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but is a hot dog a sandwich? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 21, 12:18 3
- if there's meat between two bread anythings, yes (so yes) -- nm - hollywood big shot May 21, 12:19
- is chili a soup? -- nm - mud May 21, 12:19 1
  - no to both -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 21, 12:20
X-Men '97 is a hit. -- (link) - David May 21, 11:53 7
- I liked it. Felt like they rushed through storylines a little bit but it was ok. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 May 21, 13:02
- I watched the last three episodes on Sun. Good stuff -- nm - JD May 21, 12:17
- Wonder if they hire the showrunner and writer back after firing him for having an OnlyFans account -- nm - Remlik May 21, 12:00 4
  - oh, so that was the reason. huh -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 21, 12:07
  - well they fired him in a very public way (for a writer), the week it was having the premiere as i recall. so . . . - hollywood big shot May 21, 12:01 2
    - Hey, CNN brought back Toobin for a bit -- nm - Max May 21, 12:04
    - But…they did bring back Gunn 🤷‍♂️— -- nm - Trending May 21, 12:03
Traveling with a family group and I realize that my mom is one of those “panics if everyone isn’t at the airport 3 hours before boarding” -- nm* - tRuMaN May 21, 11:47 11
- Meanwhile I've started driving to Dulles 45 minutes before boarding window multiple times. -- nm - Max May 21, 11:59 1
  - now do the silver line! -- nm - hollywood big shot May 21, 12:02
- I think that's a prerequisite for being a mom. -- nm - ty97 May 21, 11:51
- I'm like that too -- nm - oblique May 21, 11:49 7
  - yeah, me too -- nm - decline May 21, 12:12
  - same. once it is travel day I want to be at the airport. I can relax there, but not waiting to head to the airport -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 21, 11:54
  - WUT -- nm - ty97 May 21, 11:51 4
    - I always overplan for time. Probably PTSD from various chicago traffic and construction delays. Never can tell how long it would take to get - oblique May 21, 11:52 3
      - The blue line, kilbo -- nm - ty97 May 21, 12:15
      - I'm assuming you fly out of O'Hare most times? I'd do the same thing. We don't have that issue here...too much anyway. -- nm - Turd Ferguson May 21, 12:00 1
        
        It is usually incredible to me when we fly out of much smaller airports. We took a flight out of Colorado Springs once and I was like, WTF - oblique May 21, 12:02
Giving 28 Days Later a rewatch at the cinema, although I remember the digital print being very grainy. -- nm - LMS May 21, 11:43
speaking of skyrocketing prices of things, how long before all of Florida property is uninsurable at any price? -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 21, 11:41 4
- Texas too: 2022 $ 1696, 2023 $ 2666 2024 $ 3534 -- nm - Pippy Shark May 21, 12:05
- Insurance is abandoning California, oddly the upscale hoods -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 11:44 1
  - at least in LA, the priciest stuff is up in the hills, which has the biggest fire/mudslide risks. those are the policies getting canceled. tough shit -- nm* - hollywood big shot May 21, 11:48
- my friend who lives in jax is in denial about what uninsurability will do to housing prices. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 May 21, 11:43
PIRR guess the current median home price in California (the whole state, not just SF or LA) -- nm - hollywood big shot May 21, 11:08 8
- Corporations are buying real estate as fast as they can,, private owners are doing airbnb instead of long term rentals, average couple is divorced .. -- nm - Need two residential homes ... May 21, 11:43
- 1 million dollars -- nm - decline May 21, 11:18 1
  - *PIRR sad trombone* (but only $100k over) -- nm - hollywood big shot May 21, 11:22
- The real story is that it's grown $100k in just two years. That's...not sustainable. -- nm - David May 21, 11:11 4
  - lol nothing about our housing market is "sustainable" yet here we are, year in and year out -- nm - hollywood big shot May 21, 11:15 3
    - (it's $900k, with 8% interest rates. no buyers care) -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 21, 11:16 2
      - you're right, but I still wonder how there are enough people who can qualify for mortgages that size -- nm - ty97 May 21, 11:33 1
        
