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Cannes: Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and their daughter Carys Zeta Douglas -- (link) - budice May 16, 11:50
An Illinois girl vanished with her mother 6 years ago. Now a teen, she was just found in North Carolina -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 11:42 6
- I can’t even imagine. And that poor girl as well. She’ll have a lot of shit to deal with. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 16, 11:48 1
  - yeah, it must be just insanely emotionally complicated for her. -- nm - Andie May 16, 11:50
- Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries” for the win -- nm - decline May 16, 11:46 1
  - I've seen a few episodes - how would someone even recognize her?? (I know I wouldn't.) -- nm - JaxSean May 16, 11:56
- unbreakable -- nm - hollywood big shot May 16, 11:46
- From the town I live in now... -- nm - oblique May 16, 11:42
~4000 piece LEGO Batcave on the way. -- (link) - TWuG May 16, 11:41
Ukraine says they shot down another SIX of russia's new hypersonic missles... the ones they hyped as being able to pass by defenses. -- nm - zeitgeist May 16, 11:11 1
- it's not Archduke Ferdinand's driver parks in front of the assassin's cafe-level blunder but Vizzini Was Right -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 16, 11:20
watch out Elon, 2d Cir just gave the SEC a greenlight to start enforcing that consent decree -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 16, 10:58 3
- You remain free to say whatever you like, Elon. And you're free to suffer the consequences of what you say. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 16, 11:03
- get him, Jack! -- nm - oblique May 16, 11:00 1
  - sunk again by the draconian "sorry, you can't just change your mind about obeying the law" rule -- nm - hollywood big shot May 16, 11:11
We must have one of these for the ST Compound -- (link) - Jovian May 16, 10:48 7
- I feel like Benny Hill had one of those follow him everywhere. -- nm - pmb May 16, 11:40
- Nosferatu like you've never heard it before. -- nm - Max May 16, 10:57
- Killed off the organ player. -- nm - zunk takes things literally May 16, 10:57
- Sure, start a gang war at the compound. -- nm - David May 16, 10:50 3
  - lol come on. this could be the morning Wake Up call -- nm - Jovian May 16, 10:51 2
    - it would be like that commercial where a guy brings a kareoke machine to an antartic ice station -- nm - zeitgeist May 16, 10:57
    - "Wanna hear the world's most annoying noise?" -- nm - David May 16, 10:53
"Taking this $6 billion franchise higher this weekend is a launch in 81 offshore marketing" Fast X is expected to make $300M in its worldwide opening -- (link) - decline May 16, 10:47 7
- isn't it already looking to tank here and in China? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 10:53
- Wow, those are some cherry-picked comparisons. I'd love an explanation for how each one applies. -- nm - David May 16, 10:52 5
  - that would be as nonsensical as the plot to an FnF movie -- nm - zeitgeist May 16, 10:53 4
    - Are you telling me that a car can't really launch itself into geosynchronous orbit? -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 16, 11:26 3
      - maybe not but I did recently learn that Mercedes has cars that will lift the car using the suspension just before a crash to increase safety -- (edited) - oblique May 16, 11:29
      - Elon just needs another $10 Billion in Govt money and he can get one to explode just short -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 11:27 1
        
        OMG, I didn't realize they really did that in one of the movies. I bow to the ridiculous masters. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 16, 11:29
Today is spectacular on Vudu: Sisu and Super Mario Bros. -- nm - David May 16, 10:35 3
- In one way, these are two very different movies. -- nm - Tim May 16, 10:51 1
  - Sisu is the Super Smash Bros. character we need. -- nm - David May 16, 10:52
- While Mario is a Universal title, I expect that Peacock is gonna wait on that 30 day window. That movie's still crushing it at the b.o. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 16, 10:42
I see Reddit is still a little broken. Apparently search doesn't work. -- nm - sycor May 16, 10:28 4
- Has Reddit search *ever* worked? -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 16, 11:12 2
  - approximately, yes -- nm - Beryllium May 16, 12:01
  - I've used it a lot. -- nm - mara 🍂 May 16, 11:51
- issues again this morning -- nm - budice May 16, 10:34
Voting Report: Jogged to polling place. 4 Election workers. 2 Voters. I was apparently #50 for the day (don't know if that's by party or overall). -- nm - Dano May 16, 10:26 4
- I voted 3 weeks ago -- nm - decline May 16, 10:28 3
  - I still like to vote in person. -- nm - Dano May 16, 10:35 2
    - need a judge mary update -- nm - hollywood big shot May 16, 10:37 1
      - she's probably the only one to show up and work the election for the whole county -- nm - zeitgeist May 16, 10:41
Captain America NWO: Seth Rollins in Atlanta filming his scenes.... -- (link) - Remlik May 16, 10:06 2
