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Polling insanity - znufrii Sep 19, 08:49 10
- They're all bullshit. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 19, 08:55
- every other Casey poll I've seen has him up anywhere from 5-10 -- nm - decline Sep 19, 08:52 4
  - Yup -- (edited) - znufrii Sep 19, 08:53 3
    - I should know who this man is, it's just that the Senate in general is so... blah. -- nm - con_carne Sep 19, 08:56 2
      - he's a good senator, just not flashy or a media whore. -- nm - decline Sep 19, 09:00 1
        
        Nice. -- nm - con_carne Sep 19, 09:02
- yeah lotta dissonance, but the big picture is all the movement in all the polls has been in Kamala's direction for a month and a half and no signs - mr mooch Sep 19, 08:51 3
  - Agreed. -- nm - znufrii Sep 19, 08:55
  - But Bill O'Reilly just said this morning on Sid & Friends that DJT now finally has momentum. - Jovian Sep 19, 08:55
  - While anecdotally Trump's ceiling is pretty hard set. Virtually everyone has made up their minds about him by now. -- nm - con_carne Sep 19, 08:55
come for the late great Hannibal Lecter, stay for the hazmat -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 19, 08:48 1
- The convict's stank is potent -- nm - decline Sep 19, 08:50
Huh. Just heard "Jon Gruden will be coaching the Gators next season" -- nm - Strongbad Sep 19, 08:46
White Dudes for Harris “Beige Rainbow PAC” makes $10 million swing state ad buy. -- (link*) - znufrii Sep 19, 08:42 [youtube]
lyc: lazy work peeps send me week-old status reports like they're the most up to date. - budice Sep 19, 08:35 4
- How do you know that they're not just lazy in updating reports but actually lazy and there's been no progress since last week? -- nm - JD Sep 19, 08:37 3
  - this stuff goes to execs or involves execs. Then I got to chase down if there's actually been progress. When in most cases not -- nm - budice Sep 19, 08:39 2
    - I remember catching a Network Engineer gaming. He joined a conference call 5seconds later you heard the XBox sound. -- nm* - budice Sep 19, 08:48 1
      - He was doing a QoS check -- nm - JD Sep 19, 08:51
I just ran into Clark Gregg as he was eating breakfast outside a French eatery. -- nm - Krusty Sep 19, 08:32 4
- You should have asked him about Tahiti. -- nm - sycor Sep 19, 08:41 1
  - and also asked him what the heck happened with the final season of Snowpiercer. -- nm - Jovian Sep 19, 08:44
- what did he have ? -- nm - decline Sep 19, 08:33 1
  - His plate was finished and I only saw what appeared to be ketchup so possibly eggs with fries or potatoes. -- nm - Krusty Sep 19, 08:36
Playstation Announces PS1-branded PS5s for 30th Anniversary -- (pic) - budice Sep 19, 08:28 [Attachment]
Supertramp's Breakfast in America (the song, not the album) isn't available YouTube Music. But James Blunt has an interesting cover. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Sep 19, 08:18 1
- it's not? -- (link) - Remlik Sep 19, 08:30
‘Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’ Sets Season 7 Cast With 19 Including Issa Rae, Paul Giamatti, Harriet Walter & Awkwafina -- (link) - LMS Sep 19, 08:13 2
- Way to bury the lede!! -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 19, 08:18
- “USS Callister will return… Robert Daly is dead, but for the crew of the USS Callister, their problems are just beginning,” -- !! -- nm - JD Sep 19, 08:18
Eric Roberts pulled a David Schwimmer on Last Temptation of Christ -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 19, 07:55 13
- Has Dafoe worked with Scorsese since Last Temptation? -- nm - Roger More Sep 19, 08:59 1
  - I don't think so but he kind of doesn't "need to" now. -- nm - con_carne Sep 19, 09:02
- Holy crap, I didn't know about the Schwimmer thing. lol -- nm - con_carne Sep 19, 08:39 2
  - what schwimmer thing? -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Sep 19, 08:41 1
    - From Deadline - con_carne Sep 19, 08:43
- It’s weird but I never have really thought Eric Roberts is that good to be in line for a role like this - Will Hunting Sep 19, 08:02 7
  - A lot of presence IMO, his filmography is solid but mid tier. -- nm - con_carne Sep 19, 08:38 1
    - He's in a lot of mid budget thrillers and actioners with no special effects. Special place in my heart for those kinds of movies. -- nm - con_carne Sep 19, 08:59
