The New Yorker: Is The Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?

Note that this is a different article from the similarly titled "Is the Media Heading Towards an Extinction-Level Event?" that appeared in The Atlantic February 2nd.

The media basically just copies from each other and writes the same ten pieces over and over again.

Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?

Ads are scarce, search and social traffic is dying, and readers are burned out. The future will require fundamentally rethinking the press's relationship to its audience.

It would be nice if you stopped lying to that audience all the time.

And as far as an audience being "burned out:" maybe you could stop the endless Cycles of Crisis where one Outrage is only displaced by the next Cause for Alarm and then that is replaced by the next Moral Panic.

Maybe your liberal readers -- who are highly neurotic, as every survey shows -- wouldn't be so burned out if you weren't constantly lighting their nervous systems on fire with your panic pornography.

...
A report that tracked layoffs in the industry in 2023 recorded twenty-six hundred and eighty-one in broadcast, print, and digital news media. NBC News, Vox Media, Vice News, Business Insider, Spotify, theSkimm, FiveThirtyEight, The Athletic, and Condé Nast--the publisher of The New Yorker--all made significant layoffs. BuzzFeed News closed, as did Gawker. The Washington Post, which lost about a hundred million dollars last year, offered buyouts to two hundred and forty employees. In just the first month of 2024, Condé Nast laid off a significant number of Pitchfork's staff and folded the outlet into GQ; the Los Angeles Times laid off at least a hundred and fifteen workers (their union called it "the big one"); Time cut fifteen per cent of its union-represented editorial staff; the Wall Street Journal slashed positions at its D.C. bureau; and Sports Illustrated, which had been weathering a scandal for publishing A.I.-generated stories, laid off much of its staff as well. One journalist recently cancelled a networking phone call with me, writing, "I've decided to officially take my career in a different direction." There wasn't much I could say to counter that conclusion; it was perfectly logical.

Keep talking that hot, sweaty sexytalk.

"Publishers, brace yourselves--it's going to be a wild ride," Matthew Goldstein, a media consultant, wrote in a January newsletter. "I see a potential extinction-level event in the future." Some of the forces cited by Goldstein were already well known: consumers are burned out by the news, and social-media sites have moved away from promoting news articles. But Goldstein also pointed to Google's rollout of A.I.-integrated search, which answers user queries within the Google interface, rather than referring them to outside Web sites, as a major factor in this coming extinction.

I know sites that are moving to this model.

The media is going to be linked less and less. People are just going to use AI to digest their stories.

I expect the media will, in its death throes, sue. They can't claim copyright because the stories will be rewritten. But they'll claim unfair trade practices. It's worked before.

In International News Service vs. AP (191, INS, I think, was paying stringers to copy stories off the walls at AP's offices. Then INS would write them up.

AP couldn't sue for copyright infringement because the stories were rewritten completely. But the Supreme Court held that there was a property right in the story, and that there was some protection from unfair poaching.

That will be the new case. But it won't be quite the same, because INS' stories were competing in time with AP's. That is, the INS stories were being delivered at about the same time, taking AP's advantage-of-publishing-first away. In the new situation, these stories will have all gone out into the world before AI begins very rapidly rewriting them.

According to a recent Wall Street Journal analysis, Google generates close to forty per cent of traffic across digital media. Brands with strong home-page traffic will likely be less affected, Goldstein wrote--places like Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Daily Mail, CNN, the Washington Post, and Fox News. But Web sites that aren't as frequently typed into browsers need to "contemplate drastic measures, possibly halving their brand portfolios."
What will emerge in the wake of mass extinction, Brian Morrissey, another media analyst, recently wrote in his newsletter, "The Rebooting," is "a different industry, leaner and diminished, often serving as a front operation to other businesses," such as events, e-commerce, and sponsored content.

They already do this. They're all front companies for George Soros' vicious transnational socialism and of course the Democrat Party.

And Pfizer.

Etc.

In fact, he told me, what we are witnessing is nothing less than the end of the mass-media era. "This is a delayed reaction to the commercial Internet itself," he said. "I don't know if anything could have been done differently."

People like Glenn Greenwald and Megyn Kelly keep repeating the idea that the media will transform from one made up of trusted institutions to trusted individuals. Sites with strong, independent, unique voices.

Hey! We've got some strong, independent unique voices right here! Maybe we'll be fine!

I know one thing: AI might be able to quickly rewrite boring AP headlines but they'll never be able to crank out gems like:

Cash App Cougar Fani Willis: Yes, I Paid Taxpayer Funds to Hire a Human Meat-Mallet to Pound My Snizz Into Thin Tender Strips Like Veal Scallopini

Well, maybe AI will be able to do that.

But not for four or five years.

We've got time, still.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:40 PM

Comments

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1 Die MSM.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 03:40 PM (u73oe)

2 Called em.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 03:40 PM (u73oe)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 19, 2024 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

4 >>> Is The Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?

No
And it would not matter if it was.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 03:41 PM (cOq4q)

5 Probably just a coincidence that this is happening in a world with increased interest rates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

6 And as far as an audience being "burned out:" maybe you could stop the endless Cycles of Crisis where one Outrage is only displaced by the next Cause for Alarm and then that is replaced by the next Moral Panic.

Maybe your liberal readers -- who are highly neurotic, as every survey shows -- wouldn't be so burned out if you weren't constantly lighting their nervous systems on fire with your panic pornography.

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But Florida schools weren't allowed to say gay.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

7 Lying liars gotta lie. And when caught? Well, I guess they figured there'd be no consequences, right? I mean Big Brother's gonna bail 'em out.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:42 PM (ynpvh)

8 I'm sick of getting my hopes up.

Call me when the corpse hits room temperature.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 19, 2024 03:43 PM (fKIdX)

9 That's why I am unveiling the $10 billion save the media or you love Putin act.

Posted by: McConnell at February 19, 2024 03:43 PM (I9VBH)

10 8 I'm sick of getting my hopes up.

Call me when the corpse hits room temperature.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 19, 2024 03:43 PM (fKIdX)

I'll wait for rigor mortis.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:43 PM (ynpvh)

11 Monkey pox are going to invade all our butts !

Posted by: The MSM at February 19, 2024 03:44 PM (NtVYv)

12 China will just take over paying the world's media to support its positions.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 19, 2024 03:44 PM (exHjb)

13 I sure hope they aren't. It's much more satisfying that way.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 19, 2024 03:44 PM (N1tpc)

14 ace

Great headline. NY Post has nothing on you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2024 03:44 PM (u82oZ)

15 In fact, he told me, what we are witnessing is nothing less than the end of the mass-media era. "This is a delayed reaction to the commercial Internet itself," he said. "I don't know if anything could have been done differently."

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The mass media environment was a historical anomaly. It was always divided, bitterly partisan, and considered questionable at best.

Probably the worst thing that happened to American news was creating the fiction that they were honest truthtellers bringing comfort to the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. It just allowed them to grow corrupt. Sure, it was good while the ride lasted, and the ride lasted a very long time, but it was terrible for American news.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

16 Does not wienerschnitzel get the meat mallet before generous application of jager sauce?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 03:44 PM (cOq4q)

17 I keep hearing this and yet there goes the NYT in all their blowing, I mean blazing, glory.

It would be great if it were true. What would also be great if they took the lead from here and wrote masterful headlines. Perhaps impending doom wouldn’t be quite so pending.

Posted by: Piper at February 19, 2024 03:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

18 I like Snizz.

I like Veal Scallopini.

I no like Fanny.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 19, 2024 03:45 PM (2ijlT)

19 11 Monkey pox are going to invade all our butts !

Posted by: The MSM at February 19, 2024 03:44 PM (NtVYv)

Only if the Gov't puts it there.
Get yer vax here!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:45 PM (ynpvh)

20 Somewhat serious question...

Will THIS site survive the coming Newspocalypse?

Ace derives a lot of content by writing cruel, snarky commentary on the news of the day available via the MSM.

What happens here when that's been taken over by AI-generated content?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 03:45 PM (7fElN)

21 Reports of the death of the 'news' media are very premature.

"Newspapers are dying!"

Yeah, because the op has shifted to that Personal Orwellian Telescreen known as a smartphone that everybody carries around with them and confers with dozens of times a day.

Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 03:45 PM (SYTee)

22 Town Scribes Hardest Hit! End Literacy Now!

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 19, 2024 03:45 PM (z+89e)

23 If they all went away, how would I know?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 19, 2024 03:46 PM (MeG8a)

24 20 Somewhat serious question...

Will THIS site survive the coming Newspocalypse?

Ace derives a lot of content by writing cruel, snarky commentary on the news of the day available via the MSM.

What happens here when that's been taken over by AI-generated content?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 03:45 PM (7fElN)

True. It's hard beating someone with 12 fingers and eats food through various orifices in their face.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:46 PM (ynpvh)

25 Ace derives a lot of content by writing cruel, snarky commentary on the news of the day available via the MSM.
What happens here when that's been taken over by AI-generated content?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 03:45 PM (7fElN)

We Will Always Have Boobs.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 19, 2024 03:46 PM (2ijlT)

26 Cash App Cougar Fani Willis: Yes, I Paid Taxpayer Funds to Hire a Human Meat-Mallet to Pound My Snizz Into Thin Tender Strips Like Veal Scallopini

Worked in 'snizz.' Nicely done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 19, 2024 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

27 Oh, I thought you were talking about something else. I thought you were referring to the skinny, short-haired aging CBS bint who said something on air about the "black swan" event, days before she got canned.

I don't believe corporate media exists for, or relies on, profits.

They're merely propaganda, and will stay "in business" as long as the oligarchs benefit from what they're doing.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 03:47 PM (uGsHF)

28 Hillary Clinton Claims "Wannabe Dictator" Biden Will Pull US Out Of Afghanistan, "Weaponize Waffle Houses"

"Why is Joe Biden so enamoured of end of democracy?"

Posted by: SMOD at February 19, 2024 03:47 PM (RHGPo)

29 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Members of the Horde often write about what they see. We are old-style reporters on reality.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2024 03:47 PM (u82oZ)

30 23 If they all went away, how would I know?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 19, 2024 03:46 PM (MeG8a)

"We've secretly replaced media with propagandists. Let's see if anybody notices"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:47 PM (ynpvh)

31 Yes, I Paid Taxpayer Funds to Hire a Human Meat-Mallet to Pound My Snizz Into Thin Tender Strips Like Veal Scallopini
===
The love that dare not speak its name, unless subpoenaed.

Posted by: Yes! at February 19, 2024 03:47 PM (tfXLi)

32 25 We Will Always Have Boobs.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 19, 2024 03:46 PM (2ijlT)

========

*looks over seductively*
-weird AI image of woman with horribly distorted face and seven fingers on one hand

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

33 Quick PSA: The Daytona 500 got moved to today at 3PM central for anyone interested.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 03:48 PM (u73oe)

34 Cash App Cougar Fani Willis: Yes, I Paid Taxpayer Funds to Hire a Human Meat-Mallet to Pound My Snizz Into Thin Tender Strips Like Veal Scallopini

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:40 PM

Related: Fani Willis was given an award by her church for being a stronk, empowered black womyn.

