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EnochRoot

I was listening to the latest Pod Save America with guest host Jane Coaston. She said that what's happening to TikTok with this bill is the exact same thing that happened with Grindr 4 years ago. Grindr is being sold by Chinese owner after U.S. raises national security concerns If TikTok is owned b...

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I mean, the critiques are fair, but they were also equally fair 4 or 5 years ago. And back then, Tik Tok wasn't nearly the behemoth it is today. Seems similar to the attacks on Twitter before Musk destroyed it. Any large messaging platform that they can't buy or influence enough is a threat (which ...

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So now we’re focused on the evils of Tik Tok? Fortunately, there are aren't any more important issues ongoing in our country, right? Right? I mean, the critiques are fair, but they were also equally fair 4 or 5 years ago. And back then, Tik Tok wasn't nearly the behemoth it is today. Seems similar ...

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So now we’re focused on the evils of Tik Tok? Fortunately, there are aren't any more important issues ongoing in our country, right? Right? I mean, the critiques are fair, but they were also equally fair 4 or 5 years ago. And back then, Tik Tok wasn't nearly the behemoth it is today. Seems similar ...

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The rightwing has been consolidating local media news outlets for the past several years.

It's why that twit can lie bold-faced and get away with it. Nobody on the right will hear about it. At all. Instead, they'll receive their daily unease about the bogeymen in the neighboring metro.

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I've been saying, and I've heard many comedians say, that while folks initially thought Trump was a "great gift to comedy" the problem is as exactly stated upthread: It's difficult to lampoon something that as already sitting squarely in the ridiculous. It also would be a lot "funnie...

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MASN signed an agreement with Fubo.tv to stream Orioles and Nationals games.

This is freakin huge news.

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Sean, how do we feel about Patrick Queen? I like him but not at anything eben near the price he's likely to command fwiw. the sense in baltimore was that he was really lost until Roquan arrived and then he flourished because Roquan took over the thinking and directing and freed Queen up to just flo...

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Jerloma wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:55 pm Sean, how do we feel about Patrick Queen?

He's a casualty of having to pay Lamar Jackson, otherwise there's no way the Ravens let this guy go.

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Put the message in the box
Put the box into the car
Drive the car around the world
Until you get heard

Been listening to World Party all morning.

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ScarJo as Katie Britt is great. Loving it. For anybody who missed it: https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1766684885282861482?s=46&t=EE1Ye28Yvhgf1Mr4AtYGWQ I mean, she did a great job. Technically brilliant. But was it funny? The problem with lampooning stuff like this (see Trump, Donald) is ...

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Karl Wallinger , British musician, songwriter and record producer. He was best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid-1980s stint in the Waterboys. https://youtu.be/DXDJbqws3MY?si=QJKKv1cLfFlHfcTT https://youtu.be/B2nCugGQZO0?si=XWnYfwCeFC9AjD0E Love me some World Party, but it was ...

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https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/1767019982612001195?t=fQJcukzacsznLh8L7tjhLA&s=19 OK it took me a second to get what Favreau was saying here. He needed to edit his tweet to say, “…needs to feel feared, not humiliated.” Cuz it sorta sounds like the lesson here is on us to respect him rather t...

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No TV shaming in this slice of internet heaven. But I hate people that sleep with TV on. Get fucked We don’t have a choice, because if we don’t, our dog will bark at passersby our house (we live in a row house where the sidewalk is right outside from our windows. If it’s a torrential rain, we can t...

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Charles Barkley Threatens To Punch Black People Wearing Donald Trump Mug Shot Shirts Charles is doing exactly what Trump should be doing. Entertaining us all with absurdity on the TV. We would all love him. It's just theres no line between politics/governing and entertainment. It's not trumps fault...

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NYT wrote wrote:Biden delivers resounding SOTU deriding do-nothing Republicans that belies his age. Here's why that spells doom for Democrats.

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I don't get the point of the president speaking in front of congress. Fuck congress. It's composed of at least 50% bad faith actors who will jeer him at every turn.

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Ryan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:12 pm Uncharted games are so good. Pretty sure I played that Michael Jordan jawn too

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, to me, rivals Red Dead Redemption.

I liked the Uncharted movie they made a few years ago, and am hoping Dishonored gets the same treatment.

