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My Fisker Ocean has arrived in port! Should just be a few weeks now! -- nm - JaxSean Jan 23, 14:12 2
- Sweet! -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 14:20
- Excellent! -- nm - TWuG Jan 23, 14:19
when Johnny Marr hears you’re using his songs for your Nazi rallies -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 14:07 4
- I have always hated The Smiths. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 14:19 3
  - Hating Morrissey is rational. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 14:21 1
    - Which I really do but I like The Smiths so go figure -- nm - JD Jan 23, 14:23
  - that tracks -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 14:20
the original casting for Marty McFly was quite different -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 14:04
WWE: So Peacock retains domestic rights to the PLE's..... - Remlik Jan 23, 13:50 5
- For now. That deal expires in 2026. Netflix is in for the penny and the pound now. -- nm - David Jan 23, 13:53 4
  - It’ll be a weird year or two where you’re watching Raw on Netflix and they tell you to watch WrestleMania on Peacock, -- nm - Tim Jan 23, 14:09 2
    - Everything about that sentence was impossible in 2005. -- nm - David Jan 23, 14:21 1
      - Hell, it was unthinkable even 5 years ago. -- nm - Tim Jan 23, 14:59
  - Gotcha so they still have two years -- nm - Remlik Jan 23, 14:03
hell yeah, Cali is one of the 12 states getting the test run for IRS' free Direct File program this year. eat shit TurboTax -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 13:32 3
- Every state that's included: Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas & Washington -- nm - Krusty Jan 23, 13:37 2
  - Oregon? Did I hear you say Oregon? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 23, 13:39 1
    - Nope, sorry. Maybe next year. -- nm - Krusty Jan 23, 14:15
Beaker - B2 - Page 2 of this newsletter describes our introduction to LiDAR in 2017. -- (link) - Meg Jan 23, 13:29
Turkey approves Sweden's NATO membership...okay now back to you Hungary to hold this up for a bit longer now. - Jovian Jan 23, 13:25 2
- Same reason Turkey hasn't been thrown out..? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 23, 13:41 1
  - Id say Turkey is critical for NATO. Hungary? The country that has never been on the winning side of a war? pfffft not so much imo. -- nm - Jovian Jan 23, 13:44
Border patrol removes razor wire, Texas rangers following with fresh wire.... -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 13:18 7
- *buys stock in razor wire companies* -- nm - Dano Jan 23, 13:22
- I hope Civil War 2 starts in Texas -- nm - Jovian Jan 23, 13:21 3
  - If it does, I'm leaving for Oklahoma. Mom's house. - Epiphany Jan 23, 13:24 2
    - So the house is empty? -- nm - eag Jan 23, 14:09 1
      - Hmm. What is the address? -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 14:19
- Desantis asks if he can have the slightly used razor wire to surround Mara Lago and Disneyworld. -- nm* - Peglegpete Jan 23, 13:20
- Our tax dollars at work. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 13:20
Netflix: Q4 EPS $2.11 vs. $2.22 Est.; Q4 Revs. $8.83B vs. $8.72B Est. Subs: +13.12M vs +8.91M expected -- (link*) - budice Jan 23, 13:08 3
- EPS down, everything else in the "SUCK IT!" range. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 23, 13:38
- up 4% after hours. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 13:13 1
  - 8.5% now. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 14:12
Gary Graham who started in the Alien Nation TV series and played a Vulcan on Enterprise has died -- (link) - TWuG Jan 23, 13:07 3
- aw man that stinks. He was a fun actor. -- nm - Remlik Jan 23, 13:32
- the photo of him they chose to use sucks. they could have found better. -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 23, 13:17
- Aw, I liked that series. I watched a lot of that doomed early Fox stuff. Most of them starred Alison La Placa. -- nm* - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 23, 13:11
