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Mike Huckabee (not sarah) to be ambassador to Israel -- (link) - zeitgeist Nov 12, 11:41 4
- Ironic…huckster getting cut down, by her own party, because of sexism -- nm - Trending Nov 12, 11:50
- oh, not Jill Stein? weird -- nm - mr mooch Nov 12, 11:49 2
  - ambassador to russia... or worse, Ukraine -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 12, 11:53
  - Stein has to retreat into her ⚰️ for another 4 years—can’t grift if you actually are doing a government job people can grade your performance on -- nm - Trending Nov 12, 11:53
Every NFL Fan's Reaction to Week 10 -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Nov 12, 11:36 [youtube] 2
- The Broncos reaction is spot on. - Bayronmax Nov 12, 11:43
- ze plot it thickens. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 12, 11:38
MCR Tour Trailer -- (link) - JD Nov 12, 11:35 [youtube]
I almost forgot: Happy Whale Day, everyone! -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Nov 12, 11:34 [youtube] 1
- Always worth a watch, thanks! -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 11:35
Fed Judge blocks law requiring the 10 Commandments posted in classrooms "unconstitutional on its face." -- (link) - zeitgeist Nov 12, 11:32 1
- Is that what he meant when he said "kid, your face is unconstitutional"? -- nm - rollo Nov 12, 11:53
stand strong, Sam. don't let them bully you into stepping down -- (link) - mr mooch Nov 12, 11:28 15
- Ugh. I didn't even think of the SC. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 12, 11:31 12
  - prolly b/c Kamala never mentioned it as a consequence of losing in any of her speeches -- nm - mr mooch Nov 12, 11:37 5
    - Well that certainly isn't a true statement. -- nm* - Qale Nov 12, 16:21
    - You think it would’ve even mattered? - znufrii Nov 12, 11:44 2
      - the Federalist Society got their six goons on the court by a relentless 45 year strategy, making it matter above all else to conservative voters. - mr mooch Nov 12, 11:48
      - Nope. Not one bit. 'Merica aint voting for a woman. Period. I fully believe that now. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Nov 12, 11:46
    - it never really resonated with focus groups I would guess -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 12, 11:42
  - 45-47 could end up appointing a majority of the court... 2 more Barrett-Kavanaughs -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 12, 11:35 5
    - That's the absolute worst part of this entire thing. We're dangerously close to having one of the stupidest most horrible people on the planet - Turd Ferguson Nov 12, 11:37 2
      - Who I suspect will agree with the Theocrats. - Mel Profit Nov 12, 11:40 1
        
        Yalp. Whatever can bring him either more money or more adulation...and if he can get both, SOLD!!! nm - Turd Ferguson Nov 12, 11:45
    - When people say the country is now screwed for their lifetime, this sort of thing is why -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 11:36 1
      - ugh. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 12, 11:38
- It would be ironic if they used ethics violations to get rid of Thomas now that Trump would get to name his replacement. -- nm - Dano Nov 12, 11:30 1
  - one theory is he wants to pass William O. Douglas for longest serving justice on the court, as revenge for his confirmation hearing -- (link) - mr mooch Nov 12, 11:37
ST Help Question. If you had to organize an orderly line of people who had to stand in line for hours, how would you do it? - Mel Profit Nov 12, 11:12 18
- Without knowing the business—there way to create an additional, but separate “express” line—for those with smaller questions/smaller tasks - Trending Nov 12, 11:48
- with big bouncers -- nm - decline Nov 12, 11:32
- Have Paul Rudd bring them water. -- nm - Spawn Nov 12, 11:29
- hire young people to be stand ins for old people in line. let the old people into a room where they can get tea and crackers - tRuMaN Nov 12, 11:25 1
  - That's actually a really simple and great idea. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 12, 11:31
- like museums, give timed entry appointments, to get a marriage or other gov paper here you make an appointment online. - zeitgeist Nov 12, 11:22 1
