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A Bears Fan Reaction to the 2023-2024 NFL Season -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 May 8, 14:24 [youtube] 1
- I feel seen. -- nm - pmb May 8, 14:41
Yikes, new weather warnings coming in fast (for the general area, not our town specifically). -- nm - mara May 8, 14:22 1
- ugh, not a fun time of year. Stay safe! -- nm - ty97 May 8, 14:24
Kilbo from backboards: Copperhill, TN is where my mother's side of the family is from. Bunch a hillbillies that worked the mines. -- nm - Qale May 8, 14:10
hey lush-heads, miki's new single is rather good -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 8, 13:55 [youtube]
Worldwide Box Office Update (see IM): Fall Guy/Challengers hit $50M; Godzilla/Kong nears $550M, Ghostbusters $200M, Civil War $100M -- (edited) - MDH May 8, 13:50
Here is the logic puzzle question I have been asking as part of interviews for a business analyst position. No one has gotten straight off. - Dano May 8, 13:44 16
- 1) Get/Put on firefighter 🧑‍🚒 helmet—2) set off fire alarms 3) as your “fellow firefighters” clear each room, try flipping on/off switches -- nm - Trending May 8, 14:44
- Look at the light from under the door. No need to enter other room. -- nm* - Loyola May 8, 14:25
- Did you get my answer? I faxxed it to you -- nm - crash davis May 8, 14:10
- hated doing these for the LSAT, happy to hear they're not making future lawyers beat their brains in over them -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 14:02 3
  - Yeah, I'm all about creative solutions, like getting someone *else* to go check for me since I can't go twice. Let's see some team work! -- nm - Qale May 8, 14:05 2
    - "you can only enter the other room once" okay . . . but also, no - hollywood big shot May 8, 14:14 1
      - It also doesn't say a word about my Eleven-like ability to make lights turn off and on with my mind, so... -- nm - Qale May 8, 14:33
- Solution. (spoilers) - Marlowe May 8, 13:51
- Clarification and proposed solution. - znufrii May 8, 13:50
- I use this one but it's a tiny bit outdated. -- nm - Reagen May 8, 13:47 4
  - right -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 8, 14:00
  - Yeah. Hence the hint. Of course it's not exactly about getting it right. I just want to see them think and what questions they ask. -- nm - Dano May 8, 14:00
  - "You are in a room with three money machines ... how do you determine which switch makes which money machine go brrrrr?" -- nm - Beryllium May 8, 13:57 1
    - Simon has diamond hands. Billy has two hotdogs. Who's stock should we HODL ? -- nm - Qale May 8, 14:06
- 25% have gotten it when I provide the hint (spoilers) - Dano May 8, 13:45 1
  - Yup - znufrii May 8, 13:51
thank god, I was worried the essential third part of the obvious Incredibles trilogy might never get made -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 8, 13:06 7
- In which Jack-Jack has an existential midlife crisis and effectively abandons the family while he chases the thrill of his younger days -- nm - Fuzzy May 8, 14:42
- "likely happening at Pixar"? As opposed to..? Dreamworks? Also, this is just some b.s. Q&A mailbag from some guy speculating. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 8, 14:33
