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sitwap. Telsa being reviewed for misleading advertising related to estimated mileage per charge -- (link*) - tRuMaN Oct 26, 07:05 7
- I'm interested in this outcome. They used EPA rating tools/procedures for determining their range. - TWuG Oct 26, 07:16 6
  - And then they fudge the numbers -- nm - decline Oct 26, 09:08
  - I was just thinking about Tesla mileage this morning—is it 600 miles/charge? -- nm - FlavorizeThis Oct 26, 07:28 1
    - No. The long range 3 and Y have about 330 miles of range on a full charge when new - TWuG Oct 26, 07:44
  - similar to regular EPA ratings, does anyone every actually drive in ideal conditions? and for Evs, I would assume that ideal conditions - tRuMaN Oct 26, 07:28 2
    - I've never gotten near EPA estimates on any car I've ever had. -- nm - pmb Oct 26, 07:33 1
      - I actually meet or slightly exceed mine actually. - tRuMaN Oct 26, 07:40
National Tennessee Day today? -- nm - budice Oct 26, 07:03 1
- I'll allow it. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 26, 07:10
Five Nights at Freddy's nsy, The Killer 87% (73/11), Suitable Flesh 89% (33/4), The Holdovers 98% (86/2) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 26, 07:00 3
- no score available yet for 5NAF? That seems not-great for a movie opening *tomorrow*. -- nm - Andie Oct 26, 07:04 2
  - my kids have seen people talking about it on social media and they are fans but the response was not good. at all. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 26, 07:22
  - Shades thought the embargo was supposed to end at 3:01 this morning but no one has posted reviews. - spamlet Oct 26, 07:15
Ugh!! I just missed my train by a second and in the process of running for the train my ear bud fell out and down onto the tracks. - Krusty Oct 26, 06:39 20
- This is my worst fear, when I wear mine (but mine is about falling in the toilet) -- nm - FlavorizeThis Oct 26, 07:29
- That's why I use a model that hugs the whole ear. That way I can run faster and don't miss trains. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 26, 06:58 1
  - I wanted premium sound so I went with Sony but they didn't fit as well as they should have. -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 07:01
- 🦛🦛🦛 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Oct 26, 06:54
- I may be old, but I think it was a step backwards to not have the two buds connected somehow. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 26, 06:53 6
  - i have ones that run behind my head and don't even fit *in* my ear - they sit in front. - Andie Oct 26, 08:11
  - they exist - someone I follow has rec’d some from Bose, was just complaining they’d been discontinued; but she picked up a couple of pairs from - b.oo! Oct 26, 07:35
  - If they made them with better sound and features I'd use them. I want good audio and noise cancelling. -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 07:02
  - agreed. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 26, 06:58
  - I only get ones with an ear loop. -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 06:54 1
    - yeah. I have a good pair with like an over-ear hook, and a shitty pair that just sit in my ears. -- nm - mafic Oct 26, 06:58
- that sucks. I dropped my earbud in a bin the other day, but it fell into a dry paper bag from a cafe. I felt like I won the lottery. -- nm - mafic Oct 26, 06:49
- The train just left so you should have time to go get the bud (just kidding). Do not attempt this. -- nm - VMan Oct 26, 06:41 3
  - If I could reach it, there's no cleaning solution on earth that could get me to put that back in my ear. Time to find a new pair. -- nm* - Krusty Oct 26, 06:48 2
    - Isopropyl is fairly fire to anything biological, just saying -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 06:54 1
      - Sure but who knows what new microorganism might live in the subway system. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 07:11
- *dislike* -- nm - Andie Oct 26, 06:40 3
  - I was feeling so good about the day with the warm weather ahead and now I'm in a bad mood and have to listen to music - Krusty Oct 26, 06:46 2
    - aww, I’m sorry! - b.oo! Oct 26, 07:37 1
      - Thanks!! -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 08:27
SEO is infecting the real world now -- (link) - spamlet Oct 26, 06:38 3
- We have A Family Dentist here. Works for both SEO and the yellow pages. -- nm - znufrii, vice president Oct 26, 06:57