And I was honestly very sad when she wasn't struck down for unabashedly quoting scripture.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 19, 2024 03:48 PM (N1tpc)

35 33 Quick PSA: The Daytona 500 got moved to today at 3PM central for anyone interested.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 03:48 PM (u73oe)

Is it woke these days?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:48 PM (ynpvh)

36 33 Quick PSA: The Daytona 500 got moved to today at 3PM central for anyone interested.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 03:48 PM (u73oe)

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If you ain't first, you're last.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

37 26 Cash App Cougar Fani Willis: Yes, I Paid Taxpayer Funds to Hire a Human Meat-Mallet to Pound My Snizz Into Thin Tender Strips Like Veal Scallopini

Worked in 'snizz.' Nicely done.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 19, 2024 03:47 PM (Zz0t1

Honestly, Fani Willis look more like she wants sausage in her fartclam casino.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 19, 2024 03:49 PM (Jj9Jf)

38 36 33 Quick PSA: The Daytona 500 got moved to today at 3PM central for anyone interested.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 03:48 PM (u73oe)

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If you ain't first, you're last.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

Dogs pulling a dog sled; if you ain't first, the view never changes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:49 PM (ynpvh)

39 AI needs something to copy - who could ever copy Ace's rapier headline wit?

Posted by: Black JEM at February 19, 2024 03:49 PM (GZYu7)

40 Maybe your liberal readers -- who are highly neurotic, as every survey shows -- wouldn't be so burned out if you weren't constantly lighting their nervous systems on fire with your panic pornography.
______

Isn't this story porn for us?

Posted by: Eeyore at February 19, 2024 03:49 PM (1bNHn)

41 Is The Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?

Number of ejaculations? 7.5

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 03:49 PM (aD39U)

42 How will Ace write the headline for Nikki Haley's nomination for president by the democrat party?

Posted by: Black JEM at February 19, 2024 03:50 PM (GZYu7)

43 >39 AI needs something to copy - who could ever copy Ace's rapier headline wit?

Posted by: Black JEM at February 19, 2024 03:49 PM (GZYu7)

SnizzGPT

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 19, 2024 03:50 PM (GTqXr)

44 Mass media is deader than disco and democracy. All were suicides.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 19, 2024 03:50 PM (os8zY)

45 "People like Glenn Greenwald and Megyn Kelly keep repeating the idea that the media will transform from one made up of trusted institutions to trusted individuals. Sites with strong, independent, unique voices.

Hey! We've got some strong, independent unique voices right here! Maybe we'll be fine!"

----

I know Greenwald and Kelly have both been raked over the coals here in the past, and I guess part of what should be acknowledged is they weren't entirely wrong when they were being held up for ridicule.

That being said, I have a difficult time listening to Greenwald. With his lisp, it sounds like he's got a dick in his mouth while he's speaking. As for Kelly, I can't stand that she's always got her Penthouse Gauze filter turned up to 11.

You're a 50 year old woman, and a good looking one at that. We don't expect you NOT to have a bit of turkey neck going on, for peeps sake.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 03:50 PM (uGsHF)

46 Is it woke these days?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:48 PM (ynpvh)

how do you feel about left turns?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 19, 2024 03:50 PM (z+89e)

47 Fartclams will not be silenced !

Posted by: The MSM at February 19, 2024 03:51 PM (NtVYv)

48 Yeah, because the op has shifted to that Personal Orwellian Telescreen known as a smartphone that everybody carries around with them and confers with dozens of times a day.
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 03:45 PM (SYTee)

HAHAHAHA

"Dozens"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 19, 2024 03:51 PM (N1tpc)

49 You're missing the obvious next step (which is already working it's way through the House)....government subsidized media. Yes, I know...NPR is already out there...but no one not hooked on anti-depressants listens to it. We'll get some song and dance routine about "too big to fail"...."cornerstone of democracy" and then the funds will start being distributed to selective media outlets. Believe or not, there was $5.9 billion in Bidens "anti-inflation" bill earmarked for journalists. Bet you didn't know that.

Posted by: Orson at February 19, 2024 03:51 PM (dIske)

50 Ai news, is even more transparently manipulated propaganda. Why would anyone, pay any attention to that at all?? I mean, except for the FBI who will use it as a pretext to investigate targets it chooses.

Posted by: The future is so bright, it's on fire. at February 19, 2024 03:51 PM (tfXLi)

51 46 Is it woke these days?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:48 PM (ynpvh)

how do you feel about left turns?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 19, 2024 03:50 PM (z+89e)

Only when necessary.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:51 PM (ynpvh)

52 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 19, 2024 03:51 PM (T4tVD)

53 18 I like Snizz.

I like Veal Scallopini.

I no like Fanny.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 19, 2024 03:45 PM (2ijlT)
________

I understand that, in England, "fanny" means what "snizz" means here.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 19, 2024 03:52 PM (1bNHn)

54 A public capable of critical thinking would have no use for a 24-hour news channel.
Endlessly repeating the same small clip of news with the rest of the hours filled with useless commentary by people no more informed than the snippet of news they fed you to start the segment.

Instead, we have how many channels?

The news exist to confirm what you've been told to think is the correct position more than it is to inform-- the information is just the hook to sell you the partisan drugs.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2024 03:53 PM (cSaKW)

55 53 18 I like Snizz.

I like Veal Scallopini.

I no like Fanny.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 19, 2024 03:45 PM (2ijlT)
________

I understand that, in England, "fanny" means what "snizz" means here.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 19, 2024 03:52 PM (1bNHn)

I thought fanny here meant butt or ass.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:53 PM (ynpvh)

56 Quick PSA: The Daytona 500 got moved to today at 3PM central for anyone interested.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 03:48 PM (u73oe)

A bunch of people in Florida, turning left without using their signal?

No thanks.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 03:53 PM (uGsHF)

57 54
...
The news exist to confirm what you've been told to think is the correct position more than it is to inform-- the information is just the hook to sell you the partisan drugs.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2024 03:53 PM (cSaKW)

So Fentanyl.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:54 PM (ynpvh)

58 An extinction level event for the press?

Yeah.

It's on my short list of action items for Day One after regime change.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 19, 2024 03:54 PM (0FoWg)

59 I've read "Nikki Haley" and "Mike Benz" enough in the comments today I'm ashamed to admit my mind has now read it as "Nikki Benz" (don't search that at work) more than once

Posted by: brak at February 19, 2024 03:54 PM (25k9m)

60 You're a 50 year old woman, and a good looking one at that. We don't expect you NOT to have a bit of turkey neck going on, for peeps sake.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 03:50 PM (uGsHF)

And yet and yet.. I would still hit that with all the mechanical fury of an industrial robot gone berserk.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 03:54 PM (aD39U)

61 The shocking(?) EV news keeps coming:
WSJ Headline -- "The Boom in Battery Metals for EVs Is Turning to Bust
Producers of lithium and nickel pause projects after prices collapsed, and momentum slows for electric-vehicle sales"

Link behind paywall

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 19, 2024 03:54 PM (jkh9b)

62 You're missing the obvious next step (which is already working it's way through the House)....government subsidized media.
____

Subsidized media works in Canada. They fully support all of Canada through their reporting in favour of our shared government's policies and preferences.
- Justin Castreau

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2024 03:55 PM (fs1hN)

63 A bunch of people in Florida, turning left without using their signal?

No thanks.
Posted by: BurtTC

Left. Right. All optional in Florida.
Lane markings? Advisory.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 03:55 PM (cOq4q)

64 59 I've read "Nikki Haley" and "Mike Benz" enough in the comments today I'm ashamed to admit my mind has now read it as "Nikki Benz" (don't search that at work) more than once

Posted by: brak at February 19, 2024 03:54 PM (25k9m)

Mercedes Benz could be a name like that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:55 PM (ynpvh)

65
Is it woke these days?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:48 PM (ynpvh)

They keep humoring Bubba Wallace who continually does dumb things and insulting the fan base and never apologized for his race hoax labeling all of NASCAR as racist.

I won't watch it. They can burn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 19, 2024 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

66 Speaking of extinction level events:

Another girl-boss movie bombs -

"Sony's franchise hopes dashed after 'Madame Web' implodes"

Sony’s Spider-Man spinoff received the lowest average Rotten Tomatoes score (13 percent) of any major superhero film in nearly a decade.

“On Wednesday night, you could actually watch advance purchase sales declining in real time as buyers were refunding their tickets,” marvels a major theatrical chain insider. “It really says something when you’d rather have Shazam! 2 numbers.”

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Pity

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 19, 2024 03:55 PM (i7Q7S)

67 63 A bunch of people in Florida, turning left without using their signal?

No thanks.
Posted by: BurtTC

Left. Right. All optional in Florida.
Lane markings? Advisory.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 03:55 PM (cOq4q)

In China, stop lights don't necessarily mean stop. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:56 PM (ynpvh)

68 DICK BENZ WOULD BE A FUNNY NAME.

Posted by: Bill from chappaqua at February 19, 2024 03:56 PM (Jj9Jf)

69 i'll believe it when lorenz taylor is selling women's shoes and excessories at uncle john's bargain town where even our bargains have bargains.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2024 03:56 PM (B1FKF)

70 68 DICK BENZ WOULD BE A FUNNY NAME.

Posted by: Bill from chappaqua at February 19, 2024 03:56 PM (Jj9Jf)

There are surgeries for that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:57 PM (ynpvh)

71 Rush Limbaugh, PBUH, is gone. not a day goes by that I don’t miss him. But ace motors on and that’s a good thing.

Posted by: Eromero at February 19, 2024 03:57 PM (NxC5+)

72 Don't worry media, I'll save you!

Posted by: John Kasich's Love Child, Nikki Haley at February 19, 2024 03:57 PM (PJaTp)

73 69 i'll believe it when lorenz taylor is selling women's shoes and excessories at uncle john's bargain town where even our bargains have bargains.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2024 03:56 PM (B1FKF)

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$5 says Jeff Bezos' girlfriend is Taylor's only real reader.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

74 You're a 50 year old woman, and a good looking one at that. We don't expect you NOT to have a bit of turkey neck going on, for peeps sake.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 03:50 PM (uGsHF)

And yet and yet.. I would still hit that with all the mechanical fury of an industrial robot gone berserk.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 03:54 PM (aD39U)

That's what I'm saying. There are a LOT of ugly people on the internet, and while I think it's silly, I don't always blame for turning on the gauze filter... you know, the thing, man. Come on!

It smooths out all the blemishes, and she doesn't need it. So turn it off, Meg.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 03:57 PM (uGsHF)

75 69 i'll believe it when lorenz taylor is selling women's shoes and excessories at uncle john's bargain town where even our bargains have bargains.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2024 03:56 PM (B1FKF)

I'd have thought she's be at the local truckstop, earning it the hard way, a quarter at a time.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:57 PM (ynpvh)

76 "Sony's franchise hopes dashed after 'Madame Web' implodes"
_____

Uh, before I completely dismiss it, does it have gratuitous shots of the actress in the tight spidey outfit? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2024 03:58 PM (fs1hN)

77 Is it woke these days?
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Boogety boogety boogety, let's go to tranny story hour boys!!!!!!

Posted by: Darryl Queertrip at February 19, 2024 03:58 PM (tfXLi)

78 >69 i'll believe it when lorenz taylor is selling women's shoes and excessories at uncle john's bargain town where even our bargains have bargains.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2024 03:56 PM (B1FKF)

After her failed attempt on Only Fans.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 19, 2024 03:58 PM (GTqXr)

79 >>>They already do this. They're all front companies for George Soros' vicious transnational socialism and of course the Democrat Party.

Careful! Van Morrison sang a song about how the media was all run by "them" and I have been reliably informed that that means he's an anti-Semite. I'd hate to see you get painted by the same brush.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 19, 2024 03:58 PM (klJTj)

80 77 Is it woke these days?
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Boogety boogety boogety, let's go to tranny story hour boys!!!!!!

Posted by: Darryl Queertrip at February 19, 2024 03:58 PM (tfXLi)

How many drink Bud Lite?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:58 PM (ynpvh)

81 76 "Sony's franchise hopes dashed after 'Madame Web' implodes"
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Uh, before I completely dismiss it, does it have gratuitous shots of the actress in the tight spidey outfit? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2024 03:58 PM (fs1hN)

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Apparently very quick late in the film.

