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Here's a stat that underscores the death of cable news: - David Sep 27, 12:32 3
- Might this speak more to Nielsen's sample sizes? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 27, 12:38 1
  - Since we're talk about 365 days of data, that should be a large enough sample size to paint an accurate picture imo. -- nm - David Sep 27, 12:41
- good riddance -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 12:34
Vegas: NBA Championship updated Mil 7/2 Den 5/1 Bos 11/2 Phx 7/1 LAL 10/1 GS 12/1 -- nm* - budice Sep 27, 12:26
VisCap: What Electricity Sources Powered the World in 2022 (surprised to see the amount for coal in this day and age) -- (link*) - prayformojo 🐵 Sep 27, 12:26 3
- China and India use a huge amount of coal still -- nm - decline Sep 27, 12:50 2
  - And China dwarfs #2 India by a factor of 4-5x. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 27, 13:00 1
    - I think Austin still burns dried cow patties -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 27, 13:24
The Athletic NHL preseason preview rankings today 18. Vancouver Canucks 17. Ottawa Senators -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 27, 12:13
UPDATE: Cop who shot through the door at stranger to face grand jury. - Qale Sep 27, 12:05 14
- "knocking while black" -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 12:16
- If he’s honestly telling the truth and a person disregards instructions to leave; there’s zero chance he gets found guilty - Will Hunting Sep 27, 12:11 12
  - A. You're supposed to have a peep hole in the door. Is it that hard for Texas apartments to get better floor and unit markings? -- nm* - zeitgeist Sep 27, 13:27
  - if they even are able to return an indictment from a GJ that is. - Jovian Sep 27, 12:16
  - You're not supposed to discharge your weapon without identifying your target either. -- nm - Qale Sep 27, 12:16 6
    - That’s job related, not criminal. - Will Hunting Sep 27, 12:19 5
      - You have to wait until they are *inside* the castle to shoot them. -- nm - Qale Sep 27, 12:20 4
        
        Curtilage. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 27, 13:09
        
        But what if I don't want all that blood inside my castle? -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 12:21 2
        
        As someone who did have a person aggressively approach my door, I recommend repositioning yourself behind a second locked door. -- nm - Qale Sep 27, 12:30 1
        
