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Hey, hollywood big shot, anyone you could refer me to for my client who's trying to recover her websites? - Dark Callisto Oct 26, 13:50 5
- do you know where in Cali the site designer is located? (Bay Area or SoCal?) -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 13:51 4
  - You're gonna break his knees, aren't you? -- nm - Mop Oct 26, 14:04 1
    - well, Meg is but yeah -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 14:04
  - He's in Oceanside, so SoCal. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 26, 13:55 1
    - (we don't claim San Diego as part of SoCal ftr, but checking with some folks!) -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 14:03
what an asshole: -- (link) - mud Oct 26, 13:50 9
- ... I guess this answers the question of who should've replaced Keanu in Dracula, though. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 14:02
- Yoooooooo Matt. Not cool, man. -- nm - Qale Oct 26, 13:59
- Interesting coming from a guy who’s incredibly fortunate to be alive. If the talented actors is the line, maybe God thought Perry wasn’t good? - Will Hunting Oct 26, 13:56 2
  - the best he ever was (or will ever be), was in The Whole Nine Yards. - Jovian Oct 26, 14:03
  - Keanu turned down Speed 2. There's yer original thought, matty perr. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 14:01
- If you're going to pick a celebrity to throw under the bus (completely inappropriately), could you DO any better than Mr Speed? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 13:55
- Makes *drinky drinky* motion. -- nm - Mop Oct 26, 13:54
- oh Matthew, you only wish you had the career Keanu has. - Jovian Oct 26, 13:51 1
  - I've heard it said that addicts become psychologically frozen in the developmental stage at which they first became addicted. - Beryllium Oct 26, 13:58
so not only was Spawn criminally late to Ted Lasso, but i'm reliably informed his favorite character is fucking Nate - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 13:44
Reuters: Twitter is losing its most active users, internal documents show -- (link) - budice Oct 26, 13:34 16
- anyway, repeal Section 230 so that online companies can be held liable for their content the same way as traditional media and you bet they'll clean - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 13:51 3
  - They will suddenly use the copyright infringement bots to sniff out all the child pornography in a jiffy. -- nm - Qale Oct 26, 14:01
  - Realistically, I don't think they will. I think it'd be easier to just shut down and the same would apply to this forum if section 230 is repealed. -- nm - JD Oct 26, 13:56 1
    - i promise you Facebook et al will not shut down and in fact all these platforms already enact much more stringent moderation elsewhere, e.g., Germany - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 14:04
- The funniest part of this was discussed yesterday - the definition of a "heavy" twitter user. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 13:42
- When their moderation policy ignores dangerous and harassing posts/users, and also takes down responses to those abuses, it's - TWuG Oct 26, 13:41
- I mean, Jovian's right that it's a remarkable tool, but it's also absolutely gone to shit. I wouldn't miss 99.99% of it. -- nm - David Oct 26, 13:40 5
  - "Whaddya gonna do, not use our site? Muwahahahaha" -- nm - Right at the 3rd act of every social media movie Oct 26, 13:48 1
    - “Shit. Misplayed that one.” -- nm - Tom, looking over his shoulder Oct 26, 13:49
  - the disinformation is the point - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 13:43 2
    - correct. and right now it may be the only social media platform that doesnt churn out disinformation 24/7. FB is the true cesspool -- (edited) - Jovian Oct 26, 13:47
    - Yes, I said as much on b2. -- nm - David Oct 26, 13:44
- "Cryptocurrency and "not safe for work" (NSFW) content, which includes nudity and pornography, are the highest-growing topics of interest" - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 13:39 2
  - trending: Chief Twit -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 13:42 1
    - Leo's gonna be pissed -- nm - JD Oct 26, 13:46
- Russian sh!# disturbers? -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 13:37
Good - WWE (HHH) is getting rid of the Hell in a Cell PPV … - Will Hunting Oct 26, 13:33
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 26, 13:31 [Attachment] 5
- ... I really do need to add a crop function to image uploads.... -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 13:33 1
  - Not to mention the ability to upload a replacement image -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 13:34
