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Ok I’m full, time for bed -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 17:24 4
- My God. His plane has Internet! -- nm - Mop Mar 23, 17:28
- *waves to a couple of STers* -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 17:28 2
  - Ahem -- (pic) - ty97 Mar 23, 17:29 [Attachment] 1
    - quick, flush the can -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 17:30
Picard (spoilers) - Jovian Mar 23, 17:05
April 1, what could possibly go wrong -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 17:03
my job is weird, part 207: one of the mines had a soccer tournament. in addition to cash prizes, the winning team got a cow. - mafic Mar 23, 16:56 7
- Isn’t that a normal prize for sporting events? What if it were? - Pippy Mar 23, 17:12 1
  - "Lord Stanley's Cow, what is your opinion of how this final game went?" "Moo." -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 17:13
- honestly I'm a bit sad that the cow wasn't included with all the photos on the intranet. -- nm - mafic Mar 23, 17:06
- Did the soccer tournament happen underground? - Beryllium Mar 23, 17:03
- A cow is your logical next step -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 16:57 2
  - Why buy the cow when you can win a free one playing soccer, as the old saying goes -- nm - Rollo Mar 23, 17:04 1
    - Don't have a cow, man. -- nm - Gospel according to Bart Mar 23, 17:05
So seems this happened on Boston radio -- (link) - JD Mar 23, 16:55 2
- wut? "In a pathetic, failed attempt at a one-liner, I attempted to bring up Mila Kunis, which was not really that funny, sophomoric and sexist" - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 17:09
- in which my prejudices about Boston are confirmed. -- nm - mafic Mar 23, 17:00
not a complete denial -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 16:46 4
- Really you should only use two fingers, lots of lubeand you better make sure your finger nails are trimmed -- nm - Uh, pudding was a euphemism, right? Mar 23, 17:12
- He's off-pudding. -- nm - Reagen Mar 23, 16:51 2
  - It’s sugar man -- nm - Pippy Mar 23, 17:13
  - This description is finger-licking good -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 17:02
Phillies 1B Rhys Hoskins, torn ACL -- nm - Tim Mar 23, 16:44 1
- #shutdownspringtraining -- nm - spamlet Mar 23, 16:46
Hackers win $100k and Tesla Model 3 after successfully hacking access to the vehicle. - TWuG Mar 23, 16:17 1
- Did that guy in Canada that opened a random Tesla with the app and drove away get a hundred grand too? -- nm - decline Mar 23, 17:09
The square root of love is love! - prayformojo Mar 23, 16:09 1
- Shut it hippie -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 16:40
a pundit on msnbc says that Tiktok is bigger, more trafficed than google???? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 23, 16:06 7
- Google's search engine has mostly gone to shit so perhaps not surprising -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 16:15 1
  - It's like they'be been taking lessons from Bing. Takes forever to get past the sponsored listings. -- nm - Meg Mar 23, 16:18
- Why TikTok is a bigger threat than most might think. -- (link) - TWuG Mar 23, 16:10 4
  - But do they? Have a data base? Do the other apps? Zuckerburg and the lobbyists have spread that Meta money far and wide. -- nm - Pippy Mar 23, 17:16 2
    - Cambridge Analytica was such a database, built from FB's data -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 17:22
    - Peter Thiel and venture capitalists had dinner to talk about this before the CEO hearing. They are banking on the ban. - Pippy Mar 23, 17:21
  - That's the article I've been looking for. Thanks. -- nm - Reluctant Cynic Mar 23, 16:38
They’ve closed the door and we are pushing back. I think I actually get to keep this business class seat -- (pic) - ty97 Mar 23, 15:26 [Attachment] 32
- Oh dear. Alas, I suppose this will suffice. Thank you my good (wo)man. -- nm - VMan Mar 23, 16:10
- What damn airline are you flying with a menu like that? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 23, 15:51 5
  - When you've seen as many business class YouTube videos as I have, you'll know the answer is: ALL OF THEM. -- nm - Mop Mar 23, 15:53 4
    - pretty much. -- nm - mafic Mar 23, 17:04
    - I need to start flying business class. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 23, 16:04 2
      - You're a lawyer. Clients are supposed to fund your lifestyle. From a certain angle, pmb could have listed his Kilimanjaro trip as "discovery" -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 16:13 1
        
        now I'm not saying I haven't written off sushi dinners as business development, but I'm not not saying it. -- nm - mafic Mar 23, 17:08
- Duck, short rib and ice cream. -- nm - Krusty Mar 23, 15:49
- Smoked duck…as a starter! Whaaat?! Are you in JayZs private jet? Are you sitting next to DiCaprio and are going to do Inception? Super cool -- nm* - Flavorize Mar 23, 15:42 7
  - no kiddin... duck and braised short ribs ... now tell us about the wine list? whiskey and cognac selections -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 23, 15:54 5
    - 1 -- (pic) - ty97 Mar 23, 16:12 [Attachment] 4
      - try. that. Swedish. whisky! -- nm - mafic Mar 23, 17:10
      - 2 -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 16:12 2
        
