Megyn Kelly: I Don't Believe For One Second That Don Lemon Didn't Pay His Accuser to Go Away

Two weeks ago, the man that Don Lemon allegedly assaulted in a grossly sexual way, Dustin Hice, dropped his lawsuit after, supposedly, searching his memory and realizing that he had misremembered everything.

Almost three years after CNN anchor Don Lemon was accused of assaulting a man in a Sag Harbor, NY, bar in 2018, the incendiary lawsuit has ended in a whimper.
"After a lot of inner reflection and a deep dive into my memory, I have come to realize that my recollection of the events that occurred on the night in question when I first met CNN anchor Don Lemon were not what I thought they were when I filed this lawsuit," said Dustin Hice in a full on retreat from his allegations of the assault and subsequent emotional distress against the CNN anchor in court and on conservative media. "As a result, I am dropping the case," the short statement sent out by attorney Robert Barnes for Hice concluded.

Lemon's attorney claims that neither Lemon nor his "representatives" paid him off.

So when I read that my first reaction was: "This is completely bullshit; of course he was paid off, and paid off extra to issue this denial."

But I didn't have proof of that.

Well I still don't have proof of that but Megyn Kelly agrees: This is bullshit. There is no reason to give up the case without some kind of settlement.

There is an unacknowledged payout here. Kelly notes that the lawyer does not deny that Lemon's insurer could have made a payment.

But what would it matter if she were asked about that? She'd lie.

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM

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1 That's Don LayMon

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 19, 2022 03:31 PM (VJFAr)

2 Megyn still looks like a raptor.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2022 03:31 PM (ZsR3z)

3 /first?

Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at May 19, 2022 03:31 PM (OUMaO)

4 Don's taint.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2022 03:31 PM (BFigT)

5 Ought to know better...

Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at May 19, 2022 03:31 PM (OUMaO)

6 'In retrospect, I misremembered. Also, Don is an awesome guy who's very well hung, he said.'

Seems legit.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 19, 2022 03:33 PM (VJFAr)

7 I wonder how much of that money came from CNN. They can't afford to have *another* of their anchors involved in personal scandal.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 19, 2022 03:33 PM (tp+tP)

8 I look forward to his newest appearance on CNN+.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:34 PM (LvTSG)

9 Given how these fellas, like Kevin Spacey's accusers either find out they misremembered or die, I think nobody necessarily has to be "paid off."

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 03:35 PM (YV6PJ)

10 Total BS... Lemon didn't pay the guy off; but, someone donated to get Lemon out of Hice's pants.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2022 03:36 PM (qh3o6)

11 Don't TV people have their own magazine called, Gifted. Mouth.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 19, 2022 03:36 PM (0z5n0)

12 MK has had an interesting relationship with the GOP base.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 03:36 PM (sX1BW)

13 I'm looking forward to the Stetler sex scandal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:37 PM (LvTSG)

14 After a lot of inner reflection and a deep dive into my memory, I have come to realize that my recollection of the events that occurred on the night in question when I first met CNN anchor Don Lemon were not what I thought they were when I filed this lawsuit,"

Did he try searching his hippocampus? I am told things like sexual assault get seared there.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 19, 2022 03:37 PM (R8uWY)

15 I'm looking forward to the Stetler sex scandal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Potatoes do not have sex.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2022 03:38 PM (qh3o6)

16 13 I'm looking forward to the Stetler sex scandal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:37 PM (LvTSG)

I don't think cantaloupes can bring lawsuits but I wouldn't put anything past a lawyer.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 19, 2022 03:38 PM (VJFAr)

17 I saw Stink Finger Lemon at CBGB's summer 77

Posted by: dananjcon at May 19, 2022 03:38 PM (u6xw0)

18 No one would peel his potato.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 19, 2022 03:38 PM (0z5n0)

19 The accused should have to pay back all the costs incurred by the taxpayers for his admitted frivolous lawsuit. Courts and judges don't work for free. .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter Wynette at May 19, 2022 03:38 PM (oc1LF)

20 Accuser

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter Wynette at May 19, 2022 03:39 PM (oc1LF)

21 Can we still call him "credibly accused"?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 19, 2022 03:39 PM (R8uWY)

22 MK has had an interesting relationship with the GOP base.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 03:36 PM (sX1BW)

If by interesting you mean they don't know if they want to bang her or bash in her skull, then yes. Interesting.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 03:39 PM (YV6PJ)

23 You are now entering Ace's Spank Bank when he blogs about Megyn Kelly. Be warned good sirs, arm yourself with a black light and clorox, watch where you step, and ffs don't touch anything in this thread.

Gotta finish building some stand alone shade for the goats.
Later.

Posted by: Heavy Squats at May 19, 2022 03:39 PM (+ps/2)

24 The whole story is gay.

Posted by: Squid at May 19, 2022 03:39 PM (Ugysd)

25 Don who? Megan what?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty who never watches the news at May 19, 2022 03:39 PM (jYQlA)

26
Megyn Kelley on her downward path to Only Fans.

Posted by: bumps in the road at May 19, 2022 03:40 PM (wpmc6)

27 A malty, yeasty aroma.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 19, 2022 03:42 PM (hWaIR)

28 There are much worse people than Megyn Kelley. She went after Trump so she's been canceled by a lot of people.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter Wynette at May 19, 2022 03:42 PM (oc1LF)

29 I'm looking forward to the Stetler sex scandal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:37 PM (LvTSG)

If we're going to have an office pool type situation, I'll take handjobs for older men. Lots of Jergens and jerking.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 03:42 PM (YV6PJ)

30 Would watch it.

Posted by: hamitchell at May 19, 2022 03:42 PM (ubV8M)

31 Megyn Kelly is still bumping her gums?

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2022 03:42 PM (v0R5T)

32 29 If we're going to have an office pool type situation, I'll take handjobs for older men. Lots of Jergens and jerking.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 03:42 PM (YV6PJ)

30 Would watch it.
Posted by: hamitchell at May 19, 2022 03:42 PM (ubV8M)

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This is an unfortunate timing situation.

Or is it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:43 PM (LvTSG)

33 Er, the Meghan OF.

Posted by: hamitchell at May 19, 2022 03:43 PM (ubV8M)

34 Buncha no-nooders.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2022 03:43 PM (DRSnL)

35 Stetler probably has a 9" penis

Who said God doesn't have a sense of humor ?

Posted by: JoeF. at May 19, 2022 03:43 PM (mR6Gs)

36 PHRASING

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 19, 2022 03:43 PM (hWaIR)

37 Megyn is borrowing items from her daughter's wardrobe, I see.

Not a criticism, just an observation.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 19, 2022 03:43 PM (TNyrE)

38 That's racisst.

Posted by: Karine Jean-Pierre Van Damme at May 19, 2022 03:44 PM (v0R5T)

39 Hawley asked Granholm whether she thought the rising price of gasoline was "acceptable," to which she said "it is not, and you can thank the activity of Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, and pulling--"

To which Hawley said "With all due respect, Madame Secretary, that's utter nonsense," adding "The average gas price in my state was $2.07. Eight months later, eight months later, long before Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, that price was up over 30%, and it's been going up consistently since."

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 19, 2022 03:44 PM (R8uWY)

40 Megyn Kelley on her downward path to Only Fans.
Posted by: bumps in the road at May 19, 2022 03:40 PM (wpmc6)

A woman her age, looking as she does? She'd make solid money. Maybe not NBC type money, but good money nonetheless.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 03:44 PM (YV6PJ)

41 Don Lemon is a no talent faggot.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 19, 2022 03:44 PM (VghRo)

42 When did ace stop calling Megyn "MeAgain" Kelly?

Posted by: JoeF. at May 19, 2022 03:45 PM (mR6Gs)

43 Megyn is borrowing items from her daughter's wardrobe, I see.

Not a criticism, just an observation.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 19, 2022 03:43 PM (TNyrE)

That her daughter cut up with a pair of scissors?

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2022 03:45 PM (DRSnL)

44 100% pure, cast-strength, unadulterated BULLSHIT. No way a plaintiff ever makes an odd (and stupid) statement like that without a pre-existing settlement requiring it. If indeed a plaintiff does change his mind about pursuing a case without getting any payment, he just discontinues the case. No need to offer any excuse. I'm a NYC lawyer myself. Cases are dropped all the time without comment or explanation. The ONLY time the plaintiff ever issues a mea culpa exonerating the defendant, it's because the plaintiff is being paid to do so.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2022 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

45 Easy peasy Lemon squeezy.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2022 03:45 PM (WvPpP)

46 Don Lemon is a no talent faggot.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 19, 2022 03:44 PM (VghRo)

but impeccably tailored and with the nicest teeth

Posted by: JoeF. at May 19, 2022 03:45 PM (mR6Gs)

47 'ello, whass this then?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 19, 2022 03:46 PM (yQpMk)

48 Maybe it was Spacey. Small world and all.

Posted by: klaftern at May 19, 2022 03:46 PM (taPSh)

49 39 Hawley asked Granholm whether she thought the rising price of gasoline was "acceptable," to which she said "it is not, and you can thank the activity of Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, and pulling--"

To which Hawley said "With all due respect, Madame Secretary, that's utter nonsense," adding "The average gas price in my state was $2.07. Eight months later, eight months later, long before Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, that price was up over 30%, and it's been going up consistently since."
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 19, 2022 03:44 PM (R8uWY)

=======

Hawley also introduced legislation to claw back copyright to 56 years.

Josh Hawley for ULTRA MAGA King.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:46 PM (LvTSG)

50
This is an unfortunate timing situation.

Or is it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:43 PM (LvTSG)

Egad, I hope so.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 03:46 PM (YV6PJ)

51 Remembering you were never really sexually assaulted is Super Easy Barely an Inconvenience.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2022 03:46 PM (WvPpP)

52 50
This is an unfortunate timing situation.

Or is it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:43 PM (LvTSG)

Egad, I hope so.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 03:46 PM (YV6PJ)

=======

The importance of actually quoting what you're reacting to, exhibit #4964-A.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:47 PM (LvTSG)

53 Lemon's attorney claims that neither Lemon nor his "representatives" paid him off.

His employer is technically not his representative.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2022 03:47 PM (5kI0z)

54
It was either a payoff or....

blackmail.

