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Digital Copy (MA, 4K-UHD) The Northman for $5 -- (link*) - budice May 19, 10:46 1
- they pay you? -- nm - decline May 19, 10:51
DC cop charged with aiding and abetting Jan 6th Nazis -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 19, 10:31 1
- Huh. This guy just copy-pasted excerpts from the DOJ press release. Here's the whole thing. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 19, 10:46
There was a just an (early it looked like) Charmed episode that came on TV where opening scene consisted of John Cho being shot and killed. - ty97 May 19, 10:30
Have you been dreaming of a Michelin-star meal in a pressured capsule at the edge of space? Well, today is your lucky day! you can pre-book! -- (edited) - Andie May 19, 10:29 3
- Already booked it with miles -- nm - ty97 May 19, 10:31 2
  - via Mars? -- nm - oblique May 19, 10:34
  - heh -- nm - Andie May 19, 10:31
"I don't know clams were animals. I thought they were like, things." -- nm - Classroom Transcripts May 19, 10:27 2
- Blow their mind by showing them bleeding rocks. (Pyura chilensis) -- nm - Beryllium May 19, 10:32
- 🤣—-Clams “swimming” have been a viral thing, as late—they are so weird -- nm - Flavorize May 19, 10:28
Today, in what apparently my History Channel desk calendar thinks is important, Oscar Wilde is released from jail (1897). - Jovian May 19, 10:16 5
- The photo on his Wikipedia page looks a tiny bit like a young Peter Serafinowicz -- nm - Beryllium May 19, 10:27
- He walked on the Wilde side. -- nm - Qale May 19, 10:26
- his sodomy charge was quelle scandalous for the times -- nm - hollywood big shot May 19, 10:20 2
  - yep its pretty sad, it ends with: "After his release, Wilde never recovered from the social disgrace and hard labor. His experiences in prison were - Jovian May 19, 10:23 1
    - "This wallpaper will be the death of me - one of us will have to go." - Andie May 19, 10:34
Blue Origin gets the Green Light for a NASA lunar lander contract -- (link) - Beryllium May 19, 10:15
I'm sure it's been posted before but my AppleTV+ is going from $50/year to $70/year -- nm - oblique May 19, 10:14 16
- I got a free trial week last night, then $5.99 a month. I was just going to use the week until I found out Silo stars Rebecca Ferguson - crash davis 😺 May 19, 10:18 12
  - No Bad Sisters? -- nm - LMS May 19, 10:50
  - I got 3 months free last week (or the week before?) will binge everything I want to see and then cancel and wait for the next freebie - decline May 19, 10:31
  - wait. what. she's in this?? -- nm - Jovian May 19, 10:27
  - Don't leave out For All Mankind. It's fun -- nm - oblique May 19, 10:23 3
    - Less fun as seasons go on, tbf -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 19, 10:23 2
      - The season premiere of the most recent season is one of the greatest things in the history of television. -- nm - David May 19, 10:43
      - ooooff that last season was a mess -- nm - Jovian May 19, 10:28
  - Have you watched Foundation yet? -- nm - Beryllium May 19, 10:19 4
    - No I haven't. I assume the question means you recommend it? -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 19, 10:20 3
      - It's worth watching. If you're a super die-hard book fan you can probably take issue with it but I read the series so long ago I barely remembered - oblique May 19, 10:22 1
        