        That didn't help Mrs blade runner -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 27, 13:10
  - What if he is dishonestly telling the truth? -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 12:12 2
    - Fair. If they can’t prove he’s making shit up, he’s walking. - Will Hunting Sep 27, 12:17
    - at least under current SCOTUS jurisprudence, also excused -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 12:17
Jaylen Waddle is practicing today. -- nm - David Sep 27, 11:58 2
- I sure do hope he can come in and give this moribund offense a kickstart. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 27, 12:21
- Tyreek Hill: "You too little! I'm big boy around here!" -- (link) - budice Sep 27, 12:04
Costco CFO: Not if but when membership fees will increase -- (link) - budice Sep 27, 11:46 4
- Three percent profit margins are small and they still paid almost a billion in taxes based on that link on B2... - Walt_Disney Sep 27, 12:03 2
  - Iirc, 3% margin is typical for grocery stores -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 27, 13:12 1
    - I would even describe that as excellent for a grocer. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 27, 13:14
- but not the hot dogs, right? - Senator Padme Amidala Sep 27, 11:57
Canada’s most popular baby names in 2022 - Walt_Disney Sep 27, 11:44 3
- One of the names under consideration for my oldest was "Raylan". - Beryllium Sep 27, 12:15 2
  - Not Dewey? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 27, 12:22 1
    - hah. no. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 27, 12:27
Chess Player Once Accused Of Using Adult Toys To Cheat Gets Dragged By Poker Community For Overstepping - crash davis 😺 Sep 27, 11:44 2
- solely for informational purposes, here is an Instagram of Alexandra Botez -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Sep 27, 11:46 1
  - *offers to sponsor her for a green card* -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 27, 12:16
Aston Villa: Jacqui Oatley says women's team 'dreading' WSL opener because of 'clingy' shirts -- (link) - LMS Sep 27, 11:35
Narwal, a Reddit reader, is dead. Long live Narwal 2? The fallout continues as Reddit started to charge for API use. - Qale Sep 27, 11:28 9
- There's a thread about sideloading a version of Apollo that uses a homebrew API interface or something so that one can use the last version of Apollo - JD Sep 27, 11:35 1
  - Yeah, there's no way I'd go that hard in trying to recompile the ghost of Apollo. I often think of selling my Mac Mini in the first place. -- nm - Qale Sep 27, 11:39
- I have barely been on Reddit since this whole garbage started. F them (reddit). -- nm - sycor Sep 27, 11:33 6
  - I understand that position. I don't think I'd quantify it as necessarily as bad as what Twitter became, even if they're making some similar plays. -- nm - Qale Sep 27, 11:37 1
    - Yes, my stance against Reddit is more about the future of the Web. - Beryllium Sep 27, 12:13
  - They oranged it up? -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 11:36 1
    - mega orange -- nm - sycor Sep 27, 11:37
  - any time I've been on has been incognito & not logged in. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 27, 11:34 1
    - I'm not doing incognito, but definitely not logged in. - sycor Sep 27, 11:37
Dan Wootton has also now been suspended by GB News -- (link) - LMS Sep 27, 11:22
NBA: Trail Blazers are trading guard Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks -- (edited) - budice Sep 27, 11:21 7
- Wow. Giannis got his wish. - Will Hunting Sep 27, 12:12
- Lillard leaving the Blazers for the Bucks -- (link) - budice Sep 27, 11:48
- Welp, that seals the East. -- nm - David Sep 27, 11:25
- Deandre Ayton is going to Portland and Jusuf Nurkic is headed to Phoenix. -- nm - budice Sep 27, 11:23
- lol Miami -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 11:21 2
  - and Toronto as they were the new big thing the last couple of days -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 27, 11:23 1
    - Toronto never made sense. They leaked that so that someone else would up their bid. -- nm - David Sep 27, 11:27
Menendez had blocked a law that would have prevented his activities (they got him for bribery, not acting as foriegn agent) msnbc -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 27, 11:02 1
- god if only there had been a way to drive his sorry ass out the first time it happened -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 11:03
Power billion pool closing in one hour... include nic and date of draw as message 9/27 -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 27, 11:01 3
- BTW, apologies for not including the date on mine. The curse of sending quickly, I guess. -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 12:16 1
  - Nor your nic... the date is an issue because people send in for the next draw same day as the previous draw. Some folks forget if they did send for - This draw or last one Sep 27, 13:09
- I gotta get better an checking in. - sycor Sep 27, 11:35
Star Trek: very Short Treks | Holograms All the Way Down -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Sep 27, 10:56 [youtube] 6
- Hmm, a coworker of mine points out that this says it was produced by "awesome Inc.", which is odd, because we work at "awesome Inc" - Beryllium Sep 27, 11:15 3
  - Wait a second, *my* company is called "awesome Inc", but we did not produce that, *and* you do not work for me. -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 11:56 1
    - Someone should make keychains -- nm - Beryllium Sep 27, 14:19
  - nothing confusing about that . -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 27, 11:27
- Very good (very silly, too, but in a good way) -- nm* - Beryllium Sep 27, 11:12
- holy shit that was awesome -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 27, 10:58
NYT: ‘Germany 1923’: When Democracy Held Nazism at Bay (book review) -- (edited) - mud Sep 27, 10:56 1
- image shows German checking his cash on hand before going for the week's groceries: -- (pic) -- (link*) - mud Sep 27, 11:00 [Attachment]
the end of corner gas stations is gonna be a wild ride. imagining the sudden placement of 100k+ ownerships into one of those "OldCo" shell LLCs that - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 10:51 2
- Does Buck-ee's have charging for EVs? The switchover (in my mind) is going to go back to the Turnpike Rest Areas - JaxSean Sep 27, 11:18 1
  - Apparently they (and Sheetz) have ~ 12 at each in multiple locations/states. - JaxSean Sep 27, 11:24
Scott Pilgrim Animated Movie clip -- (link) - budice Sep 27, 10:49 [youtube] 4
- Wait, they just remade? - Spawn Sep 27, 11:44 1
  - No, see, the movie he ordered from amazon.ca and this is from Netflix. Completely different. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 27, 12:40
- Hayley Atwell as Lara Croft Animated -- (link) - budice Sep 27, 10:53 [youtube] 1
  - J'accuse! I don't think there's any voices in that clip -- nm - JD Sep 27, 11:40
How anonymous is Josh Dobbs? Well... -- (link) - David Sep 27, 10:48 4
- He's so anonymous that even if he dated Taylor Swift, people still wouldn't know who he was. -- nm - Dano Sep 27, 10:52 2
  - clap clap clap -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 27, 11:06 1
    - Dangerfieldesque -- nm - rollo Sep 27, 11:16
- But he played well enough Sunday to force a reaction. -- (link) - David Sep 27, 10:51
Joe Manganiello hosting new game show: 'Deal or No Deal Island' -- (link) - budice Sep 27, 10:44 3
- freshly divorced -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 27, 10:47 2
  - no more Modern Family residuals. -- nm - Andie Sep 27, 10:50 1
    - No True Blood Alcide spinoff… unfortunately. -- nm - Qale Sep 27, 11:00
Whenever I see something like this in a trailer I always think, "Why you got to do [in this case Luke Wilson] dirty like that?" -- (link) - Dano Sep 27, 10:42 [youtube]
Something I adore about the Kite Man trailer is how they've made Golden Glider out to be a total badass. - David Sep 27, 10:32 1
- nice -- nm - budice Sep 27, 10:32
"Russians Ready for 'Direct Conflict' with NATO, Putin Ally Claims" - Jovian Sep 27, 10:18
www.isthefederalgovernmentstillopen.com -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 10:07
Is it possible not to have an inner monologue not because you don't, but because you never shut up to keep anything inner? - Will Hunting Sep 27, 10:05 3
- Many of my thoughts must simply be "vented". But while I am speaking them I am actually on to thinking about the *next* ones. -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 11:57
- yes - her innie is an outie -- nm - rollo Sep 27, 11:14
- Some people have their brain connected directly to their mouth, yes. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 27, 11:06
Today in what-the-**ckery -- high school coach resigns after his team was using "Nazi" as an audible call vs a predom-Jewish school -- (link) - Will Hunting Sep 27, 10:02 11
- Does it say what the play was? -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 12:23
- it really is insane to me (I mean I get it, 6 years of MAGA now will do this) how in 2023 American antisemitism is greater now then 20 years ago. -- nm - Jovian Sep 27, 10:08 7
  - social media has made it more visible to more Americans but not sure if it’s actually more/less prevalent than always. the Nazis are more emboldened - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 10:11 6
    - I don't go a day or at best, a few days without hearing something like this. -- nm - Jovian Sep 27, 10:14 5
      - People would have done this shit, it just wouldn't have made the news, or even have been considered a scandal or wrong. -- nm - Reagen Sep 27, 10:56 1
        
