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Princeton: "No oil money!" BP: *shows large check* P: "Change of plans!" -- (link) - TWuG Oct 27, 09:42 1
- Paywall so I can't read the article, but Princeton's endowment is divesting from oil and gas companies. -- (edited) - Roger More Oct 27, 09:58
cool set pic - Jovian Oct 27, 09:41 3
- I always wonder when I see this and the Rock /Shaq photos…how tall are Rock and Arnold? - Will Hunting Oct 27, 09:54
- "He saw giants in patagonia" -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 09:45
- holy crap -- nm - mud Oct 27, 09:44
Toney getting traded to the Chiefs -- nm - Flavorize Oct 27, 09:31 2
- 3rd and a 6th -- nm - Beaker Oct 27, 09:38 1
  - Steal. -- nm - The Allfather Oct 27, 09:42
The Santa Clauses | Official Trailer | Disney+ -- (link) - Beaker Oct 27, 09:29 [youtube]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II's physical discs contain a whopping 72MB of data. The other 150 GB will be downloaded. -- (link) - Ender Oct 27, 09:29
Prey for the Devil 0% (0/2), Call Jane 77% (59/17), The Novelist's Film 100% (16/0), Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 100% (16/0) -- nm - Beaker Oct 27, 09:19 1
- LA's B&B is quite good. I could have watched "The Novelist's Movie" today, but that would make it a very long day and I didn't love what I saw from - Marlowe Oct 27, 09:33
Listen up McClatchy, making it really hard for me to cancel makes it less likely rather than more likely that I'll do business in the future with you -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 09:18
In San Francisco, a fine dining restaurant has opened up for dogs - Jovian Oct 27, 09:18
2 deg. global temperature increase locked in over the next century, despite us doing virtually nothing to stop it -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 09:16 11
- I put a big ole long article down there for you and you didn't read it. I feel I am casting pearls before swine here - crash davis Oct 27, 09:33 9
  - we've known what the problem is for 40+ years. at every turn with a chance to do something, we've collectively kicked the can. now it's just shuffling - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 09:44 1
    - You need more joy in your life. Treat yourself to Pink's or In-and-Out today -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 09:49
  - But we are delicious with BBQ sauce! -- nm - The Allfather Oct 27, 09:42
  - I read it. That dude is a confused pollyanna -- nm - mud Oct 27, 09:35 4
    - pollyanna is a great name to call, so is nattering nabob of negativism -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 09:38 3
      - I try, but I end up being optipessimistic -- nm - mud Oct 27, 09:40 2
        
        That is such a great word that I'm surprised some pharmaceutical company hasn't trademarked it yet. "Ask your doctor about new Optipessimistic" -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 09:42 1
        
        it shrinks your taint -- nm - medium pharma Oct 27, 09:53
  - "Crash Davis, The tl;dr Story" -- nm - TWuG Oct 27, 09:34
- And that points to part of the problem getting people in the US to understand. 2C is 3.6F. It undersells the temp - TWuG Oct 27, 09:26
This Wendover video about the travel habits of billionaires gets progressively more disturbing. - Mop Oct 27, 09:13 [youtube]
Jack Ryan season 3 trailer -- (link) - Beaker Oct 27, 09:03 [youtube] 8
- Is this the Sum of All Fears storyline? -- nm - Fuzzy Oct 27, 09:56
- December. Finally. -- nm - Max Oct 27, 09:07
- Can I skip season 2? Amazing how much I went from liking season 1 to not being able to get past 2 episodes of S2. -- nm - Spawn Oct 27, 09:07 3
  - read the blurbs on the episodes just so you know what happens if you insist on not watching it -- (link*) - Beaker Oct 27, 09:12
  - I don't remember, and I'm not planning to re-watch, so ... yes? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 09:08 1
    - Sweet. As of last night I temp have Apple tv so I will be busy until then, I suspect. Two episodes into Invasion already. -- nm - Spawn Oct 27, 09:10
- well, that hits a little close to home now -- nm - oblique Oct 27, 09:05 1
