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love to make my tough Free Speech calls knowing i can never be sued by the presidential candidate being falsely accused of pedophilia -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Feb 5, 11:45
Dano, thank you for the link on B2. I was going to watch it but Paramount has already blocked it. - crash davis 😺 Feb 5, 11:45
People are replying to the WWEshop Twitter account saying they ordered Cody merch and got Rock merch instead. - Tim Feb 5, 11:28
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 - Trailer "Pooh is back!" -- (link*) - decline Feb 5, 11:28 [youtube] 3
- Oh bother! -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 5, 11:45
- one thing that all these classic characters going public domain is good at revealing is just what an artistic dead end "IP" always ends up being -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 5, 11:37 1
  - Maybe I should find a ghost writer for my Detective Eeyore idea. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 11:50
Emirates Airline says Boeing is down to their last chance, that quality has crashed -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 5, 11:21 5
- I’ve heard it was because of woke airlines -- nm - Tim Feb 5, 11:36 1
  - Woke Airlines > UnWoke Airlines -- nm - budice Feb 5, 11:37
- Boo to click bait Subject lines ;-) That article doesn't use a 'crash' quote. - JD Feb 5, 11:33 2
  - Especially from a country that doesn't allow (officially) alcohol -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 13:29
  - I was just trying to get some notice from Mr Davis -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 13:28
"I really did the best under the circumstances of a person who hates people and yet had to be amongst them". -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 5, 11:16 1
- weak episode. -- nm - mud Feb 5, 11:38
On Saturday, Feb. 3, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made a second close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io -- (link) - decline Feb 5, 11:08 14
- Io, Io, its off to work I go -- nm - Juno Feb 5, 11:19
- brillliant -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 5, 11:13
- more -- (link) - decline Feb 5, 11:10 11
  - Do we know the temperature range on the dark side of Jupiter? -- nm - David Feb 5, 11:14 10
    - Wow. I would have lost this bet. "With temperatures ranging from 2,240 to 2,780 degrees Fahrenheit" -- nm - David Feb 5, 11:16 9
      - Uhm, that can't be right. Closer to 200F. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 11:24 8
        
        I don't know the source, but it's from this. -- (link) - David Feb 5, 11:27 6
        
        that's talking about an exoplanet 850 light years from here -- nm - decline Feb 5, 11:32 3
        
        Sorry, that was my google box result. -- nm - David Feb 5, 11:36 1
        
        Yeah, Google search has gone to shit, unfortunately. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 11:42
        
        Ah, so instead of Disney World it is Euro Disney. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 11:34
        
        That's an exoplanet. A "hot Jupiter" is a particular classification of some exoplanets. - Reagen Feb 5, 11:31
        
        They are wrong. - Spawn Feb 5, 11:30
        
        Venus is the hottest and would never hit 1,000F. -- nm* - Spawn Feb 5, 11:25
ST age / relevancy check: Somebody here has to be playing Palworld? Or at least played some amount of time? - JD Feb 5, 10:59 5
- What is the next game from the guy who did Bioshock? (Ken something?) -- nm - JaxSean Feb 5, 11:09 3
  - It's still a year away. -- nm - David Feb 5, 11:13
  - Judas - Max Feb 5, 11:11 [Backboard] 1
    - "what have I become?" -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Feb 5, 11:44
- I just heard about it last week when they got sued. -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 11:03
So far it's just RC and I in our ST NASCAR league. Anyone else want to join? -- (link) - JaxSean Feb 5, 10:57
jacob elordi apparently snapped at an attempt to get him to. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Feb 5, 10:52 1
- non-instagram options. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Feb 5, 10:54
I recently started taking these probiotics. Honestly, the capsules look like suppositories. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 5, 10:48
Bobby Witt Jr. agrees to 11-year, $288.8M deal with Royals -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Feb 5, 10:45
Neat: Deciphering ancient burned texts from Vesuvius -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 5, 10:43 3
- decline, non-login coverage from below here! — nm - i.b! Feb 5, 10:49 1
  - 👍👍 -- nm - decline Feb 5, 10:53
- "Verecundus mentulam lingit." -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 5, 10:46
Wow: "The overwhelming majority of Sphere’s revenues came from Aronofsky’s film “Postcard from Earth” with $92.9M generated over 191 performances" -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 10:26 8
- was that because it had more days/showings than concerts? like visitors wanting the experience while they were there? -- nm - i.b! Feb 5, 10:30 7
  - I see, today’s 8-K filing says it generated $1M a day last quarter. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Feb 5, 10:41 2
    - P/E of 2.16 -- nm - psilotum Feb 5, 11:45
    - Good link, thanks! Here's where I got a few quick numbers from: -- (link) - MDH Feb 5, 10:43
  - Multiple showings per day. It made roughly $1M/day. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 10:40 2
    - 191 total showings. So, 2 and sometimes 3 showings per day. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 11:12
    - :) - -- nm - i.b! Feb 5, 10:42
  - Coupled with the hugely artist friendly contract that U2 received -- nm - JD Feb 5, 10:31
NBA to play on LED Courts for some events for NBA All Star Weekend.... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 5, 10:23 9
- a look at them -- (link) - Remlik Feb 5, 10:29 7
  - Digital ads on NBA courts in 3...2...1... -- nm - David Feb 5, 10:39 5
    - not during play I bet, but timeouts for sure -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 10:40 4
      - For a shot clock violation the floor should turn to lava! -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 11:26 3
        
