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LYC - tonight I got last-minute tickets for my mom and Dave and I to see The Shark Is Broken (written and starring Ian Shaw, son of Robert Shaw) - Andie Oct 12, 10:09
Full on lightning storm going on over Long Beach livening up my coffee break. Neat! It's a wet day. -- nm - con_carne Oct 12, 10:07
MLB has a new official CBD partner now. -- (link) - budice Oct 12, 09:47 2
- Can players take it? -- nm - spamlet Oct 12, 09:50 1
  - Well the press release did have NSF Certified Sport, so I presume that means Not Safe For -- nm* - zeitgeist Oct 12, 10:16
TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging -- (link) - LMS Oct 12, 09:35 2
- How's TikTok supposed to even know? -- nm - Mop Oct 12, 09:42
- Livestreams are pretty much impossible to monitor at scale. We already know this. We apparently believe it's worth it, however. -- nm - Qale Oct 12, 09:40
JWST reveals a remarkable cosmic sight: at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of stars -- (link) - decline Oct 12, 09:22 [Image] 6
- or someone left their fingerprint on the lens -- nm - JaxSean Oct 12, 09:34 1
  - "It's your own fault, Knight. Didn't anyone ever tell you to make sure your optics are clean?" -- nm - Kent Oct 12, 09:48
- amazing -- nm - prayformojo Oct 12, 09:33
- ok jj abrams -- nm - Max Oct 12, 09:27
- aliens -- nm - mud Oct 12, 09:24
- article -- (link) - decline Oct 12, 09:23
Dead & Co Philly presale tix: purchased. -- nm* - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 12, 09:15
My co-worker who sits closest to me who got covid (i) at Christmas, and (ii) in early July, went to a big Indian wedding on the weekend and is home - Andie Oct 12, 09:11 1
- Is she trying to hit for the variant cycle or something? -- nm - Barynn Oct 12, 09:48
The latest Prime Day doesn't seem very prime. -- nm - David Oct 12, 09:03 1
- that tv IS on sale. but waitlisted. -- nm* - Remlik Oct 12, 09:08
Randy Johnson is now a Professional Photographer who attends NFL games -- (link) - budice Oct 12, 08:52 4
- He did a subset in a late 90’s baseball card set. Kinda cool. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 12, 09:06
- cool. -- nm - mud Oct 12, 08:54
- He'll get angles others can't - Reagen Oct 12, 08:54 1
  - that's a good poi- ooh! mind your head there, Reagen -- nm - mud Oct 12, 08:56
Anyone with a Statin, non-statin, OTC opinion regarding lipids? My blood work came back and apparently every option is on the table for me. - Volnelk Oct 12, 08:30 6
- Been on generic Lipator for years. They added Fenofibrate, which I also took for years. But I dropped it on my own for now as it's expensive. -- nm - Qale Oct 12, 09:42
- I've been on astorvastatin for years (before and after losing weight). No issues. Knocked my cholesterol into shape that getting into shape had no effect on -- nm* - oblique Oct 12, 09:40
- I've taken generic lipitor for over 10 years now due to a genetic predisposition to heart disease (thanks Ma!) - ML Oct 12, 08:47 1
  - Also, if it's heart disease you're worried about you should be drinking coffee. There's now a crapload of evidence that coffee lowers your risk. -- (link*) - ML Oct 12, 08:51 1
- I’ve been on 20mg generic Lipitor for about a year and a half now, and have seen a “dramatic” (doc’s words) improvement in my numbers, with no side effects to speak of. -- nm* - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 12, 08:33 1
  - Just checked my cholesterol numbers from June, dropped from 246 to 191 -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 12, 08:51
Davante Adams cited for assault -- (link) - budice Oct 12, 08:29 15
- Precursor to the inevitable civil suit. -- nm - Barynn Oct 12, 08:37 1
  - This. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 12, 10:11
- whiplash, headache and possible concussion? Cmon man. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 12, 08:31 12
  - oh good lord, that photog was in the wrong place at the wrong time. take the apology, some tickets and call it a day -- nm - Remlik Oct 12, 09:03 11
    - Really? There was no reason for him to get shoved like that. Adams refused to stop walking or step to the side so he shoved him hard. -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 09:13
    - Nah, it was assault. Take his money and all you can get. Adams flat assaulted him. - Will Hunting Oct 12, 09:09 9
      - I think you might feel differently seeing it from this angle. -- (link) - Inigo Oct 12, 09:36 3
        
