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The final Feinberg Forecast would have the total Oscar Noms as: Elvis & EEAAO (9), Black Panther 2, Fabelmans, and Top Gun (8), Avatar (7). -- nm - MDH Jan 23, 10:17
nmbDiva - Baron, Vamp Champ Jan 23, 10:08 2
- No, I was not there. I was in Chicago visiting with my new nephew that day. :) - Diva Jan 23, 10:15 1
  - Oho! So they lost out and you definitely won. :) :) -- nm - Baron, Vamp Champ Jan 23, 10:16
So alphabet lays off 12K people, and then does a 70 billion dollar stock buyback? Hmm. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 10:08 1
- This is America. -- nm - Qale Jan 23, 10:12
M3GAN PVOD tomorrow -- (link) - budice Jan 23, 10:07
Spamlet! Your prayers have been answered: “We’ve trained thousands of new employees to answer phones and help people,” -- (link) - Acting IRS Commissioner Doug O’Donnell Jan 23, 10:07 2
- Uh huh. -- nm - spamlet Jan 23, 10:25
- *twitch* -- nm - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Jan 23, 10:20
every time I see Kim's Video I think Kim's Convenience is getting a spinoff... -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 10:00 1
- Aeescham! Why do customers never rewind? -- nm - Baron, Vamp Champ Jan 23, 10:02
I swear, this is the last AI image, but I do seem to have obtained a very good recreation of the Pam Anderson/Tim Allen incident. - colin Jan 23, 10:00 [Attachment] 24
- I wonder if they don't do likenesses of famous people to avoid lawsuits. -- nm - pmb Jan 23, 10:34
- FYI, i'm a sucker with a paid subscription if anybody wants something imagined. -- nm - colin Jan 23, 10:04 19
  - Explosively delicious chili cheese nachos -- nm - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Jan 23, 10:27 4
    - kind like a before.. -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 10:31 [Attachment] 3
      - Extremely vaguely dali-esque... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 10:32
      - and after -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 10:32 [Attachment] 1
        
        I very much hesitated to click on the after. -- nm - Baron, Vamp Champ Jan 23, 10:33
  - I would use this technology for evil. I mean, if they allowed it. I’m sure it has guide rails. -- nm - Qale Jan 23, 10:20 1
    - oh, there's plenty o evil to be made -- nm - colin Jan 23, 10:23
  - A view through augmented reality glasses that shows wind blowing across a sloop's foresail, with different wind speeds glowing in different colours -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 10:14 3
    - here are the variations.. want me to make variations of one of them? i don't think they're understanding the request -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 10:24 [Attachment] 2
      - No, that's okay. Thanks. (I think they don't understand sailboats, just like they don't understand fingers) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 10:26 1
        
        sooo many extra fingers. that autopsy bear? way too many fingers.. -- nm - colin Jan 23, 10:33
  - The Los Angeles county crooner performing an autopsy while singing under stage lights -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 10:12 4
    - neither are very good... -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 10:21 [Attachment] 3
      - and.. no. but closer -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 10:21 [Attachment] 2
        
        here is a consolation prize i made for you -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 10:22 [Attachment] 1
        
        Nice :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 10:25
  - The cast of the original A-Team using a Volkswagen ID.Buzz electric van as their ride (amid a gun battle) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 10:09 2
    - get ready for a reboooot! -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 10:13 [Attachment] 1
      - I love it when a ... good god, what is that?? (Thanks :) ) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 10:15
- Hilarious! -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 23, 10:00 2
  - this one had nipples in the preview and then they were spirited away (but i'm still marking as NSFW) -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 10:01 [Attachment] 1
    - My Nipples Were Spirited Away ... is that a new Chuck Tingle piece? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 10:02
I messaged Royal Cab. asking when they'd have a correct description for the Chihuly Glass excursion. Today it's no longer on the list :) -- nm - Meg Jan 23, 09:59
Eleven wolves makes for a rather large pack. But sure enough, that’s what you have here. -- (link) - Qale Jan 23, 09:53
NYPost so . . . but Bezos reportedly wants to dump the Post to buy out Snyder -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 09:50 6
- Feels like a double win? -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 09:51 5
  - (depending on who gets the Post, of course) -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 09:52 4
    - Hello there. -- nm - Vladimir Putin si Jan 23, 09:55 3
      - Saudi money would be the biggest concern. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 09:57 2
        