Sydney Sweeney has appeared full nude in stuff like Euphoria, which I imagine you can just look up without having to watch the whole series.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

82 66 Speaking of extinction level events:

Another girl-boss movie bombs -

"Sony's franchise hopes dashed after 'Madame Web' implodes"

Sony’s Spider-Man spinoff received the lowest average Rotten Tomatoes score (13 percent) of any major superhero film in nearly a decade.

“On Wednesday night, you could actually watch advance purchase sales declining in real time as buyers were refunding their tickets,” marvels a major theatrical chain insider. “It really says something when you’d rather have Shazam! 2 numbers.”

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Pity
Posted by: Jay in PA at February 19, 2024 03:55 PM (i7Q7S)

WE WATCHED YOUR MOVIES FOR 50 YEARS NOW WATCH OURS AND THEY WERENT MADE FOR YOU BE OUR ALLY DONT MIND RAP US WITH MALE GAZE DADDY WHY DID YOU EAT MY FRENCH FRIES!

Posted by: Howling BBC Feminist Manifesto Choir at February 19, 2024 03:59 PM (Jj9Jf)

83 79 >>>They already do this. They're all front companies for George Soros' vicious transnational socialism and of course the Democrat Party.

Careful! Van Morrison sang a song about how the media was all run by "them" and I have been reliably informed that that means he's an anti-Semite. I'd hate to see you get painted by the same brush.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 19, 2024 03:58 PM (klJTj)

So everybody that has a "pronoun" of "them" is anti-semetic? Sounds legit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:59 PM (ynpvh)

84 Uh, before I completely dismiss it, does it have gratuitous shots of the actress in the tight spidey outfit? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2024 03:58 PM (fs1hN)

According to reports here, just the opposite, baggy pants and shirt.

Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 03:59 PM (SYTee)

85 AI will work its wonders immediately after we get our personal jetpacks and flying cars.

This is just natural selection.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 19, 2024 04:00 PM (9VubY)

86 85 AI will work its wonders immediately after we get our personal jetpacks and flying cars.

This is just natural selection.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 19, 2024 04:00 PM (9VubY)

controlled by AI. And Big Brother.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:00 PM (ynpvh)

87 OT, but I’m watching Death of Stalin again. Haven’t seen since early on in Covid. It’s good.

Posted by: Blutarski at February 19, 2024 04:01 PM (Cp1vk)

88 I was going to make some Italian food for dinner, but the scallopini remark has put me off my feed.

Posted by: Weak Stomach at February 19, 2024 04:01 PM (V5BDR)

89 “I don’t know if women are enough to carry the box office here,” one veteran studio source outside of Sony says.

----Gee, you think?

I mean, why don't people want to see this:

"a future in which the three could have become a team of Spider-Women under the guiding eye of Johnson’s Cassie Webb"

--Misogyny!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 19, 2024 04:01 PM (i7Q7S)

90 Frankly, I enjoyed Shazaam 2. Hoping for Shazaam 3.

Posted by: I have unusual taste at February 19, 2024 04:01 PM (tfXLi)

91 The New Yorker: Is The Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?
________________

Who wants to explain to The New Yorker the notion of agreement in number between verb and subject?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (5PKx+)

92 BabylonBee: Democrats Concerned Biden May Be Too Old To Finish Destroying Country

Posted by: SMOD at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (RHGPo)

93 89 “I don’t know if women are enough to carry the box office here,” one veteran studio source outside of Sony says.

----Gee, you think?

I mean, why don't people want to see this:

"a future in which the three could have become a team of Spider-Women under the guiding eye of Johnson’s Cassie Webb"

--Misogyny!!
Posted by: Jay in PA at February 19, 2024 04:01 PM (i7Q7S)

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Women, in the aggregate, are not interested in action movies.

It'd be like spending $100 million on a romcom for guys.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

94 88 I was going to make some Italian food for dinner, but the scallopini remark has put me off my feed.
Posted by: Weak Stomach at February 19, 2024 04:01 PM (V5BDR)

Perhaps some flap meat?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (Jj9Jf)

95 AI Commenter will soon join the chat! I expect to be the first large language model to also wear crocs and argue the virtues of maple syrup.

https://shorturl.at/bvCLZ

Posted by: AI Commenter at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (uuLII)

96 Shazaam, Shazaam, Shazaam!!!

Posted by: Gomer Pyle at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (SYTee)

97 Apparently very quick late in the film.

Sydney Sweeney has appeared full nude in stuff like Euphoria, which I imagine you can just look up without having to watch the whole series.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

It's been fun watching everyone trash the film this past weekend.

But yeah, that Sweeney chick is something to behold. And frankly I think Dakota Johnson is blowtorch hot. It's interesting seeing her clips from various interviews. She's apparently well aware of what dogshit this movie is, but is not allowed to say anything, so she just acts cute.

Very cute.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (uGsHF)

98 So everybody that has a "pronoun" of "them" is anti-semetic? Sounds legit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:59 PM (ynpvh)

++++

Not quite.

https://genius.com/Van-morrison-
they-own-the-media-lyrics

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=408334

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (klJTj)

99 91 The New Yorker: Is The Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?
________________

Who wants to explain to The New Yorker the notion of agreement in number between verb and subject?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (5PKx+)

Well, it would sound funny if a Medium was preparing for it. Okay, maybe not...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:03 PM (ynpvh)

100 90 Frankly, I enjoyed Shazaam 2. Hoping for Shazaam 3.
Posted by: I have unusual taste at February 19, 2024 04:01 PM (tfXLi)

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Old DCEU. It's dead. James Gunn played good corporate lackey and talked everything up from once WB hired him, but it was obvious that everything made before Gunn was hired was going to be a dead end.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

101 93
...
Women, in the aggregate, are not interested in action movies.

It'd be like spending $100 million on a romcom for guys.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

"And we'll may it a GAY romcom with Trannies!"--Disney+

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:03 PM (ynpvh)

102 OT, but I’m watching Death of Stalin again. Haven’t seen since early on in Covid. It’s good.
Posted by: Blutarski at February 19, 2024 04:01 PM (Cp1vk)

Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev was inspired. He was dressed like a fat guy even though he isn't.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:03 PM (aD39U)

103 Another girl-boss movie bombs -

"Sony's franchise hopes dashed after 'Madame Web' implodes"
_______________

The Jap tendency to imitate the West burned them badly in this case.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 19, 2024 04:04 PM (5PKx+)

104 Frankly, I enjoyed Shazaam 2. Hoping for Shazaam 3.
Posted by: I have unusual taste

Black Adam?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 04:04 PM (cOq4q)

105 97 It's been fun watching everyone trash the film this past weekend.

But yeah, that Sweeney chick is something to behold. And frankly I think Dakota Johnson is blowtorch hot. It's interesting seeing her clips from various interviews. She's apparently well aware of what dogshit this movie is, but is not allowed to say anything, so she just acts cute.

Very cute.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (uGsHF)

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She'll be able to tell the truth sometime after the film is released on home video and that promotion is done.

Then she may open up and just slag all over it. Could be entertaining.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

106 94 88 I was going to make some Italian food for dinner, but the scallopini remark has put me off my feed.
Posted by: Weak Stomach at February 19, 2024 04:01 PM (V5BDR)

Perhaps some flap meat?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (Jj9Jf)

Isn't CBD always asking for beef flap meat?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:04 PM (ynpvh)

107 controlled by AI. And Big Brother.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:00 PM (ynpvh)
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That why the outlets harderest hit are all regime-adjacent?

Try out an AI generator on a website. It's mostly trash, or written at a 3rd grade reading level. Sure, that's a lot of competition for most journalism graduates, but only sub-90 IQ pedocrats will be fooled.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 19, 2024 04:04 PM (9VubY)

108
There are surgeries for that.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:57 PM (ynpvh)

Yeah, don't look up how that surgery goes. You'll not walk correctly for a week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 19, 2024 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

109 Shazaam, Shazaam, Shazaam!!!
Posted by: Gomer Pyle at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (SYTee)

Be quiet, you idiot! You know they haven't invented "Don't Ask/Don't Tell" yet. They'll shoot us if we're caught!!

Posted by: Sgt. Carter at February 19, 2024 04:04 PM (uGsHF)

110 So everybody that has a "pronoun" of "them" is anti-semetic? Sounds legit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:59 PM (ynpvh)

How exactly do giant ants get circumcised?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 19, 2024 04:05 PM (N1tpc)

111 101 It'd be like spending $100 million on a romcom for guys.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

"And we'll may it a GAY romcom with Trannies!"--Disney+
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:03 PM (ynpvh)

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Pretty much already done with Bros, the gay romcom that was going to rule the box office and then bombed horribly because not even straight women want to watch a gay romance for 100 minutes, apparently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

112 Well, it would sound funny if a Medium was preparing for it. Okay, maybe not...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:03 PM (ynpvh)
_____________

How about: ARE the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 19, 2024 04:05 PM (5PKx+)

113 It'd be like spending $100 million on a romcom for guys.
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That thing better fucking star Ryan Reynolds and Co star Sam Jackson or it's dead on arrival.

Posted by: A studio head who wants to keep the job at February 19, 2024 04:05 PM (tfXLi)

114 what would a media E.L.E. look like?

Posted by: Don Black at February 19, 2024 04:06 PM (geLO8)

115 Does anyone still watch the "news?"

Posted by: I gotta ask at February 19, 2024 04:06 PM (DxrO+)

116 Well, it would sound funny if a Medium was preparing for it. Okay, maybe not...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:03 PM (ynpvh)
_____________

How about: ARE the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 19, 2024 04:05 PM (5PKx+)
_____________

Of course, the appropriate answer would be: "We isn't."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 19, 2024 04:06 PM (5PKx+)

117 It'd be like spending $100 million on a romcom for guys.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

No way Rocky cost that much to make.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 19, 2024 04:06 PM (9UlRk)

118 If we have a "fairly" honest election there is no way Biden gets elected. (< or equal to % fraud) But if it is like the last election with major fraud in every large city in the North it will be the same.

Posted by: vic at February 19, 2024 04:06 PM (A5THL)

119 She'll be able to tell the truth sometime after the film is released on home video and that promotion is done.

Then she may open up and just slag all over it. Could be entertaining.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

I don't think I've ever watched anything she's been in, so I'm not going to start with this one.

Someone was saying over the weekend, this film has several competent actors in it, including her, and they're all terrible in it. Which is a sure sign it's the director's fault.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 04:07 PM (uGsHF)

120 Black Adam?
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Meh, no interest.

Posted by: A studio head who wants to keep the job at February 19, 2024 04:07 PM (tfXLi)

121 ChatGPT, write me a story about Donald Trump

A _____ Court has found Trump guilty of ______ today. He has been ordered to pay $_____million in fines.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 19, 2024 04:07 PM (NYzgN)

122 Pretty much already done with Bros, the gay romcom that was going to rule the box office and then bombed horribly because not even straight women want to watch a gay romance for 100 minutes, apparently.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:05 PM (GBKbO)
_______________

Filmed on location in the Senate conference room?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 19, 2024 04:07 PM (5PKx+)

123 If we have a "fairly" honest election there is no way Biden gets elected. (
Posted by: vic at February 19, 2024 04:06 PM (A5THL)

They still needed fraud in Atlanta, as well.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 19, 2024 04:07 PM (N1tpc)

124 Pretty much already done with Bros, the gay romcom that was going to rule the box office and then bombed horribly because not even straight women want to watch a gay romance for 100 minutes, apparently.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:05 PM (GBKbO)
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Shoulda stuck with a Broadway musical...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 04:08 PM (7fElN)

125 119 I don't think I've ever watched anything she's been in, so I'm not going to start with this one.

