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Good job Target, you solved your problem.. - Jovian May 24, 13:12 3
- Now I don't know what to do. Do I not shop there because they pulled the LGBTQ+ items or do I shop there because Candace Owens doesn't want - Krusty May 24, 13:16 2
  - It's really funny how they've painted this huge target on themselves. -- nm - Beryllium May 24, 13:19 1
    - oh! -- nm - mud May 24, 13:22
I was oblivious to Gina Torres's video game roles. She'll be in Immortals of Aveum in July. -- (link) - Max May 24, 13:12 1
- Clearly, you've never played Destiny. -- nm* - David May 24, 13:16
TV PSA: Flash (series finale), Masterchef, Survivor, Jeopardy Masters, Chicago x 3, Riverdale, Platonic, Saint X, Race, Ted Lasso, Mayans MC, Dave, - Beaker 🍺 May 24, 13:05 3
- What's James May? A new special? -- nm - Krusty May 24, 13:09
- So, will we finally find out if Barry actually is the fastest man alive, or if there is someone... faster? -- nm - sycor May 24, 13:07
- Survivor finale tonight (small spoils) - Jovian May 24, 13:07
DeSatan makes official announcement to run for President. -- (link) - sycor May 24, 13:02 6
- But Elon promised me a spectacle! -- nm - Jovian May 24, 13:06
- What's politics got to do, got to do with it, who needs to vote when a vote can be broken -- nm - zeitgeist May 24, 13:06
- Did they change the law so he doesn’t have to resign? - Tim May 24, 13:05 3
  - They started the bill yesterday. I haven't seen whether it's finalized or not. -- nm - David May 24, 13:17
  - I had heard that they did but haven't looked in to it to see how true it is. -- nm - sycor May 24, 13:06 1
    - last I heard yesterday was that it hadnt been passed to his desk yet for signature. - Jovian May 24, 13:08
Just got a text from irsgov-[a bunch of letters] @ spiesplumbing.com saying I have a tax refund of 543 bucks! I should click the link, right? -- nm - decline May 24, 12:59 1
- Sounds like the White House "plumber's " slushfund account, you should confirm with Archer Daniel Midland to. -- nm - zeitgeist May 24, 13:04
Any advise for someone that's getting there first colonoscopy on friday - eag May 24, 12:57 4
- that cleansing juice is better with a shot of vodka added ...hmmm both at once, sure they're not doing a human centipede? -- nm - zeitgeist May 24, 13:58
- This Friday? Start the Jello diet now if you haven't already. It will help make the prep not quite as bad. -- nm - sycor May 24, 13:03 1
  - Yeah this friday -- nm - eag May 24, 13:10
- Busy day. Good to only have to prep once, though. Um. Advice? Hmm. Don't clench. - Beryllium May 24, 13:01
Default, dear Brutus, is not in the stars but within ourselves -- nm - Billy Shaikespeare May 24, 12:47
If the airplane is going to have a smattering of eps from Buffy that’s a good list. -- (pic) - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 24, 12:43 [Attachment] 1
- Well gosh! -- nm - Tim May 24, 13:00
no, not the megayachts! -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 24, 12:41 5
- To ve fair, a dozen are either hiding from sanctions or were already confiscated -- nm - zeitgeist May 24, 12:50
- yep, always the best way to measure a recession. -- nm - Jovian May 24, 12:43 2
  - Probably also they were owned by Russin oligarchs - eag May 24, 12:51
  - A falling tide sinks all boats, dontcha know -- nm - Beryllium May 24, 12:48
- tone deaf -- nm - mud May 24, 12:43
The Flood trailer: Hurricanes! Floods! Prisoners! Alligators!! -- (link) - decline May 24, 12:41 [youtube]
There was a large turn out for my county council meeting debating flying the pride flag, well we're coastal liberals -- nm - zeitgeist May 24, 12:31 1
- *six hours of debate later* "Just so I'm clear, we've all actually been agreeing this whole time?" -- nm - Beryllium May 24, 12:38
I missed two concerts in a 6 month span in 2008 that I've always looked back and regretted. Both artists are now dead. Tina Turner and George Michael. -- nm - MDH May 24, 12:07 2
- ACK! We just canceled our Sonic Temple tickets due to multiple illnesses. I hope this does not end up being the end of Foo Fighters! But I guess to fit you premise it will be Deftones I will never see. -- nm* - Spawn May 24, 12:55
