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NBC Sports shitcanned Al Michaels from calling playoff games but kept Collinsworth? -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 14:55
I think one way of lessening billionaire influence over higher education would be to stop soliciting donations from asshole billionares -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 14:23 2
- So they booted the president and the chair of the trustees? -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 12, 14:26 1
  - unlike Harvard, yes -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 14:30
finally gonna get Krusty to Vegas -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 14:19 10
- isnt a residency supposed to be like, semi-permanent and not 2 weekends? Dates are currently Feb 9-10 and March 22-23 - tRuMaN (materially correct) Dec 12, 14:22 2
  - Wel I will never trust a concert promoter again. -- nm - con_carne Dec 12, 19:32
  - The article you posted below said more dates would be added. They have to or it's not a residency, just a few concerts. -- nm - Krusty Dec 12, 14:29
- What does it say? I don't use Twitter. -- nm - Krusty Dec 12, 14:21 6
  - Here - tRuMaN (materially correct) Dec 12, 14:23 5
    - Is a "residency" only 2 days? That just seems like 2 or 4 concerts. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 12, 14:35 2
      - And now I read tRu's comment -- nm - JaxSean Dec 12, 14:37 1
        
        heh. -- nm - tRuMaN (materially correct) Dec 12, 15:03
    - For the children! -- nm - David Dec 12, 14:35
    - Thanks! -- nm - Krusty Dec 12, 14:28
Honest Trailers | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Dec 12, 14:17 [youtube]
NFL meeting week 14 with Annie Agar -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Dec 12, 14:11 [youtube]
Snapple Real Fact #860: Cleveland is home to the first electric lights. -- nm - Remlik Dec 12, 14:07 6
- Outdoors. -- nm - Krusty Dec 12, 14:17 5
  - ... 20 MINUTES. - Spawn Dec 12, 14:22 4
    - It's true though. It was street lights, not indoor lights. - Krusty Dec 12, 14:32 3
      - Technically, Humphry Davy beat him by about 77 years. -- nm - Spawn Dec 12, 14:43 2
        
        Did all the king's horses and all the king's men help? -- nm - TWuG Dec 12, 14:58
        
