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One dead after crash into Capitol barricades, shootout -- (link) - Reagen Aug 14, 07:11 1
- wow. Heather runs down there on Sundays (though I think she turn around on the other side of the Capitol) -- nm - prayformojo Aug 14, 07:16
Dodgers: +251 RD thru 112 games, scored the most runs and given up the least. .700 Win% -- nm - budice Aug 14, 07:05
Fetterman is good at this -- (link) - Jovian Aug 14, 06:08
Since this August has nothing movie wise… Rogue One is getting an IMAX re-release on 8/26 -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 05:55 2
- Top Gun 2 is back in the top 3 -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 14, 06:53
- So weird. They should get Prey in theaters. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 14, 06:07
Good morning. Spelling Bee. -- (pic) - prayformojo Aug 14, 05:40 [Attachment] 1
- The third film in the Paddington series, RAGING PAD, was viewed as an unfortunate departure. -- nm - Reagen Aug 14, 06:13
There are 15 semi trucks parked near Wrigley, and there's a crane in the outfield. Lady Gaga will be performing there on Monday. -- nm* - .🎡 Aug 13, 23:28
AARP can go fuck themselves. Maybe wait until the day after I turn 50 to remind me that I'm 50? -- nm - Mop Aug 13, 23:05 6
- Not to early to plan your funeral, I mean I know I'm going to burn, but didn't know that I have to pay for it. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 14, 11:03
- Welcome to early bird dinners and free discounts. Happy birthday! -- nm - JaxSean Aug 14, 04:55
- I received some a lot earlier, so offensive! (happy birthday to you! and to Dano! :) -) — nm - i.b.! Aug 13, 23:19
- And if you do join look forward to daily emails offering life, medical, and auto insurance and appealing for funds to assist their lobbying efforts. -- nm - Meg Aug 13, 23:10 2
  - They’ll give AAA a run for their money! -- nm - Mop Aug 13, 23:37 1
    - Exactly!! -- nm - Meg Aug 13, 23:38
How do you generate a random string? - JD Aug 13, 23:05 2
- Ha -- nm - zork Aug 14, 03:41
- LOL -- nm - Mop Aug 13, 23:06
I didn't take many photos this week, so this is mostly for Bery. -- (link) - Meg Aug 13, 21:57 [flickr] 2
- Mmm boats. ("Wetever", heh) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 13, 22:05 1
  - I thought you'd like that :) -- nm - Meg Aug 13, 22:18
You know, sometimes there is a TikTok that comes around on my FYP that isn’t a femboy, enby, or other thirst trap. This, this is one of those times. -- (link) - Qale As Folk Aug 13, 21:18 [tiktok] 2
- 🤣Pretty funny—My favorite new “non-thirst trap TikTok ” is @Chef Reactions …reviewing people’s cooking videos—he’s so monotone and sarcastic. -- (edited) - Flavorize Aug 14, 06:49 1
  - I’ve come across a few of those. Definitely makes me miss Bourdain. -- nm - Qale As Folk Aug 14, 08:26
#Heardle #171 - 2/6 - prayformojo Aug 13, 21:13
Framed #156 - 6/6 *ashamed* - prayformojo Aug 13, 21:12 2
- 3/6 - nm -- nm - JaxSean Aug 13, 21:53
- I hate to shame you. I really do. I got this one in one. -- nm - Qale As Folk Aug 13, 21:23
Worldle #205 2/6 - prayformojo Aug 13, 21:11
Wordle 421 5/6 - prayformojo Aug 13, 21:10 4
- 4/6 - znufrii Aug 14, 06:26
- 6 - decline Aug 14, 04:22
- 4 - 421 - GregW Aug 14, 01:22
- 4/6 - TWuG Aug 13, 22:16
Oh no! My internet's out! What am I supposed to do now??? -- nm - Ender Aug 13, 21:01 4
- Internet's back! Wound up catching up on 5 Jeopardy eps on my OTA DVR, then tethered my PS5 to my phone and played some Resident Evil 2. -- nm - Ender Aug 13, 23:58 1
  - And it's gone again... -- nm - Ender Aug 14, 04:39
- Write that novel you've been putting off. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 13, 22:40
- Tether your iPad to your iPhone and use cellular? -- nm - Qale As Folk Aug 13, 21:23
Does this absurd edit look sufficiently scifi? -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 13, 18:48 [flickr] 2
- I didn't think artillery bunkers had comforts like air-conditioning -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 13, 22:43
- Pretty cool—Children of Men meets the Walking Dead -- nm - Flavorize Aug 13, 19:25
