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Greetings from one of the Carolinas -- nm* - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 19, 17:28 3
- West? -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 17:28 2
  - Coastal! -- nm - spamlet Jul 19, 17:30 1
    - Hi Nubby! -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 17:32
Cheeseburger vs Grand Big Mac -- (pic) - Beryllium Jul 19, 17:08 [Attachment] 3
- i tried the GBM once. it felt too big for a Big Mac. the original is like the perfect size as is -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 17:11 1
  - This seems accurate. I think I like it better than the chicken mac, though. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 17:13
- Side view -- (pic) - Beryllium Jul 19, 17:08 [Attachment]
Wow! TIL reading Attck of the Killer Tomatoes' wikipedia page - prayformojo Jul 19, 17:04
BRON Studios has filed for bankruptcy. -- nm - MDH Jul 19, 17:01
The way SAG is giving out waivers is like Oprah giving out prizes. YOU get a waiver! and YOU get a waiver! EVERYONE gets waiver! - Beaker 🍻 Jul 19, 16:53 3
- so far they appear to be truly indie projects. but all the "waiver" does is say the producers will abide by whatever terms of the new deal ultimately - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 16:56 2
  - will the Emmys get the same deal as The Tonys? -- nm - mud Jul 19, 17:00 1
    - i think they're probably just going to move the date - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 17:01
another 110+ day for Phoenix, 20th straight -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 16:45 1
- Can they rightly call it Phoenix unless it burns first? -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 16:49
*points and laughs at UK* -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 Jul 19, 16:30 1
- :-D -- nm - mud Jul 19, 16:38
7/19 set1 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jul 19, 16:04 [Attachment] 8
- Set 2 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jul 19, 16:05 [Attachment] 7
  - Set 3 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jul 19, 16:06 [Attachment] 6
    - Set 4 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jul 19, 16:07 [Attachment] 5
      - Set 5 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jul 19, 16:07 [Attachment] 4
        
        Roll over Monday 7/17 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jul 19, 16:09 [Attachment] 3
        
        Roll over 7/15 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jul 19, 16:10 [Attachment] 2
        
        One more set for decline -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jul 19, 16:58 [Attachment] 1
        
        You are awesome -- (edited) - decline Jul 19, 17:01
IT IS THE 90s AGAIN BABY! The Seahawks Throwbacks have dropped! 🐱‍👓🐱‍👓🐱‍👓 -- (link) - crash davis Jul 19, 15:44 6
- I'll be honest: how is that different than their regular uniform? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 15:53 5
  - This is a job for GUD. The Gridiron Uniforms Database -- (link) - crash davis Jul 19, 16:14 1
    - This is great! Thanks! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 16:26
  - It's different in many ways from the color of the blue, to the piping, the number shape and just the overall design. Their current uniforms were - Krusty Jul 19, 15:57 2
    - The color of the helmet is a biggie. And everyone loves the eyehurt green -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 16:16 1
      - Those people like the Boise St. field too. -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 16:25
Sweeney Todd is by far the best show I’ve ever seen. - kelly Jul 19, 15:38 4
- Heh, I’m glad to hear this even though my Sweeney Todd interest is solely regarding Schmicago and Alan Cumming. -- nm - mara Jul 19, 16:29
- Looks like you're having a great time! -- nm - JaxSean Jul 19, 16:24 1
  - I don’t want to leave. -- nm - kelly Jul 19, 16:34
- That's great -- nm - prayformojo Jul 19, 16:06
10 minutes of VR: that was pretty fun. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 15:30
L.A. by Subway -- (edited) - JD Jul 19, 15:04 3
- i've used it to commute to work daily for 10 years. it's fine, other than being thoroughly unpoliced. the new connector is 2 blocks from my office - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 15:08 2
  - My far less than daily trips typically involve at least the return trip being after dark and usually at the a train every 20 minutes part of - JD Jul 19, 15:17 1
    - a lot of emergency COVID money for public transit is due to dry up soon, which could be brutal. but LA has the Olympics coming in 5 years so they -- (edited) - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 15:20
i dunno man, if i were the Florida Democratic party i'd probably just run on teaching history to kids that slavery was bad for the slaves, actually -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 14:43 1
- oh you and your critical race theory -- nm - mafic Jul 19, 15:01
PB list - zeitgeist Jul 19, 14:42 10
- Cancel that. -- nm* - Krusty Jul 19, 15:51
- if we all sent the max, that means the split is just about $12M each, before our own state taxes us. -- nm* - Peglegpete Jul 19, 15:14
- My numbers for the pool -- (pic) - Max Jul 19, 15:02 [Attachment]
- Dammit. - decline Jul 19, 14:56 6 1
  - I'll try to get another set on the way home -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 16:11
  - I sent extra so you can have that and just send me the $10 and I'll just resend him the $10 for the next draw. -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 15:53 2
    - NM z is the best -- nm* - decline Jul 19, 16:50 1
      - Ok you're in -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 16:59
  - you spawned it, bruh -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 15:01 1
    - Totally -- nm - decline Jul 19, 16:55
called it when the first trailer dropped -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 14:36 [Backboard] 3
- All 20 showings are sold out for THU at local theater -- nm* - budice Jul 19, 14:42
- In the olden days this would have just done Bridesmaids numbers. -- nm - Max Jul 19, 14:41 1
  - star power matters (sorry Barry Diller) - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 14:44
STIS: Would anyone like to review a press release for me? - Reluctant Cynic Jul 19, 14:32 4
- I’m a grammar and syntax curmudgeon and would be glad to get critical for you, if that’s what you want. :-) maralinn at the g -- nm - mara Jul 19, 16:16 1
  - Whoo-hoo! -- nm - Reluctant Cynic Jul 19, 16:50
- I'm not qualified, but I could when it is after work for me if you have no takers by then. -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 14:44 1
  - Awesome. Amateurs are welcome. - Reluctant Cynic Jul 19, 14:55
Barbie 89% (140/17), Oppenheimer 93% (116/9), We Cloned Tyrone 97% (32/1) -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jul 19, 14:27 3
- It is a shame, but a realistic look at my schedule for this weekend means I can't do Barbenheimer. That would have been fun. -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 14:54 2
  - it doesnt count if they are both seen on the same weekend right? -- nm - Jovian Jul 19, 14:55 1
    - I think most are saying same day, but Barbie wouldn't let that limit her. She would say do it your own way. -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 15:05
MTG entered revenge porn into the congressional record at a hearing -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 14:24 3
- UNSUBSCRIBE -- nm - Max Jul 19, 14:41
- How does he look? -- nm - mop Jul 19, 14:26 1
  - Goldman said he should be called Big Guy -- nm* - Jovian Jul 19, 14:32
Angelos' shitheel kid is jerking Maryland around on renewing the team's lease at Camden Yards -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 13:45 1
- Because he plans to move to Tennessee. - the wrong element Jul 19, 17:31
My multi-point plan to fix climate change - Beryllium Jul 19, 13:39 31
- you can't have 2 and 3 as well as 6 and 7. you need oil and mining for renewables. maybe eventually you scale down the oil, but you need -- (edited) - mafic Jul 19, 15:09
- we've known what the problem is for over 50 years. we've never done hardly anything to mitigate it and we're probably not going to start now -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 14:40 6
  - H-E, it has begun -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 15:07 4
    - like cramming for the bar exam the night before without having attended a single class in law school -- (edited) - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 15:10 3
      - We shall choose to disagree on your defeatism. -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 15:17 2
        