        Don't change my mind; he extends his arms to push a non-threat to the ground. - Will Hunting Oct 12, 10:23
        
        Still zero reason for the shove. "Hey man, GTFO the way, asshole!" -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 10:15 1
        
        Oh, agreed. Adams is out of line, but I'm not sure it's 100% assault either. -- nm - Inigo Oct 12, 10:16
      - agreed. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 12, 09:17
      - let's marry this with the Randy Johnson story and see what happens. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 09:14 2
        
        But what if the zombie dove Randy exploded files a wrongful death suit against him? -- nm - Inigo Oct 12, 09:27 1
        
        He uses the dead bird as the logo for his photo company. That bird's family is in line for a huge payout. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 09:29
      - Agreed. -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 09:14
NFL byes this week: Lions, Titans, Texans, Raiders -- nm - Beaker Oct 12, 08:27
Looks like it’s time for the media to torpedo Fetterman’s campaign. -- nm - Tim Oct 12, 08:24
I've only been to one other country's Hooters -- nm - prayformojo Oct 12, 08:09 4
- I've been to the Hooters in Cancun and in the US. Maybe I need to partake in a Scottish Hooters if they have any. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 12, 09:43
- I still want to go to Femboy Hooters. *sigh* -- nm - Qale Oct 12, 09:42
- Ive seen hooters in other countries too -- nm - budice Oct 12, 08:11 1
  - Blakiston's Fish Owl from Eastern Russia is the world's largest owl. I'd like to see it. -- nm - crash davis Oct 12, 08:14
Four Kraken veterans will be alternate captains and form the captaincy group this season: Jordan Eberle, Yanni Gourde, Adam Larsson, Jaden Schwartz - crash davis Oct 12, 08:09
even Apple apparently ready to throw in the towel on subscriber-only streaming (and they sit on 2 trillion in cash) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 12, 08:06 7
- Ad will be an option for all current streamers, and any new streaming company to come along. Some people want lower priced options. -- nm* - Inigo Oct 12, 09:08 3
  - but the cost of producing content for the platform won't change (and will only rise). paid subs better hope the ad watchers like the same shows they d -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 12, 09:38 2
    - Peacock has already tried this model and . . . it’s not going great -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 12, 10:00 1
      - Hulu has an ad support model and is doing great. HBO Max for all it's David Zaslav faults, is doing well with the ad supported model for HBO Max. - Inigo Oct 12, 10:10
- As predicted more than two years ago on Streaming into the Void! -- nm - David Oct 12, 09:01
- man, who would of thought that 5 shows and 4 movies wouldn't be enough to keep subscribers subscribing. -- nm - Beaker Oct 12, 08:14
- Thanks, Apple. I hate it. -- nm - sycor Oct 12, 08:09
1990's Mariska and Meloni -- (link) - Remlik Oct 12, 08:05 2
- She looks a lot like Cindy Crawford. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 12, 08:07 1
  - And he had some Bronson Pinchot in there. -- nm* - Reagen Oct 12, 08:09
What Happens When Umpires Have to Say More Than ‘Play Ball!’ - crash davis Oct 12, 08:05
I've only been to three other countries. -- nm - Dano Oct 12, 07:55 53
- 8, 9 if we can count Azores -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 12, 10:27 1
  - Azores is Portugal, so, yes, Portugal counts. -- nm - Andie Oct 12, 10:39
- I'm around 15 or so. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 12, 09:50
- 0. I've never left the USA. -- nm - Krusty Oct 12, 09:16 2
  - geez, visit Toronto! It's just upstate a ways -- nm - mud Oct 12, 09:19 1
    - Or Montreal, and take part in the bagel wars. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 09:22
- 6 -- nm - Inigo Oct 12, 09:14
