CNN Is Already Planning Layoffs At Streaming "Service" CNN+;<br>To Raise Easy (?) Cash, CNN Will Turn Its First Half Hour of "Content" Into NFTs and Sell Them to Braindead Partisans

CNN Is Already Planning Layoffs At Streaming "Service" CNN+;
To Raise Easy (?) Cash, CNN Will Turn Its First Half Hour of "Content" Into NFTs and Sell Them to Braindead Partisans

Chris Wallace's job might not be as secure as he'd hoped:

Charles Gasparino

@CGasparino
Breaking:
@CNNplus employees bracing for layoffs possibly as soon as May amid projections of lackluster sales of new streaming channel; CNN employees say new streaming channel could be merged into larger @discoveryplus as early as May unless subscriptions pick up 130 @FoxBusiness

Obviously they wouldn't fire a high-profile guy like Wallace, but if they're already planning layoffs, that means the "service" is not going to be around very long.

Or will it? CNN's new owners, Discovery, know full well that people aren't going to pay $5.99 to not watch a channel they're already not watching for free.

So they're already talking about "bundling" it in a package deal with channels people are willing to pay for. Like HBO.

On Tuesday CNN is introducing CNN+, a subscription streaming service that combines live news coverage, on-demand programming and interactive interviews.
CNN's goal is to establish closer relationships with news consumers -- the same way Netflix (NFLX) and HBO Max have done in entertainment.
It has hired hundreds of people and developed dozens of shows for this new platform. Analysts say it is the most ambitious streaming news venture to date in the United States.
"We are going to be the only global video-driven news subscription business," CNN chief digital officer and head of CNN+ Andrew Morse said in an interview.
On Tuesday CNN is introducing CNN+, a subscription streaming service that combines live news coverage, on-demand programming and interactive interviews.
CNN's goal is to establish closer relationships with news consumers -- the same way Netflix (NFLX) and HBO Max have done in entertainment.
It has hired hundreds of people and developed dozens of shows for this new platform. Analysts say it is the most ambitious streaming news venture to date in the United States.
"We are going to be the only global video-driven news subscription business," CNN chief digital officer and head of CNN+ Andrew Morse said in an interview.
The big three broadcast news divisions -- ABC, NBC and CBS -- have streaming channels that are free and ad-supported, but have far less content. MSNBC repurposes some of its programs on NBCUniversal's subscription service, Peacock, while Fox News sells a streamer that focuses on entertainment and right-wing talk, not news.

Oh, they focus on partisan chatter, unlike the pristine "news" channel CNN.

Right.

CNN+ is distinct from all of those. Still, the service faces headwinds, including looming management changes and outside skepticism about the service's prospects.
"News is additive. It's habit forming. But it's a hard sell for a standalone subscription service," said Julia Alexander, senior strategy analyst for Parrot Analytics, a firm that advises media companies.
Down the road, CNN+ may be bundled. But at launch it is a standalone product priced at $5.99 a month.

Wow, that shows some real confidence in CNN+ -- buy these other channels people actually want, and we'll throw in this Pile of Dogshit for free.

Which is CNN's tried-and-true business model -- they're only on cable at all because the cost of the channel is bundled into the cost of the channels people actually watch.

And: Is it really $5.99 per month?

No, it's not.

They're already "discounting" it at its real price, $2.99 per month. Which is still way too high.

If you sign up now, you'll get CNN+ at half-price, which is still 5000% of what it's actually worth. And you'll lock in those savings for life.

So that's the real price. As anyone who's ever tried to cancel cable knows, cable companies will offer you the "teaser" rates, the "Try HBO for $4 per month (for six months)" rate, when you show you're serious about cancelling. And if you periodically call up to cancel, you can keep getting those teaser rates for a while.

Is CNN+ really going to turn away what few people are interested in the "service" at all if they demand the "50% off" rate instead of the "regular" $5.99 rate? No. This rate will be routinely offered to anyone.

The only people who will pay $5.99 a month to watch Chris Wallace and Don Lemon in a more casual "chat" situation are braindead partisan super-fans who just want to spend extra money to support CNN's brand of "journalism," like Noted Conservative Blogger AllahPundit.

Here's another way Noted Conservative Blogger AllahPundit can support his favorite "journalism" outfit: he can buy the NFTs of the first half our of CNN+'s "news" coverage.

For those of you who don't know what the hell NFTs are: Join the club. I don't know what the hell they are, either.

But what I say to pretend I know what they are is that an NFT is an unreproducable cryptographic code, or crypto fingerprint, that allows you take a digital object, like a digital photograph or a thirty second video of CNN+'s amazing programming, and stamp it with that code to make this one copy of the easily-copied digital artifact the "one real authorized copy."

And in theory, limiting the supply of something should increase its price. You can't sell a jpg image because they can be easily copied and reproduced. But of one jpg image has a stamp making it the one real jpg image, you can, in theory, sell that as a unique item.

And people are doing this now with digital "art," and people are "investing" in NFTs and flipping them, selling them to other people.

I don't want to spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt), but this NFT thing always seemed very very silly to me, and I have a strong feeling that the NFT market is about to collapse.

Or at least it will "right-size" to its true value.

Which is zero.

But then again, I chose against buying Bitcoin when it was like $600 per coin, because I thought that was way past the top of the market.

So anyway: What a perfect time for CNN to fleece its braindead partisan zombie viewers, selling them worthless digital vapor-trinkets.

CNN is marketing its CNN+ streaming debut as a "historic moment" for the company by selling the first seconds of its first live stream as a set of NFTs, CNN+ chief Andrew Morse said on Wednesday.
The NFTs, of which there will be 250, will feature the first 29 seconds of the first episode of 5 Things with Kate Bolduan, a daily morning show for CNN+ that marked the start of the streaming service's debut on Tuesday.
The NFTs will be available for purchase beginning on at 10 a.m. PT on March 30 via Vault by CNN, a separate NFT marketplace that sells digital collectibles of major moments in CNN's history, such as footage of Ted Turner launching CNN in 1980. At launch, each NFT featuring the first moment of Bolduan's live show will be sold at $50 each; users do not need to use crypto to purchase the tokens.

Now you can be the proud, deranged owner of a
certified copy of this vile hag

One good thing about NFTs:

Feminists are complaining that they're "anti-woman."

Because not enough men are handholding them and doing their research for them and giving them free NFTs just for being women.

Posted by: Ace at 02:33 PM

Comments

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1 sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:32 PM (LvTSG)

2 I applaud the selling of NFTs.

Stupid people should not be allowed to keep their money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:33 PM (LvTSG)

3 @CNNplus employees bracing for layoffs possibly as soon as May amid projections of lackluster sales of new streaming channel; CNN employees say new streaming channel could be merged into larger @discoveryplus as early as May unless subscriptions pick up 130 @FoxBusiness

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It makes you wonder what the projections were, who made them, and how much of a raise they're going to get after all the little people get fired.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:33 PM (LvTSG)

4

CNN+ is the Earl Scheib of Ron Popeils.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 31, 2022 02:34 PM (s2VJv)

5 Chris Wallace will have to peddle his soup cookbook door-to-door soon.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2022 02:34 PM (MzKgG)

6 and I have a strong feeling that the NFT market is about to collapse.

Never happen!

Posted by: Beanie Babies! at March 31, 2022 02:34 PM (CZVKQ)

7 This article is making my head hurt.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 31, 2022 02:34 PM (Ez6QX)

8 Fuck that.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:34 PM (II3Gr)

9 I hope hubby doesn't subscribe

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2022 02:34 PM (lCui1)

10 What the hell are the NFT purchasers actually buying? I'm so confused.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 31, 2022 02:35 PM (Ez6QX)

11 We can't keep up with reality anymore.

Posted by: Babylon Bee at March 31, 2022 02:35 PM (gYAkw)

12 I'm stoopid, what is NFT?

Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2022 02:35 PM (ou23q)

13 NFT's sound like a good investment, just like Beanie Babies.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2022 02:35 PM (trdmm)

14 NFTs are the virtual version of the Beanie Baby craze IMHO.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:35 PM (II3Gr)

15 >>>10 What the hell are the NFT purchasers actually buying? I'm so confused.

essentially they are buying a crypto code, with a jpg attached to it.

Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 31, 2022 02:36 PM (0G13K)

16 NFTs are just how you launder money when you can't afford "great art". There's a joke somewhere about laundering drug money through video clips of Tater but I haven't nailed down the parameters yet.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 02:36 PM (ZGrMX)

17 Fuckin' Horde Mind, how does it work?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:36 PM (II3Gr)

18 NFT = money laundering

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2022 02:36 PM (lCui1)

19 13 NFT's sound like a good investment, just like Beanie Babies.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2022 02:35 PM (trdmm)

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Beanie babies gave you a physical product. The only reality is the Internet.

Advantage: NFTs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:36 PM (LvTSG)

20 Blue anon loves Vapor trinkets

Posted by: Remote commentary at March 31, 2022 02:36 PM (AI/hN)

21 Thus signaling the end of the NFT craze.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 02:36 PM (dNrqX)

22 Who gets custody of Tater?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2022 02:36 PM (ZLI7S)

23 CNN is, was and always will be pure shit.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2022 02:36 PM (PL2Az)

24 14 NFTs are the virtual version of the Beanie Baby craze IMHO.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:35 PM (II3Gr)

On the one hand a beanie baby can also function as a kid's toy, on the other hand they aren't scarce.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 31, 2022 02:37 PM (z5Vrg)

25 Only when people discuss all of the intertube related products do I actually feel over 29.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 31, 2022 02:37 PM (Eu9d8)

26 I nooded.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:37 PM (2JVJo)

27 Who gets custody of Tater?

His wife's boyfriend.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 02:37 PM (ZGrMX)

28 NFTs, a way to get people to pay money for something that has no value. Essentially, they are re-trying the Diablo 3 Real Money Auction house.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 31, 2022 02:37 PM (dNqv+)

29 Shit sandwiches, 1/2 price for life, limited time offer.

(Offer void in Rhode Island).

Posted by: a.moron at March 31, 2022 02:37 PM (tu3iY)

30 In the past, you lied to me for free.
Now you want me to pay. Me. To pay you?
Good one...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2022 02:37 PM (jTmQV)

31 NFT = "NewFangled Tulip"

Posted by: 29Victor at March 31, 2022 02:37 PM (BJKQV)

32 26 I nooded.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:37 PM (2JVJo)

Keep the blinds drawn next time, would ya? Jeebus.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:37 PM (II3Gr)

33 Kate Boulder? Samanth bee in the morning with an audience full of seals.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at March 31, 2022 02:38 PM (ynRNo)

34 28 NFTs, a way to get people to pay money for something that has no value. Essentially, they are re-trying the Diablo 3 Real Money Auction house.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 31, 2022 02:37 PM (dNqv+)

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At least spending money on weapons in a video game, you get to use it in that particular digital space.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:38 PM (LvTSG)

35 CNN+ is the Earl Scheib of Ron Popeils.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 31, 2022 02:34 PM (s2VJv)

I'll paint any two cars for $29.95....just pay separate shipping and handling charges.

Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2022 02:38 PM (AwYPR)

36 It makes you wonder what the projections were, who made them, and how much of a raise they're going to get after all the little people get fired.

Wasn't there a semi-recent movie that was rushed to an arbitrary release date (and bombed) so executives could get big bonuses?

I mean, I'm sure that happens a lot, but IIRC there was a documented, known case of it.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 31, 2022 02:38 PM (3hX1d)

37 CNN+ was a Zucker project. They already let him go.

In a prior thread on these some weeks / months back, I mentioned the theory that the new owners of CNN were going to load CNN+ up with toxic assets (like a "bad bank") and then fire everyone when the whole thing collapses.

Still think that's the likely outcome here.

Posted by: Revenant at March 31, 2022 02:38 PM (PHukT)

38 Shit sandwiches, 1/2 price for life, limited time offer.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the official motto of the GOP.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:38 PM (2JVJo)

39 I don't want to spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt), but this NFT thing always seemed very very silly to me, and I have a strong feeling that the NFT market is about to collapse.

Or "right-size" to its true value, which is zero.

The future is Beanie Babies, Ace, Beanie Babies all the way down.

I think there is a value in NFTs as a form of electronic contract, or for a token system for a company providing content or orders for real items electronically.
Like buying tokens to play the video games at Chucky Cheese's, or a swipe card at the casino, where the money is in escrow and refundable for unused portions on demand.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 02:38 PM (xhaym)

40 non fungible tokens.

ok.

Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2022 02:38 PM (ou23q)

41 They. Thought. People. Would. Pay. For. CNN.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Venus at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (YVBLw)

42 So Allahpundit is saying that Russian soldiers are irradiated at Chernobyl, and Jazz Shaw took the normal Russian spring military draft call and claimed that "Putin reportedly drafting a huge number of new conscripts".

Sign up for our VIP service, and you can get even more hot takes like this!

Posted by: Hot Air! at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (CZVKQ)

43 I wouldn't watch it even if they paid me.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (a4EWo)

44 35 CNN+ is the Earl Scheib of Ron Popeils.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 31, 2022 02:34 PM (s2VJv)

I'll paint any two cars for $29.95....just pay separate shipping and handling charges.
Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2022 02:38 PM (AwYPR)

Pocket CarPainterman?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (II3Gr)

45 36 Wasn't there a semi-recent movie that was rushed to an arbitrary release date (and bombed) so executives could get big bonuses?

I mean, I'm sure that happens a lot, but IIRC there was a documented, known case of it.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 31, 2022 02:38 PM (3hX1d)

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I remember this story, but I don't remember the movie in particular. I think it might have been Justice League.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (LvTSG)

46 CNN+ is the Earl Scheib of Ron Popeils.

I'd rather have a Veg-O-Matic than watch CNN.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (ZGrMX)

47 Charlie Gasparino needs to disappear as well.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (BgMrQ)

48 All you people criticizing CNN's NFT launch had no problem with...

{draws card}

Trump University!

Posted by: Allahdumbshit at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (hJSeO)

49 Life, or the 12 months that CNN+ lasts.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (yQpMk)

50 We rule the universe!!! *hic* Stay safe.

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (Xrfse)

51 Should we assume that a CNN+ subscription for life is plea bargaining alternative for those facing life in Supermax.?

Posted by: Voter theater. at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (FCPbW)

52 Now you can be the proud, deranged owner of a
certified copy of this vile hag
Posted by: Ace at 02:33 PM

Is that anything like a sex doll? Askin for a friend...

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (MFphb)

53 I always wondered how CNN stayed in business other than airports and bus stations.

Posted by: Vic at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (mZwKe)

54 NFTs are pet rocks, or selling the Brooklyn Bridge. Its a bogus investment, a scam, a ripoff, a con.

I think Bill Gates just thinks investing in land is a good way to preserve his wealth. We way overthink motives for people doing shit. He has money, he invests in land.

Yeah, after a certain point it becomes difficult to handle money wisely. You can just put it into a bank but then its just slowly burning away from inflation. You can invest in more stocks but they're volatile and untrustworthy, especially as you look at the future of the economy. Land is almost always safe as an investment, even if things go very wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (KZzsI)

55 >>Wasn't there a semi-recent movie that was rushed to an arbitrary release date (and bombed) so executives could get big bonuses?

Prometheus?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (ZLI7S)

56 I'll paint any two cars for $29.95....just pay separate shipping and handling charges.
Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2022 02:38 PM (AwYPR)

True story: I ordered a proof copy of my new book from Amazon. The book price was $2.95. The shipping cost was over $18!

Fortunately, I have Amazon card credits I was able to use to bump the price to zero, but still. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (2JVJo)

57 I think there is a value in NFTs as a form of electronic contract, or for a token system for a company providing content or orders for real items electronically.

They absolutely have legit uses. It's just nobody doing anything with them thus far is employing any of them.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (ZGrMX)

58 To Raise Easy (?) Cash, CNN Will Turn Its First Half Hour of "Content" Into NFTs and Sell Them to Braindead Partisans

we're gonna need more gorillas

Posted by: the big brains at cnn at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (sGtp+)

59 52 Now you can be the proud, deranged owner of a
certified copy of this vile hag
Posted by: Ace at 02:33 PM

Is that anything like a sex doll? Askin for a friend...
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (MFphb)

No. It doesn't exist in physical space, and it's not like you'd want to fuck it anyway.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (II3Gr)

60
CHRIS WALLACE,,, GO HOME!!11!!!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (SWi3y)

61
No
Find
Truth

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (hJSeO)

62 I always wondered how CNN stayed in business other than airports and bus stations.

Like ESPN and cable bundling or streaming bundling. If they were only ala carte, how well would they do? Not very well, I suspect.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (KZzsI)

63 If it's made of ones and zeros, you don't really own it.

Posted by: Greyman27 at March 31, 2022 02:41 PM (RKLPC)

64 essentially they are buying a crypto code, with a jpg attached to it.
Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 31, 2022 02:36 PM (0G13K)

Well then I agree with TJM. Stupid people shouldn't be allowed to keep their money.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 31, 2022 02:41 PM (Ez6QX)

65 CNN Will Turn Its First Half Hour of "Content" Into NFTs and Sell Them to Braindead Partisans

Smells like desperation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2022 02:41 PM (BFigT)

66 we're gonna need more gorillas

So, Oliver Darcy?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 02:41 PM (ZGrMX)

67 Kate Bolduan is soooo hot. *hic*

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at March 31, 2022 02:41 PM (Xrfse)

68 67 Kate Bolduan is soooo hot. *hic*
Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at March 31, 2022 02:41 PM (Xrfse)

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So fetch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:42 PM (LvTSG)

69 5 Things with Kate Bolduan is a show where Kate Bolduan explains addition.

Kate Bolduan: "If you take 2 things and add these other 2 things you get 5 things."

