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¿Preguntas? -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 30, 04:50
Wordle 498 3/6 - prayformojo Oct 30, 03:22 3
- 4 - 498 - GregW Oct 30, 14:38
- Barely made a 6 - spamlet Oct 30, 05:50
- 5/6 - TWuG Oct 30, 03:23
i made sure i wasn't spoiled for Barbarian and now wondering why i even bothered - hollywood big shot Oct 30, 02:33
Brave me went to an EDM Halloween thing that started at 10PM. Made it to 3:30, pretty proud of myself. - colin Oct 30, 00:52
$1 BILLION POWERBALL PROJECTED JACKPOT FOR MONDAY. someone better win because that is the last night my tix. are good and I'll have to go to Primm - peglegpete Oct 29, 23:30
no Powerball winner again, $1b next drawing -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 29, 23:30
Weir & Wolf Brothers are just starting set 2 with Me & My Uncle. This song has a great & weird history. her eit is -- (link) - peglegpete Oct 29, 22:29 1
- he's covering Lullaby of Birdland :) -- nm* - peglegpete Oct 29, 23:38
what it was like to be a reporter in NYC at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which could definitely never happen again today -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 29, 22:28
I used to own one of these. (Nikon Coolpix 950) -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 29, 22:14
As part of the divorce agreement, Giselle now has custody of the ball on second down and every other third down. -- nm - Ender Oct 29, 22:13 1
- I hope he & Gronk finally come out and admit their love for eachother -- nm - peglegpete Oct 29, 22:27
Alert: Tom Hanks on SNL, if you like that sort of thing. -- nm - Max Oct 29, 21:39 3
- love Hanks, hate that sort of thing -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 30, 00:17
- Watching Finch right now. -- nm - Spawn Oct 29, 23:26 1
  - I liked it. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 23:27
Moving the contents of my NAS to the Onedrive cloud. I am shocked how many mp3s I have. -- nm - Ender Oct 29, 21:04 1
- Thats how I caught someone storing music on a work server back in the Napster days -- nm - budice Oct 29, 21:09
Sigh, dressed in my Marvin the Martian outfit, nobody gets it, not the federation scum, the NASA Ken doll, I had to explain it to them - zeitgeist Oct 29, 20:51 [Attachment] 3
- Did you have your Illudium Q-36 Space Modulator? --nm - howie Oct 29, 21:24 1
  - It appears to have sprung a leak -- (pic) - zeitgeist Oct 29, 21:41 [Attachment]
- Quite unfortunate for them. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 29, 20:59 [flickr]
Sheesh, two $10 tickets in the PB. One for here and one with Bro. Not a single number on either one! - Meg Oct 29, 20:50
Here's a nice Chad Johnson thing. -- (link) - David Oct 29, 20:47
Giving Expedition X a try. Not sure if getting to watch Jessica Chobot sufficiently makes up for the overall bullshittery. -- nm - Ender Oct 29, 20:42 1
- I watch Josh's regular stuff which is borderline* enough, but X is a cash grab. - Max Oct 29, 21:02
The dog raised $3400 alone for the domestic violence shelter - crash davis Oct 29, 20:35 2
- The breeder might have more -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 20:46 1
  - I could have had a golden retriever puppy last night, but I couldn't go for a non-rescue no matter how good the cause. - Meg Oct 29, 21:00
Vegas: Mirage being renamed The Hard Rock. No longer MGM. -- (link) - budice Oct 29, 20:09 1
- But, Vegas already had a Hard Rock and then they sold to Virgin! I don't understand! -- nm - Mop Oct 29, 23:02
Bob Weir & Wolf Brothers live audio simulcast is about to start -- (link) - peglegpete Oct 29, 20:02 [youtube]
It’s never a good sign when you need to post this. - The Allfather Oct 29, 19:49 14
- And the Tweet is still up. -- nm - Spawn Oct 29, 20:15 4
  - His endorsements need to disappear. - Will Hunting Oct 29, 20:21 1
    - Adam Silver sounds angry. I wonder what's the most he could suspend someone for a book recommendation. -- nm - David Oct 29, 20:28
  - it's a Free Speech Zone now -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 29, 20:17 1
    - Freeze Peach Zone -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 20:18
- Saudis could always start their own league -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 29, 20:04 1
  - just a matter of time -- nm - Remlik Oct 29, 20:33
- Kryie presser -- (link*) - Remlik Oct 29, 19:52 6
  - Well, he handled that like a champ. -- (edited) - David Oct 29, 20:11 5
    - I can't support this team while he's a member. I'm done with him and them until he's gone. -- nm - Krusty Oct 29, 20:21 4
      - I will say that I thought the owner's denouncement was strong. -- nm - David Oct 29, 20:27 3
        
