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David, I read that Politico article. Thank you. Two comments - crash davis Feb 27, 20:54
Moneyball the Combine—Short Shuffle time best indicator for success - Flav Feb 27, 20:40
Pete Davidson is allegedly dating Ice Spice...and for once it seems like a good match -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 20:35 13
- A bootleg Spice Girl? -- nm - Krusty Feb 27, 20:44 11
  - She rose to "prominence" in late 2022 with her song "Munch". -- nm - psilotum Feb 27, 21:00
  - And ice isn't a spice. -- nm - Krusty Feb 27, 20:44 9
    - technically ginger was the only spice. -- nm - mafic Feb 27, 20:48 8
      - Ground Habanero can be Scary Spice -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 20:57 3
        
        Saffron since it is so expensive by weight is a Posh Spice -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 20:58 2
        
        seeds are baby spice -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 20:59 1
        
        because of its aroma, nutmeg has always struck me as sporty (okay that is a stretch) -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 21:00
      - Everyone has been freaking out about her…I know she brings major drama. Can’t speak to her rapping, but been on the Twitter “It list” for last 3 month - Flav Feb 27, 20:51 3
        
        Second mention on ST today! -- nm - Tim Feb 27, 21:01
        
        First I've heard of her. -- nm - Krusty Feb 27, 20:59 1
        
        same here, but I'm always out of the loop -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 21:01
- Yeah—I’m ok with that one -- nm - Flav Feb 27, 20:39
Oh no, Raylan, say it ain't so: Marshals service hit by ransomware attack (WitSec not affected) -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 27, 19:55
Raymond Trollat, Who Took a Hilly Wine Region to New Heights, Dies at 91 - crash davis Feb 27, 19:37
PIXIE! PIXIE! PIXIE! -- (link) - ty97 Feb 27, 19:33 4
- i knew what this was going to be before i even clicked it - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 19:39 3
  - Official announcement coming within hours apparently. Starts June 30. Appears LAX will be daily. -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 19:41 2
    - also a budget airline out of Japan called Zip something -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 20:03 1
      - ZipAir, low cost carrier wholly owned by Japan Airlines -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 20:32
JD: I plowed through Pop Pantheon today while working: Carly Rae Jepsen, Ciara, Missy Elliott, Robyn, Justin Timberlake, and Celine Dion. -- nm - MDH Feb 27, 19:16 6
- Those are the same that I've listened less Ciara so I guess that one is next - JD Feb 27, 19:26 5
  - I appreciated the retrospective on him. I love Futuresex/Lovesounds, but then he just falls off. - MDH Feb 27, 19:29 4
    - I liked this song off Man of the Woods, and they did a really cool one take video. But yeah, it was not a good album. -- (link) - Tim Feb 27, 19:34 [youtube] 3
      - Have you listed to this podcast? I got JD hooked, and we're working our way through back episodes. You'd like the chart aspects. -- nm - MDH Feb 27, 19:50 2
        