        Good lord, I can see that being a thing in 10-20 years. -- nm - David Feb 5, 11:42 1
        
        The court is a good start but we need CGI effects added tot he broadcast. - Spawn Feb 5, 11:45
        
        The whole lane should be a free throw count down. Same with the back court for advancing the ball -- nm - JD Feb 5, 11:35
  - I like some of it a lot, like cool concert effects; but that’s not so good to me. — nm - i.b! Feb 5, 10:32
- That is both wild and creepy. And I expect a large part of its usage to be ads. -- nm - pmb Feb 5, 10:25
ST will have thoughts: Variety- The Theatrical Success of ‘Anyone but You’ Sends a Message: Has Streaming Become a Form of Stockholm Syndrome? -- (link) - MDH Feb 5, 10:16 8
- Box office must be in worse shape than I thought. - the wrong element Feb 5, 11:20 4
  - it only cost $25m to make -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 5, 11:38 1
    - So it was profitable and now others will waste money trying to replicate that success. - the wrong element Feb 5, 11:50
  - It had some unexpected legs even for its release date. -- nm - Tim Feb 5, 11:24 1
    - Is it possible that is because of the release date? - the wrong element Feb 5, 11:43
- Huh. Hadn't thought about Owen Gleiberman in 10+ years. This does sound like the take of a 64-year-old Hollywood writer, though. -- nm - David Feb 5, 10:32
- I get what he’s saying about some movies; but he’s missing just how popular some streaming movies are and over-hoping for success of others. - i.b! Feb 5, 10:26
- I'll let the streaming experts talk about the article. I am just going to take a moment to confess that I have a secret desire to see Anyone But You. -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 10:22
DTL: Recruiting timing. For ties (particularly in radars) do you like to place points early or wait until the last game of the cycle? - Dano Feb 5, 10:11 2
- Depends on timing sometimes (when I have time) but otherwise mostly what baron says. - spamlet Feb 5, 10:34
- The answer, as in all things, is "it depends" - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 5, 10:28
Isn't this just Hacks? "Easy's Waltz: Vince Vaughn stars as a old school Vegas comedian trying to be relevant in modern Vegas." - MDH Feb 5, 10:11 2
- sort of - hacks is partly about an old school comedienne moving on/updating, partly about a writer for her. — nm - i.b! Feb 5, 10:16
- similar ground...Hacks is more about how a young writer... - Remlik Feb 5, 10:15
Disneyland & DCA Closing Early Again at 8pm tonight -- nm - budice Feb 5, 10:10 1
- The Sky is Falling!! -- nm - decline Feb 5, 10:11
King Charles diagnosed with cancer, suspending public duties during treatment -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 5, 10:06 10
- fuck cancer -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 5, 10:44
- :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 5, 10:31
- best wishes for a speedy recovery -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 10:23
- Dude gotta be in the healthiest environment in Europe, he practically invented organic food with his own farms -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 10:18
- poor guy -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 10:15
- whoa -- nm - decline Feb 5, 10:10
- not prostate, but found when dealing with that being enlarged. — nm - i.b! Feb 5, 10:09 3
  - It doesn’t say that it’s not prostate cancer? -- nm - Loyola Feb 5, 10:26 2
    - the very first sentence: It is not prostate cancer, but was discovered during his recent treatment for an enlarged prostate. -- nm - i.b! Feb 5, 10:27 1
      - Oh I was reading the palace statement. -- nm - Loyola Feb 5, 10:29
John Krasinski has a new film coming out -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 5, 10:01 [youtube] 1
- starring Rainn Reynolds -- nm - Roger More Feb 5, 10:58
I’m halfway through the first episode of a tv show called “A Small Light”. It seems like it could be very good. - Loyola Feb 5, 09:54
OH at the dentist: "Did you watch the Grammys last night?" "No - i totally forgot. Did Taylor win anything?" (Spoils) - Beryllium Feb 5, 09:54
the rain insane falls mainly in LA -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 5, 09:50 6
- What's up with the 0.06 right between the 4.88 and 7.82 and the 0.56 right next to 9.17 ? - decline Feb 5, 09:56 4
  - Could be rain shadow, where a mountain peak causes a pressure change making it drop rain one side and barely the other -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 10:21 1
    - See the island of Hawaii and compare rainfall in Hilo vs Kona -- nm - JD Feb 5, 10:22
  - Giant umbrellas. -- nm - Last Of My Kind Feb 5, 10:14 1
    - Is Last of my Kind in reference to the song? -- nm - Loyola Feb 5, 10:23
- Are those green numbers topographically high points? High enough that it's snowing not raining? -- nm - JD Feb 5, 09:55
The Swift Effect in the NFL. -- (link) - David Feb 5, 09:49 1
- Great Gidnights Midnights. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 5, 10:06
friendly reminder that your Publix money goes straight into Meatball Ron & CO’s pockets -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 5, 09:46