They probably dug up some dirt on the Accuser or on someone close to the Accuser and they're blackmailing him.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 19, 2022 03:47 PM (5fcxz)

55 ewww... heres a good one.

Oil companies drilling in the Gulf, have to get NOAA permission to drill, to check for seismic problems.

There is now a HUGE backlog on those permits... due to a MATH ERROR the Biden Administration announced.

OOOPSIE!!!!

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 19, 2022 03:48 PM (oHd/0)

56 The Jergens Middle Age thing came in like a bolt out of the blue just before I posted "I'd watch" which was clearly related to the MeAgain Kelly Only Fans site.

I need to see what's under the rest of that TikTok influencer top she has on in the vid.

Posted by: hamitchell at May 19, 2022 03:48 PM (ubV8M)

57 Stetler probably has a 9" penis

Posted by: JoeF. at May 19, 2022 03:43 PM (mR6Gs)

Probably has several of them each day.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2022 03:48 PM (WvPpP)

58 Don Lemon is a no talent faggot.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 19, 2022 03:44 PM (VghRo)

but impeccably tailored and with the nicest teeth
Posted by: JoeF. at May 19, 2022 03:45 PM (mR6Gs)
.........

and a perfect straight line of Toppik on his forehead.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2022 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

59 Josh Hawley should have reminded Granholm that Biden actually *campaigned* on shutting down fossil fuel infrastructure.
Promises made, promises kept.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2022 03:48 PM (jTmQV)

60 WHITESPLAINING!

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 19, 2022 03:49 PM (JJsNX)

61 Remembering you were never really sexually assaulted is Super Easy Barely an Inconvenience.
Posted by: ... at May 19, 2022 03:46 PM (WvPpP)

I mean, it's not like he used the wrong pronouns. That's just over the line.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2022 03:49 PM (DRSnL)

62 I hear Stelter gives out great "hot potatoes" to the higher ups at CNN.

Posted by: Thrawn at May 19, 2022 03:50 PM (Rl7KJ)

63 WGARA about Megan?

Ukraine just got handed another $40B which includes 9B for the Ukrainian gov't and 5B for "food scarcity" with the aviso that more $$$ will be needed in the fall.

Every state in the union now paying over $4/gal of gas.

Posted by: Ziba at May 19, 2022 03:50 PM (S1hrL)

64 Lemon curry?

Posted by: Axeman at May 19, 2022 03:50 PM (krQz2)

65 Remembering you were never really sexually assaulted is Super Easy Barely an Inconvenience.
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That's tight.

*giggles*

Posted by: Don Lemon at May 19, 2022 03:50 PM (AehvQ)

66 Stetler probably has a 9" penis

Posted by: JoeF. at May 19, 2022 03:43 PM (mR6Gs)

Probably has several of them each day.
Posted by: ... at May 19, 2022 03:48 PM (WvPpP)

HAHAHA

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2022 03:50 PM (DRSnL)

67 Josh Hawley should have reminded Granholm that Biden actually *campaigned* on shutting down fossil fuel infrastructure.
Promises made, promises kept.

----------------

Must be nice to have campaign promises kept by your side.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 03:50 PM (sX1BW)

68 But what would it matter if she were asked about that? She'd lie.
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What a universal truth, Ace.

This story involves an accusation of sexual misconduct by a mainstream press talking head, as laundered through another talking head, originating with a lawyer who works for the mainstream press talking head, and potentially involving at least one third party of the type that is notoriously closed-mouthed (insurance).

If you can disentagle *that* mess to arrive at something approximating the truth, my hat's off to you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2022 03:50 PM (DU+/6)

69 The needle on my BS meter broke the peg.

BTW - payments are rarely made by the accused or his "representative". They are made by insurance companies or a third party holding the funds in escrow. So - the statement is legally accurate - but still an utterly false steaming pile.

Posted by: Java Joe at May 19, 2022 03:50 PM (VsPm9)

70 Every state in the union now paying over $4/gal of gas.
==
In the fall, when there is no bread in the stores, here. It will get interesting.

Posted by: Don Lemon at May 19, 2022 03:51 PM (AehvQ)

71 Gonna go downtown, gonna see my babe.
Gonna go downtown, gonna see my babe.
Gonna go downtown, gonna see my babe. Gonna sing him a song, gonna show him my ding-dong!

Posted by: Don Lemon sings Blind Melon Chitlin at May 19, 2022 03:51 PM (3Or4S)

72 Must be nice to have campaign promises kept by your side.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 03:50 PM (sX1BW)

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Oh, don't give up on us just yet. Get that donation in today and who knows what we'll deliver on in 2023 (or not).

Posted by: Your GOPe Betters at May 19, 2022 03:52 PM (TNyrE)

73 Every state in the union now paying over $4/gal of gas.
---
Those corporations need to pay their fair share of taxes.

Posted by: Axeman at May 19, 2022 03:52 PM (krQz2)

74 Probably has several of them each day.
Posted by: ... at May 19, 2022 03:48 PM (WvPpP)

Heyo!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 03:52 PM (YV6PJ)

75
This fuckin' ordeal dragged on for *years.*

My guess? Dude wanted a big payout, and didn't get it. So he sued and CNN fought it. Big "talent" at risk, after all. And he certainly knows where CNN's skeletons are.

But now they've been bought. Lemon's gonna go, whether he likes it or not. And the new management wants this scandal gone. I expect they met homeboy's initial demands, and then some. And probably paid Lemon for his silence on this and any number of different peccadillos at the same time.

Just a guess. But if I'm right, I'm glad they're finding out how expensive it'll be to shut down this shitshow in Atlanta.

Posted by: Heh at May 19, 2022 03:53 PM (o0I+B)

76 Donelda Lemonada is pleased to put this sordid affair behind him and get back to the important work of reading from a teleprompter for a large salary, none of which he is giving to the man who alleged he had been a most naughty boy indeed.

Posted by: believable spokesman at May 19, 2022 03:53 PM (ppBhU)

77 Stand alone shade for goats. Tell the little goats to stand under the big goats.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 19, 2022 03:53 PM (3Or4S)

78 Lemon Tap: Smell the Knuckle.

Posted by: Axeman at May 19, 2022 03:53 PM (krQz2)

79 So - the statement is legally accurate - but still an utterly false steaming pile.
Posted by: Java Joe at May 19, 2022 03:50 PM (VsPm9)

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This is what happened.

Lemon can legally say:
"I did not pay off my accuser!!"

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 19, 2022 03:54 PM (DcKNO)

80 Robert Barnes the attorney who streams with Viva Frei or a different Robert Barnes?

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 19, 2022 03:54 PM (4I/2K)

81 Every state in the union now paying over $4/gal of gas.
Posted by: Ziba at May 19, 2022 03:50 PM (S1hrL)

Central Calif, CHEAPEST Regular gas in town...

$5.99 a gallon.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 19, 2022 03:54 PM (oHd/0)

82 Nah.

Posted by: klaftern at May 19, 2022 03:54 PM (taPSh)

83
Can you smell the love tonight?

Posted by: Don Lemon at May 19, 2022 03:54 PM (krQz2)

84 Seems like it wouldn't be all that hard to watch the guy's lifestyle to see if he moves into a new house, goes on some luxurious vacations, or trades in his Corolla for a Porsche.

Posted by: red speck at May 19, 2022 03:54 PM (gS3OW)

85 You will never forget me. Especially when you are peeling potatoes.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 19, 2022 03:54 PM (0z5n0)

86 Hey, if Megyn Kelly says something while wearing a boob-window blouse, well pal, that's good as gold as far as I'm considered.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2022 03:55 PM (XlZ2m)

87 I'd still do that screen door thingy with Ms Megyn.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 19, 2022 03:55 PM (Qhnrt)

88 Don Lemon will be able to spend a lot more time working on his pick up lines here soon because the last I saw of the ratings he's not even in the top 10 and he's like one point ahead of Samantha Bee.

With them doing everything possible to keep CNN afloat if I were him I'd be stocking up on the more expensive resume paper.

Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 03:55 PM (wb1YC)

89 I guess when your entire business model depends upon hiring nutcases and perverts, you are bound to have to pay off a substantial number of these claims.

CNN is awful, but so is Don Lemon and all the other perverts and creeps who work there.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 19, 2022 03:55 PM (okGHj)

90 David Weigel@daveweigel
Ibram X. Kendi had two Netflix projects that just got axed.

Variety@Variety
Netflix Scraps Several Animated Projects, Including Ava DuVernay's 'Wings of Fire' and 'Antiracist Baby'
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The streaming service also scrapped "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You," a documentary intended to serve as a companion piece to "Stamped From the Beginning, which is a hybrid documentary and scripted feature that delves into race in the United States.

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Seeing the light or feeling the heat? I wonder if it's too late to patch the boat and bail.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 19, 2022 03:55 PM (FVME7)

91 53 Lemon's attorney claims that neither Lemon nor his "representatives" paid him off.

His employer is technically not his representative.
_____________

All that means is that they funneled the pay-off through some third party.

Remember the guy who paid Hunter Biden's $2 million tax bill a few weeks ago? Think he did that out of the goodness of his heart and the generosity of his spirit? LOL

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 19, 2022 03:55 PM (MvHI3)

92 I'm going to say it, I like Megyn Kelly's voice.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 19, 2022 03:55 PM (DcKNO)

93 Latinas for the Women's March demand a "summer of rage," promising to be "ungovernable."

The "ungovernable" chant didn't catch on with the crowd -- too many syllables to pronounce...

Posted by: Ziba at May 19, 2022 03:56 PM (S1hrL)

94 The admiration for the cold nordic fury is coming back.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2022 03:56 PM (3NKiY)

95 il companies drilling in the Gulf, have to get NOAA permission to drill, to check for seismic problems.

There is now a HUGE backlog on those permits... due to a MATH ERROR the Biden Administration announced.
==
1. Watching your enemies fight -good.
2. Waiting while they destroy themselves and indebt themselves to you. -better
3. Owning the president of your enemy power and forcing him to ship all his country's oil reserves to a foreign country, whilst at the same time causing his own countries oil independence to evaporate due to insane regulatory pressure. -- best.

