Re: tOfficial: "Today I Learned" (TIL) thread

[tGreenWay]

A couple conversations with lawyer folk in the neighborhood, one of whom is my closest friend. Both agree the prosecution so far doesn't have enough to meet the standard. Tomorrow’s cross could be interesting, though. It’s also possible the jury simply wants its pound of flesh for what happened. I haven’t paid close attention, but the two I spoke with have watched every minute.

I know zero about law but want 10 pounds of flesh. Those parents bought their clearly disturbed child a fucking gun.

Lots of people do. It’s human nature. But vengeance can’t be a part of our justice system. There are already way too many people who would prefer the old way of frontier justice without bothering with courts.

[Robert J Sakimano]

Today I learned that there is a person named "Killer Mike".

[GRR Spartan]

I learned you can’t chase your dog when it runs out on a lake with thin ce and you can’t fly fish standing on a partially iced over river.

[Floyd Robertson]

There is a beverage made of mushrooms that calls itself coffee.

[gomersbro]

Viagra may help prevent Alzheimer's? Even scientists weren't aware of this. I can't wait to sign up for the study.

https://gizmodo.com/viagra-and-similar-drugs-might-help-keep-alzheimers-at-1851235907

[Floyd Robertson]

Viagra may help prevent Alzheimer's? Even scientists weren't aware of this. I can't wait to sign up for the study.

https://gizmodo.com/viagra-and-similar-drugs-might-help-keep-alzheimers-at-1851235907

Sounds like they have pretty hard evidence.

[DWags]

Viagra may help prevent Alzheimer's? Even scientists weren't aware of this. I can't wait to sign up for the study.

https://gizmodo.com/viagra-and-similar-drugs-might-help-keep-alzheimers-at-1851235907

If my Alzheimer’s is kept at bay for longer than 4 hours, should I contact my doctor?

[Nordic]

Self-immolation
self-im·mo·la·tion
/ˌselfˌiməˈlāSHən/
noun
the action of setting fire to oneself, especially as a form of protest or sacrifice.

[Floyd Robertson]

The band Canned Heat took it's name from bluesman Tommy Johnson's 1928 recording "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat".

[tGreenWay]

Today I learned that there is a person named "Killer Mike".

Did you know there was a movie called Mike’s Murder?

[tGreenWay]

The band Canned Heat took it's name from bluesman Tommy Johnson's 1928 recording "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat".

I actually think I heard that on Casey’s Top 40 show. lol Now, on with the countdown…

[tGreenWay]

Today I learned that there is a person named "Killer Mike".

Did you know there was a movie called Mike’s Murder?

And oh by the way, Joe Jackson did the soundtrack for the movie and it’s great.

[GRR Spartan]

Thru a sibling I learned that Change Healthcare, the company that acts coordinates payments between its owner United Health and pharmacies, clinics and hospitals has been held hostage by ransomware group Blackcat.

Means your local pharmacy can't fill your prescriptions. One reason is they went paperless and many doctors offices /clinics got rid of paper prescription pads because of theft and fraud.

[Trapper Gus]

Thru a sibling I learned that Change Healthcare, the company that acts coordinates payments between its owner United Health and pharmacies, clinics and hospitals has been held hostage by ransomware group Blackcat.

Means your local pharmacy can't fill your prescriptions. One reason is they went paperless and many doctors offices /clinics got rid of paper prescription pads because of theft and fraud.

Back to the Willy Sutton quote, then...

[Floyd Robertson]

Thru a sibling I learned that Change Healthcare, the company that acts coordinates payments between its owner United Health and pharmacies, clinics and hospitals has been held hostage by ransomware group Blackcat.

Means your local pharmacy can't fill your prescriptions. One reason is they went paperless and many doctors offices /clinics got rid of paper prescription pads because of theft and fraud.

Change Healthcare is part of UHC's Optum business unit or subsidiary, which in the last quarter of 2023 had operational earnings of $15.9 billion while United Health Group as a whole had earnings of $32.4 billion. That's pretty impressive, or gross, depending on how you look at it.

[Jake from State Farm]

Thru a sibling I learned that Change Healthcare,  the company that acts coordinates payments between its owner United Health and pharmacies, clinics and hospitals has been held hostage by ransomware group Blackcat.

Means your local pharmacy can't fill your prescriptions.  One reason is they went paperless and many doctors offices /clinics got rid of paper prescription pads because of theft and fraud.

I just got transferred to Optum for my prescriptions, supposedly it's more convenient. So instead of going to the local pharmacy and picking up my auto-fill prescription Optum will send me a thirty day supply with the same copay. No savings whatsoever except in time. I'd much rather interact with a human when it comes to my prescriptions instead of an unwavering website.

[DWags]

Today I learned that two spaces after a period and a sentence are no longer needed. Only one. When I do voice to text, I think it automatically does that but when I am on my computer typing, I will never be able to stop automatically putting two spaces after the period.

Who am I Joking? I suck at English. There is no rule that I will not break or no word that I won’t misspell. I am 0-31 years of losing to my wife in scrabble. That is not a joke. I have never once beat her.

