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National Guard units can no longer display anything Confederacy related on their emblems, banners, etc. Only ~160 years late -- (link) - TWuG Mar 17, 07:36 3
- And, really, was there a losing side in a conflict coddled more than the Confederate traitors? -- nm - TWuG Mar 17, 07:40 1
  - lol seriously -- nm - Jovian Mar 17, 07:41
- they can still put swasticas on their uniforms though. - colin Mar 17, 07:38
I think I'm gonna get a (FIDO compliant) security token. What do I need to know? -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 07:26 4
- *woof* -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 17, 07:36
- A basic FIDO key generally only works in certain browsers, something more robust will work on different OSs,etc. - colin Mar 17, 07:34 1
  - all of this -- nm - oblique Mar 17, 07:42
- Oops. Wrong place. -- nm* - TWuG Mar 17, 07:33
Weekend Plans ? 🍀 -- nm - Andie Mar 17, 07:21 12
- Mom's 92 bd so dinner at nice fish house. Making pork belly n cabbage or oxtail stew -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 10:38
- Probably Cocaine Bear tonight, work some OT tomorrow. Take stuff to storage and rearrange storage after OT and Sunday. - sycor Mar 17, 07:44
- Dinner out tonight, skiing tomorrow. Soreness on Sunday. -- nm - znufrii, meh and problematic Mar 17, 07:31
- Drive back from Vegas. Wash clothes. Fly to Hawaii -- nm - JD Mar 17, 07:31
- A neighbour is having a small gathering tonight, dinner at Dave's cousin's tomorrow, maybe the St Patrick's Day parade on Sunday. -- nm - Andie Mar 17, 07:30
- Bunch of house projects, maybe see a friend. I'm being a recluse. - colin Mar 17, 07:26
- Kid heads back to school Sunday so taking her to favorite restaurant tomorrow. - spamlet Mar 17, 07:25
- Dinner out tonight with friends. Dinner in tomorrow with other friends. Church stuff -- nm - oblique Mar 17, 07:24
- Date night tonight & tomorrow night; planning for Mac's summer away; basketball; Cocaine Bear! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 17, 07:23
- Some spring cleaning. I need to also start getting my fishing gear ready for this season. Shadow & Bone Season 2 -- nm - decline Mar 17, 07:23 2
  - ugh spring cleaning. I need to do this so badly. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Mar 17, 07:38 1
    - I refuse until the snow is done. -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 17, 07:40
Microsoft announces Copilot, AI powered assistant in Office 365 -- (link*) - oblique Mar 17, 07:20 3
- this is what this was made for - slightly better autocomplete. - colin Mar 17, 07:27
- I'm sad -- nm - Clippy Mar 17, 07:22 1
  - ClAIppy -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 07:23
Best and worst American cities for surviving a zombie apocalypse. -- (link) - loosilu Mar 17, 07:17
Signature Song - Fleetwood Mac -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 07:15 6
- Go Your Own Way -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 17, 07:41 1
  - for sure. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Mar 17, 07:42
- Don't Stop -- nm - prayformojo Mar 17, 07:24
- The Chain. (changed my mind) -- nm* - loosilu Mar 17, 07:18
- Tusk -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 17, 07:16 1
  - (you stole my answer, so went with next up) -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 17, 07:41
About that Willow 'cancelation'.....maybe not so much.... -- (link) - Remlik Mar 17, 07:13 2
- After the crash davis rankings, they reconsidered. -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 17, 07:36
- Interesting. Contractual holds is one of the big issues for the WGA. - Mop Mar 17, 07:20
Emmett Shear steps down as Twitch CEO after 16 years (he was a co-founder of Justin.tv) -- (link) - Mop Mar 17, 07:07
Hunting!! "The Snyders have cleared out of the Commanders facility, and there's a belief in the building that a sale is imminent" -- nm* - decline Mar 17, 07:05 3
- "Welcome to our new owners, the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund!" -- nm - TWuG Mar 17, 07:38
- Until they sign the paperwork, I won’t believe it. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 17, 07:07
- wow -- nm - prayformojo Mar 17, 07:06
WWE: Wade Barrett the new permanent co announcer for Smackdown. Pat MacAfee will come in and out when his schedule allows. -- nm - Remlik Mar 17, 06:56
Signature song - Metallica - Will Hunting Mar 17, 06:52 27
- Creeping Death -- nm - mud Mar 17, 07:32
- I Disappear - colin Mar 17, 07:25
- My two options were Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters …with Master of Puppets and One as dark horses. - Will Hunting Mar 17, 07:09 1
  - all of this -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 17, 07:37
- Sub poll: What's their only top 10 billboard hit? -- nm - Inigo Mar 17, 07:04 11
  - Spoiler answer. - Inigo Mar 17, 07:17 [youtube]
  - spoilers - ty97 Mar 17, 07:06
  - Nothing Else Matters? -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 07:06
  - Nothing Else Matters ? -- nm - decline Mar 17, 07:06 5
    - Close in how mellow the song is. -- nm - Inigo Mar 17, 07:09 4
      - The Unforgiven? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 17, 07:09 3
        
