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That airport director standoff was about illegal gun sales -- (link*) - Reagen Mar 22, 08:27
9/11 on NYT's News Quiz -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Mar 22, 08:22 1
- same -- nm - colin Mar 22, 08:38
boy MTG (might?) be bout to do it -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 08:22 7
- why not spend a few weeks on a new spekaer, they're not doing anything else with their time. -- nm - colin Mar 22, 08:39
- trade-off coming: we'll get the foreign aid for Dems bailing out MJ -- nm - mud Mar 22, 08:29 4
  - except depending how the numbers shake out in a speaker vote, Hakeem is only a slight underdog to the next GOP sacrificial lamb -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 08:34 3
    - How many fed up Republicans does he need now? I can't keep track with people being expelled and leaving on their own. -- nm - Dano Mar 22, 08:39 1
      - they have an effective two-vote majority after Ken Buck leaves today. but depending who might actually be present for a new speaker vote, that - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 08:41
    - hee -- nm - mud Mar 22, 08:38
- does that mean she wants to get rid of Johnson? -- nm - Remlik Mar 22, 08:27
The Penguin | Max -- (link) - mud Mar 22, 08:11 [youtube]
NBC hires Ronna -- (pic) - mud Mar 22, 08:08 [Attachment] 2
- They have a history of political DAI having taken on other faux cast-off like Gretchen, Meghan, Wallace, some other nasty bitch -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 22, 11:05
- f**king disgusting -- nm - Jovian Mar 22, 08:11
1825 perfect brackets remain on ESPN. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 22, 07:53 2
- One of them is Bijan Robinson. -- (link) - Strongbad Mar 22, 08:21
- I didn't make too many weird predictions so my South bracket is in shambles. -- nm - oblique Mar 22, 08:04
20% of the human population is asked to be voluntarily euthanized in the trailer for Humane -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Mar 22, 07:49 [youtube] 6
- Feels You're Next-ish. -- nm - Reagen Mar 22, 08:00 3
  - (And Enrico Colantoni makes everything better) -- nm - Reagen Mar 22, 08:10 2
    - agreed -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Mar 22, 08:18
    - yep -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Mar 22, 08:13
- HARD pass -- nm - mud Mar 22, 07:54
- I volunteer spawn -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 07:52
now you’re getting it, pastor… -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 07:47 4
- i hope he is finally able to live his true life. -- nm - colin Mar 22, 08:38
- now that's a sentiment -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Mar 22, 07:55 1
  - "With you, on the right in the third pew. You know what I'm talking about." -- nm - Reagen Mar 22, 07:56
- "It's a relief, to be honest" -- nm - Reagen Mar 22, 07:53
How the Finale of the Dungeons & Dragons '80s Cartoon Became a Pop-Culture Mystery -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Mar 22, 07:46
John Calipari's buyout is $33M if Kentucky fires him. Drops to $27M after next season. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 22, 07:34 1
- They ain’t firing him. He still grabs 4-6 big time freshman and sends them to the pros. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 22, 07:35
Weekend plans? -- nm - Andie Mar 22, 07:32 18
- Seeing a STer that I haven't met in person before. Sprints concert. Nephew's birthday party at the bowling alley. -- nm - Dano Mar 22, 08:41 1
  - wait is this a Pina Colada Song situation?! -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 08:44
- electrical work, since it'll be raining all weekend. seeing some out of town friends who are passing through. - colin Mar 22, 08:40
- I'm in Connecticut dogsitting for my brother -- nm - ty97 Mar 22, 08:36
- Seeing an STer that I haven't met in person before. Some NCAA tournament, seeing my parents. -- nm - MDH Mar 22, 08:10
- planning to win the Mega drawing Friday followed by Powerball Saturday so that I can buy rounds when we meet up for the Eclipse in 2 weeks!!!!! - JenBro Mar 22, 07:55 4
  - My flight arrives in Buffalo around 1:00pm so I should be at the hotel by mid-afternoon. -- nm - Meg Mar 22, 08:19 3
