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The one thing i would most enjoy not working in-office is not hearing phones ring all.day.long. - Andie Mar 6, 13:49 4
- our offices are quiet as a tomb that way. nobody uses their office phones almost ever -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 13:52 2
  - i wish. -- nm - Andie Mar 6, 13:52 1
    - My wife’s office has no phones. It’s all through their computers. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Mar 6, 14:08
- I mean if an AI could ever help with something, this is it -- nm - budice Mar 6, 13:51
I have a tax question on the next board! -- nm - ty97 Mar 6, 13:46
the yellow billed loon is no longer at the Bellagio -- (link) - Peglegpete Mar 6, 13:43
Taika Waititi reads a hilarious letter about a speeding ticket. -- (link) - Krusty Mar 6, 13:33 [youtube]
Mayor Adams and the NYPD should be embarrassed today to have the governor and National Guard have to come into the city to rescue them. - Krusty Mar 6, 13:04 18
- Chicago has tried private security. It's costly. I'm sure politically connected firms (nothing changed with the new mayor as far as that's concerned) - zunkstump Mar 6, 14:04
- Some of the more recent attitudes towards police have also made it harder and harder to recruit. - Strongbad Mar 6, 13:46 3
  - That's their own fault. If they weren't so abusive and heavy handed with their interactions with people maybe the public wouldn't despise them - Krusty Mar 6, 13:58 2
    - Disagree. - Strongbad Mar 6, 14:02
    - My father was a cop and many of my uncles. I grew up in a precinct and knew a lot of cops. -- (edited) - Krusty Mar 6, 14:01
- At the same time, Hochul should be embarrassed for doing this. It's ridiculous and unnecessary. -- nm - ty97 Mar 6, 13:44 2
  - It won't be random bag searches. It will be people with a certain skin tone that gets their bags checked. Also, guns and knives aren't usually in a - Krusty Mar 6, 13:57
  - She's almost as big as an embarrassment as Adams is! -- nm - Jovian Mar 6, 13:47
- my mind misread it and saw: MAJOR Adams. and I thought Wagon Train????? -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 6, 13:37
- none of them can be shamed, only voted out -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 13:14 1
  - Things don't look good for Adams right now but sadly he has two more years to damage the city. -- nm - Krusty Mar 6, 13:28
- I just wrote my city council member to let her know this is not acceptable. -- nm - Krusty Mar 6, 13:05 6
  - good. more people need to do this -- nm - Andie Mar 6, 13:07 5
    - I felt like that was one of the best uses of Twitter, to reach out to local politicians and such to voice a concern or get an answer. - Krusty Mar 6, 13:13 4
      - My 24 year old nephew uses Twitter more now then he ever did (ie he never did) before the fascist purchased it. Guess what he uses it for solely? - Jovian Mar 6, 13:22 3
        
