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wake up! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 10, 04:18 1
- I'm awake (already closed a deal this morning) -- nm - LMS May 10, 04:28
Connections Puzzle #334 - almost a repeat of yesterday's x'ing - prayformojo 🐵 May 10, 03:25
You know, this actually happened a couple of weeks later... -- (link) - David May 9, 23:50 [Backboard] 2
- On August 15th... -- (link) - David May 9, 23:50 [Backboard] 1
  - I like when the world makes sense like this. -- nm - Qale May 10, 00:27
I keep getting ads for saveukraineua.org on FB, claims 'chef jose' is matching funds, sounds very suspicious.... - zeitgeist May 9, 23:15
Florida has measles, the UK has whooping cough (18,001 years later . . . ) -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 9, 22:24 5
- whooping cough is spreading among the anti-vax community, iirc two kids died last year in Seattle, polio is making a comeback too -- nm - zeitgeist May 9, 23:13 3
  - polio isn't making a comeback. it's endemic in 2 countries where there are fewer than 50 cases a year. all the rest are vaccine-derived. -- nm - mafic May 9, 23:53 2
    - poliovirus has turned up in wastewater in New York, London and Israel WHO put the U.S. on the list of countries where poliovirus is actively circulat -- (link) - zeitgeist May 10, 00:40 1
      - people who get the oral vaccine can shed the virus. there have been zero wild polio cases outside of Afghanistan/Pakistan in almost a decade. - mafic May 10, 00:52
- And Long Beach has TB. -- nm - Meg May 9, 22:30
With three swings of my mighty hammer, I just killed four players in Halo Infinite, earning an Overkill *and* an Extermination. - David May 9, 21:43 1
- You’ll have to change games. Play as Uncle Fester in Fortnite or something. -- nm - Qale May 9, 21:49
Did you hear about the man who only paid 5 cents for a prosthetic eye -- (edited) - JD May 9, 21:43
Another great archaeology lecture tonight on the Rimrock Rock Shelter in central Oregon. They have pretty firm dates of over 18,000 years ago. -- nm - Meg May 9, 21:24 4
- cool -- nm - Peglegpete May 9, 22:00 1
  - Now I have to summarize what he said. Or at least what I thought he said. At least he allowed us to record his excellent Powerpoint ;) -- nm - Meg May 9, 22:02
- seeing how bad humans are at humaning today with all of our amenities, insane to me that we survived another 180000 years to get here -- nm - hollywood big shot May 9, 21:36 1
  - They were way better than us at survival ;) -- nm - Meg May 9, 21:57
Things I learned binge watching the Graham Norton Show -- (edited) - con_carne May 9, 21:20 1
- There're a few other offshoots of who do you think you are as well. Australia, Canada, US, and Ireland have all done it. -- nm* - mafic May 10, 00:39
I like watching bushcraft videos as side viewing. This one is the most comprehensive one I've seen from a practical enthusiast backpacker. - Max May 9, 21:13 [youtube]
Just wrapped up Fallout. Some (non-spoiler?) comments. - Mop🧹 May 9, 21:02 1
- I ducked out after three episodes. While the series looked impossibly faithful to the concept, I wasn't having any fun. It wasn't the right medium. - Qale May 9, 21:22
These Are the Oldest Recorded Recipes (approx 1730 BCE) -- (link) - crash davis 😺 May 9, 20:38 4
- "a broth thickened with blood" from a recipe as old as a vampire, eh? -- nm - Max May 9, 21:01
- updated & translated lamb stew recipe -- (link) - Peglegpete May 9, 20:54 1
  - iirc, the signature taste of beer is hops which I don't believe was used till late middle ages, they would have used barley wine. -- nm - zeitgeist May 9, 21:25
- "Still, he did not particularly enjoy the results when he tried cooking the recipes" -- nm - hollywood big shot May 9, 20:40
Neuralink, doing for your brain what Tesla did for trucks -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 9, 20:07 1
- part of a trial called PRIME Study, short for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface. - Will Hunting May 9, 20:09
Nike Finally Re-Released Forrest Gump’s Iconic Cortez Sneakers If you want to get your hands on a pair, you better RUN, FORREST, RUN! -- (link) - crash davis 😺 May 9, 20:05 2
