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"No Jews allowed" allowed in Tennessee -- (link) - TWuG Jul 7, 16:02 2
- are you f'n kiddin me? and our current SCOTUS would probably let it stand by passing on it... -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 7, 18:06
- Separate but equal. -- nm - Spawn Jul 7, 16:08
Part 7 -- (link) - Reagen Jul 7, 15:57 [youtube] 1
- Debatable. -- nm - Spawn Jul 7, 16:15
Serious shade -- (link) - TWuG Jul 7, 15:51 1
- Lofl -- nm - znufrii Jul 7, 15:58
just sold newton. just had car charger installed for new car. it's been a day. -- nm - amanda Jul 7, 15:47 4
- *pours one out for Newton* -- nm - Tim Jul 7, 16:01
- Wow. How long did you have Newton? -- nm - Krusty Jul 7, 15:59 1
  - Look out Chubbers! She'll sell you next! -- nm - ty97 Jul 7, 16:00
- NNNNNOOOOOO!!!! Newton!!!!!! -- nm - ty97 Jul 7, 15:57
The resident who fired a shotgun at the ahole ramming the cop car, then got pinned btw his car and house...died -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 7, 15:42
Hmmm, why am I not buying into this everymom vibe these Trudy Busch Valentine for Senate ads are putting out? - Swilcan Baron Jul 7, 15:37
Some of the weird stuff on TV during the Boris coverage. -- (link) - LMS Jul 7, 15:26 2
- *UK hates Boris Johnson* Also *UK goes to the polls, elects another Tory majority that continues the policies of Boris Johnson* -- nm - Mop Jul 7, 15:33 1
  - Sometimes it's the messenger. "This guy is doing horrible things detracting from our ability to do other horrible things. He's gotta go!" -- nm - TWuG Jul 7, 15:41
I’d like to avoid spoilers so I don’t want to google. How many episodes is The Old Man? Just one season? -- nm - Volnelk Jul 7, 15:05 6
- Imdb is good for this kind of info. -- nm - Ender Jul 7, 16:05 1
  - Except when you see that someone is in 4 episodes and everyone else is in 7. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 7, 17:10
- 7 -- nm - mud Jul 7, 15:15
- Good question. I do not know the answer to # of eps. However, it has been renewed for a second season. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 7, 15:11 2
  - The Older Man -- nm - Spawn Jul 7, 16:16
  - which is actually a spoiler (the renewal) They should've waited until the season ended, the dummies -- nm - mud Jul 7, 15:19
Magic vs Rockets in summer league tonight at 10. 1 vs 3 picks. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 7, 15:00
Chris Sale: kind of a dick -- (link) - Tim Jul 7, 14:56 1
- Somebody'll fix that. -- nm - Mop Jul 7, 15:34
I've now seen Thor 4. -- nm - LMS Jul 7, 14:52 2
- 👍👍 ?? -- nm - mud Jul 7, 15:16 1
  - Enjoyable but I thought the third was better. Spoiler - LMS Jul 7, 15:29
Stranger Things Season 4 Pitch Meeting -- (link) - Beaker Jul 7, 14:47 [youtube]
Joe Pera Talks With You has been canceled after three seasons -- nm - Beaker Jul 7, 14:43
Sacha Baron Cohen Beats Roy Moore's Appeal in $95 Million 'Who Is America?' Defamation Suit -- (link) - Beaker Jul 7, 14:42
Spotted on my bike ride today -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 7, 14:18 [flickr] 5
- Beautiful -- nm - Pippy Jul 7, 14:36
- Nice! I've never seen one in the wild. -- nm - Krusty Jul 7, 14:22 3
  - This was my first time. It just happened to be sitting on a fence by the trail. - Beryllium Jul 7, 14:27 2
    - Great timing! 👏🏼 -- nm - Krusty Jul 7, 15:59
    - Only once for me, on a tree hanging over the trail I walk the dog. -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 7, 15:45
California will make it's own insulin... -- (link) - Remlik Jul 7, 13:43 2