Posted by: Xinnie the Pooh at May 19, 2022 03:56 PM (pm4Ie)

96 Lemon's attorney claims that neither Lemon nor his "representatives" paid him off.
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And then that they never lie so you can believe them.

Don LeMon knows how that works because he's in media.

Posted by: Axeman at May 19, 2022 03:56 PM (krQz2)

97 Man, if Netflix keeps ditching all of the woke stuff, pretty soon they'll be back to being known as " that streaming channel that doesn't have the movie you're looking for but here's 20 more kind of like it" service.

Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (wb1YC)

98 Megan Kelly is a little whore who will say whatever needs to be said to keep her ass on TV. That's how she makes her money; selling it to TV.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (Gqta/)

99
Megyn Kelly?

Yeah,, I've hit that...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (SWi3y)

100 Can you smell the love tonight?

Is it supposed to smell like half a tube of stress-tested Anal-Ese?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (ppBhU)

101 90 The streaming service also scrapped "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You," a documentary intended to serve as a companion piece to "Stamped From the Beginning, which is a hybrid documentary and scripted feature that delves into race in the United States.

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Seeing the light or feeling the heat? I wonder if it's too late to patch the boat and bail.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 19, 2022 03:55 PM (FVME7)

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The connection to Ava DuVernay is probably an important element. She's made a few documentaries for Netflix over the past few years (she can't get a real directing job after A Wrinkle in Time), and they have the numbers on them. I imagine her, "America is a prison for black people," things don't get great viewership numbers.

She's going to be one of those that gets cut first if Netflix is suddenly concerned with numbers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (LvTSG)

102 Stetler probably has a 9" penis

He better clean it good before giving it back to Megyn Rapinoe.

Posted by: Hands at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (786Ro)

103 15 I'm looking forward to the Stetler sex scandal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Potatoes do not have sex.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2022 03:38 PM (qh3o6)
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"I found him lurking in a bag under my sink, and after a few weeks he had tater eyes all over him. It was weird, though - all of his sprouts were flaccid. I was literally shaking."

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (lNHqD)

104 The world has truly turned upside down when meAgain Kelly is committing random acts of journalism.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at May 19, 2022 03:58 PM (1DgE4)

105 >>> I'm going to say it, I like Megyn Kelly's voice.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 19, 2022 03:55 PM (DcKNO)

I bet she smoked at some point because she's smoooooth.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2022 03:58 PM (XlZ2m)

106 If you can disentagle *that* mess to arrive at something approximating the truth, my hat's off to you.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2022 03:50 PM

Don't worry about that. It's our job to tell folks what's true, and what to think.

Posted by: Mika B. at May 19, 2022 03:58 PM (a3Q+t)

107 FIL told me to take a long weekend off and take his daughter and our kids to the beach, the Mexicans will build them.
Y'all have a good one.

Posted by: Heavy Squats at May 19, 2022 03:58 PM (+ps/2)

108 She's going to be one of those that gets cut first if Netflix is suddenly concerned with numbers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (LvTSG)

"But America IS a Prison for Black People!!"

Posted by: atrice Cullors, lounging by the pool in her mansion at May 19, 2022 03:58 PM (PiwSw)

109 Rapinoe called, said "Don't worry about it".

Posted by: klaftern at May 19, 2022 03:58 PM (taPSh)

110 Stetler probably has a 9" penis

***

You misspelled "forehead".

Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 03:58 PM (wb1YC)

111 98 Megan Kelly is a little whore who will say whatever needs to be said to keep her ass on TV. That's how she makes her money; selling it to TV.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (Gqta/)

Yup, just like just about every other Man and Woman on TV.

Posted by: HollyWood Director at May 19, 2022 03:59 PM (oHd/0)

112 Taint true! I shan't believe it. I simply shannot!

Posted by: Sharkman at May 19, 2022 03:59 PM (tgJVA)

113 97 Man, if Netflix keeps ditching all of the woke stuff, pretty soon they'll be back to being known as " that streaming channel that doesn't have the movie you're looking for but here's 20 more kind of like it" service.
Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (wb1YC)

=========

Their library sucks and now all of the other studios have their own streaming service. Hell, even Paramount. Hell, even MGM (which was barely a studio anyway and then got bought by Amazon).

All they have now is their library, and it's mostly garbage. They're going to just be another movie studio soon, and that's going to include theatrical releases.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:59 PM (LvTSG)

114 To whomever gave Don Lemon the "Lemongrab" nickname, this fan of Adventure Time stands and applauds you. I wish I had the imagination to come up with that one.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 19, 2022 03:59 PM (TNyrE)

115 Every state in the union now paying over $4/gal of gas.
==
In the fall, when there is no bread in the stores, here. It will get interesting.
Posted by: Don Lemon at May 19, 2022 03:51 PM (AehvQ)
........

How are you fixed for Toppik and butt plugs?

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2022 03:59 PM (v0R5T)

116 >>>27 A malty, yeasty aroma.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solution

ugh, so descriptive

Posted by: ace at May 19, 2022 03:59 PM (0G13K)

117 David Weigel@daveweigel
Ibram X. Kendi had two Netflix projects that just got axed.

You might even say they just got aborted.

Posted by: Hands at May 19, 2022 03:59 PM (786Ro)

118 Hey, how come when Tucker Carlson "attacks" Hunter Biden that's not considered "anti-white"?

Posted by: Axeman at May 19, 2022 03:59 PM (krQz2)

119 Hey Sharkman, working my way through the Abner Fortis books. Good stuff.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 19, 2022 03:59 PM (PiwSw)

120 108 She's going to be one of those that gets cut first if Netflix is suddenly concerned with numbers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (LvTSG)

"But America IS a Prison for Black People!!"
Posted by: Patrice Cullors, lounging by the pool in her mansion at May 19, 2022 03:58 PM (PiwSw)

=========

"Give me more money because of all the bad you do, rich, white, liberals."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:59 PM (LvTSG)

121 Trust me, there's a million ways to structure a settlement payment to avoid having to say that the specific defendant paid the specific plaintiff. Insurers could make the payment. Employers could make the payment. The payment could be made by a company affiliated with the defendant or the defendants' employer (CNN+?). On the other side of the equation, instead of the plaintiff personally being paid, the payment could be made to a company or fund or trust or attorneys' escrow account. Or if the plaintiff is a debtor, that debt could be paid off directly to the creditor. Again: a million ways . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2022 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

122 All they have now is their library, and it's mostly garbage. They're going to just be another movie studio soon, and that's going to include theatrical releases.

***

We ditched our Netflix subscription several years back.

After the hundredth time you look for a movie and find out they don't have it you start to realize that having a Netflix subscription and not having one is giving you the same results.

Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 04:00 PM (wb1YC)

123 All they have now is their library, and it's mostly garbage. They're going to just be another movie studio soon, and that's going to include theatrical releases.

----------------------

I see them as Blockbuster 2.0. A movie delivery service that was once ahead of its time, then quickly behind. Sure, they will have a crappy studio and some even worse content that will someday allow a buyer to buy some of it. But ultimately, it is doomed.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:00 PM (sX1BW)

124 Latinas for the Women's March demand a "summer of rage," promising to be "ungovernable."

The "ungovernable" chant didn't catch on with the crowd -- too many syllables to pronounce...
Posted by: Ziba at May 19, 2022 03:56 PM (S1hrL)

Promising? Future tense?? Golly!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 19, 2022 04:00 PM (4I/2K)

125 Everybody ought to suck a Lemon.

Posted by: Don at May 19, 2022 04:01 PM (mNhhD)

126 Megan Kelly is a little whore who will say whatever needs to be said to keep her ass on TV. That's how she makes her money; selling it to TV.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (Gqta/)

and this makes her different from any other nuuztard on teevee, how?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at May 19, 2022 04:01 PM (1DgE4)

127 Every state in the union now paying over $4/gal of gas.
==
In the fall, when there is no bread in the stores, here. It will get interesting.
Posted by: Don Lemon

Shut up and eat your mask.

- Dept of Homeboy Security

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2022 04:02 PM (5kI0z)

128 Latinas for the Women's March demand a "summer of rage," promising to be "ungovernable."

***

Well, from what I've seen, they're already unfuckable.

Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 04:02 PM (wb1YC)

129 After the hundredth time you look for a movie and find out they don't have it you start to realize that having a Netflix subscription and not having one is giving you the same results.

--------------

You can only watch so many documentaries on sociopaths.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:02 PM (sX1BW)

130 ugh, so descriptive

Witnessed a co-worker walk by, scratch and sniff, then announced just that.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 19, 2022 04:02 PM (hWaIR)

131 Have we had the Star Trek symposium today?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 19, 2022 04:02 PM (a3Q+t)

132 Hey, if Megyn Kelly says something while wearing a boob-window blouse, well pal, that's good as gold as far as I'm considered.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2022 03:55 PM (XlZ2m)
.........

Makeup was stoked because they didn't have to do her neck.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2022 04:03 PM (v0R5T)

133 The connection to Ava DuVernay is probably an important element. She's made a few documentaries for Netflix over the past few years (she can't get a real directing job after A Wrinkle in Time), and they have the numbers on them. I imagine her, "America is a prison for black people," things don't get great viewership numbers.

She's going to be one of those that gets cut first if Netflix is suddenly concerned with numbers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (LvTSG)

She's a hack who gets treated like she's brilliant , because she's black

Posted by: JoeF. at May 19, 2022 04:03 PM (mR6Gs)

134 Man, if Netflix keeps ditching all of the woke stuff, pretty soon they'll be back to being known as " that streaming channel that doesn't have the movie you're looking for but here's 20 more kind of like it" service.
Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (wb1YC)

I'm watching the Gacy documentary now. They have a knack for doing docs that offer JUST enough new stuff to make familiar stories interesting.

