Media Companies Posting Their L's: Google, Amazon, Instagram, Disney All Laying Off Employees

Held over from Thursday, so you know it's all the hottest breaking newzzz!

But I added a lot more than you saw on Thursday.

The Biden economy's so hot even the tech giants are shedding staff.

Google has laid off hundreds of employees working on its hardware, voice assistance and engineering teams as part of cost-cutting measures.
The cuts come as Google looks towards "responsibly investing in our company's biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead," the company said in a statement.
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Google is increasingly focusing on investments in artificial intelligence, as is rival Microsoft, with the latter introducing a Copilot feature that incorporates artificial intelligence into products like search engine Bing, browser Edge as well as Windows for its corporate customers.
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The cuts follow pledges by executives of Google and its parent company Alphabet to reduce costs. A year ago, Google said it would lay off 12,000 employees or around 6% of its workforce.
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Google is not the only technology company cutting back. In the past year, Meta -- the parent company of Facebook -- has slashed more than 20,000 jobs to reassure investors. Meta's stock price gained about 178% in 2023.

Instagram is also cutting 60 jobs.

Instagram has cut 60 technical program manager positions, eliminating a layer of management at the company, according to a new report from The Information. The impacted employees have two months to apply for other jobs at the company. After the two month period, their employment will be terminated if they are unable to secure a different role at the company.

Amazon, which bought Twitch for some reason, is now cutting staff at the Porn For Kidz site.

Amazon is laying off about 500 employees in its Twitch livestreaming unit, an executive overseeing the unit wrote in a memo to staffers.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy said the cuts were being made in an effort to "rightsize our company."
Amazon also cut staffers in its Prime Video and Amazon Studios units on Wednesday.
is laying off about 500 employees in its Twitch livestreaming unit, an executive overseeing the business wrote in a memo to staffers Wednesday.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy said the cuts were being made in an effort to "rightsize our company" and align its headcount with the current size of the business.
Amazon acquired Twitch for almost $1 billion in 2014. The site is most known as a popular livestreaming platform for video gamers.

No, it's not. It's best known for Twitch Thots who show their tits and camel-toes and do porny ASMRs for children, begging kids to send them cash.

Twitch thots are always "accidentally" showing their nipples. After a Twitch Thot stopped pretending to accidentally show her nipples and just showed her nipples while daring Twitch to ban her for it, Twitch changed its terms of service to allow women to show their nipples to children. They called this "Artistic Nudity."

They then walked that back and now Twitch Thots will be forced to the old system of "accidentally" showing their nipples again.

Amazon is also cutting staff at their Amazon Video studios.

By the way, Amazon will start blasting commercials into your face on Amazon Prime starting January 29, unless you fork over another $3 per month.

NBC "News" is also laying off its, giggle, "journalists."

NBC News was undergoing a series of layoffs across the division on Thursday, impacting what was described as a double digit number of employees in its workforce.
A source familiar with the plans said that the number of those laid off would be in the 50 to 100 range out of several thousand employees...

The job cutbacks are the latest to hit a media outlet, with other organizations taking more severe action to trim their staffs. CNN cut hundreds of employees in 2022, while NPR last year trimmed about 10% of its workforce. The Washington Post recently offered buyouts that saw the departure of many well known journalists as it sought to cut its staff by 240.

Disney is also laying off workers at one of its four failing movie companies, Pixar.

Disney-owned animation studio Pixar is poised to undergo layoffs this year, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. While sources at the company said the layoffs would be significant and as high as 20% -- or reductions that would see Pixar's team of 1,300 dropped to less than 1,000 over the coming months -- Pixar says those numbers are too high.

Oh, Pixar says? Well no one at Disney ever lies, so.

Imagine having not one but four separate movie divisions and seeing them all fail massively at the same time.

And then, for some reason, you get to keep your job, claiming "Covid did it." No really, they're still saying that The Bob Iger Grooming Company is seeing every division and every movie bomb due to covid.

How bad is The Bob Iger Grooming Company doing? This bad: For the first time in history, Disney and the Disney-bought-and-ruined company Pixar have been shut out of nominations at the biggest animation award show.

For the first time in 32 years, Disney and Pixar films were completely shut out of the Best Animated Feature category at one of Hollywood's major animated awards bodies.
Though Disney released both Elemental and Wish to theaters in 2023, neither film landed among the nominees in the Annie Awards' top bracket, marking the first time that's happened since the category was introduced in 1992.
The Annie Awards honor the best in animated excellence each year, and are often a predictor of the Best Animated Feature Oscar contenders each year -- with Disney and/or Pixar scoring big nominations (or victories) for Best Animated Feature at the Annies every calendar year for over three decades.

Die, media. Die screaming.

Update: Disney is re-releasing movies they claim didn't get enough exposure due to having been released during covid.

The first one of these films to be released is Soul. But Disney's hopes for Vengeance Box office are dashed. The film made $99 per showing.

Less than a hundred buck per showing. That's like 8 tickets.

Thanks to andycanuck.

Update: Film Threat raved about The Beekeeper.

A note on bias: Chris Gore is biased in favor of a healthy Hollywood industry. This causes him to really go crazy for mid-budget films, which Hollywood has all but abandoned in the age of Marvel.

It doesn't mean he's a bad critic -- just that he gets especially positive for a certain kind of mid-budget movie that Hollywood used to make a lot of.

Is he overdoing it here? I dunno, but I intend to find out. I'll be seeing it this week. I was going to see it yesterday but then I got tired and lazy. Went to bed by 9:45 pm.

Gore also went bananas for the "Big Straight Energy" of the romcom Anyone But You.

As with actioners, Hollywood all but abandoned romcom in favor of nothing but CGI-filled blockbusters. Those, and Diverse Oscar Bait Snoozers.

Allen Ng is less invested in the health of Hollywood and said both are good. Not a rave, but he said they were worth seeing.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:55 PM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

2 They will lay off, yet the execs will still get millions in bonuses.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

3 SPONGE!!! And because the post was deleted, I'm ahead of the post now, too.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 11, 2024 03:42 PM (fxCK2)

4 Learn to mine coal.

Posted by: huerfano at January 15, 2024 04:55 PM (Q4KYm)

5 The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s latest box office humiliation is so humiliating; after shaking my head in disbelief like a cartoon character, I had to double-check it.

But glory be, it’s true. It’s true!

Yes, Pixar’s Soul is a 2020 title produced for wide theatrical release and thwarted by all the stupid, anti-science social distancing during the pandemic. Yes, it was released on Disney+, the Disney Grooming Syndicate’s money-losing streaming service… I am a fair man who readily acknowledges all those caveats.

Still, y’all…

Soul, a feature-length animated film starring a black character, was released into 1,350 theaters over the Martin Luther King Jr. four-day holiday weekend and grossed exactly — get ready to laugh — $557,000.

That’s about 25 percent of the projected two million, which makes my heart sing.

On Friday, Soul grossed a measly $99 per theater.
http://tinyurl.com/ympdec9w

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 15, 2024 04:56 PM (2yu8s)

6 Diebig conglomerates

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2024 04:57 PM (fwDg9)

7 "No, it's not. It's best known for Twitch Thots who show their tits and camel-toes and do porny ASMRs for children, begging kids to send them cash."

All I know about Twitch is the thots were told they couldn't just live stream in their bikinis, they had to be in a body of water, in order to justify the skimpy outfits.

