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I Love Lucy premiered 73 years ago today -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 15, 12:15 1
- LOL, if I Love Lucy had gone a different direction. Jean Smart on SNL -- (link) - Pippy aka Desparada Oct 15, 12:20 [youtube]
I just got double-shot at the place around the corner. "Are you here for the Covid orthe flu shot?" " I'm just scheduled for the flu, but I'll take .. - mud Oct 15, 12:15 8
- Not a shot of Asian whiskey in the smallest bar though? -- nm - Qale Oct 15, 12:20
- I'm scared to get both at the same time. I usually feel crummy after both. Afraid of what the extra crummy would feel like. -- nm - sycor Oct 15, 12:20
- That reminds me, A’s pediatrician now has covid shots available. *adds to the list of appointments to make* -- nm* - znufrii Oct 15, 12:19
- The new covid shots aren't available here till October 28, unless you are over 65 or have other health issues. -- nm - Andie Oct 15, 12:18 2
  - wow -- nm - prayformojo Oct 15, 12:24 1
    - the new one got approved here later than in the US, so they decided to prioritize those who are most vulnerable first... -- nm - Andie Oct 15, 12:28
- I'm scheduled for Thursday morn - decline Oct 15, 12:17
- hopefully getting mine tomorrow. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 15, 12:16
Wild Robot has hit digital. -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 12:10 1
- making too much money in the theatres? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 15, 12:16
DTL: Dano, in your situation I max for the next 1-2 cycles and then start easing off to save points for use elsewhere like 17-17-14-9-9 or the like -- nm - rollo Oct 15, 12:07
New Stevie Nicks song Lighthouse is amicable, but due to obvious reasons, just doesn't quite reach anything past 'wouldn't skip.' -- nm* - Qale Oct 15, 12:02
Bigger sports news: First American wins World Conker Championships, Kelci Banschbach from Indianapolis also 1st women to win -- (link) - Remlik Oct 15, 11:57 1
- Please sent Philomena Cunk to cover this story. -- nm - Max Oct 15, 11:58
Anyone have one of these style of retractable screen doors? - oblique Oct 15, 11:48 9
- Reviews are kind of hit and miss. I like the idea, but I think my door frame wouldn't work with it. -- nm - sycor Oct 15, 12:26
- We installed one this summer. Very good so far - Guigue Oct 15, 12:06 3
  - My GF would argue it's our best purchase for the house so far. We don't have that many windows so leaving the back door open makes a big difference in - Guigue Oct 15, 12:07 2
    - We have owned our house 20 years. On average we open our windows once per year. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 12:09 1
      - mine are open all the time. it was almost freezing here last night. i slept in front of a slightly open window. -- nm - Andie Oct 15, 12:14
- We use the magnetic ones. They velcro to the door frame and split down the middle. The middle is held together with magnets. - Turd Ferguson Oct 15, 12:03 1
  - Magnets. - Spawn Oct 15, 12:07
- No, we always used the flap ones - $15 and not a huge deal when it gets a pick in it or tears. -- nm - colin Oct 15, 11:58
- hmmm, this could work at our place. -- nm - Andie Oct 15, 11:54
Nine Monkeys -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 15, 11:45 1
- - nine monkeys -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 11:46
#JusticeForFeathers -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 15, 11:22
Early Voting starts here Oct 21st. I typically vote on Halloween as nothing is scarier these days than politics. My Election Day location is no longer - Qale Oct 15, 11:20 27
- i got my ballot in the mail last week. just gotta fill it out and drop before i fly to London -- nm - mr mooch Oct 15, 11:44
- Back in my home state, Early Voting started today and it's already record breaking! -- (link) - Qale Oct 15, 11:42
- And here's a pdf of my sample ballot -- (link) - ty97 Oct 15, 11:41 7
  - For the ballot proposals I'm yes on 1 and no on 2-6. -- nm - Krusty Oct 15, 12:16
  - That's so short and sweet. I'll have 208461084 judges to vote on. -- nm - Qale Oct 15, 11:43
  - my ballot was extremely short this year (probably 1/3rd of that) -- nm - decline Oct 15, 11:43 4
    - We've apparently got one state constitutional amendment and five city charter amendments to vote on. - ty97 Oct 15, 11:44 3
      - just 7 races (3 fed, 4 state). -- nm - decline Oct 15, 11:53
      - DEFINITIVE no on #2 - ty97 Oct 15, 11:48 1
        