[tGreenWay]

Today I learned that two spaces after a period and a sentence are no longer needed. Only one. When I do voice to text, I think it automatically does that but when I am on my computer typing, I will never be able to stop automatically putting two spaces after the period.

Who am I Joking? I suck at English. There is no rule that I will not break or no word that I won’t misspell. I am 0-31 years of losing to my wife in scrabble. That is not a joke. I have never once beat her.

Where have you been, Dwags? The one-space, two-space debate has been raging for years. Even Bloom County weighed in on the issue.
btw, I’ve never beaten my wife at Scrabble, either, because she cheats. She says you can add an ‘s’ to any word and it counts for all the points. Fucking infuriating.

[The Pantry]

Today I learned that two spaces after a period and a sentence are no longer needed. Only one. When I do voice to text, I think it automatically does that but when I am on my computer typing, I will never be able to stop automatically putting two spaces after the period.

Who am I Joking? I suck at English. There is no rule that I will not break or no word that I won’t misspell. I am 0-31 years of losing to my wife in scrabble. That is not a joke. I have never once beat her.

Fuck the new period police. Always two spaces between sentences.

Your wife will continue to kick your ass at scrabble. Sorry

[AvgMSUJoe]

Today I learned that two spaces after a period and a sentence are no longer needed. Only one. When I do voice to text, I think it automatically does that but when I am on my computer typing, I will never be able to stop automatically putting two spaces after the period.

Who am I Joking? I suck at English. There is no rule that I will not break or no word that I won’t misspell. I am 0-31 years of losing to my wife in scrabble. That is not a joke. I have never once beat her.

Where have you been, Dwags? The one-space, two-space debate has been raging for years. Even Bloom County weighed in on the issue.
btw, I’ve never beaten my wife at Scrabble, either, because she cheats. She says you can add an ‘s’ to any word and it counts for all the points. Fucking infuriating.

Bro, your sounding like a blue with that cheating talk... Just get better or play for the love of the game.

[DWags]

Today I learned that two spaces after a period and a sentence are no longer needed. Only one. When I do voice to text, I think it automatically does that but when I am on my computer typing, I will never be able to stop automatically putting two spaces after the period.

Who am I Joking? I suck at English. There is no rule that I will not break or no word that I won’t misspell. I am 0-31 years of losing to my wife in scrabble. That is not a joke. I have never once beat her.

Where have you been, Dwags? The one-space, two-space debate has been raging for years. Even Bloom County weighed in on the issue.
btw, I’ve never beaten my wife at Scrabble, either, because she cheats. She says you can add an ‘s’ to any word and it counts for all the points. Fucking infuriating.

Mine pulls words out of her ass that I challenge but sure enough…, not kidding. I learned mikva and migawd. Learned both. Some how that bitch knew them. She’s way smarter than she lets on.

[tGreenWay]

Where have you been, Dwags? The one-space, two-space debate has been raging for years. Even Bloom County weighed in on the issue.
btw, I’ve never beaten my wife at Scrabble, either, because she cheats. She says you can add an ‘s’ to any word and it counts for all the points. Fucking infuriating.

Mine pulls words out of her ass that I challenge but sure enough…, not kidding. I learned mikva and migawd. Learned both. Some how that bitch knew them. She’s way smarter than she lets on.

She married you, DWags. Make of that what you will.

[tGreenWay]

Where have you been, Dwags? The one-space, two-space debate has been raging for years. Even Bloom County weighed in on the issue.
btw, I’ve never beaten my wife at Scrabble, either, because she cheats. She says you can add an ‘s’ to any word and it counts for all the points. Fucking infuriating.

Bro, your sounding like a blue with that cheating talk... Just get better or play for the love of the game.

The blue wall condones the cheating. I’m on the side of the righteous.

[Robert J Sakimano]

TIL there is a dude named "Reed Lebster" on the hockey team.

[Pervis Muldoon]

Today I learned that two spaces after a period and a sentence are no longer needed. Only one. When I do voice to text, I think it automatically does that but when I am on my computer typing, I will never be able to stop automatically putting two spaces after the period.

Who am I Joking? I suck at English. There is no rule that I will not break or no word that I won’t misspell. I am 0-31 years of losing to my wife in scrabble. That is not a joke. I have never once beat her.

I reluctantly retrained myself and use the single space now, but I like the double space better. It looks like the end of a thought. A single space after a period looks less like a stopping point than a comma does.

[Pervis Muldoon]

Today I learned that two spaces after a period and a sentence are no longer needed. Only one. When I do voice to text, I think it automatically does that but when I am on my computer typing, I will never be able to stop automatically putting two spaces after the period.

Who am I Joking? I suck at English. There is no rule that I will not break or no word that I won’t misspell. I am 0-31 years of losing to my wife in scrabble. That is not a joke. I have never once beat her.

Where have you been, Dwags? The one-space, two-space debate has been raging for years. Even Bloom County weighed in on the issue.
btw, I’ve never beaten my wife at Scrabble, either, because she cheats. She says you can add an ‘s’ to any word and it counts for all the points. Fucking infuriating.