        Ha! -- nm - Krusty Mar 6, 13:27
        
        fascist porn -- nm - Spawn Mar 6, 13:22 1
        
        Probably. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Mar 6, 13:27
Wolfgang Van Halen: "Now that my dad isn't here to be a target, I guess he went to the next best thing." on DLR -- (link) - Remlik Mar 6, 12:56
Super Tuesday cable news ratings -- (pic) - budice Mar 6, 12:41 [Attachment] 2
- Linear television is so dead that Andrew McCarthy is miming with it. -- nm - David Mar 6, 13:05
- CNN, you made your bed. -- nm - Spawn Mar 6, 12:50
Fuckin' Zaslav found something he hadn't shut down yet. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Mar 6, 12:34 2
- in truth, Rooster Teeth should have shut down years ago. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 6, 14:01
- and another. “It‘s kind of depressing”: WB Discovery pulls indie game for “business changes” -- (link) - JD Mar 6, 13:28
More Saban and NIL -- (edited) - budice Mar 6, 12:34 2
- Somehow, I totally get Saban's perspective here AND think he's being indescribably naive. You're already rich. Your players are not. -- nm - David Mar 6, 13:06
- It was your fault! -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 6, 12:35
Apple spent $700 Mill on 3 films and earned back $466 Mill.... -- (link) - Remlik Mar 6, 12:18 11
- Yes but they were *Apple* products so they were totally worth overpaying for. -- nm - Max Mar 6, 13:23 1
  - Apple Movie Pro. -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 13:38
- Peltz's sage advice for Disney was basically "make more hit movies and for cheaper prices." - David Mar 6, 13:03
- Is that good? -- nm - Spawn Mar 6, 12:53
- Runtime didn't help KOTFM one bit. Argylle was a mess. -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 12:42 2
  - $1b worth of ticket buyers slogged through Oppenheimer’s 3-hrs. that’s not why Americans didn’t want to watch KOTFM -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 12:46 1
    - agreed -- nm - Spawn Mar 6, 13:03
- Hollywood accounting -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Mar 6, 12:30
- Better return than Project Titan -- nm - JD Mar 6, 12:28
- theatrical drives downstream sales (subs and svod) since the days of VHS -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 12:21
- money laundering -- nm - budice Mar 6, 12:20
If one is “conducting an investigation”, one could also be said to be doing; _____________? -- nm - Loyola Mar 6, 12:06 21
- sultry - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 13:56
- Fundraising from MAGA simps? -- nm - Jovian Mar 6, 13:22
- Witch hunt. -- nm - Spawn Mar 6, 12:53
- Yo momma -- nm - con_carne Mar 6, 12:48
- scrutiny? -- nm - oblique Mar 6, 12:23
- Looking in to.... -- nm - LMS Mar 6, 12:19
- "les finger de point" -- nm - budice Mar 6, 12:18 1
  - "At least he didn't call it a postmortem." -- nm - Loyola's subordinates Mar 6, 12:34
- analysis? query? -- nm - Andie Mar 6, 12:15 1
  - or just 'doing research' if you trying to keep it gentler -- nm - Andie Mar 6, 12:15
- Audit/Review -- nm - budice Mar 6, 12:11
- Inquiry? -- nm - Krusty Mar 6, 12:09 9
  - I’m at “embarking on a discovery process to ascertain”. I just don’t want to use the word investigation. -- nm - Loyola Mar 6, 12:11 8
    - Engaging in an information gathering exercise regarding the matter in question to ascertain any potentially material impacts to our stakeholders, decision-making structure and/or target outcomes -- nm* - Znufrii, promoted Mar 6, 13:01
    - "embarking on a discovery process to ascertain the possibility and likelihood of various events and eventualities that are undefined at this time - Roger More Mar 6, 12:24 4
      - With the goal of amending or otherwise altering any and all policies which would result in various benefits or improvements to interested parties. -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 12:27 3
        
        This is grade A impenetrable bullshit. Thanks you guys. -- nm - Loyola Mar 6, 12:31 2
        
        (Serious answer - "we are gathering information") -- nm - Roger More Mar 6, 12:34 1
        
