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MTA has already committed to $500m in new hardware for tracking drivers in NYC’s congestion zone -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 12:25 2
- They will recoup that in the first year. -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 12:27 1
  - See today's news. They're not recouping shit. -- nm - Krusty Jun 5, 13:13
Rubio's files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. -- (link) - budice Jun 5, 12:18 2
- Trump will like him even more, then? -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 12:21 1
  - *rimshot* -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 5, 12:46
*abides* -- nm - The Dude Jun 5, 12:15
MLB -- who's your 60-game MVP's / Cy Young's?! - Will Hunting Jun 5, 11:58 3
- No love for Lugo? -- nm - Trending Jun 5, 12:19
- For what it's worth, current odds - Strongbad Jun 5, 12:13
- I'm definitely biased but Judge and Gil in the AL. Betts and Imanaga in the NL. -- nm - Krusty Jun 5, 12:02
new Wallace & Gromit title coming -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 11:55
DC people: HFS festival is teasing a return -- (link) - Remlik Jun 5, 11:54 5
- Am I killfiled? -- nm - MDH Jun 5, 12:29 4
  - He was trying to post it without my birthday. -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 12:38
  - ack! I didn't see it. It's going to be interesting if it happens... - Remlik Jun 5, 12:38 2
    - There's already rumors in town on who is performing. -- nm - MDH Jun 5, 12:59
    - hopefully with better bands this time -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 12:40
Thi is cool -- former NBA player Chase Budinger has qualified for the Paris Olympics in beach volleyball - Will Hunting Jun 5, 11:49
NCAAF: 12-team College Football Playoff sched for 2024 -- (pic) - budice Jun 5, 11:37 [Attachment] 2
- January 20. LOL. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 5, 12:00 1
  - 1st Rd bumps into NFL games -- nm - budice Jun 5, 12:02
upset alerts on the women's side at Roland Garros -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 11:34 1
- Just when we thought there was a solid Big Four. -- nm - Dano Jun 5, 11:47
i know magical thinking is magical but really continuing to pump record amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere has only one outcome as a matter of science -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 11:11 2
- Related... -- (pic) - Beryllium Jun 5, 11:16 [Attachment]
- The water desalinization plants will be powered by harvesting CO2 from the atmosphere and will produce baby pandas as a byproduct. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 5, 11:15
I’m still sad I couldn’t ever generate any interest in buying [email protected]. -- nm - landbeck Jun 5, 11:07 5
- I have the tron ares twitter account -- nm - budice Jun 5, 12:14
- Ed Norton and Matt Damon offered me $2 million for [email protected] and I said no -- nm - rollo Jun 5, 11:36 3
  - oh man...that would have been an easy sell. -- nm - Remlik Jun 5, 12:12 2
    - ... and then I woke up -- nm - rollo Jun 5, 12:36
    - yeah, jeff bridges & the coens come at me with a cool million to turn ST into a Big Lebowski fan forum? I'm taking it. -- nm - The Dude Jun 5, 12:14
45 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Coming Your Way in June -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 5, 11:07 6
- Echo of Worlds by M.R. Carey; The Runes of Engagement by Tobias S. Buckell and Dave Klecha; How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 5, 11:28 2
  - I made this for me, so I have easy access on my phone: -- (pic) - Jovian Jun 5, 12:36 [Attachment]
  - Cant wait for Echo of Worlds -- nm - Jovian Jun 5, 12:30
- Some of those covers are pretty. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 5, 11:18
- Trump is branching out! -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 11:16
- 40 of them involve sex with Bigfoot. A record low. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 5, 11:11
Traitors season 3 cast -- (pic) - Strongbad Jun 5, 11:05 [Attachment] 5
- What is Lord? I've never heard of that show. Oh.... -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 5, 11:14
- Bob - Biggest Loser and Dylan - Zac Efron's Brother both cracked me up -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 5, 11:07
- Wells!!! - Jovian Jun 5, 11:07 2
