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It's a good thing we have a Breece Hall rookie card. -- nm - David Jan 7, 12:34 1
- That catch was crazy -- nm - Krusty Jan 7, 12:48
the Falcons should want to win right? -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jan 7, 12:34 1
- Our defense is on life support down the stretch this year. - David Jan 7, 12:35
Hmm, new restaurant opening here. "Chipotle". Any good? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 12:13 6
- It’s very good. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jan 7, 13:01
- Honestly, I've only eaten it once. My wife gets it a few times a year. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jan 7, 12:59
- We have trouble opening - and keeping - fast food places around here, but we've now got two Chipotle. - Mop🧹 Jan 7, 12:39
- No idea but I believe it rhymes with “bottle” -- nm - Roger More Jan 7, 12:35
- Ive recently discovered stores are paid bonuses for limiting portions of meats and cheeses per serving. And that theyre measured on it. -- nm* - budice Jan 7, 12:16 1
  - Wikipedia points to some data suggesting they are anti-union and pro-child-labour. And pro-norovirus. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 12:18
Lisa Frankenstein looks great. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jan 7, 12:07 [youtube]
Chris Olave got those hands -- nm - budice Jan 7, 11:53 1
- lucky bastard -- nm - mud Jan 7, 11:55
Pats-Jets seems more a weather challenge than Ravens-Steelers yesterday -- nm* - budice Jan 7, 11:48
Flicking through channels here and I never realised there’s another way to pronounce “route” - Loyola Jan 7, 11:47 10
- I don’t remember which one I originally said anymore. Same with data. -- nm - mafic Jan 7, 14:11
- "Get your kicks on ROOT 66". Definitive. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jan 7, 13:02
- if you are working with wood & a drill, there is only 1 way to say it. -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 7, 12:26
- I use both. Which rout should I take? Take root 15. -- nm - Dano Jan 7, 12:09 5
  - How do you decide which one to use? -- nm - Loyola Jan 7, 12:15 4
    - Like he said it. The word alone, is rout. With the number after it it is root. -- nm* - Spawn Jan 7, 12:18 3
      - So for example, “I had a number of different routs I could have travelled and I chose the root with the least obstacles”? -- nm - Loyola Jan 7, 12:23 2
        
        "I took root 9 to pick up my new network router" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 12:26 1
        
        Lol this is fubar. -- nm - Loyola Jan 7, 12:27
- Yeah I use them both. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jan 7, 12:01
Wonka $14.4 ($164.7), Night Swim $12.0, Aquaman 2 $10.6 ($100.0), Migration $10.3 ($77.8), Anyone But You $9.5 ($43.7) -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jan 7, 11:38 7
- Aquaman gets to $100 million and The Marvels doesn’t. What a world. -- nm - Tim Jan 7, 12:36
- Hopefully Wonka gets to 200m. -- nm - LMS Jan 7, 12:29
- Huh. Anyone but You +8.5% -- nm - Dano Jan 7, 11:42 4
  - PG-13 plot trying too hard to be a R -- nm* - budice Jan 7, 12:07 1
    - It's rated 15 here for language. -- nm - LMS Jan 7, 12:16
  - the smutty bump -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 7, 11:49 1
    - My screening was pretty busy. -- nm - LMS Jan 7, 12:05
Kelce inactive. Won’t get 1000 yards. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jan 7, 11:36 3
- gotta break up with her my dude -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 7, 11:49
- injury designation (hungover) -- nm - budice Jan 7, 11:40
- "Which was fine because as it turned out, Travis's biggest catch that year was not on the football field" -- nm - narrator Jan 7, 11:38
NFL-Vegas: Turf at the stadium looks "sub-optimal" for todays game -- (link) - budice Jan 7, 10:52 2
- When you see how the owner styles his hair, is this really a surprise to anyone? -- nm - Bacon Jan 7, 11:11
- Yikes -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jan 7, 10:58
Titans not making it easy -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jan 7, 10:19
Detroit Lions uniforms today. - King of Oklahoma Jan 7, 10:13 [Attachment] 7
- they are incredibly bland in terms of any good art or accent stuff. AND the top & bottoms are different shades of grey. -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 7, 11:28
- The uniforms look like they're for a prison team and the helmets are ugly. -- nm - Krusty Jan 7, 10:16 5
  - That particular logo looks like a car emblem from the past. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 7, 11:14 4
    - Considering they play in Ford Field in the Motor City, it’s not a stretch to assume that’s what it is or at least supposed to represent. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jan 7, 11:23 3
      - Yeah, I was trying to remember if one of the older Mercury, Lincoln, or other Ford brands has something similar. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 7, 11:30 2
        
        It’s based on the original ford mustang badge. -- (pic) - Volnelk 🍊 Jan 7, 11:35 [Attachment] 1
        
