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Russian Troops deploy to same airbase in Niger as American troops -- (link) - zeitgeist May 2, 21:34
Jeanne du Barry, in theaters, huh. -- nm - budice May 2, 21:34
Bing bong! -- nm - Krusty May 2, 20:45
Knicks-Pacers . . . what year is this? -- nm - hollywood big shot May 2, 20:43
I'll just say it. I no longer trust the process. -- nm - David May 2, 20:42 1
- *gasp* -- nm - Tim May 2, 21:03
another fatal (and non-fatal) hit-and-run in downtown LA -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 2, 20:16 1
- I guess we're back to regular programming again after a week with no high speed chases or hit-and-runs. Makes a change from 24-hour protests. -- nm - Meg May 2, 20:37
I so want an Almond Joy -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 2, 19:59 2
- Mostly because who likes even saying the word 'Mounds'? -- nm - Qale May 2, 20:03
- sometimes you feel like a nut -- nm - hollywood big shot May 2, 20:01
will never not be funny that the Bucks were doing great at the all-star break and then just fired their coach so they could hire Doc Rivers -- nm - hollywood big shot May 2, 19:53
Game 7, Saturday, 8 PM Eastern on ABC. Toronto and Boston, please don’t embarrass the NHL. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 19:47
game seven babeeee! -- nm - hollywood big shot May 2, 19:46
Clearly Matthews was the problem. They should trade him. To the Kraken. For next to nothing. Just get rid of him. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 2, 19:45 2
- Seems harsh to send him down to the minors. -- nm - David May 2, 19:46 1
  - The Murder Hornets didn't make the playoffs last year. So you sit on a rickety throne. Which the Canucks shall tip over. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 2, 19:49
3 back-to-back icings and 2 minutes of the refs standing around discussing who should be on the ice. Riveting. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 19:41
Rudy promised bankruptcy court he would limit spending to 43K a month. But in January he spent 120K - crash davis 😺 May 2, 19:40 4
- I'm sure Trump will be forthcoming with that $2 million he owes any day now. cheque's in the mail, Rudy. -- nm - mafic May 2, 20:03
- How can you even find the time to spend that much? Just doesn't compute in my world :/ -- nm - Meg May 2, 19:45 2
  - best of class hotel rooms, flights, dinners. Picking up the tab for people. -- nm - Remlik May 2, 19:48
  - It amazes me. Promising to limit himself to $1,475/mo for food and personal care products for one person. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 2, 19:47
D-Insanitis bans lab grown meat from Florida -- (link) - zeitgeist May 2, 19:28 2
- Tastes like despair. -- nm - Dano May 2, 19:30 1
  - 👍 -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 2, 19:35
Dang it Boston, this is why I can't have nice things -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 2, 19:24
I have an interview at Walmart at noon now as well tomorrow. My resume is sparse. I've worked for two companies over the last 25 years. - Qale May 2, 19:21 11
- Good luck! You got this! -- nm - JaxSean May 2, 21:30
- that's not sparse. that's way better than having even like 5 or 10 jobs on there. -- nm - mafic May 2, 20:10
- Ditto to what David said. You got this. - ReluctantCynic May 2, 19:59 2
  - No, I've got this. I'll be here to report on early Black Friday deals. -- nm - Qale May 2, 20:03 1
    - Dayum. - ReluctantCynic May 2, 20:11
- It's perfect for Wal-Mart in particular. -- nm - David May 2, 19:42
- President of Walmart in 6 months! -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 19:39
- 100% -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 2, 19:37
- Yes. When I interview people I’m always wary of resumes that suggest that some is a job hopper. -- nm - Dano May 2, 19:29
- you got this -- nm - zeitgeist May 2, 19:24
- That is true. And employers will like that. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 2, 19:23
Rockies set MLB record while trailing for 29 consecutive games as dismal beginning to season continues (from yesterday) - crash davis 😺 May 2, 19:20
Paul Bissonnette on TNT skewering Leafs fans for their lack of enthusiasm is pretty damning. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 19:20 1
- Biz is a clown -- nm - Reagen May 3, 02:58
Today I finally deposited the proceeds from last weekend's Barn Sale. Stress level reduced by at least 50%. Don't like carrying that much cash around. -- nm - Meg May 2, 19:19 1
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 2, 19:28
spotify decided I needed to hear Peaches this morning, which probably hasn't happened in 25 years, and I asked myself "wait, is this about sex?" - mafic May 2, 19:05 6
- No one tell him about Hotel California -- nm - Pippy 🇨🇦 May 2, 19:29 1
  - is colitas a euphemism? -- nm - mafic May 2, 19:40
- Well, it depends on if it was Peaches by Presidents of the United States of America or the artist known as Peaches. Because in either case the answer? - Qale May 2, 19:17
- Wait until they play “Kitty” -- nm - Dano May 2, 19:16 2
  - Rared up and scratched me through my jeans. -- nm - Qale May 2, 19:18 1
    - I know that Lump spent her 20s between the sheets. that's overt! -- nm - mafic May 2, 20:35
