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TWuG, dis you? -- (link) - decline Aug 24, 13:15 2
- Sooo. In 10 years when he needs a new car? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 14:03
- Cyberpunk era has begun! -- nm - Jovian Aug 24, 13:21
Ironic boat and tote: FUN FACTS ? -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Aug 24, 12:58 3
- I like FUN FACT: -- nm - Max Aug 24, 13:33
- REHEARSAL -- nm - Dano Aug 24, 13:05
- does the 10 character limit include spaces? -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 13:00
DTL: *wipes brow* ... I almost didn't get around to recruiting -- nm - Dano Aug 24, 12:57
Taylor Lautner is marrying someone named Taylor and they will both go by Taylor Lautner - which is weird - decline Aug 24, 12:49 4
- Now put this story together with the set of double twins having kids from earlier and you have a real mindbender. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 24, 13:07
- Mr and Mrs Taylor Lautner -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 13:04
- Courtney Taylor-Taylor kicks the dirt. -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 12:59
- "Taylor Lautner to play Taylor Lautner's love interest" -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 12:53
Olivia Wilde on 'Deep Love' with Harry Styles: We 'Go Out of Our Way to Protect Our Relationship' -- (link) - budice Aug 24, 12:43 14
- They could open a hair salon and call it Wilde Styles -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 14:02
- I realize those two are on a full PR blitz this week but like I DON'T CARE I WISH YOU BOTH WELL BUT I DON'T CARE - ty97 Aug 24, 12:54 4
  - I thought the salient part of this morning's Variety piece was how things should be on a film set. -- nm - mud Aug 24, 12:57 3
    - I'm speaking of their relationship PR blitz (Harry is all over the interviews this week too). Not related to the Florence Pugh stuff. - ty97 Aug 24, 12:59 2
      - my apologies for conflating things in this thread. (read the room, mud) -- nm - mud Aug 24, 13:08 1
        
        No worries! -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 13:11
- I am hearing way too goddamned much about this. -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 12:47 1
  - this...its almost like we're treating Harry Styles like Benedict Cumberbatch or the like -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 12:58
- She's trending toward unbearable. -- nm - David Aug 24, 12:45 5
  - and her film sets, yikes. It must be a nightmare place. -- nm - mud Aug 24, 12:49 4
    - FloPugh said to have had a challenge with that -- nm - budice Aug 24, 12:50 3
      - Olivia Wilde says Shia LaBeouf was fired from ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ to keep Florence Pugh ‘safe’ -- (link) - Remlik Aug 24, 12:51 2
        
        none of these people sound like someone I would like to have a beer with -- nm - decline Aug 24, 12:53
        
        (I just assumed everyone here was up to speed and I was being sarcastic) -- nm - mud Aug 24, 12:53
This is weird. Six months ago, I felt like game over. But now I'm feeling cautiously ...Joementum? -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 12:39 5
- The Dems are still running up a hill, but the hill is less steep today than it was six months ago. - ty97 Aug 24, 12:57
- It's okay to have hope in life, I swear. -- nm - David Aug 24, 12:43 1
  - It's "expect the best" *and* "prepare for the worst," people. It's not either/or. -- nm - con_carne Aug 24, 12:54
- The best possible scenario is in play ... recession avoided, inflation tamed, things generally "good", and Joe rides off into the sunset as a success - rollo Aug 24, 12:42 1
  - I am thinking maybe he should run, esp if DJT is running. Biden vs Trump, Biden wins. Trump vs rando Dem ???? -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 12:55
ok, here's the plan. this weekend, I am moving the gray shelf into my bedroom and the red shelf into my office so I can have a bigger office tv. - amanda Aug 24, 12:20 1
- you're a mad woman. - mud Aug 24, 12:45
Loan forgiveness tied to public service? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 12:07 9
- technically that's how my wife's worked. Full tuition waiver if she worked in IL as a special ed teacher 2 years within 5 years of graduation -- nm - oblique Aug 24, 12:46 1
  - Nice, rose deal not so much, she has 3 more years to go after 7 so far, to get 75k off -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 25, 12:14
- LaaS - Loan as a Service -- nm - budice Aug 24, 12:32
- There are some existing programs that do that on a limited scale. Especially with med school debt, -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 12:21 5
  - The Rose works as a therapist for a non profit to cover her student loans -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 12:22 4
    - I knew some docs in Alaska who worked for the Indian Health Service to pay off med school debt. And a couple who joined the Army to do the same -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 12:35 3
      - The Rose told me she owes 83k, she just applied to the state to cancel 75k as she does behavioral health work non profit, this will cover the rest may -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 12:54 2
        
