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Wendover has a MARATHON video about how corporate ski resorts are ruining ski towns. Let me spoil it for you. -- (link) - Mop Apr 18, 13:04 [youtube]
Dominion v. Fox is SETTLED. -- (link) - mud Apr 18, 12:59 11
- Nothing's settled. Was it settled when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? -- nm - Fox News Report Apr 18, 13:15
- Trump really may be the antichrist. Honestly. -- nm - Jovian Apr 18, 13:05
- Guess we won't get to see if Simpsons clips stand up in court. -- nm - spamlet Apr 18, 13:04
- Damn it! I wanted them to be exposed in court and then bankrupted. -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 13:04
- godamnit -- nm - Jovian Apr 18, 13:01
- Netflix DVD settled the Fox case -- nm - budice Apr 18, 13:01
- more -- (link) - mud Apr 18, 12:59
- *grabs the popcorn* -- nm - Mop Apr 18, 12:59 3
  - you mean, former guy *grabs several McD hamburgers* and settles down for a relaxing meal. - Jovian Apr 18, 13:04 2
    - It was never about the trial. That's been settled. The testimony ("it was all lies") has already been spoken. It's the punishment that matters. -- nm - Mop Apr 18, 13:05 1
      - you're not seeing the forest through the trees -- nm - Jovian Apr 18, 13:14
Netflix is shuttering its DVD business after 25 years. -- (link) - budice Apr 18, 12:36 26
- I watched my 959th disc last night. -- nm - MDH Apr 18, 12:55 3
  - Gotta try to get to 1k, no? -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 12:58 2
    - I was trying, but there's no way in 5 months. -- nm - MDH Apr 18, 12:59 1
      - Not with that attitude. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 13:00
- Noooooo! -- nm - MDH Apr 18, 12:47
- So long, Qwikster. I hardly knew ye. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii Apr 18, 12:46
- It's stunning to me this was still a thing. I would imagine all the senile old people still using it were forgetting they had discs to return. -- (link) - David Apr 18, 12:41 [youtube] 18
  - Even my parents stopped a year or so ago because the selection was so poor. -- nm - Tim Apr 18, 12:57
  - I still get discs. -- nm - MDH Apr 18, 12:51 10
    - Kim was just telling me this. I thought she was joking. -- nm - David Apr 18, 12:53 9
      - They have things that aren't available through streaming. -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 12:59 8
        
        Like what? -- nm - David Apr 18, 13:00 7
        
        Oh nd having been reminded by MDH's current and past posts. Netflix DVD is way around having to have all the streaming services. Physical media - JD Apr 18, 13:15
        
        EEAAO -- nm - oblique Apr 18, 13:07
        
        Dragged Across Concrete 2. -- nm - Mop Apr 18, 13:06
        
        Here... -- (link) - Krusty Apr 18, 13:05
        
        On a timing basis, there's plenty. All of those ads for movies available for purchase digital ahead of streaming? A bunch of them there's physical - JD Apr 18, 13:05
        
        99% of the movies I watch. I hardly ever stream, because discs have the movies I want to see. -- nm - MDH Apr 18, 13:04
        
        I don't use it but that's what I've been told. -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 13:01
  - Lots of people live out beyond cable, fiber etc -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 18, 12:50 1
    - No one is beyond satellite. -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 13:20
  - I no longer own anything that plays discs. -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 12:44 2
    - I finally packed away the PS2 for good earlier this year. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii Apr 18, 12:54
    - so it's all your fault! -- nm - decline Apr 18, 12:45
  - And a 50 cent rewind fee. -- nm - budice Apr 18, 12:43
- poor MDH -- nm - decline Apr 18, 12:36
Disney: Lilo and Stitch...they've gender swapped the Cobra Bubbles character -- (link) - Remlik Apr 18, 12:36
Prince William's mistress will be attending the coronation, at the King's insistence. Her son will be a pageboy. - loosilu Apr 18, 12:34 10
- "unsubstantiated claims". enh -- nm - Andie Apr 18, 12:47 2
  - Harry confirmed it in his book, for whatever that's worth. - loosilu Apr 18, 12:51 1
    - Whoa -- nm - Pippy Apr 18, 14:04
- he's got a type and apparently she's his CURRENT mistress? sheesh. -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 12:37 4
  - He's his father's son. -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 12:40 3
    - but, Charles wasn't a philanderer with all sorts of people, he had an affair with the woman he had always loved. - Andie Apr 18, 12:50 2
      - I don't think William is either. She's the only rumored mistress. -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 12:52 1
        
