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Fani Willis proposes March 4 start date. -- (link) - mud Aug 16, 12:11
Blue Beetle 87% (52/8), Strays nsy -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 16, 11:57 6
- despite being released in 2009 and on streamers forever, Coraline made $5m from a two-day Fathom release -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 12:01 2
  - that's pretty cool. it's a gem. -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Aug 16, 12:03 1
    - have they made it a musical? it should be a musical -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 12:04
- The upped the tracking on Blue Beetle pretty significantly over the last few days. $22-32M. -- nm - MDH Aug 16, 11:59 1
  - Getting both IMAX and Dolby at my theater. -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 12:36
- Strays begging me to see it, had pass offers every day last two weeks -- nm - budice Aug 16, 11:58
Oppenheimer, unsurprisingly, opens huge in S. Korea -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 11:54
This is wild. Marlins home run leaders 2017-2023 - Will Hunting Aug 16, 11:43
Wow. didn't know Instacart jacks up the prices on every item you buy (I don't use them or any delivery service) - decline Aug 16, 11:37 21
- This is just phase one. Phase two is when they charge individuals different prices for the same item depending on location within the market. - Qale Aug 16, 12:33
- My most boomer take is that I fundamentally do not understand paying for grocery (or even food) delivery. -- nm - MDH Aug 16, 12:01 9
  - I’m still attached to picking out my own groceries, and prefer picking up takeout rather than waiting for it to be delivered, but getting meal kits delivered has been a godsend. -- nm* - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 12:12 2
    - We will get the fruit and veggies ourselves but we get better chicken from FreshDirect than we can buy locally. -- nm - Krusty Aug 16, 12:13 1
      - Also I’m not great at making shopping lists. Half of what I buy sometimes is from walking around the store and realizing I need something. - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 12:16
  - We use FreshDirect weekly. It's convenient and we can get things we might not be able to get without going to multiple stores. Also, heavy things - Krusty Aug 16, 12:09
  - people with too much money also are real lazy? -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 12:03 4
    - Or have a busy schedule and don't want to carry home multiple bags of groceries. -- nm - Krusty Aug 16, 12:06 3
      - Yup— -- nm - Flavorize Aug 16, 12:08
      - the grocery thing i get slightly more than paying $30 for a cold Chipotle burrito -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 12:07 1
        