        I threw in an “in so far as is practicable”, just for fun. -- nm - Loyola Mar 6, 12:41
    - Embarking is too much too. -- nm - Loyola Mar 6, 12:13
    - Upon, even. -- nm - Loyola Mar 6, 12:11
State auditor says our county has lax financial control..uh, the state auditor was the county auditor 2 years ago.... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 12:00 1
- He should know! -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 6, 12:01
Shogun isn’t Bear-great (yet at least) but more people is watching it -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 11:49 1
- last night's ep. ..spoils - mud Mar 6, 11:51
Quiz: match the quote with the actor who said it and which flop they were talking about. -- (link) - Znufrii, promoted Mar 6, 11:38 9
- 7/12 -- nm - Turd Ferguson Mar 6, 12:41
- 9/12 -- nm - Dano Mar 6, 12:14
- 5 -- nm - decline Mar 6, 12:09
- 8/12. Lots of guesses. -- nm - Diva Mar 6, 12:07
- 6 right -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 6, 11:56
- Q6 is the best. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Mar 6, 11:51 1
  - That was amusing, yeah. :) -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Mar 6, 11:58
- 4 -- nm - Volnelk Mar 6, 11:48 1
  - Same. -- nm - Marlowe Mar 6, 11:49
“You know my wife is something of a gas price hiker herself” -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 11:34 3
- after the Oz debacle, I really don't understand how the PA GOP thinks this will work -- nm - decline Mar 6, 11:36 2
  - Bob Casey isn’t as cutthroat as Fetterman so… we’ll see I guess -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 11:42 1
    - remember when Fetterman trolled Patrick that time? heh, good times .. - mud Mar 6, 11:47
my Kate Bush pic that I posted on reddit this AM is doing well. -- (link) - mud Mar 6, 11:31 2
- Time for Bery to intro like and dislike buttons to ST -- nm - Roger More Mar 6, 12:05
- cool! -- nm - Andie Mar 6, 11:45
No call, no show is 3 steps and an automatic rating. Two ratings within 90 days is likely termination. - Qale Mar 6, 11:31 3
- what happened? -- nm - mud Mar 6, 12:05 1
  - It's in reference to the solar situation Dano was dealing with on b2. -- nm - Qale Mar 6, 12:12
- That sounds...ominous -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 12:03
Kentucky senate passes bill allowing child support claims to recover pregnancy costs -- (link) - Znufrii, promoted Mar 6, 11:24
The Freedom Caucus wins Alabama primary against GOP incumbent -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 6, 11:23
I don’t know what the fuck Dean Phillips was even doing but whatever it was he’s stopped doing it -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 11:19
Was running late this morning and then this delayed me a bit more -- (pic) - LMS Mar 6, 11:19 [Attachment] 2
- "Ugh. I'll catch the next carriage." -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 11:29
- Katespotting -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 11:21
SEC finalizes rules mandating climate disclosures by public companies -- (link) - Znufrii, promoted Mar 6, 11:10 4
- Don't worry, SCOTUS will prevent federal agencies from enforcement of rules not passed into law by congress... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 11:18 1
  - coming by June -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 11:47
- No wonder Nick Saban retired -- nm - budice Mar 6, 11:15 1
  - They tried to shut him down on Mtv. -- nm - Spawn Mar 6, 11:16
Kid Cudi summer arena tour (how this be an arena tour is beyond me) - MDH Mar 6, 11:07
Broadway News: Othello revival for 2024-2025 season starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal. -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 10:57 3
- Days of Wine and Roses closing March 31. -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 11:00 1
  - It's a lovely piece and beautifully executed, but it's just so darn sad. I'm not surprised it didn't find larger audiences. -- nm - Diva Mar 6, 12:37
- Spamalot revival (Kennedy Center's version) closing April 7. Will tour in 2025. -- nm - MDH Mar 6, 10:58
Oilers grabbing two from the Ducks -- (link) - Reagen Mar 6, 10:32 8
- Colorado possible upgrade on D from the Flyers with Sean Walker -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 10:47 7
  - And then a good ol' hockey trade with Buffalo with actual real players going each way -- (link*) - Reagen Mar 6, 11:26 2
    - Should we send this guy help? Is this a sequel to Room? -- nm - David Mar 6, 11:46 1
      - 10 more breaking trades and he gets to go free! -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 12:25
  - 1st and a 5th are the picks from the Oil, which, mmpf, but that's the price of a salary cap, I guess. -- nm* - Reagen Mar 6, 11:14 3
