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Curiosity Inc got themselves another house. Not necessarily a hoarder house, but definitely a bro house, with lots of stuff we'd want. - Mop Mar 10, 12:49 [youtube]
Wait, what? "Canada has the second most tornadoes in the world each year. " -- (link) - decline Mar 10, 12:41 4
- Tornados are a very North America phenomenon largely due to the Great Plains. If U.S. is #1, then Canada must inevitably be #2. -- nm - Mop Mar 10, 12:43 3
  - But her borders -- nm - Max Mar 10, 12:58
  - Tornadoes be trying to blow our hat off and shit. -- nm - USA Mar 10, 12:45
  - we should being a big wall. Right down the great plains. Screw the Mexican border. We need to get rid of those scary tornados. -- nm - sycor Mar 10, 12:45
Crypto news network: ruh roh -- (link) - decline Mar 10, 12:21 6
- Peter Thiel feels you should put all your money in crypto. -- nm - Mop Mar 10, 12:44
- The second largest stablecoin? So the obvious question: what's the first? -- nm - JD Mar 10, 12:31 4
  - Tether I believe -- nm - oblique Mar 10, 12:31 3
    - Thank you 8-) - JD Mar 10, 12:35 2
      - It's all fine until your money is in a bank that goes under, right? -- nm - oblique Mar 10, 12:36 1
        
        Uh....I should be so lucky that my stake in a given bank exceeds the FDIC protected amount -- nm - JD Mar 10, 12:43
Dickinson creator explains why the WGA is coming for streamers this time -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 10, 12:12 6
- Residuals are paid based on number of subscribers. Got it. Apple TV+ had zero subscribers so Dickenson got the lowest tier. Got it. - Mop Mar 10, 12:42 4
  - I think that's what the whole negotiation is about. I'm pretty sure that for the Apple contract to be talked about in the fashion of that post - JD Mar 10, 12:47
  - writers (the guild and individuals) make concessions to upstart platforms to help them gain traction (CW shows still notoriously underpay based on the - hollywood big shot Mar 10, 12:46 2
    - Which of these demands is encompassed by this scenario? -- (link) - Mop Mar 10, 12:51 1
      - "Ensure appropriate television series writing compensation throughout entire process of preproduction, production and post production." - hollywood big shot Mar 10, 12:54
- Valid point - JD Mar 10, 12:22
AA cuts 50,000 flights this summer. -- (link) - spamlet Mar 10, 12:12 10
- Sorta but not really. AA has for years (decades even) sold a 'placeholder' schedule more then ~3 months out. - ty97 Mar 10, 12:18
- bastards! How will ty97 get to Miami now?!? -- nm - decline Mar 10, 12:13 8
  - Via Alaska, probably. -- nm - Spawn Mar 10, 12:15
  - by flying to Rio De Janeiro after a layover in Hong Kong -- nm - crash davis Mar 10, 12:15 6
    - oh, I'd love a couple of days in Hong Kong! -- nm - ty97 Mar 10, 12:22 5
      - what's it even like since China cracked down? -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 10, 12:35 1
        
        I haven't been in 4 or 5 years -- nm - ty97 Mar 10, 12:39
      - If there was a beneficial way for me to route some day to day flight through SIN without a massive financial impact, I'd so do it - JD Mar 10, 12:27 2
        
        You'd have to make sure to go through the right terminal for that though! - ty97 Mar 10, 12:39 1
        