So a bunch of them put kiddie pools in their living rooms.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 04:58 PM (Tzvqf)

8 The Grooming Company is getting what it deserves, good and hard.

Libs of Tik Tok reports today the Grooming Company has men in dresses on a web page advertising an event for five year old girls.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 15, 2024 04:58 PM (3m5cu)

9 They will lay off, yet the execs will still get millions in bonuses.
Posted by: Sponge

They're not in the business of growing business, they're in the business of growing profits. Laying people off increases their..... well, it decreases their losses. So they earned those bonuses!

Posted by: mikeski at January 15, 2024 04:58 PM (DgGvY)

10 Needs more Nipples.

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2024 04:59 PM (RVloE)

11 Next stop for these losers: Big Mikes Truck Emporium and Glory Hole.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 15, 2024 05:00 PM (tT6L1)

12 They will lay off, yet the execs will still get millions in bonuses.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

Why, it's almost as if these mega media corps don't exist to make profits, but to be the propaganda arm of the Global Industrial Complex.

Almost.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:00 PM (Tzvqf)

13 Needs more Nipples.
Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2024 04:59 PM (RVloE)

Bears repeating.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 15, 2024 05:01 PM (4I/2K)

14 This is related to Buck's Morning Rant today. Companies are no longer in the business of growing--or even maintaining--their customer base.

They are solely in the business of looting themselves, cannibalizing whatever is left, and moving on to another business to destroy.

The people who run these companies have no ideas on how to make them "profitable" anymore.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2024 05:01 PM (BpYfr)

15 LOL!

Moar.
Of.
This.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 15, 2024 05:02 PM (WsTvr)

16 All I know about Twitch is the thots were told they couldn't just live stream in their bikinis, they had to be in a body of water, in order to justify the skimpy outfits.

So a bunch of them put kiddie pools in their living rooms.
Posted by: BurtTC

Bikinis are clingier when they're wet. That sounds like a win.

.....what?

Posted by: mikeski at January 15, 2024 05:02 PM (DgGvY)

17 Next stop for these losers: Big Mikes Truck Emporium and Glory Hole.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 15, 2024 05:00 PM (tT6L1)
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Are Paul, Sid, and raimondo going to be laid off soon?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2024 05:02 PM (BpYfr)

18 Are business executives still talking about "rightsizing"? I thought we mocked that out of existence back in the 90s. Back in the day I pissed off some honchos because another employee commented on the awkward way a tree was growing in a niche in the office building. I said "No problem. They'll just rightsize it." The Exalted don't like being laughed at. Like someone else Thomas More commented on.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 15, 2024 05:02 PM (1bNHn)

19 They are ALL CONSPIRATORS against Biden's awesome economy!

Don't add to it by being a prosperity-denier!

Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2024 05:02 PM (OaZlZ)

20 Speaking of die. People should refer to it as diversity inclusion and equity as DIE. It'll make a few veins pop in the leftist's heads.

Posted by: ryukyu at January 15, 2024 05:02 PM (hR0kJ)

21 updated, added The Beekeeper rave from Film Threat

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:02 PM (KRtlO)

22 Media Layoffs are Actually a Good. Thing, Here’s Why

File that under headlines you’ll never see in the MSM despite them spinning inflation, unemployment, death of manufacturing in the US, etc for years.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2024 05:02 PM (Hkcdp)

23 Is it possible to send dead flowers to these poor souls? Boxes of candied insects?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 15, 2024 05:03 PM (1bNHn)

24 >>So a bunch of them put kiddie pools in their living rooms.

Necessity is mother on invention.

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2024 05:03 PM (RVloE)

25 what's an ASMR?

(do I want to know?)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 15, 2024 05:03 PM (xDDY9)

26 Best economy ever, Jack!

Posted by: demented generate daughter-fucking revenant at January 15, 2024 05:04 PM (pjs7m)

27 I...I don't understand? All I'm reading about is how the economy is booming, Bidenomics has saved us, and all the negativity and bad news surrounding the US economy is right-wing misinformation!

Do you think maybe the Russians hacked Ace to create this fake story, along with all the links to fake articles? Putin and Trump's craftiness know no bounds!!!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 15, 2024 05:04 PM (ycI94)

28 Disney also lost the domestic box office crown in 2023 for the first time since 2015.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 15, 2024 05:04 PM (MGB5H)

29 Well. Hell.
Mrs D just sent me out to check the mail.
She realized once I got back there is no mail today.
That means is bourbon and cigar time!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2024 05:04 PM (W/lyH)

30 13 Needs more Nipples.
Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2024 04:59 PM (RVloE)

Bears repeating.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 15, 2024 05:01 PM (4I/2K)

Well come on down!

Posted by: The three-breasted prostitute from Total Recall at January 15, 2024 05:04 PM (PiwSw)

31 Are Paul, Sid, and raimondo going to be laid off soon?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2024 05:02 PM (BpYfr)
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Yeah, they'll be laid off once Big Mike's has fresh meat.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 15, 2024 05:04 PM (tT6L1)

32 I don't know what I will do if these media companies go extinct...

If only I had an alternate form of entertainment, one that has been around for centuries, requires no batteries or internet, and can keep me entertained for hours upon hours at a time...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2024 05:04 PM (BpYfr)

33
1. Prosperity and economic measurements are measurements of the racist system we have in place.

2. Why aren't more reporters reporting the prosperity of a Biden economy right.

Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2024 05:04 PM (OaZlZ)

34 Hollywood didn't abandon rom com - they abandoned straight and hot Rom Com...this one is straight and hot...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 15, 2024 05:04 PM (exHjb)

35 So… AI suuuuuucks for journalism, eh?

That’s a terrible thing 😉

Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2024 05:05 PM (AOLGx)

36 By the way, Amazon will start blasting commercials into your face on Amazon Prime starting January 29…

This makes sense. They pretty much push out Prime for free every other time I order from them. Which isn’t nearly as often as it used to be, but still, it doesn’t seem to be in their plans to make money off it any more.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 15, 2024 05:05 PM (EXyHK)

37 I'd never heard of "Thots for Tots."

Posted by: Eeyore at January 15, 2024 05:05 PM (1bNHn)

38 updated with andycanuck's item

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:05 PM (KRtlO)

39 Are Paul, Sid, and raimondo going to be laid off soon?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2024 05:02 PM (BpYfr)
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Yeah, they'll be laid off once Big Mike's has fresh meat.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 15, 2024 05:04 PM (tT6L1)
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Imagine being one of them and having to train your H1B replacement at the glory hole...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2024 05:05 PM (BpYfr)

40 I saw "Napoleon". I want to see the 4 hour director's cut.

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:05 PM (V13WU)

41 "Die, media. Die screaming."

OK, so we'll put you down as "undecided".

Posted by: Frank Luntz, Land Lord, Meme Lord, Postapocalyptic War Lord at January 15, 2024 05:05 PM (z+89e)

42 OK, why in the holy living fuck, do we have an Air Force Officer.... a Pilot... one we've spent MILLIONs of dollars training, running around for the next year as Miss America?

Miss Amerca is a FULL TIME JOB.

I mean, glad they picked a Woman at least... but.. doesn't our Military have a bit more important things to be doing?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:05 PM (xaFKb)

43 I'm feeling delightfully mean right now.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 15, 2024 05:06 PM (yyfQG)

44 HOLLYWOOD LAYOFFS: SO HOT RIGHT NOW!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 15, 2024 05:06 PM (wtvvX)

45 Sort of interesting MSM voluntarily went the "uniform reporting" route voluntarily while newspaper and radio in Nazi Germany had to be forced into compliance.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 15, 2024 05:06 PM (tT6L1)

46 >>>25 what's an ASMR?

