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annnnd the last garage question for a while: brown, right? not the green color of the garage? -- (link) - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Feb 16, 11:13 6
- Same color as the rest of the trim -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 16, 11:23
- Dark green like the shutters/doorframe. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 16, 11:16 2
  - shutters are now gone. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Feb 16, 11:24 1
    - Dark green like the doorframe and the old shutters. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Feb 16, 11:24
- Red! -- nm - decline Feb 16, 11:15
- Oh, you don't want my advice. Because my answer will be useless. - Beryllium Feb 16, 11:15
(bots! bots! bots!) nearly 76% of traffic from X to its clients' sites was fake during Super Bowl weekend -- (link) - decline Feb 16, 11:08
enjoy your new AI movies and TV shows, dipshits -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 10:53 12
- AI is going to end all those "who would win in a fight" discussions -- nm - Roger More Feb 16, 11:00
- LLMTTV, make me another season of Human Target and Almost Human. -- nm - Max Feb 16, 11:00 10
  - LLMTTV, make me a Human Target spinoff prequel series for Guerrero -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 11:12 3
    - LLMTTV, make me ten more seasons of Altered Carbon -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 11:13 2
      - (This is because the show features this sort of concept within it, embodied by Poe) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 11:27
      - LLMTTV, give me 3 more seasons of the Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 16, 11:17
  - LLMTTV, please don't make me another season of Fringe. -- nm - mud Feb 16, 11:03 2
    - LLMTTV, please don't make me another season of Halt + Catch Fire. Just Halt + Catch Fire. -- nm - mud Feb 16, 11:16 1
      - Good call. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 11:20
  - Season 8 Game of Thrones, but good! -- nm - Roger More Feb 16, 11:01 2
    - garbage in, garbage out -- (edited) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 11:02
    - Season 8 is already good, silly. -- nm - mud Feb 16, 11:02
The Wager II: Doubled Down -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 10:40
To me it seems a little lost that the 3 from the logo to break the record was pretty much just the warm up to Caitlin Clark's game against Michigan - JD Feb 16, 10:37 1
- I saw she was responsible for 79 of their points last night. - Will Hunting Feb 16, 11:22
Wait, people actually thought Manchin was going to run for president on a third party? Like people seriously believed this? -- nm - MDH Feb 16, 10:34 1
- Yes. Including some folks on The Hill. - ReluctantCynic Feb 16, 11:50
starting to think Dakota didn’t have the time of her life on Madame Web -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 10:32 3
- starting to think Dakota doesn't understand what it is to be relatably human. -- nm - Max Feb 16, 11:03 1
  - all the clips in that Ringer article Thursday would negate that. -- nm - mud Feb 16, 11:05
- 14% -- nm - decline Feb 16, 10:56
Greta cut Olivia Coleman from Barbie? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 10:26 5
- Greta filmed a parody scene to make fun of British actors, and then cut it because that's how you show who's boss. "Welcome to my MasterClass." -- nm - Max Feb 16, 10:51 1
  - “THAT was for Empire of Light, Betty BAFTA” -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 10:57
- Wow. -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Feb 16, 10:41
- 👎🏼 -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 10:38
- bitch -- nm - decline Feb 16, 10:27
Navalny’s “homicide” note -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 10:23
The 2023 Hugo Awards were held in China. It went exactly as well as you'd expect. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Feb 16, 10:12 3
- There's a non zero chance this results in the end of the Hugos. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 10:26
- Nepal is not Tibet. He has a point, they were doing a piss poor job of picking issues to flag -- nm - Pippy Feb 16, 10:20
- All the authors I follow on Bluesky are up in arms about it (Neil Gaiman is a very vocal voice in this) -- nm - decline Feb 16, 10:16
No Labels? more like No Candidates -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 10:02
Mississippi apparently done with letting former packers qbs defrauding their poor residents will introduce bill to belatedly expand Medicaid under ACA -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 10:00 1
- Dark Biden strikes again! -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 16, 10:10
Pokemon Go - Offer code redemption for Rotom research 0HY0UF0UNDM3 - ty97 Feb 16, 09:59 3
- Thank you! -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 16, 10:05
