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My oldest child appears to have bought a car. “What model is it?” “I dunno.” “What year is it.” “Early… 2000s? 1999, maybe?” -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 19:20 3
- She went to check. 2004 Honda Civic. -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 19:35 2
  - Any idea of the mileage? -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 20:12 1
    - It runs. -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 20:41
Texas Legislature has a bill filed that prohibits polling places to be raised at colleges or universities. Can't imagine why. - Qale Feb 16, 19:20 3
- So it follows another bill that did the opposite? -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 19:22 2
  - I assume the other bill was pushed by a Dem. -- nm - Qale Feb 16, 19:44 1
    - Some Dem should push a bill giving coats to freezing orphans. -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 19:45
Alison Brie goes streaking -- (link) - Beaker Feb 16, 18:58 2
- She is nude for a lot of the movie, so makes sense. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 19:00 1
  - Whatever happened to Gotye? -- nm - Dano Feb 16, 19:57
not saying I am famous, but you an lick me if you want -- (link) - Beaker Feb 16, 18:53 1
- You’re secretly Brad Coady? Does anyone ever call you Brad Choady? - Mop Feb 16, 19:41
Heh. The role of AI bots in schools ... -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 16, 18:30 [mastodon]
why the Tesla software "recall" is bad, actually - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 18:10
now playing: The Hobbit (1977) -- nm - prayformojo Feb 16, 18:10
upcoming SNL: -- (link) - mud Feb 16, 18:09 3
- Travis Kelce Ballerini -- nm - Tim Feb 16, 18:16 1
  - if they married she could be Kelsea Kelce -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 16, 21:07
- Awesome! -- nm - Pippy Feb 16, 18:10
when your new CEO only really gets paid if he can double the debt-laden stock price, well. . . -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 18:03 1
- David called it a denial of service of bad news on the podcast. I’m honestly exhausted by Zaslav’s behavior. I’m numb to it. -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 19:37
I've been catching up with the last bunch of years of "doctor who." I'm going to persevere, but too many eps have been just painful - i.b.! Feb 16, 17:49
“You talk to ants.” -- nm - The Allfather Feb 16, 17:47
‘Starsky & Hutch’ Remake In Works At Fox (hour long drama to revolve around 2 female detectives) -- (link) - MDH Feb 16, 17:46
All seasons of "Arrested Development," including the Netflix seasons will be leaving Netflix 3/14. Licensing has not been renewed. -- nm - MDH Feb 16, 17:44
Paramount+ raising prices -- (link) - Beaker Feb 16, 17:43 3
- Lol. Yellowstone seasons aren’t going to pay for themselves - Pippy Feb 16, 18:10 2
  - Yellowstone+ -- nm - Qale Feb 16, 18:46 1
    - The Yellowstone Network with Star Trek. -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 19:19
Tesla's response to the Buffalo firings. - TWuG Feb 16, 17:33
"Please get her fired. Seriously ... what the fuck?" -- (link) - mud Feb 16, 17:33 8
- more to the point, they didn’t much care that it made Trump look bad. just that he could drive viewers to Newsmax if they didn’t suck his dick on-air -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 17:39 1
  - crooked AND creepy. -- nm - mud Feb 16, 17:42
- If the unredacted stuff is this bad, the redacted stuff must be amazingly bad. Fix is going to be paying out of every orifice. -- nm - TWuG Feb 16, 17:37
- Rupert should get out his checkbook now -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 17:33 4
  - more -- (link) - mud Feb 16, 17:34 3
    - more -- (link) - mud Feb 16, 17:35 2
      - just a good excuse to go back and watch the last time there was a big fight between Fox's decision desk and the on-air hacks -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 17:42 [youtube] 1
        
        ha ha -- nm - mud Feb 16, 17:45
love that “George Santos” is making life hell for all the only slightly fraudulent house members -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 17:29 2
- "international sex crimes expert" is maybe not the resume line item he thinks it is. -- nm - mafic Feb 16, 17:32 1
  - "I've testified many times on the subject!" "Yeah, as the defendant." -- nm - TWuG Feb 16, 17:56
Oh, Windows 11 (ARM) will now be officially available through Parallels on M-series Macs. -- (link) - spamlet Feb 16, 17:22 1
- You just triggered me. M-series Macs trigger me. I’ve just spent 12 hours fighting a fleet of M-series Macs. I’m gonna go cry now. -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 19:27
dear Norse Atlantic, people in LA don't want to only fly nonstop to Oslo (lovely as I'm sure that it may be) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 17:15 8
- Minneapolis/St Paul sure. -- nm - .☕ Feb 16, 18:01
- Norwegi...errr Norse, is slowly rebuil...errr...building their network. Give it time. -- nm - ty97 Feb 16, 17:25
- that's because they're dumb. it's probably also mostly for people going the other way. -- nm - mafic Feb 16, 17:18 5
  - i get doing direct from Gatwick to Orlando for all the flush English wanting to spend their Trussbucks at Disney World. LAX is a huge int'l market tho -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 17:21 4
    - Europeans love California. it is known. -- nm - mafic Feb 16, 17:29 3
      - But what about UK people, what do they think of California? -- nm - ty97 Feb 16, 17:32 2
        
