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Twitter is in prelim talks for TikTok (because they did so well with Vine) -- (link) - decline Aug 10, 11:20 6
- It would be glorious if they bought TikTok after ditching Vine. -- nm - David Aug 10, 11:25
- just bring back Vine and this is all over.. nobody wanted TikTok, they wanted Vine to never shut down. -- nm - colin Aug 10, 11:23 1
  - Exactly. -- nm - David Aug 10, 11:25
- TikTok is such a slut -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 11:21 2
  - TikTok gonna get passed around more than sides at a Thanksgiving Dinner -- nm - the ice Aug 10, 11:23
  - Stop Shaming Social Apps! -- nm - prayformojo Aug 10, 11:22
My single data point experience is that the LA Kings are hurting for ticket sales for next season. -- (edited) - JD Aug 10, 11:20 4
- I put my name on the Oilers Season Ticket list for funsies last summer. I got a call from them on May 22nd asking if I was still interested. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 11:28
- cause who the fuck knows if there'll be a season - Reagen Aug 10, 11:23 1
  - Actually in a complete sign of the times, the game I went to was THIS year, it just seems like January was so long ago -- nm - JD Aug 10, 11:25
- When Nashville was afraid they would have to sell, we got weekly calls even though we're three hours away. -- nm - David Aug 10, 11:20
Today's WFH Challenge: Performing Number Data Entry while 867-5309 plays. -- nm - Dano Aug 10, 11:18 2
- You got it. You got you got it. -- nm - David Aug 10, 11:20
- "One... ONE!" -- nm - Beavis Aug 10, 11:19
Simon Cowell is alive and tweeting after his emergency back surgery following the ebike accident. -- (link) - Mop Aug 10, 11:11 12
- My kids, both of whom are huge One Direction fans; fucking hate Cowell. They blame him for all the ills ever to befall that group -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 11:16 11
  - They need to think long term. This sets them up for their big reunion event during the Super Bowl halftime show. - Blue Punch Baron Aug 10, 11:27
  - I love it. Pre teen angsty anger towards presumed authority - Epiphany- White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 11:21 2
    - he did WHAT?!?? -- nm - colin Aug 10, 11:24 1
      - years ago. There was litigation. I think he is the only remaining member. They are still putting out music though. Touring. I call this the Panic At - Epiphany- White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 11:26
  - I'm not in the know. Ills such as...? -- nm - Mop Aug 10, 11:19 2
    - made Harry be a womanizer, made Zane go crazy, kept him awake, made Loui not be himself and not dress the way he wanted...the usual stuff! -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 11:22 1
      - Yeah... someone *made* me a womanizer! That's it! -- nm - Jared Leto Aug 10, 11:24
  - but... to be fair, One Direction only ever existed because of Cowell in the first place. -- nm - Andie Aug 10, 11:19 2
    - I made that point much to my shagrin -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 11:22 1
      - heh -- nm - Andie Aug 10, 11:28
  - Oh come on. Their direction was rather limited. - Spawn Aug 10, 11:19
MacGruber ordered to series at Peacock -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 11:11 4
- Produced by Bad Idea Jeans -- nm - David Aug 10, 11:16
- Seriously, guys. They'll green light *ANYTHING*. If you've got even the glimmer of an idea, pitch it! -- nm - Mop Aug 10, 11:12 2
  - Come on, rollo. We've got a game show to pitch. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 10, 11:27
  - It's like streaming, but with hams. -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 11:13
Not sure if this applies to everyone, but DashPass is doing BOGO Chipotle through 8/18. Code CHIPOTLE20 while supplies last. -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 11:09 1
- Thanks. I've been branching out with delivery of other restaurants instead of pizza. The ratio of being correct and warm to wrong/cold is very off. -- nm - Epiphany- White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 11:13
Choose Your Own Apology Video -- (link) - Qale Aug 10, 10:58 [youtube] 2
- The old lady turned me into a mouse and now I'm stuck at Chimney Rock. Did I do it right? -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 10, 11:25
- I have never seen an interactive You Tube video before that was super fun! -- nm - Epiphany- White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 11:20
