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Las Vegas Mayor believes the Oakland A’s plans for the Tropicana site don’t make sense—and that the team should stay in Oakland. -- nm - budice Feb 6, 08:03 1
- Because it doesn’t make sense. This entire thing is a joke. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 6, 08:05
Justin Timberlake's tour is virtually sold out, so he added a second leg (10 more arena shows) - MDH Feb 6, 07:56
New Rewatchables is the Fugitive. Recorded live in Chicago. - Volnelk Feb 6, 07:54 1
- Just started listening to the Re-Fugitive 8-) - JD Feb 6, 07:55
SITV: As a Patreon supporter I'd love more bonus episodes but about anything except wrestling. - Krusty Feb 6, 07:51 2
- I had to sit there and listen to it. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 6, 08:16 1
  - Torture. We got so close to no mention of it on the latest episode but of course David had to remind Tim about it. -- nm - Krusty Feb 6, 08:23
Knotts Berry Farm closed Today due to weather -- nm - budice Feb 6, 07:36 3
- a little rain falls and the entire state shuts down -- nm - decline Feb 6, 07:38 2
  - Haven't seen an update, is all the poop washing out into the bay? -- nm - Volnelk Feb 6, 07:54 1
    - There was a major spill that closed many of the beaches. -- nm - Meg Feb 6, 07:56
—— -- nm* - mud Feb 6, 07:12
Presidents are not immune to prosecution -- (link) - Reagen Feb 6, 07:12 21
- I’m confused. How did we already know that SCOTUS would be hearing arguments Thursday if this decision is just now being made? -- nm* - mara Feb 6, 07:40 10
  - And a bit more detail (if it helps) - ReluctantCynic Feb 6, 08:02 5
    - Thanks! Will SCOTUS take up the immunity question soon? -- nm - mara Feb 6, 08:13 1
      - More than likely? Now that the appellate court has rule, Trump's team can request that SCOTUS fast-track their consideration. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 6, 08:18
    - Do they get to go back for another appeal based on due process questions (i.e. who gets to say whether or not 1/6 was actually an insurrection) -- (edited) - Znufrii, promoted Feb 6, 08:07 2
      - Those are fantastic questions. - ReluctantCynic Feb 6, 08:16 1
        
        Appreciate the insight, thx! -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Feb 6, 08:19
  - I think the SCOTUS thing on Thursday regards being denied a place on several state primary ballots. -- nm - TWuG Feb 6, 07:43
  - Tomorrow's SCOTUS arguments are over the Colorado case and the 14th Amendment. -- nm - decline Feb 6, 07:43 1
    - and this ruling was for the DC Federal case brought by Jack Smith for the insurrection. -- nm - decline Feb 6, 07:45
  - different case. The one they're hearing Thurs is the CO State Supreme Court ruling. -- nm* - Jovian Feb 6, 07:42
- So *they* say. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 6, 07:28 2
  - Who made them the judge? -- nm - Dano Feb 6, 07:34 1
    - I sure as hell didn't vote for 'em. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 6, 07:40
- nice "former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant. " -- nm - decline Feb 6, 07:17
- Im two for two now. (I bitched about them not hitting back in the Middle East and about this decision not being brought down yet.) And within 24 hours - Jovian Feb 6, 07:15 3
  - can you bitch about me not winning the lottery, please ? -- nm - decline Feb 6, 07:17 2
    - me too -- nm - Epiphany Feb 6, 07:41 1
      - as if I hadn't tried this myself. :) -- nm - Jovian Feb 6, 07:45
- now, will SCOTUS take it? -- nm - mud Feb 6, 07:15 1
  - Trump will try for en banc first to draw it out further. -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Feb 6, 08:00
$23.1 Billion expected to be wagered on the Super Bowl by 68 million American adults (about 1 in 4) -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Feb 6, 07:10 3
- $340/person? Bunch o’ degenerate gamblers, the lot of ‘em. -- nm - mafic Feb 6, 07:14 2
  - Wow. I think I've purchased like $50 worth of squares so here's wishing good luck to my $630 wagering counterpart -- nm - JD Feb 6, 07:43
  - I already gave my $340 to Spawn to bet on my behalf. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 6, 07:32
May be too late to raise the question, but I add a full tank of gas to my auto insurance claim? - Znufrii, promoted Feb 6, 07:00 9
