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old enough to remember when Donna Brazile telling Hillary CNN was going to ask her debate questions was a five-alarm hair fire at Fox -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 14:36 1
- yes yes. Definitely. And Im sure Elon, Jordan, Comer and the rest of the filth on Capitol Hill are going to get right on this. - Jovian Feb 27, 14:42
My goal is to go all of March without drinking Coke. Helped by my suspicion that Starlight has seeped into their 'original' mini cans - Max Feb 27, 14:36
“I don’t want to go in the shower!” - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 14:32
BoxOffice-Actuals: Antman 3 $31.96M, Cocaine Bear $23.26M -- nm - budice Feb 27, 14:31
To Tap Federal Funds, Chip Makers Will Need to Provide Child Care The move seeks to help more women join the work force as industry leaders complain o - crash davis Feb 27, 14:30 1
- "We can't find workers!!" " Have you tried higher wages or increased benefits?" " What? No! Why?!" -- nm - TWuG Feb 27, 14:37
DeSantis proposed law regarding immigrants is draconian -- (link) - TWuG Feb 27, 14:28 2
- President Stillson is going to be just great. -- nm - Jovian Feb 27, 14:31
- Of course it is. - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 14:29
lol. my firm finally realized ChatGP exists, and now has a webinar called "ChatGP: Friend or Foe" cause you know, lets listen to auditors talk about - tRuMaN Feb 27, 14:25 1
- we've already been told, for confidentiality reasons, almost nothing we use day to day can be fed into it - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 14:27
Grant Brisbee on NPR right now re: baseball rules. He analyzed games from 1984 & 2014 and concluded time between pitches added 30 minutes to game time -- nm - rollo Feb 27, 14:20
last surviving full-time Disney employee from the Walt era has passed -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 14:18 1
- Yeah, he was getting an award for 70 years in June. - David Feb 27, 14:23
ST Survivor numbers remaining are 2, 3, 17, 18. GO! 3 left! (I get last one remaining) -- nm* - Beaker Feb 27, 14:16 5
- 7 -- nm - J Feb 27, 14:29
- 15 -- nm - Strongbad Feb 27, 14:24
- I'll take 8 for Yogi. -- nm - Krusty Feb 27, 14:20
- i took 1 -- nm - budice Feb 27, 14:17 1
  - oops, thanks! -- nm - Beaker Feb 27, 14:18
Glad my glasses were still under warranty. The puppy chewed on them. She's lucky she's cute. - TWuG Feb 27, 14:01 1
- I can't leave mine out while showering cause one of our cats attacks them. Same for my sneakers and toothbrush -- nm - Beaker Feb 27, 14:17
Dominion court filing shows that Fox's Rupert Murdoch admitted in his under oath deposition that Fox hosts endorsed false notion of a stolen election -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 13:58 3
- I hope the jury bankrupts Fox - TWuG Feb 27, 14:00 2
  - Isn't there a smartmatic suit as well or did they settle? -- nm - pmb Feb 27, 14:08 1
    - Looks like it's still proceeding. -- (link) - mara Feb 27, 14:25
Wyoming Don't Say Gay/Trans bill dies without coming to a vote. -- (link) - TWuG Feb 27, 13:56 1
- Good. -- nm - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 14:28
The Milwaukee Bucks share isn’t being sold for 3.5b. The share (whatever it is) values the entire team at 3.5b so that’s what that number is. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 13:53 2
- That makes a *lot* more sense -- nm - rollo Feb 27, 14:04 1
  - Of course, the Haslams are not wise so it’s good to see it confirmed elsewhere. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 14:08
Has ST talked much about the "15-minute city" concept, where major amenities are within a 15-minute walk or bike ride? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 13:27 31
- Yeah, cities are mostly zoned to keep them from being walkable, nevermind the stratification of housing types. - TWuG Feb 27, 14:35
- today fewer than half of high school graduates have taken driver ed, nor got a license. that's rural and suburban kids not just city -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 14:09 8
  - this fascinates me. Everyone in my highschool drove. every. one. -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Feb 27, 14:15 7
    - Neither of my youngest sister's kids have their license. They're 19 and 22. - Dark Callisto Feb 27, 14:28 5
      - I don't have my license and I'm twice their age. :-) My niece hasn't got hers yet and she's 21. My nephew got his last year, he's 23. - Krusty Feb 27, 14:29 4
        