It's February 5th, 2024, and James Cameron says Avatar 3 is 97% finished with filming. -- (link) - David Feb 5, 09:42 9
- 97% done, in post, and release date 12/19/2025. Sigh. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 10:06 2
  - The last 10% is 90% of the effort or some version of that cliche -- nm - JD Feb 5, 10:12 1
    - I always think of "Munich" starting filming and 6 months later it being in theaters. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 10:15
- I lament the movies we didn't get to see because of his fixation on the bottom of the ocean and tall blue men. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 5, 09:55 2
  - Yeah, I used to like his movies. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 11:14
  - I don't think post Titanic Cameron works that way. It would've been some other obsession and not something to just keep us entertained. - JD Feb 5, 10:01
- Having read the reviews, I still can’t bring myself to watch Avatar 2. -- nm - Loyola Feb 5, 09:51
- Also ideas for 6 and 7 -- nm - budice Feb 5, 09:43 1
  - Will be dead by then at the rate the films come out -- nm - eag Feb 5, 09:45
The Experian website would be comically awful if it wasn't so frustrating. It doesn't function in any even barely logical way and mostly doesn't - pmb Feb 5, 09:30 7
- All the credit bureau websites are straight outta Kafka. -- nm - David Feb 5, 09:46 4
  - Totally true. Only Experian even worked at all the first time I tried it. It's just amazing for such big and important companies. -- nm - pmb Feb 5, 09:58 2
    - Literally this weekend, on Experian you would log in and it would take you to the "order a credit report" page, but when I would try to go back to the - pmb Feb 5, 10:00 1
      - We spent about four months dealing with all three of them in 2012. There was never a moment where I thought, "I'm sure this will get better over time. -- nm - David Feb 5, 10:31
  - that's a terrific comparison -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 5, 09:49
- you are in The Bad Place -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 5, 09:31 1
  - Absolutely. -- nm - pmb Feb 5, 09:35
scrolls from 79AD thought charred beyond recognition by Mount Vesuvius eruption rescued digitally for translation -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 5, 09:26 10
- I may have told this story before, but in one of my college classes we got to translate some graffiti from Pompeii. It was filthy. - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 5, 10:09
- Was there any volcano eruption warning in there - eag Feb 5, 09:40
- That’s wild! -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Feb 5, 09:28
- article about the project, for anyone who doesn’t want to twitter. nm but: -- (link) - i.b.! Feb 5, 09:27 6
  - c&ping an article from the Economist on the same topic - Roger More Feb 5, 10:57
  - paywall -- nm - decline Feb 5, 09:30 1
    - drat, I now see it shows as a gifted article. it was linked in the twitter thread. not a nice copy/paste, sorry! this has the gift link. nm but: -- (link*) - i.b! Feb 5, 10:06
  - found on Oak Island?! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 5, 09:29 2
    - just a bit older than that treasure. — nm - i.b.! Feb 5, 09:30 1
      - pfft. lies. Templars! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 5, 09:31
Hungry Sea Otters Can Change The World - JD Feb 5, 09:26 1
- 🦦💕 — nm - i.b.! Feb 5, 09:29
to me, it would be great if artists and others stopped doing fake crimes. like be more creative. nm but: -- (link) - i.b.! Feb 5, 09:25
I dig that Jayhawks song -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 5, 09:22 1
- Rock Chalk Jayhawk! -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 09:40
I'm pretty happy with Pocket Casts, FWIW. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 09:19 9
- Same. I've been using it for years and have no issues -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 09:39
- I use Overcast (I think spam's recommendation?). Works well for me! -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Feb 5, 09:26 1
  - I flip back and forth between Overcast and PocketCasts. They both have one thing that just bugs me to no end. - spamlet Feb 5, 09:38
- yup. I switched to it recently because google is closing theirs. I've got no real complaints -- nm - decline Feb 5, 09:23
- I've been using Downcast for seemingly forever -- nm - JD Feb 5, 09:22 3
  - I thought I saw that was going away as well? -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 09:38 2
    - I don't think so. I keep getting updates. - JD Feb 5, 10:15
    - in looking for that I learned about silence trimming. — nm - i.b! Feb 5, 10:14
- that's what i use -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 09:20
DTL: Spam, what are your plans for Richards? -- nm - rollo Feb 5, 09:16 3
- If I go any further it would be to 28 as an “in case he drops” -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 09:39 2
  - FYI: I've decided not to pursue Hibner. -- nm - Dano Feb 5, 10:00 1
    - Ok thanks. I’m going to stay on. -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 10:33

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