        See above. Yes on 1 and no on 2-6 as they're either a bad idea or a power grab by the mayor. -- nm - Krusty Oct 15, 12:17
- Did mine yesterday—just gotta slap some stamps on it -- nm - Trending Oct 15, 11:39 2
  - Double check the addressing before placing in mailbox -- (link) - JD Oct 15, 11:45 [Backboard]
  - While I'm loathe to give Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro money, might I recommend D&D Stamps. -- (link) - Qale Oct 15, 11:44
- We have defined early voting locations based on where we live. Mine this year is the American Museum of Natural History? -- nm - ty97 Oct 15, 11:37 1
  - that's so cool!!!! -- nm - ☀️ amandachem ☀️ Oct 15, 11:38
- I literally can't imagine how they confirm people don't double vote. "You can vote at any location in Harris County." here you can only - ☀️ amandachem ☀️ Oct 15, 11:31 11
  - It’s digital here. Once you vote, your name and ID are very likely marked as voted. -- (edited) - Qale Oct 15, 12:26
  - speaking of, I have election training tonight. my only real q is around pollwatchers. I want to painter's tape off a box and be like "pollwatchers, - ☀️ amandachem ☀️ Oct 15, 11:34 3
    - They going to follow you around, breathe down your neck all night. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 11:35 1
      - if the guy with the THINK PRAY VOTE shirt is in our precinct again, I will be very sad. my pollworker mike - ☀️ amandachem ☀️ Oct 15, 11:37
    - I dropped off my ballot on Saturday :) -- nm - decline Oct 15, 11:35
  - We can vote anywhere in the county, but it is digital. But I also think you can request a paper ballot when you walk in. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 11:32 5
    - we check people in on paper, have paper ballots, have a scanner to scan ballots. we return results via usb chip at the end of the night. -- nm - ☀️ amandachem ☀️ Oct 15, 11:35 4
      - They do check us in on paper. But like I say, all votings done on the screen and then it does print something out for them (I think). -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 11:36 3
        
        but like I don't get get how you couldn't go to another location and check in again if they check you in on paper. you know? -- nm - ☀️ amandachem ☀️ Oct 15, 11:38 2
        
        I don't think it would let it pull up another ballot for me. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 11:45
        
        But then there would be a record of it, easy prosecution, right? -- nm - ty97 Oct 15, 11:39
My brother watched Night Teeth and I tangentially saw it as a result. It was terrible -- nm - ty97 Oct 15, 11:20
these are the people Sequoia Capital is throwing billions in cash at -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 15, 11:16 1
- our species will not last the century. (but we'll have killed the planet by then anyway) -- nm - mud Oct 15, 11:19
i had an iced chai latte with oat milk today. am I now a chai latte person? -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 15, 11:13 5
- I became an oat milk person unexpectedly when a cafe was out of whole milk for my iced americano. -- nm - ☀️ amandachem ☀️ Oct 15, 11:19 1
  - I'll drink it. I don't think it really does it for me. But it is better for the environment than dairy and I think cheaper at this point. -- nm - Qale Oct 15, 11:24
- What kind of chai (brand)? -- nm - Trending Oct 15, 11:15 2
  - starbucks. cause I was taking the audit team to get coffee on the way to the client. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 15, 11:16 1
    - Tasty! -- nm - Trending Oct 15, 11:24
Anybody have experience with computer drive recovery services? My parents lost theirs and Microcenter is quoting $2000 - Max Oct 15, 11:12 17
- Speaking of Microcenter - Max Oct 15, 11:44
- we've used a couple over the years - not cheap, but I don't remember them being that expensive. Read the fine print of the contract before agreeing - decline Oct 15, 11:31
- We have a place down the street from us we've used once for a recovery operation. Was $1600 -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 11:15 14
  - holy shit -- nm - mud Oct 15, 11:16 13
    - It's time intensive and requires special tools and skills. - JD Oct 15, 11:20
    - A good reminder that cloud backup stuff is easy and generally inexpensive if not free for most day to day usage -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 11:17 11
      - My dad, a former career IBM exec, thinks he's smarter than MS and is convinced cloud is just a way for people to do bad things with your data - Max Oct 15, 11:30 6
        
        🤔 Isn't IBM like all services these days? Including some cloud based ones? -- nm - JD Oct 15, 11:36 2
        
        He retired in the 90s. -- nm - Max Oct 15, 11:39 1
        
        and doesn't trust the current direction of the company ;-) -- nm - JD Oct 15, 11:40
        
        sounds like my FIL. He was still backing up his financial data on floppy disks last I knew -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 11:35 2
        
        If it's good enough for the nuclear codes, it's good enough for me -- nm - decline Oct 15, 11:35 1
        
