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Boxing correspondent reviews new opera at the Met -- (link) - znufrii Apr 14, 08:23
I need to know the PC way of saying someone's english speaking is not great. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 08:21 5
- your English sucks -- nm - decline Apr 14, 08:24
- "I had trouble understanding their accent", assumes they have an accent though -- nm - crash davis Apr 14, 08:24 2
  - I need it to lean in that they do not know it very well, too. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 08:25 1
    - something something limited English vocabulary -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 08:29
- "english might not be their first language" -- nm - mud Apr 14, 08:22
Update #2: The Great Philly Dime Heist was *actually* 2 Million dimes!! Worth ~$200K and weighing 10,000 lbs (4,536 kg) -- (link*) - decline Apr 14, 08:16 1
- The truck had 7.5M in dimes in it? That is quite a load. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 14, 08:24
"Pee Pee" is a stupid person. I hope to hell he doesnt become PM! -- (link*) - mud Apr 14, 08:07
Weekend Plans Poll? -- nm - Andie Apr 14, 07:58 31
- 4 wedding Saturday, drive to Vancouver wa to see the Rose sunday,put off from last week due to post op complications -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 14, 10:20
- Coachella Music and Art Festival. Though first stop this morning is to get some shorts - JD Apr 14, 08:24
- 4 performances of 'Sister Act: The Musical'. Reading some plays. Cleaning some house. Maybe try to go out to dinner on Sunday. -- nm - Diva Apr 14, 08:20 2
  - “Fabulous Baby” is stuck in my head often. -- nm - MDH Apr 14, 08:21 1
    - mine too! - 😂 -- nm - Diva Apr 14, 08:40
- Mac's at an art school tour with her art class through tomorrow evening. Date night tonight, grocery run and intense napping tomorrow -- nm - prayformojo Apr 14, 08:19
- weekly shopping with mom. Need to head to a garden center to pick up some stuff as well. cleaning. cooking -- nm - decline Apr 14, 08:17
- Seeing this flautist in concert -- (link) - mara Apr 14, 08:17 [youtube] 1
  - I always thought it was flutist. - sycor Apr 14, 08:22
- Some gardening. Chaperoning a bunch of 14 year old girls at a 'grown up restaurant dinner' - we are sitting separately. Cleaning my house. - Andie Apr 14, 08:16 4
  - My niece is about that age - she and her friends stop after school to eat all the time. However, my brother found out they hadn't been tipping - decline Apr 14, 08:24 1
    - heh. yeah, i am sure they do that, but they think this is a big deal. 8pm, Saturday night, need to get driven there. You know, fancy. -- nm - Andie Apr 14, 08:38
  - I laughed at " we are sitting separately". -- nm - Pippy the Gifted Apr 14, 08:18 1
    - (Not my friend.) -- nm - Qale Apr 14, 08:19
- Park happy hour tonight, Dinner out with friends tomorrow, concert on Sunday for a choir I’m looking to join in the fall. -- nm - znufrii Apr 14, 08:15
- Sidewalk book sale at one of the branch libraries tomorrow, Museum tour on Sunday. -- nm - Meg Apr 14, 08:15
- badminton tournament tomorrow -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 08:11
- 🛳️ & 🍻 -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 08:09 1
  - 😍 -- nm - Qale Apr 14, 08:10
- Daughter's 3rd birthday Sunday. General merriment. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 14, 08:07
- Unpacking. Setting up the TV (finally!) and catching up on TV/ movies hopefully. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 08:06
- I return to work starting Sunday with a full schedule next week. -- nm - Qale Apr 14, 08:04
- Lots. Tire rotation. Tree/shrub shopping. Garage stuff: cleanup, shelf assembly, light check/replace, maybe even install new switches so I can have - oblique Apr 14, 08:04
- gardening class, chess club, platelet donation, housework (edited to add 'oh and taxes, I suppose I better do those') -- nm* - crash davis Apr 14, 08:03
- Doing taxes, art gallery show on Saturday and resting on Sunday. -- nm - Krusty Apr 14, 08:03
- Hoping a meteor hits. Trump and Pence are both speaking at the NRA meeting in Indy. Several surrounding school systems had bomb threats and are closed -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 08:02 5
  - Renfield alone tonight, and D&D with the family (finally) Sunday. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 08:22
  - Thoughts and prayers. - sycor Apr 14, 08:05
  - best wishes -- nm - mud Apr 14, 08:03 2