        I'll look into it! -- nm - Tim Feb 27, 19:59 1
        
        "Pop Pantheon." If you search JD named some favs. I've probably listened to half or so in a random order. -- nm - MDH Feb 27, 20:32
Armed suspect on IU campus shelter in place orders have been put in place -- (link) - Remlik Feb 27, 19:12 1
- suspect captured -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 19:30
This is so dumb but “Your dad loved cheeseburgers. I’m gonna get you all the cheeseburgers you want.” Kills me as a line in Endgame. - Volnelk Feb 27, 19:08
Tom Sizemore in coma, "no further hope" -- (link*) - TWuG Feb 27, 18:49 2
- I get him and Michael Madsen mixed up -- nm* - Pippy Feb 27, 20:38
- that's really sad to hear. -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 19:07
It's currently snowing and it's sticking. There's snow on the ground! :-) -- nm - Krusty Feb 27, 18:43
the prescription lidocaine patches are rarely covered by insurance because the 4% now exists as OTC - Tim Feb 27, 18:26 1
- Mom gets the 5% ones from the military tricare -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 20:05
As if the supply chain problem wasn't bad enough - storm damaged cars are piling up in L.A. repair shops with no hope of parts for months. -- nm - Meg Feb 27, 18:17 3
- anyone fool enough to drive through standing water is probably good to have off the streets -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 18:28 2
  - OTOH there are those crushed by falling trees. -- nm - Meg Feb 27, 19:23 1
    - Yea. That's what I knew you were referring to. -- nm - zunkskunk Feb 27, 19:30
So much for not drinking tonight. -- (edited) - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 18:13 4
- I’m late to the party but I have discovered Amaretto Sours - Pippy Feb 27, 18:51 3
  - And claimed them for America! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 27, 19:05 1
    - ‘ Merica! - Pippy Feb 27, 20:44
  - Yum! -- nm - Flav Feb 27, 19:03
Quantum Leap spoiler speculation (based on latest episode, so some actual spoilers) - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:12
If you have access to Bruins/Oilers, it's been some amazing hockey so far. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 17:59
Death cult -- (link) - TWuG Feb 27, 17:58 7
- Eh, horrible as it is, the votes of two partisan fame whores isn’t the best evidence in support of your (otherwise accurate) assessment. -- nm* - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 19:26 1
  - Alone, no. There's a pattern and this is part of it. - TWuG Feb 27, 21:09
- 2 people qualifies as a cult now? -- nm - Ender Feb 27, 19:02 4
  - Only if you think it's just two people. The GOP as a whole is embracing death through their policies. This vote highlights 2 of the members. -- nm - TWuG Feb 27, 19:09 3
    - 214 Republicans voted in favor of the resolution... -- nm - Ender Feb 27, 19:21 2
      - *shrug* - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 19:29 1
        
        and they'll revoke Santos' committee assignments any day now. because principle. -- nm - mafic Feb 27, 19:52
Meta really wants you to know they are actually doing something not evil. I'm sure there's a catch somewhere though... -- (link*) - znufrii Feb 27, 17:11 1
- If Grindr was a part of this program, I imagine 70% of the profile photos would suddenly vanish as if there were some sort of gay rapture. -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 18:47
WV MMA trainer offers to provide security for drag show after restaurant cancels due to threats -- (link) - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 16:51
Octane, (whispered) by Tarjay -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 16:45 15
- I no longer walk to them but within 1.5 miles - -- (edited) - Meg Feb 27, 19:21
- My six-minute-walk amenities ... - Beryllium Feb 27, 16:54 13
  - The problem with walking in my area is that it’s inherently unsafe. -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 18:59 5
    - Because of cars or crime or both? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 19:10 4
      - Crime. Other than the red-light runners, you can generally do okay crossing the street and there are moderately decent sidewalks. -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 19:21 3
        
        Crime? In Texas? I guess the Walker Cloning Program is behind schedule. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 19:27 2
        