- Mazzy Star played a rare concert here a year before David Roback died. shoulda gone -- nm - hollywood big shot May 24, 12:11
big third grade tattletale energy -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 24, 12:07 2
- binging Succession, also realizing every other candidate is one of the shitheel Roy kids who want to steal daddy's chair without actually fighting him - hollywood big shot May 24, 12:09
- translated: "Look, Ron would never pick me as his running mate. I still have an outside chance that my former liege may." -- nm - Jovian May 24, 12:09
*sigh* work has become frustrating... LYC rant - Dano May 24, 11:57 2
- Oof. That really sucks. I'm sorry, Dan. -- nm - David May 24, 12:11
- I'm sorry man. Hell is other people. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 24, 12:01
Magic: Opened a Marsh Flats today when visiting Coral Sword LGS. So that was nice. -- nm - Qale May 24, 11:51
R.I.P. Tina Turner, 83 -- (link*) - mud May 24, 11:36 31
- Bust a deal, face the wheel. -- (link) - jnine May 24, 12:22 [youtube]
- An amazing career. Plus the breaking news overshadowed a certain presidential bid announcement. -- nm - LMS May 24, 12:17 1
  - yeah! -- nm - mud May 24, 12:25
- She was definitely an icon. But she will always be Aunty Entity from Thunderdome to me. -- nm - sycor May 24, 12:16 1
  - the acid queen, one of Tommy's therapists...link added to her performance -- (link*) - zeitgeist May 24, 12:19
- She's one of the few people legitimately in the conversation for greatest performer ever. -- nm - David May 24, 12:13
- Aw. -- nm - loosilu May 24, 12:06
- They say 50 is the new 40 or 30, but that just makes it harder when we keep losing people before 90. -- nm - Max May 24, 12:03
- damn. :( I just stumbled onto an old live show of hers on Pluto just last week. -- nm - Jovian May 24, 11:57
- Legend. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 24, 11:54
- Gonna be some great tributes next month for this Diva. -- nm - Qale May 24, 11:54 6
  - DC has a drag queen that is a Tina impersonator. Her show is going to be booked for a while. -- nm - MDH May 24, 12:08 1
    - I knew a queen in Georgia who is very much same. I hope they are still performing. Been too long since I’ve seen them. -- nm - Qale May 24, 12:10
  - showed up for Tommy the movie and fully slayed -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 24, 11:58 [youtube] 3
    - Taught Mick Jagger how to dance. -- nm - Remlik May 24, 12:08 1
      - see vid below -- nm - mud May 24, 12:09
    - I remember watching Tommy when I was like 7 or 8 and having absolutely no idea what in the heck I was watching. -- nm - Jovian May 24, 12:02
- Aw that's one that hurts. -- nm - MDH May 24, 11:54
- oh no, I wanted her to be eternal -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 24, 11:49 1
  - at least she outlived Ike -- nm - hollywood big shot May 24, 11:50
- Damn—surprised by her age…always been 30-40s, in my head -- nm - Flavorize May 24, 11:43 2
  - one of the first artists the 60s/70s to figure out that MTV was a gold mine waiting to be dug -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 24, 11:46 [youtube] 1
    - her shot at the big time might've been killed in 1970 by an asshole Hell's Angel with a knife. -- (link) - mud May 24, 11:54 [youtube]
- I kind of had a feeling this was coming, but still sad. -- nm - pmb May 24, 11:41 1
  - Yeah, glad she made it into the Hall a couple years ago. -- nm - Spawn May 24, 11:45
- rest in power, queen -- nm - hollywood big shot May 24, 11:40
- oh no -- nm - ty97 May 24, 11:40
- :( -- nm - budice May 24, 11:39
- Oh no. -- nm - Spawn May 24, 11:39
- dammit. she was transcendent -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 24, 11:38
- :( -- nm - oblique May 24, 11:38
Amanda Gorman inauguration poem banned from FL school after complaint which confused the author with Oprah Winfrey -- (link*) - znufrii 🦄 May 24, 11:32 7
- All of these complainants allege attempted indoctrination to get things banned, while attempting to indoctrinate everyone with Christianity and - jnine May 24, 12:33 3
  - It's only indoctrination if it's other people. -- nm - loosilu May 24, 12:39
  - Al Jazeera article says nearly all complaints come from 11 -- nm - zeitgeist May 24, 12:35
