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sounds like the fired Twitter employees are being locked out tonight en masse, and they're already filing their WARN Act suits in CA -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 3, 22:52 3
- big Chernobyl Reactor #4 control room energy -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 3, 22:54 2
  - I thought they were shutting everyone out and then deciding who to let back in -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 4, 00:04 1
    - CA WARN law has a 5k per employee penalty and most Twitter workers are in CA -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 4, 02:31
CDC is reconsidering 'austere' guidelines in pain med prescriptions that caused under treatment and prolong misery for many. -- (link) - zeitgeist Nov 3, 22:37 1
- that’s a start. — nm - b. Nov 3, 23:05
Britain Takes Sides Over a Chocolate Bar That Is Often a Sad Holiday Leftover - crash davis Nov 3, 22:05 9
- don't they repurpose the dislikes? many can be cooked into ice cream sauces. -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 3, 22:39
- you would have thought they learned their lesson about taking sides over things -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 3, 22:26
- I am pro-bounty. - Beryllium Nov 3, 22:07 6
  - What are Maltesers? -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 22:17 5
    - Malted chocolate balls. Whoppers. -- nm* - Beryllium Nov 3, 22:19 4
      - Whoppers are similar to Maltesers only in concept. Kind of like the Kings and the Warriors are both NBA teams -- (edited) - JD Nov 3, 22:33 1
        
        Close enough for this thread, though. Mars is almost always superior to Hershey. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 22:35
      - thanks -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 22:20 1
        
        Apparently voted the Uk's most popular confectionary in Oct 2020. - Beryllium Nov 3, 22:21
zeit, are you up for group-buying again? :) - — nm - b. Nov 3, 21:59 3
- yes, same as before, drawing is on saturday, cut off at 4pm -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 3, 22:27 2
  - Sent too. <3 -- nm - whisper Nov 4, 00:47
  - thank you - sent! — nm - b. Nov 3, 23:00
Wordle 503 4/6 - prayformojo Nov 3, 21:13 1
- waffle287 5/5 - prayformojo Nov 3, 21:15
By the way, this Treehouse of Horror had possibly the greatest usage of Ralph Wiggum ever. -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 3, 21:07 2
- yes -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 3, 22:40
- "I choo-choo-choose you... to die!" -- nm - Ender Nov 3, 21:38
bah. -- nm - znufrii Nov 3, 21:05
well, poop -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 21:04 3
- Crash Davis, you already held back Edgar Martinez his entire career. When will you stop with this nonsense? -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 3, 21:07 2
  - I hope Dansby signs with the Mariners -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 21:13 1
    - Crash, don't make me shoot you in the ear for real. -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 3, 21:34
Wow. That's impossibly clutch. -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 3, 20:58
Pelosi attacker was here illegally INS says and maybe deported (after 10 years ?) ...doesn't that make him a 'foreign' terrorist? -- (link) - zeitgeist Nov 3, 20:54 5
- Fifty-Four Forty or Fight! -- nm - Max Nov 3, 21:09 2
  - Alright, now I have a reason to hate Kaiser Wilhelm I. -- nm* - Beryllium Nov 3, 22:15 1
    - I was reading about 54-40 and found out about this piss-poor decisionmaking -- (pic) - Beryllium Nov 3, 22:17 [Attachment]
- he's a white canadian, so... lone wolf! -- nm - mafic Nov 3, 21:06
- Depends on the colour of his skin. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 21:04
I'm not saying I did commit food stamps fraud today for someone when their packaged okra wouldn't pass, and so I re-rang it as bulk okra. - Qale Nov 3, 20:51 4
- Good man. *tips cap* -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 3, 20:58
- I think you committed a hate crime for allowing someone to buy that -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 3, 20:55 2
  - there's plenty of good okra. just don't cut it up before you cook it. -- (link) - mafic Nov 3, 21:05 1
    - Yup, goats don't need their okra cut up. -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 21:43
Sony has re-cut "Father Stu" as a PG-13 movie and has planned a major theatrical re-release for December 9. -- nm - MDH Nov 3, 20:43 3
- Also this movie is streaming on Netflix. Will be very curious how this does. -- nm - MDH Nov 3, 20:56
- Okay, that explains that. I thought they'd already filmed a sequel somehow. -- nm - David Nov 3, 20:44 1
  - Of the last 2-3 flights I've been on, I'd say conservatively half the plane is watching the movie. -- nm - MDH Nov 3, 20:50
Oprah snubs former friend Dr Oz and endorses Fetterman -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 3, 20:30 2
- cool -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 3, 20:43
- might be to late -- nm - Remlik Nov 3, 20:41
Archer spoiler question for anyone who’s seen this season. - Mop Nov 3, 20:12 5
- Stay until the end for Pam's love life. -- nm - David Nov 3, 20:36
- Short answer: No. Long answer... - howie Nov 3, 20:24 3
