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‘Munsters’ Reboot, ‘Car Wash’ Series in Development at Universal Studio Group -- (link) - Remlik May 22, 10:13 1
- last one to leave turn out the lights - hollywood big shot May 22, 10:17
Marvel Sets Vision Series for 2026 With Paul Bettany, ‘Star Trek: Picard’ EP Terry Matalas as Showrunner -- (link) - Remlik May 22, 10:13 1
- so much for Star Trek Legacy. -- nm - Remlik May 22, 10:16
Has auto numbering ever done anything other than fuck up the ability to edit a document normally? -- nm - Reagen May 22, 09:48 5
- I use numbering for all my notes in Word. - psilotum May 22, 10:07 1
  - A little bit.. -- (link) - JD May 22, 10:15 [youtube]
- Definitely. Unless you write the document perfectly in order the first time through, you're screwed. -- nm - Dano May 22, 09:53
- it was great on WordPerfect as I vaguely recall - hollywood big shot May 22, 09:50 1
  - We do everything in Google Docs here and I want to break the programmers' kneecaps. -- nm - Reagen May 22, 09:51
American Airlines makes one of the worst legal filings ever. -- (link) - David May 22, 09:47 6
- That's.....something -- nm - ty97 May 22, 09:55 5
  - they're walking it back very quickly -- (link) - oblique May 22, 09:57 4
    - Yay for the 14yo who figured it out and reported him. -- nm - psilotum May 22, 10:16 1
      - that snitch is the one they should go after -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 22, 10:17
    - as they should, as something like this could legit end them. -- nm - Jovian May 22, 10:08
    - "We never should have hired Giuliani's firm" -- nm - Reagen May 22, 10:03
failing WaPo going all in on AI -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 22, 09:47 2
- Well, their AI has 10 years of recorded conversations picked up by Alexa from middle class homes across the country to draw on. -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 10:46
- yuck - psilotum May 22, 10:06
I think I see why ESPN is the albatross around Disneys neck -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 22, 09:45 12
- Besides only catering to 3 or 4 markets? If I’m almost exclusively getting NY/Bos/Dal/L.A. sports news…it puts me off. - Trending May 22, 09:58 2
  - the Plus app is a shitshow, but they also can’t let it show any of the live stuff actually on ESPN without further cannibalizing cable subs - hollywood big shot May 22, 10:04 1
    - I think their ratings “silver bullet” would revolve around leaning much harder into gambling coverage and gambling based talk shows -- nm - Trending May 22, 10:10
- NBC 2002: Basketball? Who needs it! -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 22, 09:49
- You say albatross, every informed person says anchor. -- nm - David May 22, 09:48 7
  - When it's around your neck, the difference matters little -- nm - rollo May 22, 10:30 1
    - An anchor is just dead weight, an albatross will actively try to peck your eyes out while you struggle -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 10:48
  - lol make them pay outside a bundle and let’s see -- nm - hollywood big shot May 22, 09:49 4
    - You are fully entitled to your objectively wrong, legally insane opinion. -- nm - David May 22, 09:50 3
      - so essential to the average viewer that cable is in a cord-cutting death spiral -- nm* - hollywood big shot May 22, 09:51 2
        
        Yup, all the things you don't want to happen aren't happening, and all the things you want to happen are happening. -- nm - David May 22, 09:52 1
        
