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so is antisemitism only a headline when dumb college students do it or are GOP candidates allowed to call their opponents' spouse a "crappy" "horrible" Jew -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 08:59 2
- oh I only caught the tail end of this 'interview' with this sycophant, "Sid you gotta get me NY. You have so many listeners, more than you actually -- (edited) - Jovian Jul 30, 09:10
- Look - if he were a better Jew, Trump wouldn't have to call him out. nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 30, 09:01
3x3 basketball is able to start. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 08:55 1
- Alcaraz/Nadal playing men's double. *SO MUCH CONTENT*!!! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 08:58
Spirit Airlines basically adding first class. - ty97 Jul 30, 08:44
There is video of a Twins catcher setting up 2ft outside, the pitcher missing the glove by a foot (still a foot outside) and Javy Baez - Will Hunting Jul 30, 08:28 3
- There was someone on twitter saying they wanted him back on the Cubs! So many stupid Cub fans. - Last Of My Kind Jul 30, 08:53 2
  - It’s not that he swung at a pitch 8inches outside…it’s that the pitcher missed his target by a foot and he still swung - Will Hunting Jul 30, 08:56
  - Cubs fans just remember his crazy plays and forget the rest -- nm - oblique Jul 30, 08:54
crash, are you treasure hunting? -- (link) - colin Jul 30, 08:08 1
- Only eight people died last year! A record low! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 08:59
Raschaad Penny is retiring from football..he’s 28–Momma don’t let your sons grow up to be RBs -- nm - Trending Jul 30, 07:56 4
- Why not? I'd love to have retired at 28. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 30, 07:58 3
  - Yep—making $15M before turning 30 would make me retire too -- nm - Trending Jul 30, 08:12 2
    - I kind of blame my mother now for not being able to retire at 28. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 30, 08:43 1
      - How about 28x2? -- nm - ty97 Jul 30, 08:45
Sobering article on the parallels of now and the rise of Hitler - Jovian Jul 30, 07:51 5
- Nice opening paragraph--additionally, "History does not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme" is a nice line. More of a review though...nothing new - TRENDING Jul 30, 08:27
- Tangentily I highly recommend the series Rise of the Nazis. - LMS Jul 30, 08:00 3
  - Been meaning to get to that -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 08:06 2
    - We will live it, soon enough. -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 08:08 1
      - We will see. 50/50 at this point - Jovian Jul 30, 08:19
Unleash the Dogs of Comfort!!! -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 07:28
Great Read: The Untold Story of How Ridley Scott Saw Star Wars—and Ended Up Making Alien -- (link) - decline Jul 30, 07:04 1
- The Star Wars stock image they used in the header is from Rogue One. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 07:50
an unlatched hood can "fully open and obstruct the driver's view and increasing the risk of a crash." -- (link) - decline Jul 30, 06:57 5
- I had my hood fly up on the highway at 65 mph one time in 2009, I had to look through the little donut hole to navigate to the shoulder -- nm - rollo Jul 30, 07:02 2
  - 😬 That must have been quite a scary moment. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 07:43 1
    - It was pretty scary in the moment, yes. I was driving a 14-year old civic at the time which had been in 2 fender benders - rollo Jul 30, 07:55
- I have intrusive thoughts about this sometimes when driving how the highway. It makes me feel a little anxious for a little bit. -- nm - sycor Jul 30, 07:02
- also eats fingers -- nm - oblique Jul 30, 06:59
Zuck coulda bought Twitter and still had a billion left over for what he lit on fire with the Metaverse -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 06:50 6
- I wouldn't have mind being wrong about this, but it's certainly satisfying to know how right we all were. Now do Apple! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 08:52
- Imagine if he took just 10% of that and put it into Threads to really combat Musk's disinformation platform. -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 07:10 1
  - Why would he want to do that though? -- nm - znufrii Jul 30, 08:48
- If only there was a way to get the eyeballs back. Hmmmm... - Epiphany Jul 30, 06:55 2
  - I'm always surprised that people still use FB. It's bad for your constitution. - Krusty Jul 30, 07:05 1
    - agreed. I did know better -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 07:49
I would love some more explanations on what's happening on the field in some of these sports. I'm watching rugby and someone got tackled and was - Krusty Jul 30, 06:46 16
- When I read comments like this I always wonder, how did we learn the rules of what we consider traditional sports? -- (edited) - JD Jul 30, 08:32 3
  - We learned through playing with our friends, watching the games and eventually from organized teams where the coaches slowly teach you - Krusty Jul 30, 09:16
  - I learned the offside rule in soccer the hard way. - znufrii Jul 30, 08:38 1
    - Participation would help 8-) -- nm - JD Jul 30, 08:42
- could be a few things. forward passes are illegal, and it counts if the ball carrier loses contact with the ball during a tackle and it goes forward. - mafic Jul 30, 08:15 1