        it's not a matter of agreeing/disagreeing. ambient temperature isn't an opinion -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 15:21 1
        
        the only way out of greenhouse effects is getting carbon out of the atmosphere. period full stop. anything less is just shuffling deck chairs -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 15:22
  - Obviously. An ounce of prevention is too inconvenient for the onward march of capitalism. - Beryllium Jul 19, 14:44
- The problem with sequestration technologies - Reagen Jul 19, 14:18 2
  - I knew that using the more specific term and concept would be an issue... ah well. Good thing my plans are useless. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 14:34 1
    - We need to start thinking in terms of energy diets - Reagen Jul 19, 15:39
- Is #5 #5 because you hope people zone out in the middle of the list? -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 14:18 2
  - No, #5 is because the way we've structured our economy, basic survival causes more carbon emissions than it should. - Beryllium Jul 19, 14:37 1
    - (But I suppose a handwavy "sure, fine, whatever" wouldn't hurt, while we're in the guts of things) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 14:37
- the key point of my plan is to build thousands of desalinization plants worldwide so we have more fresh water and stop the oceans from rising. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 19, 14:06 3
  - Where does the salt brine go? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 14:12 2
    - build roads or stuff house walls, insulation and keeps rodents and bugs away. -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 14:32
    - Everyone gets Sea Monkeys -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 14:15
- The main reason conservatives don’t “believe in” climate change is that the solutions are basically the progressive agenda. -- nm - mara Jul 19, 14:01 4
  - 100% and it cuts into capitalism profits -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 19, 14:04 2
    - Oh, yeah, several of the things in my list would "destroy the economy", as if the economy isn't 60% of the cause. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 14:12 1
      - sure, but also a recipe for massively increasing global inequality. -- nm - mafic Jul 19, 15:11
  - Yes, quite. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 14:01
- In the mean time invest in underground cave systems -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 13:46 7
  - And bomb Mars to see what happens. -- nm - Loyola Jul 19, 14:05 5
    - I know they've changed the animated M&M characters a bit recently. BUT isn't this a bit drastic? -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 19, 14:08 4
      - There was a theory about something like that to jumpstart creation of an atmosphere. -- nm - Loyola Jul 19, 14:10 3
        