- Whoaaaa! -- nm - eag May 16, 10:44
- *air guitar riff* -- nm - Strongbad May 16, 10:19
SAG Awards will take place on Feb. 24, 2024 and stream live on Netflix. -- nm - decline May 16, 10:05 1
- Yeah. Sure. -- nm - Love is Blind May 16, 10:25
For the first time I used Google's Bard to write me a bit of PHP code - decline May 16, 10:00 8
- my intern used it to help him answer some cybersecurtiy coding questions that used SQL which he hadn't used much before. He fed it - oblique May 16, 10:09 4
  - My concern with that type of use is that you're now giving chatgpt table names and possibly other security info. -- nm - JaxSean May 16, 10:50 2
    - Yup. Some big company (I want to say Cisco or something) had to "ban" public ChatGPT use because developers were pasting so much code in - oblique May 16, 10:51 1
      - we are definitely not allowed to use any AI (currently) because of client data confidentiality issues, at the very least -- nm - hollywood big shot May 16, 10:53
  - Nice -- nm - Beryllium May 16, 10:13
- Ironic, because the PHP manual is one of the best I've seen in the programming languages I've tried. - Beryllium May 16, 10:03 2
  - oh, it definitely is and I use it almost daily. If it was an actual book my copy would be falling apart right now -- nm - decline May 16, 10:05 1
    - Same -- nm - Beryllium May 16, 10:13
Apparently these are not AI-created. This must be who AI stole from. -- (link) - Beryllium May 16, 09:59 2
- all AI "art" is just techbro for "theft" -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 16, 10:02 1
  - yep. it's derivative, not creative. -- nm - colin May 16, 10:19
how old is Taylor Swift again? -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 16, 09:59
this is what my youngest (and her friends and a bunch of people) were protesting Saturday. I was there keeping an eye on the counter protestors - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 09:47 3
- Between this and Higgs going to war with the First Nations on every issue I can't see a way to maintain power for the Cons at the next election -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 09:48 2
  - we need Canadian Succession now -- nm - hollywood big shot May 16, 10:03
  - plus his war on the French. (not to say he won't but he's burned a ton of bridges and made a bunch of enemies the past 2-3 years) - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 09:51
Doc Rivers fired because The Process was ignorant. -- nm - The Allfather May 16, 09:28 11
- Alternatively, what evidence do we have of Doc Rivers being a great coach? - Will Hunting May 16, 09:38 8
  - 6 W's and 10 L's in playoff Game 7 - Strongbad May 16, 10:18 3
    - How many have 16 game 7's? I can't imagine there are many. -- nm - pmb May 16, 10:29 2
      - Wikipedia says there have been 126 games 7s in total -- (link*) - oblique May 16, 10:35
      - Right. -- nm - David May 16, 10:33
  - The 2008 NBA Champion Celtics team would disagree with you. -- nm - Diva May 16, 10:09 2
    - My sister could have coached that team to the playoffs. -- nm - Strongbad May 16, 10:18 1
      - is she a good coach too? -- nm - decline May 16, 10:19
  - I'm not saying he's great, but he did win a title. That's better than most and certainly a good run. -- nm - Volnelk May 16, 09:58
- Philly should call Jay Wright. -- nm - Strongbad May 16, 09:31 1
  - I'm pretty sure Jay wants nothing to do with the NBA - decline May 16, 09:42
not blaming/shaming but the way techbros' "lifestyle" gets reported on versus POC Shoplifting Homeless Crimez Doers is pretty telling -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 16, 09:17 4
- FYI...Steven Hawkings went to those parties -- nm - zeitgeist May 16, 10:40 1
  - i saw Theory of Everything. Hawking fucked! -- nm - hollywood big shot May 16, 11:04
- Sounds to me like this is the tip of the iceberg and there's a whole bunch of techbros about to be brought down to earth. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 16, 09:22 1
  - If we leave it to them, it would appear that they will put each other in the earth -- nm - JD May 16, 09:46
Well, that's intense. Sydney Sweeney in "Reality" on HBO. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 16, 09:15 [youtube] 1
- Well placed Espeon. -- nm - Qale May 16, 10:07
Missouri student who recorded her teacher using a racial slur suspended for inappropriate use of an electronic device in class. -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 May 16, 09:14
please laugh -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 16, 09:14 4
- thats a very natural laugh. -- nm - Jovian May 16, 10:45
- I didn't know pieces of shit could laugh -- nm - JaxSean May 16, 09:48
- hold my beer -- nm - tuckr-C May 16, 09:21
- They should've copied that laugh for Nate "The Wonder Kid" Shelley -- nm - Beryllium May 16, 09:19
Anyone here have a consumer reports acct? What do they recommend for their top 3 robot vacs? Does this list represent their top picks? -- (link*) - Beryllium May 16, 09:06 2
- Text - budice May 16, 09:09 1
  - Thanks! -- nm - Beryllium May 16, 09:20
