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Shit, I think I need to write a 5-minute reflection for a funeral on Thursday... -- nm - Ender Aug 7, 22:28
I'm going to come up with a graphic depiction of where various con artists fall on the glamorous/basic b!#ch continuum. - crash davis Aug 7, 22:09 1
- Where does DJT fall on that continuum ? -- nm - Meg Aug 7, 22:28
Is Cricket Sustainable Amid Climate Change? - crash davis Aug 7, 21:17 3
- Golf is less sustainable. And not just due to climate. - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:37
- Domed stadiums. Problem solved. -- nm - Krusty Aug 7, 21:24 1
  - I thought you'd recommend switching to pickleball -- nm - crash davis Aug 7, 21:39
Whoever picks first in the Astronauts draft, I'll trade you Aaron Rodgers for that selection. -- nm - David Aug 7, 20:35 8
- I'm prepared to offer you Mercole Hardman, Kenny Golladay, AND Van Jefferson for Rodgers, because I am so freaking nice -- nm - crash davis Aug 7, 21:19 6
  - *pats head* Run along and play now. -- nm - David Aug 7, 21:24 5
    - BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE! If you respond positively to this offer in the next half hour, you will additionally receive K Ryan Succop ABSOLUTELY FREE -- nm - crash davis Aug 7, 21:26 2
      - Those poor operators are just gonna keep on standing by. -- nm - David Aug 7, 21:42 1
        
        They shouldn't have taken a job in my boiler room. They're lucky they get AC -- nm - crash davis Aug 7, 21:48
    - (You know that Van Jefferson just got knee surgery the other day, right?) -- nm - David Aug 7, 21:25 1
      - and apparently you do too -- nm - crash davis Aug 7, 21:26
- (Kilbo, I think that's you.) -- nm - David Aug 7, 20:37
I totally forgot to wear a mask when picking up dinner today. That might be a first for me in the pandemic. - Beryllium Aug 7, 20:24 7
- I've continued to go by >6 feet and <6 minutes means very low risk. Considering monkeypox and recent COVID wave is that outdated thinking? -- nm - Max Aug 7, 21:39 2
  - You have to be much more intimate than that to get monkeypox. -- nm - Ender Aug 7, 22:19
  - Yes and no? Who knows. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:41
- I forgot to wear one when I went to the deli the other day. I just ran out like it was 2019. -- nm - Krusty Aug 7, 21:04 3
  - When I picked up my pizza the other night Domino's had a sign "Absolutely no admission without a mask." Nobody in the store was wearing one :/ - Meg Aug 7, 21:09 2
    - I noticed that my dominos took the sign down. But I still wore one. I'm not a part of their SYSTEM, man! 😂 -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 22:02
    - It sucks how so many people have just given up on wearing them indoors but I can't blame a business for not enforcing masks when it can - Krusty Aug 7, 21:14
I'm pre-sad that I only have two episodes left of New Queer As Folk to watch on Peacock. I all but assume it's not getting renewed. -- nm - Qale As Folk Aug 7, 20:04 3
- Look on the bright side, at least it's not on HBO Max, so there's at least a chance... -- nm - Ender Aug 7, 20:17 2
  - That's true. I imagine only Euphoria and Our Flag Means Death will get the renewals for the gay shows there. -- nm - Qale As Folk Aug 7, 20:22 1
    - Hell, I'm not even sure about GOT at this point... -- nm - Ender Aug 7, 20:28
The White Sox regular season record since opening day 1978 is 3500-3500. - zunk takes things literally Aug 7, 20:02
The IRA bill has a revamped EV tax credit. And it is complex. - TWuG Aug 7, 19:45 6
- there were always income limits (at least for the CA state rebate -- not a credit). but basically (1) final assembly has to be in the US and (2) no - hollywood big shot Aug 7, 21:19
- I confirmed my Fisker down payment, so hopefully it qualified -- nm - JaxSean Aug 7, 20:02 3