  - I know 12 of them. - Strongbad Jun 5, 11:11 1
    - 17 -- nm - jnine Jun 5, 13:26
Boeing spacecraft carrying two astronauts lifts off on historic voyage -- (link) - oblique Jun 5, 11:02
reports that 45* has narrowed it to 4 dum-dums -- (pic) - mud Jun 5, 10:58 [Attachment] 34
- Not Lara? -- nm - . Jun 5, 12:15 1
  - This...I would have put money on her selection, now that Ivanka ...escaped? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 5, 13:49
- If he wins he'll ask Boebert to be Press Secretary. She'd say yes. -- nm - Max Jun 5, 12:02 2
  - Naw, donny don't need no press sec, he does his own, its really all he did -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 5, 13:51 1
    - Bobo would be secretary of grift graft and corr..I mean economy, yeah that's the ticket -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 5, 13:53
- I'm old. when I hear dum-dums, I first think of Tarzan. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 5, 11:39
- I'm surprised Hawley or Cotton didn't make the list. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 5, 11:33 8
  - Guessing they’re thinking ahead to 2028. - znufrii Jun 5, 11:46 7
    - How so? If he loses this year, he is back in four. -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 11:50 6
      - I predict he'll run as long as he is alive. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 5, 13:13
      - agreed. -- nm - mud Jun 5, 12:22
      - nah, disagree with that. This is his final chance. -- nm - Jovian Jun 5, 12:14 2
        
        But after he is King who knows when they will get a chance? -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 12:22 1
        
        oh if claims the throne come January, that's a wrap on just about everything. -- nm - Jovian Jun 5, 12:31
      - That’s a risk, but can the guy even survive four more years? - znufrii Jun 5, 11:51
- he tried to have the last one hung in front of a crowd of people. I wonder what he's going to do to this one ? -- nm - decline Jun 5, 11:15 1
  - Blame him for losing and try to have him hung in front of a crowd of people. -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 11:22
- What kind of odds can I get on E, none of the above? -- nm - Strongbad Jun 5, 11:06 2
  - E is for Eric -- nm - E si Jun 5, 11:08
  - 1:1? -- nm - mud Jun 5, 11:08
- can't be Rubio, constitutionally -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 11:02 3
  - And that matters to them, for sure. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 5, 11:06
  - not that there's any chance it's him, but they'd find a loophole. -- nm - mud Jun 5, 11:05 1
    - no loop holes needed. Hes never going to pick the guy he clowned nationally for *years* -- nm - Jovian Jun 5, 11:06
- 3 of 4 of those will never ever be his VP pick -- (edited) - Jovian Jun 5, 11:02 7
  - So it’s actually Vance. Because we are going full tilt toxic this time. -- nm - Qale Jun 5, 11:49 1
    - If Vance came from a blue or purple state, I'd probably agree. - Jovian Jun 5, 12:33
  - Yeah. If it’s one of those four, it’s Scott. -- nm - Dano Jun 5, 11:10 1
    - Agreed. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 5, 11:10
  - Tautology. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 5, 11:08
  - I feel like the last sentence of your post is trying to infer a certain slur that was mentioned in that film. - Beryllium Jun 5, 11:07 1
    - Quisling is another good term for what he is -- nm - Jovian Jun 5, 11:16
- I would approve of him dragging a couple of them down with him. -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 10:59 1
  - you could be talking about a future prez, young man! (if fucko chokes on a chicken bone next spring) -- nm - mud Jun 5, 11:02
just FedSoc goons all the way down -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 10:52
Does the juror who got the 120k cash get to keep it? I'm guessing not... -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 5, 10:40 1
- Only the 30k they stashed away before reporting. - BaRRRon Jun 5, 10:56
This is a poll about what topics you learned about in history in school. Let me set the stage - ty97 Jun 5, 10:40 32
- One year we finished with the teacher saying "you'll pick up the Civil War next year" and next year a teacher said "picking up after the 1860s now" - Max Jun 5, 11:59
- Due to timing, our US History 1 went from 1600 to 1865 and US History 2 was Reconstruction to WW2. - Will Hunting Jun 5, 11:27