    - I looked into this pretty closely due to NHL 2K24 and that Top 100 list from The Athletic. A pick outside the top 15 in the NHL is similar to the NBA. - David Mar 6, 11:21 2
      - Mostly agreed. I would have loved, say, a 2nd and a 3rd instead, but you're either going for it or not. -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 11:25
      - (I'm not intending to America-splain the NHL to you. It's more that you know how much I love draft picks. I still make these trades often when I sim.) - David Mar 6, 11:22
Eagles Stolen Notes Trial Ends Suddenly After Judge Says Don Henley ‘Manipulated’ Prosecutors -- (link) - Remlik Mar 6, 10:24 1
- more Dirty Laundry -- nm - gort Mar 6, 11:20
'The factory must grow' Hundreds of Factorio players built a record-breaking 'God Factory' to produce an inconceivable 1 million science per minute -- (link) - JD Mar 6, 10:23 7
- ...to build paperclips -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Mar 6, 12:01
- How much food_chem is that? -- nm - Qale Mar 6, 11:25
- I look forward to the day someone runs Factorio inside of Minecraft on a PC built in Minecraft redstone -- nm - oblique Mar 6, 11:21
- Wow. -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Mar 6, 10:57 3
  - you better get to work -- nm - decline Mar 6, 10:58 2
    - We could optimize that, I'm sure. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 6, 11:27 1
      - *updates his spreadsheet* -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Mar 6, 13:11
the traditional “are you better off today than four years ago?” election question would seem to be especially salient next week. let’s see if the Dems -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 10:18 4
- Exactly 4 years ago, the world was on the cusp of shutting down. People already feel however they feel about that. nothing is changing their minds. -- nm* - Andie Mar 6, 12:18 1
  - SXSW was the first major festival to announce that the show couldn't go on. Had tixfor Patty Smith, a friend's bucket list item... - zeitgeist Mar 6, 13:17
- I remember when we had abortion rights! -- nm - Fox News Mar 6, 10:58 1
  - I remember when Iran was coming around trying to be a responsible nation but chaffed with some current restrictions, then 45 tore up the treaty... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 11:26
is fucko gonna catch more election interference charges in Arizona? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 10:14 8
- I read this as Funko -- nm - Strongbad Mar 6, 14:00
- This time for sure! -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 6, 11:02
- October surprise! -- nm - Spawn Mar 6, 10:59
- none of it matters besides bankrupting him. his followers will still follow him. (I have a bad attitude today.) -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 6, 10:24 3
  - A conviction won't finish him off, no, but even a small percentage shedding of supporters makes him dead weight. -- nm - Reagen Mar 6, 10:37 1
    - *Ding* -- nm - Volnelk Mar 6, 10:39
  - What about the insurrection? Biden attempted a coup with the whole Russia hoax ( R vs D talking Heads) -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 10:29
- of course. -- nm - mud Mar 6, 10:15
While watching the movie "Yesterday" I realized I don't know The Beatles music outside of their hit songs, of which there's a lot. - Krusty Mar 6, 10:11 7
- those that you listened to are the 2009-2011 remasters which stayed true to the original mix.... - Remlik Mar 6, 10:20 2
  - I'm listening through Spotify so it's whichever versions they have available. I'll look for those elsewhere. -- nm - Krusty Mar 6, 11:12 1
    - ah gotcha. -- nm - Remlik Mar 6, 12:18
- all their early albums (pre Sgt Peppers?) were mono recordings, later converted into (bad by most takes) faux stereo versions -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 10:16 3
  - the stereo mixes were fine. It's the arugement that the Beatles themselves weren't in the room for them that they get knocked... - Remlik Mar 6, 10:21 1
    - hear hear -- nm - mud Mar 6, 10:31
  - Ahhh. They explains the audio issues. Thanks! -- nm - Krusty Mar 6, 10:19
lulz -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 10:00
mandy: Thanks. I'll keep your guy in mind. I'm not really looking right now. I just scheduled now because they were in the neighborhood. - Dano Mar 6, 09:31 1
- Door to door sales are usually the highest price, we started looking at roofers. A guy came by, their bid was 5x what we got -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 10:32
Tarasenko traded to Florida for a 3rd and a conditional 4th round pick with 50% salary retained -- (edited) - Reagen Mar 6, 09:23 2
- For those wondering, NHL. -- nm - Spawn Mar 6, 09:37
- yup -- nm - budice Mar 6, 09:29

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