        Wait...she *won* 75k loan cancelation...so dinner on her next trip down there. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 12:56
        
        cool -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 12:56
Tony the Tiger has a Twitch stream. -- (link) - Mop Aug 24, 11:58 1
- That's... something. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 13:06
GOP: Shrink the federal government! Biden: *Writes off $300 billion in assets by forgiving student debt* GOP: No, not like that. -- nm - znufrii Aug 24, 11:54
He might be overstating the Dem’s midterm chances here, but lol@referring to the conservative SCOTUS bloc as “Ginni Thomas’s husband and his four colleagues” -- (link*) - znufrii Aug 24, 11:47
my monitor died last night about midnight. by 1 am I had a new one on order with friday delivery. my laptop is being used now. -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 24, 11:45 7
- I read monitor as mother and... -- nm - TWuG Aug 24, 11:47 6
  - LOL. your memory is as bad as mine. Mom died 2 months ago on 6/15 and I mentioned it here :) -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 24, 11:55 4
    - Aww I don't remember seeing that. I'm so sorry man. -- nm - sycor Aug 24, 12:42
    - Holy shit, I had forgotten that. sorry for your loss. -- nm - St. Epiphany Aug 24, 11:56 2
      - thanks -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 24, 11:59 1
        
        yeah, what Pippy said, and I apologize for my bad memory -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 12:36
  - I didn't have my glasses on and looked over and had the same reaction -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 11:51
In gaming news, Settlers of Catan is getting an AR release. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Aug 24, 11:42 2
- *parks the virtual bandit on your virtual 8-ore every freaking turn* -- nm - Barons Barons Barons Aug 24, 12:25
- Settlers getting ARs is only fair if the barbarians have AK47s -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 12:09
Not really noteworthy casting news, other than the fact that Cat Shank is a really cool name -- (link) - decline Aug 24, 11:39
If taken at face value, would The Rehearsal be eligible for Emmys in any acting categories? - Dano Aug 24, 11:25 1
- I feel like they're specifically credited for that purpose - Reagen Aug 24, 11:31
Why yes, I am trying to calculate whether or not I’d have come out ahead by not paying off my student loans five years ago. -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 24, 11:25 6
- The components of the plan that aren't getting talked about are the payment caps (5% of discretionary income) and the full interest payment coverage -- (edited) - oblique Aug 24, 11:33 3
  - That’s the new income-based repayment plan, separate from the forgiveness part, and which is also awesome, yes. -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 24, 11:34 2
    - Apparently you can also get refunded payments made since they paused payments (if you chose to make them) -- nm - oblique Aug 24, 11:36 1
      - Nice! -- nm - znufrii Aug 24, 11:37
- but five years ago, you couldn't be positive that one guy would lose re-election -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 11:29 1
  - It was definitely the right decision at the time, for sure. -- nm - znufrii Aug 24, 11:32
Batman: Ethan Hawke has been cast as Batman -- (link) - Remlik Aug 24, 11:23 14
- Sure, this they keep. -- nm - Dark Callisto Aug 24, 11:41
- "We need ideas for our kid-friendly Batman." "Who was the guy who starred in The Black Phone?" "Oh, Ethan Hawke, good thinking." -- nm - Max Aug 24, 11:30 11
  - I think he would make a pretty good Joker or other villain after Black Phone. -- nm - sycor Aug 24, 11:33 10
    - do we think Ethan used a body double in Black Phone? - St. Epiphany Aug 24, 11:55 4
      - I don't think he would, i think he's way too serious about acting to allow that. i think he's just bulked up with clothes/padding. -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 11:59 3
        