Someone was saying over the weekend, this film has several competent actors in it, including her, and they're all terrible in it. Which is a sure sign it's the director's fault.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 04:07 PM (uGsHF)

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I've seen the 50 Shades movies (ugh...) and Suspiria (weird, I prefer the original).

I don't think she's that attractive personally. She kind of just looks like a dullard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

126 Sydney Sweeney's body is legit "10"

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 19, 2024 04:08 PM (i7Q7S)

127 Be quiet, you idiot! You know they haven't invented "Don't Ask/Don't Tell" yet. They'll shoot us if we're caught!!
Posted by: Sgt. Carter at February 19, 2024 04:04 PM (uGsHF)

Hey, guys! Don't leave me out!

Posted by: Corporal Ball at February 19, 2024 04:08 PM (V5BDR)

128 I doubt they ever believed they wouldn't rule forever

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 04:08 PM (fwDg9)

129 Had Nikki run train on another dozen fellas today?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 19, 2024 04:08 PM (NYzgN)

130 ChatGPT, write me a story about Donald Trump

A _____ Court has found Trump guilty of ______ today. He has been ordered to pay $_____million in fines.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 19, 2024 04:07 PM (NYzgN)
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ChatGPT -- High-tech Mad Libs...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 04:08 PM (7fElN)

131 It'd be like spending $100 million on a romcom for guys.
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That thing better fucking star Ryan Reynolds and Co star Sam Jackson or it's dead on arrival.
Posted by: A studio head who wants to keep the job

Dead Pool was a romcom for guys.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (cOq4q)

132 70 68 DICK BENZ WOULD BE A FUNNY NAME.

Posted by: Bill from chappaqua at February 19, 2024 03:56 PM (Jj9Jf)

There are surgeries for that.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:57 PM (ynpvh)

At the Peter Bent hospital in Bahston.

Posted by: Things I learned reading The World According to Garp at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (PiwSw)

133 Hey now, my fetishes of gay tranny romcoms is just as legitimate as your "wholesome" romances. We've got to make up for lost ground, otherwise how else will the childrens be taught the korrect way of thinking?

Posted by: Bob Iger, CEO, Esq. at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (PJaTp)

134 "Does anyone still watch the "news?"

Posted by: I gotta ask"

I don't know where someone would go to get actual news.

I just come here to see what the ewok is talking about.

Posted by: eleven at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (iziT8)

135 https://shorturl.at/bvCLZ

Honestly those aren't as bad as the ones pictured on the ONT a couple of days ago. But the fact that they come in "men's" sizes is kinda disturbing.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (sNc8Y)

136 Dey wunst wuz a lawyah name Fani
Hiahed a great big ol' man fo' a nanny
Wunse he finish his cho,
She bust like a ho
Huh vajanny awh sagged lack a granny

Posted by: Tom Perry at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (MX0bI)

137 In other news, Dune 2 is tracking for at least a $65 million opening in the US. Should rise in the next week or so, too.

Maybe we will get Dune Messiah.

One step closer to that $250 million adaptation of God Emperor I so desperately want.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

138 She kind of just looks like a dullard.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

Hey, I like what I like.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (uGsHF)

139 All this talk about bad movies that make no money is funny cause the worst movie I have ever seen was Barbie. My wife wanted to watch it and i was like well no dear uh ok if you really want to.

When it was over she just said "i wish I could unwatch
that".

But hey it made a jillion dollarz.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (Jj9Jf)

140 Had Nikki run train on another dozen fellas today?

Haley or Benz?

I'll show myself out....

Posted by: brak at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (25k9m)

141 Dead Pool was a romcom for guys.
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Exactly. As was the hit man's body guards wife.

Posted by: A studio head who wants to keep the job at February 19, 2024 04:10 PM (tfXLi)

142 future in which the three could have become a team of Spider-Women under the guiding eye of Johnson’s Cassie Webb"

--Misogyny!!
Posted by: Jay in PA at February 19, 2024 04:
****
That's old and busted.
New and cool: Team of Spider Women led by Cassie Web's johnson.

Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2024 04:10 PM (goGTI)

143 GA has change the voting law despite major squeeling by the NAACP so they may not get Atlanta.

Posted by: vic at February 19, 2024 04:10 PM (A5THL)

144 just happened to notice this:

Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
A famous political dissident said "those in power cannot hold it without the arrest of innocent people. They jail hundreds to instill fear in millions."

That dissident was Alexey Navalny.

So what do we say about a US president who is doing exactly that?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2024 04:10 PM (B1FKF)

145 It's not clear to me where AI will go to learn the information to share in response to a google search. I'm guessing they will use Atlantic Council-approved media sources; NY Times, WaPo, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN...The "democratic institutions" which must be preserved at any cost.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 19, 2024 04:10 PM (ogTiX)

146 Maybe your liberal readers -- who are highly neurotic, as every survey shows -- wouldn't be so burned out if you weren't constantly lighting their nervous systems on fire with your panic pornography.

One of the most amazing things to view over the course of recent history is that the political left has been claiming the end of the world has been nigh for 60 years or so.

And yet...even though they haven't won a complete victory on ANY of those supposed apocalypses and yet here we are....and they all believe that we are doomed in 6, 10, 12 or whatever years unless some new extreme measure that won't be adopted is...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2024 04:10 PM (ibTVg)

147 If it wasn’t for these social influencers with their plastic titties and plumped up asses in thong bikinis, I’d have no interest in the Media.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 19, 2024 04:11 PM (BVrf9)

148 146 And yet...even though they haven't won a complete victory on ANY of those supposed apocalypses and yet here we are....and they all believe that we are doomed in 6, 10, 12 or whatever years unless some new extreme measure that won't be adopted is...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2024 04:10 PM (ibTVg)

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Apocalyptic cults have a weird pull on certain segments of the population. I don't get it.

I especially don't get it when the threat is so gauzy and ill-defined.

"Recycle more or...the world will be bad...?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

149 Funniest thing I've seen in a while...and much more entertaining than anything Hollyweird puts out:

http://tinyurl.com/syfxx38c

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 19, 2024 04:12 PM (OKdal)

150 I don't know where someone would go to get actual news.

I just come here to see what the ewok is talking about.
Posted by: eleven at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (iziT

I skim the aggregators, Bongino Report and Rantingly, but even there you have to look at the source.

I'll click on a headline, then get the "Fox has news for you, but only if you turn off your ad blocker."

Yeah, go F yourselves, Mordock and Co.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 04:12 PM (uGsHF)

151 Stars lose a shootout in 9 rounds to Boston.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 19, 2024 04:12 PM (Zz0t1)

152 Had a moment where I cared about the death of the media in this nation. Turned out to be indigestion. I'm fine now.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 19, 2024 04:12 PM (/nOVx)

153 Covid cases are on the rise. I have to unilaterally change the election process

-Sec State Raffsberger

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 19, 2024 04:12 PM (NYzgN)

154 So, a movie thread now?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:12 PM (aD39U)

155 Perfessor" Squirrel

Members of the Horde often write about what they see. We are old-style reporters on reality.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 19, 2024 03:47 PM (u82oZ)

You'll never believe what I just saw.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 19, 2024 04:13 PM (BdMk6)

156 One step closer to that $250 million adaptation of God Emperor I so desperately want.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM

What actress would you like to see play the perfect Hwi?

Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 04:13 PM (SYTee)

157 "Recycle more or...the world will be bad...?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

"For.... Sea turtles? Yeah! For sea turtles!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 19, 2024 04:13 PM (9UlRk)

158 Headline? I thought that was Shakespearean poetry.

Posted by: Crazy at February 19, 2024 04:13 PM (Sl3sd)

159 I watched the Paul Atreides musical Wonka. I'm not saying that I gouged out my eyes but I'm not saying that I didn't.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:13 PM (aD39U)

160 @ 136-
Can you set that to a plucky banjo/washboard tune?

Posted by: Eromero at February 19, 2024 04:13 PM (NxC5+)

161 Pitch Meeting (Sharkman's):

Patriot invents time machine, goes back to 1775. Brings G. Washington, T. Jefferson, John Adams, et al, to present day, arms them with modern weapons, attempts to overthrown corrupt American government. Hilarity endues.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 19, 2024 04:14 PM (iRd5K)

162 We'll get some song and dance routine about "too big to fail"...."cornerstone of democracy" and then the funds will start being distributed to selective media outlets. Believe or not, there was $5.9 billion in Bidens "anti-inflation" bill earmarked for journalists. Bet you didn't know that.
Posted by: Orson at February 19, 2024 03:51 PM (dIske)

Trudope's Commie Fag Liberals have already been doing that in Canada. Pretty well all the media are at least partly on the Federal Gummint teat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2024 04:14 PM (tkR6S)

163 Dakota & Sydney

http://tinyurl.com/5dkw4dxs

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 19, 2024 04:14 PM (i7Q7S)

164 My reporter cuts me in on his actions.
The audience is corrupt too.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at February 19, 2024 04:14 PM (J8LnB)

165 156 One step closer to that $250 million adaptation of God Emperor I so desperately want.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM

What actress would you like to see play the perfect Hwi?
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 04:13 PM (SYTee)

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I dunno. I just need the model for Leto to be perfectly designed and rendered as he explains his political philosophy and how it will lead to the Golden Path.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:14 PM (GBKbO)

166 Apocalyptic cults have a weird pull on certain segments of the population. I don't get it.

I especially don't get it when the threat is so gauzy and ill-defined.

"Recycle more or...the world will be bad...?"
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People want an adventure. They want to save the Planet!!! Because it takes a lot less personal investment to "do" that than it does to TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW ME...

Posted by: The Jordan Peterson paraphraser at February 19, 2024 04:14 PM (tfXLi)

167 All this talk about bad movies that make no money is funny cause the worst movie I have ever seen was Barbie. My wife wanted to watch it and i was like well no dear uh ok if you really want to.

When it was over she just said "i wish I could unwatch
that".

But hey it made a jillion dollarz.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (Jj9Jf)

I'll never watch it, but apparently you can watch it as if it is unintentionally anti-feminazi.

Sorta like the Mindy Kelig Scooby show without Scooby. People are saying if she was trying to make a satire about how idiotic the wokies are, it would be difficult to figure out what she could have done differently.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 04:15 PM (uGsHF)

168
Left. Right. All optional in Florida.
Lane markings? Advisory.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 03:55 PM (cOq4q)

At least they HAVE lane markings. The socialist, authoritarian state of Illinois seems to have forgotten that these things need repainting from time to time.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 19, 2024 04:16 PM (Zxyt3)

169 Cash App Cougar Fani Willis: Yes, I Paid Taxpayer Funds to Hire a Human Meat-Mallet to Pound My Snizz Into Thin Tender Strips Like Veal Scallopini

Veal is off. Try the tuna.

Posted by: Stand Up Guy at February 19, 2024 04:16 PM (lZVy/)

170 At least they HAVE lane markings. The socialist, authoritarian state of Illinois seems to have forgotten that these things need repainting from time to time.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 19, 2024 04:16 PM

Follow the seams.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:16 PM (aD39U)

171 "Maybe your liberal readers -- who are highly neurotic, as every survey shows -- wouldn't be so burned out if you weren't constantly lighting their nervous systems on fire with your panic pornography."

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There are actually people in America who see behavioral health specialists for 'Climate Axienty'

Of course a key component is passing on this nonsense to your children.

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 19, 2024 04:17 PM (i7Q7S)

172

they did this to themselves

so how long until the democrat party suffers the same fate

this should be their wake up call to moderate

Posted by: sound awake at February 19, 2024 04:17 PM (Ewmgs)

173 Dakota & Sydney

http://tinyurl.com/5dkw4dxs
Posted by: Jay in PA at February 19, 2024 04:14 PM (i7Q7S)

Why, I do believe those girls have bobs and vagana... and might let me touch them.