        Oh! Thanks for the heads up -- nm - JD Mar 10, 12:41
MONTAGE!!!!!!! -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 10, 12:09
Words are hard - Jovian Mar 10, 12:07 1
- Don't pick on the Grandmas, Jovian -- nm - decline Mar 10, 12:16
Rep. Takano has reintroduced his 32 hour work week bill to congress -- (link) - oblique Mar 10, 12:02 5
- Yeah that's stupid. What's not stupid? 10 hour day 4 days a week. I would have jumped on that. -- nm - zunkskunk Mar 10, 16:48
- "Now. Take that number and double it. And reduce work the requirement age to the age of 12 and we are all good." -- nm - GOP Mar 10, 12:12
- Lol -- nm - MDH Mar 10, 12:10
- Yes please. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 12:04
- *puppy dog head tilt* -- nm - Spawn Mar 10, 12:03
Okay, I just fell in love with Chang Can Dunk. - Halo Thoughts Mar 10, 12:01 4
- Just cause I can't think of very many comparisons, it sounds like very Disneyfied version of Better Luck Tomorrow. Well at least for start point -- (edited) - JD Mar 10, 12:08 3
  - Free throw accuracy? -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 10, 12:09 2
    - Well and the Chang kid has the every generation seems to get taller thing on Ben and me at being 5'8" - JD Mar 10, 12:14
    - 🤣👏👏 -- nm - JD Mar 10, 12:10
Latvia: "You drive drunk, we'll seize your car and donate it to Ukraine" - crash davis Mar 10, 11:58 8
- It's hilarious. But at the same time, I don't entirely like it. Sounds like it's intentionally punishing the poorer car owners. - Beryllium Mar 10, 12:03 6
  - I 100% agree drunk driving is bad and should be punished. But it seems a bit excessive. -- nm - sycor Mar 10, 12:19 3
    - It would make the driving on a revoked license tragedy way harder to execute -- nm - JD Mar 10, 12:23 2
      - This is true. But so would jail time. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 12:25 1
        