        They might be a bit gunshy after their Twitter experiment. - Beryllium Jan 23, 09:59 1
        
        they chopped up a WaPo writer and got away with it. buying the paper would just be a flex -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 10:12
T-Mobile failed to secure API in latest hack impacting 37Mil Users -- (link) - budice Jan 23, 09:49 1
- 5th hack in 5 years. The streak is alive. -- nm - Qale Jan 23, 10:13
That was an unexpectedly terrific Universal Yums. Thumbs *way* up for the sweet stuff. Those little chocolate/coffee bars were so yummy -- nm - prayformojo Jan 23, 09:44 4
- i turned your post into a prompt for midjourney. here's what your post looks like. -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 09:53 [Attachment] 3
  - great, now I'm super hungry -- nm - prayformojo Jan 23, 09:54 1
    - for reasons unknown to me, this is 4 options of what THIS comment looks like.. -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 09:57 [Attachment]
  - or maybe this was where you got it -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 09:54 [Attachment]
Home automation update: Made more progress this weekend. Flashed my Sonoff Zbbridge with Tasmota and turned it into a Zigbee router. Also got my eufy - oblique Jan 23, 09:43 2
- which zigbee switches did you order (just curious) - tRuMaNaNaNaNa Jan 23, 09:51 1
  - I have lots of the Kasa ones (they work well with HA and local control so I don't mind them). I bought these Zigbee ones just because they were cheap -- (link) - oblique Jan 23, 10:13
You can only fly on one of the airlines for the rest of your life: Pick one: Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant. - ty97 Jan 23, 09:43 5
- Allegiant. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 23, 10:18
- Allegiant. -- nm - kelly Jan 23, 10:17
- I've only flown Allegiant and it was fine (other than the bird strike) so I guess that? -- nm* - spamlet Jan 23, 09:49
- Frontier - decline Jan 23, 09:49
- spirit -- nm - budice Jan 23, 09:47
Oscar Noms tomorrow -- nm - budice Jan 23, 09:41 3
- Streaming on Disney+ because synergy! -- nm - Qale Jan 23, 10:14
- If all my favorite movies aren't nominated I'm blaming you personally. - Baron, Vamp Champ Jan 23, 10:01 1
  - from the makers of Crime Crime Crime. -- nm - Diva Jan 23, 10:06
fun connections poll: 4 people on my late flight had to make their plane to Lima so folks were asked to let them leave first. how many actually left? - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 09:39 6
- HAHAHAHAHAHA! -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 09:48
- Almost everyone deplaned as usual. - ty97 Jan 23, 09:41 4
  - they made that request multiple times, especially after all the Spartacus motherfuckers tried to just walk out with the four Lima beans -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 09:43 3
    - (like anyone in the back basically was jailbreaking it to the front door toot sweet) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 09:44 1
      - people are ridiculous sometimes, though I guess some of those folks may have had other short connections? -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 09:44
    - Credit to the FAs for putting in that effort. -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 09:43
I'm pretending I'm a journalist, writing about good and bad airlines. So I head over to midjourney to make some nice AI images for my story! -- nm - colin Jan 23, 09:38 26
- I used it to create the procrastination monster on my shoulder named Lester last week. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 23, 09:57 9
  - oo, what's it look like? -- nm - colin Jan 23, 09:58 8
    - Here he is! -- (pic) - Dark Callisto Jan 23, 10:00 [Attachment] 7
      - love that -- nm - prayformojo Jan 23, 10:03
      - Voiced by Jack Black -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 10:01
      - oh he's cute. i'd feed him some of my valuable time. -- nm - colin Jan 23, 10:01 4
        
        Right? I like the steampunk looking wings. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 23, 10:04 3
        
        i made some comicy variations.. they're all pretty cute. -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 10:11 [Attachment] 2
        
        (Upper left and bottom right are my faves of this bunch.) -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 23, 10:31
        
        They *are* cute. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 23, 10:30
- maybe i didn't emphasize how NICE the airline should be. this isn't too bad. - colin Jan 23, 09:44 [Attachment] 3
  - nothing says luxury flight like fine dining. -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 09:45 [Attachment] 2
    - Meanwhile green dress on the left is phasing out of the plane. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 09:46 1
      - some are worse.. i reimagined this 3 times and couldn't get a coherent group of people.. -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 09:48 [Attachment]
- for people who like holes and airlines. -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 09:41 [Attachment] 2
  - This might be more disturbing than the spooky ones below -- nm - oblique Jan 23, 09:45 1
    - adding and removing the word "dream" from any long string of descriptive text has devastating results. -- nm - colin Jan 23, 09:46
- and for the nice time! -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 09:39 [Attachment] 4
  - more. -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 09:40 [Attachment] 3
    - nicer. -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 09:40 [Attachment] 2
      - NICER -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 09:41 [Attachment] 1
        