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 31, 2022 02:42 PM (AiZBA)

70 Earl Scheib's son was convicted on federal weapons charges back in the 1970s when federal agents discovered a cache of machine guns and explosives on his property.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at March 31, 2022 02:42 PM (c8x1g)

71
Now you can be the proud, deranged owner of a certified copy of this vile hag

Too cruel, not cruel, or crueled just enough?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2022 02:42 PM (dQvv7)

72 Ace could sell an NFT of flaming skull. And flaming skull with crack pipe. And flaming skull with...

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2022 02:42 PM (qnVBz)

73 I looked over the CNN+ lineup yesterday and linked it, its... pathetic. The shows are awful, and Stelter is on 5 freaking hours every day in the afternoon. FIVE HOURS from 11-4. EVERY WEEKDAY. Even his biggest fans don't want that much Tater.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:42 PM (KZzsI)

74 CNN needs to bring Bret Baier over, and maybe drag along Juan Williams.

That should be a real money-maker. lulz

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 31, 2022 02:42 PM (ptqGC)

75 72 Ace could sell an NFT of flaming skull. And flaming skull with crack pipe. And flaming skull with...
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2022 02:42 PM (qnVBz)

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Or he could just outright ask us for money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:42 PM (LvTSG)

76 CNN +? Jeebus how many more partisan morons do they have on the bench to repeat the garbage stories? What is the "plus" that you get other than moar sh1tsammich?

Genius!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at March 31, 2022 02:42 PM (ynRNo)

77 They're already "discounting" it at its real price, $2.99 per month. Which is still way too high.
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Too low if they were paying us

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 02:42 PM (hJSeO)

78 Sock off

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 31, 2022 02:43 PM (ynRNo)

79 I think I have cnn+ with sling which im gonna dump after the ncaa"s

Posted by: doug at March 31, 2022 02:43 PM (8/lc0)

80 If you are at all interested in what NFTs are, I highly recommend this video - https://youtu.be/XwMjPWOailQ

For those who don't want to bother watching - and it's a fairly amusing video, here's the short answer. At best, NFTs are a way to separate ignorant people from their money. Stay away. Stay far, far away. Unless, of course, you're starting one for people who want to demonstrate how much they support the current thing in which case...take everything, give nothing back.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 02:43 PM (T7iTv)

81 I always wondered how CNN stayed in business other than airports and bus stations.
Posted by: Vic at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (mZwKe)

They lost the airport market last year I believe.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 31, 2022 02:43 PM (Ez6QX)

82 So, TMobile has now made their $10 off/month with Philo permanent, so I don't need to get my Food Network and Game Show Network anywhere else.

If CNN joins HBO's service, I'll be canceling when my reduced HBO rate is up...heck, I might be canceling anyway and waiting for the next great deal b/c I enjoy watching these streaming services squirm and beg me for pennies...

Posted by: Nova local at March 31, 2022 02:43 PM (exHjb)

83 Earl Scheib's son was convicted on federal weapons charges back in the 1970s when federal agents discovered a cache of machine guns and explosives on his property.

Earl Scheib could blow things up for $19.99?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 02:43 PM (ZGrMX)

84 61
No
Find
Truth
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (hJSeO)

That needed a Horta sock...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 31, 2022 02:43 PM (BgMrQ)

85 CNN could always start it's own crypto coin. Tatercoin

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2022 02:43 PM (qnVBz)

86 I'm fine with the amount of CNN I already don't watch.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 31, 2022 02:43 PM (eGTCV)

87 I'm stoopid, what is NFT?
Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2022 02:35 PM (ou23q)

NFT is non fungible token, which uses cryptography or some sort to make a unique sign in for online transactions. They generally are loaded on top of some sort of cryptocurrency. The original use was to be unique verifiers and to support crypto-contracts that would be automatic on completion, without third party monitoring.

It is an attempt to solve the problem of "how to you create lasting value in an endlessly reproducible world"

Like they said above, you can't sell a JPG, people don't pay for what they can get for free.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 02:44 PM (xhaym)

88 53 I always wondered how CNN stayed in business other than airports and bus stations.
Posted by: Vic at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (mZwKe)

A big point most people don't realize about the Airports - CNN pays THEM for the right to run its programs on TV screens that CNN provides and which CNN has to maintain. The reason you never see any other channels is that no one else in the business is stupid enough to say "hey we will PAY to force people to watch us, that'll be profitable!!!"

but it does show that CNN is not a real "business" at all, just a political propaganda machine supported by some deep pockets.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2022 02:44 PM (trdmm)

89 They're going to have to pay me a lot more than $5.99 a month to watch that shit. Wait, I have to pay them $5.99? Stop it, you're killing me. Seriously. I won't take less than $100 a week.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at March 31, 2022 02:44 PM (P7Iz+)

90 The vast majority of "buyers" for NFT art are other sellers of NFT art. They basically trade their junk back and forth to each other. Ditto bitcoin. That's a more complicated issue because there are various models and deliberate confusion between bitcoin trading platforms and bitcoin itself. Many of the companies propping up bitcoin as a currency are also investing in trading platforms. So they are in essence propping up their own platforms. I don't trust them any more than I can throw them.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 31, 2022 02:44 PM (iFTx/)

91 Do those NFTs smell like tulip bulbs, because they sure look like them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2022 02:44 PM (5kI0z)

92 True story: I ordered a proof copy of my new book from Amazon. The book price was $2.95. The shipping cost was over $18!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (2JVJo)

Oh yeah...just another racket.

Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2022 02:44 PM (AwYPR)

93 I listened to CNN+ on my Dyson headphones and it turned me into a newt. A tranny communist newt.

Posted by: The Commentator Formerly Known as Tater at March 31, 2022 02:44 PM (sWM8x)

94 Must have taken forever for them to come up with the name CNN+.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 02:44 PM (hJSeO)

95 I mean I think NFTs are a ridiculous and stupid fad, but I wish I could sell some of my art for tens of thousands of dollars to idiot speculators. I have stacks of images I could sell em and not miss or care about.

There are NFT sale sites out there and they're basically heaps of crappy art, the kind of stuff you doodle on your math book cover when you're bored in high school. Does any of that crap sell? I hope not but a fool and his money, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:44 PM (KZzsI)

96 92 True story: I ordered a proof copy of my new book from Amazon. The book price was $2.95. The shipping cost was over $18!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (2JVJo)

========

I guess you overnighted it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:44 PM (LvTSG)

97 91 Do those NFTs smell like tulip bulbs, because they sure look like them.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2022 02:44 PM (5kI0z)

31 NFT = "NewFangled Tulip"
Posted by: 29Victor at March 31, 2022 02:37 PM (BJKQV)

Posted by: 29Victor at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (BJKQV)

98 14 NFTs are the virtual version of the Beanie Baby craze IMHO.

nope. buy a beanie baby and you have an actual thing. when you give up on the investment, you can give it to a toddler as a plaything. can't do that with nfts.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (v3pYe)

99 I looked over the CNN+ lineup yesterday and linked it, its... pathetic. The shows are awful, and Stelter is on 5 freaking hours every day in the afternoon. FIVE HOURS from 11-4. EVERY WEEKDAY. Even his biggest fans don't want that much Tater.

Sounds like a target-rich environment for Mark Dice.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (ZGrMX)

100 'CNN+' ?

Should have gone with 'CnnPro'

Or maybe, 'CNN V2.0'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (oY5A0)

101 85 CNN could always start it's own crypto coin. Tatercoin
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2022 02:43 PM (qnVBz)

Shmekels.
Fatbacks.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (II3Gr)

102 IIANM, NFTs are not tied to the object, and can be switched around, I suspect that some of the purchases of NFTs is because people want the NFT, not the art attached to it.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (xhaym)

103 Is CNN+ actually live? LOL. I had no idea.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (OalnH)

104 NFTs are pet rocks, or selling the Brooklyn Bridge. Its a bogus investment, a scam, a ripoff, a con.

You asked for it. . .

https://tinyurl.com/5n88xs7v

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (2JVJo)

105 I remember this story, but I don't remember the movie in particular. I think it might have been Justice League.[/]

Yeeeeah, I think so. Whatsisname's CGI upper lip and all that.

Though there were other issues with the production of that film, too.

(Hey, have you done any posts *about* the movie industry and its idiosyncrasies? I mean like "movies with 'Mars' in the title don't sell" and other ridiculous near- superstitions, or movies that were close to being ready, but got scrapped by the new CEO or whatever. Some of those stories are fun.)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (3hX1d)

106 CNN would make a good case study in trashing your own brand.

Posted by: mr tmz at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (rJ48h)

107 Five hours of Tater daily? Who thought that was a good idea?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (eGTCV)

108 Chris Wallace was incredibly dumb to move from FNC, not to CNN, but to CNN+. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math ~~Queen~~ King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (rF64X)

109 103 Is CNN+ actually live? LOL. I had no idea.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (OalnH)

========

There was a parade and everything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (LvTSG)

110 I always wondered how CNN stayed in business other than airports and bus stations.

CNN pulled out of airports 2 years ago, IIRC. They're definitely not there now.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (ZGrMX)

111 CNN XTREME

Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (0G13K)

112 I've never met the token i couldn't funge.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (6FeV1)

113 90 They basically trade their junk back and forth to each other.

ewww

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (oY6Yp)

114 85 CNN could always start it's own crypto coin. Tatercoin
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2022 02:43 PM (qnVBz)

Shmekels.
Fatbacks.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (II3Gr)

LOL. Good one.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (AiZBA)

115 >>>107 Five hours of Tater [programming] daily? Who thought that was a good idea?

Tater's wife and her boyfriends.

Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (0G13K)

116 If they "lost" the airport market (I didn't know that) it would only be because one of the oligarchs footing the bill is getting sick of tossing tens of millions of dollars away on nothing every year. Yeah, even idiot progs get sick of that kind of thing after it goes on too long.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (trdmm)

117 They're already "discounting" it at its real price, $2.99 per month. Which is still way too high.

$2.99?
That's way too fukcin much

...Used Cars...

Posted by: Bruce at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (vd8XM)

118 For those who don't want to bother watching - and it's a fairly amusing video, here's the short answer. At best, NFTs are a way to separate ignorant people from their money. Stay away. Stay far, far away. Unless, of course, you're starting one for people who want to demonstrate how much they support the current thing in which case...take everything, give nothing back.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 02:43 PM (T7iTv)

Words to live by...

#takeallofit

Posted by: Henry Gondorff at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (BgMrQ)

119 I subbed to Fox Nation which is the streaming service Fox is running just so I could see a few things of interest. Turns out it's really worth the $100 per year as I watch it daily.

Posted by: Ethan Saunders at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (W1E3x)

120 I would pay to not have CNN on at the airport, gym, drs office, car dealership etc

Posted by: 29Victor at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (BJKQV)

121 Is CNN+ actually live? LOL. I had no idea.

It launched Tuesday. Their first subscriber was Ted Turner, according to the big fanfare.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (ZGrMX)

122 CNNNNNow

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (hJSeO)

123 15 >>>10 What the hell are the NFT purchasers actually buying? I'm so confused.

essentially they are buying a crypto code, with a jpg attached to it.
Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 31, 2022 02:36 PM (0G13K)

It should be noted that they are not buying the jpg. They don't own the rights to the jpg. They may not reproduce the jpg. The jpg is just a symbol for the thing they own...an otherwise worthless spot in a blockchain.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (T7iTv)

124 I don't think Tater's wife has boyfriends. Have you seen her?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (ptqGC)

125 I remember this story, but I don't remember the movie in particular. I think it might have been Justice League.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (LvTSG)

Justice league. The movie where Gal Godot screams yeeeeaaaarrrgh more the Howard Dean at a campaign stop. Nice acting. Chefs kiss. Mwah!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (ynRNo)

126 They should have hired Caitlyn.

Posted by: Hannity at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (1IJnB)

127 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

128 Selling segments of CNN+ as NFTs sounds exactly like the kind of idea that young college-educated lefties would come up with that sounds hot and now to ignorant and often very stupid execs.

You know that effect when you see someone who got super rich and buys a sports team then runs it like a retarded chimpanzee on crack? THese super rich powerful exec buys can be really good at one thing but monumentally stupid and incompetent in other areas.

But they're easy to sell on hot new ideas that sound trendy and they read an article about in Forbes. NFT CNN+ segments is exactly one of those ideas. We can fund it with this alone!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (KZzsI)

129 For those of you who don't know what the hell NFTs are: Join the club. I don't know what the hell they are, either.

___

They're these things that you buy with Bitcoin. I believe.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (OalnH)

130 "I chose against buying Bitcoin when it was like $600 per coin"

I know how that feels.

Posted by: gp Kills His Belly Fat Illegally at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (qpX6U)

131 I don't want to spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt), but this NFT thing always seemed very very silly to me, and I have a strong feeling that the NFT market is about to collapse.
______________

NFTs are ridiculous. Tulip bulbs are where it's at.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (azMeO)

132 I guess you overnighted it.

No, I didn't. That was for regular 4-5 day delivery.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (2JVJo)

133 NFT is the racer's edge.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (ZLI7S)

134 DDG search wants to autocomplete to "Kate Bolduan risky photos", but nothing good shows up.

Posted by: spindrift at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM (h5TKJ)

135 105 Yeeeeah, I think so. Whatsisname's CGI upper lip and all that.

Though there were other issues with the production of that film, too.

(Hey, have you done any posts *about* the movie industry and its idiosyncrasies? I mean like "movies with 'Mars' in the title don't sell" and other ridiculous near- superstitions, or movies that were close to being ready, but got scrapped by the new CEO or whatever. Some of those stories are fun.)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (3hX1d)

=========

WB's execs apparently just grew to dislike Snyder, especially when his leadership of the DCEU just didn't make Marvel money. So, when he was becoming difficult with Justice League, demanding at least 3 hours of runtime and a follow through on his darker vision that critics didn't like very much, the pressure of the fights with the execs (combined with his daughter's suicide) just told him to fuck off, and WB rushed through to production.

I did do a post about canceled movies a while back. Jodorowksy's Dune was the centerpiece.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM (LvTSG)

136 I subbed to Fox Nation which is the streaming service Fox is running just so I could see a few things of interest. Turns out it's really worth the $100 per year as I watch it daily.
Posted by: Ethan Saunders at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (W1E3x)

NewsMax is free, and OAN is $4.99 a month.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM (yQpMk)

137 Does CNN+ have any neverTrumpers on board? It would be a good way to ignore them.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM (eGTCV)

138 Is CNN+ actually live? LOL. I had no idea.

It launched Tuesday. Their first subscriber was Ted Turner, according to the big fanfare.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (ZGrMX)

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Ted Turner is suffering from major dementia. I wonder who subscribed in his name?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM (ptqGC)

139 "So they're already talking about "bundling" it in a package deal with channels people are willing to pay for. Like HBO."

So, CNN will be like the ESPN of news channels, and they'll upcharge people for the pleasure of having that turd in their lineup.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM (VpIIl)

140 110 I always wondered how CNN stayed in business other than airports and bus stations.

CNN pulled out of airports 2 years ago, IIRC. They're definitely not there now.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (ZGrMX)

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It was MSNBC in the Atlanta airport last week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM (LvTSG)

141 If you COD an NFT from the NFL on the QT are you SOL?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM (II3Gr)

142 "I chose against buying Bitcoin when it was like $600 per coin"
___________

Alert: I'm starting BitBulb for tulip bulbs. Get in now, on the ground floor!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (azMeO)

143 fuuuuuu k

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (3hX1d)

144 I had to look up 'NFT'. I guess I got it right...but I learned in the process that NFT's can be bought and sold via crypto-currency.

I can't think a word that describes this. 'Vaporous' comes to mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (oY5A0)

145 CNN would make a good case study in trashing your own brand.

Posted by: mr tmz

They are in a race with Disney

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (5kI0z)

146 Pack of wild dogs. I bet they run around pissing on each other to mark territory and sniff ass excitedly when greeting each other.

Posted by: WTF??? at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (QTYMN)

147 Chris Wallace was incredibly dumb to move from FNC, not to CNN, but to CNN+.

I don't think he had any choice in the matter. I think all the people shuffled off to CNN+ were going to be fired from CNN anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (KZzsI)

148 Ted Turner is suffering from major dementia. I wonder who subscribed in his name?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM (ptqGC)

Jane Fonda.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (trdmm)

149 143 fuuuuuu k
Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (3hX1d)

Would you like to buy my NFT of the letter "c" to complete your word?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (II3Gr)

150 CNN XTREME

CNN Super Maxi.
With Wings.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (nfrXX)

151 My Franklin Mint collection of birds painted on dinner plates
guarantees me a comfortable retirement.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (sWM8x)

152 Bitcoin is up 3800% over the past 5 years. Twice as much as TSLA.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (OalnH)

153 Why not CNN-
A wearable device that turns off any TV showing CNN.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (BJKQV)

154 132 I guess you overnighted it.

No, I didn't. That was for regular 4-5 day delivery.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (2JVJo)

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Hot darn. My proof delivery costs have always been about $5.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (LvTSG)

155 It was MSNBC in the Atlanta airport last week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM (LvTSG)

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They should just have ATL Uncensored on a loop. Serves as a warning for visitors.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 31, 2022 02:50 PM (ptqGC)

156 NFT = no fucking trust

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2022 02:50 PM (P3gRi)

157 Who'd a thunk let's charge people for lying to them was a bad business model?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at March 31, 2022 02:50 PM (FVME7)

158 104 NFTs are pet rocks, or selling the Brooklyn Bridge. Its a bogus investment, a scam, a ripoff, a con.

You asked for it. . .

https://tinyurl.com/5n88xs7v
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (2JVJo)

One of my favorites!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 31, 2022 02:50 PM (s2VJv)

159 147 Chris Wallace was incredibly dumb to move from FNC, not to CNN, but to CNN+.