Wordle 6/6 - oblique Aug 13, 18:42
I just swiped right on She-Hulk. -- nm - Spawn Aug 13, 18:09 1
- I'm not sure what that means - eag Aug 13, 19:44
Ivory Coast Supplies the World With Cocoa. Now It Wants Some for Itself. A new generation of Ivory Coast chocolatiers is striving to change an industr - crash davis Aug 13, 17:46 12
- Send in the CIA. -- nm - Mop Aug 13, 23:02
- See page 2 of this newsletter for a brief history of chocolate and how it became an international product. -- (link) - Meg Aug 13, 18:14
- it took them long enough to figure out the real money is selling the by products. -- (pic) - Peglegpete Aug 13, 18:08 [Attachment] 2
  - They realised a long time ago. Their situation is because they were a colony + poor governance in post-colonial times -- nm - Roger More Aug 13, 19:00 1
    - they are next to Wakanda. the Black Panther should have helped them :( -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 13, 19:13
- Video of the lifelong growers/harvesters tasting chocolate for the first time -- (link) - zork Aug 13, 17:58 [youtube] 2
  - I love the variety of languages in this video. - Mop Aug 13, 23:58 1
    - I didn't listen that closely but I think they answered back in French. - zork Aug 14, 03:45
- Smart move and hopefully they can get some profitable businesses built up. - Krusty Aug 13, 17:57 3
  - One of the issues is that most of their factories and trucks lack refrigeration -- nm - zork Aug 13, 17:59 2
    - Maybe with some investment from the government that can change. -- nm - Krusty Aug 13, 18:05 1
      - I'm also doubting that they have a sufficient dairy industry to supply the milk -- nm - zork Aug 14, 03:56
Thank you to Crash Davis for the Bill Pitman post on B2 -- nm* - zork Aug 13, 17:43 1
- np, it was amazing all the music he was associated with -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 17:46
"The footage showed, after one instance in which Justice Department officials were in contact with Mr. Trump’s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room." -- (link*) - mud Aug 13, 17:29 4
- Trump wouldn't handle all this himself. Who's handling the documents? Who understood their contents? -- nm - Mop Aug 13, 23:04
- mmhmhmhm. Indeed. -- nm - Mark Bankston Aug 13, 17:39
- Anyone who falls for the "he secretly declassified everything but forgot to write that down" idea has probably had multiple encounters with the wallet - Reagen Aug 13, 17:39 1
  - "See, your honor, he wrote it down but then tore up that paper and tossed in the toilet. He does that. He's been destroying classified pages since- -- nm - oh crap, I shouldn't have said that. Aug 13, 17:42
Extremely Cursed Tweet -- (link) - Reagen Aug 13, 16:39
"Yeah, I took him down, because obviously I'm the Grabber you dumb fucking fartknockers." -- nm - Gwendolyn Blake Aug 13, 16:04 1
- we're watching it now. quite good -- nm - Remlik Aug 13, 16:50
Sipping a gin and tonic and listening to Jimmy Buffet on vinyl on the last Saturday of summer vacation is ok, I have to say. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 13, 16:01 5
- 😎 -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 16:01
- Which album? -- nm - The Allfather Aug 13, 16:01 3
  - White Sport Coat and a pink crustacean. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 13, 16:01 2
    - Set me back $6 as did Living and Dying in 3/4 time. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 13, 16:02 1
      - that is some nice vinyl prices -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 17:24
went to chess club, and then came home to check on T and she suggested that I go to the park and attend the town's beer festival for the first time - crash davis Aug 13, 15:47
Now playing: Bullet Train -- nm - con_carne Aug 13, 15:04
Punt God for 82 -- (link) - budice Aug 13, 14:38 3
- So kissed them Bengals passed on him so many times. It’s so clear he’s a weapon. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 13, 16:03 2
  - If the receiver was playing deep, it’s a 30 yard return. It was exactly why he slid to 3rd punter picked. - Will Hunting Aug 13, 16:44 1