        they count as European. mostly because saying that really bothers them. -- nm - mafic Feb 16, 17:43
        
        they're all thick as flies outside the Chinese Theater every morning -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 17:33
At LAS. 3 mins with $20 and a dollar slot. Hit for $150. - budice Feb 16, 17:09 1
- Woot!! -- nm - Pippy Feb 16, 18:15
Ant Man 3 48% (99/107) -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 17:01
Oh my goodness. The first episode of Picard (s3) is about as good as it gets. -- nm - Jovian Feb 16, 17:01 9
- I didn't recognize the face and based on the voice thought it was Amy Ryan. -- nm - Max Feb 16, 17:18
- i've heard it tries to give Riker a redemption arc. hard pass -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 17:09 2
  - he's much less of a sex pest now! just don't look at his holodeck history. -- nm - mafic Feb 16, 17:44 1
    - Let the record show that he offered just to let that Space Irish wash her feet instead of hitting on her! She threw herself at him! -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 17:48
- I quite enjoyed it. The Engadget reviewer who whined about it needs to learn to like things. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 17:07 4
  - (He needs to be less of a Shaw) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 17:08 3
    - Omg he is repellent -- nm - Jovian Feb 16, 17:10 2
      - They got the perfect actor for that role. He was great on Justified. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 17:11 1
        
        and 12 Monkeys -- nm - Remlik Feb 16, 17:12
uhh. . . -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 16:57 1
- * has an uneasy feeling about this... -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 16, 17:56
Earthquake Bed...yes or no? -- (link) - Beaker Feb 16, 16:48 5
- “That’s what the ladies all called my bed!” “Because it trapped them in a box underneath the canopy?” -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 19:42
- Just make a canopy with steel I Beams -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 16, 17:59
- just don't sleep with an arm out the side. - mafic Feb 16, 17:07
- That's a fancy coffin. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 16:51 1
  - Get Boring Company to make one that can tunnel its way out of rubble -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 17:03
*does the math* -- (link) - Strongbad Feb 16, 16:47 4
- Still sounds like Santa. -- nm - .☕ Feb 16, 18:00
- sounds reliable. I mean technically anything that keeps it in the air is "anti-gravity technology" -- nm - mafic Feb 16, 16:58
- In other news: -- (link) - Reagen Feb 16, 16:50 1
  - I came here to post just that. My father emailed me that story because he wants to talk about it when we chat by phone later tonight. - Reluctant Cynic Feb 16, 16:57
at least when Karl Rove tried to bullshit Megyn Kelly about Romney having Ohio on lock she had the guts to shut him down on the air -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 16:30
Go USWNT! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 16, 16:18
For a little while in the 70s/80s, part of the freight railroads in the Northeast/Ohio/Indiana were government run: CONRAIL. - ty97 Feb 16, 15:35
LYC: Here's the top 10 from a NFL Mock I just read. - Strongbad Feb 16, 15:30 4
- So, the NFC South still has no quarterbacks worth a damn. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 15:58 3
  - Thankfully, we have ours for this season. -- nm - The Allfather Feb 16, 17:50 1
    - Sadly, Ridder might be the best in the division. - Will Hunting Feb 16, 18:16
  - I saw the pick at 8 and just started laughing uncontrollably. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 16, 16:05
Heh, looked at the Del Coronado as a potential Christmas trip. Around $900/night plus a $50 'amenities fee' which includes - Meg Feb 16, 15:22 1
- Good lord! -- nm - Pippy Feb 16, 18:19
Rumours now about Patrick Kane to Edmonton - Reagen Feb 16, 15:14 8
- because if they need anything, it's scoring. jeez Edmonton, buy a goalie. -- nm - mafic Feb 16, 15:21 7
  - the goaltending is fixed. Skinner was an all-star and Campbell is coming into his own after a rough start. - Reagen Feb 16, 15:24 6
    - Skinner was an all-star because the division has mediocre goaltending. -- nm - mafic Feb 16, 15:33 3
      - plus wasn't he the fan selection? either way there's not a case for either of them being a top-15 goalie. -- nm - mafic Feb 16, 16:08 2
        
        Campbell's giving up 1.5 goals per game less since Jan 1 compared to what came before (2.45 GAA). He changed some things and got it figured out. -- nm* - Reagen Feb 16, 16:17 1
        