- And if you miss out, just remember - it happens. -- nm - Beryllium May 9, 20:53 1
  - And that's all I have to say about that. -- nm - con_carne May 9, 21:08
Apple says, "We missed the mark" on their crush ad for the iPad Pro. -- (link*) - Qale May 9, 19:50
Wayne Kramer, Co-Founder of Revolutionary Rock Band the MC5, Dead at 75 -- (link) - Remlik May 9, 19:42 1
- (a month ago) -- nm - hollywood big shot May 9, 19:45
Caitlin smokes 4 defensive players.... -- (link) - Remlik May 9, 19:35 6
- another way to look at it, she's hogging the ball and not a team player -- nm - zeitgeist May 9, 20:23
- Well, one and then she knifes through two in the middle. Somebody teach that poster math. -- nm - David May 9, 19:54 3
  - The biggest opponent was in her own mind. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 9, 19:58 2
    - So, it's actually five if the lord counts as a person. Stop underselling her, Pete! -- nm - David May 9, 20:02 1
      - Jesus is a defensive liability. Always doing unto others and turning the other cheek. -- nm - VMan May 9, 20:19
- for her first team win as a professional - hollywood big shot May 9, 19:40
HEY BERY nmb - kelly May 9, 19:18
8 truly crazy kids remained online using Nintendo servers after the ones for the 3DS and Wii U were shut down last month. -- (link) - Qale May 9, 19:18
Nice effort, Celtics. Really impressive stuff. -- nm - David May 9, 18:38 3
- I got up for a second, and Carolina scored. -- nm - David May 9, 18:50 2
  - don't do that -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 9, 18:50 1
    - But I was hungry. -- nm - David May 9, 18:51
Nintendo wants to place three women on its board of directors. - Qale May 9, 18:30 2
- seems like a good idea. -- nm - mafic May 9, 18:44 1
  - As long as they don't put them in the wrong castle! -- nm - Qale May 9, 18:48
Cause it's too heavy -- (pic) - prayformojo 🐵 May 9, 17:53 [Attachment] 2
- I mean technically they kinda do depending on how you feel about stability curves. -- nm - mafic May 9, 19:34
- I'm on to you, Satan. -- nm - Reagen May 9, 17:57
Detroit is the lads from Trainspotting at this point -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 9, 17:50 3
- on the other hand, Honda is putting $15 BILLION in new EV factories in Ontario (with a shit ton of Govt money of course) -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 9, 18:00 2
  - i'm not even sure what Manchin/Brown's objections to the IRA tax credit rules are, other than in Manchin's case "fossil fuels good, green bad" - hollywood big shot May 9, 18:06 1
    - anyway . . . Joe's imposing tariffs on Chinese EVs next week so . . . -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 9, 20:14
From b2: I looked into working for CLEAR but noped out of it very quickly. It seemed especially unstable. -- nm - Qale May 9, 17:43 6
- I've been seeing a lot of ads for data annotation recently, which also feels a little iffy, but is apparently real. - mafic May 9, 18:50 1
  - I think this gets back to why I like working in grocery. People have to eat. And we're learning that changes the industry tries to make, fail. - Qale May 9, 20:36
- Wise call I think. I have no inside info, but it's not a company I'd feel great investing in. -- (edited) - ty97 May 9, 17:53 3
  - The pay structure was convoluted, and the job listing seemed fairly permanent. It was kind of sales/commission, hourly, and structural. - Qale May 9, 18:07 2
    - Anything with sketchy salary is a non-starter imo. - David May 9, 18:12 1
      - Yeah. Like, I got why my old newspaper delivery job had a complicated pay structure. But it was explainable. -- nm - Qale May 9, 18:19
TIL that Zinedine Zidane sometimes comes to one of my mines. He’s a qualified surveyor and owns a contractor we use for earthworks and haulage. - mafic May 9, 17:07
R.I.P. Rex Murphy, 77 -- (pic) - mud May 9, 16:54 [Attachment] 3
- I think they mean loquacious and sesquipedalian writer and journalist. -- nm - Reagen May 9, 17:46
- loved him in the '90s (when he was with the CBC) and then he went off the rails with the right-wing horseshit -- nm* - Beaker 🍻 May 9, 16:55 1
