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Utilities push back against rooftop solar -- (link) - oblique May 9, 12:53 5
- One of these days I should get around to actually pricing out a system to see how much it would cost. - znufrii May 9, 13:04
- I am shocked! -- nm - sycor May 9, 12:59
- i miss the good old days where solar would literally roll the meter backwards. -- nm - colin May 9, 12:56
- bastards -- nm - decline May 9, 12:55 1
  - and solar delivers power at peak usage rates - hottest, sunniest days... so solar owners should be getting stupid high rates back. -- nm - colin May 9, 12:56
Framed- 2 - Diva May 9, 12:51 1
- 4 - prayformojo May 9, 12:54
hear hear! -- (link) - mud May 9, 12:47 1
- darn, I don't have my reading glasses on and I thought the subject was "bear bear!" -- nm - crash davis May 9, 12:55
Nicole Kidman...Pulitzer Prize winner -- (link) - Remlik May 9, 12:41 5
- I think maybe I don't know what a Pulitzer Prize actually is. Because this confuses me. -- nm - sycor May 9, 12:49
- I was gonna joke that her AMC ads weren't *that* good, but I guess someone thought they were. -- nm - TWuG May 9, 12:44 1
  - I actually think it is very well done. -- nm - Spawn May 9, 12:58
- One of the fave modified versions -- (link) - budice May 9, 12:44 1
  - "Driver" isn't just his last name... -- nm - Diva May 9, 12:59
In other "web3" news: UST stablecoin struggling to retain its peg. This is an algorithmic coin, not one backed by assets -- (link) - oblique May 9, 12:41 4
- after looking at that site is there any NFT or crypto that *isn't* a scam? -- nm - decline May 9, 12:55 3
  - "If you bought $1000 of a bitcoin ETF when Matt Damon's crypto ad premiered on October 28 last year, you would now have $554." -- (link) - mud May 9, 12:59 1
    - sound retirement planning -- nm - decline May 9, 13:01
  - they're all ponzi schemes of varying complexity. -- nm - colin May 9, 12:57
Stupid phone: REDrStrange2cameo spoil -- (edited) - Spawn May 9, 12:32 2
- I mean, sure, but spoils - TWuG May 9, 12:41 1
  - Sadly, people look more favorably upon bad things if they are in their favor. spoil - Spawn May 9, 12:47
Yanks Nasty Nestor another gem 7.1 IP 0 ER 1 H 4 BB 11 Ks -- nm - budice May 9, 12:28 2
- had the no hitter going there for awhile -- nm - Jovian May 9, 12:30 1
  - people blabbed on twitter to jinx it -- nm - budice May 9, 12:31
‘Dirty Dancing’ Sequel With Jennifer Grey Sets Director, Eyes 2024 Release -- (link) - MDH May 9, 12:27 6
- Story: Baby is a civil rights lawyer. Penny is now the manager of the resort. Penny hires Baby to help her with discrimination case that one of her - Andie May 9, 12:39
- Didn't they already do one? - spamlet May 9, 12:34
- Uhm... Dirty Ghost Dancing? -- nm - Spawn May 9, 12:28 3
  - Ghost 2 w/Holo-Swayze -- nm - budice May 9, 12:29 2
    - A dirty dancing ghost is the thing of nightmares. -- nm - Spawn May 9, 12:36 1
      - J Grey married to Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson) for 18 years. Divorced immediately after their kid turned 18 -- nm* - budice May 9, 12:37
Nick Cave announced his son Jethro died, (30) no word on how/why -- (link) - zeitgeist May 9, 12:24 1
- Two of his children, that's just devastating. -- nm - Andie May 9, 12:35
LIR: LMS if you get to meet Jodie, I need you to convince her to record a full version of Fantasy that is played during Free Guy. - sycor May 9, 12:21 2
- You mean this? NMBL - howie May 9, 12:38 [youtube] 1
  - Yes that version, but like the entire song. That's still just he chorus looped. - sycor May 9, 12:45
Bitcoin $30,000 -- (link) - budice May 9, 12:17 2
- You can't blame the stock market on me. My proceeds are still in cash (so I guess I'm making money?) But yeah, the bitcoin I bought this year - oblique May 9, 12:23 1
  - Now I need to figure when to make my IRA contribution for this year. -- nm - Dano May 9, 12:30
Remind me, didnt the Darkhold play a part in Agents of Shield? -- nm - Jovian May 9, 12:02 6
- What's that? -- nm - Kevin Feige May 9, 12:03
- Absolutely. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 9, 12:03 4
  - it was the whole 'matrix' universe thing right? - Jovian May 9, 12:07 3
    - Yes, it's season 4 with Aida, Mace/Patriot, and Ghost Rider. -- nm - David May 9, 12:11 1
      - Yea that was a great season. My memory is shot. -- nm - Jovian May 9, 12:15
    - Yes -- nm - Beryllium May 9, 12:08
DTLSI: Shawnee 76, Hartford 68. - Will Hunting May 9, 11:55 4
- Is Buffalo-Branson going to be a scrim as well? -- nm - spamlet May 9, 12:11 3
  - Yes. I will propose to Branson. -- nm - Dano May 9, 12:17 2
    - And though I'm sure you've seen the result: Shawnee 78, Buffalo 66 on DVD. -- nm - Dano May 9, 12:23 1
      - I saw that and laughed. - spamlet May 9, 12:33
Seeding today's music station with Blue Orchid has been a wise choice so far. - Beryllium May 9, 11:55
We had a chance to replace a pantry door. The other one fit well. This new one, exact same size / cut of hardware.... is off by a quarter inch. - Will Hunting May 9, 11:51
