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MLB has stepped in and asked the Yankees to ban the two fans that interfered last night. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Oct 30, 09:41 2
- I was wrong. I read yesterday they got banned but apparently not and were told they can return tonight. They should be banned -- (edited) - Krusty Oct 30, 09:50 1
  - agreed -- nm - JaxSean Oct 30, 09:54
ST Roll-a-Poll: How long do you think you will remain at your current job? -- nm - oblique Oct 30, 09:40 11
- Hopefully just another year or so -- nm - JaxSean Oct 30, 09:54
- I'd like to be here until I retire, but that's another 11-16 years, so who knows -- nm - prayformojo Oct 30, 09:49
- I’ve said I expect a pretty significant raise/market adjustment for me and my team, as our workload has massively gone up—if I don’t get it, I walk -- nm - Trending Oct 30, 09:46
- Basically be happy to stay here until I retire. Whether they keep me that long is always a *shrug* who knows -- nm - ty97 Oct 30, 09:46
- 12 years, god willing. -- (edited) - znufrii Oct 30, 09:45
- They call this school The Senate because you're here til you quit. -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 09:43
- I want to do something else but I'm unsure what. I like being on my own but there are some issues like time off. -- nm - Krusty Oct 30, 09:43
- Six years. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Oct 30, 09:42
- WFH 5 days a week. Hard to beat. -- nm - budice Oct 30, 09:41
- goal is to sell within about 4 years if we can get cooking. and then i think i'm done. -- nm - colin Oct 30, 09:41
- till I retire (hopefully) -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 09:41
Russia missed a bit by not fining Google one googol dollars. -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 09:03 1
- That was my first thought, yeah -- nm - Beryllium Oct 30, 09:31
Guy posts about his company on reddit, I'm looking for some help where he is. Click on his posting history. Mostly posts about wanting to arrange - colin Oct 30, 09:03 4
- I'm trying to imagine why that would even be the drug of choice for that. -- (edited) - Reagen Oct 30, 09:08 2
  - Wondering if there’s an autocorrect error in there somewhere. -- nm - znufrii Oct 30, 09:09 1
    - he said Purple Rocks, which might just be meth. i've heard it for codeine before. -- nm - colin Oct 30, 09:26
- maybe he works for a codeine company? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 09:06
Terminator Arnold says he hates politics, thinks both sides suck and have lost focus, but that he’s voting Kamala because Trump is 💩 -- (link) - Trending Oct 30, 08:48 3
- Good enough -- nm - ty97 Oct 30, 09:46
- We take those. -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 09:03
- Speaks for many. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Oct 30, 09:02
One of my clients paid for an Uber to take me and her dog to and from Central Park so the dog could run and walk around. - Krusty Oct 30, 08:47 20
- Some people are very rich. And we have a lot of them in NYC. -- nm - ty97 Oct 30, 09:43
- Like, every day? Or just every so often? -- nm - JaxSean Oct 30, 09:19 6
  - This was the first time. Probably going to do it just once a week. -- nm - Krusty Oct 30, 09:20 5
    - Do you think they’d put up the money, for a rickshaw or pony ride to/from the park? -- nm - Trending Oct 30, 09:44 1
      - Haha! -- nm - Krusty Oct 30, 09:46
    - that seems like a pretty great gig for you too. -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 09:40 2
      - I like the extra money but I had to pick him up two hours before I normally start my day. I really love walking around in Central Park, especially in - Krusty Oct 30, 09:45 1
        
        Don’t become an opening scene of SVU though! -- nm - Qale Oct 30, 14:02
- Crank yanker said Britney would have a limo take a toddler to kindergarten -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 30, 09:17
- Uber $50 each way? Wow. Are cabs that much too now? (Although you probably can't bring a dog in a taxi) -- nm - zunk takes things literally Oct 30, 09:06 3
  - It's using Uber Pet which charges a bit more than a regular Uber. -- nm - Krusty Oct 30, 09:18
  - I assume New York traffic is slooooow -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 09:11 1
    - Took 30m to go from West 11th to West 79th. That's about normal but yeah things really slow down at Midtown. -- nm - Krusty Oct 30, 09:20