- did they move the promo redemption thingy from the Shop area? can't find it -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 16, 10:04 1
  - Yeah I can't find it either. I had to do it through the website. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Feb 16, 10:06
the ten tones of voice-over speech -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 09:55 2
- Not included - the really patronising one used for safety announcements on the subway. (I'm glad she didn't do it, I hate that one) -- nm - Roger More Feb 16, 10:39
- Well, that's amazing. Here's her TikTok video. Send her a like. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Feb 16, 10:21 [tiktok]
given the scope of what the House ethics comm has apparently received on Matt Gaetz, that federal prosecutor in FL seems to have a lot of questions to -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 09:51 8
- After reading about their regrets with expelling Santos I'm not so sure they're going to be in a rush to get rid of him. - Krusty Feb 16, 10:06 7
  - Kevin McCarthy is almost certainly pushing for it behind the scenes with his allies as revenge against Gaetz for the discharge petition - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 10:14 1
    - indeed. -- nm - mud Feb 16, 11:07
  - My guess -- his seat is a lot safer than Santos' so they'll suck it up and be okay getting rid of him if it's as bad as the evidence indicates. - Will Hunting Feb 16, 10:13 2
    - yeah, the knives will be out for sure -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 16, 10:14 1
      - He’s a pedo. Get rid of him. Did anyone ever uncover the weird situation with adopted “ son” -- nm - Pippy Feb 16, 10:16
  - yep. outside a conference member murdering someone on the House floor, the Republican party as currently constituted will never do that again. -- nm* - Jovian Feb 16, 10:08 1
    - Well, it depends on who they murder. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 16, 10:17
Jimmy Garoppolo is being suspended two games for violating the NFL's performance enhancing substances policy -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Feb 16, 09:51 3
- "My client is innocent. PFF graded him behind Kenny Pickett. Res ispa loquitar" -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 10:02
- “enhancing” Roger -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 09:52 1
  - IMO he's got a superb agent. $45 million guaranteed for the three year contract that he signed with the Raiders. -- (edited) - JD Feb 16, 10:02
speaking of guitars, I was at the Sapphire Room last night and I've always thought the Sapphire Room Guitar was pretty -- (pic) - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 09:21 [Attachment] 5
- Gorgeous -- nm - Pippy Feb 16, 10:20
- here is the story on it -- (pic) - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 09:22 [Attachment] 1
  - Your photo of the guitar is better than theirs, actually. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 09:25
- That is pretty. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 09:22 1
  - That is actually a bad photo. I'm not a Bery. Anyways the inlay represents the Boise River -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 09:23
Well, I finished a connections finally this week but ugh - oblique Feb 16, 09:15 11
- The fourth one yesterday was ridiculous. Sometimes, you can tell they're struggling for new ideas. -- nm - David Feb 16, 09:50 3
  - I disagree. I bit on Oasis being a place with sand. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 10:08
  - I assumed they were using AI to generate the board each day - decline Feb 16, 10:05
  - I appreciate the work that it's taken to keep publishing these after 250 iterations -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 16, 09:59
- lately once I've made a single mistake, I'm done. I then just hit randomly until the solution is revealed, leaving an empty feeling which lasts the .. - mud Feb 16, 09:25 2
  - that's been my week with connections up until today. He persisted -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 09:26 1
    - nice -- nm - mud Feb 16, 09:31
- I'm embarrassed..... - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 16, 09:24
- But somehow the vital connection is made -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 09:23
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 09:20 1
  - It does feel like to me that they upped their game this week. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 09:30
"Modern American conservatism is in a very dark place." -- (pic) - mud Feb 16, 09:14 [Attachment] 12
- since 1964 -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 09:24 10
  - 1964-2014 has nothing on the last decade. -- nm - mud Feb 16, 09:26 9
    - only in degrees -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 09:28 8
      - Hmmm I don't know about that. We are on the cusp of a true fascist government. -- nm* - Jovian Feb 16, 09:33 2
        