  - 80s Eric Roberts, like Mickey Rourke, was lightning in a bottle when you could catch it. -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 19, 08:11 [youtube] 4
    - Thought he had some game. Played evil or corrupt really well -- nm - budice Sep 19, 08:22 3
      - I've always enjoyed him as the bad guy. He has some chops but I think he just leaned into the B movies too early. - sycor Sep 19, 08:37 1
        
        this is my take too. He was definitely leading man material in the looks department. -- nm - Pippy aka Bad Monkey Sep 19, 08:49
      - he can do anything when he wants, he's great in By the Sword. Had a nice part in The Dark Knight. -- nm - Remlik Sep 19, 08:26
cope harder Fox -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 19, 07:50
The Nine Most Perplexing Loose Ends on ‘Lost,’ Ranked by How Maddening They Are -- (link) - Volnelk Sep 19, 07:48 2
- How did I not realize that (spoils?) - sycor Sep 19, 08:52
- I thought they'd just gloss it over, but I'm glad they didn't. #1 is the reason this show makes me so angry. -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 19, 07:55
panic on tobacco road -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 19, 07:33 1
- For some reason he was campaigning here the other day. 🤷🏻‍♂️ -- nm - Krusty Sep 19, 08:34
Hochul is (rightly) taking it in the neck over killing congestion pricing but Hakeem is the one who leaned on her to do it for the Dem seats -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 19, 07:31 3
- I can't wait to vote her out of office over this. Hakeem might have pressured her but she's the one in charge and could have - Krusty Sep 19, 08:45 1
  - someone should tell Nancy Pelosi she has the power to force people out of office when she wants to preserve a Democratic majority in Congress -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 19, 08:54
- ha ha honoring prior legislative agreements for thee but not for me -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 19, 08:00
this is the future Project 2025 (and the Roberts Court) wants: EPA scientists under Trump were directed to delete harmful chemical evidence -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 19, 07:28
Kylie Minogue announces UK/Australia/Asia Tour and new album -- (edited) - MDH Sep 19, 07:23 1
- May 26 is Memorial Day -- nm - ty97 Sep 19, 07:26
are we talking survivor? here is my commentary spoiler - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Sep 19, 07:18 1
- spoils -- (edited) - Jovian Sep 19, 07:26
The Challenge season 40 episode 5 (spoils) - Jovian Sep 19, 06:45
Nintendo sues PocketPair, creator of PalWorld (Pokemon with Guns), for patent infringement. -- (link) - Barony Bunch Sep 19, 06:45
“Colonel Smith….having failed at nearly everything he had tried, had recently been elected to Congress.” -- nm - znufrii Sep 19, 06:26
Compton RiteAid now has every product in a security cabinet -- (link) - budice Sep 19, 05:54 12
- They should just go full Service Merchandise and have you fill out a slip of the things you want and then they come to you on a conveyer belt -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 19, 06:56 11
  - I don't see how the store is could operate any other way, frankly. -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 19, 07:17 2
    - Just having a clerk walk with you and be a personal shopper, grabbing each item for you. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 19, 07:23 1
      - Or have people walk around with scanners like they're filling out a wedding registry. -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 19, 07:27
  - wow, I'd forgotten about that -- nm - prayforwiggum Sep 19, 06:58
  - Old time general store! -- nm - Reagen Sep 19, 06:57 6
    - *side eyes the customers* -- (pic) - Harriet Oleson Sep 19, 08:01 [Attachment] 1
      - ha! -- nm - Pippy aka Bad Monkey Sep 19, 08:16
    - I think of those often and wonder why I am the one having to run around. -- nm - con_carne Sep 19, 07:05
    - "Four Candles" -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 19, 07:02 2
      - "got any hardtack?" -- nm - Reagen Sep 19, 07:03 1
        
        *puts hardtack on the counter, waits for the other shoe to drop* -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 19, 07:17