- Only in America, baby! (but probably also in Japan) -- nm - Max Oct 30, 09:02
- Indeed. I'm trying to wrap my head around what magnitude of not clear on the concept your client is - JD Oct 30, 08:53 3
  - I'm talkative and told him the situation. He laughed. There isn't a park nearby their place where I can get him onto grass. There's grass but the dogs - Krusty Oct 30, 09:02
  - Doesn't seem ludicrous to me. If there isn't anywhere to walk around and play where they live and to walk to someplace it is would take too long..... - Volnelk Oct 30, 09:00 1
    - Exactly. She wanted him to get some play time on grass and Central Park has wide open fields of grass for the dogs. -- nm - Krusty Oct 30, 09:04
- whoa$ -- nm - mud Oct 30, 08:50 1
  - I don't know much but what they pay in rent in a month is insane, around $20k. That might be more then a yearly mortgage for some people. - Krusty Oct 30, 09:00
Looking for something specific and an Amazon search is not being productive. -- (edited) - znufrii Oct 30, 08:30 13
- How is "week-by-week" different from a tall monthly calendar? -- nm - oblique Oct 30, 08:34 12
  - I don’t want breaks between months, necessarily -- (edited) - znufrii Oct 30, 08:35 11
    - like this? -- (link) - oblique Oct 30, 08:39 2
      - nvm. that's not week by week horizontally. i see the link below is better -- nm - oblique Oct 30, 08:43 1
        
        Not a bad layout option though, but wouldn’t fit in the space I have in mind for it. Thx! -- nm* - znufrii Oct 30, 08:45
    - 52 weekends - VERTICAL 2025 planner / calendar for your wall, minimal, simple design, poster size with 52 weeks of the year plotted straight -- (link) - JD Oct 30, 08:38 7
      - I need this -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Oct 30, 08:47 3
        
        $ 13.50 shipping? LOL no. -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Oct 30, 08:51 2
        
        It's still less than $30 for a semi-unique and useful item 🤷‍♂️ - JD Oct 30, 08:55 1
        
        good point -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Oct 30, 08:58
      - Etsy for the win! -- nm - Trending Oct 30, 08:43
      - cool. -- nm - mud Oct 30, 08:43
      - That’s exactly what I’m looking for, thx! -- nm - znufrii Oct 30, 08:41
Freeman Game 4 HR: Check. Yankees Game 4 win: Check - JD Oct 30, 08:13 [Backboard]
GQ: Ethan Slater Breaks Silence on Ariana Grande & the Rumors About How Their Relationship Started -- (link) - budice Oct 30, 07:41 1
- Never heard of him…but good for him—not sure he’s troubled enough for her…she likes the fixer-upper BFs -- nm - Trending Oct 30, 08:45
Something I didn't see coming. Rutgers has 2 of the top 3 newcomers to college basketball this year. Not sure I've ever seen Rutgers play. - Volnelk Oct 30, 07:38 1
- One is Ron Harper's kid, and his older brother recently finished playing for Rutgers. The other wanted to play with this kid. - David Oct 30, 08:17
613k early GA voters didn’t vote in 2020 for various reasons -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 30, 07:38 5
- From mara's early voting link, we can tell that there's a higher percentage of white and older early voters in 2024. - Inigo Oct 30, 08:09 4
  - a demo Kamala has been polling even better than Biden 2020 with, surprisingly -- nm - mr mooch Oct 30, 08:48
  - I'm not convinced they are new voters. - ty97 Oct 30, 08:13 2
    - Pixie's link says that these voters didn't vote for President in 2020. -- nm - Inigo Oct 30, 08:15 1
      - Pixie's link says they didn't vote in GA in 2020. Some of them because they weren't 18 yet, some because they lived in other states in 2020 - ty97 Oct 30, 09:45
Supreme Court tells Virginia it can purge suspected non-citizens from voter rolls. -- (link) - Inigo Oct 30, 07:23 13
- Despicable. The absolute worst court. -- nm - Krusty Oct 30, 08:49
- At issue are about 1,600 voter registrations that Virginia said came from self-identified noncitizens -- nm - Dano Oct 30, 08:14 3
  - NPR has said that the vast majority of these instances end up being people who weren't citizens when they first got their driver's license... - Inigo Oct 30, 08:23 2
    - Another important context, VA has same day registration, so they can get back on. - Reagen Oct 30, 09:31
    - That’s good context. Thanks. -- nm - Dano Oct 30, 08:52
- so like WHO can kick them off? judges of elections? -- nm - ☀️ amandachem ☀️ Oct 30, 08:06
- When and if the US gets to rebuild from a disaster 45-II, we can hope that whoever does it can go back to the drawing board - Marlowe Oct 30, 08:01