Warner Bros layoffs - 650 staff this morning -- (link*) - the ice Aug 10, 10:54 3
- No surprise given the news dump on Friday night. WarnerMedia is a clusterf--- of a myriad of departments with too many presidents and CEOs. - Mop Aug 10, 11:03
- Search Party did *that* bad? -- nm - Dano Aug 10, 11:02 1
  - Don't act so surprised. -- nm - David Aug 10, 11:05
Hey Californians! My mother has heard that when an earthquake strikes, you're supposed to go outside rather than stay in the house. - David Aug 10, 10:53 8
- Move away from windows or anything that may fall (Tall bookcases, TVs, etc.) Get under a table or desk if possible. Old suggestion to stand in - Meg Aug 10, 11:13
- many people are killed by stuff falling/peeling off buildings, in collapses, most folks survive in voids -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 10, 11:09
- Thanks, everyone. I was on the phone and couldn't check, but that sounded wrong. -- nm - David Aug 10, 11:06
- don't go out, wires can come down and you'll get electrocuted or rubble fall on you. - colin Aug 10, 11:03
- There are certain things you're supposed to do. Running outside is not one of those things -- nm - con_carne Aug 10, 10:58 1
  - You could be asked to make your way outside eventually depending on where you are -- nm - con_carne Aug 10, 11:01
- I thought it was best to not try to get outside because that in itself is dangerous (ie - trying to walk/run during an earthquake)? -- nm - Andie Aug 10, 10:57 1
  - that said - i feel like BEING outside would be better if you are already there?? maybe? -- nm - Andie Aug 10, 10:58
wow, big ten and pac 12 not playing this year. holy. -- nm* - amanda Aug 10, 10:53 5
- It's going to be a very interesting NFL draft next spring -- nm - decline Aug 10, 11:11 1
  - I'll be sitting by my phone.....it's PFM's time to shine! - prayformojo Aug 10, 11:19
- this year, or just this fall? -- nm - prayformojo Aug 10, 11:07 2
  - "the big ten has voted to cancel the upcoming college football season..." -- nm - amanda Aug 10, 11:09 1
    - if it's the entire year, that's amazing. I was expecting them to push it to spring -- nm - prayformojo Aug 10, 11:11
I should watch the Burning Chrome cut of Fury Road tonight. - ReluctantCynic Aug 10, 10:36 8
- Where is that available? -- nm - spamlet Aug 10, 10:39 3
  - "Black & Chrome". I think it's a black & white cut. It's available on digital platforms like Vudu and iTunes. -- nm - Mop Aug 10, 10:52 1
    - Sorry, I knew what it was just not where it was available. -- nm - spamlet Aug 10, 10:56
  - RC's house -- nm - decline Aug 10, 10:42
- The what now? - Spawn Aug 10, 10:37 3
  - please don't tell us you think it's not. Read Dano's post below, then rewatch it maybe? -- nm - mud Aug 10, 10:58
  - 'Burning Chrome cut' -- nm - decline Aug 10, 10:38 1
    - Ah, thanks. - Spawn Aug 10, 10:40
IL: 1319 cases on 32,353 tests (4.07%). Seven day rolling average is 4.1%. My county is increasing for the past 5 days and is now at 5.5%. -- (link) - oblique Aug 10, 10:34
And Garth Davis (Lion) will direct Tron 3 with Jared Leto as the star. - David Aug 10, 10:29 14
- Hedlund was good in Legacy. Not sure why they are replacing him. -- nm - sycor Aug 10, 10:56 4
  - better than Jai Courtney would have been maybe. -- nm - Max Aug 10, 11:23 2
    - Hedlund, Courtney, Sam Worthington and Joel Kinnaman should play brothers in a film and then that film should never be released. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 11:26 1
      - *nods* -- nm - Judge Bane Aug 10, 11:27
  - *Adam Sandler I Disagree.gif* -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 11:06
- *come on* Disney, how do you create the original Matrix and then see the Matrix and completely drop the ball on this IP? -- nm - Max Aug 10, 10:49 1
  - Yeah I don't get the director choice, the guy has done nothing even remotely similar. -- nm - sycor Aug 10, 11:04
- That is not the news I was hoping to hear. - ReluctantCynic Aug 10, 10:34
- Just like Morbius, another movie I feel will never get released. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:34 5
  - I was wondering about Morbius today. Leto confirmed himself he is playing Andy Warhol. He is also recording new music - Epiphany- White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 10:53 4
    - Well Morbius is pretty much finished - eag Aug 10, 11:05 2
      - I want to see it. Even if its terrible. It looked interesting - Epiphany- White Widow Super Cheese Aug 10, 11:08 1
        