  - Interesting. Thanks. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 12, 11:24
- at the san fran planning department there is a line of briefcases down the hall, place holders for contractors waiting DAYS - zeitgeist Nov 12, 11:18 3
  - Being evicted from a...town...that's impressive. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 12, 11:20 2
    - i was evicted from my huge flat way under market value, evicted from city hall for doing biz without a nonexistant permit. - zeitgeist Nov 12, 11:26 1
      - Wow. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 12, 11:34
- Replace them all with Brits? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 11:17
- I’d give everyone a fifteen minute return window based on expected throughput and tell them to come back at that time rather than wait around -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 11:16 5
  - Maybe doing away with the line and like you said, give them a window to return. That might be better. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 12, 11:21 2
    - Another similar thought would be to physically section out groups to be called up one group at a time. -- (edited) - znufrii Nov 12, 11:26 1
      - I've seen this on busses. Good idea. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 12, 11:32
  - yup, this works best without having to wait. ala Disneys Fastpass system. Or numbers with a sign showing who's up ala DMV -- nm - budice Nov 12, 11:21 1
    - the sign is a good idea. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 12, 11:22
I have to say I do enjoy confusing the hell out of my Oura ring. - znufrii Nov 12, 11:12
Damn, they cancelled Pitchfork? I have either been a vendor or volunteer there for most of it. Found some new bands and rediscovered some old. - . Nov 12, 11:10
Stalker poll. What do you want? I want this small, tire inflator -- (link) - Peglegpete Nov 12, 10:59 6
- If you won the lotto or cashed out your btc... this is what Krusty wants -- (link) - zeitgeist Nov 12, 11:52 2
  - Oh, I got it! 😎 - Krusty Nov 12, 11:59 1
    - Sacre bleu! -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 12, 15:25
- I'll add a bit to my previous list: some practical yard or automotive tools. - ReluctantCynic Nov 12, 11:36
- local things (knickknacks, etc.); i like legos; also spicy foods (no dairy though, sadly, cheese is enemy); also the most random thing is that - tRuMaN Nov 12, 11:24
- leather gloves (again, I know) Michael Connelly the Waiting paperback. blues/jazz funkfusion cd a bluetooth to stereo receiver device thick socks -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 12, 11:16
I didn't see a Weekend Viewing checking the BBs. Rebel Ridge B+. Canary Black C+ High Potential/ Matlock both B+ for dumb mindless entertainment. - sycor Nov 12, 10:38 9
- Heretic, which I gave an A- and stand by that. -- nm - Bayronmax Nov 12, 11:35
- Fall Guy C. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Nov 12, 11:17
- Cocaine Bear rewatch - downgrading to a C+ - Jovian Nov 12, 11:03
- First few eps of Girl in the Woods on Peacock. C+ (maybe B). Eagles football: A++ -- nm - decline Nov 12, 10:58 1
  - 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅 -- nm - rollo Nov 12, 11:41
- Bears: F -- nm - oblique Nov 12, 10:56
- Interstellar (C, feel dumber for having stayed up late to slog through that nonsense) -- nm - mr mooch Nov 12, 10:43 2
  - It's one of my favorite Pitch Meetings -- (link) - Dano Nov 12, 11:00 [youtube] 1
    - YOU'RE oddly specific! -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 11:16
This weekend is Northwestern's Homecoming game. They're playing in "an unsafe dump" -- (link) - . Nov 12, 10:20 1
- Stupid story. Seems like they'd want as big a crowd as possible for homecoming. If it's a big OSU crowd that's NU's problem. But it seems a venue with - zunk takes things literally Nov 12, 11:31
I wouldn’t feel terribly confident that my blind side was safe going forward -- (link) - mr mooch Nov 12, 10:20 3
- From what I've seen of Bagent he's going to make some team a good QB some day -- nm - rollo Nov 12, 11:31
- Did you see the video of when Caleb was on the ground, in pain, and the opposing team had to pick him up as the whole 🐻 OL walked away? -- nm - Trending Nov 12, 10:23
- They really suck at retainng QBs. -- nm - . Nov 12, 10:22