Alaska Airlines CEO: We found 'many' loose bolts on our Max 9s following near-disaster. -- (link) - budice Jan 23, 12:53 6
- The Alaska CEO last week -- (link) - ty97 Jan 23, 13:20
- United CEO casts doubt on 737 Max 10 order after Boeing's recent problems - ty97 Jan 23, 13:16 2
  - so they're eventually gonna get to the same place "we need to bite the bullet and just design a new plane" that they were at 20 years ago with the 737 -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 13:29 1
    - Nah, they'll just give United a discount to shut them up -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 13:32
- Seems bad -- nm - spamlet Jan 23, 13:02
- AA to their maintenance subcontractor -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 12:58 [youtube]
at some point you think national Dems would get wise to the grift scheme and yet… -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 12:43
Raiders hired Tom Telesco as GM, previous w/ Chargers -- nm - budice Jan 23, 12:41
Milwaukee Bucks fire Adrian Griffin, pursuing Doc Rivers and other veteran coaches. -- nm - David Jan 23, 12:11 10
- Doc Rivers near deal to coach MIL -- nm - budice Jan 23, 13:13
- “sir you have 17” -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 12:39 1
  - I like to live dangerously. -- nm - Bucks Assistant GM Jan 23, 12:59
- Wow....that's .... something. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 23, 12:27
- Whoa... -- nm - Diva Jan 23, 12:20
- holy smokes. A .700 record a third of the way into the season gets you fired?!? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 23, 12:15 4
  - they don't/won't play defense. None. They won't get anywhere in the playoffs without it. I guess if they fire Budenholzer -- (edited) - Diva Jan 23, 12:24 2
    - diva stuff, bad. Diva stuff, good! :) -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 23, 12:52 1
      - Yes. -- nm - Diva Jan 23, 12:53
  - That is a C-. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 12:16
JWST: an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This nebula, known as N79, is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionised -- (edited) - decline Jan 23, 11:56 [Image] 4
- "We are now entering the Mutara Nubula." -- nm - Spock Jan 23, 12:02 1
  - Time for some hot, 3-D space action. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 12:05
- now that's cooooool -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 23, 12:00
- ruh oh -- nm - dum Jan 23, 11:58
Paul Krugman - Who cares how the market’s doing? (And should they?) - crash davis 😺 Jan 23, 11:46
The Holdovers. B- - Loyola Jan 23, 11:44
John McWhorter - After Claudine Gay and Neri Oxman, the search for copied language is out of hand - crash davis 😺 Jan 23, 11:37
WWE/TKO: The Rock has joined the board of directors for TKO and has been granted full rights to the Rock name and brand - Remlik Jan 23, 11:26 1
- stock is up 14 % -- nm - Epiphany Jan 23, 11:38
RIP Charles Osgood (again in my mind, though i guess i was mixing him up with the earlier deceased Charles Kuralt) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 11:18 2
- :( - he was a longtime favorite of mine, since kidhood. “I’ll see you on the radio.” — nm - i.b! Jan 23, 11:25
- :( - Znufrii, promoted Jan 23, 11:20
Bradley Cooper has the same number of Oscar nominations as Francis Ford Coppola and Clint Eastwood. -- nm - Loyola Jan 23, 11:18 1
- He also has significantly more make-out sessions with Lady Gaga. Well, I assume. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 23, 11:37
This is pretty hilarious -- (link) - Jovian Jan 23, 11:15
Jim Harbaugh's wife has joined him to meet with the Chargers today. So, that deal either happens or collapses this afternoon. -- nm - David Jan 23, 11:07 7
- Finally the real negotiator arrives -- nm - budice Jan 23, 11:10
- I'd live in San Diego in a heart beat. - Epiphany Jan 23, 11:09 5
  - Sadly, the Chargers don’t now. -- nm - David Jan 23, 11:12 4
    - It's known she wanted a return to California. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jan 23, 11:31 2
      - Pippy's going back to Cali. Cali. Cali. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 11:41 1
        
