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Dumb Money getting bigger release this weekend: 600 theaters vs 200 originally planned -- (link) - budice Sep 21, 14:15 3
- "How much money did we make today?" "A million dollars." "And yesterday?" "A million dollars." "And the day before that?" "A million dollars." - Max Sep 21, 14:21 1
  - How much did we lose today? A billion. -- nm - JD Sep 21, 14:22
- yay!! -- nm - St. Epiphany Sep 21, 14:15
ST Poil: Do you have paper or electronic insurance cards? -- nm - spamlet Sep 21, 14:11 14
- Yes. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 14:22
- Both -- nm - JD Sep 21, 14:16
- paper -- nm - St. Epiphany Sep 21, 14:15
- Both -- nm - eag Sep 21, 14:15
- both -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 21, 14:14
- Both. Paper can be printed if so desired. -- nm - VMan Sep 21, 14:14 5
  - Do you just get the paper from the provider website? -- nm - spamlet Sep 21, 14:18 4
    - Yup. I did for the family. Personally I’m so used to it it comes more natural to pull it from my wallet than call up on the phone. -- nm - VMan Sep 21, 14:20 3
      - Thanks. My provider announced they're issuing digital cards and my wife is convinced that no doctor will see us and we'll all die from dysentery. - spamlet Sep 21, 14:22 2
        
        "Honey...that's Oregon Trail." -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 21, 14:22 1
        
        Changes (especially of the tech sort) send her into grandma mode. -- nm - spamlet Sep 21, 14:24
- papier -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 21, 14:13
- Paper -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 14:13
- paper -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 21, 14:12
we don’t have a spending problem, we have a permanent tax cuts problem -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 21, 14:04 2
- If we raise taxes they’ll move the greener pastures. Debunked. The greener pastures don’t really exist. -- nm - VMan Sep 21, 14:13
- we've been saying...and posting memes...about that for a decade -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 21, 14:10
Schroedinger’s FBI raid -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 21, 14:01 1
- Williams' lawyer was on tv here yesterday and said there were no FBI raids and his client is not being investigated. - pmb Sep 21, 14:08
What sort of effed up world is it when the Republicans are blocking defense bills? - crash davis Sep 21, 13:56 20
- Conservative in the UK are cutting funding to cops and courts, so at a certain point conservatives lose the narrative -- nm - colin Sep 21, 14:27
- My favorite is all the Maga talking heads (tv and radio) still always bringing Ronald Reagan as their figurehead. - Jovian Sep 21, 13:59 8
  - Reagan LOVED defense spending. And arguably, we need it more now than then. -- nm - crash davis Sep 21, 14:01 7
    - we spend more on defense than every other developed nation combined (and Pentagon is getting more than it asks for each year) I think we good -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 21, 14:03 6
      - We spend more on salaries and quality of life for service members than our rivals because we don't treat our citizens like animals. We also have very - crash davis Sep 21, 14:11 1
        
        I feel you. I just wonder a lot if we can forego one of those aircraft carriers and use that to fund the howitzer munitions. Make tradeoffs like - rollo Sep 21, 16:29
      - you would think so, but Ukraine is showing you can't have too many rockets n artillery shells - zeitgeist Sep 21, 14:06 3
        
        They can't use a lot of our missiles. We're giving them supplies that we were moth balling as we have better missiles and such. Other countries are -- (edited) - Krusty Sep 21, 14:13 2
        
        Actually they are getting a lot of our top of the line stuff, HIMARS, Patriots, MANPADs, precision artillery shells, etc etc. Our NATO allies - crash davis Sep 21, 14:17 1
        
        I forgot we sent them HIMARS. - Krusty Sep 21, 14:26
- a world where they’re the Putin party (and Dems have let Tommy T blockade Joes pentagon noms for a year with nary a whimper) - hollywood big shot Sep 21, 13:58 6
  - Schumer finally acted on the very top but it ain't enough -- nm - crash davis Sep 21, 13:59 5
    - He can't and doesn't want to do it one by one. It's way too time consuming and sets a bad precedent. I get why but there needs to be much more - Krusty Sep 21, 14:16 4
      - are they still back logged on federal judges? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 21, 14:22 1
        
