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How many NBA teams are tanking this year? -- (link) - znufrii Dec 8, 05:28 2
- There are changes that could and should be made though relegation is never going to happen in any of our sports. The owners will never approve it - Krusty Dec 8, 05:39
- About 8 or 9. Some officially some unofficially. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 8, 05:35
Monarch cancelled by FOX after 1 season -- nm - Beaker Dec 8, 05:16 3
- bastards! (what's Monarch?) -- nm - decline Dec 8, 05:35 2
  - The latest in a growing line of Family/battle for power dramas like Yellowstone, Empire, Succession, etc. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 8, 05:38 1
    - This one with Susan Sarandon. -- nm - One Baron Posting Dec 8, 05:44
NBC News is reporting that U.S. and Russia agree to Brittney Griner prisoner exchange. -- nm - Under the Influence Dec 8, 05:14 4
- but what about that other dude? -- nm - decline Dec 8, 05:43 1
  - No deal for him. He's been there for 4 years. We wanted to do a 2 for 2 swap but Russia apparently rejected that offer. - Krusty Dec 8, 05:45
- here -- (link) - .🎄 Dec 8, 05:18
- We get back a basketball player and they get back the merchant of death. Seems even. *smh* -- nm - Krusty Dec 8, 05:17
Xander Bogaerts, Padres agree to 11-year, $280M deal -- nm - Beaker Dec 8, 05:06 3
- Reliable .300/15/80 bat -- nm - budice Dec 8, 05:34
- Braves acquire ex-All-Star reliever Joe Jimenez from Tigers -- (link) - Beaker Dec 8, 05:06 1
  - Higginbotham is some last name. -- nm - Krusty Dec 8, 05:20
IsCristianoRonaldoawhinybitch.com? -- (link) - znufrii Dec 8, 04:54
Just a reminder that the NY Times staff are on strike so try and avoid going to their site or playing Wordle, the crossword, etc. -- nm* - Krusty Dec 8, 04:51 1
- I have an annual subscription to the Games app. They already have my money. -- nm - One Baron Posting Dec 8, 05:48
TV PSA: NFL, L&O x 3, Hell's Kitchen, Young Sheldon, So Help Me Todd, Call Me Kat, CSI Vegas, Superstar, Fleishman is in Trouble, Doom Patrol, Ghosts, - Beaker Dec 8, 04:47 3
- Ghosts is it. Plan to watch Survivor and Amazing Race finale tonight though from yesterday. Really enjoying both seasons so far, very well cast. -- nm - Beaker Dec 8, 04:49 2
  - Survivor spoilers from 3 weeks ago - Beaker Dec 8, 04:54
  - Same, just Ghosts for us. Theresa has her company Christmas party tonight so it'll have to wait for tomorrow. -- nm - Krusty Dec 8, 04:53
Framed: 4/6. Moviedle: X/6. Actorle: 6/8. - Marlowe Dec 8, 04:38
#waffle321 3/5 - spamlet Dec 8, 03:32 3
- 3 - decline Dec 8, 05:39
- 5 stars - znufrii Dec 8, 04:51
- 2/5 -- nm - prayformojo Dec 8, 04:29
Wordle 537 5/6 - spamlet Dec 8, 03:32 4
- See above. Do not play World today, the staff is on strike. -- nm* - Krusty Dec 8, 05:40
- 6 (whew!) - decline Dec 8, 05:37
- 6/6. Very sweaty. - Marlowe Dec 8, 04:50
- 4/6 - prayformojo Dec 8, 04:18
Seth Meyers is on the tv I'm not watching, I swear there's Woody Allen doing a bit about dating, its Jesse Issenberg channeling him perfectly -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 8, 01:07
Putin makes extraordinary claim only Russia can protect Ukraine from Polish invasion -- (link) - zeitgeist Dec 8, 00:44
TIL: polio was always around, but not so wide spread until we started sanitizing post 1918 pandemic, suddenly kids weren't getting exposed to as much+ - zeitgeist Dec 8, 00:00
on their earlier shows (U2, REM, Talking Heads) even when Scott & Scott weren't feeling some of the later stage albums they were diplomatic about it -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 7, 23:59
Its the 10th year 'anniversary' of same sex marriage in WA -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 7, 23:21
Apple was going to start scanning iCloud messages and photos and the like for child sex abuse material. Now, they're like, naaah. In fact... -- (edited) - Qale Dec 7, 23:16