  - Truth is that he was neither a beloved Canadian institution nor the cartoon villain. - Name Withheld By Request May 9, 17:04
14-year-old signs MLS contract with Philadelphia Union that includes a $5 million transfer clause to Man City when he turns 18 -- (link) - znufrii May 9, 16:44 3
- He already looks grown in that photo, that’s for sure. -- nm - Qale May 9, 17:33
- I’m not sure if development league is better or worse than Masters league. -- nm - mafic May 9, 17:01
- Sure, sure -- nm - Freddy Adu May 9, 16:45
Orphan Black: Echoes | Official Trailer feat. Krysten Ritter | Premieres June 23 | AMC+ -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 May 9, 16:35 [youtube]
The Rempire State Building will be making an appearance for the rangers tonight is my guess -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 9, 16:32 1
- or not, looks like not in the lineup. no wonder the Canes are so fighty -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 9, 16:40
Seth MacFarlane’s ‘Ted’ Series Renewed at Peacock -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 9, 16:29 2
- ‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’ Officially Moving To Peacock For Season 5 -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 9, 16:29 1
  - Netflix’s ‘Heartbreak High’ Renewed for Third and Final Season -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 9, 16:30
I'd forgotten that Omarosa killed Michael Clarke Duncan -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 9, 16:10
bah -- nm* - Remlik May 9, 15:42
going out on a real limb here but i don't think Rashee Rice is gonna be in the NFL much longer -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 9, 15:18 2
- The writing in that statement is rough, but… he punched someone in the face? Meh. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 9, 18:13 1
  - after luring them back to his location -- nm - hollywood big shot May 9, 20:45
Ralph Ineson has been cast as Galactus in ‘FANTASTIC FOUR’.—that’s a way to save some $$ -- nm - Trending May 9, 15:18 3
- Who? -- nm - eag May 9, 15:38 2
  - British actor, has a distinctive deep voice. -- nm - LMS May 9, 16:10 1
    - English James Earl Jones makes sense. -- nm - mafic May 9, 17:02
Stopped by Walgreens to check that they do in fact take passport photos and can I come in any time. - Meg May 9, 15:08 3
- I did mine at the post office itself. One stop shopping! -- nm - Baron Kills World May 9, 16:39 2
  - Tried to do my OG passport at the Post office. Camera was broken. Had to go to CVS. -- nm - sycor May 9, 19:25
  - I think I tried that once before but I'm not sure what the problem was. Limited hours? only original applications? Walgreens is closer. -- nm - Meg May 9, 16:48
How the NFL Makes the Schedule -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 May 9, 14:59 [youtube]
I defrosted 4lbs of frozen peas and broccoli today -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 9, 14:47 4
- Nom nom nom. -- nm - Qale May 9, 15:52
- Time to make guacamole -- nm - Roger More May 9, 15:50
- ON PURPOSE? -- nm - Mop🧹 May 9, 15:05
- Meal planning? Feeding a big crew? Or showing the Jolly Green Giant you’re serious if he doesn’t pay the ransom in time? -- nm - Trending May 9, 15:05
Bayer Leverkusen in German soccer has set a European record of 49 straight unbeaten matches across all competitions. They’re in the Euro-NIT -- (edited) - Will Hunting May 9, 14:37
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver Pitch Meeting -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 May 9, 14:01 [youtube] 1
- “Oh, the spaceships are powered by coal?” 🤣 -- nm - Trending May 9, 15:03
Mistrial request denied. Request to modify Stormy Daniels gag order so DJT can respond to her, also denied. - Jovian May 9, 13:48 6
- Isn't responding to her called cross examination? -- nm - Dano May 9, 14:13 1
  - that was the judge's position the first time they moved for a mistrial -- nm - hollywood big shot May 9, 14:17
- There's like a 30% chance his reply would be, "My daughter is way hotter than her." -- nm - David May 9, 14:02 3
