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Joey Chestnut banned from the Nathan’s contest -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 12:03 2
- This feels like an April Fool's joke, but it's also why Kobayashi stopped attending. - David Jun 11, 12:05 1
  - I think Kobayashi stopped attending because Chestnut kept smokin' his ass over and over again. -- nm* - Jovian Jun 11, 12:06
I know its over 7 years old now, but man that Nuka World DLC for Fallout 4 is tremendous. - Jovian Jun 11, 11:59
In the National League, the team currently in the last wildcard spot has a losing record. -- nm - Dano Jun 11, 11:44 3
- Only 4 teams have a winning record—it’s anyone’s pennant -- nm - Trending Jun 11, 11:56
- don't worry, they'd still beat the Dodgers in the first round -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 11:49
- Blame the Phillies, they are usually the team in that last wc spot -- nm - rollo Jun 11, 11:48
Shipping channel out of Baltimore Harbor has now fully reopened -- (link) - znufrii Jun 11, 11:39
Stereogum: The Curious Case Of The Underselling Arena Tours -- (link) - MDH Jun 11, 11:37 3
- "Ostensibly, agents and promoters should have access to data that can give them a better sense of demand. But they often place outsized importance on - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 11:46
- like that WHFStival announcement today, the reason shit always used to sell out is it only cost $15-25 to get in RFK for general admission -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 11:42 1
  - Yeah, somehow i could afford festivals when i was young and superbroke, but i can't now? - Andie Jun 11, 12:15
"Some of Florida’s restrictions on medical care for transgender children and adults are unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday" - David Jun 11, 11:19 4
- Whoa. I was wondering why you didn't go with the Marlins. - LFG Jun 11, 11:22 3
  - It seems to happen every year, but the White Sox are pacing to be the worst team ever. - David Jun 11, 11:24 2
    - Alternatively, there’s a lot of mediocrity where only 5-6 teams are out of it. - Will Hunting Jun 11, 11:34 1
      - Atlanta's maddening this year, but after such a perfect season last year I can't be surprised. -- nm - David Jun 11, 11:36
the music in the background when Sadness hits the red carpet ha -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 11:14
Billy Ray Cyrus(62) files for divorce from wife Firerose(34): just seven months after wedding -- (link*) - budice Jun 11, 11:09 6
- OMG that picture of Billy Ray. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 11, 11:28 1
  - or is it the homeless guy you passed on the way into work? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 11, 12:05
- If you meet someone and they introduce themselves on Firerose, it's on you if you don't immediately turn around and walk away. -- nm - David Jun 11, 11:27
- 34? Miley is 31. - decline Jun 11, 11:25 1
  - Anthony Kiedis is 61 and dating a 19 year old. -- nm - LFG Jun 11, 11:40
- Ok ill say it was he suffering from Achy Breaky Heart? -- nm - eag Jun 11, 11:18
it took eight years but Brexit finally is bearing the fruit so many predicted it would -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 11:09 1
- "What are we looking at here, Roy?" ... "It appears to be a villain type character, rendered in 8-bit, possibly of Mario origin, or even TMNT, Bill" - rollo Jun 11, 11:18
three of the jurors get it -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 11:07
Microsoft Pulls Windows 11 24H2 from Release Preview Channel, Build Riddled with Bugs -- (link) - budice Jun 11, 10:58
House of the Dragon season 2 conjecture - MAJOR spoilers from the book; don't read if haven't read - Beaker 🍺 Jun 11, 10:57 1
- cant wait (spoils) - Jovian Jun 11, 11:41
Where are my Daisy Jones peeps? Bite Down by Rosali sounds like what you get when Daisy [spoiler], moves to Asheville NC and releases a solo album - rollo Jun 11, 10:47 [youtube]