Transformers One 88%, The Substance 90%, Wolfs 70%, A Different Man 85%, Never Let Go 74%, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 100% -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 19, 05:41
Chi-Sox social media has given up too -- (link) - budice Sep 19, 05:22
This five y.o. K-pop gem has loads of what I like about the genre. A fast little ditty that has a lot of get up and go and is dripping with attitude. -- (link) - con_carne Sep 19, 04:59 [youtube]
TV PSA: NFL, MLB, WNBA, Press Your Luck, Big Brother, Lucky 13, The Fight Night: Million Dollar Heist, Frasier, The Rings of Power, Challengers, - Beaker 🍺 Sep 19, 04:44 3
- NFL and Taskmaster -- nm - Krusty Sep 19, 05:12
- Rings of Power, Penguin, Old Man, Pats/Jets and probably Twilight of the Gods -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 19, 04:49 1
  - oldest is super stoked for Challengers as well -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 19, 04:50
Murdle - the streak is dead. 2:28 - prayforwiggum Sep 19, 04:23 1
- Bravo! 2:18 for me - Fuzzy Sep 19, 05:14
Strands #200 - 5th - prayforwiggum Sep 19, 04:18 2
- Yellow first - decline Sep 19, 08:08
- yellow third - crash davis 😺 Sep 19, 07:32
Connections Puzzle #466 BYGP - prayforwiggum Sep 19, 04:16 3
- xPBGY - crash davis 😺 Sep 19, 07:21
- YxGxxPB - decline Sep 19, 06:58
- xxYxPGB - mud Sep 19, 05:57
Wordle 1,188 4/6 - prayforwiggum Sep 19, 04:13 3
- Wordle 1,188 5/6 - crash davis 😺 Sep 19, 07:14
- 5 - decline Sep 19, 05:29
- 5 - rollo Sep 19, 05:23
Holy shit, Rachel Maddow on Colbert to promote something, drops a clip of a bomb, the fbi subpoenaed Hunter's bank records, gave them to Lev/fox -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 19, 00:32 6
- I ought to love them but they both give a smug rich liberal vibe. The idea of having them in the same room makes my eyes roll to the back of my head. - con_carne Sep 19, 05:39 4
  - You don't have to love them both. In most ways one is not like the other. Colbert is an entertainer. Maddow is not. - zunk takes things literally Sep 19, 06:13 3
    - I guess we differ there. I absolutely think of Maddow as an entertainer. - con_carne Sep 19, 07:09 2
      - She makes politics and political history entertaining like Neil deGrasse Tyson makes astrophysics entertaining -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 19, 10:18
      - This. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 19, 08:48
- (on Trump's direct order as i'm reading it. Nixon shit) -- nm - mr mooch Sep 19, 01:08
local consumer reporter, the half point cut means $8 less per month on a 35k car loan, probably won't see any lower int on credit cards - zeitgeist Sep 18, 23:41 1
- I am contacting Discover regardless next month as they’d previously told me I could qualify for another period of ‘hardship’ relief in October. - Qale Sep 18, 23:53
White Sox magic number is 4. -- nm - . Sep 18, 23:28
MiLB-Cal League A-ball: Fave minor league team won the Champ tonight. Modesto Nuts are back-to-back Champs. -- (link) - budice Sep 18, 22:09
Zaslav has a fundamentally wrong concept of what HBO actually is -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 18, 21:34 2
- looks like a pretty game of thronesy pitch. -- nm - mafic Sep 18, 22:21 1
  - all their big budget shows are just gussied up WB IP now: Penguin, Welcome to Derry, Harry Potter, this - mr mooch Sep 18, 22:32
SNL should have more musical acts who aren’t just the hot flavor of the month (they were way more eclectic until the 90s) -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 18, 20:46 5
- Hey now, how else are us oldies supposed to find out what kids these days listen to? -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 19, 05:51
- Used to be more interesting mix. Smaller bands, soul, rock, blues, upcoming and groups that had been around a long time -- nm - . Sep 18, 23:32 3
  - Seaons 1-30 -- (link) - . Sep 19, 04:27 2
    - i didn't realize how many times Eric Idle and Michael Palin hosted in the first years. -- nm - Andie Sep 19, 05:36
    - season 31-present -- (link) - . Sep 19, 04:28
well i'm sure Stopping The Steal won't at all give me a stroke or nothing -- nm - mr mooch Sep 18, 20:13
this is an insane stat -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 18, 20:06 4
- Almost as wild as the John Tyler grandson trivia. -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 19, 05:41
