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One reason fentanyl is the most common illegal drug, only *now* are police departments getting dogs trained to sniff if out. - zeitgeist Feb 7, 17:30 1
- Fentanyl also has the advantage of being legally manufacturered, prescribed and distributed in addition to the illegal market -- nm - JD Feb 7, 17:32
RIP Mojo Nixon -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 17:29
Supposedly some sort of announcement about the future of the Arizona Coyotes coming in the coming days. -- nm - Reagen Feb 7, 17:27
Thieves steal radio tower -- (link) - TWuG Feb 7, 17:15 1
- So that's what Nora (Eat me, beat me lady) and Hard Harry's kids are up to these days -- nm - JD Feb 7, 17:22
GBN giving Fox a strong run for their money in putting the dumbest dumbshits on the air to pop off -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 16:55
LeBron & Bronny James 1/1 dual autograph card has been pulled. -- nm - budice Feb 7, 16:45
Why does the rest of the world call it "football" and not like "meterball?" Hmmmmm? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 7, 16:20 6
- Is the popular kids food Fruit by the Foot called Fruit by the Meter? -- nm - Qale Feb 7, 16:47
- Cause you move the ball with your foot not your meter. -- nm - VMan Feb 7, 16:34 2
  - Obviously you've never seen the size of my meter. -- nm - Qale Feb 7, 16:47 1
    - You'd think that guys would be all for metric in that case. Hey, baby, think you can handle my 13 - JD Feb 7, 17:28
- Because a meter is more analogous to a yard than a foot. -- nm - Dano Feb 7, 16:33 1
  - I call it yardball, but I'm built different. -- nm - mafic Feb 7, 16:41
March 15th for Eras on D+ -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Feb 7, 16:10 3
- ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ Renewed for Season 2 at Disney+ -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Feb 7, 16:12 1
  - 👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 7, 17:23
- beware the ides -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 16:12
Kara Swisher first-person history of how tech gutted media -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 15:59 2
- newspaper->online->outsourced online->AI -- nm - budice Feb 7, 16:34 1
  - Until newspaper mergers and gutting local, regional, national, international offices for cost efficiency -- nm - VMan Feb 7, 16:35
20th Century Studios’ ‘Alien’ reboot movie from Fede Alvarez is now known as ‘Alien: Romulus’ -- (pic) - budice Feb 7, 15:48 [Attachment] 5
- Interesting. About time Star Trek got a new villain. -- nm - TWuG Feb 7, 15:52 4
  - I'm *right here* -- nm - The Gorn 2.0 si Feb 7, 15:56 2
    - Assimilation Complete, Resistance is Futile -- nm - Alien Borg 2.0 Feb 7, 15:59 1
      - *snap* Oh, much better. That was getting far too tiresome. -- nm - Q Qubed si Feb 7, 16:07
  - I was just thinking “oh look, another way to confuse me.” andor all over again. — nm - i.b! Feb 7, 15:55
New Coke Dune tie-in -- (link) - TWuG Feb 7, 15:43 11
- The article isn't wrong that Olipop and Poppi have become popular. But boy do they have to heavily discount to get to that point. Meanwhile... -- (edited) - Qale Feb 7, 16:49
- should come in a bottle shaped like a giant penis eating vagina -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Feb 7, 15:44 9
  - oo, the bottle could fit in the popcorn bucket’s mou, er, opening! — nm - i.b! Feb 7, 15:54 1
    - b! - Qale Feb 7, 16:50
  - Is that a penis that eats vagina or a vagina that eats penis? - TWuG Feb 7, 15:47 5
    - I need to revisit my Native American origin myths. That sounds very familiar. -- nm - Meg Feb 7, 16:08 4
      - Yup - -- (link) - Meg Feb 7, 16:12 3
        
        Coyote story, also Scylla arguably -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Feb 7, 16:20 2
        
        That Coyote got up to all kinds of mischief. -- nm - Meg Feb 7, 16:24 1
        
        He did! - Dark Callisto 🦊 Feb 7, 16:34
  - I mean, I wasn't going to go there, but I'm glad you went ridiculously over the top. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 15:46
Britain had NO bedbugs until the Romans. -- (link) - Peglegpete Feb 7, 15:40 2
- or proper roads and sewage. No Grateful Dead, either. -- nm - mud Feb 7, 15:43 1
  - 2 outta 3 ain't bad -- nm - TWuG Feb 7, 15:44
the Fast Car pun threads are good -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 15:37 1
- [groan] -- nm - mud Feb 7, 15:40
DTL: Rock Lobster! - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 7, 15:29 2
- Congrats on your first title! -- nm - spamlet Feb 7, 16:37
- San fran turned their Airplane into a Starship -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 7, 16:22
the shitheels who blackballed Kaep for seven years are also big mad at the Niners for complying very hard with the league's minority hiring incentives -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 15:26 1
- Disgusting -- nm - Krusty Feb 7, 15:42
time is a flat circle -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 15:18 6
- not serious people -- nm - mud Feb 7, 15:26 5
  - i would allow "border amendments" if it meant Dreamers could be given a path to citizenship on majority up/down vote -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 15:31 4
    - shifting goalposts, on steroids -- nm - mud Feb 7, 15:39 3
      - Steroids are gender-affirming hormones. Boom, conversation derailed! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 15:43 2
        
