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so today is national fried chicken day... huh. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 6, 05:49 12
- Also International Kissing Day. They probably aren't related. -- nm - spamlet Jul 6, 06:25 1
  - Don't ask Killer Joe -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 06:34
- And my 10th anniversary. Makes it easy for me to remember. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jul 6, 06:24 1
  - ehhhh! Happy anniversary! -- nm - sycor Jul 6, 06:37
- (we realize these are just marketing creations, yes?) -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 05:54 5
  - That’s what you get with a young country, with few, real traditions…marketing films those gaps. Plus, Americans love to eat junk— - Flavorize Jul 6, 06:29
  - National send money to a geologist day hasn’t really caught on yet. Sad really. -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 06:27
  - Whaaaaa? -- nm - spamlet Jul 6, 06:25
  - can't argue, eating chicken -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 6, 05:59
  - and? -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 6, 05:55
- Awww man. I need to start check this more often. I already took out pork chops to grill. -- nm - sycor Jul 6, 05:52
- I never eat this food. Always get anything except. Maybe I should today! -- nm - con_carne Jul 6, 05:52
Happy Forest Gump day! -- nm - sycor Jul 6, 05:02
Joy Ride 92% (56/5), Insidious The Red Door 40% (2/3), Biosphere 76% (19/6), Amanda 100% (16/0), The League 100% (6/0), Earth Mama 100% (11/0) - Beaker 🍺 Jul 6, 04:54 1
- MI:DR pt1 98% (112/2) - LMS Jul 6, 06:31
TV PSA: Blacklist, The Chase, The Lincoln Lawyer s2, Hart to Heart, iCarly, Gold Brick, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, TWD: Dead City, Warrior, -- (edited) - Beaker 🍺 Jul 6, 04:51 3
- LL, SNW -- nm - Beryllium Jul 6, 06:32
- 2) The Lincoln Lawyer and Alone -- nm - Krusty Jul 6, 05:37
- Lincoln Lawyer and SNW for me -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 6, 04:51
For me, Twitter was useful from a citizen reporter perspective - Fuzzy Jul 6, 04:50 12
- News hits there, same time as it happens. Goes viral on Twitter then gets picked up by other sites 2 days later (which is usually when ST plucks them) -- nm - Flavorize Jul 6, 06:23 1
  - disagree. I find ST is almost always on top of breaking news or recent happenings. So many people reviewing so many different news sources - Beaker 🍺 Jul 6, 06:27
- what Threads has going for it is the ease of autofollowing all the people/businesses you follow on Instagram. People go where content is. - Andie Jul 6, 06:22 1
  - and the fact that it will eventually allow you to see posts on other sites, like Mastodon, from within Threads, without being ON Mastodon (etc.) -- nm - Andie Jul 6, 06:23
- Facebook itself is losing audience. While they have a lot of people with an account or even active, the people using FB are older and less - Krusty Jul 6, 05:23 7
  - Where all da young peeps at? - sycor Jul 6, 06:20 2
    - TikTok -- nm - decline Jul 6, 06:27
    - tiktok and snapchat -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 6, 06:22
  - i'm still hung up on the genocide...i may have flimsy morals, but that's a line i can draw. -- nm - colin Jul 6, 05:46 3
    - FB committed genocide? -- nm - Krusty Jul 6, 06:10 2
      - They didn’t do anything when people in Myanmar were using it to coordinate genocide at least, and they knew it was happening. -- nm - mafic Jul 6, 06:18 1
        
        Ahh, I missed that bit of info. -- nm - Krusty Jul 6, 06:20
Wagner boss Prigozhin is in Russia, Belarus ruler Lukashenko says - LMS Jul 6, 04:09
Wordle 747 5/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 6, 02:58 4
- 5 - decline Jul 6, 05:18
- 3 - strike 1, strike 2, str... Oh - Fuzzy Jul 6, 04:01 1
  - wow -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 6, 04:02
- 4/6 - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jul 6, 03:50
Threads gets 5m users first 4 hours going live -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 5, 23:25 3
- I'll use it just like I use twitter I imagine, never -- nm - oblique Jul 6, 05:40 1
  - I used twitter as my primary news source - if all the journo's move to threads I'll use it for that -- nm - decline Jul 6, 05:49
- Elon Musk "It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram -- nm - Phd dissertations could be written on this quote Jul 5, 23:29
L.A. mom gives birth to quads on the 4th, each weighing over 4lbs. Sister goes to the store for them and the tab is $44.44. -- (link) - Meg Jul 5, 23:22
This is a great new Downfall parody: -- (link) - Jovian Jul 5, 22:21
rember a few days ago I linked french media that showed US Navy recording of the submersible sound? All deleted now. -- (edited) - loosilu Jul 5, 21:35 9
- It's a conspiracy! -- nm - decline Jul 6, 06:04
- Could it have given Russian or Chinese intelligence some clues about our sub tracking abilities? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 21:52 2
  - I have to assume that is the case. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 21:58 1
    - I thought Trump already sold them that info 2 years ago. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 5, 22:24
- Every single french engineer video about Titan, deleted. Every last one. -- nm* - loosilu Jul 5, 21:40 3
  - I wonder what they said about Zaslav. -- nm - David Jul 5, 21:45 2
    - +2 Qale Points -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 22:39 1
      - Just two? I did a mental bat flip. -- nm - David Jul 5, 22:58
- ouch -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 5, 21:39
I'm watching something called Great British Menu. Chefs are competing to serve dishes at a banquet for British honors recipients. Every dish they - Meg Jul 5, 21:16 10
- STONGLY recommend @70sdinnerparty on IG, she posts midcentury cookbook recipes, I'm there for the comments. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 22:08 1
  - Alton Brown follows it. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 22:15
- Maybe LMS can chime in, but my German cousin lived near London a few years. Said it's mostly curry shops and Thai, some Moroccan -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 22:06 1
  - I get food on the plates in restaurants here. I don't watch GBM but from the bits I've seen they put a lot of effort into presentation. - LMS Jul 6, 01:12
- deconstructed spotted dick -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 21:48 4
  - trying to remember if I ate that, is it dried currants? -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 21:49 3
    - that or raisins. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 22:01 2
      - SULTANAS. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 22:05 1
        
