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The Big10 has *EIGHTEEN* teams? -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 18:24 3
- They never specified they were using decimal base. -- nm - Bari Seldon Aug 4, 18:29
- Big12 officially just added Az, ASU, Utah -- (link) - budice Aug 4, 18:28
- Math isn't some of their strong suits. -- nm - . Aug 4, 18:25
Since I’ve seen a tweet or two about it. A Covid wave is coming/is here. - Tim Aug 4, 18:20 1
- (Which makes the GenCon crowds I’ve seen terrifying) -- nm - Tim Aug 4, 18:29
I think what sucks the most imo for college sports is by going to 14-16-18/20 teams, you lose the actual continuity of a conference. - Will Hunting Aug 4, 18:03 2
- it used to matter b/c there was no formal national championship. half of the top 25 is gonna get in the next tournament. who cares about conf play? -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 18:06 1
  - They do 16 teams...good -- it'll be like every other division of College football. - Will Hunting Aug 4, 18:09
ha ha Disney is the worst -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 18:03 1
- I’m sorry, but how does the union allow that? -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 18:23
If racing up lubed up stairs isn’t to your liking on The Ocho, then it’s got to be hardcore MMA fighters hitting each other with pillows. NEXT!!! -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 17:57
Lollapalooza: Huh. Billie Eilish was the big act on *Thursday* night. Tonight you’ll have to swap between Kendrick Lamar and The 1975. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 17:54
Utah Board accepted Big12 invite -- nm - budice Aug 4, 17:46 1
- Oh, so now Utah and BYU are actually in the same conf. -- nm - Bari Seldon Aug 4, 18:36
Behind the scenes video. This guy operates one of those few true 70mm IMAX projectors showing Oppenheimer, right here in Oregon. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 17:36 [youtube]
So, about the record warming of the oceans? You’ll never believe what the cause was! - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 17:24 3
- oh that's interesting -- nm - Remlik Aug 4, 17:31 1
  - Indeed! Let's just laser some oceans and make clouds, then. Problem solved. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 4, 18:04
- Hank Green explains. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 17:24 [youtube]
let give a hand for the India auto industry, no really, hundreds of workers have lost fingers/hands in poorly maintained equipment.... -- (link) - zeitgeist Aug 4, 17:22
SITWAP - (because I am a twelve year old boy) Chat GPT in French sounds like "Cat, I farted" in French. -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Aug 4, 17:14 1
- This has led rise to memes like "Will I lose my job to Cat I Farted" (again, I share because I am a twelve year old boy) -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 4, 17:15
at least one team at Camden Yards knows Buck’s value -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 16:52 1
- It was a shame how it ended for him there...like, we were backsliding, but 110 losses was just, where the fuck did that come from? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 4, 17:16
GenCon: $300K theft of cards... -- (link) - Remlik Aug 4, 16:29
Yesterday I searched all over for a half stick of butter and finally decided it must have gone out with the trash. Today I took out the - Meg Aug 4, 16:27
stop Barbie marketing, you’re gonna make your billion -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 16:27 2
- or else we have a new Pope of Maine -- nm - Dano Aug 4, 16:29 1
  - new Grimace -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 16:56
JPM now sees US recession as unlikely -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 16:19 2
- After 2 years of it “being right around the corner”… -- nm - Flavorize Aug 4, 16:22 1
  - reading comprehension issues* -- nm* - zeitgeist Aug 4, 17:13
SWAT's Shermar Moore and Chad Ochocinco are competing in cornhole on The Ocho! -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 16:06 1
- Corgi racing later -- nm - Dano Aug 4, 16:28
Megaball 8/4 set 1 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Aug 4, 16:02 [Attachment] 2