        send your resume to that dude at WaPo, you’re just the kind of visionary it sounds like he’s looking for -- nm - hollywood big shot May 22, 10:02
Pittsburgh will host the 2026 NFL Draft. -- nm - budice May 22, 09:27 2
- My niece goes to the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay. She said they're closing the school for 3 days for the draft next year -- nm - oblique May 22, 09:41 1
  - she should airbnb her place (if she has one) for the week and for a gazillion dollars -- nm - decline May 22, 09:43
Some people who use bots to buy sneakers ended up paying $25k for a pair of sneakers. I really hope they're actually on the hook - Krusty May 22, 09:19 3
- Is that a lot? -- nm - LFG May 22, 09:38
- Payless did a pop-up makeover…and pretended to be a high end show company—they brought a bunch of “influencers” in to hype the store - Trending May 22, 09:23 1
  - I saw that when it happened. Made me laugh. -- nm - Krusty May 22, 09:47
Ugh. My favorite pizza for lunch place has *temporarily closed* their 2 closest locations. - Strongbad May 22, 09:19 1
- c'est tragique. I'd be sad. -- nm - mud May 22, 09:38
British PM rumoured to be about to call a General Election. -- nm - Loyola May 22, 09:17 12
- I'm waiting for Larry the Cat to tweet, but he's currently on the windowsill of No.10 and I can't see his phone (but he might have been responsible - LMS May 22, 09:36
- bwah -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 22, 09:23
- Now confirmed for the 4th of July. -- nm - Loyola May 22, 09:17 9
  - Heh -- (link) - Beryllium May 22, 09:37 [mastodon]
  - 'MURICA! -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 09:21
  - Where we'll get to celebrate our independence from the Conservative Party. -- nm - LMS May 22, 09:21 1
    - nice! -- nm - mud May 22, 09:39
  - Clearly, the government did not consider the optics of holding this election on Independence Day. -- nm - Roger More May 22, 09:19 4
    - The song “Things can only get better” by D:ream was playing in the background. - Loyola May 22, 09:23 3
      - It was the theme tune to Blairs Labour Party election campaign in the 90's so great trolling there. -- nm - LMS May 22, 09:26 2
        
        besides everyone knows Ur The Best Thing is the better song -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 22, 09:41 [youtube]
        
        Ah right. -- nm - Loyola May 22, 09:40
It's Fleet Week in the city and I got to see a few of the big ships this morning. Very impressive. -- (pic) - Krusty May 22, 09:13 [Attachment] 7
- That's an amphibious assault ship - the USS Bataan. (It does carry aircraft, but its mission is different to an aircraft carrier) -- nm - Roger More May 22, 09:18 6
  - Would an aircraft carrier be even larger? -- nm - Krusty May 22, 09:21 3
    - Yup. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 10:05 2
      - The U.S.S. Bataan is 843′ in length. The U.S.S. Gerald Ford is 1,093′ in length. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 10:06 1
        
        Interesting. Thanks!! -- nm - Krusty May 22, 10:26
  - Thanks! I'm not good with the names and it looked like an aircraft carrier to my ignorant eyes. -- nm - Krusty May 22, 09:20 1
    - Oh, I looked all that stuff up :) All I knew was that it looked too small to be an aircraft carrier (a US one, at least) -- nm - Roger More May 22, 09:23
STIS: order of operations. Is Multiplication before Division, or do you work both in equal priority from left to right? -- nm - Strongbad May 22, 08:55 29
- Left to right -- PE(MD)(AS) -- nm - Will Hunting May 22, 09:03 7
  - We learn BEDMAS, which shows the arbitrariness of the two like groups. -- nm - Reagen May 22, 09:07 4
    - The two arbitrary like groups being Canada and the USA in this example -- nm - Beryllium May 22, 09:11 3
      - Can we agree that the British tendency to say garbage like "Thousand million" is absurd? -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 09:38 2
        
        Could be worse, we could still be talking about "milliards" -- nm - Reagen May 22, 09:54
        
        Hundo P. -- nm - Beryllium May 22, 09:48
  - Yes. That's how I was taught. -- nm - Strongbad May 22, 09:05
  - That's just because PEDMSA doesn't roll off the tongue. -- nm - ty97 May 22, 09:04
- I don't think it matters, does it? You'll get the same result? -- nm - ty97 May 22, 09:00 16
  - It does. Imagine 2 / 3 * 5 - Reagen May 22, 09:06 9
    - Well, the first rule should be to use parenthesis and Oxford commas like your reputation depended on it. -- nm - Max May 22, 09:23 2
      - My suggestion in both cases is the same: rewrite for clarity - Reagen May 22, 09:26 1
        
        precisely -- nm - ty97 May 22, 09:26
    - Fractions also show the importance of order of M and D. -- nm - Reagen May 22, 09:20
    - The answer to your equation is 3.33333 - ty97 May 22, 09:11 4
      - Sorry, I jumped the gun. Right but for the wrong reason -- (edited) - Reagen May 22, 09:12 3
        