I was raised playing Scrabble that same way, where if you added onto a word you could get all of the points and bonus points from the original word. It was quite a shock when I left home and found out how Scrabble was played on the mean streets.

[tGreenWay]

Where have you been, Dwags? The one-space, two-space debate has been raging for years. Even Bloom County weighed in on the issue.
btw, I’ve never beaten my wife at Scrabble, either, because she cheats. She says you can add an ‘s’ to any word and it counts for all the points. Fucking infuriating.

I was raised playing Scrabble that same way, where if you added onto a word you could get all of the points and bonus points from the original word. It was quite a shock when I left home and found out how Scrabble was played on the mean streets.

By any chance were you born in New England? They seem to breed Scrabble cheaters out there.

[AvgMSUJoe]

Wait... So shes trys to reuse the bonus under the word she didnt make? Yeah, cheating.
I would document that for future proceedings. (Just in case you need documentation for future proceedings)
https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/how-to-score-scrabble-plays-410932

[MiamiSpartan]

Today I learned that two spaces after a period and a sentence are no longer needed. Only one. When I do voice to text, I think it automatically does that but when I am on my computer typing, I will never be able to stop automatically putting two spaces after the period.

Who am I Joking? I suck at English. There is no rule that I will not break or no word that I won’t misspell. I am 0-31 years of losing to my wife in scrabble. That is not a joke. I have never once beat her.

I reluctantly retrained myself and use the single space now, but I like the double space better. It looks like the end of a thought. A single space after a period looks less like a stopping point than a comma does.

I learned double spaces after a sentence and continue to use it, and always will unless I accidentally leave 1. A) it is cleaner, and B) I don't give a fuck about changing.

People say you don't need to do that any more. Fine, duly noted. I don't need to. I WANT to.

[The Pantry]

I reluctantly retrained myself and use the single space now, but I like the double space better. It looks like the end of a thought. A single space after a period looks less like a stopping point than a comma does.

I learned double spaces after a sentence and continue to use it, and always will unless I accidentally leave 1. A) it is cleaner, and B) I don't give a fuck about changing.

People say you don't need to do that any more. Fine, duly noted. I don't need to. I WANT to.

Absofuckinglutely.

[tGreenWay]

Wait... So shes trys to reuse the bonus under the word she didnt make? Yeah, cheating.
I would document that for future proceedings. (Just in case you need documentation for future proceedings)
https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/how-to-score-scrabble-plays-410932

She adds an ‘s’ to any word on the board and takes the points for the entire word. Been doing it for years. I married a board game cheater. She minus well cheer for umaa.

[tGreenWay]

TIL there is a dude named "Reed Lebster" on the hockey team.

As noted, play Rock Lobster when he’s on the ice; get an NIL deal with Red Lobster. Double win.

[AvgMSUJoe]

TIL there is a dude named "Reed Lebster" on the hockey team.

As noted, play Rock Lobster when he’s on the ice; get an NIL deal with Red Lobster. Double win.

Semi-related saw B52s at the auditorium in probably 1990... Toad the wet sprocket opened. Fun show.

[NigelUno]

As noted, play Rock Lobster when he’s on the ice; get an NIL deal with Red Lobster. Double win.

Semi-related saw B52s at the auditorium in probably 1990... Toad the wet sprocket opened. Fun show.

I think I was there. '89 or '90 sounds about right.

[Cameron]

TIL Anakin Skywalker was a cerveza guy.

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[MiamiSpartan]

TIL Anakin Skywalker was a cerveza guy.

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These are hilarious. Here's an article on it from the comments section. The article is in Spanish, but toward the bottom are Youtube vids of this and 3 others: https://www.vidaextra.com/cine/en-el-canal-13-de-chile-los-personajes-de-star-wars-simulaban-que-agarraban-cervezas-cuando-las-peliculas-se-iban-a-publicidad

[Rick Saunders]

Today I learned that two spaces after a period and a sentence are no longer needed. Only one. When I do voice to text, I think it automatically does that but when I am on my computer typing, I will never be able to stop automatically putting two spaces after the period.

Who am I Joking? I suck at English. There is no rule that I will not break or no word that I won’t misspell. I am 0-31 years of losing to my wife in scrabble. That is not a joke. I have never once beat her.

Where have you been, Dwags? The one-space, two-space debate has been raging for years. Even Bloom County weighed in on the issue.
btw, I’ve never beaten my wife at Scrabble, either, because she cheats. She says you can add an ‘s’ to any word and it counts for all the points. Fucking infuriating.

geese

[Rick Saunders]

As noted, play Rock Lobster when he’s on the ice; get an NIL deal with Red Lobster. Double win.

Semi-related saw B52s at the auditorium in probably 1990... Toad the wet sprocket opened. Fun show.

Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland is one of the great under-rated deep cuts.

[AvgMSUJoe]

Some dude flew a bomber under the Mackinac

[The Pantry]

Some dude flew a bomber under the Mackinac

Dad (B-17 pilot) talked about that stunt a number of times while we were crossing the bridge. He didn't think it'd be tough to do...except for the penalties after doing it. Too bad no one either in the plane or on the ground recorded it.

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