- Set 2 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Aug 4, 16:03 [Attachment] 1
  - 8/1 rollover -- (pic) - zeitgeist Aug 4, 16:03 [Attachment]
Don't forget that Lollapalooza is on Hulu this weekend. Here's a link. Right now it's Sabrina Carpenter from Girl Meets World. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 16:01 [hulu] 2
- This set is making me feel ancient. I'm pretty sure that I'm older than the combined ages of the singer and any one of her dancers - JD Aug 4, 16:41 1
  - I just found out that she's the other woman Olivia Rodrigo sang about in the song that broke her, which led to Carpenter breaking out. -- nm - David Aug 4, 16:47
Those Cubs Wrigleyville jerseys are fucking great. - David Aug 4, 15:54 16
- kind of boring and corporate. On the other hand that's the neighborhood these days. -- nm - . Aug 4, 17:53
- I really like them too. -- nm - pmb Aug 4, 16:15 2
  - This thread made Krusty throw his phone across the room. -- nm - Tim Aug 4, 16:49 1
    - Ha! :-) I think the Wrigleyville ones and the White Sox ones are good looking jerseys. Nearly every other is trash. -- nm* - Krusty Aug 4, 17:42
- Rockies one is just the Colorado license plate, as a jersey - Flavorize Aug 4, 16:13 [Attachment]
- The high school jersey? -- nm - spamlet Aug 4, 16:11
- This guy's? -- (pic) - zunk takes things literally Aug 4, 15:59 [Attachment] 1
  - I'm not surprised by your recent upswing because he has won literally everywhere he has ever played in his life. - David Aug 4, 16:00
- They’re solid but the White Sox’s CityConnect is my favorite by a lot still - Will Hunting Aug 4, 15:59 1
  - The idea is fine? The execution doesn’t work for a baseball uniform at all. -- nm - Tim Aug 4, 16:00
- "Emo Night at Busch Stadium begins with ... Evanescence's Bring Me To Life video on the scoreboard." -- (link*) - budice Aug 4, 15:58 2
  - I’m gonna laugh real hard when emo night gets rained out -- nm - spamlet Aug 4, 16:23
  - My Cardinal Romance -- nm - Tim Aug 4, 15:59
- I heard it was ugly. -- nm - Spawn Aug 4, 15:56 2
  - I just bought one on MLB Shop. -- nm - David Aug 4, 15:58 1
    - Nope, changed my mind. -- nm - David Aug 4, 15:59
“I was busy executing” is the new “I haven’t seen the tweet” -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 15:51 1
- He's got to get there early for a good seat and the popcorn doesn't pop itself. -- nm - TWuG Aug 4, 15:52
Not to steal Mop’s thunder, but now on The Ocho: Slippery Stairs -- nm - Dano Aug 4, 15:04 3
- It’s amazing that a throwaway gag from a nearly 20 year old movie is still a thing -- nm - Tim Aug 4, 15:58
- The best part is when they get a bucket of lube thrown in their face. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 15:20
- Yup, this looks like the highlight. LET'S FUCKING GO! -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 15:09
If the last guy is found guilty they just need someplace like Camp David to put him. He hated it. -- nm - . Aug 4, 15:01 2
- They put Napoleon on an island...the first time didn't work out that well. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 4, 16:09
- Put him anywhere without wifi -- nm - rollo Aug 4, 15:31
Pac-12: ORE trustees unanimously approve accepting an invitation to the Big Ten. -- (link*) - budice Aug 4, 14:57 9
- Stanford Trees say thanks buddies -- (link) - budice Aug 4, 15:54
- UO presser in 45 mins -- (link) - budice Aug 4, 15:19 [youtube]
- " Oregon and Washington have been officially voted into the Big Ten by the league’s president. Announcement now." -- (link*) - budice Aug 4, 15:02 1
  - ... -- (link) - . Aug 4, 15:05
- The Pac-12 didn't die a long slow death years ago from all those recruitment scandals? -- nm - . Aug 4, 15:00 4
  - The schools responsible for all those recruitment scandals have already bailed to other conferences. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 15:08 3
    - Ahh, Still surprised the conference survived. Wasn't it practically the Pac-3 or 4 at some point due to how many schools were on probation? -- nm* - . Aug 4, 15:10 2
      - The Pac 8/10/12 has nothing on the SEC for probation. They would have survived if they weren't in the west time zone. - Will Hunting Aug 4, 15:30 1
        
