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repulsive: he pauses just before his little speech to ask a masked reporter "are you sick?" -- (link) - mud Jan 3, 08:33 1
- just exuding confidence Kev! -- nm - Jovian Jan 3, 08:35
Going back to the gym for the first time since before Thanksgiving and my toe surgery. Should be interesting. Definitely not 100% so I expect a lot - oblique Jan 3, 08:29
More nails in the Clovis-first coffin. Arrowheads found in Idaho date to about 15,000 ya -- (link) - Mop Jan 3, 08:26 1
- Cooper's Ferry has been on the radar for a while. -- nm - Meg Jan 3, 08:33
Annie Jo is going to lord it over her sister for the rest of their lives -- (link) - decline Jan 3, 08:22 1
- Only until Effie Rose sends her to the hunger games -- nm - Beryllium Jan 3, 08:23
[snork] ! -- (link) - mud Jan 3, 08:12 7
- Boebert -- (link) - Strongbad Jan 3, 08:24 5
  - i hate mccarthy, i think he'll eventually fold, but at least he has SOME pause about handing over the house to the alr-right members of the party -- nm - colin Jan 3, 08:27 4
    - so far he's given into every one of their demands -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 3, 08:30 1
      - yeah, but he hasn't given in to the latest ones! -- nm - colin Jan 3, 08:33
    - I just love that the former guy left him hanging in the wind. - Jovian Jan 3, 08:29 1
      - And Nancy is laughing her ass off -- nm - Eag Jan 3, 08:31
- Great. Let's do it! -- nm - jnine Jan 3, 08:16
De La Soul: Classic back catalogue finally available for streaming -- (link) - ty97 Jan 3, 08:09 2
- Hopefully this gets a repressing of Three Feet High and Rising on vinyl. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 3, 08:30
- Sweet!!! -- nm - Krusty Jan 3, 08:23
The Consultant (amazon, 8 eps) -- (link) - mud Jan 3, 08:05 [youtube]
50 years ago today George Steinbrenner and a group of 11 others bought the NY Yankees from CBS for $10m. -- (link) - Krusty Jan 3, 08:04 2
- Seems like a better investment than a yacht. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 3, 08:07 1
  - Just a bit. I can't imagine what they'd sell for today if the Steinbrenners decided to sell the team. -- nm - Krusty Jan 3, 08:34
Netflix PSA: Outer Banks Season 3 premieres February 23 -- nm - decline Jan 3, 08:03
Semantle Jr.: 44 guesses, 14 green, 4 hints - prayformojo Jan 3, 07:54
oh! the poor man -- (link) - mud Jan 3, 07:13 10
- Ted Lieu be trollin' -- (link) - decline Jan 3, 08:16 2
  - Love my Representative. -- nm - jnine Jan 3, 08:19
  - :-D -- nm - mud Jan 3, 08:17
- I'm beginning to think he doesn't know what job he signed up for. -- nm - pmb Jan 3, 08:04
- we're going to find out in about under a week that this guy isn't even a US citizen. - colin Jan 3, 07:55 5
  - And that he's not even Real -- nm* - Eag Jan 3, 07:57 4
    - he's 3 kids in a suit? -- nm - colin Jan 3, 08:12 3
      - He’s a cultured, middle-aged Korean woman. -- nm - znufrii Jan 3, 08:24
      - AI -- nm - Eag Jan 3, 08:20 1
        