In this case, audio recordings of him before he was convicted, interspersed with video the events, and interviews with folks who know about what he's talking about.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 04:03 PM (YV6PJ)

135
Have we had the Star Trek symposium today?
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 19, 2022 04:02 PM (a3Q+t)

Red Letter Media is thataway....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 19, 2022 04:03 PM (n+4am)

136 The southern tip of Japan is 80km from Taiwan.
That's Cuba to Florida.
There's sub rosa between Japan and Taiwan.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 19, 2022 04:04 PM (Gqta/)

137 ugh, so descriptive

Witnessed a co-worker walk by, scratch and sniff, then announced just that.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 19, 2022 04:02 PM (hWaIR)

I literally just gagged. So, thanks for that.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2022 04:04 PM (DRSnL)

138 Don't worry about that. It's our job to tell folks what's true, and what to think.
Posted by: Mika B. at May 19, 2022 03:58 PM (a3Q+t)
++++
Blow it out your ass, Mika.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2022 04:04 PM (DU+/6)

139 Latinas for the Women's March demand a "summer of rage," promising to be "ungovernable."

So, no burritos or tamales will be made?

Posted by: J. Random Moron at May 19, 2022 04:04 PM (a3Q+t)

140 She's a hack who gets treated like she's brilliant , because she's black
Posted by: JoeF. at May 19, 2022 04:03 PM (mR6Gs)

Say what?

Posted by: Cornell West at May 19, 2022 04:04 PM (PiwSw)

141 I paid $60 for a year's worth of Magellan TV. I'd say it's worth it. Prolly won't renew it, though.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty who never watches the news at May 19, 2022 04:04 PM (jYQlA)

142 130 ugh, so descriptive

Witnessed a co-worker walk by, scratch and sniff, then announced just that.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 19, 2022 04:02 PM (hWaIR)

Had someone in the office yesterday blow lunch in the men's room and left it. Never said a thing to anybody. Then apparently did the same thing in a different men's room.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 19, 2022 04:05 PM (N39Ws)

143 Mr Lemon's hand mysteriously and inexplicably forced its way down his trousers, and then inadvertently ended up under Mr Hice's nose. True story!

Posted by: Ultra-BS at May 19, 2022 04:05 PM (BOJAx)

144 >>> that streaming channel that doesn't have the movie you're looking for but here's 20 more kind of like it" service.
Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (wb1YC)

Jurassic Plazza
Doctor Wierd
Arachnid Guy
Star Fighting
H2Oman
Spookbusters
Downtown Priory
The Misplaced City

Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2022 04:05 PM (XlZ2m)

145 123 I see them as Blockbuster 2.0. A movie delivery service that was once ahead of its time, then quickly behind. Sure, they will have a crappy studio and some even worse content that will someday allow a buyer to buy some of it. But ultimately, it is doomed.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:00 PM (sX1BW)

========

Starting with about a decade ago, they just upped content creation like crazy because they knew the future was in having an exclusive library. Disney and WB were going to cut them off at some point. That was smart. They were looking ahead a decade to when players like WB and Disney would be able to completely cut them off from their content, and they needed something in the place of that. The content creation was smart.

The heedless way they went about creating content was not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:05 PM (LvTSG)

146 You can only watch so many documentaries on sociopaths.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:02 PM (sX1BW)

Heh, I beg to differ. It's an endless supply, one more interesting than the next.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 04:05 PM (YV6PJ)

147 She's going to be one of those that gets cut first if Netflix is suddenly concerned with numbers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (LvTSG)
++++
I can't imagine her junk is very expensive, and Streaming Accounting makes Hollywood Accounting look downright sane and honest. But all of this shit polluting their catalogue isn't free, either. A guy who's a casual user but still paying the fee every month might get turned off by something like that. Good-bye user.

Who knows. Netflix has been a train wreck for years, a cash furnace masquerading as a company.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2022 04:05 PM (DU+/6)

148 So, thanks for that.

Place turned out to be a mafia money laundry.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 19, 2022 04:06 PM (hWaIR)

149 She's a hack who gets treated like she's brilliant , because she's black

**

You're going to have to be more specific.

Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 04:06 PM (wb1YC)

150 Yes, they are already "ungovernable," unfuckable,
and illiterate. But they want abortions even if they don't need one.

Posted by: Ziba at May 19, 2022 04:07 PM (S1hrL)

151 You can only watch so many documentaries on sociopaths.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:02 PM (sX1BW)
---
So it's basically airtime for Democrats!

Posted by: Axeman at May 19, 2022 04:07 PM (krQz2)

152 139 Latinas for the Women's March demand a "summer of rage," promising to be "ungovernable."

So, no burritos or tamales will be made?

Posted by: J. Random Moron at May 19, 2022 04:04 PM (a3Q+t)

-----------------
What they'll unleash will make Montezuma's revenge look like a mild case of heartburn.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 19, 2022 04:07 PM (TNyrE)

153 Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2022 04:05 PM (XlZ2m)

There is a channel on Pluto called The Asylum (I think). Lots of sci-fi and horror knockoffs. Funny stuff.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2022 04:07 PM (DRSnL)

154 Starting with about a decade ago, they just upped content creation like crazy because they knew the future was in having an exclusive library. Disney and WB were going to cut them off at some point. That was smart. They were looking ahead a decade to when players like WB and Disney would be able to completely cut them off from their content, and they needed something in the place of that. The content creation was smart.

-------------

Ultimately, their content sort of sucked. In hindsight, perhaps they should have been known as a documentary provider and tapped a previously limited well.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:07 PM (sX1BW)

155 Fellas! Look at this! There's a place where people still talk about Netflix content. We're back, baby!

Posted by: Writers of 'Tudum' at May 19, 2022 04:07 PM (TCkN3)

156 It's almost as if everythings running on schedule. Look at this press release...

13 Million Freeze-Dried Monkeypox - Smallpox Vaccines Ordered
(Precision Vaccinations)

Denmark-based Bavarian Nordic A/S announced today that the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) exercised the first options under an existing contract to supply a freeze-dried version of the JYNNEOS® smallpox vaccine.

https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/2022/05/18/
13-million-freeze-dried-monkeypox-smallpox-vaccines-ordered

Posted by: Hands at May 19, 2022 04:07 PM (786Ro)

157 147 I can't imagine her junk is very expensive, and Streaming Accounting makes Hollywood Accounting look downright sane and honest. But all of this shit polluting their catalogue isn't free, either. A guy who's a casual user but still paying the fee every month might get turned off by something like that. Good-bye user.

Who knows. Netflix has been a train wreck for years, a cash furnace masquerading as a company.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2022 04:05 PM (DU+/6)

========

I bet their decisions on what to cut are determined by an algorithm as much as by executives. I think she's the expensive part, so there's probably an effort to push her out voluntarily, going somewhere else to peddle her garbage.

Plus, she was in development of some DC property for over a year and never got very far. I would guess that her productions are incredibly wasteful affairs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:08 PM (LvTSG)

158 She's a hack who gets treated like she's brilliant because she's black

**

You're going to have to be more specific.
Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 04:06 PM (wb1YC)

She's a black woman?

Posted by: JoeF. at May 19, 2022 04:08 PM (mR6Gs)

159 Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 04:06 PM (wb1YC)

Heh. I left that one in my head.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2022 04:08 PM (WvPpP)

160 All they have now is their library, and it's mostly garbage. They're going to just be another movie studio soon, and that's going to include theatrical releases.

----

Just got a note that the DVD of "Land of the Pharaohs" is on its way to my mailbox.

Happy fun time.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 19, 2022 04:08 PM (906pl)

161 154 Ultimately, their content sort of sucked. In hindsight, perhaps they should have been known as a documentary provider and tapped a previously limited well.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:07 PM (sX1BW)

==========

The first thing they tried to corner was standup comics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:08 PM (LvTSG)

162 Man, if Netflix keeps ditching all of the woke stuff, pretty soon they'll be back to being known as " that streaming channel that doesn't have the movie you're looking for but here's 20 more kind of like it" service.
Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 03:57 PM (wb1YC)
++++
A problem they're all going to have. Netflix's secret weapon was being first. They got their gigantic catalogue for peanuts and had no competition. But then they got users, so the renewal rates for the content didn't stay peanuts - and others got into the game.

It's a general problem for streaming. To get full coverage, you're paying more than you would for cable. Nobody does that. They have to keep new stuff coming in, but even then they probably can't make *enough* new stuff. The streaming customer is becoming mercenary. Subscribe for 3-6 months, consume what you want 'til you get bored, then drop it and go with someone else for a while. Out of any given three year period, any given service might get six months' worth of subscription fees from the customer. That's where I see it going.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2022 04:08 PM (DU+/6)

163 Just got notified of a tornado warning in my area. I work in the basement (no windows) so I'll be fine.

I blame Putin.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2022 04:08 PM (YIVH2)

164 The first thing they tried to corner was standup comics.

---------------

That's a shame.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:09 PM (sX1BW)

165 160 Just got a note that the DVD of "Land of the Pharaohs" is on its way to my mailbox.

Happy fun time.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 19, 2022 04:08 PM (906pl)

========

That is an...odd little Howard Hawks joint.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:09 PM (LvTSG)

166 Posted by: Hands at May 19, 2022 04:07 PM (786Ro)

So.... seein as how all of us USians have already had the smallpox vaccine...

That must be how many illegals they think we have?

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 19, 2022 04:09 PM (oHd/0)

167 cash furnace

Worked for one of those in 2000.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 19, 2022 04:09 PM (hWaIR)

168 81
Central Calif, CHEAPEST Regular gas in town...

$5.99 a gallon.

i was annoyed when i drove in to work this morning and saw that gas at the station i patronize was $6.19. was $5.99 yesterday.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at May 19, 2022 04:10 PM (v3pYe)

169 97 Man, if Netflix keeps ditching all of the woke stuff, pretty soon they'll be back to being known as " that streaming channel that doesn't have the movie you're looking for but here's 20 more kind of like it" service.
____________

I saw a headline that said Netflix is going to do some sort of reality show at home with the Princesses Harry. They had already axed the insipid content that Meggsie offered up, and now the only thing left for them to do to try and recoup some of the millions they paid those two grifters is to do a Kardashian-style reality show.

LOL, Meggsie finally gets the reality show she always schemed of, er I mean dreamed of!

Problem is, who is going to want to watch a boring show about Harry and Meggsie pretending to be international, jet-setting do-gooders? The Kardashian show made money because they featured lots of nasty sex and sex scandals.

Who is going to waste their time watching Meggsie pretending to be some combination of Martha Stewart and Rosa Parks, or Harry lecturing his kid about white supremacy and equity?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 19, 2022 04:10 PM (MvHI3)

170 @156

Not a coincidence then that WHO meets next week to be assigned global authority over International Health
in every aspect?