King Charles portrait vandalized with Wallace and Gromit cartoon -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 11, 10:17 6
- Not that I care about this particular portrait, but this trend is among the stupider forms of protest. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 11, 11:28 3
  - It's in the news, social media and now we're talking about it. So that shows some effect -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 11, 13:16
  - I'll see you, and raise you gluing your hand to a basketball court -- nm - rollo Jun 11, 11:43
  - word. -- nm - mud Jun 11, 11:30
- *waddles off, snickering* -- nm - Chickeny-Ass Penguin Jun 11, 10:27 1
  - Good grief, it was you! -- nm - rollo Jun 11, 10:50
The banana company Chiquita is liable for eight killings carried out by a paramilitary group that it helped finance during Colombia’s civil war - decline Jun 11, 09:41 2
- United Fruit Co was up there with Dow Chemical in the 60s/70s as the radical left’s corporate punching bag -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 10:02 1
  - “it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called banana republics” - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 10:05
not that US journalism was in any great shape before the mass enshittification, but actual Fake News now outnumbers the "real" ones -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 09:33 4
- another gift from our Hitler -- nm - Jovian Jun 11, 09:43
- In this context is Fox News considered real news? How about Newsmax? -- nm - Dano Jun 11, 09:39 2
  - faux news is considered news because they report actual news despite their obvious editorial bent, -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 11, 10:59
  - I think they mean more like Epoch Times tho that’s just a matter of degrees to my eyes. Sinclair buying up the Sun so they can astroturf their shit -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 10:00
Microsoft is making a bunch of changes to outlook that will screw a bunch of folks up - including no longer support Gmail accounts in Outlook.com on - decline Jun 11, 09:22 3
- Outlook for Windows app and Outlook for Mac will still support Gmail accounts, though. -- nm - budice Jun 11, 10:06
- Yikes. -- nm - David Jun 11, 09:49
- As much as that'll impact short-term -- it's the reality of the modern world. 2FA is the minimum. - Will Hunting Jun 11, 09:24
"The speed of sound is the speed that sound travels." "Congratulations on a content free sentence." -- nm - Classroom Transcripts Jun 11, 09:18 1
- An excellent opportunity to teach the class about tautologies -- nm - rollo Jun 11, 10:23
HFStival pit tickets are $300, cheapest at the stadium are $150 (without fees) -- nm - MDH Jun 11, 09:10 6
- Have they announced acts yet? -- nm - Dano Jun 11, 09:38 4
  - here. -- (pic) - i.b.! Jun 11, 09:41 [Attachment] 3
    - Garbage played at the one HFStival I attended. I won tickets. -- nm - Dano Jun 11, 11:00 1
      - i took an improv class with the guitarist's daughter last year -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 11:19
    - hey! I know almost all those! -- nm - oblique Jun 11, 10:40
- lol i think OG tix were like $25 or $30 -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 09:25
Star Trek: Paul Giamatti joins Starfleet Academy as a recurring role as a villan -- (link) - Remlik Jun 11, 09:10 2
- He issued a lifetime ban to Dax for betting on dabo. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 11, 09:17
- TV: Star Trek Academy and Hostel. Movies: Downton Abbey 3 and San Andreas 2. -- nm - LFG Jun 11, 09:13
Alexander Hamilton wins the battle of former treasury secretaries. - znufrii Jun 11, 09:06 2
- *cue collective freaking out in our Pittsburgh HQ* - znufrii Jun 11, 09:12 1
  - yeah, there are some pretty deep roots over there -- nm - decline Jun 11, 09:13