(do I want to know?)

it's that thing where people whisper or run their nails over a microphone. Some people get off on hearing low-volume, whispery noises. They get "shivers" and sex chills from it something.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:06 PM (KRtlO)

47 And Elon Musk likely made this easier for them by demonstrating that things go better after trimming 70%-ish of their extra employees.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (Hkcdp)

48 By the way, Amazon will start blasting commercials into your face on Amazon Prime starting January 29…
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They do that now, even for content I've purchased. The most recent content always includes a couple of ads for something or other before the main program. Though there are no ads during the episode of the program (yet).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (BpYfr)

49 I like Statham. But he's been making the same film for something like 20 years now.

Posted by: Can't wait for Transporter 10: More Transportier Than Ever at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (pjs7m)

50 what's an ASMR?

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ASMR gives you tingles!

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (V13WU)

51 Are Paul, Sid, and raimondo going to be laid off soon?

Only way they'll ever be laid.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (yyfQG)

52 25 what's an ASMR?

(do I want to know?)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 15, 2024 05:03 PM (xDDY9)

Sucks to your ASMR!!*

*full disclosure: I remember this line in a movie or something, but cannot recall from whence it came. (29 year-old me)

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I think I have a skeleton inside me at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (T/Lqj)

53 what's an ASMR?

(do I want to know?)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 15, 2024 05:03 PM (xDDY9)

Basically, it's whispering and other supposedly soothing sounds/sights, to trigger a tingle response (ASMR).

Some of it involves softcore porn.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (SyQqu)

54 40 I saw "Napoleon". I want to see the 4 hour director's cut.
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:05 PM (V13WU)

I only got about 1/3 of the way through... whole thing historically inaccurate... and very few battle scenes.

Yeah, lets make the story of one of histories greatest generals, about his love life... and what a cuck he was.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (xaFKb)

55 Needs more Nipples.
Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2024 04:59 PM (RVloE)

Which reminds me. Where's Mannix?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (BdMk6)

56 As a point of interest, Goolag and Amazon, along with a few other companies, make up a huge percentage of the S&P, so even folks in an index may be in for a hit when the inevitable happens.

Even if the programming wasn't crap, there is no reason to pay for shows anymore. Every company in the programming business, whether on the airwaves or streaming, is very overvalued.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (lTGtQ)

57 42 OK, why in the holy living fuck, do we have an Air Force Officer.... a Pilot... one we've spent MILLIONs of dollars training, running around for the next year as Miss America?

Miss Amerca is a FULL TIME JOB.

I mean, glad they picked a Woman at least... but.. doesn't our Military have a bit more important things to be doing?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:05 PM (xaFKb)

She was allowed a Harvard year for grad school...so she didn't really have anything to do...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (exHjb)

58 "Soul"? Oh, that's right, that was a movie, wasn't it?

Posted by: Dr. T at January 15, 2024 05:08 PM (g0Y4p)

59 Got it!

Lord of the Flies!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I think I have a skeleton inside me at January 15, 2024 05:08 PM (T/Lqj)

60 Media Companies Posting Their L's: Google, Amazon, Instagram, Disney All Laying Off Employees

$9 an hour was breaking the bank. Idea: grade-school children work cheaper and they speak better English.

Posted by: t-bird at January 15, 2024 05:08 PM (52pGV)

61 what does Posting Their L's mean

Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:08 PM (geLO8)

62 People should refer to it as diversity inclusion and equity as DIE. It'll make a few veins pop in the leftist's heads.

It should be referred to as racism. That’s all it is, and barely distinguishable from the racism of slaveholders.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 15, 2024 05:08 PM (EXyHK)

63 50 what's an ASMR?

===

ASMR gives you tingles!
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (V13WU)

Doze it gotz Electrolytes?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:08 PM (xaFKb)

64 Alexandra Botez is hawt.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at January 15, 2024 05:08 PM (MvF+J)

65 >>>49 I like Statham. But he's been making the same film for something like 20 years now.
Posted by: Can't wait for Transporter 10: More Transportier Than Ever

AND?!

Posted by: AC/DC at January 15, 2024 05:09 PM (KRtlO)

66 also: BUF 14 PIT 0 1st

Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:09 PM (geLO8)

67 I mean, glad they picked a Woman at least... but.. doesn't our Military have a bit more important things to be doing?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:05 PM (xaFKb)

It's a lot safer having her out there, waving to crowds, opening shopping malls, than flying airplanes.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:09 PM (SyQqu)

68
Go 'way!

Oscar-baitin'!

Posted by: Hollywood at January 15, 2024 05:09 PM (OaZlZ)

69 Yeah, lets make the story of one of histories greatest generals, about his love life... and what a cuck he was.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (xaFKb)

Napoleon's love life is literally the least interesting thing about him.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 15, 2024 05:10 PM (g0Y4p)

70 also: BUF 14 PIT 0 1st
Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:09 PM (geLO

Yay! Josh Allen, UW. Go Pokes!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I think I have a skeleton inside me at January 15, 2024 05:10 PM (T/Lqj)

71 >>>what does Posting Their L's mean

it's a twitter meme. It means "Posting Their Losses."

people post their W's and some post their L's.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:10 PM (KRtlO)

72 Needs more ~~cow nipples~~ udders.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 15, 2024 05:10 PM (2yu8s)

73 64 Alexandra Botez is hawt.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at January 15, 2024 05:08 PM (MvF+J)

And very, very smart.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 15, 2024 05:10 PM (wtvvX)

74 ... and what a cuck he was.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (xaFKb)

Apparently he was though.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:10 PM (SyQqu)

75 Miss Amerca is a FULL TIME JOB.

I mean, glad they picked a Woman at least... but.. doesn't our Military have a bit more important things to be doing?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:05 PM (xaFKb)
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Let me see, a few million to train then realizing she's gonna bend a 30 million dollar aircraft or, send her off to be Miss America.

Yeah, I'm sort of thinking it made more sense, financially, to tell her, "That's okay, honey, you just go on ahead and be Miss America!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 15, 2024 05:10 PM (tT6L1)

76 It's a lot safer having her out there, waving to crowds, opening shopping malls, than flying airplanes.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:09 PM (SyQqu)

She's Air Farce... not like she is landing on carriers...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:10 PM (xaFKb)

77 what does Posting Their L's mean
Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:08 PM (geLO

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Making posts which document their (previously gaming) losses on line

Posted by: Hollywood at January 15, 2024 05:11 PM (OaZlZ)

78 Needs more Nipples.
Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2024 04:59 PM (RVloE)

we are doing plumbing fittings now?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2024 05:11 PM (D7oie)

79 Thank you Ace for the splanation

Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:11 PM (geLO8)

80 Oscar-baitin'!
Posted by: Hollywood at January 15, 2024 05:09 PM (OaZlZ)

"Oh I wish I was an Oscar-batin' weiner..."
--
Jay Sherman impersonator.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I think I have a skeleton inside me at January 15, 2024 05:11 PM (T/Lqj)

81 what's an ASMR?

I associate it with cooking shows with amplified ambient sound.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 15, 2024 05:11 PM (yyfQG)

82 76 It's a lot safer having her out there, waving to crowds, opening shopping malls, than flying airplanes.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:09 PM (SyQqu)

She's Air Farce... not like she is landing on carriers...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:10 PM (xaFKb)

She actually got her pilot license at 16 before going to the Academy...so she probably is an ace flyer..

Posted by: Nova Local at January 15, 2024 05:12 PM (exHjb)

83 Good. I want them all working at Arby's for minimum wage and a shift meal.

Hahahahaha...