        Oh, and my sister doesn't drive and she lives in LA! -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 27, 14:31 1
        
        Nice! -- nm - Krusty Feb 27, 14:45
        
        NYC has always been like that, though. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 14:30 1
        
        True and I was trying to get my license last year but didn't get the time to take the driving classes. My niece is in college and doesn't need to - Krusty Feb 27, 14:32
    - But we had to actually see each other so there was that reason for going places. There was also less ways to get around - JD Feb 27, 14:20
- It's one of the reasons we are buying the house we are. There was an identical one (same builder) but much further away from everything. - sycor Feb 27, 13:45
- Sounds like New Urbanism -- (link) - Strongbad Feb 27, 13:38 2
  - also, Old Urbanism -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 13:52 1
    - everything old IS new again -- nm - Strongbad Feb 27, 14:08
- I mention it because I realized that my focus on location-location-location when purchasing has paid off in, essentially, a 5-minute city. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 13:31 14
  - Closest food to me: Popeyes (0.3m walk), CVS/Grocery/Kabob/Tacos/Post Office (.5m), Macys/gas (1.0m) - Max Feb 27, 14:13 6
    - If you're walking to the gas station, I suspect something has gone rather wrong -- nm - JD Feb 27, 14:16 5
      - I walk to the gas station all the time. They have a little shop to grab candy, drinks, etc. -- nm - Krusty Feb 27, 14:30
      - Except when you have to drop you car off for service and can walk home. - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 14:27 1
        
        I carried a car battery from AdvanceAuto almost a mile to a bus stop - *not* something I'm eager to try again. -- nm - Max Feb 27, 14:31
      - On Sundays I like to mosey on over just to watch people fill up. - Max Feb 27, 14:26
      - It is Macy's gas. Much fancier than Target gas. -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 14:21
  - It's great for the kids as well as they won't need to rely on you to get them everywhere they want to go once they get older. - Krusty Feb 27, 14:02 1
    - Yep! Especially with our proximity to the bike trail system here. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 16:43
  - “Stumble-home distance from a bar” was my primary objective. - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 13:56
  - Where I live is basically a 5-10 minute city. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 13:40
  - the concept is more a metric for future planning, and limiting congestion traffic across designated zones in largely-populated cities -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 13:40
  - I was similarly focused. I would call state college a 15-minute city. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Feb 27, 13:39 1
    - **if you want it to be. my neighbor drives downtown all the time. I walk. in inclement weather, I just stay home. it's not worth parking. - judge indianapolis jones Feb 27, 13:44
- it's just a globalist "progressive" conspiracy concocted by George Soros! -- nm - MAGA Feb 27, 13:29 1
  - Soros invented Europe? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 13:35
Every day almost without fail I get either Spice Girls/Wannabe or the theme from Duke of Hazard stuck in my head. Why? - Cuzzin Todd Feb 27, 13:23 1
- You got the lab grown Covid. -- nm - Loyola Feb 27, 13:28
Jon Hamm and Anna Osceola Are Engaged After Two Years of Dating -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 13:21 2
- apparently played his last receptionist on Mad Men (art imitates life) -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 13:25 1
  - 6 episodes of TV since Mad Men, apparently her career was going places -- nm - budice Feb 27, 13:28
A month or more ago, a little girl cornered me in the library and sold me a pack of GS cookies. I decided to switch things up and get Lemonades. - crash davis Feb 27, 13:21 1
- I have tagalongs in my freezer at home calling to me -- nm - oblique Feb 27, 13:24
What is the importance of knowing whether covid cane from a lab or natural exposure?? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 13:04 37
- So conservatives have something to be outraged about. I'm serious. - loosilu Feb 27, 13:32
- Maybe so we can learn from our mistakes? -- nm - spamlet Feb 27, 13:20 5
  - "we" and "our" are doing a lot of work -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 13:36 1
    - indeed! -- nm - mud Feb 27, 13:40
  - Imagine being that guy who's dumb mistake ends up killing far more people than Hitler, Stalin combined -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 13:34 1
    - We have known for DECADES that the most likely pandemic scenario was a highly contagious respiratory virus from China. - loosilu Feb 27, 13:37
  - That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 27, 13:24
- I think it’s important. But not to serve as fodder for cultural divisions. -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 13:16
- Having a correct historical record is good. Learning lessons to avoid this in future is great. - ty97 Feb 27, 13:15 22
  - Agreed on both. Also, coming from a lab means we, as humans, have a much better chance of stopping another spread like this in the future. - Inigo Feb 27, 13:41 17
    - That doesn't stop the natural threat at all. - loosilu Feb 27, 13:43 16
      - which shutting down the wet markets would actually have real benefits against but . . . easier to invent boogymen than fighting that fight -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 13:46 3
        
