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Denver has now dropped 71° in 17 hours -- (link) - decline Dec 22, 07:27 2
- Let Russ Cook -- nm - budice Dec 22, 07:31
- So when do we have to climb into a fast-food place and light the grill to stay alive? -- nm - sycor Dec 22, 07:31
If you drive an EV and are travelling in this cold weather, be aware the Electrify America chargers - TWuG Dec 22, 07:25
Titans QB Ryan Tannehill (ankle) 'very likely' out for season -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 06:58 4
- My BF round one game was me with Hurts vs Reagen with Tannehill. -- nm - Spawn Dec 22, 07:20 3
  - I never had a good QB all season. Once Kupp went down my season was over. -- nm - Reagen Dec 22, 07:24 2
    - Regarding #1 Overall FFL Picks: RB Jonathan Taylor had the fewest Fantasy PPG since RB Shady McCoy in 2014. -- nm* - budice Dec 22, 07:27
    - So you just *had* to take out mine. - Spawn Dec 22, 07:25
Meanwhile, Russia’s only aircraft carrier caught fire yesterday. -- (edited) - All I want for Xmas is znu Dec 22, 06:53 8
- Another fire, Andrei? -- nm - Mop Dec 22, 07:00 1
  - Two thumbs for that movie reference. -- nm - Walt_Disney Dec 22, 07:18
- It that true? *One*? - JaxSean Dec 22, 07:00 4
  - OTOH they excel at nuke powered ice breakers, go figure -- nm - Jingle Bells, Zeitgeist Kvells, posting allll day Dec 22, 10:52
  - Yes. It is called, "мусорный контейнер" -- nm - Spawn Dec 22, 07:23
  - Oh definitely. Aircraft carriers, FWIW, are rare outside the US Navy. *GOOD* ones are even rarer. 26 globally. 11 are USN. - Mop Dec 22, 07:05
  - There just aren't a ton of aircraft carriers anywhere - the US only has around 10. Most of the Russian navy is made up of much smaller ships -- nm - decline Dec 22, 07:03
- One of my more prouder moments playing Axis & Allies years ago was managing to deploy multiple Soviet aircraft carriers. - Jovian Dec 22, 06:57
Here's the full list of Republicans who purposefully sat during ovations for Zelensky before Congress -- (link) - kilbowlful of jelly Dec 22, 06:46 1
- Putin don't pay me to stand -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 06:54
Does anyone wear Danner boots? Are they warm? Heavy? How about the brand Quechua? They're a European brand like REI here and just - Krusty Dec 22, 06:46
JaxSean PSA: Watch out for falling iguanas this weekend!! -- nm - decline Dec 22, 06:36 1
- When we drive down to Miami, we are always looking for them in the grass on the sides of the tollway, but they've been absent lately. - JaxSean Dec 22, 06:54
This year's family photoshopped cake was done REAL quick last night. But here it is: -- (pic) - Andie Dec 22, 06:31 [Attachment] 6
- Thats awesome, I love that its filmed in "Hazard Vision" -- nm - Walt_Disney Dec 22, 07:17
- adorbs! -- nm - Diva Dec 22, 07:04
- ha that's awesome -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 06:54
- Love it! Looks great! -- nm - Krusty Dec 22, 06:51
- :-) -- nm - mud Dec 22, 06:40
- Awesome. -- nm - budice Dec 22, 06:33
NFL Sunday Ticket move to Youtube (Google) now Official. 7-Year Dealio. -- (link*) - budice Dec 22, 06:26
the 37-page guide for staffers to Senator Girlboss -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 22, 06:26 9
- that sounds like kind of normal personal assistant stuff - it's better to have a detailed guide for people than have them try to figure all the stuff - Andie Dec 22, 06:51 3
  - The only problem is your staffers aren’t your personal assistants for your life…ethically. - Will Hunting Dec 22, 06:53 1
    - right, i clarified that below. -- nm - Andie Dec 22, 06:54
  - (personal assistant, being key there.) -- nm - Andie Dec 22, 06:51
- I cannot fathom living a life like that. I just can’t. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 22, 06:30 4
  - There's some diva stuff in there to be sure, but I honestly don't get the complaints about, e.g. calling to fix the internet if it's out - Reagen Dec 22, 06:39 3
    - Sorry, I couldn’t be present to vote on a USSC Justice…my internet was out and they gave me a 4 hour window. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 22, 06:50
    - Exactly. I’d imagine every senator has similar requirements. -- nm - spamlet Dec 22, 06:47