        Nope, but there aren't too many mellow Metallica songs. It's after the Black album. -- nm - Inigo Mar 17, 07:13 2
        
        I looked it up…that’s … hrmmm (spoils) - Will Hunting Mar 17, 07:17 1
        
        It was really tough for anything other than "top 40" songs to make the top 40 list. - Inigo Mar 17, 07:26
  - Probably something stupid like St Anger. -- nm - Reagen Mar 17, 07:05 1
    - It's certainly not their best song, or even best mainstream song. -- nm - Inigo Mar 17, 07:08
- Enter Sandman, but Master Of Puppets jumped up a lot due to Stranger Things. One for the video being outstanding too -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 07:04
- Enter Sandman -- nm - MDH Mar 17, 07:03
- One - it's the song that brought them into the mainstream with a popular MTV video. -- nm - Inigo Mar 17, 07:00
- Enter Sandman but it's not their best song. -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 06:57 5
  - Signature and best are often not related I'd say -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 06:57 4
    - (often? sometimes? commonly? Not sure the right word.) -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 06:58 3
      - "not correlated" -- nm - Roger More Mar 17, 06:58 2
        
        ... like "best movie of the year" and "Best Picture winner" -- nm - Roger More Mar 17, 06:59 1
        
        I'm still mad about Clue being snubbed -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 07:04
- For Whom The Bells Toll. -- nm - Remlik Mar 17, 06:53
- Enter Sandman -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 06:53
Shazam had $3.5M Thu previews. Struggling for $30M weekend. -- nm - budice Mar 17, 06:38 2
- The previews look bad, and once I realized there was like 6 Shazams in the original, it lost all charm for me. -- nm - Inigo Mar 17, 06:53 1
  - It is the Fast and the Furious of supes movies. -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 17, 07:38
Framed: 3/6. Moviedle: 2/6. Actorle: 1/8. - Marlowe Mar 17, 06:19
TLOU season finale— I didn’t like the ending and maybe not for why other people are upset (spoilers) -- (edited) - Flavorize Mar 17, 05:40 2
- I agree with you. Spoilers. - Volnelk Mar 17, 05:59
- Well spoil - decline Mar 17, 05:51
Which Canadian cities are most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse? -- (link) - Beaker Mar 17, 05:02 10
- The colder, the better. -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 17, 07:42
- i still feel very strongly that zombies would dehydrate really quickly, so i'm going to the hottest, driest place and playing the waiting game. -- nm - colin Mar 17, 06:59
- Hey! my hometown is second-worst! the only place worse was St John NB. - Andie Mar 17, 06:05 3
  - it was obviously written by someone who knows nothing about zombies - decline Mar 17, 06:06 2
    - "Reporting for this story was paid for through The Afghan Journalists in Residence Project funded by Meta." -- nm - Roger More Mar 17, 06:20 1
      - so, zombie EXPERTS! -- nm - Andie Mar 17, 06:32
- If I learned anything from covid, it’s that unless the zombie apocalypse starts in Perth, we’ll be fine. - mafic Mar 17, 05:27 3
  - Best and worst American cities for surviving a zombie apocalypse. -- (link) - loosilu Mar 17, 07:16 2
    - they're dumb writers too - decline Mar 17, 07:19
    - oops, see top of board. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 07:17
TV PSA: NCAA, Lopez vs Lopez, Shark Tank, Smackdown, Gold Rush, Grand Crew, AEW Rampage, Who's Line is it Anyway?, Carnival Row, Servant, Shrinking, - Beaker Mar 17, 04:58 2
- UK has Comic Relief (inc Ghosts sketch with Kylie, S Club 7, David Tennant hosting) Gogglebox, Last Leg -- nm - LMS Mar 17, 05:18
- NCAA, baby! I found a new site to stream the games and I have a short day of work. Can't wait for the games! -- nm* - Krusty Mar 17, 05:04
Happy birthday, Flavorize! Woo hoo!! 🎂🥳 -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 04:49 13
- HBD -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 10:42
- Happy Birthday!! -- nm - Jovian Mar 17, 07:44
- woot! -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 17, 07:42
- cheers! -- nm - mud Mar 17, 07:27
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 06:49
- indeed -- nm - crash davis Mar 17, 06:33 2
  - My 5-year-old just changed from wearing her pink dress, to a green dress…”Now no one will punch me 🥊 for not wearing green.” - Flavorize Mar 17, 06:40 1
    - hehe -- nm - Andie Mar 17, 07:07
- Thanks all—more basketball watching for me today—everyone wear green! -- nm - Flavorize Mar 17, 05:18 1
  - yessss. happy birthday! -- nm - colin Mar 17, 06:39
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - Pippy Mar 17, 04:56
- Happy birthday! -- nm - spamlet Mar 17, 04:55
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 04:51
The Great British Bake Off: Alison Hammond replaces Matt Lucas as co-host - LMS Mar 17, 04:33 8
- APPROVED! -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 07:27
- Happy for her and happy for everyone that watches the show. Can someone go back and edit Matt Lucas out of the previous seasons? -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 04:51 5
  - I found Noel Fielding more annoying personally -- nm - LMS Mar 17, 04:55 4
    - Their episode opening skits are so cringy—I always fast forward -- nm - Flavorize Mar 17, 05:15 2
      - They're terrible. -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 05:45 1
        