- History will teach us nothing. -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 11:23 4
  - “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -- nm - mud Jun 5, 11:30 3
    - I almost assassinated an Archduke once but then I remembered. -- nm - Dano Jun 5, 11:46 2
      - I need glasses. I read this first as, 'I almost choked on an artichoke once.' -- nm - Jovian Jun 5, 12:34
      - LIR: -- (link) - mud Jun 5, 11:49 [Backboard]
- The first time I can remember learning about anything post Reconstruction was.. 12th grade? - Strongbad Jun 5, 11:09
- Very US centric with some Western Europe. We did get to the Vietnam War though which was fairly recent history at the time. - Dano Jun 5, 11:08
- In HS we learned some world history but it stopped at WW2. Overall it was definitely heavily about the US. -- (edited) - Krusty Jun 5, 11:02 2
  - Yep, it stopped at WWII. We learned nothing about Vietnam, Korea, Civil Rights movement, etc -- nm - Jovian Jun 5, 11:04 1
    - A little about Vietnam, a mention of Korea and a good amount about the civil rights movement which was a big topic but didn't - Krusty Jun 5, 11:09
- I had a fantastic history teacher who smoked his pipe continuously in the classroom and neither the school principal nor other teachers would ever - Loyola Jun 5, 10:59 1
  - I love hearing little things like this. Great memory. -- nm - Krusty Jun 5, 11:05
- Jacques Cartier, the couriers du Bois, Plains of Abraham, Henry Kelsey, Simon Fraser, Quebec Act, 1812, 54.40 or fight, Riel Rebellion - Reagen Jun 5, 10:55 3
  - Lots of social history too - the Cree and Blackfoot and Sioux. -- nm - Reagen Jun 5, 11:18 1
    - i wouldn't say they taught us Manifest Destiny unironically but . . . it was also part and parcel with the Monroe Doctrine as if they were just - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 11:27
  - [googles 'Henry Kelsey'] ..ah -- nm - mud Jun 5, 10:59
- Tangent poll, did you read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States in college and how much did it blow your f*cking mind? -- (edited) - znufrii Jun 5, 10:48 2
  - I read it as an adult. Not much of it was shocking, but I enjoyed it. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 5, 11:08
  - "so you finally read a book, and it's bullshit." -- nm - tony soprano Jun 5, 10:54
- i did up through AP history in HS. in hindsight . . . even mid-80s AP history curriculum was not great. - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 10:43 1
  - *High Five* Law School AND high school curriculum buddies! -- nm - landbeck Jun 5, 11:02
- Up to WW2, But it was the 60s. I do remember learning some about trail of tears and slavery, civil war while in AL and FL then -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 5, 10:43 3
  - I 100% will swear I never knew that 'trail of tears' mean until adulthood - ty97 Jun 5, 10:44 2
    - Oh and that was Andrew Jackson who still disgraces the $20 bill. I know 45 shelved replacing with Harriet Tubman, but didn't it get put back? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 5, 10:54
    - While I had heard some trivia about the Tulsa massacre (first time civilians were bombed by airplane) it wasn't till recently... - zeitgeist Jun 5, 10:52
- As a footnote example - ty97 Jun 5, 10:41 4
  - i'm not sure the context in which the average HS history class would be drilling down into every tinpot despot of the 20th century - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 10:46 3
    - I'm more thinking college here, but I guess I was only required to take two college history classes -- (edited) - ty97 Jun 5, 10:47 2
      - We had no required courses in college except writing. We had to take courses from different areas (like history) but had flexibility within them. -- nm - Dano Jun 5, 11:14 1
        
        We had a general education curriculum that every major took. Can't recall if it was set by the school or the state -- (edited) - ty97 Jun 5, 11:31
fuck all good it does me now but researchers have honed in on the mutation that turns the immune system on its own digestive system in IBD patients -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 10:19 2
- When you have them make your next clone body, they’ll filter out the bad genes. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 5, 11:10 1
