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2 new entries into the EV market: the 2024 Cadillac Celestiq and the Rolls Royce Spectre Coupe -- (link) - decline Oct 18, 10:59 2
- no excuses now, folks -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 11:01
- sure. sure. cause we are all in the market for $300k plus cars. silly auto-manufactuers. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 18, 11:01
I believe this more than 3 oz of bourbon being poured into this. -- (link) - Jovian Oct 18, 10:47 8
- what's .. the problem? -- nm - mud Oct 18, 11:02
- There are diehard alcoholics recoiling from that pour. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 18, 10:55 3
  - She's obviously working directly for the distillery and trying to increase the per capita consumption - JD Oct 18, 11:00 2
    - She actually made a follow-up video 10 years later with... Jim Beam! -- (link) - Guigue Oct 18, 11:01 [youtube] 1
      - Yay. 👏 -- nm - JD Oct 18, 11:05
- those look like 12oz beer/soda glasses, so with ice that was like 6 to 8 oz of booze -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 18, 10:54
- I have no knowledge of this field, and I'm still laughing out loud. OMG, this is hilarious. -- nm - Mop Oct 18, 10:53
- Oh. Oh no. -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 18, 10:50
MacKenzie Scott must really love them cookies -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 10:44 4
- Happy the donation happened. If Rich people commit to Giving Pledge and donating large sums. My thought is Why wait? Orgs could use the money now. -- nm - budice Oct 18, 10:52
- The Girl Scouts have been in dire financial straits lately and the Boy Scouts isn't helping by admitting girls. - Mop Oct 18, 10:50 2
  - more sociopathic billionaires should cheat on their smart wives without a prenup -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 10:52
  - damn those boys! -- nm - decline Oct 18, 10:51
Pierce Brosnan at the UK Black Adam Premiere -- (link) - budice Oct 18, 10:43 1
- The Rock arrives in a Black Adam Cab -- (link) - budice Oct 18, 11:04
These Lumon challenges were fun.... -- (link) - Peter Kilmer Oct 18, 10:42
From below, I am not voting for the candidate expected in my DC Council race. I'm doing write-in. - MDH Oct 18, 10:37
Australia done. Belgium and Japan each with 2 left. If both Belgian runners complete two more laps they will catch Australia for 2nd place. -- nm - Dano Oct 18, 10:18 7
- This whole thing is crazy and I would probably read a longform article about it. Are Japan and Belgium the only countries with people remaining? -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 10:26 6
  - Yes. They both have 2 remaining. The way it works is that once your down to 1 person, you're done. The last runner doesn't get to keep running. -- nm - Dano Oct 18, 10:31 5
    - Oh so this is team only? I figured it was team + individual combined. -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 10:36 1
      - Each country is crowning an individual champion to send the Individual World Championship next year, but they are crowning a World Team Champion now. -- nm - Dano Oct 18, 10:57
    - Wait, these aren’t all running the same course? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 18, 10:32 2
      - It's fully acknowledged that the team competition isn't fair (different course difficulty/weather/etc.) It's more about building a global community. - Dano Oct 18, 11:02
      - Not for this one. For the individual one they do. -- nm - spamlet Oct 18, 10:33
nah, this isn’t Jim Crow, Jr. at all -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 10:11 2
- They better get real used to mixed-raced people self-identifying as one or more considering where this country is headed. -- (edited) - Qale Oct 18, 10:22 1
  - Thomas will cite the 3/5ths Clause as evidence of our deeply-rooted historical tradition -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 10:36
If you liked F-Zero or Starfox, you might be interested in this kickstarter. Aero GPX. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 18, 10:11
Creed 3 -- (link) - Remlik Oct 18, 10:05 3
- So, I guess we are just throwing weight classes out the window. Majors is a heavyweight…he’s huge. MBJ even bulked isn’t close. - Will Hunting Oct 18, 10:26
- at least they didn't call it CRE3D - ML Oct 18, 10:10 1
  - they're saving that for Creed 33, when the cyborg clone alien hybrid Creed challenges the Kronan High Warrior to combat ... -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 10:12