    - yup -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 06:43
Florida Dominatrix Group Demands $250,000 Dungeon From Local City Council.....(and there is video)....(link) - Walt_Disney Dec 22, 06:24 2
- Thanks for the link! Just re-posted this to my local govt nerd group. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 22, 06:46
- I do love the last line using the dictionary to explain what dom and sub are -- nm - kilbowlful of jelly Dec 22, 06:28
Seamantle, Jr. 38 guesses, 6 hints (I had no idea where this was going) -- nm - kilbowlful of jelly Dec 22, 06:23
These next five days are going to be….a lot. -- (edited) - All I want for Xmas is znu Dec 22, 06:18
More than 1,200 flights within, into and out of the U.S. have been canceled as of Thursday morning... -- nm - decline Dec 22, 06:16
It’s 2f outside, windy, and snowing. Yes I am going to the grocery store now. - tRuMaN Dec 22, 05:58 2
- You should walk there - decline Dec 22, 05:59 1
  - Sadly not possible for me from where I live unless I want to walk on the road; no sidewalks -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 22, 06:00
2 former FTX executives plead guilty to fraud and agree to co-operate as Sam Bankman-Fried back on U.S. soil -- (link) - Beaker Dec 22, 05:52 3
- Both released on $250k bail -- nm - budice Dec 22, 06:13
- do Binance next -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 22, 06:03
- snitches -- nm - decline Dec 22, 05:58
LDBC: Aw crap, I'm out. Listening to The Bridge on Sirius XM. They weren't playing all Christmas music, but they played Bob Seger's version. -- nm - Dano Claus Dec 22, 05:47 4
- oooh, so close to the finish! -- nm - Andie Dec 22, 06:32
- David keeps telling Alexa to play it. - Dark Callisto Dec 22, 06:08 2
  - Scrooge McDuck over there knows that doesn't count :) -- nm - kilbowlful of jelly Dec 22, 06:11
  - Alexa, kill David -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 22, 06:10
USMNT moves up three spots to #13 in FIFA world rankings, ahead of Germany. - All I want for Xmas is znu Dec 22, 05:37 4
- while Argentina is still on day four of their national cocaine bender -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 22, 05:43 2
  - Brazil still #1 -- nm - All I want for Xmas is znu Dec 22, 06:20
  - they could kill two birds with one stone by snorting Maradona's ashes. -- nm - Reagen Dec 22, 05:44
- Germany, the team that didn't make it out of group stages two WC in a row? Are they good? -- nm - Reagen Dec 22, 05:43
Dabo Swinney asked about NIL: "We built this program on NIL. We really did. ... We built this program in God's Name, Image and Likeness." -- (link) - budice Dec 22, 05:13
RIP former Bronco RB Ronnie Hillman, he was 31 (fuck cancer) -- nm* - Beaker Dec 22, 05:04 1
- :-( I was reading yesterday about him not doing so well in hospice. So sad. -- nm - Krusty Dec 22, 05:09
TV PSA: NFL, Fleishman is in Trouble, Alice in Borderland, The Best Man, Doom Patrol, Bruh, Gangs of London, The Game, College Football, Branson, NBA, - Beaker Dec 22, 04:58 2
- I only know what four of those are. I am either not paying attention, there is bad marketing, or I don't have the platform. -- nm - Walt_Disney Dec 22, 05:27 1
  - the NFL and NBA are sports leagues in the US :) (but I include a lot more now where I only do 1 post and the rest is in the im) -- nm* - Beaker Dec 22, 05:29
Why can't there be one warm state that's a good place to live? I guess Hawaii but it's so far from everything and crazy expensive. -- nm - Krusty Dec 22, 04:54 16
- Volcanoes? No thanks! -- nm - Spawn Dec 22, 07:25
- Arizona? -- nm - zunk takes things literally Dec 22, 06:22 3
  - Nope. Way too hot in the summer. I have family in Phoenix and you just can't go outside in the summer. - Krusty Dec 22, 06:49 1
    - "This is a monument to the arrogance of man!" -- nm - Reagen Dec 22, 06:57
  - all fun and games till you run out of drinking water -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 06:28
- And Hawaii has the big bad spiders, too. -- nm - Dark Callisto Dec 22, 05:44 2
  - I hadn't heard about that. Still better than living in Florida. Why can't one of the Carolinas be cool? I swear this thought goes through - Krusty Dec 22, 05:51 1