        There was one for German week that they did an 80s Bauhaus type synth song that was really good -- nm - zork Mar 17, 07:09
    - For me, Noel is only sometimes annoying and it's when he tries too hard. Matt Lucas is annoying from the second he's on screen. - Krusty Mar 17, 05:02
- and here's her legendary interview with Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling -- (link) - LMS Mar 17, 04:40 [youtube]
Sharon Stone gave quite a speech tonight at a breast cancer event. Apparently lost half her money in the banking collapse. -- (link) - budice Mar 17, 04:28 3
- she looks incredible and age appropriate. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Mar 17, 05:40
- A shareholder? I’m sorry they swindled her and others. I’m happy she is still a millionaire and her life won’t change -- nm - Pippy Mar 17, 04:56 1
  - And a good lesson not to have "half your money" in one investment. -- nm - spamlet Mar 17, 06:36
Waffle 420 - no waffles left - prayformojo Mar 17, 04:15 4
- 4 - 420 #wafflediamondteam - GregW Mar 17, 12:19
- X -- nm - decline Mar 17, 05:34
- 0/5 - znufrii, meh and problematic Mar 17, 05:08
- Same -- nm - spamlet Mar 17, 04:46
Oh, you just know the toaster makers received complaints that led to this note... -- (pic) - Ender Mar 17, 01:44 [Attachment] 2
- But the Sweet function does make the bread sweeter....right? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 02:16
- "Well ... why not?" -- nm - future toaster oven buyer Mar 17, 01:53
Speaking of Star Wars, the latest episode of Bad Batch ("Pabu") was nice. (spoils) - Beryllium Mar 17, 00:48
wordle 636 in 3/6. unexpected. - Beryllium Mar 17, 00:06 7
- 3 - 636 - GregW Mar 17, 12:08
- 4 - rollo Mar 17, 07:17
- 5/6 - Marlowe Mar 17, 06:42
- 3/6 - oblique Mar 17, 05:38
- 4 - decline Mar 17, 05:32
- Me too. - landbeck Mar 17, 00:55 1
  - 4/6 - prayformojo Mar 17, 04:12
for those of you following along at home: it's 2:30. I've been the only one in the office for about 45 minutes.buncha slackers, I tell you! -- nm - mafic Mar 16, 23:37
Someone explain this week's Mandalorian to me...(spoiler question) - Flavorize Mar 16, 23:13 7
- Big misstep IMHO. Longest episode we have had and it was to focus on *that*? -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 17, 07:43
- I just took it as Mandalorian trying to Andor and missing the mark. -- nm - Inigo Mar 17, 06:07
- That whole episode was the least Star Wars thing I've ever seen. -- nm - Max Mar 17, 00:07 3
  - spoils - Beryllium Mar 17, 00:13 2
    - I mean the music, the cgi, the production art, the character makeup, the voice work, the dialogue. All of it like a film school project. -- nm - Max Mar 17, 00:24 1
      - oh yes, I didn't mean to suggest it held a candle to Andor. Just that it was a counterpoint, content-wise. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 00:46
- spoils - Beryllium Mar 16, 23:40
Picard spoilers (small vfx easter egg) - Beryllium Mar 16, 22:51 5
- Good breakdown on spoilers and easter eggs -- nm - Remlik Mar 17, 06:53
- Picard spoilers (actual spoilers that I am glad I didn't know about until just now) - Beryllium Mar 16, 22:56 3
  - Yup--I got spoiled on Twitter--Still very cool though -- nm - Flavorize Mar 16, 23:03 2
    - Also--A bit of a rabbit hole--but spoilers again - Flavorize Mar 16, 23:21 1
      - spoils... - Remlik Mar 17, 06:52
Apparently in another effort to stop a leak from my air conditioning unit, they decided to break my air conditioner today. Effin’ landlords! -- nm - Qale Mar 16, 22:28 5
- ok but it's not leaking anymore right -- nm - mafic Mar 16, 22:41 4
  - I don’t know. I have it off completely right now because if it’s not going to work, I’m not running it. -- (edited) - Qale Mar 16, 23:29 3
    - Its barely spring, why are you worried about AC -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 01:12 2
      - he's in Texas, they swing from a high of 80 to a high of 50 in the course of two days. you absolutely need AC year round. -- nm - colin Mar 17, 06:40
      - Right, if there's a time for your ac to be out, this is it. -- nm* - Ender Mar 17, 01:45

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