An early season winter storm in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula brought heavy snow, powerful winds and very high waves to the Great Lakes region -- nm - decline Oct 18, 10:03
UK premiere of Black Adam happenin -- (link) - budice Oct 18, 10:03 1
- I, for one, feel Black Adam would be a better Premier than Liz Truss. -- nm - Mop Oct 18, 10:37
Oct. 18th birthdays: Mike Ditka (83), Chuck Lorre (70), Jean-Claude Van Damme (62), Zac Efron (35) - Max Oct 18, 10:02 [youtube] 1
- Efron is 35? he looks older and I'm here for it. -- nm - St. Epiphany Oct 18, 10:09
Twitch Star Amouranth: I’m Free Now, Seeking Legal Counsel Vs. Husband (that was fast...maybe too fast?) -- (link) - Beaker Oct 18, 10:01 11
- The other item is age. Towards 30, given the format, interest starts to taper off -- nm* - budice Oct 18, 10:46
- Let’s Occam’s razor this. She’s a wildly popular streamer desired by many. What does she gain by faking this? - Will Hunting Oct 18, 10:29 5
  - i assume she's telling the truth but this is also the business model that makes Alex Jones and Joe Rogan billionaires -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 10:38
  - You want to really lose your mind over crap like this...go look up Ash Coffin -- nm - Remlik Oct 18, 10:36
  - Just never know about the front one puts up vs the reality of their situation. Seems legit, but likely an going item as you mention. -- (edited) - budice Oct 18, 10:34 2
    - It is interesting, I may have been confusing her with someone else, but I thought the fact that she was married has been public knowledge for a while. - Marlowe Oct 18, 10:46 1
      - I believe you are correct - decline Oct 18, 10:53
- Alright guys, she's free. Time to send her more money! -- nm - Qale Oct 18, 10:29 1
  - ding -- nm - budice Oct 18, 10:33
- not too shabby, she worked all of it and all their issues out, in one day. - Jovian Oct 18, 10:23
- Looks to be in a better place without him for obvie reasons. Getting affairs in order is not a bad idea. -- nm - budice Oct 18, 10:17
GPT3 (AI) can simulate real people in terms of social science/sampling -- (link) - oblique Oct 18, 09:57 7
- I just started listening to a new podcast called Hard Fork about technology, they mentioned this, also (ST - related!) - Andie Oct 18, 10:15 5
  - So, Bery could out Meta, Meta? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 18, 10:17 4
    - i think he already did, sort of! -- nm - Andie Oct 18, 10:18 1
      - Well, in a way - sort of the text-based RPG version of a metaverse. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 10:20
    - I would need funding. And a yacht, obviously. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 10:18 1
      - I've got a lottery ticket for tonight that will solve both of these problems. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 10:21
- Heh. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 18, 10:01
Guys, i have been looking at a spreadsheet on and off for two weeks trying to find why it doesn't balance with an invoice. I JUST FOUND IT. - Andie Oct 18, 09:57 6
- Woot!! -- nm - St. Epiphany Oct 18, 10:10
- Sweet! Did you have a trip yesterday? -- nm - spamlet Oct 18, 10:00 3
  - alas, no. our accounting dept got it together on Friday and it was not needed. -- nm - Andie Oct 18, 10:16 2
    - Damn accountants! -- nm - spamlet Oct 18, 10:34 1
      - right? -- nm - Andie Oct 18, 10:40
- Nice. -- nm - budice Oct 18, 10:00
Apple low-key announces iPad 10th Gen. The long streak of sticking to the same price and design is over. -- (link) - Qale Oct 18, 09:45 10
- For the love of God, Apple, do something about that bezel! -- nm - Mop Oct 18, 10:41 2
  - Like, what? Don't you kind of want of a bezel for a tablet? - JD Oct 18, 10:52
  - i mean, gives you a place to leave finger prints that are on the screen. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 18, 10:50
- New Apple TV 4K announced with A15 Bionic chip and HDR10+ support -- (link) - budice Oct 18, 10:07
- The biggest problem I see here is that it supports Apple Pencil 1st gen, but uses USB-C as its port. So, looks like it's dongle time again. -- nm - Qale Oct 18, 10:00 5
  - Yeah that’s an odd choice. -- nm - spamlet Oct 18, 10:02 4
    - but an annoying dongle would actually make apple pencil charging LESS annoying -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 10:03 3
      - I would have kept the lightning port, honestly. It's base line iPad and while USB is a nice to have, it's not like the Pros enjoying Thunderbolt. -- nm - Qale Oct 18, 10:18 2
        
