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psa: pachinko s2 back on Apple. still not fully remembering s1 plot points/characters but first ep is solid -- nm - mr mooch Aug 23, 10:46
Should I turn off all 3 news stories? Or are the links still useful? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 23, 10:44 6
- Yeah, they're not needed anymore -- nm - Krusty Aug 23, 11:01
- Are we doing the Paralympics? -- nm - LMS Aug 23, 11:01
- I vote to kill mine. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 23, 10:51
- I like articles and meme openings, esp AP, BBC etc -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 23, 10:48 2
  - *makes plane wooshing overhead motion* -- nm - oblique Aug 23, 10:49 1
    - Oh...that...n'vermind -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 23, 10:51
"No-one needs a Harry Potter TV show. The story has been told twice and for the younger generation JK Rowling is a complicated brand." - David Aug 23, 10:30 1
- "Problematic" -- nm - con_carne Aug 23, 10:35
Blood Feud clarification: Still unrestricted keepage? We just lose a draft choice for each? -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 23, 10:29 5
- We're not doing keepers this year due to commissioner health woes. The keepers will return next year. It's a standalone draft for 2024. -- nm - David Aug 23, 10:30 4
  - REBOOT -- nm - Volnelk Aug 23, 10:44
  - First: I'm 100% down with whatever you need. Second: As someone who finally built up good team, that's crap -- nm - oblique Aug 23, 10:42
  - Okie dokie artichokie. Thanks! I just saw the note on Yahoo about the live draft. - Baron of the Rings Aug 23, 10:31 1
    - I'm totally fine. We're just out of bandwidth. -- nm - David Aug 23, 10:48
oh my god he admit it -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 23, 10:22
22% ratings bump for Kamala’s closing argument v RNC -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 23, 10:20 16
- A couple of things I noticed from the prior nights' ratings was that something like 80+% of the viewers were over 55 and just the number of viewers - pmb Aug 23, 10:26 15
  - Harris HQ debuted their Twitch channel last night just for her speech -- nm - mr mooch Aug 23, 10:35 7
    - "Howaaaarrd! Come help you mother do the twitch!" "Aw ma, don't put it like that..." -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 23, 10:40 2
      - Yeah, I meant to say “the Twitch channel” and it came out Boomer. -- nm - mara Aug 23, 10:46 1
        
        Heh, I wasn't even (consciously) considering what you wrote. My head was lost in JokeSpace. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 23, 10:51
    - Heh, I didn’t know about the Twitch. Maybe they’ll stream Coach Walz playing Madden NFL. -- nm - mara Aug 23, 10:37 3
      - “Gwen Walz seized his Dreamcast because he had been playing to excess” -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 23, 10:42 2
        
        (At least some) MAGA tried to mock him for that, but apparently didn't realize that it makes him even more relatable. -- nm - Dano Aug 23, 10:57
        