- CBD-infused obvie -- nm - budice Jul 7, 13:51 1
  - The bad news, it's blended with merlot -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 7, 15:40
The Chicago Blackhawks have traded forward Alex Debrinkat to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for the 7th and 39th overall picks and 3rd in 2024 -- (edited) - Beaker Jul 7, 13:42 2
- KEEP POLITICS OUT OF SPORTS!!!!! -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jul 7, 14:59
- Jeez. They better draft well with those picks. They gave up a lot. -- nm - pmb Jul 7, 14:05
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights -- (link*) - Beaker Jul 7, 13:36
Looks like my daughter has COVID. Whole body hurts, sore throat and congestion (though she hasn't taken a test yet). Any suggestions for things she - pmb Jul 7, 13:29 8
- My brother texted me last night to say he was about to go to hospital with COVID as he was having breathing difficulties. Hour later he texted he was - LMS Jul 7, 15:15 4
  - That's good to hear. Daughter has now tested and confirms she's positive. -- nm - pmb Jul 7, 15:24 3
    - Get to the pharmacy and get the poxlovit, whatever that antiviral is called -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 7, 15:41 1
      - She got the prescription. Picking it up in a little bit. -- nm - pmb Jul 7, 15:58
    - :-[ best wishes -- nm - mud Jul 7, 15:26
- Ugh! So sorry for her. Hopefully she feels much better very soon. -- nm - Krusty Jul 7, 14:06
- Three doses daily of zinc, vitamin D and C -- nm - Pippy Jul 7, 14:02
- Get some menthol cough drops. and have plenty of water ready. - Remlik Jul 7, 13:34
United States Secret Service Director announces his retirement - Jovian Jul 7, 13:13
Former ‘Cheer’ star Jerry Harris gets 12 years in child pornography case -- (link) - prayformojo Jul 7, 13:07
Thing I learned: Musk's second child with Grimes was by surrogate. And relationships with employees you're the boss of is gross. - TWuG Jul 7, 12:54 11
- BoJo did it -- nm - budice Jul 7, 13:30 1
  - repeatedly! -- nm - mafic Jul 7, 16:09
- Agreed. I lost a couple of good employees when I started dating them. It was funny as neither of us said anything. The first quit before asking me out - Spawn Jul 7, 13:16 2
  - [coughcough]horndog[cough] -- nm - mud Jul 7, 13:21 1
    - I actually ended up living with the first of those two. - Spawn Jul 7, 13:23
- wasn't she also the person he was floating to be the CEO of Twitter if he bought the company? -- nm - colin Jul 7, 13:03 2
  - Yes -- nm - TWuG Jul 7, 13:04 1
    - cool cool. -- nm - colin Jul 7, 13:09
- Hear that, Judith Light? -- nm - Reagen Jul 7, 12:57 2
  - But was she really the boss? Was that question ever answered? -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 7, 12:59 1
    - Academically! -- (link) - Reagen Jul 7, 13:03 [youtube]
Stonk update: I generally have avoided single stocks in my new brokerage. I still have about 1/3 of the cash to deploy. My port is being held up by - oblique Jul 7, 12:45 1
- One of these days I’ll get around to reallocating and getting rid of most of ours. - znufrii Jul 7, 12:57
Elf. I've seen other stuff, but that's the one I watch repeatedly. -- nm - TWuG Jul 7, 12:29 2
- I like many of his movies, but I also liked the Las Vegas series -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 7, 12:41 1
  - Yeah, he was great in those -- nm - Spawn Jul 7, 12:45
I officially have an offer incoming from dude's new company. wtf. -- nm - amanda Jul 7, 12:29 6