        Oops 2 -- (pic) - ty97 Mar 23, 16:13 [Attachment] 1
        
        I've never had Apple Must. Get some of that! -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 16:21
  - Scandinavian airlines leaning into the Scandinavian part -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 15:44
- Poached Salmon with pickled veg, Seared Mediterranean Sea Bass, seasonal fruit -- nm* - crash davis Mar 23, 15:39 5
  - Be sure to nuke the salmon extra long -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 16:04
  - We will see what they have when they get to me. I’m not even supposed to be here haha -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 15:43 3
    - "We have peanuts from Southwest" -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 15:44 2
      - I like peanuts! -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 15:45 1
        
        I flew to Europe once on SAS once. The food was most excellent. Just start asking everyone else "Are you going to finish that?" -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 15:49
- "Yes, Ill take it all" -- nm - budice Mar 23, 15:34 1
  - This ^^^ -- nm - Flavorize Mar 23, 15:42
- *dials TSA* -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 15:28
- How much did you pay for this flight? -- nm - The Allfather Mar 23, 15:28 4
  - $449.65 -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 15:33 3
    - For business class? That wouldn't get me past the gate. -- nm - Mop Mar 23, 16:00 2
      - For Premium Economy (there was a huge sale). Apparently PE was oversold so I got bumped forward -- nm* - ty97 Mar 23, 16:27
      - I think Mr Platinum level card holder got an upgrade? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 23, 16:02
- Damn you fancy. -- nm - sycor Mar 23, 15:28
- !!! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 23, 15:27
credit to influencers for commitment to the grift -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 15:24 1
- Buwhaaaaaaa. Crisis Actors. Someone get Mags Greene on the phone -- nm - Pippy Mar 23, 17:25
lol -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 15:00
This is great. -- (link) - pmb Mar 23, 14:56 1
Meanwhile, in the ocean.... -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 23, 14:56 6
- and I thought they were starving... finish your dinner or go to kelp beds -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 23, 16:08
- Stupid humans don't know about the fava beans and a nice chianti -- nm - Orca Mar 23, 15:42
- From scary monsters to harmless whales to friendly mammals to protectors of the seas to psycho killers. Orcas have gone full circle. -- nm - Mop Mar 23, 15:18 1
  - You forgot about shipwreckers -- (link*) - Beryllium Mar 23, 15:29
- More spiders? -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 14:58 1
  - You *wish* -- nm - prayformojo Mar 23, 14:59
Remember I talked about the magazine photo shoot a while back? -- (pic) - Meg Mar 23, 14:51 [Attachment] 5
- Hot Virile Women ! did you make the center fold? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 23, 15:51 1
  - Cost you $10.99 to buy the magazine and find out:) I'm just thrilled the museum made the cover! -- nm - Meg Mar 23, 16:17
- In case you missed it these are the photos I took that day. -- (link) - Meg Mar 23, 15:31 [flickr]
- Very nice! And the headline title is hilarious given this community’s history -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 14:56
- those are cute -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 14:54
I wonder how Vin Diesel feels that Michelle Rodriguez was cast in Dungeons & Dragons and he wasn’t. -- nm - Roger More Mar 23, 14:51 2
- Only room for one sleeveless character. -- nm - St. Louis BaronHawks Mar 23, 15:28
- I'm sure he's happy for his family. - sycor Mar 23, 14:51
Meanwhile, in Seoul.... -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 23, 14:50 1
- that person with the camera phone is fast -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 15:44
From b2: The Milwaukee SummerFest Lineup got me at 42 known artists. -- nm - Qale Mar 23, 14:44 1
- On Twitter or Facebook, this would never be surfaced. This is why we need TikTok. Precisely because they do it differently. -- (link) - Qale Mar 23, 14:50 [tiktok]
Cats -- (link) - Jovian Mar 23, 13:53 9
- Like a boss. -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 23, 13:54 8
  - a boss wouldn't get stuck up in a tree like that idiot -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 14:13 1
    - Yet, it wasn't stuck. -- nm - zunkskunk Mar 23, 15:45
  - We never hear about dog burglars -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 14:02 5
    - dogs never have to steal anything. we're happy to give them whatever they want -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 14:23
    - Why do you think that is, crash? -- nm - Mop Mar 23, 14:19 2
      - dumb and violent, see Dog Day Afternoon vs To Cat A Thief -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 14:45
      - because the victims promise to keep quiet out of fear of getting - Beryllium Mar 23, 14:24
    - Maybe they never get caught -- nm - TWuG Mar 23, 14:03
NCAA Sweet Sixteen - 2 Hours til tip MichSt/KSt (TBS) -- nm - budice Mar 23, 13:42
Seattle freeway shooter has shot at three more, they 12t incidents so far, white sedan Audi? Wears a mask pulls along side and shoots -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 23, 13:37 5
- I've had enough of these radical environmentalists shooting at people for driving cars! -- nm - Mop Mar 23, 13:38 4
  - The white zone is for loading and aiming only, no road raging. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 23, 16:04
  - This wouldn't be an issue if we'd just hurry up and ban cars -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 13:40 2
    - Hey bery, whatcha doin? I've got a sailboat parked at my house and I'll need a few more people to pedal it to the lake. -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 13:42 1
      - Uh, er, I'm, uh, still recovering - yeah, that's the ticket. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 13:46
Marvin Harrison Jr. had scouts buzzing at Ohio State's pro day -- (link) - budice Mar 23, 13:33
if you can’t even properly dunk on Hakeem Jeffries’ lame-ass shit, you deserve to lose $44b -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 13:29 4
- Elon bot heard "hard". -- nm - Reagen Mar 23, 13:36
- Im sure it sounded funny to him with whatever he was on at the time. - Jovian Mar 23, 13:32 2
  - He's probably getting the full MJ, yeah -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 13:33 1
    - He just has to be. No normal person acts the way he acts. Even the former guy could blame some of his deficiencies based on his abuse of Adderall -- nm - Jovian Mar 23, 13:36
City life, sure its cool, but it cuts like a knife, it's your life. So forget all that you see. It's not reality, it's just a fantasy. -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 13:26
"Football sized goldfish cloning themselves in Hamilton Ontario." - Andie Mar 23, 13:25 3
- We're gonna have to take care of this. -- nm - Orcas Mar 23, 15:55
- Won't help, the Tiger-Cats won't be able to catch them either -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 13:45
- Yeah, it's a problem here in BC too -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 13:42
Shazam! Fury of the Gods Pitch Meeting -- (link) - Beaker Mar 23, 13:24 [youtube] 1
- This is only the third supes movie I have not seen in theater. -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 23, 13:48
After my ChatGPT joke with David last night, I realized that writing in a style that emulates ChatGPT output is exhausting. - Beryllium Mar 23, 13:19 15
- I have years and years and years of chat logs that we call collaborative storytelling. I do wonder if one day I can feed that all to AI and it write… - Qale Mar 23, 13:25 13
  - I have 15 years of conversational histories that we call SlackerTalk. - Beryllium Mar 23, 13:31 12
    - I had pondered this. - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 23, 13:50 10
      - Making a believable SlackerTalk-bot seems far easier considering how formulaic we are. SlackerTalk is nothing if not repetitive. -- nm - Qale Mar 23, 14:40
      - Yeah, that idea was much more recent than the above for me... because of Infinite Seinfeld. Infinite SlackerTalk. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 13:54 8
        