  - Yes, but in a better way than the Venezuela season. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 09:06
scratch Cate Blanchett off the "should really do Hot Ones" list -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 08:57 [youtube] 3
- ♡ her -- nm - mud Oct 27, 09:14 2
  - *humph* -- nm - Asha Oct 27, 09:20 1
    - ♡♡♡ -- nm - mud Oct 27, 09:33
Oct. 27th birthdays: John Cleese (83), Roberto Benigni (70), Robert Picardo (69), Simon Le Bon (64), Patrick Fugit (40) - Max Oct 27, 08:51 [youtube] 4
- Simon LeBon turning 64 makes me feel old -- nm - eag Oct 27, 09:24
- My favorite Robert Picardo performance is from Justified -- (link) - Beaker Oct 27, 09:01 [youtube]
- Please state the nature of the birthday emergency. -- nm - Barynn Oct 27, 09:00
- I assume that Patrick fellow has a relative named Tempus? - Beryllium Oct 27, 08:55
Tree of Life doc on HBO is very powerful and please watch before you cast a vote in the midterms. once you give power to any enablers of this shit - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 08:45
Kanye was escorted out of Sketchers headquarters after showing up unannounced yesterday -- (link) - decline Oct 27, 08:31 1
- Kanye West's expensive, unaccredited "school" just took the money and ran -- (link) - Jovian Oct 27, 08:32
Celebration for S.F.’s $1.7 million toilet canceled after backlash: ‘The cost is insane’ -- (link) - spamlet Oct 27, 08:27
European Central Bank raises interest rates by three-quarters of a point -- nm - Beaker Oct 27, 08:11 1
- obviously they are just one upping the Bank of Canada from yesterday -- nm - decline Oct 27, 08:15
The story about the lawyer dying at the strip club that he was representing in a wrongful death case that Znu posted about is alot - JD Oct 27, 08:10
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Halloween special October 28th -- (link) - Beaker Oct 27, 08:09 2
- This is a new kind of thing since MST3K is normally associated with Turkey Day. -- nm - Qale Oct 27, 08:39
- Got my glasses. -- nm - Ender Oct 27, 08:16
Congrats to NWBR on this outcome -- (link) - Roger More Oct 27, 07:58 6
- Also, there was some election night drama - CTV called the election for another candidate and then had to retract -- (link) - Roger More Oct 27, 08:19 2
  - they having some trouble gettin it right again? -- nm - Lisa LaFlamme Oct 27, 08:31 1
    - Ha! -- nm - David Oct 27, 08:32
- Nice. -- nm - budice Oct 27, 08:03
- huh, I literally just read about this. good for them -- (link*) - Beaker Oct 27, 08:02
- NWBR will rule us all one day! -- nm - Andie Oct 27, 07:59
Random Roles with Chloë Grace Moretz -- (link) - Beaker Oct 27, 07:57 1
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a really good movie. -- nm - David Oct 27, 07:58
Kia cars are being stolen nationwide as how-to videos swirl online -- (link) - decline Oct 27, 07:50
whoa: Meta Platforms was worth around $922 billion at the end of 2021, but is currently worth around $272 billion, a shocking 70% decline in 10 months -- (link) - decline Oct 27, 07:47 29
- shoulda named it Fetch -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 08:35
- Instagram needs to hold out until Twitter and TikTok collapse. And they *will* collapse. -- nm - Mop Oct 27, 08:28 1
  - Hi, yes, Instagram also needs to collapse. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 08:53
- They are also buying back stock. I wonder if they know Facebook is bleeding to death and so they have no choice but to reboot around metaverse -- nm - rollo Oct 27, 08:21 1
  - I think I'd believe pretty much anything revealed in a behind the scenes documentary about Facebook from summer 2016 to now. -- nm - David Oct 27, 08:29
- This is obviously a poor implementation of VR/metaverse, but I just don't think people will care about this stuff until it looks like real life. -- nm - Inigo Oct 27, 08:12 11
  - I just don’t care about it, period. - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 27, 09:26
  - I don't think it has to look like real life, I think it has to look like something you can't do in real life. -- nm - Ender Oct 27, 08:28
  - Kim and I were having this conversation just yesterday. I think the tech needs to improve by a factor of 300 before it can gain any traction. - David Oct 27, 08:19 1