I don't think he had any choice in the matter. I think all the people shuffled off to CNN+ were going to be fired from CNN anyway.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (KZzsI)

Wallace said he had to leave, because Tucker Carlson was icky. and made him feel bad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2022 02:50 PM (trdmm)

160 No, I didn't. That was for regular 4-5 day delivery

Where do you live, the Galapagos Islands? I've never had to pay anything remotely like that for a galley print or first printing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:50 PM (KZzsI)

161 "I chose against buying Bitcoin when it was like $600 per coin"

I know how that feels.

Posted by: gp Kills His Belly Fat Illegally at March 31, 2022 02:47 PM (qpX6U)

I almost bought some Iraqi dinars back in the early 80s.

Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (AwYPR)

162 158 104 NFTs are pet rocks, or selling the Brooklyn Bridge. Its a bogus investment, a scam, a ripoff, a con.

You asked for it. . .

https://tinyurl.com/5n88xs7v
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:45 PM (2JVJo)

One of my favorites!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 31, 2022 02:50 PM (s2VJv)

The old ways are the best ways.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (II3Gr)

163 For those of you who don't know what the hell NFTs are: Join the club. I don't know what the hell they are, either.

I am in this camp as well.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

164 150 CNN XTREME

CNN Super Maxi.

cnn ultra, where you take two cnns and glue them together.

Posted by: the marketing geniuses at apple at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (sGtp+)

165 If you bought the 29 second not do you get to do the programming. Could get a lot of snark back at cnn.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (ynRNo)

166 I'd consider paying 5.99 a month to remove cnn from my cable. Does Nielson do anti-subscription ratings?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (iEoB/)

167 fuuuuuu k
Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (3hX1d)

Don't worry, you're good. The same thing happened to me a couple of threads ago. There must be a close tag fairy around today.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (Ez6QX)

168 What about that asterisk by the word "life" on the CNN special offer? Does it refer to a disclaimer about the definition of life?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (63Dwl)

169 Things colors aren't Gay enough.
So fail

Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (KMK7G)

170 NFT is an innovative way to launder money. You want to send your Cartel business associate $1M? Easy. You buy one of his NFTs. Done and done. Totally legit and legal.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (OalnH)

171 160 No, I didn't. That was for regular 4-5 day delivery

Where do you live, the Galapagos Islands? I've never had to pay anything remotely like that for a galley print or first printing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:50 PM (KZzsI)

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Maybe Massachusetts has seceded and no one noticed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (LvTSG)

172
NewsMax is free, and OAN is $4.99 a month.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM

I had OAN for a month. I pay $ and they STILL hit me with commercials? NewsMax is fine.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (dQvv7)

173 It should be noted that they are not buying the jpg. They don't own the rights to the jpg. They may not reproduce the jpg. The jpg is just a symbol for the thing they own...~~an otherwise~~ a worthless spot in a blockchain.

FIFY.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (azMeO)

174 In the institutional finance industry we have assets which are not fungible. Swaps and other OTC derivatives immediately come to mind. That may sound esoteric but it's actually a 400 Trillion dollar notional market, nearly 12 times the size of the entire stock market.

The only place I've seen that NFT's can be put to practical use (and are) is in that domain for the crypto industry. A BTC/ETH swap might be constructed as an NFT. That makes perfect sense.

The rest is just hype IMO.

Posted by: Tom at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (xUK01)

175 There must be a close tag fairy around today.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (Ez6QX)

He's teaching kindergarten.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (II3Gr)

176 I have added the Trans flag to my lapel flair.

Posted by: Hannity at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (1IJnB)

177 And people are doing this now with digital "art," and people are "investing" in NFTs and flipping them, selling them to other people.

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BREAKING: CNN+ Partners with Hunter Biden to Sell His NFT Artwork at $500 Million a Poop at 45% Each, with 10% Going to an Unnamed Big Guy. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (pdS8b)

178 It's funny cause spellchecker autocorrects nft to not.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (ynRNo)

179 Romney wants to grind up the elderly into a protein paste and feed it to feral hogs!

Well, he didn't say that, exactly, but be does want to cut social security. That is practically the same thing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (qnVBz)

180
34,986.59 -242.22 (-0.69%)
As of 02:51PM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (Kuu+U)

181 NFT stands for Non-fungible token which says it all right there.

"non-fungible" as in "you have nothing".

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (KZzsI)

182 I did do a post about canceled movies a while back. Jodorowksy's Dune was the centerpiece.

Right, thanks. I need to revisit that one.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (3hX1d)

183 CNN is marketing its CNN+ streaming debut as a "historic moment"

-
Like when the Titanic hit that iceberg.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (FVME7)

184 Millions of suckers are born every minute.

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (dbdgv)

185 Nothing's
Fucking
There

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (II3Gr)

186 I almost bought some Iraqi dinars back in the early 80s.
Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (AwYPR)

I have a friend who knew a guy that was really hyping dinars. But it was in the 2000s. So that's really a thing? Like an ongoing scam?

Posted by: 29Victor at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (BJKQV)

187 CNN XTREME

CNN Super Maxi.
With Wings.
Posted by: Oddbob
-----

CNN Next Level

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (oY5A0)

188 I had to look up 'NFT'. I guess I got it right...but I learned in the process that NFT's can be bought and sold via crypto-currency.

I can't think a word that describes this. 'Vaporous' comes to mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

I did the exact same thing. Vaporous money. Nothing of value.

Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (ou23q)

189 183 CNN is marketing its CNN+ streaming debut as a "historic moment"

-
Like when the Titanic hit that iceberg.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (FVME7)

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More like when a dilapidated dinghy sprung a leak.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (LvTSG)

190 Not
Fuckin
Tellin

Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (KMK7G)

191 I looked over the CNN+ lineup yesterday and linked it, its... pathetic. The shows are awful, and Stelter is on 5 freaking hours every day in the afternoon. FIVE HOURS from 11-4. EVERY WEEKDAY. Even his biggest fans don't want that much Tater.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Nefarious organizations around the world could tie people to a chair in front of this with their eyelids stapled open as a cheap, alternative, environment-friendly type of torture.

Posted by: Biergood at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (FQWHA)

192 Piss Wallace is 75 fucking years old. Retire already you fuck. You have more money you can ever spend. Go play golf. Go sit on a beach. Go, I don't know fuck Thai trannies, whatever you're into.

These people are so addicted to the media attention they can't let go.

And buddy, black hair at your age? LOL. Come on.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 02:53 PM (OalnH)

193 CNNopecia

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 02:53 PM (hJSeO)

194 I have just been informed that a package has been shipped to me via Royal Mail. Oh dear, I don't know the proper protocol for receiving a Royal Package.

Posted by: gp Kills His Belly Fat Illegally at March 31, 2022 02:53 PM (qpX6U)

195 One of my favorites!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 31, 2022 02:50 PM (s2VJv)

"Back to the forest primeval. . .to Flatbush!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:53 PM (2JVJo)

196 Looking forward to CNN+ being reduced to a subreddit of "news-like substance"

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 31, 2022 02:53 PM (TNyrE)

197 NFT is an innovative way to launder money. You want to send your Cartel business associate $1M? Easy. You buy one of his NFTs. Done and done. Totally legit and legal.

Posted by: Joe XiDen

That was my take as the main draw as well.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2022 02:53 PM (5kI0z)

198 193 CNNopecia
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 02:53 PM (hJSeO)

You take my network's name out yo fuckin' mouf!

Posted by: Ted Turner at March 31, 2022 02:53 PM (II3Gr)

199 NFTs? We like these very much...

Posted by: Slaanesh AND Tzeentch at March 31, 2022 02:53 PM (ESjRY)

200 CNNN. NOW WITH MORE N!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (ynRNo)

201 Henry Cavill was in Mission Impossible 6, which was pretty good as all the MI movies are. He had a Tom Selleck mustache, which by contract he could not shave.

So he is in that Justice League movie but his face looks odd, because they spent a zillion dollars to CGI half of his face.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (44ww/)

202 >>>Swaps and other OTC derivatives immediately come to mind.

yeah but those are all based on tangible things. What was the whole financial meltdown of 2008 about, what was it, packaging the future mortgage payments of mortgage contracts into huge pools and then selling shares of that pool?

That's an intangible but at the base of it is a real thing, mortgage contracts.

What's at the bottom of NFT art? You don't have a piece of the actual physical artwork; that's entirely separate. You just own an intangible digital copy of the art.

Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (0G13K)

203 >>Feminists are complaining that they're "anti-woman."

Stonetoss laughs and laughs. . . all the way to the bank.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (MmndN)

204 CNN is marketing its CNN+ streaming debut as a "historic moment"

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Like when the Titanic hit that iceberg.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Hindenburg

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (oY5A0)

205
You asked for it. . .

https://tinyurl.com/5n88xs7v
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

One of my favorites!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

The old ways are the best ways.
Posted by: Insomniac

CNN did a Brody

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (63Dwl)

206 Meeeechigan men take heart: Kaepernick will serve as honorary captain at UM's spring game.

Posted by: mr tmz at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (rJ48h)

207 NewsMax is free, and OAN is $4.99 a month.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM (yQpMk)

Yeah, I'm aware but since I can already stream/watch actual Fox News with someone else's credentials I don't need those. I check out newsmax from time to time and watch OAN on replay via Klowd TV once in a while. Lots of good docs on Fox Nation is all I'm saying.

Posted by: Ethan Saunders at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (W1E3x)

208 cnn ultra, where you take two cnns and glue them together.
Posted by: the marketing geniuses

CNN with Wings

Posted by: Bruce at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (vd8XM)

209 It was MSNBC in the Atlanta airport last week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:48 PM (LvTSG)

Haven't flown in a while but I was hoping when CNN pulled out it would mean nothing on the airport teevee except maybe the national radar map. Darn it.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (dfRN6)

210 I don't know the proper protocol for receiving a Royal Package.

I think you have to marry your 12 year old cousin and ceremonially behead someone

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (KZzsI)

211 I think CNN stays in business because, for people who don't watch the news, they have a kind of vague "unbiased" reputation which Fox and MSNBC don't have.

People don't watch CNN, but they hear offhand what CNN says and think "Well, they're in the middle so that must be close to the truth."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (p+1gI)

212 We're trying to help!

Here, I'll kill another Russian tank.
*Whoosh*
* Blame*

Just for you, CNN

Posted by: Ukraine at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (KMK7G)

213 194 I have just been informed that a package has been shipped to me via Royal Mail. Oh dear, I don't know the proper protocol for receiving a Royal Package.
Posted by: gp Kills His Belly Fat Illegally at March 31, 2022 02:53 PM (qpX6U)

Open wide.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (II3Gr)

214 NFTs don't sound much different than purchasing "special" cosmetic outfits or pets in World of Warcraft. There's no reason why everyone can't have them. Only idiots with more money than sense purchase them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (K5n5d)

215 NFT is an innovative way to launder money. You want to send your Cartel business associate $1M? Easy. You buy one of his NFTs. Done and done. Totally legit and legal.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (OalnH)

They generally just use Hunter's paintings, you know.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (xhaym)

216 108 Chris Wallace was incredibly dumb to move from FNC, not to CNN, but to CNN+. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at March 31, 2022 02:46 PM (rF64X)

Chrissy W. is 74. Seventy-four. He should hang it up.

Posted by: Gref at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (AMIL/)

217 201 Henry Cavill was in Mission Impossible 6, which was pretty good as all the MI movies are. He had a Tom Selleck mustache, which by contract he could not shave.

So he is in that Justice League movie but his face looks odd, because they spent a zillion dollars to CGI half of his face.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (44ww/)

========

When Snyder put his director's cut together, they reshot about four minutes of footage to piece some stuff together, and they didn't even use Cavill. None of the weird CGI lip stuff is in that cut.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (LvTSG)

218 OK, so no one watches CNN for free, but now we want them to pay for CNN+. Who would do that, you ask? Bear with me, cuz this is right up my alley - Potato skins.
When you got them for free, you just threw them away. But add some bacon, some cheese, and some chive, and BOOM! We put TGIFriday's on the map!

Now, I just need to find that bacon, cheese, and chive, and you have CNN+'s new hit show, "Tater Skins."

Posted by: Tater Stelter at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (FJYfm)

219 152 Bitcoin is up 3800% over the past 5 years. Twice as much as TSLA.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 02:49 PM (OalnH)
_________

How's Enron doing? What's the current price of postal reply coupons?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (azMeO)

220 NFTs are the new MBSs (mortgage backed securities). Anyone who remembers the derivative financial scandals of the past 20 years should know better and stay away from them. I'm surprised MBSs are still around anymore.

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (dbdgv)

221 I ran a bitcoin mining widget on my laptop when it first came out in 2013 for about a year. Probably had 2-3 btc on it. Thought it was stupid and stopped. That laptop is long gone.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (qnVBz)

222 FIFY.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (azMeO)

As long as you can find someone dumber than you, nothing is totally worthless.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (T7iTv)

223 Is there a CNN- option where they pay me $2.99 a month?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (OalnH)

224 So he is in that Justice League movie but his face looks odd, because they spent a zillion dollars to CGI half of his face.

That's just it, I think they spent like twelve dollars and gave the effects guys a week to finish the job.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (KZzsI)

225 210 I don't know the proper protocol for receiving a Royal Package.

I think you have to marry your 12 year old cousin and ceremonially behead someone
Posted by: Christopher

Did someone say receive a royal package?

Posted by: That gal what married to the red head prince at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (ynRNo)

226 CNN+ implementing mass layoffs.

Women and children named Chris Wallace hurt the most.

Posted by: Thatch at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (qWceQ)

227 What's at the bottom of NFT art? You don't have a piece of the actual physical artwork; that's entirely separate. You just own an intangible digital copy of the art.

Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (0G13K)

I don't know about NFT art, but my 2nd has a hobby and has sold her digital art to people who wanted different "digital icons" for themselves. I'm surprised what people pay for that, but then again, she's good and prompt, which must be valuable for people who want to "look good" online...

Posted by: Nova local at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (exHjb)

228 206 Meeeechigan men take heart: Kaepernick will serve as honorary captain at UM's spring game.

Posted by: mr tmz at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (rJ48h)

----------------
The Detroit Lions should send over their scouting office.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (TNyrE)

229 I love the idea that CNN -- beamed into airports across the country for free and added to base cable subscriptions without your consent -- thinks they can now sell it.

Cow, free milk, yadda yadda yadda.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (MmndN)

230 CNN-8, the "Ocho". Go Spud Deep.

**Blurggh!!**

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (dfRN6)

231 226 CNN+ implementing mass layoffs.

Women and children named Chris Wallace hurt the most.
Posted by: Thatch at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (qWceQ)

The execs will get massive bonuses for being so far underbudget.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (II3Gr)

232 215 NFT is an innovative way to launder money. You want to send your Cartel business associate $1M? Easy. You buy one of his NFTs. Done and done. Totally legit and legal.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (OalnH)

They generally just use Hunter's paintings, you know.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (xhaym)
_____________

Also book "advances," and "investing" in Greek bonds.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 02:57 PM (azMeO)

233 Now, I just need to find that bacon, cheese, and chive, and you have CNN+'s new hit show, "Tater Skins."
Posted by: Tater Stelter at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (FJYfm)

I'd rather watch "Morgan Fairchild's Tub Time."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 02:57 PM (2JVJo)

234 Superman went through the early 80s with a mullet. I don't see why he can't have a mustache.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 31, 2022 02:57 PM (44ww/)

235
Henry Cavill was in Mission Impossible 6, which was pretty good as all the MI movies are. He had a Tom Selleck mustache, which by contract he could not shave.

So he is in that Justice League movie but his face looks odd, because they spent a zillion dollars to CGI half of his face.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

Cesar Romero as the Joker.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2022 02:57 PM (63Dwl)

236 Speaking of Superman's dreadful face, these guys had some fun and put his mustache back on:

https://youtu.be/2nxanN85O84

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:57 PM (KZzsI)

237 One million barrels of oil a day for 6 months from the strategic oil reserve. This is the new plan to lower gas prices.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 31, 2022 02:57 PM (XV7Rd)

238 If anyone wants an NFT of the Hunter Crack Skull, please email me at fuckyou at idontgiveashit dot com.

(ok that's a repurposed version of my favorite Plinkett joke)

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 02:57 PM (zeiW4)

239 If CNN+ wants to make money, they should have Chris Wallace commit seppuku on PPV. Ka-ching!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 02:57 PM (azMeO)

240 What's at the bottom of NFT art? You don't have a piece of the actual physical artwork; that's entirely separate. You just own an intangible digital copy of the art.

Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (0G13K)

You get to claim the right over the original image. Of course who cares, right?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (xhaym)

241 If Kaep transitions and is wearing a cheerleader outfit I'll watch for a little bit.

Nah, just funning you.

Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (KMK7G)

242 I had something sent to me by Royal Mail a few months ago from an Amazon seller in the UK. Five weeks went by and I contacted the seller. Got a refund. Two weeks after that I got the package.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (xPl2J)

243 NFT is an innovative way to launder money. You want to send your Cartel business associate $1M? Easy. You buy one of his NFTs. Done and done. Totally legit and legal.

Same with crypto, its just money laundering devices.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (KZzsI)

244 220 NFTs are the new MBSs (mortgage backed securities). Anyone who remembers the derivative financial scandals of the past 20 years should know better and stay away from them. I'm surprised MBSs are still around anymore.
Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 31, 2022 02:55 PM (dbdgv)

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Not at all. MBS have underlying securities which have underlying assets. They're risky as fuck and the valuations are shall we say suspect. But at least there is something real inside of an MBS.