Meg - my MIL mentioned the other night that she has always wanted to help out on an archeological dig site. Is that something you can just do? -- nm - colin Jun 11, 09:04 5
- its not actual digging, but their is a site where you can join up and then use satelite imagery to try and locate archaeology sites - Beaker 🍺 Jun 11, 10:41 1
  - I think this was it, but seems to be down -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 11, 10:42
- These days there's not much opportunity for volunteering and actual excavation has very much gone out of style. - Meg Jun 11, 10:35 2
  - Have her check out local archaeological societies. -- nm - Meg Jun 11, 10:43
  - anywhere's a dig site if you've got a shovel, i say -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 10:36
the reuters’ title/story from b2 re: war crimes is maddening to me. - i.b.! Jun 11, 09:00 1
- ♡ .. yeah, the tidal wave of global antisemitism over the last year is a daily heartache. It's everywhere you look (and ST hasn't been immune, imho) -- nm - mud Jun 11, 11:36
Tentative deal reached for Canada's border workers, unions say -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 11, 08:59
Rebel Moon 3: Reeks of Confidence -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 11, 08:57 2
- Rebel Moon 3: Ironclad Contract -- nm - David Jun 11, 09:04 1
  - Rebel Moon 4: Always Read the Fineprint -- nm - rollo Jun 11, 10:00
Next weekend, we start a two-week trip to Ireland. Forecast says it will rain for 23 of the 15 days we are there -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 11, 08:56 2
- The authentic old world experience. -- nm - Max Jun 11, 09:01
- I'm heading to Florida on Sunday for a week. It might be underwater from what I'm seeing -- nm - oblique Jun 11, 08:58
Jimmy Carter update from his family -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 08:49
it’s McCaffery -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 08:47 9
- Poor budice. -- nm - David Jun 11, 08:49
- Taylor was robbed! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 11, 08:47 7
  - Maybe they'll release a special edition where you can even play as her. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 11, 08:53 4
    - Taylor's Version 2k25 -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 11:30
    - I wouldn't rule it out. Playable characters this season include Carl Weathers, Burt Reynolds, and Rich Eisen. -- nm - David Jun 11, 09:50 2
      - It'll be like NBA Jam with all the secret characters. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 11, 11:29
      - "muh immersion!" -- nm - Reagen Jun 11, 11:00
  - Shoutout to the ESPN pinhead who swears that wasn't an A trade for the Niners. - David Jun 11, 08:49
  - great, now she has more material to use for her songs. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 11, 08:48
Meanwhile, over at the Young Thug RICO trial in Georgia, the judge apparently tampered with a witness and then jailed the defense attorney for finding - decline Jun 11, 08:38 2
- i love "I don't need 5 minutes". - colin Jun 11, 09:02
- "Counselor, who gave you this information?" "I don't think I should say..." - BaRRRon Jun 11, 09:00
the gap between the external charm of this $5.5m faux Venetian villa near Santa Cruz and the absolute garbage interiors is kinda amazing -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 08:35 12
- No personality at all. I'm guessing it's been staged? No way it looks like that after 50 years. -- nm - Meg Jun 11, 08:46 8
  - very staged; and also have to account for not wanting interiors to be too nice when there has indeed been area flooding in multiple recent years. — nm - i.b.! Jun 11, 09:12 5
    - no, it's doomed in the long run -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 09:25 4
      - unfortunately. this is nearby, a more cliff-y fear. nm but: -- (link) - i.b.! Jun 11, 09:47 3
        