        But they can't. They have to comply with the European ruling. - Beryllium Oct 18, 10:19 1
        
        Not for another year and a half. Anything introduced before then is grandfathered. -- nm - spamlet Oct 18, 10:29
Chargers Special Teams had it all planned -- (link) - budice Oct 18, 09:43 2
- i was surprised that shoving a blocker into a guy trying to make a fair catch wasnt a penalty -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 18, 09:46 1
  - If the returner is guaranteed a safe zone in which to catch the punt then a blocker that close to him isn't needed. It was an error by the Broncos. -- nm - rollo Oct 18, 09:51
Etihad Airways flew a number of travel bloggers and such to Abu Dhabi for a big announcement. The big announcement: -- (link) - ty97 Oct 18, 09:28 3
- It's all about the free trip on Etihad. The rest is nonsense. -- nm - Mop Oct 18, 10:41
- I'm honestly not sure there's a more comprised group than travel bloggers. -- nm - spamlet Oct 18, 09:51 1
  - haha, true - ty97 Oct 18, 10:14
Libertarians in a nutshell -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 18, 09:27
ML, there are pretty dramatic differences between Abrams and Lake. Lake is making baseless claims of fraud in voting not supported by any evidence - pmb Oct 18, 09:25 4
- If you ignore everything she said leading up to her latest candidacy, sure! - ML Oct 18, 09:56 2
  - This is just a massive false equivalency. Her objections were two-fold: First, that Kemp was the SOS overseeing the election and took explicit - pmb Oct 18, 10:24 1
    - Claiming the election was rigged isn't based in actual fact. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 18, 10:51
- Lake is one of the biggest dangers to our republic since DJT. She is a fascist through and through. -- nm - Jovian Oct 18, 09:26
Capital One airport 'lounges'? -- (link) - ty97 Oct 18, 09:24 1
- The current series of Taskmaster might be for you, they filmed some of the tasks at Gatwick South Terminal. -- nm - LMS Oct 18, 09:43
Wow, I had no idea he was that close. If LeBron is healthy this year, he passes Abdul-Jabbar for career scoring - Strongbad Oct 18, 09:23 4
- A worthy legacy for a player who is not as "great" as Jordan -- nm - rollo Oct 18, 09:48 1
  - They're 1A and 1B IMO. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 18, 09:53
- James started, what, three years earlier than Kareem? -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 09:40 1
  - And has been healthier throughout his career. -- nm - Krusty Oct 18, 09:41
A fascist, an antisemite and a rich bro walk into a bar.. -- (link*) - Jovian Oct 18, 09:20 5
- Deleted already -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 18, 09:38 1
  - dear lord, he did that yesterday as well. A different pic of them three. - Jovian Oct 18, 09:40
- Ewww. -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 18, 09:26
- So we can call him Fartagnan now? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 09:24 1
  - 'Ah, no difficulties can ever daunt me,' replied Fartagnan: 'my only fear is of impossibilities.' -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 09:33
spamlet, I left you a UA/LH note on B2 -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 09:19 1
- Thanks, I saw and responded. - spamlet Oct 18, 09:28
BF: Astro: 4 teams at 5-1. One 4-2. One 3-3. Four 2-4. One 1-5 and one team with zero wins (me) - oblique Oct 18, 09:19 1
- In some years 5-8 makes the playoffs but it usually takes 6 wins. - Strongbad Oct 18, 09:21
Commanders QB Taylor Heinicke will be starting vs Packers. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 18, 09:18
GA Senate ST Poll: If your party nominated someone as obviously not qualified as Herschel Walker would you still vote for them for the number? -- nm - Dano Oct 18, 09:15 40
- Sure. I view the GOP governor candidate as unqualified this go-around so I voted for Walz. - ML Oct 18, 09:58
- People have different views of what is “qualifying” - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 18, 09:49
- Nope. I've never voted for someone I didn't like or think they'd do a good job. -- nm - Krusty Oct 18, 09:43
- Yes, I’d vote for you, Dano. You don’t need to be coy. -- nm - The Allfather Oct 18, 09:34 1
  - If libertarians are house cats, we know that is his ticket. -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 09:36
- If I knew they were that unqualified? Absolutely not. I'm already questioning if I am voting for my city-council member, because he's a former cop. -- nm - Qale Oct 18, 09:25 1
  - One of my town councillors is a *current* cop. (Detective, actually) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 09:30
- this is like all those "Can you how Fox News would have reacted if Obama/Hillary did..." tweets. no, i can't because they never would have done that - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 09:24 1
  - I don't disagree with this, but I would have voted for inanimate carbon rod over Trump. -- nm - Dano Oct 18, 09:30
- I doubt anyone is going to say yes in the abstract. -- nm - spamlet Oct 18, 09:16 21
  - Maybe it can be put another way. "Who is the least competent person you have ever voted for?" -- nm - Roger More Oct 18, 09:45 2
    - Technically myself for coroner. I don't think I've ever voted for someone *IN*competent. Thinking about *least* competent. -- nm - Dano Oct 18, 10:10
    - probably Biden -- nm - ML Oct 18, 10:01
  - I was just thinking how I couldn't understand how even Republicans could vote for Walker, so I tried to turn the question on myself. - Dano Oct 18, 09:25 16
    - Same, for this year only, not in a non-Trumpian era. -- (edited) - Max Oct 18, 09:47
    - I get where you're going and that's admirable. - spamlet Oct 18, 09:34
    - Without his UGA affiliation and recognition he doesn't win the primary -- nm - Strongbad Oct 18, 09:32 9
      - I mean, that's really the issue right? To Dano's question, in today's environment I would just never vote for a republican. The majority of - pmb Oct 18, 09:40 5
        
