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Vamps: Budice x 2, JD, NWBR, Krusty, Elliott, Taylor Swift, Shaun, AMC -- nm - samara Aug 31, 13:47 1
- Vamps: JD, NWBR, Krusty, Elliott, Taylor Swift, Shaun, AMC -- nm - budice Aug 31, 13:50
Anyone heard on how the Eras presale is going? -- nm* - spamlet Aug 31, 13:36
Taylor Swift to AMC: I got you. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 31, 13:34
Taylor Swift has saved the box office. 10M in presales. - Spawn Aug 31, 13:33
Taylor Swift Eras Tour Movie already $10M+ presales -- (link) - budice Aug 31, 13:31
Nintendo cannot repair 3DS systems anymore. Bawww. They haven’t updated their repair site. -- nm - Qale Aug 31, 13:09 1
- I thought they just stopped making the hardware a few years ago. That's lame. I just got a new battery for my OG Pixel from 2016. -- (edited) - sycor Aug 31, 13:12
Fun. I get to do a write up of this proposed rule for our quarterly newsletter. -- (link) - znufrii Aug 31, 13:09
i should fork over $55 to see Patti Lupone do a solo show of broadway hits, shouldn't i? -- nm - Andie Aug 31, 13:09 6
- That strikes me as quite a good price -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 13:14 1
  - fairly crappy seats, but not a big hall. -- nm - Andie Aug 31, 13:14
- Yes. -- nm - znufrii Aug 31, 13:09 3
  - those are not-great seats, but, still. -- nm - Andie Aug 31, 13:11 2
    - I saw her and Mandy Patinkin together on Broadway. It was incredible. -- nm - znufrii Aug 31, 13:20
    - It's your ears that are doing most of the work, so that's fine -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 13:14
Exorcist moved up to October 6th -- nm - budice Aug 31, 13:06 7
- Concert Film Already Blasting Past $10M+ In Ticket Presales -- (link) - budice Aug 31, 13:26
- Imax, will play Oct. 13-15, Oct. 19-22 , Oct. 26-29, Oct. 31 and Nov. 2-5. -- nm - budice Aug 31, 13:25
- There are *so* many horror movies coming out this fall season. -- nm - Spawn Aug 31, 13:17
- They should just change the name to Taylor Swift's Exorcist -- nm - David Aug 31, 13:14 2
  - exactly -- (pic) - budice Aug 31, 13:15 [Attachment] 1
    - Cue "Tubular Sweaters" -- nm - 99 Luftbaron Aug 31, 13:17
- Not a shock -- nm - spamlet Aug 31, 13:09
Fentanyl overdose is now the leading cause of death among teen young adults. Almost 3000 in WA this year -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 31, 12:41 16
- Can someone explain something to me? As I really dont know and am confused on this. Is Fentanyl a new stand alone deadly drug like say Crack was? -- (edited) - Jovian Aug 31, 12:46 15
  - Crack was purified or concentrated version of cocaine. Like heroin was a concentrated purified version of morphine.... - zeitgeist Aug 31, 12:55 14
    - gracias! nm -- (edited) - Jovian Aug 31, 13:00
    - And intelligence communities pretty much confirm that China has been dumping it all over North America to amplify social duress. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 31, 12:58 12
      - I've seen more analysis suggesting that China doesn't prioritise counter-narcotics operations that benefit countries it doesn't have good - Roger More Aug 31, 13:45
      - straight from the lab in Wuhan? -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 31, 13:22
      - I don’t believe this. We don’t need another anti-China sentiment when Mexico Cartels are right there. - Qale Aug 31, 13:12 9
        
        But the thing I've never understood about this is that it's generally bad for business to kill your customers. I get that it's addictive so that's - pmb Aug 31, 13:26 8
        
        hospitals use patches.... its damn near impossible for amateurs to blend it perfectly enough, but they order from china in envelope size packets -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 31, 13:38
        
        You’re not killing *all* of them… -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 31, 13:36
        
        Drug dealers (at any level) don't stay drug dealers for that long - they want to move up by making the guy above them more money, and if they don't, - Roger More Aug 31, 13:36
        
        Sadly, ODs actually boost sales from what I've heard - the wrong element Aug 31, 13:32 1
        
        back in heroin days it was especially true, mostlybecause you got more for your money -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 31, 13:40
        
        The explanation I've gotten is that it's really cheap to doctor into your drugs to give a bigger high. -- nm - Reagen Aug 31, 13:31 2
        
        Sure, but you're killing your customers. Seems to me that you wouldn't add as much as you are. -- nm - pmb Aug 31, 13:34
        