    - That's on Saturday 6th. -- nm - Meg Mar 22, 08:22
    - got it - I'll be driving down on Saturday - not sure my ETA but I'll get it figured out and let you know. -- nm - JenBro Mar 22, 08:21 1
      - We're coming in late Sunday (Hyatt Place) so guessing at best we'll only be able to coordinate a viewing location. We're also hitting the road after - oblique Mar 22, 08:38
- Overnight in Chicago. Dinner, Zanies, lunch, Ghostbusters -- nm - oblique Mar 22, 07:39
- Road trip! - znufrii Mar 22, 07:37
- Book Club next door, crawfish boil tomorrow and Palm Sunday service -- nm - Pippy Mar 22, 07:36
- Tonight - we're doing one of those candelight concerts. Its a Tribute to Adele. Then we're working a basketball tournament for - Turd Ferguson Mar 22, 07:36
- Cosmo Canyon+ and Basketball. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 22, 07:35
- office ski trip to Mammoth, blizzard forecast for tonight (I don’t even ski) -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 07:35 1
  - Hold down the hot tub with hot toddies -- nm - Pippy Mar 22, 07:35
- youngest maybe has a badminton tournament but depends on the storm we are getting tomorrow when plans will be shoveling. Watching 3 Body Problem and - Beaker 🍺 Mar 22, 07:34
Donald Trump's new joint fundraising agreement with the RNC will point money raised to his legal bills -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Mar 22, 07:30 10
- lol “I have the money for an appeal bond actually but that’s my presidenting money!” -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 07:44 1
  - Narrator: "He did not, in fact, have that cash." -- nm - Reagen Mar 22, 07:46
- I wouldn't expect this to be a big deal to his supporters. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 22, 07:37 3
  - It’s all the big time donors now. This isn’t what they want to pay for. - Will Hunting Mar 22, 07:43
  - he’s already exhausted his small donors and has to convince the big money people their checks won’t be going straight into his lawyers pockets -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 07:41 1
    - Yeah, that might be tough. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 22, 07:49
- I never assumed any different -- nm - Pippy Mar 22, 07:35
- This potentially fucks their down ticket battles. -- nm - Reagen Mar 22, 07:32 2
  - Oh darn! -- nm - znufrii Mar 22, 07:44
  - let him cook… -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 07:34
stupid purple. - mud Mar 22, 07:18 1
- had to process of elim it - rollo Mar 22, 07:35
Let's go... Colgate! And College of Charleston! -- nm - Strongbad Mar 22, 06:46 4
- And of course, let's go Stetson! (Strongbad's hometown school in FL) -- nm - Strongbad Mar 22, 07:37
- "I'm going to Toothpaste University!" -- nm - Reagen Mar 22, 06:49 1
  - the bad thing is when your alma mater's football team regularly loses to Toothpaste University -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Mar 22, 07:45
- -- -- nm* - Reagen Mar 22, 06:48
Raisonneur ˌreɪzəˈnər NOUN A person in a play or book embodying an author’s viewpoint. - crash davis 😺 Mar 22, 06:39
U.S.'s ceasefire resolution fails at UN, vetoed by Russia & China. -- (link*) - mud Mar 22, 06:33 [Attachment] 2
- There's probably some very confused online tankies right now. -- nm - Reagen Mar 22, 07:18 1
  - man, I had to look that up. New term for old mud. -- nm - mud Mar 22, 07:51
Periods of snow during the morning tomorrow will transition to a wintry mix in the afternoon. Snow and ice accumulating 12-20 inches -- nm - Augusta, Maine Mar 22, 06:21 2
- oo, fun! at least they get a real winter. -- nm - colin Mar 22, 08:41
- wow -- nm - prayformojo Mar 22, 06:24
uh hey Angela Alsobrooks . . . -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 06:18 2
- I think he definitely thought it meant "boogeyman". -- nm - Reagen Mar 22, 06:21 1
  - George Allen got run out of Virginia for an invented slur that only sounded really racist -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 06:24
The Saturday tip-off times are out and nonsensical. - Volnelk Mar 22, 06:06 1
- Weird. -- nm - Krusty Mar 22, 06:08