        Yesterday I paid $35 for a large, very hot skirt steak from a local Brazilian place. It was so worth it. I'm really tired after work and don't want to spend an hour cooking every night. -- (edited) - Krusty Aug 16, 12:10
- Yup, I knew this because I know how much things I buy cost and still used them because it was convenient. People should know how much things they - Krusty Aug 16, 11:55
- Delivery Services all have different strategies. Separate fees, fees included in food price, fees included with taxes, etc. -- nm - budice Aug 16, 11:52
- Yep. Grubhub does the same thing. I have free Grubhub+ or whatever it's called through Prime and I never use. - sycor Aug 16, 11:49 2
  - That's not my experience with GrubHub+. The fees suck despite the no delivery charge but for me the food is the same price when I go there and get - Krusty Aug 16, 11:57 1
    - Just double checked. Chili's GH apps are $2 more than ordering from Chili's website. Sonic $1+ more. Bojangles $3 more. -- nm - sycor Aug 16, 12:20
- some stores will specifically advertise "In-store pricing" in the app though so it isn't every store. But yes, same as Doordash -- nm - oblique Aug 16, 11:45
- this is similar to how doordash was (is?) hijacking business phone numbers on maps, taking calls "on behalf" of the business, and jacking up prices - colin Aug 16, 11:40 2
  - they don't even need to hijack the phone numbers. if restaurants don't agree to their awful percentages they can't stay afloat (as long) -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 11:43 1
    - hopefully their grip is crumbling with all the alternatives around.. you don't have to be on them to keep making money. -- nm - colin Aug 16, 11:47
- thanks, Biden -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 11:40
Treylon Burks carted off the field -- nm - Flavorize Aug 16, 11:20
usually when your opponent has been indicted a fourth time for big crimez you don't keep losing more ground -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 11:18 1
- Never sell Pudding Fingers short! He can always do worse! -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 16, 11:36
Coldplay being sued by their former manager for unspecified contractual reasons -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 11:11 9
- I bet the judge will have a short skirt and a looooong docket -- nm - Beryllium Aug 16, 11:26 3
  - Is it Cake? -- nm - Reagen Aug 16, 11:35 1
    - Judge Cake. (Yes, i got mixed up, but i like the musical lawsuit universe this creates) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 16, 12:09
  - *giggle -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 16, 11:33
- Because they are Coldplay. - Spawn Aug 16, 11:14 2
  - Apparently, some uncouplings go better than others, for Coldplay -- nm - Flavorize Aug 16, 11:38 1
    - :-] -- nm - mud Aug 16, 12:12
- Too many M&M demands -- (edited) - Flavorize Aug 16, 11:13 1
  - *sigh* -- nm - sycor Aug 16, 11:16
The New College baseball team had 70 athletes on their roster, nearly double U of Florida's D-1 program count of 37. - Will Hunting Aug 16, 11:07 3
- I'm pretty sure they want to be Liberty II. -- nm - David Aug 16, 11:25 1
  - Yeah. As a public college (which is incredibly disturbing). -- nm - pmb Aug 16, 11:29
- I mean they destroyed their enrollee's housing options by making almost 1/2 of the new admissions athelets who get the on campus housing. instead students can -- (edited) - tRuMaN Aug 16, 11:15
So I can buy Elemental through Apple TV, but not through Disney+? Makes perfect sense to me. -- (edited) - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 10:54 10
- This reminds me of when Disney tried "Premier Access" or whatever they called that horrendous business decision. -- nm - MDH Aug 16, 11:03 5
  - I paid for black widow. - Beryllium Aug 16, 11:25 1
    - so did we -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 16, 11:55
  - can't believe people didn't wanna pay $40 for live-action Mulan even during a lockdown -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 11:04 2
    - *raises hand* -- nm - JD Aug 16, 11:57
    - (They did.) -- nm - David Aug 16, 11:24
- You are essentially buying it on iTunes. Same as it ever was. -- nm - Qale Aug 16, 11:03
- Disney+ moved away from OTT sales. They were getting killed by the bickering about profits/back-end make-goods. They just got sued again yesterday. - David Aug 16, 10:56 2
  - that woulda worked too if it hadn't been for all the darn bickering -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 11:33
  - Granted, the number of Disney+ subscribers willing to fork out cash for what amounts to a six-week rental is probably limited anyway. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 11:00
Barbie’ Surpasses ‘The Dark Knight’ as Warner Bros.’ Highest-Grossing Domestic Release in History - Spawn Aug 16, 10:33 3
- thank you, Greta -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 10:37
- Barbie is the new “Breakfast at Tiffanys” — -- nm - Flavorize Aug 16, 10:36
- daymn -- nm - budice Aug 16, 10:35
Hmmm. It appears we have had a couple earthquakes. - Spawn Aug 16, 10:27 2
- ? Nothing showing on the map. -- nm - Meg Aug 16, 10:48 1
  - Ah, 2.1 in Lawrenceville ? -- nm - Meg Aug 16, 10:50
Buildings in NYC are being brought into compliance with an emissions law more quickly than expected -- (link) - TWuG Aug 16, 10:22 1
- Very happy to hear this. -- nm - Krusty Aug 16, 10:48
TB WR Russell Gage’s knee injury will be season-ending. One member of the organization could “hear it,” when it happened -- nm - budice Aug 16, 10:21
Heh, market news gets old *very* quickly. This was posted an hour ago. -- (link) - Meg Aug 16, 10:21
DTL: I'm so happy I could spur a conversation on the message board with my list of maxes. -- nm - Bari Seldon Aug 16, 10:19 5
- It's like you maxed Oswald Cobblepot -- nm - rollo 🐙 Aug 16, 10:22 3
  - The moment I saw the name on the recruit list I said "If that guy's any good, I'm going after him." - Bari Seldon Aug 16, 10:25 2
    - Honestly, it's tame compared to what we came up with when you could pay to name players -- nm - rollo 🐙 Aug 16, 10:29 1
      - They cut that out??? -- nm - David Aug 16, 10:41
- So much Max -- nm - budice Aug 16, 10:20
Definitely a reassuring sign when your employer increases the required notice period for leaving -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 09:57 18
- Required? What will they do if you just quit? They won't give you notice before firing so I don't feel you owe them - Krusty Aug 16, 10:06 10
  - You're an at-will state so I don't think they even have the legal ability to do that. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 16, 11:40
  - They won't give you notice if you're fired "with cause " (and they probably shouldn't). My wife was recently laid off "without cause " (downsizing), - zunk takes things literally Aug 16, 11:03
  - I’m not important enough that it would really affect me, but they would in theory be able to take away or claw back incentive awards/RSUs, sue for damages, etc. -- (edited) - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 10:19 5
    - Sue for damages? Like lost sales? -- nm - Flavorize Aug 16, 11:15 1
      - Potential lost clients/business, yeah. -- (edited) - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 11:18
    - This is interesting. 30 days seems like a LOT -- nm - Pippy Quintas Aug 16, 11:09 2
      - It’s not like we’re getting reqs to fill open positions as it is, so it’s not like they need that much time to find a replacement. - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 11:21 1
        