- 2 lower courts said no and gave reasons. SCOTUS shadow docket says go for it without reason. -- nm - decline Oct 30, 07:39 1
  - expressly contrary to the Court’s own Purcell doctrine (which they already trashed in several other election cases of late) -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 30, 07:46
- Leonard Leo gets what he paid for -- nm - mr mooch Oct 30, 07:34 1
  - Roberts’ Goons are fully onboard with Coup 2.0 -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 30, 07:51
- well shit. - Pippy aka Desparada Oct 30, 07:28
- JFC -- nm - prayformojo Oct 30, 07:26
"schwanzstucker" -- nm - prayformojo Oct 30, 07:10 2
- "Roll, roll, roll in ze hay!" -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 30, 07:21 1
  - "Put... the candle... back." -- nm - Bayronmax Oct 30, 07:23
Deadpool And Wolverine is "streaming" November 12 -- (link) - budice Oct 30, 07:07 2
- sweet -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 08:30
- After watching it, I feel like that movie should not have worked at all, and yet it did. -- nm - Bayronmax Oct 30, 07:22
In 1999, Tim Walz was the defensive coordinator who helped lead Mankato West High School on a storybook run to a state title. Now, he’s a VP candidate -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 06:49
Aubrey Plaza ♡♡ -- (link) - mud Oct 30, 06:47 10
- Love it -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Oct 30, 07:23
- awesome -- nm - budice Oct 30, 06:55
- So, am I understanding this right, the talking points on the PR thing is that it was about the landfill issues and people that are offended at the - Turd Ferguson Oct 30, 06:49 7
  - And the jokes about eating watermelon were about food deserts,! -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 07:15
  - It took them over 48 hours to come up with that very weak story -- nm - ty97 Oct 30, 07:05 5
    - and in that time Biden had to Biden and give them a new story to dominate the news. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 30, 07:22 2
      - yep, he is very very bad at this - Jovian Oct 30, 08:12
      - (all for want of an apostrophe) -- nm - mud Oct 30, 07:38
    - And these chucklenuts are eating it up. Like, "Yeah! Landfills man. Why didn't Kamala fix those?" nm - Turd Ferguson Oct 30, 07:15
    - It may be one of the most absurd *reasons* I ever seen the fascists put together. -- nm - Jovian Oct 30, 07:13
A’s school costume parade is this morning. CttP: how many Taylor Swift costumes will there be (~160 students total) - znufrii Oct 30, 06:37 11
- Final score: 10 -- (edited) - znufrii Oct 30, 07:10 2
  - Most creative costume I saw was a Bryce Harper trading card. Kid was inside a box with stats on the back and everything. -- nm* - znufrii Oct 30, 07:32
  - Nice -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Oct 30, 07:23
- 3–kids are more obsessed with scary or super hero costumes —TSwift was so last year -- nm - Trending Oct 30, 06:46
- 85 -- nm - decline Oct 30, 06:44
- 165. teachers will be dressed up as Taylor too -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Oct 30, 06:40
- Related: Going to a Halloween party for a Cape Breton fire department. How many KKK costumes will there be? Spoils - the answer is 4 -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 06:39 2
  - That's not very Canadian of them. -- nm - sycor Oct 30, 06:51 1
    - oddly, one them, former mayor, is openly gay. I think he thought this was some sort of protest, or awareness type thing. Wildly misguided. -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 07:00
- 18 -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 06:39
- 10 -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 06:38
just sent out the invite to the ethics course I do for my company. Engineers now require ethics specific PD so likely a bunch more this time - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 06:34
The rain in Spain has killed 62 people (and counting) -- (link) - LMS Oct 30, 06:34
Harris's speech ended at 8:07pm...1st pitch of the game was at 8:08pm -- nm - Remlik Oct 30, 06:18
Kids in Iowa's capital will trick-or-treat on Halloween for the 1st time since 1938 -- (link) - oblique Oct 30, 06:16 2
- I despise the idea of trick or treating any day other than Halloween. Those trunk and weekend before things are crap. Take the kids house to house - Krusty Oct 30, 08:52
- Finally showing those libs! -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 30, 06:59