- He's talking theoretically, not confirming anything. -- nm - David May 8, 13:15 4
  - Why wouldn’t they though, they’re pillaging everything else for pointless sequels. -- nm - znufrii May 8, 13:52
  - I see this a lot more in financial/political reporting, but people seem to treat the word "could" and "may" as equal to "will". -- nm - Reagen May 8, 13:23 2
    - they made Pixar do Toy Story 5 - hollywood big shot May 8, 13:41 1
      - That one's dumb because we've done the emotional closure 3 times now - Reagen May 8, 13:44
ST Poll #sawitonreddit: Have you been within 10 ft. of a cow? Have you ever touched one? -- nm - oblique May 8, 12:59 43
- Yes, and yes. Grandaddy was a subsistance farmer/rancher, had a few cows, horses and chickens, and a large kitchen garden. Sold from his hay fields.. - whisper May 8, 15:18
- Yes, yes. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 May 8, 13:42 1
  - (at my childhood home, there was a farm two streets away with cows and a mean bull) -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 May 8, 13:43
- Yes x2, and I've put my hand through one. -- (link) - MDH May 8, 13:35 2
  - Same for me but with the UC Davis fistulated cow -- nm - JD May 8, 13:51
  - Mysterious Skin. -- nm - Qale May 8, 13:38
- Yup. I'm still relatively close to fields with some, even here in Houston near Hobby Airport. -- nm - Qale May 8, 13:35
- yup -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 8, 13:24
- Yes yes -- nm - zeitgeist May 8, 13:23
- I grew up next door to a farm. When I hit a baseball too hard, I worried about the nearby animals. -- nm - David May 8, 13:20 1
  - "I would have knocked that weak ass curve out of here but I fear for the chickens" -- nm - lil Davy May 8, 13:45
- sadly no and no. -- nm - Jovian May 8, 13:18
- Yes to both -- nm - znufrii May 8, 13:18 1
  - As a kid at my grandparents house, their woods backed up to a farm, and one day the cows came over to the fence for a visit - znufrii May 8, 13:46
- I mean, yeah. I've seen a lot more of a cow than I really wanted to. -- nm* - Reagen May 8, 13:15
- Yes and yes. -- nm - Meg May 8, 13:13 3
  - I once had a pet bull calf until Mom sent him to the butcher because she thought he was getting too big. - Meg May 8, 13:18 2
    - At least mom didn't shoot it and leave it....but the heart breaking thing is, did you have to eat it for dinner? -- nm - zeitgeist May 8, 13:30 1
      - Maybe some of it. The butcher would have bought most of it. Billy would have gone that way eventually, we only kept milk cows. - Meg May 8, 13:34
- In my youth I tipped one. In my teen years there was one next door that was like a big dog. My mom named Moo-erson. -- nm - LFG May 8, 13:11
- yes and yes -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 8, 13:11
- Yes, yes. -- nm - Beryllium May 8, 13:05
- I don't remember ever being that close or touching one. I went to a petting zoo as a kid but I don't specifically remember petting a cow. -- nm - Krusty May 8, 13:05 7
  - This poll wasn't terribly specific. Have you ever had a hamburger. -- nm - crash davis May 8, 13:08 5
    - The use of the word cow leads me to believe he meant the living animal. -- nm - Krusty May 8, 13:12 4
      - Assumptions kill Krusty. I imagine your hamburger assumed every day would go on like the others. -- nm - crash davis May 8, 13:21 1
        