        See yourself after school, these is literally zero doubt that I'm right. -- nm - ty97 May 22, 09:15 2
        
        I conflated the above with your comment below about parentheses - Reagen May 22, 09:18 1
        
        *rings the Shame Bell* -- nm - David May 22, 09:53
  - It does in this case. - Strongbad May 22, 09:04 5
    - That because yours isn't actually multiplication, it's a power/parentheses. -- (edited) - ty97 May 22, 09:09 3
      - Parentheses are implied multiplication. - Reagen May 22, 09:12
      - *paging Reagen* -- nm - Strongbad May 22, 09:10 1
        
        M and D have equal rank, you just work them left to right. A and S have equal rank also. If you want to change the order, parentheses - ty97 May 22, 09:13
    - 9. -- nm - Reagen May 22, 09:06
- Yes. Multiplication before division. PEMDAS. -- nm - Krusty May 22, 08:59
- "Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally." - ReluctantCynic May 22, 08:59
- Left to right. Division is just multiplication by less than whole numbers. 10/2 = 10 * .5 -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 08:59 1
  - This is always how I have approached it. -- nm - Strongbad May 22, 09:05
An HOA we picked up earlier this year has yet to receive their $ from the previous (very large) management company. Like, a *lot* of money. - Spawn May 22, 08:32 6
- Work story -- (edited) - Strongbad May 22, 09:14
- We took over a trio of plans last November. The prior admin had not maintained current trustees for the 3 accounts. With one dead and another having - decline May 22, 08:39 4
  - Yeah, that is a nightmare. This one, all they have to do is close the account and send or transfer the funds to 5/3 Bank. -- nm - LFG May 22, 09:06 2
    - suckin' up that sweet, sweet interest -- nm - decline May 22, 09:11 1
      - It is actually in an account in the name of the HOA, so they are not *using* the funds. Just being dicks. -- nm - LFG May 22, 09:13
  - My group's 501(c)3 has a Wells Fargo bank account and every time I want to add an officer to the account, it's fucking torture. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 08:42
Elizabeth Moss must really like the song by Massive Attack called Teardrop...Veil spoils - Remlik May 22, 08:28 4
- This is the House theme song -- nm - Beryllium May 22, 09:05
- Perhaps an intentional callback? There's a scene in a diner in Dead Boy Detectives where Tom Jones is playing in the background. -- (edited) - Mop🧹 May 22, 08:34
- or music coordinators are just lazy MFers -- nm - hollywood big shot May 22, 08:32 1
  - true -- nm - Remlik May 22, 08:43
The band that inspired Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams is reuniting -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 22, 08:27 2
- That song is about the sex act, actually. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 08:28 1
  - Aren't most rock songs about sex though? -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 22, 09:01
I'm about to leave on a Parks and Rec trip to the Shoshone Ice Caves. I've never been there before so I'm looking forward to it. -- (link) - crash davis 😺 May 22, 08:26 3
- *sweet* -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 22, 09:10
- Take pictures! -- nm - decline May 22, 08:40
- Nice. Reminds me of the Grand Canyon Caverns. We visited one in New Mexico but didn't go into the cave. We were there to study their - Meg May 22, 08:37
'It will be this year’s “stolen election” lie.' -- (pic) - mud May 22, 08:25 [Attachment] 3
- Settle down Joe, this will be forgotten in less than a month when they latch onto the next new shiny object. -- nm - Jovian May 22, 08:49
- How is this an issue? Didn't Trump's lawyers just argue in front of SCOTUS that this is a-ok? -- nm - decline May 22, 08:41
- Well, it's out there now. We don't have much choice in the matter. -- nm - Dark Biden May 22, 08:26
‘Stop Trying to Make Glen Powell Happen' and ‘It's Never Gonna Happen' -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 22, 08:22 5
- I'm glad he finally seems to be getting his time in the spotlight. - sycor May 22, 08:40 2
  - best friends with Jack McBrayer -- nm - hollywood big shot May 22, 09:18
  - His look screams fighter jock - Will Hunting May 22, 09:06
- cute story -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 22, 08:24
- OK, that's aweseome. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 08:24
We might be finally getting a General Election (inflation fell to 2.3% so Sunak thinks he's finally on to a winner). - LMS May 22, 08:18 5
- have fun with your extremely short election season (don't you wish you had one that seemingly never ends?) -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 22, 08:20 4
  - Apparently going to be 4th July, announcement any moment now (we might out-do the US with celebrations that day). -- (link) - LMS May 22, 08:32 3
    - Announcement postponed because it's raining apparently. -- nm - LMS May 22, 09:03 2
      - good omen -- nm - hollywood big shot May 22, 09:05 1
        