        Of Swing -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 22:06
- it is weird how trends develop, dominate, and then fade away -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 21:43
Completely asleep Kim: "What IS a cracker barrel anyway?" Me: *goes on a deep dive into the meaning of the term* - David Jul 5, 21:15 1
- "the etymology of "Yankee"..." -- nm - sleepwalk whispered Jul 5, 21:17
2 Leading Theories of Consciousness Square Off - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 21:12
The Dark Universe Is Waiting. What Will the Euclid Telescope Reveal? - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 21:02 2
- hopefully not draculas. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 22:04 1
  - Werewolves, but they can only see them once a month. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 03:47
Budice posted about her, about a month ago, but keep an eye on Rose Zhang…we’ve been promised a female Woods…and her she is -- (edited) - Flavorize Jul 5, 20:55
No, but seriously. Where is SlackerTalk’s night mode already? - Qale Jul 5, 20:36 4
- Every few years I make another attempt and ... hate it. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 20:39 3
  - It’s not as easy as just flipping the colors either. I did white on black text for my blog decades before it was cool. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 20:40 2
    - Indeed, it's a whole different thing. Frustrating. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 20:41 1
      - Maybe black with orange text, for a single day, Halloween thing? -- nm - Flavorize Jul 5, 20:45
My dad tried the vegetable thing ONE time. I won. The end. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 20:33
begun the zuck dunks have -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 20:31 6
- "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?" -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 20:34 5
  - I don’t plan on being active there but it’s interesting to see. no waiting for invites, just switch over and twitter is bye bye - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 20:37 4
    - To be the most honest I've been on this particular board: half of me wants to be aloof, but the other wants to know how this all shakes out. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 20:42 3
      - Elon should be worried -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 20:43 2
        
        So far he still has a critical mass of legacies, news, government announcement, weather warnings -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 20:55 1
        
        Not so much that last part. Space City Weather posted today they’re looking to drop Twitter from their line up. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 21:25
these days you cook the veggies and blender them into a sauce that mixed into the casserole or loaf, if you don't know its there you can't object -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 20:31
Problem with Threads is that it'll instantly be as bad as Twitter because every Facebook user has easy access. - colin Jul 5, 20:05 7
- And that logo. Wtf. What is that?? -- nm - colin Jul 5, 20:10 4
  - It’s an ampersand that’s gotten entirely way out of -and. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 20:34
  - The fact that they didn't try to buy threads.com, a company with only $10M in funding, shows meta doesn't think this is going anywhere. - colin Jul 5, 20:14 2
    - they probably already had it from the old Instagram threads app. has everyone forgotten about the old Instagram threads app? - mafic Jul 6, 06:25
    - zuk seems one of those tech bullies that would spend 100m in legal fees to swamp that 10m place into oblivion...maybe elon could buy them -- nm - just to screw with FB Jul 5, 20:34
- You can't delete a Threads account without also deleting your IG, it seems. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 20:08 1
  - Haaaaaa -- nm - colin Jul 5, 20:09
LIR Colin! terrible cooking was a HUGE part, 50s and 60s, vegetables were DISGUSTING. - loosilu Jul 5, 20:03 18
- Never had a veggie stand-off in my house, on the other hand they were usually out of a can and boiled for 30 minutes. So if it was fresh good. - . Jul 6, 05:03
- The Truck Farmer -- (link) - Qale Jul 5, 20:35 [youtube] 2
  - Oh, the great Hank gets to work on the truck. - Tim Jul 5, 20:56 1
    - Probably Top 10 shorts of all time? -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 21:25
- in the 50's and 60's vegetables came in cans -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 20:22 3
  - It was supposed to be BETTER. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 20:25 2
    - We did mostly frozen veggies—I don’t think I had fresh spinach until I was in my mid 20s -- nm - Flavorize Jul 5, 20:51
    - the canning process has you Pressure boil them for 20m -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 20:29
- Green vegetables were boiled to death with baking soda added to keep them green :/ -- nm - Meg Jul 5, 20:14 1
  - 🤮 -- nm - Flavorize Jul 5, 20:50
- Selective farming has also made vegetables more palatable in general -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 20:09 1
  - I think you are younger than many of us, at that time, society taught us preserved food was scientific and best -- (edited) - loosilu Jul 5, 20:11
- Maybe it's regional? Midwesterners from that era were making some insame foods - colin Jul 5, 20:06 5
  - Nope, I lived in Northeast, it was normal at that time. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 20:08 4
    - fwiw, food in Maine is still terrible. -- nm - colin Jul 5, 20:10 3
      - can't speak to that! in what way do you mean? -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 20:11 2
        