        ~my bikini small, my heels TALL - I do like the Ocean~ - Epiphany Jan 23, 12:33
    - 😏 -- nm - JD Jan 23, 11:14
Honest Trailers | The Marvels -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jan 23, 11:04 [youtube]
we used to build things in America like snow canyons -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 11:00 2
- Yum! -- nm - Reese Witherspoon Jan 23, 12:58
- remember a couple years ago when Mel-Deeves said they used their 2nd floor window to enter/exit the townhouse? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 11:46
Now I’m wondering if the Network content will move to Netflix. The PPVs are good live content. -- nm - Tim Jan 23, 10:59 1
- This definitely feels like a contingency play if Peacock dies. -- nm - David Jan 23, 11:02
our federal courts up here can be broke, too -- (pic) - dum Jan 23, 10:57 [Attachment] 1
- still waiting on that DC Cir immunity opinion a week and a half later . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 11:00
“DARPA created N3 to pursue a path to a safe, portable neural interface system capable of reading from and writing to multiple points in the brain at at once,” -- (link*) - decline Jan 23, 10:53 2
- "as a side effect, the sharks got smarter" -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 23, 10:57
- (non-surgical, more importantly) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 10:54
Diana Nyad is a real person obviously, but is Jodie Foster’s character? - Tim Jan 23, 10:39 7
- Yes. Bonnie Stoll: -- (link) - kelly Jan 23, 11:51
- Diana Nyad...I hate her so much. Fla, flames. Flames on the side of my face -- nm - JD Jan 23, 11:06
- I believe so? The end of Nyad showed the real-life counterparts to the characters. Both Bening and Foster *really* looked like the real-life people - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 23, 10:43 2
  - They don’t merit a Wikipedia entry so wasn’t sure if she was real or based on the actual person. -- nm - Tim Jan 23, 10:45 1
    - if they're still alive and hadn't sold their life rights to the producers, prolly a composite or loosely fictionalized -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 10:48
- Apparently yes. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 10:43 1
  - So portrayals of Real People are 3/5 for Actor and Actress and 2/5 for Supporting. - Tim Jan 23, 10:44
It sounds like Bobby Slowik absolutely wowed the Falcons with his interview. Some team is gonna love having him as head coach. -- nm - David Jan 23, 10:39
as terrible a candidate tha Nikki has been thus far, this might not sound like such a crazy plan by convention time in July -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 10:31 1
- in 2020 it seemed like Biden's campaign was crippled...then came super tuesday.... -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 15:21
Disney Parks: Sip&Savor passes - no more punch tabs. Digital. -- (link) - budice Jan 23, 10:30
Patriots and/or Chiefs have been in each of the last 13 AFC champ games. If you also include Jets, you can get to 15. Also adding Steelers, to 21. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 23, 10:20
“God made me do it” -- (link) - Znufrii, promoted Jan 23, 10:06 9
- This is not the first, nor biggest, nor most egregious scam foisted upon the faithful...but let's not give 45 a goal to pursue. -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 11:44 1
  - heh. he is the one who gave them all these goals. A.H. showed them all the way. -- nm - Jovian Jan 23, 13:48
- The worst thing about Christianity are the fake Christians -- nm - Epiphany Jan 23, 11:12 1
  - 100% THIS. -- nm - Diva Jan 23, 12:26
- "He squandered everything you gave him! Punish him!" "It is good to be forgiving." "Ugh, fine." "Also I plan to give him more money." "WT-" -- nm - The Prodigal Son Refunds Jan 23, 10:17 1
  - Church Of The Sunk Cost Fallacy. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 10:38
- and I'm sure that will be enough of an explanation for some of these people to continue to give these crooks their money. - Jovian Jan 23, 10:15
- The video is just insanity. And the positive replies underneath, I just can't. Though he probably deletes the negative replies -- nm - Guigue Jan 23, 10:14
- Kimmy Schmidt probably had the best read on evangelicals and their brainwashed flocks - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 10:11
do bigwigs speak officially for Hamas? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 10:04
Also it’s proportional representation voting rules for BP. So if a film is enough people’s 2nd favourite film… -- nm - Loyola Jan 23, 09:54 18
- Which is how a film like Coda wins. I can see how The Holdovers or American Fiction could be a popular alternative choice. -- nm* - LMS Jan 23, 10:30 4
  - 2022 was still dealing with COVID fallout. It's an anomaly in most ways. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 10:37 3
    - I don’t think Covid had a bearing on what won BP. The year previous, Nomadland won. Some years are just weak. -- nm - Loyola Jan 23, 10:51 2
      - That year was also hammered by COVID. it was two whole years where studios didn't want to put things out in theaters. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 11:02 1
        