Posted by: Dick Cheney, Mastermind On Viagra at January 15, 2024 05:12 PM (R/m4+)

84 There's not much on Lefty sites talking about these layoffs, so I went to shill media site Bleeding Cool to see what great products are coming out that will save the media industry:

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – Annie Potts has revealed that Janine is finally suiting up in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and it wasn't in the original script. Just what everyone was waiting for...who says Hollywood is bankrupt of ideas?

Also...typos abound on the site. Maybe they should hire an editor lol

Gail Simone Literally Makes Surprise Cameo In Beast World...the Garro spores continue their spread across the DC Universe, transfirming foilk into animals.

DC Comics is publishing ywo stories tomorrow featuring two different Supermen and two different Lois Lanes

Posted by: Intercepted Bleeding Cool Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 15, 2024 05:12 PM (ycI94)

85 >Posted by: Pug Mahon

PIT looks out-matched
the field is in fantastic shape- really surprised- ground crew have worked their asses off

Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:13 PM (geLO8)

86 So if Amazon is laying off so many people, why are they going to insert ads into the movies?

Posted by: NR Pax at January 15, 2024 05:13 PM (eh1/Q)

87 ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.
It's the feeling of relaxation you get watching certain things or activities.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 15, 2024 05:13 PM (XMwZJ)

88 First of all I saw Anyone But You Saturday and really liked. It is super funny.
But as for "big straight energy" the primary couple is straight, but the destination wedding is for a lesbian couple. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: Darin Zimmerman at January 15, 2024 05:13 PM (AGFZZ)

89 I...I don't understand? All I'm reading about is how the economy is booming, Bidenomics has saved us, and all the negativity and bad news surrounding the US economy is right-wing misinformation!

I got a take on this. I think I have the right one.

If you're in the right spot ? This economy is great. My line of work is in demand more than ever. Mostly because - get this - capitalism never was a thing in my lifetime. My line of work was price controlled, via collusion, for my first twenty years. There was never the notion of simply putting my skills on the open market. Because the market was never truly open.

But if you're on the outside, either because your skills are not in demand ... or your hook-up, via politics or affiliation which are one and the same in the end, has vanished ? Then this economy is just not good and is getting ready to be a stone cold bitch.

Many of the folks in print and media pushing this market are still riding on being in the right place at the right time.

Posted by: I Have No Party at January 15, 2024 05:13 PM (5cfJ1)

90 >>>Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – Annie Potts has revealed that Janine is finally suiting up in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and it wasn't in the original script. Just what everyone was waiting for...who says Hollywood is bankrupt of ideas?

I don't mind that. Louis Tully suited up too. None of the Ghostbusters are heroic types. They're everymen. Anyone can do it.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:13 PM (KRtlO)

91 what's an ASMR?
______

Not one Moron replied "50 dollars, same as in town."

What has become of the Horde?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 15, 2024 05:13 PM (1bNHn)

92 ... and what a cuck he was.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (xaFKb)
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O, what a cucky man he was...

Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2024 05:13 PM (OaZlZ)

93 It's a lot safer having her out there, waving to crowds, opening shopping malls, than flying airplanes.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:09 PM (SyQqu)

She's Air Farce... not like she is landing on carriers...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:10 PM (xaFKb)

She actually got her pilot license at 16 before going to the Academy...so she probably is an ace flyer..
Posted by: Nova Local at January 15, 2024 05:12 PM (exHjb)

She's gonna get a new callsign, no doubt.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 15, 2024 05:14 PM (4I/2K)

94 I got four layers of clothing on, so no nips be slippin here.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at January 15, 2024 05:14 PM (MvF+J)

95 @52 - it was Lord of the Flies ...
Piggy(?) had athsma ("ass-mar")

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 15, 2024 05:15 PM (WsTvr)

96 Thanks for explaining this new lingo to us Ace!

(I knew what ASMR but I guess I didn't realize that was the point of Twitch. I still don't understand Twitch. I never understood the game streaming and then the porn streaming, and now tingle streaming. I am three layers deep in my ignorance.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 15, 2024 05:15 PM (xDDY9)

97 Posted by: I Have No Party at January 15, 2024 05:13 PM (5cfJ1)
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You're an undertaker??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 15, 2024 05:15 PM (2yu8s)

98 She's Air Farce... not like she is landing on carriers...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:10 PM (xaFKb)

She actually got her pilot license at 16 before going to the Academy...so she probably is an ace flyer..
Posted by: Nova Local at January 15, 2024 05:12 PM (exHjb)

She's gonna get a new callsign, no doubt.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 15, 2024 05:14 PM (4I/2K)

Lt. now.... so now she's Lt. Dish... but if she gets Promoted is she Captain America?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:15 PM (xaFKb)

99 ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.
It's the feeling of relaxation you get wang certain things or activities.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 15, 2024 05:13 PM (XMwZJ)

Wasn't there a conspiracy theory about Obama employing the techniques of asmr in his speeches?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 15, 2024 05:16 PM (yyfQG)

100 "what's an ASMR?"

A label to put on a video to attract clix.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at January 15, 2024 05:16 PM (MvF+J)

101 It's a lot safer having her out there, waving to crowds, opening shopping malls, than flying airplanes.
Posted by: BurtTC

Maybe we could make her captain of an aircraft carrier when she's done with her Miss America duties! We could use her morale boost and steady hand at the helm after some of our recent issues...

Posted by: PACOM at January 15, 2024 05:16 PM (ycI94)

102 Back in normal times the Iranian military launched a rocket at a US consulate would be considered an act of war.

>@OSINTdefender

>According to U.S. Officials, the Ballistic Missile Attack which Struck near the U.S. Consulate within the City of Erbil in Northern Iraq appears to have been launched Directly by the IRGC from Iranian Territory

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2024 05:16 PM (ZLI7S)

103 I only got about 1/3 of the way through... whole thing historically inaccurate... and very few battle scenes.

Yeah, lets make the story of one of histories greatest generals, about his love life... and what a cuck he was.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:07 PM (xaFKb

it is not a bbc life of Napoleon, it is a feature film, so it does not have to be historically accurate on every detail, just enough. Not true about the battles, 4 major , defining battles for Europe , and for Napoleon perfectly brougth to screen - Tuolon (rise to fame) , Austerliz (became legend), Borodino (failure), Waterloo (the end). One thing I did not particularly like was the script, and the actress who played Josephoine, but that might be the script. Josephine did play a great role in his life, but nothing this woman says and does on screen makes you believe it. Perhaps it is in the directors cut and all will come together there. Seems a bit disjointed, in places, as if parts missing.

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:16 PM (V13WU)

104 >>ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.
It's the feeling of relaxation you get watching certain things or activities.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent
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I call it 'grooving'

Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:16 PM (geLO8)

105 Air Force recruitment goes up in 3..2..1

Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2024 05:16 PM (CTxeO)

106 Sorry couldn’t hear over my heart pounding gallons of blood into my schadenboner.

Posted by: Jukin at January 15, 2024 05:17 PM (17s+e)

107 Maybe we could make her captain of an aircraft carrier when she's done with her Miss America duties! We could use her morale boost and steady hand at the helm after some of our recent issues...
Posted by: PACOM at January 15, 2024 05:16 PM (ycI94)

Yeah... clearly the US Navy needs their ships commanded by.... Air Force Officers?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:17 PM (xaFKb)

108 There is one thing about Boney's love life, which is that it is interesting to women. Many years ago a bunch of us (both sexes) got wondering why that period gets attention from both sexes, while others don't. (Check online discussion boards if you doubt me. Rommel or Julius get 99% male attention. Boney gets more like 70-80%.)

