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JF, I have a proposal for you in astro :) - oblique Oct 18, 09:57
Forbidden Love -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 18, 09:54 [mastodon] 1
- Change Cynthia's name to Candace and Dick's name to Cornelius and we have a movie. #candycorneliusmovie -- nm - Disney/Pixar Oct 18, 10:24
I've got a cold but was able to get a good lamb madras at a restaurant on the beach just now, so that should help clear my nose. -- nm - LMS Oct 18, 09:53 2
- are you on holiday? - loosilu Oct 18, 09:53 1
  - Yep, turns out you can get a decent curry in Perissa. -- nm - LMS Oct 18, 09:58
So, night 2 after getting the shots was worse than the first! Actually had a fever. Tonight's meeting just got canceled, so I think I will live. -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 09:39 4
- yeah, this new covid shot was a f'n ass kicker, worst one of all, mom says that was her last one, f'it -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 18, 11:14
- sorry. take it easy -- nm - Remlik Oct 18, 09:50
- dang sorry to hear that -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 09:45
- I feel 100% better today (felt like total crap yesterday) -- nm - decline Oct 18, 09:43
earthquake app alert came through a little while ago, but no earthquake felt and nothing anywhere in the area close enough to have brought it - - i.b! Oct 18, 09:33 4
- Are they supposed to be predictive? -- nm - Dano Oct 18, 09:36 3
  - the alert said to take cover. there was a decent sized one closer to sacramento, so maybe that was enough. - i.b! Oct 18, 09:41 2
    - Yup, 4.1 - that was likely it. -- nm - Meg Oct 18, 10:02
    - this is good to know for anyone with the app. test planned for tomorrow at 10:19am pacific. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Oct 18, 09:42
'Then the alligators got him': Inside Ja Morant's 18-month downfall -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Oct 18, 09:33
I was inspired by below. I’m on my 25th flight of the year today. -- nm* - MDH Oct 18, 09:30 3
- i've been enjoying the train over flights... been all over the east coast this year. -- nm - colin Oct 18, 09:31 1
  - I like Amtrak but haven’t been to NYC this year where I’d normally take it. -- nm - MDH Oct 18, 09:54
- you pass -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 09:31
Project Primrose: Adobe has created a digital dress that can easily load graphics and animations -- (link) - decline Oct 18, 09:24 2
- Why is Adam Devine there? -- nm - oblique Oct 18, 09:30
- What color? -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 09:30
“Your power will be turned off between 8:00 am and 2:00 pm” reads a lot differently than “Your power will be turned off from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm.” -- (edited) - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 09:21 14
- Related ST Pop Quiz - Without looking it up, do you know the FDA guidance for how long food can be kept (eta: safely) in an unopened refrigerator/freezer with no power? -- nm* - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 09:31 7
  - Yes because we lose power often enough it comes up -- nm - spamlet Oct 18, 09:57
  - is the freezer full? 2 days. not so full? 1 day. — nm - i.b! Oct 18, 09:52 4
    - Correct on both. How about the fridge? -- nm - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 09:53
    - I don’t know why I only read freezer the first time - refrigerator is only around 4 hours. -- nm - i.b! Oct 18, 09:53 2
      - *ding* -- nm - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 09:54 1
        
        apparently I'm going to die of some horrible food borne illness in the event of a power outage :) -- nm - oblique Oct 18, 09:59
  - I would say 36 hours? -- nm - oblique Oct 18, 09:44
- I actually read therm the same. - Spawn Oct 18, 09:30 5
  - Your IM is how I read the first one, yes. - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 09:32 4
    - Sadly, I have learned to read expecting the worse. -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 09:33 3
      - My neighbor called them and they confirmed it would not be shut off for the entire time. -- nm - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 09:35 2
        
        8 to 1:58 FTW! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 18, 09:44
        
        bonus! -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 09:37
And he's lost round 2 -- nm - eag Oct 18, 09:19 22
- i believe on this vote Jeffries now has the most votes for speaker in total ever. McCarthy was 1st, but will lose that record on this vote. - colin Oct 18, 09:54
- heh. he got less than yesterday -- nm - decline Oct 18, 09:49
- And he's already at 20 same as yesterday -- nm - eag Oct 18, 09:49 1
  - And now he's going backwards -- nm - eag Oct 18, 09:50
- LOL. Who voted for Boehner? -- nm - pmb Oct 18, 09:40 2
  - who'd she go to the movies with recently? prid pro quo -- nm* - Beaker Oct 18, 09:43
  - Mike Kelly? -- nm - colin Oct 18, 09:41
- Already 16 Republicans against him. He may do worse on the 2nd ballot. -- nm - Dano Oct 18, 09:35 6
  - unfortunately i interpret that as "you just haven't given ME what i'm asking for yet, Jim" -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 09:46 3
    - what does he have to offer? committee seats are already given away... -- nm - colin Oct 18, 09:50 2
      - Well continued funding for Ukraine would help -- nm - eag Oct 18, 09:53 1
        