  - Thanks! That was very helpful and I can see one or two of those being the reason for the whistle. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 09:36
- Like the announcers know what is going on. -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 07:50 2
  - They have foreign accents. They know. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 07:51 1
    - Bastards! -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 08:04
- When in NZ I tried to learn about Rugby. The only thing I can think of is... - JaxSean Jul 30, 07:23 2
  - that’s a knock on. sort of a variant of the no forward pass rule. if the ball carrier loses contact with the ball while moving forward, causing the - mafic Jul 30, 08:20
  - I saw that happen with the ball being dropped, bouncing forward and being picked up by the same player. But this was a bit different. - Krusty Jul 30, 07:29
- Yeah I don’t get it either. It just goes. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jul 30, 07:09 3
  - If something big happens they'll explain what happened but otherwise we're on our own. They have to know that the majority of people are likely - Krusty Jul 30, 07:20 2
    - The women’s 7/7 between Australia and Canada was also one of the fastest matches I’ve ever seen. It took like 12 minutes and was over. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jul 30, 07:35 1
      - Spoils - Krusty Jul 30, 07:42
Music theory professor ranks Disney songs -- (link*) - znufrii Jul 30, 06:42 3
- Here’s the full list if you don’t want to click through the whole thread -- (link) - znufrii Jul 30, 06:44 2
  - Any list with When You Wish Upon a Star not being in the top 10 is not valid. - Walt_Disney Jul 30, 09:14
  - Interesting. Thanks for posting this. Would love to see how the list would look with Pixar included. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 30, 08:26
yeah fuck John Roberts - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 06:39 1
- as about as sobering as any reporting on the open corruption on that court can get. - Jovian Jul 30, 07:01
MLB's 2024 trade deadline is 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30. Which is today. -- nm - budice Jul 30, 06:27
David News Network -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Jul 30, 06:08
Microsoft 365 and Azure Issues also reported (MO842351) -- (pic) -- (link*) - budice Jul 30, 05:58 [Attachment] 2
- Always appreciate the Microsoft info but it isn't always useful :) - oblique Jul 30, 06:05 1
  - Schrodinger's caIT. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 06:07
Strands #149 I was slow to catch on, yellow fifth - crash davis 😺 Jul 30, 05:43 2
- That was tough - Yellow 7 - decline Jul 30, 06:12
- Yellow - 3rd -- nm - VMan Jul 30, 05:56
BBC News Anchor Huw Edwards, Who Announced Queen Elizabeth’s Death, Charged with Making Indecent Images of Children -- (link) - budice Jul 30, 05:39
I don't normally go to campus on Wed, but the comfort dogs are going to be on site tomorrow. I should go, right? -- (pic) - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 05:33 [Attachment] 4
- awwww -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 06:48
- Cute! Definitely gotta go in for those pups—BTW—Are they comfort dogs because they bring trays of sushi, on their heads, for people to eat? - Trending Jul 30, 05:47 2
  - Heh. I once encountered a touch therapy dog (and his handler) by chance in the hallway. She generously allowed me cuddlies. - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 06:46 1
    - BBC journalist Sean Dilley's guide dog Shawn also has an ID badge -- (link) - LMS Jul 30, 07:12
Connections Puzzle #415 PBGY - crash davis 😺 Jul 30, 05:30 3
- Couple of oopsies - BGPY - VMan Jul 30, 05:51
- GYBP - decline Jul 30, 05:50
- xxxYGBP - mud Jul 30, 05:36
Starbucks app issues this morning. (its not you) -- (link*) - budice Jul 30, 05:29 [Attachment] 1
- If you are still going to Starbucks, it is you. LOL. - Epiphany Jul 30, 06:34
Wordle 1,137 3/6 - crash davis 😺 Jul 30, 05:25 2
- 3 - rollo Jul 30, 05:58
- 4 - decline Jul 30, 05:49
Bring on the contenders for NYC mayor. Someone I really like, Brad Lander, has decided to run for mayor. He's the comptroller right now and - Krusty Jul 30, 04:47
The "He Gets Us" campaign and republicans and big data (a friend sent me this) -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 30, 00:46 [tiktok] 3
- Interesting but not surprising -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 05:23 2
  - exactly. and this is just a natural consequence of constant data collection - you know everything about everyone. - colin Jul 30, 06:21 1
    - it is very frustrating -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 06:35
The Natinals, everyone. -- (link) - Tim Jul 30, 00:19
White Dude Pete on the Daily Show -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 00:18 [youtube] 2
- Okay, so much interrupting. So much commentary. Jon Stewart talks more than Pete! -- nm - con_carne Jul 30, 02:47 1
  - his schtick has always been terrible -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 06:37
the last time the USWNT lost an Olympic basketball game i was two months out of college and just running around DC/Baltimore/NYC raving every weekend - hollywood big shot Jul 30, 00:15 2
- They have the kind of gap now that the men did 50 years ago. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 05:25
- Great achievement. Kind of reminds me of Trigger’s broom; -- (link) - Loyola Jul 30, 03:59 [youtube]
"To catch a predator", but the predator is a Predator. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 30, 00:14 [youtube]
