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any news on Willow series? -- nm - mud Mar 15, 12:08 1
- Max liked it, but it dropped from #4 to #5 on the Crash Power Rankings. -- nm - The Allfather Mar 15, 12:09
I understand not wanting junkers in the complex, but threatening to tow inoperable card is beating someone while they are down. Fortunately, not mine. - Qale Mar 15, 12:06 3
- Uhm... what are we supposed to do then? Expired plates, flat tires etc should just stay there? -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 15, 12:08 2
  - Your two examples: Yes. No tires, no. Not drivable due to accident, probably not. - TWuG Mar 15, 12:12
  - If they belong to renters who are paying to live there, they should stay right where they are. - Qale Mar 15, 12:12
Jerome’s punitive interest rate hikes suddenly looking a lot more punitive to wall street’s lapdogs -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 12:06
Former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has been confirmed as US ambassador to India -- nm - budice Mar 15, 12:05 1
- *extreme Lizzo voice* bye bitch! -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 12:06
Hey RC, have you heard about the U2 doc coming up on D+? -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 15, 11:58 4
- No! Seriously? When does it come out? - Reluctant Cynic Mar 15, 12:02
- not U2 just Bono & Edge with the admitted sexual harasser -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 11:59 2
  - ??? - Reluctant Cynic Mar 15, 12:12 1
    - Letterman -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 15, 12:16
Jets confirming trade of Rodgers -- (link) - budice Mar 15, 11:57 4
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 12:01
- oh PLEASE let him do it. - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 15, 11:59 2
  - HEH -- nm - Jovian Mar 15, 12:23 1
    - oops wrong spot -- nm - Jovian Mar 15, 12:23
Willow canceled after 1 season at Disney plus. that's a bummer -- nm - Remlik Mar 15, 11:56 3
- bastards -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 11:59
- ooof. thats sad. - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 15, 11:57 1
  - HEH -- nm - Jovian Mar 15, 12:23
anyone try Reverb today? 4 me, they seem to have problems loading stuff. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 15, 11:53 2
- looks busted for me -- nm* - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 11:56
- No issue here. -- nm - pmb Mar 15, 11:56
Monk reunion film in the works -- (link) - Remlik Mar 15, 11:48 3
- Cool, I always liked that Chant album. -- nm - St. Louis BaronHawks Mar 15, 12:04
- Cool. -- nm - TWuG Mar 15, 11:57
- (a silent film) -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 15, 11:53
Helpful hint for ST: if you decide to buy yourself a pair of black silk pajamas, don't put them on top a dresser where a white furred cat - crash davis Mar 15, 11:43 4
- Glass half-full: You now have silk-lined fur pajamas -- nm - decline Mar 15, 11:48 1
  - and I could have fur sheets if I don't do anything - I do need to stop the glass half empty thinking. Thanks! -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 12:00
- Cats are attracted to opposite-colored items. It is known. -- nm - St. Louis BaronHawks Mar 15, 11:48
- *jumps... slides off... repeats* -- nm - white furred cat Mar 15, 11:45
Aaron Rodgers Salary Cap situation breakdown -- (link) - budice Mar 15, 11:41
"one of the widely deployed arguments for saving SVB’s customers starts to look ridiculous, even if actually saving them made a lot more sense." -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 11:38
Credit Sweiss is offering 6.5% on deposits to encourage savers, discourage runners -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 15, 11:37 9
- "6.5% annual rate on new three-month deposits of $5 million or above" and possibly just being offered in Asia -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 11:44
- No even with a ten foot pole. That bank has had enough issues the past few years, I'm not interested in touching it. - ty97 Mar 15, 11:42 5
  - Yup. Even without this week's events they'd be a hard pass if I had enough money that they'd want me. -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 11:52 1
    - There are only 15 subheadings under 'Controversies' on their wikipedia page spammy. -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 11:59
  - To be clear for those who don't know, they released their 2022 earnings this week with an *adverse opinion* over their controls from PWC -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 11:49 2
    - And their largest shareholder said they weren’t able to invest any more without breaching regulatory limits. -- nm - znufrii, meh and problematic Mar 15, 11:58
    - not the same audit team from SVB apparently -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 11:50
- If the feds step in and use FDIC insurance to cover deposits does that include interest too -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 15, 11:38 1
  - I had this question too. I've got financial vehicles that cover my property taxes - or portions there of -- nm - Epiphany Mar 15, 12:08
For the first time, scientists have observed direct geological evidence of an active volcano on Venus - which segues nicely into NASA's next Venus mission: Veritas -- (link*) - decline Mar 15, 11:23 1
- Yeah baby she's got it -- nm - eag Mar 15, 11:24
Since I'm listening to Pop Pantheon (hi JD): ST Poll, Nicki Minaj's signature song? -- nm - MDH Mar 15, 11:22 16
- Starships -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 11:32 1
  - It's probably Super Bass, but Starships wins my heart. -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 11:46
- Bang Bang - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 15, 11:31 11
  - There's no way that IM is accurate. She's charted 120+ songs on the Hot 100. Most all time for a woman, and like 4/5th most all time. -- nm - MDH Mar 15, 11:34 10
    - I don’t even know Bang Bang. -- nm - The Allfather Mar 15, 12:05 1
      - Catchy as hell. -- (link) - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 15, 12:11 [youtube]
    - You're also underestimating how easy it is to ignore pop music. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 12:02 1
      - Yep - off the top of my head, I can name Anaconda and that's it. -- nm - Roger More Mar 15, 12:05
    - Okay, first song where I have known who it was? -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 15, 11:46
    - You've probably heard a dozen where she's a feature and just not realized it. -- nm - MDH Mar 15, 11:35 4
      - If Spawn watched the No Hard Feelings trailer, that had Nicki in it. -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 11:43
      - 8th overall with 126 Hot 100 entries, second among women. -- (link) - Tim Mar 15, 11:40 2
        