- keep both and work from home and automate it and spend your days lounging around -- nm - decline Jul 7, 12:33 1
  - go on fiver and provide your login info to someone to do your job. -- nm - colin Jul 7, 12:48
- "Ooh look $250,000" -- nm - budice Jul 7, 12:30
- Do you think you'll take it? -- nm - TWuG Jul 7, 12:30 2
  - I .... -- nm - amanda Jul 7, 12:36
  - Too late, he has already changed companies again. -- nm - Spawn Jul 7, 12:30
I don't know that this guy's Russian, but... -- (link) - Mop Jul 7, 12:16 2
- Leidenfrost Effect, FTW -- nm - Reagen Jul 7, 12:20 1
  - I wanted to demo that in high school and the teacher was "absolutely NOT!" -- nm - TWuG Jul 7, 12:28
Apparently wearing a suit to go see Minions is a thing. -- (link) - Mop Jul 7, 12:12 6
- I'm all for it. They should do sporting events next. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jul 7, 12:30 1
  - too much security that is used to dealing with older assholes. -- nm* - Spawn Jul 7, 12:32
- So apparently it was a thing to attend Minions wearing a suit. -- (link) Posted by Tim (aka othertim) Jul 3 '22, 14:07 - Spawn Jul 7, 12:18
- without any evidence, this feels incel adjacent. -- nm - colin Jul 7, 12:17 2
  - It’s kids on Tiktok. Gentleminions. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 7, 12:26 1
    - i was RIGHT -- nm - colin Jul 7, 12:31
nm -- nm* - Shaun Jul 7, 11:58
Beak, in response to your query on B2: Nope. -- nm - Swilcan Baron Jul 7, 11:55
Here's a news story on the cop convention we had in my neighborhood last night. -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 7, 11:47
Someone here mentioned Matthew Sweet yesterday and i have had Sick of Myself in my head ever since. - Andie Jul 7, 11:35
This ship has been dubbed "Graveboat" and I've been tasked with finding more body parts -- (pic) - Beryllium Jul 7, 11:35 [Attachment]
Well, there is that 0.15°C leeway, plus the story quotes from -270 so there's another 3 degrees -- nm - zork Jul 7, 11:34
Jury Reaches Verdict in Trial of Former Theranos Executive Sunny Balwani -- nm - budice Jul 7, 11:22 7
- He should just re-read The Alchemist again and then just wish this all away. -- nm - Jovian Jul 7, 11:55
- Unamimous verdicts on all 12 Counts -- nm* - budice Jul 7, 11:44 5
  - See! I told you he was manipulating me! -- nm - E. Holmes Jul 7, 12:00
  - Guilty on all counts -- nm - budice Jul 7, 11:54
  - Count 3: GUILTY Wire Fraud -- nm - budice Jul 7, 11:52
  - Count 2: GUILTY (conspiracy to defraud) -- nm - budice Jul 7, 11:52
  - Count 1: GUILTY (conspiracy to defraud investors) -- nm - budice Jul 7, 11:51
Why is anyone asking about Ohtani? If anyone is going to take the MVP from Judge, it’ll be Yordan Alvarez who has a OPS 80 pts higher than - Will Hunting Jul 7, 11:14 6
- I mean, Harper won last year without impacting his team's record in the least. Hype matters. -- nm - David Jul 7, 11:31 3
  - Problem is is Ohtani was the only sorry last year…he’s not this year. - Will Hunting Jul 7, 11:52 2
    - He also hasn't given up a run in four straight starts. - David Jul 7, 12:03 1
      - Talk down here in ATL - Strongbad Jul 7, 13:29
- Current AL MVP Odds - Strongbad Jul 7, 11:23 1
  - Only reason Alvarez isn’t getting that 2nd place love is Astros. He’s arguably hitting a lot better than Judge. - Will Hunting Jul 7, 11:54
“The whole thing is unbelievable. As I write these words, Gordon Brown is still holed up in Downing Street. He is like some illegal settler in the - Loyola Jul 7, 11:14 1
- LOL Someone should find Gordon Brown and send him to Downing Street to knock on the door. -- nm - Mop Jul 7, 11:28