        AI is dumb, but not this dumb -- nm - colin Jan 3, 08:23
There are 362 basketball teams in Division I. Per ESPN BPI, the 10 toughest remaining schedules belong to every team in the Big 12. -- (link) - Krusty Jan 3, 07:01 1
- Big 12 basketball=SEC Football -- nm - Flavorize Jan 3, 08:13
Defector tells us the horrible things people did to their penises last year. -- (link) - colin Jan 3, 07:01 13
- Isnt plural penii ? -- nm - budice Jan 3, 07:33 3
  - It's penes. -- (edited) - loosilu Jan 3, 08:02
  - A better question is, what would the collective noun be? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 3, 07:53 1
    - puntsi? -- nm - colin Jan 3, 07:55
- "HIS SON KARATE CHOPPED HIM IN THE BALLS ABOUT 10 DAYS AGO" - Jovian Jan 3, 07:21
- "tried to circumcize himself ...." omfg -- nm - Jovian Jan 3, 07:17 1
  - some of these it's hard to tell if a kid or an adult. - colin Jan 3, 07:53
- I have questions -- nm - oblique Jan 3, 07:15
- c&p of the big list. - colin Jan 3, 07:03 2
  - NO! -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 07:05
  - 16 -- nm - Mop Jan 3, 07:04
- This might be the worst 2022 list I've seen yet. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Jan 3, 07:02 1
  - I don't even have one, and I had to stop reading 1/3 of the way through. -- nm - loosilu Jan 3, 07:08
End of the year solar graph (it's only going up from here) -- (pic) - oblique Jan 3, 07:00 [Attachment] 7
- electric heat? -- nm - colin Jan 3, 07:07 4
  - sadly a space heater in my daughters room while she is home from break. Her room gets far colder than the rest of the house for some reason so a -- (edited) - oblique Jan 3, 07:12 2
    - is her room over the garage maybe? that is our oldest's room and hers is always way colder than her sisters and needs the heater higher -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 07:30 1
      - nope. ranch, one level. full basement underneath but the basement covers the entirety of the house (so theoretically should have an equal effect). - oblique Jan 3, 07:33
  - kilbo is just really afraid of the dark -- nm - decline Jan 3, 07:08
- what are the axes? -- nm - prayformojo Jan 3, 07:07 1
  - kwh per week -- nm - oblique Jan 3, 07:13
WOW! NFLX plummeted to $162/share after their bad quarter and now it's at $296/share! - Mop Jan 3, 06:42 3
- Are other streamers struggling & Netflix's first in the space advantage holding better than expected as the level of competition is not as predicted? -- nm - Dano Jan 3, 07:47 2
  - I think, in my rather lay opinion, that it takes a lot of up front capital to launch a streaming service... - Mop Jan 3, 08:40
  - they had bounce that quarter from Stranger Things coming back after being away for a long time. -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 3, 07:59
Ooh! Rian Johnson should James Paterson his Benoit Blanc character and get people to ghost write a new novel every 6 months. -- nm - Mop Jan 3, 06:39
Tesla down $6.63 (5.39%) on opening (to $116.55) -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 06:32 1
- down $7.24 (to 115.94)...dropping fast and hard -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 06:33
ST CTTP: How many votes will it take for McCarthy to become Speaker? - spamlet Jan 3, 06:05 14
- Every nominee for House Speaker in last 100 years has succeeded on 1st ballot of voting -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 07:12 2
  - if he dies, he dies -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 3, 08:09 1
    - I know it's a movie quote but it seems a bit inappropriate after 1/6 and the hammer attack ... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 3, 08:21
- “I’ve earned this job,” -- (link) - mud Jan 3, 07:06 3
  - “This is bullshit” -- (link) - mud Jan 3, 07:10
  - Lol, Qevin -- nm - znufrii Jan 3, 07:09 1
    - Q vs Q. what fun. -- nm - mud Jan 3, 07:12
- 218, duh -- nm - ty97 Jan 3, 06:35
- Threve -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 06:26
- 5 (no idea what is ahppening) -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 06:21
- 2 and Spamlet’s reason on how. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 3, 06:20
- 42 -- nm - decline Jan 3, 06:06
- 3 and enough Democrats vote present to lower the denominator to keep the GOP at each others throats. -- nm - spamlet Jan 3, 06:06 1
  - heh -- nm - St. Epiphany Jan 3, 06:17
Framed: 3/6. Moviedle: 2/6. Actorle: X/8. - Marlowe Jan 3, 06:03
PC Gamer: Good job, internet: You bullied NFTs out of mainstream games -- (link) - Mop Jan 3, 05:49 1
- Good. Next up: death to loot crates. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 3, 07:51
Damar Hamlin and the Most Terrifying Night of Football -- (link) - Beaker Jan 3, 05:03 16
- NFL Reaches A Crossroads, Where Players Breathing Air Regularly Threatens To Make Influx of Bettors Feel Bad About Wagering Paychecks on Bloodsport -- nm - NYT Pitchbot Jan 3, 08:06
- #3 is a non-starter. He took blunt force trauma to the chest and his heart stopped. Like kids each summer getting a baseball to the chest and dying - Will Hunting Jan 3, 05:50 12
  - maybe some studies to see if some people are more susceptible to it than others. Better training for medical personnel on site for games - Beaker Jan 3, 05:54 11
    - Apart from testing for genetic predisposition for heart defects, I’m not sure there’s much more to be done on the prevention side… -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 3, 06:08 3
      - do NFL players wear that monitoring thing like soccer players do? just wondering. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 3, 07:00
      - Potentially equipment changes. -- nm - pmb Jan 3, 06:25 1
        