        When I'm choosing a candidate, I value their individual merit more than the letter behind their name. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 18, 09:51 4
        
        Choosing to run under the banner of the current Republican Party doesn’t reflect on individual merit, or lack thereof? - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 18, 10:42 1
        
        I agree, but it's one factor of many. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 18, 10:52
        
        Historically I'm with you. I have split tickets in the past. We're not in a normal world right now. - pmb Oct 18, 10:01
        
        I try to, but it's become very difficult right now. -- nm - Dano Oct 18, 10:00
      - See: Tuberville in AL -- nm - Strongbad Oct 18, 09:32 2
        
        I wasn't really going there, but does it seem that currently Republicans are way more likely to nominate these types of candidates? -- nm - Dano Oct 18, 09:38 1
        
        So far, yes. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 18, 09:50
    - there is no equivalence, despite apologists for these clowns wanting you to think that both sides' candidates are equally flawed -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 09:28
    - Abstinence is also an option, yes? - Beryllium Oct 18, 09:28 2
      - Yes. You could also vote 3rd party or skip that race on your ballot. -- nm - Dano Oct 18, 09:32 1
        
        That is what I do (skip), frequently. I don't want the "bad" guy winning by the same margins as the better ones. -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 09:35
  - It's a tough one for me. In NY the Dem's gonna win regardless so I have latitude. If I was in Georgia? It's tough. -- nm* - ty97 Oct 18, 09:20
- I'll be going split ticket, Kemp and Warnock -- nm - Strongbad Oct 18, 09:16 8
  - from your mouth to gods ears. Because if Walker pulls this off then I really have no hope for this country. -- nm - Jovian Oct 18, 09:26 7
    - I figured you were long gone after MTG -- nm - Strongbad Oct 18, 09:32 6
      - There’s always some level of utterly repugnant vacuous dipshits In gerrymandered districts. Gohmert, McKinney, MTG… - Will Hunting Oct 18, 09:37 4
        
        McKinney is a good comparison. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 18, 09:50 2
        
        and has been out of office for 15 years -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 10:18 1
        
        Sadly. She was fun. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 18, 10:53
        
        just dont underestimate MTG. She is *extremely* popular on the right. - Jovian Oct 18, 09:42
      - Oh you mean the person DJT is already thinking about installing at the DOJ? -- nm - Jovian Oct 18, 09:36
Nic Cage's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is $1 rental @ Amazon -- (link) - budice Oct 18, 09:14
HotD ep. 1.09 spoilers: I like the last paragraph of this piece at Collider. - mud Oct 18, 09:12 1
- pfffftttt. it is a non point at this juncture *spoils* - St. Epiphany Oct 18, 09:16

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