        My concern is that it's a way to once again refuse to prepare for pandemic response. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 14:09 2
        
        the pandemic proved we can be 1000% prepared and the Fox watchers will do whatever the fuck they want to regardless - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 14:12 1
        
        But we weren't 1000% prepared, because Donnie dismantled our response. He also ignored the existing plan. - loosilu Feb 27, 14:26
      - But it's the conclusion of the department of energy that COVID started in a lab in China. - Inigo Feb 27, 13:46 11
        
        with “low confidence” and there is still no unanimous view across all agencies -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 13:50 5
        
        It's also with moderate confidence from the FBI. - Inigo Feb 27, 13:54 4
        
        The idea that it's natural is highly plausible and was the #1 expected pandemic scenario. - loosilu Feb 27, 14:00
        
        i think what skeptics are asking for is any credible evidence to support the theory and i've never seen it. they've traced initial case clusters back - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 13:57 2
        
        Sure, and if the DoE and the FBI don't ever show any of their reasoning for their beliefs, then they have a point, but otherwise... - Inigo Feb 27, 14:00 1
        
        This is my scientific brain pushing back. There was always going to be a deadly virus coming out of China. That's what we prepared for. - loosilu Feb 27, 14:03
        
        Wait, why is DOE investigating? - loosilu Feb 27, 13:48 4
        
        See the link. You're arguing against a strawman I'm not bringing up. -- (link) - Inigo Feb 27, 13:51 3
        
