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bwah -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 07:20
California's EV charging network is a giant mess, apparently -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 07:15 5
- Paywalled. Can you c&p? -- nm - spamlet Jan 24, 07:21 2
  - here - decline Jan 24, 07:35 1
    - Thanks. -- nm - spamlet Jan 24, 08:23
- this is why we need hydrogen fuel cell cars!! -- nm - decline Jan 24, 07:16 1
  - obviously -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 24, 07:18
This seems bad: 90% of legit news sites are blocking AI reading. Leading right-wing outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart mostly permit them -- (link) - decline Jan 24, 07:13
2 days till Masters of the Air lands on Apple. Only seen one review so far and it is glowing -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 24, 07:10
I just booked flights for Dave and I to take my mom to San Juan, Puerto Rico for a week in February. Planning to rent a 2 bedroom condo. Tell me - Andie Jan 24, 07:09 7
- Arecibo Observatory is no more. Basically decommissioned due to weather damage -- nm - budice Jan 24, 07:18
- It's not a lot of fun during a hurricane -- (edited) - decline Jan 24, 07:16 2
  - We had offices there and faced maintenance tasks over the last several years during bad weather. Gas genertors, Fuel Delivery, Off/On every morning -- nm* - budice Jan 24, 07:17 1
    - Tip #1 - avoid hurricanes. Okay, done. :) -- nm* - Andie Jan 24, 07:18
- Repeat after me: ¿Donde está la biblioteca? -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 24, 07:14 2
  - She might be able to find the books she needs in Toronto -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 07:16 1
    - But these will smell like the island so she can smell them and remember. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 24, 07:22
The Blair Witch Project is 25 years and 1 day old. -- (edited) - Beaker 🍺 Jan 24, 07:01 2
- I remember watching the TV "documentary" they issued as a leadup at my PIL's house multiple times. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 24, 07:06
- I'm still holding it short. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 07:05
Don't worry about searching for the best Valentine's Day gift. I've already found it for you. -- (link) - ty97 Jan 24, 06:40 2
- We have friends that do the White Castle Valentine's Day thing every year. -- nm - spamlet Jan 24, 07:08
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 06:56
Jury Duty was extremely boring. Didn't get selected thank goodness. But I was able to finish Monarch (A+) Reacher (A-) Aquaman 2 (D for dumb) -- (edited) - sycor Jan 24, 06:28 5
- I thought you were talking about the Prime series for a moment. :) - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 24, 06:51 3
  - same -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 24, 06:59
  - heh me too -- nm - JaxSean Jan 24, 06:55 1
    - Same. The capitalization of Duty makes it look like a title -- nm - Krusty Jan 24, 07:00
- I was also very fortunate not to be selected for a murder trial last year. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jan 24, 06:50
I know every single act, on every single line for this music festival: Lovers & Friends in Las Vegas. -- (link) - MDH Jan 24, 06:26 [Image] 24
- OMG, I know these acts. That doesn't happen with music festivals. I won't go, the temptation to talk sh!# about Ciara's husband might be too great -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 07:15
- Even Mario? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 24, 06:58
- There are a handful I don't know like 6lack, The Dream, Pretty Ricky and a few others. -- nm - Krusty Jan 24, 06:55 1
  - 6lacl is an outlier as he's "new" (no real hits), Pretty Ricky had a couple Top 20s, The Dream as an artist is whatever, but he produces major hits. -- nm - MDH Jan 24, 06:59
- this is just an elaborate trap so they can kick the shit out of Robin Thicke -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 24, 06:50 1
  - He's making that big TV money now so he can afford protection. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 24, 06:52
- Maybe seven names that aren't familiar to me? -- nm - ty97 Jan 24, 06:44 6