- Answer (spoiler)/Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 26, 13:31 [Attachment] 2
  - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 26, 13:32 [Attachment] 1
    - 2/2 -- nm - peglegpete Oct 26, 13:55
I would be a terrible rich person. I’ve told co-workers, “1 years’ salary to quit…2 years to be loudly honest in public while you do it.” - Will Hunting Oct 26, 13:30
Sorry. All I hear when David Tennant is talking is Scrooge McDuck. -- (link) - Mop Oct 26, 13:11 [youtube] 1
- Kinda like when I read your posts I hear Charlie Brown's teacher? -- nm - Spawn Oct 26, 13:18
Casino window closing at 2pm -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 13:08 10
- What am I sending where? -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 13:45 3
  - I can refund the extra 10 or hold for the next draw if it continues -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 14:36
  - (i.e. what amount and where to send?) -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 13:53 1
    - *tap* *tap* Is this thing on? -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 13:59
- My numbers - -- (pic) - Meg Oct 26, 13:44 [Attachment]
- sent just now -- nm - budice Oct 26, 13:41
- I have no idea whether I'd already sent for this one. So, I just sent again. If it's extra, we'll figure it out later. -- nm - David Oct 26, 13:39 1
  - its 3 times a week now so its easy to forget -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 13:41
- Sent -- nm - pmb Oct 26, 13:37 1
  - got -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 13:40
Lana Parrilla joins ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ -- (link) - mud Oct 26, 13:07
is a federal criminal probe into your murderous self-driving program a material disclosure that must be made to lenders on the Twitter deal? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 13:03
I think the toughest part of being the sort of billionaire I admire is finding a guy who keeps mum while sourcing parts for your Bat gear -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 13:02 6
- When i went to the Blackb3rry screening, one of the plot points is one of the co-founders is (a bit of a spoiler) - Andie Oct 26, 13:07 1
  - that is a nice change of pace for sure -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 13:27
- Shell corps are your friend, crash. I did love the Batman Animated episode where Penguin found Bruce's car guy. -- nm* - Spawn Oct 26, 13:05 3
  - I don't remember that one. I should rewatch it one of these days -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 13:28 2
    - I recently rewatched them. Be sure to stop after what they call season 1 (but is actually like 60 episodes). When it is rebranded Batman & Robin - Spawn Oct 26, 13:31 1
      - I do recall the dip in quality. (I mainly watched for Selina episodes) -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 13:36
NFL - Saints: Andy Dalton start vs Raiders. Cowboys: Zeke with Torn or Sprained MCL -- nm - budice Oct 26, 12:56 1
- Eagles traded 4th-rd pick for Bears DE Robert Quinn -- nm* - budice Oct 26, 12:59
heh -- (link) - decline Oct 26, 12:56 2
- he's so cute -- nm - Jovian Oct 26, 13:03
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 12:58
Go ahead and laugh at me, but one of the things that amaze me about hockey so far is line changes. Most are done so smoothly, I don't notice it f -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 12:40 6
- [points and laughs] - mud Oct 26, 12:48 1
  - Yes I did 😺 -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 12:49
- I think the TV angle helps. It's following the puck, not the benches -- nm - budice Oct 26, 12:43 3
  - Another thing that's not noticable unless in person, TV Timeouts. Actual breaks in the action when TV Ads are playing. Players just standing around -- nm - budice Oct 26, 12:44 2
    - I should try to go to an Idaho Steelheads game this year. -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 12:46 1
      - Boise State also has a hockey club, I don't know what sort of quality it is -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 12:50
The Chris Murphy in this Wash Post article is my wife's former morning show co-host. -- (link) - TWuG Oct 26, 12:40 9
- Good luck, Gen Z! -- nm - David Oct 26, 13:37
- every rich asshole with too much money thinks (unironically) they're Citizen Kane eventually - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 13:15 3
  - Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 13:39
  - I just want to upgrade the A/C at the local bowling alley -- nm - JD Oct 26, 13:27
  - Everybody wants to rule the world. -- nm - Spawn Oct 26, 13:19
- every single rightwing station on radio is exactly like this. Its all fascist propaganda day in day out. - Jovian Oct 26, 13:14