  - Uh… spoiler. - Mop Nov 3, 20:26 2
    - Huh. I may have been drunk when I watched that one. --nm - howie Nov 3, 20:32 1
      - Maybe I’m a season ahead. - Mop Nov 3, 20:39
Hang one over the middle for Harper -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 19:53 1
- okay, they're not reading ST at the game -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 19:56
Interviewer: Can you perform under pressure? - prayformojo Nov 3, 19:43 3
- 🎵 -- nm - JD Nov 3, 21:16
- good im -- nm - David Bowie Nov 3, 20:19
- 😺👍 -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 19:45
Kraken victory, so okay Phillies, you have my full attention. LETS GO! -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 19:33
And the city hosting World Pride in 2025....Washington, DC. -- nm - MDH Nov 3, 19:32
ah hah, I thought so. I was holding TWTR in my practice account. I made 8.61% profit, I think? (in play money) - Beryllium Nov 3, 19:10 5
- much less impressive than my 69% profit on Razer, Inc -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 19:10 4
  - nice. -- nm - mafic Nov 3, 19:32
  - and any profit on the whole enterprise is dashed away by the system's lack of understanding of amazon's stock split -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 19:11 2
    - yeah. I have one of those where the tracker I use thinks I made $180k then lost it all the next day. -- nm - mafic Nov 3, 19:33 1
      - You got greedy. -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 19:46
Connor McDavid: Oh so you like goals for MVP, do ya -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 18:59
Happy Weird movie eve. — nm - tRuMaN Nov 3, 18:58
Can confirm the issue with un-favouriting on beta ... will try to fix -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 18:52 1
- Fixed. Caught off-guard by a subtle change in the way the framework works for http method overrides. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 19:06
Deer standing next to an arbutus tree in our back yard -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 3, 18:43 [flickr] 5
- Stantler! -- nm - Qale Nov 3, 20:31
- Gorgeous creature -- nm - prayformojo Nov 3, 19:00
- very nice. -- nm - mud Nov 3, 18:59
- this and your other recent ones have been extra good! -- nm - b. Nov 3, 18:59
- nee-chay -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 18:43
I think if not for strikes and pandemics Ovechkin might've broken Gretzky's goal record. I guess he still might, but it'll be harder. - mafic Nov 3, 18:42 2
- I honestly don’t think it’s a real question - Will Hunting Nov 3, 18:56 1
  - with the 2004 lockout it's another 50 I didn't consider. he's missing ~50 total from 2011, 2019, and 2020. so yeah, that puts him over this year. - mafic Nov 3, 19:30
TIL. If you head-butt the puck in, its no goal. -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 18:27 5
- oh c'mon, really? - mud Nov 3, 18:30 1
  - Newbie here -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 18:33
- Any intentional hitting of the puck into the net with a body part is a no goal. - spamlet Nov 3, 18:28 2
  - was it a distinct head butting motion? -- nm - mafic Nov 3, 18:30 1
    - After video review, Wenberg faked a head-butt at a puck in the air, it rolled off his back into the net so Kraken goal! -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 18:32
As we were leaving work, I saw a co-worker watching a video on her phone. It is a woman who does both make-up and true crime in the same broadcast - crash davis Nov 3, 18:23 4
- "If the men find out we can shapeshift, they're GOING to tell the CHURCH!" -- nm - whisper Nov 3, 21:08
- "Welcome to the ST Cookies & Crime Channel" -- nm - Max Nov 3, 19:47
- Is it Bailey Sarian? - kelly Nov 3, 18:37 1
  - I don't know. She told me it was something like Make-up and Murder Mondays or something along those lines -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 18:39
I just love Philadelphia's play calling this season. There's an art to its flow. -- nm - David Nov 3, 18:06 4
- I've got the Kraken on the TV and the World Series on the computer so I can't believe it but the NFL has moved to third. - crash davis Nov 3, 18:15 2
  - release the Kraken -- nm - mud Nov 3, 18:17 1
    - They'll go wild on the Wild (my smack talk needs work) -- nm - crash davis Nov 3, 18:18
- Feng Shui -- nm - budice Nov 3, 18:14
Yikes. (Twitter layoffs) -- (pic) - Beryllium Nov 3, 18:02 [Attachment] 4
- Second prize is a set of steak knives. -- nm - Glengarry Get Lost Nov 3, 18:48
- Email will arrive at 9am PT -- (link) - budice Nov 3, 18:13 1
  - It really looks like they haven't drawn yet the losers and the ones that get to get out of that mess. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 3, 18:28
- one of the mining companies here once famously conducted a round of layoffs by deactivating security cards when people went for lunch. - mafic Nov 3, 18:08
Kasparov: "You immediately doubt their motives, their sanity, or, as in this case, both." -- (link) - mud Nov 3, 18:01
I cancelled Blue but it's still valid until late November so I might get to tweet as a newly devalued blue check -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 17:35 17
- oh and YIL that Tony LaRussa is the main person responsible for verification existing, due to an impersonator. -- nm - Tim Nov 3, 17:51 5