And NFT is nothing. It's a FUGAIZI in its truest form.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (OalnH)

245 So glad I have had my mortg with the local credit union for years.

Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (ou23q)

246 Pelosi: Can't Let Higher Gas Prices Be An "Excuse" To Produce More American Energy

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (RHGPo)

247 cnn ultra, where you take two cnns and glue them together.
Posted by: the marketing geniuses
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Alien Tape...or maybe FlexTape

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (oY5A0)

248 237 One million barrels of oil a day for 6 months from the strategic oil reserve. This is the new plan to lower gas prices.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 31, 2022 02:57 PM (XV7Rd)

And the US consumes over 20 million a day. Fucking genius right there. Plus that isn't what the strategic reserve is for.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (II3Gr)

249 I'll bet CNN could make bank if they had an OnlyFans channel. They've got enough freaks and pigs for at least a dozen fetishes...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (iEoB/)

250 What's at the bottom of NFT art? You don't have a piece of the actual physical artwork; that's entirely separate. You just own an intangible digital copy of the art.

Posted by: Capital-A Ace

It is like naming a star after yourself, but there is no actual star.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (5kI0z)

251 Is this the NFT thread?

Posted by: That guy who always asks... at March 31, 2022 02:59 PM (Xrfse)

252 >>Chris Wallace was incredibly dumb to move from FNC, not to CNN, but to CNN+. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

And he's just done an interview about the move and made sure to insult Fox News execs, employees and their viewers!

Great timing on burning that bridge, Chrissy!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2022 02:59 PM (MmndN)

253 One million barrels of oil a day for 6 months from the strategic oil reserve. This is the new plan to lower gas prices.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 31, 2022 02:57 PM (XV7Rd)

Six months... hmmmm I wonder what's in about six months.....

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 02:59 PM (zeiW4)

254 As long as you can find someone dumber than you, nothing is totally worthless.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (T7iTv)
____________

True. But one day even the dumbest ass suddenly realizes he's been had, probably after people start laughing at him.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 02:59 PM (azMeO)

255 237 One million barrels of oil a day for 6 months from the strategic oil reserve. This is the new plan to lower gas prices.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 31, 2022 02:57 PM (XV7Rd)

Hopefully we do not have an emergency where we need that oil reserve!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 31, 2022 02:59 PM (dNqv+)

256 Pelosi: Can't Let Higher Gas Prices Be An "Excuse" To Produce More American Energy
Posted by: SMOD
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Hunger shouldn't be an excuse to produce more food.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2022 02:59 PM (oY5A0)

257 Could Ace fire all the COBs and make shit tons of money?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 31, 2022 02:59 PM (fWTJL)

258 JFB is so incompetent

...

He is so incompetent that he bought a non fungible token and funged it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2022 02:59 PM (qnVBz)

259 One million barrels of oil a day for 6 months from the strategic oil reserve. This is the new plan to lower gas prices.
Posted by: Ben Had

I disagree. This is their plan to empty the strategic reserves. For reasons.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2022 03:00 PM (5kI0z)

260
It is like naming a star after yourself, but there is no actual star.

Like...woah

Posted by: keanu reeves at March 31, 2022 03:00 PM (ESjRY)

261 What happened to the idea of stimulus gas checks? Is that still a thing?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:00 PM (OalnH)

262 239 If CNN+ wants to make money, they should have Chris Wallace commit seppuku on PPV. Ka-ching!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 02:57 PM (azMeO)

Attach steel cables to his arms and legs, each of which lead to a separate winch. Each dollar given causes the winches to turn a certain amount.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 03:00 PM (II3Gr)

263 CNN's Eve.

For that clean feeling.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

264 Increasing crime shouldn't be used as excuse to fund police departments.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2022 03:00 PM (oY5A0)

265 Posted by: Ben Ha

You forgot about fining oil companies for every capped well. Solid plan.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2022 03:00 PM (qnVBz)

266 As long as you can find someone dumber than you, nothing is totally worthless.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (T7iTv)

"Well, honey, see, lawn sales are based on the Bigger Idiot Theory. You know, nothing's so dumb that some bigger idiot won't come along and buy, but the, uh, the flaw on that theory is that eventually to the Head Idiot, and, uh, you call her "Mom."

- Al Bundy

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 03:01 PM (2JVJo)

267 NFT's... more shit I don't understand. But if feminists are mad about them, I like them.

Just like when Soros speaks, I support the opposite.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 31, 2022 03:01 PM (DcKNO)

268 257 Could Ace fire all the COBs and make shit tons of money?
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 31, 2022 02:59 PM (fWTJL)

All they get is a wreath and a hearty handshake.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 31, 2022 03:01 PM (dNqv+)

269 One million barrels of oil a day for 6 months from the strategic oil reserve. This is the new plan to lower gas prices.
___________

In keeping with my previous rant about unbased comparatives, how much oil do we normally use per day?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:01 PM (azMeO)

270 Six months... hmmmm I wonder what's in about six months.....
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 02:59 PM (zeiW4)

____

Durham releases his report?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:01 PM (OalnH)

271 Well that gives the regime six months to complete the Keystone pipeline, permit offshore fields, and ramp up onshore fields.

They won't though. In six months they will still have their dick in their hand.

Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 03:01 PM (KMK7G)

272 CNN ++ GOOD. Meeting all your Minitru needs.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 31, 2022 03:01 PM (ynRNo)

273 James Earl Jones presses the self-destruct button on CNN+, instructing the board operator that he was never there...

... and on his way out, looks back over his shoulder and somberly intones "THIS ... was CNN".

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (v23vE)

274 >>Also book "advances," and "investing" in Greek bonds.

. . . aaaand foundations that give less than 1% to their stated cause!

Posted by: The Cinton Family Piggy Bank and Foundation at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (MmndN)

275 Yep. there was an ad for CNN+ on my HBO Max last night.

Posted by: High Plains Deplorable at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (0iN3Q)

276 " I had something sent to me by Royal Mail a few months ago from an Amazon seller in the UK. Five weeks went by and I contacted the seller. Got a refund. Two weeks after that I got the package."

My anticipation throbs! Did it have a stamp with a crown on it? I paid $12 shipping, so I deserve at least a crown stamp.

Posted by: gp Kills His Belly Fat Illegally at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (qpX6U)

277 What's at the bottom of NFT art? You don't have a piece of the actual physical artwork; that's entirely separate. You just own an intangible digital copy of the art.

Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 31, 2022 02:54 PM (0G13K)

You don't even own that. You own a spot in a blockchain associated with an intangible digital copy of the art.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (T7iTv)

278 Attach steel cables to his arms and legs, each of which lead to a separate winch. Each dollar given causes the winches to turn a certain amount.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 03:00 PM (II3Gr)
____________

I like it! It's like getting the audience to clap to save Tinkerbell.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (azMeO)

279 For those of you who don't know what the hell NFTs are: Join the club. I don't know what the hell they are, either.

Pixy tried to explain them to me one night. But it was pretty much like when I try to explain things to my dog. I wagged my tail, but the comprehension may not have been 100%.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (KFhLj)

280 Wow, that shows some real confidence in CNN+ -- buy these other channels people actually want, and we'll throw in this Pile of Dogshit for free.

*

They spent decades padding their numbers based on airports, restaurants, and bars. I hope these fuckers are on public access before it's over sandwiched between the farm report and some guy showing off his train collection.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (wb1YC)

281 You don't even own that. You own a spot in a blockchain associated with an intangible digital copy of the art.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (T7iTv)

__

I bid $10M!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:03 PM (OalnH)

282 CNN+

Because it's not enough to kiss your sister. You must bang mom.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

283 Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:01 PM (OalnH)

LOL

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 03:03 PM (zeiW4)

284 Tried FOXNATION for a while. For me, if I watched a program one time, I was not able to watch again. Did you ever start a video and get interrupted and it kept going?

Yeah, like that. So I cancelled.

Posted by: JM in Florida at March 31, 2022 03:03 PM (L7jyl)

285 And the US consumes over 20 million a day. Fucking genius right there. Plus that isn't what the strategic reserve is for.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (II3Gr)

Trump filled the reserve up for pennies on the dollar, you think they aren't gonna pass on this money making opportunity? I mean shit, they're looting everything else.

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at March 31, 2022 03:03 PM (KywlU)

286 We're going to need more coal trains to East coast ports.
Europe still needs to replace Russian coal until they can transition to LBTQ whatever

Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 03:03 PM (KMK7G)

287 As long as you can find someone dumber than you, nothing is totally worthless.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 02:56 PM (T7iTv)

My long lost grandson!

Posted by: PT Barnum at March 31, 2022 03:03 PM (MFphb)

288 Thomas Paine, I agree, We paid probably 30 dollars a barrel for a good portion of that oil. Yeah, these fuckwards are going to replenish those supplies at 90+.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 31, 2022 03:03 PM (XV7Rd)

289 What is woman?

Posted by: Room 101 at March 31, 2022 03:04 PM (ynRNo)

290 273 James Earl Jones presses the self-destruct button on CNN+, instructing the board operator that he was never there...

... and on his way out, looks back over his shoulder and somberly intones "THIS ... was CNN".
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (v23vE)

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hahahahaah

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 31, 2022 03:04 PM (DcKNO)

291 "What's at the bottom of NFT art?"

Insane monetary inflation. There's so much cash, all the sensible investments are way overpriced, so the money sloshes toward the speculative crap.

Posted by: gp Kills His Belly Fat Illegally at March 31, 2022 03:04 PM (qpX6U)

292 You don't even own that. You own a spot in a blockchain associated with an intangible digital copy of the art.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (T7iTv)
____________

During the South Sea Bubble, shares were offered in a venture that was secret, and only to be revealed later.

And idiots bought those shares.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:04 PM (azMeO)

293 292 During the South Sea Bubble, shares were offered in a venture that was secret, and only to be revealed later.

And idiots bought those shares.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:04 PM (azMeO)

=========

Where do I send my check?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:04 PM (LvTSG)

294 >>For those of you who don't know what the hell NFTs are: Join the club. I don't know what the hell they are, either.

And apes. There are ape cartoons involved somewhere. . .

Posted by: The Cinton Family Piggy Bank and Foundation at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (MmndN)

295 The thing is, bundling a product that's sucking and not getting viewers is a difficult sell. Come on, put us in your bundle, we'll give you no added viewership but its for THE CAUSE! Come on!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (KZzsI)

296 And even when people like Pixy patiently explain NFTs to me, and I think I might have the tiniest nugget of understanding, I still can't figure out the why of it. Shit just seems like electronic pet rocks to me.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (KFhLj)

297 Not at all. MBS have underlying securities which have underlying assets. They're risky as fuck and the valuations are shall we say suspect. But at least there is something real inside of an MBS.
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Most of the Residential MBSs that were around back in the early 00s were based on future interest payments on mortgages that were financially suspect (subprime). They were worthless when most of the mortgages went underwater and were foreclosed (ie no more interest payments). A certain lender would bundle 100s of subprime loans, sell the derivative and use the proceeds to make more subprime loans, creating the unsustainable bubble.

Now of course I just worked the tax side, but had to review each offering and got to see how the sausage was made.

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (dbdgv)

298 286 We're going to need more coal trains to East coast ports.
Europe still needs to replace Russian coal until they can transition to LBTQ whatever
Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 03:03 PM (KMK7G)
____________

Send 'em sweaters.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (azMeO)

299 During the South Sea Bubble, shares were offered in a venture that was secret, and only to be revealed later.

And idiots bought those shares.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:04 PM (azMeO)

"I hate my money and want it gone."

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)

300 >>How's Enron doing? What's the current price of postal reply coupons?

About 6 months before it imploded, I went to a meeting at Enron with a guy I was working with at the time. Enron was getting ready to launch a new product category they were calling bandwidth trading.

They dedicated a whole floor in their building in Houston to build a trading floor and outfitted it with the latest computer gear and a custom written trading software program. They must have spent 10s of millions. They even had a custom Harley that was all tricked out in the lobby off the elevator on the trading floor for some unknown reason.

After the meeting my buddy and I were standing out front of the building and I asked him "Do you have any fucking idea what they were talking about?" "Nope."

The whole company was a giant Ponzi scheme.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (ZLI7S)

301 CNN plus - the plus is for the savings!

Yeah, CNN Plus is the Pet Rock of Time Share Scams

Posted by: Boswell at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (5iUNf)

302 My anticipation throbs! Did it have a stamp with a crown on it? I paid $12 shipping, so I deserve at least a crown stamp.

Posted by: gp Kills His Belly Fat Illegally at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (qpX6U)

It said "Keep calm and wait two months for delivery"

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (xPl2J)

303 Invest in land seed and water. Have enough guns to hold them when the NFT folks come looking for food.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (DFyr7)

304 They won't though. In six months they will still have their dick in their hand.
Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 03:01 PM (KMK7G)

Knowing this administration, I suspect that isn't even their own dick.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (okGHj)

305 Never mind NFTs. Beanie Babies are where it's at!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (azMeO)

306 #277 so it's SYNTHETIC art.
I saw the movie.

Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 03:06 PM (KMK7G)

307 if they bundle this crap sandwich with Criterion I'll be getting rid of Criterion.

because it would then be tainted

that said, Criterion is honestly trying their best to be as woke as possible which annoys

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 31, 2022 03:06 PM (j9HX3)

308 Here's how NFTs was explained to me:

You and your wife are married.
Your wife sleeps with everybody in town.
You have a marriage license.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 31, 2022 03:06 PM (wb1YC)

309 CNN+ implies they have something so awesome in their bag of tricks that people will pay for it.

Lol.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 31, 2022 03:06 PM (ynRNo)

310 303 Invest in land seed and water. Have enough guns to hold them when the NFT folks come looking for food.
Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (DFyr7)
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Give 'em rights to a digital image of food.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:06 PM (azMeO)

311 I wagged my tail, but the comprehension may not have been 100%.
Posted by: bear
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As my hearing has grown worse, I now just reflexively nod and smile.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2022 03:06 PM (oY5A0)

312 You get to claim the right over the original image. Of course who cares, right?
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 02:58 PM (xhaym)

You don't. You have no rights to the image.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 03:06 PM (T7iTv)

313 Yeah, these fuckwards are going to replenish those supplies at 90+.

I doubt that replenishment has even crossed their minds.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2022 03:06 PM (nfrXX)

314 I almost bought some Iraqi dinars back in the early 80s.
Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2022 02:51 PM (AwYPR)

I have a friend who knew a guy that was really hyping dinars. But it was in the 2000s. So that's really a thing? Like an ongoing scam?
Posted by: 29Victor at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (BJKQV)

Prolly would lose bigly...dinar is $0.007

Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2022 03:07 PM (AwYPR)

315 NFT is an innovative way to launder money. You want to send your Cartel business associate $1M? Easy. You buy one of his NFTs. Done and done. Totally legit and legal.

Yeah largely because stocks were relatively new at that point and not many people understood how they worked, only that people were making money on stocks. For the wealthy and powerful that was attractive because it wasn't work you see, it was clever use of your money. Between that and inbreeding you got a pretty big, stupid bubble.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:07 PM (KZzsI)

316 And say what you will about pet rocks, if I buy a pet rock, I at least have a rock, which is more versatile than an NFT.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 31, 2022 03:07 PM (KFhLj)

317 Most of the Residential MBSs that were around back in the early 00s were based on future interest payments on mortgages that were financially suspect (subprime). They were worthless when most of the mortgages went underwater and were foreclosed (ie no more interest payments). A certain lender would bundle 100s of subprime loans, sell the derivative and use the proceeds to make more subprime loans, creating the unsustainable bubble.

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (dbdgv)

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If you think about it, that's how basic banking works too. I deposit $1000 in the bank. The bank takes that $1000 and lends it out. The borrower takes that $1000 and buys something for $1000. The seller of that item deposits $1000 into the bank. And on it goes.

The entire monetary system is fake at its core.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:07 PM (OalnH)

318 >>You and your wife are married.
Your wife sleeps with everybody in town.
You have a marriage license.

NFT is Will Smith?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2022 03:07 PM (ZLI7S)

319 NFT's.

Watch the South Park episode on investing.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)

320 Does Tater have his own little plus thing going on?

Super Reliable Sources or something?

Posted by: micky at March 31, 2022 03:07 PM (3byMq)

321 You don't even own that. You own a spot in a blockchain associated with an intangible digital copy of the art.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 03:02 PM (T7iTv)

The Hittites and Hurrians would write contracts and treaties on various types of metal, with the idea that the contract was good as long as the agreement was valued more than the metal was. I suspect this is a similar idea, and probably a full circle back to what value is.
I look forward to when a place on the blockchain is valued in commodities held for sale instead of in dollars

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 03:07 PM (xhaym)

322 I still don't get what CNN+ is. Do you get 50% more smug and stupidity? New, improved lies, spin and deception?

Posted by: Ripley at March 31, 2022 03:07 PM (MxEKc)

323 309 CNN+ implies they have something so awesome in their bag of tricks that people will pay for it.

they have a show about parenting hosted by Anderson Cooper!!! who would NOT want that?!?!

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 31, 2022 03:08 PM (j9HX3)

324 Stay away from NFT's. Especially fractionalized NFC's and others where there are questions about IP.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:08 PM (VpIIl)

325 >>After the meeting my buddy and I were standing out front of the building and I asked him "Do you have any fucking idea what they were talking about?" "Nope."

Heh, had a colleague whose theory was: as soon as the company gets big enough and builds their dream HQ/campus, they will fall.

Posted by: The Cinton Family Piggy Bank and Foundation at March 31, 2022 03:08 PM (MmndN)

326 Hey, Ben Had, did you get my email about the MoMe?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 03:08 PM (T7iTv)

327 308 Here's how NFTs was explained to me:

You and your wife are married.
Your wife sleeps with everybody in town.
You have a marriage license.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 31, 2022 03:06 PM (wb1YC)

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That's fricken funny.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 31, 2022 03:08 PM (DcKNO)

328 In theory NFTs are a way for a business to buy, say, the "guy in red agonizing over which button to push" meme, and lock it in so only they can use it for advertising or whatever. I mean, looked at that way, it kind of makes sense from a business standpoint.