- Jentucky Fried Chicken. - Dark Callisto Oct 26, 13:01
- sounds like your wife dodged a bullet. The local conservative station here in town went the same way and ruined a news leader -- nm - Remlik Oct 26, 12:59 1
  - They were partners here in Springfield. He left for that station two-ish years ago. He was ready to leave them, but they backed up the money truck. - TWuG Oct 26, 13:02
Attorney who fought mandatory helmet laws dies in motorcycle crash -- (link) - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 26, 12:30 1
- God, you hate to see it. Anyways, there’s an opening in the foursome he had planned next week and DeSantis needs another donor. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 26, 12:33
David - replied on B2 -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 12:26
Imagine being one of the richest people in the world. All the things you could do/accomplish. And you choose...to act like a junior high trollboy. - ty97 Oct 26, 12:26 12
- Bill Gates is currently really into vaccines and climate change, so of course half of America hates him. -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 12:31 1
  - Have you seen Windows 98 and the pictures with Epstein? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 26, 13:58
- Footage -- (link) - Max Oct 26, 12:30 [youtube]
- wait till you hear about the robber barons - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 12:29
- But most of what I would want to accomplish would not make me famous. - Spawn Oct 26, 12:29
- I actually admire starting a EV company and then doing space stuff. After that, our paths would diverge. -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 12:29 6
  - he had a real shot and helping this planet outside of those projects and he just won't. -- nm - Remlik Oct 26, 12:35
  - its why I thought he was the next Steve Jobs or Walt Disney at one point. A true pioneer. He's revealed himself to be anything but that. - Jovian Oct 26, 12:33
  - Well, buying a fledgling EV company, at least. -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 26, 12:31
  - he didn’t start Telsa -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 12:31 2
    - There is literally 8 whole months of Tesla's existence that he wasn't part of. They had no product *at all* at that point. - TWuG Oct 26, 12:39
    - whatever, I don't know his history that much because I don't care. Change my answer to "being involve in a EV company" -- nm - crash davis Oct 26, 12:32
David News: new movie on Peacock starring Jodie Turner-Smith, Brian Cox, with Ann Dowd and John Cena -- (link) - Remlik Oct 26, 12:25 [youtube] 6
- They just announced this week it's going straight to streaming. NEXT WEEK. AND THEY DON'T HAVE AN ACTUAL TRAILER YET. -- nm - Mop Oct 26, 13:49
- 1) Peacock sounds right. 2) ST subpoll -- Other than Brian Cox, do you know any of these people? -- nm - David Oct 26, 12:27 4
  - Think I have heard of John Cena. -- nm - Spawn Oct 26, 12:30 2
    - The doctor of Thuganomics -- nm* - eag Oct 26, 12:49
    - Tough break, sorry. -- nm - David Oct 26, 12:32
  - of course -- nm - mud Oct 26, 12:29
"welcomed the concurrence today of the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission to gradually return all 7000-series railcars to passenger service" -- (link) - ty97 Oct 26, 12:24 3
- Dulles babeee! -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 12:26 2
  - Terrible airport (the United part in C/D at least) -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 12:29 1
    - (but yeah, good that it will have a train!) -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 12:32
I don't want to make a Twitter clone, because I can't solve social media's biggest problem: content moderation. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:23 38
- There's an easy solution. You require identification. - David Oct 26, 12:26 35
  - You would not believe one HOA's zoom meetings. Internet is a problem, but these are people that know exactly who they are talking to. Their neighbors. - Spawn Oct 26, 12:38
  - This take reminds me of voter identification. Great intent. Flawed implementation -- nm - oblique Oct 26, 12:35 12
    - voter identification's intent is to disenfranchise certain folk! how is that great? -- nm - mud Oct 26, 12:38 1
      - (requiring physical voter ID, that is) -- nm - mud Oct 26, 13:01
    - Well, if the implementation of something doesn't work, I guess we should just quit trying. - David Oct 26, 12:38 8
      - True, but there are many parts of the world where putting your name to your speech gets you killed. I'm not prepared to require that of people to - oblique Oct 26, 12:52
      - Because then the crazies know how to find you. -- nm - Spawn Oct 26, 12:38 6
        