    - In any case it’s better than 15 year veteran Kevin Huber. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 13, 16:53
Treason is the reason for the seizin’ -- nm - Stolen from fb Aug 13, 13:36 3
- I'm watching Cromwell right now -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 13, 14:08 2
  - ~Lord Protector of England (and his warts) Born in 1599 and died in 1658 (September)~ -- nm - Barons Barons Barons Aug 13, 17:20 1
    - I had cause to show off with the Guy Fawkes poem tonight. -- nm - Reagen Aug 13, 17:23
Saw an F-150 Lightning on the road today. Headlights give it away, but otherwise it's a basic pickup in form. -- nm - TWuG Aug 13, 13:31 12
- Saw a Rivian Truck the other day. bit weird shape. but no cybertruck -- nm - budice Aug 13, 15:53 2
  - I love the Rivian look. Can't afford one, but love it. -- nm - TWuG Aug 13, 15:58 1
    - Looks like something you would snap into a Lego garage -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 13, 16:56
- Which I honestly think is the winning play. I don’t think there’s a ton of truck-drivers who adapt to a lot of change. - Will Hunting Aug 13, 14:39 7
  - the consumers who can afford $87k for an EV 150 are probably highly convertible, but also not the target consumers for comparable ICE models currently -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 13, 14:53 6
    - There's a shocking amount of trucks that are used as suburban SUVs - Reagen Aug 13, 14:57 5
      - Yeah, their owners drive on downtown narrow streets and then suggest that bicyclists should be banned cause they could get hit by theirs side mirrors -- nm - Roger More Aug 13, 15:07
      - Yeah. Our white trash neighbor had 7 kids and nothing other than trucks. - Will Hunting Aug 13, 15:02 1
        
        It's easy enough to pile the extra kids in the truck bed -- (edited) - Reagen Aug 13, 15:07
      - no bigger Virtue Signalers than the suburban weekend warriors who plunk down $60k for something that gets 20/mpg and then wonder why it costs $100 to - hollywood big shot Aug 13, 15:01
      - Yuuuup. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 13, 14:57
- I have no reason to want one, yet I still want one. - Beryllium Aug 13, 13:36
Former San Diego Police Officer Peter Griffin and Three Co-Defendants Indicted for Owning and Operating Illicit Massage Businesses -- (link) - budice Aug 13, 13:03 4
- Maybe I should switch to baseball. -- nm - Deshaun Watson Aug 13, 13:29
- Peter Griffin? ! -- nm - mud Aug 13, 13:05 2
  - and entirely under joe swanson's nose! -- nm - Beryllium Aug 13, 13:09 1
    - giggity, giggity -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 15:50
harley quinn spoils - Beryllium Aug 13, 12:24
Zach de la Rocha has a torn ACL and is the reason they had to cancel part of the tour. -- (link) - Krusty Aug 13, 12:20
There's a snake in JJ Watt's boot -- (link) - budice Aug 13, 11:47
Curse of Dairy Queen. 4 MLB Players with sponsorship -- (link) - budice Aug 13, 11:37 4
- For the turtle pecan blizzard? Totally worth it -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 13, 12:40
- I hadn't realized Bellinger was that bad this year. -- nm - David Aug 13, 11:41 2
  - There is legit talk he will be non-tendered. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 13, 14:38 1
    - Jason Heyward has had a better 3-yr OPS+ than Bellinger since 2020. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 13, 16:55
~sigh~ I swear the bookstore volunteers think there's some kind of paperwork fairy who comes in at night and magically replaces forms & opening coin. - Meg Aug 13, 11:32 6
- Threaten to cut off the free internet, next time that happens—only thing that generation responds to, for motivation -- nm - Flavorize Aug 13, 12:09
- Uh..that fairy is you, meg -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 13, 11:57 1
  - I think I've lost my wand :( -- nm - Meg Aug 13, 12:08
- I had a sock escape from this plane of existence in our universe on Thursday and it's made me completely mental, looking everywhere over and over. -- nm - mud Aug 13, 11:35 2