        And apparently her youngest child is rumored to be his. -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 13:01
- That's when the coup happens and the true ruler of England takes power -- nm - decline Apr 18, 12:36 1
  - When does George get a mistress? -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 12:41
Looks like we get the Peloton app with our health insurance. Anyone use just the app? -- nm - spamlet Apr 18, 12:27 4
- I do! It's great. Lots of workouts of all kinds, meditations, etc. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 18, 12:46 3
  - Do you just use your phone or do you cast to your tv? - spamlet Apr 18, 12:49 2
    - Do you have a Roku? There's an app. - Dark Callisto Apr 18, 12:58 1
      - We have Roku and Chromecast and both look like they are supported. Thanks for the rec. -- nm - spamlet Apr 18, 13:03
Everyone else go home. Pattie Boyd has won the internet today. -- (link) - loosilu Apr 18, 12:25 11
- HAHAHA -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 12:33
- *golf clap* -- nm - Spawn Apr 18, 12:29 1
  - Indeed 👏👏 -- nm - JD Apr 18, 13:06
- who's Pattie Boyd ? -- nm - decline Apr 18, 12:28 7
  - The woman George Harrison sang about in Something and Clapton in Layla and Bell Bottom Blues -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 12:32 5
    - wait, Layla isn't about some named Layla? -- nm - decline Apr 18, 12:34 1
      - He got the name from a poem by Lord Byron. -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 12:35
    - And Wonderful Tonight. -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 12:33 2
      - And For You Blue... and I just googled to see I Need You, as well. -- (edited) - Spawn Apr 18, 12:34 1
        