        Leading to even harder hits, potentially. -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 3, 06:29
    - Apparently they train for it in the offseason to gauge response times and go over it 90 minutes before games on site. - Volnelk Jan 3, 06:07 1
      - ahh, I had been wondering if that was mandated by the NFL or individually stadium by stadium (I could see some teams cheaping out for example) -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 06:10
    - I don't think I would volunteer for that study -- nm - decline Jan 3, 06:00 4
      - we need a larger sledge hammer! (I was thinking more studies on those that it happened to, then apply anything that might show they were susceptible - Beaker Jan 3, 06:04 3
        
        Then you dno't have a control group. -- nm - loosilu Jan 3, 06:30 2
        
        Alright guys... everyone line up! -- nm - Mop Jan 3, 07:06
        
        as it is rare I was thinking more like the studies they do on brains for football players for concussions - Beaker Jan 3, 07:05
- I like the idea of declaring the game a tie. -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 05:09 1
  - Seems the least disruptive to the rest of the schedule -- nm - TWuG Jan 3, 05:46
TV PSA: WWE NXT, FBI x 3, Bering Sea Gold, America's Got Talent All Stars, Rookie, Resident, Rookie Feds, Oak Island, Will Trent, New Amsterdam, - Beaker Jan 3, 04:39 1
- 3: Oak Island, Beyond Oak Island and New Amsterdam for the wife. Will also watch The Menu assuming we get it (maybe D+ up here) -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 04:47
the Packers-Lions game at Lambeau Field will be the final game of the regular season on Sunday night at 8:20 ET -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 04:35 1
- If they play this weekend... -- nm - Inigo Jan 3, 04:56
waffle347 4/5 - spamlet Jan 3, 03:18 4
- 5 - Waffle 347 - GregW Jan 3, 18:46
- 2/5 - decline Jan 3, 05:40
- 5/5 - znufrii Jan 3, 05:04
- First 5 in a while - prayformojo Jan 3, 04:01
Wordle 563 4/6 - spamlet Jan 3, 03:17 6
- 3 - 563 - GregW Jan 3, 19:08
- 4/6 - oblique Jan 3, 06:11
- 4/6 - Marlowe Jan 3, 06:08
- 4/6 - decline Jan 3, 05:38
- 4/6 - znufrii Jan 3, 05:00
- 3/6 - prayformojo Jan 3, 03:59
Scrimshander still hasn't sold, which leads me to suspect that it's about 10-15K overpriced. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 2, 23:43 3
- Same for Pacific Green ... -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 2, 23:47 2
  - I think I like the galley layout on Scrimshander better than Pacific Green, but I would need a week long voyage in both to be sure -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 00:08 1
    - Yeah, a week would be good. Time enough to visit a couple of the gulf islands. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 3, 00:27
oh fun, rivers are turning orange in alaska. (has been observed since at least 2020, but still - not great) -- (link*) - Beryllium Jan 2, 23:27 1
- That ain’t right. -- nm - Mop Jan 3, 05:45
The Scrambled Egg Technique That Impressed J. Kenji López-Alt This distinct recipe promises velvety, custardy soft-scrambled eggs. - crash davis Jan 2, 23:02 3
- I made scrambled eggs with heavy cream and butter today, but apparently I had no idea what I was doing. -- nm - psilotum Jan 2, 23:09 2
  - that article is clearly for the obsessives :) -- nm - crash davis Jan 2, 23:28 1
    - try out Cantonese eggs. -- (link) - colin Jan 3, 08:16 [youtube]
Here are codes for free lottery tickets in five states. -- (link) - David Jan 2, 22:54
$3M raised -- nm - Flavorize Jan 2, 22:47
dammit, the glass onion trivia I was reading quoted the donut line from knives out and now I want a donut -- nm - Beryllium Jan 2, 22:13 9
- I know I'm officially old because I love an apple fritter now.. -- nm - colin Jan 3, 05:37
- This happened to me earlier with a YouTube video. -- nm - David Jan 2, 22:23 7
  - I find it particularly irksome because there is a delicious bake shop riding distance from here, but they're closed for the holidays and... - Beryllium Jan 2, 22:33 6
    - better go daily to inspect -- nm - psilotum Jan 2, 22:34 5
      - I mean, it's a bit of a healthy ride. That wouldn't be the worst idea. And there's a grocery store nearby that isn't half bad... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 2, 22:37 4
        