  - As was pointed out, as long as the new guy doesn’t have any recent arrests pointed out this week, he’s already an improvement! -- nm - spamlet Nov 3, 18:02 3
    - Parag got booked? When? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 18:14 2
      - (They're talking Chicago White Sox.) -- nm - David Nov 3, 18:20 1
        
        Thanks for translating. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 18:31
  - I remember ST (or TT?) conversations about that back in the day. -- nm - David Nov 3, 18:00
- it's so strange to realize that the two sides are speaking entirely different languages here. - Reagen Nov 3, 17:46 9
  - it's about not paying content producers, who make your platform valuable, for their content. like facebook did to video content producers. - colin Nov 3, 19:42
  - Yes, very much. And to brands, they're *fucked* by this change. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 17:52 5
    - I could imagine brands thinking they'd forego the paid check and rely on "Official acct..." then find themselves with no IP protection help from Musk. - Max Nov 3, 18:55 1
      - however: under the current plan there's nothing from stopping *anyone* from claiming they're the official acct and ponying up the 8 bucks to say so - Reagen Nov 3, 19:04
    - seriously. he's gonna get his wish of a higher proportion of revenue from non-ad sources, but it'll be by torching his ad revenue. -- nm - mafic Nov 3, 18:02 2
      - Sure, you can change the numerator, but it's way easier to change the denominator! -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 18:08
      - ... and I'm not so sure the first part is true. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 18:04
  - To Musk fans, blue checks will now go from being viewed as “elites” to people not having them as “the poors.” -- nm - Tim Nov 3, 17:49 1
    - someone compared it to NFT avatars and I nearly broke my neck nodding. -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 17:51
- And I'll bring all of my "why did this top-post??" energy, itellyouwhat -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 17:36
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has 1,500 Lincoln related artifacts removed from its collection due to outstanding debt. -- (link) - TWuG Nov 3, 17:30
Of course, the day after getting no-hit, the Phillies lead off with a home run. - Tim Nov 3, 17:25 1
- isn't it ironic? - Alanis Nov 3, 17:31
Eagles - Texans. Who’ve you…. Eh. Why bother? -- nm - Dano Nov 3, 17:25
Kyrie Irving's non-apology is as empty and incoherent as that stupid movie -- (link) - Beaker Nov 3, 17:12
Peak Australia:Lions escaping while families are camping at the zoo & the campers wondering if it's the "action package." -- (link) - decline Nov 3, 17:10
"Nets suspend Kyrie Irving at least five games" -- nm* - The Gossip King Nov 3, 17:00 5
- You want another game? Just say New World Order again. I can do this all day -- nm - Commissioner Richard Vernon Nov 3, 17:03 1
  - N.W.O. Brotha -- nm - Hulk Nov 3, 17:04
- Statement -- (link) - decline Nov 3, 17:01 1
  - Good for them. -- nm - David Nov 3, 17:59
- nm 😂 -- nm* - Beryllium Nov 3, 17:00
Twitter Blue check mark will NOT verify user identity. -- (link) - TWuG Nov 3, 16:51 12
- So it's Discord Nitro and not at all innovative. Success! -- nm* - Max Nov 3, 17:33
- Oh god, he wants to roll it out on Nov 7th... -- nm - decline Nov 3, 17:16 1
  - Amid layoffs that started today. The site might be literally offline next week. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 17:37
- *Mal_facepalm.gif* -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 16:54 3
  - This is looking more like a "give me a huge loss so I can take a tax write-off" than an actual desire to run it well -- nm - TWuG Nov 3, 16:58 2
    - it may be a second-order strategy but it's clear, like Trump, he just couldn't stand the plebes taking shots at him in a public forum -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 3, 17:17
    - Like I said this morning - there's people that actually *care* about that? - Reagen Nov 3, 17:13
- but they apparently will let randos DM blue checks for. a modest fee -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 3, 16:54 3
  - Visiting the website will emit an ear splitting wail and strobing lights unless you pay $12/month. -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 16:56 2
    - Ah. The good old early days of the web. -- nm - Dano Nov 3, 17:28
    - WHAT? NO, I LIKE THIS. REMINDS ME OF THE BEFORETIMES. I'LL KEEP MY $12. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 17:00
- grifters gonna grift -- nm - Beaker Nov 3, 16:54
The Good Fight this week is a trip. Which is true every week, but it's dizzying. -- nm - Max Nov 3, 16:41
The Donald sues NY AG because she's damaging his reputation and business interests... -- (link) - zeitgeist Nov 3, 16:30 1
- Is that the 33rd or 34th case he’ll be currently involved in? -- nm - Volnelk Nov 3, 16:35
Krusty, did you watch Treehouse of Horror yet? -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 3, 16:25 1
- I did and I loved the crossover bit. -- nm - Krusty Nov 3, 16:39
Mary, marry, merry -- (link) - Dano Nov 3, 16:23 [youtube] 1
- Meri-mac -- (link) - Reagen Nov 3, 16:25 [youtube]

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