        He was already mugged once, why risk it? -- nm - Meg Feb 27, 19:30 1
        
        Yes, I'm 100% behind that decision. I'm just saying, Cordell Walker clones could fix the problem. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 19:34
  - Let’s see -- (edited) - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 18:38 2
    - Chinese, Thai, and Mexican? Jealous! :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 19:10 1
      - There’s a better Thai place a 20-min drive away, that’s the one we frequent. -- nm - znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 19:16
  - I have four mall complexes in a 1 km radius so I feel like I'm cheating. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 18:24 1
    - Hah -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:32
  - my 15-minute walk amenity is the pub. used to be a fish & chips & pho place, and the world's worst convenience store, but they shuy. - mafic Feb 27, 18:13 1
    - Oh, I also have a pub within 15 minutes. It's 600 metres away, but the walking route is circuitous - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:19
Heavenly Father, please forgive me for binging on YT videos of large carnivores in zoos trying to eat human babies. - loosilu Feb 27, 16:43 2
- It’s the circle of life. -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 16:54 1
  - The level of trust for the glass is astonishing. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 17:22
TIL: wild rice ain't rice -- (link) - prayformojo Feb 27, 16:36 3
- the little black pine needles! -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 17:31
- I called them ‘sticks’ as a child. -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 17:06
- Wild rice is neither wild nor rice. Discuss. -- nm - Linda Richman Feb 27, 17:00
WestJet? WestBus. -- (link) - Reagen Feb 27, 16:04 3
- I had air canada do that a few times, but it was Toronto-Kingston. -- nm - mafic Feb 27, 16:08 1
  - Hang around in Toronto for three days or ... take a bus to Kingston ... is there a third option? - Beryllium Feb 27, 16:13
- I mean, yeah, I'd take an eight hour bus ride instead of waiting three days to get out of Calgary. But it's still crap. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 16:07
chickenshit weasel -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 15:56 8
- two months in to his majority, has the GOP House passed a single bill they promised? -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 16:27 7
  - I think they've passed plenty of bills (like cancelling the 87,000 irs agents), they just won't get past the Senate. -- nm - Ender Feb 27, 19:23 5
    - 25, to be exact. -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 27, 20:02 4
      - Credit Union Board Modernization Act (who's on a credit union board and doesn't want to have to meet every month? - psilotum Feb 27, 20:38 1
        
        That's some serious legislative work there. Almost as important as the bill to make the SEC not be able to lease its own office space. - znufrii Feb 27, 20:49
      - I declare PANDEMIC IS OVER. -- nm - psilotum Feb 27, 20:31
      - hot damn. -- nm - mud Feb 27, 20:24
  - c'mon, Gaetz/Boebert! Where's your call for a no-confidence vote? -- nm - parliamentarian Feb 27, 16:34
ST Survivor 44 holdings! - Beaker Feb 27, 15:40
Soon you can sleep with Pikachu. -- (link) - Qale Feb 27, 15:32 [youtube] 4
- Not at all where my brain went. -- nm - St. Louis BaronHawks Feb 27, 17:03
- Ha ha it's not April 1, Japan. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 16:00 1
  - I feel like Pokemon Sleep was first mentioned about 5 years ago. -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 16:56
- That's shocking -- nm - TWuG Feb 27, 15:36
Russia's big new offensive might have been going on for sometime, but we don't know it because they can't punch any harder - crash davis Feb 27, 15:20 14
- I'm wondering what Russia has promised China to have China willing to send arms and support - TWuG Feb 27, 15:25 9
  - Oil rights -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 18:13 1
    - Theory I heard: with limited buyers, China is getting cheaper Russian oil. So, they may want to extend (but not escalate) the current conflict. -- nm - psilotum Feb 27, 19:36
  - “We will use them to chew up time and resources of the West until the West splinters because their factions lack the will to stand strong - Will Hunting Feb 27, 17:36
  - China wants the west to exhaust our supply of weapons so they can invade Taiwan -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 16:15 1
    - I'm not sure that's working as they hoped. - TWuG Feb 27, 16:19
  - China’s primary goal all along is to overtake the American dollar. Most decisions tie back to that. -- nm - The Allfather Feb 27, 15:30 3
    - well that's never going to happen so . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 15:31 2
      - srsly. they're not killing the peg any time soon. -- nm - mafic Feb 27, 15:59
      - (though the most plausible path runs first through America defaulting on its debt obligations, so i guess funding Republicans would be better use) -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 15:32
- It’s a 30+ minute read but you in particular should look at the Politico invasion article. -- nm - The Allfather Feb 27, 15:23 3
  - Can you give me a link? Politico's front page is a bit of a mess on my browser. -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 15:40 2
    - Here! -- (link) - The Allfather Feb 27, 15:42 1
      - danke! -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 15:44
Love the pitch clock. Hate how it's a video insert on the screen instead of being integrated into the broadcaster's graphics. -- (pic) - Ender Feb 27, 15:19 [Attachment] 2
- I read that a bunch of teams will have it integrated once the season starts. Not sure why it's not being done right now. -- nm - Krusty Feb 27, 17:06 1
  - Maybe they just don't want to pay for the technology at the spring training sites... -- nm - Ender Feb 27, 19:03
Oh look, a message from Comcast saying they've received my cancellation request. Uh... WUT? - Mop Feb 27, 15:14 2
- don't be silly, Comcast is the Hotel California of cable companies. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 17:33
- Whatever happens, you’ll still lose Peacock! -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 16:57
Luka Doncic is an old-looking 23 year old. -- nm - Diva Feb 27, 15:10 4
- It's from living on the second floor. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 17:34
- He's using that other TikTok filter. -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 15:17 1
  - this cracked me up. -- nm - Diva Feb 27, 15:21
- Meanwhile Pujols a spry 35 -- nm - budice Feb 27, 15:15
It sure feels like Scott Adams was tired of drawing the strip and wanted to pivot to full time outrage merchant. He might have overshot a tad. - Reagen Feb 27, 15:07 8
- He should start an only fans if he’s so insistent on showing his ass. -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 16:57
- He's going to take Dilbert hard right and just web publish it. It'll be Pepe the Frog but with the creator pushing the racism. -- nm - TWuG Feb 27, 15:21 6
  - What's Mallard Filmore up to lately? (Do not actually tell me) -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 15:24 5
    - I honestly don't know. But I'm checking and will keep it to myself -- nm - TWuG Feb 27, 15:25 4
      - Maybe you could tell me what a Mallard Fillmore is, at least? (In an IM, preferably) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 15:31 3
        
