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OK, step up. I need to change my password. It's always a combination involving a Slacker's name. Who's turn is it? - Mop🧹 Dec 13, 09:44 6
- PrayforMeg ;) -- nm - Meg Dec 13, 10:08
- changing passwords is so 2000 and late -- nm - oblique Dec 13, 09:52 1
  - Can you talk to my IT team? -- nm - spamlet Dec 13, 09:57
- FoodChem!!!! -- nm - JD Dec 13, 09:47
- Have you used me yet? Use me, Mop. USE ME -- nm - JaxSean Dec 13, 09:46 1
  - You make a strong case. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 13, 09:47
Is there a spreadsheet for ST LDB and/or Whamageddon? - Diva Dec 13, 09:41 3
- yes, kilbo has one -- nm - JaxSean Dec 13, 09:46 2
  - here, for LDB -- (link) - JaxSean Dec 13, 09:48 [Backboard] 1
    - Thx! -- nm - Diva Dec 13, 10:14
SCOTUS to take up abortion pill cases; will reconsider lower-court rulings limiting access to mifepristone. -- nm* - budice Dec 13, 09:40 2
- this will be good news for Dem Leadership to motivate voters in the 2026 midterms -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 13, 09:43
- C'mon, SCOTUS. I dare you to ban them. I'm sure it'll turn our great for conservatives at the next election. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 13, 09:41
how the federal judiciary polices its own judges (spoiler: they don’t) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 13, 09:17
The Ohtani effect.I have a 1/4 Dodger season ticket plan. I usually have to sell tickets at a loss on stubhub if I can't go and no one wants them. I -- (edited) - jnine Dec 13, 09:12 16
- I normally wouldn't consider it, I LOVE opening day, but my little Jack has had a very expensive year, health wise. -- nm - jnine Dec 13, 09:46
- I'm dumb. Why won't he be able to play until June? -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 13, 09:41 2
  - tommy john type surgery. -- nm - i.b.! Dec 13, 09:45 1
    - $700 million. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 13, 09:47
- Sell!! -- nm - Diva Dec 13, 09:29
- 100% I'd sell. The pomp of opening day is fun but ultimately it's just another game and you have 20 more of those. - zunk takes things literally Dec 13, 09:26
- "A colleague once described the act of hating the Dodgers as being comparable to hating a really well-dressed dog" - JD Dec 13, 09:23 3
  - they make it too easy by spending Scrooge McDuck money and also getting practically nothing in return for it other than division titles -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 13, 09:47 2
    - It's better than when the parking lot attendant owned them? -- nm - JD Dec 13, 09:48 1
      - Yeah we like to forget the Frank McCrook days and his wife that likes to sleep with her trainers -- nm - eag Dec 13, 09:52
- Heh. FWIW, I'd be willing to play the game of trying to see if demand will increase but sell at high point before he definitely won't play opening day - JD Dec 13, 09:18 4
  - The Dodgers first home spring training game is against the Angels. That's sold out. -- nm - jnine Dec 13, 09:30 3
    - Yeah and I was thinking of going to see them in Tempe since they don't play Cubs or As in Mesa for spring Training -- nm - eag Dec 13, 09:50 1
      - I'm seeing their first spring training game in Peoria against the Padres. I was going to be there anyway, so why not? Way cheaper than the Dodger - jnine Dec 13, 11:29
    - 🤣 460M towards CBT well spent - JD Dec 13, 09:34
- Jerome Powell dont read it -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 13, 09:16
STIS: Should I buy tickets for: Hopelessly Devoted: The Music of Olivia Newton-John at the Samueli Theater - JD Dec 13, 08:58 1
- My opinion of cover's is different when the artist is no longer with us. -- nm - Spawn Dec 13, 09:16
In a move that is equal parts creepy and impressive, a team of researchers connected a humanoid robot to GPT-4, the AI model that powers ChatGPT -- (link) - decline Dec 13, 08:52
Andrew Scott and Greta Lee - Actors on Actors -- (link) - budice Dec 13, 08:44 [youtube]
I’ve only heard one Christmas song so far, and it been Fairytale of New York. I must have heard it 5 times already. - Loyola Dec 13, 08:42
Connections #185 - oblique Dec 13, 08:28 2
- Identical outcome for me -- nm - pmb Dec 13, 09:45
- smooth (spoiler) - i.b.! Dec 13, 09:41
I've been making my way through Welcome to Wrexham Season 2 and I think my favorite part is *spoils* - JD Dec 13, 08:25
LDB OUT!!! Bowie/Bing version last night. -- nm* - zunk takes things literally Dec 13, 08:20 16
- Wrigley done you wrong -- nm - oblique Dec 13, 08:26
- I need a Whamagaddon ruling. This morning I turned on the Today show and they ran a promo for a story about Whamageddon which included at the end of - pmb Dec 13, 08:24 14
  - gotta edit your year-end review post now -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 13, 08:36
  - I think this hinges on whether or not it was the George Michael version. - Loyola Dec 13, 08:34
  - Correction, it actually looks like purposefully getting people out is allowed in Whamageddon per wiki. So if it was Michael version, you out. -- (link*) - sycor Dec 13, 08:30 1
    - *stamps feet* It's not a Michaels version! *waves fists in tantrum fashion* It's a Wham version (It's in the name of the challenge!) - JD Dec 13, 08:41
  - Yup, I'm watching that now and wondered how many people would be caught. Not playing myself and likely wouldn't recognize it anyway. -- nm - Meg Dec 13, 08:27 9
    - Do you think it was the George Michael version? It didn't sound like it to me, but it only played for a few seconds. -- nm - pmb Dec 13, 08:38 8
      - I saw it. It was Wham. -- nm - jnine Dec 13, 08:52 5
        
