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I just adore Kimi Raikkonen. -- nm - Reluctant Cynic Mar 26, 15:36 2
- Race car driver. eh? I thought "With a name like that, he has to play hockey" -- nm - crash davis Mar 26, 15:39 1
  - Yep. He was even on Drive to Survive a bit. (spoilers) - Reluctant Cynic Mar 26, 15:49
The Pope don't got drip -- (link) - Reagen Mar 26, 15:23 5
- “fooled millions on Twitter” … I mean, is that really all that difficult? -- nm - Qale Mar 26, 15:41 1
  - Could have fooled me three times if you'd said that was Jonathan Pryce at the ESPYs last night. - Max Mar 26, 15:45
- Oh it’s gonna be a fun 18 months. -- (link) - Tim Mar 26, 15:34
- Just came to post this...should have known by the weird hand holding??? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 26, 15:30
- Oh, wow. I was watching while the dude was doing those Trump images. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 26, 15:29
One of my complaints with the young adults now is so many of them don't look clean. Bad haircuts, bad grooming, bad clothes, questionable hygiene - crash davis Mar 26, 15:04 3
- Floofy hair is very popular, maybe partly pandemic enhanced. -- nm - Qale Mar 26, 15:46 1
  - I think my generation went through the worst hair though, the 80s. I had just forgotten my youth :) -- nm - crash davis Mar 26, 15:48
- In the 60s it was dirty hippies. Before my time it was filthy beatnik -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 26, 15:32
Well this is new. - znufrii Mar 26, 14:43 3
- I'm sorry my man. Speedy recovery wishes coming to you! -- nm - crash davis Mar 26, 15:13 2
  - Fortunately it’s just the light show, not the headache. - znufrii Mar 26, 15:16 1
    - good! -- nm - crash davis Mar 26, 15:18
Pippy update: 2 hours in and I have lost half my stack with no cards that have hit - Will Hunting Mar 26, 14:30 4
- !!! Thanks for the update -- nm - Pippy Mar 26, 19:07
- 1) Do you still have a chair? 2) Do you still have a chip? If yes and yes, you're fine. -- nm - David Mar 26, 14:42 2
  - Oh, I know…but I would rather have options. - Will Hunting Mar 26, 14:49 1
    - Shirt and pants. -- nm - Max Mar 26, 15:40
"I wonder if this terrible actress in The Mandalorian is the same one David was complaining about in Ant-Man... yup" -- nm - Reagen Mar 26, 14:10 10
- She comes from the Demi Moore school of acting -- nm - Flavorize Mar 26, 15:29
- Simply changing the actress would have done nothing to save that terrible episode. -- nm - Max Mar 26, 15:24
- We just realized last week it's her on Mandalorian! -- nm - David Mar 26, 14:41 4
  - (She's worse in Quantumania.) -- nm - David Mar 26, 14:41 3
    - who is this? -- nm - prayformojo Mar 26, 14:45 2
      - Katy O'Brian -- nm - David Mar 26, 14:47 1
        
        I thought she was great on the recent Mando episode -- nm - Beaker Mar 26, 15:31
- Awww, I like her. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 26, 14:31 1
  - Oh, sorry, that post got cut off. I like her haircut. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 26, 14:31
- If she is the one I'm thinking, she would need to improve a LOT to be terrible. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 26, 14:12
shit is really going down in Israel tonight -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 13:42 2
- vid: -- (link) - mud Mar 26, 14:25 1
  - Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister Who Urged Delay in Court Overhaul -- (link) - Remlik Mar 26, 14:33
ST What are you reading? -- nm - Beaker Mar 26, 13:39 11
- Cardinal of the Kremlin -- nm - Ender Mar 26, 15:23
- Priest of Bones by Peter McLean -- nm - St. Louis BaronHawks Mar 26, 14:47
- Wayward, by Chuck Wendig -- nm - psilotum Mar 26, 14:23
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment; The Big Book of Christian Apologetics; and a few Darth Vader comics. -- nm - Reluctant Cynic Mar 26, 13:56
- Dune. -- nm - Marlowe Mar 26, 13:51
- I've read my one book for the year, so I'm good -- nm - prayformojo Mar 26, 13:46
- Full Throttle by Joe Hill -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 26, 13:45
- Five Little Pigs -- nm - David Mar 26, 13:43
- The 10th and final book in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Apt series - TWuG Mar 26, 13:42
- Anam Cara by John O'Donohue -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 26, 13:41
- The Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes (really like it, can't wait for the movie) -- nm - Beaker Mar 26, 13:39
Let Creighton inbound by the Rule of Awesomeness. -- nm - Reagen Mar 26, 13:34 1
- or just not -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 13:37
ticky tack bullshit call -- nm - Beaker Mar 26, 13:29 6
- I mean, it's a clear foul, but the timing is OOF. -- nm - David Mar 26, 13:29 5
  - right -- nm - prayformojo Mar 26, 13:31
  - if they called every hand that touched another player the whistles would never stop -- nm - Beaker Mar 26, 13:30 3
    - Dude, he's pushing back on the waist to stop the shot from finishing. It's a foul. -- nm - David Mar 26, 13:32 1
      - It was definitely a foul. I agree with the announcer. If you don't call that you're choosing to penalize the offensive team. -- nm - pmb Mar 26, 13:45