- USA, Mexico, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Bahamas, Jamaica - oblique Oct 12, 09:10
- USA, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Scotland. On cruises I've been to probably 5 or 6 others, if those count. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 12, 08:43
- 24. i'm not well traveled around central/south america, need to do more. -- nm - colin Oct 12, 08:41
- Hmmm...let's see...looks like 13 - Turd Ferguson Oct 12, 08:40
- About 19 where I've stayed at least one night. Maybe double that if you count port visits, airports. -- nm - Meg Oct 12, 08:39
- Getting a passport was one thing I put on my yearly goal list at the beginning of 2020. Like everything else on the list, it did not happen. -- nm - Barynn Oct 12, 08:38
- 57 if you count the UK as 4. Will be 58 in November. -- nm - mafic Oct 12, 08:36 3
  - And like principalities and Macau and Hong Kong. List inside. - mafic Oct 12, 08:39 2
    - I guess Guam isn’t technically a country tho. -- nm - mafic Oct 12, 08:42 1
      - Unincorporated, organized territory. -- nm - Barynn Oct 12, 08:44
- 4 - Mexico, Canada, Britain, France -- nm - Max Oct 12, 08:25
- 1 -- nm - mud Oct 12, 08:25
- I think it's 21 for me. -- nm - pmb Oct 12, 08:24
- I think 14? -- nm - MDH Oct 12, 08:10
- Also 23, but then I do have a lot nearby -- nm - LMS Oct 12, 08:10 4
  - Or 26 if you're counting Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland as separate. -- nm - LMS Oct 12, 08:12 3
    - I would count Northern Ireland and Scotland as separate from England, but i didn't count Wales. -- nm* - Andie Oct 12, 08:13 2
      - Wales have their own parliament like Scotland so I would allow them both. -- nm - LMS Oct 12, 08:20
      - If I get Scotland, then it's 10. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 08:16
- 15-ish. (NM) -- (edited) - Marlowe Oct 12, 08:09
- Good. Jet fuel is one of the things strangling this planet and we would all do well to cut back. -- nm - con_carne Oct 12, 08:09 1
  - Sub-poll: How many countries have you visited by ship instead of airplane? -- nm - Max Oct 12, 08:34
- Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland, Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, Bahamas (maybe 1 more from the cruise). -- nm - sycor Oct 12, 08:07
- 12 -- (edited) - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 12, 08:05 2
  - (Epcot doesn't count) -- nm - Dano Oct 12, 08:07 1
    - It definitely made us want to start traveling again, though. -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 12, 08:08
- My three are Canada, Czech Republic, and Bermuda -- nm - Dano Oct 12, 08:05
- I think Peru will be 15 at the end of the month? - spamlet Oct 12, 08:04
- 11 or 12. In that neighborhood. Canada, Mexico and western Europe. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 12, 08:03
- USA and Mexico for me. It's too long of a flight to bother going anywhere else. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 12, 08:03
- Canada, Germany, France, Jamaica. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 12, 08:03
- 2. Canada and Jamacia. I don't recommend the second. -- nm - Qale Oct 12, 08:01 3
  - I've been Jamaica twice, it REALLY depends where you go. We stopped for a day on a cruise and Ocho Rios was not great, but i went for a week for a - Andie Oct 12, 08:02 2
    - I stayed at an all-inclusive in Ocho Rios and it was awesome. - Dark Callisto Oct 12, 08:16 1
      - I've been to Montego Bay a couple times and it was very nice (but we mostly stayed at the resort). - pmb Oct 12, 08:32
- 3. Canada, Cayman Islands, The Bahamas -- nm - TWuG Oct 12, 08:00
- 4. I keep forgetting about stopping in Bahamas for a day -- nm - prayformojo Oct 12, 07:59
- 23. (added list - i keep a google sheet!) -- (edited) - Andie Oct 12, 07:59 4
  - 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo Oct 12, 08:00 3
    - oh, that's nothing compared to people like ty and mafic, i'm sure. -- nm - Andie Oct 12, 08:00 2
      - still impressive -- nm - prayformojo Oct 12, 08:01 1
        