        He couldn't see it from Cleveland. -- nm - Krusty Dec 12, 14:55
RIP Ace Hotel/Theater in DTLA -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 14:01 3
- What the heck is: "a limited-service, rooms-only operation, managed via a tech platform" -- nm - JD Dec 12, 14:29 1
  - nothing good -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 14:32
- Downtown is so whack -- nm - budice Dec 12, 14:05
Asteroid City on Prime Video -- nm - budice Dec 12, 13:56 1
- Already watched it on Tubi :) Strange little movie. -- nm - Meg Dec 12, 15:12
did Netflix wait until Norman Lear was dead to announce this one? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 13:55 1
- IIRC, he had been working on it with them for a couple of years. -- nm - Krusty Dec 12, 14:05
What should I be installing on my Pixel Watch that I'm probably not already doing? -- nm - Reagen Dec 12, 12:58 10
- ST. -- nm - tRuMaN (materially correct) Dec 12, 13:37
- Otto Pilot -- (pic) - budice Dec 12, 13:23 [Attachment] 1
  - Evil Otto -- nm - Spawn Dec 12, 13:27
- Bartender with full bar -- nm - budice Dec 12, 13:17
- oxygen monitor -- nm - mel profit Dec 12, 13:15
- Classroom Transcripts recorder -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 13:12
- Can you make your own faces on smart watches still? I liked that about my old Samsung Gear s2. I made a nice white on black face with the Stark - sycor Dec 12, 13:05
- Whatever the google equivalent to the Samsung Smartthings is so you can control all your devices -- nm - decline Dec 12, 13:03 1
  - I would hope the Google Home app would be a default app. - sycor Dec 12, 13:07
- A clock. -- nm - Spawn Dec 12, 13:00
nice football weekend - Lafarrow Dec 12, 12:48 3
- How did those Falcons/Saints and Lafarrow/David games go? -- nm - David Dec 12, 13:41
- I think it is rude that I have to play the top seed two weeks in a row -- nm - oblique Dec 12, 12:51 1
  - cry me a river Mahomes -- nm - Lafarrow Dec 12, 13:08
19 days left in 2023 to squeeze all your resolutions in before making the new ones -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 12:37 1
- resolve to never resolve again and only evolve or revolve -- nm - Lafarrow Dec 12, 12:49
Surprisingly, Big Brother Reindeer Games was pretty fun last night. On again tonight at 9p. -- nm - Jovian Dec 12, 12:27 2
- let me guess, they voted Rudolph out? -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 12:31 1
  - technically yes? they booted the most 'rookie' person there was. -- nm - Jovian Dec 12, 12:50
Netflix has started publishing the 'What we Watched' report with just a sh!t ton of data -- (link) - decline Dec 12, 12:16 6
- so is this second screen data as well? -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Dec 12, 14:15
- 18000 lines of data. I just wet myself. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 12, 12:38 1
  - Speaking of, how did the water distiller go yesterday? -- nm - sycor Dec 12, 12:56
- Squid Game season 1 seems a little low comparatively. -- nm - Loyola Dec 12, 12:32
- Scream it into the Void! -- nm - Spawn Dec 12, 12:27
- i.e., "here's all the shows we don't have to pay talent bonuses on under the new contracts" -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 12:17
lfg… NY Dems. state sup ct orders new redistricting for 2024 -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 12:14 1
- Nice! -- nm - Krusty Dec 12, 12:17
Cloud engineer wreaks havoc on bank network after getting fired for pr0n. Gets Prison. -- (link*) - budice Dec 12, 11:57 1
- Sounds to me like a bad company policy problem -- nm - decline Dec 12, 12:03
Hawaii wtfyd? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:50
WWE: Jade Cargill's mother lost her battle with cancer. -- nm - Remlik Dec 12, 11:49
Texas senator suddenly has not a care in the world what goes on in state government (Collin Allred u up?) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:45 1
- chicken shit mo fo -- nm - Pippy aka Roberto C Fishman-Pratt Dec 12, 13:07
So Indiana Fever get the 1st pick for the 2nd year in a row, Caitlin Clark from Iowa...may play a 5th year of college instead of going pro - Remlik Dec 12, 11:42 9
- smart cookie -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:47
- Yeah. With NIL money the WNBA may be a pay cut for her. -- nm - Dano Dec 12, 11:44 5
  - also, why did they name their team after a communicable disease - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:48 4
    - Pedantically, a fever is a symptom and not a disease. -- nm - Dano Dec 12, 12:07 3
      - Maybe just me but the Indiana Pedantics is kind of a cool name. - Max Dec 12, 12:31
      - :-D -- nm - mud Dec 12, 12:21
      - damn it - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 12:17
- she just landed a Gatorade deal (also deals with State Farm, Nike and Hy-Vee, among others) -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Dec 12, 11:43 1
  - oof. Yeah. I think she sticks to college for another year -- nm - Remlik Dec 12, 11:46
James Cameron sits down with Dubba Gee for Directors on Directors this Friday -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:33
Anyone want a code for one free month of XBox Ultimate? You'll need to create a new account for it. - David Dec 12, 11:24
what we’ve gotten for our money so far in Ukraine -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:17 17
- Losing 87% of your standing army seems like it would be even more important than losing a second submarine, Andrei. -- nm - Max Dec 12, 14:59
- Didnt a Senator come out today and say "Ukraine just needs to give up land and be peaceful" (paraphrasing, obs)? - tRuMaN (materially correct) Dec 12, 14:20 1
  - Peter Thiel’s shitheel JD Vance -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 14:21
- I encourage everyone to read the amazing interview I linked on B2 - mud Dec 12, 12:18 1
  - all wars are R&D labs - Lafarrow Dec 12, 13:10
- that first paragraph is amazing -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 12, 12:04 2
  - if fucko can just steal Pentagon money to pay for his dumb wall, Dark Brandon can divert all kinds of red state funds to Ukraine -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 12:20 1
    - 👍👍 -- nm - mud Dec 12, 12:21
- I feel like the West are giving just enough money to Ukraine to ensure a stalemate. - Loyola Dec 12, 11:56 6
  - We bankrupted the USSR and their corruption is bankrupting them now. That’s a hollow $120bil a year. Very hollow. - Will Hunting Dec 12, 12:24
  - Kyiv was supposed to fall in "weeks" two years ago - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 12:06 3
    - It's somehow even worse than that. Russia isn't just a paper tiger. The paper is immolating. -- nm - David Dec 12, 12:28 1
      - Biden could be jamming the MAGA caucus up on foreign aid by hammering the Israel side of it but instead he's cutting a shitty border deal with liars - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 12:33
    - People believe what they want to believe. And the way it’s looking, Putin’s delusion will outlast Western resolute. -- nm - Loyola Dec 12, 12:17
  - Russia has a billion social media accounts pumping out psy ops disinformation -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 12, 12:02
- How long until we annex Russia? -- nm - Spawn Dec 12, 11:17 1
  - :-] -- nm - mud Dec 12, 12:22
this should be Ford’s Super Bowl ad -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:12
The NBA is considering guaranteeing a playoff spot for the NBA CUP champions in the future -- (link) - Remlik Dec 12, 11:07 11
- The funny thing is I think they got the idea for this in season tournament from the NBA2k league that my daughter used to work on. They've done it - pmb Dec 12, 13:30
- yes the NBA playoffs are definitely too short as it currently stands. let’s add more games -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:08 9
  - How does that extend the playoffs? -- nm - JD Dec 12, 11:10 7
    - I assume there would have to be some play-in round bullshit like MLB -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:11 6
      - IMO, it doesn't have to. I think there will be times that the winner qualifies on regular season results so same amount of teams. The other times, - JD Dec 12, 11:40 5
        
        but then what's even the point of "guaranteeing" the spot if 90% of the time the winner is gonna make the playoffs anyway? -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:42 4
        