        It was and now he needs to trade him. -- nm - Krusty Oct 29, 20:47 2
        
        Which NBA team could trade for someone that radioactive? - David Oct 29, 20:50 1
        
        Kyrie is not going to learn from any of this. He doesn't see any issue with what he's done. He needs to go away. They can't keep playing - Krusty Oct 30, 06:09
Guys, I really need to hit on this Powerball to pay for this new TV... -- nm - Ender Oct 29, 19:38
Absolutely terrible. Kind of recommended. -- (link) - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 29, 19:28 2
- Following now. - kelly Oct 29, 20:43
- HA! -- nm - Remlik Oct 29, 19:35
Damn Tennessee, Kentucky has a family! - Will Hunting Oct 29, 19:26
Just got to the barn scene in Nope. Pausing to make some popcorn and collect myself. -- nm - Max Oct 29, 19:09 2
- I really liked that movie -- nm - Remlik Oct 29, 19:10 1
  - The creature design was incredible, so cool. -- nm - colin Oct 29, 19:17
Elk pulls car over in Canada -- (link) - budice Oct 29, 19:05
elonTwitter update: the Nazis are in fact back -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 29, 18:38 13
- I really like this tweeter (monacelli). Also I really do think that we're mere months away from a Twitter clone -- (edited) - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 29, 19:17 12
  - There’s already a lefty version. Don’t remember what it’s called. -- nm - spamlet Oct 29, 20:13 4
    - Mastodon/Fediverse? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 20:17 3
      - No. It’s a full fledged clone but I don’t remember where in the firehose I saw it. -- nm - spamlet Oct 29, 20:19 2
        
        Ah. I saw a momentary reference to a "non-toxic social network", but passed. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 20:20 1
        
        It was "WT.social", which annoyed me. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 20:22
  - it will be interesting to see what/if the red line for advertisers might ultimately end up being. - hollywood big shot Oct 29, 19:28 6
    - Did you read that piece at the verge today? I thought it was very well-reasoned. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 29, 19:34 5
      - If I were to conspiracy theorize I'd say none of the content or complaints matter to him, this is just a tool to affect deregulation - Max Oct 29, 19:52 2
        
        Kind of agreed. But also... What About greed? Dude is very greedy. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 29, 20:20 1
        
        I think he's like Trump: money is secondary to control, and he wants to shape things the way he wants them to work. - Max Oct 29, 20:38
      - i did see. the counterpoint is Fox News primetime is funded more by MyPillow guy than mainstream corporations and the Murdochs are fine with it -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 29, 19:42
      - Via Stephanie Ruhle -- (link) - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 29, 19:36
120 mi.; 7240 mi. YTD (Lake Ghoubet, Djibouti); 760 mi. to 8K -- (link) - prayformojo Oct 29, 18:30 [Image]
Alright, beta might be working ... for now ... -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 18:26 1
- It is, thanks. -- nm - spamlet Oct 29, 18:37
Gary Sheffield…still got it -- (link) - Flavorize Oct 29, 18:26 3
- Universal DH will keep older hitters in the game -- nm* - budice Oct 29, 18:37
- He made that video during the pandemic. He was one of those guys that hit the ball so f'ing hard. -- nm - Krusty Oct 29, 18:31
- Aluminum bat? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 29, 18:27
Could be in bed by 9:00 tonight. Three >10 hour days at the Barn Sale plus evening activities have done me in. - Meg Oct 29, 18:22
MLB: kicks off WS with one of the most exciting games in recent memory. Manfred: fuck you Oakland, and we're keeping the ghost runner -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 29, 18:13 1
- Ugh to both! -- nm - Krusty Oct 29, 18:34
sold it in the room -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 29, 18:01
the beta site is giving me a "Forbidden" error right now. -- nm - Truman Oct 29, 18:00 5
- You know what you did. -- nm - Krusty Oct 29, 18:34
- Does ichabod work? A forbidden error is rather unusual ... I hope it's not a browser incompatibility issue -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 29, 18:01 1
  - yes. -- nm - Truman Oct 29, 18:17
- Yes, I am doing some maintenance. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 18:00 1
  - *glares* -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 29, 18:01
powerball current jackpot: $825 million -- nm - peglegpete Oct 29, 17:54
Zillow! -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 29, 17:53
the recent Gooding car auction hi end highlights. Charlie Ross is still the greatest auctioneer of the world. -- (link) - peglegpete Oct 29, 17:52 [youtube]
Just watched the entire Sami/Bloodline segment. I never seen a man murder that many people in the ring ever... - Remlik Oct 29, 17:36 3
- On the flipside Gargano has been a godsend to Raw - eag Oct 29, 19:00
- A reviewer said he hadn’t seen that many people break into unwanted giggles since Jimmy Fallon on SNL. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 29, 17:47
- That’s not very Ucey. -- nm - Tim Oct 29, 17:39
My contribution to the Powerball pool.... -- (pic) - .🎃 Oct 29, 17:26 [Attachment] 1
- Reposted below -- nm - .🎃 Oct 29, 17:28
Powerbawl 10/29 set 1 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:11 [Attachment] 10
- Set 2 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:12 [Attachment] 9
  - Set 3 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:13 [Attachment] 8
    - Set 4 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:14 [Attachment] 7
      - Set 5 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:15 [Attachment] 6
        
        Roll over from Wednesday -- (pic) - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:16 [Attachment] 5
        
        And repost of my numbers for tonight - -- (pic) - Meg Oct 29, 17:17 [Attachment] 3
        