        they’re not getting mortgages. all cash babeee -- nm - hollywood big shot May 21, 11:34
news that only RC will care about: the full Fed Cir has thrown out its obviousness test for design patents -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 21, 10:56 1
- I do care. And hoe-lee crap. - ReluctantCynic May 21, 12:03
Oh, good! Fall Guy is available on digital today! - David May 21, 10:52 18
- w/ additional 20 minutes added -- nm - Remlik May 21, 12:01 2
  - anyone who watches it at home while it's still in theaters deserves to suffer the Bullet Train effect - hollywood big shot May 21, 12:04 1
    - Not if you already saw it in theater. I would watch for the extra 20 but not again without. -- nm - LFG May 21, 13:09
- I've been meaning to ask, and I'm too lazy to look it up - this is related to the Lee Majors show from back in the day, right? -- nm - Turd Ferguson May 21, 11:10 10
  - In that it's about a stunt man that solves a crime, yes - Reagen May 21, 11:44 1
    - ... named Colt Seavers. -- nm - LFG May 21, 11:45
  - Same premise, yes. -- nm - LFG May 21, 11:12 7
    - Kewl. We watched that shit every week. -- nm - Turd Ferguson May 21, 11:13 6
      - very very small spoiler - oblique May 21, 11:35 4
        
        dude -- nm - LFG May 21, 11:44 3
        
        If it's enough to make Spawn say "dude" I ain't reading the small spoiler. lol -- nm - Turd Ferguson May 21, 11:59 2
        
        he was warned -- nm - oblique May 21, 12:01 1
        
        I saw it opening night. I meant for Jim. -- nm - LFG May 21, 12:50
      - Hell yeah, we did. -- nm - LFG May 21, 11:35
- It's an amusing distraction. -- nm - Masked Baron May 21, 10:58 1
  - I liked it a bit more. May suffer a tad on the small screen, though. -- nm - LFG May 21, 11:12
- Oh, and it's Movies Anywhere also. Yay! - David May 21, 10:54 1
  - Xanadu! thanks! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 21, 11:30
huh Joe Piscopo is there for 45 at the trial. -- nm - Remlik May 21, 10:47 13
- Had game back in the day, then you realize -- nm - budice May 21, 10:49 1
  - I saw him in '87 on Spring Break, do stand up and he was *awful*. -- nm - LFG May 21, 11:11
- All Italian-Americans over the age of 60 worship DJT. So that tracks. -- nm - Jovian May 21, 10:49 10
  - especially De Niro! -- nm - mud May 21, 10:53 9
    - There are exceptions... but you dont hear Pesci say ish about DJT? - Jovian May 21, 10:55 8
      - and Ill add this, every single Italian-American I know (and that's A LOT), with the exception of my brother, they are all deeply maga. -- nm - Jovian May 21, 10:57 7
        
        It's mostly the same in my family. My brother, sister and I are lefties while a lot of the family is on the right. - Krusty May 21, 11:10
        