        From February 2022 to now she dropped from 1st woman to 2nd, and 5th overall to 8th. The charts are a mess haha. - MDH Mar 15, 11:42 1
        
        Taylor had an album. (And there has to be at least one Taylor’s Version re-recording this year, right?) -- nm - Tim Mar 15, 11:45
- I'm stuck between Starships and Superbass. I lean the former. -- nm - MDH Mar 15, 11:29 1
  - Superbass: "I like big fish and I cannot lie, all you other anglers need not apply" -- nm - TWuG Mar 15, 11:30
ack! VW Confirms Sub-$21k Entry-Level ID.1 Small Electric Hatchback -- (link*) - decline Mar 15, 11:13 7
- About a 100 inch wheelbase, 160 inch total length. A Civic is 108 wb, 186 total length - TWuG Mar 15, 11:21
- lol "Unfortunately, given its size, VW is unlikely to offer the ID.1 (or the ID.2, for that matter) in North America" - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 11:15 5
  - (if they could put a Beetle chassis over this design, they'd sell a million of them in the US) -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 11:16 4
    - The VW Beetle wheelbase is also 100 inches, so it's puzzling that they think it wouldn't sell in the US. -- nm - TWuG Mar 15, 11:22 3
      - VW stopped selling Beetles four years ago for the same reason Detroit doesn't want to fuck around with anything that disrupts their truck/SUV profit - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 11:26 2
        