    - Meanwhile they're losing $12 billion a year on it. -- nm - Ender Oct 27, 08:24
  - I don't think it needs to look like real life. I think it needs to look really cool. And I'm not sure if that's easier or harder. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 08:17 5
    - this is where i fall, i don't need to go to a virtual realistic boring mall, i want to go somewhere fantastic. -- nm* - Andie Oct 27, 08:27
    - The first step is that it needs to look believable enough that people don't get motion-sick in 90 seconds. - David Oct 27, 08:21 3
      - I think for some people that's going to just make it worse as the lack of inner ear feedback is going to be even more disconnected - JD Oct 27, 08:29 1
        
        Coincidentally, CNet was just discussing the first viable omni-treadmill a few days ago. I suspect we're at least five years away from a legit one. -- nm - David Oct 27, 08:31
      - That's for actually using it. My point stands for avoiding merciless mocking of it. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 08:22
  - But I already live in real life, why would I want to go through all the hassles for that? I want it to look like Snow Crash or Ready Player One ;-) -- nm* - JD Oct 27, 08:14
- "$1.2 BILLION METAVERSE HORRIFIED BY REPORT IT ONLY HAD 38 ACTIVE USERS" - link (those are their caps) -- (link*) - Andie Oct 27, 08:02 1
  - That's a market cap of $31.58 million per mega-active user. -- nm - David Oct 27, 08:08
- it's too late for zuckerberg to resign even. -- nm - judge amanda jones Oct 27, 08:01 3
  - he's personally lost over $100 Billion -- nm - decline Oct 27, 08:52 2
    - you know what's cooler than losing $100 billion? -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 09:20 1
      - losing $200 billion - Lafarrow Oct 27, 09:38
- Disney tries not to say the word metaverse now because Meta has ruined it so much. This is even came up during Chapek's WSJ interview yesterday. - David Oct 27, 07:52
- Let me tell you how much they suck to work with as an advertising partner. - Dark Callisto Oct 27, 07:50 2
  - Facebook and Google are ad companies that happen to offer services along with their ads. and it's not great for other traditional ad-supported bizness - hollywood big shot Oct 27, 08:34 1
    - Is true. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 27, 08:44
- just let that Titanic after the iceberg in -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 07:50 1
  - :-] -- nm - mud Oct 27, 08:05
Biden Faces New Challenges Holding Together a Coalition to Support Ukraine - crash davis Oct 27, 07:17 9
- The Kremlin’s intensified propaganda against Ukraine is aimed at Russians, U.S. analysts say. - crash davis Oct 27, 07:19 8
  - I hope we’re also considering that Putin uses a dirty bomb on his own people under a false flag attack. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 07:40 2
    - I don't think he'd irradiate his land, but I wouldn't put it past him to have a massive conventional explosion and say the "terrorists" screwed up - crash davis Oct 27, 07:46
    - Yep. My feeling is if he goes ahead and decides to use a dirty bomb as a false flag, it absolutely is going to be used on his own people. - Jovian Oct 27, 07:43
  - Ukraine says it has moved forces north in case of aggression from Belarus. - crash davis Oct 27, 07:21 4
    - The C.I.A. director visited Ukraine this month. - crash davis Oct 27, 07:22 3
      - New U.S. sanctions target Russian efforts to manipulate the politics in Moldova, a neighbor of Ukraine. - crash davis Oct 27, 07:23 2
        
        Russian loyalists in Kherson abscond with the remains of a general who helped inspire Putin’s invasion. - crash davis Oct 27, 07:25 1
        
        Putin will give a high-profile address amid fears that he is escalating the war. - crash davis Oct 27, 07:29
The Pale Blue Eye | Official Teaser | Netflix (Christian Bale - what a cast, whoa) - January 6 -- (link) - Beaker Oct 27, 07:14 [youtube] 6
- giggity -- nm - mud Oct 27, 07:18 1
  - this -- nm - Spawn Oct 27, 09:31
- is it weird that I saw the Trailer for a Man called Otto and thought "huh. i actually want to see that" - tRuMaN Oct 27, 07:15 3