        That's a fear-based motivation. -- nm - David Oct 26, 12:40 5
        
        Not without reason. -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 26, 12:50 4
        
        Exactly. His solution does not fix the problem but further empowers those he wants to shut down. - Spawn Oct 26, 12:52 3
        
        While i don't necessarily agree with him, I see the reasoning. In theory, the harassers would not be anonymous either. Right now you have a one way - spamlet Oct 26, 13:08 2
        
        Yes, I should clarify that I'm speaking of my country here. It'd be different in Iran. - David Oct 26, 13:13
        
        But it is like I said with Trump, his supporters are the ones with the guns. -- nm - Spawn Oct 26, 13:10
    - Yeah, was about to say this. -- nm - Spawn Oct 26, 12:36
  - No. That is not a solution, it has significant drawbacks. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:27 20
    - Like what? - Will Hunting Oct 26, 12:31 1
      - Here, read this. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:33
    - It absolutely is the solution. Anonymity is the flaw with the internet. -- nm - David Oct 26, 12:29 17
      - See above link. This is a wrong take. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:33 15
        
        There's literally no link in existence that would convince me otherwise. Social media should require authentication. Period. -- nm - David Oct 26, 12:36 14
        
        I use my real name on Twitter, but that is a luxury that I can afford as a cishet white male tech worker. Others are not so privileged. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:39
        
        are you sure? It has a lot of citations. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:37 12
        
        There is literally nothing I believe more strongly about social media than that it requires people to put their names behind what they say. -- (edited) - David Oct 26, 12:39 11
        
        Yes, but you are a cishet white male writer. You are privileged in this regard. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:40 10
        
        I'm extremely frustrated by work and twitpocalypse right now, so I am going to bow out of this. But, David, you are fundamentally wrong here. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:41 9
        
        Thomas Paine agrees with you. Anonymity is important to social discourse. - TWuG Oct 26, 12:52 1
        
        Thomas Paine didn't live in a world where troll farms in indigent countries can make people rich by lying to other societies. - David Oct 26, 13:09
        
        I feel *exactly* the same of your position here. I deem it indefensible. -- nm - David Oct 26, 12:48 6
        
        Out of curiosity, what would be the basis of requiring ID to social but allowing secrecy in voting, jury deliberations etc? -- nm - Max Oct 26, 13:01 5
        
        ID is needed to vote or sit on a jury. So, I don't understand your point. - David Oct 26, 13:11 4
        
        Clarifying: are you saying every social post shows the true name of the poster? or do they only need ID to use the service and can use nicknames? - Max Oct 26, 13:14 3
        
        If you say anything in public today, someone can record it on a smartphone, right? Why should social media offer more protection than real life? - David Oct 26, 13:30 2
        
        To Bery's point, there are plenty of murderous people who would are proud to identify online. It's content, not the name. - Max Oct 26, 13:42 1
        
        You can't write rules for the criminals. That's the whole point. They just keep breaking the laws in more brazen ways. - David Oct 26, 13:44
      - it'll also get lots of people killed -- nm - decline Oct 26, 12:30
- yes, the Nazis find every platform eventually -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 26, 12:24 1
  - and international fascism networks. 45* would NOT have won w/o Putin. -- nm - mud Oct 26, 12:27
But what can a poor boy do, cept sing in a rock n roll band -- nm* - zeitgeist Oct 26, 12:22

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