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Next Goal Wins trailer -- (link) - sycor Apr 28, 08:48 [youtube]
Not even King Charles III's coronation can escape a Ticketmaster debacle -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Apr 28, 08:29 10
- Sidenote: I'm just gonna reflexively call him Prince Charles until the day he dies. -- nm - David Apr 28, 09:05 1
  - almost a certainty -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 28, 09:05
- We just learned that one of Dave's cousins kids (who has visited us here) who is in the Royal Air Force was selected to be part of the guard for the - Andie Apr 28, 08:46 3
  - 💂🏼 -- nm - mafic Apr 28, 09:06
  - 🗿 -- nm - Spawn Apr 28, 08:49
  - 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Apr 28, 08:48
- I hate TM, but to be fair, the email says 1st come 1st served. TM has just completely screwed up the ticket allocation for Pearl Jam's mini tour. They -- (edited) - jnine Apr 28, 08:44 3
  - what a hot mess -- nm - Pippy can't read Apr 28, 08:55
  - Did you get the "thinking you're a bot" issue resolved? -- nm - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:45 1
    - I did. When McAfee updated, it put me on secure VPN. When I got rid of that, everything was fine. -- nm - jnine Apr 28, 11:12
Invasive Spotted Lanternflies Are Hatching Soon. Kill Them. Kill Them All. -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Apr 28, 08:25 1
- Smoosh with extreme prejudice. Get the nymphs if you see them. - znufrii 🦄 Apr 28, 08:27
ST Poll: when you put your phone down, do you put it screen side up or screen side down? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 28, 08:20 21
- Either up or vertical on a stand. -- nm - sycor Apr 28, 08:45
- If solo (like at work) its face up. But with friends or family, its down. (because everyone else always has theirs down!) -- nm - Jovian Apr 28, 08:42
- You put it…down? -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Apr 28, 08:39
- Up, so I can tap it and see the time. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii Apr 28, 08:39
- Up, so it can look around and not be bored in my absence. -- nm - Loyola Apr 28, 08:38
- Often it's down but if I'm expecting a text or call I'll leave it facing up. -- nm - Krusty Apr 28, 08:32
- Down, unless I'm charging it (so I can see what the charge % is) -- nm - crash davis 😺 Apr 28, 08:31
- Down. I do not want it to be a distraction and as for notifications, I choose when to use it. It don't own me! -- nm - Spawn Apr 28, 08:30 1
  - ((yeah don't stop believing)) -- nm - phone Apr 28, 08:43
- Up. Down makes no sense with notifications/Lock Screen etc. -- nm - Qale Apr 28, 08:27 2
  - That's also the argument for screen down -- nm - JD Apr 28, 08:35 1
    - Admittedly, I’m not on my phone relentlessly. My actual answer unless I’m at home is “in my pocketses.” -- nm - Qale Apr 28, 08:58
- Up -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Apr 28, 08:25
- usually up, but, down if at work sometimes. -- nm - Andie Apr 28, 08:24
- Depends. Usually up, but if in a meeting, down -- nm - TWuG Apr 28, 08:24
- Vertical -- nm - oblique Apr 28, 08:22
- Yes. - mafic Apr 28, 08:21 1
  - Same. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 28, 08:45
- Up -- nm - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:21
- up -- nm - decline Apr 28, 08:21
- down for me. I figure if anything drops on it the damage won't be to the screen. - Beaker 🍺 Apr 28, 08:21
Sisu 94% (66/4), Are You There God? It's Me Margaret 99% (88/1), Big George Foreman 53% (10/9), Polite Society 91% (90/9) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 28, 08:18
Mop news network: Sony posts record annual profit - decline Apr 28, 08:06 1
- Then we must do all we can to protect them! -- nm - UK CMA Apr 28, 08:40
Ed Sheeran doing theater-based concert performances. I think Taylor Swift could really do this too and make bank. -- (link) - budice Apr 28, 07:59 2
- Over/Under on how many songs he rips off set at 5 -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 28, 07:59
- Taylor could make millions more, but she good. -- nm - Spawn Apr 28, 07:59
pics from Yorgos Lanthimos’ "Poor Things," an upcoming science fiction romance -- (link) - mud ♪ Apr 28, 07:58
Qale’s Random Trivia: Why is it called XBOX? (No, it’s not because you turn 360 and walk away.) -- nm - Qale Apr 28, 07:54 10
- Tenth gaming system? -- nm - TWuG Apr 28, 08:25