        I think anything over 10 is very impressive! -- nm - Jovian Oct 12, 08:02
- 1 -- nm - Jovian Oct 12, 07:58
- 9. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 07:58
- 6 for me -- (edited) - decline Oct 12, 07:57
- 3 as well -- nm* - Beaker Oct 12, 07:57
Tim was doing good with the first TikTok, ain't gonna lie. He did look cute. But those other two? Meh. You can get that content anywhere. -- nm - Qale Oct 12, 07:53
I couldn't find if these were posted, the blink-182 reunion tour dates: - MDH Oct 12, 07:50 6
- Turnstile is opening for them in North America -- nm - Dano Oct 12, 08:10
- They're doing Hershey. I'm not in the definitely buying tickets camp, but I could see myself going. -- nm - Dano Oct 12, 07:56
- When We Were Young Festival 2023 Lineup Announced - MDH Oct 12, 07:55 1
  - Less than Jake should tour with Better than Ezra -- nm - Dano Oct 12, 07:59
- It's weird they are having a reunion tour when I called Blame It On My Youth the best song just a couple of years ago in 2019. -- nm* - Qale Oct 12, 07:55 1
  - I think the reunion aspect refers to that Tom DeLonge will be back with the band and he wasn't there for the last two albums -- nm - JD Oct 12, 08:02
F.B.I. Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows - crash davis Oct 12, 07:49
HELL, HAKA HEADACHE - I've been watching Maori dances all damn day -- nm - prayformojo Oct 12, 07:45 1
- ~I can't stop this feelin, deep inside of me. Ooga Chaka Ooga Ooga~ -- nm - budice Oct 12, 07:47
Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell and Octavia Spencer star in the first trailer for ‘SPIRITED’ for Apple TV+ -- (link) - budice Oct 12, 07:44
MDH news network: Bad Bunny earned the highest one-month gross of all-time in September 2022. 11 shows. 500,555 tickets sold. $123.7 million -- (link) - decline Oct 12, 07:43 2
- Massive. -- nm - MDH Oct 12, 07:48
- And he kissed a dude. -- nm - Qale Oct 12, 07:44
Counterpoint -- (link) - ty97 Oct 12, 07:42 5
- "There’s also a LOT less to do/see in Australia than the US, generally speaking." people are idiots. -- nm - MDH Oct 12, 07:48 3
  - I'd agree with this though - it only has five big cities and Sydney and Perth are a lot more similar than, say, Portland and Miami - Roger More Oct 12, 08:40
  - I feel like +continental* US counts for at most 6 countries - Reagen Oct 12, 08:05
  - That pretty much proves the point. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 12, 07:59
- Australians are just trying to escape to places that won’t kill them with every living thing they encounter. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 12, 07:48
For fans of Giri/Haji writer Joe Barton, his new time travel show The Lazarus Project has been bought by TNT. -- (link) - LMS Oct 12, 07:41 3
- "...As Kathleen Finch Insists T-Nets Remain Committed To Scripted Originals" Does Zaslav agree? -- nm - Mop Oct 12, 08:41 1
  - as long as it appeals to the Sport Bros, in theory -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 12, 08:46
- nice! -- nm - Remlik Oct 12, 07:55
Coming up, are drug dealers targeting your wives with pumpkin spice fentanyl? Action Eyewitness News investigates. -- nm - Action Eyewitness News Oct 12, 07:41 1
- I can’t tell if this is real -- nm - ty97 Oct 12, 07:46
Congrats Alberta on finding a worse premier than Kenney. -- (link) - mafic Oct 12, 07:40 3
- Poor Typhoid Mary! These people should be permitted to carry on causing infections and killing people! -- nm - Mop Oct 12, 09:50
- That felt inevitable, frankly. -- nm - Reagen Oct 12, 07:48
- heh -- nm - Beaker Oct 12, 07:40
"They (the unvaccinated) have been the most discriminated against group that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime," -- (link) - new Alberta Premier Oct 12, 07:40 2
- Please tell me she then blamed the Jews. -- nm - spamlet Oct 12, 07:45 1
  - not yet...but she does have some thoughts on cancer patients... -- nm - Beaker Oct 12, 07:53

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