That was one of the reasons we thought of (Nelson helps there, too.) Another was how sharp the uniforms were. And of course, it is Jane Austen's era.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 15, 2024 05:17 PM (1bNHn)

109 She's Air Farce... not like she is landing on carriers...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:10 PM (xaFKb)

Carriers are basically drag strips on water. Worst that can happen is you get wet.

On land, there's hard parts right next to the airport. If you miss, you get... trouble.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:17 PM (SyQqu)

110 Watched a bit of the new True Detective season last night and was struck by how ugly, mean, damaged and joyless every dang character is. I get it - this is all part of the ever-expanding genre of crime shows/movies. But…yeah, the want to drown us in negativity, dysfunction, despair and deviance.

You want to know why people watch hallmark? Because they at least hire attractive people and portray normal, sane, good people who have jobs, loving families and stable communities. Sure, it’s fake, but at least they are not going so freaking dark and depressing AF.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2024 05:18 PM (Hkcdp)

111 They might have been chasing the "average viewer" so maybe got rid of dialogue and scenes that could have made their characters more multidimensional.

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:18 PM (V13WU)

112 You're an undertaker??

Heh. Nah. Applied automation and controls.

Posted by: I Have No Party at January 15, 2024 05:18 PM (5cfJ1)

113 >>>
(I knew what ASMR but I guess I didn't realize that was the point of Twitch.

it's not the whole point but most of Twitch is now e-thots do anything they can to walk up to the line of pornography. One of them -- i"m sure many of them -- put some kind of a sheath over their microphones to make it look more phallic and then like brushed their teeth against it, calling it ASMR.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:18 PM (KRtlO)

114 what's an ASMR?

I associate it with cooking shows with amplified ambient sound.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 15, 2024 05:11 PM (yyfQG)

There was a porn director on some edgy talk show where they reviewed cooking shows. She mentioned that the cooking shows were "over miked" like the porn shoots.
Audio is really important apparently

Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2024 05:19 PM (D7oie)

115 I watched a few ASMR videos that , literally, put to me to sleep. You just need to find the right genre.

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:19 PM (V13WU)

116 Makes Surprise Cameo In Beast World

Read that as Breast World.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 15, 2024 05:19 PM (OKkSB)

117 No [out of bounds?] fumble??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 15, 2024 05:19 PM (2yu8s)

118 my knowledge comes from It'sAGundam, who is very unjustly persecuted by Twitch and denied monetization while the e-thots have Camel Toe Deep Relief contests and crap.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:19 PM (KRtlO)

119 Alternatively , you can watch Oppenheimer the movie. That also put me to sleep. Twice !

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:20 PM (V13WU)

120 Maybe we could make her captain of an aircraft carrier when she's done with her Miss America duties! We could use her morale boost and steady hand at the helm after some of our recent issues...
Posted by: PACOM at January 15, 2024 05:16 PM (ycI94)

Suddenly I'm remembering that Steven Seagal movie, with the playboy bunny jumping out of the cake.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:20 PM (SyQqu)

121 Heh. Nah. Applied automation and controls.
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Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 15, 2024 05:20 PM (2yu8s)

122 "Yeah... clearly the US Navy needs their ships commanded by.... Air Force Officers?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2024 05:17 PM

with a good acronym it could become A Thing

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 15, 2024 05:20 PM (WsTvr)

123 After some debate, mostly on the content issue, we watched "Sound of Freedom" last night.

Personally, I found it less disturbing than advertised, but still sickening. The level of depravity in Central/South America has nothing on North America.

Specifically our political, media and socially connected classes.

I'm not religious in any way, but if there's a reckoning I hope it's glorious and awesome.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2024 05:20 PM (Q4IgG)

124 There was a porn director on some edgy talk show where they reviewed cooking shows. She mentioned that the cooking shows were "over miked" like the porn shoots.
Audio is really important apparently
Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2024 05:19 PM (D7oie)

Ah, aural sex FTW!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 15, 2024 05:20 PM (4I/2K)

125 The last really good RomCom was Crazy Rich Asians which was 2018, that's over half a decade ago, and before that, you'd have to go back to 2010 and Leap Year with Amy Adams.

In the hayday of RomComs, you'd have several per year, usually starring Meg Ryan or Sandra Bullock.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 15, 2024 05:21 PM (XV/Pl)

126 I thought ASMR was just the shivers, and required touching skin.

Now I see that some people get it from people whispering and they pay them over Twitch.

We're not gonna make it, are we?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 15, 2024 05:21 PM (xDDY9)

127 ASMR
A Special Meat Rocket 🚀

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 15, 2024 05:21 PM (2yu8s)

128 @110, that's it exactly

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 15, 2024 05:22 PM (WsTvr)

129 I don't mind that. Louis Tully suited up too. None of the Ghostbusters are heroic types. They're everymen. Anyone can do it.
Posted by: ace

Don't let your rational mind do the work of supporting Hollywood's blunt message. Being a tough, wise-ass secretary isn't enough for modern women...she has to strap on a proton pack and be a kick ass girl boss, too. It's like light sabers and Jedi...they're cool when they're used sparingly.

No, it's more like modern Star Wars "correcting" the past. Leia is a kickass Jedi now, while Luke's a loser. Janine gets to use a proton pack now, too, because she's just as good as everyone else, and didn't get the respect she deserved back in the 80s. Fuck that noise.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 15, 2024 05:22 PM (ycI94)

130 my favorite romcom is Kate and Leopold. (Or it's the only one I can think of.)

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:22 PM (KRtlO)

131 After some debate, mostly on the content issue, we watched "Sound of Freedom" last night.

My wife streamed it. I, personally, can not watch such shit. I know such shit exists. I do not feel the need to pretend it does not.

My response to such shit is non-negotiable. Watching others equivocate about it is not the way I want to spend an hour or two.

Posted by: I Have No Party at January 15, 2024 05:22 PM (5cfJ1)

132 She mentioned that the cooking shows were "over miked" like the porn shoots.
Audio is really important apparently
Posted by: Kindltot

There is nothing more stimulating than the sound of bacon frying.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 15, 2024 05:22 PM (lTGtQ)

133 One of them -- i"m sure many of them -- put some kind of a sheath over their microphones to make it look more phallic and then like brushed their teeth against it, calling it ASMR.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:18 PM (KRtlO)

Lemme guess, the toothpaste dripped onto the mike, and she licked it off.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:22 PM (SyQqu)

134 “ As with actioners, Hollywood all but abandoned romcom in favor of nothing but CGI-filled blockbusters. Those, and Diverse Oscar Bait Snoozers‘

At the theaters, yes. But Netflix and Prime and the streaming services are packed with them. And they are all almost exactly the same.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (tViqt)

135 will the Director's Cut of Napoleon include the jungle fight with Predator?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (D7oie)

136 Alternatively , you can watch Oppenheimer the movie. That also put me to sleep. Twice !
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:20 PM (V13WU)

I argued with TJM about this a few weeks ago. My position boiled down to, If you spend the last half hour waiting for it to be over, it's a bad movie.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (g0Y4p)

137 Do girl Ghostbusters know about not crossing the streams?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (4I/2K)

138 One of the many problems with US media companies is that RL is destroying fictional story telling, particularly in the spheres of national security policy and international government relations.

Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (rj6Yv)

139 put some kind of a sheath over their microphones to make it look more phallic and then like brushed their teeth against it, calling it ASMR.

Posted by: ace

Noah, get the arc!

Posted by: God at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (xDDY9)

140 DC Comics is publishing ywo stories tomorrow featuring two different Supermen and two different Lois Lanes
Posted by: Intercepted Bleeding Cool Transmissions

So close to being one of my fantasies.....