        Ha, some is blasting D'Reams 'Things can only get better' the last Labour goverment's theme tune while he's trying to speak. -- nm - LMS May 22, 09:17
Brunson had hand surgery today and would have been out two months. -- nm - David May 22, 08:13
re B2, despite her taste in men, Mrs. Kilbo has a lovely voice -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 22, 08:11 3
- I hope we don't all have to lick him, you know, to compare notes.... -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 10:51
- :) - oblique May 22, 09:02
- Not a man, but a hobbit! -- nm - Qale May 22, 08:16
30 years ago, The Critic enrolled six year olds everywhere in film school -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 22, 08:10
are you ready for some Basketball Night In America?! -- nm - hollywood big shot May 22, 08:09 1
- Amazon gets NBA games, but they're all Pistons/Wizards games. -- nm - Dano May 22, 08:24
Oh look, another Damien Hirst art fraud! -- (link) - znufrii May 22, 08:07 3
- The art frauds are those who elevated Hirst to his plateau. - crash davis 😺 May 22, 08:14 2
  - Also true. -- nm - znufrii May 22, 08:20 1
    - Also, lol NFTs, amirite? -- nm - znufrii May 22, 08:25
Anxiety level: increasing. - znufrii May 22, 08:05 1
- This is the way of it. Worth it at the end of the day. -- nm - Pippy Shark May 22, 09:51
The first two rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs have been the most-watched in the U.S. -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 22, 08:04 9
- They owe Reagen a lot. -- nm - Spawn May 22, 08:26 1
  - Yeah they do. -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 22, 08:27
- WE'RE SAVED! FUCK THE NBA! -- nm - Zaslav May 22, 08:22
- Who's playing ? -- nm - decline May 22, 08:07 5
  - I'll tell ya, man... Bruins vs. Rangers would have been a ratings monster. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 22, 08:25 2
    - Two of the teams that actually existed the last time the Leafs won a cup -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 22, 08:29 1
      - A picture of Jean Beliveau flashed across my Facebook a couple of weeks ago. Was reminded he'd won 17 Stanley Cups... 4 more than the Leafs. Ever. - Mop🧹 May 22, 08:47
  - Lets go Oilers! The Stars fulfilled their function vis-a-vis VGK. They can go home now. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 22, 08:12
  - NY Rangers and Florida Panthers tonight; Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars start tomorrow -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 22, 08:11
Riley wins round one (or round two maybe, I dunno) -- (pic) - mud May 22, 07:57 [Attachment]
Honestly I think Hemsworrh is doing Steve Irwin. -- nm - mafic May 22, 07:57 1
- TMI -- nm - LFG May 22, 08:03
Alien - The Interrupters -- (link) - JD May 22, 07:54 [youtube]

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