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File this under The Pandemic is Over: HEB is doing away with their COVID policies on Jan 1st. - Qale Dec 30, 12:22 1
- Are customers allowed to spit on the checkers again? -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 30, 17:54
according to this link, the killer was a PhD student in criminology at Wazzu - I hope the SWAT team screamed "Dissertation Failed!" as they moved in -- (link) - crash davis Dec 30, 12:17 5
- Imperical observation of serial killer processes and methodology -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 30, 17:58
- There was some speculation in November that an unsolved murder in Oregon was tied to these killings. -- (link) - Mop Dec 30, 12:24 3
  - to read your link requires registration, if you feel up to a c/p job pretty please -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 12:28 1
    - Here you go... - Krusty Dec 30, 12:41
  - This photo of the four young victims, so full of life saddens me. If this sumbitch did it, it better be life w/o parole -- (link) - crash davis Dec 30, 12:26 [Image]
The Idaho killer apparently was a criminology student at UW Pullman, 10 miles away. -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 30, 12:04 7
- Wash U, right? not UW? -- nm - judge amanda jones Dec 30, 12:06 6
  - Wazzu, Wash U marks you as an outsider -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 12:08 5
    - Plus that’s in St. Louis -- nm - spamlet Dec 30, 12:30
    - I'm in PA, crash davis! killer country! -- nm - judge amanda jones Dec 30, 12:10 3
      - since I realized Idaho killers can be from PA this morning, I've been real quiet around decline -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 12:14
      - there is definitely something about the Poconos -- nm - decline Dec 30, 12:13 1
        
        Hi decline, I hope you've been having a great day! -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 12:22
The donald 'paid more taxes to china' -- nm - aud lang zeit Dec 30, 11:49
Could any bowl game feature more similar color schemes than Pitt-UCLA? -- nm - psilotum Dec 30, 11:48 2
- Wait until you see the Very Orange Orange Bowl presented by the color orange -- nm - One Baron Posting Dec 30, 11:54 1
  - I am loving some of these sponsors. -- nm - psilotum Dec 30, 12:01
Megaball pool closing soon. List so far - zeitgeist Dec 30, 11:35 3
- sent -- nm - JaxSean Dec 30, 11:48
- Sending now -- nm - Krusty Dec 30, 11:36 1
  - Sent -- nm - Krusty Dec 30, 11:37
Megaball pool closing soon. -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 30, 11:35
Cristiano Ronaldo to the Saudi League for 75M per -- (link) - Reagen Dec 30, 11:33 5
- Jeez -- nm - Krusty Dec 30, 11:38
- Good for him -- nm - JD Dec 30, 11:35
- hmph -- nm - mud Dec 30, 11:34 2
  - Listen, when the 27th best league in the world comes calling, you can't turn it down. -- nm - Reagen Dec 30, 11:37 1
    - Pele played for the US...coming out of retirement, he couldn't compete in a real league anymore but for a couple mill he'd run with amateurs -- nm - aud lang zeit Dec 30, 11:54
TNA Impact announcer / pitchman Don West passed away after a long battle with brain cancer. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 30, 11:22 6
- the only Don West I knew of until this post was a character on Lost In Space. -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 30, 11:32 2
  - Don West in his element... -- (link) - David Dec 30, 11:37 [youtube] 1
    - More -- (link) - Eag Dec 30, 12:13 [youtube]
- That sucks. He thought he had beat it once. He was a charismatic man, and I used to watch his late-night sports card shows back in the day. -- nm - David Dec 30, 11:25 2
  - Yeah those were funny - Eag Dec 30, 11:39
  - Yeah, it came back with a vengeance. He did a decent job doing their hype/merchandising. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 30, 11:32
Has anyone heard of ChatGPT? It seems like it’s the next big thing in AI. -- nm - Loyola Dec 30, 11:11 1