        Lol -- nm - mara Aug 23, 10:47
  - We watched on our FireTV on YouTube because NBC and ABC talking heads kept talking over the speakers with their inane commentary - oblique Aug 23, 10:28 6
    - C-span.org, ftw! -- nm - znufrii Aug 23, 10:39
    - We watched on YouTube and I was thankful for no commentary -- nm - Krusty Aug 23, 10:38
    - so frustrating -- nm - Epiphany Aug 23, 10:30
    - Same here. The commentary on ABC was unbelievably intrusive. -- nm - mara Aug 23, 10:29 2
      - Mirror Universe C-Span. :) -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 23, 10:33
      - I found that on the major networks as well. The cable networks like CNN and MSNBC were pretty much just the feed (only talking occasionally during - pmb Aug 23, 10:32
Vudu has a few 10 iconic movies of the decade sets for $20 each, if people are interest. -- (link*) - tRuMaN Aug 23, 10:08
Were there more republicans speaking in favor of Harris last night than did for Trump at the RNC? - oblique Aug 23, 09:47 7
- The list of RNC speakers is pretty long, even just counting politicians. -- (link) - mara Aug 23, 10:19
- He had zero past presidents speaking for him. I could be wrong, but I don't recall any. -- nm - Epiphany Aug 23, 10:00 4
  - Also 40 out of 44 of his own cabinet members have refused to endorse him which really should be the ultimate damning evidence. -- nm - pmb Aug 23, 10:21 2
    - Half of them wrote books on what an incompetent self absorbed arrogant ahole was. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 23, 10:54
    - yup -- nm - prayformojo Aug 23, 10:22
  - Well there's only one living republican ex pres...besides fvko. No VPs endorsement either and yes Chenny still lives -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 23, 10:11
- Absolutely. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 23, 09:57
ST Poll: Katy O Brian or Simu Liu…Who has the better acting chops 🎭? -- nm - Trending Aug 23, 09:36 4
- She was ok in Love Lies Bleeding, but her performance in the Ant-Man film was bad enough to give me another reason to walk out of it. (NM_) - Marlowe Aug 23, 10:20 1
  - Yeah—I’ll give ya the LLB performance—she definitely surprised me -- nm - Trending Aug 23, 10:23
- She might be the worst actress in the world, while he's pretty good. So... -- nm - David Aug 23, 09:40 1
  - He’s gotten worse and worse…give it time, you’ll see it -- nm - Trending Aug 23, 09:42
Pritzger (IL) signed legislation codifying one of his top initiatives of last spring’s legislation session, the Healthcare Protection Act - oblique Aug 23, 09:34
Stranded NASA Astronauts Take Emergency Slide Back To Earth -- (link) - oblique Aug 23, 09:29 5
- They're not stranded. Until we refer to everybody on the ISS as stranded, they're not stranded. Mark Watney was stranded -- nm - JD Aug 23, 10:16 2
  - This is like calling hostages vacationers. And Mark Watney isn't a real person, JD. -- nm - David Aug 23, 10:17 1
    - *whine* but that's the world I want to live in. A functioning NASA, cooperating national space programs -- nm - JD Aug 23, 10:23
- Wheeeeeeeeee.... owowowowowowow -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 23, 09:54 1
  - Those rug burns are gonna leave a scar -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 23, 10:08
color me skeptical that a day after the best DNC in 20 years, sharing the stage with a bear-dumping brainwormed creep is gonna turn things around -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 23, 09:27 1
- ~'/Desperation - What a show! Desperation - Here we go! We know you're wishing that we go away. But our Desperation's here and it's here to stay!~'/ -- nm - Jovian Aug 23, 09:37
Waiting in line at a bank seems so 1980s these days -- nm - budice Aug 23, 09:22 8
- Everything I've learned from the movies tells me you're about to get robbed by a team with automatic weapons. -- nm - Max Aug 23, 10:19
- My bank has the velvet rope but most folks are old, they should have a bench, don't make use stand... -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 23, 10:07
- with real live tellers? I'm amazed you found such a thing -- nm* - decline Aug 23, 09:42
- Drive thru banking too— -- nm - Trending Aug 23, 09:38 1
  - Pneumatic tubes for the win!! -- nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 23, 09:40
- Try overseeing 14 different accounts. - Spawn Aug 23, 09:37 1
  - (the 15th uses a bank lockbox, at least) -- nm - Spawn Aug 23, 09:37
- you say that like it's a bad thing -- nm - mr mooch Aug 23, 09:25
I have a spare ticket for a Wolfe Tones concert later if anyone wants to come along :) -- nm - Loyola Aug 23, 09:11
Ok-I just saw something and I'mma see if yall know what's going on? Why did I just see a post suggesting people are coming for Gus Walz from the other - Turd Ferguson Aug 23, 09:06 30
- Gus balling for his dad's moment on stage was just so beautiful. - Inigo Aug 23, 10:23
- some big babies about the status of the male role whined about a kid loving his dad, and people reacted. -- (edited) - tRuMaN Aug 23, 10:01
- Ann Coulter tweeted and then deleted the tweet calling his son weird for the crying/that's my dad. -- (link*) - oblique Aug 23, 09:19 21
  - More than just her -- nm - mara Aug 23, 10:20
  - this story is >24 hours old. -- nm - mud Aug 23, 09:25 16
    - Welcome to ST…drawback of so many people here dropping Twitter… -- nm - Trending Aug 23, 09:32 11
      - it was all over the place yest. AM, not just twitter -- nm - mud Aug 23, 09:33 10
        
        …and? -- nm - znufrii Aug 23, 09:41
        
        If you have a better reply to a post than other people, you should feel free to chime in with your own. That's how a discussion board works -- nm - con_carne Aug 23, 09:41
        
        I am baffled by your point here. Not everyone follows every jot and tittle. -- nm - Reagen Aug 23, 09:35 5
        
