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Can we cool it with the parent interviews? Like what do you expect a mom to say? ‘Honestly my son is a little hyped up. He doesn’t defend well enough. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 22, 19:31
Poll: What are you grateful for tonight? I'm grateful I only have one more day of this rough week till the weekend. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 22, 18:58 7
- My cow orker lunch friend who is changing their schedule effective next week. I'm realizing they reach out to me a lot and I have benefited from that. -- nm - con_carne Jun 22, 19:19
- N has had a very difficult time with the noise level at camp this week, but has done a great job self-regulating until I can pick him up after I - kelly Jun 22, 19:12 2
  - 👍 I'm glad to hear that he is self-regulationg. I believe that is a skill that keeps getting stronger with practice. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 22, 19:19
  - Did they accommodate better today? -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 22, 19:13
- A great trip so far. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 22, 19:01
- I'm currently above sea level. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 19:01
- It has been a bruiser. I’m thankful for air conditioning for sure. -- nm - Qale Jun 22, 19:01
Good college World Series tension. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 22, 18:44
Now here's a machine to rage against -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 22, 18:39 [mastodon] 2
- quick, rewrite teenage dirtbag to be about the surveillance state! - mafic Jun 22, 19:34
- Besides Madison Square Gardens, who does? (NFL? esp for super bowl, MLB for all star game/WS?) -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 19:06
Heh, apparently I bought a replacement air filter about two weeks before the unit's replace-the-filter timer triggered. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 18:33
He's all yours, Toronto! Enjoy the outfits! -- nm - David Jun 22, 18:30 3
- Are you talking about Gradey Dick's Dorothy Suit? It's insane. -- nm - Krusty Jun 22, 18:41 2
  - I just can't believe no one clued in his parents that they named him "Grade A Dick". -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 18:48
  - Yup. -- nm - David Jun 22, 18:47
DTL: the kid I lost heads up to Tulsa this season that I said would be a problem just dropped 42 on me in the conference tourney. - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 22, 18:28
The son of a member of Michigan's Fab Five just went in the draft. - David Jun 22, 18:16 1
- A kid on r/whitesox was trying to identify an autograph. People recognized it pretty quickly as 80s star Ron Kittle. - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 22, 18:25
One of Ronald Acuña's throws from RF today was measured at 104.1 mph. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 22, 18:12 2
- Is that good? -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 22, 18:26
- prolly shoulda been a pitcher -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 18:16
I've finally stopped waiting by the phone on draft night -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 22, 18:05 2
- Reagen? Ender? You guys go yet? -- nm* - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 22, 18:26 1
  - I went for a run but had to pull up. I expect word got out about that and it's sent me spiralling. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 18:47
The Bear casting Robert Townsend brings me pure joy. -- nm* - David Jun 22, 17:51
Maricopa County Recorder (a job that includes voter registration and early voting) sues Kari Lake for defamation. He’s a Republican. -- (link) - Tim Jun 22, 17:47 1
- Why haven't they sued before , why haven't newspapers sued for being called fake news, it's harmful to their brand -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 17:53
for what it's worth, any leak at depth in that sub would have caused near-instant implosion. like there's not a scenario where there was a water jet - mafic Jun 22, 17:44 13
- Yeah, they went from alive to paste pretty much instantly. -- nm - TWuG Jun 22, 18:03 4
  - The 19 year old apparently did not want to go, and only did because his dad was so insistent. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 19:05 3
    - Shit, where did you see this? -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 19:18 1
      - interview with the aunt -- (link) - Reagen Jun 22, 19:28
    - Quick is the only saving grace in this. And the kid, I feel bad for him. -- nm - TWuG Jun 22, 19:14
- Yeah, those pressure differences are not really conceivable in everyday life. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 17:48 7