My 15-year-old daughter’s review of “Anyone But You”: It was really funny. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 18:35 1
- my 20 year old agrees -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 2, 18:36
Trust the Process -- nm - budice May 2, 18:27
Tonight we’ve got two teams who don’t want to win. Let’s see which is the first to accidentally score a goal. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 18:20 2
- With every passing moment of this embarrassing game, David Zaslav comes closer to blowing the bank on NBA rights. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 18:34
- You can really see and appreciate the different styles of "don't take shots" vs "only take bad shots". -- nm - Reagen May 2, 18:21
The slanted nature of advertising left on Twitter is absurd. - Volnelk 🍊 May 2, 18:14
If I were the Bruins' coach, I'd tell them to take some shots on goal this period -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 2, 18:12 1
- GO TO HELL! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 2, 18:34
how dare they! -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 2, 18:11 1
- Something something face eating leopard -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 18:26
Fantastic. -- nm - Remlik May 2, 18:02 2
- the Caitlin Clark halo is real -- nm - hollywood big shot May 2, 18:03 1
  - I'll take it! -- nm - Remlik May 2, 18:04
Way to show some pride, Bucks. -- nm - David May 2, 18:01
Gonna suggest that more than 1 shot per period will be necessary to win a hockey game. -- nm - Reagen May 2, 17:54 1
- per player or total for a team? -- nm* - Peglegpete May 2, 17:56
spare a thought for the poor powerhouse athletic conferences. they're the real victims in all this dirty "paying student athletes" business -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 2, 17:53 1
- The relatively poor powerhouse conferences will just cease to be. The Pac-12 as an example -- nm - JD May 2, 18:33
TJ Mconnell is on fire. -- nm - Remlik May 2, 17:38 1
- And Mitch McConnell? -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 18:20
history poll: what decades do you think people from like the 18th century backward had nostalgia for the way we fetishize the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s? - hollywood big shot May 2, 17:25 20
- bummer that you started at the 18th century, - crash davis 😺 May 2, 19:22
- Dickens wrote (mockingly) about Georgian nostalgia in the Victorian era. -- nm - mafic May 2, 19:08
- Whatever pissed off their parents. -- nm - con_carne May 2, 18:49 1
  - Screw you guys! I’m going to Switzerland with Percy Shelley! -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 18:50
- For most of the last 2,000 years, people idolized and aspired to ancient Rome (even today) but it’s not the same as the nostalgia you mention. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 18:48 1
  - Athens Greece -- nm - zeitgeist May 2, 19:23
- "Bloody 'ell, there's a Surströmming tavern at every crossroads nowadays." -- nm* - 1070s Britain May 2, 18:31
- US Centennial prompted a lot of county histories and early settler bios. -- nm - Max May 2, 18:28 1
  - Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists -- nm - Max May 2, 18:30
- I expect if there was big social change, there’d be a bunch of people who were nostalgic for it. - Roger More May 2, 18:15 1
  - Oh, and the Romans were nostalgic, eg for the rule of Augustus, and also for the Roman republic. -- nm - Roger More May 2, 18:33
- mid-1800's UK was on a huge Gothic Revival kick. -- nm - Peglegpete May 2, 17:55
- None, because the state of culture of the time was decidedly impermanent so there was little institutional memory that would allow for nostalgia -- (edited) - znufrii May 2, 17:33 5
  - This. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 18:47
  - as Don Draper was fond of noting, the Greeks invented the word "nostalgia" -- nm - hollywood big shot May 2, 17:38 3
    - It has Greek derivation but was coined in the 17th century to describe the homesickness of Swiss mercenaries fighting abroad -- (link) - Roger More May 2, 18:04
    - Although he was in marketing so he was also full of shit - Reagen May 2, 17:47
    - Slate sez . . . it started in Mesopotamia - hollywood big shot May 2, 17:41
- No because they didn't have Def Leppard and Bon Jovi. -- nm - David May 2, 17:29
- without TV, radio, internet most would be looking back and saying "remember that great crop in 1591, man my belly was full" -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 2, 17:28
Hi. Aren't overnight oats just....oatmeal? -- nm - ty97 May 2, 17:21 3
- Buy regular quick (not instant) oats... - whisper May 2, 20:25
- proper oatmeal, as St. Andrew intended. - mafic May 2, 18:50
- No. Please don’t make that mistake - Pippy May 2, 17:50
Obi Toppin having a game. -- nm - Remlik May 2, 17:15 2
- you mean Old Ben Toppin? -- nm - hollywood big shot May 2, 17:16 1
  - No I don't think so, maybe he's related in some way -- nm - Remlik May 2, 17:22
UCLA had requested extra police before the mob attacked protestors but for some reason canceled that request -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 2, 17:04 1
- Report from one of my students whose sister is a student at UCLA. - Mop🧹 May 2, 18:49