  - ... there is nothing left! -- nm - scientists Jun 5, 11:18
DC STers: HFStival returns...Nationals Park, September 21, 2024 -- nm - MDH Jun 5, 10:09 2
- lol. "WHFS" died 20 years ago -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 10:10 1
  - and at least have it at MPP. Nationals Park is for sports dads -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 10:14
Vancouver Comic Arts Festival kicked out American-Israeli artist because in her past she had served in the IDF -- (link) - Remlik Jun 5, 10:05 5
- That seems incredibly shortsighted and counterproductive. -- nm - znufrii Jun 5, 10:45
- Since service in the IDF is pretty much mandatory, they’ve just prohibited practically everyone from Israel. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 5, 10:14 2
  - Yep. That's not cool. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 5, 10:41 1
    - (Like, I am very much against most of what netanyahu is doing - but they don't have much of a choice about IDF service. It's not a voluntary military. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 5, 10:42
- thats something something -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 5, 10:06
Acolyte first two were . . . fine i guess. don't really give a shit about any of the characters, except the one they murder in the cold open - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 09:57 3
- stop spoiling shit -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 5, 10:05 1
  - *sigh* -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 11:19
- Playing Scrabble with the names. Straight rip from Fallout on the PipBoy -- nm - budice Jun 5, 09:58
The Killers Game w/Dave Batista trailer -- (link) - Remlik Jun 5, 09:50 [youtube] 8
- And *this* is why you get a second opinion. -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 12:26
- Let's all admit that this is going to be a terrible movie, but still awesome. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 5, 12:22
- I love the Bautista/Pom repairing.... -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jun 5, 10:59 2
  - Damaged? -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 11:19
  - Pom needs to be in so much more stuff, she's great -- nm - Beryllium Jun 5, 11:00
- There will be no in between in that. It’ll suck or be awesome. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 5, 09:59
- Somebody told me I would like this -- nm - rollo Jun 5, 09:56
- awesome -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 5, 09:53
Jason Mendoza is in The Acolyte? JORTLES! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 5, 09:50 1
- stop spoiling shit -- nm - LFG Jun 5, 11:20
Shower Oreos -- (link) - budice Jun 5, 09:50
Krusty, she undoubtedly got leaned on by folks regarding this, whether it's the DNCC or the state party, for sure. - ty97 Jun 5, 09:50 3
- I can't stomach it for a day. I'm done with her and anyone that is okay with this delay. I don't trust her to keep her word and I want the congestion - Krusty Jun 5, 09:56 2
  - "From July 1, 2024 through September 2, 2024, all Bee-Line buses including ParaTransit will be fare-free" - ty97 Jun 5, 10:00 1
    - She's done so little. She talks a big game and then when it comes time to get things done she fails. She made a big statement about housing - Krusty Jun 5, 10:29
Look at that. You can't see that, I'm on radio. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 5, 09:46
the level of petty I aspire to -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 09:45 9
- wtf -- nm - mud Jun 5, 09:48
- The number of Brits I've seen complaining in travel forums about having to wait in the 'all other passports' line in Europe is like.... - ty97 Jun 5, 09:47 7
  - But they get to use those new blue passports. -- nm - . Jun 5, 12:10
  - *chef's kiss* -- nm - Krusty Jun 5, 09:50 4
    - To be fair, some of them probably voted against Brexit but still. - ty97 Jun 5, 09:52 3
      - 49% voted against. -- nm - LMS Jun 5, 10:25
      - I'm sure that's true but for those that voted leave I hope they enjoy all the headaches they're enduring these days. -- nm - Krusty Jun 5, 09:57 1
        
        maybe Maya Wiley and Kathy Garcia can split the gubernatorial vote in the next Dem primary -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 10:39
  - FAFO -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 5, 09:49

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