        VW isn't Detroit, though. - TWuG Mar 15, 11:29 1
        
        but even the Japanese manufacturers have had to adjust their NA lineups based on the market Detroit creates. i'll drive my Clarity until Honda takes - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 11:34
Praise the heavens. I passed my first Epic certification exam. -- nm - St. Louis BaronHawks Mar 15, 11:11 5
- yonh! -- nm - Diva Mar 15, 12:15
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 11:22
- What? Is? It? -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 15, 11:22
- EPIC! -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 11:20 1
  - Weirdly, I feel more comfortable with the more technical ones coming up. This one was like taking an exam on the Office Suite. - St. Louis BaronHawks Mar 15, 11:24
I missed the board it was on the other day, but I too say "bastards" to those who cancelled Three Pines. -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 10:58
Aaron Rodgers to Adam Schefter -- (link) - budice Mar 15, 10:45 10
- He just confirmed on Pat MCafee show that “His intention, since last Friday, was to play for the NY Jets” -- nm - Flavorize Mar 15, 10:54 3
  - And that it's the Packers holding up the deal. He's such ungrateful trash. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 10:55 2
    - I figured they’d be glad to get rid of me. I wouldn’t even want to play with me! -- nm - Aaron Mar 15, 11:30
    - Love how he always complained about his lack of weapons…and is now demanding the same bad weapons be provided if he is to become a Jet. - Flavorize Mar 15, 11:08
- He has sent that same text to his mother, his brother, and all his girlfriends. -- nm* - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 10:51 1
  - I've considered him a butt since 2013 -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 11:03
- I dont get this. -- nm - Jovian Mar 15, 10:48 2
  - Dissed. Refused to talk to, doesnt want to deal with him -- (link*) - budice Mar 15, 10:51 1
    - "Please stop asking about me," says world's biggest attention whore drama queen. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 10:52
- This funny -- (link) - TWuG Mar 15, 10:48
Willow canceled on Disney+ -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 10:42 12
- If anyone skipped it, you should watch anyway because it's Warwick Davis's best work. I also hope Amar Chadha-Patel gets more work. -- (edited) - Max Mar 15, 11:21
- shocked that the movie nobody wanted to pay to watch in 1988 also didn't have an audience 35 years later -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 11:14 1
  - all the original fans are dead 😔 -- nm - colin Mar 15, 11:19
- a shame, but fantasy series are expensive - I'd put Willow at #4 behind RoP, HotD, and The Witcher -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 10:47 5
  - Wheel of Time? -- nm - Beaker Mar 15, 10:53 2
    - CRUD, Forgot - I put WoT at 4 and Willow at 5. We'll see how the Witcher does post Cavill -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 10:56 1
      - we'll restrict this to non-animated scripted so my biases for CR and LoVM don't keep moving Willow further on down the line -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 11:10
  - The Crash power rankings are big on the Amazon show, eh? Good to know. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 15, 10:52 1
    - I believe my first response to the first few minutes of it was "I want 100 more hours of this, please." - and that did not wane by the end. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 11:41
- bastards -- nm - decline Mar 15, 10:44
- ooof. thats sad. - Jovian Mar 15, 10:43 1
  - me either (no wonder it got cancelled) -- nm - oblique Mar 15, 10:56
at least Manchin isn’t pretending to be concerned about anything but naked bribes for his vote at this point -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 10:41 2
- he took note of Sinema. -- nm - Jovian Mar 15, 10:43 1
  - at least Joe got something he wanted out of it (tho still not more than he could have gotten for his vote a year ago). Sinema protected hedge funders - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 11:11
US Treasury: We are monitoring Credit Suisse -- nm - budice Mar 15, 10:40 1
- They're the US Treasury. I assume they're monitoring EVERY bank. -- nm - Mop Mar 15, 10:57
Furry Weekend Atlanta drops any COVID precautions, cites Rabies bigger threat. -- (edited) - Qale Mar 15, 10:35 3
- Maybe Tilda Swinton should attend -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 10:46 2
  - How do you know she hasn't been attending for years? -- nm - Mop Mar 15, 10:58 1
    - I dunno. But apparently she's gone anti-masking of late, which disappoints me. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 10:59
*dogs barking in the background for 5 solid minutes* -- nm - Teams Conference Call Mar 15, 10:34