    - I mean, we're pretty cool. But yeah, this coldness is dumb. -- nm - sycor Dec 22, 06:05
- sunny and 70 in LA yesterday. mucking snow at my dads house this morning - hollywood big shot Dec 22, 05:33 5
  - California is the only possible option though the yearly earthquakes, fires, mud slides and droughts are quite worrisome. -- nm - Krusty Dec 22, 05:35 4
    - of all those, drought is the only one that’s likely to ever affect you directly (no new housing is the real killer) -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 22, 05:40 3
      - The entire country needs to wake up about our housing issues. Every state and city has spread out way too much and it's only getting worse. -- nm - Krusty Dec 22, 05:43 2
        
        Not here. We’ve got 1,000 high density apartment units coming on market, with two buildings in the process of opening and a third still in progress. - All I want for Xmas is znu Dec 22, 07:15
        
        the LA city council tapes were as revealing on how much they were in the tank for landlords/developers as the racism -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 22, 06:11
- Come on, there Flor… no wait. Tex… hmmm. Califor… goddammit. -- nm - mafic Dec 22, 04:59 1
  - Pretty much. -- nm - Krusty Dec 22, 05:03
Hunter Biden hires Jared Kushner’s lawyer -- (link*) - All I want for Xmas is znu Dec 22, 04:50
As of 1/1 Sesame is considered a major allergen and must be labeled as such. This is causing companies to add sesame to products that didn't have it. - Ender Dec 22, 01:52
Hmm, that facial recognition story is slightly more insidious than I first understood it to be. -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 22, 01:10 1
- Yeah. The whole thing is pretty gross. -- nm - mafic Dec 22, 04:45
dave matthews was a great match for “you can call me al” at the paul simon tribute. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Dec 22, 00:05 1
- I liked all of it, Angelic Kijo, ziggy marley, Rhianna Gibbons -- nm - Jingle Bells, Zeitgeist Kvells, posting allll day Dec 22, 01:18
jack ryan spoilers (episode 3) - Beryllium Dec 21, 23:21 4
- I'm finishing up Succession...Jack Ryan S3 is next...is it good? Better than S2? -- nm - Flavorize Dec 22, 00:14 2
  - Yes, in my opinion. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 00:22 1
    - I am updating my opinion to "Hell yes". -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 01:05
- that was just quote spoils ... this is actual spoils - Beryllium Dec 21, 23:29
Pelosi did an amateur blunder when she introduced Zelensky...she called him the president of THE Ukraine - Jingle Bells, Zeitgeist Kvells, posting allll day Dec 21, 23:20 16
- So many people say "the Ukraine" as I think it just flows better when you're speaking and it's not meant as an insult. It doesn't sound right to say - Krusty Dec 22, 04:51 10
  - Do these same people say "I am going to the Canada" or "I am going to the Mexico" because that's how "the Ukraine" sounds to me. - Walt_Disney Dec 22, 05:33 3
    - Nobody ever said "the Canada," so no. -- nm* - mara xmas, ya filthy animals Dec 22, 05:58
    - They do not but I will argue that the Ukraine sounds much more normal than the Canada. I don't know why, I'm not a linguist. -- nm* - Krusty Dec 22, 05:45
    - Give us 20 years and we will make it happen cap’n. - Will Hunting Dec 22, 05:42
  - Say just ‘Ukraine’ for a couple months and you’ll get used to it. Semi-related fun fact: Switzerland has a definite article in German and French. - mafic Dec 22, 04:57 5
    - But you don't use it in speech. (in french , dunno german) -- nm - loosilu Dec 22, 05:20 3
      - You would say "La Suisse est un pays". But "Je vais en Suisse" -- nm - Guigue Dec 22, 06:10
      - You do in German. I guess it’s not the official name in French. -- nm - mafic Dec 22, 06:03
      - (or maybe I've been doing it wrong!) -- nm - loosilu Dec 22, 05:21
    - I'm pretty good at just saying Ukraine but I catch myself throwing a "the" in there every once and a while. -- nm - Krusty Dec 22, 05:04
- Good lord, they’re not some kind of Ohio State University. -- nm - mafic Dec 22, 04:46