  - yet every tv anchor says it's like a lead empire state building on top of you. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 22, 18:02 6
    - Every TV anchor is telling you to imagine an Empire State Building made of lead? -- nm - con_carne Jun 22, 18:41 5
      - that I have seen this week, yes. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 22, 18:54
      - is it solid lead in the shape of the empire state building, or does it have all the voids and air spaces in it as well. these things matter. -- nm - mafic Jun 22, 18:54 2
        
        the former. -- nm - the wicked witch of the East Jun 22, 18:56
        
        I mean there's no way to get that much lead in one place without it deforming anyway. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 18:56
      - A very imaginable, relatable metaphor! -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 18:50
Brandon Miller deserves to go to the Hornets - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 17:32 2
- They drafted the kid with literally the worst ncaa tourney ever. -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 22, 18:05
- last draft for Jordan so this time he makes a good pick for certain! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 22, 17:33
Jim Cameron is talking with Anderson Cooper now. very interesting info coming out of him including the backchannel people say an implosion was heard - Peglegpete Jun 22, 17:25 3
- He said on another channel that the community is saying the Titan had dropped its ascent ballast. - loosilu Jun 22, 18:29
- *wow* -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 18:00 1
  - it reruns in 2 hours -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 22, 18:00
Spurs did it -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 17:17 1
- Bit of a shock for them to go with Fantilli. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 17:19
Basis for a law suit. They delayed sending out an SOS a few hours, of course it often lost comms and they didn't want to cry wolf each time -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 17:06 12
- Also, what comms did they have? I've been told that you can't communicate through 3 miles of water... -- nm - Ender Jun 22, 17:14 3
  - They were three miles down after 1.75 hours? -- nm - mara Jun 22, 17:49 2
    - pretty close anyway. supposed to take 2 hours to get to depth. -- nm - mafic Jun 22, 17:52
    - it's difficult to get communication past even 100m under water. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 17:51
- I mean, if they were a fine paste within seconds, what harm does a couple hours do? -- nm - Ender Jun 22, 17:13
- even if the passengers hadn't waived liability, what does a judgment get you? the Goldman family's had a $33m judgment against OJ for 25 years - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 17:10 6
  - Iirc they claimed much of his memorabilia. But yeah he moved to Florida where you can build a 100m house to hide your money -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 17:56
  - when I was a mailboy at a lawfirm one of the very expensive partners once told me waivers are meaningless. "sign anything and sue anyway. - mafic Jun 22, 17:54 3
    - this is the same guy who had us spend $2,500 to courier him long phone cable so he could check his email on the beach when he was on vacation. - mafic Jun 22, 18:00 2
      - I'm hoping he was a better lawyer that he was with his money -- nm - JD Jun 22, 18:14 1
        
        client's money! he was working on a lawsuit that was expected to take so long they built a special courtroom for it. - mafic Jun 22, 18:25
  - also what would an SOS have done? There was no saving them. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 17:16
on its 35th anniversary, how Roger Rabbit got framed -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 17:01
Longer James Cameron interview -- (link*) - Reagen Jun 22, 16:58
this thing the trades seem to do more and more lately repurposing (copyrighted) online content as stories of their own is gross even for the trades -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 16:56 2
- they're doing that with podcasts as well. -- nm - Remlik Jun 22, 17:20 1
  - the worst are tweet threads. just C&P the tweets as if they were answers by the tweeter in a sit down. no, you just stole their tweets for your piece -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 17:23
#1 most smackable face id definitely Gradey Dick from kansas -- nm - Beaker Jun 22, 16:55
55 years ago Mason Williams releases Classical Gas and 60 years ago the Surfaris release Wipe Out -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 16:51 2