Posted by: one of those Supermen at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (DgGvY)

141 an asmr-thing I tried over christmas break was playing the sound of a campfire on YouTube (on my TV) while reading, as kinda-sorta white noise.

It's okay.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (KRtlO)

142 what's an ASMR?

(do I want to know?)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 15, 2024 05:03 PM (xDDY9)

I wear a bikini in the kiddy pool in the living room, farting.

Posted by: Thot at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (cHOHf)

143 Bidenomics is winning!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 15, 2024 05:24 PM (fs1hN)

144 I didn’t even realize that Twitch was still a thing [shrugs]

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 15, 2024 05:24 PM (tViqt)

145 my favorite romcom is Kate and Leopold. (Or it's the only one I can think of.)

I liked Failure to Launch. Famous here because it's the only one I've ever sat through once, let alone agreed to watch twice.

Posted by: I Have No Party at January 15, 2024 05:24 PM (5cfJ1)

146 >>>>> if there's a reckoning I hope it's glorious and awesome.

Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Amen

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:25 PM (O54VZ)

147 > and two different Lois Lanes

is one of them a redhead

Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:25 PM (geLO8)

148 my favorite romcom is Kate and Leopold. (Or it's the only one I can think of.)
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:22 PM (KRtlO)

Speaking of romcoms, I watched Pig last night. I know it came out in 2021, but I'm calling it movie of the year.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:26 PM (SyQqu)

149
Camel Toe Deep Relief

☐ Not approved
☑ Approved

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 15, 2024 05:26 PM (nIvob)

150 Do you get a REMF from an ASMR?

Posted by: torabora at January 15, 2024 05:26 PM (OUiUM)

151 If you spend the last half hour waiting for it to be over, it's a bad movie.

Get on the fucking boat already, Frodo.

Posted by: We don't have time for scouring the shire, we need extended moments of moon-eyed hobbits gazing soul at January 15, 2024 05:26 PM (pjs7m)

152 The Taming of the Shrew (1967) starring Burton and Taylor is the best rom-com of all time. (Of All Time!)

Fight me.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 15, 2024 05:26 PM (4I/2K)

153 I argued with TJM about this a few weeks ago. My position boiled down to, If you spend the last half hour waiting for it to be over, it's a bad movie.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (g0Y4p)

lol, it was awful. I could not care less about their drama , and what they were cooking up. You wanna know why ? I will tell you why . It is an agenda movie. Every segment of that movie was forcing me to adopt their position. It was forcing an idea on me, it was propagandizing and not entertaining. And doing it poorly, lamely. Unlike Napoleon for example, that is just entertainment.

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:27 PM (V13WU)

154 an asmr-thing I tried over christmas break was playing the sound of a campfire on YouTube (on my TV) while reading, as kinda-sorta white noise.

It's okay.
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (KRtlO)

Rain on a Tent and similar bits is good for my tinnitus when it gets intrusive

Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2024 05:27 PM (D7oie)

155 On a more serious note.

Does anyone produce real unemployment numbers or GDP where they subtract out the parasite class?

Paying people to hand out money to illegals should not be considered employment, or "productive."

Our nation's wealth depends on production, not transfer, and we seem to produce less and less each day, but our GDP grows and unemployment stays low.

There are inflation numbers that un-jigger the gov. numbers of "inflation minus bad things" and I wondered if anyone does same for GDP and unemployment.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 15, 2024 05:27 PM (xDDY9)

156 I like how the thread morphed from an economy is shit thread to a Disney is fucking shit thread.

Awesome.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 15, 2024 05:27 PM (ufFY8)

157 In the hayday of RomComs, you'd have several per year, usually starring Meg Ryan or Sandra Bullock.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 15, 2024 05:21 PM (XV/Pl)

The last one I enjoyed watching was "You've Got Mail" (Meg Ryan). Surprisingly, Tom Hanks was portrayed as a non-evil capitalist, which I thought was refreshing. Then I discovered that "You've Got Mail" was itself a rework of "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940).

Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2024 05:27 PM (rj6Yv)

158 with a good acronym it could become A Thing

Navy-Air Force Distaff Agreement.

It makes a big, if lispy, sucking sound.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 15, 2024 05:27 PM (EXyHK)

159 he Taming of the Shrew (1967) starring Burton and Taylor is the best rom-com of all time. (Of All Time!)

Fight me.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 15, 2024 05:26 PM (4I/2K)
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No argument from me.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 15, 2024 05:28 PM (tT6L1)

160 Leading Report @LeadingReport 21h
BREAKING: ‘Sound of Freedom’ has now passed the classic 1972 film ‘The Godfather’ in dollar-for-dollar box office earnings.

But...

Alt-Z @Alt_Z007 20h Replying to @LeadingReport
But 'Not' when adjusted for inflation.. when adjusted for inflation The Godfather has earned over $1B
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Still, it's done well.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 15, 2024 05:28 PM (2yu8s)

161 147 > and two different Lois Lanes
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is one of them a redhead
Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:25 PM (geLO

"Two different Lois Lanes..."

*Thinks*

Front and back?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:28 PM (SyQqu)

162 >>>If you spend the last half hour waiting for it to be over, it's a bad movie.

I groaned like Ignatius J. Reilly* during Inception when I realized the movie wasn't ending, but going on to an Act IV.

* In Confederacy of Dunces. He's an intellectual lardbutt. He used to go to mainstream movies just so he could jeer and groan at their lack of intellect and low moral values.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:28 PM (KRtlO)

163 It is an agenda movie. Every segment of that movie was forcing me to adopt their position.

Agreed. That entire movie was another attempt by Hollywood to pretend that Communists didn't exist, up to our highest levels of government, both during WW II and after.

Posted by: I Have No Party at January 15, 2024 05:28 PM (5cfJ1)

164 I like listening to loons on a lake or wolves howling to relax.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 15, 2024 05:28 PM (yyfQG)

165 >>>The last one I enjoyed watching was "You've Got Mail" (Meg Ryan). Surprisingly, Tom Hanks was portrayed as a non-evil capitalist, which I thought was refreshing. Then I discovered that "You've Got Mail" was itself a rework of "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940).

this is the gayest thing I've ever read and I've read Jonah Goldberg.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:29 PM (KRtlO)

166 what's an ASMR?

Not one Moron replied "50 dollars, same as in town."
What has become of the Horde?
Posted by: Eeyore

That's because "it's free on the Internet." No need to pay $50, in town or out.

Posted by: mikeski at January 15, 2024 05:29 PM (DgGvY)

167 I hope the Directors Cut of Napoleon shows Scott cutting off his hand so can't direct another movie

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2024 05:29 PM (fwDg9)

168 I am not saying that movies cannot have an agenda, Das Boot was a bit of an anti-war movie. But they managed to entertain. If a movie is so talentless, so focused in one direction, it becomes a dud. And that is why it is getting the awards.

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:29 PM (V13WU)

169 The Taming of the Shrew (1967) starring Burton and Taylor is the best rom-com of all time. (Of All Time!)

Fight me.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 15, 2024 05:26 PM (4I/2K)

No, I won't. I have the DVD. A great soundtrack, too.

Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2024 05:30 PM (rj6Yv)

170 Favorite rom com. A Good Year

Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2024 05:30 PM (CTxeO)

171 I hated "You've Got Mail."

Nothing like bludgeoning one over the head with the Happily Ever After crap.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 15, 2024 05:30 PM (tT6L1)

172 Janet Yellen told Senator Kennedy that the projected increase in the national debt from 34 trillion to 51 trillion was a good thing because it would have been worse without the junta's tax increases.

And so it is with Disney corporation math. They're going to raise ticket prices to reduce the L. Just watch.