Posted by: Ziba at May 19, 2022 04:10 PM (S1hrL)

171 It's almost as if everythings running on schedule. Look at this press release...

13 Million Freeze-Dried Monkeypox - Smallpox Vaccines Ordered
(Precision Vaccinations)

Denmark-based Bavarian Nordic A/S announced today that the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) exercised the first options under an existing contract to supply a freeze-dried version of the JYNNEOS® smallpox vaccine.

===
In all seriousness. FCUK.

they plan to kill 20% of us and make the survivors cripples who need a shot every six months.

Posted by: It can always be worse, and every year proves its true at May 19, 2022 04:10 PM (UuYEh)

172 163 Just got notified of a tornado warning in my area. I work in the basement (no windows) so I'll be fine.

I blame Putin.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2022 04:08 PM (YIVH2)

He stole the Jews Weather Machine?

Who woulda thunk it!

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 19, 2022 04:10 PM (oHd/0)

173 It's a general problem for streaming.

---------------

Disney's is the only one that seems to make sense because they have a lot of content that a never ending group always wants. Well used to want.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:10 PM (sX1BW)

174 Just got notified of a tornado warning in my area. I work in the basement (no windows) so I'll be fine.

I blame Putin.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Congreff should send you $40 billion

Posted by: Hands at May 19, 2022 04:11 PM (786Ro)

175 Technical question for future reference: Once you start filling your tank at the station, the price can't be changed while you are pumping, correct? I mean, at this rate the price will be in continuous change.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2022 04:11 PM (5kI0z)

176 a cash furnace masquerading as a company.

***

Oh, you mean the CBS Viacom business model.

Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (wb1YC)

177 Who is going to waste their time watching Meggsie pretending to be some combination of Martha Stewart and Rosa Parks, or Harry lecturing his kid about white supremacy and equity?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 19, 2022 04:10 PM (MvHI3)

[Narrator] What the Royal couple doesn't know is that we're going to show the outtakes where she's screaming and throwing things! Ratings gold!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (PiwSw)

178
they plan to kill 20% of us and make the survivors cripples who need a shot every six months.
Posted by: It can always be worse, and every year proves its true at May 19, 2022 04:10 PM (UuYEh)

____________

Business making business!

*leans back in chair*
*lights big cigar*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (/U27+)

179 That is an...odd little Howard Hawks joint.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:09 PM (LvTSG)

Naughty, young Joan Collins FTW

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (906pl)

180 Townhall.com
@townhallcom
Kamala Harris says that overturning Roe v. Wade would be on an assault on the right "to live and love without interference from the government."

-
We have a right to live and love without interference from the government? Why didn't someone tell me?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (FVME7)

181 It would be nice to see Google get left behind after they abandoned their bread and butter search engine. In the last two years it's gotten surprisingly mediocre and useless at a time it should only be improving and getting more mindread-y.

Nevermind that they intentionally bury anything that doesn't conform with THE MESSAGE. I personally think they've purposely let the rest go to shit as cover for their manipulation.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (WvPpP)

182 A problem they're all going to have. Netflix's secret weapon was being first. They got their gigantic catalogue for peanuts and had no competition. But then they got users, so the renewal rates for the content didn't stay peanuts - and others got into the game.
---
The game was up once all the individual studios started their own streaming services. They claimed all of the content previously hosted by Netflix or they bought out competing streaming services for their own content. Netflix HAD to become a content creator just to stay afloat, but they produce nothing but woke crap nobody wants to see or obscure foreign stuff that might be good, but no one has heard of before.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (YIVH2)

183 cash furnace

Worked for one of those in 2000.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 19, 2022 04:09 PM (hWaIR)
++++
There were many. There are many now. The outcome now won't be any better than the outcome in 2001-2003. Once people quit buying the bill of goods, it turns fast. And then investors and traders not only stop propping the furnaces up, they seek to destroy every weak enterprise and everyone goes down hard. Even the strong companies see major valuation collapses - like Cisco Systems did last time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (DU+/6)

184 173 Disney's is the only one that seems to make sense because they have a lot of content that a never ending group always wants. Well used to want.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:10 PM (sX1BW)

========

Well, except Disney is weird about its more adult content from Touchstone.

But, still, the three majors (MGM, Paramount, and WB) have been making movies for longer with deeper libraries, so those make sense as well. MGM has been mismanaged for decades, Paramount has no idea what it's doing, but WB seems to have grown through its early day issues to have a pretty settled situation with HBO Max.

Those four could conceivably compete on similar ground for a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (LvTSG)

185 147 I can't imagine her junk is very expensive, and Streaming Accounting makes Hollywood Accounting look downright sane and honest.

hmm. for some reason i read that as "steaming accounting"

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (v3pYe)

186 Just a reminder, Netflix started as a disc mail-in rental service and still has it. Its catalog is pretty good.

Posted by: goodluckduck at May 19, 2022 04:13 PM (pCXlW)

187 Disney's is the only one that seems to make sense because they have a lot of content that a never ending group always wants. Well used to want.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:10 PM (sX1BW)

Couple of days ago I was looking for a movie to watch on amazon Prime... and suddenly there were LOT of Disney movies available in the Bargain Bin ($10 or less to buy). Things that had been reserved for the Disney stream.

I think they've got problems, and are trying to shore up their bottom line to combat a Stockholder revolt.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 19, 2022 04:13 PM (oHd/0)

188 overturning Roe v. Wade would be on an assault on the right "to live
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Hmmmmmm.

Posted by: Unborn Babies Everywhere at May 19, 2022 04:13 PM (WvPpP)

189 It's a general problem for streaming. To get full coverage, you're paying more than you would for cable. Nobody does that. They have to keep new stuff coming in, but even then they probably can't make *enough* new stuff. The streaming customer is becoming mercenary. Subscribe for 3-6 months, consume what you want 'til you get bored, then drop it and go with someone else for a while. Out of any given three year period, any given service might get six months' worth of subscription fees from the customer. That's where I see it going.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2022 04:08 PM (DU+/6)
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I think we'll eventually see the studios and content creators going back to selling their content through streaming services like NF. There's just too many individual streaming services tied to a specific studio (HBO, Paramount, Disney, etc), plus other like NF and Amazon, for them all to survive. Plus, they're all spending bazillions for mediocre-to-shitty original content. That can't go on forever. I expect it will all go back to the original NF model. But we shall see.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2022 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

190 Freeze Dried Monkeypox: It's the richest kind!

Posted by: klaftern at May 19, 2022 04:14 PM (taPSh)

191 I mean, at this rate the price will be in continuous change.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2022 04:11 PM (5kI0z)

Isn't that the objective?

Posted by: Ziba at May 19, 2022 04:14 PM (S1hrL)

192 When we watch tv together, me and the missus, we look for things that will keep our blood pressure stable, and our dinner down in our stomachs where it belongs.
It's a small thing to ask.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2022 04:14 PM (jTmQV)

193 Freeze Dried Monkeypox: It's the richest kind!

Posted by: klaftern

Place them in a bowl, add water, and watch them grow!

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2022 04:14 PM (5kI0z)

194 Nevermind that they intentionally bury anything that doesn't conform with THE MESSAGE. I personally think they've purposely let the rest go to shit as cover for their manipulation.
Posted by: ... at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (WvPpP)
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I think that their search quality is shit because of the manipulation. In non-manipulated areas - purely technical searching, for example, which I do a lot of - it is still top dog in my experience. In everything else, it's increasingly shit because they're playing games with results - false amplification, false suppression, etc. It's increasingly poor at non-technical searches and is worse than useless for anything involving contemporary affairs.

Qwant (a Euroland search engine) does a far better job for general-purpose search, as does Bing and as do several others. Google's censorship and manipulation has ruined its search engine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2022 04:15 PM (DU+/6)

195 If Lemon isn't counter-suing. Well, we have our answer.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 19, 2022 04:15 PM (hDaAc)

196 The problem at Netflix is the pricing model. You get about two months for $25. Drastically overpriced. The average consumer can by a literal *ton* of the same product at the same price from us, and it's enough to last him the rest of his life.

Posted by: Feedlot Manure Company at May 19, 2022 04:16 PM (TCkN3)

197 190 Freeze Dried Monkeypox: It's the richest kind!

Posted by: klaftern at May 19, 2022 04:14 PM (taPSh)

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I think I'll opt for the freeze dried ice cream sandwich.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 19, 2022 04:16 PM (TNyrE)

198 182 The game was up once all the individual studios started their own streaming services. They claimed all of the content previously hosted by Netflix or they bought out competing streaming services for their own content. Netflix HAD to become a content creator just to stay afloat, but they produce nothing but woke crap nobody wants to see or obscure foreign stuff that might be good, but no one has heard of before.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (YIVH2)

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Their idea was "content". It was their driving force. Just get stuff on the service, and people will stick around to check it out.

But when everything is the same kind of dreck (minus a couple of small exceptions every once in a long while), it just becomes noise. Sure, Netflix can spend big guy money on a Will Smith vehicle like Bright, but when it sucks and no one watches it after the first week, the financials get...squiffy.

Apple's streaming service is apparently just a giant money hole (they're producing both Ridley Scott's Napoleon epic and Martin Scorsese's next expensive film amongst many other things), and they're fine with it because they want that library.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:16 PM (LvTSG)

199 So.... seein as how all of us USians have already had the smallpox vaccine...

That must be how many illegals they think we have?
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 19, 2022 04:09 PM (oHd/0)

I didn't. I think they stopped giving them in the early 70's.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2022 04:16 PM (DRSnL)

200 We have a right to live and love without interference from the government? Why didn't someone tell me?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (FVME7)

So if I call dibs on Amber Heard (she will have her own bucket, and not allowed in my bed), is anyone going to oppose me??

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 04:16 PM (YV6PJ)

201 And he will still self righteously whine about Trump's Stormy payoff.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 19, 2022 04:16 PM (R8uWY)

202 187 Couple of days ago I was looking for a movie to watch on amazon Prime... and suddenly there were LOT of Disney movies available in the Bargain Bin ($10 or less to buy). Things that had been reserved for the Disney stream.

