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honey you haven’t touched your chips & olives -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 12, 16:01 2
- I’m in Sicily rn and have witnessed pizza with French fries on top -- nm - Roger More Sep 12, 16:08 1
  - I remember our reaction in England to seeing eggs on pizza for the first time. -- nm - Meg Sep 12, 16:13
Leucistic or albino squirrel -- (pic) - znufrii Sep 12, 15:30 [Attachment] 2
- It's so hot outside even the squirrels are looking bleached out. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Sep 12, 15:52
- nice! the leucistic ones really show their rodenticity. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 15:52
why do I keep looking at homes in colorado. - tRuMaN Sep 12, 15:29 1
- can your job be done in CO? -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 15:53
Whoa. The U.S. Semiquincentennial is only ten months away. I haven't done any planning. - Max Sep 12, 15:29 4
- Down with the Semiquincentennial! Hooray for the Bisesquicentennial! -- nm - Baron of the Rings Sep 12, 15:47 1
  - I think? that's correct -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 15:53
- Greatest military parade of all time. Right into the cities. Squashing illegals. MAGA! -- nm - 47 Sep 12, 15:37
- i don't remember if dad took us to see but the Freedom Train passed through Cumberland on its way westward that summer -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 12, 15:33 [youtube]
Shrinkflation: An 8 oz. (2 cups) package of shredded cheese is now 7 oz. (1 3/4 cups) -- nm - znufrii Sep 12, 15:18 2
- They added all the sawdust they could and still came up short. -- nm - Krusty Sep 12, 16:37
- Trump will fix it! -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 12, 15:26
'Thumblite' from Scott Z. Burns ('Extrapolations') getting straight-to-series from Netflix, starring Rosamund Pike. - mud Sep 12, 15:17
Trap Pitch Meeting -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Sep 12, 15:14 [youtube]
It doesn’t really make much sense, but I am thinking of seeing The Craft in a movie theater on Oct 15. - Qale Sep 12, 15:02 3
- Meh, fun movie at the time. Sure. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 12, 15:57
- I would do it for sure. -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Sep 12, 15:06 1
  - It was a pretty influential movie when I was 17. -- nm - Qale Sep 12, 15:08
Today's quake set a 65 year So Cal record for most >4.0 magnitude quakes in a year at 14. It broke the previous record of 13 in 1988. -- nm - con_carne Sep 12, 14:35 5
- is it an official swarm? -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 14:37 4
  - I check the USGS map most mornings and it seems there are far more >2.5 quakes in Texas and OK than there are in California. - Meg Sep 12, 15:12 1
    - ha! -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 15:54
  - Not sure. C & P of LAT article I'm reading: L.A. earthquakes have been unusually frequent this year, as Malibu temblor shows - con_carne Sep 12, 14:49 1
    - The whole ring of fire is having an uptick in frequency and rise in strength -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 12, 15:00
guess I don’t need to get that Real ID drivers license for another few years then -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 12, 14:05
i knew there were some people in our LA office who attended orientation in Boston in Sept 2001 and couldn't fly back because of 9/11 - mr mooch Sep 12, 13:55
Please kill me. My sis linked a video about eating pets in family chat with the comment "this is heartbreaking" -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 13:52 30
- This mystifies me. Even if there are eyewitnesses to a catnapping or a Canada goose napping, how do they do they know the person’s ethnicity or citizenship status? -- nm* - mara Sep 12, 14:21 24
  - anyways, they are NOT good eating. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 14:39 2
    - whoops, should have been a reply lower down, you can work it out. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 14:40 1
      - Understood. :-) -- nm - mara Sep 12, 14:41
  - This is the video she sent. I assume one of her mega conservative Catholic school teacher friends sent it to her. -- (link) - loosilu Sep 12, 14:33
  - If you can take down a Canada Goose, you immediately should be offered a spot on Seal Team Six. -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 14:25 19
    - Down south, on every office campus and golf course, they are huge assholes who block traffic, shit everywhere and refuse to leave. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 14:42 1
      - That was one benefit of losing the park and duck pond behind the library. No more geese crapping outside the bookstore door. - Meg Sep 12, 15:23
    - I’ve wondered about that! They’re like vermin in some areas and apparently good eating. Why are we not harvesting them? -- nm* - mara Sep 12, 14:27 16
      - Ok, isn't there a migratory bird act? I'm digging this out of my memory. I think there are issues with legality of shooting them. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 14:43 3
        