        ^^^^^ for the first 150+ years it was just baked in -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 10:57
      - I mean… Lindbergh was ready and willing to be the American quisling for Hitler 80 years ago - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 10:22 2
        
        right. but that was before the world really *knew* what the Nazis were (or believed) and what they were doing. - Jovian Sep 27, 10:25 1
        
        (Im not defending that POS, Im just saying in the end he had no credibility and ultimately looked the fool and will always be remembered as a nazi) -- nm - Jovian Sep 27, 10:27
- only surprised he resigned -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 10:04 1
  - clearly they needed a scapegoat. God forbid these maga students face any type of accountability. -- nm - Jovian Sep 27, 10:11
In the bear's defense, enchiladas are really yummy -- (link) - decline Sep 27, 09:51 1
- the most was super composed. Really really good call to shield the son's eyes -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Sep 27, 09:54
I was investigating temp jobs over the holidays. It isn’t going well as they all act like they will be your intense focus. - Qale Sep 27, 09:47
heh Chekhov's Lightsaber -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 09:46 1
- Narratively, the Obi-Wan/Darth lightsaber fight is the payoff for it -- nm - rollo Sep 27, 11:11
Local News - Developers ordered to demolish 'mutant' apartment blocks -- (link) - LMS Sep 27, 09:38 7
- this is a disgusting waste of resources. fine the hell out of them and move on. increase oversight in the future. - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Sep 27, 11:13 3
  - Pretty sure it is going to fall over. -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 11:48 2
    - I think it would say that. - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Sep 27, 12:15 1
      - wow -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 12:22
- "non-accessible 'accessible' apartments" with steps to the balconies. wow -- nm - JaxSean Sep 27, 10:55
- "But boss, that's not what they approved." "Screw 'em. What are they going to do? Make us knock it down?" -- nm - JD Sep 27, 10:15
- sounds like bribe o'clock to me...maybe a little past bribe o'clock at this point maybe -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 27, 09:42
How Costco makes money 2023 -- (pic) - budice Sep 27, 09:29 [Attachment] 1
- What is SG&A? Labor? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 27, 12:20
The Creator 79% (74/20), Saw X nsy, Stop Making Sense 100% (57/0), PAW Patrol 83% (5/1), Fair Play 88% (90/12), Henry Sugar 97% (31/1) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 27, 09:25
Finally getting around to cashing in my birthday freebies. Nothing bundt cake yesterday with Buona beef + sausage combo. Today for lunch: Jimmy Johns - oblique Sep 27, 09:24
Bruce Springsteen Postpones All Remaining 2023 Shows Until Next Year -- (link) - LMS Sep 27, 09:23 1
- On account that he's 74-fucking-years-old. -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 27, 09:29
Michigan State officially terminated Mel Tucker’s contract - budice Sep 27, 09:14 1
- Michigan State players have 30 days in which to enter their names into the transfer portal -- nm - budice Sep 27, 09:26
Dana Carvey & David Spade remember Phil Hartman live from the Groundlings with former SNL cast/writers -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 08:39 [youtube] 2
- (Nealon, Julia Sweeney, and Jim Downey) -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 08:46
- banana bookmark -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 08:39
Avoided Connections’ trap today - Tim Sep 27, 08:29 3
- I got fooled once. - ReluctantCynic Sep 27, 09:19
- well done -- nm - rollo Sep 27, 09:00 1
  - Another heart has made the grade -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 09:02
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler announce new dates/expansion of their joint tour. - MDH Sep 27, 08:27
Xenomorph Banking Trojan: A New Variant Targeting 35+ U.S. Financial Institutions - JD Sep 27, 08:26
My house. -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 08:23 7
- …is your house and your house is mine. -- nm - Qale Sep 27, 09:48 1
  - don't wannna hurt nobody -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 11:24
- is in the middle of your street? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Sep 27, 08:28 2
  - that's right -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 08:36 1
    - Life used to be so hard, now everything is easy cause of Amy -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 27, 13:17
- ...Is a very, very, very fine house -- nm - decline Sep 27, 08:25 1
  - and is out of the ordinary. -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 08:36

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