        :-( Keep it light! -- nm - Krusty May 8, 13:49
      - Or at least a complete one. -- nm - LFG May 8, 13:13 1
        
        Everyone has touched a complete one in pieces. Your shoes, Elmer's Glue, dog food, etc. - crash davis May 8, 13:20
  - I've seen them on farms but never got close to them. -- nm - Krusty May 8, 13:08
- probably? growing up in farm country I’m sure at some point -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 13:03
- I would understand if this was a tiger shark or an abyssal fish, but a cow? In any case. Sure, many times! (NM) - Marlowe May 8, 13:02
- yes, yes, a herd slowly chased me around a pond while I was trying to fish. I was not amused -- nm - Pippy Shark May 8, 13:02 4
  - You know what you did. -- nm* - LFG May 8, 13:11 3
    - it is Oklahoma animals in this area. A hawk dive bombed me and a wild pig chased me around the front yard. no one else -- nm - Pippy Shark May 8, 13:24 2
      - If the animals start attacking, they own the house now. Time to decamp to the city. -- nm - ty97 May 8, 13:28 1
        
        I think they knew I was a city girl. -- nm - Pippy Shark May 8, 13:37
- In college, outside the Student Center, you could pay to milk a cow. Money went to charity. - ty97 May 8, 13:02 1
  - The only thing better than a cow is a human! Unless you need milk. Then you really need a cow. -- nm - Dr Walter Bishop May 8, 13:16
- yes. (haven't most people?) -- nm - Andie May 8, 13:01
- Yes. Cows, bulls, and a whole lot of cattle overall. - ReluctantCynic May 8, 13:00
- ST Poll: is this for phuccan real? -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 8, 12:59
- yes -- nm - decline May 8, 12:59
Copilot ain't that smart - crash davis 😺 May 8, 12:58 6
- I've used it for 2 things: - Dark Callisto 🦊 May 8, 13:45 2
  - I asked it a health question last week and I was impressed with how quickly it retrieved information from medical journals for me. - crash davis May 8, 14:03 1
    - Or so it said. Make sure the sources actually exist. -- nm - mara May 8, 14:04
- It also waffled on the question 'just how often should I be thinking of Sydney Sweeny per day' saying there was no one-size-fits-all solution. - Qale May 8, 13:37
- Bery protects us from the robots. EDIT: he actual does. The robots.txt file on slackertalk.com disallows web crawling -- (edited) - oblique May 8, 13:01 1
  - I was being a smart aleck but I respect the work Bery does in that regard. -- nm - crash davis May 8, 13:09
The Oregon Republican Party is hosting an "election integrity" seminar on Friday, May 24th. - ReluctantCynic May 8, 12:41 6
- Don't fall for the Log Cabin Republican honeypots. -- nm - Qale May 8, 13:40 1
  - Like I'd repeat the mistakes of 2004 all over again. -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 8, 14:23
- 👍 You're a secret agent. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 8, 12:43 1
  - Incidentally, it won't be official until the 23rd but the IDP has been emailing me a bunch of convention stuff. I'm actually looking forward to this. -- nm* - crash davis 😺 May 8, 12:45
- Subtitled "How to spot it and how to undermine it" -- nm - pmb May 8, 12:43 1
  - Pretty much. - ReluctantCynic May 8, 13:01
Is anyone familiar with these folk? They're promoting an event here in town in November. - Meg May 8, 12:40
That's my Christmas shopping done - -- (link) - Meg May 8, 12:34 6
- Fabulous! -- nm - Pippy Shark May 8, 13:23
- Nice! -- nm - David May 8, 13:20
- Stellar price! Have 🤩 fun! -- nm - Trending May 8, 12:53 1
  - Of course I have to pay for two people ;) -- nm - Meg May 8, 13:16
- sounds perfect -- nm - Andie May 8, 12:37
- Nice! I hope it's a wonderful trip! -- nm - Krusty May 8, 12:36
I see that iPad ad is going over swimmingly with creators. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 8, 12:32 1
- It was disturbing. Like, I can't even swing around to the idea that 'haha look how all that stuff is now inside this thing.' It was like a Korn video. -- nm - Qale May 8, 13:45
Movie idea: a suspense / revenge flick from the PoV from the sister in Reba’s song “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.” - Will Hunting May 8, 12:30 13
- DYK: That was originally a Vicki Lawrence song? Also there's a 1981 movie inspired by the song, though apparently with a different plot -- nm - ty97 May 8, 12:34 10
  - I wasn’t certain on if it was original but I’ve only heard Reba’s version so… -- (edited) - Will Hunting May 8, 12:37 7
    - When I was a little kid I loved that song so much that I actually had the album. -- nm - pmb May 8, 12:42
    - You're in TN. I think you're contractually obliged to favor the Reba version. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 8, 12:39
    - I only knew the Reba version too. I think I discovered the Vicki version within the past year and was like 'WAIT WHAT' -- nm - ty97 May 8, 12:38 4
      - Your campaign of posting subtle stuff like this to convince me that you are younger than me is failing to take root. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 8, 12:41 1
        
