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Happiest of birthdays to Dano and Mop! - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 13, 05:49 5
- HBD X2 -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 13, 11:31
- Happy Happy Birthday! -- nm - Andie Aug 13, 06:08
- happy birthday, fellas! -- nm - prayformojo Aug 13, 05:59
- Thank you! -- nm - Dano Aug 13, 05:58
- Happy birthday! -- nm - Tim Aug 13, 05:53
Starbucks replaces CEO Laxman Narasimhan with Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol -- (link) - budice Aug 13, 05:28
This election is very far from over (remember that!). But IF Trump loses to Harris, I think he's done? - ty97 Aug 13, 05:10 16
- If he looses he'll spend the rest of his life in courts with fewer resources to fight. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 13, 11:36
- He's done if he doesn't win - Jovian Aug 13, 06:20
- Wasn't Haley pulling 20-30% even in this primary round when it was down to the two of them. I think there's a chance. -- nm - Dano Aug 13, 05:54
- "I don't think the GOP voters would stick with him after he lost twice in a row." - Cuzzin Todd Aug 13, 05:36 1
  - oh I get the 2020 denialism, but I think losing twice would have an exponential effect - ty97 Aug 13, 05:54
- 82 ain't nothing his mother lived to 88 and his father to 93 -- (edited) - decline Aug 13, 05:25
- His cult will back him till he dies. - Will Hunting Aug 13, 05:23 5
  - Hey, the Constitution doesn't say you have to be live to be president. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 13, 05:36 2
    - Oh, non zero chance they’re gonna Weekend at Bernie’s this -- nm - Tim Aug 13, 05:38 1
      - this thought reminds me of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and the SNL Sketch's with Chevy Chase reporting on the news that "he's still dead" -- nm - JenBro Aug 13, 07:55
  - word. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 13, 05:26
  - If DeSantis couldn’t do it, nobody can. -- nm - Tim Aug 13, 05:24
- Unless he’s dead, he’s the 2028 nominee. - Tim Aug 13, 05:21
- I’d be surprised if he didn’t end up having a “heart attack” in the next two years. He’s served his purpose, there’s nothing left he can offer. - znufrii Aug 13, 05:16
- I believe you're correct. -- nm - Krusty Aug 13, 05:14
- It’s a death cult -- nm - Epiphany Aug 13, 05:13
TV PSA: MLB, WWE NXT, America's Got Talent, Celebrity Family Feud, Deadliest Catch, Big Brother, Judge Steve Harvey, The Influencer, - Beaker 🍺 Aug 13, 05:02
Trump to sue DoJ over Mar-a-Lago raid -- (link) - znufrii Aug 13, 04:45 3
- Okay, good luck with that. Unless he thinks it will get to his SCOTUS Goons -- nm - Epiphany Aug 13, 05:14
- Another losing case. -- nm - . Aug 13, 04:58 1
  - If the point was to win, I guess. -- nm - znufrii Aug 13, 05:12
Happy birthday, Dano! Happy birthday, Mop! Woo hoo!!! 🥳🎂 - Krusty Aug 13, 04:17 11
- Happy Birthday!!! -- nm - Jovian Aug 13, 06:27
- Happy birthday! Make it a great one! -- nm - King Of Oklahoma Aug 13, 05:40
- cheers!! -- nm - mud Aug 13, 05:36
- Thank you! -- nm - Dano Aug 13, 05:35
- happy birthday!! -- nm - decline Aug 13, 05:26
- Happy Birthday!! -- nm - Epiphany Aug 13, 05:15
- Happy BDay! -- nm - budice Aug 13, 05:01
- Happy Birthday Mop and Dano! -- nm - . Aug 13, 04:57
- Happy birthday! -- nm - jnine Aug 13, 04:37
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - ty97 Aug 13, 04:32
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 13, 04:28
Murdle 2:21 - Fuzzy Aug 13, 03:48 1
- 3:45 - prayformojo Aug 13, 04:36
If I read the BBs right. There are Olympic medalists who shouldn't be shipping their medals to Indiana via Fedex. -- nm - . Aug 13, 00:11 1
- Those might be associated with criminal activity! What activity? We're not going to say. -- (edited) - Baron of the Rings Aug 13, 05:56
Rilo Kiley gotta reunite for the Olympics so there's at least one good LA hometown band in the opening ceremonies -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 23:49 1
- though Bangles would be a close second. hopefully they ask the Go Go's -- nm - mr mooch Aug 13, 00:01
Today I learned “massive DDOS attack” is clueless CEO speak for “fired our critical tech staff” -- nm - Mastodon Aug 12, 23:24
scary movie poll: will you be seeing Alien Fan Service in theaters this weekend? sounds like another Disney-fied banger (i think it's a pass for me) -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 23:00 5
- No, but I will see it -- nm - Epiphany Aug 13, 05:16
- I'll watch on D+ -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 13, 04:28
- We plan to see it but not this weekend. -- nm - Krusty Aug 13, 04:18
- While i like Alien and Aliens and Prey, and to a lesser extent Predator, I have no particular affinity to the rest of those universes. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 13, 00:43
- Lots of good reviews, thus far -- nm - TRENDING Aug 12, 23:11
Happy birthday, Dano and Raul! -- nm - David Aug 12, 22:11 6
- Thank you! -- nm - Dano Aug 13, 05:35
- It's all a blur. Iceland isn't so much in another time zone as much as it's in the twilight zone. - Mop🧹 Aug 13, 04:42 1
  - Staying long? We’ll be there in early October. -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 13, 04:44