This happened at the other end of my apartment complex today. A man was shot while allegedly barging into an apartment. But none of it makes sense. -- (link) - Qale Dec 7, 22:15 8
- guy tries to push into the apartment with 4 women, child and some other guy, who knows what he wanted, they don't say if any parties all spoke english - zeitgeist Dec 7, 23:04 5
  - He randomly went to that door? Why did she open it? Why did she have to shoot him and with only one shot? -- nm - Qale Dec 7, 23:15 4
    - I may be naive but who has a gun that close to hand? Even if someone else opened the door and it was a while before he tried to come in? -- nm - Meg Dec 7, 23:23 3
      - It’s Texas. Guns are typically at hand - Epiphany Dec 8, 05:15
      - the article said he was pounding on the door, so someone opened it to see WTF the fuss was, she grabbed her gun meanwhile, from purse? -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 7, 23:51
      - I don't imagine more will ever be found out. These kinds of stories get the initial reporting and then that's it. -- nm - Qale Dec 7, 23:25
- Yikes. But, odd related question: What does "Houston Police Department Storefront" mean? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 7, 22:34 1
  - It's a now disused concept where there would be a few officers stationed at these 'storefronts' in higher crime areas. -- nm - Qale Dec 7, 22:37
So if you're doing a Drummer Boy challenge, and the wife leaves the car on elf radio and you get in and turn it on and its playing does it count? -- nm - Karl_S Dec 7, 22:09 5
- You lose. -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 04:59
- Sadly, it counts. Sorry. -- nm - Krusty Dec 8, 04:47
- *that's* how they getcha. sneaky bastards -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 8, 01:09
- There was a chance you could hear it, but it wasn't assured. I lean toward yes on this one. -- nm - Qale Dec 7, 22:25 1
  - 'fraid so. -- nm - Meg Dec 7, 22:27
She's so enchanting ... and she knows it -- (link) - zork Dec 7, 21:42 2
- Is that a school-issue uniform? It’s a bit much, in the sense that it’s very little. -- nm - Mop Dec 7, 21:52 1
  - it is, and it’s common nowadays. and she’s just having a little fun. the comments about her beyond that kind are gross. - i.b! Dec 7, 21:55
lol Mike Elias, the world's noblest GM, doesn't want to "steal from" future O's teams to improve the 2023 roster -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 7, 21:23
Steve Martin and Martin Short are hosting SNL and their promo is bonkers. -- (link) - Mop Dec 7, 20:53 [youtube]
Remember that present Amazon was importing from the UK for some reason? It arrived today and I promptly dumped it in a sink full of drain cleaner... - Ender Dec 7, 20:48 3
- Oof. I'm accidentally sending Reagen a book from England to Canada. -- nm - David Dec 7, 21:05
- ? -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 7, 20:53 1
  - The drain cleaner also arrived from Amazon today so all the packages got opened over the bathroom sink. -- nm - Ender Dec 7, 21:01
this Chris Hayes piece from 2014 on Stacey Abrams and Ben Jealous’ plan to blue up Georgia is fairly prophetic -- (link) - Starving Ukrainian Orphan Dec 7, 20:30 9
- Didn't Rs win pretty much everything but Senate? Was part of Abrams' plan historically bad R candidates and Trump telling Rs not to vote? -- nm - Ender Dec 7, 20:44 8
  - Biden won a state that hadn't gone Dem since Carter. Ossof and Warnock have both beaten (relatively) stronger candidates than Walker. the trajectory -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 7, 21:03 6
    - So we're just ignoring the part where Trump told Republicans not to vote in the Senate runoff? -- nm - Ender Dec 7, 21:12 5
      - every party dances with them that brung them -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 7, 21:14 4
        