- It's got higher education all riled up. -- nm - Mop Dec 30, 11:16
even Kim K. isn’t this thirsty -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 30, 11:02
A couple of Scott Galloway predictions of interest to the #StreamingVoid crowd - psilotum Dec 30, 11:01 12
- Yeah, how Roblox is still an independent company is a shock to me. -- nm - Mop Dec 30, 11:17 8
  - compared to Lucasfilm, Marvel, or Pixar? second-tier at best - hollywood big shot Dec 30, 11:21 7
    - You're old. -- nm - David Dec 30, 11:26
    - Couldn't they just buy it to keep it primarily a game? I mean there's no BAMTECH playhouse show -- nm - JD Dec 30, 11:25 2
      - Disney has been trying to win the game space since Club Penguin. they suck at it -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 30, 11:28 1
        
        There's an entire Marvel Snap thread on board 2. -- nm - David Dec 30, 11:33
    - Someone's gonna buy it, but not necessarily to make some IP content out of it. It stands on its own, as a virtual world game. -- nm - Mop Dec 30, 11:22 2
      - Disney could cash in with just in-game items and "experiences". - psilotum Dec 30, 11:27 1
        
        the Chapek Method - hollywood big shot Dec 30, 11:29
- Thanks! We've talked about Roblox as a possibility before. Hasbro is about half the price, and I love the idea of either/both. - David Dec 30, 11:07
- Scott Galloway should probably read up on the Biden DOJ’s antitrust enforcement actions - hollywood big shot Dec 30, 11:04 1
  - To be clear, he frequently makes awful predictions. But, as he says, they inspire discussion. -- nm - psilotum Dec 30, 11:26
When does a joke become a dad joke? - All I want for Xmas is znu Dec 30, 10:56 2
- 👏 -- nm - JD Dec 30, 11:26
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 10:59
Now playing: Everything Everywhere All at Once -- nm - prayformojo Dec 30, 10:50
SBF Reportedly violating bail with transactions > $1,000 -- (link*) - budice Dec 30, 10:47 5
- (bail, not parole) -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 30, 10:56
- Does cash out mean something else? If he can’t spend 1000+, cashing out isn’t spending more than 1000. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 30, 10:50 3
  - The Court, on Tuesday: “What did you do with the $684k Mr Bankman-Fried, and provide any/all receipts?” -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 30, 10:59 2
    - I’m imagining lawyers aren’t cheap. - Will Hunting Dec 30, 11:03 1
      - they make exceptions for attorneys fees. unless he parked this money immediately in an account and hasn’t touched it, hope there arent a bunch of $999 - hollywood big shot Dec 30, 11:06
Poll # AlMichaels: What and when was the last vegetable you had? - prayformojo Dec 30, 10:45 34
- i made pasta sauce for lunch with canned tomatoes, fresh green pepper and onion. -- nm - Andie Dec 30, 12:40
- There are carrots, red cabbage and cuke in the garden salad I'm having rn -- nm - con_carne Dec 30, 12:32
- Courgettes about 5 mins ago with spring onion and there were green beans in the Thai fishcake too. -- nm - LMS Dec 30, 12:21 1
  - please stop making up words -- nm - prayformojo Dec 30, 12:32
- Onion, Peppers, and tomato omelette last night with sweet potato fries. -- nm - Meg Dec 30, 12:05
- Mushrooms on the leftover pizza I had for lunch. -- nm - All I want for Xmas is znu Dec 30, 12:05
- Beets yesterday at lunch -- nm - Max Dec 30, 11:53 1
  - did you discuss Bears and Battlestar Galactica? -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 12:05
- Lettuce and corn last night. -- nm - Spawn Dec 30, 11:33
- Thinking back I think it was Christmas and green bean casserole. Yikes. I need to eat some veggies. -- nm - sycor Dec 30, 11:24
- I eat carrots regularly. And I had mashed potatoes a couple of days ago. Of course, neither are vegetables. They're tubers. -- nm - Mop Dec 30, 11:18 2
  - And mushrooms and truffles are fungi. -- nm - Mop Dec 30, 11:21