  - Ya, I recognize most of them too which confirms this is catering to the olds. :D -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 24, 06:54 2
    - Jason Derulo is so low on the list. They still play his songs regularly. Is he the Red Hot Chili Peppers of this group? - Epiphany Jan 24, 07:15
    - 100% -- nm - Andie Jan 24, 07:10
  - Oh I'm curious as to who, mind sharing? -- nm - MDH Jan 24, 06:46 2
    - Possible I know songs by them, but these names don't ring a bell - ty97 Jan 24, 07:02 1
      - Total might have been the only one surprising (90s era R&B girls group). The others I can understand easily. -- nm - MDH Jan 24, 07:06
- Tom Haverford fest. -- nm - Reagen Jan 24, 06:29
- Saw that yesterday. It's one day. Does each artist get to play for 90 seconds? Are they just all doing one big medley? -- nm - Volnelk Jan 24, 06:28 9
  - they each sing 5 words of Alice's Restaurant -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 24, 06:37 4
    - I can't stand that "song." -- nm - Krusty Jan 24, 06:56 3
      - You can get anything you want except away from that song. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 24, 06:58 2
        
        My nephew started playing it at Christmas and I had to ask him to put something else on. It's such an annoying song. -- nm - Krusty Jan 24, 06:59 1
        
        *swaps in Tom's Diner* -- nm - Krusty's smartass nephew Jan 24, 07:13
  - 75% of them are "featuring" on all the rest of the songs, so maybe? -- nm - Reagen Jan 24, 06:30
  - I have to imagine there's like half a dozen stages, and eben then very little time for some acts -- nm - MDH Jan 24, 06:30 2
    - catch Alicia Keys & Nelly Furtado, then hit the tables (if I was a younger man) -- nm - mud Jan 24, 06:32 1
      - My favorite artist (Craig David) is my priority here. -- nm - MDH Jan 24, 06:35
Nature: Seven technologies to watch in 2024 - ReluctantCynic Jan 24, 06:26 4
- Makes me wonder about the impact of the early distributed protein-folding projects that so many STers were involved with -- nm - rollo Jan 24, 07:23 1
  - The Wikipedia page for Folding@home mentions some successes -- nm - Beryllium Jan 24, 09:05
- Flint, fire, the wheel... -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 24, 07:00
- It is a great magazine, but I feel that Nature talking about Technology is a little bit disconcerting -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 06:35
Jan. 24 - To thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 06:23 1
- hurrah! -- nm - chorus Jan 24, 06:25
WordDaily - Mickle ˈmik(ə)l NOUN A large amount. ADJECTIVE Very large. - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 06:21 2
- So if I had a boy who was very large, he would be a mickle son? -- nm - Dano Jan 24, 06:51
- Being late to deliver a mickle of nickel, the mine owner was in a pickle. -- nm* - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 06:21
wap? Gosling: “There is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie,.... - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 24, 06:08 5
- When anyone complains about a snub, they should be required to name the specific person they should have been nominated instead of. -- nm - Dano Jan 24, 06:53 2
  - Yep. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 24, 06:58
  - Agreed. There are a limited number of slots. You can't just say "Whosit Soandso should be nominated too!" -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 24, 06:55
- He can retire his nomination any time he wants. I can think of many people who should have been there instead. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 24, 06:44 1
  - Willem Dafoe, Tom Conti, Richard e Grant, Jesse Plemons, Ken Watanabe -- nm - mud Jan 24, 06:54
Hyundai says "buy my ugly EV please": Drops price + incentives to beat Tesla Model 3 price. Ioniq 6 SE for $36k -- (link*) - oblique Jan 24, 06:04 6
- So many are quite ugly cars. -- nm - Krusty Jan 24, 08:35
- Now if Ford will just match that price for the F-150 Lightning -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 06:32
- I still haven't seen one in person that I know of. My interest is piqued but I hate the 5. -- nm - spamlet Jan 24, 06:14 1
  - I've seen a couple 5s driving around and actually kinda like them in person. -- nm - oblique Jan 24, 06:29
