing Old Testament review -- (link) - budice Jun 8, 11:20
Foo Fighters announce tribute concerts in London and LA -- (link) - Remlik Jun 8, 11:17 1
- Not much discussion on it. -- (link) - Spawn Jun 8, 11:37 [Backboard]
Cody Rhodes bruising has spread down his arm -- (link) - Remlik Jun 8, 11:15
What percentage of Canadian homes have garages anyway? -- nm - David Jun 8, 10:58 9
- Where else would they store their unused air conditioners? -- nm - Max Jun 8, 11:26
- From my perspective, 100%. - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:11
- All of them - to keep the polar bears out of their cars -- nm - decline Jun 8, 11:04 2
  - Let Meeee Innnnnn... -- nm* - Polar Bear rattling garage door Jun 8, 11:23 1
    - Why doesn't he just shove one of his penguin friends through the transom window to unlock the door from the inside? -- nm - Swilcan Baron Jun 8, 11:27
- In case this is a real question, it's ~54%, apparently. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 11:04 2
  - Okay. It's apparently 63% in the US. Your post below made me wonder if our countries were different in this regard. -- nm - David Jun 8, 11:08 1
    - Rural and suburban is probably closer to 100%. I'm inner city so it's less of a given. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 11:14
- single family homes? most. -- (edited) - Andie Jun 8, 11:02
Finally a workout that doesn't involve burpees... -- nm - oblique Jun 8, 10:57
"nothing burned down"? Bruv. Pay attention. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 10:49 2
- "I miss the 60s when we could depose and kill presidents and shoot some blacks and no one would complain. Make 'Murica 'Murica Again!" (NM) - Del Rio Jun 8, 10:52 1
  - Thus the rise of DJT -- nm - Jovian Jun 8, 10:59
Even I think this looks uncomfortable. -- (link) - David Jun 8, 10:13 8
- I bet a smallpox injection looks worse. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 10:20 6
  - Er. Smallpox vaccine injection. You know what I meant. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 10:21 5
    - The first would be a bit worse. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 10:23 4
      - Seriously, that is straight in the knee cap. I cringed at the image. -- nm - David Jun 8, 10:27 1
        
        *SNIKT* -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 11:16
      - Actually, the original vaccination approach involved the virus itself, so maybe I didn't need to qualify it. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 10:24 1
        
        yeah...but not really... TMI - zeitgeist Jun 8, 11:05
- "jab it anywhere, doc, there's no feeling in the whole arm." -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 10:18
Right now my Bolt is getting about 480km city/400 km highway per full charge - Reagen Jun 8, 10:10 15
- *cries about ar being on ocean.* -- nm - amanda Jun 8, 10:55 1
  - With Darmok, and Jalad. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:10
- I will definitely give you guys info on how my range changes in the winter but my Niro EV also has the cold weather package (heat pump) so I'm -- (edited) - oblique Jun 8, 10:32 4
  - Does yours have a screen with the breakdown of the range costs? - Reagen Jun 8, 10:36 3
    - there's a screen I can get into that shows the trips, length, and kwh used I think. I don't think it tries to calculate cost -- nm - oblique Jun 8, 10:37 2
      - Not in dollars and cents but it says Driving Technique +/- so many km, Outside Temperature, etc. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 10:40 1
        
        yeah, nothing like that that I recall though I just found the screen I mentioned the other day buried deep in the interface :) -- nm - oblique Jun 8, 10:41
- we are colder than you so maybe 250-300 here (maybe lower)... -- nm - Beaker Jun 8, 10:13 7
  - Would still have to have a VERY long commute for the range on a most EV to even matter. There were only a couple I had to ignore with my 70 miles per - oblique Jun 8, 10:44
  - Outside temperature is a small factor. It's the energy you use to heat the cabin. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 10:17 5
    - As long as the car isn’t sitting outside and have to warm up the battery from ambient, right? -- nm - spamlet Jun 8, 10:26 4
      - A garage helps a lot, although I don't have one - Reagen Jun 8, 10:34 3
        
        Ah, I thought you did. That was a real concern for us (no garage) even though it's not as cold as there. You plug every night though, right? - spamlet Jun 8, 11:14 1
        
        Only if I'm below 60%. Sometimes I wait until 40. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 11:31
        
        No garage here either. -- nm - Shaun Jun 8, 10:40
I’ll take Hypocrisy for $2000 - Volnelk Jun 8, 10:10 4
- They should attach an assault weapon ban to it and call for a vote -- nm - decline Jun 8, 10:34 2
  - 1000% -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 10:35 1
    - Then the house and the senate can pass it, and leave it up to SCOTUS to reverse it. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 10:36
- He sees the entirety of Congress as his plantation and he's the Massa. -- nm - Diva Jun 8, 10:23
Asshole Train is my 8th favorite AC/DC album -- nm - Beaker Jun 8, 10:05 3
- Soul Asylum went to the well one too many times. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 10:11
- Or the subtitle for the Human Centipede reboot. -- nm - Dano Jun 8, 10:08
- 🙄 -- nm - Qale As Folk Jun 8, 10:07
BBC News - Harvey Weinstein to be charged with indecent assault in UK -- (link) - zork Jun 8, 09:56 1
- Harvey Weinstein just getting out of bed every morning should be considered indecent assault to the world. -- nm - Qale As Folk Jun 8, 10:01
From below: I’ve also heard Fred Couples is wonderful and that Varner and Spieth are great guys. Heard positive things about Day too. -- nm - MDH Jun 8, 09:55 2
- I heard long ago that Vijay wants golf to be an old boys (i.e. wealthy) club -- nm - zork Jun 8, 09:58 1
  - I feel like he's a golfer totally lost to the new generation. Was really great in his era, but no real legacy. -- nm - MDH Jun 8, 10:00

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