        It's very very bland. Seafood is okay, everything else is pretty meh. - colin Jul 5, 20:46 1
        
        see also: New Zealand. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 22:20
Nimona (Netflix), A (minor spoils) -- (edited) - znufrii 🦄 Jul 5, 20:02 1
- We gave it a B. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 20:32
Wirecutter - The Best Vanilla Ice Cream By Marguerite Preston Published June 30, 2023 - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 19:58
birds aren't real. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 19:57 37
- one of my favorite untrue but generally harmless conspiracy theories. -- nm - Tim Jul 5, 20:04 1
  - "interesting theory. And who made these robotic birds" "the j-" "say no more!" -- nm - colin Jul 5, 20:16
- Bird is the word -- (link) - Peglegpete Jul 5, 20:01 [youtube]
- I've had my struggles with your paleontologist buddies telling me that they are dinosaurs. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 19:59 28
  - Oh, they are. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 20:00 27
    - Which one is the apatosaurus? The hummingbird? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 20:04 26
      - I have not heard of that first word. Do you mean aarcheopteryx? - loosilu Jul 5, 20:07 17
        
        No, I mean Apatosaurus -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 20:15 16
        
        they were sauropods. sauropods are gone, birds are theropods. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 20:17 7
        
        Yeah, they're theropods just like T. Rex. Everyday I ask the covey of quail in my backyard to please not eat me. - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 20:25 2
        
        lizards run the gamut from geckos to alligators. I'm afraid of one of those. -- nm - Reagen Jul 6, 03:51
        
        wait til you meet a cassowary -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 21:47
        
        Most people don't know that during the 90s and later there were MASSIVE revision - loosilu Jul 5, 20:21 3
        
        just like PLUTO :( -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 5, 20:24 2
        
        I'm pretty sure Pluto is still there. - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 20:26 1
        
        WWII Disney art of the 85'th armored recon unit. art by Hank Porter -- (pic) - Peglegpete Jul 5, 21:32 [Attachment]
        
        Oh, I think that's the one that was called Brontosaurus, which no longer exists. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 20:17 6
        
        nah, he back now. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 20:18 5
        
        is he? that branch is a mess. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 20:18 4
        
        bronto and apato are now considered distinct species. mostly the brontosaurus disappearing was a shit fight between paleontologists. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 20:27 3
        
        Bone geologists. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 20:29
        
        I guarantee they screamed at each other at confeences and called each other retards. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 20:27 1
        
        Sounds just like archaeologists :-) -- nm - Meg Jul 5, 21:36
        
        I've heard that name! looking now. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 20:16
      - archaeopteryx, boitches. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 20:06 7
        
        "Hu et al. (2018),[91] Wang et al. (2018)[92] and Hartman et al. (2019)[93] found Archaeopteryx to have been a deinonychosaur instead of an avialan." - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 20:13 5
        
        they coin flipped it, it could really be either. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 20:16 3
        
        God doesn't play coin flips with the universe! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 20:19 2
        
        God doesn't do taxonomy. Taxonomy is done by a bunch of academics at the ivies, AMNH in NY, probably a lot of other places - loosilu Jul 5, 20:22 1
        
        It's a small group of people, I saw them in action. - loosilu Jul 5, 20:26
        
        Everybody have fun tonight. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 20:15
        
        cladistics!!! - loosilu Jul 5, 20:07
- Can you please explain about the birds? -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 19:58 2
  - oh, it's a thing some kid made up around the women's march. joined couterprotesters with a sign that said "birds aren't real" then made up a - mafic Jul 5, 21:59
  - little cameras for eyes... Looking at you. Recording. -- nm - colin Jul 5, 19:59
- veggies aren't real - colin Jul 5, 19:57 1
  - that kind of depends what vegetables you are being forced to eat. -- (edited) - loosilu Jul 5, 20:00

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