        the premise of Alan Moore’s 1985 comic Watchmen is that Tricky Dick declared himself president for life in the 70s to beat Watergate -- nm* - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 09:49
        
        It’s been a long road to get here. -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Feb 16, 09:36
      - That is like saying a volcano eruption is only degrees worse than the pressure build up. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 09:31 3
        
        each GOP admin since 1968 was every bit as destabilizing, just not as visible (or noted as such at the time) -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 09:45 2
        
        None of them succeeded in igniting followers to the level of civil war, though. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 11:10
        
        though Nixon Watergate and Dubya’s disaster were pretty visible and widely noted as fascist-lite at the time -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 09:47
      - sez you -- nm - mud Feb 16, 09:30
- '(In reality, there is very little room for those of us who oppose Putin.)' -- (pic) - mud Feb 16, 09:21 [Attachment]
DTL: Because I am a (not so) secret petty prick I do not want Norfolk to win the NTT today, I want Starkville to remain the only C11 team with a title -- nm* - rollo Feb 16, 09:12
Paul McCartney's stolen Beatles bass guitar found after 51 years -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Feb 16, 08:52 1
- one of the most famous guitars of the 20th century. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 08:58
My beloved Kraken. Lose to the Sharks, beat the Bruins. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 08:52
(getting a ton of connection timed out errors) -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 08:35 3
- For ST? Uh oh. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 09:33 1
  - switch the pretty billiard ball pic to a pretty snooker ball pic, that'll fix it. :-) -- nm - mud Feb 16, 09:35
- invasion -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 08:35
Manchin not running for POTUS -- nm - ty97 Feb 16, 08:25 6
- lol really amazing. I just saw click-bait yesterday that said he was looking at Mitt Romney or Rob Portman as a running mate. -- nm - Jovian Feb 16, 08:51 4
  - and Romney was like “Joe thinks I’M the veep? That’s cute” -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 10:19
  - did you click ? -- nm - decline Feb 16, 08:54 2
    - lol no! -- nm - Jovian Feb 16, 09:33 1
      - Then we have you to thank for him not running. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 09:38
- More like running from him. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 08:27
Oklahoma is not o.k. -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 08:21 2
- Jentucky Fried Chicken. - Pippy Feb 16, 10:25
- fucko pretends he would only sign a 16-wk national ban as dictator for life (he'd sign whatever a GOP congress sent to his desk) -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Feb 16, 08:29
"I lived with bodyguards for four years, and I didn't like it, and I wasn’t going to live with bodyguards for the rest of my life" -- (pic) - mud Feb 16, 08:21 [Attachment]
Shouldn't we be blaming Nike? And not Fanatics? - ReluctantCynic Feb 16, 08:16 4
- Yes. Nike designed terrible looking jerseys and should be getting much more heat than Fanatics. With that said, Fanatics are terrible - Krusty Feb 16, 09:26
- It depends who is responsible for the design and the fabric selection -- nm* - rollo Feb 16, 09:10 2
  - Then Nike? - ReluctantCynic Feb 16, 09:12 1
    - Correct. It's Nike's design and their materials. Fanatics are just manufacturing what Nike told them to make. -- nm - Krusty Feb 16, 09:27
I am now officially a “surfer” -- nm - Dano Feb 16, 08:14 9
- I love this for you - Pippy Feb 16, 10:27
- You can't make that post and not remind me of this. -- (pic) - Roger More Feb 16, 08:59 [Attachment]
- You're on dope! -- nm - Mr. Hand Feb 16, 08:45 1
  - Whats that sound, my skull -- nm - Dano si#54 Feb 16, 08:46
- Gnarly dude. -- nm - budice Feb 16, 08:38
- Congrats. You now need to work "Dude" into most of your posts. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 08:19 1
  - I was listening to survivor preseason interviews and a dude called thinking while working out "shreditation." I was like god what a douche - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Feb 16, 08:28
- "Isn't this a breakthrough, that I'm a sailor? I sail? I sail now?" - Bob Wiley Feb 16, 08:19
- 🐯🐯 -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 08:16 [youtube]
I don't have a block heater. do electric cars ever need those? it's never been so cold here that any car I've had has not started. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Feb 16, 08:11 11
- Is your garage detached, or is it below your house? Would insulation reduce overall heating bills? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 09:31 1
  - DETACHED -- (link) - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Feb 16, 10:25
- Leaving it charging will let it condition the battery when it's colder, and improve the life of it. That's not a huge factor though. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 08:32 3
  - once I have a garage door opener, I can leave it plugged in basically all the time. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Feb 16, 08:35 2
    - There's no such thing as it "not starting", unless the 12V battery dies. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 08:37 1
      - giggle the cables -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 08:59
- Ah, forgot you went electric. So no, I vote no on insulation. :-) -- nm - mara ❄️ Feb 16, 08:12 4
  - Cold causes slower charging, and she is in a cold winter area, though. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 08:19 3
    - I don't drive every day. I only veer charge when I'm going somewhere and I know that in advance. (I currently charge outside.) -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Feb 16, 08:26 2
      - Ah, like Amy. My distance commuter mindset speaks first! -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 08:27 1
        
        the last time I drove was... last thursday? I don't drive much. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Feb 16, 08:28
Taylor donated $100K to the gofundme of the woman killed in KC -- (link) - Remlik Feb 16, 08:11 1
- Yeah, their goal was 75k. Classy! -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 08:16
"Microsoft should exit the console business" -- (link) - budice Feb 16, 08:07 3
- Not until we solve PC crashing issues. -- nm - Max Feb 16, 09:24
- Rumors are this is their plan -- nm - decline Feb 16, 08:24
- Microsoft's true rival is Steam. They've got a hardware division because of inertia. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 16, 08:12
Word. -- nm - Louis Litt Feb 16, 07:52 10
- There is even a video for "Words"..... (link) - Walt_Disney Feb 16, 08:11 [youtube]
- worms -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 07:54 8
  - Funny story from a childhood road trip -- (edited) - Znufrii, promoted Feb 16, 09:02 2
    - Better than "LIVE BAIT". -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 09:06
    - that is a cute story -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 09:06
  - that's some funny shit. nm - Louis Litt Feb 16, 07:58 4
    - Hence forth I shall call you Frick & Frack. -- nm - Spawn Feb 16, 08:05
    - 😺👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 08:01 2
      - "The Redwoods, you should see them...I always take a meat sandwich with me." -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 16, 08:12 1
        
        Low ball for a hi-ball! -- nm - Louis Litt Feb 16, 08:15

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