        True. I hadn’t thought of that. -- nm - Loyola Jan 23, 11:10
- I don’t think there’s a big split this year. Oppenheimer is a dumb persons idea of a smart movie, which the academy will eat up -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 09:58 12
  - you can't agree w/ me so I am - dum Jan 23, 10:39 7
    - i'm not even reagen-level science smart and i knew that shit was dumbed down so he could spend the other 2 hours on banging commies and dumb legal - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 10:51 6
      - I love the science but a 3 hour physics lecture does not a compelling movie make - Reagen Jan 23, 11:07 5
        
        I saw someone complain recently about how little science was in the movie - it’s a biopic and not a documentary. — nm - i.b! Jan 23, 11:12 3
        
        about one of the most consequential scientists of the 20th century, because of the very consequential science he did over four years in WWII -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 11:15 2
        
        I haven’t yet seen it, but I wouldn’t expect a whole lot to be spelled out because most research is boring. did they not cover the big stuff/impact? -- nm - i.b! Jan 23, 11:23 1
        
        except the whole Manhattan Project wasn't boring (to the extent that watching science dorks rally together to build a mass-murder weapon from scratch - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 11:27
        
        yes to your IM, especially -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 11:09
  - Greta has already eclipsed Damian Chazelle with her first three movies nominated as Best Pic (if you think that makes up for the BD snubs) but they - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 10:08 3
    - I’m of the thinking that there’ll be a split and Nolan will take Director, and a slower horse could be in the running for BP. - Loyola Jan 23, 10:14 2
      - yep. I personally think Oppy is the clear front runner and Poor Things is the Darkhorse here -- nm - Jovian Jan 23, 10:18
      - no, white Oscar voters are not going to reward a 3.5 hr exploration of their complicity. but hey Emma Stone fucks a lot in Poor Things! -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 23, 10:18
This is my first iPhone and I fucking hate it. -- nm - Diva Jan 23, 09:53 16
- Word. I hate the one work gave me. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 23, 13:33
- You clearly do not have the latest one because if you did it would be *great*. - Spawn Jan 23, 12:57
- THIS IS WHAT I'M SAYING!!! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 23, 12:53
- I’ve had mine for two years now. The speakers and microphone decided on the same day not to work anymore. - Loyola Jan 23, 10:00 1
  - That's messed up. -- nm - Diva Jan 23, 10:04
- Yep. - Andie Jan 23, 09:56 10
  - Work is demanding I have it. I hate it. -- nm - Diva Jan 23, 09:58 9
    - I have two phones because we can only use iphone for work. I only use it to authenticate and to find my real phone. - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jan 23, 10:15 5
      - I’ve always had two - like I have nothing to hide, but no. - i.b! Jan 23, 11:08 2
        
        *mouthing "she has so much to hide!" from his perch atop the plushy shelf, desperation in his black button eyes* -- nm - barnaby bear Jan 23, 11:10 1
        
        nice fiction, bub. as if you’re ever on a shelf for any reason other than choice. — nm - i.b! Jan 23, 11:16
      - Heh. I do the two phone thing as well with the work phone being used pretty much as you describe. Well, less the finding part -- nm - JD Jan 23, 10:32
      - Heh, I’ve been pondering a not-iPhone just for work only since it aggravates me to use my iPhone for work. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jan 23, 10:19
    - Almost 2 months into the new job, and I have gotten *kind of* used to the Macbook, but it's a hinderance sometimes. - JaxSean Jan 23, 10:12 2
      - macbook/apps vs. windows is an even bigger learning curve. I had to use one for a while, kept saying “I thought this was supposed to be *more* - i.b! Jan 23, 11:15
      - excel for mac is hot garbage. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jan 23, 10:59
DeSantis says he will veto plan to have Florida pay $5 million towards Trump’s legal bills. -- (link) - Znufrii, promoted Jan 23, 09:50 1
- I gotta believe this is grounds for some taxpayer to sue the state. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 23, 12:55
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Jan 23, 09:49

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