        There's a season for them in Canada. -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 14:47 2
        
        Opens once they’ve crapped everywhere around the pond. Little shit machines. -- nm - VMan Sep 12, 14:49 1
        
        I got one of the Cobra Chickens sweaters that the PA Raiders made for their promo. -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 14:54
      - Think I might have Insta video of them flying near me at a local park -- (link) - con_carne Sep 12, 14:40
      - One of my good friends is an avid hunter of local game, and also a very accomplished French cook - loosilu Sep 12, 14:34 5
        
        Always just had breast like a sandwich meat. The rest somebody else could and did deal with. -- nm - VMan Sep 12, 14:51 4
        
        well, he tried all kinds of techniques on it, never was better than OK. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 15:09 3
        
        It's like when I hear people talk about how you make bear edible. "OK, I could do all that, or I could go buy some steak." -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 15:11 2
        
        good analogy! -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 15:56
        
        Word -- nm - VMan Sep 12, 15:30
      - They're an acquired taste. Gamey and oily. -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 14:32 2
        
        True. I found them okay but not something I need every now and then. -- nm - VMan Sep 12, 14:48
        
        And tough. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 14:35
      - Cause they fight back? -- nm - JD Sep 12, 14:30 1
        
        Looks like it. I realize shotgunning isn’t appropriate in many situations (here the Canada geese are very suburban) but surely there’s a way. -- nm - mara Sep 12, 14:33
- On the plus side, my priest brother replied in agreement with me. -- (edited) - loosilu Sep 12, 14:17
- In fairness, it is heartbreaking. People falling for crap like that breaks my heart. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 12, 14:11
- I'd have replied: It's because they were using the wrong recipe. -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 12, 14:04
- "Good news! It's not happening!" -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 13:57 1
  - Heart unbroken! -- nm - David Sep 12, 14:11
It's wild that in that Bon Jovi video you can completely identify him as soon as he walks into frame. -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 13:48 3
- Baby, he was born to be your man. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 15:58
- Flying in on a harness was just gilding the lily -- nm - rollo Sep 12, 14:01 1
  - SNL skit -- nm - Max Sep 12, 14:20
Taskmaster back tonight. -- nm - LMS Sep 12, 13:48 1
- Woo hoo!!! -- nm - Krusty Sep 12, 14:47
I mostly got off the King train about 20 (!) years ago, but: - Reagen Sep 12, 13:38 20
- Take this and let it inspire anyone who hasn’t read the Dark Tower series…100% worth the journey and ties into a majority of his early work -- nm - Trending Sep 12, 15:13
- Also finally watched that trailer and Bill Camp is fucking awesome casting. -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 14:31 3
  - he usually is. (The Night Of, Queen's Gambit) -- nm - mud Sep 12, 14:42 1
    - True enough, but he seems born to be in King adaptations. -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 14:48
  - right? -- nm - prayformojo Sep 12, 14:32
- I really liked Eyes of the Dragon at the time, but I couldn't tell you a thing about it now. -- nm - David Sep 12, 14:12 4
  - I honestly just remember that the cover of the version I had was super cool. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 12, 14:24 2
    - Turns out it was the green scale first edition. Apparently pretty valuable. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 12, 14:26 1
      - Rats. I probably still have the book club version. -- nm - David Sep 12, 14:55
  - What I remember about it is strength vs weight ratios. - Reagen Sep 12, 14:24
- Outstanding grades. Insomnia is way too high. My only differing opinion. -- nm - Pippy: Conceptionalizer of Plans Sep 12, 14:08
- I could have beat you to this but I'm TRYING to save the country goddammit -- nm - rollo Sep 12, 13:59
- IT: Either because 1) I didn't understand what I was reading 2) somehow skipped over it (most likely?) or 3) mentally blocked it out, but I have zero - prayformojo Sep 12, 13:54 1
  - Gonna assume mental block. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Sep 12, 14:00
- I liked 11/22/63 a lot more than a C+ -- nm - oblique Sep 12, 13:45 1
  - I'm not a sentimentalist and it's like 800 pages of Boomer Humping. -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 13:46
- I've read 14 of those. The last two I tried were Dreamcatcher and Under the Dome -- nm - mud Sep 12, 13:42
- oooofff, I forgot about Cell and how bad that one was. -- nm - Jovian Sep 12, 13:39 2
  - sometimes I think he writes *spoils* - Pippy: Conceptionalizer of Plans Sep 12, 14:09 1
    - I think his greatest skill sometimes is writing characters who - Reagen Sep 12, 14:27