        he's a weasel though, he can say "yeah, i'll support it" and then just not. speaker at this point has so little power to incentivize a vote -- nm - colin Oct 18, 09:57
  - 18 now -- nm - eag Oct 18, 09:41
  - Good. -- nm - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 09:35
- lol -- nm - colin Oct 18, 09:26 2
  - i'm really just waiting to see if he's lost ground. i can't imagine him going for another vote if he loses more votes. -- nm - colin Oct 18, 09:30 1
    - Currently, he is losing ground. He's lost 2 or 3 people from yesterday and so far, only 1 defector from yesterday has flipped TO Jordan -- nm - Louis Litt Oct 18, 09:36
- there's no rule that says a golden retriever can't be speaker of the house -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 09:20 4
  - Caligula made a horse a senator back during the Roman Empire so you know -- nm - eag Oct 18, 09:22 3
    - And then he fucked it. Probably. -- nm - Qale Oct 18, 09:45 2
      - And I would still argue he isn't as crazy as some of the crazies in the House today -- nm - eag Oct 18, 09:51 1
        
        he was fun! a fun boy! nobody crazy is fun any more, they're just tedious. -- nm - colin Oct 18, 09:59
My revenge is never fly Frontier or Spirit. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Oct 18, 09:17 2
- I flew Spirit once, Orlando to Atlanta, but in the Big Front Seat -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 09:36 1
  - They let you fly the plane? Cool. -- nm - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 09:38
Is their a new Gen V or Loki episode today/tonight? -- nm - Jovian Oct 18, 09:10 3
- If only someone would post a TV PSA for us! :) -- nm - oblique Oct 18, 09:15
- New Loki is Thursdays, no,? -- nm - TWuG Oct 18, 09:11 1
  - ahhh thats probably right. :( -- nm - Jovian Oct 18, 09:12
Tom Cole's going to make me puke. -- nm - colin Oct 18, 08:59 3
- That any of them can put the word "honorable" in front of this piece of shit's name is just sickening to me. -- nm - Louis Litt Oct 18, 09:09
- how firmly is his tongue up Gym's you know what -- nm - Jovian Oct 18, 09:07 1
  - entire head is up there. calling that dude honorable and a man of integrity is wild. -- nm - colin Oct 18, 09:08
Speaking of Frontier. You know how airlines are making oodles of money from revenge travel? Frontier warned they will lose this money quarter.... - ty97 Oct 18, 08:59 19
- A lot of reporting that people are spending more when they travel (ie biz class). - spamlet Oct 18, 09:22
- Because no one wants to fly those airlines. Not worth it. -- nm - MDH Oct 18, 09:10 4
  - Yet plenty of people do fly them, Bougie McBouge -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 09:11
  - Maybe people were illing to pay the higher prices out of revenge? -- nm - loosilu Oct 18, 09:10 2
    - Revenge travel has been a thing for 15-18 months now. not 100% clear why Frontier/Spirit are going to have losses this quarter. - ty97 Oct 18, 09:13 1
      - I wonder how much flight cancellations and such affect their profits. My coworker got cancelled by Frontier, had to spend extra days in a hotel, then - oblique Oct 18, 09:15
- Does it factor in the destinations? Meaning, maybe the discount airlines serve places that weren't big for summer travel. -- (edited) - loosilu Oct 18, 09:07
- "revenge travel"? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Oct 18, 09:01 11
  - General term for the boom in travel by Americans post-COVID - ty97 Oct 18, 09:03 10
    - thanks. that's a bizarre term for it -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Oct 18, 09:03 9
      - I wonder if it's derived from the "revenge bedtime procrastination" concept? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 09:26
      - Yeah, that'll show them? -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 09:20
      - It's a bit of an odd term, yeah, but it has stuck. -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 09:07 1
        
        COVID is running rampant on cruises. They cruise lines are taking the head in the sand approach to it. - loosilu Oct 18, 09:10
      - "grudge travel" better for you? -- nm - colin Oct 18, 09:06 4
        
        maekup travel? -- nm - loosilu Oct 18, 09:06 3
        
        makeup. -- nm - loosilu Oct 18, 09:07 2
        
        markup travel -- nm - colin Oct 18, 09:07
        
        Lost Time Travel -- nm - Volnelk Oct 18, 09:07
not that it really matters at this point but Meatball Ron maxxed out 75% of his donors taking their money for the primary, nothing left to tap for g.e -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 08:57
Connections was really digging for the purple category today. (Finished with one mistake) - ty97 Oct 18, 08:56 5
- Yeah, I didn't like purplse. -- nm - loosilu Oct 18, 09:12
- Oh I liked the purple. I question the yellow. -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Oct 18, 09:01 3
  - Yellow makes total sense! -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 09:10 2
    - I got it without incident, but it didn't quite hang together in my mind (spoils) - Baron Hardcoden Oct 18, 09:19 1
      - spoils - ty97 Oct 18, 09:38
I just got a dreaded 'schedule change' e-mail notification form an airline. - ty97 Oct 18, 08:48 7
- Allie was trying to figure out how to cancel a flight, got that notification, called to cancel. The person on the phone was confused. - colin Oct 18, 08:52 5
  - She got lucky if they did refund. 15 minutes changes usually aren't enough to get a refund. -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 08:57 4
    - that was a few years back, bet they closed that lil loophole. -- nm - colin Oct 18, 08:58 3
      - Changes it 15 minutes. Changes 15 minutes again. And again. And again. And again. -- nm - Qale Oct 18, 09:13 2
        