- and we got to see Mason play it almost every ep. of the Glenn Cambell show that summer. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 22, 17:01 1
  - True, I loved the rapid fine art slide show...and really liked the banjo version -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 17:58
Look, Twitter advertiser, I know your product is a scam if you sell it using 15 different handles and I have to block its ads - TWuG Jun 22, 16:42 3
- Facebook ads for First Class stamps for half off -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 16:52
- I block every Promoted thing on twitter. makes my visits more fun. -- nm - Beaker Jun 22, 16:42 1
  - Yup. I need to cull some follows soon, too. Bleak is fine unless it's all they post. -- nm - TWuG Jun 22, 16:46
unless this kid wins like 8 Championships for the Spurs they just might be overinflating him just a tad -- nm - Beaker Jun 22, 16:34 7
- He has an almost 10’ wingspan. It’s fair to say we haven’t seen anything like him. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 22, 16:44 4
  - Hope he’s good at basketball because he’s probably not cut out for baseball. Unless… -- (link) - Tim Jun 22, 16:46 3
    - Hockey would be problematic. Ridiculously high center of gravity and impossible for him not to hit people in the head. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 16:52 2
      - just think how long his stick would have to be. -- nm - mafic Jun 22, 17:21 1
        
        Chara had to get a waiver for his, and this guy's 8 inches taller. - Reagen Jun 22, 17:24
- Jokic just now elevated the Nugs to a title and he's already 28 - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 16:38 1
  - maybe just for the Draft show but already comparing him to Crosby, Gretzky, Peyton, Lebron, Shaq, Kobe etc -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 22, 16:40
Pocono Raceway has its track dryer on standby in case of rain for I-95 reopening -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 Jun 22, 16:31
Hmm -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 22, 16:31 [mastodon]
OMG! I found the source of that quote I was trying to remember the other week! - Ender Jun 22, 16:21 1
- Gotta be Carrot (been a while) -- nm - VMan Jun 22, 16:28
Hey! Elon Musk is stealing my moves! -- (pic) - Ender Jun 22, 16:09 [Attachment] 1
- title of his sex tape -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 22, 16:21
now realizing that if Succession’s family was the Kennedy’s, RFK Jr is basically Connor For President -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 15:58
The US Navy sub detection system heard the implosion hours after the sub lost comms. -- (link) - TWuG Jun 22, 15:56 7
- Wait, so then who was doing the knocking?! Keep searching! There's another sub down there! -- nm - Ender Jun 22, 17:23 3
  - Ocean be noisy, y'all. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 17:25
  - Probably the russians fucking with everyone -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 17:25 1
    - have we learned nothing from XCOM 2? it was aliens. -- nm - mafic Jun 22, 17:35
- I wondered why the navy hadn't said anything about implosion noises, given we knew they'd have heard it. waiting for confirmation, I guess -- nm - mafic Jun 22, 17:19 1
  - They notified someone, but it may have needed to stay compartmentalized so maybe it was a - TWuG Jun 22, 17:24
- Shortly after the time of lost contact? Wonder what kind of time span they’re talking about -- nm* - mara Jun 22, 16:02
"St'rt!" "Roald?" "St'rt!" -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 22, 15:51 2
- Oh, man. They should have left it and embraced the silly. -- nm - TWuG Jun 22, 15:58
- "The mayor did have an explanation for the misspelling, which is a start." NO -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 15:56
LIR - East bound and down with a load of teriyaki. We gonna do what they say can’t be done. -- nm - VMan Jun 22, 15:44 1
- We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there. East bound, watch the "Teriyaki Bandit" run. -- nm* - Beryllium Jun 22, 15:46
No, James Cameron it may have happen in the same area but this isn't the same scope of disaster as the Titanic - eag Jun 22, 15:42 6
- Setting aside the four other casualties (are they victims? I'm not sure), the death of Nargeolet, the titanic expert… I mean, if it had just been him, - Beryllium Jun 22, 15:54
- I read his statement as equating the events on a similar level of boneheadedness -- nm - JD Jun 22, 15:53 4
  - I'd agree with the boneheadness but it's still kind of apples to oranges -- nm - eag Jun 22, 16:17 1
    - the scale is obviously different but the hubris is the same. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 16:24