        scene spoiler - St. Epiphany Aug 24, 12:15 2
        
        he's shirtless in First Reformed, FWIW. -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 12:46
        
        ahh, - Andie Aug 24, 12:26
    - Maybe in the MCU? -- nm - Roger More Aug 24, 11:34 4
      - spoils? - sycor Aug 24, 11:38
      - He's already in the MCU via Moon Knight -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 11:38 2
        
        nmbmcb -- (link) - Roger More Aug 24, 11:43 [youtube] 1
        
        DOH! -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 12:00
- *cancels it* -- nm - HBO Max Aug 24, 11:28
Wait. What's the difference between a province and a territory. -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 11:23 7
- They're sort of Guam-like. - Reagen Aug 24, 12:31
- There are 3 territories in Canada. Unlike the provinces, the territories of Canada have no inherent sovereignty and have only those powers delegated - Beaker Aug 24, 11:28 4
  - Wait, there are like no cities in Nunavut -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 11:29 3
    - it's also not connected by road to Canada, and has only about 800 km of roads in the whole place. - Reagen Aug 24, 11:34 2
      - I flew through a couple of Alaska uhhh...cities?..... like that on Monday. Population 500. No roads connecting to outside world. - ty97 Aug 24, 11:51 1
        
        Well in the winter you have ice roads, but think of all the bridges, levees and hundreds of miles of bulldozing to push a road through -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 12:21
- 1 more letter -- nm - decline Aug 24, 11:24
Stallone's wife Jennifer Flavin files for Divorce -- (link) - budice Aug 24, 11:17 4
- 25 years of marriage is a pretty good run -- nm - decline Aug 24, 11:21 3
  - wow! was this the kids were out of the house finally type divorce? -- nm - St. Epiphany Aug 24, 12:01 2
    - Cashing in those chips and retiring in style -- nm - budice Aug 24, 12:05
    - could be - Just looked and their youngest just turned 20 -- nm - decline Aug 24, 12:04
RIP Len Dawson. Super Bowl IV champ passes at age 87. - Barons Barons Barons Aug 24, 11:02 3
- I liked Len when I watched him and Nick Buonoconti on Inside The NFL -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 11:04 2
  - When I was a kiddo, I only knew him as the sports guy on the ABC affiliate. Had no idea of his legend status. - Barons Barons Barons Aug 24, 11:16
  - yup -- nm - budice Aug 24, 11:04
All 30 Major League Baseball teams to play one another in a season for first time in 2023 -- (link) - Beaker Aug 24, 10:58 3
- Boy, that's going to be one crazy game! -- nm - pmb Aug 24, 13:13
- This calls for some sort of fantasy game to capitalize. -- nm - Barons Barons Barons Aug 24, 11:13
- fun! (except for David gloating at me) -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 11:00
Biden to Cancel $10,000 in Student Loan Debt for Borrowers Earning Less Than $125,000 - crash davis Aug 24, 10:58 5
- So he's going for the humanities grad voting demographic. -- nm - Dano Aug 24, 11:36
- I decided to share the article because NYT actually found someone willing to b!#ch about the income cap -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 10:59 3
  - Income caps that don't consider COL annoy me as a general rule (but I'm not making a case against an income cap here) -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 11:00 2
    - Really should be a phase out rather than a hard cap, seems a bit silly to have full forgiveness at $124,999 and nada at $125,000 -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 24, 11:11 1
      - Boss, this may sound crazy but, hear me out, drop my salary to minimum wage the next 4 months, no really -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 12:15
Ted Leonsis, the owner of the Washington Wizards, Washington Mystics and Washington Capitals, is looking to acquire the Washington Nationals. -- (link) - budice Aug 24, 10:57
Amazon gonna map your house (and probably sell that info to the cops..) -- (link) - colin Aug 24, 10:53 7
- Normally I would say this is dumb but Amazon is shifting more towards being a computing / data company (See AWS) so there must be some plan -- nm - JD Aug 24, 11:53
- Zillow listings are going to show so many more secret passages. -- nm - Max Aug 24, 11:14
- 'Amazon' = the AI's that have secretly taken over AWS and that will activate the offensive robotic capabilities built into all those roombas and thus - decline Aug 24, 10:57 4
  - related: you can buy a knockoff boston dynamics dog robot on aliexpress -- (link) - colin Aug 24, 11:05 3
    - Shipping is only $21.84!! But it'll take 2 months to get here -- nm - decline Aug 24, 11:12 2
      - Because it has to walk to you. -- nm - Max Aug 24, 11:15 1
        