- When storm damage cut the power to daughter's house she suddenly 'remembered' the expensive steak in her freezer :) -- nm - Meg Feb 6, 07:55
- When my daughter totaled one of our cars, I provided evidence of brand new brakes, tires, etc. that we had very recently put on it to bump up their - oblique Feb 6, 07:10 1
  - yup. when I totaled my car, I added the new tires from a few months before the accident -- nm - decline Feb 6, 07:15
- I vote yes. Anything else in the car which is damaged -- portable car radios, Stanley cups, Faberge eggs -- should also be claimed -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 6, 07:05 5
  - the 24, 1lb gold bars... -- nm - decline Feb 6, 07:07 1
    - No loss of utility. You get nothing. -- nm - Insurance company Feb 6, 07:11
  - don't forget the Picasso's you just bought at the Picasso store! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 6, 07:06 2
    - And the stop at the Fabergé Shopé. -- nm - Spawn Feb 6, 07:30
    - Is that what we're calling Restoration Hardware now? -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 6, 07:09
Reminder: anyone even considering joining RC's ST NASCAR League? We have room for 12, only 2 so far. -- (link) - JaxSean Feb 6, 06:56 7
- sorry, I have ZERO knowledge of the sport -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 07:00 6
  - You can still come have fun with us! We won't mock you! - ReluctantCynic Feb 6, 07:34
  - doesn’t stop me from entering March Madness. - mafic Feb 6, 07:05 3
    - Denny Hamlin is famous for all of his restaurants. -- nm - Last Of My Kind Feb 6, 07:35
    - March Madness I set and forget. A fantasy league is a season long endeavor. "I draft the guy who is good at turning left" -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 07:06 1
      - obvs you pick Denny Hamlin. -- nm - mafic Feb 6, 07:10
  - same. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 6, 07:01
I felt like I had a couple days last week where I ate like a pig, and I was down on myself for that. I just got my Fitbit report. - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 06:55 8
- that's alot of calories -- nm - decline Feb 6, 07:06 7
  - I'm not sure I totally believe it, but I am out to lose a little bit of weight. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 07:08 6
    - would you like to come over and catch the stomach flu from our house? I'm down something like 12 pounds this year -- nm - oblique Feb 6, 07:11 5
      - I got a mild case of food poisoning a couple weeks ago and it let me drop to my target weight (I'm now 30lbs lighter than I was last summer) -- nm - decline Feb 6, 07:19 2
        
        I don't like any of you guy's weight loss secrets so far -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 07:22 1
        
        heh -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 6, 07:25
      - You are most kind, but even though exercise sucks, I think I will stick with it -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 07:13
      - diverticulitus was my weight loss regime. thankfully have kept it off -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 6, 07:11
SITV: What are these prestige shows on Apple TV+ that are like what HBO usually does? Slow Horses and what else? Ted Lasso? - Krusty Feb 6, 06:51 8
- For All Mankind, Monarchy, Masters of the Air, Morning Show, Foundation, Invasion, Severance, Hijack, Silo -- nm - Remlik Feb 6, 08:26
- Neither prestige nor doc, there's the I guess concert film: Beastie Boys Story -- nm - JD Feb 6, 07:46
- Masters of the Air was done by the same folks who did Band of Brothers and The Pacific -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 6, 07:01
- Generally speaking, most of the stuff I've watched on AppleTV+ has been of excellent quality. Random list inside of stuff I've watched - oblique Feb 6, 06:56 1
  - Come From Away was so awesome -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 6, 07:07
- repost: -- (link) - mud Feb 6, 06:53 [Backboard] 2
  - I've heard of a few of them but not many and I haven't seen most discussed here or anywhere else. Silo, Severance and For All Mankind - Krusty Feb 6, 07:01 1
    - Silo has Rebecca Ferguson. Severance and For All Mankind need more Rebecca Ferguson. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 07:03
Tom Holland To Star In Jamie Lloyd's West End Production Of 'Romeo and Juliet' -- (link) - LMS Feb 6, 06:44