The problem is old memes become stale, and by the time a business learns about one and buys it, people are tired of it and moved on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:08 PM (KZzsI)

329 They won't though. In six months they will still have their dick in their hand.
Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 03:01 PM (KMK7G)
Knowing this administration, I suspect that isn't even their own dick.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Further, it'll be a girldick.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 31, 2022 03:08 PM (iEoB/)

330 307 if they bundle this crap sandwich with Criterion I'll be getting rid of Criterion.

because it would then be tainted

that said, Criterion is honestly trying their best to be as woke as possible which annoys
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 31, 2022 03:06 PM (j9HX3)

========

I read that the family that owned Criterion sold it back in 2018. This was in a discussion about how they have greatly reduced older Japanese titles in favor of little African titles no one has heard of. I'm sure Touki Bouki is definitely selling as well as Red Beard would have.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:08 PM (LvTSG)

331 Had a bottle of NFT just this morning or breakfast. Delish. *hic*

Posted by: Suburban Wine Mom at March 31, 2022 03:08 PM (Xrfse)

332 320 Does Tater have his own little plus thing going on?

Super Reliable Sources or something?

I'm glad you asked! Yes!

Tater will have a long-format talk show on CNN+ every. single. day.

so not just on Sundays! you get Tater every day!

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 31, 2022 03:09 PM (j9HX3)

333 "And the US consumes over 20 million a day. Fucking genius right there. Plus that isn't what the strategic reserve is for."

The plan isn't to lower gas prices. The plan is to cripple the US. If you see everything the Democrats do as having that goal, it all makes sense.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 31, 2022 03:09 PM (p+1gI)

334 I read that the family that owned Criterion sold it back in 2018. This was in a discussion about how they have greatly reduced older Japanese titles in favor of little African titles no one has heard of. I'm sure Touki Bouki is definitely selling as well as Red Beard would have.

ugh that explains it.

I miss Filmstruck.

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 31, 2022 03:09 PM (j9HX3)

335 NFT is Will Smith?
Posted by: JackStraw

*wipes screen*

Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2022 03:10 PM (ou23q)

336 Obviously they wouldn't fire a high-profile guy like Wallace, but if they're already planning layoffs, that means the "service" is not going to be around very long.
++++
This is probably *why* it is "50% off for life." They know there's no market and they'll keep it around as cheaply as they can for as long as they're required to by contracts and then drop it like a hot potato. "Life" is probably two years.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2022 03:10 PM (DU+/6)

337 I advise media companies.... SELL NOW!!!!!

Posted by: Parrot Analytics at March 31, 2022 03:10 PM (P594b)

338 The problem is old memes become stale, and by the time a business learns about one and buys it, people are tired of it and moved on.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:08 PM (KZzsI)

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I STILL love the meme of the screaming lady and the cat.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 31, 2022 03:10 PM (DcKNO)

339 If you think about it, that's how basic banking works too. I deposit $1000 in the bank. The bank takes that $1000 and lends it out. The borrower takes that $1000 and buys something for $1000. The seller of that item deposits $1000 into the bank. And on it goes.

The entire monetary system is fake at its core.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:07 PM (OalnH)

except the USD is the standard international exchange currency so everyone uses it . . . Until the US and Europe start banning some market from using it and then everyone realizes the carpet can be pulled out from under them for not complying with the politics of the US and Europe.
Then they are going to look for something else for a medium of exchange.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 03:10 PM (xhaym)

340 Prolly would lose bigly...dinar is $0.007
Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2022 03:07 PM (AwYPR)

"See? What 'food inflation'? Look how cheap a meal still is!"

-Kamalamadingdong

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 31, 2022 03:10 PM (dfRN6)

341 I STILL love the meme of the screaming lady and the cat.

it's that freaking cat

he so charming

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 31, 2022 03:10 PM (j9HX3)

342 So they're already talking about "bundling" it in a package deal with channels people are willing to pay for. Like HBO.
++++
Because moving away from a-la-carte pricing and back to "bundles" is really something cord-cutters and streamers want to do...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (DU+/6)

343 NFT is Will Smith?
Posted by: JackStraw

*

I knew when I wrote that that I was sliding that one right across the plate nice and slow.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (wb1YC)

344 And say what you will about pet rocks, if I buy a pet rock, I at least have a rock, which is more versatile than an NFT.

I agree, that was a bad analogy. Pet Rocks at least gave you a rock and a box to keep it in.

CNN+ lineup looks like HLN, where they had a new show every few days because the last attempt cratered. I watched a ton of Forensic Files in the past when I was really sick for a while, and it was hilarious. Cuomo especially had a new investigative news show every few weeks, because the last one died and nobody watched it.

CNN+ is a whole channel full of stuff like that, and 5 hours of Tater a weekday. Strangely, people are not lining up to watch.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (KZzsI)

345 Here's how NFTs was explained to me:
You and your wife are married.
Your wife sleeps with everybody in town.
You have a marriage license.
Posted by: Azathoth

So it's the Will Smith of cryptocurrency.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (iEoB/)

346 310 303 Invest in land seed and water. Have enough guns to hold them when the NFT folks come looking for food.
Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (DFyr7)
______________

Give 'em rights to a digital image of food.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:06 PM (azMeO)

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Let them eat their digital wallets!

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (pdS8b)

347 334 ugh that explains it.

I miss Filmstruck.
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 31, 2022 03:09 PM (j9HX3)

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The Channel is probably still the best streaming option, though. They may emphasize "female view" or whatever it is for the month, but they still have all the old stuff they're letting languish. And there's a lot of stuff they get streaming rights to that they'll never release physically.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (LvTSG)

348 There are a lot of good MBS. But like anything else you should understand the underlying assets and only buy the better tranches.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (VpIIl)

349 328 In theory NFTs are a way for a business to buy, say, the "guy in red agonizing over which button to push" meme, and lock it in so only they can use it for advertising or whatever. I mean, looked at that way, it kind of makes sense from a business standpoint.

__

How would that even work though? Nobody owns that meme, so how can someone just unilaterally say I now own it?

This is like 3D TVs in 2010. Everyone had to have one, for about 6 months. Then everyone realized 3D TV is retarded and within a couple of years 3D TVs didn't exist and nobody spoke of them ever again.

Source: I was one of the retards that bought one, lol.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (OalnH)

350 After the meeting my buddy and I were standing out front of the building and I asked him "Do you have any fucking idea what they were talking about?" "Nope."

The whole company was a giant Ponzi scheme.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2022 03:05 PM (ZLI7S)
____________

Yep. And it played upon the intellectual pretensions of fools.

"You get it, don't you? I thought you were smart. So you do get it then?"

"Analysts" (except for little Bethany McLean, who is/was a cutie) all nod. "Yeah, of course, we get it!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (azMeO)

351
CNN+ is a whole channel full of stuff like that, and 5 hours of Tater a weekday. Strangely, people are not lining up to watch.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (KZzsI)

If they let Mark Dice do the voiceover, they'd triple their subscription rate.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

352 You and your wife are married.
Your wife sleeps with everybody in town.
You have a marriage license.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 31, 2022 03:06 PM (wb1YC)

OMG! You're Will Smith?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (T7iTv)

353
they have a show about parenting hosted by Anderson Cooper!!! who would NOT want that?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid
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"Our special guest today, Pete Butterjug!"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (oY5A0)

354 I doubt that replenishment has even crossed their minds.

I could see the bastards emptying the strategic reserve, then telling Americans, "see, you're too greedy and have never had to sacrifice for the good of others. Now you'll HAVE to."

I could see the return of stamps to determine how much gas you could purchase in a month and posters and memes saying, "Is this trip necessary?"

How better to force the fucking deplorables to kneel than to take away all of their gasoline?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (2JVJo)

355 I STILL love the meme of the screaming lady and the cat.

Yeah some of them have legs, they go on a long time. But Grumpy Cat and little girl by burning building, lots of old ones are just gone now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (KZzsI)

356 Heh...Maxine waters tells homeless crowd...'I want everybody to go home.'

@insty

Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (AwYPR)

357
We're going to need more coal trains to East coast ports.

We'll be back to mule trains.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (63Dwl)

358 This cheeky Asian girl isn't in the market for CNN+:
https://is.gd/H7NQLu

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (DU+/6)

359 336 Obviously they wouldn't fire a high-profile guy like Wallace, but if they're already planning layoffs, that means the "service" is not going to be around very long.
++++
This is probably *why* it is "50% off for life." They know there's no market and they'll keep it around as cheaply as they can for as long as they're required to by contracts and then drop it like a hot potato. "Life" is probably two years.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2022 03:10 PM (DU+/6)

=======

And Wallace will still get another contract for something like $3 million a year after that from ABC News or someone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (LvTSG)

360 What the hell are the NFT purchasers actually buying? I'm so confused.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 31, 2022 02:35 PM (Ez6QX)

just a computer file that says you have the "right" copy of this PDF. Its like those certificates that say someone authorized that your art painting is not a copy, but for something that nobody wants the original for.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (eoQWY)

361 50% for Life.

Who's life...mine or CNN's?
I'm betting I last longer.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (axyOa)

362 NFTs, because there are not enough ways to lose money in the markets already.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (9v1sv)

363 >> Invest in land seed and water. Have enough guns to hold them when the NFT folks come looking for food.

Yeah, right after the Gamestop short sell kurfuffle revealed to the many small investors that the investment game was rigged, they turned to buying silver. Physical silver they possess, that cannot be sold out from under them by Robinhood app or mysteriously more shares sold than available, etc..

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (MmndN)

364 he so charming
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 31, 2022 03:10 PM (j9HX3)

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Correct. His expression...ha!

And I picture the gal as a classic wine mom.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (DcKNO)

365 If you think about it, that's how basic banking works too. I deposit $1000 in the bank. The bank takes that $1000 and lends it out. The borrower takes that $1000 and buys something for $1000. The seller of that item deposits $1000 into the bank. And on it goes.

The entire monetary system is fake at its core.
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I'm cynical, just not that cynical.

If the feds (Freddie, Fannie, and the idjits in congress) didn't mess with the system and force banks to take on high-risk loans (with the taxpayer providing the guarantee), the housing bubble wouldn't have happened.

It may sound like my opinion, but many who are probably much smarter than I, and have been dealing with it much longer than I did, pretty much have said the same thing.

Just another example of why the government shouldn't get involved with stuff, such as Healthcare, Banking, etc., ad nauseum.

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (dbdgv)

366 The Channel is probably still the best streaming option, though. They may emphasize "female view" or whatever it is for the month, but they still have all the old stuff they're letting languish. And there's a lot of stuff they get streaming rights to that they'll never release physically.

correct

and I love the shorts (some of them)

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (j9HX3)

367 188 I had to look up 'NFT'. I guess I got it right...but I learned in the process that NFT's can be bought and sold via crypto-currency.

I can't think a word that describes this. 'Vaporous' comes to mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

I did the exact same thing. Vaporous money. Nothing of value.

Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2022 02:52 PM (ou23q)

Nothing at all like the dollar, which is backed by the full faith and trust of the US government.

Posted by: a.moron at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (tu3iY)

368 On the bright side, we should thank CNN. Now we can boycott them even more.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (FVME7)

369 I advised Salem the only answer is Moar Allapundit!!!!

Posted by: Parrot Analytics at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (xWqXn)

370 This cheeky Asian girl isn't in the market for CNN+:
https://is.gd/H7NQLu
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (DU+/6)

That's quite the pooper.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

371 Sweaters is a good idea too.
EU has to become their own arsenal of their own Democracy.

If PooTin rolls them over we are not going to landing at Normandy. He just drafted 135000. So now we know that's his throughout via 60 day boot camp. In a year he can muster 1 1/2 million.

We won't do shit to build our forces. Europe better. I think he wants Romania.

Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (KMK7G)

372 342 So they're already talking about "bundling" it in a package deal with channels people are willing to pay for. Like HBO.
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Because moving away from a-la-carte pricing and back to "bundles" is really something cord-cutters and streamers want to do...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (DU+/6)

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It's already an option. Disney has a bundle that brings together Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ into one package. I imagine it does reasonably well, but that it is also more of a fringe option compared to direct subscriptions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (LvTSG)

373 I am so glad that idiotic 3d fad is over. I blame Avatar and James Cameron.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (KZzsI)

374 So they're already talking about "bundling" it in a package deal with channels people are willing to pay for. Like HBO.
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Accounting for streaming services is messy because there's no way to really know if your big movie you produced only for your platform actually brought in or retained customers. It's all guesswork.

I strongly suspect this "bundling" idea is similar. Give it away for free (probably) to existing customers and if they ever tune it, it's a technical win on the books.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (DU+/6)

375 Who's life...mine or CNN's?
I'm betting I last longer.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (axyOa)
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Just don't let Mrs. Diogenes mark you down to half price.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe 2022! at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (wyw4S)

376 except the USD is the standard international exchange currency so everyone uses it . . . Until the US and Europe start banning some market from using it and then everyone realizes the carpet can be pulled out from under them for not complying with the politics of the US and Europe.
Then they are going to look for something else for a medium of exchange.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 03:10 PM (xhaym)

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I'm talking just the the way money is created from think air. In my example we started with me depositing $1000 and ended up with me and someone else each having $1000. At its core that's no different than selling future interest payments on an MBS, repeatedly. It's creating money out of think air.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (OalnH)

377 NFTs are the Will Smith of cryptocurrency!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (II3Gr)

378 just a computer file that says you have the "right" copy of this PDF. Its like those certificates that say someone authorized that your art painting is not a copy, but for something that nobody wants the original for.
Posted by: Oldcat
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You don't even get a bulb to plant.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (9v1sv)

379 359 336 Obviously they wouldn't fire a high-profile guy like Wallace, but if they're already planning layoffs, that means the "service" is not going to be around very long.

you know that fox was canning him - or basically telling him "dude it's time to retire"

and CNN wasn't going to hire him for real so they stuck him on this dog

he should have just sucked it up and retired. more time for boats and secret islands!

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 31, 2022 03:14 PM (j9HX3)

380 "And the US consumes over 20 million a day. Fucking genius right there. Plus that isn't what the strategic reserve is for."

You just know the Dem lemmings are going to be crowing about how smart Biden is for selling oil at $100 that was bought at $30 (by Trump)

He is a business genius, unlike that dolt Trump.

Posted by: Ripley at March 31, 2022 03:14 PM (MxEKc)

381
On Tuesday CNN is introducing CNN+, a subscription streaming service that combines live news coverage, on-demand programming and interactive interviews.

So, Regular CNN with a live-stream.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 31, 2022 03:14 PM (n+4am)

382 All they get is a wreath and a hearty handshake.
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How much are hearty handshakes? $20, same as in town?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 31, 2022 03:14 PM (fWTJL)

383 I don't think that gorilla NFT is interesting, funny or eye catching. I think it sold in the 100's of thousands. But I don't know WTF I'm talking about.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 31, 2022 03:14 PM (DcKNO)

384 I could see the bastards emptying the strategic reserve, then telling Americans, "see, you're too greedy and have never had to sacrifice for the good of others. Now you'll HAVE to."
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Of course, they never realized that the sacrifices we'll be making will be human sacrifices.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:14 PM (azMeO)

385 Commenting about the previous thread.

I'm calling the governor's race now for DeSantis.

He'll win by 10 points, 54-44 against whichever of the losers gets the nomination.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 31, 2022 03:14 PM (Mg79/)

386 349 This is like 3D TVs in 2010. Everyone had to have one, for about 6 months. Then everyone realized 3D TV is retarded and within a couple of years 3D TVs didn't exist and nobody spoke of them ever again.

Source: I was one of the retards that bought one, lol.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (OalnH)

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I still want a 3D TV. Mostly because I have a bunch of 3D Blu-rays and no way to play them. I think it's a pretty standard feature on projectors, though. Maybe I should just go that route.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:14 PM (LvTSG)

387 And Wallace will still get another contract for something like $3 million a year after that from ABC News or someone.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (LvTSG)
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I can't imagine how. What value does he have? I mean, to anyone? At this point, it's gotta be zilch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2022 03:14 PM (DU+/6)

388 On Tuesday CNN is introducing CNN+, a subscription streaming service that combines live news coverage, on-demand programming and interactive interviews.

Interactive interviews.

"Balls itch?"

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)

389 Casualties mean nothing to Russian war planners.

Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 03:15 PM (KMK7G)

390 I could see the return of stamps to determine how much gas you could purchase in a month and posters and memes saying, "Is this trip necessary?"

How better to force the fucking deplorables to kneel than to take away all of their gasoline?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 03:11 PM (2JVJo)

My grandfather ran a gas station during WWII and I still have the ration stamp record book for August 1945 that he was not required to turn in as a gas seller

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 03:15 PM (xhaym)

391 You couldn't pay me $5.99 a month just to take it, let alone watch it. Maybe they can stave off Discovery+ if they get Wallace to sell some ShamWows. Infomercials for Slap Chop.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 31, 2022 03:15 PM (sVtYq)

392 Nothing at all like the dollar, which is backed by the full faith and trust of the US government.
Posted by: a.moron
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At least I can wipe my ass with it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2022 03:15 PM (oY5A0)

393 CNN needs to have that Shamwow dude sell this shit on that infomercial channel at like 2 AM.

Posted by: Boswell at March 31, 2022 03:16 PM (5iUNf)

394 In unrelated news (about businesses making money): Lady YD cleaned up at an estate sale. Got a bunch of valuable autographed memorabilia at a low price.

The weird part?

This old duffer collected memorabilia from NASCAR... and famous rappers.