Aaron Rodgers says he wants to play for the Jets, but the Packers are "digging their heels in" when it comes to compensation. -- nm - budice Mar 15, 10:31 1
- Packers be messin' with Krusty's happiness -- nm - decline Mar 15, 10:43
library talk: last night was the monthly Adults Craft Night, we made a wooden tray and I had fun - however, - crash davis Mar 15, 10:30 11
- You could overbook by, say, 5 spots but let those folks know they're priority waitlist and the spot is not guaranteed -- nm - rollo Mar 15, 10:51 1
  - We're a library, not an airline -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 10:57
- i assume doing something like a $5 deposit that gets refunded when they show up, but that gets forfeited if they don't is too complicated/not in the - Andie Mar 15, 10:47 3
  - Yep. But the decision was mad this morning that three no-shows and you can't register, you immediately go on the waiting list. -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 10:49 2
    - lobby for 3 strikes gets you a permanent ban -- nm - decline Mar 15, 10:50 1
      - yeah, three is a lot -- nm - Andie Mar 15, 10:52
- Now you can use the wooden tray to 'drop' on Karen's foot -- nm - Remlik Mar 15, 10:39
- you should take your tray and thwack Karen over the head with it -- nm - decline Mar 15, 10:33 3
  - I contemplated grabbing another set of materials last night and making two trays. If I had a spare, I'd be tempted to do as you say. -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 10:35 1
    - Next month, we'll make a wind chime out of a wine bottle. She better show if registered, because bottles will mess you up. -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 10:39
  - I was gonna say -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 10:34
Falcons RG Chris Lindstrom re-signs for record setting amount for a Guard: 5 years $105 Million -- nm - Beaker Mar 15, 10:24
Cowboys likely to release RB Ezekiel Elliott after seven seasons -- (link) - Beaker Mar 15, 10:22
JF, just had that happen to my opponent in my last game. - Tim Mar 15, 10:10
almost 2 hours ago, I started an email, went to my browser to make sure I was spelling the company name correctly, and got lost. - colin Mar 15, 10:05
Internal monologue freaks -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 10:00 25
- just imagine a Tiny Richard Attenborough inside your head, narrating your life like an episode of Blue Planet -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 10:34 1
  - I havent spoken to my BiL for almost 5 yrs and I often conduct arguments in my head with him. -- nm - mud Mar 15, 10:36
- That some people don't have an internal monologue is a fascinating fact that wouldn't be widely known without the internet -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 10:28 3
  - And some people can't picture things in their minds. They don't think apple and imagine an image of an apple - TWuG Mar 15, 10:30 2
    - brain-damaged -- nm - mud Mar 15, 10:34 1
      - No, just part of the variety of life. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 10:45
- How to tell if you have an internal monologue -- (link) - TWuG Mar 15, 10:20
- Marlowe was sitting at his desk. The workout left him breathless, but not as much as his memory of the curvaceous brunette he saw the night before. - Marlowe's inner voice. Mar 15, 10:14
- Monologues? I have full-blown arguments. -- nm - znufrii, meh and problematic Mar 15, 10:09 10
  - Multi-person conversation simulations. With a soundtrack. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 10:44
  - Right? Like, how does it work if you don't constantly talk to yourself in your head. - TWuG Mar 15, 10:17 8
    - I mean arguments with other people. In my head. -- nm - znufrii, meh and problematic Mar 15, 10:21 7
      - You need Nathan Fielder -- nm - Dano Mar 15, 11:42 1
        
        Cunk on Fielder is a collaboration for which the world is not yet prepared -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 11:47
      - "I don't have a train of thought." - Reluctant Cynic Mar 15, 10:26 3
        
        Your IM is a good metaphor for ADHD -- nm - TWuG Mar 15, 10:27 2
        
        That's what my therapist said, too. -- nm - Reluctant Cynic Mar 15, 10:44 1
        
        Is your therapist in there too? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 10:45
      - If other people are in your head.... - TWuG Mar 15, 10:26
- so wait, without an internal monologue is your head just empty? - decline Mar 15, 10:07
- (what the fuck) -- nm - mud's inner voice Mar 15, 10:01
- Word -- nm - psilotum Mar 15, 10:00
- they're called THOUGHTS. -- nm - colin Mar 15, 10:00 2
  - Not the way ST has been described them in the past. -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 10:01 1
    - *what is ty talking about, colin thought. i'd better ask.* what do you mean? -- nm - colin Mar 15, 10:04

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