        I'm not sure on that. I know they've done a bunch but I'm not sure if they've done as many as they wanted. -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 14:47
      - Pressure, like take him to one of those NASA labs, lock him in a tube and slowly increase the atmospheric pressure. - crash davis Sep 21, 14:19 1
        
        Just tell him that the Senators from Louisiana make more money if he's willing to switch jobs. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 21, 14:22
- what's worse is they'll largely get a pass on it -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Sep 21, 13:58 1
  - not a Kitchen Table Pocketbook Issue alas - hollywood big shot Sep 21, 14:00
- America in 2023. -- nm* - tRuMaN Sep 21, 13:58
WWE also releases Dana Brooke, Mansoor, Mace -- nm - Remlik Sep 21, 13:52 6
- That's a shame. The Maximum Male Models gimmick is entertaining. -- nm - David Sep 21, 13:59 4
  - It would have been amazing if they added Otis, but they did the exact opposite -- nm - Tim Sep 21, 14:01 3
    - Somehow, they always get Otis wrong, even though he's a can't miss talent. -- nm - David Sep 21, 14:04 2
      - As long as he plays the game in the background, he'll stay employed since he's game to do anything and has gotten over moderately each time. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 21, 14:24
      - He's to Alpha Academy what Jim Neidhart was to the Hart Foundation just more subdued - eag Sep 21, 14:21
- NXT releases are starting -- nm - Remlik Sep 21, 13:55
ACAB. Baton Rouge police being sued for torture. There may be as many as 1000 victims of their abuse. -- (link) - TWuG Sep 21, 13:48
Speaking of vaccines, scan I schedule my shingles shot now? - ty97 Sep 21, 13:43 2
- Its about $200, I'd say its worth it. Before I got obamacare where it would have been free, mom bought one for me as a birthday present. -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 21, 13:58
- 😺😺 -- nm - crash davis Sep 21, 13:47
NF just announced an arena tour. Is he that big of an act? (Updated with 2024 - those were 2023 dates) -- (edited) - JaxSean Sep 21, 13:32 15
- NF is the name of the artist? New to me but that doesn't mean anything these days. -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 13:39 12
  - one top 40 hit (Let You Down, peaking at #12) but I've heard a couple of his other songs on the radio. - Tim Sep 21, 13:50 3
    - thats one of those things that gets said a lot - tRuMaN Sep 21, 14:06
    - Oh, I didn't know that. Huh -- nm - JaxSean Sep 21, 13:54 1
      - just my guess really. The bigger singles aren't terrible. -- nm - Tim Sep 21, 14:02
  - I saw him open for Logic a few years ago, and I loved him. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 21, 13:45 3
    - Nice! Touring with Logic tells me a bit of what to expect. -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 13:49 2
      - This was the only song I had heard at the time. -- (link) - JaxSean Sep 21, 13:54 [youtube] 1
        
        That was pretty good. -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 13:59
  - yes, rapper, a lot of his stuff is about his struggle with the industry - tRuMaN Sep 21, 13:41 3
    - I'll cautiously check them out. I can't do autotune so hopefully they didn't go that route in their work. -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 13:42 2
      - not sure he uses it, he also does the thing where sometimes he - tRuMaN Sep 21, 13:45 1
        
        I'm good with the singing. Thanks! -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 13:46
- he might be yes. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 21, 13:33
- Newfoundland? I thought he was too big to tour. -- nm - crash davis Sep 21, 13:33
Does anyone belong to a civic organization like the Lions Club, the Elks Club, Rotary? -- nm - crash davis Sep 21, 13:27 12
- JenBro is very active in Rotary. -- nm - Meg Sep 21, 14:08 1
  - ah :) -- nm - crash davis Sep 21, 14:22
- I've been a member of The Knights of Columbus but that was mostly so my friends and I could get cheap drinks. -- (edited) - Krusty Sep 21, 13:41 5
  - That motive sounds as good to me as any other :) -- nm - crash davis Sep 21, 13:42 4
    - Really cheap beer and drinks. We could have a fun night for $20. Plus, table shuffleboard. Loved that silly game. -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 13:44 3
      - In college I could have played table shuffleboard for hours. The problem was that there was only one table and a hundred dudes wanting next. -- nm - crash davis Sep 21, 13:46 2
        