        NJ must be a weird place -- nm - mud May 21, 10:58 5
        
        That Mtv shore show was very accurate. -- nm - LFG May 21, 11:45 1
        
        Snooki is from Marlboro, NY! It's all a scam! -- nm - ty97 May 21, 11:53
        
        same as it ever was -- nm - ty97 May 21, 11:35
        
        you have no idea -- nm - decline May 21, 10:59
        
        Deeply spoiled and deeply (just not overtly) racist. Yes. -- nm* - Jovian May 21, 10:58
Watched the documentary Praying for Armageddon the other night, it's terrifying. Don't watch if you want to cling on to any optimism about this world. -- nm - LMS May 21, 10:47 3
- that trailer alone is chilling -- nm - Pippy Shark May 21, 11:06 1
  - "The best lack all conviction, while the worst .. are full of passionate intensity." -- (link) - mud May 21, 11:16 [youtube]
- alternatively, first ep of Soulville (the Stax story) is great and mostly uplifting (still sad to think how much more of Otis’ greatness we lost) -- nm - hollywood big shot May 21, 10:52
As a Matter of Law, Is a Taco a Sandwich? - crash davis May 21, 10:42 3
- Then why do tortas exist, crash? WHY DO TORTAS EXIST?! -- nm - rollo May 21, 11:14 2
  - I was wondering if that was ever going to be mentioned -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 12:12 1
    - The development clearly wanted a sandwich shop, but they didn't define well enough, also Subway has "wraps" so burritos are not excluded. -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 12:14
Red Lobster swam so B-Dubs could fly -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 21, 10:40 1
- "However, the deal is only available to one person per order." I.....uh.....wait......huh? -- nm - ty97 May 21, 12:01
TTIS: I today discovered that a Panamanian logistics company is using my personal phone number as a WhatsApp contact...any way to change it? - Walt_Disney May 21, 10:39
Thought I unsubscribed from everyone but now I’m getting emails from the guy running against Josh Hawley. - Tim May 21, 10:38
most important part of "Dwayne Johnson as MMA legend Mark Kerr in A24’s ‘The Smashing Machine,’ from Benny Safdie." headlines are the last two words. - mud May 21, 10:25 1
- Yeah, if Sadie wasn’t involved, I’d think this had no chance to be good. -- nm - Will Hunting May 21, 10:31
all NBC has to do is suggest that Zaslav could get a tax write off for having the Inside crew “disappeared” -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 21, 10:25 5
- Didn’t Barkley just sign a huge re-up last year? - Will Hunting May 21, 10:34 4
  - kenny won't be going anywhere I believe. -- nm - Remlik May 21, 10:38 2
    - Where would he go? - Last Of My Kind May 21, 10:52 1
      - there had been head coaching job rumors last year for a hot minute -- nm - hollywood big shot May 21, 10:59
  - Yes, but he has an out if WBD loses the NBA. The belief is that he'd get $20+ million from ESPN or Amazon. -- nm - David May 21, 10:35
The Arizona AG's office is asking for a $10,000 bond for Rudy Giuliani - he's the only one who got a bond request basically 'cause he's a dick -- nm - decline May 21, 10:24 2
- man that's a lot of coffee -- nm - Jovian May 21, 10:25 1
  - "After a while the court commissioner tells Giuliani he needs to stop talking or she’ll mute him" -- nm - decline May 21, 10:31
and yet somehow Smith never had probable cause to search Bedminster? (they’re almost certainly still there today!) -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 21, 10:22
Simon Kinberg in Talks to Produce ‘Star Trek’ Movie Franchise for Paramount -- (link) - Remlik May 21, 10:12
Variety: ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Series Casts Holly Hunter in Main Role -- (link) - mud May 21, 10:09 3
- 32nd century, so a Discovery spinoff. Excellent! That's a more interesting setting for an Academy show. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 10:11 2
  - the Tilly spinoff -- nm - Remlik May 21, 10:28 1
    - yes, exactly! I want to see where they go with it. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 10:43
Chrome plugin to turn off Google AI -- (link) - Reagen May 21, 10:08 2
- I did this thingy you posted and it works great -- (link) - decline May 21, 10:28 [Backboard] 1
  - Yup, much cleaner -- nm - Reagen May 21, 10:53
UFL Championship tickets achieved. Now we just need the Battlehawks to get there. KAKAW!!!! -- nm - Turd Ferguson May 21, 10:07
How Josh Hader (Astros reliever) set unprecedented rules to protect his health -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 21, 10:05
Christina Bobb mugshot -- (pic) - mud May 21, 10:03 [Attachment] 2
- doin her best DJT mugshot impression I see. -- nm - Jovian May 21, 10:04 1
  - Larry David did it better -- nm - rollo May 21, 10:14
heh -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 21, 09:53 1
- snort -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 21, 10:03
Clean Coal: Biden is releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve in a bid to lower prices at the pump. -- (link) - budice May 21, 09:53 3
- meanwhile on the EV side… -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 21, 10:16 1
  - There's some talk about putting in chargers at work. "Only if it is free" I said - oblique May 21, 10:19
- Is it November already? -- nm - LFG May 21, 09:54
That the people who came up with this didn't immediately realize how bad this would be should be a firing offence -- (link) - Reagen May 21, 09:39 11
- Is the divorce lawyer lobby happy or no? -- nm - Max May 21, 12:01
- back in the day we used to call this Spyware -- nm - decline May 21, 10:29
- Just saw an instagram story about your iPhone taking your picture roughly every five seconds. Not sure how valid that is, but same vibe. - Volnelk May 21, 10:08
- You can turn it off if you buy the premium edition for an extra $100. Per year. -- nm - Microsoft May 21, 09:49
- Everyone worried about Tiktok collecting everything. MS from the Top Rope... -- nm - budice May 21, 09:45
- Is that bad? -- nm - LFG May 21, 09:41
- I'm looking forward to a wave of stories regarding the best ways to deactivate it. -- nm - David May 21, 09:41 3
  - It's hardware dependent so initially don't buy a machine with the necessary hardware - JD May 21, 10:13 1
    - That's not the fun way, JD. I want people to beat the OS. -- nm - David May 21, 11:03
  - Turn the instructions into a song to make it harder for them to quash it. -- nm - Masked Baron May 21, 10:01
- 'member when this would have been classified as a global national security threat? -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 09:41
Ian Rankin: “Music is built into Rebus. Early on he listens to jazz; then I thought, ‘Why not give him my record collection?’” -- (link) - mud May 21, 09:35 10
- One episode in I'm enjoying Richard Rankin (no relation) as the new Rebus. -- nm - LMS May 21, 11:03
- Huh huh, huh huh huh, calm down, Rebus. -- nm - Rutt-head May 21, 10:03
- I must be out of touch. I read "Rebus" and think, "What? Is this some kind of music AI?" -- nm - oblique May 21, 09:38 7
  - he's my third favorite original Roman -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 21, 09:43
  - It's when you have multiple of Reba McEntire. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 09:39 4
    - Wouldn't that be "Rebii"? -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 21, 12:07
    - Actually, I think it would be the singular of Reba, wouldn't it? -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 09:51 2
      - It would be the male form -- nm - rollo May 21, 09:58 1
        