    - Line up to get in to see Trump speak started at 11am. I suspect the threats are so people could go. -- nm - Spawn Apr 14, 08:05 1
      - makes sense -- nm - mud Apr 14, 08:11
I'm reading a book about Pornography and it's fascinating to see the parallels between now and the Communication Decency Act of 1996. - Qale Apr 14, 07:57
Side note: I got confirmation from ComEd that by using Hourly Pricing and Solar production, if the hourly price goes negative I'm getting charged to - oblique Apr 14, 07:53 6
- Side note: I grew up with ConEd as our electric provider. - ty97 Apr 14, 09:21
- I didn't know that could happen -- nm - crash davis Apr 14, 08:14
- You're getting charged to supply them with power? -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 08:04 2
  - Yup. The counter to that is instead of paying 0.12/kWh normally I typically pay 0.01 in the overnight hours to charge my car. - oblique Apr 14, 08:07 1
    - That sounds complicated. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 08:19
- You should turn on all lights in your house all weekend and see if you can trigger that negative pricing -- nm - decline Apr 14, 07:54
Just realized I have an old-school phone only conference call this afternoon. - spamlet Apr 14, 07:51 2
- It is so you don't realize the IRS has been replaced with ChatGPT and voice software -- nm - crash davis Apr 14, 07:57
- are you going to use a rotary phone to dial in? -- nm - decline Apr 14, 07:52
Falcons signing Bud Dupree to one-year deal -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 07:48 1
- What percentage of Falcons will be new this year? 80%? -- nm - Volnelk Apr 14, 08:08
HAPPY FRIDAY!!!! - zunkskunk Apr 14, 07:43 1
- TGIF! -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 07:44
Healthy actors in their 50s getting hospitalized for battling snow plows and strokes is not good for my mental health so no more of that please. -- (link) - Max Apr 14, 07:37 9
- I wish I could battle a snowplow at my age. -- nm - Mop Apr 14, 07:46 1
  - I tried to inspire you -- nm - Liam Neeson Apr 14, 08:00
- Even worse for my mental health: The antivax comments that happen after. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 07:41
- Nobody click on that. Endless list of antivaxx ghouls with blue checkmarks -- nm - spamlet Apr 14, 07:41 5
  - So in other words, Twitter? -- nm - Qale Apr 14, 08:06
  - it's wild that those are the most promoted posts.. most responses to him are just praying hands and "get well" responses. - colin Apr 14, 07:44 1
    - If I understand, you can choose a setting where your blue check is hidden - Pippy Apr 14, 07:59
  - I hesitated, but I didn't want to post without a link, and yet I couldn't find a great single official source. -- nm - Max Apr 14, 07:42 1
    - I wasn't sure what you saw since it's dynamic but didn't want others to click. - spamlet Apr 14, 07:43
ST poll: have you ever been bullied? -- nm - Pippy the Gifted Apr 14, 07:31 31
- Yes, various gangs and some Aryan nazi skin head assholes who found out I was Jewish. Also gay bashed tho I'm not -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 14, 10:26
- Twice. Once upon arrival at a new school and once by the X-boyfriend (and his friends) of my first long-term girlfriend. They sucker punched me and - Spawn Apr 14, 08:09 2
  - daymmnnnn -- nm - Pippy the Gifted Apr 14, 08:16
  - whoa! Post of the Week. -- nm - mud Apr 14, 08:10
- Yes, but I've blocked it out. I don't think I was getting beat up - just taunted and teased. Couldn't handle it - but shouldn't have to. - Beryllium Apr 14, 08:06
- Yes. And worse, my sister married one of them! (They have since divorced leading to Kid-Rock Boyfriend.) -- nm - Qale Apr 14, 08:05
- When I was in junior high I was a bit but thankfully it didn't last long. -- nm - Krusty Apr 14, 08:04
- sure - decline Apr 14, 08:04
- yeah a bit -- nm - crash davis Apr 14, 07:58
- I got called carrot top some as a kid and had one kid in junior high that tried to bully me. I ignored him until he went away. - sycor Apr 14, 07:52
- Not really. We were a very small school and while I'm sure there was some bullying - I don't recall it being a huge thing in our school. nm - Turd Ferguson Apr 14, 07:47 4
  - I do, however, now get bullied everyday by 2 little shithead Pekingnese that are entitled to snacks, bones and walks at all times. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Apr 14, 07:49 3
    - photos or didn't happen - Pippy the Gifted Apr 14, 08:17
    - Same with a small gray cat who sits at the bottom of the stairs and howls at me to come up to the bedroom. -- nm - Meg Apr 14, 07:53