John Mayer, McG Team to Buy Historic Jim Henson Lot in Hollywood for $60M -- nm - budice Nov 12, 10:11 1
- Loosi did it! Take that ‘L’ Scientology! -- nm - Trending Nov 12, 10:12
last year (probably) of Iger -- (link) - mr mooch Nov 12, 10:04 4
- His last year is 2026, which everyone knows. -- nm - David Nov 12, 10:26
- lol is it 1994? -- (link) - mr mooch Nov 12, 10:09 2
  - Stock hit a record high today. But these two links comes from another knockoff of the original WSJ story. It's like the telephone game. -- nm - David Nov 12, 10:27 1
    - Which is apparently now called “whisper down the lane” because kids don't talk on the phone anymore. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 11:09
this came across my feed a McConaughey film with Beckinsale & Gary Oldman...Tip Toes -- (link) - Remlik Nov 12, 09:51 [youtube] 13
- Matthew has never seen the trailer until recently...at the 52 minute mark he talks about it -- (link) - Remlik Nov 12, 11:06 [youtube]
- Yea I need to check this out. Beckinsale circa 2003? Yes please. -- nm - Jovian Nov 12, 10:48 2
  - I'm watching it now...it's super soapy. -- nm - Remlik Nov 12, 11:11
  - *watches Serendipity again* -- nm - oblique Nov 12, 10:56
- This was roundly mocked on st a few years ago -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 10:29
- Damn I had no idea that was Oldman until the end. -- nm - sycor Nov 12, 10:19 1
  - He really can play anything! -- nm - Bayronmax Nov 12, 11:38
- I've seen it. it's as insane as it sounds. -- nm - Andie Nov 12, 09:54 5
  - I remember seeing this trailer years ago and loved the "command performances" and "in the role of a lifetime, Gary Oldman" parts the best.... - Name Withheld By Request Nov 12, 10:56
  - This must have never had a wide theatrical release. I've never heard of it and that was definitely when I full blown watching every movie ever - sycor Nov 12, 10:21 1
    - I can't find it on any of the box office sites -- nm - oblique Nov 12, 10:35
  - it's on Amazon prime. Apparently there was a 150 minute cut that Dinklage (who is in the movie) loved but it was cut down to 90 minutes -- nm - Remlik Nov 12, 10:00 1
    - Beckinsdale and Dinklage just never age—amazing -- nm - Trending Nov 12, 10:02
Heisman odds (then,now): Travis Hunter +3500, +100 Dillon Gabriel +800, +350 Ashton Jeanty +5000, +400 Cam Ward +20000, +850 -- nm - budice Nov 12, 09:48 2
- I got Hunter at +3000 and Jeanty at +2000 and I'm riding it out. Rooting against Gabriel big time. -- nm - Volnelk Nov 12, 09:55 1
  - Congrats! Great prices on those—Gabriel has mad a big push, of late, but not sure how he gets above the other 2 -- nm - Trending Nov 12, 10:05
doomed -- (link) - mr mooch Nov 12, 09:47 16
- *smh* -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 11:35
- Q2: "what is a recession" -- nm - Reagen Nov 12, 10:24
- I honestly believe Alex Garland was prophetic. He saw how this is going to play out here in the next several years. -- nm - Jovian Nov 12, 10:14 2
  - That movie was more a takedown of amoral reporting than it was about Civil War, imo. -- nm - Inigo Nov 12, 10:24 1
    - which is not even what's actually wrong with reporting -- nm - mr mooch Nov 12, 10:27
- All of these indicators will flip to the negative in Trump's term, but people will believe the economy is doing great. -- nm - Inigo Nov 12, 10:09 3
  - Musk has already tried to set up the argument - they had to tear it down first to build it back right. -- nm - Dano Nov 12, 10:33
  - they will say he inherited the bad economy from Biden -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Nov 12, 10:14 1
    - *ding* -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 11:06
- The economy has created thousands of jobs..."I know, I have 3 of them to pay rent" -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 12, 10:07
- income inequality -- nm - rollo Nov 12, 10:01
- meanwhile at Berkshire -- (link) - mr mooch Nov 12, 09:50 4
  - He’s also a huge value guy so he’s not going to park money in things just to park money in stocks. - Will Hunting Nov 12, 10:11
  - Who will we look to when he's gone? -- nm - Krusty Nov 12, 09:53 2
    - Oh they're gonna freeze his head like Walt Disney so you can look to it forever. -- nm - Bayronmax Nov 12, 09:55 1
      - And it should be noted that Apple is still their largest holding by a significant margin. -- nm - Bayronmax Nov 12, 10:01