        Least of all about these garbage right-wingers. I hesitated to even mention the person. -- nm - con_carne Aug 23, 09:45
        
        I am offended by any suggestion that I follow "every jot and tittle" whatever The Fuck that means. -- nm - mud Aug 23, 09:39 3
        
        Meaning every single detail. He didn't see it, for what ever reason. What does bringing up that it's a whole day old serve? - Reagen Aug 23, 09:48 2
        
        I wasn't "annoyed" by anything (until now) It was just a casual post. I wasn't expecting a pile-on. My apologies to Everyone! -- nm - mud Aug 23, 09:50 1
        
        You're being mean. Mean people get piled on, dude. It's mean to go around criticizing others without teaching your take. -- nm - con_carne Aug 23, 09:59
        
        apologies for not seeing it before today - don't know what to tell ya. I didn't see it discussed here - I checked. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 23, 09:34
        
        I didn't see it until last night FWIW -- nm - oblique Aug 23, 09:34
    - ? Walz's speech was on Wednesday -- nm - con_carne Aug 23, 09:31 3
      - Today is Friday. -- nm - Spawn Aug 23, 09:32 2
        
        I've had it up to here with your alternative facts! -- nm - David Aug 23, 09:42
        
        TGIF -- nm - con_carne Aug 23, 09:33
  - I didn't think she survived the Rob Lowe roast. Good to see that she didn't let it change her. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 23, 09:24 2
    - That roast was uncomfortable -- like, they all mock each other, but with her, there was no reason to be there and they enjoyed being brutal - Will Hunting Aug 23, 09:33 1
      - They destroyed her that night. Honestly, I don't think I've heard anything from her since that roast. Of course - I've really limited my - Turd Ferguson Aug 23, 09:39
- Coulter for one decided this was a great way to let people know she still exists -- nm - con_carne Aug 23, 09:11 2
  - A fake Walz account responded to her saying, “Let’s talk about you being engaged so many times but you’ve never been married.” (Paraphrasing) -- nm - Trending Aug 23, 09:19 1
    - " but every one of them broke it off" I didn't notice it was a fake account -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 23, 10:14
- People are assholes. -- nm - znufrii Aug 23, 09:10
- He’s weak and Tim is weak for having a kid crying like that. - Tim Aug 23, 09:09 1
  - You have to be kidding me? I hate people! nm -- nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 23, 09:11
I just thought of something. What were the Trump/Biden numbers before the debate as compared to the Trump/Harris numbers? -- nm - Spawn Aug 23, 09:00 4
- Biden was down 3-5% on avg nationally. battlegrounds were tighter but also generally trailing -- nm - mr mooch Aug 23, 09:05
- Pre-debate average -- (link*) - znufrii Aug 23, 09:05 2
  - Now -- (link) - znufrii Aug 23, 09:06 1
    - Okay, thanks. -- nm - Spawn Aug 23, 09:32
NASCAR docked Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin 75 points and 10 playoff points Thursday -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 23, 08:59
Seller: Diamondis. Buyer: Hires. -- nm - Spawn Aug 23, 08:55
I don’t have to leave until tomorrow but I’m 3 hours from home and I don’t wanna make the drive. - Tim Aug 23, 08:43
Dogs: Running around the house like maniacs. Let them outside: Lays calmly in the grass. -- nm - Dano Aug 23, 08:42 1
- it's ridiculous. My lab woke up by standing over me in the bed...for...PETS. Not cause she wanted to go outside, not food, for attention. OMG. -- nm - Epiphany Aug 23, 08:51
It’s many years too late for Rousey, but that’s how you apologize. -- nm - Tim Aug 23, 08:39 8
- I'm still surprised her people let her do an AMA. - the wrong element Aug 23, 11:03
- better late than doubling down for a lifetime -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 23, 08:42 6
  - 100% -- nm - prayformojo Aug 23, 09:06
  - Now if only we can get JK Rowling to get a clue (even if it takes being sued by the Olympic boxer to do it). -- nm - Trending Aug 23, 08:44 2
    - I think the odds of me posting a very sincere praise to Elon Musk on Xitter are greater than that. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 23, 10:15
    - Haha no. She's back on her shit again today. -- nm - Reagen Aug 23, 09:32