  - precisely. -- nm - mud May 24, 12:35
- but there's nothing that could possibly lead anyone to confuse those two people -- nm - hollywood big shot May 24, 11:35 2
  - You gotta think like a racist…black poet who reads for Presidents ➡️Maya Angelou➡️Oprah➡️famous black woman who likes books -- nm - Flavorize May 24, 11:40 1
    - It's getting to be like the anti commie area where blacklisted writers needed pseudonyms and beards to make a living -- nm - zeitgeist May 24, 12:24
Gah, ars technica just spoiled me on a certain part of Strange New Worlds S2, due to the new trailer featuring it (spoils) - Beryllium May 24, 11:23 1
- That's strange, because they've been actively trying to conceal that and filing takedowns. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 24, 12:32
Heidi Klum @ Cannes -- (link) - budice May 24, 11:10 5
- She really can wear anything. -- nm - loosilu May 24, 11:18 2
  - Anything? How about this? -- (pic) - Wilkes-Baron, PA May 24, 11:25 [Attachment] 1
    - Definitely. -- nm - loosilu May 24, 12:13
- She appears to have something on her boob. -- nm - Spawn May 24, 11:14 1
  - Funny little squares. -- nm - loosilu May 24, 11:17
Avid Telecom sued by multiple states for *billions * of scam calls with spoofed numbers of law enforcement agencies -- (link) - zeitgeist May 24, 10:45 1
- the thing about scammy telemarketers is they’re usually defunct by the time the cops even bother to show up -- nm - hollywood big shot May 24, 10:51
Millennials versus Boomers -- (link) - ty97 May 24, 10:40 3
- They told them the stereotypes weren't true and they would also be old one day and then everyone was fine?They needed to be told they'd be older? Hard - jnine May 24, 12:41
- So you're saying your kids are OK with doing away with social security? -- nm - zeitgeist May 24, 10:54
- hoped for a second this was the sub title of Squid Game 2 -- nm - Jovian May 24, 10:46
Minnesota Dems, with a whopping one-vote legislative majority, understand how power actually works -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 24, 10:33 4
- Can someone c&p? -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 24, 13:03 2
  - i'll try - mud May 24, 13:07 1
    - Thanks. It quickly mentioned what I needed and I’ll have to find the details now. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 24, 13:10
- Meanwhile the supermajorities in NY can’t do anything and the centrist governor is no help -- nm - Tim May 24, 10:55
Honestly, how was Nate Silver ever a thing? -- (link) - Jovian May 24, 10:32 10
- He's no Steve Kornacki. -- nm - jnine May 24, 12:49
- He was a one trick pony, but he did it first. his thing is now done better by lots of other people. -- nm - Tim May 24, 10:56
- Long shots do win, he did show the path with 16% probability, everyone underestimated the amount of voters "depression " - zeitgeist May 24, 10:51 3
  - Im talking more about his recent 'political takes' he has been making. - Jovian May 24, 10:59
  - polling being off for reasons having nothing to do with Nate’s analysis doesn’t make Nate a post-hoc stats genius -- nm - hollywood big shot May 24, 10:53 1
    - "The hell you say." -- ESPN 538, The Quinientos Treinta y Ocho -- nm - Beryllium May 24, 10:59
- Serious answer to rhetorical question: he rode the coattails of his one success into a decade-long grift -- nm - Beryllium May 24, 10:34 1
  - also... - Beryllium May 24, 10:37
- a lot of dumb people think The Analytics are really smart -- nm - hollywood big shot May 24, 10:34 1
  - IPO Marvel's Analytics -- nm - Max May 24, 10:51
Commanders TE Armani Rogers suffers noncontact Achilles injury. Likely done for the season -- nm - Beaker May 24, 10:16
Max has confirmed it will be restoring the writer/director credits. "Oversight" -- (link*) - budice May 24, 10:04 18
- speaking of max, if anyone sees a one year deal, can you LMK? thanks! -- nm - judge indianapolis jones May 24, 10:17 13
  - I'd be surprised if they did any deals anytime soon -- nm - decline May 24, 10:22 12
    - Yup. -- nm - David May 24, 10:24 11
      - because they're broke? I would imagine you would want to incent new subscribers. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones May 24, 10:53 10
        