That ref who called that Sanford foul should have nightmares about being that wrong. That was an insanely clean block. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 22, 06:00 2
- He didn't. He's made lots of good and bad calls in his life and I'm sure he moved on after having his late night meal. It was a clean block and a - Krusty Mar 22, 06:07
- Sure theres plenty of fanmail about it. -- nm - budice Mar 22, 06:01
DOJ Apple breakdown via Hard Fork: 1) Super apps 2) Cloud gaming 3) Messaging (green bubble) 4) Accessories (Smart Watches) 5) Apple Pay (NFC) - oblique Mar 22, 05:47 22
- This article summed up things pretty well for me to try to understand the situation. -- (link) - Volnelk Mar 22, 07:20 2
  - that's a pretty Apple-centric opinion piece from a think tank that lists Apple as one of it's primary sponsors -- nm - decline Mar 22, 07:54 1
    - even if you grant all of DoJ’s arguments about why Apple’s market share powers are bad, they legally aren’t even close to a monopoly power in the - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 07:56
- Don't Google Pay and Samsung Pay exist? I'm still confused. -- nm - ty97 Mar 22, 06:58 2
  - is the issue "I can't use apple pay on a google phone"? -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 22, 07:25
  - the conspiracy theory version is DoJ hates Apple for not unlocking their phones for cops -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 07:00
- They’re going after the core of the “Apple ecosystem” premise. - Mop🧹 Mar 22, 06:24 1
  - except for Apple Watch which can interact with your iPhone even when Bluetooth is off because : Apple -- nm* - oblique Mar 22, 06:38
- except for all of those, there are multiple cheaper competitors offering basically the same thing in the marketplace. and i'm guessing only a fraction - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 06:16 11
  - First, a lot do use those, but second I think it's about the fact that you can't use them with people who don't have apple. When I was on vacation - pmb Mar 22, 06:25 4
    - The group chat is how they get you. All the high school kids have to get an iPhone or they’re out of the loop. -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 22, 06:37 1
      - my friend's kid's friend group uses signal and she was still ostracized for using android. something about the way video shows up? - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 22, 07:23
    - Apple can and probably will introduce survey evidence that more people use WhatsApp across all platforms than their own Messages app for the same func - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 06:30 1
      - Yes, WhatsApp is really prevalent outside the US because so many people use other phone brands. - Marlowe Mar 22, 07:17
  - They seem to be arguing that it is about whether non-Apple competitors can offer the same services on iPhone. No, I can't use a third party payment - oblique Mar 22, 06:18 5
    - I eagerly await hearing why Oracle Financials can’t piggyback modules on SAP systems. - Will Hunting Mar 22, 06:24 1
      - Kinda except there is the hardware/software ecosystem here that is more than just what financial software you're using -- nm - oblique Mar 22, 06:41
    - where can't you use Google Pay that you can use Apple Pay for exactly the same goods/services? -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 06:23 2
      - This specific example changed in December 2023 (so yeah, they've been stifling it) -- (link) - oblique Mar 22, 06:37 1
        
        but like is it Apple's fault that their customers (rightly or wrongly) are brand snobs who don't want anything to do with Google or Samsung shit? - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 06:40
- I just want all text messages to be equal. I send a lot of videos to my clients of which most have iPhones so for them it looks like it was shot - Krusty Mar 22, 05:51 1
  - That was another big one. Apple refusing to support RCS messaging was actually anti-security for their users which usually is the opposite for Apple - oblique Mar 22, 05:53
2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremonies shown live in IMAX theaters -- (link) - budice Mar 22, 05:33 5
- Come spend hours watching people walk into and then around a large stadium. -- nm - Krusty Mar 22, 05:39 4