        The Today Show is a bunch of assholes. -- nm - pmb Dec 13, 09:18 4
        
        As soon as it started I thought I'm glad I'm not in the Wham contest, then they even reference the contest and that people got knocked out.Purposeful! -- nm - jnine Dec 13, 11:33
        
        Fun news fact: The Today Show was originally designed to entertain prison inmates whose IQs were too low for them to be executed. -- nm* - Roger More Dec 13, 09:28 1
        
        I just looked through the wiki page and there is no mention of this. Then realized - sycor Dec 13, 09:48
        
        I mean, they *like* to get up early! -- nm - Spawn Dec 13, 09:22
      - pssst it's the Wham version. Don't get JD mad at you too. -- nm - sycor Dec 13, 08:46
      - Sorry, no clue. -- nm - Meg Dec 13, 08:39
Worldwide Box Office Update (see IM): Hunger Games hits $275M, Wish $100M; Trolls and Napoleon near $175M - MDH Dec 13, 08:18
A Graph Is Worth a Thousand Words -- (edited) - JD Dec 13, 08:15 [Attachment] 2
- Two completely different eras in shooting / play style. - Will Hunting Dec 13, 08:19 1
  - So, does that mean my beloved run TMC Warriors would have done much better in the current league? ;-) - JD Dec 13, 08:28
Can you get more than 50 emails per page on Gmail? -- nm - Dano Dec 13, 07:54 3
- If you go to the All Mail view you can get 100 instead of 50, but I think they've coded out showing more that that in any view -- nm - decline Dec 13, 08:33
- No that I know of, but if I'm wrong I'd love to be corrected. -- nm - sycor Dec 13, 08:00 1
  - Dano gonna correct us - Spawn Dec 13, 08:03
10,000 miles - Exhibit A -- (pic) - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 13, 07:41 [Attachment] 13
- I am so dang proud of you! -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Dec 13, 09:45
- terrific achievement! 🌟— nm - i.b.! Dec 13, 09:44
- Outstanding! -- nm - ty97 Dec 13, 09:16 1
  - (Is Exhibit C a missing toenail? Cause I don't need to see that) -- nm - ty97 Dec 13, 09:17
- Congratulations! -- nm - zunk takes things literally Dec 13, 08:22
- Well done! -- nm - spamlet Dec 13, 07:58
- impressive. -- nm - mud Dec 13, 07:57
- Woot!!!!! -- nm - JD Dec 13, 07:56
- VNC! Congrats! -- nm - Dano Dec 13, 07:55
- nice -- nm - decline Dec 13, 07:46
- 😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 13, 07:42
- Exhibit B -- (pic) - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 13, 07:41 [Attachment] 1
  - “Shit, does this mean I have to start all over again?” -- (edited) - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 13, 07:42
LIR - Jax, the Gem shows will run Thursday - Sunday for six weeks. They're still bringing in the audience and it will cut production costs. -- nm - Meg Dec 13, 07:40 1
- nicey -- nm - JaxSean Dec 13, 07:43
NFL PSA: in addition to the regular Thursday game there are not 1, not 2 but 3 games on Saturday, plus the usual Monday nighter -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 13, 07:29 2
- Yep. It's "Don't get divorced" weekend in the NFL. - Volnelk Dec 13, 07:34
- yay? .. (actually good match-ups. tomorrow's a stinker, though) -- nm* - mud Dec 13, 07:30
Xbox Series X for $399 @ Microsoft w/free ship -- (link) - budice Dec 13, 07:20 2
- Make a new Batman game (*with Batman*), and I am in. -- nm - Spawn Dec 13, 07:44
- I am mildly annoyed that xbox has been on sale lately after buying it in July. - sycor Dec 13, 07:24
tech support: I have a surface laptop 4 or 5. I used it with a dongle last winter to extend my display to a monitor. this winter I tried to do the - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Dec 13, 06:45 7
- The bottom line is that you’re doing everything right. - Mop🧹 Dec 13, 07:28 1
  - the hdmi cable works fine when plugged into the dock, but I could grab another to check. I also found some stuff online suggesting a 4K dongle - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Dec 13, 07:43
- I have one of those for my new work Macbook. Is it maybe caching some type of setting for displays? - JaxSean Dec 13, 06:51 4
  - A benefit of Jax's new job is that he was able to finally get an upgraded dongle. -- nm - things that sound dirty but aren't Dec 13, 07:09 2
    - My crApple dongle don't want none unless you got plugs, hon. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 13, 07:45 1
      - 👏 -- nm - JD Dec 13, 08:46
  - I have rebooted and googled around. not sure what the issue could be. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Dec 13, 06:52
Spelling Bee - this the first one that I've opened up and saw, as the first word to come to me, the pangram -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 13, 06:44 6
- also the editor today can kiss my hiney, spoiler - crash davis 😺 Dec 13, 06:49 5
  - My wife HATES their in/exclusion lists. Today's Bee was really tough to close out -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 13, 06:52 4
    - I'm with her. Especially foreign words: "This common Spanish word is out but this Yiddish word is in" - crash davis 😺 Dec 13, 07:06 3
      - Lots of Yiddish words have been adopted into (New York) English though -- nm - Roger More Dec 13, 07:15 2
        