Feb. 6 - I am an expression of the divine. - Alice Walker -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 06:38
WordDaily - Schneid NOUN (Gin rummy) A loss with no points scored. - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 06:37 3
- I never knew its connection to gin -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 6, 06:38 2
  - Nor I. I am quite fond of the phrase "off the schneid" but never knew its origins. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 6, 06:58
  - neither did I, I knew it meant zero but didn't know that is where it came from -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 06:39
-- -- nm* - Reagen Feb 6, 06:30
Dawson & Ed no fans of Lisa Frankenstein at all -- nm - budice Feb 6, 06:17
You can now sign up for Bluesky without an invite -- (link) - decline Feb 6, 06:12
Company out $35M after scammers stage video call with deepfake CFO, coworkers -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Feb 6, 05:56
Philadelphia Eagles regular season opener to be played in São Paolo Brazil on Friday, Sept. 6 (opponent TBD) -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Feb 6, 05:51 2
- Would it hurt ESPN very badly to use the correct way to write the name of my city? To us, that is akin to writing New Yawrk. - Marlowe Feb 6, 06:18 1
  - "Sow Paylo?" -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Feb 6, 07:32
MLB Stat of the Day: longest consecutive hit streak since 2010 - Strongbad Feb 6, 05:31 5
- The AL Central team with the highest payroll for luxury tax purposes? The Royals at $161m -- (link) - spamlet Feb 6, 05:36 4
  - These young guys signing long term deals is odd. Is the thinking it's better to get paid now than risk an injury and get much less later? - Krusty Feb 6, 05:49 3
    - I'm a little surprised by his since they (in theory) have the money his dad made during his career. But the Royals will spend when they have a chance. - spamlet Feb 6, 06:35 1
      - I think they're trying to copy the Cards a bit. - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 6, 07:09
    - Yeah, but he retained the ability to opt-out and get a 2nd huge contract if he's legitimately as good as he seems. - Will Hunting Feb 6, 06:28
This story is pretty crazy (taking a hospital hostage, life support & a SWAT team) -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 6, 05:00 4
- I'd like to know more because "was going to be taken off life support and his organs harvested but he recovered fully" sounds like a dog whistle. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 6, 07:05 1
  - It's all in this WaPo story. We should all be alarmed by a diagnosis of "brain dead" that isn't accurate. -- (link*) - Mop🧹 Feb 6, 07:25
- It is a crazy story. Is this story recent because I've read or seen something about it a few times recently. It's also kind of similar to John Q. - Krusty Feb 6, 05:28
- John Q -- nm - Volnelk Feb 6, 05:23
Turning Red 95% (273/14), Lisa Frankenstein nsy, Out of Darkness 91% (20/2), The Monk and the Gun 94% (16/1), Here 100% (14/0) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 6, 04:39
TV PSA: NBA, NHL, La Brea, Name That Tune, Extended Family, WWE NXT, The Floor, Who's Line is it Anyway?, Night Court, Quantum Leap, Good Trouble, - Beaker 🍺 Feb 6, 04:35 3
- Re Graham Norton tonight, when Graham asked Dakota Johnson if there's going to be more Madame Webb films, she didn't seem that hopeful. -- nm - LMS Feb 6, 04:51 2
  - Also Domhnall Gleeson is very funny on the show - here's the trailer for Alice and Jack which he was on promoting -- (link) - LMS Feb 6, 04:54 [youtube] 1
    - looking forward to that. ♡ that chameleon Andrea Riseborough -- nm* - mud Feb 6, 05:58
Connections Puzzle #240 - second category took me forever - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 6, 04:28 5
- green first as I couldn't believe they were going there - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 06:32 1
  - 💨💨💨 -- nm - rollo Feb 6, 06:40
- no mistakes - decline Feb 6, 05:41
- No oopsies. Long stares at this one. - VMan Feb 6, 05:41
- Green first - rollo Feb 6, 05:28
Wordle 962 5/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 6, 04:03 3
- Wordle 962 5/6 - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 06:21
- 4 - rollo Feb 6, 05:26
- 5 - decline Feb 6, 05:22
This is quite a remarkable story about a secret past -- (link) - LMS Feb 6, 03:16 3
- cool, I didn't know about the Wooden Horse escape -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 06:45 2