What an odd combo/guy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2022 03:16 PM (SKVme)

395 I can't imagine how. What value does he have? I mean, to anyone?

I dunno, what the hell does Keith Olbermann bring a business? Geraldo Rivera? Guys like that just keep getting work no matter how despised or worthless they are.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:16 PM (KZzsI)

396 387 And Wallace will still get another contract for something like $3 million a year after that from ABC News or someone.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (LvTSG)
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I can't imagine how. What value does he have? I mean, to anyone? At this point, it's gotta be zilch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2022 03:14 PM (DU+/6)

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None of these people have any value, and I think everyone knows it. And yet, they still make as much money as professional football players.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:16 PM (LvTSG)

397 Invest in Jesus. It's the only investment that really pays you back.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:16 PM (VpIIl)

398 I looked over the CNN+ lineup yesterday and linked it, its... pathetic. The shows are awful, and Stelter is on 5 freaking hours every day in the afternoon. FIVE HOURS from 11-4. EVERY WEEKDAY. Even his biggest fans don't want that much Tater.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 02:42 PM (KZzsI)

His wife and CNN regular use it to keep him away for those 5 hours. Look for high suicide rates on his shows staff.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:16 PM (eoQWY)

399 Up is down

Moe is Larry

Larry is Curly

Curly is Moe

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2022 03:16 PM (T8gyh)

400 What does Chris Wallace do that the average solvent abuser couldn't?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 31, 2022 03:16 PM (eGTCV)

401 I dunno, what the hell does Keith Olbermann bring a business? Geraldo Rivera? Guys like that just keep getting work no matter how despised or worthless they are.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:16 PM (KZzsI)
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Fair point. I don't get it, but those guys are still hanging around.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2022 03:17 PM (DU+/6)

402 It's already an option. Disney has a bundle that brings together Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ into one package. I imagine it does reasonably well, but that it is also more of a fringe option compared to direct subscriptions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (LvTSG)
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That's like bundling Kate Upton with Trigglypuff.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:17 PM (azMeO)

403 !!!
Order your Tater NOW and we'll throw in an Oliver Darcy absolutely FREE
!!!

*shipping & handling & mincing & smirking extra
**offer void where prohibited by Ron DeathSantis

Posted by: CNN marketing at March 31, 2022 03:17 PM (786Ro)

404 The housing bubble had a lot of complexities. But I don't buy the argument that the govt forced banks to do it as some social justice thing. Banks like always, look for the quick buck. And nothing quicker than packaging up some MBS and selling it to unsuspecting rubes at a 500% profit.

And the other side was home buyers who thought real estate can never go down in value so BUY BUY BUY!! But these people all became "victims" in the official narrative.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:17 PM (OalnH)

405 You couldn't pay me $5.99 a month just to take it, let alone watch it. Maybe they can stave off Discovery+ if they get Wallace to sell some ShamWows. Infomercials for Slap Chop.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 31, 2022 03:15 PM (sVtYq)

You asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/zy9WJgOrUUA

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

406 The profit on SOR sales will go to earmarks in blue states.

Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 03:17 PM (KMK7G)

407 We had a talk by a former employee that went to work at Enron. She explained that bandwidth sharing scheme. I thought it was nuts at the time.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 31, 2022 03:17 PM (5HBd1)

408 402 It's already an option. Disney has a bundle that brings together Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ into one package. I imagine it does reasonably well, but that it is also more of a fringe option compared to direct subscriptions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (LvTSG)
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That's like bundling Kate Upton with Trigglypuff.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:17 PM (azMeO)

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But I still get Kate Upton if I take Trigglypuff into the woods and forget her there, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:17 PM (LvTSG)

409 Nothing at all like the dollar, which is backed by the full faith and trust of the US government.
Posted by: a.moron
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and guns and oil and iron and a shit ton of arable land

Posted by: Braenyard at March 31, 2022 03:17 PM (9v1sv)

410 Jake Tapper has a daily CNN+ show too. All the usual suspects are there with hilariously bad sounding content. There's not a show on there that I'd remotely want to see, even if it wasn't CNN and their cast of human detritus.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:18 PM (KZzsI)

411 Oh boy. Here come the Fiat Money Doomsters. Yeah, the dollar is so yesterday.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:18 PM (VpIIl)

412 CNN+ is $5.99/month and they couldn't get lefties to pay that little a month? Even lefties think it's shit.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 31, 2022 03:18 PM (DcKNO)

413 But I still get Kate Upton if I take Trigglypuff into the woods and forget her there, right?
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No. Forced equal time!

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 31, 2022 03:18 PM (dbdgv)

414 They aren't going to replenish the strategic reserve. That would provide safety.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2022 03:18 PM (5kI0z)

415 I am so glad that idiotic 3d fad is over. I blame Avatar and James Cameron.

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Worst 3D movie ever? Jaws 3.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 31, 2022 03:18 PM (sVtYq)

416 I'm talking just the the way money is created from think air. In my example we started with me depositing $1000 and ended up with me and someone else each having $1000. At its core that's no different than selling future interest payments on an MBS, repeatedly. It's creating money out of think air.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (OalnH)

There is a book out called The Fiat Standard (which I have not read) that looks at how our Fiat money is created, and that is exactly how, it is like Bitcoin proof of work, however the proof of work in fiat comes afterwards as you pay it off.
Also, if you don't borrow, you lose because all your savings are being devalued by everyone else cashing in on getting loans that are made out of nothing.

And you are encouraged to get into debt and live on the edge of destruction if you can't make your payments.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 03:18 PM (xhaym)

417 Just don't let Mrs. Diogenes mark you down to half price.
Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe 2022! at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (wyw4S)

I'd go for that.
Just this morning she was mumbling something about a fire sale...

Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2022 03:19 PM (axyOa)

418 "Yeah some of them have legs, they go on a long time. But Grumpy Cat and little girl by burning building, lots of old ones are just gone now."

Memes never die, they just get dank.

Posted by: goodluckduck at March 31, 2022 03:19 PM (pCXlW)

419 If I'm Fredo, I'm running that settlement check to the bank.

Posted by: Jeff Gillooly at March 31, 2022 03:19 PM (6BTho)

420 The only way I would watch Brian Stelter for 5 hours is if he was on fire for 5 hours.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 31, 2022 03:19 PM (wb1YC)

421 It's even worse in Canada.
A $2million asking residential went for $600,000 more. In a week.

Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 03:19 PM (KMK7G)

422 >>>I don't want to spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt), but this NFT thing always seemed very very silly to me, and I have a strong feeling that the NFT market is about to collapse.

It's a tool for laundering money. There is no other inherent value.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at March 31, 2022 03:19 PM (SH2Zi)

423 Good, Democrats Propaganda Ministry just send the messages down the line, they all are redundant

Finally done work but strated raining, had my heart set on grilling outside

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 31, 2022 03:19 PM (C/KQR)

424 Someone bought me a Slap Chop for like Christmas years ago and... that dang thing actually works really well. Its cheaply built and tough to clean, but it does a good job. Noisy to use though. And really not any better than a blender. Although I can use it when the power goes out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:19 PM (KZzsI)

425 Up is down

Moe is Larry

Larry is Curly

Curly is Moe
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2022 03:16 PM (T8gyh)

QUITE NUMBSKULLS!!!! They're BROADCASTING!!

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

426 Maybe tax evasion purposes.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at March 31, 2022 03:20 PM (SH2Zi)

427 The only way I would watch Brian Stelter for 5 hours is if he was on fire for 5 hours.
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Potatoes burn that long?! Energy crisis solved!

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 31, 2022 03:20 PM (dbdgv)

428 I dunno, what the hell does Keith Olbermann bring a business? Geraldo Rivera? Guys like that just keep getting work no matter how despised or worthless they are.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:16 PM (KZzsI)

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Remember in the Howard Stern movie when the execs are talking about the average time listeners tune in? The ones who like Stern was 20 minutes or whatever. The ones who HATED him was an hour.

I crack up when I see comments here like did you see what Juan Williams said or what Geraldo said? God those guys are dumb. Why would Fox hire them? Uhm, because you are watching them and talking about them. That's why.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:20 PM (OalnH)

429 The only way I would watch Brian Stelter for 5 hours is if he was on fire for 5 hours.
Posted by: Azathoth at March 31, 2022 03:19 PM (wb1YC)
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Time for a Flaming Stelter gif?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2022 03:20 PM (T8gyh)

430 Oh boy. Here come the Fiat Money Doomsters. Yeah, the dollar is so yesterday.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:18 PM (VpIIl)

Fine, you buy an annuity or collect a million dollars in cash and hide it in your sock drawer and tell me how many chalupas you can buy with it in 20 years.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 03:20 PM (xhaym)

431
You asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/zy9WJgOrUUA
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

That legend was taken from us way too fuckin soon... absolute unit of 90s perfection...

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at March 31, 2022 03:20 PM (KywlU)

432 #420 someone would piss on him and put the fire out.

Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 03:20 PM (KMK7G)

433 >>The only way I would watch Brian Stelter for 5 hours is if he was on fire for 5 hours.

Stelter is repulsive. This is even before he starts talking. I cannot watch the guy he's so creepy.
Whoever thought he should be on tv is an idiot.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2022 03:21 PM (MmndN)

434 Out: Death by Bunga Bunga

In: Death by watching CNN+

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:21 PM (OalnH)

435 Someone bought me a Slap Chop for like Christmas years ago and... that dang thing actually works really well. Its cheaply built and tough to clean, but it does a good job. Noisy to use though. And really not any better than a blender. Although I can use it when the power goes out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:19 PM (KZzsI)

Years ago I bought my lib sister a Jesus action figure. When they came out with Bronco chia pets, I was going to get her one. But I got high.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at March 31, 2022 03:21 PM (SH2Zi)

436
Stelter would burn for weeks. Like the world's biggest, ugliest tallow candle.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2022 03:22 PM (SKVme)

437 Sweaters is a good idea too.
EU has to become their own arsenal of their own Democracy.

If PooTin rolls them over we are not going to landing at Normandy. He just drafted 135000. So now we know that's his throughout via 60 day boot camp. In a year he can muster 1 1/2 million.

We won't do shit to build our forces. Europe better. I think he wants Romania.
Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2022 03:13 PM (KMK7G)

IIRC correctly Russia has a draft system, so every 6 months they bring in all the 18 y/o males in that slice, and rotate them through the system getting training for reserves. Nothing at all abnormal going on.

Some of the raw recruits they have now are more seasoned and might be used in more important roles in the current invasion. IIRC most of the ones in the units fighting now were separated out from the invasion forces and used for support roles.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:22 PM (eoQWY)

438 You asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/zy9WJgOrUUA

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That is so funny! Geez, the cup to actually put the food is so small. It would take you a day to do a big batch of something. It held one strawberry and a piece of melon.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 31, 2022 03:22 PM (sVtYq)

439 This cheeky Asian girl isn't in the market for CNN+:
https://is.gd/H7NQLu
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2022 03:12 PM (DU+/6)

Orientals just don't do it for me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 03:22 PM (2JVJo)

440 Re: Banking and the creation of money, I've always found this video quite good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuiGwpVjJcM

Posted by: Revenant at March 31, 2022 03:22 PM (PHukT)

441 Why would Fox hire them? Uhm, because you are watching them and talking about them. That's why.

Yeah and to a certain extent, I blame pundits and bloggers. I remember when Andrew Sullivan went absolutely insane and stupid about Palin and other topics, and people would not shut up about him. They were throwing this guy constant clicks and attention when he deserved to be just blocked out and forgotten. I think Drudge probably STILL has ol' Milky Loads on his link section.

Its just so stupid, one of the first lessons you learn as a kid is "just ignore the brat causing trouble just to be noticed" and yet when it comes to the internet, we all seem incapable of doing so.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:22 PM (KZzsI)

442 Fortunately I am not the only one that doesn't understand NFTs. But it boggles my mind what the use of it is.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 31, 2022 03:22 PM (lgeFv)

443 Stelter is repulsive. This is even before he starts talking. I cannot watch the guy he's so creepy.
Whoever thought he should be on tv is an idiot.

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He's literally the biggest dork I have ever seen.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 31, 2022 03:23 PM (sVtYq)

444 If you experience Tater for more than four hours, consult a doctor.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 31, 2022 03:23 PM (iEoB/)

445 Wasn't there a semi-recent movie that was rushed to an arbitrary release date (and bombed) so executives could get big bonuses?

I mean, I'm sure that happens a lot, but IIRC there was a documented, known case of it.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 31, 2022 02:38 PM (3hX1d)

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I remember this story, but I don't remember the movie in particular. I think it might have been Justice League.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (LvTSG)
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It was indeed. Warners gave gave Whedon less than a year to rewrite and refilm the movie. Just so they would get their year end bonuses if the movie came out on it's assaigned date.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 31, 2022 03:23 PM (3TihK)

446 Two words for you CNN. Air America...

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 31, 2022 03:23 PM (IpBTz)

447 Stelter has one of those faces when he grins that looks like a guy in a trench coat should be standing out in his backyard next to a uniform cop with a guy wearing a hard hat operating a backhoe digging up Stelter's backyard.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 31, 2022 03:23 PM (wb1YC)

448 Stelter's lips are those of a mental patient. You know the kind that can't close their mouths.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 31, 2022 03:23 PM (DcKNO)

449 Daily Mail
Female riders threatened to pull out of an event en masse unless male cyclist Emily Bridges was barred from racing against them, it is now being reported
https://twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/
1509445966369366018

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2022 03:23 PM (lCui1)

450 A message of support for Will Smith.

https://bit.ly/3qR3SXc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at March 31, 2022 03:24 PM (FVME7)

451 Stelter tallow > whale oil

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2022 03:24 PM (7DwHm)

452 *dusting off bandwidth sharing* scam...err...scheme....err... investment.

Posted by: State Street at March 31, 2022 03:24 PM (KMK7G)

453 449 Daily Mail
Female riders threatened to pull out of an event en masse unless male cyclist Emily Bridges was barred from racing against them, it is now being reported
https://twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/
1509445966369366018
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2022 03:23 PM (lCui1)

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But we shouldn't expect American collegiate female swimmers to do similar things.

It would endanger their scholarships.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:24 PM (LvTSG)

454 "Fine, you buy an annuity or collect a million dollars in cash and hide it in your sock drawer and tell me how many chalupas you can buy with it in 20 years.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 03:20 PM (xhaym) "

There are so many ways to hedge against currency and inflation risk, I've lost count. But you have to have a reliably stable underlying asset to make any of that work.

Now there are a lot of risks to some of the current monetary policy and the gratuitous, dangerous spending habits of Congress. It has the potential to go sideways and I am not a fan of current monetary policy. But the U.S. dollar is still the most stable reliable base currency in the world.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:24 PM (VpIIl)

455 Stelter looks like he'd like to be out in an alley wearing nothing but shoes and a trench coat.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:25 PM (KZzsI)

456 Someone bought me a Slap Chop for like Christmas years ago and... that dang thing actually works really well. Its cheaply built and tough to clean, but it does a good job. Noisy to use though. And really not any better than a blender. Although I can use it when the power goes out.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:19 PM (KZzsI)

I have an equivalent and it is a bit better than blender/food processor because it doesnt do as much total liquification if you want your onion to survive cooking as bits over fluid. Using a knife is better still but more involved if you are not good with them.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:25 PM (eoQWY)

457 443

He looks like if something squeezed him slime would ooze out.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 31, 2022 03:25 PM (T/s40)

458 I hope someone comes up with the bright idea of putting on The Lingerie Channel so it can go toe to toe with that juggernuat CNN+.

Posted by: Boswell at March 31, 2022 03:25 PM (5iUNf)

459 But I still get Kate Upton if I take Trigglypuff into the woods and forget her there, right?
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Hang a pork chop around here neck so she'll have forest friends.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 31, 2022 03:25 PM (fWTJL)

460 Yeah and to a certain extent, I blame pundits and bloggers. I remember when Andrew Sullivan went absolutely insane and stupid about Palin and other topics, and people would not shut up about him. They were throwing this guy constant clicks and attention when he deserved to be just blocked out and forgotten. I think Drudge probably STILL has ol' Milky Loads on his link section.

Its just so stupid, one of the first lessons you learn as a kid is "just ignore the brat causing trouble just to be noticed" and yet when it comes to the internet, we all seem incapable of doing so.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:22 PM (KZzsI)
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Now do Will Smith, and his staged scene.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:25 PM (azMeO)

461 And Stelter's head shape isn't right.

And when he smiles...sheeesh, it's hideous.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 31, 2022 03:25 PM (DcKNO)

462 yet when it comes to the internet, we all seem incapable of doing so.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:22 PM (KZzsI)
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Like a moth to a flame

I'm amazed at the number of people here that watch that crap.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 31, 2022 03:25 PM (9v1sv)

463 >>Female riders threatened to pull out of an event en masse unless male cyclist Emily Bridges was barred from racing against them, it is now being reported

FINALLY!
This was always the way to stop the trans athlete stuff.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2022 03:26 PM (MmndN)

464 Female riders threatened to pull out of an event en masse unless male cyclist Emily Bridges was barred from racing against them

See, girls? SEE? This is how you deal with it. You don't quietly suffer and cry together in a corner, you stand up and say NO WAY YOU FREAKING PERVERT

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:26 PM (KZzsI)

465 Oh boy. Here come the Fiat Money Doomsters. Yeah, the dollar is so yesterday.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:18 PM (VpIIl)

I'm a goldbug. We should never have switched.

Mister, we could use a man like Bill McKinley again. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 03:26 PM (2JVJo)

466 465 I'm a goldbug. We should never have switched.