        Oh, for sure. But I am a GCFB. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 11:25
    - Wiki says 48. But yeah, I just don't feel he is right for Tron. -- nm - sycor Aug 10, 10:57
"Adria Arjona is set to star opposite Diego Luna in Disney Plus' Star Wars series based on the Cassian Andor character Luna played in Rogue One." -- nm - David Aug 10, 10:26
Speaking of "supergroups." I learned about this 15 member group (each from a diff country) - Now United. Which apparently hasn't charted much. -- (link) - MDH Aug 10, 10:25 [youtube] 6
- Just realized Simon Fuller did this one as well. Where's Qale/JD when I need to discuss the sample? -- nm - MDH Aug 10, 10:32 4
  - I recognize it instantly as slowed down. But naturally I can’t remember the song/artist. I didn’t watch the whole thing. I immediately was put off, - Qale Aug 10, 10:39 3
    - Uh, points to Now United for trying? But yeah, that's kind of off putting -- nm - JD Aug 10, 11:02
    - Your IM EXACTLY. -- nm - MDH Aug 10, 10:43
    - Ooh! Got it. Black Box featuring Marsha Wash. -- (link*) - Qale Aug 10, 10:41
- I feel like watching this puts you on some sort of list. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 10:29
part of Baltimore went boom? -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 10, 10:21 2
- Apparently -- (link) - oblique Aug 10, 10:26 1
  - HOLY...!!! -- nm - Mop Aug 10, 11:06
"Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen says that a merger between Dish and DirecTV is “inevitable”" - David Aug 10, 10:14 4
- I totally missed the break-up between DirecTV and AT&T. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 11:23
- Dish Network is a very strange stand-out in the media conglomerate industry. They seem to have bet on every wrong horse. - Mop Aug 10, 10:17 1
  - Hmm... what if we bought Tivo? -- nm - Dish Network Aug 10, 10:26
- The only thing keeping satellite TV relevant is Sunday Ticket -- nm - the ice Aug 10, 10:16
Simon Fuller working with TikTok to look for the next artificial super group. -- (link) - Mop Aug 10, 10:05
This is the kind of posts that are domination our district Facebook group that just break my heart... - oblique Aug 10, 10:04 30
- Heart-breaking. Utterly. - ReluctantCynic Aug 10, 10:25
- I can't imagine having school-age kids since the start of the pandemic. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 10:16 4
  - I think I remember my wife saying they were trying to get something set up at our church where kids could come in to "attend school" virtually in - oblique Aug 10, 10:25 3
    - Some schools that are elearning are opening up their cafeterias for this. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:38
    - That is a fantastic idea. - ReluctantCynic Aug 10, 10:35 1
      - Our school district is partnering with Boys and Girls club I believe to provide something similar. I think the problem is that most districts are - oblique Aug 10, 10:36
- Ugh. -- (edited) - znufrii, drinking heavily Aug 10, 10:14
- they should just have the kids get a job -- nm - decline Aug 10, 10:09
- What's a 504 plan? - David Aug 10, 10:06 21
  - My kids have them. They provide accommodations for students in school. They are kinda like "mini IEP" as I understand it. It isn't "special ed" but - oblique Aug 10, 10:09 11
    - Wait, how do you get those? -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 10:36 5
      - In IL we set up a meeting with the school to have the kids evaluated. It was a pretty standard process they go through. Since ours were getting it - oblique Aug 10, 10:38 4
        