        I just confuse you by being wise beyond my years. -- nm - ty97 May 8, 12:48
      - The song was written by Vicki's then-husband, and went to #1. -- nm - ty97 May 8, 12:40
      - "Sweet little Vicki sang WHAT?" - Me. -- nm - ty97 May 8, 12:39
  - "a 1981 American musical drama film starring Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid, Mark Hamill and Don Stroud" -- nm - ty97 May 8, 12:35 1
    - gotta love early 80s entertainment. -- nm - Andie May 8, 12:37
- Vicki Lawrence is the version I prefer -- nm* - crash davis 😺 May 8, 12:33 1
  - yep -- nm - Andie May 8, 12:35
New Nelly Furtado with SG Lewis and Tove Lo, and new Miley with Calvin Harris. Oh I'm ready summer. -- nm - MDH May 8, 12:27 6
- Nelly Furtado is 45. How did that happen?! -- nm - ty97 May 8, 12:31 5
  - well see, in 2000 when "I'm Like a Bird" was released she was 21. Then we (and the planet) went around the sun 24 times! Imagine that. -- nm - mud May 8, 12:37 4
    - Does not compute. -- nm - ty97 May 8, 12:39
    - So, a wizard did it. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 May 8, 12:39 2
      - No wonder I feel dizzy. -- nm - LFG May 8, 12:41
      - [blush] gosh, I've been called many things .. thx -- nm - mud May 8, 12:40
Well, I'm definitely in this 75%. Just spent 20 minutes googling to find how to do a certain kind of script. Asked copilot instead and got it done - oblique May 8, 12:23 6
- I am convinced pixie did not really come back to ST. Just a bot. -- nm - LFG May 8, 12:42 5
  - The sad part is...it probably wouldn't be all that hard to do. Bery literally has decades of our "speech" to feed it -- nm - oblique May 8, 12:51 3
    - I am opposed to digital necromancy. -- nm - Beryllium May 8, 13:04 2
      - That is what a bot would say, though. -- nm - LFG May 8, 13:12 1
        
        woah -- nm - mara May 8, 14:03
  - big, if true. -- nm - mud May 8, 12:43
Office reboot greenlit at Peacock. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 8, 12:17 1
- Keen business decision that will really pay off when they license it to netflix. -- nm - Beryllium May 8, 12:21
Hollowed-out hand grenade temporarily closed Tweed New Haven Airport departures terminal, official says -- (link) - ty97 May 8, 12:16 1
- When you book a band to close out a show, you want one to do it with a bang..just sayin -- nm - zeitgeist May 8, 13:28
Fresh cuts and layoffs likely coming to Warner Bros. Discovery. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 8, 12:16 18
- Remember when Hollywood believed Zaslav, a con artist with limited skill, but would be an improvement from Kilar, a bold visionary? -- nm - David May 8, 13:17 4
  - no everyone knew both of them were differently awful -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 13:29 3
    - If Kilar were any better at his job, he might ascend. -- nm - David May 8, 14:05 2
      - he's so smart that nobody's given him a real job in two years -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 14:17 1
        
        Why would a guy who made $50+ million in a year want to work? -- nm - David May 8, 14:36
- I'm going to complain here. Where are the new movies to HBO? the last of note was Wonka ( a boon to be sure) but what is next?? what am I paying for?? - Pippy Shark May 8, 12:39 5
  - Turtles All the Way Down? Zillow Gone Wild? - LFG May 8, 12:54
  - well you have to actually make new ones instead of shitcanning them for tax write offs -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 12:51 1
    - Yes, because of distribution deals with different streamers, the only new movies coming to HBO are usually WB movies. - Mop🧹 May 8, 12:57
  - you'll watch their crappy Discovery content and like it! -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 May 8, 12:40 1
    - this made me laugh. -- nm - Pippy Shark May 8, 13:02
- If only they had product that was well-reviewed to release like a Looney Tunes mash-up movie. - Will Hunting May 8, 12:31 1
  - This isn't ineptitude. This is malign intent. -- nm - Beryllium May 8, 12:35
- continued beatings, improved morale -- nm - hollywood big shot May 8, 12:27 1
  - I'm reminded of a creator who, a couple of years ago, slamming the possibility of taking their show to Netflix. - Mop🧹 May 8, 12:33
- when was the last price increase? seems too soon esp considering dearth of new content. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 May 8, 12:20
- Zaslav needs that bonus! - Dark Callisto 🦊 May 8, 12:17
- Zaslav says "CEOs need to be paid with alignment with shareholders" -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 8, 12:17
"Loved the part where she shot her dog. Five stars" -- nm - DefinitelyNotACat48 May 8, 12:13 1
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 8, 12:30

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