  - The Fisker Ocean? I do hope you went nuts and ordered the Karma. -- nm - Krusty Aug 7, 20:20 2
    - That's his old brand. The Ocean we ordered the Ultra -- (link) - JaxSean Aug 7, 20:45 1
      - I hope you two love it! -- nm - Krusty Aug 7, 21:02
- I'm still very angry that e-bikes and scooters were cut from the bill. Very angry. -- nm - Krusty Aug 7, 19:49
"You cut the...back of your hand shaving?" "I fell down. Gettin' older." - Max Aug 7, 19:42
Top chef early season watch update: man season two was basically the least satisfying reality tv ending ever. Spoiler - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Aug 7, 19:37 1
- Sam's really good. I'm surprised he never won. -- nm - David Aug 7, 19:47
Huh. Their are 50 volcanos erupting worldwide today. - tRuMaN Aug 7, 19:33 11
- I feel like I should be alarmed. -- nm - Mop Aug 7, 20:39 1
  - Better than earthquakes, I guess. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 20:53
- I'd forgotten Kilauea summit has been erupting for more than a year now, there's a cool time lapse and a before/after shot here -- (link*) - znufrii Aug 7, 19:39 2
  - Vanuatu thinks that Kilauea should hold its beer. -- nm* - tRuMaN Aug 7, 19:41 1
    - that long eruption ended in 2018 and was along one of the rift zones. the summit activity is a new one. Ed: two, actually, Dec 2020-May 2021 and Sept 2021-now -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 7, 19:45
- Is that more or fewer than average for a year? -- nm - TWuG Aug 7, 19:35 3
  - difficult to say! low for the last ~60 years, but nobody really knows geologically-speaking. average is 63. -- (link) - mafic Aug 7, 20:05
  - 100% guess: we're on a slight uptick after a fairly quiet decade -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 19:39
  - Not sure actually. I was gonna look but the site I know of that tracks things is down I guess -- (link) - tRuMaN Aug 7, 19:39
- two in hawaii, three in iceland ... right? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 19:34 1
  - Also Iwo Jima had a brief eruption. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 7, 19:36
I had to mute a Twitter account that kept showing up as 'You Might Like' - ty97 Aug 7, 19:27 4
- Ah yes, the police force that rhymes with fun -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 19:31
- Is your Twitter normally very serene? 'Cause they have to interject tension wherever possible. -- nm* - Qale As Folk Aug 7, 19:31 2
  - I was just recently noticing that my Twitter feed could use some serenity. - ty97 Aug 7, 19:36 1
    - I like that when I report accounts to Twitter, they say, nahh, they're fine. -- nm - Qale As Folk Aug 7, 19:39
I don't see a lot of commercials. But the Subway ones with the Refresh campaign and NFL people? The worst. THE WORST. -- nm - Qale As Folk Aug 7, 19:26
Listening to some Casey Kasem from 1987, I learned for the first time that the band who did the song Rock Steady was formed in 1963. - Max Aug 7, 19:03 2
- is La Bamba #1? -- nm - crash davis Aug 7, 19:18
- are we the only ones who listen to Rick Dees Top 40? He adds like a minute to the new Sam Smith song singing about how awesome he (rick dees) is - Beaker Aug 7, 19:07
Marvel Netflix/Disney: Rosario lets slip that Bernthal is returning as The Punisher -- (link*) - Remlik Aug 7, 19:00 1
- Heh, just read an article he was not needed. - Spawn Aug 7, 19:01
Salmon cam! -- (link) - prayformojo Aug 7, 18:33 [Image] 6
- Fishy! -- nm - .🎡 Aug 7, 20:43
- Penny can! -- nm - Max Aug 7, 20:30
- thanks! -- nm - Sea lion with a computer Aug 7, 19:14
- You know how hard it is to strap a GoPro to a salmon? -- nm - Mop Aug 7, 18:41 2
  - The really hard part is digging the GoPro out of pile of grizzly bear stool after the shoot. - nm - howie Aug 7, 19:04 1
    - *giggles* -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 7, 19:24