- The one, the only, the one that’s tops in our hearts, The Ukraine! -- nm - Qale Dec 21, 23:35
- I have made this mistake as recently as this week. - Beryllium Dec 21, 23:21 2
  - There was an actor Efram Zimbalist Jr, his daughter became an actor too, I always want to say Stephanie Zimbalist *Jr* as her name -- nm - Jingle Bells, Zeitgeist Kvells, posting allll day Dec 21, 23:26 1
    - Stephanie Zimbalist was the star of one of my favourite TV shows. - Beryllium Dec 21, 23:32
Time again for the annual solstice sunrise over Stonehenge live streamed by English Heritage. -- (link) - Mop Dec 21, 23:18 [youtube] 1
- Any nudity? -- nm - Qale Dec 21, 23:36
The posters for Spirited on my Roku show Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds dancing a little jig. But all I see is them lining up to do speed skating. -- nm - Mop Dec 21, 23:16
I made a short video with snippets of tonight's ride. YouTube seems to have mangled the quality, likely due to it being portrait instead of landscape -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 21, 22:38 [youtube] 1
- cool. -- nm - mud Dec 22, 06:23
Framed: 1/6 - David Dec 21, 22:16 3
- Framed: 1/6. Moviedle: 1/6. Actorle: 1/8. (I guess this is the second triple-one I got, ever.) - Marlowe Dec 22, 05:07
- Yup. Two days in a row. -- nm - Dark Callisto Dec 22, 04:05
- yup -- nm - prayformojo Dec 21, 22:22
waffle335 3/5 - prayformojo Dec 21, 22:13 2
- x -- nm - decline Dec 22, 05:26
- waffle335 5/5 - spamlet Dec 22, 05:19
Wordle 551 5/6 - prayformojo Dec 21, 22:13 5
- 4 - 551 - GregW Dec 22, 20:21
- 5/6 - kilbowlful of jelly Dec 22, 05:38
- 5/6 - Marlowe Dec 22, 05:33
- 6 - decline Dec 22, 05:23
- Same. Should have been better - spamlet Dec 22, 05:18
The big storm about to wallop the whole country makes landfall tomorrow on the West Coast and is about to coat us in ice. Enjoy your White Christmas. - Mop Dec 21, 21:51 9
- We ain't getting shit! It'll be cold but not a single flake of snow is predicted which sucks. I'm fine with the cold when there's snow otherwise - Krusty Dec 22, 04:53 3
  - Raining here through tomorrow morning and then the temp drops 40 degrees. - All I want for Xmas is znu Dec 22, 06:03
  - Yeah here in NC it's going to be all nice and sunny. So annoying. It's going to be below freezing for multiple days give me some snow! -- nm - sycor Dec 22, 05:45 1
    - Sucks. If we're going to freeze it might as well drop some pretty and fun snow. -- nm - Krusty Dec 22, 05:56
- The big one is already here. It’s going to hit us in about four hours. -- nm - spamlet Dec 22, 02:31
- I'm shovelling my driveway tomorrow so I can go pick up a grocery order & do my last bit of Christmas shopping ... -- nm - Beryllium Dec 21, 22:12 1
  - Tomorrow evening, forecast calls for heavy snow, followed by freezing rain, followed by rain, followed by a deep freeze. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 21, 22:13
- The schools aren't out for the Christmas break? -- nm - Meg Dec 21, 22:00 1
  - No school on Friday. That's plenty for the little moochers! -- nm - Mop Dec 21, 22:32
The last two episodes of Jeopardy have been utter slugfests, and there’s nothing I don’t like about the current champ. - Mop Dec 21, 21:48 3
- And he fidgets:) I'd zoned out when I mentioned the two new Canadians tonight. Have they announced this as Canadian week?? -- nm - Meg Dec 21, 21:59 2
  - he sways because he’s had spinal damage and it helps with preventing leg spasms. -- nm - i.b! Dec 21, 23:53
  - I liked the 2nd guy too. And he kept it competitive. -- nm - Mop Dec 21, 22:33
Guess it's time I started wrapping presents... -- nm - Ender Dec 21, 21:42 3
- I... have 3 presents where I don't know which SIL they're going to... Amazon, stupidly, does not tell you who's wishlist you bought it from... -- nm - Ender Dec 21, 22:18 1
  - In better news, I found my lost shipment of calcium. -- nm - Ender Dec 21, 22:18
- It’s not Christmas Eve yet. -- nm - Mop Dec 21, 21:53
Video Card / GPU Benchmark Collection of the latest and greatest -- (link) - budice Dec 21, 21:39 1
- Where do the new Intel GPUs rank? Impressive, right? - Mop Dec 21, 21:53

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