        anyway, the main reason is because the voters they were aiming to register got registered -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 7, 21:16 3
        
        Well, it at least got Abrams elected President of Earth, so she's got that going for her. -- nm - Ender Dec 7, 21:31 2
        
        "Mommy, Mommy, the *whispered voice* dark woman is mean to me." (NM) - Marlowe Dec 8, 04:13 1
        
        Fuck you. -- nm - Ender Dec 8, 16:13
  - Yes. She's a genius. Also, the star trek gambit was part of it from the beginning -- nm - Beryllium Dec 7, 20:46
what I learned from yesterday's NYT crossword: apparently I still know who Mookie Betts is. -- nm - mafic Dec 7, 19:46 1
- He's an excellent bowler. -- nm - jnine Dec 8, 00:55
this is so silly, but it made me lol; so sharing. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Dec 7, 19:40 1
- heh -- nm - Beryllium Dec 7, 19:44
The Jan 6th committee is expected to release their report on Dec 19th -- (link) - zeitgeist Dec 7, 19:38 4
- "And a Merry Christmas to all!" - TWuG Dec 7, 19:51
- and have indicated they will be making multiple criminal referrals to DOJ -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 7, 19:39 2
  - can Roger Stone be prosecuted for any of this? -- nm - Remlik Dec 7, 19:51 1
    - Depends on the charge, but this is what the pardon covered. -- (link) - TWuG Dec 7, 20:04
Daughter saw the ad for A Christmas Story Christmas on the Roku dashboard, with a grown up Peter Billingsley, and she remarked "Oh, a sequel...' - Mop Dec 7, 19:13
"Carry, carry, carry, traveling, carry, carry. I love my son. I ain't never carried him that long." -- (link) - Krusty Dec 7, 19:03 3
- Carries/palming drive me crazy -- nm - zork Dec 7, 21:42
- Huh, thought they actually discarded that rule or amended it enough not to be enforceable -- nm - VMan Dec 7, 19:12 1
  - Not at all. It's still supposed to be called. It's not basketball to allow that. -- nm - Krusty Dec 7, 19:28
I really want to go to this amazing pub for lunch Saturday when I'm in Williamsport but they're super pro Christmas and I worry about the LDBC. - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Dec 7, 19:00 2
- Gotta risk it sometimes. I was a Christmas market today walking very slowly to check out the shops. -- nm - Krusty Dec 7, 19:05 1
  - True. Sometimes you got to - zunk takes things literally Dec 7, 20:34
Wow. I had no idea that Amanda Seyfried turned down the Gamora role. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 7, 18:39 9
- That would have been 2012/2013 which was the tail end of her “in everything / it girl” run. She was probably worn out -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 7, 19:08 2
  - And that brings me to the correctly-spelled prompt for stable diffusion, which was horrifying in an unexpected way -- (pic) - Beryllium Dec 7, 19:10 [Attachment] 1
    - nice -- nm - budice Dec 7, 19:34
- To be fair, trying to explain the movie and characters to another makes it sound like a stupid disaster, well there's a smart raccoon and a tree and.. -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 7, 18:54
- I tried seeing what stablediffusion would do to try and make this visual, but autocorrect effed it up -- (pic) - Beryllium Dec 7, 18:53 [Attachment] 1
  - Fine-tuning the prompt a bit (it gets cut off, but I mentioned gamora) -- (pic) - Beryllium Dec 7, 19:11 [Attachment]
- I feel like she's super rich and doing okay for herself anyway -- nm - ty97 Dec 7, 18:51 1
  - I agree. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 7, 18:57
- oof -- nm - Remlik Dec 7, 18:48
it's been a while since i took torts but i don't recall a "human error" defense to negligent hiring when there are background check requirements -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 7, 18:39 2
- Here in WA the prison system REhired an accused rapist to be a corrections officer at a women's prison...yeah that worked out rather poorly -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 7, 18:58
- Mmmm torte. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Dec 7, 18:57
"We don't need Wonder Woman, we're in the Ezra Miller business." -- nm - mafic Dec 7, 18:20 3
- We don't need no Wonder Woman / We don't need no Gal Gadot - Beryllium Dec 7, 18:25
- "really engages the core demos. very hands-on" -- nm - budice Dec 7, 18:24
- meanwhile at Sony: SpiderPig? Here's $200m! -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 7, 18:23
Survivor spoils - Jovian Dec 7, 18:07 7
- I dunno dude...i think that was (spoils) - Turd Ferguson Dec 7, 20:08 1
  - Same -- nm - zunk takes things literally Dec 7, 20:31
- Best episode in a long time. Years. This is why I watch. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Dec 7, 18:19 3
  - It was unbelievable. So good. -- nm - Jovian Dec 7, 18:29 2
    - This has been a great season. Great casting. (I haven't even watched tonight's) -- nm - Strongbad Dec 7, 18:41 1
      - same -- nm - Beaker Dec 7, 18:47
- Spoils - Jovian Dec 7, 18:16 [Attachment]
Outgoing Mark Emmert on the role of the NCAA president: "The job requires a lot of patience and a lot of tolerance for ambiguity." -- nm* - budice Dec 7, 18:06
Author of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill has been indicted for money laundering and COVID relief fraud -- (link) - znufrii Dec 7, 17:45 2
- ...is currently working on new "Don't Say RICO" bill. -- nm - mafic Dec 7, 18:00 1
  - Suave -- nm - Dano Dec 7, 18:03
I'd not looked for this before but this is the Wine Advent Calendar from Costco. I just opened day 4, the Disheveled Tailor. -- (link) - Meg Dec 7, 17:26 10
- Sounds like a good price ,like $3 or even less per glass. -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 7, 18:20
- I bought this for my wife. She's on Day 18, lol. -- nm - psilotum Dec 7, 17:32 8
  - my whisky advent calendar arrived on the 5th. my wife suggested I wait until next December so I could "do it properly" - mafic Dec 7, 17:59 4
    - Nice! What volume is each day of whiskey? -- nm - psilotum Dec 7, 18:02 3
      - 30ml. so I don't think 2/day to catch up would be unreasonable. -- nm - mafic Dec 7, 18:05 2
        