That's what has been taught.

Posted by: torabora at January 15, 2024 05:30 PM (OUiUM)

173 The economy is so good that no one has to work to eat.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 15, 2024 05:30 PM (63Dwl)

174 I am not saying that movies cannot have an agenda, Das Boot was a bit of an anti-war movie.

Any movie that shows war in any kind of realism turns into an anti-war movie by default. It's like watching a movie about butchering the family dog.

Posted by: I Have No Party at January 15, 2024 05:31 PM (5cfJ1)

175 I wear a bikini in the kiddy pool in the living room, farting.
Posted by: Thot at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (cHOHf)

I have some extra jars, if you need them.

For a price.

Posted by: B. Delphine at January 15, 2024 05:31 PM (SyQqu)

176 152 The Taming of the Shrew (1967) starring Burton and Taylor is the best rom-com of all time. (Of All Time!)

Fight me.

Posted by: Count de Monet
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Picked a winner

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:31 PM (O54VZ)

177 147 > and two different Lois Lanes
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is one of them a redhead
Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:25 PM (geLO

We can only hope.

We can also only hope that if it's made into a movie, they cast Karen Gillan.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 15, 2024 05:31 PM (g0Y4p)

178 >>> "Two different Lois Lanes..."
*Thinks*
Front and back?
Posted by: BurtTC

One is a stand-in for the sex scenes.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 15, 2024 05:31 PM (cOq4q)

179 did you pop your popcorn bag, too?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 15, 2024 05:31 PM (WsTvr)

180 >>this is the gayest thing I've ever read and I've read Jonah Goldberg's Tramp Stamp

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2024 05:31 PM (RVloE)

181 The Decoy Bride

Posted by: Floridachick at January 15, 2024 05:32 PM (EpSEq)

182 I'm gonna pony up the xtra $3 a month for no ads but I'm canceling Amazon Unlimited Music which is $9 a month to make up for it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 15, 2024 05:32 PM (MeG8a)

183 this is the gayest thing I've ever read and I've read Jonah Goldberg.
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:29 PM (KRtlO)

LOL

Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2024 05:32 PM (rj6Yv)

184 >>>I groaned like Ignatius J. Reilly* during Inception when I realized the movie wasn't ending, but going on to an Act IV.

Everything you didn't like about Inception, Oppenheimer does 10 times more of it.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 15, 2024 05:32 PM (g0Y4p)

185 Watched 'Joe Kidd' last night.
Good movie.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:32 PM (O54VZ)

186 The economy is in the shitter. That is why the Langford/Schumer thing is in play. Legalize em and tax em

Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2024 05:33 PM (CTxeO)

187 platform for video gamers.

No, it's not. It's best known for Twitch Thots who show their tits and camel-toes and do porny ASMRs for children, begging kids to send them cash.

Is it right to say pics or it didn't happen?

Posted by: N at January 15, 2024 05:33 PM (6hh8n)

188 Watched 'Joe Kidd' last night.
Good movie.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:32 PM (O54VZ)

Here's hoping there's a trend here, with Netfux putting more classic films on their platform.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:35 PM (SyQqu)

189
164 I like listening to loons on a lake or wolves howling to relax.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 15, 2024 05:28 PM (yyfQG)

I like listening to the loons right here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 15, 2024 05:35 PM (S6gqv)

190
The last one I enjoyed watching was "You've Got Mail" (Meg Ryan). Surprisingly, Tom Hanks was portrayed as a non-evil capitalist, which I thought was refreshing. Then I discovered that "You've Got Mail" was itself a rework of "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940).
Posted by: mrp

In the Good Old Summertime (1949) is also a rework of The Shop.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 15, 2024 05:35 PM (63Dwl)

191 Taming of the Shrew (1967) starring Burton and Taylor is the best rom-com of all time. (Of All Time!)

Fight me.
Posted by: Count de Monet
--------------
I don't remember ever seeing it, but I have read TTOTS several times and am a fan. Need to watch this weekend.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 15, 2024 05:35 PM (xDDY9)

192 They've all served their time and taken their bows. Let's see how the Visas of the future work out.

--
America's Sweethearts, Heartbreakers, Never Been Kissed, Adams Family Values, Four Weddings and a Funeral

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear. They only have to outrun us - for now at January 15, 2024 05:35 PM (GshMh)

193 187 platform for video gamers.

No, it's not. It's best known for Twitch Thots who show their tits and camel-toes and do porny ASMRs for children, begging kids to send them cash.

Is it right to say pics or it didn't happen?

Posted by: N
--------------------

Amazing world, the guys are all soi and the girls are all whores.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:35 PM (O54VZ)

194 I have read that the proper way to train thots not to show tits is the application of alligator clamps and vigorous slapping.

Posted by: N at January 15, 2024 05:35 PM (6hh8n)

195 Instagram has cut 60 technical program manager positions, eliminating a layer of management at the company

Eliminating a layer of management is almost never a bad idea.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at January 15, 2024 05:36 PM (TOe+Q)

196 I'd watch a rom-com with Sidney Sweeny's bewbs, just for science though.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 15, 2024 05:36 PM (4p0Xq)

197
I wear a bikini in the kiddy pool in the living room, farting.

Hitler?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 15, 2024 05:36 PM (OKkSB)

198 I love how the media freaks talk about media layoffs like it's the fucking apocalypse. Hundreds of other industries laid off every last man, as the Party these jackals bay and bark for shipped them offshore, and I seem to recall them gleefully ridiculing those people.

To hear them tell it, I have to imagine that getting laid off from your chattering class sinecure must be truly terrible, and involve hair shirts and crucifixions and shit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2024 05:36 PM (0FoWg)

199 The economy is in the shitter. That is why the Langford/Schumer thing is in play. Legalize em and tax em.

And that, right there, is where the Pure Capitalism Bunch - the North East GOP - runs right into the Nationalist Populist bunch. That's Trump.

Also where the DNC moves around, over, and through the North East GOP. Because the DNC isn't concerned about quarterly profits either.

Posted by: I Have No Party at January 15, 2024 05:36 PM (5cfJ1)

200 I like listening to the loons right here.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 15, 2024

I set it up; you knocked it down.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 15, 2024 05:36 PM (yyfQG)

201 the idea, I think, is to make the Manhattan project seem a very controversial endeavor, " look at the awful , awful thing we were forced to create !". OMG !

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:36 PM (V13WU)

202 I argued with TJM about this a few weeks ago. My position boiled down to, If you spend the last half hour waiting for it to be over, it's a bad movie.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 15, 2024 05:23 PM (g0Y4p)
---
Das Boot for me.

Saw it in a theater and whispered to my brother, "If they sink again, I'm going to stand up and cheer".

I suspect some of you might take that for hyperbole....

Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2024 05:37 PM (OaZlZ)

203
These companies aren't heartless. Separated employees will receive assistance with their resumes. And a souvenir paperweight.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2024 05:37 PM (MoZTd)

204 I hated "You've Got Mail."

Nothing like bludgeoning one over the head with the Happily Ever After crap.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 15, 2024 05:30 PM (tT6L1)

Yeah, well not every film is up to the challenge of movies like "Scrooge" and "It's A Wonderful Life".

Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2024 05:37 PM (rj6Yv)

205 Buffalo is murdering the Steelers right now.

And I'm okay with that.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 15, 2024 05:37 PM (g0Y4p)

206 We all hope none of these peeple being layed off are not gay or Transgender. That wood not be fare to these peeple thats are not same as other peeple.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at January 15, 2024 05:37 PM (g1ws5)

207 this Josh Allen guy is giving the Steelers fits!