        aww -- nm - mud Feb 7, 15:44 1
        
        (I'm apparently in an annoying mood this afternoon, sorry) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 15:45
So, in the past couple of days, I realized that a bunch of photos did not get transferred during one of my computer swaps. In particular, photos from - Reagen Feb 7, 15:17 3
- ok but how many photos of your children do you *need*? -- nm - mafic Feb 7, 16:43 1
  - Like, the median number throughout history is 0. -- nm - Reagen Feb 7, 17:53
- phew! — nm - i.b! Feb 7, 15:28
the clydesdales are in town!!!!!!! -- (link) - Peglegpete Feb 7, 15:06 3
- Cant wait for the Uber/Lyft rate complaints come Superbowl time -- nm - budice Feb 7, 15:16 2
  - I'm pretty sure the horses can walk themselves or have a dedicated set of trailers waiting for them -- nm - JD Feb 7, 15:43 1
    - I heard they tend to break free and run to the tune of Landslide -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 7, 17:19
Poll based on the donation one below: Does your city or state have a matching funds program for small donations to political candidates? - Krusty Feb 7, 15:01 4
- Surely not but I wish. It would be a step toward public funding of campaigns. -- nm - con_carne Feb 7, 16:23
- I've never heard of this -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 7, 15:15 1
  - Apparently it's only here. I didn't think it's was something we came up. I figured it was being used elsewhere and we copied it. -- (link) - Krusty Feb 7, 15:22
- not that I'm aware of. But it's so important to donate to those candidates that are going against some of the, er, bad politicians. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Feb 7, 15:15
amazed that 24 hours after DC Cir stripped fucko of criminal immunity, Nikki still thinks "debate me, coward" is the winning angle -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 15:01
CNBC stated at 4:03 that Disney+ expected 6 million new subscribers in the second quarter, and my first thought was, "WHY?" - David Feb 7, 14:51 19
- I'm sure they paid huge to get Taylor's film. it had to be a bidding war. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 7, 15:01 1
  - any studio could have distributed it theatrically but chose not to pay up. desperate times i guess -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 15:17
- minus all the Foxxers who will cancel b/c footballs -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 14:59 15
  - they already cancelled for Disney wokeness. There wasn't much to lose. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Feb 7, 15:05 13
    - "Frankly it's a market we could stand to live without" -- nm - Reagen Feb 7, 15:13 12
      - *cracks open a Bud Light* -- nm - Iger Feb 7, 15:15 11
        
        Trump says Bud Light is cool now. You’ll have to update your scorecard. -- nm - spamlet Feb 7, 15:18 10
        
        . . . because the A/B lobbyist is holding a big Mar a Lago fundraiser - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 15:28 5
        
        *smgdh* -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Feb 7, 16:18
        
        The AB InBev lobbyist -- nm - JD Feb 7, 15:47
        
        I honestly couldn’t care less. I’m just hoping I don’t have to hear about it anymore. -- nm - spamlet Feb 7, 15:33 1
        
        SMOD 24, amirite?! -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 15:34
        
        I just came back to grumble about this - CBS burying that at the bottom. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Feb 7, 15:31
        
        Kid Rock walked it back, too. It's hard to keep track. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Feb 7, 15:19 3
        
        It's wild how mad people got over literally one can of beer. -- nm - Reagen Feb 7, 15:26 2
        
        Beer* -- nm - Strongbad Feb 7, 17:27
        
        ~I Am Canadian~ -- nm - Molson Canadian Feb 7, 15:33
  - swiftboating -- nm - budice Feb 7, 15:04
- "Now that's a swift datapoint" - budice Feb 7, 14:53
everyone should be comfortable and happy in their homes, how they’re decorated impacts that, and it can vary - johnny galecki’s house makes -- (edited) - i.b! Feb 7, 14:24 8
- I definitely don't hate it. But maybe that's because everything in my house is neutral. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 7, 14:46
- I kind of like that it brings in stuff he enjoys collecting. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Feb 7, 14:32 1
  - that’s definitely a good aspect, and the designers clearly took his/his partner’s tastes into consideration because they’re pros. — nm - i.b! Feb 7, 14:37
- here’s the full feature - seeing that this is tennessee is funny to me. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Feb 7, 14:29 4
  - I'm not seeing the ephemera that supposedly inspired this. It just feels like another show home, not a home anyone lives in -- nm - TWuG Feb 7, 14:54
  - I like the kitchen a lot -- nm - Krusty Feb 7, 14:37
  - I don’t follow him, someone who has worked with the design folks shared it. I see now that his last post before the house was him smoking. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Feb 7, 14:36
  - I like it, other than all the red in the library. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 7, 14:33
Disney: Sports "JV" - Joint Venture (WB, Fox) -- nm - budice Feb 7, 14:23
Saturn's icy "Death Star" moon harbors hidden subsurface ocean that allows its surface to move independently of its core -- (link*) - znufrii Feb 7, 14:18 2
- "lurks beneath Mimas’s 15-mile-thick icy shell" - Jovian Feb 7, 14:23
- I wish cryogenics was real and I could put myself out for 100 years and then see what all these hidden oceans on these worlds, were all about. -- nm - Jovian Feb 7, 14:21
Looked up this years Frank & Bethine Church Gala (ID Dem Party event). Some of you might appreciate the guest -- (link) - crash davis Feb 7, 14:17 7
- Nice. -- nm - znufrii Feb 7, 14:18 5
  - I've got to get a ticket now. There won't be many opportunities for me to go to a Gala where I know I'll be better dressed than the special guest. -- nm - crash davis Feb 7, 14:24 4
    - This is tempting enough for me to make a road trip to Boise that weekend. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 7, 14:31 2
      - DO IT!! !!!! 🐱‍🚀🐱‍🚀🐱‍🚀🐱‍🚀� ��‍🚀🐱‍🚀 -- nm - crash davis Feb 7, 14:36 1
        