- X marks the spot, or X = crossroads? The only other thing that comes to mind is Xerox. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:17 4
  - Maybe a bit close. The answer is because it’s a Direct X machine. So Direct X Box. -- nm - Qale Apr 28, 08:26 3
    - Yup, just went to google. Interesting. (I need to learn more about APIs.) -- (link) - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:29
    - is there an Indirect X Box ? -- nm - decline Apr 28, 08:29 1
      - Yes, but Elon charges $25,000/month for it. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:44
- It was the internal code word and they never thought of anything better -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Apr 28, 08:13 1
  - Dolphin (the code name for GameCube) says nope. -- nm* - Qale Apr 28, 08:14
- because it's a box that delivers experiences? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 07:56 1
  - Sports! TV! TV! Sports! Sports! Wrong answer. -- nm - Qale Apr 28, 08:02
Weekend Plans! -- nm - Andie Apr 28, 07:26 37
- Backyard, garden bed clean up -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 28, 10:05
- Dodger game, Return of the Jedi 40th Anniversary showing, Dine LA at an Armenian restaurant, Tony Hawk doing something? in a club. I have no idea what -- (edited) - jnine Apr 28, 08:29
- wood splitting and bottling cider. -- nm - mafic Apr 28, 08:22
- Lightning/Leafs Game 6 (Go Bolts!) Saturday. Otherwise, mostly Fall Guys / Tiny Tina on Xbox and Yardwork/maintenance. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:18 3
  - are you going to the game? super-fun. -- nm - Andie Apr 28, 08:20 2
    - Yes, our friends have 6 Season tickets so we (usually) get first dibs. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:21 1
      - on the one hand I have to hope for the Leafs cause Canadian. But on the other hand the comedy of them losing another 3-1 series lead makes me all - Beaker 🍺 Apr 28, 08:31
- Friend from FL is up and will be going out with him. -- nm - Jovian Apr 28, 07:58
- possibly sailing -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 07:54 1
  - Sail away, sail away, sail away -- nm - sycor Apr 28, 08:09
- Podcast tonight. Hoping to go walk at the arboretum tomorrow if the weather cooperates. - Dark Callisto Apr 28, 07:49
- Watch FH's stepson pitch his college game and no real plans after that - JD Apr 28, 07:45
- yard work. enjoying the warm weather -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 28, 07:44
- Church on Sunday is only plan. Maybe a movie Saturday? -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Apr 28, 07:42
- 4 Performances of 'Sister Act'. Cousins coming to show tomorrow - will hang with them before matinee. Sending Mel to SISU. -- (edited) - Diva Apr 28, 07:40 6
  - Awesome!! -- nm - Pippy can't read Apr 28, 07:55
  - that's a busy weekend! -- nm - Andie Apr 28, 07:41 2
    - I'd much rather be going to AYTGIMM with gfs! That's going to be fun...🍸 -- nm - Diva Apr 28, 07:48
    - I need to put my feet up for a bit after reading it -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 28, 07:45
  - Break a leg! - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Apr 28, 07:41 1
    - thx (I need it!) -- nm - Diva Apr 28, 07:46
- no! -- nm - mud ♪ Apr 28, 07:40
- Hyatt mattress run tonight (maybe dinner out and movie). Need to figure out what to feed people for a gathering at our house Sunday afternoon -- nm - oblique Apr 28, 07:31
- working, maybe watching Picard s3 or jury duty -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 28, 07:31
- "Are You There God" tonight, group is now 9 people, then fancy drinks after (link!) Not much the rest of the weekend, which is awesome! -- (link) - Andie Apr 28, 07:30 1
  - Nice -- nm - budice Apr 28, 07:33
- Volunteering at the store, going through orientation (wrong way around, but oh well, they need the volunteers :)) -- nm - colin Apr 28, 07:28
- Unexpectedly have one of boys this weekend. So no clue yet. Hopefully catch up some movies since it's supposed to rain most of the weekend. -- nm - sycor Apr 28, 07:27
- Running ten miles for no reason whatsoever. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Apr 28, 07:27 8
  - most likely in the rain! -- nm - Dano ✔️ Apr 28, 07:29 5
    - Lovely. - znufrii 🦄 Apr 28, 07:45 4
      - I got a disposable poncho - we will be standing in the starting corral for a while. I'm assigned to Yellow, but I could move to Pink - Dano ✔️ Apr 28, 07:48 3
        
