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‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Launches Into Kids Top 10 Ranking On Netflix on 1st day of release -- (link) - decline Dec 27, 09:31 2
- I saw a couple of the Sniper movies are in the Top 10. -- nm - Remlik Dec 27, 10:06 1
  - the kids top 10? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 27, 10:12
R.I.P. Tom Smothers, 86 -- (link) - mud Dec 27, 09:06 17
- mom never liked him best -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 27, 10:08
- :( - — nm - i.b.! Dec 27, 09:58
- :( -- (edited) - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 27, 09:27 [youtube]
- Dad use to love the show for some reason always thought Tom was younger -- nm - eag Dec 27, 09:25 1
  - Also they were on the short lived Martin Short show which I had free tickets too -- nm - eag Dec 27, 09:29
- Gaston Glock, the Austrian engineer who developed the Glock pistol, has died at 98 -- nm - budice Dec 27, 09:24 1
  - He and Tom were traveling together? -- nm - Spawn Dec 27, 09:27
- :( -- nm - budice Dec 27, 09:24
- Tommy introing The Who on Smothers Brothers show.... -- (link) - Remlik Dec 27, 09:18 [youtube]
- sad :( -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Dec 27, 09:17
- Dammit. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Dec 27, 09:08
- damn. I had such a good time at the Smothers Brothers concert with my dad. Holy smokes, I was laughing hard through that whole show! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 27, 09:08 4
  - I love them. Grew up on their albums and have probably listened to them hundreds of times. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Dec 27, 09:09 3
    - (probably the bit I have laughed at the most linked here) -- (link) - Dark Callisto 🦊 Dec 27, 09:13 [youtube] 2
      - this is my favorite -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 27, 09:15 [youtube] 1
        