  - You'll be walking around in a few days and it'll drop out of your pant leg. - Meg Aug 13, 11:52 1
    - quantum astrophysics is sus. -- nm - mud Aug 13, 11:55
Severe winds have caused the main stage to collapse at an EDM festival in Spain killing one and injuring at least 40. -- (link) - Remlik Aug 13, 11:27
You know who is flakyier than a kitchen remodeling contractor....the goat renter guy who keeps putting us off another few hours...days -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 13, 11:17 8
- It behooves me to say,, you guys are cracking me up.. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 13, 12:01
- Just burns your trash, instead of getting goats 🐐 to eat it —environment is already past the breaking point. -- nm - Flavorize Aug 13, 11:57 1
  - Unfortunately the ivy and blackberry is s5ill in the ground and fights back, I've considered getting a trio of goats of my own -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 13, 11:59
- Bunch of kids with no sense of responsibility -- nm - JD Aug 13, 11:21 2
  - indeed, they think they can just start a business and cashmere in -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 11:25 1
    - milking the goat for all you can get -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 13, 11:33
- don't let him pull the wool over your eyes!! -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 13, 11:20
- the goat rental business is cudthroat -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 11:18
Getty to Return Three Major Sculptures to Italy “Orpheus and the Sirens” will be sent back in September, with other ancient artworks to follow. - crash davis Aug 13, 11:09
State Fair talk earlier had us make a decision. - zunk takes things literally Aug 13, 11:04 [Attachment] 6
- “on a stick” makes everything better -- nm - Dano Aug 13, 12:20
- the deep fried oreos were vastly over rated -- nm - Remlik Aug 13, 11:21 1
  - Yeah, they go all soggy. - Reagen Aug 13, 14:58
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 11:06
- yum -- nm - prayformojo Aug 13, 11:06
- But, that's not deep fried -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 13, 11:06
Kobe Bryant crash scene photos were shared during awards ceremony cocktail hour, witness testifies -- (link) - budice Aug 13, 10:48 2
- That headline is utterly impenetrable. Instead: Firefighters passed around photos of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash. -- nm - Mop Aug 13, 23:43
- The details being testified to in that trial are all types of messed up. -- nm - JD Aug 13, 10:59
I have found my new favorite burnt ends. You first smoke the cut of meat, then you dice it up - tRuMaN Aug 13, 10:48 3
- I think the hardest part of me becoming a pescetarian will be convincing myself that cows are aquatic -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 10:59 2
  - I mean whales are cows that returned to the sea. -- nm - Reagen Aug 13, 12:20
  - Pigs can swim, just sayin -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 13, 11:00
HBS, I have no idea what Musk said or meant, but TWuG might? -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 10:47 4
- Probably just a broad strokes "the next big energy source" comment. Lithium and other battery components at least have the virtue - TWuG Aug 13, 13:28 1
  - And if you need to, you can filter it from the ocean. -- nm - Reagen Aug 13, 14:15
- he should probably hope that Li-ion isn’t the new oil, for customers’ sake at the least, but also my understanding is solid state batteries - hollywood big shot Aug 13, 11:42 1
  - btw, Trish says hi! -- nm - crash davis Aug 13, 11:48
Catching 100 Zigzagoons is annoying. -- nm - Qale As Folk Aug 13, 10:43 3
- Word -- nm - Scary Spice Aug 13, 15:06
- I dropped eggs, got lots of excellent throws worth 4000xp each, got almost 700,000 xp during the event. - JaxSean Aug 13, 12:12 1
  - I couldn’t nail enough excellent throws to do THAT well. The annoyance came from how they’re yellowish-ring catches on a normal ball. -- nm - Qale As Folk Aug 13, 12:51

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