        "Don't drive drunk or you'll be sent to a latverian prison" - Beryllium Mar 10, 12:27
  - The government probably sells those. That would be my assumption. -- nm - crash davis Mar 10, 12:09 1
    - Or hands them out like candy, either way, yeah -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 12:10
- Moral hazard. -- nm - Reagen Mar 10, 11:59
Lincoln’s army peaked at 600,000 in late 1863. 150,000 of those were Irish. - Loyola Mar 10, 11:51
Flintstones animated series finally headed for Fox. Yes, Jason Mendoza is the voice of Bamm-Bamm. -- (link) - Mop Mar 10, 11:45 1
- probably gonna woke it up like Velma -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 10, 12:10
the one-line joke in The Graduate about "plastics" turned out to be depressingly predictive, as it happens -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 10, 11:45 1
- Similarly barely in the movie: Alien predicted super long term plastic dependence as the Nostromo exists a space going petchem plant for plastics - JD Mar 10, 11:52
“When banks fail, it is seldom bankers who starve.” -- nm - znufrii, meh and problematic Mar 10, 11:34 1
- "Wh-why your money's not here. It's over there in the shitty app that wants to be the Uber of gourmet pet food" -- nm - George Bailey IV Mar 10, 11:36
LYC: GA Tech fires basketball HC Josh Pastner after 7 seasons. - Strongbad Mar 10, 11:27 5
- He was also the Arizona player who was gonna be the next great head coach by following in Calipari's heels. - Halo Thoughts Mar 10, 11:44 1
  - Yes. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 10, 12:58
- Also North Carolina went from preseason number 1 to probably missing tourney -- (edited) - eag Mar 10, 11:31 2
  - ESPN has 74/75 NC State being the first to do so - JD Mar 10, 11:39
  - State always disappoints me. Being an alumni is hard. -- nm - sycor Mar 10, 11:37
Could it be that crashes are actually 11% more likely with self-driving? According to this person, yes, it could. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 10, 11:14 [mastodon]
Bar Jesus Christ, more books have been written about this person than any other in history. Name that person… -- nm - Loyola Mar 10, 10:59 35
- I feel like the real answer is Caesar, and this is recency bias. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 10, 11:45 2
  - “Books”, not scrolls. -- nm - znufrii, meh and problematic Mar 10, 11:49
  - That would have been my guess. -- nm - Loyola Mar 10, 11:48
- I wonder what Ladies Night at Bar Jesus Christ would be like -- nm - prayformojo Mar 10, 11:34 6
  - Wine of course, strangely watered down -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 10, 13:36
  - This bit cracks me up -- (link) - Reagen Mar 10, 12:08 [youtube] 1
    - It took me a second listen to realize they weren't saying "[Jesus] has done a murder again." "What's wrong with murder?" "What's right with murder?" -- nm - Max Mar 10, 12:41
  - Foot washing. -- nm - loosilu Mar 10, 11:38
  - 2am is Rapture Hour, so all drinks half off. -- nm - Spawn Mar 10, 11:35
  - signature cocktail: the Immaculate Conception -- nm* - hollywood big shot Mar 10, 11:35
- My guess would have been Churchill, Hitler or Lincoln. -- nm - sycor Mar 10, 11:19 2
  - That'd be one hell of a burlesque revue - Beryllium Mar 10, 11:24 1
    - Just think of the Law office of Churchill Hitler and Lincoln -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 10, 13:42
- I would like to read about Bar Jesus Christ. -- nm - Spawn Mar 10, 11:09 3
  - And my answer would be, the Devil. -- nm - Spawn Mar 10, 11:10
  - Some days, the Bar Jesus Christ eats you. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 11:10 1
    - Jesus Christ Cocaine Bear 2 -- nm - Loyola Mar 10, 11:20
- the donald -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 10, 11:05
- Abraham Lincoln -- nm - TWuG Mar 10, 11:03 13
  - You'd think they would have covered every aspect of his life, but then his vampire hunting days were revealed. -- nm - Mop Mar 10, 11:22 3
    - Wait until everyone finds out he was secretly gay. -- nm - znufrii, meh and problematic Mar 10, 11:23 1
      - And british. -- nm - Spawn Mar 10, 11:31
    - yeah! -- nm - mud Mar 10, 11:23
  - At the Fords Theater museum they have a 4-storey art installation that is made up entirely of books about Lincoln. -- (link*) - znufrii, meh and problematic Mar 10, 11:16
  - Correct. 15000 books and counting. -- nm - Loyola Mar 10, 11:06 7
    - Also, his image is the most reproduced thanks to the billions of pennies produced every year. He's been on the - TWuG Mar 10, 11:17 3
      - That’s a cool fact. More than QE2? -- nm - Loyola Mar 10, 11:19 2
        
        Apparently. She's been on more countries' coinage and notes and stamps, but not for as long as Lincoln - TWuG Mar 10, 11:29 1
        
        You’re probably right if it’s billions of pennies though. -- nm - Loyola Mar 10, 11:31
    - he was a hell of a guy. -- nm - mud Mar 10, 11:09 2
      - I’m reading about him here. It took 12 days for news of his death to reach Europe. -- nm - Loyola Mar 10, 11:18
      - A complicated man. No one understands him but his woman... -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 11:12
- Hitler -- nm - JaxSean Mar 10, 11:03
- Jack Reacher -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 11:03 1
  - Lol -- nm - Loyola Mar 10, 11:04
Interesting thread on the SVB bank failure and what it means for startups (possibly lots of layoff, quickly) because they lost their money -- (link) - ty97 Mar 10, 10:56 6
- I wasn't kidding about the smoking crater. I'll find out in a couple of hours if it affects me. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 11:11 1
  - I certainly hope not! -- nm - ty97 Mar 10, 11:12
- Peter Thiel is a dick -- nm - decline Mar 10, 11:00 2
  - Billionaire, major GOP donor? Check and check. Yep this checks out. -- nm - Jovian Mar 10, 12:13
  - yeah, a threshold question for sure whether SBV was actually in trouble or Thiel just wanted to Gawker them for wholly independent reasons -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 10, 11:02
- And a somewhat doomsday view -- (link) - ty97 Mar 10, 10:58
I would have had a million guesses before figuring out the first SNL host born in the 90s -- (link*) - Tim Mar 10, 10:56 11
- Miley would have bee my guess. -- nm - Spawn Mar 10, 10:59 10
  - not mine. I try hard to not think of her ever. - mud Mar 10, 11:17 8
    - New album, about to drop, brace your ears! -- nm - Spawn Mar 10, 11:18 7
      - Being led by the current single "Flowers" which was #1 on the global charts for six weeks - JD Mar 10, 11:29 4
        