        Well, yeah. And in an obsolete kind of way, on a day to day, practical basis, hack proof -- nm - JD Oct 15, 11:37
      - 3/2/1 has saved my ass numerous times -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 11:27
      - I back up all the music and porn on an external. -- nm - mud Oct 15, 11:20 2
        
        You save porn? I kind of always considered it throwaway. - Qale Oct 15, 11:26 1
        
        I was mostly being silly. - mud Oct 15, 11:34
Amari Cooper traded to the Bills -- nm - Trending Oct 15, 11:11 1
- Waiting for someone to drop Cooper’s cold weather games splits…because it wasn’t pretty when he was with the Cowboys -- nm - Trending Oct 15, 11:21
"Terrifier 3" sounds like the name they would use for a scary movie in a 90s sitcom that one of the kids would sneak out and see. -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 11:09 1
- YES, absolutely -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 11:09
World's smallest bar may have just opened in Houston. - Qale Oct 15, 11:08 5
- Sounds like a fun time out. Start at Narwhal Jousting Club then go have shots -- (link) - JD Oct 15, 11:13 4
  - Sober up (not really) at Ninja Ramen - JD Oct 15, 11:15 2
    - Not the dinglehopper-using mermaid! -- nm - Qale Oct 15, 11:28 1
      - I mean, I totally want to drink with Christopher - JD Oct 15, 11:39 [Image]
  - I generally stay clear of Washington Ave as it's a shitshow at night/weekends. But maybe I might make exceptions for these things. -- nm* - Qale Oct 15, 11:14
Huh, there's a "from the world of The Stand" short story anthology coming out. -- (link) - Reagen Oct 15, 11:04 4
- I'd read that. -- nm - mud Oct 15, 11:06 1
  - word -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 15, 11:06
- "I am Me: Confessions from the Trashcan Man" -- nm - prayformojo Oct 15, 11:05 1
  - :-] -- nm - mud Oct 15, 11:10
Okay, enough with the emails today, Dan Osborn. - Tim’s Ghost Oct 15, 10:55 6
- if he beats Deb Fischer great but lotta chutzpah to target donors from the party you claim you’ll never caucus with if elected - mr mooch Oct 15, 11:03 4
  - I don't get the issue. Getting 75% support in the Senate from a Senator from Nebraska is a win. It was the same with Manchin. -- nm - Dano Oct 15, 11:18 3
    - Right? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 15, 11:19 2
      - hypothetically, the final balance is 50R, 49D and 1I (NE), 0% of Democratic things actually get done -- nm* - mr mooch Oct 15, 11:39 1
        