I think they've got problems, and are trying to shore up their bottom line to combat a Stockholder revolt.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 19, 2022 04:13 PM (oHd/0)

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Their discs have suddenly become cheaper this week as well (I picked up the 4K of The King's Man for $18 when it had been listed at $30 for months).

I really think there's a bit of panic going on at Disney.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:17 PM (LvTSG)

203 >>> It would be nice to see Google get left behind after they abandoned their bread and butter search engine. In the last two years it's gotten surprisingly mediocre and useless at a time it should only be improving and getting more mindread-y.

Nevermind that they intentionally bury anything that doesn't conform with THE MESSAGE. I personally think they've purposely let the rest go to shit as cover for their manipulation.
Posted by: ... at May 19, 2022 04:12 PM (WvPpP)

I would like to say brave search is better but it's often not. My primary use case for search is looking up all the things people say here that I've never heard of or trying to solve technical problems. It often fails in both the cultural stuff and the technical stuff. I really hope they can get better. They're newcomers so maybe it just takes time.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2022 04:17 PM (XlZ2m)

204 Netflix big weapon is rising gas prices. Pretty soon one month Netflix subscription will cost 2 gallons of gas and a six pack. It will be the only entertainment you can afford.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:17 PM (sX1BW)

205 Ibram X. Kendi had two Netflix projects that just got axed.

Good news. That racist grifter has made more than enough from leftist virtue signallers money with his rapid stupidity ".How not to have a racist baby." Seriously?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2022 04:17 PM (Ut+C0)

206 Freeze Dried Monkeypox: It's the richest kind!

Posted by: klaftern
Place them in a bowl, add water, and watch them grow!
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Freeze Dried Monkeypox vax = Sea Monkies!!!

Now that's how you make a billion.

Posted by: It can always be worse, and every year proves its true at May 19, 2022 04:17 PM (9bFAT)

207 I think we'll eventually see the studios and content creators going back to selling their content through streaming services like NF. There's just too many individual streaming services tied to a specific studio (HBO, Paramount, Disney, etc), plus other like NF and Amazon, for them all to survive. Plus, they're all spending bazillions for mediocre-to-shitty original content. That can't go on forever. I expect it will all go back to the original NF model. But we shall see.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2022 04:13 PM (iFTx/)
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Yup, this is another possibility for sure. I suspect the market remains fractured and customers drift between the options, making the total addressable market smaller unless one of them has a mega-hit like Netflix got with Tiger King and Disney+ got with the Mandalorian, that will convince people to add it to their streaming portfolio for a while.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2022 04:17 PM (DU+/6)

208 I saw a headline that said Netflix is going to do some sort of reality show at home with the Princesses Harry.

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Possible title, Trailer Park In the Palace.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 19, 2022 04:17 PM (FVME7)

209 I use NF more for the physical discs than streaming. My mom likes the NF streaming series though. She watches a lot of the NF series. I don't have the patience for the series. Even S2 of the Witcher is tedious and boring.

But NF doesn't carry the 4K versions of the discs. That's becoming a problem, because most of the new "regular" blu-ray discs don't have an atmos track. I have a 9.1.4 home theater, so I want the atmos track. The fuckers are making you buy the 4K version to get the atmos. That is pissing me off and reducing the value of NF to me.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2022 04:17 PM (iFTx/)

210 I saw a headline that said Netflix is going to do some sort of reality show at home with the Princesses Harry.
........

The sex scenes are gonna be hilarious.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2022 04:19 PM (v0R5T)

211 209 But NF doesn't carry the 4K versions of the discs. That's becoming a problem, because most of the new "regular" blu-ray discs don't have an atmos track. I have a 9.1.4 home theater, so I want the atmos track. The fuckers are making you buy the 4K version to get the atmos. That is pissing me off and reducing the value of NF to me.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2022 04:17 PM (iFTx/)

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If you don't hear Charles Foster Kane whisper "Rosebud" over your head, it's not as Orson Welles intended.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:19 PM (LvTSG)

212 The Sea Monkees caught the last train to Clarksville.

Posted by: klaftern at May 19, 2022 04:19 PM (taPSh)

213 Just before the Dot Com collapse. A start up burnt through (inc'l Saudi) investor cash leasing expensive chi chi office space in then trendy downtown old Pasadena, plenty of room for the sales teams that bizdev never deved. Catered lunch every day too.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 19, 2022 04:19 PM (hWaIR)

214 Martin Scorsese's next expensive film amongst many other things

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Ok, I think I see the problem. See I will watch GoodFellas everytime it is on. But I will never waste another minute on The Irishman - the 90 I gave it to only get halfway through was too much.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:19 PM (sX1BW)

215 Schmegan Killsme still turning tricks?

Posted by: Idahonian at May 19, 2022 04:19 PM (qXAmw)

216 What's an atmos track?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 19, 2022 04:20 PM (906pl)

217 I think Netflix's problem is the same as Hollywood and Disney's problems. Fewer and fewer people aren't paying for woke horseshit anymore.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 19, 2022 04:20 PM (Qhnrt)

218 216 What's an atmos track?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 19, 2022 04:20 PM (906pl)

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Wait for it...

Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2022 04:20 PM (VJsqe)

219 Considering how much I love Goodfellas, the appeal of Scorsese to me is shockingly limited.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2022 04:20 PM (puvc+)

220 are

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 19, 2022 04:20 PM (Qhnrt)

221 Streams will circle back to the cable tv/ satellite model where you pay for a tier of service and get various streaming "channels".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 19, 2022 04:21 PM (R8uWY)

222 I'm so glad I don't have to deal with any streaming service.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 19, 2022 04:21 PM (RU4sa)

223 Ibram X. Kendi had two Netflix projects that just got axed.

***

And a couple of weeks ago the military finally pulled that stupid book of his off the reading list.

If this keeps up he may be forced to go back and pursue his previous career in the field of vehicular food service.

Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 04:21 PM (wb1YC)

224 Disney movies are not on my list even on regular tv.

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2022 04:21 PM (2JoB8)

225 214 Ok, I think I see the problem. See I will watch GoodFellas everytime it is on. But I will never waste another minute on The Irishman - the 90 I gave it to only get halfway through was too much.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:19 PM (sX1BW)

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The Irishman has more in common with Silence than Goodfellas.

The Irishman is about an old man looking back on his life. Goodfellas is about a young man living at the height of depravity (and the ensuing fall).

People seem to assume that every one of his movies is trying to be Goodfellas. I wrote a whole thing about it a while back. The movie that probably most accurately reflects him as a filmmaker overall is The Age of Innocence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:21 PM (LvTSG)

226 I saw a headline that said Netflix is going to do some sort of reality show at home with the Princesses Harry.
.
When we watch tv together, me and the missus, we look for things that will keep our blood pressure stable, and our dinner down in our stomachs where it belongs.
It's a small thing to ask.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2022 04:14 PM (jTmQV)
........

You might want to give that one a miss.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2022 04:22 PM (v0R5T)

227 216 What's an atmos track?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 19, 2022 04:20 PM (906pl)

Dolby Atmos gives another channel for your speakers, where you have speakers pointed towards your ceiling... where the sound bounces off to give you 'surround' sound... instead of having speakers behind you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 19, 2022 04:22 PM (oHd/0)

228 People seem to assume that every one of his movies is trying to be Goodfellas.

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I just assume when you make a movie, you want it to be good. Like Goodfellas. Not suck. Like the Irishman.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:22 PM (sX1BW)

229 You might want to give that one a miss.
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Concur.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 19, 2022 04:22 PM (RU4sa)

230 228 People seem to assume that every one of his movies is trying to be Goodfellas.

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I just assume when you make a movie, you want it to be good. Like Goodfellas. Not suck. Like the Irishman.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 19, 2022 04:22 PM (sX1BW)

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The Irishman is great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

231 Another day like today and all the DOW gains for the Biden legacy will be gone

Posted by: SMOD at May 19, 2022 04:23 PM (RHGPo)

232 >>>Kelly notes that the lawyer does not deny that Lemon's insurer could have made a payment.

Since when do "insurers" pay for the "hush money" option during settlement? Insurers just want the suit to go away, and frankly don't give a sh*t about your reputation. Hush money costs extra, someone concerned with Lemon's reputation has he interest in paying it.

Posted by: mikethemoose at May 19, 2022 04:23 PM (2t5+w)

233 Michael Tracey
@mtracey
Bernie Sanders just voted YES on funding the US proxy war in Ukraine to the tune of $40 billion. So now it's officially on the record that every national politician associated with the activist "Left" is completely on board with escalating the war. That's what the "Left" is now

Posted by: SMOD at May 19, 2022 04:23 PM (RHGPo)

234
So.... seein as how all of us USians have already had the smallpox vaccine...

That must be how many illegals they think we have?
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 19, 2022 04:09 PM (oHd/0)

Didn't they stop giving the smallpox vaccine as a required shot some time ago? We would now have a generation or two of people who aren't vaccinated. I remember in Gulf War Redux, husband had to get smallpox vaccine again, along with a bunch of other stuff, but it was only for people in theater. I don't think my kids have had the smallpox vaccine because it was "eradicated" in the 60's.

Posted by: Moki at May 19, 2022 04:23 PM (JrN/x)

235 Buffalo Shooter was a fervent Fraudciist. He wore a HAZMAT suit to school.

Posted by: Axeman at May 19, 2022 04:23 PM (krQz2)

236 Wait for it...
Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2022 04:20 PM (VJsqe)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 04:23 PM (YV6PJ)

237 211 209 But NF doesn't carry the 4K versions of the discs. That's becoming a problem, because most of the new "regular" blu-ray discs don't have an atmos track. I have a 9.1.4 home theater, so I want the atmos track. The fuckers are making you buy the 4K version to get the atmos. That is pissing me off and reducing the value of NF to me.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2022 04:17 PM (iFTx/)

=========

If you don't hear Charles Foster Kane whisper "Rosebud" over your head, it's not as Orson Welles intended.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:19 PM (LvTSG)
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The quality of the atmos mixes varies, but on a well mixed track the sound envelope is amazing. It's literally like you're right there in the movie. And with 9.1.4 there's so many speakers you don't hear the sound coming from this or that speaker, like you do with 5.1. The sound seems to be coming from everywhere -- just like you were actually there. Once you experience that, it's hard to give it up, although the receiver does a good job of taking non-atmos tracks and extrapolating the height speakers.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2022 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

238
Concur.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 19, 2022 04:22 PM (RU4sa)

Thanks for your link to Bayou Renaissance Man - that was a very good read!

