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Coworker had jury duty this week and said he overheard someone saying that they "think there have been more full moons lately."

06.03.2026 21:33 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Billy is correct

03.03.2026 21:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Getting some valued feedback here and I want to expand on my point. Danny Meyer is from “chef” world. He is high class. But when he sells a hamburger, a chef doesn’t make it; a short order cook does. And it’s better than any of the “chef” burgers I’ve ever had, easily.

03.03.2026 19:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No one takes burritos more seriously than me it’s all good

03.03.2026 19:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s just impossible, like an accounting identity or the net loss of matter or energy.

03.03.2026 19:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Respect to this guy I’m sure but a “chef” must not make a burrito.

03.03.2026 19:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

One of the most wrong things ever said

02.03.2026 02:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I respect all the statistically superior NBA stars (except Luka and Shai bcs. tedious) but it is wild that Brunson simply never stops scoring against the other team’s most freakish athlete. I reflexively feel sorry for him when I see a closeup, like oh no they’re bullying that poor little man

01.03.2026 22:59 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s a big night and then a tailgate in the AM. And I’m not sure I’m getting through 10-12 beers at the tailgate

27.02.2026 20:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Surprised to be in the minority here but I think 24 beers in 24 would have been pretty hard even in my heyday

27.02.2026 20:08 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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27.02.2026 03:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | Why Won’t College Students Touch Grass? Those currently on campus weigh in on why a study found a third of their cohort aren’t involved in extracurriculars.

Check out my cousin in the Journal! First response. www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

25.02.2026 16:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bill Laimbeer (NBA player, 1979–1993): The first thing I said was this takes place in a violent, dystopian future nightmare world. That was non-negotiable.

Bill Laimbeer (NBA player, 1979–1993): The first thing I said was this takes place in a violent, dystopian future nightmare world. That was non-negotiable.

a few years ago, my obviously fake oral history of bill laimbeer's combat basketball somehow got on reddit and a few posters were reacting like it was real despite being mostly about laimbeer being obsessed with cyberpunk world-building medium.com/@byctom/an-o...

24.02.2026 22:32 👍 147 🔁 24 💬 8 📌 2
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The $30-an-Hour Blizzard Side Hustle You Didn’t Know Existed When the city needed digging out, it called its emergency shovelers. One Queens resident describes the pay, the crosswalks, and the yellow snow.

I miss print but I also love that we have a medium in which you can run this interview at 1,600 words, truly all of which are interesting slate.com/business/202...

24.02.2026 22:19 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I’m pretty sure I remember and like “When I Get Home” but Chains and Little Child idk

24.02.2026 03:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A giant hamburger with a humanoid face, wearing a bandit mask, walks across a roof, behind him smoke billowing from a chimney.
Narration says "The burger bandit wanders through the night- created for a rejected 1970s Hardees ad campaign he walks the earth searching for purpose."

The Burger bandit peers in through a window.  His nose sticks over the frame. "People see me coming and they think I'm going to take their stuff," he says.
"I don't even know if that's the conceptual thrust of the burger bandit character. It was never really fleshed out."

"I don't particularly want to steal anything. I was just built like this. It frightens people.
The mask is part of my face. If I remove it what's underneath is raw muscle and sinew and bone." says the burger bandit, removing his mask to reveal a tangled mess of flesh. 
"Is this what you wanted to see? Is this any more reassuring?"

A giant hamburger with a humanoid face, wearing a bandit mask, walks across a roof, behind him smoke billowing from a chimney. Narration says "The burger bandit wanders through the night- created for a rejected 1970s Hardees ad campaign he walks the earth searching for purpose." The Burger bandit peers in through a window. His nose sticks over the frame. "People see me coming and they think I'm going to take their stuff," he says. "I don't even know if that's the conceptual thrust of the burger bandit character. It was never really fleshed out." "I don't particularly want to steal anything. I was just built like this. It frightens people. The mask is part of my face. If I remove it what's underneath is raw muscle and sinew and bone." says the burger bandit, removing his mask to reveal a tangled mess of flesh. "Is this what you wanted to see? Is this any more reassuring?"