        Yes and especially in early COVID 2020, it was being used to stretch diminished supplies. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 31, 13:34
Vamps: JD, Bud x 2, JD, NWBR, Krusty, Elliott, Shaun, Shay -- nm - samara Aug 31, 12:31 2
- Picked. Bud x 2, JD, NWBR, Krusty, Elliott, Shaun, Shay -- nm - JD Aug 31, 13:11 1
  - done -- nm - budice Aug 31, 13:48
CTTP, I heard this one the other day; if the sun was the size of a football, the distance to a marble sized Earth would be about the width of the - Loyola Aug 31, 12:28 15
- 500 miles. -- nm - 99 Luftbaron Aug 31, 12:51 3
  - And then 500 more? -- nm - spamlet Aug 31, 12:52 2
    - I should have rooted harder for Starkville. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 31, 13:23 1
      - Now you have to root for me or listen to shadiouz whine. -- nm - spamlet Aug 31, 13:32
- You'd have to go around the earth like 7x or so. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 31, 12:36 1
  - I was thinking 3x around the earth -- nm - Krusty Aug 31, 12:37
- goal to 50 yard line of a football field. -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 31, 12:36
- 3x around earth? -- nm* - Krusty Aug 31, 12:35 5
  - I think that’s close. The next nearest star is 10,000km away. - Loyola Aug 31, 12:37 4
    - 10,000km away *at that scale*. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 31, 12:41 2
      - I would be really worried if it was 10,000 km away at full scale. Also, dead. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 31, 13:54 1
        
        true. truetruetrue. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 31, 14:21
    - Yeah, it's ridiculously far. The sun in comparison is just a hop, skip and jump away from us. - Krusty Aug 31, 12:40
- From Earth to Sun is 1 Astronomical Unit. Proxima Centauri is 268,770 AUs away. -- nm - TWuG Aug 31, 12:33
- really, really far -- nm - decline Aug 31, 12:31
"I must say, the sentences of these treasonists are awfully light." -- Sir Edward Coke -- nm - Beryllium Aug 31, 12:11
Dolphins trainers have medically cleared Mitch to return to work -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 31, 12:07 1
- ha! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 31, 12:08
looking at B2, congrats to pfm and LMS -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 31, 11:59 2
- I'd gladly bike my way to Santorini -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 31, 12:07 1
  - I think there is a part or two where you'll have to pedal really fast -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 31, 12:15
assuming any Fulton Co proceedings aren’t removed to federal ct, they will be televised -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 31, 11:58
Bery, new post because interesting topic. I remember learning when I was young that North America was three countries. - ty97 Aug 31, 11:57 16
- Iceland being in Europe vs North America is like 25% arbitrary. -- nm - Reagen Aug 31, 12:40 1
  - (but then so are Europe's borders itself) -- nm - Reagen Aug 31, 12:42
- I think that idea has changed in recent years. It's not North America anymore, now it's Not South America. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 31, 12:18 2
  - Hey, I followed the BRICS meeting. Tell Lula that I don't like his new friends. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 31, 12:22 1
    - Lula is definitely problematic in regards to his friends. At least he doesn't try to emmulate them (yet!) internally. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 31, 12:45
- I was learned wrong too. - Loyola Aug 31, 12:05
- Speaking of TIL: I'm not sure how I never knew that Alfred Nobel of the Nobel Peace Prize also invented dynamite. Maybe I did and totally forgot - oblique Aug 31, 11:58 7
  - isn't the story something like he started the prize with the money made from dynamite after realizing what a horrible thing he had brought into - decline Aug 31, 12:00 3
    - I think you're right. Also Joseph Pulitzer invented the news & started the prize after realizing what a horrible thing he had brought into the world -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 31, 12:14
    - i thought it was that his death was (inaccurately) reported and he was horrified as to how he was going to be remembered. -- (link) - Andie Aug 31, 12:05 1
      - yeah, this is the story they told on the show -- nm - oblique Aug 31, 12:08
  - Last night I figured out why it's called Bolognese sauce. -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 12:00 2
    - Now tell me about hamburger and girl scout cookies -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 31, 12:20
    - 'cause it's made of bologney -- nm - decline Aug 31, 12:01
- Central America is a myth!! -- nm - Beryllium Aug 31, 11:58 1
  - I hear they speak Latin there. -- nm - 99 Luftbaron Aug 31, 12:06
Cave: budice, Sciere, decline, Tru -- nm - Volnelk Aug 31, 11:49 4
- Cave:Sciere, decline, Tru -- nm - budice Aug 31, 11:59
- Vamps: Krusty, NWBR, JD, Bud x 2, JD, NWBR -- nm - Samara Aug 31, 11:50 2
  - Done -- nm - Krusty Aug 31, 11:51 1
    - Me too. JD's up. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 31, 12:14
AMC Network is the first one to blink -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 31, 11:44
Ah people....How is it possible that you haven't been discussing this trailer yet? I'm very disappointed in you. -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Aug 31, 11:38 [youtube] 5
- I love seeing Meg Ryan in a movie -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 12:03 3
  - That doesn't look like Meg Ryan. :-( -- nm - Krusty Aug 31, 12:12 2
    - It does. -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 12:24 1
      - With just a whiff of Michelle Pfeiffer. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 31, 12:25
- maybe we're still talking about this one -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 31, 11:47 [youtube]
Hey oblique and other Ego tool users, they have new stuff coming out including a power washer, auger, mini bike and shop vac. - sycor Aug 31, 11:32 2
- they should make a multitool that combines the power washer and mini bike -- nm - decline Aug 31, 11:39
- cool. My multitool is still in the box with the cultivator attachment. Will eventually get to that as I do more large scale projects around the yard - oblique Aug 31, 11:35
Volition staff on Twitter are reporting that parent company Embracer has just closed the 30-year-old studio behind Saint's Row and Red Faction... - Remlik Aug 31, 11:24
This should be 75% easy I think: Can you name the 25 largest cities (by population) in North America. - ty97 Aug 31, 11:16 50
- I'm glad I didn't see this, because population quizzes based on city boundaries not metro area always suck :P -- nm - Roger More Aug 31, 13:48 1
  - *nodding* -- nm - Reagen Aug 31, 13:49
- The rest of the top 25 - ty97 Aug 31, 11:46 4
  - Nezahualcóyotl is a myth, like Atlantis -- nm - mud Aug 31, 11:52 1
    - Hungry Coyote! -- nm - Reagen Aug 31, 13:15
  - I can confidently say that I was previously unaware of the existence of these cities. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 31, 11:47 1
    - Three of them were new to me (the Mexico suburban ones) -- nm* - ty97 Aug 31, 11:55
- guessing a lot of them are in mexico/south. lets see Guadalajara and Tijuana -- nm* - tRuMaN Aug 31, 11:30 6
  - 13 and 20 -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:35 1
    - Juarez! -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 31, 11:38
  - Havana. doh, didnt see this previously guessed. -- nm* - tRuMaN Aug 31, 11:31 3
    - Port au Prince (cause Hati has basically one large city) -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 31, 11:35 2
      - Almost (29) -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:35 1
        