GRAND DESIGNS had a 25'th anniversary show last night. -- (link) - Peglegpete Sep 12, 13:34 [youtube]
"Uday & Qusay" never fails to crack me up. -- (link) - mud Sep 12, 13:34 3
- I don't know much about crypto (on purpose) but I do know if dumb and dumbest are for it, I'm a'gin it -- nm - rollo Sep 12, 13:39 2
  - Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Beavis and Butthead. -- nm - loosilu Sep 12, 14:39
  - yep -- nm - mud Sep 12, 13:43
ADHD drugs in high doses linked to psychosis and mania...something something looking at you Donald -- (link) - zeitgeist Sep 12, 13:22
Johnson didn't kill Reconstruction. The election of 1876 killed it. -- nm - crash davis Sep 12, 13:21 1
- he abandoned Lincoln's vision of what "Reconstruction" meant for the treasonous states - mr mooch Sep 12, 13:28
throw another $47m on the pile -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 12, 13:02 6
- They're gonna have to bury the cash in the back yard like in American Made. -- nm - Max Sep 12, 13:18
- But the polls say 80% 90% 72% -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 12, 13:10
- AIN'T GONNA BE NO REMATCH! -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 12, 13:02 3
  - And the next thing they do is run down to the spin room to swear they won! -- nm - David Sep 12, 13:11
  - Uh...uh... FINE BY ME! -- nm - Kamala AKA Ross from Friends Sep 12, 13:09 1
    - *claps wrist heels together* -- nm - Beryllium Sep 12, 13:22
noun, verb, JD Vance podcast quote -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 12, 12:53
Chief Wiggum is on it with what’s happening in Springfield. -- (link) - Tim Sep 12, 12:52 1
- I'm gonna have to ask some Haitians for a recipe -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 12, 13:12
"Obi-Wan!" -- (link) - mud Sep 12, 12:51 1
- Nice bro kiss. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 16:05
Springfield, OH mayor cites anti-Haitian rhetoric as motivation for bomb threats targeting city facilities -- (link*) - znufrii Sep 12, 12:48 3
- People suck. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 12, 14:40
- Haitians are keeping kids home from school as violence mounts -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 12, 13:00
- Crystal Night Fridays downtown woooo -- nm* - mr mooch Sep 12, 12:57
sir, there's a second Nazi on Trump properties -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 12, 12:40 2
- yea Im sorry, but people like this should be put down. -- nm* - Jovian Sep 12, 12:45 1
  - ... should they be brought from all around and put into a special facility first? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 12, 15:16
Joseph Gordon Levitt proves yet again that he is brilliant -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Sep 12, 12:39 32
- Seriously, how did we get to this place? -- nm - David Sep 12, 12:51 30
  - I was going to write a long post about various turning points, but I'm ultimately just going to go with 2 words. Social. Media. - pmb Sep 12, 14:35 2
    - I'll add that there are clearly other touchpoints that were significant, but the internet (and specifically social media) were the gasoline on the - pmb Sep 12, 14:41 1
      - It's 100% the accelerant of the decline. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 12, 15:10
  - We lost the Fairness Doctrine, and people are being brainwashed. -- nm - mara Sep 12, 14:24
  - A group of people with all the national power trusted one group to give them economic power, while in fact ceding all authority - Will Hunting Sep 12, 13:26 3
    - Obama was right in 2008 after all (ref. the guardian) - rollo Sep 12, 13:37 2
      - Jimmy Carter was the last president to actually be honest with the American public about there being no easy fixes to hard problems and they fired him - mr mooch Sep 12, 13:51
      - The dumb of blaming burger flippers for 15/hr while you let your bosses bone you over in a more vital job for 12 is unreal. - Will Hunting Sep 12, 13:49
  - well, see first they invented computers. and slowly for time they improved. then someone thought "can we connect them", and slowly over time it - tRuMaN Sep 12, 13:20 1
    - I believe the vast majority of us have ST as the browser Home Page. -- nm* - mud Sep 12, 13:29
  - Society bonds have eroded over time (think church, service clubs, other community-oriented association); Watergate/Vietnam-era shift in... - Name Withheld By Request Sep 12, 13:16 11
    - Correct. We also don't have military service and wars to help bridge political aisles. - Strongbad Sep 12, 14:43 1
      - We don't have the jerrymandering up here and it's getting us some extremists as well. (But yes, that's a good one.) -- nm* - Name Withheld By Request Sep 12, 15:08
    - spot on. add/underline the erosion of institutions due to an unwillingness or inability to hold corruption accountable -- nm - rollo Sep 12, 13:22 4
      - Yeah, I think that's a solid add. It matters on how much faith that "the system will work" there is. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 12, 13:25 3
        