        He would be there for 6 years though. The makeup could change in 2 years where his partial cooperation could be valuable. -- nm - Dano Oct 15, 11:50
- If you were getting emails from Super Dave Osborne, that'd make more sense, Tim's Ghost. -- nm - Qale Oct 15, 10:58
Nuzzi v Lizza -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 15, 10:51 5
- I do wonder, how many other 'professional' people are secretly at the level of whore that this Nuzzi is at. - Jovian Oct 15, 10:52 4
  - How about the married guy who wants to impregnate her? Whore is harsh. -- nm - jnine Oct 15, 11:01 3
    - the male journalists are just the creepy rapey ones like Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose, keeping the Female Whore Journalists from sleeping their way to - mr mooch Oct 15, 11:41
    - Yeah—especially if what they said is true, and it was just a sexting+photos thing (between her and RFK)… -- nm - Trending Oct 15, 11:27
    - yes -- nm - mud Oct 15, 11:16
Western Digital announces 32TB hard drive -- (link) - budice Oct 15, 10:48
I'm working on updating The Twenty, and as important as I feel my playlist is, I won't suddenly force you to listen to it while swaying on stage. -- nm - Qale Oct 15, 10:45 2
- so you are saying swaying is optional? I just listened to the Twenty at the gym today. Love it. -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Oct 15, 11:18 1
  - Thankuuuu! Glad you got it in before it changes with the update. -- nm - Qale Oct 15, 12:32
This is one of the places we visited in Asheville this spring. Now I’m sad. -- (link) - znufrii Oct 15, 10:45 2
- Western NC has been decimated. It will be a long time to recover. - sycor Oct 15, 11:03
- Ashville's situation echoes Hurricane Harvey so strongly and it shouldn't. The coast is well familiar with the aftermath, but Appalachia? No chance. -- nm - Qale Oct 15, 10:48
“Should google be broken up?” “Virginia recently made some decisions about their voter role……” “The question is about Google.” -- (link) - Volnelk 🍊 Oct 15, 10:44 1
- *crowd applauds regardless* -- nm - mr mooch Oct 15, 10:47
Sick New World 2025 -- (pic) - JD Oct 15, 10:39 [Attachment] 3
- 10 but does the The Hives really belong there? 311? -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Oct 15, 11:21
- Metallica? Blech. Otherwise, there's good stuff there that I'd love to see. (Anyone know what the g is on the middle left?) -- nm - JaxSean Oct 15, 11:01
- 8 I think -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 10:43
I'm seeing The Craft (1996) in an effing theater tonight. She's going to cry, and then I'm going to cry, and then we're all going to cry! -- nm - Qale Oct 15, 10:34 5
- who? Who?! -- nm - mud Oct 15, 11:05
- Cool. Have fun! -- nm - Krusty Oct 15, 10:36 1
  - Newly restored River Oaks Theatre too. Making a comeback after years of closure! I've never seen The Craft: Legacy. -- nm - Qale Oct 15, 10:42
- nice -- nm - budice Oct 15, 10:35 1
  - It's a long-time movie going outing. Last film I saw in theaters was Barbie. -- nm - Qale Oct 15, 10:43
he's at the Economic Forum in Chicago and he can't stay on track with questions. -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 10:14 1
- cue playset ~ money money money money, money ~ -- (link) - Max Oct 15, 10:23 [youtube]
NFL's dynamic kickoff: There's a 32% return rate through 6 weeks. It was at 17% this time last year, and it ended around 22%. No ACL, MCL, one concus -- nm - budice Oct 15, 10:13 1
- It's a pointless exercise even after the change. They need to switch to 4th and 15, which is a football play. - David Oct 15, 10:35
Weather: Someone mapped 110-degree days in Phoenix by year. 2024 has the record by 15 days. -- (link) - budice Oct 15, 10:07
"The crowd applauds anyway." -- (pic) - mud Oct 15, 09:57 [Attachment] 10
- every follow up from the Bloomberg dude is basically “sir this is an Arby’s” -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 15, 11:10 1
  - "I was asking about tariffs." -- (pic) - mud Oct 15, 11:16 [Attachment]
- Also said he thinks Kamala wouldn’t pass a cognitive test…what? -- nm - Trending Oct 15, 11:07 1
  - what they accuse of others is really about them. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 15, 11:10
- He's clearly not well. Surprised they let him out like this. nm - Dignan Oct 15, 10:06 1
  - Only safe places for him from here on in. -- nm - Jovian Oct 15, 10:22
- Micklethwait actually pushing back on his shit, trying to explain tariffs to him. Forget it, "tariffs is my favourite word in the english language" .. - mud Oct 15, 10:05 2
  - Macklemore really fell off. -- nm - Qale Oct 15, 10:32
  - he loves that word because its a 'magic wand' for his cult following. - Jovian Oct 15, 10:06
- it.is.a.cult -- nm - Jovian Oct 15, 10:00
so 20 days before the election Chuck Schumer finally figures out that most people hate Ted Cruz and Rick Scott -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 15, 09:56 5
- It's like last election when they could have rid us of Boebert, but the DNC paid no attention to her race. -- nm - jnine Oct 15, 11:05
- You mean he waited until the majority of voters that aren’t terminally online were actually starting to pay attention? The horror! -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 09:59 2
  - Schumer *sucks* -- nm - Jovian Oct 15, 10:03 1
    - Sure, just not necessarily for this reason. -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 10:10
- omg I just - Jovian Oct 15, 09:57
(the Panda Express was right there the whole time) -- nm - mr mooch Oct 15, 09:52 1
- (I almost laughed.) -- nm - ☀️ amandachem ☀️ Oct 15, 10:20
LIR: Jim. Ghosted - oblique Oct 15, 09:51 4
- Knives Out? I don't remember any in that. -- nm - sycor Oct 15, 11:06
- Wait what? Whosa what now? who wasn't naked? where? -- nm - Turd Ferguson Oct 15, 09:55 2
  - damnit. Wrong STer. That was for Flavorize -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 10:05 1
    - I thought maybe I missed or forgot some shit. :) -- nm - Turd Ferguson Oct 15, 10:24
I'm no AirBnB expert, but leaving $250k in jewelry around seems like a bad idea when renting out your place... -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Oct 15, 09:50
why the California music festival bubble is bursting -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 15, 09:49
"Don't make me blow out the budget" -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 09:48
All I am surrounded by is fear...and dead men -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 15, 09:46

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