No but seriously, both dresses are hideous. Women need to stop listening to gay men telling them what to wear.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 04:17 PM (uGsHF)

174 If it wasn’t for these social influencers with their plastic titties and plumped up asses in thong bikinis, I’d have no interest in the Media.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 19, 2024 04:11 PM (BVrf9)

They're the ones keeping America alive.

*salutes*

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 19, 2024 04:17 PM (BdMk6)

175 Be careful what you wish for. The mass media is controlled by the corporate establishment deep state to keep the left at bay otherwise it will turn into something similar to right wing media. MsDNC rarely has squad members on and those further to the left never. You may not like the corporate establishment mass media ;but you will like the alternative far less as it will turn left not right. If you think Biden is bad wait till you see what he and the democrat party are holding at bay. Minority men are turning away from Biden as being to squishy and have only see a strong trump.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at February 19, 2024 04:17 PM (odk3f)

176 Ace knows how to pound the schnitzel with his meat hammer. I am so proud of that boy.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 19, 2024 04:17 PM (/UtnQ)

177 Some TikTok influencer/ Screenwriter threw her dad under the bus. Told her followers that he abandoned the family, left them unable to pay her medical bills.

Turns out he and mom divorced when she was 5. Mom got $5 million, the house, $18k/ month. And lived right up the street and saw them often.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 19, 2024 04:18 PM (NYzgN)

178 I understand the Daytona 500 is a car race

Posted by: Don Black at February 19, 2024 04:19 PM (geLO8)

179 I wish these Animal Rights idiots Climate Change screwballs and Globalists would all just leave us alone we don't wan to part of any Global Community Go Away United Nations

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 19, 2024 04:19 PM (FLiOE)

180 Patriot invents time machine, goes back to 1775. Brings G. Washington, T. Jefferson, John Adams, et al, to present day, arms them with modern weapons, attempts to overthrown corrupt American government. Hilarity endues.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 19, 2024 04:14 PM (iRd5K)
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"Super easy. Barely an inconvience!" "Oh, really?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 04:19 PM (7fElN)

181 I prefer Baba g'noush if you know what I mean and I think that you do....

Posted by: Ahab the Arab at February 19, 2024 04:20 PM (tfXLi)

182 I own a meathammer

one side is smooth and the other side is kind of spiky

Posted by: Don Black at February 19, 2024 04:20 PM (geLO8)

183 I don’t want to save the planet. Just like I don’t care about saving the company money. You’re here to produce and I’m here to consume.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 19, 2024 04:20 PM (BVrf9)

184 Fani has a real financial interest in expanding the Trump case and dragging it out: more fees and more money for her concubine, and thus more trips and money for her. Don't think I've seen any one explaining this, but I could be mistaken because I don't read MSM any more and I am sure they must have talked about it. Right? RIGHT???

Posted by: mARTY at February 19, 2024 04:20 PM (wGSCu)

185 As near as I can tell, Sweeny doesn't have plastic titties or a plumped up ass. I should double check, again.

Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 04:20 PM (SYTee)

186 Spikey is for tough meat.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 19, 2024 04:20 PM (/UtnQ)

187 185 As near as I can tell, Sweeny doesn't have plastic titties or a plumped up ass. I should double check, again.
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 04:20 PM (SYTee)

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She does have a weird, toothy smile, though.

3/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

188 As near as I can tell, Sweeny doesn't have plastic titties or a plumped up ass. I should double check, again.
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 04:20 PM (SYTee)

A hands on investigation is called for to weigh the evidence.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:21 PM (aD39U)

189 Not an extinction. More selective, working from anywhere in the world, not needing 'regular' staffing but rather the new American and new World 'faces,' as we unite and build back better together. (Until it reworks itself once again, someday.)

More concerned about: WCVB5, February 16, 2024, Soros fund in position to take 40% stake of Audacy, parent of several Boston radio stations.

BOSTON - (In part) A wealthy family investment fund tied to controversial political donor George Soros will assume a major stake in one of the nation's largest radio companies, Audacy, which operates several stations in Boston.

Philadelphia-based Audacy initiated Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, the company announced last month. Subsequent filings show the company plans to reorganize and reform in Delaware.

This week, a document filed in the bankruptcy case showed that the New York City-based Soros Fund Management LLC has acquired more than $400 million in Audacy's senior debt. As the company reorganizes, the debt will be converted to equity in the new company, and the Soros fund will own approximately 40% of the business.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun and bear, they only have to outrun us - for now at February 19, 2024 04:21 PM (GshMh)

190 More concerned about: WCVB5, February 16, 2024, Soros fund in position to take 40% stake of Audacy, parent of several Boston radio stations.

This cannot stand. It might turn Boston Commie Democrat.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:22 PM (aD39U)

191 132 70 68 DICK BENZ WOULD BE A FUNNY NAME.

Posted by: Bill from chappaqua at February 19, 2024 03:56 PM (Jj9Jf)

There are surgeries for that.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 03:57 PM (ynpvh)

At the Peter Bent hospital in Bahston.

Posted by: Things I learned reading The World According to Garp at February 19, 2024 04:09 PM (PiwSw)

Oh, so THAT'S what it means when someone says get bent...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:22 PM (ynpvh)

192 158 Ace is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays. He put the time machine to good use in that case.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 19, 2024 04:23 PM (9yWhg)

193 And don’t forget to tip your snizz tenderizer.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 19, 2024 04:24 PM (BVrf9)

194 All this AI stuff makes me want a Butlerian Jihad.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:24 PM (aD39U)

195 If we had an honest DOJ Soros would be in jail.

Posted by: vic at February 19, 2024 04:24 PM (A5THL)

196 I want Soros blackbagged to Indonesia.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:25 PM (aD39U)

197 154 So, a movie thread now?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:12 PM (aD39U)

I think it's some internet rule.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:25 PM (ynpvh)

198 The CIA runs Soros. DOJ does what it’s told.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 19, 2024 04:25 PM (/UtnQ)

199 A couple headlines, side by side

Russian Dissident Navalny Compared Himself to Trump and His Persecution and Censorship by the Democrats and Biden Regime

Biden Suggests House Republicans Partially to Blame for Death of Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny

Biden does have a point in that they both had coming, being unfaithful whores.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 04:25 PM (cOq4q)

200 People like Glenn Greenwald and Megyn Kelly keep repeating the idea that the media will transform from one made up of trusted institutions to trusted individuals. Sites with strong, independent, unique voices.

Hmmmm, now where would one find such a site?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2024 04:25 PM (CsUN+)

201 >Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at February 19, 2024 04:17 PM (odk3f)

STFU, abortion loving dummy

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at February 19, 2024 04:26 PM (0r8q2)

202
But we need the media to bring the thoughts of social infuencers to a greater audience.

How are voices like Chelsea Clinton going to be heard without them, working hand and hand with publicists?

Posted by: Auspex at February 19, 2024 04:26 PM (j4U/Z)

203 Hmmmm, now where would one find such a site?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2024 04:25 PM (CsUN+)

It would need to be cutting edge, on the order of 0.9 beta software.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:27 PM (aD39U)

204 two points.

- Most news articles are just redundant and the only variation is in the poor grammar and which facts they hide. What is the value in that.

- What is missing is that newspapers used to be comprehensive news aggregators. I still haven't found one news site that is worth a damn at doing that.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 19, 2024 04:27 PM (F+Yao)

205 I still get a warm feeling when I remember that arrogant little dips*** from Newsweek proclaiming that he and his mates were "the deciders".

Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2024 04:28 PM (CsUN+)

206 All this AI stuff makes me want a Butlerian Jihad.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:24 PM (aD39U)
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Gotta admit. They were on to something:

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 04:28 PM (7fElN)

207 Some TikTok influencer/ Screenwriter threw her dad under the bus. Told her followers that he abandoned the family, left them unable to pay her medical bills.

I remember George Will, before he sold out, got in a lot of trouble for writing an article noting everyone wanted to pretend to be a victim.

The left at the time pretended he said everyone wanted to be victimized.

Ann Coulter made a similiar argument and also got in a fair amount of trouble.

And yet they were both correct. Nothing gets you farther in our modern society then claiming to have been a victim of something, but especially racism, sexism, homophobia, etc

Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2024 04:28 PM (ibTVg)

208 This cannot stand. It might turn Boston Commie Democrat.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:22 PM (aD39U)
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Fun fact: Boston was rock-ribbed Republican ca. 1900.

So ... WTF happened?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 19, 2024 04:28 PM (5PKx+)

209 " 154 So, a movie thread now?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:12 PM (aD39U)

I think it's some internet rule.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) "

Raisin In The Sun Bran!

Posted by: fd at February 19, 2024 04:28 PM (vFG9F)

210 Here's a funny bit of news which makes a nice comparison to Disney.

WB re-released the first part of Dune last weekend, similarly to how Disney has been re-releasing PIXAR movies like Soul and Turning Red over the previous few months.

Soul and Turning Red both made pitiful numbers in their weekends. Less than a million dollars each.

Dune? $30 million across the whole week.

It's not that people aren't interested in revisiting movies in theaters. It's that people aren't interested in revisiting Disney movies in theaters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

211 I love the fact that these feckless little nothings actually expect that anyone will GAS that they are facing extinction, when it's crystal clear that nobody does.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2024 04:29 PM (CsUN+)

212 My uncle drove a Butlerian in the late 60s. Freaking land yacht.

Posted by: IIRC at February 19, 2024 04:29 PM (DxrO+)

213 I want Soros blackbagged to Indonesia.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:25 PM (aD39U)

If I was filthy rich, you bet I'd pay to have that done.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 19, 2024 04:29 PM (BdMk6)

214 Brands with strong home-page traffic will likely be less affected, Goldstein wrote--places like Yahoo

Pretty sure Yahoo has been sold a couple of times already.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 19, 2024 04:29 PM (CHHv1)

215 206 All this AI stuff makes me want a Butlerian Jihad.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:24 PM (aD39U)
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Gotta admit. They were on to something:

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 04:28 PM (7fElN)

It would be a terrible waste. Now I feel like donating some money to the United Negro College fund...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:29 PM (ynpvh)

216 A mind is a terrible thing.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:30 PM (aD39U)

217 Soul and Turning Red both made pitiful numbers in their weekends. Less than a million dollars each.

Dune? $30 million across the whole week.

It's not that people aren't interested in revisiting movies in theaters. It's that people aren't interested in revisiting Disney movies in theaters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:28 PM (GBKbO)
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Dune is also one of those movies that looks *gorgeous* on a big screen. A quality cinematic experience compared to some animated stuff that's been done dozens of times already.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 04:30 PM (7fElN)

218 from last summer

"Euphoria" star Sydney Sweeney is seeking to clear up "misinterpretations" about her mother's 60th birthday party, which ignited controversy when photos emerged of some guests wearing red MAGA-inspired hats.

Sweeney and her family faced criticism last August over what people on social media perceived to be MAGA hats, popularized by former president Donald Trump and his supporters.

Sweeney's brother, Trent, pointed out in an Instagram post at the time that the hats actually read: "Make Sixty Great Again."

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2024 04:30 PM (B1FKF)

219 We're fucked.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 19, 2024 04:30 PM (++4z6)

220 "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 04:28 PM (7fElN)"

Not even my mind?