- I was astounded by the first moon landing was closer to Wrights first flight than today -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 18, 21:23 2
  - somethingsomethingcloepatrapyramidstoday -- nm - mafic Sep 18, 22:08 1
    - Today ------ Tyrannosaurus ---------------- Stegosaurus -- nm - Reagen Sep 19, 06:46
Oh, today is Agatha all along day? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 18, 19:58 4
- Oh, yes, and the first two episodes are phenomenal. -- nm - David Sep 18, 20:03 2
  - And they're even better the second time. Wow. -- nm - David Sep 18, 23:17 1
    - I only watched once, but both were great -- nm - Beryllium Sep 19, 01:00
- yeah, two eps. I just finished - rather odd. -- nm - mud Sep 18, 20:00
the Secret service should just post the 10 commandments at rallies and golf courses after praying for a few minutes. -- nm - FB Sep 18, 19:43
Woj apparently picked the right day to get out of the NBA scoop bidness -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 18, 18:58 8
- Steph Curry gonna need to bail Draymond out by Game 3 with this fucking joke in town. - Will Hunting Sep 18, 19:19 2
  - Ahh, it’s a parody account. -- (link) - Will Hunting Sep 18, 19:21 1
    - :-( -- nm - Krusty Sep 18, 19:33
- michaelscottnooooo.gif -- nm* - prayforwiggum Sep 18, 19:11
- I don't even care if it's just for a loaf of sourdough bread, it's a good deal. - Krusty Sep 18, 19:01 3
  - Aim for some Ghiradelli's in the mix. -- nm - Reagen Sep 18, 19:03 2
    - In the sourdough? I'm not sure that will be good but if you say so. - Krusty Sep 18, 19:05 1
      - I mean on the side. I'm a salted caramel guy but it's all good. -- nm - Reagen Sep 18, 19:06
Pigs on the loose -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 18, 18:52
playin all the old hits: high-risk pools are back baby -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 18, 18:42 2
- Spoken Like someone who doesn’t know how insurance actually works. He wants a “ deplorable “ category -- nm - Epiphany Sep 18, 18:47 1
  - Pippy for president!!! -- nm - amanda Sep 18, 19:12
This package is still circling San Bernadino and is now due 9/21. Has a UPS tracking number and they have no record of it. Found an Amazon CS - Meg Sep 18, 18:34 [Backboard] 5
- local consumer reporter looked into 'lost in transit' complaints, a delivery co is rated by their On Time rate, but once one gets off track... - zeitgeist Sep 18, 19:32
- Fire isn’t weather! -- nm - Qale Sep 18, 18:46 3
  - Exactly, I guess Amazon doesn't have an error code for wildfires. -- nm - Meg Sep 18, 19:06 2
    - When I worked for the collectibles company we once received a returned package from UPS that looked perfectly fine. When we opened it up there was - Meg Sep 18, 19:11 1
      - I ‘solve’ problems all the time without telling anyone. -- nm - Qale Sep 18, 19:26
A thread on the OceanGate Titan sub - TLDR; they were dumber than you thought -- (link) - Reagen Sep 18, 18:18 [BS] 7
- Every time I think about that poor teenager I get infuriated. nm - ralph wiggum Sep 18, 23:03 1
  - This. Everyone else was there by their own choice and efforts. -- nm - Andie Sep 19, 00:44
- This is astonishing. -- nm - con_carne Sep 18, 20:16
- That’s a bold statement Ray Ray cause I think they were mighty dumb -- nm - Epiphany Sep 18, 18:19 3
  - How does "reused a prototype shell that failed" strike you? -- nm - Reagen Sep 18, 18:20 2
    - I stand corrected - Epiphany Sep 18, 18:34
    - well, that's just like your opinion man -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Sep 18, 18:21
If Baron finds out who signed him up for those emails I'm next in line. -- nm - . Sep 18, 18:15 1
- And the messages keep coming. Apparently their Unsubscribe button means "Please spam me some more." -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 19, 05:38
Can’t stop laughing at this. -- (link) - Tim Sep 18, 17:50
scientists are now finding microplastics in the human brain :(((((( -- (link) - Peglegpete Sep 18, 17:48 4
- and why is this bad for Harris? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 18, 18:05
- But does that make us smarter or-- Where was I going with this? -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 18, 18:00
- Trump's? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 18, 17:58 1
  - RFK. it was the brain worms. -- nm - mafic Sep 18, 18:15

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