        I totally get that to play the game I have to deal with a New York editor. I still rage against the machine. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 13, 07:18 1
        
        so you got spilkus -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 13, 09:22
Mac was a HUGE Brooklyn 99 fan and love Captain Holt. She had an oral exam this morning, so I didn't have - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 13, 06:44 2
- You can tell by my expression that I am utterly overwhelmed with grief and loss. -- nm - Roger More Dec 13, 06:45 1
  - precisely -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 13, 06:51
Dodgers are discussing a trade in which they would get RHP Tyler Glasnow and OF Manuel Margot from the Rays for RHP Ryan Pepiot and OF Jonny Deluca -- nm - budice Dec 13, 06:34 5
- Rumors Arozarena is part of that deal. He posted a photo with Ohtani on his insta this morning. -- nm - jnine Dec 13, 08:59 3
  - If we're trading Pepiot must mean we're getting more pitching cause we're just trading starter for another starter -- nm - eag Dec 13, 09:06 2
    - Glasnow is injured a lot and only has one year on his contract. It would be stupid to trade Pepiot without getting more. -- nm* - jnine Dec 13, 09:15 1
      - Yeah we don't need more injured pitchers - eag Dec 13, 09:18
- And cash considerations. Something like $70 million. - zunk takes things literally Dec 13, 06:44
I got the weirdest damn bug while traveling this weekend - Reagen Dec 13, 06:33 1
- Glad you are feeling better. I had a rotovirus from one of Trish's hospitals that laid me out for a day and then I was fine. - crash davis 😺 Dec 13, 06:36
Wonka 84% (114/22), American Fiction 95% (74/4), The Zone of Interest 92% (123/10), The Taste of Things 98% (48/1), Rebel Moon Part 1 nsy -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 13, 06:32 1
- Coming Soon: Aquaman 2 nsy, Anyone But You nsy, Migration nsy, Ferrari 75% (43/14), The Iron Claw 93% (41/3) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 13, 06:34
LIR: Speaking of music rights. We've started low-key watching Psych on Peacock. I've been surprised by noticing various songs used (mostly car radio) - oblique Dec 13, 06:20 4
- I believe some took it into account when making original deals (DVDs, streaming, all viewing type of thing) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 13, 06:25
- for some show, rights to the music were written in? guessing -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 13, 06:21 2
  - For more recent shows, yes. And maybe having back ups for songs they couldn't -- nm - . Dec 13, 07:38
  - I hope all modern shows I doing this now and planning ahead. It's annoying watching older shows and having missing episodes because of licensing issue - sycor Dec 13, 06:25
ST Poll — Annual review time - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 13, 06:19 28
- A-. Disney World trip, sitting in my dream job, just wasn't able to tackle as much debt as hoped due to rate hikes. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 13, 12:19
- 2023: my back -- F, everything else -- A -- nm - David Dec 13, 09:19
- as good as any other year lately I guess. -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 13, 08:54
- It's been a roller coaster ride. January-mid May - A-. Mid May - Mid June - D. Late June- late July - A+. Late July - Present - C-. - pmb Dec 13, 08:21 1
  - that's a *lot* -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 13, 08:29
- Comes into the office sometimes: A -- nm - Spawn Dec 13, 08:04
- General happiness: A; physical health: A-; getting long overdue home reno done: B+; future prospects: A; mental health: B+ -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 13, 07:39 1
  - good report card 😺👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 13, 07:41
- General happiness and contentment: A. Health goals: D. Trying some new things: A. Organization: C but improved closer to an A- in Q4. Cats: A. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Dec 13, 06:53 2
  - We get to grade our cats? Oh, Pippin is in for a surprise on his annual review, I'll tell you that! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 13, 07:02 1