        "...years ago..." -- nm - . Aug 4, 17:36
I think we are mostly boomers/GenX, mostly nerdy. What NASA events do you remember watching on live TV, maybe at school? -- nm - loosilu Aug 4, 14:55 19
- I remember Apollo 11 because my mom put me in front of the TV and kept repeating "remember this". -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 4, 17:19 1
  - I also remember when MTV planted a flag on the moon. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 4, 17:20
- I remember getting called into an Assembly when the shuttle went boom back in 86 -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 4, 16:32 1
  - also back then my parents worked for Boeing (in Wichita Ks) so I got to see the shuttles a few times when they were on the back of the big planes - tRuMaN Aug 4, 16:33
- In grade school we'd watch the mercury launches. HSthe moon landing. YA the shuttle explosion -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 4, 16:07 1
  - this -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 4, 16:16
- Not live on TV but I remember Sputnik in first year high school. Science class that year was all about the solar system. -- nm - Meg Aug 4, 15:38
- I remember the first shuttle launch. I was home with the flu the day of the Challenger explosion with the flu. Didn’t watch live, but watched after. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 4, 15:02 6
  - I watched first shuttle launch at school! "Big" tv on a high metal cart! -- nm - loosilu Aug 4, 16:35
  - sophomore in HS. for history class we had a daily current events assignment where one person gave a news of the day item. others would try to trick - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 15:10 4
    - I'm going to guess Jennifer... - Will Hunting Aug 4, 15:29 3
      - Did you go to school with 27 Jennifers? - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 4, 15:30 2
        