        Heh. I was thinking in terms of Data/Datum. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 10:17
  - I assumed it was or would eventually be a large adult son -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 09:39
OK JetBlue and Chase Travel, you're on notice! That's the 2nd time you send me one of those "Urgent: Your flight schedule has changed" emails! - Mop🧹 May 21, 09:32 3
- Delta did that to me multiple times for the most minor of changes. One was important as it moved my flight home up 2 hours but the rest - Krusty May 21, 09:46 2
  - Delta loves to change schedules by like a minute -- nm - ty97 May 21, 10:09 1
    - I'm flying to Dallas in July. I think they've sent me changes like four times so far. - Dark Callisto 🦊 May 21, 10:25
Uber Eats driver takes a photo of food being delivered, then Steals it for himself -- (link) - budice May 21, 09:30
... apparently no one pays attention to the "that's bait" gif any more -- (link) - Beryllium May 21, 09:20 [mastodon]
a 4 hour deep dive into 'The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel' and how it was basically just a money grab -- (link) - decline May 21, 09:20 [youtube] 3
- A corporation who's business it is to make money? *gasp* -- nm* - Mop🧹 May 21, 09:24
- David's would have been 5. -- nm - LFG May 21, 09:21 1
  - ... -- (link) - David May 21, 09:22
Austin Reaves was in town today, and you won't believe why. - David May 21, 09:18
Right now, I'm devoting a great deal of time and study to that problem. And I intend to issue a position paper on that. A position that is at once - Beaker 🍺 May 21, 09:18 1
- (And will be amazing) -- nm - LFG May 21, 09:19

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