        Also this only impacts my level and above, not the entire firm. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 11:25
  - for layoffs over a certain number they’re actually required to give 60-days notice -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 10:13
  - Seriously. -- nm - David Aug 16, 10:09
- Eesh. Atlantic City details - Pippy Quintas Aug 16, 10:04 6
  - Will have to see what I can do. - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 10:14 5
    - Cool. We definitely need to take over the Pai Gow table. Or poker. Both! -- nm - Pippy Quintas Aug 16, 10:24 4
      - or Xing Hai Shi Bu Xing! -- nm - Bari Seldon Aug 16, 10:29 1
        
        L3! -- nm - Pippy Quintas Aug 16, 10:57
      - I’ve been practicing Ultimate Hold-Em too nmbrawr -- (edited) - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 10:25 1
        
        Yay!!! -- nm - Pippy Quintas Aug 16, 10:56
Recession? What recession? -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 09:45 13
- Biden, or if you prefer his team, have done a great job navigating the last 3 years of turmoil -- nm - rollo 🐙 Aug 16, 10:21 10
  - the comms team, not so much -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 10:24 9
    - I really think a lot of this goes to something that I haven't been able to really understand for the last 2 decades. Republicans always seem to be the - pmb Aug 16, 11:29 3
      - they still haven't learned the biggest lesson of 2016. flood the zone with your own shit. Fetterman's social media team seems to be the only ones who - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 11:45 1
        
        like that video of Oz buying kale salad or whatever was several years old. didn't matter once Fetterman made it go viral when he wanted it to go viral - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 11:47
      - The Republican media machine has perfected the political confirmation bias feedback loop. - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 11:40
    - Part of the problem is that people expect prices to return to pre-pandemic levels. That isn't going to happen. - Fuzzy Aug 16, 10:36 4
      - It's most obvious to me at the fast food checkout. Those $7 combos became $10 really quickly. -- nm - Bari Seldon Aug 16, 10:41 2
        
        the fact that people haven't apparently stopped buying them, and are actually buying even more, belies the expressed consumer sentiment -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 10:44 1
        
        When you gotta have a McRib.... -- nm - Bari Seldon Aug 16, 10:46
      - if the previous administration had these kind of economic numbers after COVID, you'd think it was the Second Coming - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 10:39
- Biden Loses Support Among Those Who Wanted Recession -- nm - NYT Pitch Bot Aug 16, 10:09
- “Blame it on economic theory not matching reality, groupthink among forecasters or political partisanship by opponents of the Biden administration” -- (edited) - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 09:54
TV PSA: Afterparty, Miguel Wants to Fight, Moving, Physical, Reservation Dogs, Strange Planet, Chosen One, Big Brother, - Beaker 🍻 Aug 16, 09:35
Who are the 30 unindicted co-conspirators in the Georgia RICO case? -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 09:35
The current Netflix DVD Top 10 for your comments... (I'm 6/10) - MDH Aug 16, 09:34 12
- YDC: I was shocked by The Covenant. One of the best movies I've seen all year. -- nm - MDH Aug 16, 09:44
- #9 is the best! -- nm - David Aug 16, 09:43 1
  - I, uhhh.. Thank you! (NM) - Marlowe Aug 16, 09:53
- 0/10 but plan to watch 3 (Renfield, Covenant, Mario) -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 16, 09:43
- a painful 2/10 -- nm - Diva Aug 16, 09:38 1
  - Same—Mario movie is pretty fun if ST hasn’t seen it —better than TMNT -- nm - Flavorize Aug 16, 10:39
- 0/10 -- nm - Andie Aug 16, 09:36 4
  - I think MDH got 80 for Brady 6 times. -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 09:37 3
    - I'll tell you what, it is a cute damn movie. -- nm - Pippy Quintas Aug 16, 10:12 2
      - My mother hated it. -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 10:26 1
        