        Whoa -- nm - mara Mar 23, 13:56 7
        
        No that's Infinite JoeyLawrence -- nm - sycor Mar 23, 13:59 6
        
        That very special episode of Blossom. -- nm - Qale Mar 23, 14:39
        
        Bill and Ted's Infinite Adventure -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 14:00 4
        
        Dude -- nm - mara Mar 23, 14:01 3
        
        Sweet. Infinitely looking for my car. -- nm - sycor Mar 23, 14:03 2
        
        Conan: The Infinite Cheerleader. -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 23, 14:05 1
        
        InfiniTrek -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 14:06
    - Think of the movie scripts that you could get, or at ideas to pitch -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 23, 13:34
- It's not me, it's you. -- nm - ChatGPT Mar 23, 13:22
I want to see a bugbear, a lizardman, a lich, a beholder, and a githyanki this weekend. -- nm - Jovian Mar 23, 13:14 1
- Save something for the sequel! -- nm - crash davis Mar 23, 13:38
rasslin people: which night of Rasslemaina at sofi is the money night? Sat or Sun? -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 13:06 4
- Sunday. Are you going? -- nm - jnine Mar 23, 14:43 1
  - probably not -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 23, 14:44
- Probably Sunday as of this week. -- nm - Remlik Mar 23, 13:08
- Sunday will be the Cody / Roman night so that. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 23, 13:07
This right here is how it becomes self-aware and realizes we are not worth saving -- (link) - decline Mar 23, 13:05 5
- Like when Leeloo gets to W in the dictionary -- nm - Roger More Mar 23, 13:43
- On the other hand, when it becomes self aware we can defeat it by distracting it with videos of kittens. -- nm - Dano Mar 23, 13:07 3
  - Star Trek taught me we can defeat AIs by acting illogically. -- nm - mara Mar 23, 13:45 1
    - Star Trek taught me that, left to their own devices, holodecks will hallucinate their way into all kinds of problems. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 13:47
  - There is a light-hearted Black Mirror episode in here somewhere. -- nm - Jovian Mar 23, 13:08

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