        crap, paywalled. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 13:58 2
        
        Here you go. -- (link) - Inigo Feb 27, 14:01 1
        
        Thanks! It's interesting, but certainly not persuasive. - loosilu Feb 27, 14:06
  - I am not convinced it matters. Viruses spread by the same mechanism regardless of the origin. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 13:32 2
    - If a lab makes a mistake and releases a virus it's working on, it's not worth it to know how that happened? -- nm - spamlet Feb 27, 13:40 1
      - Of course. I just see no indication that's the case. This is the EXACT natural scenario we were "prepared" for - loosilu Feb 27, 13:42
  - If you have two hypothetical root causes and can't differentiate, you can still postulate on future improvements to the system. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 13:19
- Accidental vs Intentional. Natural Causes understood, but if you're somehow developing these in a lab. Quite a different angle to it. -- nm - budice Feb 27, 13:07 1
  - Like as a weapon? The problem with viruses as a weapon is it kills the person making and delivering it. - loosilu Feb 27, 13:40
- the degree to which xenophobes can fully blame the Chinese for us doing fuck all to contain it once it was in the US -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 13:07 3
  - In a nutshell, yes. So they can deflect from Trump's staggering failure. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 13:35
  - and while you're throwin' blame around don't forget Fauci! -- nm - rand Feb 27, 13:19
  - Yes. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 13:13
I hope kilbo has better luck with his rank 60 variant than I did. - the wrong element Feb 27, 13:04 4
- yeah, I got pixel drax last season I think as my 60 variant. It is the worst -- nm - oblique Feb 27, 13:10 3
  - I have that one. I don't know why anyone would use it. - the wrong element Feb 27, 13:25 2
    - All my gold goes to Venomized variants -- nm - oblique Feb 27, 13:27 1
      - All mine goes mostly towards daily missions. - the wrong element Feb 27, 14:25
800 sq ft. 2 bedroom/2 bath trailer park home in Montauk, NY sold for $3.75 Million... -- (link) - decline Feb 27, 13:01 8
- Long Island's a terminal moraine. -- nm - Dano Feb 27, 13:22 4
  - That's a mistranslation of the original Algonquian for "the place where dummies live and have no future" -- nm - Max Feb 27, 14:40
  - Two of them! -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 13:38
  - thanks mafic! -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 13:29 1
    - Thank Hal Hartley -- nm - Dano Feb 27, 13:52
- congrats, brook -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 13:16
- "the best striped bass surf fishing in the U.S.", by all means get a multi-million dollar trailer -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 13:04
- meet me in Montauk.... -- nm - prayformojo Feb 27, 13:02
Theranos: Elizabeth Holmes now with 2nd child -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 13:00 2
- first question: what did she use to take the blood test? -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 13:01 1
  - New Mom of the Year starts 11 year prison term in April. -- nm - budice Feb 27, 13:05
oh F off airlines, this year it would be cheaper for me to fly from Boise to Heathrow, London than it would be to Indianapolis that weekend - crash davis Feb 27, 12:52 14
- Come to Chicago and drive down :) -- nm - oblique Feb 27, 13:19 2
  - less than half price of going direct if I let Spirit leave me for six and a half hours in Las Vegas - crash davis Feb 27, 13:25 1
    - Maybe you can win the cost of the trip and then some while you wait -- nm - JD Feb 27, 13:42
- Flights to smaller airports are almost always more expensive than larger hub locations. It's annoying. I remember when my daughter was at Syracuse - pmb Feb 27, 13:06 2
  - NYC has lots of competition which helps. I think there are 50+ NYC-Chicago flights a day. - ty97 Feb 27, 13:18
  - yeah, on my recent trip the Phoenix to Yuma portion was substantially more than Boise to Phoenix -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 13:09
- the Spawn Tax -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 12:54
- I mean....wouldn't you rather go to London anyway ;) -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 12:54 5
  - and it would almost be half price to go to LaGuardia, this makes no sense -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 12:59 4
    - the other half is the cost of leaving LaGuardia -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 13:03 3
      - Taxi rates from the airport are fixed! -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 13:46
      - You haven't been to new LGA! -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 13:14
      - I'd be tempted but I heard there is nothing to do in NYC -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 13:05
- *shakes fist at Frontier* -- nm - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 12:53
A put is an option to sell a security at a set price. A short sale is when you borrow shares to sell, hoping to buy them back at a lower price. -- (edited) - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 12:48 3
- I agree with znu that that looks like a put option that was shorted (aka written). - St. Louis BaronHawks Feb 27, 13:15 2
  - Just for reference also, this has a kind of nice visualization of the standard PUT option value given the date and stock price - oblique Feb 27, 13:16 1
    - Thanks for this link and thanks to everyone. -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Feb 27, 13:21
NFL-WAS released Carson Wentz. -- nm - budice Feb 27, 12:47 4
- I expect he's probably done -- nm - decline Feb 27, 12:58 3
  - He'd get a backup position somewhere. QBs are always getting hurt and it's a league that kept finding gigs for Nathan Peterman. - Diva Feb 27, 13:03 2
    - Ravens will give his shit ass a deal -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 13:04 1
      - Yeah, because that's the type of move they make. - the wrong element Feb 27, 14:43
This goal just won the FIFA goal of the year award; -- (link) - Loyola Feb 27, 12:46 [youtube]
...and NO. SLEEP. TILL. BROOKLYN!!! -- (link) - David Feb 27, 12:42 [Backboard] 3
- giggity -- nm - Beaker Feb 27, 12:43 2
  - Give me #4 for Survivor. - the wrong element Feb 27, 12:58 1
    - heh, I just didn't want to start a rush :0 -- nm - Beaker Feb 27, 14:17

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