  - I heard the Paris opening will be held on the river. I guess a boat parade. -- nm - Meg Mar 22, 07:26
  - Underworld worked with Danny Boyle for the music at London's 2012 o.c. but Daft Punk apparently told Paris to go merde in their chapeaus - hollywood big shot Mar 22, 06:34
  - Folks get into the celebration and performances. Olympic stuff is a noble concept. -- nm - budice Mar 22, 05:42 1
    - I'm just having some fun. I know people enjoy the pageantry and show that comes before the athletes enter. -- nm - Krusty Mar 22, 05:48
hey zeit, I sent in my funds the other day, didnt realize we had two pools, so do I need to redo for today? -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 22, 04:57 1
- Per the list below you are in tonight’s 3/22 MM pool. You are not in tomorrow’s 3/23 PB pool. -- nm* - znufrii Mar 22, 07:47
18 of the 22 million ESPN brackets have ZERO correct. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 22, 04:49
A record 7 runners, including potentially the first woman to complete the race, are out on the fifth (last) lap of the Barkley Marathons. -- nm - Dano Mar 22, 04:45
TV PSA: March Madness, Smackdown, Penn & Teller, Manhunt, BMF, The Reluctant Traveler, Shirley, Anatomy of a Fall, -- (edited) - Beaker 🍺 Mar 22, 04:42
Awww Margaritaville on the Vegas strip is closing in April. It was always fun to go there when in Vegas. - sycor Mar 22, 04:35 2
- How do restaurants not stay profitable on the strip?! -- nm - Pippy Mar 22, 04:53 1
  - The news blip was pretty brief but it seems that it's more Flamingo/ Caesars is making changes. - sycor Mar 22, 05:12
Strands #19 - took me a while to figure out the spanagram - prayformojo Mar 22, 04:33 4
- 2nd - rollo Mar 22, 07:39
- Recurring theme - yellow fourth - VMan Mar 22, 06:26
- Mine is the same as yours. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 22, 05:39
- yup, yellow 4th - decline Mar 22, 05:28
Wordle 1,007 5/6 - prayformojo Mar 22, 04:14 3
- 5 - rollo Mar 22, 07:27
- 4 - decline Mar 22, 05:14
- Wordle 1,007 5/6 - crash davis 😺 Mar 22, 04:18
I don't understand the stereotype of short people being angry. - JD Mar 21, 22:38 1
- Short people got no reason to live -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 22, 00:42
This is what I have for the two pools. If you think there is an error please check your own pay friend account and see what your msg -- (edited) - zeitgeist Mar 21, 22:30 2
- Sent for PB -- nm - JaxSean Mar 22, 07:49
- Morning crew: mega closes noon pacific, 12 hours from now. keep in mind we have TWO pools so if you send in you need to ID which/both - zeitgeist Mar 21, 23:28
That was a block -- nm - JD Mar 21, 21:53 3
- that one was for Shohei Otani -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 21, 22:34
- That was some bullshit. -- nm - David Mar 21, 21:59 1
  - Indeed. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Mar 21, 22:07
Samford & Son -- nm - budice Mar 21, 21:30 2
- Drake's Cakes -- nm - rollo Mar 21, 21:42 1
  - Kim's Incontinence -- nm - Mr. Havens Mar 21, 21:48
Watching two cooking contest shows, Top Chef and Great British Menu. Chefs around the world have really taken to tattoos :/ -- nm - Meg Mar 21, 21:24
Weird. NCAA ads on ESPN+. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen the NCAA run ads before. -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 21, 21:20 1
- But ESPN has been stepping up their ads on ESPN+ across the board, at least. - Mop🧹 Mar 21, 21:38
NM but David M - zeitgeist Mar 21, 21:20 1
- I don't even know anymore. I'll just send you another $10. -- nm - David Mar 21, 21:38
Connections Puzzle #285 - first Next Time in a while (spoils) - prayformojo Mar 21, 21:13 3
- Next time - X'd - VMan Mar 22, 06:16
- blue messed my sh!t up - decline Mar 22, 05:18
- Connections Puzzle #285 skittles to start - crash davis 😺 Mar 22, 03:57
Calipari's current buyout at Kentucky is $33M -- nm - budice Mar 21, 21:06 1
- Tre Mitchell, (Kentucky) F & So at UMass, Jr at Texas, Sr at WVa, this year - Kentucky. -- nm - budice Mar 21, 21:24
Ghostbusters-FrozenEmpire: $4.5M Thu previews. $38-$42M weekend -- nm* - budice Mar 21, 21:03

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