Posted by: Moki at May 19, 2022 04:24 PM (JrN/x)

239 Posted by: Moki at May 19, 2022 04:23 PM (JrN/x)

Yeah, looks like they quit giving them as routine in 1971.

My bad...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 19, 2022 04:24 PM (oHd/0)

240 When does Dolby get the Loo track where it sounds like the actors are yelling their lines from the bathroom?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 19, 2022 04:24 PM (R8uWY)

241 I don't think my kids have had the smallpox vaccine because it was "eradicated" in the 60's.

Posted by: Moki

Illegal aliens brought it back.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2022 04:24 PM (5kI0z)

242 I been getting lucky with MUMR sightings when I refresh lately.

Posted by: Hands at May 19, 2022 04:25 PM (786Ro)

243 There's some pretty stomach turning stuff on TV these days.
Anybody ever watch "My Feet Are Killing Me"?

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2022 04:25 PM (v0R5T)

244
None of you people understand how this works. You go about your lives, looking around at the world, and thinking "ZOMG - this sucks dick, balls, taint and ass!"

But for pennies a day, my company offers you content that makes the real world somehow seem tolerable. Be grateful.

Posted by: Ted Sarandos at May 19, 2022 04:25 PM (o0I+B)

245 One thing I'll say about search engines, and the Brave people have talked about this, but there is passive bias and active bias. Active bias is when you pay your employees to promote certain things and hide other things directly in your results. The passive comes in when one side writes most of the words and does so in a coordinated repetitive manner.

A search engine will always trend towards an association of terms with those ideas that are most commonly presented under the belief that commonality correlates with consensus. The only solution to this is to actively look for opposing views and track their click-throughs. But it is tough.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2022 04:25 PM (XlZ2m)

246 $20, same as in town.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 04:23 PM (YV6PJ)

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My faith in the horde never faltered.

Although I think the answer needs updating for inflation. Now it ought to be "Market price - same as in town."

Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2022 04:25 PM (VJsqe)

247 237 The quality of the atmos mixes varies, but on a well mixed track the sound envelope is amazing. It's literally like you're right there in the movie. And with 9.1.4 there's so many speakers you don't hear the sound coming from this or that speaker, like you do with 5.1. The sound seems to be coming from everywhere -- just like you were actually there. Once you experience that, it's hard to give it up, although the receiver does a good job of taking non-atmos tracks and extrapolating the height speakers.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2022 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

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I have a good meatspace friend with an Atmos setup that I've never gotten the chance to experience. He swears by it.

I barely notice my own little 5.1 system, to be honest. Hell, most of what I watch is in mono anyway, but when I do do surround, my attention ends up so forward focused that the surround barely gets noticed.

I just like to poke fun at Atmos lovers. I have nothing against it. It's just a bit of fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:25 PM (LvTSG)

248 Wait for it...
Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2022 04:20 PM (VJsqe)

$20, same as in town.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 04:23 PM (YV6PJ)
........

That was before Joeflation.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2022 04:26 PM (v0R5T)

249 I don't think my kids have had the smallpox vaccine because it was "eradicated" in the 60's.
Posted by: Moki
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Hi Moki!

Neither of our daughters have had the shot.
I was last jabbed in 2003, prior to going to the sandbox, and 1987, when I first joined the Army.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 19, 2022 04:26 PM (hOlji)

250 I assume every Scorsese movie is trying to be like the Book Of The Saints (I think that's what it was called )

Posted by: Hands at May 19, 2022 04:26 PM (786Ro)

251 There's some pretty stomach turning stuff on TV these days.

Posted by: wth

I have several hundred DVDs of pre 2000 movies and documentaries. I haven't watched a television program in over a decade. I won't let my children be exposed to it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2022 04:26 PM (5kI0z)

252 We need a minister of misrembering

Posted by: 7man at May 19, 2022 04:27 PM (qwO6y)

253 Hillz-a-poppin' says you people want to criminalize miscarriages and stillbirths.

.
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Please listen to @RepLucyMcBath as she speaks for so many women who have had miscarriages and stillbirths-tragic losses the right wing seeks to criminalize.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 19, 2022 04:28 PM (FVME7)

254 We need a minister of misrembering
Posted by: 7man at May 19, 2022 04:27 PM (qwO6y)
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Stay in your lane, motherfucker.

Posted by: Legacy Media "Retrospective" Segments at May 19, 2022 04:28 PM (DU+/6)

255 We enjoy documentary programs that feature excellent nature photography and drone vids, and, thankfully, those are abundant. For the most part they are non-political although you will get the occasional lecture about climate change.
You can't even buy a plane seat without those anymore...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2022 04:28 PM (jTmQV)

256 243 There's some pretty stomach turning stuff on TV these days.
Anybody ever watch "My Feet Are Killing Me"?
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No, but I spend a lot of time on Dr. Pimple Popper now and again.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 19, 2022 04:28 PM (D8mow)

257 Bernie Sanders just voted YES on funding the US proxy war in Ukraine to the tune of $40 billion. So now it's officially on the record that every national politician associated with the activist "Left" is completely on board with escalating the war. That's what the "Left" is now
____________

Yep, just f*cking warmongers, pissing away billions of our dollars on a foreign war that's in Europe's backyard and should be Europe's problem.

Just think how many more illegal aliens could have been fed and housed with that $40 billion! Or how many kids could have had their transgender surgeries! Or how many more elections could have been stolen for Dim candidates!

So many better ways to spend that money! Such a waste to give it to the corrupt international military-industrial complex instead!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 19, 2022 04:28 PM (MvHI3)

258 I was last jabbed in 2003, prior to going to the sandbox, and 1987, when I first joined the Army.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 19, 2022 04:26 PM (hOlji)

Yep, that's when my husband had his smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, etc. We had to get cholera and yellow fever before going overseas when I first joined up, but I don't know that that's the case now. Both made me sick, but not nearly as sick as the stupid shingles vaccine.

Posted by: Moki at May 19, 2022 04:29 PM (JrN/x)

259 I won't let my children be exposed to it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
__

Our younger daughter feels the same way.

Her and her hubby do not allow the girls to watch TV, don't even own one.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 19, 2022 04:29 PM (hOlji)

260 216 What's an atmos track?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 19, 2022 04:20 PM (906pl)
____________________________

Atmos is the latest surround-sound format by Dolby. DTS has DTS:X or something similar. They are both object-oriented formats, meaning that they can handle almost any speaker configuration and any amount of speakers. They also both added support for "height" speakers. Those are speakers mounted on your ceiling. Or, if you can't or won't do that, there are speakers that fire at the ceiling and reflect the sound back down. The "9.1.4" I mentioned means I have 14 speakers in total: 9 surrounding me at ear-level, a sub, and 4 mounted on the ceiling.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2022 04:30 PM (iFTx/)

261 Read the 98 page leak of Alito's draft. It won't take THAT long. Just sayin'

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 19, 2022 04:30 PM (glGDV)

262 None of you people understand how this works. You go about your lives, looking around at the world, and thinking "ZOMG - this sucks dick, balls, taint and ass!"

But for pennies a day, my company offers you content that makes the real world somehow seem tolerable. Be grateful.
Posted by: Ted Sarandos at May 19, 2022 04:25 PM (o0I+B)
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Sorry, Ted...You ain't got nothin' on the ol' Ace of Spades HQ, where all quality Morons go for their content!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2022 04:30 PM (YIVH2)

263 Posted by: Holy Crap at May 19, 2022 04:30 PM (glGDV)

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What did you find in there that we are missing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

264 Both made me sick, but not nearly as sick as the stupid shingles vaccine.
Posted by: Moki
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Never had the shingles jab, and frankly, will not get jabbed for anything ever again.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 19, 2022 04:31 PM (hOlji)

265 Evidently the plan is to Build Back Ukraine Better. Who knew?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 19, 2022 04:31 PM (D8mow)

266 I haven't watched a television program in over a decade. I won't let my children be exposed to it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2022 04:26 PM (5kI0z)
........

Last night I watched Married At First Sight.
When I woke up this morning I decided to take First Grade again but couldn't remember how to put on my pants.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2022 04:31 PM (v0R5T)

267 I didn't. I think they stopped giving them in the early 70's.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2022 04:16 PM (DRSnL)

I think a lot of the military did even up til recently (if not still currently.) Mom and Dad are, I am not (1975 vintage.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2022 04:31 PM (3NKiY)

268 The first time I watched a 4K movie on a 4K tv, I was sold. Lower resolution seems blurred now.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 19, 2022 04:32 PM (Qhnrt)

269 Don't forget ectopic pregnancies! We goan throw all you bitches in jail if you don't let a failed pregnancy kill you!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 19, 2022 04:32 PM (R8uWY)

270 Megan, dear...you're supposed to be a professional. Start looking like one.

Posted by: creeper at May 19, 2022 04:32 PM (cTCuP)

271 When I woke up this morning I decided to take First Grade again but couldn't remember how to put on my pants.
Posted by: wth

That's it. You're barred from the Book Thread

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 19, 2022 04:32 PM (kf6Ak)

272 I was last jabbed in 2003, prior to going to the sandbox, and 1987, when I first joined the Army.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 19, 2022 04:26 PM (hOlji)

Yep, that's when my husband had his smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, etc. We had to get cholera and yellow fever before going overseas when I first joined up, but I don't know that that's the case now. Both made me sick, but not nearly as sick as the stupid shingles vaccine.
Posted by: Moki at May 19, 2022 04:29 PM (JrN/x)

I guess the Coast Guard didn't care if they got smallpox, because I'm almost positive my husband never got the vaccine. And since we were both born in the early 70's we didn't get them with our other childhood vaccines.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2022 04:32 PM (DRSnL)

273 >>> Hillz-a-poppin' says you people want to criminalize miscarriages and stillbirths.