- or as I call them, Dranoul. -- nm - mafic Aug 13, 03:25
- Ah, two more Leos. No wonder I'm so at home in this group :) -- nm - Meg Aug 12, 22:46
- Well that’s certainly a duo I wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley while Mercury is in retrograde. -- nm - Qale Aug 12, 22:27
Strands #163 - 4th - prayformojo Aug 12, 21:16 1
- Yellow 1st - decline Aug 13, 05:36
Connections Puzzle #429 - YBGP - prayformojo Aug 12, 21:12 2
- BGPY - mud Aug 13, 05:34
- GYBP (I had to look up the meaning of one of the words I had never heard of before) -- (edited) - decline Aug 13, 05:33
Fallout London may end up being my game of the year, and it's free*. - Tim Aug 12, 21:11 3
- BBC has been covering Fallout London -- (link) - Mop🧹 Aug 13, 04:31 [youtube]
- Bugs are far easier to get past as long as the fun is there. - Qale Aug 12, 22:26 1
  - This won’t change your mind if you hated Fallout 4. But just its existence is remarkable. -- nm - Tim Aug 13, 05:38
Wordle 1,151 X/6 - there endeth the 340 day streak - prayformojo Aug 12, 21:09 6
- 3, out of left field. - Baron of the Rings Aug 13, 05:53
- boo! I took my recent x (about a week ago) to break up with the NYT for a while. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 13, 05:47
- 5 (that sucks) -- (edited) - decline Aug 13, 05:28
- 4 - climbing the herndon monument - rollo Aug 13, 05:16
- Oof, sorry to hear that -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 13, 03:49
- oh my -- nm - rollo Aug 12, 21:14
Rachel Dratch officially the first late night Raygun -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 20:59 2
- I somehow completely missed this phenomenon until last night. My word. - Baron of the Rings Aug 13, 05:47
- Ahm 50, and I can kick, I can jump, and I can spin around on the floor, Ahm *50* -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 12, 21:04
Musk: "Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, and they seem OK now." - Beryllium Aug 12, 20:19 3
- yikes -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 13, 06:07
- pure evil. -- nm - Qale Aug 12, 22:34
- Yeah, but let's keep giving this human trash money every other way we can. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 12, 20:46
criminal defendant out on bail in multiple cases threatens to abscond to Venezuela -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 20:12 1
- which should also play really well in south Florida -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 20:41
Here's a sailing photo from back in May -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 12, 20:07 [flickr]
USATODAY: 'Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster.' - mud Aug 12, 20:05 22
- Sounded like Sylvester the Cat -- nm - Trending Aug 12, 20:59 6
  - This guy is saying it’s (slurred words) from a hole in Trump’s mouth…from long time cocaine abuse - Trending Aug 12, 21:03 [Attachment] 5
    - I wonder if long term snorting of adderal causes the same damage, as lots of people I know are sure he's using it wholesale - zeitgeist Aug 12, 21:07
    - watching a couple of the in person videos from MAL I do think it was a compression artifact in the audio but that ain’t gonna stop the meme train -- (link*) - mr mooch Aug 12, 21:05 3
      - I only heard one clip but it sounded like someone with loose dentures. -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 21:13 2
        
        yeah definitely noticible lisping in this one (not that it really matters but I’m sure he’ll be big mad that Dentures is the only thing trending) -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 23:47
        
        Yeah, great call—after listening to a bunch more audio from this, the dentures makes a ton of sense. -- nm* - Trending Aug 12, 23:21
- "Here's why that's bad news for Kamala Harris." -- nm - Tim Aug 12, 20:52
- Musk may be a world-class sleeper agent for liberals. -- nm - David Aug 12, 20:52
- Harris Campaign Statement on… Whatever That Was -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 20:13 2
  - She's done a good job of "seizing the meta" i.e. talking critically and credibly about what the other side is doing. Something Trump excelled at until - rollo Aug 12, 20:18
  - nice -- nm - mud Aug 12, 20:16
- he loved how Musk fired so many people -- nm - Remlik Aug 12, 20:12
- NBC was mad that dems made couch fucking jokes about JD Vance, considering it the same as Trumps misinformation. So yanno. -- nm* - Qale Aug 12, 20:12
- "So when you say 'slurs'-" ... "We mean it both ways." -- nm - rollo Aug 12, 20:09
- “more oceanfront property” -- (link) - mud Aug 12, 20:08 2
  - literally Lex Luthor’s plan for California in Superman -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 20:49 1
    - ahahaha “Ericburg?!” -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 20:58
- NYT: A Spirited Exchange of Views Marred By Technical Issues -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 20:06 3
  - Sorry, they went with "Trump Revisits Talking Points in Delayed Online Talk with Musk" -- nm - Roger More Aug 12, 20:55 2
    - DougJBalloon “I can’t compete with this” -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 20:57 1