- I like em. -- nm - Reagen Jan 24, 06:14 1
  - yeah, except the rear bumper - decline Jan 24, 06:15
SIL's cousin got nominated for his third Oscar (he is 1-1 so far) (Ben Proudfoot) -- (link*) - Beaker 🍺 Jan 24, 05:58 4
- very cool! -- nm - Andie Jan 24, 07:10
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 06:37
- That's cool. -- nm - Reagen Jan 24, 06:13
- nice -- nm - mud Jan 24, 06:10
I won't even download today's episode of the Off Menu podcast. I love the show but their guest today is Jada Pinkett Smith. Easiest skip ever. - Krusty Jan 24, 05:53
Crystal Hefner Memoir Says Playboy Hugh Hefner Was Bad in Bed: "I Was Relieved When it Stopped" -- (link) - budice Jan 24, 05:48 1
- Somehow, this does not surprise me. - ReluctantCynic Jan 24, 06:22
Congratulations! You solved The Mini in 58 seconds -- nm - rollo Jan 24, 05:29 1
- 👍 I was well over four minutes as apparently my time to do the Mini was somehow scheduled at the same time for my cat to jump on me. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 06:31
Joe Mauer, elected to the HoF yesterday, was born in 1983. 19. 83. - spamlet Jan 24, 05:18 4
- Apparently he got in by 4 votes and Wagner missed by 5 votes. -- nm - Krusty Jan 24, 05:57
- stop that -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 24, 05:42
- JOE MAUER! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 24, 05:41
- I had a similar feeling watching Echo. They showed a flashback to when she was a little child with Kingpin and it was from way back in 2005. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 24, 05:37
My wife did her best at oral arguments yesterday. I'm very proud of her. She fought as much as she was allowed. - Inigo Jan 24, 04:55 [youtube] 3
- that sounds like an uphill battle for her, but it is great she is out there fighting. -- nm - Andie Jan 24, 06:20 2
  - 👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 06:49
  - this. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 24, 06:20
TV PSA: Wild Cards, Chicago Med, Fire, PD; I Can See Your Voice, Family Law, We Are Family, FBI True, Queer Eye, Criminal Record, The Challenge, - Beaker 🍺 Jan 24, 04:48
A gentle reminder that you don't have to convince all of Trump's voters he's unfit. Even like 3% would be fatal. - Reagen Jan 24, 04:16 5
- And had you done that poll a year ago with “indicted” rather than “convicted” I’d bet you get the same results. - spamlet Jan 24, 05:34 3
  - Are a lot of those people fooling themselves? Sure. But they don't all have to be. - Reagen Jan 24, 06:00 2
    - I'm with you. We are dealing in fine margins here. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 24, 06:02 1
      - New PA Poll: SP&R -- (pic) - mud Jan 24, 06:15 [Attachment]
- it's happening -- nm - rollo Jan 24, 05:30
Connections Puzzle #227 - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 24, 03:53 5
- No mistakes, but this one took some time to tease out - ReluctantCynic Jan 24, 06:14
- Connections Puzzle #227 - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 05:58
- No oopsies - VMan Jan 24, 05:48
- no mistakes - decline Jan 24, 05:15
- mine - mud Jan 24, 04:56
Wordle 949 3/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 24, 03:50 3
- Wordle 949 5/6 - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 05:53
- 3 - rollo Jan 24, 05:18
- 3 - decline Jan 24, 05:10
Boobies, tits, swallows, woodcocks, tit-tyrants, redbreasts, woodpeckers, peacocks, bush warblers, cockatoos, toucans… - zeitgeist Jan 24, 02:37 2
- John Audubon and Alexander Wilson must've hung out with some really pervy people. - ReluctantCynic Jan 24, 05:50 1
  - those are perfectly fine names. -- nm - Stephen Maturin Jan 24, 06:34
Now that the game has earned its way into the Hall of Fame, the Console Purist Eternal Darkness voting bloc is in shambles. - David Jan 24, 00:19
Mojo's watching as I shut down for the night and I say, quietly, "where's the Min-min?" And here she is, out of nowhere looking for all the love. - Meg Jan 23, 23:13 2
- So sweet! -- nm - Krusty Jan 24, 04:57
- aw... wow has it really been 10 years? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 24, 01:42
Coachella? more like Slowchella -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 22:30
I liked "Starter Villain" quite a lot. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 22:20 1