        👏👏 -- nm - JD Aug 24, 11:53
WTF? Goodnight Mommy - Official Trailer -- (link) - decline Aug 24, 10:50 [youtube] 6
- Rated R: for some language? -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 13:12
- the barn and my bedroom are off limits. The barn? I'm in and want to see this -- nm - JD Aug 24, 11:45
- I've seen the German movie this is a remake of and liked it. -- (link) - Dano Aug 24, 11:22 [youtube]
- "Gee, I'm really sorry your mom blew up, Ricky. Doctor said she'll be okay, I guess she just won't be able to eat any spicy foods for a while." -- nm - Max Aug 24, 11:03 1
  - I love this board. That somebody could post this reference is all the evidence that I'm among uh...well..a bunch of people that I've mostly never met - JD Aug 24, 11:50
- I feel like I just watched the entire movie. -- nm - Barons Barons Barons Aug 24, 10:59
Handmaid’s Tale | Season 5 | Sept. 14 -- (link) - mud Aug 24, 10:47 [youtube]
Quordle 4 3 5 6 - oblique Aug 24, 10:47
Pinocchio | Disney+ - trailer #2 (available September 8th) -- (link*) - Beaker Aug 24, 10:44 [youtube]
She-Hulk 1.5 million views in it's 1st four days -- (link) - Remlik Aug 24, 10:43
Two guys walk into a bar. One says "I'd like some H Two O". The other guy says "I'd like some H Two O too". That guy died. -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 10:36 2
- And you cursed my nunuvat IM? -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 10:37 1
  - solely because I wanted to make a Nunavut joke. -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 10:40
Also, having flown down from Alaska to SFO yesterday with an inflight map, I think I finally understand where Bery lives. - ty97 Aug 24, 10:36 2
- Indeed. Southern tip of Vancouver Island. And the city of Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 24, 11:59
- My guide: Victoria = lovely, Vancouver = fun. -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 10:43
I don’t trust stairs. - mud Aug 24, 10:34 4
- 👍 -- nm - JD Aug 24, 11:41
- But down for anything -- nm - rollo Aug 24, 11:02 1
  - People gotta rail about something -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 11:28
- atta boy! -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 10:36
Beaker: Ontario, Quebec, Alberta -- nm - ty97 Aug 24, 10:34
Shia LaBeouf Was Fired from ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ to Keep Florence Pugh ‘Safe,’ Says Olivia Wilde -- (link) - budice Aug 24, 10:32 4
- So … she frames it as protecting Pugh. Which seems condescending as fuck to me. “Sorry girl, I needed to save you from the bad man.” - Will Hunting Aug 24, 11:13
- please don't replace him with Ezra Miller -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 24, 10:34
- Is anyone shocked that Shia LaBoeuf is problematic? -- nm - Mop Aug 24, 10:33 1
  - *casts him as the new Superman* -- nm - WB Disco Aug 24, 10:36
Orcas are taking out rudders from European ships -- (link) - peglegpete Aug 24, 10:31 1
- They must be able to see the flags when they surface to breathe. -- nm - crash davis Aug 24, 10:41
Baltimore Ravens RB Gus Edwards moved to reserve/PUP list, out at least first four games -- nm - Beaker Aug 24, 10:30
Huh. My Xbox subscription expired. I need deals! -- nm - Mop Aug 24, 10:29

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