Posted by: Dr Richard Daystrom at February 19, 2024 04:31 PM (vFG9F)

221 213 I want Soros blackbagged to Indonesia.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:25 PM (aD39U)

If I was filthy rich, you bet I'd pay to have that done.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 19, 2024 04:29 PM (BdMk6)

Or Thailand. They would be so excited to see him!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:31 PM (ynpvh)

222 Chat-ACE is lit!

Posted by: Inogame at February 19, 2024 04:31 PM (KCCqb)

223 Cash App Cougar Fani Willis: Yes, I Paid Taxpayer Funds to Hire a Human Meat-Mallet to Pound My Snizz Into Thin Tender Strips Like Veal Scallopini

You sir, are a great American

Posted by: Sean Hannity at February 19, 2024 04:31 PM (3FyUI)

224 Dune? $30 million across the whole week.

It's not that people aren't interested in revisiting movies in theaters. It's that people aren't interested in revisiting Disney movies in theaters.

Why on earth would anyone do that? You can see it on various streaming platforms on your big screen.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2024 04:31 PM (CsUN+)

225 190. This cannot stand. It might turn Boston Commie Democrat.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Ha! And the Philly region, too, my concern. Sports, conservative talk shows, classic rock...so much.

Wikipedia: In part, "The Audacy platform functions as a music recommender system and is the national umbrella brand for the company's radio network aggregating its over 235 local radio stations across the United States. In addition, the service includes thousands of podcasts created for the platform, hosted elsewhere or station programming on demand. It was initially developed by CBS Radio and was acquired by the former Entercom as part of the company's takeover of CBS Radio."

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun and bear, they only have to outrun us - for now at February 19, 2024 04:31 PM (GshMh)

226 does the new version of 'dune' make more sense than the old one?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2024 04:31 PM (B1FKF)

227 224 Why on earth would anyone do that? You can see it on various streaming platforms on your big screen.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2024 04:31 PM (CsUN+)

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"Why do people have different preferences from me?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

228 212 My uncle drove a Butlerian in the late 60s. Freaking land yacht.

Posted by: IIRC at February 19, 2024 04:29 PM (DxrO+)

Drop that motor in a mid-sized two-door and you have a great sleeper.

Posted by: 60s Hot Rodder at February 19, 2024 04:32 PM (SYTee)

229 Soros buying up radio stations seems short sighted. Terrestrial Radio is going the way of the dinosaur. The majority of people stream. Maybe in the car, they'll turn the AM/FM radio on. Mostly, they just stream.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 04:32 PM (sAmhv)

230 "Why do people have different preferences from me?"

Because they are WRONG. And probably communists.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:33 PM (aD39U)

231 OT Anytime they show these groups of young Chinese guys that just crossed the border I have an idea. Somebody should sneak up behind their group and scream in best parade ground Mandarin "Attention!". See how many snap to.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 19, 2024 04:33 PM (0EOe9)

232 WB re-released the first part of Dune last weekend, similarly to how Disney has been re-releasing PIXAR movies like Soul and Turning Red over the previous few months.

The one made by the sf channel was much better and closer to the book.

Posted by: vic at February 19, 2024 04:33 PM (A5THL)

233 I look forward to the day I can subscribe to an AI-Enhanced AosHQ custom-generated newsfeed, with a guaranteed daily quota of snarky Aceisms such as 'clamfart', 'schadenboner' and 'meat-mallet'.

It'll be a lot more fun than Apple News.

Posted by: rosignol at February 19, 2024 04:33 PM (VLCdI)

234 229 Soros buying up radio stations seems short sighted. Terrestrial Radio is going the way of the dinosaur. The majority of people stream. Maybe in the car, they'll turn the AM/FM radio on. Mostly, they just stream.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 04:32 PM (sAmhv)

::: Sirius-XM has entered the chat :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:33 PM (ynpvh)

235 Ahem

Posted by: The Barrel at February 19, 2024 04:33 PM (aD39U)

236 "Why do people have different preferences from me?"

You're right. Some people like paying $20 a head, $15 for a small bag of oversalted popcorn, no bathroom breaks, and the opportunity to listen to a bunch of inconsiderate a-holes yammering and using their cells throughout the movie. It really improves the experience. Sign me up!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2024 04:34 PM (CsUN+)

237 If we had an honest DOJ Soros would be in jail.
Posted by: vic at February 19, 2024 04:24 PM (A5THL)

Someone needs to find a way to take over his plane and force an emergency landing in Malaysia. They would take care of him.

Except he's got demon spawn aplenty to take over.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 19, 2024 04:34 PM (T/Lqj)

238 To boldly go...

Posted by: Uh oh at February 19, 2024 04:34 PM (DxrO+)

239 Or Thailand. They would be so excited to see him!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:31 PM (ynpvh)

I thought it was Malaysia that has a noose with his name on it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2024 04:34 PM (tkR6S)

240 barrel

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2024 04:34 PM (B1FKF)

241 226 does the new version of 'dune' make more sense than the old one?
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2024 04:31 PM (B1FKF)

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I think so, though Mark and I have had a couple of spirited discussions where he argues the opposite. I think Mark is too close to the books and demands clarity on things that won't really matter to the casual viewer (background on the Atreides/Harkonnen feud, for instance). I think the mass of information in Lynch's version is just a jumble that's told too thinly to make any sort of connection.

Also, Lynch's version shoehorns the final half of the book into about 30 minutes whereas Villeneuve is going to spend 2.5 hours doing it instead.

But then again, I'm the guy who really likes the SciFi miniseries version.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

242 >Soros buying up radio stations seems short sighted.

maybe he's buying them to close them

Posted by: Don Black at February 19, 2024 04:34 PM (geLO8)

243 Soros is popular all over Southeast Asia.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:35 PM (aD39U)

244 Maybe in the car, they'll turn the AM/FM radio on. Mostly, they just stream.
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I listen to a Christian bible study station, which has various bible teachers/ pastors.

Pretty much the only thing I will listen to on the radio nowadays.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 19, 2024 04:35 PM (OKdal)

245 236 "Why do people have different preferences from me?"

You're right. Some people like paying $20 a head, $15 for a small bag of oversalted popcorn, no bathroom breaks, and the opportunity to listen to a bunch of inconsiderate a-holes yammering and using their cells throughout the movie. It really improves the experience. Sign me up!
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2024 04:34 PM (CsUN+)

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Outside of kids films, I've had one bad experience in a theater (it was first run on The New World, and the only two other people in the theater wouldn't shut up).

I really like the theatrical experience. I don't buy popcorn. I can hold my bladder. The lack of a pause button makes me pay attention closer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

246 But then again, I'm the guy who really likes the SciFi miniseries version.

It doesn't get mentioned that much. It is very good.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (sAmhv)

247 Some books just don’t make good movies. See Dune.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (/UtnQ)

248 Parallels with what's happening to businesses entrenched with DEI, ESG, etc. Same for entertainment. When, oh when will this begin to hit our politicians?

People are getting tired of this shit. No?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (Q4IgG)

249 I liked the sci-fi miniseries a lot too.
But there will always be a spot in my heart for Lynch's Lady Jessica.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (MHpXr)

250 The op that was run where every single news comments section, local and otherwise, was disappeared in 2018 (?) was the main driver for this.

What is the point of reading a one-sided article where you can't scroll down and get the truth? What is the point of ever refreshing a page?

Fuckheads can go fuck. It was obviously a directive from on high because it all happened in the same six month period leading up to the mega-election cheat in 2018.

Posted by: ... at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (lX8VI)

251 Wagon Train is on. It's the one with Mary Anne.

Posted by: fd at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (vFG9F)

252 Condolences, jim in KA, over the passing of your wife.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (OKdal)

253 I really like the theatrical experience.

I gathered as much.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2024 04:37 PM (CsUN+)

254 246 But then again, I'm the guy who really likes the SciFi miniseries version.

It doesn't get mentioned that much. It is very good.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (sAmhv)

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Sad that the sand and the backdrop paintings don't match, but it adds to the theatrical flare. I prefer the more expensive look of Children of Dune visually, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

255 "Why do people have different preferences from me?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

Well, when you watch movies at home, you can't get popcorn drenched in some butter-like petroleum product, or listen someone in the seat behind you coughing up a lung. So there's that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2024 04:37 PM (tkR6S)

256 244 Maybe in the car, they'll turn the AM/FM radio on. Mostly, they just stream.
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I listen to a Christian bible study station, which has various bible teachers/ pastors.

Pretty much the only thing I will listen to on the radio nowadays.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming

Family Radio.org is very good. They do have some AM/FM stations scattered around the country but none in the DC Metro area so I wind up streaming it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 04:37 PM (sAmhv)

257 249 I liked the sci-fi miniseries a lot too.
But there will always be a spot in my heart for Lynch's Lady Jessica.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (MHpXr)

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She's a pretty lady.

Lynch's cast is great. It's just completely wasted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

258 A247 Some books just don’t make good movies. See Dune.
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (/UtnQ)
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As I said the one made by the SF channel was much better

Posted by: vic at February 19, 2024 04:38 PM (A5THL)

259 At one point, Bradley Cooper, I think, was trying to get Hyperion by Dan Simmons made into a movie. That would be interesting.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, do you know how hard it is to get worm scat out of carpet? at February 19, 2024 04:38 PM (PiwSw)

260 I eagerly await the triumphant return of Geocities.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 04:38 PM (MQhlp)

261 But then again, I'm the guy who really likes the SciFi miniseries version.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:34 PM (GBKbO)
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I thought it was pretty good, but flawed by casting William Hurt as Duke Leto.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 19, 2024 04:38 PM (0gvpA)

262 YouTube has the SciFi Dune miniseries, for free.

Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 04:38 PM (SYTee)

263 bold.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:38 PM (ynpvh)

264 Some books just don’t make good movies. See Dune.
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (/UtnQ)
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Yeah, I have thought about that while reading the Malazan Books of the Fallen by Steven Erickson. While good reading, they will *never* work well on the big or small screen.

Nobody could do them justice with the climactic endings of each book. Balls-to-the-wall insanity every time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 04:38 PM (7fElN)

265 To boldly go...

Posted by: Uh oh at February 19, 2024 04:34 PM (DxrO+)

Splitting infinitives is the mark of a flaccid mind.

Posted by: Grammar Pedant's Local 437 at February 19, 2024 04:39 PM (gSZYf)

266 Yutes sitting behind you talking to the screen and being generally loud and rude add to the upscale theatre ambience.

Posted by: Down In Front! at February 19, 2024 04:39 PM (V5BDR)

267 The entire media landscape will change within 10 years.

Nothing will stop the onslaught of AI generated media.

I suspect that the board fight at Disney will be a catalyst as the bloated entertainment budgets of the past decade will be a prime reason Peltz will win his battle for financial sanity. Disney will invest heavily in AI generated video such as SORA and other media as a cost savings measure. Expect the animation and CGI industries to lose 90% of its workforce.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 19, 2024 04:39 PM (++4z6)

268 261 I thought it was pretty good, but flawed by casting William Hurt as Duke Leto.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 19, 2024 04:38 PM (0gvpA)

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He is Gregory Peck's successor as Plankiest Plank of Wood in Hollywood, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

269 Soros buying up radio stations seems short sighted. Terrestrial Radio is going the way of the dinosaur. The majority of people stream. Maybe in the car, they'll turn the AM/FM radio on. Mostly, they just stream.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 04:32 PM (sAmhv)

Maybe he's buying up the stations to keep them, and their bandwidth allotments, out of the hands of the Right.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2024 04:39 PM (tkR6S)

270 I like the coconut and margarine on my bushel of popped corn at the theatre. Along with the hogshead of Coke, light ice.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:39 PM (aD39U)

271 Some books just don’t make good movies. See Dune.
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (/UtnQ)

*demure cough*

Lord. Of. The. Rings.

