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These are scary good

https://www.tiktok.com/@deeptomcruise

Huh, apparently ‘southern snow is a crisis actor’ is at least old enough to have an article written about it in 2014

https://www.popsci.com/article/science/ ... -its-real/

Good quick analysis video of the United flight out of Denver this past weekend whose engine went kablooey.

I’m not sure if the Great Reveal in WandaVision was actually lackluster, or if I have only myself to blame - in that watching every analysis & speculation video for prior episodes made this latest episode’s Big Twist underwhelming. I will say, watching yet another analysis & speculation video improv...

I always thought it likely that if he had not lost his hearing, he would have quit around that time, with the premise that the hearing loss and challenges overcoming that (and keeping it hidden for a while) actually made his job interesting for him for the first time in a while. (The two other poten...

Went down a rabbit hole looking up stuff in the Kipnis essay, and came across this, a long-ish disquisition on Philip Roth (of Portnoy’s complaint fame) which itself contains now-obscure references to numerous twentieth century literary figures (mostly Jewish). I.e. I didn’t recognize most of the na...

That was well written, but there’s a few unexamined premises that undermine it. E.g. what if 30is 40ish old men aren’t the best interpreters of tween girls coming of age, and never have been? What if professor - student relationships are Actually Bad? But also, and she almost gets there with a line ...

I've gotten infatuated with Mesopotamian history lately. I think I heard one too many people in my professional world downplay math and reading (yes, really), and I'm like "Fuck it. I'm more interested in the people who invented math and reading." I have 3 different Gilgamesh translations on my she...

A discussion of money in ancient Mesopotamia. At 9:10 they say that 8 grams of silver could buy 300 liters of barley. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/20-xiaoli-ouyang-silver-in-sumer-money-in-mesopotamia/id1534428319?i=1000508489727 Nowadays 8 grams of silver is about $7. A bushel of barley (...

Fwiw I’ve heard that the guy resigned from the job shortly after the post went viral

There was snow on the beach in freaking Galveston today. Sticking snow, not the kind that just melts on contact with the ground. Yep. It may be the first time in Texas history that all 254 counties, the entire state, was under a winter storm alert. And Texans do not know how to deal with snow. Some...

Careful, it’s icy out there in most of the country now.

ETA - aren’t both of them already in currently running sitcoms?

ETA 2 ok, only Park is in a network sitcom now, it’s not Dennings, it’s the other broke girl that’s in the Cedric the Entertainer show.

I just finished the latest episode of WandaVision. I demand a new series with Darcy and Agent Woo going around solving cool mcu related mysteries. I have spoken. I definitely think that the final scene of the final episode will have some set up and announcement of a spin off show for a supporting c...

https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1360326838279618567?s=20 I'm not gonna follow the link because just the tweet makes me want to stab somebody but maybe y'all want to read it I dunno fucking HELL why is everyone the WORST The second link on the thread goes to a story where the proposed initia...

My second is that the whole premise of location based municipal taxation is kind of upended. I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you have municipal income tax? Even without that, a critical revenue stream for cities has been the meal tax for the office lunch crowd. The trend in my observat...

Congrats! Enjoy your long future of doing nothing at all to maintain that income, as the Twitter kids keep telling me. To be fair they have a bit of a point. The only reason I have the house is that I outlived my parents. (The house I bought with my own money I’m still futzing around with) (the hou...

finally got my first bit of positive cash flow on a rental property I own, after years of futzing around with it, and several months of nothing but contractor bills.

It will be serious when they have actual money behind them. They don’t.

Every poll shows that the vast majority of Republicans are Trump loyalists, some despite what he’s done since the Nov 3 election, others because of it.

I know who she is, but tbf ‘London Breed’ does sound like a UK skinhead football hooligan gang.

I was thinking the same exact thing. I wonder if there is some sort of multi year membership you buy into after a certain age and/or reduced activity. ETA - not according to this https://www.sagaftra.org/membership-benefits/membership-costs I suppose one could just forget they were still paying if a...

The overall lack of large superbowl gatherings has significantly and negatively affected the retail chicken wing market at the local grocery store.

Basically, it's only get them right from the hot bar, or get a couple of overpriced packages of tyson's frozen.

Episode 4 really turned up the intrigue of Wandavision and has given me some high hopes for the finish. I was almost out on Wandavision after the first 15 minutes of the first episode, but certainly now I’m fully onboard. I don’t like it quite as much as Legion (though maybe because I was going int...

Finished up disco season 1 on regular cbs. And then caught up on this thread. And got confused with Orville talk - including my own. I didn't hate STD aka Disco as much as some of you. I also thought the lead actress was fine. Sarek being on it is something I wasnt thrilled with the begining (though...

The most recent one was on video, and I forgot it was actually during the campaign, a lawsuit over a restaurant pulling out over the old post office hotel deal.

https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-th ... ule-228953

Explained in later books in the series.