        And fits nicely with Remlik's link. -- nm - Spawn Dec 27, 09:27
- crap -- nm - Spawn Dec 27, 09:06
NFL-DEN: Broncos’ HC Sean Payton has informed his team that Jarrett Stidham will start Sunday vs. the Chargers -- (link*) - budice Dec 27, 09:03 3
- He’s benching a guy with a 5-1 td-int ratio the last 3 games because…why? - Will Hunting Dec 27, 09:56 1
  - Because money -- (link) - Reagen Dec 27, 10:15
- $39M guaranteed in 2024 - BUT if he were injured and can’t pass a physical in March - there is an additional $37M gtd. -- nm - budice Dec 27, 09:12
California: Really no need to remove 45 from ballot, 2/3rds will likely vote against him as in 2020. -- nm - budice Dec 27, 09:02 3
- That's NOT the point, its roll up a constitution (replica) and whack that insurrectionist on the nose, No..bad boy, BAD -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 27, 14:23
- Michigan SC says he can be on the primary ballot, but may revisit for the general if he's the nominee. -- nm - TWuG Dec 27, 09:04 1
  - So, potentially there would be no GOP candidate on the general? - Spawn Dec 27, 09:05
Ensenada, huge tour busses lined up at the curb outside. -- nm - Meg Dec 27, 08:52
For the first time in history, Germany has beaten Finland at the World Juniors! They were 0-25 before this win -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Dec 27, 08:51
What If: it's like I always knew, Corey Hart music will save the world. -- nm - Reagen Dec 27, 08:49 1
- Well, he never surrenders. -- nm - Dano Dec 27, 09:18
California to include wine and liquor bottles and boxes in their refund program. -- nm - Meg Dec 27, 08:46
Bronwyn from The Southlands (Rings of Power) really going places! -- (pic) - mud Dec 27, 08:44 [Attachment] 1
- (second from the right; second from left is great writer Anne Applebaum) -- (pic) - mud Dec 27, 08:46 [Attachment]
"Apple watch import ban paused by appeals court" -- nm - Beryllium Dec 27, 08:41
On the drive to and from Kentucky, Teslas were the most frequently seen EVs. Guess what brand was second. -- (edited) - TWuG Dec 27, 08:40 18
- Those Amazon electric vans are everywhere here.two Rivan trucks in our hood. -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 27, 10:06
- we saw our first cybertruck yesterday. it's so ... (waving hands around) something. so ugly but also so something. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Dec 27, 09:37 3
  - To me it looks like a truck a 3rd grader would design as "cool". -- nm - pmb Dec 27, 09:43 2
    - I think this is pretty accurate. also, it's too big for standard parking spaces which around here will make people hate them even more. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Dec 27, 10:18
    - "Hey, is your refrigerator running?" "No, that's my Cybertruck" -- nm - Beryllium Dec 27, 09:50
- we have a ton of rivians here. and lightnings. I would say our rarest are lucid air (we have two in town) and polestars (commonish for students, - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Dec 27, 09:36
- low riders -- nm - Pippy aka Roberto C Fishman-Pratt Dec 27, 08:42
- Rivian -- nm - Beryllium Dec 27, 08:41 10
  - I rarely see Rivians around here. Tesla, then Mustangs and Ioniqs -- (edited) - decline Dec 27, 09:05
  - Yup. 5 driving and 16+ on flatbeds (3 per) out for delivery. Several were the delivery van model -- nm - TWuG Dec 27, 08:56 5
    - I see a pretty good number of Rivians around here. -- nm - pmb Dec 27, 09:13
    - Probably easily saw 100+ Teslas -- nm - TWuG Dec 27, 09:03
    - Neat! (The van would be fun for a mobile office) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 27, 08:59
    - manufactured in Normal! -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Dec 27, 08:59 1
      - Yep. There are maybe a half dozen in town. I see them once or twice a week. -- nm - TWuG Dec 27, 09:00
  - This. Or the Ford Mustangs. - JaxSean Dec 27, 08:46 2
    - 3 or 4 Mach-Es. A couple VW ID.4s. And, to your IM, the Lightning has a distinctive front light shape, but I don't recall - TWuG Dec 27, 08:59
    - Your IM is the concern I had with the eff one fift e v -- nm - Beryllium Dec 27, 08:51
Pandemic travel restrictions lead Thai monkeys to adopt stone tool use -- (link) - TWuG Dec 27, 08:32 2
- Everyone feared AI but it was just a stalking horse for the monkeys. -- nm - Three Quark Baron Dec 27, 08:50
- This is how Planet of the Apes started -- nm - eag Dec 27, 08:45
QBs - WAS=J Brissett, NYG=TyGod Taylor -- nm - budice Dec 27, 08:05
The SpaceX booster that carried astronauts to space from the US for the first time since the Shuttle was retired was lost at sea after - TWuG Dec 27, 07:44 5
- That’s kinda saying I drove my car off a cliff, so I’m retiring it. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 27, 08:34 4
  - The shuttle was retired. The booster sank. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 27, 08:35 3
    - 19 flights, so it probably only had 1 more flight in it. 20 seems to be the useful life now unless - TWuG Dec 27, 08:38
    - I too misread it the first time. But I did reread it as I figured as much. -- nm - Spawn Dec 27, 08:36
    - (Or is Columbia the cliff in your example?) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 27, 08:36
ST is faster, smarter. What WSOP event just took place? More specifically, was there a Vegas tournament, winner getting 4.3M? -- nm* - Spawn Dec 27, 07:34 13
- The WSOP main event was in mid-July -- winner got 12mil, 2nd was 8mil, 3rd was 4mil iirc -- rounded - Will Hunting Dec 27, 07:52 9
  - Hmmm. Are there smaller tournaments? Norvin said it aired sometime over the last few days and his sister recorded it. - Spawn Dec 27, 07:56 8
    - There are some others but I don't recall any that got to $4mil in prizes...but I'll 100% say I'm sort of out of the loop. - Will Hunting Dec 27, 07:57 7
      - WPT World Champsionship just happened last week -- Dan Sepiol won $5.3mil -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 27, 07:59 5
        
        Here’s an article with some pics of him and his dad -- (link) - Will Hunting Dec 27, 08:01 3
        
        Gotta love that he won the tournament with a pair of 3's. -- nm - pmb Dec 27, 08:25 1
        