        Then.Win. - Will Hunting Sep 21, 13:51 1
        
        by about the fourth beer, I had absolutely no touch - crash davis Sep 21, 13:53
- my dad was an itenerant Rotarian, just enough to get us in for the annual Xmas party with “Santa” -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 21, 13:34
- I was a Jaycee until I aged out. -- nm - spamlet Sep 21, 13:32 2
  - I'm looking to get out and meet people in the upcoming year. I thought service might be a good start. I was wondering if they felt the service - crash davis Sep 21, 13:36 1
    - It honestly depended on the chapter. Some were great, some were drinking clubs. - spamlet Sep 21, 13:57
Mother F'er. just got a notification on my camera. Apparently they are laying the final layer of asphalt on my street. Right now. - sycor Sep 21, 13:22 3
- really, I got a couple days notice that the water dept was claiming my lawn, all the landscaping was just bulldozed away... - zeitgeist Sep 21, 14:02 1
  - damn that's messed up. I hope they compensated you for the landscpaing. -- nm - sycor Sep 21, 14:07
- LOL, eff you that’s why. Question us and be buried in ending fines. -- nm - HOA Sep 21, 13:33
Draft Kings (fantasy app) has a “The Continental” multiple choice prediction pool —photos of some of the questions —mild spoilers -- (pic) - Flavorize Sep 21, 13:20 [Attachment] 1
- And -- (pic) - Flavorize Sep 21, 13:20 [Attachment]
Here’s a vital map for ST. When is Jeopardy on? -- (link) - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 21, 13:13 3
- 7pm is nice so that the dullards can feel better playing along to Wheel of Fortune after having been silent the last half hour. -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 13:16 2
  - I think of it more as JV and then Varsity. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 21, 13:18 1
    - I see it as cool down time. :-) -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 13:19
“like a baby” (the burger apparently is only $17, even at Newark) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 21, 13:10 3
- I figured he ordered a top shelf whiskey (or two). - ty97 Sep 21, 13:56 2
  - I figured $20 for tax and tip. mafic thought that glass looked like a triple - so $40 approx in bourbon -- nm - crash davis Sep 21, 13:58 1
    - I figured most of the $78 was for the alcohol (there seems to be another glass in the pic too?). It's just very misleading. - ty97 Sep 21, 14:01
Thurs afternoon trivia: Calculate the minimum distance from each US state capital to a neighboring state. Which 10 are nearest their neighbors? - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:00 30
- NOT Austin -- nm - ty97 Sep 21, 13:26 1
  - #48 :) 236 miles to Louisiana. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:59
- Providence -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 21, 13:13 1
  - #2. 4 mi from MA. That's the last of them, you smarty-farties. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:13
- Dover -- nm - Roger More Sep 21, 13:12
- Cheyenne -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 21, 13:11 1
  - #3. 9 mi from CO. (This is the one that got me thinking about the question in the first place.) -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:12
- Albany -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 21, 13:10 1
  - #9. 22 mi from MA -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:12
- Trenton has to be one of the closest (has to be only a couple hundred feet) . -- nm - decline Sep 21, 13:08 2
  - Trenton is #1. Less than 1 mile from PA. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:09 1
    - 👍 -- nm - decline Sep 21, 13:09
- Carson City -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 13:07 1
  - Carson City is #5 at 14 miles from California. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:09
- Florida’s capital is in the North of the state iinm, so it could be close to whatever state is above it. -- nm - Loyola Sep 21, 13:06 1
  - Florida is #7 at 17 miles from GA. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:08
- Harrisburg -- nm* - Krusty Sep 21, 13:06 1