Mister, we could use a man like Bill McKinley again. . .
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 03:26 PM (2JVJo)

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Silver or death!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:26 PM (LvTSG)

467 Isn't pro-Sadaam Hussein propaganda a wee bit past its sell-by date?
Maybe Jake Tapper can advise...

Posted by: National Review the Shiny New Jen Rubin of Conservative Urinalism at March 31, 2022 03:26 PM (jV+aN)

468 449 Daily Mail
Female riders threatened to pull out of an event en masse unless male cyclist Emily Bridges was barred from racing against them, it is now being reported
https://twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/
1509445966369366018
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2022 03:23 PM (lCui1)

Good for them.

The governing body for cyclists was threatening expulsion for anyone who spoke out against "her".

Posted by: Henry Gondorff at March 31, 2022 03:27 PM (BgMrQ)

469 /off The Sting sock

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 31, 2022 03:27 PM (BgMrQ)

470 Again, the problem with the gold standard is that its value is no less arbitrary than the dollar in fiat. You've just removed the fiat one step, and there's not enough gold in the world to cover today's finances.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:27 PM (KZzsI)

471 But we shouldn't expect American collegiate female swimmers to do similar things.

It would endanger their scholarships.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:24 PM (LvTSG)
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There should BE no athletic scholarships. Not until the NBA, NFL, and MLB start offering academic scholarships. University is for learning, not professional athletics. I'm all for university athletics, but only if everyone is a walk-on.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:27 PM (azMeO)

472 He's literally the biggest dork I have ever seen.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 31, 2022 03:23 PM (sVtYq)

You've obviously never met me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 03:27 PM (2JVJo)

473 Now there are a lot of risks to some of the current monetary policy and the gratuitous, dangerous spending habits of Congress. It has the potential to go sideways and I am not a fan of current monetary policy. But the U.S. dollar is still the most stable reliable base currency in the world.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:24 PM (VpIIl)

Not if Vlad finishes making a gold-backed ruble...

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:28 PM (eoQWY)

474 415 I am so glad that idiotic 3d fad is over. I blame Avatar and James Cameron.

--

Worst 3D movie ever? Jaws 3.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Freddy's calling in from the set of Friday the 13th, part III in 3DDD.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at March 31, 2022 03:28 PM (4LyY6)

475 Gold is almost always a good hedge to be in.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:28 PM (VpIIl)

476 There's one great thing about this. Something I discovered when Hot Air added VIP articles. I got the double pleasure of not reading Allahpundit, and saving money in the process. The same rule applies here.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 31, 2022 03:28 PM (R0Tis)

477 I think it might have been Justice League.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:39 PM (LvTSG)
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It was indeed. Warners gave gave Whedon less than a year to rewrite and refilm the movie. Just so they would get their year end bonuses if the movie came out on it's assaigned date.
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 31, 2022 03:23 PM (3TihK)
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The Critical Drinker included it in his "Production Hell" series of vids.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2022 03:28 PM (T8gyh)

478 NFTs are you bidding to be the number in a limited digital set. You don't own anything besides the number. If it's an NFT that's 'next to' something you don't own the something.

It's like if you had to pay for the deli ticket at the grocery store, and then you could sell it to someone else for a higher price if they wanted it more than you did.

Posted by: Jon at March 31, 2022 03:28 PM (H4mKV)

479 465 I'm a goldbug. We should never have switched.

Mister, we could use a man like Bill McKinley again. . .
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 31, 2022 03:26 PM (2JVJo)
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Is that you, William Jennings Bryan?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:28 PM (azMeO)

480 Lay them all off. shut it down.

Posted by: Ziba at March 31, 2022 03:29 PM (S1hrL)

481 What is an NFT?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2022 03:29 PM (GezNK)

482 The advantage of gold is that its actually useful, beyond being pretty and considered valuable. Its important for industry and jewelry, it has tangible applications beyond cash value. So investing in gold has use no matter what happens to the economy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:29 PM (KZzsI)

483 The governing body for cyclists was threatening expulsion for anyone who spoke out against "her".
Posted by: Henry Gondorff
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Cycling Body will be up S creek if they expel all the girls and have a contest of one.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 31, 2022 03:29 PM (9v1sv)

484 Non Fungible Token.

Proof that you 'own' a digital image

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:29 PM (XvPQV)

485 You don't. You have no rights to the image.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Remains to be seen in a court. Technically you do, but no one has tested it because a fucking cartoon image is worthless.

A: that's my cartoon ape
B: no, it's mine!
Judge: GTFO.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2022 03:30 PM (p6Md5)

486 Down the road, CNN+ may be bundled. But at launch it is a standalone product priced at $5.99 a month.

*Leeroy Jenkins has entered the chat.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

487 Applicant: Yes, I'm interested in applying for a position that will never exist in your company.

CNN Personnel Department: You're in luck. We have many, many openings.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at March 31, 2022 03:30 PM (aXxgO)

488 Cycling Body will be up S creek if they expel all the girls and have a contest of one.

Exactly, all they have to do is stand firm and the body HAS to give in.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:30 PM (KZzsI)

489 Avatar is just a bad movie period.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 31, 2022 03:30 PM (44ww/)

490 Cycling Body will be up S creek if they expel all the girls and have a contest of one.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 31, 2022 03:29 PM (9v1sv)

Cycling Body needs the racers more than the racers need the Cycling Body.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:30 PM (eoQWY)

491 465 I'm a goldbug. We should never have switched.

have i got a deal for you!

Posted by: vladimir putin and his amazing gold-backed ruble at March 31, 2022 03:30 PM (sGtp+)

492 The advantage of gold is that its actually useful, beyond being pretty and considered valuable. Its important for industry and jewelry, it has tangible applications beyond cash value. So investing in gold has use no matter what happens to the economy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:29 PM (KZzsI)
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The platinum metals - platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium - have a lot more uses than gold.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:31 PM (azMeO)

493 481 What is an NFT?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2022 03:29 PM (GezNK)

If you thought crypto currency was stupid, this gets even better.

TLDR; Timeshares for digital art...

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at March 31, 2022 03:31 PM (KywlU)

494 So CNN wants us to pay above and beyond our cable bill to watch or not-watch them?

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Posted by: pj at March 31, 2022 03:31 PM (G1dq6)

495 And I have never watched anything on CNN unless there was a clip of it on ASHQ, so I have no idea who Kate Bolduan is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2022 03:31 PM (GezNK)

496 How many PSI does Fox put into Laura Ingraham's lips?

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 31, 2022 03:31 PM (1IJnB)

497 NFTs are you bidding to be the number in a limited digital set. You don't own anything besides the number. If it's an NFT that's 'next to' something you don't own the something.

It's like if you had to pay for the deli ticket at the grocery store, and then you could sell it to someone else for a higher price if they wanted it more than you did.

Posted by: Jon at March 31, 2022 03:28 PM (H4mKV)

Years ago, I bought a "limited edition" #300 of 300 Benchmade Osborne with carbon fiber scales. It was pretty sweet. Then they made a bunch a few years later with the same carbon fiber scales. I still had a usable, physical knife that was pretty sweet, but not all that limited, anymore. With NFTs, you got nothing and like it.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at March 31, 2022 03:31 PM (SH2Zi)

498 The lack of income will not likely affect Chris Wallace. Maybe his ego will take a hit and he will feel worthless even though he has millions in the bank and no financial worries. Smarmy egomaniacal traitor.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at March 31, 2022 03:31 PM (Ym7bD)

499 488 Cycling Body will be up S creek if they expel all the girls and have a contest of one.

Exactly, all they have to do is stand firm and the body HAS to give in.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:30 PM (KZzsI)
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Then they should up the ante, and demand the firing of the top brass of the Cycling Body before they'll come back.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:31 PM (azMeO)

500 Down the road, CNN+ may be bundled. But at launch it is a standalone product priced at $5.99 a month.

*Leeroy Jenkins has entered the chat.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
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Goddammit, Leeroy!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2022 03:32 PM (T8gyh)

501 Biden is such a piece of shit. He's blaming the oil industry again for gas prices. Meanwhile before he took office it wasn't a problem.

Do you think people can't figure this out. Lettuce Brain?

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:32 PM (VpIIl)

502 489 Avatar is just a bad movie period.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 31, 2022 03:30 PM (44ww/)

The original version, Ferngully, was better.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2022 03:32 PM (trdmm)

503
*Leeroy Jenkins has entered the chat.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
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Goddammit, Leeroy!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2022 03:32 PM (T8gyh)

At least he's got chicken.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 03:32 PM (II3Gr)

504 We had a talk by a former employee that went to work at Enron. She explained that bandwidth sharing scheme. I thought it was nuts at the time.

I have no idea what Enron was doing with that but I do know that at that time internet or cellular bandwidth was a severely restricted commodity. If they had some way to buy a guaranteed amount of access, divide it up, and sell the pieces for more than they paid, then it might have been a legit business model. Especially if they could sell the capacity for very short time increments.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2022 03:32 PM (nfrXX)

505 And I have never watched anything on CNN unless there was a clip of it on ASHQ, so I have no idea who Kate Bolduan is.

***

Picture Samantha Bee with a gym membership.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 31, 2022 03:32 PM (wb1YC)

506 What is an NFT?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2022 03:29 PM (GezNK)

Its like those services where you pay someone to put an entry in a book that you own a 'star', and they send you a certificate saying so. Or those that sell you a square foot of Scotland so you can call yourself 'Lord' or 'Lady'

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:32 PM (eoQWY)

507 Next it will be, Get a Free Month of CNN with every head of lettuce you purchase!

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:33 PM (VpIIl)

508 484 Non Fungible Token.

Proof that you 'own' a digital image
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:29 PM (XvPQV)
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Nah. Proof that you own a non-fungible token. That's it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:33 PM (azMeO)

509 South Park keeps predicting the future, sadly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:33 PM (XvPQV)

510 Avatar is just a bad movie period.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 31, 2022 03:30 PM (44ww/)

The original version, Ferngully, was better.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2022 03:32 PM (trdmm)

I just called it "Dances with Smurfs" to show where they stole things from.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:33 PM (eoQWY)

511 _____________
The platinum metals - platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium - have a lot more uses than gold.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:31 PM (azMeO)
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So, you are saying that a tangible asset is better than an 1/0?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 31, 2022 03:33 PM (9v1sv)

512 Now there are a lot of risks to some of the current monetary policy and the gratuitous, dangerous spending habits of Congress. It has the potential to go sideways and I am not a fan of current monetary policy. But the U.S. dollar is still the most stable reliable base currency in the world.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:24 PM (VpIIl)

Tallest among dwarves, I think the saying goes.
I don't think the USD will be selling 1:1 with the Guarani, but it is going to take a serious decrease by the time inflation catches up with the printing.
The problem is it is a global reserve and at some point governments may start looking for a reserve that can't be taken or that they can be blocked from using because they told Biden "no" If that happens the demand will drop against the volume, and that is the other source of inflation.

The first hyperinflationary collapse of a fiat money was the Yuan dynasty, because after exporting that inflation for years, in the end no one outside of China would accept and the supply outstripped demand. We may have started this preference cascade this month.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 03:34 PM (xhaym)

513 Again, the problem with the gold standard is that its value is no less arbitrary than the dollar in fiat. You've just removed the fiat one step, and there's not enough gold in the world to cover today's finances.

Everything's fiat if you go enough steps, but gold has the advantage that there's a finite amount, and it's a lot harder to cough up new gold than new paper dollars.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 03:34 PM (ZGrMX)

514 The platinum metals - platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium - have a lot more uses than gold.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2022 03:31 PM (azMeO)

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I'm shorting Bidenium, a useless element.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 31, 2022 03:34 PM (2cWQn)

515 By the way, important cooking tip:
it takes way longer to cook beans, even after soaking overnight, than I have for my lunch break.
FML.

Thank God for beef hotdogs and KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:34 PM (XvPQV)

516 I'm shorting Bidenium, a useless element.
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 31, 2022 03:34 PM (2cWQn)
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It's a catalyst for turning things to shit.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2022 03:35 PM (T8gyh)

517 The problem is it is a global reserve and at some point governments may start looking for a reserve that can't be taken or that they can be blocked from using because they told Biden "no"

Exactly. Trudeau demonstrating the full power of the Davos Death Star without permission from Klaus gave a lot of the game away.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2022 03:35 PM (ZGrMX)

518 Just got home from work.
Dang it, I missed the cool thread below.
Can you upgrade your headphone mask thingy?
I want a voice modulator.
And visor.
The visor needs to capable of stuff too, like the AH-64 pilot visor kinda stuff.
and can I be 12 again

Posted by: Fool Otto at March 31, 2022 03:35 PM (DB16e)

519 Non-fungible.
Why do I need anything with this in its description?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2022 03:35 PM (jTmQV)

520
Thank God for beef hotdogs and KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:34 PM (XvPQV)

Huh huh. Wieners. Huh huh huh.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 03:35 PM (II3Gr)

521 Biden is such a piece of shit. He's blaming the oil industry again for gas prices. Meanwhile before he took office it wasn't a problem.

Do you think people can't figure this out. Lettuce Brain?
Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:32 PM (VpIIl)

Putin will be glad he's off the hook for oil prices now.

What this actually means is that the left wing commie anti Business types bought access from Jill rather than the neocon Russian haters. Isn't having Game of Thrones in real life so much fun?

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:35 PM (eoQWY)

522 ------------
It's a catalyst for turning things to shit.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2022 03:35 PM (T8gyh)

If Owebama was the 'shit midas,' what's Biden?

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

523 Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:32 PM (eoQWY)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (GezNK)

524 439 Orientals just don't do it for me.

i hear ya

Posted by: hunter biden at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (v3pYe)

525 I'm shorting Bidenium, a useless element.
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 31, 2022 03:34 PM (2cWQn)

Already alloyed with Stupidium and you can't separate the two.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (ZSK0i)

526 Womens cycling has been dealing with the trans stuff for several years -- Rachel McKinnon (now goes by Veronica Ivy?) has been dominating since 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Ivy

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (MmndN)

527 515 By the way, important cooking tip:
it takes way longer to cook beans, even after soaking overnight, than I have for my lunch break.
FML.

Thank God for beef hotdogs and KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:34 PM (XvPQV)

Finished a can of Spam today. Slice it up, five minutes to fry tops.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (dfRN6)

528 Thank God for beef hotdogs and KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:34 PM (XvPQV)

Huh huh. Wieners. Huh huh huh.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 03:35 PM (II3Gr)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (XvPQV)

529 edible fungi = fungible?

Posted by: Ziba at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (S1hrL)

530 Again, the problem with the gold standard is that its value is no less arbitrary than the dollar in fiat. You've just removed the fiat one step, and there's not enough gold in the world to cover today's finances.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:27 PM (KZzsI)

Not a current price of gold, no

Buyt the problem is not the price of whatever the currency is in Fiat, it is the way it can be increased to devalue your portion without notice. Also, you are obligated to use it.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (xhaym)

531 New law: Any visual form of news/entertainment that is bundled, must come with a cost breakdown for each bundled item. Consumers would then have the option of opting out of said items. Would be interesting to see the "value" of some of the entities. ESPN for example would drop from it's $7 price tag to 20 cents.

Posted by: bif at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (aiyac)

532 By the way, important cooking tip:
it takes way longer to cook beans, even after soaking overnight, than I have for my lunch break.
FML.

Thank God for beef hotdogs and KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:34 PM (XvPQV)

Thats why you always have a can of beans in the cupboard, or some frozen precooked ones.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (eoQWY)

533 516 I'm shorting Bidenium, a useless element.
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 31, 2022 03:34 PM (2cWQn)
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It's a catalyst for turning things to shit.

Thats a t-shirt seller

Posted by: Fool Otto at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (DB16e)

534 "I don't want to spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt), but this NFT thing always seemed very very silly to me, and I have a strong feeling that the NFT market is about to collapse."

That's crazy talk. I'm sure it's as solid as gold. But it's not as solid as Tulips. Call 1-800-GET-RICH to ask us about Tulips.

Posted by: Dutch Tulip Society and Investment Club at March 31, 2022 03:37 PM (aXxgO)

535 Just got home from work.
Dang it, I missed the cool thread below.
Can you upgrade your headphone mask thingy?
I want a voice modulator.
And visor.
The visor needs to capable of stuff too, like the AH-64 pilot visor kinda stuff.
and can I be 12 again
Posted by: Fool Otto at March 31, 2022 03:35 PM (DB16e)

YOU'LL GET NOTHING AND LIKE IT!

Posted by: Judge Smails at March 31, 2022 03:37 PM (ZSK0i)

536 501 Biden is such a piece of shit. He's blaming the oil industry again for gas prices. Meanwhile before he took office it wasn't a problem.

Do you think people can't figure this out. Lettuce Brain?
Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:32 PM (VpIIl)

It's part of their creative process...

- Throw Noodles
- Noodle Sticks
- Flood the airwaves

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at March 31, 2022 03:37 PM (KywlU)

537 519 Non-fungible.
Why do I need anything with this in its description?

mrs. chronda prefers her pizza non-fungible. non-funginated. whatever the fancy word for "no mushrooms" is.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at March 31, 2022 03:37 PM (sGtp+)

538
Huh huh. Wieners. Huh huh huh.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 03:35 PM (II3Gr)

What's your problem, bud?

Posted by: Anthony Weiner & Scott Wiener at March 31, 2022 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

539 Thats why you always have a can of beans in the cupboard, or some frozen precooked ones.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (eoQWY)

Yeah, the recipe I was using mentioned CANNED beans but I was cooking from scratch...like an idiot.

Oh well, cooking is a learning process.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:38 PM (XvPQV)

540
???
CNN

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 03:38 PM (mWjfg)

541 Speaking of vile jags, Chris Wallace is about 75 years old. Go away.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at March 31, 2022 03:38 PM (Ym7bD)

542 The platinum metals - platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium - have a lot more uses than gold.

They do, but they aren't as useful in jewelry so their long term-economic disaster proof isn't as good as gold.