        I love heads up just for these things. - Will Hunting Dec 27, 08:39
        
        I see he is from Indiana, so that tracks. -- nm - Spawn Dec 27, 08:06
        
        That sounds right. Let me do some googling now. Thanks! -- nm - Spawn Dec 27, 08:01
      - Appreciated. - Spawn Dec 27, 07:58
- The reason I ask is remember my maintenance man that recently beat cancer? He has the nephew that is not doing so well. He usually plays but has not - Spawn Dec 27, 07:44 2
  - There is a real chance though that the top 3 split the money somehow since they all were 'friends' with each other...and reasonably close in chips. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 27, 07:54 1
    - Thanks. I will wait to see if he gives me more info. -- nm - Spawn Dec 27, 07:56
Chinese Carmaker Overtakes Tesla as World’s Most Popular EV Maker (saved you a click: Chinese company BYD To overtake Tesla) -- (link) - decline Dec 27, 07:27
Pizza Hut in California is saying goodbye to their delivery drivers. New CA minimum wage law on the horizon, more than 1,200 drivers. -- (link) - budice Dec 27, 07:22 9
- parent company Yum Brands will spend $2b on stock buybacks this year -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 27, 08:31
- For those wondering: The bill raised the statewide fast food minimum wage to $20/hour effective 4/1/24. -- nm - ty97 Dec 27, 07:33 1
  - It’s a scapegoat. They companies can absolutely afford to pay employees. They just don’t want to. -- nm - Qale Dec 27, 09:42
- just extend it to the apps (if it isn’t already) since PH says they’re gonna outsource it to them -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 27, 07:25
- Pizza Hut sucks anyway. They can go work for DoorDash -- nm - JaxSean Dec 27, 07:24 4
  - Pizza Hut does suck, but telling them they should go and be even worse paid/taken care of independent contractors in the gig econ is awful. -- nm - Qale Dec 27, 09:44
  - I secretly love dominos lately. their thin crust is A+. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Dec 27, 07:43
  - Don't "gig workers" not have to be paid the state minimum wage? -- nm - colin Dec 27, 07:42 1
    - at least as of now they’re still classified as independent contractors (the Uber referendum isn’t fully settled, legally, tho) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 27, 07:46
Fetterman continues to get it 100% -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 27, 07:07 1
- I like James' response, though -- nm - mud Dec 27, 07:10
Longest losing streaks in U.S. sports history - crash davis 😺 Dec 27, 07:07
not sure why Microsoft would want to steal the NYT’s pitchbot trash but apparently they did -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 27, 06:51 3
- Pretty bold for them to call their opinion section “intellectual” property. -- nm - Qale Dec 27, 07:00 1
  - Maureen Dowd columns are like those fake streets they put in road atlases to catch illegal copyright infringers -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 27, 07:05
- "any chatbot models and data that pulled copyrighted work from The Times be destroyed." You mean like euthanized? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 27, 06:54
Bambi: The Reckoning’ Exclusive Update: Cast and Director Announced -- (link) - decline Dec 27, 06:51 1
- "Expect bloodshed, tears and rabbits" -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 27, 06:57
Today is another day where the Spelling Bee editors can kiss my hindquarters spoiler - crash davis 😺 Dec 27, 06:41
How Pistons mgmt still have jobs ill never know -- nm - budice Dec 27, 06:32 6
- I mean the Spurs only have 2 more wins. -- nm - Dano Dec 27, 08:26
- The coach just got there so he's safe for a bit -- it's weird in that they clearly aren't the worst team in the league by performance. - Will Hunting Dec 27, 06:42 2
  - Even the Oakland As can't figure out how you lose 27 in a row -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 27, 06:58 1
    - Baseball is such a random thing, I can't fathom losing 21 in a row like the Orioles did (and still weren't close to the 62 Mets) -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 27, 07:55
- They started 2-1, gotta let them recapture that magic. -- nm - Reagen Dec 27, 06:38