    - “Bitch better have our kibbles!” -- nm - Jim’s Dogs Apr 14, 07:52
- Elementary thru high school, but middle school/jr high were worst. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 07:42
- Yep, a bit. Mostly in middle school. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 07:42
- I don't know if I was Too Tall to Bully or just in a lucky environment, never experienced that myself. - Max Apr 14, 07:42
- some as a kid, a bit in high school. i also realized later i could be a bit of a bully... - colin Apr 14, 07:41 6
  - You did try to kill me on multiple occasions, Colin. -- nm - Qale Apr 14, 08:07
  - word. I wasn't physical but I can verbally tear anyone to shreds and am quite good at it -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 07:49 3
    - i think it in part is a defense mechanism. if you can act like someone being a dick isn't effecting you, you can make it stop. - colin Apr 14, 07:55 1
      - for sure. I also was super self-depreciating on myself. I'd take shots at myself worse than others would and then turn around on them -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 07:58
    - but I sucked at picking targets as my mouth can be miles ahead of my brain. Going after the 6'5" football player being my worst decision - Beaker Apr 14, 07:51
  - yep -- nm - mud Apr 14, 07:48
- sure, grade 7 and 8 there were guys who would wail on people (not just me). Plus with coke bottle glasses and braces was an easy target -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 07:40
- Yes. When I was in second grade, I was very small. (I was always very small compared to other kids and of course am still short). - Dark Callisto Apr 14, 07:36
- Very much so. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 14, 07:36
- Yes briefly. When I moved in the middle of 6th grade (elementary school) into a new town where the 6th grade was year one of Middle School. -- nm - Jovian Apr 14, 07:34
- There's a reason I live 300 miles from my hometown. -- nm - spamlet Apr 14, 07:33
- Sure. In high school. EDIT. I also remember distinctly a conversation I had in about elementary school where I didn't (overshare) -- (edited) - oblique Apr 14, 07:33
Destiny is all~ -- nm - Uhtred Apr 14, 07:20
Does anyone have a robot vacuum? Do you love it? What brand/ model? - sycor Apr 14, 06:51 30
- We have a Eufy. Got it on sale and works with Alexa which were our two requirements. -- (link) - spamlet Apr 14, 07:29 2
  - Oh and it's on sale. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 07:49 1
    - We bought a Eufy for our son for Christmas. He loves it in his apartment. -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 07:50
- My brother has a roomba and loves it. At least one of the dogs hates it, the others seem to tolerate it. - ty97 Apr 14, 07:24 1
  - I think my brother has to only empty it once during a complete roomba'ing of his entire main floor? - ty97 Apr 14, 07:26
- Roomba. We love it. Game changer. -- nm - MDH Apr 14, 07:08 5
  - is it good on hard floors? (i'm hijacking this thread, we've been considering one for downstairs due to dog hair, etc) -- nm - colin Apr 14, 07:29 4
    - yes, it is effective on both carpet and non. My guy really sucks up the dust and hair, it's impressively disgusting. - rollo Apr 14, 07:32 3
      - can you disable all the cloud connections (i realize i can just blacklist it on my router, but wondering if they have explicit privacy settings)? -- nm - colin Apr 14, 07:45 2
        
        If you want to deep dive on this stuff, the homeassistant community generally prefers local non-cloud stuff. They pointed to this -- (link) - oblique Apr 14, 07:47 1
        
        I saw this yesterday, have you installed it? I'd be afraid to brick the vacuum. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 07:53
- We had an early model Roomba. It was laughably bad. My wife wouldn't believe me that it was vrappy. So... - prayformojo Apr 14, 07:07 2
  - my understanding of the early roomba was that it was meant to pass over areas multiple times and slowly gather up what was there - colin Apr 14, 07:28
  - We had an early roomba also. It sucked at sucking -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 07:09
- Ruby the Roomba is about 6 years old. She’s one of the random path models, and is fine. I’d get a mapper if I did it again. -- nm - mafic Apr 14, 06:59 1
  - My wife named ours Squeaky -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 07:02