        I dislike "Flowers". There is something about the vocals or music or something that I do not enjoy. - sycor Mar 10, 11:33 2
        
        she's horrid. -- nm - mud Mar 10, 12:07
        
        Really? Wow. I think it is easily her best original work. -- nm - Spawn Mar 10, 11:34
        
        Go Miley, go. -- nm - Spawn Mar 10, 11:29
      - gird your loins! -- nm - oblique Mar 10, 11:19 1
        
        make ready! -- nm - Spawn Mar 10, 11:21
  - Same -- nm - Tim Mar 10, 11:12
funny bery mentioned Stripe and stock price -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 10, 10:45 2
- ralph-wiggum-I'm-in-danger.jpg -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 10:51
- so if that money was in SVB wouldn't they loose most all of it? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 10, 10:47
Bank of Montreal to purchase Air Miles reward program -- (link) - Reagen Mar 10, 10:39 1
- i think you mean kilos aériens -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 10, 10:50
Also I found out today that Cocaine Bear was filmed in Ireland. - Loyola Mar 10, 10:29 2
- Home of Guinness Bear -- nm - Max Mar 10, 10:31 1
  - I'll not have you speak that way about Brendan Gleeson. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 10:32
Poll; How many tabs are open in your internet browser on your phone? - Loyola Mar 10, 10:27 17
- 12 -- nm - Jovian Mar 10, 11:14
- 3 -- nm - Spawn Mar 10, 11:00
- Currently zero -- nm - JD Mar 10, 10:49
- 21 but not really for any reason. I keep the phone pretty sparse. Probably 10x that on my PC -- nm - oblique Mar 10, 10:46
- 12... one i am sure has been there over a year now -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 10, 10:42 2
  - I'm pretty sure at least one or two of my tabs have been open a year or two. It's a little silly. -- nm - sycor Mar 10, 10:53
  - that's the browser tabs, I also have several aps open too, ebay reddit that could/should be tabs -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 10, 10:49
- phone? 1 normal, 1 incognito for twitter -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 10, 10:42
- 6 -- nm - Krusty Mar 10, 10:38
- 1 -- nm - decline Mar 10, 10:37
- 0. I always close them all. 5 in my desktop browser. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 10, 10:36
- Phone-3 -- nm - zunkskunk Mar 10, 10:34
- On my browser on my computer, I don't use tabs. -- nm - ty97 Mar 10, 10:33
- I'm on a laptop but 22. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 10, 10:33
- 14, about half of which are just ST -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 10:31
- (I may be the only one that does this) -- nm - Loyola Mar 10, 10:30
- 19 in chrome and 7 in edge -- nm - sycor Mar 10, 10:29
Welp, just got official approval for the loan on the house. So I guess I'm going be a home owner again. -- nm* - sycor Mar 10, 10:19 5
- yay! -- nm - ty97 Mar 10, 10:49
- close asap, interest rates going up again -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 10, 10:44 1
  - Closing is scheduled for 3/27 and since it's new construction one of the incentives if 4.75% rate. - sycor Mar 10, 10:52
- Nice!! -- nm - Krusty Mar 10, 10:38
- Woohoo! -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 10, 10:32
Calls to Remember from the State of NYC311 20th Anniversary Report - JD Mar 10, 10:18
Here's your ticket, pack your bags Time for jumpin' overboard -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 10, 10:13

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