        ramping income inequality + removal/undermining of/corruption of the social safety net -- nm - rollo Sep 12, 13:30 2
        
        This one I struggle with a bit more. There are demonstrably fewer*[Edit] people in poverty (at least in North America) today than fifty years ago. -- (edited) - Name Withheld By Request Sep 12, 13:43 1
        
        I think the political impact is that the left behind are seeking both reasons why and retribution, making them vulnerable to exploitation - rollo Sep 12, 13:58
    - Newspaper and broadcast news were run in the public interest and neutral, "comments" aka letters to editor where curated -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 12, 13:20 3
      - Ummm... no. - Strongbad Sep 12, 14:47 1
        
        No, I always thought that the town paper was very conservative -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 12, 15:06
      - I'm less willing to assign this too much responsibility honestly, because media has always been business, not public interest. It got better.... - Name Withheld By Request Sep 12, 13:23
  - We were always like this. 100 years ago we were burning black communities across the nation, forcibly expelling Chinese, *this* close to joining WW2 -- nm - On Hitlers side. Seriously Sep 12, 13:08 1
    - Hitler took inspiration from Henry Ford's virulent antisemitism and copied Alabamas segregation laws to exclude jews. It was US all along -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 12, 13:25
  - Booth shot Lincoln and then Johnson killed Reconstruction -- nm - mr mooch Sep 12, 12:54 3
    - then Woodrow promoted Birth of a Nation. -- nm - mud Sep 12, 12:56 2
      - then the dinosaurs came, but they grew too big and fat and turned into oil and then the arabs came and they bought mercedes benzs -- nm - Jovian Sep 12, 13:44 1
        
        And then Vecepia won. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 12, 15:06
  - It turns out a shockingly large amount of the country is still big mad that we elected a black guy in 2008. -- nm - Tim Sep 12, 12:53
  - (Americans are racist and they've accepted fascism as a path forward to embrace it) -- nm - Jovian Sep 12, 12:53
- ~ Will you accept the results, if you don't happen to win / Or will you be whining and crying and trying to throw out the votes again ~ -- nm - Max Sep 12, 12:45
TIL: I have horrible taste in King novels -- nm - JD Sep 12, 12:34 2
- sad but true -- nm - rollo Sep 12, 13:12
- nah -- nm - mud Sep 12, 12:47
Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword. Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me, I should know. -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 12, 12:31 1
- if you would like to know more, click here. For other morality tales, click here -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 12, 12:39

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