        His *2nd* grade teacher wanted to hold him back and put him on meds. Seems like the concept would have been mentioned. -- nm* - Spawn Aug 10, 10:42 3
        
        Yeah, that is odd. I'm always wary of schools deciding treatment for kids. On the flip side, we have been exceptionally happy with our Psychologist - oblique Aug 10, 11:04 2
        
        We went to our doctor and he said, "What kind of grades is he getting?" "As". - Spawn Aug 10, 11:17 1
        
        Good. Our kids were also getting good grades but it sometimes was more work/hassle than it needed to be. A lot of that related to my son's auditory - oblique Aug 10, 11:20
    - Those are just called "adaptations" here. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 10:16 4
      - 504 refers to the federal statute number Like so many things. -- nm - spamlet Aug 10, 10:18 3
        
        Yeah. If anyone is truly interested... -- (link) - oblique Aug 10, 10:18 2
        
        This maps pretty closely to our IPPs and Adaptations. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 10:20 1
        
        It only took me until this part of the conversation to go "Oh, yeah. Canada" -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 10:21
  - You don't have one for Jack-Jack? - JD Aug 10, 10:09 4
    - Oh, he's getting a scholarship. We're getting several offers a week. - David Aug 10, 10:11 3
      - U of Chicago right? - znufrii, drinking heavily Aug 10, 11:05 1
        
        Oh, he's got like eight universities bidding. -- nm - David Aug 10, 11:18
      - I expect there's some open varsity spots too. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 10:13
  - college savings plan that most states have. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 10, 10:07 3
    - that's 529 -- nm - decline Aug 10, 10:11 1
      - well ok, i be wrong. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 10, 10:12
    - Not that. It's a special ed learning plan for students with learning disabilities. -- nm - Mop Aug 10, 10:10
"I don’t understand two things:I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead." -- (link) - Steven Soderbergh Aug 10, 09:56 24 1
- I believe the stort is that Hardy had his son on set and he asked "what happens if daddy falls?" "well son, I guess he goes under the tires" -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 10:14
- One reason I tend to not enjoy big budget blockbusters is so many action scenes are not well shot from a holistic perspective. - Dano Aug 10, 10:09 10
  - Re-post: The problem with action movies today -- (link) - con_carne Aug 10, 10:18 [youtube]
  - The Russo’s best skill is how they frame and place the action scenes to give a reasonable sense of scope. - Will Hunting Aug 10, 10:12 4
    - Continuity is a separate issue though -- nm - con_carne Aug 10, 10:17
    - Yup, and there's a lot of thought along the lines of the first Captain America/Winter Soldier encounter being on the ground level. - David Aug 10, 10:16 2
      - huh -- nm - prayformojo Aug 10, 10:21 1
        
        You can actually take it to another level. He jumps out of a plane in the first scene before later descending in the elevator. -- (edited) - David Aug 10, 10:31
  - It's the reason why the Transformers films fail so completely. There's zero cohesion. -- nm - David Aug 10, 10:11 3
    - Yeah, they're the biggest CGI vomit offenders, but others are to a lesser extent. -- nm - Dano Aug 10, 10:36
    - The slo-mo bot vs bot fights are like watching a kaleidoscope, but they do have some great long distance shots. -- nm - Max Aug 10, 10:19 1
      - Visual noise. Like shaking a box of car parts. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 10:25
- I love that they let George Miller direct supposed kid movies so we got things like animals trying to drown each other in Babe: Pig in the City and - JD Aug 10, 10:06 4
  - For me, the 'live' action Dumbo is the worst offender of synthetic cgi for no good purpose. - Max Aug 10, 10:42
  - I love PitC unreservedly but it's funny to see how he reused Mad Max shots in it - Reagen Aug 10, 10:12 2
    - I need to rewatch PitC. I loved it, but I don't think I've seen it since it came out. -- nm - Dano Aug 10, 10:34 1
      - we watched it a couple months ago and it holds up to my memory. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 10:39
- What's the polecat sequence? -- nm - David Aug 10, 10:05 6
  - The polecats are the guys that are on those 20 foot flexible poles that allow them to directly attack the War Rig while the vehicle that pole - JD Aug 10, 10:08
  - I assume it was the chase scene across the desert with the guys at the end of the long flagpoles. -- nm - Mop Aug 10, 10:07
  - I *think* it's the car chase sequence where the guys are on those long poles trying to get on the truck -- nm - decline Aug 10, 10:07 3
    - this one's better -- (link) - Reagen Aug 10, 10:21 [youtube] 1
      - It's like Burning Man on wheels. -- nm - Max Aug 10, 10:27
    - Yeah, this stuff -- (link) - Reagen Aug 10, 10:09 [youtube]
Wait, you mean Search Party didn't turn the fortunes of HBO Max around? -- nm - Dano Aug 10, 09:54
Hmm, I should write an ST component that pulls in new podcast episode listings ... -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 09:52 5
- I'm in favor of this. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 10, 10:25
- and parallel universe posts. I want to know if there's anywhere that Spawn doesn't suck. -- nm - David Aug 10, 09:55 3
  - The same one where Babe Ruth does. -- nm - spamlet Aug 10, 10:20 1
    - That's all of them, spammy. It's one of the infinite truths. -- nm - David Aug 10, 10:21
  - Bery, make sure to code for NULL values. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 10:07

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