  - yes. "a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded" -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 16:08
  - This. A nicer way of saying play stupid games, win stupid prizes. -- nm - TWuG Jun 22, 15:55
So the Lawn Passes have already worked out! The lawn is closed tonight, so they gave us seats: 8th row, seats 1&2. - JaxSean Jun 22, 15:41 8
- that's gonna be a terrific show -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 22, 15:49
- (Apparently, they only sold 3000 total tickets for 25k capacity) -- nm - JaxSean Jun 22, 15:47 6
  - This makes me sad for the tour but insanely happy for you - JD Jun 22, 15:59 1
    - Will do! -- nm - JaxSean Jun 22, 16:33
  - yay Metric -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 15:49 2
    - Metric -- (pic) - JaxSean Jun 22, 16:28 [Attachment] 1
      - I love Emily. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 16:29
  - wow, enjoy! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 22, 15:48
I think Josh Shapiro is a legit contender in 2028. - Tim Jun 22, 15:40 5
- It's great and all, don't get me wrong, but you may be overestimating how much competence is valued in national politics. -- nm - znufrii Jun 22, 16:05 3
  - It doesn't mean shit any longer. -- nm - Jovian Jun 22, 16:27 2
    - More specifically, its narrative value only lasts as long as it takes to get something done, then *poof*. -- (edited) - znufrii 🦄 Jun 22, 16:33
    - i think it matters generally to the average voter. but for breaking through the Pitchbot gravitational field, campaign like a Fetterman not a Tim Ryan -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 16:32
- It's definitely an impressive feat that looks good on film. -- nm - David Jun 22, 15:44
Self-Shill: If you'd like to help a small team of folks establish FIDO-Heart of Illinois (a new nonprofit pet food bank), please check out Facebook. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Jun 22, 15:37
Stupid Word Game -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 22, 15:34
Sympathy for the families. Sucks to be related to people who put their lives at risk for thrills. - TWuG Jun 22, 15:27 3
- “You’re remembered for the rules you break.” -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jun 22, 15:35 2
  - yeah, any company that builds their unlicensed submersible at Home Depot is probably not a stickler for observing dive rules - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 15:38 1
    - Reading up, it does sound like there are no rules about diving on the wreck because it is in international waters. Recovery of artifacts - TWuG Jun 22, 16:01
Kesha and Dr. Luke have settled their lawsuit and released joint statements. -- nm - MDH Jun 22, 15:13 2
- The statement will chart at #7 next week. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 15:17 1
  - The music success of that relationship was only surpassed by the dysfunction so put a beat behind it and who knows -- nm - JD Jun 22, 15:24
I just made pickled watermelon rind, and sweet fancy Moses, this is dynamite -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 22, 15:10 6
- yeah. Mirey does that from time to time. I'm a fan. -- nm - mafic Jun 22, 17:36
- Here's the recipe I used. I just used a regular large seedless watermelon. I ended up with 8 cups chopped after I had peeled it -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 22, 15:37 2
  - Well, that’s helpful. -- nm - VMan Jun 22, 15:39 1
    - sorry. here -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 22, 18:05
- Tease. What *magic* was involved? Interested in more deets and review. -- nm - VMan Jun 22, 15:35
- the small/medium seedless watermelon? Does the watermelon type make a difference? -- nm - Max Jun 22, 15:12
Stefanik and MGT put forward resolutions expunging both of DJTs impeachments. The party of law and order. -- nm* - Jovian Jun 22, 15:03 3
- Analytically, this is the type of thing history will bury them for. Dude just got caught with national secrets, and this is how they respond. -- nm - David Jun 22, 15:33 2
  - One would hope. But history is written by the victors, so we need them to lose at the ballot box convincingly enough - TWuG Jun 22, 15:38 1
    - The Demos should start 'Hilarying' them, announce an investingation into new evidence of selling secrets to the russians and saudis -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 16:31
So, how's that strike going, anyway? - Mop🧹 Jun 22, 14:58 1
- they had a big cross-union march and rally yesterday at the Tar Pits (5k+). that's where Lindsey Dougherty gave the speech (which for her is tame) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 15:01

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