        Can't sleep, stewardess will eat me -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 09:43
- for a bad airline (warning on this one... it's spooky) -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 09:38 [Attachment] 3
  - and one more spooky -- (pic) - colin Jan 23, 09:39 [Attachment] 2
    - I think this is a Clive Barker novel. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 09:41 1
      - putting trashy novel cover artists OUTTA BUSINESS -- nm - colin Jan 23, 09:42
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | NEW Trailer -- (link) - Beaker Jan 23, 09:30 [youtube] 2
- I liked the first trailer more, but I'm still in. -- nm - Inigo Jan 23, 09:37
- I will save it for theater but hope it looks good. I have some hope after the first one. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 09:32
Where the fuck are you living that this seems like a practical idea to you? -- (link) - Reagen Jan 23, 09:27 22
- Waitamminit. I've walked by their showroom several times as it is right outside of the Segerstrom Center of the Arts - JD Jan 23, 09:53
- Tierra Caliente, Mexico -- nm - JD Jan 23, 09:47
- It's hard to throw under Cybertruck for styling, but mission accomplished -- nm - TWuG Jan 23, 09:46
- Seriously though: MUST BE SATIRE and can't possibly be legal? -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 09:37 1
  - It has night vision drive mode! -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 09:38
- Whitesville, USA. -- nm - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Jan 23, 09:36
- getting ready for the Cordyceps Apocalypse! -- nm - mud Jan 23, 09:35 1
  - I dunno, I think the Myxo Flagellators have the more rowdy fans -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 09:54
- I want one -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 09:34 1
  - Why not two? -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 09:35
- Officer Thinking, there. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 09:32
- I'll take 3 -- nm - sycor Jan 23, 09:31
- This is satire. - ty97 Jan 23, 09:31 9
  - You can own one for $285k -- (link) - oblique Jan 23, 09:32 7
    - add on $125,000 for two executive seats... -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 09:35 4
      - $581,750 with all add ons. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 09:36 3
        
        Whoa. $657,700 actually. -- nm* - Spawn Jan 23, 09:37 2
        
        worth it to run shitty drivers off the road with impunity -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 09:48 1
        
        sorry, but the diplomatic plates cost an extra $100K. -- nm - Andie Jan 23, 10:06
    - No seriously, this has to be satire. - ty97 Jan 23, 09:34 1
      - It was not satire. -- nm - Qale Jan 23, 10:24
  - Even South Africans are "that's a bit much" -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 09:32
Jim/Baron, this might be of interest to you. -- (link) - spamlet Jan 23, 09:25 5
- Thanks, but I'm actually a resident taxpayer so no cookie for me. -- nm - Baron, Vamp Champ Jan 23, 09:29 4
  - Oh right. I always think you live in the county for some reason. -- nm - spamlet Jan 23, 09:30 3
    - It's a close thing. I wouldn't have to go far to be in Shrewsbury or Maplewood. -- nm - Baron, Vamp Champ Jan 23, 09:42 1
      - My kids live over in Shrewsbury now. Right by Courtesy Diner. nm - Turd Ferguson Jan 23, 09:45
    - ooooh...nice. Yeah, Ive been home (now in Illinois) paying St. Louis City tax for 3 years now. BUllshit. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jan 23, 09:33
Re: Lin Brehmer from yesterday: Here's a nice thread from Steve Albini about Lin. -- (link) - pmb Jan 23, 09:23 1
- that's excellent -- nm - Remlik Jan 23, 09:43
Meanwhile in Fort Worth - ty97 Jan 23, 09:21 1
- snort! -- nm - St. Epiphany Jan 23, 09:22
NY STers: Do you know what Kim's Video is? Did you ever go to one of the stores? -- nm - Inigo Jan 23, 09:21 5
- i knew of it in 94 when i lived in the East Village for a summer (didn't have a tv, let alone VCR tho) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 09:38
- Looks like the last one closed less than year after I moved here. -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 09:22 1
  - I figured you, Krusty, Jack or Diva would be the most likely to know it. -- nm - Inigo Jan 23, 09:55
- Outlet for DBYA series? -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 09:22 1
  - If DBYA was a real movie series, Kim's video would have had it. 100%. -- nm - Inigo Jan 23, 09:45
You of all people should remember because it's called a barycenter. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 09:21 1
- why i oughta -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 09:26
ST Poll: Airline (that you have flown) that you prefer/like (if any) -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 09:20 6
- Delta and Alaska are about the only airlines I fly anymore. - ReluctantCynic Jan 23, 10:23
- we flew Allegiant to Florida for one of our trips and really liked it (this was like 10 year ago to be clear) -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 09:25
- Virgin Air was top notch all the way -- nm - St. Epiphany Jan 23, 09:23 1
  - Tasty -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 09:23
- Singapore Airlines, Virgin Air* - colin Jan 23, 09:22
- I honestly do not even remember what I have flown except I know I was on one of the first Ted flights, and it was fine. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 09:21
Fly the friendly skies. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 09:18 1
- I'm Mandy Fly Me -- (pic) - mud Jan 23, 09:25 [Attachment]

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