        And I think a lion-ized version of the Mercury Cougar cat -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Jan 7, 11:36
Hmm, today i have to decide on my best pic of 2023. By internet points, it's this one. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 7, 10:12 [flickr] 3
- Love it! -- nm - Krusty Jan 7, 10:19
- stellar -- nm - mud Jan 7, 10:15
- but I also like this one from the same day -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 7, 10:13 [flickr]
Audcy the radio streaming platoform files for bankruptcy protection -- (link) - Peter Kilmer Jan 7, 10:08
FA Cup spoilers - Will Hunting Jan 7, 10:01 8
- I can see them going between the Eng Championship and League 1 perennially - Reagen Jan 7, 10:55 7
  - I’d think they’d need to make a significantly higher investment in expanding their grounds to even get into the Championship. -- (edited) - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Jan 7, 11:01 5
    - They'd be middle of the pack for League 1 and a couple thou shy of the lowest Championship team - Reagen Jan 7, 11:20 4
      - Gotcha. Thx. -- nm - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Jan 7, 11:33 3
        
        salaries is the big jump. They spend 5M a year, League 1 spends about that much, but EFL spends 10-25 (or more if you just got relegated). -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 11:42 2
        
        I know they have spending caps within their league level...but I wonder how much their fame here impacts that revenue level. - Will Hunting Jan 7, 12:12 1
        
        the hard caps got removed and it's based on a % of income. -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 12:18
  - Probably true. I was surprised in watching today that much of their roster is the same as last year. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jan 7, 11:00
Screw it, I'm going to see Anyone But You. It's got to be marginally better than vegging out on the sofa. I'll be home in time for The Tourist. -- nm - LMS Jan 7, 09:35 4
- 👍 Vegging out in a theatre is more fun than the couch -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 7, 11:12
- apparently it's a very loose Billy Shakes adaptation (Much Ado) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 7, 09:40 2
  - But with more jiggling. -- nm - Spawn Jan 7, 11:04
  - I thought it was Taming of the Shrew. -- nm - LMS Jan 7, 09:41
from b2, where I left a message and link for some backup, the ucsf paxlovid study results are about long covid. paxlovid is still useful, and - i.b! Jan 7, 09:31
Deputy defense secretary was not told Austin had been hospitalized when she assumed his duties on January 2 -- nm - budice Jan 7, 09:31 10
- thats....not good -- nm - Peter Kilmer Jan 7, 10:48
- I had missed that the president/white house didn’t know for days either. so weird. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Jan 7, 09:35 8
  - A case one one hand not knowing that the other hand was getting surgery -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 10:48
  - Is a non-comatose Secretary of Defense important? -- nm - spamlet Jan 7, 10:09 1
    - I believe I have a solution for this conundrum. -- nm - Kevin Kline si Jan 7, 10:10
  - Seems reasonable for Biden to head this off and just replace the guy. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 7, 09:38 4
    - *gets the head of lettuce out of the fridge* -- nm - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Jan 7, 09:44
    - It'd be justified. He's a soldier -- he has been the chain of command for thousands. - Will Hunting Jan 7, 09:40 1
      - I’m wondering if they were looking for a reason to replace him and he was like, “I’ve got an idea” - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Jan 7, 10:35
    - Yep. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 09:39
"There's nothing to do in Green Bay but watch football". Not true. - zunk takes things literally Jan 7, 09:30 1
- I’ve been there too. It was pretty cool. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jan 7, 10:44
It's one of those "my flight got cancelled so me and a bunch of strangers jumped into a rental car" stories. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jan 7, 09:16
"Elise sounds like the hostage." -- (pic) - mud Jan 7, 09:08 [Attachment] 13
- That was when I turned off the TV and took my blood pressure :( -- nm - Meg Jan 7, 10:04
- more pathetic that Kristin Welker just lets her use that language without any pushback -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 7, 09:31 9
  - more? .. [shrug] I guess if you hate the media as much as the awful figures they cover, sure -- nm - mud Jan 7, 10:02 8
    - i expect more from the people who have constituional protections to do their job and then just don't - hollywood big shot Jan 7, 10:27 1
      - fair enuf -- nm - mud Jan 7, 10:30
    - It’s not hating the media to comment on how shitty of a job they do covering this sort of thing. -- nm* - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Jan 7, 10:07 3
      - it's a pattern with him. -- nm - mud Jan 7, 10:38 2
        
        it's a pattern with US corporate media -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 7, 10:49 1
        