Between Top Gun and Witness, I had a big ole' 80s crush on Kelly McGillis -- nm - crash davis May 9, 11:46 2
- A friend of mine in Navy ROTC did his summer cruise out of Miramar when they were filming. He met Tom Cruise in the officers club one night - crash davis May 9, 11:51 1
  - other than being in a cult, I don't think I've heard many bad things about him. -- nm - Beaker May 9, 12:55
FBI, FBI Most Wanted, and FBI International all handed 2 season renewals. -- nm - MDH May 9, 11:44 2
- The Equalizer also gets a 2 season pickup. -- nm - MDH May 9, 11:45 1
  - oh really? I haven't been watching, but I'm glad to hear it. -- nm - Beryllium May 9, 11:56
Happy 53rd birthday Calliso! - Remlik May 9, 11:38 [Attachment] 3
- Sing for me! -- nm - Baruno May 9, 11:58
- I was like, whoa, you're 11 days early, buddy! - Dark Callisto May 9, 11:39 1
  - heh -- nm - Remlik May 9, 11:40
Hmm, I was planning to pack a summer wardrobe for my trip next month. Looking at Portland weather now I'm not so sure :/ -- nm - Meg May 9, 11:17
Y'all GenXers hating on Top Gun on B2 are wrong. - RelutantCynic May 9, 11:16 24
- RC is right. It was an iconic film. I bought a cassette of the soundtrack and it was my work out tape for a while. - crash davis May 9, 12:03
- Speaking of Gen Xers, off topic I know but I'm about to walk into my cellphone provider and announce vociferously to any and all salespeople who... - Mel Profit May 9, 11:35 4
  - "I'm not going to pay a lot for this muffler" -- nm - rollo May 9, 12:37
  - "someone get the old man one of the bricks out back" -- nm - Remlik May 9, 11:40
  - "Chocolate or Strawberry, sir?" -- nm - Beryllium May 9, 11:37 1
    - L3! -- nm - St. Epiphany May 9, 12:24
- All them guys were gay, right? - Mel Profit May 9, 11:30 8
  - Let's just say that 18-year-old RC was inspired to join the Navy - RelutantCynic May 9, 11:53 3
    - I worked at a sorority. I used to laugh when they'd rent Top Gun and just play the volleyball scene. -- nm - crash davis May 9, 12:01
    - Yeah, I knew a lot of people who thought they'd like to be pilots in the Navy or AF at the time. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 9, 12:01
    - Speaking of which ... -- (link) - RelutantCynic May 9, 11:58
  - "We're going in from behind, a little low" -- nm - budice May 9, 11:43
  - Including the "I want some butts!" tower guy! -- nm - Max May 9, 11:38
  - Chock full of Ho Yay -- nm - Baruno May 9, 11:34 1
    - Confession: I've never actually watched it, nor felt a need to. -- nm - Baruno May 9, 11:34
- Top Gun is irrelevant to me. - Beryllium May 9, 11:17 8
  - *nerd-laughs* -- nm - Baruno May 9, 11:32
  - If that's the case, you have to watch Miracle Mile -- nm - JD May 9, 11:23 3
    - great great movie -- nm - Jovian May 9, 12:27
    - haunting...that movie is haunting -- nm - St. Epiphany May 9, 12:26
    - yyuuuuppppp -- nm - Remlik May 9, 12:18
  - As a bit of trivia ... - RelutantCynic May 9, 11:22 1
    - TIL.....!!! -- nm - JD May 9, 11:26
  - Oh, but I should say, Hot Shots isn't irrelevant for me. And it couldn't exist without Top Gun. -- nm - Beryllium May 9, 11:19
Genuine question about Avatar. At what point is a movie considered "Animated"? Does it have to be 100%? Is Roger Rabbit an animated movie? -- (edited) - Volnelk May 9, 11:10 9
- Movement is created by actors that is captured and rendered...animated is wholly created by the one or more workers via graphics -- nm - zeitgeist May 9, 11:41 1
  - Except a lot of animation does rely on filming humans to capture natural movement. -- nm - TWuG May 9, 12:23
- Motion capture isn't animation though (at least by the AMPAS definition) -- nm - Roger More May 9, 11:25
- I'd say so. I'd also throw rotoscope into the genre of "animation." - RelutantCynic May 9, 11:17 4
  - So the Disney inappropriately (well IMO) termed 'live action' remakes qualify? Lion King, Jungle Book? -- nm - JD May 9, 11:25 3
    - I agree with Mop and Roger More. - RelutantCynic May 9, 11:55 1
      - So do I but I would argue that the Lion King remake has the vast majority of screen time given to 'animated' elements so that it is an animated film -- nm - JD May 9, 12:13
    - I've always wondered about this, and as per Roger More's comment, these are all considered "live action". -- nm* - Mop May 9, 11:42
- Is A Scanner Darkly animated? -- nm - Beryllium May 9, 11:17
I think my big issues with Doctor Strange are (spoils) -- (edited) - TWuG May 9, 10:52 17
- Also, I mentioned the tweak but, WandaVision spoiler - Spawn May 9, 11:24 1
  - Yeah, they added that a few weeks after the season finale. -- nm - David May 9, 11:36
- Counterpoints (spoilers) - David May 9, 11:12 14
  - To point 7 - TWuG May 9, 11:32 8
    - I might need a flow chart to understand your first statement. (spoilers) - David May 9, 11:48 1
      - To explain my IM above - TWuG May 9, 12:39
    - And another point Spoils - TWuG May 9, 11:43 5
      - Spoilers - David May 9, 11:53 4
        