.
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Please listen to @RepLucyMcBath as she speaks for so many women who have had miscarriages and stillbirths-tragic losses the right wing seeks to criminalize.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 19, 2022 04:28 PM (FVME7)

Ok in this meeting of rightwingers wanting to ban everything I'd like to talk about hand-babies.

All in favor of criminalizing hand-babies say "Aye".

Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2022 04:32 PM (XlZ2m)

274 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Please listen to @RepLucyMcBath as she speaks for so many women who have had miscarriages and stillbirths-tragic losses the right wing seeks to criminalize.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 19, 2022 04:28 PM (FVME7)
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How, exactly, is the right wing trying to criminalize tragic--yet perfectly NATURAL--abortions?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2022 04:32 PM (YIVH2)

275 I just like to poke fun at Atmos lovers. I have nothing against it. It's just a bit of fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:25 PM (LvTSG)
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I'm used to it from my brothers by now, lol

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2022 04:32 PM (iFTx/)

276 I am holding out for 16k.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 19, 2022 04:33 PM (R8uWY)

277 >>>That's what the "Left" is now

Big D
Spending your money.....
To create safe spaces.....
To launder their money.....

Posted by: mikethemoose at May 19, 2022 04:33 PM (2t5+w)

278 "247 237 The quality of the atmos mixes varies, but on a well mixed track the sound envelope is amazing. It's literally like you're right there in the movie."

Have you heard a concert recorded for it?

Posted by: goodluckduck at May 19, 2022 04:33 PM (pCXlW)

279 Hey Sharkman, working my way through the Abner Fortis books. Good stuff.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

They really are. Military Leadership 101.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 19, 2022 04:33 PM (tgJVA)

280 Sorry, Ted...You ain't got nothin' on the ol' Ace of Spades HQ, where all quality Morons go for their content!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2022 04:30 PM (YIVH2)

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Content?

Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2022 04:33 PM (VJsqe)

281 The first time I watched a 4K movie on a 4K tv, I was sold. Lower resolution seems blurred now.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 19, 2022 04:32 PM (Qhnrt)
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4k is nice if you a good enough and big enough set to take advantage of it. I do now - I got it about a year ago - and it does kick ass. Most of I watch is still plain old HD, though. On the plus side, upscaling from 1080p to 4k is pretty easy (one of the reasons why 4k became the standard rather than 2k - it's a clean double in each dimension, which is easy to do) and both my streaming box and my Blu-Ray player have very solid upconversion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2022 04:34 PM (DU+/6)

282 So apparently the new talking points are to conflate miscarriages and stillbirths with abortion the same way they have tried to stoke the gun homicide figures with suicides.

It's great watching the Boomer feminists flip out over the fact that their pet cause is going down and no one cares.

Posted by: Azathoth at May 19, 2022 04:34 PM (wb1YC)

283 261 Read the 98 page leak of Alito's draft. It won't take THAT long. Just sayin'
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It's not that bad. The text of the opinion is only 67 1/2 pages, because the last 30 pages are an appendix.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 19, 2022 04:34 PM (MvHI3)

284 276 I am holding out for 16k.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 19, 2022 04:33 PM (R8uWY)

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You got a spare $100,000?

https://tinyurl.com/2p88vtu5

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 19, 2022 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

285 Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO
Biden's Energy Secretary just told me, under oath, that Biden's anti-American energy policies have had NO effect on the price of gas. NONE. What a joke

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Damn the bad luck!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 19, 2022 04:34 PM (FVME7)

286 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2022 04:34 PM (3NKiY)

287 @260, thanks for the explanation. That's kinda....hardcore.

I just have a teevee.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 19, 2022 04:34 PM (906pl)

288
So many better ways to spend that money! Such a waste to give it to the corrupt international military-industrial complex instead!
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 19, 2022 04:28 PM (MvHI3)

Meh. When our great grandchildren and their children and their children's children (and so on and so on) are living in their china enslavement camps, paying it off perpetually, it won't much matter to them what we spent it on.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 04:35 PM (YV6PJ)

289 I get so tired of the left being so unable to argue a point on its merits that they have to make up a lie and scare people to their viewpoint.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 19, 2022 04:35 PM (R8uWY)

290 276 I am holding out for 16k.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 19, 2022 04:33 PM (R8uWY)

LOL

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 19, 2022 04:35 PM (Qhnrt)

291 I guess the Coast Guard didn't care if they got smallpox, because I'm almost positive my husband never got the vaccine. And since we were both born in the early 70's we didn't get them with our other childhood vaccines.
Posted by: Jordan61
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Most Coasties have no reason to deploy to the sandbox...just saying.
With Saddam threatening to use bioweapons on us, seemed prudent.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 19, 2022 04:35 PM (hOlji)

292
I mean... would rather watch Netflix, or get herpes?

This is America. You already have herpes. So you might as well watch Netflix, anyway.

Posted by: Ted Sarandos at May 19, 2022 04:35 PM (o0I+B)

293 I know it's just graft that Leftists media shovels money to Leftists but don't get that bottom line.
Maybe they are making bundle s of cash and don't care.

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2022 04:36 PM (2JoB8)

294 Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2022 04:35 PM (YV6PJ)
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God willing, Jesus will have returned well before then.

With the way things are speeding up and escalating, the next six months will be lit.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 19, 2022 04:37 PM (hOlji)

295 Have you heard a concert recorded for it?

Posted by: goodluckduck at May 19, 2022 04:33 PM (pCXlW)

Live Baby Live by INXS has an Atmos track. I'm not sure it's better than the 5.1 track, just different. The music is still forward, mostly, with the height filled by crowd noise.

That's how I remember it at least.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 19, 2022 04:37 PM (wBpKf)

296 Yup, this is another possibility for sure. I suspect the market remains fractured and customers drift between the options, making the total addressable market smaller unless one of them has a mega-hit like Netflix got with Tiger King and Disney+ got with the Mandalorian, that will convince people to add it to their streaming portfolio for a while.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2022 04:17 PM (DU+/6)
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Agreed, although I wonder how many of these supposed big hits are actually big hits. Very few if any of the companies clearly disclose the number of viewers for their shows. You only hear -- and usually through paid promoters or influencers -- how this or that show is such a big huge hit. But without an actual box office or accurate viewership numbers, it's impossible to verify and that makes me skeptical. And none of these leftwing companies would ever lie about the popularity of their content, would they?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2022 04:38 PM (iFTx/)

297 Nood SI model

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 19, 2022 04:38 PM (hOlji)

298 I paid him because finally came up with the correct answer to the question I originally asked him.

Posted by: Don "Taintmulch" Lemon at May 19, 2022 04:38 PM (LaNzR)

299 So apparently the new talking points are to conflate miscarriages and stillbirths with abortion
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Doesn't even make sense because miscarriages and stillbirths are typically unexpected medical events that are not caused by deliberate intervention, and the woman doesn't go to an abortionist for treatment.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 19, 2022 04:38 PM (MvHI3)

300 I don't think my kids have had the smallpox vaccine because it was "eradicated" in the 60's.
Posted by: Moki
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Illegal aliens brought it back.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

No. Humans were the vectors and hosts so when the last human who was carrying it was cured, small Pox was irradicated.
They keep finding dust covered bottles in labs; but, the disease was wiped out in the wild. IIRC the last outbreak was in Tito's Yogoslavia (quite a while ago).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2022 04:39 PM (qh3o6)

301 Relax, everybody!

Pelosi Says "Yes" She's "Satisfied" With Biden's Response To The Baby Formula Crisis He Ignored

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 19, 2022 04:42 PM (FVME7)

302 Criminalizing miscarriages. That's new.

Maybe she means miscarriages of justice. Something she should be familiar with.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2022 04:42 PM (QVW9v)

303 I have information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary
Clinton.

Posted by: An Unborn Baby at May 19, 2022 04:43 PM (QVW9v)

304 All in favor of criminalizing hand-babies say "Aye".
Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2022 04:32 PM (XlZ2m)

Aye!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 19, 2022 04:43 PM (VghRo)

305 221 Streams will circle back to the cable tv/ satellite model where you pay for a tier of service and get various streaming "channels".
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

We're already there. I've been checking out various streaming services for future consideration. All the ones I've checked have tier services. At the moment, they are still cheaper than cable tv/satellite.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 19, 2022 04:44 PM (D8mow)

306
I have a good meatspace friend with an Atmos setup that I've never gotten the chance to experience. He swears by it.

I barely notice my own little 5.1 system, to be honest. Hell, most of what I watch is in mono anyway, but when I do do surround, my attention ends up so forward focused that the surround barely gets noticed.

I just like to poke fun at Atmos lovers. I have nothing against it. It's just a bit of fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi

I had to get my knuckles up of the floor to type this: I use a 3.1 system. I know. I should be ashamed, but I am not which is sort of shameful too.

Speaking of Don Lemon, you could say he got his lemons squeezed until the juice, oh you know thing thing.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 19, 2022 04:49 PM (2mSQi)

307 Don Lemon Is the Kindest, Bravest, Warmest, Most Wonderful Human Being I’ve Ever Known in My Life.

Posted by: Dustin Hice at May 19, 2022 04:53 PM (AmoqO)

308 Streaming media went from a duopoly (Netflix and Amazon Prime) to the Balkans and blood feuds. This latest development is less than optimal which is like saying "duh." If one was to subscribe to all the major services, the cost becomes stupidly expensive. There is either going to be a consolidation of services, a few more CNN+ outcomes, or a collapse in subscription fees. Roku is most interesting because they have the largest user count on their platform and are rapidly building up their media content. Their Roku channel could be that agnostic place for a low cost consolidation. One thing for sure is cable is toast.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 19, 2022 05:03 PM (2mSQi)

309 Lemon is another who needs new job as a Sanatation
Worker cleaning up the mess he left behind

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 19, 2022 06:30 PM (wGqjj)

310 80 Robert Barnes the attorney who streams with Viva Frei or a different Robert Barnes?
Posted by: Count de Monet

Same

Posted by: Grey Man at May 19, 2022 06:52 PM (JzPZs)

311 I don't see how this would be allowed. If you accused someone and "remember differently" the judge should charge you with making false statements. You shouldn't be allowed to make these statements, get paid off under the table, and then just go "oops" especially since it had to have cost the tax payer money.

Posted by: Rbastid at May 19, 2022 07:52 PM (rmUMU)

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