  - The original Swedish movie (A Man Called Ove) is quite good and available on Amazon Prime. -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 08:07
  - I mentioned it before, but my father is quite fond of that genre. - Barynn Oct 27, 07:36
  - heh, word -- nm - Beaker Oct 27, 07:15
Uh oh, better check all your kids Halloween candy this year -- (link) - spamlet Oct 27, 07:07
NASA satellite used to detect methane emitters from space -- (link) - oblique Oct 27, 07:02 4
- I can get them a much clearer picture of my ass for much cheaper... -- nm - Ender Oct 27, 08:47
- *cuts NASA's budget* -- nm - GOP Oct 27, 08:44
- I suspected Uranus was a methane emitter, but it is not mentioned in your link -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 07:05
- Cows in Spaaaace. -- nm - budice Oct 27, 07:03
Beyond Catastrophe A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View By David Wallace-Wells - crash davis Oct 27, 07:02
Conservative state-level policies lead to higher mortality compared to states with more liberal policies in place -- (edited) - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 27, 06:49
btw that 'Let that sink in' phrase is a phrase used by QAnon. - Jovian Oct 27, 06:49 12
- wow -- nm - Spawn Oct 27, 09:08
- ... eh. I bet they also use the word "the". We must revert back to "Ye" for wholesomeness! - Beryllium Oct 27, 08:15
- It was also used by the Resist dummies. It's a stock, thought terminating cliche. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 07:23 5
  - I prefer “and let that marinate” -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 07:41 2
    - I don't. It makes me want to grill -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 07:48 1
      - Similarly for "Put that in your pipe and smoke it." Mmmm, smoked meats. -- nm - Barynn Oct 27, 07:54
  - thought terminating! - mud Oct 27, 07:34
  - the Saskatchewan tough on crime Premier brought a convicted wife killer to a speech...let that sink in -- nm - Beaker Oct 27, 07:32
- that was a phrase used well before those whackadoos existed, I refuse to concede my language to them -- nm - crash davis Oct 27, 07:11
- This is a guy who learned 4:20 and brought an SEC case because he thought4:20 was funny. Let’s not rule out he genuinely - Will Hunting Oct 27, 07:08
- wait, really? *goes to make OK sign but apparently that is as well* -- nm - JaxSean Oct 27, 07:02
- Ewww. -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 27, 06:49
DEN Head Coach Hackett gets vote of confidence -- (link) - budice Oct 27, 06:43
Pikachu has a funny hat! -- nm - Beaker Oct 27, 06:34 11
- How do I join the cool kids PoGo group? - Fuzzy Oct 27, 08:41
- Goddamn it Hattachu. -- nm - Qale Oct 27, 08:00
- Gotta Catch em All! -- (pic) - Andie Oct 27, 07:48 [Attachment] 3
  - Mimikyu was always my favorite but then I remember it's backstory and then it makes me sad. -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 08:34
  - that's a lot of Pikachus!! ...I have 2 (in a little suit and funny hat) -- nm - Beaker Oct 27, 07:55 1
    - :) -- nm - Andie Oct 27, 07:57
- Multiple times a year Pikachu gets various hats/costumes. It's.....well it depends how you feel about it. - ty97 Oct 27, 06:36 4
  - I don't keep many pokemon. unless it can be evolved you are toast unless the highest I have - Beaker Oct 27, 07:11 2
    - *sweats* -- (pic) - ty97 Oct 27, 07:24 [Attachment] 1
      - oh snap -- nm - Beaker Oct 27, 07:27
  - *rages* -- nm - JaxSean Oct 27, 07:02
Best I can tell, the Warnock campaign is paying to have their e-mails show up in primary in gmail. -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 06:30 1
- Also, since the PA debate happened, the Warnock campaign e-mail has been sending Fetterman e-mails as well -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 06:31
Framed: 2/6. Moviedle: X/6. Actorle: X/8. - Marlowe Oct 27, 06:28
OTD 40 yrs ago, Prince released 5th album '1999' -- (link) - mud Oct 27, 06:23 [youtube]
Overstock revenues fell 33% in 3Q, obviously amanda's fault -- (link*) - ty97 Oct 27, 06:22 1
- I'm going to buy it! Maybe even today! -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 27, 06:27

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