        One thing (spoils) - eag May 9, 12:01 3
        
        Spoilers - David May 9, 12:08 2
        
        (spoils) - eag May 9, 12:19 1
        
        They actually cut about 30 minutes. There was a 2 hour 36 minute cut floating around for a while. -- nm - David May 9, 12:23
  - Disagreed with 2. spoil - Spawn May 9, 11:26 4
    - Spoilers - David May 9, 11:49
    - Except (spoils) - eag May 9, 11:37
    - spoils - Dark Callisto May 9, 11:28 1
      - Yep -- nm - TWuG May 9, 11:38
CVS, Walgreens Limit Baby Formula Sales Amid Supply Shortages -- (link) - budice May 9, 10:51 2
- Now is the perfect opportunity for my wet nurse app to take off! - Baruno May 9, 11:37 1
  - Wow, you do realize that you have come up with something that is actually needed. - zeitgeist May 9, 11:44
Top Gun fans - "What's Your Call Sign?" -- (link) - Andie May 9, 10:40 22
- Spawn -- nm - Spawn May 9, 11:24
- Hardshell -- (pic) - RelutantCynic May 9, 11:13 [Attachment]
- Swaggy. They know me so well. -- nm - Baruno May 9, 11:06
- Paranoiac. (Kidding; I nope'd out when it asked for camera access.) -- nm - Beryllium May 9, 11:06 6
  - ditto. We can all be Ghost. -- nm - Max May 9, 11:29 2
    - Swayze or Demi? -- nm - budice May 9, 11:31 1
      - "Negative, Whoopie Cushion. The pattern is full." -- nm - Beryllium May 9, 11:35
  - Same -- nm - budice May 9, 11:14
  - Yup -- nm - Meg May 9, 11:08
  - Technically, first I nope'd out when it asked for my name. - Beryllium May 9, 11:07
- Tornado -- nm - Volnelk May 9, 11:05
- Tsunami -- nm - prayformojo May 9, 11:03
- Soar (although I think they misspelled it) -- nm - Mop May 9, 11:00
- Imagine! If Top Gun hadn't been delayed, we'd never have had this! -- nm - Mop May 9, 10:59
- Wisdom -- nm - Remlik May 9, 10:57
- Scorpion....cool effect -- nm - zeitgeist May 9, 10:56
- Serpent - St. Epiphany May 9, 10:53
- whitecap. ugh. -- nm - amanda May 9, 10:53
- Wild Orchid -- nm - budice May 9, 10:52 1
  - "You took a wild orchid ... and turned it blue" - hmm, no, that's not the right lyric. -- nm - Beryllium May 9, 11:28
- Sapphire -- nm - Dark Callisto May 9, 10:52
- Blockchain, lol no. -- nm - znufrii May 9, 10:43
Let's take look....that's my line? -- (link) - JD May 9, 10:38 [youtube] 1
- If this is the first anyone's heard of Chris McCausland this is another hysterical clip. He's so funny. -- (link) - Krusty May 9, 10:50 [youtube]
Riiiight. Well, evidently that dessert bar contained more egg than I was eggspecting. - Beryllium May 9, 10:34 4
- So cause I'm apparently not right, I'm picturing you swallowing whole eggs, snake like.... - JD May 9, 11:28
- Egg toots are the smelliest of all toots -- nm - Baruno May 9, 10:45 1
  - Yes, but that's not my issue. Not yet, anyway. Currently having swelling/discomfort in esophagus + burping. - Beryllium May 9, 10:49
- oh no... -- nm - Diva May 9, 10:37
Right about now. -- nm - RelutantCynic May 9, 10:31

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