  - Not in the top 10 -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:09
- Concord and Montpelier -- nm* - Krusty Sep 21, 13:05 1
  - Montpelier, yes (#10, 26 mi fron NH). Concord, no. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:10
- Boston, Hartford, Annapolis and Dover? -- nm* - Krusty Sep 21, 13:04 2
  - Hartford #8 (18 miles from MA), Dover #4 (12 mi from MD). Annapolis would be in the top 10 if DC were a state. -- (edited) - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:11 1
    - They're a state in our hearts. -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 13:13
- I'll sit this one out. -- nm - Hawaii Sep 21, 13:03 2
  - *nods* -- nm - Alaska Sep 21, 13:12
  - Ha! -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 13:08
- Boston-Providence gotta be #1. -- nm - Reagen Sep 21, 13:03 3
  - I'm going for distance from capital to the state line here not distance between state capitals, but I believe that is correct -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:04 2
    - Oh, to the state line. St. Paul? -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 13:06 1
      - St. Paul is #6 at 16 miles from Wisconsin. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 21, 13:08
Can you get flu. RSV and covid booster at same time? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 21, 13:00 13
- Yes. I will note that my doctor was not really recommending the RSV shot (though he didn't object to it either). He basically said there just isn't - pmb Sep 21, 13:30
- Sure but two shots in one arm isn’t recommended and we won’t do more than 2 at my pharmacy -- nm - Tim Sep 21, 13:12 9
  - I'll take the one that will make me more sore in the left and the lesser in the right. Which one is going to make me more sore? -- nm - crash davis Sep 21, 13:23 2
    - All sore is in store. -- nm - Qale Sep 21, 13:26 1
      - Now that is what I call marketing! -- nm - crash davis Sep 21, 13:49
  - which covid booster this year is better than the others? -- nm - Remlik Sep 21, 13:18 2
    - Doesn't matter. -- nm - Tim Sep 21, 13:41 1
      - thanks! -- nm - Remlik Sep 21, 13:44
  - Because of soreness or effectiveness or something else? I was thinking of doing the flu and Covid at once but I need an arm to sleep on so was going - Krusty Sep 21, 13:18 2
    - Arm soreness. -- nm - Tim Sep 21, 13:40 1
      - I'll live with it. I'm going to get sore anyway and at least I can sleep on one side. If they're both sore I'm stuck on my back like a corpse. -- (edited) - Krusty Sep 21, 13:45
- Yes, according to my mom’s doctor. But YMMV. -- nm - Reluctant Cynic Sep 21, 13:03
- Not sure about RSV but the other two you can. -- nm - sycor Sep 21, 13:02
xkcd flip phone -- (pic) - budice Sep 21, 12:55 [Attachment]
LIR Yay!! Beaker very nice published photo -- nm - St. Epiphany Sep 21, 12:47
I can't believe I have to say this but I think znufrii was right about something eating the lanternfly. I just saw a video of a yellowjacket - Krusty Sep 21, 12:41 6
- part of me wants to take one of each and throw them into Seth Brundle's Genetic Splicer and see what happens.. -- nm* - Jovian Sep 21, 12:51
- LOL: "Isn’t this a wild yellow jacket?" "For sure wild, I saw him at a rave going crazy. He was out of control lost in the sauce." -- nm - Jovian Sep 21, 12:48
- I don't think I saw any this summer and the past few summers lots of trees in my area had them -- nm - decline Sep 21, 12:43 3
  - I never see them on trees, just flying around or on the ground. I've had a few fly into me, land on me or on the dogs. - Krusty Sep 21, 12:48 2
    - do you city folk even have trees? - decline Sep 21, 12:50 1
      - It's called a concrete jungle for a reason. - Krusty Sep 21, 13:01
Hit me! -- nm - Spawn Sep 21, 12:39 5
- got u. -- nm - Pimp Sep 21, 12:42
- "But sir, you have 20." -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 21, 12:41
- one more time? -- nm - sycor Sep 21, 12:40 1
  - Give it your best shot -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 21, 12:48
- ~.. with your rhythm stick!~ -- nm - mud Sep 21, 12:40

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