SITV: This may be our best episode ever. The editing came together spectacularly well. - Mop Aug 7, 18:32
Albuquerque has a serial killer targeting Muslims -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 7, 18:11 5
- They need to check into El Halal Hermanos -- nm - crash davis Aug 7, 19:09
- Hopefully it's not the Crooner -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 18:31 3
  - Or the Corinthian. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 18:34 2
    - Sandman spoils - Beryllium Aug 7, 18:40 1
      - I did not click your spoils as I had two to go. Got there, and done. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 20:52
I saw something today that I never expected to see in the waters around here. -- (pic) - Beryllium Aug 7, 17:22 [Attachment]
I spoke of my S-I-L and her success at the art show. This is the one that got Best in Show. Acrylic on Canvas. -- (pic) - Meg Aug 7, 17:02 [Attachment] 7
- Nice. My mom was showing the Misty of Chincoteague book to my niece last week and it reminds me of the cover art. -- (link) - Max Aug 7, 20:31 1
  - I can see it. -- nm - Meg Aug 7, 20:58
- She's very good at catching the character of the animals. -- nm - .🎡 Aug 7, 17:47
- Wow! -- nm - kelly Aug 7, 17:30
- Remarkable! -- nm - David Aug 7, 17:19
- I like that -- nm - crash davis Aug 7, 17:15
- Wow, that's fantastic! -- nm - ty97 Aug 7, 17:04
I was reading the Wikipedia article on the Miles Davis album 'Round About Midnight. A jazz critic called it a "middle-of-the-road conservative progressive jazz" album -- (edited) - crash davis Aug 7, 16:56 3
- I wonder what Miles' reaction to that would have been :) -- nm - prayformojo Aug 7, 16:57 2
  - He probably had an enraged becalmed indifferent attitude towards it -- nm* - crash davis Aug 7, 17:10
  - so what? -- nm - Tim Aug 7, 16:58
It is awesome they did a Comanche version, but the original Prey is superior imo. -- nm - Beaker Aug 7, 16:52
WaPo opinion article: "Why the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ is no such thing" -- (link) - ty97 Aug 7, 16:40 6
- Hooray? for political namesmanship. -- nm - znufrii Aug 7, 19:08
- Well, that didn't take long. -- nm - Qale As Folk Aug 7, 16:45 4
  - It's not knocking the bill's contents, and it's actually a clear-eyed view on how inflation, GDP, etc work (or how they don't work, really) -- (edited) - ty97 Aug 7, 16:49 3
    - I didn't read the article because it's paywalled -and- it's Amazon. -- nm - Qale As Folk Aug 7, 17:00 2
      - Technically it's Bezos, not Amazon. -- nm - ty97 Aug 7, 17:02 1
        
        Technically, I could be on the 33% of the internet hosted by Amazon at all times. -- nm - Qale As Folk Aug 7, 17:17
Hi David! -- nm - Tim Aug 7, 16:32 4
- Also, the Mets and the Yankees now have the same record. -- nm - Tim Aug 7, 16:47 1
  - The Mets, who play in Queens, who are good -- nm - ty97 Aug 7, 16:50
- A year ago today, we were third in the NL East. - David Aug 7, 16:33 1
  - I endorse this sentiment -- nm - rollo Aug 7, 18:56
You know, not one headline I've seen says the act's main goal is to reduce inflation. Not one. -- nm - Ender Aug 7, 16:26 5
- It seems to primarily be a PR naming move like many of these bill's names are -- nm - ty97 Aug 7, 16:40 1
  - This. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 7, 17:45
- Reducing costs is reducing inflation -- nm - TWuG Aug 7, 16:36 1
  - also, a lot of this inflation is supply shock. -- nm - Reagen Aug 7, 16:42
- The second headline on CNN does, but... - David Aug 7, 16:30
Literally saw the Walter Mosley news right after watching a T.C.-centric episode of Magnum - TWuG Aug 7, 15:59 4
- but not by Ferrari -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 7, 16:11
- *Roger* Mosley. Walter is still quite alive. - Dark Callisto Aug 7, 16:10 2
  - Yes, sorry. -- nm - TWuG Aug 7, 16:35