        And I need You from the Help soundtrack. -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 12:36
  - She was married to both of them. The most famous love triangle in rock history. -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 12:28
Going down to Florida Saturday morning to see my parents for a couple of days. It's a breakfast flight - ty97 Apr 18, 12:15 16
- Waffle if I felt they could pull it off, Yogurt/granola otherwise. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii Apr 18, 12:49
- Shaksuka. What airline serves that? It's israeli. -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 12:29 2
  - shakshuka is on just about every brunch/breakfast menu in town. At least where i live. -- nm - Diva Apr 18, 12:46 1
    - Goes to show how2 little I go out for breakfast. -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 13:00
- how many connecting flights? -- nm - decline Apr 18, 12:23
- oh look, pictures! (Staged photos of course, it won't look exactly like this in reality) -- (pic) -- (link*) - ty97 Apr 18, 12:19 [Attachment] 2
  - crepe. -- nm - loosilu Apr 18, 12:44
  - waf.fle. -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 12:20
- crepe. it's like dessert, so it'll fool your body into thinking the meal is over and it's time to sleep. -- nm - colin Apr 18, 12:19
- Waffle or crepe -- nm - The Allfather Apr 18, 12:19
- - Breakfast frittata with red potatoes, chicken sausage, sauteed spinach, and cheddar cheese sauce -- nm - Beaker Apr 18, 12:18
- waffle, fool -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 12:18
- Egg shakshuka -- nm - crash davis Apr 18, 12:17
- via Denver? -- nm - Spawn Apr 18, 12:17
- that all sounds good. -- nm - Andie Apr 18, 12:16 1
  - I mean, it's airplane food so temper your expectations, but yeah they've upped their game a little. - ty97 Apr 18, 12:18
John McWhorter - The wondrous mysteries of Steely Dan - crash davis Apr 18, 12:09 2
- Chevy Chase played in a band with Becker and Fagen. He got kicked out after the 'cow incident' -- (link) - Remlik Apr 18, 12:23
- ever watch any of the 'Classic Albums' vids that ran from 1997 - ?? kind of a "making of" series? The one on their 'Aja' is swell: -- (link) - mud Apr 18, 12:17 [youtube]
Spamlet, does this sound right? -- (link) - ty97 Apr 18, 12:08 3
- From all indications they did answer more calls but I don't think the IRA funding has come through yet so it's not a reason for it. -- (edited) - spamlet Apr 18, 12:14 1
  - It looks like they did hire the 5,000 people but it was also tech. -- (link) - spamlet Apr 18, 12:20
- I heard this stat this morning. Apparently they hired over 5000 telephone people in the past few months who just answer calls -- nm - decline Apr 18, 12:11
DTL: I put max recruiting points on 11 players for this cycle. -- nm - Dano Apr 18, 11:58 1
- Benefit of missing a cycle, I guess. -- nm - spamlet Apr 18, 12:25
it will be Peak Dems if Thomas or Alito kick off in the next year with DiFi still convalescing in her undisclosed SF location and refusing to resign -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 11:58
Triggered conservative goes medieval on the wrong beer brand -- (link) - TWuG Apr 18, 11:48 2
- Property damage? Misdemeanor. Assault? Felony. -- nm - Mop Apr 18, 12:05 1
  - in topeka? slap on the wrist, out the door. -- nm - colin Apr 18, 12:07
tired GOP: 100 failed votes to repeal Obamacare; wired GOP: one failed vote to repeal Manchinomics -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 11:47
SITWAP? Galaxy Quest TV Series in the Works at Paramount+ -- (link) - decline Apr 18, 11:47 13
- Don't do that! It's an entirely different era! Is there an audience?? You don't know!! -- nm - Max Apr 18, 12:36
- I'm not sure where you go from the movie and a reboot seems like a non-starter. - TWuG Apr 18, 11:53 9
  - Before Rickman died they were all going to come back for a series. -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 11:55 3
    - Sure, but to what end? The story was told. After the movie, what's left to say? It'd just be Galaxy Quest 2: The Search For More Money -- nm - TWuG Apr 18, 11:59 2
      - you could get meta about the whole crummy rebootquel-Picardness of it all, but not sure exactly how off the top of my head (Star Trek IV it I guess) - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 12:04
      - Let's see what the creatives have to say. We don't know what story they're telling. -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 12:04
  - Galaxy Quest Mirror Universe -- nm - Beaker Apr 18, 11:54 4
    - Emperor Philippa Georgiou! -- nm - Spawn Apr 18, 11:57
    - Galaxy Quest: The Next Generation -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 11:57 2
      - Does Justin Long need the work that badly? -- nm - TWuG Apr 18, 12:00 1
        