- It's the digital version of ABC Plumbing -- nm - oblique Oct 26, 06:51 1
  - *elbows you out of the way to get the top spot -- nm - AAAAA Plumbing Oct 26, 10:28
Artist collects 6,000 unwanted copies of The DaVinci Code, turns them into copies of 1984 -- (link) - znufrii, vice president Oct 26, 06:33 3
- heh. When I read the title, I imagined someone cutting out all the individual letters in The DaVinci Code and rearranging them into 1984 -- nm - oblique Oct 26, 06:51 2
  - More or less. Pictured cutting words or redacting pages and reassembling. -- nm - VMan Oct 26, 06:57
  - lol. That was my initial thought as well, actually. - znufrii, vice president Oct 26, 06:56
OTD 50 years ago .. QUADROPHENIA (the brilliant album not the brilliant film what arrived five years later) -- (pic) - mud Oct 26, 06:29 [Attachment] 4
- Out of my brain on the train -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 10:29
- My favorite Who album and one of my favorites of all time. -- nm - pmb Oct 26, 07:17
- So good. I'll give it a listen today. - zunk takes things literally Oct 26, 06:46 [Attachment]
- '5:15' -- (link) - mud Oct 26, 06:30 [youtube]
TNF: TB@BUF -- nm - budice Oct 26, 06:27
Another fun FNL time capsule thing - Reagen Oct 26, 06:19
US GDP surged to 4.9% in Q3, up from 2.1% the previous quarter -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 05:42 4
- All hands to battle stations! -- nm - Jerome Powell Oct 26, 06:28
- *twitch* -- nm - NYT Pitchbot Oct 26, 06:18
- but everything is horrible still, right? -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 26, 05:55 1
  - Definitely worse than 4 years ago -- nm - decline Oct 26, 06:42
I had to write two emails to my city council member this morning and if neither issue gets addressed in a timely manner I'll be looking for -- (edited) - Krusty Oct 26, 05:35
Wicked Little Letters (Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley) [red band] trailer -- (link) - Dano Oct 26, 05:30 [youtube] 2
- big fun! -- nm - mud Oct 26, 06:25
- Looks really good. :-) -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 06:09
They haven't caught the Maine shooter yet? -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 05:01 1
- maybe he made it to the border and inTO CANADA! .. ahhh!! -- nm - mud Oct 26, 06:23
TV PSA: NFL, NHL, NBA, Hell's Kitchen, Son of a Critch, Golden Bachelor, Run the Burbs, Children Ruin Everything, LEGO Masters, Big Brother, - Beaker 🍺 Oct 26, 04:54 1
- NFL, Lower Decks, Hell's Kitchen for the wife and Loki eventually -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 26, 04:54
Good morning. Spelling Bee. -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 26, 04:26 [Attachment] 3
- I’m just going to put this in the IM (NSFW) - spamlet Oct 26, 07:17
- The new plant based shark bait, NOT CHUM, was only a modest success. -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 06:28
- Scottish riot grlll act MUTTON CHUNT was only together for ~1 year but they opened for Mannequin Pussy a few times -- nm - rollo Oct 26, 05:52
So, the shooter is an Army Reservist and a firearms instructor. Isn't that your definitive "good guy with a gun" type? -- nm - Andie Oct 26, 04:21 1 1
- Brutal: Ukraine's ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova, tweets her "deepest condolences" to Maine -- nm - decline Oct 26, 04:35
Wordle 859 3/6 - spamlet Oct 26, 03:42 6
- Wordle 859 4/6 - crash davis 😺 Oct 26, 06:44
- 4 - 5 yellow before 5 green - rollo Oct 26, 05:47
- 5 - decline Oct 26, 04:39
- 4/6 - I call this one Salute to (sp) - prayformojo 🐵 Oct 26, 04:09
- Almost exactly the same - Andie Oct 26, 04:01 1
  - nice symmetry -- nm - rollo Oct 26, 05:48
Israeli tanks have crossed into Gaza...alledgedly just an incursion whatever that means -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 01:47
"shit, I just got hit by a whale." -- (link) - mafic Oct 25, 22:35 1
- Yikes! -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 04:53
Connections #137 perfect - TWuG Oct 25, 22:32 8
- Made it more exciting than I should have - VMan Oct 26, 06:40
- Connections Puzzle #137 1 silly mistake - crash davis 😺 Oct 26, 06:37
- 1 mistake - oblique Oct 26, 06:31
- 1 bobo to kick it off and a bonus bobo I didn't expect - rollo Oct 26, 05:55
- easy peasy - mud Oct 26, 05:50
- No mistakes - decline Oct 26, 04:44
- 1 mistake - prayformojo 🐵 Oct 26, 04:14
- One mistake. - David Oct 25, 23:56