Lyc run report - a tale of three midday runs. -- (edited) - znufrii Nov 12, 09:44 2
- Woot! Trending in the correct direction -- nm - JD Nov 12, 10:16 1
  - Definitely feeling a lot closer to where I was hoping to be than I was a week or so ago. :) -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 10:19
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission joined BSky: @cpsc.gov -- (edited) - budice Nov 12, 09:17 7
- Don't worry. Trump will get rid of all these pesky agencies -- nm - oblique Nov 12, 09:21 6
  - They’ll still exist, but only a couple of staffers sitting there to refuse or delay FOIA requests. -- nm - mara Nov 12, 10:56
  - and will he require all communications to go out on X and Truth, or just Truth? -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 12, 09:28 4
    - Depends on how long he and Elon remain best buds. -- nm - Dano Nov 12, 09:29 3
      - oh, they will sell each other out by next summer -- nm - Andie Nov 12, 09:57
      - This is kinda what I'm "Jon Stewart popcorn gif" waiting for. Cause he got the money he needed, he won and he can stay out of jail. - Turd Ferguson Nov 12, 09:34 1
        
        I've also assumed that MAGA in general would not be EV friendly so I wonder if that was part of what Elon was buying. -- nm - Dano Nov 12, 10:05
new phone. green or pink? -- (link) - amanda Nov 12, 09:11 14
- The green was sold out when I ordered my P9p. I got the black. But since I put it in a case, it really doesn't matter which color. - sycor Nov 12, 09:40 4
  - I use a clear case so I can see the color of my phone. :-) Also, they make some quality skins if you want to change the color. My last Pixel - Krusty Nov 12, 09:45 3
    - And this is the first clear case I've had that didn't turn yellow. I used to replace them as they were cheap but this one from Tech 21 has been - Krusty Nov 12, 09:47
    - I've never liked the feel of the clear cases. And that is a pretty dope idea for a skin. -- nm - sycor Nov 12, 09:47 1
      - I get that. I was tired of the black cases. I've had some very nice looking phones that I never saw because of the black case. - Krusty Nov 12, 09:50
- Neither—black or white—green/Pink both too “faded” in appearance for my taste -- nm - Trending Nov 12, 09:33
- pink. cause everyone else said green. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 12, 09:28 2
  - This is how I play heads or tails raffles. - Bayronmax Nov 12, 09:41
  - that's just good pot odds -- nm - rollo Nov 12, 09:29
- green -- nm - Dano Nov 12, 09:28
- green -- nm - JaxSean Nov 12, 09:25
- green -- nm - Andie Nov 12, 09:23
- Green -- nm - Krusty Nov 12, 09:18
- green -- nm - decline Nov 12, 09:13
I don't think that the deplorables could have thought of a worse mantra for themselves than "your body, my choice". - Mop🧹 Nov 12, 08:59 10
- I'm not going to lie...I hear some bro say that, I'm going to have to try really hard to restrain myself. - Mel Profit Nov 12, 11:09
- "Your nuts, my steel toed knee high boots" -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 10:30
- Beyond even the abortion issue, it also sounds like all these incels saying "I get to rape you." -- nm - pmb Nov 12, 09:56 5
  - Ya think? -- nm - mara Nov 12, 10:55
  - this. -- nm - Andie Nov 12, 10:38
  - Yup. -- (edited) - znufrii Nov 12, 10:00 [Backboard]
  - Yup - Pippy aka Desparada Nov 12, 09:59
  - 100% -- nm - prayformojo Nov 12, 09:57
- It's disgusting -- nm - prayformojo Nov 12, 09:17
- Per your IM, "Black Lives Matters" is only a problem for people who put a nonexistent "Only" in front of it. - Dano Nov 12, 09:15
TNF: WAS@PHI -- nm - budice Nov 12, 08:55
Max Hoar -- nm - Today In Names Nov 12, 08:52 5
- where is max lately, anyway? out hoaring around? -- nm - amanda Nov 12, 08:57 4
  - max, spamlet, mdh, i miss our peeps -- nm - Andie Nov 12, 09:30 2
    - MDH? Did I miss something? -- nm* - prayformojo Nov 12, 09:40 1
      - i just haven't seen him, unless i'm just missing him? -- nm - Andie Nov 12, 09:44
  - meteor got him - mr mooch Nov 12, 09:27
Toronto has the Eras Tour starting Thursday. -- (link*) - budice Nov 12, 08:47 1
- Boooooo! I liked the unedited post much better. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Nov 12, 08:48

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