        And mine from earlier. -- (pic) - ReluctantCynic Oct 29, 18:07 [Attachment]
        
        My numbers for the pool - Max Oct 29, 17:49
        
        And my comtribution -- (pic) - .🎃 Oct 29, 17:28 [Attachment]
        
        Previous roll overs are done and closed -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:17
I'm bored so I'm going to try using the beta board to run some beta code for a few minutes. Brace yourselves! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 17:00 7
- Boo-urns!! -- nm - Qale Oct 29, 17:49
- Ah, that explains it. Thought my vpn just freaked out. -- nm - spamlet Oct 29, 17:10 5
  - Alright, it's back online now (there was a snafu with the SSL certificate), but it's not selecting the proper template. I'll try and get it fixed. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 17:11 4
    - The beta template selection is intended to be evaluated on each pageload, but the new framework doesn't work like that... - Beryllium Oct 29, 17:21 2
      - Can you make it choose the old beta template? That’s much easier on phones. -- nm - spamlet Oct 29, 17:47 1
        
        Working on rewriting the server configuration to allow that, yes. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 17:51
    - Yeah it just went blank and said “not secured” as the title but I get that sometimes when Nord interacts with hotel wifi -- nm - spamlet Oct 29, 17:19
Drone footage of a volcanic eruption from above -- (link) - Remlik Oct 29, 16:50 1
- Later that day, that same drone sank a Russian ship. Busy drone. -- nm - Mop Oct 29, 18:08
The Spurs cut that lottery pick from 2021 because of multiple incidents of flashing women. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 29, 16:09 8
- A former Spurs female employee has alleged that guard Josh Primo exposed himself to her, and she has hired attorney Tony Buzbee - Deshaun Accuser att -- nm - budice Oct 29, 17:33
- Another for the "Don't be a fucking moron and here's millions of dollars HoF" -- nm - Reagen Oct 29, 16:14 5
  - The poster child for that is Hernandez, right? -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 29, 17:16 2
    - What did Keith Hernandez do?! -- nm - Ender Oct 29, 20:04
    - I usually think of Josh Gordon here. -- nm - Reagen Oct 29, 17:33
  - And it’s not like young rich athletes have issues in attracting people who are dtf … no no, let me just whip it out. - Will Hunting Oct 29, 16:54
  - But he had to show it to the Laker Girls! -- nm - Tim Oct 29, 16:18
- The scouting report said he was a slasher. Typo's are a bitch. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Oct 29, 16:13
Is 48-0 a lot? -- nm - Mop Oct 29, 15:43 3
- Against an unranked team, not really... -- nm - Ender Oct 29, 16:27 2
  - Against #9 ranked Oklahoma St.? -- nm - Mop Oct 29, 17:47 1
    - Well that's a horse of a different color... -- nm - Ender Oct 29, 18:00
Ender, I have (or had) a TCL Roku TV probably identical to yours, and a rather identical JVC Roku TV that’s about 12 months younger. - Mop Oct 29, 15:43 9
- My attic tv is a Toshiba fire TV that's three years old and I've been toyinh with replacing on black Friday largely because the software is - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 29, 17:19 3
  - Yeah. Google's increased the minimum specs for anyone wanting to build a Google TV. Clearly the complaints of "your TVs are too slow!" have been heard -- nm - Mop Oct 29, 17:51
  - Slower than other TVs? I figured it was at the mercy of the cable company who has to look up if you are eligible to get that program -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 17:23 1
    - It's the fire tv software that sucks. It can take minutes to boot up. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 29, 17:40
- I either just spent way too much on a new TV, or almost nothing, depending how you count 0% financing for 24 months... - Ender Oct 29, 16:26 3
  - Whoops, that one didn't have hdmi 2.1. Canceled and reordered another model. - Ender Oct 29, 16:54 2
    - Smart man. -- nm - Mop Oct 29, 17:50 1
      - Plus the second one comes Tuesday, instead of a week from Monday. -- nm - Ender Oct 29, 18:01
- general rule of thumb is that electronic should work 3 years -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 16:00
Last call for Powerbawl... -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 15:35
Marlowe, I've got my fingers crossed for Lulu and I hope Bolsonaro accepts the results. Best wishes for relative peace. -- nm - crash davis Oct 29, 15:30 1
- Thanks! He said he would, at last. I don't trust him. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 29, 15:48
ha ha, what an absolute dick -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 29, 15:17 6
- apparently it gets worse. fired the C-suite "for cause" to avoid paying out tens of millions in severance packages. back to court i guess -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 29, 19:36
- Tesla’s been sued numerous times over layoffs of various sorts. Musk behaves like the rules don’t apply to him. -- nm - Mop Oct 29, 18:13 1
  - until someone actually starts enforcing them against him, he's right -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 29, 18:14
- all the top people will want to work there after reading that! -- nm - Reagen Oct 29, 15:30
- For all of his jokes and bullshit, he's just running a normal private equity acquisition playbook. - Beryllium Oct 29, 15:30 1
  - Pretty much. Corporations are not the friends of employees. They'll always choose money first. -- nm - TWuG Oct 29, 16:16

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