Gorgeous pictures of the Milky Way and its magnetic fields. And the scientist who produced the pictures is the husband of one of my partners. -- (link) - pmb May 2, 16:53 4
- amazing -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 2, 19:35
- Maybe Van Gogh could see magnetic fields. -- nm - David May 2, 17:26
- that's pretty incredible -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 2, 17:02
- thanks, Dr. Nerd! -- nm - hollywood big shot May 2, 17:00
The Pope's Exorcist gets a sequel... -- (link) - Remlik May 2, 16:41 1
- I liked the first one quite a bit -- nm - Pippy May 2, 18:22
It’s also hard to understate just how difficult all of these application processes work. Multiple layers of obfuscation, terrible UI tech, and… - Qale May 2, 16:29 1
- Ugh. Unnecessarily difficult. - Pippy May 2, 18:25
tell me you never saw Secretariat run without telling me -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 2, 16:22 2
- The WR in the long jump has been had 2 owners since 1968. - Will Hunting May 2, 16:30
- he must of left The Ringer I guess. -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 2, 16:28
love that the “hey is that a chopper over abbottabad at this time of night?” tweet is still up -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 2, 16:14
Georgia makes Kirby Smart college football's first $13M coach -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 2, 16:12
Survivor 46, spoilers from last night's ep -- (pic) - Strongbad May 2, 16:09 [Attachment] 2
- Chili's > Applebee's. Unfortunately both locations were nearby us closed. -- nm - The Last Of My Kind May 2, 16:37 1
  - Both near us have taken a dive over the last 10 years or so. We even had a Friday's outright close. -- nm - Strongbad May 2, 16:44
so this means CBS will just be buying the same number of pilots as before but all year around, right? . . . right?! -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 2, 16:07
One step closer to the end goal: today I took my first Praxis exam. - kelly May 2, 15:59 4
- Well done!! -- nm - Krusty May 2, 19:50
- 😺👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 2, 19:36
- Woot!! -- nm - Pippy May 2, 18:41
- VNT! (Very Nice Testing) -- nm - The Last Of My Kind May 2, 16:52
I called it dead showing walking, Lempicka closing on Broadway 5/19. Capitalized for $19.5M it’s a total loss. Oof. -- nm - MDH May 2, 15:55
I’ve always thought there’s an excessive mindfulness of one’s credit rating in America. It seems like it looms over everyone like a financial cudgel - Loyola May 2, 15:17 14
- Wait. You all don't have that?! -- nm - ty97 May 2, 16:36 2
  - credit scores exist here after a fashion, but it's not the same. like no credit history = perfect credit, and only bad things count against you. - mafic May 2, 18:54
  - I’m sure the banks have their own sharing mechanism, inter alia, a suppositional credit rating/worthiness value for people. I don’t know mine. I’ve - Loyola May 2, 17:08
- Didn't you guys have debtor's prison not that long ago? -- nm - con_carne May 2, 15:49 1
  - When under British rule, that was a thing. We’re now a republic since 1937. - Loyola May 2, 16:06
- Mine's in the 'excellent' category but they keep telling me it would be better if I owed somebody something :/ -- nm - Meg May 2, 15:37
- Since you don't have enough income to qualify for a mortgage you will have to spend that same amount to rent the rest if your life -- nm - American Mortgage companies May 2, 15:29 1
  - “Same amount”, lol -- nm* - American Landlords May 2, 15:30
- What are we supposed to do, *not* find every possible way to punish people for being poor? -- nm - znufrii May 2, 15:25 2
  - P0wning those dem hippies -- nm - VMan May 2, 16:54
  - Exactly. They’re just another rotten instrument used solely to trample on people. - Loyola May 2, 15:41
- there's a not very high number where it doesn't make a difference anymore, but below that it really matters. -- nm - Reagen May 2, 15:25
- it's a fiction but if you want to get any kind of loans or mortgage for a house, a necessary one -- nm - hollywood big shot May 2, 15:22
- America is the ultimate capitalist playground, so it makes sense that's the case here. -- nm - Qale May 2, 15:20
Columbia update: 102 of the 170 arrests from Tuesday night appear to be not affiliated with the university in any way. -- nm - Strongbad May 2, 15:13 4
- Seeing slightly different numbers elsewhere. 23 of the 170 were Columbia students, 2 Columbia employees, 6 students from other schools. -- nm - Strongbad May 2, 16:01
- we're going to find ALL kinds of outside agitators stirring the pot at these events -- nm - Remlik May 2, 15:45 2
  - Agreed. -- nm - Strongbad May 2, 15:58
  - Yup. It's another reason to drown out the noise and focus on the original source. -- nm - David May 2, 15:54
odds that mandy would buy a Taco Bell trash receptacle from a rando in NJ -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 2, 15:06 2
- Reasons to go to NJ: a list by Amanda Jones... - amandaphone May 2, 19:26 1
  - now you have one! -- nm - hollywood big shot May 2, 19:45
go Leafs go -- nm - hollywood big shot May 2, 15:02 1
- I'll allow it. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 2, 15:09

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