      - fully expect the Inauguration Day head to be “VP Harris Takes Oath of Office, While Trump Holds Competing Ceremony At Mar A Lago” -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 21:01
okayyyy White Sox . . . we see you -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 19:57 1
- Yankees fans will react well to this. -- nm - Tim Aug 12, 20:51
The lost numbers, besides showing up in multiple places for odd-coincidence purposes spoiler - rollo Aug 12, 19:44
"At least 70 pro–Donald Trump election denialists are working as election officials in key swing states" - mud Aug 12, 19:43 5
- Anyone who's ever worked an election will tell you that it's impossible to steal a district let alone a whole state. -- nm - amandaphone Aug 12, 19:53 2
  - But if they refuse to do the job, to certify the results past the deadline to do so, it goes to the party that controls the state government -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 12, 20:33
  - expect some chaos though? It's all they got in some places. -- nm - mud Aug 12, 19:59
- individual counties might try to fuck around but the actual secretaries of state in PA/MI/WI are Dems and will just make them find out eventually - mr mooch Aug 12, 19:49 1
  - and the state supreme courts in those three states are Dem majorites so . . . go cry to them when you get slapped down -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 19:50
Ordered red backpack. Received blue backpack. Returned blue backpack. Ordered red backpack. received - amandaphone Aug 12, 19:41 10
- My best guess is the code in the system is wrong so while it says it's a red backpack on the site it's going to send a blue one every time. - Krusty Aug 12, 19:53 3
  - I'm sure. Very frustrating nevertheless. -- nm - amandaphone Aug 12, 19:55 2
    - pfm has a system called "the 100 doors problem" that will help you order a correct colored backpack with the least amount of returns needed -- nm - rollo Aug 12, 20:01
    - For sure. And if you really want that bag it seems like an annoying call with customer service is the only way to clear it up. Sorry. :-( -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 20:00
- it's like you're trying to stop housekeeping from leaving you more soap in the early days of the internet -- nm* - prayformojo Aug 12, 19:47 1
  - I have to assume the pick label for blue is mistakenly scanning red. But isn't there a person there who is like "wait this is blue"? -- nm - amandaphone Aug 12, 19:51
- 1 day your life will be saved by a blue backpack. But if that backpack had been red.... -- nm - rollo Aug 12, 19:45
- shoulda gone puke green brah -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 19:42 2
  - Do you want me to get shot during bear season?? -- nm - amandaphone Aug 12, 19:50 1
    - like Trump shot or shot shot? -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 19:51
Flav with the Bronze Clock as promised -- (link) - budice Aug 12, 19:37
so that's probably worth another 2-4% in the polls before the convention starts -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 19:19 10
- speaking of meme wars .. -- (pic) - mud Aug 12, 19:36 [Attachment]
- meanwhile, Kamala approaching Obama 2008-level favorables -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 19:35 4
  - if they continue to raise crazypants money, once PA/MI/WI are seen as on lock, take those swings at FL and TX -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 19:46 3
    - DO NOT PULL A HILLARY. Focus on the blue wall. -- nm - ty97 Aug 13, 04:36
    - Texas flipping is my dream. Where would Elon go next? Florida I guess. W -- nm - amandaphone Aug 12, 19:57 1
      - it would be pretty rich after a decade of Abbott bragging about how many people he's been able to lure there from California -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 19:58
- Wait what? -- nm - amandaphone Aug 12, 19:33 2
  - the shitshow Trump/Elon thing on twitter tonight -- nm - mr mooch Aug 12, 19:34 1
    - Ohhhhh thanks for reminding. In other news Ollie doesn't like Trump's voice. -- nm - amandaphone Aug 12, 19:37
- wooHooo -- nm - mud Aug 12, 19:21
DTL: 3 maxes are each 2/2. I picked 2 guys from the net that I think can take to CLs but man there are a lot of similar mid-level guards - rollo Aug 12, 19:08
abortion rights will officially be on the ballot in Arizona this fall -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 12, 19:08 1
- Excellent. This is pro lifers' worst nightmare. -- nm - loosilu Aug 12, 19:09
There was an earthquake during ESPN's NBA Today broadcast in Los Angeles. Host Malika Andrews did not miss a beat -- (link) - con_carne Aug 12, 19:03
Here, enjoy this for an entire board. -- (link) - David Aug 12, 19:01 [youtube] 8
- what is it? -- nm - mud Aug 12, 19:04 4
  - Top 10 memes from the Olympics -- nm - Krusty Aug 12, 19:25 3
    - Taking a stab… - Roger More Aug 12, 19:56 1
      - Oh, I forgot the low effort high jumper -- nm - Roger More Aug 12, 19:58
    - thx -- nm - mud Aug 12, 19:33
- The poster has not made this available in my country. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 12, 19:01 2
  - Okay, Americans and people with VPN technology can enjoy this for an entire board. -- nm - David Aug 12, 19:19 1
    - what is it?! -- nm - mud Aug 12, 19:21

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