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“And sometimes Matt Murdock.” -- nm - The Allfather Oct 13, 11:01 2
- Okay, I've watched the first minute of the latest She-Hulk and it might be the best thing ever. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 11:06 1
  - was hoping they would do the whole episode OG style -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 11:06
"With these recent price hikes, I think it’s time to bring back homemade Disney" -- (link) - budice Oct 13, 10:59 1
- Well done. I remember that ride. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 11:02
Warrior Nun: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix (November 10th) -- (link) - Beaker Oct 13, 10:58 [youtube] 1
- awesome - decline Oct 13, 11:01
LYC: great informative article on poker streaming and security -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 13, 10:54 2
- Basically, the technology makes cheating by signaling from an non-player, almost impossible—so, if cheating is happening the organizer is in on it -- nm - Flavorize Oct 13, 11:08 1
  - That's what I see, yes. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 13, 12:37
Friedman - We Are Suddenly Taking On China and Russia at the Same Time - crash davis Oct 13, 10:49
I'm stuck on a damn call and want to watch 9/6. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 13, 10:48 1
- they're laying out the specific factual grounds for a criminal referral to DOJ -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 11:00
Drone battle in Ukraine. Ukrainian drone wins - TWuG Oct 13, 10:41 5
- It is probably much more sophisticated, but the Russian drone looks like one I can buy at Walmart. -- nm - crash davis Oct 13, 11:00 3
  - It did look like a basic camera drone, n9t the airplane sized things to launch rockets -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:11
  - actually, you're probably not far off the mark there -- nm - decline Oct 13, 11:04
  - Yeah, it was more of a bug meet windshield situation. -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 11:02
- "What?" "What. is. your. name?" "Tony." "F you, Tony!" "What's your name?" "Ezekial." "F you Ezekial." "F you!" "F you!" -- nm - Max Oct 13, 10:53
Social Security Benefits increasing by 8.7% in 2023 -- (link) - budice Oct 13, 10:39 1
- Inflation however was 20% -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:11
Andor > Obi-Wan Kenobi > The Mandalorian > Book of Boba Fett -- nm - Jovian Oct 13, 10:30 10
- And/or - The Allfather Oct 13, 11:02 1
  - You haven't even watched it -- nm - Jovian Oct 13, 11:11
- I'm on the fence (spoils) - Beryllium Oct 13, 10:40
- I might put Mando ahead of Obi. But fine. -- nm - budice Oct 13, 10:35 3
  - Agreeance -- nm - Flavorize Oct 13, 11:03
  - word -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 11:01
  - its close between the two thats for sure. but. (spoils) - Jovian Oct 13, 10:37
- Agreed. -- nm - Inigo Oct 13, 10:34 2
  - and there might even need to be several spaces in between Andor and Obi-Wan, its really that much a cut above the rest. -- nm - Jovian Oct 13, 10:36 1
    - Good write up about Andor (spoilers) plus something I didn't realize. - Volnelk Oct 13, 10:38
STIS&F: So if I purchased i-bonds back in May (or whatever), how does all this changing rate stuff affect me? -- nm - oblique Oct 13, 10:29 4
- As znu said, as each bond hits the six month mark the interest rate will reset to the current rate. - spamlet Oct 13, 10:38
- You get six months of your initial rate, followed by six months of the new rate each time it changes. -- (edited) - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 13, 10:30 1
  - cool. thanks! -- nm - oblique Oct 13, 10:57
- oh no, kilbo's going to kill(-bo) another investment -- nm - ty97 Oct 13, 10:29
bah! -- (link*) - Remlik Oct 13, 10:17
From November, Netflix will be available from $6.99 a month. Basic with Ads, Netflix’s new lower priced ad-supported plan. -- nm - decline Oct 13, 10:10 9
- 69 -- nm - budice Oct 13, 10:21
- thanks, I just paid them $13.99 - I think I might be able to tolerate ads -- nm - crash davis Oct 13, 10:15 6
  - for me it comes down to how much I use the service -- (edited) - decline Oct 13, 10:26
  - Up to $5/mo is worth it for me for no ads -- nm - budice Oct 13, 10:22 4
    - Netflix cagey but probably won't have 100% of the same content as sub-tier -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 10:26 1
      - It definitely won’t because contracts weren’t written with ads in mind. You also won’t be able to download for offline viewing. -- nm - spamlet Oct 13, 10:35
    - I was considering dumping it all so giving it a chance at a lower cost is its bet for survival at my place -- nm - crash davis Oct 13, 10:26 1
      - Kinda how I am with Hulu -- nm - budice Oct 13, 10:31
- no, thx -- nm - mud Oct 13, 10:12
“All this evidence has come almost entirely from Republicans,” Bennie Thompson says at begin of J6 hearing. -- (link) - mud Oct 13, 10:09 2
- “I don’t want people to know that we lost, Mark. This is embarrassing. Figure it out.” -- (link) - mud Oct 13, 10:56
- wait what -- (link) - mud Oct 13, 10:14
Zillow! -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 13, 10:07 2
- The doge wallpaper really makes the room come together. - ReluctantCynic Oct 13, 10:23
- meme's gone wrong. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 13, 10:09
CBC: Federal government announces new Iran sanctions -- (link) - mud Oct 13, 10:05
Dear politicians texting me asking for money: Starting the text with "We've already contacted you 14 times..." does not help your case. -- nm - Dano Oct 13, 10:04
2022-23 NHL team previews: Projections and ranking of every NHL team - crash davis Oct 13, 10:03 3
- the Habs win over the Leafs last night was great; score to make it 3-2 with 2m left, Leafs tie it 10 seconds later and the habs win it with 19s left -- nm - Beaker Oct 13, 10:42
- (#23) Seattle Kraken 2022-23 season preview: Playoff chances, projected points, roster rankings - crash davis Oct 13, 10:09 1
  - if you're paywalled and want any of the other teams, just let me know -- nm - crash davis Oct 13, 10:10
We talked Comedy Tours recently. I've got the data for the highest grossing tours 9/2021 - 9/2022. Can you name the Top 10 acts? -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 09:58 35
- #1 and blowing everyone away - Sebastian Maniscalco $45M -- nm* - MDH Oct 13, 10:19 2
  - Who? -- nm - TWuG Oct 13, 10:21 1
    - I have only seen him getting coffee with Jerry. -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 11:04
- #3 Jo Koy $24M -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:19
- #4 Bert Kreischer $23.6M -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:19 2
  - I have zero idea who 1,3, or 4 are. -- nm - spamlet Oct 13, 10:23 1
    - Bert is awesome. his bit on the Russian mob is outstanding; now with link -- (link*) - Beaker Oct 13, 10:43 [youtube]
- I'll spoil since we've slowed: #10 Jim Gaffigan $12.1M -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:18
- Bill Burr, Chris Rock, and Chappell -- nm - Flavorize Oct 13, 10:15 1
  - #16 $8.6M, #7 $16.3M, #6 -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:18
- Hints: two of the remaining have starred in movies released in 2022, one was the basis of a movie, one guy has been around forever. -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:13 2
  - Pete Davidson -- nm - Roger More Oct 13, 10:18 1
    - N/A -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:18
- Birbigs, Aziz, Glazer -- nm - rollo Oct 13, 10:10 4
  - N/A, N/A, N/A (only 3 women in the Top 25, none higher than #14) -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:11 3
    - A shame in all cases. Birbigs is adorable. Aziz's stuff on NFLX rivals Chapelle, he's become very thoughtful since his incident. Glaser's the best fem -- nm - ale comic working now Oct 13, 10:14 2
      - Birbiglia is doing a 2 month Broadway run this fall. -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:17 1
        