- We also have a Wyze one. It has been sitting on the charger for 6 months. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 06:58 3
  - You should maybe tell it go clean. - sycor Apr 14, 07:03 2
    - No. We moved, still have boxes and cat things on the floor, and need to have it map out the area. - JaxSean Apr 14, 07:12 1
      - Fair points. I'm in the same boat right now so I get it. So. Many. Boxes. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 07:17
- I do but it doesn't have the suction to pick up the robots that accumulate in the corner. -- nm - Max Apr 14, 06:54
- I have a 4-year old Roomba named Vincent. It's like an 800 series I think, below the ones where they empty the dustbin for you - works great -- nm - rollo Apr 14, 06:53
- We have a Wyze. I like it alot and it does a pretty good job in "high suction" mode on our very tight carpet which is difficult to vacuum even for -- (edited) - oblique Apr 14, 06:53 7
  - I have a Wyze too. It’s great on hardware and rugs. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 14, 07:28
  - how often do you have to empty it? Obviously without pets we would do it less, but just curious. - sycor Apr 14, 06:58 5
    - I probably do it once a week and it seems to not be a problem -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 07:01 4
      - nmb oblique - sycor Apr 14, 07:19 3
        
        :) You and me both. I have a handful of Lutron "dumb" motion switch in my supply of gear to eventually install around the house. I think our - oblique Apr 14, 07:20 2
        
        haha glad it's not just me. :) - sycor Apr 14, 07:38 1
        
        Heh. Our pantry is smart. - oblique Apr 14, 07:40
I'm going to start posting my timed Digits results. It's not too hard to get 15/15 but the time is everything -- nm - rollo Apr 14, 06:49 3
- Do you time yourself? All I get is - mafic Apr 14, 07:06 1
  - Yes, I had to run the stopwatch on my phone -- nm - rollo Apr 14, 07:33
- Digits: 15/15 5:16 -- nm - rollo Apr 14, 07:03
For my training this week, one of the fake patients I've been assigned is named Bruce Catwoman. :D - Easter Baron Apr 14, 06:48 1
- 😺 -- nm* - crash davis Apr 14, 07:25
If Schwarzenegger's pothole was a utility trench and it wasn't marked off, someone needs to be fired. -- nm - Mop Apr 14, 06:39 1
- plus apparently the job was completed 2-3 months prior too. I blame the CHUDs -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 06:44
OTD 40 years ago, David Bowie released his 15th(!) album 'Let´s Dance' -- (link) - mud Apr 14, 06:29 [youtube] 2
- A lot of your OTDs inspire my morning music! :D -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 14, 07:37 1
  - that's nice to hear, you've made my day -- nm - mud Apr 14, 07:46
Last Kingdom - yeah I had seen nothing about the movie to end it till I was doing TV PSA this morning. Knew a bunch of STers watched it though -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 06:28 1
- Someone mentioned it in a podcast once. -- nm - Mop Apr 14, 07:47
the mother of our daughter's partner has reported him through the school system (he's a teacher as is she). so he's getting it from 2 fronts - Beaker Apr 14, 06:27 6
- Stand up to Bullys -- nm - Pippy the Gifted Apr 14, 06:56
- That’s bullshit - znufrii Apr 14, 06:49 1
  - It's the whole "You can't fire me, I quit" mentality. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 06:56
- Sounds like more people need to complain too. Dude needs to be banned from school grounds. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 06:47
- "Him" being the a-hole coach, not your daughter's partner. -- nm - Mop Apr 14, 06:33 1
  - correct. -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 06:34
Dear internet: I already bought the Shady Rays on JaxSean's recommendation. Stop showing me ads on every website for them. Thanks! -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 06:22 4
- I don't even know what this is, but will start getting ads for it now too I'd wager -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 06:54 1
  - I just thought about the words while reading and now I'm getting ads. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 07:25
- Just typing this post gets you two more weeks of promoted ads. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 14, 06:53
- Nice. Wish I could wear cool sunglasses. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 06:47
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 06:17 1
- wordle in 4 - rollo Apr 14, 06:20

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