?? Police say SHELTER IN PLACE, maniac with a gun on the loose... but if you want info, drive to his school in this other town... wth? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 25, 22:09
sometimes I love linkedin. it's suggesting I go work for an old company lower down the ladder than when I left 5 years ago. -- nm - mafic Oct 25, 22:09
Looks like Penn State will be looking for *yet another* CIO soon. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Oct 25, 22:02 1
- I'm telling you: it's toxic. if the war were at all winnable, I'd have stayed to fight. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Oct 26, 06:18
so my kid is going to a birthday party today. they asked for no presents. my wife wants to bring one anyway. so present or no present? - mafic Oct 25, 21:46 21
- Gift them a goat! -- nm - decline Oct 26, 04:34 1
  - I'd go with a chicken that has alienated the Queen of the Chicken Yard -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 26, 05:33
- she has clarified it says "don't feel the need to bring a present," which feels a bit ambiguous to me. -- nm - mafic Oct 25, 22:05 8
  - If that's the wording then definitely bring a present. -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 05:50 1
    - yeah, we brought a present. everyone brought presents. -- nm - mafic Oct 26, 06:17
  - Lol. Now they'll be getting more presents than if they wouldn't have said anything. Power of suggestion -- nm - con_carne Oct 26, 04:12
  - oh, sorry, covid, can't come -- nm - Beryllium Oct 25, 22:11
  - Now you gotta bring 2 to cover the sad kid whose parents didn't bring one. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 25, 22:08 1
    - regift that white elephant thing, the peach candle -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 25, 22:10
  - well then bring it -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 25, 22:07 1
    - yep. (I get some reasons for saying it, but it’s still a kid’s birthday - gift it up!) — nm - i.b! Oct 25, 22:19
- Bringing one will make the children who didn't feel like jerks. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 25, 22:03 3
  - They're probably jerks anyway, so... -- nm - Roger More Oct 26, 06:43
  - so definitely bring one then? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 26, 04:40
  - Keep it in the car. Push comes to shove, hand it over privately afterwards. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 25, 22:04
- No means no. -- nm - Qale Oct 25, 21:49
- no present, but ask if some food/treats or drinks or something else is needed? or even a houseguest type item. - i.b! Oct 25, 21:48 4
  - Yuppers— -- nm - FlavorizeThis Oct 26, 05:33
  - Bottle of wine for after everyone's gone home ;-) -- nm - Meg Oct 25, 21:54
  - This. -- nm - Krusty Oct 25, 21:53
  - there’s a missing “bring” up there. ^ — nm - i.b! Oct 25, 21:50
Bodies is EIGHT FUCKING EPISODES? Ain’t nobody got time for that! - Mop🧹 Oct 25, 21:41 2
- It’s Poe. You give it as much of your time as it wants, wait, no, that’s Usher. This is murderous Groundhog Day. -- nm* - landbeck Oct 26, 04:08
- that's the best kind of episode. you should be thrilled. -- nm - mafic Oct 25, 21:41
Cal sup ct to Disneyland: pay up -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 25, 21:39 2
- *tsk* *tsk* All Disney had to do was pay its employees a livable wage and it could have kept its tax breaks *AND* saved on lawyer fees. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 25, 21:44 1
  - And there go admission prices again. I have no desire to go to Disneyland but I do make a point of - Meg Oct 25, 22:16
I'm so glad i don't have Twitter downloaded anymore so i won't have to see all the thoughts and prayers -- (edited) - Louis Litt Oct 25, 21:34
So tomorrow I have to be at Stanley Ranch at 7am to have the cash desk open by 8am. We close at 4pm and I'll need to secure the cash and be over - Meg Oct 25, 21:32 2
- That's too early and quite a long day. Good luck tomorrow! -- nm - Krusty Oct 25, 21:35 1
  - There will be people in the parking lot and lined up at the door when I get there at 7:00. These people are hard core. -- nm - Meg Oct 25, 21:53
Susan Collins knowingly voted to install every one of those six FedSoc goons who voted to make us all live in this Wild West world -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 25, 21:22
folks, my new company is going thru bureaucratic BS to hire me. I decided I need a second vacation. I want to go to Tokyo for a week -- nm* - loosilu Oct 25, 21:18 6