        I've never read the series (and I don't plan to), but the show was very entertaining and also a visual treat. -- nm - Beryllium May 19, 10:37
      - Oh yes. -- nm - Beryllium May 19, 10:20
- There's no way it's worth that much. They just don't have enough good content. -- nm - Krusty May 19, 10:16 2
  - You, sir, are incorrect. - Beryllium May 19, 10:19
  - It's a tough one. $70/year is just under $6/mo. Most things they have are of very good quality and I enjoy watching most of it - oblique May 19, 10:18
Michael Douglas shares the secret to making a good sex scene -- (link) - budice May 19, 10:10 1
- Is it the sex? -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 19, 10:11
Biden has a big New Hampshire problem -- (link) - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 19, 10:05 8
- Republicans refuse to recognize Democrat change to their own primaries. -- nm - Qale May 19, 10:29 1
  - Politico gonna Politico -- nm - hollywood big shot May 19, 10:38
- OpEd: I Wasn’t Going to Vote For Trump a Third Time But Then The Dems Came For My State’s Made Up Clout -- nm - NYT Pitchbot May 19, 10:23
- New Hampshire has an irrelevancy problem. -- nm - ty97 May 19, 10:18 3
  - and have only ever been second in the nation pretending that Iowa doesn’t count. both of them are just quadrennial tourist rackets - hollywood big shot May 19, 10:26
  - Yep. No one cares about this at all. Sorry NH. -- nm - MDH May 19, 10:18 1
    - NH is a swing state so it matters in the general, to a point. But beyond that *shrug* -- nm - ty97 May 19, 10:28
- No trains? -- nm - Beryllium May 19, 10:07
New Twenty out today! Features songs from The Anix, Bebe Rexha, The Birthday Massacre, Concrete Castles, Linkin Park, Bush, and um, Finger Eleven. -- (link) - Qale May 19, 10:05 [spotify]
Kyle Dubas OUT as Leafs GM -- nm - Beaker May 19, 09:59 4
- *five more articles about the Leafs incoming* -- nm - The Athletic May 19, 10:03 2
  - TSN had an orgasm cause they can talk about this all the long weekend -- nm - Beaker May 19, 10:05 1
    - sorry we’re relevant again! -- nm - hollywood big shot May 19, 10:27
- Not really a shock. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 19, 10:00
How many children does Boris Johnson have? -- (link) - LMS May 19, 09:38 1
- And is it more or fewer than countries in the Schengen area? -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 19, 09:44
Andie, I booked a tour so not either. It’s not high, high season yet but it was the easy way. - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 19, 09:37 3
- Well, rain got harder so stopped in a place for dinner. 6:45, how early! -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 19, 09:43 2
  - 6:45? my god, such a tourist! -- nm - Andie May 19, 10:26 1
    - The place we went last night didn’t even open until 8:30. - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 19, 10:35
To Counter China, G7 Countries Borrow Its Economic Playbook - crash davis 😺 May 19, 09:22 2
- China: pay up, deadbeats -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 19, 09:27 1
  - This is a contest between two ideologies. One is represented by Malcolm Gladwell and the other by foodchem. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 19, 09:45
Do you know how many countries are part of the Schengen Area? -- nm - ty97 May 19, 09:17 15
- TIL there is something called the Schengen Area -- nm - oblique May 19, 09:50 8
  - I would really like to visit there sometime. Particularly because of the sailing ... but also the trains. -- nm - Beryllium May 19, 09:50 7
    - You do know trains and sailing generally don't mix? -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 19, 10:02 3
      - I don't see why they wouldn't? Taking the train from Copenhagen to Split (with many touristy detours), chartering a sailboat, sailing to Greece ... -- nm - Beryllium May 19, 10:12 2
        
        On land, trains powered by sails haven't really taken off. On water, instant submarine -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 19, 10:14 1
        
        Heh -- nm - Beryllium May 19, 10:20
    - Apparently I've been there - oblique May 19, 09:51 2
      - Not equivalent to the EU, but there is a lot of overlap. - ty97 May 19, 10:22
      - And then some, but yeah. Unencumbered passage between EU countries. -- nm - Beryllium May 19, 09:54
- 26? -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 19, 09:44 1
  - 27 (Croatia joined the beginning of this year) + 4 de facto since they fully reside within the borders of Schengen countries -- nm* - ty97 May 19, 10:19
- Trick question, none. - Krusty May 19, 09:29
- 20-something is the closest I can get -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 19, 09:26
- Not exactly, but I'd guess it goes from Portugal to Croatia to Norway. So ... 23? -- nm - Beryllium May 19, 09:24
- 195 -- nm - decline May 19, 09:19
Fine. I’ll leave a voicemail to schedule my colonoscopy. - znufrii 🦄 May 19, 09:06 3
- getting it done is a good thing -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 19, 09:25
- I'm fairly certain my poop box was lost. My doctor never followed up with me on it. My new doctor says it wasn't in the records they received from - oblique May 19, 09:23 1
  - "you should poop in a box" -- nm - Pippin 😺 May 19, 09:26
U.S. Will Support F-16 Training for Ukraine - crash davis 😺 May 19, 09:03 1
- A Loud G.O.P. Minority Pledges to Make Trouble on Ukraine Military Aid - crash davis 😺 May 19, 09:14
Ryan Reynolds gonna sue a lotta people -- (link) - Reagen May 19, 09:02 8
- I have no idea what I'm looking at. -- nm - David May 19, 09:28 2
  - Someone created an AI ad for Tesla using Ryan Reynolds without permission. -- nm - Reagen May 19, 09:32
  - A Tweet is any message posted to Twitter which may contain photos, videos, links, and text -- nm - decline May 19, 09:29
- maybe - hollywood big shot May 19, 09:07 4
  - * -- nm* - hollywood big shot May 19, 09:10
  - I wonder what percentage of his income/wealth comes from acting any more. -- nm - Dano May 19, 09:09 2
    - He’s an actor? -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 19, 09:09 1
      - Well, he's a performer. -- nm - Beryllium May 19, 09:33
never rent from Hertz -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 19, 09:00 7
- Spirit Airlines asks Puerto Rican family to show passports then denies them flight -- (link) - ty97 May 19, 09:06
- I'm not going to swear off renting from Hertz due to one uninformed employee - ty97 May 19, 09:05 5
  - Have they stopped reporting returned cars as stolen? -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 19, 09:07 3
    - The police officers who chatted with me about my 'stolen' Avis rental were quite nice. -- (edited) - ty97 May 19, 09:11 2
      - were they cute? -- nm* - decline May 19, 09:13 1
        