so much for Comcast buying up Hulu -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 16, 08:50 4
- I can feel David's smirk from here -- nm - oblique May 16, 09:02 2
  - Nothing is settled yet. They’re still posturing. -- nm - The Allfather May 16, 09:21
  - Such an awful feeling. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 09:03
- Comcast has Peacock to prop up -- nm - budice May 16, 08:56
3 all green - rollo May 16, 08:47
My mom may be trapped in Ireland by the pilot strike. There are worse places, but ... -- nm - Reagen May 16, 08:44 5
- This is helpful and discusses what West Jet must do: -- (link) - Andie May 16, 08:51 3
  - Thanks. I forwarded this on. -- nm - Reagen May 16, 09:10
  - WestJet: it isn't the pilot strike, it is actually weather related and we don't owe you shit -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 08:52 1
    - WestJet: we also went into your house and lost some of your shit, just so you get the full travel experience during the strike -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 08:52
- Do airlines pick up the costs for stranded passengers during strikes? -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 16, 08:49
---- -- nm* - mud ♪ May 16, 08:40
New game idea: Mangle a real headline: Italian police find huge banana stash hidden in cocaine crates -- (link) - Beryllium May 16, 08:32
Liz Phair Announces Exile in Guyville 30th Anniversary Tour - MDH May 16, 08:32 2
- LiveNation is building a second - even bigger - Scrooge McDuck-style money vault. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 16, 08:42
- cool. -- nm - mud ♪ May 16, 08:34
FUCKCANCERFUCKCANCERFUCKCANCER - Spawn May 16, 08:24 21
- wow...that's hard n harsh. -- nm - zeitgeist May 16, 10:45
- i'm really sorry, that sucks. -- nm - colin May 16, 10:22
- Oh no. I’m so sorry. -- nm - The Allfather May 16, 09:22
- Sorry. You are doing what you can. Listening. -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 16, 09:12
- ugh :( -- nm - JaxSean May 16, 09:06
- Jesus. -- nm - loosilu May 16, 09:00
- ugh. my brother is on his 3rd round of chemo. He gets about a day and half of good days through out the week. So he gets on the golf course... - Remlik May 16, 08:58 7
  - Oh, Pete. That's terrible. I'm sorry. -- nm - David May 16, 11:15
  - ugh -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 09:54
  - :( -- nm - Andie May 16, 09:31
  - Also ugh. So sorry. :( -- nm - JaxSean May 16, 09:06
  - So sorry. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 09:03
  - so sorry, man -- nm - mud ♪ May 16, 09:00
  - that is awful. Sorry he and you are going through this -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 16, 08:59
- cancer sucks -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 08:51
- I am so sorry, that's such a horrible deal. -- nm - Andie May 16, 08:35 1
  - And she actually lost her *first* husband to cancer 10 or 12 years ago. Had forgotten that. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 08:37
- I'm sorry that you are in pain and this family has to go through this -- nm* - crash davis 😺 May 16, 08:29 1
  - I just talked to him and I know all I can do is listen, but damn. -- nm - Spawn May 16, 08:36
- :-[ so sorry -- nm - mud ♪ May 16, 08:25
- really sorry to hear this -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 16, 08:25
I don't like (in many cases, REALLY don't like any of the teams left in Stanley Cup playoffs, so I'm turning my energies to NBA. GO NUGGETS!!!! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 16, 08:22 2
- 🎯—Let’s do it! -- nm - Flavorize May 16, 09:10
- I think it is kind of tacky that both teams left in the West have cheerleaders, but that is just me. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 16, 08:43
Doc Rivers has been future endeavored. -- nm - Remlik May 16, 08:20
Jax, go see this show. -- (link) - Volnelk 🍊 May 16, 08:16 1
- I'm not in Jax anymore (down by Tampa), though I do go up there still quite a bit. - JaxSean May 16, 09:05
I think the more important question is: Do Rabbits eat eggplants? -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 16, 08:11 7
- No sensible creature would. -- nm - loosilu May 16, 09:01 3
  - one of my favorite new recipes combines two foods people don't like: eggplant and cous cous - Pippy Quintas May 16, 09:14 2
    - That would kill me. I'm allergic. -- nm - loosilu May 16, 09:20 1
      - eek! -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 16, 09:37
- usually Parmigiana style -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 16, 08:18
- From that picture, I think that's a comfort eggplant as opposed to food -- nm - JD May 16, 08:13 1
  - "hey baby! let me console you with my....comfort eggplant" -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 16, 08:15
with the first pick of the ST Draft, foodchem! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 08:05 4
- who tf is foodchem? -- nm - mud ♪ May 16, 08:23 3
  - those who know, know -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 09:55
  - what tf is foodchem? -- nm - Drax May 16, 08:34 1
    - good question, Drax! -- nm - mud ♪ May 16, 08:40

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