I have to go now. my planet needs me. -- (link) - mafic Jul 29, 23:49 1
- Juan From Ipanema -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 29, 23:51
My arch enemy is - JD Jul 29, 23:19 1
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 30, 05:20
I just learned they are going to start selling ‘value boosters’ of Magic the Gathering at my store. They will not have a guaranteed rare. - Qale Jul 29, 23:05
me, every time I play something on my phone: podcast. my phone every time I hit play on my headphones: music. LEARN FROM ME, PHONE. -- nm - mafic Jul 29, 22:49
why do the dude gymnasts have to wear the dumb footie pajama pants? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 29, 22:41 1
- because the alternative is speedos -- nm - mafic Jul 29, 22:47
Wordle 1,137 4/6 - prayformojo Jul 29, 22:04
Ilona Maher is mah girl! -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 29, 21:51 3
- Do that math in your head....you probably can't. 😍 -- nm - JD Jul 29, 23:15
- that's really terrific -- nm - prayformojo Jul 29, 22:09
- 😺😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 29, 22:02
In a bold move, New Mexico State has hired Walter White as its head coach. - David Jul 29, 21:38 2
- team meals at El Pollo Hermanos? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 29, 22:03 1
  - You're hired. -- nm - David Jul 29, 22:09
“my job is horse” -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 29, 20:49
Can't believe I sat through that entire thing. - znufrii Jul 29, 20:29 12
- Elon banned the dudesforharris account on Twitter so that’s just a reminder how that is going. -- (pic) - Qale Jul 29, 21:29 [Attachment] 3
  - He must be the most constantly butthurt f*ck on the planet. -- nm - Diva Jul 30, 05:59 1
    - he is actually worse than you know who in that respect. -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 07:00
  - Lovely. -- nm - znufrii Jul 29, 21:44
- 😺👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 29, 21:09
- so what happened? learn anything? anything fun? did they get you to donate? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 29, 21:04 2
  - NYU professor paid $50k for Mark Hamill to say "I'm Luke Skywalker and I'm here to rescue you" -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 29, 21:34 1
    - awesome.... now get Schwartzenegger to say "come with me if you want to live" -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 29, 21:39
- but enough about pornhub. -- nm - mafic Jul 29, 20:38 1
  - BOOM! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 29, 21:10
- How long? Was Jeff Bridges awake the whole time? -- nm* - Epiphany Jul 29, 20:38 1
  - Three and a half hours, all told, and I doubt it. -- (edited) - znufrii Jul 29, 20:53
Marvel is paying $80 million for the Russos to direct the next two "Avengers" movies and "significantly more" for Robert Downey Jr. -- (link) - Remlik Jul 29, 20:26 4
- But why? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 20:38 1
  - He is Risen. The *real* MCU Jesus! -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 07:39
- celebrity net worth says Downey has approx. $300 Million -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 29, 20:32 1
  - well, now it's 500 -- nm - rollo Jul 29, 20:35
Looking at Age of Ultron: Was there supposed to be a romance between Widow and Hulk? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 29, 19:56 9
- The way I always saw it, was Bruce and Natasha got it on on the downlow several times at one point. -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 06:56 1
  - And he ghosted her when he went Smart Hulk. That was the *real* reason she was such a mess in Endgame. -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 07:38
- I feel like Hulk and Valkyrie had a thing—friends with benefits type thing -- nm - Trending Jul 29, 21:13 3
  - Bruce gets around. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 29, 21:14 2
    - He does indeed smash. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 05:18
    - You know what they say about gamma irradiated men with big feet. -- nm - Qale Jul 29, 21:30
- they kind of always had a missed connection vibe. -- nm - mafic Jul 29, 19:58 1
  - this. They were getting close...but never quite got there. -- nm - Remlik Jul 29, 20:25
- Whedonverse big on Amazon Prime and Sexytime -- nm - budice Jul 29, 19:57
Georgia brings Jim Crow into the 21st Century -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 29, 19:52 8
- is that all it takes, or is there like a second step after you enter the info? -- nm - mafic Jul 29, 19:55 7
  - Brian Kemp… -- nm - Dano Jul 29, 20:15
  - They have to enter some personal identifying info - drivers licence # or SSN -- (link) - Roger More Jul 29, 20:03 5
    - oh in that case, no problem. -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 07:03
    - SSNs are virtually free and available rather easily online. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 29, 20:17 3
      - download by the millions -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 29, 21:23 1
        
        By Friday, no one in Georgia will be able to vote! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 30, 08:53
      - Exactly, I collect them daily -- nm - Epiphany Jul 29, 20:20
guitar center employees find thousands of dollars of drugs in a guitar amp. -- (link) - Peglegpete Jul 29, 19:38
I tried my best to be somebody you'd be close to, hand in hand like lovers are supposed to -- nm* - rollo Jul 29, 19:36

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