        They specifically alienated 4 million existing subscribers by not optimizing content for them to save costs. -- (edited) - David May 24, 10:56 9
        
        It's such an example of reverse branding. Tale something everyone knows and is predominantly favorable toward and distance yourself from it as much as - jnine May 24, 12:53
        
        related unrelated: how much do you think they spent to acquire max.com? -- nm - judge indianapolis jones May 24, 11:04 7
        
        I've been quoted seven figures on URLs that aren't as useful as that. I'd guess at least $30 million. At least one URL has gone for $300+ million. -- nm - David May 24, 11:06 6
        
        (presuming they didn't already own it...I don't know) -- nm - David May 24, 11:06 5
        
        For everyone to still say " What's on HBO?". - Pippy Quintas May 24, 11:14 4
        
        The funniest part is that if you pull up the app, the choices are Series, Movies, HBO, and New & Notable. - David May 24, 11:21 3
        
        can they write off rebranding as a one time charge? that might have driven the decision. roll up other stuff into rebranding? -- nm - judge indianapolis jones May 24, 11:52 1
        
        Accounting tricks have become their bread and butter so I would presume so. I have no factually basis for that belief, though. -- nm - David May 24, 12:12
        
        100% to your IM -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 24, 11:27
- Some nerd probably figured out the saving on film run time, if they were able to “creators” the credits…just a huge scroll of names—no titles or depts -- nm - Flavorize May 24, 10:13 1
  - It's content. Content has creators. Could it be any more obvious? -- nm - the place where stupid grows May 24, 10:15
- WGA/DGA happy -- (link) - budice May 24, 10:05 1
  - eh. now they'll probably claim this was some big concession in the negotiations -- nm - hollywood big shot May 24, 10:10
Anyone have a bunch of vans that can hit 300mph, a giant morning star and a place to hang it from? I wanna see this IRL. -- (link) - TWuG May 24, 09:48 17
- Incorrect. - Spawn May 24, 11:38
- (Is this a snuff film?) -- nm - David May 24, 10:24 4
  - Kind of. It's a category of extreme scenario videos from car simulator games. - Beryllium May 24, 10:26 3
    - My guess is this was done with beam.ng but I don't know. -- nm - Max May 24, 10:50 1
      - that's what I was looking through -- nm - JaxSean May 24, 11:00
    - G-T-A -- nm - budice May 24, 10:33
- lol I love these videos -- nm - Jovian May 24, 10:19
- I want the one where The Rock grabs the morning star as they drive by, holds onto the van and they just do a complete 180 and head the other way -- nm - Beaker May 24, 10:18
- so what I learned from this is I need to go at least 150mph to get airborn - decline May 24, 10:17
- Oh come on, what are the chances that you're driving along and get hit by- oh wait that happened in Gone in 60 Seconds. - Max May 24, 10:16 [youtube]
- That escalated quickly. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 May 24, 10:09 4
  - At what point do you start to reconsider that camera position? - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 May 24, 10:12 3
    - (it's a simulation video) -- nm - JaxSean May 24, 10:38 2
      - So, it's not real? -- nm - David May 24, 10:48 1
        
        I'm fairly certain that a 70s van going 300mph would self destruct before getting to the mace. -- nm - zeitgeist May 24, 12:37
- 240: *holds up field goal signal* -- nm - Reagen May 24, 10:06
- holy shit -- nm - mud May 24, 09:50

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