        excuse me! - Pippy Quintas May 19, 09:22
  - there are a lot of other reasons that go all the way up to the top -- nm - hollywood big shot May 19, 09:07
Hank Green has Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Prognosis is good. -- (link) - TWuG May 19, 09:00 [youtube] 1
- Came here to post this. -- nm - loosilu May 19, 09:12
NYC moves one step closer to congestion pricing (cry about it Jersey) -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 19, 08:54 3
- Good -- nm - Tim May 19, 09:28
- Bring it on. (I never drive, but had a rental car last evening. 75-90 minutes to gets from 11th ave/51st St to 11th ave/ 40th st for the tunnel) -- nm - ty97 May 19, 09:13
- About f*cking time. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 19, 09:00
NASA Picks Blue Origin-Led Group to Build Moon Lander for Artemis V Mission - crash davis 😺 May 19, 08:53
America’s Semiconductor Boom Faces a Challenge: Not Enough Workers - crash davis 😺 May 19, 08:44 1
- Guess all those displaced by AI will be employed then -- nm - oblique May 19, 08:50
Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey 2 greenlit -- nm - Beaker May 19, 08:38 3
- 2 Blood 2 Honey -- nm - Dano May 19, 08:45 2
  - Blood Boogaloo. -- nm - Volnelk May 19, 09:37
  - : piglet's revenge -- nm - decline May 19, 08:46
The Hummer EV battery pack weighs over 2,800 pounds and GM did absolutely nothing to reduce weight - TWuG May 19, 08:37 [youtube] 10
- maybe that's why NYC is sinking -- nm - oblique May 19, 09:35
- It's a feature. Lowers the CG -- nm - JD May 19, 09:15
- And we still haven't found a way to charge them an equitable road tax. -- nm - Meg May 19, 09:03 3
  - Illinois has a $100 per year surcharge for registering an EV. Which has to be less than I'm saving on gas taxes. - TWuG May 19, 09:13
  - my FCEV registration was $750 this year - hollywood big shot May 19, 09:09 1
    - Hmm, wonder what it would be on the Hummer? -- nm - Meg May 19, 09:15
- suckers -- nm - hollywood big shot May 19, 08:49
- and yet my Hummer EV Hot Wheels looks amazing and is very light -- nm - Beaker May 19, 08:45
- I wonder how long the shocks are going to last on that monstrosity - decline May 19, 08:43
- Ukraine will say "thanks, but no" if the army offers them some ... -- nm* - Beryllium May 19, 08:42
The Newest College Admissions Ploy: Paying to Make Your Teen a “Peer-Reviewed” Author -- (link) - Strongbad May 19, 08:35
NYC is sinking 1-2 mm a year on average due to the weight of its buildings -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 May 19, 08:33 7
- It's not really the problem that people seem to think it is. The majority of our building are on very stable and solid schist. - Krusty May 19, 08:46 6
  - Not that it’s a problem, in and of itself, but it’s fascinating that we can isolate the anthropogenic impact from other geological and climate forces. - znufrii 🦄 May 19, 08:57 3
    - That's interesting but the articles are trying to make it sound like disaster is coming when it's not. -- nm - Krusty May 19, 09:29 2
      - Yes, the Guardian does tend to play up any tenuous connection of that sort, I’ll admit. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 19, 09:40
      - ~it's the end of the world as we know it~ -- nm - Strongbad May 19, 09:32
  - That's like a whole foot in around 150 years Krusty!! -- nm - decline May 19, 08:49
  - You really know your schist. -- nm - loosilu May 19, 08:46
How to fix the Sixers: burn it all down. -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 May 19, 08:31 1
- Yeah the alternative of keep Harden and sign D'Antoni just does not sound like a winning model to me. -- nm - Volnelk May 19, 08:42
Long weekend? Is there a holiday I'm not remembering? -- nm - Krusty May 19, 08:30 7
- I have a long weekend, but I took Monday off. :) -- nm - Dark Callisto May 19, 09:10
- Andie's coronation -- nm - hollywood big shot May 19, 08:49
- Canada. Victoria Day. - Reagen May 19, 08:31 4
  - Krusty, this is the one where everyone goes to their cottage and drinks beer. -- nm - loosilu May 19, 08:47 1
    - Just like Queen Victoria. -- nm - Andie May 19, 10:27
  - Cool. Enjoy! - Krusty May 19, 08:36
  - May 2-4! when you can go to bed to 30 Celsius and wake up to a foot of snow. -- nm - Beaker May 19, 08:32
ty, just west of Monaco is a beach where European tourists go. Cap d'Ail. -- nm - loosilu May 19, 08:30
Wheres Inigo? Fast X with $7.5M in previews. -- nm - MDH May 19, 08:28 2
- If I recall….woof. -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 May 19, 08:34 1
  - seeing 57-60 3 day thrown around -- nm - Beaker May 19, 08:44
TGIF! -- nm - Beaker May 19, 08:27 1
- have cereal! -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 19, 08:28 [youtube]

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