    - "Exceeds expectations." -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Dec 13, 08:02
- 2023: worst year ever. - Marlowe Dec 13, 06:52 4
  - Thanks fir the kind words below, guys. (NM) - Marlowe Dec 13, 10:22
  - 😪 -- nm - Krusty Dec 13, 08:37
  - Please always remember that you have friends here if you ever need a place to talk. May 2024 be a bit easier for you, my friend. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 13, 07:01
  - It's tough. I still struggle since losing Mom sometimes and it'll be 4 years next month. It gets a little easier though. Hang in there. - sycor Dec 13, 06:58
- Solid A I would say. Had it's ups and downs for family but things seem to be coming out very positive in the end - oblique Dec 13, 06:43
- My year was a B- but thinking back I don't have much to complain about and a few things that make me happy. Overall pretty good. -- nm - Krusty Dec 13, 06:39
- Not Dead yet so B+ -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 13, 06:35
- 2023 has been all over the place. Problems with GF's oldest, buying the house, family health issues, good travel. Overall maybe a B/B-? -- nm - sycor Dec 13, 06:31
- 2023 - Getting out and interacting with people A+; Health Goals B-; Organization D; Financial responsibility F; -- (edited) - crash davis 😺 Dec 13, 06:25 2
  - don't forget your foray into the xword! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 13, 06:39 1
    - oh yeah, I could list a lot of things but essentially I've got xword as health - I'm taking mental exercise seriously now :) -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 13, 06:46
- This month - solid F - decline Dec 13, 06:23 3
  - Ugh! Hopefully it slows down and becomes manageable. Good thoughts. -- nm - Krusty Dec 13, 06:36
  - sending out good vibes to turn that steamroller around; hang in there my friend -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 13, 06:28 1
    - What crash said. -- nm - sycor Dec 13, 06:35
- 2023: A- -- nm - JaxSean Dec 13, 06:20
Civil War | A24 -- (link) - mud Dec 13, 06:16 [youtube] 20
- Team Cap. -- nm - Spawn Dec 13, 07:44 1
  - Team Stark! -- nm - arya Dec 13, 07:52
- "Okay. What kind of American are you?" -- nm - Dano Dec 13, 07:32 1
  - I can picture someone saying that today. "MAGA" or "libtard". We aren't that far off. -- nm - sycor Dec 13, 07:42
- Oh how fun. -- nm - Jovian Dec 13, 07:04
- On one hand, I think it looks well done. On the other, the response to it may scare me. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 13, 06:48 2
  - It's Alex Garland (yay!) and I looked closely for any sci-fi element, didnt see it. -- nm - mud Dec 13, 07:09
  - Yes. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Dec 13, 06:56
- Yeah, that doesn’t seem like it’s trying to be prophetic at all. -- nm* - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 13, 06:22 10
  - Texas and California alliance is the tell of fiction. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 13, 07:08 9
    - I like that there's also a mysterious 'Florida Alliance' -- nm - Roger More Dec 13, 07:47
    - Some part of Cali would easily do it. Was reading about Huntington Beach today, those nut jobs elected Tito Ortiz to City Council. - sycor Dec 13, 07:40
    - Yeah. I was going to post that was the most unrealistic part of the trailer. -- nm - Dano Dec 13, 07:21 5
      - but the mystery of that will be revealed in the script, I'd wager -- nm - mud Dec 13, 07:23 4
        
        My feeling is this is the way to say they're not trying to predict the future - Guigue Dec 13, 07:38 1
        
        agreed. -- nm - mud Dec 13, 07:44
        
        I mean, I assume it is premised on the San Andreas finally splitting and the coast washing away into the ocean.... -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 13, 07:25 1
        
        oooh, that'd do it! -- nm - mud Dec 13, 07:29
    - True. -- nm - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 13, 07:18
- "It's scary 'cuz it's true." -- nm - JaxSean Dec 13, 06:19

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