    - pushed off the hip in the shooting move -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 13:31
oof -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 13:28
I love this story. Wyoming abortion ban overturned because of a state constitutional amendment enacted to combat Obamacare scare tactics about "death - pmb Mar 26, 13:26 1
- "we were more racist than misogynist and it's stiff competition" -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 13:27
John Wick 4 $73.5, Creed 3 $10.4 ($140.9), Shazam 2 $9.7 ($46.3), Scream 6 $8.4 ($89.9), 65 $3.3 ($27.8) -- (link) - Beaker Mar 26, 13:16
$114 back from Feds, $69 paid to state. Can't do much better than that, I guess. -- nm - spamlet Mar 26, 13:08 1
- 👏 -- nm - JD Mar 26, 13:10
This tournament has been amazing. - David Mar 26, 13:07
Philly Health Dept "recommends" you don't drink the toxic wudder today -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 12:52
how about a goat photo? -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 26, 12:32 [flickr] 1
- GOAT photo -- (pic) - crash davis Mar 26, 12:44 [Attachment]
Wienermobile stopped in Uranus, MO -- (link) - budice Mar 26, 12:28 1
- Slipped into the fudge factory of all places -- nm - VMan Mar 26, 13:54
I heard about the disaster declaration before I heard about what the disaster was. Mississippi tornados. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 26, 12:27 1
- The way you can tell its a disaster is that the truck is piled on top of the trash instead of the trash piled onto the truck -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 26, 12:31
NPR Cuts 10% of Staff and Halts Production of 4 Podcasts - crash davis Mar 26, 12:15 2
- Invisibilia is good. I don’t listen to it nearly enough. -- nm - Qale Mar 26, 15:48
- See. They really mean it when they have pledge nights to support their program -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 26, 12:26
Boards at the Arclight Hollywood have fallen down so you can see inside. The foyer is frozen in time. -- (link*) - budice Mar 26, 12:02 7
- 3:31, to be precise. -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 26, 12:25 1
  - oooh -- nm - mud Mar 26, 12:26
- Let me take a hit off that MCM design. *long sniff* -- nm - crash davis Mar 26, 12:10
- this a good beginning for a short story -- nm - prayformojo Mar 26, 12:06
- they're supposed to be doing a 100% overhaul of the space but it doesn't seem like much movement on that is happening - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 12:04 2
  - They'll just tear it down for another retail residential mix use complex -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 26, 12:35 1
    - can't really because it's where the Cinerama Dome exists -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 12:44
Huge protest at NY Courthouse wasn't for 45, it was a scene for the Joker -- (link*) - zeitgeist Mar 26, 12:01 1
- In some ways... -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 26, 12:02
is it bad to fire the guy in charge of the tanks when you're in the process of stripping away the judicial branch's powers? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 11:23 4
- yet yet yet another election coming -- nm - mud Mar 26, 11:29
- Didn't the Donald make some top moves at the pentagon in the last months before J6th -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 26, 11:26 2
  - he tried his damndest but the brass resisted (that time) -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 11:27 1
    - yeah the tools he put in were ineffectual losers -- nm - mud Mar 26, 11:28
so Twitter account security is going great -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 11:21 1
- yeah, Tiffany Cross's acct too. I saw it earlier and was "wtf" -- nm - mud Mar 26, 11:26
Golf - Dell Match Play Semis both in Sudden Death extras (Golf Channel) -- (link*) - budice Mar 26, 11:18 1
- 2 underdogs won—Burns/C Young for the championship -- nm - Flavorize Mar 26, 12:02
bibi fires Defense Minister Yoav Gallant -- (link) - mud Mar 26, 11:16 7
- Replaces him with Yoav Goofus -- nm - Dano Mar 26, 11:33 5
  - ? -- nm - mud Mar 26, 11:57 3
    - Goofus and Gallant was a comic strip in Highlights magazine. -- nm - Krusty Mar 26, 12:31 2
      - Then Be Like Ted stole their shtick -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 26, 12:33
      - ah -- nm - mud Mar 26, 12:33
  - ! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 26, 11:47
- more -- (link) - mud Mar 26, 11:21
Rep. Ro Khanna .. will instead support another candidate, Rep. Barbara Lee. -- (link) - mud Mar 26, 11:09
MLB - Just 105mph fastball -- (link) - budice Mar 26, 11:00
Time for a Sharknado Multiverse -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 26, 10:45 [mastodon]
May all my ST friends find joy. For no other reason than just joy, here is Christopher Walken dancing. -- (link*) - crash davis Mar 26, 10:17 [youtube] 2
- This is a good idea. For you, crash, I stumbled upon yet another game you might like (Oak & Iron), and for the rest of ST, I give you ... - Reluctant Cynic Mar 26, 10:27 1