        ... and a new fried chicken place on the way back ... the health benefits of the daily donut ride seem dubious. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 2, 22:39 3
        
        Oh! Persistent digital sleuthing has solved it. (They open tomorrow. It says so on their instagram.) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 2, 22:41 2
        
        and also, donuts. so many donuts. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 2, 22:42 1
        
        Yum -- nm - Epiphany Jan 3, 04:36
At the midpoint of Glass Onion, all I can hear is Miley Cyrus. -- nm - Max Jan 2, 21:45 6
- Well tell her to shut up! -- nm - Mop Jan 3, 05:45
- Speaking of Glass Onion, bit of trivia about something that I thought looked a bit off ... makes total sense now. - Beryllium Jan 2, 21:53 2
  - Also--Did you notice that (spoils)-- - Flavorize Jan 2, 21:57 1
    - Thanks to this I'm pausing - Max Jan 2, 22:07
- Who? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 2, 21:48 1
  - Duke. No! spoils - Max Jan 2, 21:50
French news show was live with a reporter in Ukraine when a rocket exploded behind him (targeting an ice rink?) -- (link) - aud lang zeit Jan 2, 21:42 2
- I don’t think the drones really target anything specifically. -- nm - mafic Jan 3, 03:01 1
  - How could they even? -- nm - colin Jan 3, 05:28
commodial cardis suggests that the 5 finger punch of death could be a thing... -- nm - aud lang zeit Jan 2, 21:39 1
- Yes, perhaps. - Beryllium Jan 2, 21:43
about the "5 minutes to warm up" report: NFL executive Troy Vincent says, "I'm not sure where that came from. ... That's insensitive." -- nm - Beryllium Jan 2, 21:34
Starting watching Treason, not because of Charlie Cox ... but because of Ciaran Hinds. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 2, 21:30 1
- ... stopped watching about 3/4 of the way through the first episode. I might go back to it, not sure. - Beryllium Jan 2, 22:39
Subject line on the local reddit: "Local leather workers for a nice belt?" - Beryllium Jan 2, 21:10
$1.4 million raised. Wow. -- nm - kelly Jan 2, 21:07 1
- Just hit $2M -- nm - Flavorize Jan 2, 21:42

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