        this guy corporates. -- nm - colin Oct 18, 09:32
        
        Don't give them ideas! -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 09:15
- *sends panicked email anyway* -- nm - mrs. spamlet Oct 18, 08:51
whoever is running the Biden2024 twitter has stepped up their game this week -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 08:39
COlts; Richardson out for the year. having surgery -- nm - Remlik Oct 18, 08:36
How come those Temu ads never show the whole dress? -- nm - Diva Oct 18, 08:31
Some of the discourse in the US currently regarding Israel/Gaza has more than mere shades of Iraq post-9/11 discourse. -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 08:23 3
- Do you mean that in that some are more hesitant to jump on a side? -- nm* - Qale Oct 18, 08:35
- yeah and that all worked out great for us in the end -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 08:31 1
  - can't say Joe didn't warn them at least -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 18, 08:37
Also, f*ck Frontier - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 08:18 23
- Just because, I searched and you've shaked your fist and told them to f*ck off A LOT this year. First time shame on them. Second time... - zunk takes things literally Oct 18, 09:14 2
  - This is still a knock-on from the April trip, we had credit to use up. - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 09:19 1
    - Ah. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Oct 18, 09:46
- The kid has the first of her two round trips on RyanAir tomorrow. Luckily this one is only an hour. -- nm - spamlet Oct 18, 08:34 12
  - I just flew to/from London, on Icelandiair—they get you off the plane, onto a bus, to the terminal (and vice versa) in Iceland— -- (edited) - Flavor-izm Oct 18, 08:41 1
    - European airports *love* the bus to plane system. - ty97 Oct 18, 08:43
  - Part of our team is based in Poland, and one of our coworkers is trying to get us to come visit, and suggested we could fly pretty cheaply on RyanAir -- (edited) - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 08:37 9
    - from what I’ve seen, they’re ok when things are running smoothly; but any issues, and they fall hard - people I follow have been stranded for days - i.b! Oct 18, 09:36
    - I have a cousin (second cousin? First cousin twice removed? I dunno) who lives in Dublin area and loves being able to fly places cheap on Ryanair. - ty97 Oct 18, 08:40 7
      - i have flown RyanAir a couple times between Dublin and other UK airports, honestly, it's totally fine. -- nm - Andie Oct 18, 08:59 1
        
        Okay, sure, but you were willing to fly SkyGreece. -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 09:01
      - My coworker is the same way. Travels in Europe constantly. - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 08:43
      - Yeah her flight from Cork to London was less than $100 RT. Her flight to Malaga was maybe $175? - spamlet Oct 18, 08:42 3
        
        Also: rather jealous of your daughter. -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 08:47 1
        
        Me too -- nm - spamlet Oct 18, 08:50
        
        Aer Ligus intra-Europe isn't much different from Ryanair anyway I think. - ty97 Oct 18, 08:46
- Ouch—yeah—that’s just wrong— -- nm - Flavor-izm Oct 18, 08:28
- That's on you. -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 08:24 5
  - Yeah, rookie mistake. -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 08:32
  - Fair, but still. - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 08:29 2
    - Hey, I don't fly them. -- nm - ty97 Oct 18, 08:34 1
      - Ditto. No chance. -- nm - MDH Oct 18, 08:49
  - motherfuckers pay next I bet -- nm - Frontier Oct 18, 08:29
Re B2: Bzzzt! Sorry, the correct answer is Brender and Eddie, not Brenda and Eddie. -- nm - TWuG Oct 18, 08:16
HYBE - the company behind BTS - is putting together an *American* girl group the only way we know how... via a reality show competition! -- (link) - Mop🧹 Oct 18, 08:14 1
- FWIW, couldn't watch the trailer. It was more than a little creepy. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 18, 08:16
Harden is a no show at Philadelphia 76ers practice -- nm - budice Oct 18, 08:14 6
- And so it begins.....again.... -- nm - Volnelk Oct 18, 08:31
- Check the local strip club buffets -- nm - Flavor-izm Oct 18, 08:20
- send him packing - decline Oct 18, 08:15 3
  - much more. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 18, 08:27 2
    - He’s apparently just been spotted in Houston—plot thickens -- nm - Flavor-izm Oct 18, 08:32 1
      - begging? cause they already said no thanks -- nm* - Beaker Oct 18, 08:40
Thanks for your help kids - I have almost all of my questions now. So appreciated. -- nm - Louis Litt Oct 18, 08:13 2
- I tried for variety. =) -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Oct 18, 08:14 1
  - That's what I'm aiming for. It's real easy to just make this an 80s music trivia night. lol -- nm - Louis Litt Oct 18, 08:16
I’m a bad Phillies fan. - znufrii, vice president Oct 18, 08:12 1
- same -- nm - rollo Oct 18, 08:23

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