        on my work computer those are astronaut cats, on my home computer it is a kitty followed by a rocket ship -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 7, 17:20
    - He came to a local democrats event here to campaign for Biden when he was Lt. Gov, still kicking myself that I didn't go see him. -- nm* - znufrii Feb 7, 14:28
- not who I'd expect -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 7, 14:18
Poll: Do you see yourself making any political contributions during 2024 (or, have you already?) -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 7, 14:14 22
- No. I'd rather hope to make more donations to trans people directly and such. -- nm* - Qale Feb 7, 16:55
- No, it's the worst waste of money I can think of. Whether I donate or not, the campaign will just tweak their fundraising methods accordingly anyway. -- nm - con_carne Feb 7, 16:21
- Doubtful. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 7, 14:47
- sure (much good that it will do the senate candidates i give to -- presidential less worried for now) -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 14:45 2
  - though will be happy to throw Andy Kim a few bucks to rinse Tammy Murphy in the primary -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 7, 15:04 1
    - he’s on my list, too. — nm - i.b! Feb 7, 15:27
- Already did last week for my state senator and I'll make one for my city council member this weekend. Donating early here gets them matching funds - Krusty Feb 7, 14:45
- I'm pursuing an alternate plan of becoming a rich celebrity and then donating my endorsements. -- nm - Max Feb 7, 14:36
- Yep. I'm making monthly contributions to four different candidates. - ReluctantCynic Feb 7, 14:34
- Coincidentally, I did today. I'll contribute to throw a few bucks every now and again. -- nm - David Feb 7, 14:23
- unlikely. -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 7, 14:23
- yes. -- (edited) - i.b! Feb 7, 14:21
- I’m sure I will. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Feb 7, 14:21 1
  - I will say that having worked for a smaller candidate, those local/small donations are everything. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Feb 7, 14:41
- NHNW -- nm - rollo Feb 7, 14:20 3
  - Not Hot Not Wet? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 7, 14:27 2
    - next hand no waiting -- nm - rollo Feb 7, 14:33 1
      - good, because the only correct alignment on the hot/wet issue is Very and Awfully -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 7, 14:48
- It depends entirely on the t-shirt. -- nm - mara ❄️ Feb 7, 14:16 1
  - Oh, I don't know why I forgot this, but I contribute a small amount every month to Swing Left and Forward Majority. -- nm - mara ❄️ Feb 7, 14:25
- No. Never have don’t estimate ever will. -- nm - spamlet Feb 7, 14:15
- I never have and I certainly never ever will. -- nm - Jovian Feb 7, 14:15
3 more boats for DCL -- nm - budice Feb 7, 14:13
GAetz and Stephanic introduce a motion to declare that the former pres did not incite or participate in an insurrection (msnbc) -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 7, 14:11 3
- motion denied -- nm - rollo Feb 7, 14:20
- That's just, like, their opinion, man. -- nm - mara ❄️ Feb 7, 14:15
- ahhh just like any good Nazi worth their salt would do. -- nm - Jovian Feb 7, 14:13
So more Hei Hei? - JD Feb 7, 14:10 [Backboard] 1
- ahahahahahaha -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 7, 14:14
Taylor Swift Eras Tour film coming to Disney + WITH FIVE NEW SONGS. they just made their year in subs -- nm - Remlik Feb 7, 14:08 3
- What does something like that cost Disney? -- nm - Last Of My Kind Feb 7, 14:12 2
  - whatever it is is worth it -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Feb 7, 15:26
  - Monthly ritual sacrifice to the swifties -- nm - eag Feb 7, 14:18
TNA Wrestling fired Scott D’Amore today and replaced him with a non-wrestling executive. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 7, 14:07 1
- One of WWE or AEW should hire him tomorrow. He’s good at his job and the talent love him. -- nm - Tim Feb 7, 14:40
from the NYT write-up, this sounds pretty good: Laced - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 7, 14:04
Saban is joining espn college Gameday. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Feb 7, 14:00 1
- "And...Frozen 5, Toy Story 8, Avengers 9, Zootopia 7..." -- nm - budice Feb 7, 14:04

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