  - That game looks so sexy that I must close the tab and return to housework. I shall look at it again closer to night time. 😺 -- nm - crash davis Mar 26, 10:44
Apple apparently chasing the metaverse market and not everyone in Cupertino thinks it’s a good bet -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 10:10 1
- I think metaverse should be treated as a new kind of drug, even though it hasn't arrived yet and the early samples are shit. - Beryllium Mar 26, 10:42
mafic, the GM of the Mets at the time (Steve Phillips I think) says that’s exactly why the Bonilla deal was good. - Tim Mar 26, 10:03 3
- “If I spend any more,” Steve Cohen said, “they’ll find me rubbed out somewhere.” -- (link) - budice Mar 26, 10:05 2
  - the one good billionaire! - Tim Mar 26, 10:07
  - don't threaten us with a good time -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 10:06
As I drive by the former Blockbuster that’s right down the road for the millionth time, it finally occurs to me - Tim Mar 26, 09:52 7
- Old Man Withers is haunting it, and no one with a great dane and a van has busted him yet. -- nm - crash davis Mar 26, 10:59
- it's cheaper to leave as is and sell it than to renovate, bring it up to code, pave the parking lot. -- nm - Remlik Mar 26, 10:55
- It’s probably in pretty bad shape (especially now) and a large space that would be harder to fill anyway. - spamlet Mar 26, 10:08 3
  - We had a Von's Pavilion supermarket that was abandoned >20 years ago. It was finally converted to a Sprouts market just last year. Not sure how much - Meg Mar 26, 10:44
  - Is there sometimes a tax advantage to not finding a tenant? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 26, 10:43 1
    - Owners might letting the area go to seed to chase out other leasees so they can consolidate, demo and build another res/retail block - zeitgeist Mar 26, 10:58
- brick and mortar retail is generally a dying space. tons of new luxury apt complexes go up in LA and street-level retail spaces almost always empty -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 26, 10:01
This was reported here earlier this week, but the U2/Letterman/Disney+ show is absolutely worth your time. - Volnelk Mar 26, 09:44 1
- The Tiny Desk concert is also pretty cool. -- nm - Reluctant Cynic Mar 26, 09:50
Jonathan Majors Lawyer: "Video, Driver testimony, and Statement recanting allegations will clear him." -- (link) - budice Mar 26, 09:24 1
- Be all that you can be. - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 26, 12:01
Interesting, first commercial I catch in front of JW4 is a US Army commercial with Jonathan Majors. - Jovian Mar 26, 09:19
Don't see too many of these in the morning at the local Dunkin'. -- (pic) - Jovian Mar 26, 09:17 [Attachment] 1
- "I'll take a powdered and a jelly." "NO. Coffee only please." -- nm - Max Mar 26, 11:23
We really wish the baseball world had more interest in George Blaeholder - -- (link) - Meg Mar 26, 09:07 1
- Then maybe we could raise the funds to restore the Blaeholder House :/ -- (pic) - Meg Mar 26, 09:09 [Attachment]
a cult and its maven celebrate a flashpoint: -- (link) - mud Mar 26, 07:59 1
- 'Remember the Alamo, Remember Waco, Remember Mar-a-Lago.' -- (link) - mud Mar 26, 11:18
Dr. Sticks and the Return of the Splitter - crash davis Mar 26, 07:47
Mr. Comer is Mr. Confused. -- (link) - mud Mar 26, 07:47 5
- The argument that prosecutors need to be tough on crime . . . by ignoring this crime is one that will never cease to boggle my mind. -- nm - pmb Mar 26, 13:20
- The fact no one can keep his crimes straight is impressive. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 26, 08:06 3
  - Well?!!! - Pippy Mar 26, 08:55 1
    - 3pm today. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 26, 09:01
  - If ever there was a "convict him, he's guilty of something, even if not this charge" case, this is it. -- nm - TWuG Mar 26, 08:16
John Wick 4 $75M -- nm - budice Mar 26, 07:32 1
- Looks like the official number they are reporting is $73.5. -- nm - MDH Mar 26, 08:18
Support Grows to Have Russia Pay for Ukraine’s Rebuilding - crash davis Mar 26, 07:26 2
- Iirc, it was reparations that Germany had to pay following WW1 that threw them into deep depression and set up WW2 conditions -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 26, 10:23
- whatta conundrum. Mr. Tribe has it, though. - mud Mar 26, 07:39
An Anxious Asia Arms for a War It Hopes to Prevent - crash davis Mar 26, 07:15
Framed: 5/6. Moviedle: 1/6. Actorle: X/8. - Marlowe Mar 26, 07:00
David Means - Opinion - A.I. Can’t Write My Cat Story Because It Hasn’t Felt What I Feel - crash davis Mar 26, 06:42 1
- I've got one quibble with the article, and its probably a fault of the NYT and not the English professor author. - crash davis Mar 26, 06:48
Shiffrin and Diggins Put On a Show This Season. Can the U.S. Build on It? - crash davis Mar 26, 06:17
TV PSA: NCAA, American Idol, Equalizer, Magnum PI, East NY, Housebroken, Company You Keep, Blacklist, NCIS LA, Rabbit Hole, Succession, Yellowjackets, -- (edited) - Beaker Mar 26, 05:02 1
- 2. Succession & Lucky Hank -- nm - mud Mar 26, 07:42

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