  - vegetables are a culinary classification, not a botanical one. - Reagen Dec 30, 11:21
- Corn, 3 minutes ago. Also, rice. (NM) - Marlowe Dec 30, 11:09 1
  - rice? ! -- nm - mud Dec 30, 11:20
- Peas. 10 mins ago. -- nm - Loyola Dec 30, 11:09
- Big green salad, dinner was Royal chicken with a ton of India spices ...that has to count as some veg, right. Onion and raisins too -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 30, 11:08
- I had a veggie wrap for dinner last night. - Dark Callisto Dec 30, 11:03
- kale salad with dinner last night -- nm - psilotum Dec 30, 10:57 1
  - update: "tuna melt" over chopped red cabbage for "breakfast" -- nm - psilotum Dec 30, 11:24
- Mashed potatoes and corn at Christmas. I'm pretty close to the Al Michaels camp. -- nm - David Dec 30, 10:56 1
  - How many times have you had scurvy? -- nm - Reagen Dec 30, 11:29
- Buncha different ones in a pho for lunch. Carrot, radish, bok choy, peppers -- nm* - Reagen Dec 30, 10:52
- last night's dinner included peppers, onions, pickled cucucmbers -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 10:52
- yesterday -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 30, 10:51
- last night, and every night before that. -- nm - mud Dec 30, 10:49
- a stuffed pepper yesterday -- nm - Jovian Dec 30, 10:49
- I had a gyro fajita bowl leftovers today for lunch which had green peppers and onions. - JaxSean Dec 30, 10:48
- Onions in the tomato sauce the other day -- nm - Krusty Dec 30, 10:48
- Midnight — green tomato. - Will Hunting Dec 30, 10:48
- potato as we had homemade fries with breakfast -- nm - Beaker Dec 30, 10:47
- Yesterday Broccoli for breakfast and green salad for lunch -- nm - JD Dec 30, 10:47
- both onions and green beans with dinner last night -- nm - decline Dec 30, 10:46
- V8 yesterday, around 2:00, if it counts. Salad for lunch yesterday if it doesn't. -- nm - mara Dec 30, 10:46
Garlic fingers are almost entirely a Maritimes thing. It's basically a pizza with no toppings and garlic butter sauce instead of tomato. - Reagen Dec 30, 10:29 8
- So like Papa John's cheesy bread? -- nm -- (edited) - sycor Dec 30, 11:24
- mmmm donair sauce -- nm - Beaker Dec 30, 10:47
- Breadsticks, Crazy Bread. I actually know of a place in San Diego that actually does it in this style. Calls them Beer Soakers -- (link*) - budice Dec 30, 10:41 2
  - They're different than both the first things, but that linked style is pretty much right. -- nm* - Reagen Dec 30, 10:50 1
    - Yeah, the linked are called breadsticks by several places. Sell them in the same pizza box they use, even. -- nm - Spawn Dec 30, 11:37
- I see them next to the frozen pizzas in the grocery all the time, almost bought'em once. -- nm - mud Dec 30, 10:39
- so, breadsticks -- nm - decline Dec 30, 10:38
- Many pizza places sell those as breadsticks. - Spawn Dec 30, 10:33
Turning Sports Statistics Into Riveting Cinema - crash davis Dec 30, 10:17 2
- Thank you very much for this one. It might be awhile before I watch anything that's not on Secret Base if all the videos are like this one: -- (link) - JD Dec 30, 10:46 [youtube] 1
  - I keep hearing good things about "The History of the Seattle Mariners" and then this article convinced me that I will invest the time in it. -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 10:59
2 - bang! - rollo Dec 30, 10:03
the first-blush takeaway from the tax returns is at a minimum, prove up the claimed losses -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 30, 10:01 15
- Boy I am very glad I’m driving on Everyone on the Internet is a Tax Expert day. -- nm - spamlet Dec 30, 12:32 2
  - as are we -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 30, 13:00
  - 😺 -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 12:38
- I'm perfectly willing to believe *losses* look at how he runs things, I'd look at how he reported to partners, insurance, financial backers.... - aud lang zeit Dec 30, 11:31