        What it needs more than an atmosphere is a magnetosphere. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 14:13 2
        
        ok, so we can just send a bunch of magnets to orbit it and that will fix things. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 19, 14:31 1
        
        The Core 2: Mars Awaits -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 14:33
  - Yes, and coldsuit tech -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 13:53
total wait time, 37 mins. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 19, 13:34
DeSantis says he will ban transgender from serving in the military...sorry Corporal Klinger -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 13:31 6
- Klinger was a cross dresser, wasn't he? -- (edited) - sycor Jul 19, 13:35 5
  - True...but the question is, do *they* know, would they care? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 13:43 3
    - Fair. They probably don't, and no they wouldn't. To them, tt's different and scary and they hate it. -- nm - sycor Jul 19, 13:45 2
      - has no one been paying attention? LGTBQ is the new 1930s Jew. -- nm* - Jovian Jul 19, 13:49 1
        
        so... LGBTJew? considering the jaw dropping anti-semetic statements going around (covid engineered to be safe forjews, jews will not replace us) -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 14:35
  - which is probably considered worse by the GOP -- nm - Jovian Jul 19, 13:43
Things falling from the sky - we saw this, right? -- (link) - Meg Jul 19, 13:10 3
- Those Ford jeeps look nice. -- nm - Loyola Jul 19, 13:37
- thank god the Chicago PD sent all their cops to investigate -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 13:11
- Donnie Darko -- nm - rollo 🐙 Jul 19, 13:11
O's are three outs away from avoiding the sweep (again) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 13:09 2
- tied for 1st in the AL East: achievement unlocked -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 15:49
- I wonder how often a team goes a full calendar year without being swept in a series. - Will Hunting Jul 19, 13:11
GOP says they'll solve global warming by planting... ONE TRILLION TREES! -- (link) - colin Jul 19, 13:06 19
- It is a start -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 14:19
- I smell Big Logging Lobbyist hands in this - Pippy Quintas Jul 19, 13:50
- Tree huggers. -- nm - Loyola Jul 19, 13:36
- We are doing our part, over a dozen trees, we buy a living tree for the holidays and plant it. One blue spruce is 20 foot tall now -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 13:35 1
  - “Blessed is he who plants trees under whose shade he will never sit.” -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 13:37
- Mission: Impractical -- nm - rollo 🐙 Jul 19, 13:30
- That sounds like a boilerplate DJT idea -- nm - Jovian Jul 19, 13:23
- *watches climate change kill off most of them* -- nm - Spawn Jul 19, 13:13
- And who was it, a few years back, suggesting we thin them to reduce wildfires? Or was that just raking the leaves? -- nm - Meg Jul 19, 13:12 2
  - If this was done smartly, you'd put them in urban areas for a double whammy of reducing heat islands. -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 13:13 1
    - You keep putting them up, we'll keep chopping them down. We don't care; we don't have to. -- nm - we're the power companies Jul 19, 13:20
- Tbf, planting trees is at least a good idea. -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 13:09 6
  - Twenty years ago. - Reluctant Cynic Jul 19, 13:19 3
    - "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." -- nm - rollo 🐙 Jul 19, 13:20 2
      - Honestly though, you'd think the 2nd best time would be 19 years ago but you go, ancient proverb -- nm - rollo 🐙 Jul 19, 13:21 1
        
        And don't get me started about 30 years ago. - Spawn Jul 19, 13:23
  - sure, it's not a bad idea. but the idea needs to be paired with things they're entirely unwilling to do. - colin Jul 19, 13:11 1
    - its nonsense and not grounded in reality in the least. Its meant for their carnival barkers in rightwing media. -- nm - Jovian Jul 19, 13:24
- looking forward to them "supporting farmers" while proposing that every square inch of the US be covered in trees. -- nm - colin Jul 19, 13:07
I'm running a specialized IT helpdesk, I don't think sharktank would even know what that is. -- nm - colin Jul 19, 13:06
Power billion is an actual billion, slacker casino closing in one hour... -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 13:04 6
- CNBC info on how much you really get for all 50 states after all the taxes, if you take the cash. the range is $270M to $325M -- (link) - Peglegpete Jul 19, 13:33 1
  - Yup a straight up lie, if you don't take the half value cash, they invest in an annuity, in 25 years they keep the rest - zeitgeist Jul 19, 13:41
- sent -- nm - Remlik Jul 19, 13:22
- Spawn checks his time zones -- nm - budice Jul 19, 13:04 2
  - F- you, pixie!!! -- nm - Spawn Jul 19, 13:05 1
    - it pays to be stupid - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 13:06
you may leave here for four days in space But when you return, it's the same old place -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 13:02
Zero Chill: Rockies Scoreboard Operator -- (pic) - budice Jul 19, 12:59 [Attachment] 1
- OMG I love that. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 15:42

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