        Yes. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 18, 12:00
- how many credulous (but also hypertechnological) alien civilizations can there be out there? -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 11:48 1
  - If there's one, there's a thousand. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 18, 12:00
You have to be a special kind of stupid to fall for this. -- (link) - znufrii Apr 18, 11:44 2
- The real story is what he would have done at the medical center. -- nm - The Allfather Apr 18, 11:55
- Hollywood movies notwithstanding, probably easier to find the one guy who actually hired a real hitman on the DL when they needed one -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 11:45
Twitter just deleted some transgender harassment protections from their terms of service. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 18, 11:40 5
- I'm surprised there are any moderating guidelines left in the TOS. Pretty soon it'll just be "Don't be mean to the awful people on here." - TWuG Apr 18, 11:47 1
  - "Let them fight." -- nm - Spawn Apr 18, 12:33
- Thank you for the reminder. Account is now deactivated. -- nm - Spawn Apr 18, 11:46
- they had any left? the reason i left last year was the removal of them. -- nm - colin Apr 18, 11:42 1
  - Elon wants to create a safe haven for every possible kind of bigot. -- nm* - loosilu Apr 18, 12:26
Coachella 2023 Day 1 - JD Apr 18, 11:39 [youtube] 1
- That was a great day! I first saw/heard of MUNA on CBS Saturday Morning (that has a more interesting lineup of musical guests week to week than SNL). - zunkskunk Apr 18, 12:00
i'm running a salary and demographics survey on my industry's subreddit/discord. the results so far are not surprising. - colin Apr 18, 11:37 [Attachment]
WestJet pilots vote in favour of strike mandate, could walk before May long weekend -- (link) - Beaker Apr 18, 11:37 2
- That's the end of May, right? So long as they don't walk before May 13. -- nm - Meg Apr 18, 11:49 1
  - May 22nd is Victoria Day this year iirc -- nm - Beaker Apr 18, 11:51
AI generated Drake and The Weeknd song goes viral -- (link) - oblique Apr 18, 11:36 11
- "AI" = unauthorized, infringing mash-up -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 11:37 10
  - Wouldn’t all mashups be that, AI-generated or otherwise? -- nm - znufrii Apr 18, 11:43 5
    - it's interesting. Not on YT as long as everyone gets credit they can play. -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 12:02 3
      - YT is slightly different in that they have DRM tied into the ads, so original artists just get paid per play whether it's authorized or not -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 12:05 2
        
        ah. -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 12:09 1
        
        well, technically the labels get paid -- nm* - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 12:14
    - sure, which is why they were always white-label bootlegs -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 11:44
  - (potentially more interesting that the author seems to claim they were the ghostwriter of major label songs but never got paid accordingly) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 11:41
  - no, it's AI it's.. uh... parody? -- nm - colin Apr 18, 11:40 2
    - nothing parodic about mash-ups - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 11:41 1
      - to the extent that you need to feed a program copyrighted works to become "intelligent" it's all still garden-variety infringement. labels know this -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 11:43
Minister of Transport announces study on airport capacity needs in Southern Ontario -- (link) - ty97 Apr 18, 11:34 4
- I can save them millions: Toronto needs another airport. -- nm - Reagen Apr 18, 12:25
- andie gets to all kinds of places just fine -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 11:35 2
  - Except Greece I'm afraid -- nm - ty97 Apr 18, 11:46 1
    - stupid Greece. -- nm - Andie Apr 18, 12:06
yesterday, my partner got up, ran 5 miles, got on the roof tore the chimney off, patched the roof, drank 5 ciders, had a salad, and went to bed. - colin Apr 18, 11:18 12
- She and Amy would get on marvelously. - Spawn Apr 18, 11:48 1
  - *insert her hands look like this so my hands can look like this meme* -- nm - colin Apr 18, 11:51
- nice! -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 11:37
- 1) This is awesome. 2) I have a faucet that I need to swap out. Does she have time? :-) -- nm - MDH Apr 18, 11:34 1
  - she'll definitely tell you what tools to use. -- nm - colin Apr 18, 11:42
- I'm impressed by how much both of you accomplished yesterday. -- nm - Diva Apr 18, 11:28 2
  - Right? -- nm - ty97 Apr 18, 11:30
  - thanks! hers is far more impressive than mine, but the brownies were delicious. -- nm - colin Apr 18, 11:29
- She’s impressive ! way to go -- nm - Pippy Apr 18, 11:27 1
  - i tell ya, brain drugs have done wonders for her after years of struggling to stay motivated. i'm considering ADHD medication after seen how well it - colin Apr 18, 11:29
- I had a 1 hour committee meeting, took a nap, and played bocce ball and thought that was busy day. -- nm - TWuG Apr 18, 11:20 1
  - i envy your day. -- nm - colin Apr 18, 11:29

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