        16 Jens, 10 Jennies and then there was her -- nm - Tim Aug 4, 15:32
        
        Jennifer was my equivalent of the Madison's of the last decade and the Aiden-clones of this one. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 4, 15:31
- starting with the Enterprise test landing in California, shuttle milestones up to Challenger -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 14:58 4
  - forgot about Enterprise landing, saw that live! -- nm - loosilu Aug 4, 16:37
  - I must be older as I definitely watched those but I also remember the coverage of the Apollo launch for Apollo-Soyuz as well as the docking - JD Aug 4, 15:07 2
    - I saw Apollo-Soyuz live on TV, we had no school that day (don't remember the reason) -- nm - loosilu Aug 4, 16:36
    - i remember that happening, and Skylab falling out of the sky, but didn't care enough to watch it live yet -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 15:10
The new City Connect uniforms are something else. -- (link) - Dano Aug 4, 14:53 1
- they Teletubbies -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 14:54
NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2. -- (link) - mara Aug 4, 14:28 8
- Looks like they literally spammed space in order to get the message to Voyager 2. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 4, 15:09 1
  - Heh. This -- nm - JD Aug 4, 15:18
- dang!!!! that's awesome -- nm - loosilu Aug 4, 14:41
- All of the Enterprise's singing yesterday worked!!! -- nm - David Aug 4, 14:30
- thanks old timer programmers! -- nm - Jovian Aug 4, 14:29 3
  - they called one or two FORTRAN folks out of beach retirement for sure -- nm - loosilu Aug 4, 14:50
  - Well the old timers who built the big ass dishes that make up the Deep Space Network which transmitted the current programmers correction signal - JD Aug 4, 14:36 1
    - omg you were a NASA child -- nm - loosilu Aug 4, 14:50
Megaball list for 8/4 - zeitgeist Aug 4, 14:16 6
- How is PMB doing anyway? -- nm - David Aug 4, 14:22 5
  - Hi. I'm ok. It's been a bit more of a rollercoaster since the surgery than I initially thought it would be but I'll be fine. - pmb Aug 4, 15:13 3
    - best wishes for a full recovery -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 4, 17:32
    - I'm sorry you're uncomfortable but thrilled to hear you're recuperating. Does it kind of feel like a constant caffeine jolt? -- nm - David Aug 4, 15:36 1
      - Thanks. Kind of. Yeah. It's harder to relax. I mean it's still very much in the normal range for heart rates. It's just feels weird for me. - pmb Aug 4, 16:00
  - all he said was take my money -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 4, 14:24
"IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU!" -- nm - Jovian Aug 4, 14:10 5
- cc: the magistrate judge in DC -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 14:20 3
  - Fani Willis too. -- nm - mara 🍂 Aug 4, 15:52
  - he wants to get locked up before trial, as he would reach true Messiah status with his cult. -- nm - Jovian Aug 4, 14:23 1
    - I...would...love...for him to be remanded in custody for violating his terms of release. probably more so than being found guilty... - zeitgeist Aug 4, 14:27
- When you come for the king, you best not miss -- nm - Omar Aug 4, 14:17
my intern left today (true: so he could have "a week to get drunk with my buddies before school") and sent everyone in the department the exact same - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Aug 4, 14:10 2
- we just do office-wide GBEs -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 14:18 1
  - Grand Cross of the British Empire? -- nm - . Aug 4, 14:59
CHicago Bears/Wrestling: Steve Mongo McMicheal is in the ICU - Remlik Aug 4, 14:07
WaPo: 'Jeffrey Clark is GOP star after trying to use DOJ to overturn election' - mud Aug 4, 13:58 3
- Hmm...the Bull Moose Party was progressive.. -- nm - . Aug 4, 14:56
- Rick Perlstein is proved more correct with every single awful DC Press Corps fluff piece -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 14:05 1
  - Jeffrey Clark is an unindicted co-conspirator who aided and abetted an attempted coup d’etat and is going to jail right after his former boss -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 14:09
That Cub game was ugly. - zunk takes things literally Aug 4, 13:55 2
- We're every bit as good as the Dodgers were last year, and it's fun to watch. It means literally nothing in the playoffs, though. -- nm - David Aug 4, 13:58 1
  - All true. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Aug 4, 14:02
I've been looking (so far in vain) for a picture of the rocket in that Harley Quinn Episode -- (link) - JD Aug 4, 13:33 [Backboard] 6
- I assume it's a continuation of the "there are scientific reasons they have to look that way" joke? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 4, 13:54 1
  - Epically 😆 -- nm - JD Aug 4, 14:02
- Does this work for you? -- (link) - oblique Aug 4, 13:44 [Image] 1
  - Nope. - JD Aug 4, 14:04
- If you've got Max, I swear to you that it's the cover art for the show right now. -- nm - David Aug 4, 13:38 1
  - I guess that's what one misses when catching up episodes 1-4 in one sitting - JD Aug 4, 14:03
Dune 2 not apparently getting pushed is pretty good indicator they dealing -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 13:30 11
- as well as the bosses reportedly overruling their lead negotiator to hold the WGA mtg today -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 13:31 10
  - That's an interpretation....here's another one. They have money and can hold off a bit more to cause more pain in the opposition. - Will Hunting Aug 4, 13:36 9
    - the writers are already broke. that's why they're on strike - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 13:40 8
      - Where are they getting $2bil in losses already? They're not spending anything and have product still to sell. - Will Hunting Aug 4, 13:49 6
        
        here -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 13:55 5
        
        That’s not anything other than some guy tweeting a number at Zaslav. If they aren’t spending or paying production costs…how is it costing them money? - Will Hunting Aug 4, 13:59 4
        
        We talk about this some on the podcast. Cashflow will improve, but churn rates will increase due to the lack of new content. - David Aug 4, 14:01
        
        read the Forbes article he links. carrying costs for all the productions that were in progress but now suspended, for starters -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 14:01 2
        
        There are also specific dates for city/state/federal tax breaks that have or will expire. - David Aug 4, 14:03 1
        
        Also the stocks for the companies have been going down and are being listed as sells. -- nm - . Aug 4, 14:54
      - if SAG had taken a deal a month ago, WGA might be in a more vulnerable place. the actors have been a force multiplier on the lines -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 13:44

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