        Hate to say it. - zunk takes things literally Dec 12, 12:25
        
        You never know when you might want to rest your starters. -- nm - Spawn Dec 12, 11:43 2
        
        Supposedly, they're not allowed to do that anymore. -- nm - Krusty Dec 12, 11:52
        
        lol, quiet quitting -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:47
  - you want load management. here's more load mgmt -- nm - budice Dec 12, 11:09
mildly joking when I say “abortion litigation practice” is a hot firm growth area for 24 -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:07
West Coast people...help out a fellow comic retailer in Newbury and Ventura California...he's a good guy & his stores are struggling - Remlik Dec 12, 11:03
when do reviews for Rebel Moon start dropping? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 12, 11:03 5
- Rebel Moon : Star Wars :: The Orville : ST:TNG, right? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 12, 12:13 1
  - it's basically Zack Snyder's (presumably crummy) Star Wars script that Lucasfilm passed on, repurposed for Netflix -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 14:05
- they were setting up the premiere on H'wood Blvd so i assume tonight? -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:29 1
  - Are you assuming anyone survives? -- nm - Spawn Dec 12, 11:31
- nsy -- nm - Spawn Dec 12, 11:10
when economists watch Xmas movies -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 11:00
the contrast between how Ravens handle their stadium bidness and the AngelO’s couldn’t be starker -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 10:57 1
- I’d give Biscotti the deal that Angelos wants. - Will Hunting Dec 12, 12:26
So how long until this is David Tepper? -- (link) - JD Dec 12, 10:50 [youtube] 2
- there’s no easy way out -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 10:54
- also, Miami hasn’t beaten a team over .500 this season. -- nm - budice Dec 12, 10:52
Idiocracy part 786 -- (pic) - Jovian Dec 12, 10:44 [Attachment] 7
- Never mind. Took to long to reply and you answered it below. -- nm* - sycor Dec 12, 11:27
- First part of this -- (pic) - Jovian Dec 12, 10:48 [Attachment] 5
  - That has all the markings of a popular and successful grift - how much are they asking for it? -- nm - rollo Dec 12, 10:54 4
    - And...since grift is the family business you just have to figure they bought a bolt of that fabric to cut into swatches -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 12, 11:50
    - $4700 -- nm - Jovian Dec 12, 10:56 2
      - Gotta pay for those lawyer fees somehow. -- nm - sycor Dec 12, 11:28 1
        
        ... but does he really? -- nm - Spawn Dec 12, 13:41
Podcast recommendation: Real Survival Stories. I've listened to a few episodes and they're fascinating stories told by the people - Krusty Dec 12, 10:38 4
- Alan Ritchson on Michael Rosenbaum's - Biggest Fear with Reacher, Blessing and Curse of Bipolar & Connecting Through Pain -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Dec 12, 10:39 [youtube] 1
  - his first one on this podcast is all about his mental health struggles and is a great listen -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Dec 12, 10:40
- thanks! - decline Dec 12, 10:39 1
  - I love a good true story but want to avoid another true crime podcast. This is a good one. -- nm - Krusty Dec 12, 10:42
Ruoff Music Center named top amphitheater in ticket sales worldwide -- (link) - Remlik Dec 12, 10:38 4
- Hell yeah it is, we go there! -- nm - Spawn Dec 12, 10:51
- that is interesting. If you had asked me to guess I would have said Red Rocks or Alpine Valley -- nm - oblique Dec 12, 10:45 2
  - I would have said the same -- nm - Remlik Dec 12, 10:52 1
    - newb -- nm - Spawn Dec 12, 10:52
Happy International Sound Check Day 1-2 1-2 -- nm - Remlik Dec 12, 10:28 3
- thank you for the groan - oblique Dec 12, 10:34 1
  - HA! check your FB messages -- nm* - Remlik Dec 12, 10:38
- sibilance sibilance -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 10:30
is this Mel's hospital? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 12, 10:00
LOL streaming: Tubi to stream Black Adam, Suicide Squad, The Batman and more DC content -- (link) - MDH Dec 12, 09:58 5
- Get that licensing money, Zazlav! -- nm - Tim Dec 12, 10:29
- They need to add Blue Beetle cause it is trash -- nm - Pippy aka Roberto C Fishman-Pratt Dec 12, 10:03 2
  - I don't remember hating it, but it definitely forgettable. Like I had kind of forgotten I had watched it. - sycor Dec 12, 10:26 1
    - Much like Shazam! 1. - Spawn Dec 12, 11:11
- For free, Tubi does ok -- nm - budice Dec 12, 10:02

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