        wow -- nm - mud Aug 31, 11:52
- Canada is done for the Top 25 (Edmonton is 30). US is done for Top 25. Still several Mexico plus...other countries. -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:28 5
  - so we're not including metro areas of cities, but we ARE including metro areas of north america? got it. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 31, 11:30 3
    - This list is based strictly on *city* population, not metro area population. -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:34 2
      - Perhaps I was unclear: I was defining cuba, guatemala, haiti, etc as subordinate to North America (Canada/USA/Mexico) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 31, 11:55
      - oh, suuurre -- nm - vancouver Aug 31, 11:53
  - Cancun -- nm - decline Aug 31, 11:28
- Denver, Houston, San Antonio, Nashville, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Cleveland -- nm - budice Aug 31, 11:25 1
  - San Antonio is #12. -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:26
- Peoria, Albuquerque, Butte -- nm - decline Aug 31, 11:23 2
  - Albuquerque is 85, which surprises me a little it made the top 100 -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:24 1
    - I was always missing the left turn there in my world travels. -- nm - Bugs Bunny Aug 31, 11:52
- Looking for 7, 9, 12-15, 17-18, 20-25 -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:23 13
  - Vancouver, Albequerque -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 31, 11:24 2
    - Vancouver is 71 -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:25 1
      - That's because of the definition - the Lower Mainland metro area would rank higher. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 31, 11:26
  - There are probably a bunch more from Mexico. Monterrey? -- nm - Andie Aug 31, 11:24 7
    - Calgary. -- nm - Andie Aug 31, 11:25 3
      - 15 -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:26 2
        
        Do the Caribbean islands count? Havana? -- nm - Andie Aug 31, 11:28 1
        
        #7, well done! -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:29
    - Juarez -- nm - decline Aug 31, 11:24 1
      - 17 -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:25
    - 23 -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:24
  - 7 is tough -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:23 1
    - 9 is also tough. It appears to be a suburb. -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:24
- Phoenix, San Francisco, Fort Worth, Jacksonville -- nm - Andie Aug 31, 11:19 2
  - City of San Francisco is small, 600k, the bay area is 5th largest market, Oakland and San Jose are much bigger towns -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 31, 11:31
  - Phoenix #11. Fort Worth (42). Jacksonville (37). -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:20
- new york, mexico city, chicago, toronto, montreal, pittsburgh ... I dunno -- nm - Beryllium Aug 31, 11:18 4
  - Mexico City is #1. Toronto #4. Montreal #8. n/a on Pitt -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:20 3
    - Montreal punching higher than I would have guessed. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 31, 11:39 2
      - Mostly cause the US draws city borders weirdly. -- nm - Reagen Aug 31, 13:26 1
        
        For example: Atlanta has a population of 500k in its city, but it's 1/12 of its metro. Winnipeg has more population than Seattle and nearly matches - Reagen Aug 31, 13:30
- New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Boston, Philly -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 31, 11:17 2
  - 2, 3, 5, n/a, (58), (39), 16, 6, 19, n/a, (66), 10 -- nm - ty97 Aug 31, 11:19
  - Oh, I was remembering the wrong pennsylvanian city -- nm - Beryllium Aug 31, 11:19
Bleach blonde bottle blues, gravel in my good shoes Stomp and shake, take pity on me I've been everywhere, seen everything Now I wanna come clean, y'all I say what I mean -- nm* - zeitgeist Aug 31, 11:15

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