        I've seen him twice. I watched his movie at the Music Box with live intro from Ira Glass. He's a tremendous story teller -- nm - rollo Oct 13, 10:22
- Hasan Minhaj? Since I saw him last year... -- nm - Inigo Oct 13, 10:09 1
  - #18 $7.6M -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:10
- Sandler? -- nm - mud Oct 13, 10:06 1
  - Not in Top 25, didn't tour -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:08
- Dara -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 10:06 2
  - Who? Not in Top 25 in the end -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:08 1
    - Dara Ó Briain. Check him out. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 10:16
- Seinfeld -- nm - Inigo Oct 13, 10:05 1
  - Not in Top 25 (he may not have toured much) -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:06
- Mulaney -- nm - kelly Oct 13, 10:03 1
  - #8 $15.6M -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:04
- [yawn] yet another "quantity > quality" fest? -- nm - mud Oct 13, 10:00 1
  - Just like sex! -- nm - Mop Oct 13, 10:31
- Iglesias, Hart, Chappelle, Dunham -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 13, 10:00 1
  - #2 $25.6M, #5, #6 $21.5M, #9 $12.2M -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:02
- Kevin Hart -- nm - decline Oct 13, 10:00 1
  - #5 $22.1M -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:02
Safeway is by far Albertson's largest brand. The two merged a few years back. Albertson's was struggling logistically. - Mop Oct 13, 09:55
So I'm kind of glad I 'cheated' and looked up the set list for the current Maren Morris tour - JD Oct 13, 09:53 3
- I bet she does a great cover of it. -- nm - spamlet Oct 13, 09:55 2
  - *smacks sarcasm detector* -- nm - JD Oct 13, 10:35 1
    - I’m on record of unironically loving that song. It’s a perfect pop song. -- nm - spamlet Oct 13, 10:36
DeSantis just did some math and didn't like it. - David Oct 13, 09:46 10
- ~ these boots were made for voting, and that's just what they'll do ... one of these days, these boots will vote against you ~ -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 09:58
- my cynical thought reading this, how soon does he start running ads blaming the damage on Biden and taking credit for everything else? -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 13, 09:53
- I'll repeat my mantra: How many Floridians died in the pandemic? What was DeSantis's margin of victory last time? -- nm - Mop Oct 13, 09:47 7
  - It will be called for DeSantis the moment the polls close. - Tim Oct 13, 10:53 2
    - I like that he is a little nervous, though. -- nm - The Allfather Oct 13, 10:59 1
      - It means there’s something in the polls that’s good news and hopefully is a nationwide trend. - Tim Oct 13, 11:03
  - the thing about the pandemic is 1m americans have died from COVID so far and about half of the population has been okay with that from day one - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 10:25
  - It doesn't matter because he sent out a clarion call for anti-vaxxers to move to the state. - David Oct 13, 09:53 2
    - And they did in droves -- nm - rollo Oct 13, 09:54 1
      - Houses we were looking at in Orlando have increased in value by 50% in 18 months. - David Oct 13, 09:59
‘Succession’ season 4 will film in Norway. -- (link) - budice Oct 13, 09:43 14
- Svalbard will double for Manhattan. -- nm - Mop Oct 13, 09:48
- One day I will have to find out what this show is about. I have never seen a minute of it. -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 09:45 12
  - laundering oligarchs' destruction of society as "comedy" -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 10:25 1
    - tough but fair -- nm - rollo Oct 13, 10:34
  - The Murdoch Family and who gets to control the empire when the old man decides to retire...but reconsiders that decision - Remlik Oct 13, 10:09 6
    - It's pretty hilarious. -- nm - mud Oct 13, 10:10 5
      - Ive heard that Rory Culkin is awesome in it. -- nm - Jovian Oct 13, 10:21 4
        