  - yep. -- nm - Andie Aug 23, 08:43
  - Agreed. -- nm - Tim Aug 23, 08:42
Anna Lapwood x Taylor Swift -- (link) - znufrii Aug 23, 08:38 [tiktok]
Gillibrand is up this year, Schumer wouldn’t be up again until 2028, Hochul would be 2026 if AOC wants to try for governor. -- nm - Tim Aug 23, 08:37 3
- (I would say possibly NYC mayor next year but that’s a crowded and messy primary.) -- nm - Tim Aug 23, 08:38 2
  - Mayor is a major headache. I can see her going for the Senate or governorship in the future. -- nm - Krusty Aug 23, 09:08 1
    - Mayor job has to have too many pitfalls, too many conflicting commitments, if you can mayor there you can govern anywhere -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 23, 10:19
The turnaround for Kamala Harris' favorability is almost unbelievable. - Inigo Aug 23, 08:29 8
- I think there's also a large "who?" factor to favorabilities. -- nm - Reagen Aug 23, 08:59
- Favorables as of 8/21: Harris -4, Walz +3, Trump -13, Vance -15 -- (link) - Tim Aug 23, 08:57
- As a Californian I will concede some stuff like she's a policy wonk and not the warmest/cuddliest politician ever. Baby-kissing not the strong suit. -- (edited) - con_carne Aug 23, 08:39 2
  - I feel like she has come off as very warm through the convention. The number of people who noted how she checked in on them at various difficult - pmb Aug 23, 08:46 1
    - Yeah, those moments had me going "That's nice, I sure hope she did" :) -- nm - con_carne Aug 23, 08:48
- One of the more fascinating graphs I ever saw was Hillary’s approval over many years. It was generally positive except when she was running for office -- nm - Tim Aug 23, 08:33 2
  - Biden's favorability also jumped almost immediately after he dropped out. median voters are just dumb -- nm - mr mooch Aug 23, 08:34 1
    - "down to earth wild adventures filled with magical robots" -- nm - Reagen Aug 23, 09:15
My US Open (tennis) predictions - Dano Aug 23, 08:29 2
- but how many temper tantrums will there be? -- nm - decline Aug 23, 08:36
- I always look forward to these -- nm - prayformojo Aug 23, 08:30
fucko has to get on a debate stage in three weeks (but there's no way he can hang with the person who gave that speech last night) -- nm - mr mooch Aug 23, 08:27 14
- tues. Sept. 10 - will he show? -- nm - mud Aug 23, 08:30
- He couldn’t hang with Hilary either, but what difference did it make. -- nm - mara Aug 23, 08:29 12
  - I look forward to him calling her a nasty woman (if not worse). -- nm - Spawn Aug 23, 08:51 7
    - N-word! N-word! -- nm - mr mooch Aug 23, 09:18
    - It worked the first time because people were primed for it by a 20+ year hate campaign - Reagen Aug 23, 09:13 2
      - There's also a big gap in the affable way Hillary presents herself vs. how Kamala is now. - Inigo Aug 23, 10:16
      - Your last 3 words are key. -- nm - Spawn Aug 23, 09:39
    - She is going to dog walk him like they are at Westminster. -- nm - Epiphany Aug 23, 08:53 2
      - i mean her laugh seems to annoy him, so she should just laugh at his absurdity. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 23, 10:02 1
        
        agreed. -- nm - Epiphany Aug 23, 10:28
  - a good bit, until James Comey decided to violate DOJ policy (again) two weeks before the election -- nm - mr mooch Aug 23, 08:32 3
    - *NODS* - Jovian Aug 23, 08:39 2
      - sit this one all the way out motherfucker -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 23, 09:30
      - Plus, Big Hill actually *did* have Beyonce! -- nm - Spawn Aug 23, 08:52
Veteran Jason Heyward DFA'd by Dodgers amid roster crunch -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 23, 08:26
Head of Israel’s security service decries “terrorism” in West Bank -- (link*) - znufrii Aug 23, 08:26
Mike Schur’s ‘A Man on the Inside’ w/ Ted Danson, coming in Nov. story/pix: -- (link) - mud Aug 23, 08:23 1
- Definitely checking it out. -- nm - Krusty Aug 23, 09:11
Worldwide Box Office Update (see IM): Inside Out hits $1.6B, Deadpool $1.1B, It Ends With Us $200M, Alien $120M, Longlegs $100M - MDH Aug 23, 08:21
"The Justice Dept. filed an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, alleging its software enabled landlords to collude to raise rents across the U.S." - David Aug 23, 08:16

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