        why are there literal portals?! -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 10:37 1
        
        that’s what I was referring to below - decorative in the bathroom, I guess; and then the attic one could provide a rooftop escape? - i.b.! Jun 11, 10:41
        
        (I hadn’t made it to 28 on, heh.) -- nm - i.b.! Jun 11, 09:48
  - And I'm surprised it hasn't yet been taken out by high water. -- nm - Meg Jun 11, 09:02 1
    - wait for it -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 11, 09:02
- I'd live there. not sure I get the $2k a month in HOA fees, but whatevs. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 11, 08:45 1
  - also, like, where does one park? -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 11, 08:47
- I'd live there -- nm - decline Jun 11, 08:39
DEADLINE: ‘Anne Rice’s The Talamasca’: AMC Greenlights .. -- (link) - mud Jun 11, 08:28 1
- "AMC: The Anne Rice Channel." "That's an 'M'." "The Anne Mice Channel? What are you, stupid?" -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 11, 08:55
California socialite sentenced to 15 years to life for 2020 hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 11, 08:23 7
- (This is the Scott Erickson thing.) -- nm - David Jun 11, 08:43
- good -- nm - decline Jun 11, 08:25 5
  - eh, prosecution was asking 35. 7.5 per dead kid is still getting off light -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 08:28 4
    - up to 81 mph in westlake village. ugh. — nm - i.b.! Jun 11, 08:34 1
      - also has never accepted an ounce of responsibility or shown any true remorse for her actions (imo). still claims she didn't hit them -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 08:38
    - agreed, but she's also 61 so she gets to spend her retirement behind bars -- nm - decline Jun 11, 08:34 1
      - Her whole life has kind of been a retirement. I mean she had been drinking with her lover and then racing him when she killed the kids -- nm - JD Jun 11, 08:44
guilty on all counts -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 08:17 14
- Politico's hack of all hacks sprints out to a quick lead for the worst take of the day -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 08:55 3
  - When Hunter sits down at the dinner table in the White House tonight, it will be rough. -- nm - LFG Jun 11, 09:15
  - WTF is wrong with this guy? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 11, 08:56 1
    - Kickbacks -- nm - Jovian Jun 11, 09:22
- “Joe Biden should resign!” -- nm - Tim Jun 11, 08:38 3
  - This is just another example of how Biden has weaponized the DOJ!! -- nm - decline Jun 11, 08:49 2
    - if he can do it to his own son, imagine what he can do to you -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 08:50 1
      - I wonder how they're going to spin a lack of pardon. 'Cuz yo know they are hoping that happens so they can say something about a pardon happening. -- nm - . Jun 11, 09:09
- Jonathan Turley wrong once again -- nm - Jovian Jun 11, 08:26
- I feel bad for the guy - decline Jun 11, 08:22 2
  - Me too. I'm not sure that he's ever been a really good guy, but that family has been through a lot and addiction is a terrible disease. -- nm - pmb Jun 11, 08:42 1
    - Also, there's zero chance that case would have been brought if he wasn't Joe Biden's kid. -- nm - pmb Jun 11, 08:42
- Fox News Headline: Biden is a Convicted Felon -- nm - budice Jun 11, 08:19 1
  - They need to add, "...on gun counts." -- nm - . Jun 11, 09:08
The Boys to end with Season 5 -- (link) - Remlik Jun 11, 08:14 3
- Maybe a different streamer will save it -- nm - Beryllium Jun 11, 08:40 1
  - He said he always wanted to and planned to do just five seasons. I'm glad it has an 'end date' personally. -- (edited) - Jovian Jun 11, 08:42
- go woke go broke! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 11, 08:19
Re HFStival: I think you could have 5 sets @ 30 min, 3 @ 45 min, 2 @ 60 and closer @ 75, 15 min set breaks. Start at noon, be done by 1000 - JD Jun 11, 08:14 [Backboard] 2
- "My kids have early soccer tomorrow festival" -- nm - Reagen Jun 11, 08:17 1
  - Might be a bit later as I think I'm short a set but I think you can get two sets in less than traditional time to start - JD Jun 11, 08:22
Arcane: Season 2 | Netflix -- (link) - mud Jun 11, 08:09 [youtube] 1
- November. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 11, 08:23
Madden25: CMC -- (pic) - budice Jun 11, 08:05 [Attachment]
Hunter Biden verdict reached. -- nm - mud Jun 11, 08:03 9
- People covering it like its going to decide the election -- nm - budice Jun 11, 08:17
- Based on the very little I've read or heard, my guess is guilty. -- nm - Krusty Jun 11, 08:07 7
  - from the testimony i've seen recaps of, there's more than enough reasonable doubt about his intent when he signed the form -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 11, 08:09 6
    - yeah, the whole prosecution is a sham anyway -- nm - mud Jun 11, 08:10 5
      - guilty on all 3 counts -- nm - Remlik Jun 11, 08:19 4
        
        the sentence is death! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 11, 08:27 3
        
        Exile to the island of Elba! -- nm - Jovian Jun 11, 08:28 2
        
        I know Idris Elba is famous, but I doubt he's rich enough to own an island. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 11, 09:09 1
        
        Uhm... -- (link) - LFG Jun 11, 09:17

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