- 👍 it's on my list -- nm - decline Jan 24, 05:28
Why are robots such awful fathers? - JD Jan 23, 22:10
folks i know at sundance lurved the new Will Ferrell doc -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 21:43 1
- I really want to see it. And not just because I know a couple people who might appear in it. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Jan 24, 06:23
Ohio church fined many times for providing shelter this winter sued in federal court over religious discrimination -- (link) - zeitgeist Jan 23, 21:27 1
- your headline seems to be wrong, in that the Church sued the City about being told to not house people. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 24, 06:12
I rarely “beat” video games. I have finally beaten the main quest of Elder Scrolls Online. -- nm - Qale Jan 23, 21:12 4
- I 100% Red Dead Redemption 2 and consider it to be one of my life's greatest accomplishments. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 24, 05:39 1
  - I've never played Red Dead. Rockstar and I got kind of an odd relationship. Something about the GTA games make me have nausea. -- nm - Qale Jan 24, 13:31
- Nice! What's the last game you'd beaten? -- nm - David Jan 23, 21:14 1
  - Probably Hades. And on that one I mean beaten, like, past the point of defeating [redacted.] -- nm - Qale Jan 23, 21:35
ha ha king shit of NH -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 21:05
I'd never watched Celebrity Jeopardy but Baron's post kept me to stay on after Wheel of Fortune. He was correct :) -- nm - Meg Jan 23, 20:57 2
- The early rounds are torture. You wonder if some people have never seen the show. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 23, 23:35 1
  - But all the semifinals and the final were good competitive matches. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 24, 06:15
Where's JaxSean, I need to plan another cruise. Seems all the river cruises I'm looking at are sold out this year :( -- nm - Meg Jan 23, 20:41 2
- We have 3 this year; Rock Boat (music cruise), Jay & Silent Bob cruise (3-day cruise), and trying Virgin Voyages for the first time. - JaxSean Jan 24, 06:26
- And it seems that Amtrak fare I complained about was because I forgot to mention I was over 65 :/ Kansas City here I come :) -- nm - Meg Jan 23, 20:48
So much money spent to try to get 300,000 people to do one thing or the other -- nm - rollo Jan 23, 20:39 4
- DeSantis spent $150M to get 23,000 people in Iowa to vote for him -- nm - decline Jan 24, 05:31
- Coachella? -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 23, 21:12
- why do you think two podunk little states fight tooth and nail to pretend they’re so important they should be the first gatekeepers every four years? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 20:50 1
  - Iowa does it for clout with the Agriculture Department, if I remember my West Wing propaganda correctly. -- nm - mara ❄️ Jan 24, 05:46
14! -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 20:31 3
- I believe 17 is the record -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 23, 20:32 2
  - -- -- (link*) - Reagen Jan 23, 20:43 [Attachment] 1
    - You're hanging out with your buddies in front of the TeeV... -- nm - David Jan 23, 21:11
JD, I'm sculpting a dog out of sodium hydroxide - crash davis 😺 Jan 23, 20:22 4
- 👏 -- nm - JD Jan 23, 22:04
- is this the first time you've tried to tell a lye -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 20:28 2
  - I just remembered I saved this to post yesterday. -- (pic) - i.b.! Jan 23, 22:02 [Attachment] 1
    - 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 24, 05:55
Tyreek Hill Files For Divorce From His Wife of 3 Months Keeta Vaccaro. After Three Other Women Had His Kids in 2023 (Hill paying for 2 already). -- (link*) - budice Jan 23, 19:52 3
- Baby, you're the only one for me...other than those three. And a couple you don't know about yet. -- nm - David Jan 23, 21:15 1
  - Everybody knows that you've been faithful Ah, give or take a night or two Everybody knows you've been discreet - zeitgeist Jan 23, 21:18
- afaik, child support is based on your current income. -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 20:25

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