        They're all great. -- nm - pmb Oct 13, 13:23
        
        Rory is great in everything. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 13, 10:34
        
        He is but the cast in general is super solid. Even Alan Ruck is doing career-best work -- nm - rollo Oct 13, 10:24 1
        
        yep, and all the scenes with Braun & Macfadyen are amazing -- nm - mud Oct 13, 10:27
  - Machinations and shenanigans of the corporate elite in a family power struggle for a privately held media empire -- nm - rollo Oct 13, 10:08
  - It’s fantastic. No show crams three hours of plot into an hour show like it does. -- nm - spamlet Oct 13, 09:49
  - Ditto -- nm - Jovian Oct 13, 09:45
Dune: The Sisterhood casting gets even better. Indira Varma joins Emily Watson & Shirley Henderson -- (link) - mud Oct 13, 09:26 9
- huh. ‘Dune: The Sisterhood’ is adapted from the novel ‘Sisterhood Of Dune,’ written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson -- nm - decline Oct 13, 09:37 2
  - Yeah, it is right there in the name. -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 09:39 1
    - First draft: The Sisterhood of the Travelling Sands -- nm - rollo Oct 13, 09:54
- Very cool—feel bad that Indira keeps getting desert planet/terrain type shows—bit of typecasting -- nm - Flavorize Oct 13, 09:34 2
  - She's in second series of The Capture as a BBC journalist. -- nm - LMS Oct 13, 09:38
  - maybe she just really likes hot weather -- nm - decline Oct 13, 09:35
- House of the Sandworm -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 09:31
- Very cool. Hadnt heard of this yet. -- nm - Jovian Oct 13, 09:30 1
  - let's all go back 10,000 yrs to see how those Bene Gesserat witches got this going! -- nm - mud Oct 13, 09:34
Grace Gummer expecting -- (link) - budice Oct 13, 09:25 2
- Expecting an oscar -- nm - rollo Oct 13, 09:41 1
  - Expecting rain today -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 09:43
My wife got me a Pujols 500 HR shirts—Cards have been my 2nd fav team for last 15 years or so -- nm - Flavorize Oct 13, 09:23 1
- Nice!! I assume you mean 700 HR though I'm sure she could have gotten a nice deal on a 500 HR shirt. - Krusty Oct 13, 10:40
I can't get over how the Arizona rest stop signs match the sky. Surprises me every time I open the page :) -- (link) - Meg Oct 13, 09:21 [flickr]
Taco Bell responds -- (link) - Remlik Oct 13, 09:20
I've shopped at least 4 Albertsons brands and 3 Kroger brands. -- nm - psilotum Oct 13, 09:20 7
- I have Ralphs within a mile and Food4Less about 2 miles. Otherwise only Asian markets for 3 or 4 miles unless I want to shop at Walmart or Target. - Meg Oct 13, 09:40
- Kroger is headquartered in Cincinnati, sooooo that's all we have other than Whole Foods. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 13, 09:37
- Kroger is our main store here, but I still generically call grocery stores "Jewel" from time to time. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 13, 09:33 2
  - Not, “the Jewels”? -- nm - spamlet Oct 13, 09:49
  - (My favorite store is a more local one called Food City, but only the location close to us - the rest of the locations I've visited are trash.) -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 13, 09:34
- Anytime I'm in a Kroger brand, I just enter my brother's cell phone number to get their frequent shopper deals. - ty97 Oct 13, 09:29
- Kroger Cinematic Universe -- nm - budice Oct 13, 09:21
[an error occurred while processing this Kerplunk! directive.] -- nm - Qale Oct 13, 09:18
is it Friday yet? -- nm - Beaker Oct 13, 09:10 2
- I had yesterday off so I have NO idea. -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 09:38
- We bought that too -- nm - Albertson's and Kroger Oct 13, 09:17

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