        a conservative comic strip featuring birds as newspapermen -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 15:36
        
        It's a - TWuG Feb 27, 15:36 1
        
        It was more funny than most conservative comic strips, if that is a compliment. -- nm - loosilu Feb 27, 17:36
Is There an Ethical Way to Kill Rats? Should We Even Ask? - crash davis Feb 27, 14:56 1
- Tom Scott's video today is about eliminating predators (specifically rats) in New Zealand. -- (link) - Mop Feb 27, 15:08 [youtube]
Georgia Sec of State sure loves the right to vote -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 14:55 1
- "See! Im still a Republican!" -- nm - Jovian Feb 27, 14:57
Some States Consider Legislation Making 4-Day Workweeks More Common -- (link*) - budice Feb 27, 14:52 2
- Parkinson's Law is immutable. having one less day a week to work doesn't make the amount of work you have to get done go down -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 15:00 1
  - Advances in technology make a 4-day work week a no-brainer -- nm - rollo Feb 27, 15:16
ST Survivor numbers remaining are 2, 3, 17, 18. -- nm - Beaker Feb 27, 14:49 5
- 3 -- nm - Dano Feb 27, 15:25
- 18! -- nm - mafic Feb 27, 15:22
- 17 -- nm - kelly Feb 27, 15:12
- pick a number or I can't go to Disney! -- nm - Beaker Feb 27, 14:59 1
  - 2 -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 15:01
I grew up as rural as it gets but have deliberately lived inner city for the past 20+. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 14:42 4
- yeah, I was suburbs as a kid, then inner city for like 30 years, now "urban-rural interface". still a 15-minute bike ride to all the services tho. - mafic Feb 27, 16:12
- I have lived in high and medium density housing and it just never felt comfortable. I recognize it's need and how it can foster stronger communities - TWuG Feb 27, 15:40
- moved to NYC the day of the OJ slow-mo chase and never looked back* - hollywood big shot Feb 27, 14:47
- Ive always been in some sort of rural neighborhood -- nm* - budice Feb 27, 14:46
EEAAO items auctioned for charity -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 14:40 2
- I am shocked that "Feets Magazine" is only $2500. -- nm - Ender Feb 27, 19:26
- Van 3k raccoon 90k -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 16:22

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