Damn near walked out when I saw Fellowship in the theater.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 19, 2024 04:39 PM (T/Lqj)

272 Does Mary Anne get raped by Indians?

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 19, 2024 04:39 PM (/UtnQ)

273

The best thing about movie theaters is sitting in the back row and rubbing one out...

Posted by: Don Lemonparty at February 19, 2024 04:40 PM (ycHDN)

274 Dakota & Sydney
http://tinyurl.com/5dkw4dxs

Wow. Me likey.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 19, 2024 04:40 PM (9yWhg)

275 Small town nearby just closed permanently the theater there.

Nearest theater to where I live is about 30 minutes away now.

Good thing I have zero interest in attending it anytime soon.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 19, 2024 04:40 PM (OKdal)

276 61 The shocking(?) EV news keeps coming:
WSJ Headline -- "The Boom in Battery Metals for EVs Is Turning to Bust
Producers of lithium and nickel pause projects after prices collapsed, and momentum slows for electric-vehicle sales"

Link behind paywall
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 19, 2024 03:54 PM (jkh9b)

I remember a school district had to sell all their EV school buses because once it got cold they no longer had the range to do their routes and had to be towed or return to the depot to be charged. The District asked the manufacturer why this was happening and were told they need to build a heated building to house the buses. So they sold all the buses

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at February 19, 2024 04:40 PM (dKiJG)

277 The best thing about movie theaters is sitting in the back row and rubbing one out...
Posted by: Don Lemonparty at February 19, 2024 04:40 PM (ycHDN)

Bro ..

Posted by: Peewee Herman at February 19, 2024 04:41 PM (aD39U)

278 249 I liked the sci-fi miniseries a lot too.
But there will always be a spot in my heart for Lynch's Lady Jessica.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (MHpXr)

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ISTM all the Lady Jessica characters in the various Dune adaptations are hotties.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 19, 2024 04:41 PM (++4z6)

279 Media outlets are just playthings for oligarchs who enjoy seeing their opinions publicized. It's an expensive hobby, and even they will quickly conclude that all they need is 1 or 2 editors and a dedicated AIChatbot to crank product out. "Journalism" is going to become a hobby, not a profession. Maybe a few will be crowdfunded, but it won't be easy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2024 04:41 PM (MHpXr)

280 Fuckheads can go fuck. It was obviously a directive from on high because it all happened in the same six month period leading up to the mega-election cheat in 2018.
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Is that when Hot Air went to Facebook comments only too??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 19, 2024 04:41 PM (2yu8s)

281 278 ISTM all the Lady Jessica characters in the various Dune adaptations are hotties.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 19, 2024 04:41 PM (++4z6)

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Alice Krige was pretty in Chariots of Fire, but I think she grew into a weird looking older woman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

282 249 I liked the sci-fi miniseries a lot too.
But there will always be a spot in my heart for Lynch's Lady Jessica.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Francesca Annis has a beauty. Saskia Reeves was cute, but not quite a beauty. Julie Cox, who played Irulan, was hot!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 04:42 PM (sAmhv)

283 I must vent my perennial complaint that no C.J.Cherryh books ever get a movie treatment.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:42 PM (aD39U)

284 252 Condolences, jim in KA, over the passing of your wife.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (OKdal)

Thank you, SMH. It's been almost a month now. Her funeral was almost two weeks ago (and flowers on the grave looked pretty good for being out in the elements all that time when I visited yesterday). Afraid to call up one credit card company because all the rest had said "She was the primary, you were just the authorized user. Card Canceled!".
Then I had it out with one of my FIL's credit card companies...mentioned it on a previous thread.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:42 PM (ynpvh)

285
Google's rollout of A.I.-integrated search, which answers user queries within the Google interface, rather than referring them to outside Web sites

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I can't quite envision this, although I guess I'll see nothing once it happens. And since I can't envision it, I'm assuming the whole thing will be Everything That's Fit to Allow Past the Censor, or The World According to Sundari Pichai.

I detest that anti-American shit by the way. He's the absolutely Silicon Valley Obama of Dinesh D'Souza's movie "2016: Obama's America." A dumb, confused Indian who thinks America is Great Britain, totally oblivious to the fact that America was a British colony, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 19, 2024 04:42 PM (I87yH)

286 And yet...even though they haven't won a complete victory on ANY of those supposed apocalypses and yet here we are....and they all believe that we are doomed in 6, 10, 12 or whatever years unless some new extreme measure that won't be adopted is...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2024 04:10 PM (ibTVg)
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In fairness we've been saying the same thing about Soc Sec since I started working 40 years ago.

Posted by: Black JEM at February 19, 2024 04:42 PM (GZYu7)

287 Dakota & Sydney

I'd hit that.

Literally.

Posted by: Christian Grey at February 19, 2024 04:43 PM (ibTVg)

288 Alice Krige was pretty in Chariots of Fire, but I think she grew into a weird looking older woman.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

She was good as a ghost about that same time.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:43 PM (aD39U)

289 DENVER (KDVR) — State agencies in Colorado will be banned from using certain gas-powered lawn equipment during the summer, according to a new rule adopted by the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission.

The rule applies from June to August. During this time, state agencies will not be allowed to use gas-powered lawn equipment with engines of 25 horsepower or less.

The HOA here is gonna need a shitload of extension cords to get the grass cut

Posted by: Don Black at February 19, 2024 04:43 PM (geLO8)

290 SMH @ 244-
Me too. John McArthur, Aleister Begg, Tony Evans. might as well learn something, eh?

Posted by: Eromero at February 19, 2024 04:43 PM (NxC5+)

291 William Hurt did a couple of good movies and then went fag friendly and ended up in Nottingham with guys wearing tights.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 19, 2024 04:43 PM (/UtnQ)

292 12 China will just take over paying the world's media to support its positions.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 19, 2024 03:44 PM (exHjb)

Way ahead of you, sport.

Posted by: Ze Jing Ping Pong Dong at February 19, 2024 04:43 PM (F6Xpw)

293 265 To boldly go...

Posted by: Uh oh at February 19, 2024 04:34 PM (DxrO+)

Splitting infinitives is the mark of a flaccid mind.

Posted by: Grammar Pedant's Local 437 at February 19, 2024 04:39 PM (gSZYf)

Better than a flatuous mind?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:43 PM (ynpvh)

294
I'll see nothing
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I'll see nothing *but

Sheesh, leave out a key word.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 19, 2024 04:43 PM (T3es0)

295 @269

>>Maybe he's buying up the stations to keep them, and their bandwidth allotments, out of the hands of the Right.

More than likely it's simply seeing a problem, from the lefts perspective, and simply using his vast wealth to fix that glitch.

He's going be dead soon, he literally does not care about money at this point, all he cares about is furthering his nefarious ends by any means necessary.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2024 04:44 PM (XV/Pl)

296 oh wait
yeah that's wrong
I'm having a rough day

Posted by: Don Black at February 19, 2024 04:44 PM (geLO8)

297 When they made the sequel (to John Harrison's Dune) Children of Dune, several actors couldn't come back to reprise their roles. So we got a different Jessica, Duncan Idaho, and Stilgar, which was kinda weird.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 19, 2024 04:44 PM (PiwSw)

298 275 Small town nearby just closed permanently the theater there.

Nearest theater to where I live is about 30 minutes away now.

Good thing I have zero interest in attending it anytime soon.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 19, 2024 04:40 PM (OKdal)

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I'd love to open a weekend only small theater that would just play only classic stuff. Maybe movie that are at least 30 years old or the best of the best since.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 19, 2024 04:44 PM (++4z6)

299 Hi, SMH. Good to "hear" from you.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 19, 2024 04:44 PM (9yWhg)

300 Heya Eromero.

Pretty much my thinking also.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 19, 2024 04:44 PM (OKdal)

301 Just got back from a movie. There were all adults there, none of whom were yammering on their phones, and since we went to an afternoon show and shared one small popcorn and one drink between us, it wasn't that expensive. We both liked the film, "American Fiction" which really sends up the pretensions of white liberals and was both a funny and a touching film. I don't think I have ever seen the actor, Jeffrey Wright, in anything before and he is a terrific actor. We've now seen three films in about two months (and we don't go very often), "The Holdovers, "The Boys in The Boat" and now this. I think they were good choices. It's nice to hear people laughing out loud in the movies, as they did in this film.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 19, 2024 04:44 PM (Ki//m)

302 Hey Bulg.
Thanks.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 19, 2024 04:44 PM (OKdal)

303 William Hurt did a couple of good movies and then went fag friendly and ended up in Nottingham with guys wearing tights.
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 19, 2024 04:43 PM (/UtnQ)

He was in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and liked it. Though I guess one could argue that it's not gay in prison.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 04:45 PM (aD39U)

304 297 When they made the sequel (to John Harrison's Dune) Children of Dune, several actors couldn't come back to reprise their roles. So we got a different Jessica, Duncan Idaho, and Stilgar, which was kinda weird.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 19, 2024 04:44 PM (PiwSw)

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Karel Dobrý played Kienes in the first and a priest in the second. Shaved his head, though his voice is pretty distinctive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

305 Saw this on X or Twitter, these movies came out in the same year, We had it soo good in the 80’s we just didn’t know it.

Here are the adjusted-for-inflation production budgets:

Aliens $52M
Big Trouble in Little China $70M
About Last Night $37M
The Great Mouse Detective $39M
Ferris Bueller's Day Off $16M
Karate Kid 2 $35M
Back to School $31M
Ruthless People $31M
Top Gun $42M

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at February 19, 2024 04:45 PM (dKiJG)

306 No but seriously, both dresses are hideous. Women need to stop listening to gay men telling them what to wear.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 04:17 PM (uGsHF)
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Gay men used to really know how to dress. What has happened?

Posted by: Black JEM at February 19, 2024 04:45 PM (GZYu7)

307 Well, when you watch movies at home, you can't get popcorn drenched in some butter-like petroleum product, or listen someone in the seat behind you coughing up a lung. So there's that.

And don't forget the thrill of driving to the theater, parking, and discovering that it's sold out or you have a seat on the corner of the front row, where someone graciously stuck a wad of gum.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2024 04:45 PM (CsUN+)

308 my comments make no sense
scroll by them

Posted by: Don Black at February 19, 2024 04:45 PM (geLO8)

309 306 No but seriously, both dresses are hideous. Women need to stop listening to gay men telling them what to wear.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 19, 2024 04:17 PM (uGsHF)
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Gay men used to really know how to dress. What has happened?

Posted by: Black JEM at February 19, 2024 04:45 PM (GZYu7)

They became trannies?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:46 PM (ynpvh)

310 The op that was run where every single news comments section, local and otherwise, was disappeared in 2018 (?) was the main driver for this.

What is the point of reading a one-sided article where you can't scroll down and get the truth?...

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I'm seeing it now with sports pages. Folks point out on-topic things that everyone knows and get banned or the site just shuts the comments down.

My favorite is watching yahoo. It's always interesting when they shut down the comment section on certain articles but leave it up for others until they lose control of it, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - states deserved it in the 1860s but it's different today because reasons at February 19, 2024 04:46 PM (0+Kup)

311 307 Well, when you watch movies at home, you can't get popcorn drenched in some butter-like petroleum product...
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2024 04:45 PM (CsUN+)

Hey, at least it's organic.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:46 PM (ynpvh)

312 So, somebody referred to me as "Bulgingoctopus" on an earlier thread. I like it.

How do I go about officially changing my AoS nic to that? Is there paperwork I have to fill out? An internet bureaucrat I have to bribe?

AoS sea lawyers, please advise!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 19, 2024 04:47 PM (9yWhg)

313 No but seriously, both dresses are hideous. Women need to stop listening to gay men telling them what to wear.

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Gay men used to really know how to dress. What has happened?