        *finishes on Day 10* -- nm - znufrii, overachiever Dec 7, 18:08 1
        
        I have other whisky for that. -- nm - mafic Dec 7, 18:16
  - I started on Dec 1st and only drink one glass a day :) -- nm - Meg Dec 7, 17:38 2
    - Rule follower, I see. -- nm - psilotum Dec 7, 17:40 1
      - Not exactly - I wasn't expecting them to be half bottles so they're going to last until mid-January. But they're so much better than last year's Aldi. -- nm - Meg Dec 7, 17:52
Music trivia, No googling. What song has the following note in its wikipedia entry? - prayformojo Dec 7, 17:17 14
- imma 'technically' the answer. S.O.S. is not a palindrome. -- nm - mafic Dec 7, 18:02 4
  - Wikipedia lists it as "SOS". -- nm - Ender Dec 7, 18:51 3
    - Yeah, Save Our Ship/Souls is a backronym -- nm - Roger More Dec 7, 20:28 2
      - (I'm just talking about the song title. The title does not use periods.) -- nm - Ender Dec 7, 21:32 1
        
        I actually checked the title and trusted the top google line before I posted. oh well. nm but: -- (pic) - i.b! Dec 7, 21:52 [Attachment]
- I've got everything but the title (spoilers) - One Baron Posting Dec 7, 17:21 4
  - I am no match for the ST music trivia contingent -- nm - One Baron Posting Dec 7, 17:26 3
    - I joined a bar trivia group Monday. My only contribution to the team was identification of 80's songs. -- nm - psilotum Dec 7, 17:31 2
      - That's important! Specialists on trivia teams are essential. - One Baron Posting Dec 7, 17:41
      - nice! -- nm - prayformojo Dec 7, 17:35
- ABBA? -- nm - psilotum Dec 7, 17:19 3
  - that’s my guess, and s.o.s.? -- nm* - i.b! Dec 7, 17:20 2
    - *tears the gold star in half, hands it out accordingly* - prayformojo Dec 7, 17:21 1
      - does Abba have a song titled Abba, it was title AND name of the act. -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 7, 19:35
LIR, Beaker, I'm glad. I believe it's good for the org reputation to let players experience these other forums. -- nm - psilotum Dec 7, 17:11 3
- he went from the no question #1 overall pick to dropping like a rock, getting sent back to the AHL and now back to the World Juniors - Beaker Dec 7, 17:23 2
  - yeah. I wonder what the deal is. constant healthy scratch, limited ice time. did well on his 'conditioning stint' though. -- nm - mafic Dec 7, 17:29
  - ouch -- nm - psilotum Dec 7, 17:24
Boys will be boys. -- nm - Mop Dec 7, 17:10
Oh, glad I'm going to Connecticut this weekend -- (link) - ty97 Dec 7, 17:09 1
- Have fun! -- nm - Krusty Dec 7, 17:18

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