Matt Levine has good analysis of the GME split (the first bit of the article is really good too) - colin Jul 7, 11:11 1
- Michael Pachter is a long time hack. -- nm - Qale As Folk Jul 7, 12:01
Nadal is out. Kyrgios to the final. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 7, 11:10 2
- So Kyrgios is appearing in his first ever Wimbledon Final without ever winning a Semi-final? -- nm - decline Jul 7, 12:22
- link -- (link) - budice Jul 7, 11:14
Death is never easy, but I'd say getting struck by lightning is a pretty solid way to go with good closure. I'd have no regrets if that's how I went. - colin Jul 7, 10:54 13
- “Did I ever tell you I was struck by lightning seven times?” -- nm - znufrii Jul 7, 12:48
- My grandpa got struck two different times. - Spawn Jul 7, 12:23 2
  - he's gonna bare fist fight god some day, it sounds like. -- nm - colin Jul 7, 12:48 1
    - Heh, already has. - Spawn Jul 7, 13:21
- I dunno, more people survive with life long significant and weird injuries, your nervous system gets fried...literally -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 7, 11:48
- pretty much my take too. sad when happens to someone so young but I'd prefer it - Beaker Jul 7, 11:02 1
  - i'm scared of dying in a hospital.. i don't want that, i want to die in some sort of comfort or peace. i know we don't always get a choice - colin Jul 7, 11:06
- *takes notes* -- nm - Lightning si Jul 7, 11:01 3
  - i'll step outside now, if you've got a minute. -- nm - colin Jul 7, 11:02 2
    - Fight the good fight mate. -- nm - Loyola Jul 7, 11:08 1
      - every day. - colin Jul 7, 11:13
- "A Million Ways To Die At Peace With the World" - Beryllium Jul 7, 10:59
- i probably think way too much about how i'm going to die and dying in general. if this is too morbid, i'll delete it. -- nm - colin Jul 7, 10:58
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Jul 7, 10:54
ST Poll: Favorite James Caan movie? -- nm - Beaker Jul 7, 10:54 22
- HUGE soft spot for Kiss Me Goodbye. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jul 7, 15:42
- Godfather, then Misery -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jul 7, 13:30
- Alien Nation or Slither (since the Vegas TV show has been listed) -- nm - Spawn Jul 7, 12:27 1
  - Never mind. I was thinking of the wrong Slither. -- nm* - sycor Jul 7, 14:25
- Rollerball always comes first to mind for him. -- nm - zork Jul 7, 12:05
- Godfather, Elf, Misery. -- nm - Jovian Jul 7, 12:00
- Misery and Thief are my two. -- nm - David Jul 7, 11:48 3
  - (And Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) -- nm - David Jul 7, 11:48 2
    - oh yeah -- nm - prayformojo Jul 7, 11:57
    - Yeah, he was great in those -- nm - Beryllium Jul 7, 11:49
- Godfather then Misery -- nm - con_carne Jul 7, 11:34
- Godfather, then El Dorado. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 7, 11:31
- I have a soft spot for Honeymoon in Vegas -- nm - prayformojo Jul 7, 11:20
- Gardens of Stone - hollywood big shot Jul 7, 11:16
- Godfather. Also loved his character on Las Vegas. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jul 7, 11:11 1
  - Yeah, he was perfect on Las Vegas. -- nm - David Jul 7, 11:46
- The Way of the Gun, Misery -- nm - Pippy Jul 7, 11:10
- Godfather. -- nm - Loyola Jul 7, 11:02
- Godfather. followed by Elf for me I think. - Beaker Jul 7, 10:57
- Elf or Rollerball -- nm - colin Jul 7, 10:57
- Thief, Rollerball -- nm - decline Jul 7, 10:56
- Godfather, Gambler, Thief -- nm - mud Jul 7, 10:55

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