Anna Kendrick is good people -- (link) - decline Oct 30, 06:15 2
- She seems genuine and kind. Also fun! -- nm - Inigo Oct 30, 06:29
- She really is -- nm - JaxSean Oct 30, 06:28
David: You have a trade offer in Vampirates -- nm - Bayronmax Oct 30, 06:14 5
- Can't do that one, sorry. -- nm - David Oct 30, 08:10 2
  - That's the price for Bijan, but I'd take Flowers off your hands for one of the other RB. -- nm - Bayronmax Oct 30, 08:22 1
    - I'm really only interested in Bijan because I'm a fanboy. Sorry. :( -- nm - David Oct 30, 09:19
- And Beaker you are DTM! :-P -- nm - Bayronmax Oct 30, 06:19 1
  - sorry man; liked the other offer more :) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 06:25
The assholes ejected from the World Series yesterday will be back for Game 5. -- (link) - Tim Oct 30, 06:09 10
- That's what *they* said. I'm curious to see if they really are let back in. I'd be shocked if they were. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Oct 30, 07:34
- Given that the same organization turned Jeffrey Maier into a folk hero, I'm not surprised. -- nm - Inigo Oct 30, 06:15 3
  - that was kind of innocent. these two chuckleheads were trying to rip his arm off it seemed like. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 06:41 1
    - Agreed on what those two did and what Maier did was just a kid trying to catch a ball. - Inigo Oct 30, 06:55
  - I expect them to throw out the first pitch tonight at this rate. -- nm - Tim Oct 30, 06:30
- Good. We all know that individual rights trump fairness, justice and colective good. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 30, 06:15
- Isn’t game 5 in LA? -- nm - Trending Oct 30, 06:14 1
  - For the last few years in MLB 7 game series are 2-3-2 -- nm - Tim Oct 30, 06:17
- MLB and the Yankees look like chumps and disregard player safety -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 06:10 1
  - Encouraging fan interference in the age of sports betting! -- nm - Tim Oct 30, 06:11
Juror #2 94%, Chasing Chasing Amy 92% -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 06:03
And we’re back up. - znufrii Oct 30, 06:03 2
- and it only cost you 150 bucks! -- nm - decline Oct 30, 06:16 1
  - Short term pain, long term gain. - znufrii Oct 30, 06:21
TV PSA: World Series, NHL, NBA, Survivor, Golden Bachelorette, Sullivan's Crossing, The Summit, Abbott Elementary, Shrinking, - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 06:02 1
- AAA, Survivor -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 06:03
Me: I'm going to gift my niece some I bonds for graduation. Discovery: Oh, I need her SSN. - Bayronmax Oct 30, 05:56
Q3 economic data: 2.8% GDP, inflation 1.5% PCE, 2.2% overall -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 30, 05:56 4
- "if inflation is down, why aren't prices down?" 1) they are 2) you don't understand what inflation is -- nm - Reagen Oct 30, 06:43
- Biden is eventually gonna be regarded as a magician president who did so much with so little. -- nm - Inigo Oct 30, 06:08 2
  - best since LBJ. but Dems as a party need to figure out how to not wait for History to write the story years after the fact -- nm - mr mooch Oct 30, 06:22 1
    - that is more on the shitty state of the news coverage though. you can spin all you want, but when they cover opinions as facts you are fucked -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 06:45
Oasis is canceling reunion tour tickets - oblique Oct 30, 05:37 1
- bastards -- nm - decline Oct 30, 05:49
Strongbad from b2: I agree and disagree about Lamar. -- (edited) - Inigo Oct 30, 05:29
not sure I would put all the “irony” on the economic policies themselves… -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 30, 05:28
“KD LeBron and Steph couldn’t hang with the OG NBA players” -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 30, 05:24 1
- same for OG hockey players, smoking between periods -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 30, 05:55
Two women removed from BA flight at Heathrow after fight over one’s MAGA hat -- (link*) - znufrii Oct 30, 05:23 1
- another reason to always fly into Gatwick -- nm - mr mooch Oct 30, 05:25
OMITB spoiler for Andie - rollo Oct 30, 05:20 1
- hmmm. thx -- nm - Andie Oct 30, 05:58
Apparently a bunch of papers and magazines are sending out thank yous to their subscribers and highlighting their endorsements of Harris - Reagen Oct 30, 05:12

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