        weak schedule in that time though. 7/10 starts against bottom-half teams. if he keeps it up over the next dozen or so that'll be something. -- nm - mafic Feb 16, 17:04
    - This afternoon I got to point out that my students were negative 5 years old the last time the Leafs won a first round playoff series. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 15:31 1
      - hope they reported you -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 15:32
oh no it's shamrock mcflurry season - Beryllium Feb 16, 15:13 10
- I'll go get a Ted Drewes instead. But I usually sacrifice ice cream for Lent. -- nm - St. Louis BaronHawks Feb 16, 16:03 1
  - We were there yesterday! -- nm - spamlet Feb 16, 16:13
- It hasn’t been good for almost a decade—not sure what they did, but just isn’t the same 😭 -- nm - Flav Feb 16, 15:50
- *tosses a leprechaun into the McBlender -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 16, 15:45
- Only an issue if you can find a functioning ice cream machine - Fuzzy Feb 16, 15:35
- True but that only means that we are on the cusp of jelly bean season and it’s the best season. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 16, 15:15 4
  - It’s my wife’s favorite season. -- nm - spamlet Feb 16, 15:55
  - rookie: The season expanded to Valentines Day. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 15:18 2
    - Not enough to include the best varieties. -- nm - TWuG Feb 16, 17:35
    - Not for Sweetarts jelly beans and they are pinnacle jelly beans. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 16, 16:52
the weirdest recall I ever had was "a long combination of things may lead to the red plastic seat belt release button cracking, which may cause - mafic Feb 16, 14:59
ty, I'm serious. If you're thinking of Croatia in September and wouldn't mind a traveling companion, I am potentially interested. -- nm - Dano Feb 16, 14:42 5
- Remember that nap I meant to take yesterday? I just finished taking it :) - ty97 Feb 16, 15:27 1
  - Naps do not work that way! Good night! -- nm - St. Louis BaronHawks Feb 16, 15:29
- do you both do killer Michael Caine impressions? -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 14:43 2
  - They could re-enact the Walk of Shame! -- nm - Roger More Feb 16, 15:16
  - Would that be an impression of Michael Caine that is killer, or an impression of Michael Caine AS a killer? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 14:58
Yikes. What is happening. Another cargo train derailment outside of Detroit. -- (link) - Jovian Feb 16, 14:31 19
- Derailments are not infrequent. You’ll hear about more of them now. That’s just how reporting works. -- nm - mara Feb 16, 17:14
- Private rail companies haven't done enough to maintain their infrastructure. They pocketed profits - Krusty Feb 16, 14:54 12
  - But no one warned us! NO ONE! WARNED US! NO ONE! -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 19:44
  - I always viewed rail as public transportation and never understood why roads are funded by public money but rail is not.... - Walt_Disney Feb 16, 15:10 8
    - Because rail in NA is mostly for transporting bulk goods and livestock, not people. It’s less of a public good than a highway or a subway system so - Roger More Feb 16, 16:03 3
      - Though isn't that transport of good also in support of the public good? -- nm - ty97 Feb 16, 16:04 2
        
        I’d argue the benefits would not be widely spread and would accumulate to large companies. - Roger More Feb 16, 16:13
        
        occasionally -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 16:07
    - We have some private highways -- (link) - ty97 Feb 16, 16:01
    - Railroads were apparently built with British investment, they got every other square mile along the way. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 16, 15:43
    - the railroad companies that built them way back in tickety-two were savage competitors. never really were public concerns, just eclipsed by the auto -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 15:20 1
      - This. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 16, 15:25
  - And bad weather like we've had this winter leads to more track failures. -- nm - Meg Feb 16, 15:07 1
    - Not to mention landslides like we're facing locally :/ -- (link) - Meg Feb 16, 15:10
- the US has ~1,000 derailments annually. I don't think this is even an unusual pace. -- nm - mafic Feb 16, 14:53 3
  - Are many of those more minor with cars not falling over? -- nm - ty97 Feb 16, 16:00
  - It's when the derailments get attacked by sharks that you have to worry. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 14:58 1
    - "Candygram, Mr Conductor" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 15:12
- When I was a kid I would put pennies on the tracks to get smashed. Sad to see it is happening again. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 14:40
"Richer women tend to binge drink and have more alcohol-related problems than poorer women, while the opposite is true for men" -- (link) - budice Feb 16, 14:22 2
- Idle hands are the devil's playthings -- nm - rollo Feb 16, 14:53
- Uber drivers know all! -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 14:31
DTL: Anyone want OOC3? -- nm - spamlet Feb 16, 14:08 4
- I'll take it if you're looking. I hope my team loses the conference tourney championship game because I will get crushed if I make the NTT. -- nm - Dano Feb 16, 14:43 1
  - I’ll send you the request. -- nm - spamlet Feb 16, 14:45
- Trip. Wire -- nm - rollo Feb 16, 14:36 1
  - I have 4 of the 6 long term and the fifth was Jersey City that just flaked. -- nm - spamlet Feb 16, 14:45
Anne Hathaway on the Berlinale red carpet -- (link) - budice Feb 16, 14:05 3
- I don't think I like this look. It's like the worst of both dresses and lingerie. -- nm - Max Feb 16, 15:05 1
  - Yeah, go all the way or not at all. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 15:13
- oh she's a Barbie Doll under there. -- nm - Jovian Feb 16, 14:10
This is a good catch. -- (link) - Volnelk Feb 16, 13:58 3
- I hope someone was fired for that blunder -- nm - rollo Feb 16, 14:00 2
  - The people missing the joke in the comments are *chef’s kiss* -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 14:56
  - It's why the screenplay wasn't nominated. -- nm - Dano Feb 16, 14:17
viva las vegas -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 13:54 1
- Casino Queen, my lord you're mean. I've been gambling like a fiend on your tables so green -- nm - rollo Feb 16, 13:56

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