- I have no idea of any fun or interesting places for you to go to. -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 25, 22:35
- long way to go for a week. best case is probably ~16-18 hours travel time each way, and 11 hour time difference. I guess Tokyo never really shuts, but - mafic Oct 25, 21:27 4
  - week is prob not realistic. Looking into it all -- nm - loosilu Oct 25, 21:51
  - don't care about travel time. -- nm - loosilu Oct 25, 21:50 2
    - yeah, but longer travel time takes more out of you. longer recovery etc. -- nm - mafic Oct 25, 21:52 1
      - yes I know and dont care. -- nm - loosilu Oct 25, 22:28
The shooting in Lewiston is really hitting hard. - colin Oct 25, 20:44 4
- If we can't get rid of the guns, we're going to become a police state, as that will be the only way to deal with all the guns -- nm - rollo Oct 26, 06:08 1
  - It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. -- nm - znufrii, vice president Oct 26, 06:32
- It really hurts so much more when you know the place and the people. The Cooks Corner event was much less deadly but it's right up the road from me. - Meg Oct 25, 21:09
- I hear you. *hug* -- (edited) - b.oo! Oct 25, 21:07
TIL: Keanu Reeves has a girlfriend... *AND* she's age appropriate! -- (link) - Mop🧹 Oct 25, 19:46
Cops know who the shooter is, have contacted the family to see where he might be going next. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 25, 19:44 2
- Maine had more people shot tonight than ALL of last year. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 25, 20:16 1
  - The bowling alley was going to close last year, community bought it to keep it going, tonight was teen tournament. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 25, 21:03
a quarter of Americans (23%) agree that "because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order t -- (link) - to save the country Oct 25, 19:34 3
- On the back of the Maine shooter, this is scarier than ever -- nm - FlavorizeThis Oct 26, 05:22
- who wrote that poll question, an AR-15? -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 25, 19:39
- We can only hope they decide to not vote, then. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 25, 19:36
This post is for Krusty -- (link) - ty97 Oct 25, 19:28 [BS] 1
- Very nice!! I don't get to see them but it happens regularly. There's an IG account I follow that posts up trains with full car tags. It's awesome! -- nm - Krusty Oct 25, 19:37
Bradley Cooper casually wearing Travis Scott Air Jordan 1s -- (link) - budice Oct 25, 19:16 12
- I have those and I walked dogs in them. :-) I broke some guy's neck the other day when he saw me walking dogs in some 18 year old SBs. -- (edited) - Krusty Oct 25, 19:33 4
  - I wore these last Friday and the guy did a double take and stopped to talk to me about them. -- (link) - Krusty Oct 25, 19:38 3
    - I fear for your safety. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 25, 19:46 2
      - Heh. :-) - Krusty Oct 25, 20:07 1
        
        *crosses self* (haha) may your safety continue! — nm - b.oo! Oct 25, 21:10
- Those are some nice, understated streetwear shoes. WTF are they $1500 other than the fact that it's got Travis Scott's name on them? -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 25, 19:28 6
  - His name is a big reason but they flipped the swoosh around which hadn't been done before, made it much larger, used z thicker and better cut -- (edited) - Krusty Oct 25, 19:35 2
    - OK, those are all good reasons (although messing with the logo probably made them uglier to me). -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 25, 19:47 1
      - I think it works for these but I wasn't a fan at first. -- nm - Krusty Oct 25, 20:03
  - so he can pay all the wrongful death claims from that stampede at his concert? -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 25, 19:31 1
    - I don’t think he was found criminally liable. Unfortunately. Maybe some civil suits will dog him. -- nm - Qale Oct 25, 20:04
  - we could win the lotto and still be poor -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 25, 19:30
Crash & RC, link to new Grand Designs near the top of B2 -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 25, 19:01
those who were marching on the left are now marching on the right, and the beards have all grown longer over night... -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 25, 18:55

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