  - It's a good film, hilarious he failed the audition for it. -- nm - LMS Feb 6, 06:49 1
    - I'll have to look for it. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 07:10
Country Star Toby Keith passed away at 62 due to cancer -- (pic) - budice Feb 6, 01:45 [Attachment] 4
- RIP -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 06:23
- bummer. -- nm - Epiphany Feb 6, 06:20
- very sad -- nm - ty97 Feb 6, 04:17
- Cancer sucks. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 6, 03:47
I have influenza A. It is not pleasant. Spiked a 105 fever today. -- nm - jnine Feb 6, 00:48 17
- Oh, feel better soon. -- nm - Spawn Feb 6, 08:18
- Get well soon and realize pitchers and catchers report any day now! -- nm - Last Of My Kind Feb 6, 07:58 1
  - And Kershaw is coming back to the Dodgers. -- nm - jnine Feb 6, 09:40
- ughhh. feel better soon! -- nm - Jovian Feb 6, 06:44
- feel better -- nm - JaxSean Feb 6, 06:26
- Sending good vibes for a speedy recovery! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 06:23
- I hope you get better soon. sounds awful. -- nm - Epiphany Feb 6, 06:21
- ugh, sorry, that sounds terrible. -- nm - Andie Feb 6, 06:20
- Not sure what I had but it ripped through our family. Wife was in the ER briefly Thursday night for fluids/nausea and it hit me Sunday night. All - oblique Feb 6, 06:12
- get well soon‼️ -- nm - mud Feb 6, 06:00
- Yikes. That's dangerous for an adult. Did you do the tepid bath to cool down? -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 6, 05:40 1
  - ER. -- nm - jnine Feb 6, 09:42
- Ugh! :-( I hope you feel better very soon. -- nm - Krusty Feb 6, 05:31
- yikes, hope feel better soon -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 6, 05:14
- ugh, feel better! -- nm - ty97 Feb 6, 04:20
- poor kid... not even something glamourous like RSV -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 6, 00:54 1
  - It is definitely not glamorous. -- nm - jnine Feb 6, 02:14
SCOTUS will entertain arguments from drumpf and his incompetents over his election eligibility on thursday, 10am ET live streamed audio on msnbc -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 23:24 1
- Probably other outlets, too, I'm guessing? SCOTUS's audio stream page is here -- (link) - mara ❄️ Feb 6, 04:56
A wooden rowboat -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 5, 23:13 [flickr] 3
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 6, 07:36
- is it sitting on something or is that an optical illusion? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 23:22 1
  - the bottom is painted yellow, which is reflecting off the water. (the red part is, I guess, the lower part of the hull) - Beryllium Feb 5, 23:35
Evening check-in on the Big Bear Eagles nest. Poor baby. -- nm* - Meg Feb 5, 23:03 2
- Dang - link -- (link) - Meg Feb 5, 23:06 [youtube] 1
  - Mombrella snow edition -- nm - . Feb 6, 01:36
Looking at wide-angle weather radar this 'atmospheric river' starts in Indonesia! Be a while before it clears. - Meg Feb 5, 22:43 3
- usually the weather only shows the stream from Hawaii, where do you see the wide view? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 23:21 2
  - Wundermap. -- (link) - Meg Feb 5, 23:30 1
    - The 'future' setting. -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 23:33
Thursday, 10 am Eastern time, SCOTUS hears arguments over the insurrectionist -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 22:07
Meg: how's the water feature in your living room? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 22:05 1
- Okay so far. I think it was a period of driving rain yesterday that set it off. Today has been just steady drizzle and no leak. - Meg Feb 5, 22:19
Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I've looked at clouds that way -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 22:04 1
- I do wonder when she wrote it at like 24 if she understood exactly how hard those lyrics would hit when she was singing it at 80 -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 5, 22:10
Julian Castro gets it -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 5, 21:58 2
- true. all true -- nm - Epiphany Feb 6, 06:28
- Didn't the GOP also just hand them something to work with? They don't have the balls to pass the laws they wanted. -- nm - . Feb 6, 01:35

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