        Canada might be worse, fwiw -- nm - mud Jan 7, 10:55
    - Kristin got steamrolled by the #2 fascist in American politics -- nm - Jovian Jan 7, 10:06 1
      - it's a pattern with her. -- nm - mud Jan 7, 10:37
- also, hostage implies that they're available to traded for something. Nah, they're where they're supposed to be. -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 09:11 1
  - Zach Wilson? -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jan 7, 09:17
Dopey: Completed! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 7, 08:57 8
- Wanoooo -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Jan 7, 11:50
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 7, 10:30
- Yay! -- nm - spamlet Jan 7, 10:22
- Congratulations! -- nm - Dano Jan 7, 10:11
- 🌟🌟— nm - i.b! Jan 7, 09:37
- 👍👍 -- nm - Meg Jan 7, 09:08
- Yay! -- nm - Tim Jan 7, 09:05
- !!! - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Jan 7, 08:58
I shouldn't watch Sunday morning TV :( -- nm - Meg Jan 7, 08:13
Rapsheet: "Jets are expected to attempt to trade QB Zach Wilson in the offseason" -- (link) - budice Jan 7, 07:34 8
- “I’ll give you him and a 6th rounder for a 6th.” “But we pick after you.” “Take it or leave it.” -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 07:50 2
  - "no take backs! *Tires squealing*" -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 07:52 1
    - "So you're saying the Jets roofied you into the trade..." -- nm - Police report Jan 7, 07:53
- I hope we have a good gardener to grow the beans. -- nm - Krusty Jan 7, 07:45
- "This milk is sour, taste it" -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 07:42 2
  - "Does anyone want a ball of fault-ridden chocolate pudding skin? I'm only going to throw it away." -- nm - George Carlin Jan 7, 11:47
  - "we'll toss in some strippers and cocaine." -- nm - budice Jan 7, 07:46
- Well they’ve done a bang up job of driving up his value. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jan 7, 07:37
10K from finish -- nm - prayformojo Jan 7, 07:17 2
- Gooooooo! -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jan 7, 07:36
- Go Heather! -- nm - Dano Jan 7, 07:34
Math/stats/graph term help: I'm looking for the name (if one exists) of the point where the trendline changes across 45 degrees. - Max Jan 7, 06:20 7
- what's the term for figuring out how much petroleum left to be pumped out of the ground... "peak oil" -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 7, 10:51
- Inflection point? -- nm - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Jan 7, 06:22 5
  - I thought so at first but that seems to refer to positive/negative curve, which would be like the accumulated box office going down from a peak. - Max Jan 7, 06:32 [Image] 4
    - It looks like I'm after the "saturation point" used in sampling and UX research. -- (link) - Max Jan 7, 07:26 1
      - (which may also equate the the median, but I'm not sure) -- nm - Max Jan 7, 07:30
    - Slope is <> 1 -- nm - Fuzzy Jan 7, 07:08
    - Materiality threshold? -- (edited) - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Jan 7, 06:43
The WSJ (!) on Elon's drug use -- (link*) - Reagen Jan 7, 05:35 2
- luckily nobody's national security clearance has ever depended on being sober -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 7, 08:10
- Related, Musk launches ‘X Token’ to revolutionize another area after revolutionizing all the others. -- (pic) - Volnelk 🍊 Jan 7, 06:21 [Attachment]
It's currently pouring on the marathon. Hopefully it passes soon. Saw Heather at abt mile 8.5 -- nm - prayformojo Jan 7, 04:29 7
- Is she doing runDisney? -- nm - Fuzzy Jan 7, 07:12 3
  - I have a friend doing that. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jan 7, 07:31 2
    - We're leaving WDW today. Didn't realize that we missed saying hello to the PFMs -- nm - Fuzzy Jan 7, 07:35 1
      - Rats. Sorry we missed you! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 7, 10:01
- Ugg that has to be miserable especially that early in the race. -- nm - spamlet Jan 7, 05:59
- I hope she wins (our 'snow event' was just blah rain) -- nm - decline Jan 7, 05:05 1
  - The prediction here is down to 7 cm, which is not going to be enough to close school. It's just not enough, goddammit! -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 05:44
TV PSA: NFL, Golden Globes, Grimsburg, Krapopolis, Bob's Burgers, Great North, The Curse, Evil Lives Here, Funny Woman, - Beaker 🍻 Jan 7, 04:23
Happy birthday, Zork! Woo hoo!!! 🎂🥳 - Krusty Jan 7, 03:57 5
- happy birthday -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 7, 10:16
- happy birthday, zork!! :) - — nm - i.b! Jan 7, 09:03
- Happy birthday! -- nm - Beryllium Jan 7, 09:01
- cheers! -- nm - mud Jan 7, 06:48
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jan 7, 04:15
Wordle 932 3/6 - crash davis 😺 Jan 7, 03:00 4
- 3. a very rare perfect build. - i.b! Jan 7, 09:40
- 4 - rollo Jan 7, 09:10
- 5 - decline Jan 7, 04:57
- Nice formation! 3/6 also - prayformojo Jan 7, 03:04
Connections Puzzle #210 - crash davis 😺 Jan 7, 02:56 6
- Quality Street assortment, lots of tragic purple - rollo Jan 7, 09:29
- Couple hiccups. - VMan Jan 7, 07:06
- yay! - mud Jan 7, 06:58
- I’ve never heard ______ in my life. Spoilers - Volnelk 🍊 Jan 7, 06:28
- Mine - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Jan 7, 04:51
- Connections Puzzle #210 - prayformojo Jan 7, 03:21
Never want to stand upon myself Never want to get in the way I said it I don't know what the plan is But you can share With me -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 7, 01:28

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