Orientals just don't do it for me.

That's okay, I'll have your share.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:38 PM (KZzsI)

543 Maybe if they'd quit lying all the time.
Nah. Go with what you know.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2022 03:38 PM (v0R5T)

544
One of the things I like about McKinley is that he would frequently roll without security. He said something like "if someone wants me dead bad enough, security won't help." And he did get killed. But at least he wasn't a pussy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2022 03:39 PM (SKVme)

545 Beans are better the second day anyway. You have tomorrow covered.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 31, 2022 03:39 PM (5HBd1)

546 It's like if you had to pay for the deli ticket at the grocery store, and then you could sell it to someone else for a higher price if they wanted it more than you did.

You could probably make real money doing that at, say, a popular deli near a big financial center. Get there early in the lunch hour, pull a ticket, then sell it to some BSD who would rather pay $20 instead of waiting 20 minutes. Assuming that the deli owner doesn't throw you out or the other patrons don't beat your ass.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2022 03:39 PM (nfrXX)

547 Speaking of vile jags, Chris Wallace is about 75 years old. Go away.
Posted by: Denny Crane! at March 31, 2022 03:38 PM (Ym7bD)
......

how would he ever afford all the black shoe polish for his hair?

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2022 03:39 PM (v0R5T)

548 Stupid people should not be allowed to keep their money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 02:33 PM

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money

Posted by: W.C. Fields at March 31, 2022 03:39 PM (EughT)

549 508 Nah. Proof that you own a non-fungible token. That's it.

does it come with a certificate of authenticity?

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at March 31, 2022 03:40 PM (oY6Yp)

550 The silver tongue of Joe Biden:

"I'm always going to be honest with the American people" about "Putin's Price Hike"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at March 31, 2022 03:40 PM (FVME7)

551 One of the things I like about McKinley is that he would frequently roll without security. He said something like "if someone wants me dead bad enough, security won't help." And he did get killed. But at least he wasn't a pussy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2022 03:39 PM (SKVme)
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He survived the battle of Antietam. I don't think things scared him after that.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2022 03:40 PM (T8gyh)

552 Speaking of vile jags, Chris Wallace is about 75 years old. Go away.
Posted by: Denny Crane! at March 31, 2022 03:38 PM (Ym7bD)

Proof positive the Moe Howard look lasts forever.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

553 CNN streaming is like Fox Nation but without the hot chicks.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2022 03:40 PM (v0R5T)

554 Speaking of vile jags, Chris Wallace is about 75 years old. Go away.
Posted by: Denny Crane! at March 31, 2022 03:38 PM (Ym7bD)

Yes he should be handing down his nepotism to a younger nepo by now.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2022 03:40 PM (eoQWY)

555 545 Beans are better the second day anyway. You have tomorrow covered.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 31, 2022 03:39 PM (5HBd1)

Gonna try warming the dish up for supper. Maybe add some corn and rice.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:41 PM (XvPQV)

556 If you have extra money gold is not a bad place to put it. It is not an investment it is a security.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 31, 2022 03:41 PM (9v1sv)

557 The silver tongue of Joe Biden:

"I'm always going to be honest with the American people" about "Putin's Price Hike"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at March 31, 2022 03:40 PM (FVME7)

You haven't been honest in 75 years.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

558 I made black beans two days ago. Gonna have those for lunch today.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (5HBd1)

559 531 New law: Any visual form of news/entertainment that is bundled, must come with a cost breakdown for each bundled item. Consumers would then have the option of opting out of said items. Would be interesting to see the "value" of some of the entities. ESPN for example would drop from it's $7 price tag to 20 cents.
Posted by: bif at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (aiyac)

I pay more to Comcast for phone and internet in my office than I really need to because I refuse to accept the bundle of those two plus cable TV, which would be cheaper. I swear that is how cable channels are kept afloat, bundle TV which you don't need with services which you do.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (NenxG)

560 509 South Park keeps predicting the future, sadly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:33 PM (XvPQV)

---------

One of my frequent sayings is "AAAAAAAAAAND ... it's gone!"

Which I fully expect to use once I'm eventually de-banked, de-credit-carded, and de-investment-portfolioed by the oligarchy.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (pdS8b)

561
Gonna try warming the dish up for supper. Maybe add some corn and rice.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 31, 2022 03:41 PM (XvPQV)

CORN!!??? I don't remember eating any CORN!!

- - Tomorrow's bathroom

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

562
You haven't been honest in 75 years.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

He was probably being honest when he said his idiot son is the smartest person he knows. I mean, he does live and work in DC.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (SKVme)

563 Parrot Analytics, a firm that advises media companies.
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So Tranny Day is the day before April Fool's Day and the company that advises news companies is called Parrot Analytics.

Wtf is going on at all?

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (mWjfg)

564 "The problem is it is a global reserve and at some point governments may start looking for a reserve that can't be taken or that they can be blocked from using because they told Biden "no"

That's not an argument I largely subscribe to. You have to be a big enough economic player to make that kind of move. You also have to hedge against the risk of making that move, because if things go South you're stuck without a chair. Running a petro based economy makes it hard enough to run an economy over time as you're tied to a single commodity, one that's just one invention away from being seriously devalued. You also have to think about what types of actions would get your reserves yanked. Do you really want to be in the club that launches artillery at civilians? I guess maybe some do but is that going to be your premise for moving off a stable reserve? Seems like a self defeating argument to me.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (VpIIl)

565 I haven't bought gold since Reagan was president, but I never sold any of it. I think the highest I ever paid was about $325 per oz.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (jTmQV)

566 With an NFT, I don't believe you "own" the art. You are assigned a link to the art with some sort of authentication on "the blockchain" which says you own the link. But if the server is ever taken down, you got nothing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (qnVBz)

567 So serious question, if CNN+ is a product not meeting a demand, where the fuck is all this wokeness coming from?

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at March 31, 2022 03:43 PM (KywlU)

568 One of my frequent sayings is "AAAAAAAAAAND ... it's gone!"

Which I fully expect to use once I'm eventually de-banked, de-credit-carded, and de-investment-portfolioed by the oligarchy.
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (pdS8b)

What do you mean gone?

Didn't do too well in the market and it's gone. Poof!

But I have a hundred dollars!

Not anymore you don't.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 03:43 PM (II3Gr)

569 edible fungi = fungible?
Posted by: Ziba at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (S1hrL)

Ever eat a pine cone?

Posted by: zombie Euell Gibbons at March 31, 2022 03:43 PM (v0R5T)

570 Speaking of noodles, I can't find wide noodles anywhere.

Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2022 03:43 PM (ou23q)

571 With an NFT, I don't believe you "own" the art. You are assigned a link to the art with some sort of authentication on "the blockchain" which says you own the link. But if the server is ever taken down, you got nothing.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (qnVBz)
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So, like "buying" a movie that's on the cloud.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2022 03:43 PM (T8gyh)

572 This guid is unique: a462fbdd-3104-495e-a5c1-ec992c594e60
Who would like to buy it?

Posted by: Chuck C at March 31, 2022 03:44 PM (EughT)

573 NFT's are only popular because of the word "fungible."

All the schmart people use it sentences and stuff.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2022 03:44 PM (BFigT)

574 I don't want to spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt)

Spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt would be cruel.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2022 03:44 PM (a3Q+t)

575
I got yer wide noodle... RIGHT HEAH!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2022 03:44 PM (SKVme)

576 571 So, like "buying" a movie that's on the cloud.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2022 03:43 PM (T8gyh)

=======

Read those licenses. You don't own anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:44 PM (LvTSG)

577 454 There are so many ways to hedge against currency and inflation risk, I've lost count. But you have to have a reliably stable underlying asset to make any of that work.

back when i was young and single, i invested my spare money in cds. that way, i could at least listen to music while civilization collapsed around me.

then the whole world went mp3...

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at March 31, 2022 03:44 PM (sGtp+)

578 What do you mean gone?

Didn't do too well in the market and it's gone. Poof!

But I have a hundred dollars!

Not anymore you don't.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 31, 2022 03:43 PM (II3Gr)

It's like that TurboTax commercial......

"I'm a millionaire!!" "I'm not a millionaire?"

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

579 OT-

Finally a little bit of good news regarding freedom of religion.. All charges of hate speech dismissed against Finnish member of Parliament and Bishop accused of hate speech for their conservative stands on homosexuality. Prosecution ordered to pay court costs:

tinyurl.com/yckwexyf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2022 03:44 PM (GezNK)

580 If Owebama was the 'shit midas,' what's Biden?

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

Shit Slidas

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 03:45 PM (mWjfg)

581 Excellent news, Fen.

Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2022 03:45 PM (ou23q)

582 Got some silver onzas I paid $3.25 ea.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 31, 2022 03:45 PM (9v1sv)

583 I guess the war is over, but for all the war criminal themes for the Reds out there, guess who shelled civilians with over 100,000 rounds during a 47 day siege?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 31, 2022 03:45 PM (QEPWt)

584 61
No
Find
Truth
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 02:40 PM (hJSeO)

"HOT OOOH!"

- - The Horta

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 31, 2022 03:46 PM (s2VJv)

585 558 I made black beans two days ago. Gonna have those for lunch today.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (5HBd1)

--------

TMW (Too Much Windflow).

/Wifey continuously soaks & drains beans for a couple of days before cooking -- smells awful every time you open the container, but make some virtually gasless in the intestines

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 31, 2022 03:46 PM (pdS8b)

586 This is what happens when you have people who grew up playing video games. It sounds good to them to use virtual money to buy virtual pictures of things and think they actually own stuff.

Posted by: azjaeger at March 31, 2022 03:46 PM (qFBTS)

587 Maxine Waterhead made an appearance at a rally for homeless people. When the homeless people got unruly, she said, "I want everybody to go home."

http://bitly.ws/pMUT

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 31, 2022 03:46 PM (sWM8x)

588 Answer - I'm touring Vicksburg again. Wonderful memorial to our nation's epic struggle with itself - Grant.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 31, 2022 03:47 PM (QEPWt)

589 587 Maxine Waterhead made an appearance at a rally for homeless people. When the homeless people got unruly, she said, "I want everybody to go home."

http://bitly.ws/pMUT
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 31, 2022 03:46 PM (sWM8x)\

========

When she wins re-election by 30 points, she'll be sorry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:47 PM (LvTSG)

590 Does Biden actually believe the nonstop lies and blame casting is helpful for him?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 31, 2022 03:47 PM (VdGjU)

591 Maybe they could merge with Air America?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2022 03:48 PM (I6Ug/)

592 NFTs are what they meant when they said "you will own nothing".

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2022 03:48 PM (mWjfg)

593 Cat Ass Trophy: "With an NFT, I don't believe you 'own' the art. You are assigned a link to the art with some sort of authentication on 'the blockchain' which says you own the link. But if the server is ever taken down, you got nothing."

NFT - A vanity purchase for the digital age.

And, apparently, it's not even that. More of a lease.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at March 31, 2022 03:48 PM (aXxgO)

594 =======

Read those licenses. You don't own anything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 31, 2022 03:44 PM (LvTSG)
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Right. You own it if it's in your possession and in your control. Otherwise, nah.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 31, 2022 03:48 PM (9v1sv)

595 McKinley: Shot 9/6/1901, Died 9/14/1901
Czolgosz: Arrested 9/6/01, Tried 9/23/01, Executed 10/29/01

Posted by: Chuck C at March 31, 2022 03:49 PM (EughT)

596 587 Maxine Waterhead made an appearance at a rally for homeless people. When the homeless people got unruly, she said, "I want everybody to go home."

Snort

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 31, 2022 03:49 PM (VdGjU)

597 Nood.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2022 03:49 PM (T8gyh)

598 Maxine Waterhead made an appearance at a rally for homeless people. When the homeless people got unruly, she said, "I want everybody to go home."

http://bitly.ws/pMUT
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 31, 2022 03:46 PM (sWM8x)
........

"Just don't make fun of her hair." - Chris Rock

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2022 03:49 PM (v0R5T)

599 NFT

Posted by: Braenyard at March 31, 2022 03:49 PM (9v1sv)

600 I don't want to be a Putin stooge or anything, but OT:

well, the Biden regime managed to fuck up Ukraine as badly as possible. Russia is going to get rubles for gas which apparently is good for the ruble.

which is fine, I wish I invested in options.

but at the same time, our hysterical overreaction will probably lead to the devaluation of the dollar. That's bad since the only thing America manufactures, aside from easily censored movies for the foreign market, is dollars.

Posted by: sockamster at March 31, 2022 03:49 PM (OuH7W)

601 Soaked them overnight and rinsed twice. I think they'll be okay. I'll probably freeze the rest of them.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 31, 2022 03:49 PM (5HBd1)

602 Nood Oregon perverts

Posted by: Johnny Paycheck at March 31, 2022 03:49 PM (LilNs)

603 Maxine is one ugly sow.

Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2022 03:50 PM (ou23q)

604 This is funny, but I still think the biggest and best example of going woke, then going broke (or at least the most perfect encapsulation) is G4TV.

-Bring back a beloved show for gamers, who will tune in for nostalgia

-castigate them for their toxic masculinity when the new show is not nearly as good (or fun) as the original.

-be reduced to having amouranth playing with a shake weight in a ball pit to try to drum up viewers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 31, 2022 03:50 PM (F/J1O)

605 Have not seen CNN since 2005. Camp Arifjan D-Fac, CNN on one end and FOX on the other.

Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2022 03:50 PM (/RDPd)

606 559

I pay more to Comcast for phone and internet in my office than I really need to because I refuse to accept the bundle of those two plus cable TV, which would be cheaper. I swear that is how cable channels are kept afloat, bundle TV which you don't need with services which you do.
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It's insane. I cut the cord a few years back. Internet company gets $40/month and largely hasn't changed. Pretty sure they doubled my internet from 50mbps to 100 at no increase.

Live TV bundler on the other hand has gone from $35 to $55 in the same timespan. I don't even watch TV anymore! Kids watch YouTube videos exclusively. I pay $55/month so my wife can watch Bravo shows.

Posted by: bif at March 31, 2022 03:50 PM (aiyac)

607 Easy way to boost subscriptions-pay airports to carry CNN+.

Posted by: MikeN at March 31, 2022 03:50 PM (ek6Pv)

608 Does Biden actually believe the nonstop lies and blame casting is helpful for him?

Its all he knows. Its what he's done for 50 years and now he's in the oval office, why would he change? He's blatantly corrupt, has been molesting and probably raping women for 50 years, is incompetent and nasty and it just keeps paying off. Why on earth would he change?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:50 PM (KZzsI)

609 NOOD NUDE

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2022 03:51 PM (lCui1)

610 What's the going rate on the Big Slap? I'd have Will Smith slapping the shit out of everything if I could make some coin off of it.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 31, 2022 03:51 PM (S3EUx)

611 If Owebama was the 'shit midas,' what's Biden?

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

---------

Raspshitter?

Rasputin > Raspshitter?

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 31, 2022 03:51 PM (pdS8b)

612 You also have to think about what types of actions would get your reserves yanked. Do you really want to be in the club that launches artillery at civilians? I guess maybe some do but is that going to be your premise for moving off a stable reserve? Seems like a self defeating argument to me.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2022 03:42 PM (VpIIl)

Well, anyone who can make invasion from US forces inadvisable has that sort of economic sway.
And we are not loved, economically. There are countries that would like to disengage from the USD were it convenient

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2022 03:52 PM (xhaym)

613 If Owebama was the 'shit midas,' what's Biden?

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 31, 2022 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)
........

King Shit on Turd Hill

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2022 03:53 PM (v0R5T)

614 With an NFT, I don't believe you "own" the art. You are assigned a link to the art with some sort of authentication on "the blockchain" which says you own the link. But if the server is ever taken down, you got nothing.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Not on a server. It's the same blockchain that everyone churns in their own system. The best explainer I've understood with regards to crypto is that it's like the old-time ticker tape broadcast. Everyone has the same ticker tape, but you can add a transaction to it. Same ticker, same tape, and there's no 'server' to crash.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2022 03:54 PM (p6Md5)

615 So investing in gold has use no matter what happens to the economy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2022 03:29 PM (KZzsI)

__

If the economy tanks, demand for gold tanks as well.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 31, 2022 03:58 PM (OalnH)

616 Did Biden speak this afternoon? The market is having a nasty finish.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 31, 2022 03:59 PM (fWTJL)

617 If the economy tanks, demand for gold tanks as well.
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I think if the dollar tanks gold does well. So many other currencies are tied to the dollar that gold will go up and then some. Loss of trust is expensive.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 31, 2022 04:01 PM (fWTJL)

618 46 CNN+ is the Earl Scheib of Ron Popeils.
I'd rather have a Veg-O-Matic than watch CNN.

I'd rather have a kidney stone than watch CNN... it would be more entertaining, and I could get it pulverized.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 31, 2022 04:10 PM (Ucb0d)

619 >>>chose against buying Bitcoin when it was like $600 per coin, because I thought that was way past the top of the market.

I too drastically underestimated the value of virtual currency. But it turns out, online transactions that are difficult to impossible to trace, impossible to stop, involve no financial institution oversight or facilitation, and can be completely privately held, are popular, and do have value.

Posted by: mikethemoose at March 31, 2022 04:38 PM (Z9vt9)

620 CNN their bad news has turned against them their Turkeys have come home to roost

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 31, 2022 06:09 PM (wGqjj)

621 I'm just here to point out the new cnn+ logo looks a lot like the KKk logo.

Posted by: P. Mo. at March 31, 2022 08:22 PM (Ljhmc)

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CNN Is Already Planning Layoffs At Streaming "Service" CNN+;
To Raise Easy (?) Cash, CNN Will Turn Its First Half Hour of "Content" Into NFTs and Sell Them to Braindead Partisans