- "A bank account in China." -- (link) - mud Dec 30, 10:42 1
  - as one does. -- nm - Jovian Dec 30, 10:46
- He WAS getting audited, wasn't he? That's why he claimed he couldn't release them in the first place... -- nm - Ender Dec 30, 10:30 4
  - It was a bullshit argument then, and it’s a bullshit argument now. -- nm - All I want for Xmas is znu Dec 30, 10:57
  - Are you saying you believe Trump's statement that he was being audited over House W&M saying he wasn't (until April 3, 2019)? -- nm - mara Dec 30, 10:50
  - yes, that was the lie he told that the right rolled with. -- nm - Jovian Dec 30, 10:35
  - As president, his taxes weren't audited as required by law. But also, being audited in no way prevents tax returns from being released. -- nm - Reagen Dec 30, 10:34
- This is now a distraction from the Jan 6th stuff. I hate how scatterbrained we are as Americans. -- nm - Qale Dec 30, 10:26 3
  - your brains can't handle insurrection & tax fraud simultaneously? -- nm - mud Dec 30, 10:37 2
    - Flood the zone did a number in us. We can’t chew gum and walk at… SQUIRREL!! -- nm - Qale Dec 30, 10:46 1
      - :-] -- nm - mud Dec 30, 10:46
OMFG -- (link) - mara Dec 30, 10:00 9
- Time for a Safety Meeting... -- nm - Ender Dec 30, 10:22
- Can't imagine what it takes to do that kind of work -- nm - prayformojo Dec 30, 10:15 2
  - Beats working at McDonald's. -- nm - Spawn Dec 30, 10:29 1
    - but on par with working at a Waffle House -- nm - Beaker Dec 30, 10:52
- SO much to unpack here... - Mop Dec 30, 10:04 2
  - Right, this is why you have two safety lines. -- nm - Ender Dec 30, 10:15
  - yeah, if that was North America his company is facing MASSIVE fines and if Unionized the union would go fucking apeshit -- nm - Beaker Dec 30, 10:06
- That's insane. -- nm - pmb Dec 30, 10:03
- um, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck no -- nm - JaxSean Dec 30, 10:02
TV PSA: Smackdown, Gold Rush, AEW Rampage, Wildcat, Island, Echo 3, Mosquito Coast, Mythic Quest, Slow Horses, Dance Monsters, White Noise, Craftsman, - Beaker Dec 30, 09:59 1
- UK has WILTY and My Old School. -- nm - LMS Dec 30, 10:02
Where Did All the Bargain Bourbon Go? Blame the Whiskey Mania. - crash davis Dec 30, 09:53 9
- Some of it is just artificial scarcity like Buffalo Trace. - sycor Dec 30, 11:49 1
  - That's not entirely true, but I have no facts to back that up. - JaxSean Dec 30, 11:58
- There's nothing collectors can't ruin. -- nm - Reagen Dec 30, 10:32
- Yeah, there's some craziness out there in a secondary market. - JaxSean Dec 30, 10:11 5
  - I shudder at the idea of paying $50 to $70, and then someone gifted me the some Jefferson Reserve which is the finest thing I've tasted. Now I get it - crash davis Dec 30, 10:20 4
    - I'm thankful for Costco, but now even they started limiting the number of bottles you can buy (which is good). - JaxSean Dec 30, 10:39 3
      - Their Tennessee whiskey is great. I like their "small batch" but just don't care for the Bond -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 30, 11:04 1
        
        The Costco brand vodkas, bourbons, and whiskeys are all very good and cheap. (I've heard the tequila is as well, but not my poison.) -- nm - JaxSean Dec 30, 11:10
      - hmmmmm, I do have a Costco membership now. -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 10:53
According to the front page wikipedia trivia today, the Cocaine Bear was also nicknamed Pablo Eskobear -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 09:38 2
- Scarmaker -- nm - Spawn Dec 30, 09:53 1
  - He tore up narco soldatos in El Beariachi -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 10:00
TIL Natalie Portman and Britney Spears co-hosted a NYE party - JD Dec 30, 09:37 3
- read it again -- nm - crash davis Dec 30, 09:39 2
  - I was gonna say -- nm - prayformojo Dec 30, 09:40 1
    - umm..and again apparently *sigh* -- nm - JD Dec 30, 09:45

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