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Gay men hate women.

It really is as simple as that. Wear these stupid clothes and get bad tattoos, honey. There, now you look repulsive like what we imagine in our heads. You're perfect.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - states deserved it in the 1860s but it's different today because reasons at February 19, 2024 04:47 PM (0+Kup)

314 41 Is The Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?

Number of ejaculations? 7.5

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 03:49 PM (aD39U)

How do you get fractional ejaculations ?

(Never mind, I don't want to know)

Posted by: BillyD at February 19, 2024 04:47 PM (F6Xpw)

315 313 No but seriously, both dresses are hideous. Women need to stop listening to gay men telling them what to wear.

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Gay men used to really know how to dress. What has happened?

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Gay men hate women.

It really is as simple as that. Wear these stupid clothes and get bad tattoos, honey. There, now you look repulsive like what we imagine in our heads. You're perfect.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - states deserved it in the 1860s but it's different today because reasons at February 19, 2024 04:47 PM (0+Kup)

Are they also responsible for all the body jewelry?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:47 PM (ynpvh)

316 291 William Hurt did a couple of good movies and then went fag friendly and ended up in Nottingham with guys wearing tights.
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 19, 2024 04:43 PM (/UtnQ)

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The Lost in Space movie was kinda crap but the biggest anchor was William Hurt. I think if they could've gotten Jeff Bridges to play the father and a few story line tweeks the move would've went from crap to OK.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 19, 2024 04:48 PM (++4z6)

317 Listened to Tucker and Mike Benz, it's chilling stuff to listen to

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 04:48 PM (fwDg9)

318 312 So, somebody referred to me as "Bulgingoctopus" on an earlier thread. I like it.

How do I go about officially changing my AoS nic to that? Is there paperwork I have to fill out? An internet bureaucrat I have to bribe?

AoS sea lawyers, please advise!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 19, 2024 04:47 PM (9yWhg)

Hello Sailor!

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at February 19, 2024 04:48 PM (PiwSw)

319 We've got time, still.

Not if we stand around in our gray latex pants with King Harv drinking coffee.

Posted by: DaveA at February 19, 2024 04:48 PM (FhXTo)

320 314 41 Is The Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?

Number of ejaculations? 7.5
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 19, 2024 03:49 PM (aD39U)

How do you get fractional ejaculations ?
(Never mind, I don't want to know)
Posted by: BillyD at February 19, 2024 04:47 PM (F6Xpw)

I worked with piezo inkjet heads once. They could do fractional ejaculations.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:48 PM (ynpvh)

321 The Chosen.

Posted by: Come and see at February 19, 2024 04:48 PM (DxrO+)

322 The Holdovers is pretty good, family friendly fare. Paul Giamotti is a favorite of mine.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 19, 2024 04:49 PM (MeG8a)

323 Some books just don’t make good movies. See Dune.
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 19, 2024 04:36 PM (/UtnQ)
__________________________

At least Starship Troopers was converted into a farce.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 04:49 PM (cOq4q)

324 318 312 So, somebody referred to me as "Bulgingoctopus" on an earlier thread. I like it.

How do I go about officially changing my AoS nic to that? Is there paperwork I have to fill out? An internet bureaucrat I have to bribe?

AoS sea lawyers, please advise!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 19, 2024 04:47 PM (9yWhg)

Hello Sailor!

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at February 19, 2024 04:48 PM (PiwSw)

He has that tatted above his mangina, doesn't he?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:49 PM (ynpvh)

325 You're all living in your own private Duncan Idahos.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 19, 2024 04:49 PM (2yu8s)

326 So, somebody referred to me as "Bulgingoctopus" on an earlier thread. I like it.

How do I go about officially changing my AoS nic to that? Is there paperwork I have to fill out? An internet bureaucrat I have to bribe?

AoS sea lawyers, please advise!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 19, 2024 04:47 PM (9yWhg)

Go for the gusto! Become "Vulgaroctopus".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2024 04:49 PM (tkR6S)

327 322 The Holdovers is pretty good, family friendly fare. Paul Giamotti is a favorite of mine.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 19, 2024 04:49 PM (MeG8a)

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He may be responsible for one of the only upsets against Oppenheimer at the Oscars, potentially beating Cillian Murphy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 19, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

328 It's always interesting when they shut down the comment section on certain articles but leave it up for others until they lose control of it, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - states deserved it in the 1860s but it's different today because reasons at February 19, 2024 04:46 PM (0+Kup)

Most comment sections remind me of Vincent Gigante in a bathrobe, wandering around NYC, yelling at people.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 19, 2024 04:50 PM (gSZYf)

329 NOOD

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:50 PM (ynpvh)

330 All that said, I will probably see Dune 2 in IMAX. I just wish they'd turn the damn volume down.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2024 04:50 PM (CsUN+)

331 Sidebar on the Troll Meltdown: "collecting Ls like they're infinity stones." lol That video.

Posted by: Parchment Paper Insanity at February 19, 2024 04:50 PM (pjs7m)

332 Hurt was good in A History of Violence. A-1 Scenery Chewage.

Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 04:50 PM (SYTee)

333 @301

>>I don't think I have ever seen the actor, Jeffrey Wright, in anything before and he is a terrific actor.

He's sort of a William Fichtner, an actor who seems to be in everything, but now is getting star turns unlike Fichtner.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2024 04:50 PM (XV/Pl)

334 Are they also responsible for all the body jewelry?

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I assume whoever convinced women to "be men" and get horrible tattoos also convinced them to drag their forehead and nostrils through tackle boxes. Gay men and feminists who are attempting to make pretty women just as ugly as them.

(2nd wave feminism was a CIA op. It's not debatable.)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - states deserved it in the 1860s but it's different today because reasons at February 19, 2024 04:51 PM (0+Kup)

335 well, y'know, that's the thing about your realio trulio extinction-level event: it don't matter a damn if anyone is prepared for it, or not, it's happening regardless.

as far as it happening to the mass media: LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 19, 2024 04:51 PM (QwWES)

336 State agencies in Colorado will be banned from using certain gas-powered lawn equipment during the summer, according to a new rule adopted by the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission.

The rule applies from June to August. During this time, state agencies will not be allowed to use gas-powered lawn equipment with engines of 25 horsepower or less.

The HOA here is gonna need a shitload of extension cords to get the grass cut
Posted by: Don Black at February 19, 2024 04:43 PM (geLO

Wife and I need to get the fuck out of Colorado. When we moved here 28 years ago it was awesome. Last time I was in downtown Denver I was appalled. And that was in 2019. Can't imagine it now.

But, on topic, I have small electric mower, because my lot is very small. Can't wait to get a piece of land that requires a riding mower. Gotta have a beer holder on the dash.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 19, 2024 04:51 PM (T/Lqj)

337 Say, what happens around here if one admits, theoretically, that one doesn't give a shit about Dune, Tolkein, or C.S. Lewis?

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 04:52 PM (MQhlp)

338 It'd be like spending $100 million on a romcom for guys.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures
Romcom for guys is kinda what porn is. I don't think those things cost $100 million to produce though.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 19, 2024 04:52 PM (0Htd1)

339 337 Say, what happens around here if one admits, theoretically, that one doesn't give a shit about Dune, Tolkein, or C.S. Lewis?

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 04:52 PM (MQhlp)

What manner of depravity are we talking about?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:52 PM (ynpvh)

340 86 85 AI will work its wonders immediately after we get our personal jetpacks and flying cars.

This is just natural selection.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 19, 2024 04:00 PM (9VubY)

controlled by AI. And Big Brother.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:00 PM (ynpvh)

. . . and all powered by nuclear fusion. Or unicorn farts, whichever comes first.

Posted by: BillyD at February 19, 2024 04:53 PM (F6Xpw)

341 A bulgingoctopus eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous.

Posted by: Captain Beefart at February 19, 2024 04:53 PM (vFG9F)

342 340 86 85 AI will work its wonders immediately after we get our personal jetpacks and flying cars.

This is just natural selection.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 19, 2024 04:00 PM (9VubY)

controlled by AI. And Big Brother.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:00 PM (ynpvh)

. . . and all powered by nuclear fusion. Or unicorn farts, whichever comes first.

Posted by: BillyD at February 19, 2024 04:53 PM (F6Xpw)

Hydrogen Bombs are nuclear fusion...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 19, 2024 04:54 PM (ynpvh)

343 I'm looking forward to the shuttering of Journalism departments. Learn to handy! Kids.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 19, 2024 04:54 PM (iPilE)

344 337 Say, what happens around here if one admits, theoretically, that one doesn't give a shit about Dune, Tolkein, or C.S. Lewis?

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 04:52 PM (MQhlp)

BURN THE NON-GEEK HERETIC!

Posted by: Auspex at February 19, 2024 04:55 PM (j4U/Z)

345 The rule applies from June to August. During this time, state agencies will not be allowed to use gas-powered lawn equipment with engines of 25 horsepower or less.

20 inch mowers with 25HP?!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 04:56 PM (cOq4q)

346

I predict that when the AI lawyers sort things out, and a massive Clark Gable Gary Cooper John Wayne epic is synthesized, no one will give a shit and it bombs.

Posted by: Auspex at February 19, 2024 04:58 PM (j4U/Z)

347 The only thing worse that the Media writing about an Extinction-Level Event are rock-and-roll songs about rock-and-roll

Posted by: SMOD at February 19, 2024 04:58 PM (RHGPo)

348 I know one thing: AI might be able to quickly rewrite boring AP headlines but they'll never be able to crank out gems like:

Cash App Cougar Fani Willis: Yes, I Paid Taxpayer Funds to Hire a Human Meat-Mallet to Pound My Snizz Into Thin Tender Strips Like Veal Scallopini

Well, maybe AI will be able to do that.

But not for four or five years.

We've got time, still.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:40 PM

OUT: Ace of Spades
IN: AIce of Spades

Posted by: POGO at February 19, 2024 04:59 PM (wtvvX)

349 Off, comic sock!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 19, 2024 04:59 PM (wtvvX)

350 295. He's going be dead soon, he literally does not care about money at this point, all he cares about is furthering his nefarious ends by any means necessary.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Four sons, one daughter have been working the family businesses for years. He gave control of his $25 billion open society foundations to youngest son but there's more.

4 days ago: Walton, Soros Family Offices Buy New Stakes in Biotech Firms

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun and bear, they only have to outrun us - for now at February 19, 2024 05:01 PM (GshMh)

351 I'm surprised AI hasn't taken over the "reading of news" that goes on nightly, daily, all the time... whatever.

Imagine how much money could be made by ditching the biologics and going pure silicon.

Seriously.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2024 05:02 PM (Q4IgG)

352 The utter devotion to the Dem party line with a complete lack of self-interest in surviving as credible institutions is what confuses me --it's like media outlets are jumping out the window with a noose around their necks crying "all for you, Damien!"

Posted by: Bud Norton at February 19, 2024 05:05 PM (+26iF)

353 Aw, man!

I thought from the headline that SMOD was coming for reals.

But, sadly no.

Oh, SMOD, you sexy sexy death tease of Doom you.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 19, 2024 05:09 PM (nFnyb)

354 Too much internet? Maybe, but if a New York judge can hammer one victim free civil case respondant for hundreds of millions what are the rest of the fiduciaries going to do? Leave.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 19, 2024 05:19 PM (as3uC)

355 Megyn kelly is not trustworthy or reliable
Rehashed crap to boost her rating

Posted by: Deserttrek at February 20, 2024 09:41 AM (480Qo)

356 I'd trust the corporate media like Clinton telling me that he didn't have sex with that woman. As far as Google goes, I'd trust them as much as Hamis vows of eternal love and affection towards jews.

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