  - Now who’s ruining porn? -- nm - Will Hunting May 9, 14:34 2
    - Lol -- nm - Pippy 🇨🇦 May 9, 19:31
    - Still him. - David May 9, 14:37
NBA: Suns fire Frank Vogel. Bucks former HC Mike Budenholzer rumored to be a strong candidate. -- nm - Strongbad May 9, 13:45 1
- Glenn "Big Baby" Davis sentenced to 40 months in jail for fraud. -- nm - Strongbad May 9, 13:47
Tim Hortons bashed for having "Woke" paper lids -- (link) - budice May 9, 13:35 11
- Horrible confession§: I did t care for Tim Hortons - Pippy 🇨🇦 May 9, 19:33
- But in Canada it's pronounced "wook" -- nm - Baron Kills World May 9, 16:40
- I would have guessed paper straws before paper lids -- nm - Strongbad May 9, 15:12 2
  - Oh. It is all paper straws here, for a long time. People got over that mostly. -- nm* - Andie May 9, 16:17 1
    - No we didn’t! -- nm - J May 9, 18:49
- Asking Canadians to choose between Tim Hortons and the Tories. Let's see how that works out. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 9, 15:05 1
  - if you can't love the Leafs against the Bruins, you don't deserve Tim Horton's in the morning -- nm - hollywood big shot May 9, 15:07
- "Is woke in the room with us now, Lianne?" -- nm - Reagen May 9, 14:13 3
  - You know she's told everyone she knows that this video will turn around her campaign. -- nm - David May 9, 14:20 2
    - She's in a safe seat, sadly enough. Lower Cowburg, Ontario. -- nm - Reagen May 9, 15:15 1
      - just over the hill from Upper Sheeptown? -- nm - hollywood big shot May 9, 15:56
"We don’t mean that in a 'no one is talking to the media,' we mean that literally — apparently no one involved with the Tour or PIF is even holding -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 9, 13:34 1
- Discussions during that "merger" must not be going well IMO. If it were, they would have been done by now. - Strongbad May 9, 13:41
SWPC saying G4 storm inbound. "Maybe as far south as Alabama" -- (edited) - oblique May 9, 13:28 4
- Cloudy here too. -- nm - znufrii May 9, 13:36 3
  - only $1k round trip for me to fly to Fairbanks tomorrow and land at 7:30pm -- nm - oblique May 9, 13:39 2
    - Totally worth it right? -- nm - znufrii May 9, 13:40 1
      - Maybe. Their weather doesn't seem much better than mine. My parents in mid-Wisconsin looks like rain tomorrow night. I'd probably have the best -- (edited) - oblique May 9, 13:58 [Attachment]
any one of those stupid reporters present that day at that presser, some were only 2 or 3 feet away, could have completely changed history by just .. - mud May 9, 13:18 7
- Then they would have been kicked off the plane and loose their position in the newsroom -- nm - zeitgeist May 9, 13:34 5
  - Yup. And they would have just drummed up some nonsense excuse that maga would have bought into. Just like everything else. -- nm - Jovian May 9, 13:41 4
    - 100% disagree. -- nm - mud May 9, 13:48 3
      - "I wasn't going to bring my real confidential documents here. I knew someone would do something like that." -- nm - pmb May 9, 14:12 1
        
        yep. as simple as that. -- nm - Jovian May 9, 14:24
      - Access Hollywood tape, Helsinki, Charlottesville, 01/06, two impeachments say otherwise. -- nm - Jovian May 9, 13:51
- hmmm .. -- (pic) - mud May 9, 13:22 [Attachment]
so if Bank of England cuts their interest rates this summer, does Jerome's Fed still stand pat? -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 9, 13:11 1
- for a while yes...very different economies and different Bank expectations. -- nm - Walt_Disney May 9, 13:25
i have a friend who has ALWAYS reminded me of Reese Witherspoon, so i made a sticker to put the envelope of her bday card - you see it, right? - Andie May 9, 13:09 [Attachment] 3
- Can they do a line reading, just to be sure? “You brought a baby… to a bar!” -- nm - Qale May 9, 15:56
- yup -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 9, 13:38
- Close enough -- nm - zeitgeist May 9, 13:34
sho nuff -- nm - hollywood big shot May 9, 13:04 1
- Well. Who am I? -- (link) - JD May 9, 13:09 [youtube]

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