Curse of the Burger Bandit

23.02.2026 21:28 👍 249 🔁 38 💬 4 📌 0

I feel like Job from the Biblical book of Job Explodes While Shoveling

21.02.2026 20:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is what I do as work as well except I don’t have a team. It’s tough to pull off but I manage it.

21.02.2026 17:09 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oh you went to juliard? great, that will give you a lot of emotional grounding when you run over a henchman with a monster truck and then say "he got tired" by the way arnold would pronounce it chuliard

21.02.2026 03:28 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah

20.02.2026 22:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thinking about the time I took my parents to see Bela Fleck and they hated it. An all time upset. We’re talking composite NPR listeners.

20.02.2026 22:04 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Recreating, from scratch, the idea of a trusted but charismatic personality, backed by a rigorous journalistic organization, who explains the news to you on camera with some people working in the background

20.02.2026 22:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You know what time it is? Forklift operation o’clock

19.02.2026 14:40 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

while you were studying the blade, I was also studying the blade. we have the same blade exam and I want to do well.

18.02.2026 00:48 👍 2269 🔁 455 💬 34 📌 16

Whatever NBC is doing here is working

17.02.2026 23:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Why haven’t humans been back to the moon in over 50 years? | CNN Humans haven’t been back to the lunar surface since the Apollo moon program ended over five decade ago. The reasons why go beyond science, according to experts.

'Cause it's haunted

www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/s...

13.02.2026 19:40 👍 4670 🔁 496 💬 722 📌 116
Handwritten note on notebook paper that reads: i would like to address an incident from a so-called "reporter" that happened in Miami. I was taken out of a game just because I missed a pop-up and then panicked and tried to throw a hot dog wrapper to the cut-off man. It didn't work because hit dog wrappers are much lighter than baseballs. This happens all of the time. Rob did not understand because he never played The Game. Many baseball players have been done-in by hit dog wrappers.

I admit my conduct could have been more professional. I stole a bullpen cart, drove it on the field, and did donuts in the infield. I also fired a hit dog cannon repeatedly at the dugout while thrusting my hips as if to say "this is what a hot dog represents, anatomically." Fortunately Howie jumped on the city and took the hot dug cannon away while I was reloading it with bratwurst before I knocked off Rob's hat and caused a dangerous reaction of chemicals in hot dog juices and his hair product.

There are unwritten rules in baseball and one of them is you can't do drive-by shootings on your manager with a hot dog cannon. I messed up
 I apologized. All I want to do is win games. I was not allowed to address the hot dog cannon issue. I had to return all of the hot dogs to the Marlins, even the one I was saving for later.

Handwritten note on notebook paper that reads: i would like to address an incident from a so-called "reporter" that happened in Miami. I was taken out of a game just because I missed a pop-up and then panicked and tried to throw a hot dog wrapper to the cut-off man. It didn't work because hit dog wrappers are much lighter than baseballs. This happens all of the time. Rob did not understand because he never played The Game. Many baseball players have been done-in by hit dog wrappers. I admit my conduct could have been more professional. I stole a bullpen cart, drove it on the field, and did donuts in the infield. I also fired a hit dog cannon repeatedly at the dugout while thrusting my hips as if to say "this is what a hot dog represents, anatomically." Fortunately Howie jumped on the city and took the hot dug cannon away while I was reloading it with bratwurst before I knocked off Rob's hat and caused a dangerous reaction of chemicals in hot dog juices and his hair product. There are unwritten rules in baseball and one of them is you can't do drive-by shootings on your manager with a hot dog cannon. I messed up I apologized. All I want to do is win games. I was not allowed to address the hot dog cannon issue. I had to return all of the hot dogs to the Marlins, even the one I was saving for later.

I would like to address the "Miami Incident"

13.02.2026 18:36 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Took the day off work today and this is what I’m doing.

13.02.2026 17:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dr. Sardonicus rizzes up baby gronk

13.02.2026 17:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Due to shrinkflation you’re now only getting ten dreams of Dr. Sardonicus for the same price

13.02.2026 16:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0