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Even looking at this tweet, the only other name I recall from the Challenger astronauts is Judith Resnik. https://twitter.com/RetroNewsNow/status/1765824332574445959?s=20 What's amazing about that is 25 miles from shore and the compartment was only 100 feet deep on the ocean floor. 25 miles out fro...

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This would seem like the easiest winning strategy for Dems. Put screenshots of this guy’s FB posts denying the Holocaust on giant billboards with a red background and stick them around the Research Triangle. Then do the same with his anti-Black posts and put them in Black neighborhoods in Charlotte...

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In my time of dying - want nobody to mourn
All I want for you to do is take my body home
Well well well - So I can die easy

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Sinema not running is probably a pretty huge deal for Gallego, right? I think. Last I checked, he's allegedly trailing Scary Keri Lake though. (Rasmussen) Like.... WTF on that. He must be running a shit campaign. https://twitter.com/RubenGallego/status/1765101491684294875?t=HTmL35GYIhxxLKbA83wX7A&a...

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Moose are freakin gigantic.

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Looks like Onix Concepcion started in that series but U.L. was still there; had two games, one PA, one strikeout (Biancalana had the same statline). Really remembering some guys here. Its wild how really terrible some SS were on offense back in the day. Wonder what a present-day accepted failure is...

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Ah fuck. Remember him for the exact same reason. (I wonder how many 80s players I remember I’ve never actually seen play a game. Like I assume I’ve seen him but it’s possible it was just cards and reading?) ((Fun fact I just learned: He signed his name and in writing was U. L. but that wasn’t his b...

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IMO the best apple is the Macoun - which is a cross between McIntosh and Jersey Black. It's window is only like 4 weeks though (mid autumn between Oct into Nov).

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Chris Mortensen, 72.

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The Sybian wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:22 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:50 pm The oatmeal’s comic on mantis shrimp is awesome. Sorry on phone or would link.
That comic made a huge impression on me. Just blew my mind. I'm sure I saw it on one iteration of the Swamp.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

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I bring you the Peacock Mantis Shrimp https://www.tbsnews.net/sites/default/files/styles/big_3/public/images/2021/11/10/a_peacock_mantis_shrimp_dorothea_oldani.jpg He knows! Might be why he asked. Awesome. I was watching National Geographic earlier today...and they were talking about animals that s...

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I bring you the Peacock Mantis Shrimp

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Sent. Not feeling good but whatever I was bounced a couple weeks ago.

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Can we start calling it the "Boebert Crime Family" yet? It's currently a trending hashtag. It's always makes me laugh when white trash pretend they aren't and they judge everyone else for the ills of the world when it's actually them that suck. And, she had the gall today to make a Twitte...

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Giff wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:23 pm Thoughts and prayers do work!

That's not how that works, but tots and pears just the same.

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Simple loophole: You storm if you lose. Programs with large fanbases would be able to exploit that against teams within driving range. Or, you'd see some unfortunate brawls with security. The answer is to require X number of security at each game relative to tickets sold (or given away). Like I sai...

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There have been 100s of court storming and I don’t recall this ever happening. Stop overreacting. Show your work. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39596166/college-basketball-court-storming-caitlin-clark-kyle-filipowski-injuries https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ne...

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Weeks after that storm in Columbus, a crew of college seniors descended on the court to celebrate Syracuse's unexpected win against North Carolina. Lehouiller told ESPN that even before the game started, he expected to join a storm if the Orange won. As Syracuse began to pull ahead and the crowd wa...

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There have been 100s of court storming and I don’t recall this ever happening. Stop overreacting. Show your work. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39596166/college-basketball-court-storming-caitlin-clark-kyle-filipowski-injuries https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ne...

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sancarlos wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:47 pm
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:00 pm Wake was asleep at the wheel though. Sellout crowd vs a local rival. What did they think was going to happen?
Not a win, presumably.

They were actually favored to win that game, too. Definitely smacks of negligence on the event / facilities mgmt.

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a) i didn't know Whataburger was/is an actual real restaurant until sometime in the last year, maybe due to the Swamp. Thought it only existed in the mind of David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest's "Whataburger tournament" or something) b) I accompanied a friend and his son to Shake Shack i...

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I think if Event Management in these arenas take their job seriously, they can squelch court storming enough so that the teams can GTFO the court. But yeah, a half dozen security guards trying to protect the perimeter? No. That's not even half the # of guards you'd need. The correct # of guards and ...

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