        Yeah, I’ll be in pink. My goal is to be in yellow next year. - znufrii 🦄 Apr 28, 07:51
        
        Good luck to you both. Run Fast and Win!! -- nm - decline Apr 28, 07:49 1
        
        I’m following A’s running mantra - znufrii 🦄 Apr 28, 07:51
  - Okay there over achiever. I do hope to go for a walk around the neighborhood tomorrow. Should be a mile or two. - sycor Apr 28, 07:29 1
    - I’ve been there, we all start somewhere. -- (edited) - znufrii 🦄 Apr 28, 07:43
A Haunting in Vinice trailer -- (link) - sycor Apr 28, 07:02 [youtube]
Qale, they are *fancy* -- nm - Tim Apr 28, 06:59 1
- Ooooh! I’m looking forward to using it to springboard back into playing again. -- nm - Qale Apr 28, 08:02
I've gone from a little disappointed with the Bengals pick to excited the more I read about him. - Volnelk Apr 28, 06:55 13
- I am fine with the Colts taking a chance. -- nm - Spawn Apr 28, 07:59
- I was hoping against hope Mayer would fall to the Chiefs. He did, and they passed. :( - Pachypodium baronii Apr 28, 07:19 3
  - Same. Bengals not Chiefs. Mayer is from Northern Kentucky and is a Cincinnati kid. He'd be perfect. I was stoked when the Cowboys passed... - Volnelk Apr 28, 07:30 2
    - It's like they don't consult us at all! We're waiting by the phone and don't charge much for advice. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii Apr 28, 07:39 1
      - Should we draft Anthony Richardson? “Has the military run out of able bodied men?” “No?” “Then fuck no.” - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Apr 28, 07:50
- Can I hijack your thread to thank David for telling me the 'hawks picked okay? I appreciated the reassurance as I don't really follow college ball -- nm - crash davis 😺 Apr 28, 07:02 7
  - The Ringer gave them A and A+ grades -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Apr 28, 07:47 5
    - Thanks, I loved reading the part where they said Witherspoon matches Kam Chancellor spiritually -- nm - crash davis 😺 Apr 28, 07:52 4
      - also big winners in Mel Kiper's Draft review -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Apr 28, 08:13 3
        
        Could I trouble you to c/p that, stupid ESPN is wanting more money from me -- nm - crash davis 😺 Apr 28, 08:15 2
        