        dang. She's the target audience. -- nm - Pippy Quintas Aug 16, 13:36
- 0/10 -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 09:35
From b2 Crazy for You obviously got the airplay from the Vision Quest soundtrack but I still prefer I'm a Gambler - eag Aug 16, 09:32
Looks like they're getting ready to pour new concrete from where they jackhammered the curb. That means I get to write my initials - sycor Aug 16, 09:29 1
- it's your right. -- nm - colin Aug 16, 11:53
Worldwide Box Office: Barbie nears $1.2B, Oppenheimer hits $650M, Mission Impossible $500M, Meg 2 $250M, TMNT nears $100M - MDH Aug 16, 09:29 1
- China accounts for 35% of Meg 2's box office. -- nm - David Aug 16, 09:43
finally the A's can throw the Moneyball playbook into the trash can. now they'll really get those rings -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 09:29
Fast X on Peacock on Sept 15 -- nm - Remlik Aug 16, 09:23
Took me way too long to figure out the purple category (NYT connections) - znufrii 🦄 Aug 16, 09:23
"Rachel Maddow's Hillary Clinton Interview During Trump Indictment Scores Huge MSNBC Ratings Win, Draws 3.9 Million Viewers" - David Aug 16, 09:12 3
- 1% of the population -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 16, 11:20
- it was a fun talk. it's too bad they did not include Hilary on the panel conversation just before it. -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 16, 09:15
- sorry i'll wait for the Electoral College ratings to be certified -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 09:13
I've never heard of Linus Tech Tips, but why does a tech company have an OnlyFans? -- nm - David Aug 16, 09:09 11
- Better pay structure than Patreon maybe? -- nm - colin Aug 16, 12:00
- The thing I know Linus Tech Tips is that they were never good. They featured awful clickbaity titles, thumbnails, and content. None of it, helpful. -- nm - Qale Aug 16, 10:08
- Remember when OnlyFans said "no more nudity"? They seriously thought there was a market for them outside of what we all know is their bread-and-butter - Mop🧹 Aug 16, 09:22 6
  - They split and have Only Fannies for the sex stuff -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 16, 11:17
  - I had literally never heard of the place until you mentioned them the other day. -- nm - David Aug 16, 09:41 4
    - Notable not just for the content and fanbase but because he's an example of big influencers who have sold off to VCs this year - Max Aug 16, 09:43 3
      - Linus hasn't sold, despite a considerable huge offer. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 16, 11:13 1
        
        Oh that's right, he and his wife remain the sole shareholders. - Max Aug 16, 11:35
      - influencer culture is dumber than tipping culture. -- nm - Reagen Aug 16, 09:50
- people can pay to see DIY stuff. There are wrestlers who coach on onlyfans. -- nm - Remlik Aug 16, 09:18
- as a meme joke from April fools a few years ago, or at least that is what they said at the time. -- nm* - tRuMaN Aug 16, 09:17
Warrior Nun getting a film trilogy -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Aug 16, 09:02 5
- not involving anyone who made the actual show, at least as of now -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 16, 10:37
- nice -- nm - decline Aug 16, 09:30
- As with the original announcement saying Warrior Nun was coming back, details are sparse. - Mop🧹 Aug 16, 09:27
- ... Why? Does the show actually get better? -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 09:08 1
  - why? cause she's future Ms. Chris Evans? I don't know. - Pippy Quintas Aug 16, 10:14

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