  - well if it ain't the devil in the blue dress -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 7, 16:12
Joohyung Kim is the first player born in the 2000’s to win on the PGA tour. He started with a quad-bogey and then went 24 under to win by 5 - Will Hunting Aug 7, 15:49 1
- He also didn’t have a card until a few weeks ago. And only got in the tournament due to a sponsors exemption. -- nm - MDH Aug 7, 16:54
Biden hasn't done all too shabby with a 50-50 Senate -- nm - ty97 Aug 7, 15:48 2
- "Tonight at 11, how today's Senate vote is bad for Biden..." - TWuG Aug 7, 15:57 1
  - If either side gets a clear majority in the Senate, I'll be satisfied when Simena and Manchin get told "You get NOTHING, now get out" -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 7, 16:13
I’ve watched episode 4 of The Rehearsal three times this weekend. It may be my favorite episode of television ever. -- nm - Dano Aug 7, 15:31 1
- Just when you think the show can’t get any more insane… it gets more insane. -- nm - Dano Aug 7, 15:53
Braves have swung at 16 sliders from Jacob deGrom today, and they have missed all 16 -- (link*) - budice Aug 7, 15:24 1
- line -- (link) - budice Aug 7, 15:26
I can't decide which part of this is the most ridiculous - ty97 Aug 7, 14:45 10
- It is basically making clear that your job is going to be doing shitty meaningless work for low pay. If you do the assignment you're probably not - pmb Aug 7, 15:39
- my reply. here's my resume. you tell me who my cousin was, and their importance to Broadway, and I might consider working for you. - Peglegpete Aug 7, 15:23 1
  - Heh, mine too. - Spawn Aug 7, 15:28
- it's the brown M&M clause of job postings -- nm - mafic Aug 7, 15:19
- "followed by a brief cover letter" -- nm - prayformojo Aug 7, 14:50 1
  - I kinda want to 'apply' for it. - ty97 Aug 7, 14:52
- I hope you get it. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 14:47 3
  - I really hope you get it. -- nm - Mop Aug 7, 16:25
  - How many people do they need? -- nm - Reagen Aug 7, 14:48 1
    - For $650 I would think a plethora. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 15:19
Roy Wood Jr. is 2010+ but still the best stand up I've seen since Eddie Izzard. -- nm - Max Aug 7, 14:24 1
- Craig Ferguson? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 7, 16:14
more like, Erik *five* Hag, am I right? -- nm - prayformojo Aug 7, 14:12
We remembered this time! Toronto ST Brunch -- (pic) - JaxSean Aug 7, 13:50 [Attachment] 4
- Fun group! -- nm - Dano Aug 7, 15:55
- Nice! Tell Harley Quinn I said hi! -- nm* - Spawn Aug 7, 15:17
- 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo Aug 7, 14:10
- Great photo 🤩 -- nm - Flavorize Aug 7, 14:01
it's possible the brand new ceasefire lasted all of eight minutes. -- (link) - mud Aug 7, 13:49 1
- so they had time to reload...I thought this was about Ukraine grain shipments -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 7, 16:16
The category was male comedians who were in their prime in the 2000s? *eyebrow raise* -- nm - crash davis Aug 7, 13:45 5
- Dennis Miller -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 15:17
- Rodney Dangerfield - Peglegpete Aug 7, 14:12
- Carlin. Everyone knows he was coasting well before then. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 7, 14:10 1
  - Was Robin Williams even doing stand-up shows in the 2000s? -- nm - crash davis Aug 7, 14:36
- I know—I’m legit scared to look at who ranks top 10 in the other decades -- nm - Flavorize Aug 7, 14:01
10 movies that have inspired Jordan Peele: includes Alien, The Shining, Let the Right One In and .. Under The Skin! - mud Aug 7, 13:41 1
- Under the Skin is an incredible movie. I wish I had seen it in theaters. It feels like a companion to Annihilation. -- nm - colin Aug 7, 13:44

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