        Seattle Seahawks - Beaker 🍺 Apr 28, 08:44 1
        
        Gracias! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Apr 28, 08:46
  - Sure. And yes they did. Some may prefer Carter at DT over the corner they took, but now they have two young lockdown corners. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 28, 07:05
tough 6 - rollo Apr 28, 06:53 1
- Eked out a 5. Chased one letter around the entire board like it was a headless chicken. - Pachypodium baronii Apr 28, 07:16
I've been listening to bands from the Adjacent Festival lineup. Seems like a lot of the bands I didn't know are metal. -- nm - Dano ✔️ Apr 28, 06:52 2
- Well, they're metal-adjacent. - JaxSean Apr 28, 06:57 1
  - I'm talking about smaller font bands that I'd never heard of: Drug Church, Gel, Zulu, Incendiary, OFF! -- nm - Dano ✔️ Apr 28, 07:06
Minor annoyance for the day. I need additional towel bars. Apparently the style the builder used isn't available in stores. -- nm - sycor Apr 28, 06:26 3
- 1) You could contact the builder and see if they have extra (if they bought in bulk); 2)Remove the bar from a guest bath to keep the master consistent - crash davis 😺 Apr 28, 06:53 2
  - See, this is why I love ST. Something so simple and I didn't think to just pull them from another bathroom. It's Friday, brain no worky. -- nm - sycor Apr 28, 07:26
  - or just toss the towels on the floor like a normal dude -- nm - decline Apr 28, 07:21
Senate “investigation” into Kavanaugh allegations contained significant omissions -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 Apr 28, 06:12 3
- " These people can say what they want, and there are no consequences, ever.” - Pippy can't read Apr 28, 06:20 2
  - And then later in the article, the same guy says "I just handed over Hunter Biden's laptop to Viktor Orban"! -- nm - Roger More Apr 28, 06:32 1
    - Yeah, I take the Guardian's reporting with a grain of salt. hard drive came from Rudy G. The chain of custody on the hard drive is so suspect, - Pippy can't read Apr 28, 06:41
This morning I saw a fox run from my condo's property (which is actually quite large and wooded) across the street with a squirrel in its mouth. it - Andie Apr 28, 06:11 8
- I love foxes, but also they’re evil murder machines. -- nm - mafic Apr 28, 08:25
- I was about to ask what he said, but I guess he couldn't. -- nm - Spawn Apr 28, 07:58
- I wish we had a fox! We just have skunks, coyotes, and groundhogs for now. - Dark Callisto Apr 28, 07:50
- There are a couple of foxes that live in my condo development. I always know when they are walking through the parking lot because my dog goes nuts -- nm - decline Apr 28, 06:51 2
  - we have had foxes, coyotes, skunks and a possum. i always feel bad for them because some people just freak out. -- nm - Andie Apr 28, 06:54
  - foxy ladies? -- nm - oblique Apr 28, 06:52
- Sweet! -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Apr 28, 06:42 [youtube]
- When Mom was in hospice in Oakville we watched a coyote running through the greenspace outside her room. -- nm - Meg Apr 28, 06:33
From B2: I was curious about regular characters. Modern Family had 13 its final season, but just one season. -- nm - MDH Apr 28, 06:11 2
- UK Ghosts has 18 regulars (Larry plays 3 of them) -- nm - LMS Apr 28, 07:28
- Season 9 of the Office probably had even more. (I wonder how many The Simpsons would have, if it were a live action show?) - Roger More Apr 28, 07:06
Krusty/ty97 : "New York’s MTA is abandoning bus and train alerts on Twitter" as it is no longer reliable -- (link) - decline Apr 28, 06:04 21
- Motherfuckers Touching my Ass. -- nm - Qale Apr 28, 08:04
- I really thought we'd have a reliable twitter clone by now. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Apr 28, 06:28 8
  - I mean, if companies had stood up Mastodon instance, we would. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:20
  - I honestly think that like Facebook nothing can replace it. -- nm - MDH Apr 28, 06:52 1
    - network effect is real -- nm - oblique Apr 28, 06:55
  - A new Twitter can't immediately be as good as the old Twitter that's been around for years. The accounts people want to follow don't all move - mara 🍂 Apr 28, 06:43 3
    - I get it. I feel like the media moving en masse would get celebs to move would get normies to move. but it almost has to be a targeted, consolidated - judge indianapolis jones Apr 28, 06:52 2
      - Running a social network is hard. Scaling is hard. Moderation is hard. Getting the network effect is hard. -- (link) - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Apr 28, 07:16 1
        
        oh yes. important to note that I don't envy anyone who wants to get into this business. I'm being greedy for sure. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Apr 28, 07:17
  - It is astounding really. Because it would have taken off like a rocket if it was even just somewhat viable -- nm - Jovian Apr 28, 06:36
- I hope companies and utilities continue to bail on the fascist app -- nm - Pippy can't read Apr 28, 06:08 1
  - but we need utilities to use it to communicate. it's a double edged sword. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Apr 28, 07:00
- I'm not sure what they mean by train alerts. Are they unable to tweet about train issues like a broken down train causing delays? -- (edited) - Krusty Apr 28, 06:07 8
  - do they have it automated? Alerts go out automatically from their site to twitter etc, and it's no longer working properly? -- nm - Andie Apr 28, 06:13 7
    - the minimum cost for twitter API is now $42k per month (we learned that this week when xbox quit API). I think that dorsey's twitter a) charged less - judge indianapolis jones Apr 28, 06:56 4
      - I’m not sure Twitter has the ability to differentiate greater good. Remember the check marks were apparently a manual process - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Apr 28, 08:25
      - i don't think Elon really understands 'greater good' at all, anymore. I think he did, once. -- nm - Andie Apr 28, 07:02 2
        
        I think he had his own idea of what that meant, sure. So did Robert Moses, for example, and I think the parallels are pretty clear. - znufrii 🦄 Apr 28, 07:18
        
        I agree with this completely. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Apr 28, 07:06
    - That would make sense. It sucks that they can't automate the process but they can still manually tweet about service issues which - Krusty Apr 28, 06:39
    - NWS stopped using twitter to send their automated tweets because twitter wanted to start charging them for the api - decline Apr 28, 06:18

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