- In hindsight, paying Monte Williams $80M to coach may have been a mistake. -- nm - Volnelk🍊 Dec 27, 06:35
Happy birthday, Landbeck! Woo hoo!!! 🎂🥳 -- nm - Krusty Dec 27, 05:59 16
- HBD...and I'm so glad you got to keep having them -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 27, 15:51
- happy birthday, landbeck!! :) - — nm - i.b.! Dec 27, 10:08
- Don Homer!! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Dec 27, 08:50
- Happy Birthday! Hope it's a great one! -- nm - zunk takes things literally Dec 27, 08:16
- Happy happy, joy joy! -- nm - Spawn Dec 27, 07:34
- Happy Birthday!!! -- nm - Jovian Dec 27, 07:33
- Happy Birthday John! I hope it's a wonderful day! -- nm - ty97 Dec 27, 07:23
- cheers! -- nm - mud Dec 27, 07:02
- indeed -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 27, 06:37
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - Dano Dec 27, 06:36
- Happy Birthday, John! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 27, 06:27
- happy birthday -- nm - decline Dec 27, 06:23
- Happy Birthday!! -- nm - Pippy aka Roberto C Fishman-Pratt Dec 27, 06:17
- Happy BDay! -- nm - budice Dec 27, 06:15
- Happy Landbeck Day! -- nm - JaxSean Dec 27, 06:13
- Happy birthday! -- nm - spamlet Dec 27, 06:06
Vikings TE T.J. Hockenson out for season with torn ACL, MCL -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Dec 27, 05:53
TV PSA: WOW: Women of Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, NHL, NBA, College Football, Slow Horses, What If?, 46th Kennedy Center Honors, The Challenge, - Beaker 🍻 Dec 27, 05:37
Wordle 921 3/6 - crash davis 😺 Dec 27, 05:30 1
- 3 - decline Dec 27, 05:33
I don't know if it's more worrisome that I didn't buy anything on Boxing Day... - Mop🧹 Dec 27, 01:52 1
- Since Powell's was closed on Christmas Day for the first time in 30 years, Mom and I shopped there yesterday. - ReluctantCynic Dec 27, 06:28
IMDB memoriam clip -- (link) - zeitgeist Dec 27, 01:18
TANSTAAFB. Yet I'm still tempted. -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 26, 23:14 [mastodon] 2
- My boss tells me the marina is Newport (OR) is very affordable. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 26, 23:30 1
  - Heh. I don't want to immediately hop into a challenging sail on an unprepared/unproven boat. Still tempted, of course. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 27, 07:49
Just got an ad for Neom during Candy Crush. Neom. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 26, 22:54
NHL 24 sucked so much I got a refund from MS. -- nm - David Dec 26, 22:11 5
- I'm sorry to hear that, but on the positive side I can scratch NHL 24 and a XBox X off my 2024 goals. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 27, 06:39
- Don't let the current NHL season ruin the game for you! -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 26, 23:00 3
  - Players would just randomly disappear from my team. -- nm - David Dec 26, 23:04 2
    - Just like in real hockey! -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 26, 23:08 1
      - Touche. -- nm - David Dec 26, 23:27
PLP, I got my Amarula. The kid that sold it to me was South African and was surprised I knew what it was:) -- nm - Meg Dec 26, 22:11 1
- TIL what Amarula is. - ReluctantCynic Dec 27, 06:31
Cade Cunningham is now 0-10 in his career when he scores 30+ points. - David Dec 26, 21:38
if you grind coffee beans for espresso or filter drip, scientists confirm a drop or bit more of water can help results. nm but: -- (link*) - i.b.! Dec 26, 21:29
Connections Puzzle #199 - 1 mistake that I'm mad about making - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 26, 21:05 8
- xxx of these in, and I still frequently forget to look ahead. - i.b.! Dec 27, 10:10
- [too ashamed to post results] -- nm - mud Dec 27, 07:12
- Couple of hiccups. - VMan Dec 27, 07:06
- Purple first - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 27, 06:49
- No mistakes - TWuG Dec 27, 06:32
- 2 mistakes - decline Dec 27, 05:37
- two stupid mistakes until I saw purple - crash davis 😺 Dec 27, 05:21
- Total failure today. Could not suss out those last two categories. - ty97 Dec 26, 21:43

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