Posted by: DanMan at January 15, 2024 05:38 PM (8uzBS)

208 Josh Allen 52-yd TD run
PIT is in a deep hole
21-0

Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:38 PM (geLO8)

209 Amazing world, the guys are all soi and the girls are all whores.
Posted by: B

soi + whores = sores?

Posted by: N at January 15, 2024 05:38 PM (6hh8n)

210 Watched 'Joe Kidd' last night.
Good movie.

Mauser C96 in a Western baby!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 15, 2024 05:38 PM (OKkSB)

211 >>>>>>>>>
Here's hoping there's a trend here, with Netfux putting more classic films on their platform.

Posted by: BurtTC
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http://tinyurl.com/ywmy42f5

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:38 PM (O54VZ)

212 I think I want a van.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 15, 2024 05:38 PM (XV/Pl)

213
The economy is in the shitter. That is why the Langford/Schumer thing is in play. Legalize em and tax em

Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2024 05:33 PM

Alternative idea... so many military age males have now crossed the border that we are mere days away from an insurrection that will make J6 look like a Girl Scout cookie sale and get those dumb ass Republicans to sign on so that we can blame them when shit goes south.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 15, 2024 05:39 PM (nIvob)

214 Amazon can kiss my ***. They've gone to a paradigm now where you can buy part of a season rather than the whole thing and then pay extra later on to fill in your collection. The so-called "TV Season Pass".

The problem is, it looks like an excuse for Amazon to censor material. I popped for what I thought was all of Season 5 of What We Do in the Shadows and I'd swear I watched through Episode 3. Then the wife and I go back a week later to view Episode 4 and both it and Ep. 3 were not available and I was told I'd get an e-mail when they were (the season pass thing). Funny thing is, both episodes dealt with the gay pride theme. $50 says they got complaints and they're trying to make changes or lean on FX to do it.

Normally, I'd say I'm getting paranoid in my old age but these days, who can tell?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 15, 2024 05:39 PM (/HDaX)

215 I think I want a van.
Posted by: Th

What is wrong with the white van you have?

Posted by: N at January 15, 2024 05:40 PM (6hh8n)

216 Eliminating a layer of management is almost never a bad idea.
Posted by: LCMS

Buck dissed the GE system down below, and he is right, but also misses a big point.

The early Jack Welch approach was to fire a certain number of people every year, even in good times. This is not a bad idea. The problem is that the guys who get fired are the ones who went on to spread "the GE Management Practice." These were not the best emissaries.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 15, 2024 05:40 PM (xDDY9)

217 > Alternatively , you can watch Oppenheimer the movie. That also put me to sleep. Twice !
_____________

I was hoping for a "war" movie and got a political/social message yawner.

👎

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2024 05:40 PM (Q4IgG)

218 13 Needs more Nipples.
Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2024 04:59 PM (RVloE)

Bears repeating.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 15, 2024 05:01 PM (4I/2K)
----
If you are talking nipples then it 'BARES repeating'.

Posted by: Ciampino - it's squishy and fishy at January 15, 2024 05:40 PM (qfLjt)

219 Das Boot for me.

Saw it in a theater and whispered to my brother, "If they sink again, I'm going to stand up and cheer".

I suspect some of you might take that for hyperbole....
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2024 05:37 PM (OaZlZ)

Avenger movies.

Did none of you think about taking out that blue thing shooting up into the sky? Nobody? None of you?

Alright then, go on fighting NPC drones for another half hour or so.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:41 PM (SyQqu)

220 >>>182 I'm gonna pony up the xtra $3 a month for no ads but I'm canceling Amazon Unlimited Music which is $9 a month to make up for it.

i like Amazon Music Unlimited, I hate to say

though I could probably just by 40 albums and then I wouldn't need it any more.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:41 PM (KRtlO)

221 I think I want a van.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 15, 2024 05:38 PM (XV/Pl)

What are you planning to paint on the side?

Posted by: spindrift at January 15, 2024 05:41 PM (AA8bA)

222 Alternative idea... so many military age males have now crossed the border that we are mere days away from an insurrection that will make J6 look like a Girl Scout cookie sale and get those dumb ass Republicans to sign on so that we can blame them when shit goes south.

What, exactly, are all these males going to do ... other than riot in blue cities ? Serious question.

Posted by: I Have No Party at January 15, 2024 05:41 PM (5cfJ1)

223 I was hoping for a "war" movie and got a political/social message yawner.

👎
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2024 05:40 PM (Q4IgG

how can that be ?! it's getting awards!

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:41 PM (V13WU)

224 What, exactly, are all these males going to do ... other than riot in blue cities ? Serious question.
Posted by: I Have No Party at January 15, 2024 05:41 PM (5cfJ1)

I know! They can learn to code!

Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2024 05:42 PM (rj6Yv)

225 It is noticeably not as warm in tx today.

Posted by: N at January 15, 2024 05:42 PM (6hh8n)

226 The English Patient has entered the discussion.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 15, 2024 05:42 PM (2yu8s)

227 the idea, I think, is to make the Manhattan project seem a very controversial endeavor, " look at the awful , awful thing we were forced to create !". OMG !
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:36 PM (V13WU)

The basic problem with Oppenheimer is it isn't one movie; it's four (at least). There's the Manhattan Project; there's the Communism angle; there's the Oppenheimer-Strauss battle; and there's Oppenheimer's love life.

It would be hard enough to get four such different plots to mesh, especially given that no one cares about the latter two, but throw in Nolan's habit of cutting back and forth in the timeline, and you're left with a mess.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 15, 2024 05:42 PM (g0Y4p)

228 What, exactly, are all these males going to do

Each other

Posted by: N at January 15, 2024 05:43 PM (6hh8n)

229 Thirty Jewish families transfer out of Oakland public school district after Pro-Palestine teachers proposed 'draw the Zionist bully' kids activity during anti-Israel 'teach-in'

https://mol.im/a/12966149

That teacher needs a tire iron.

Posted by: Ciampino - So we have no hitmen for hire any longer? at January 15, 2024 05:43 PM (qfLjt)

230 "When Chinese donors erase your town from the map and replace you with a Mexican wage slave, it's comedy. When I have to freelance instead of expensing my booze bill to a giant faggot rat, it's a tragedy."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2024 05:43 PM (0FoWg)

231 http://tinyurl.com/ywmy42f5
Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:38 PM (O54VZ)

You posted that link the other day, I'm not sure what it's for, other than being a list of his films?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:43 PM (SyQqu)

232 Tough room!
I liked Oppenheimer and Napoleon
ymmv

Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:43 PM (geLO8)

233 I already have Apple Music and I find that they have much of the same content as Amazon. Not completely but there is a lot of overlap.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 15, 2024 05:43 PM (MeG8a)

234 []The English Patient has entered the discussion.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 15, 2024 05:42 PM (2yu8s)

Kill it with fire.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 15, 2024 05:43 PM (/HDaX)

235 >>>Mauser C96 in a Western baby!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism
------------------

Saw 'The Wild Bunch' fresh. Knew it was going to be something else with the bad guys carrying 1911s.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:44 PM (O54VZ)

236 The early Jack Welch approach was to fire a certain number of people every year, even in good times. This is not a bad idea.

It was an awful idea. We're all a team, but 10% of you are gone next year. That was the Jack Welch idea.

He did what every manager wants to do. He substituted a fucking process for the idea of actually finding talent. Which, granted, is hard when you're a bureaucracy.

Jack's problem was he wanted his cake and eat it too. Plus, he couldn't run any one of those divisions any better than anyone he bitched about. He was an ass.

Posted by: I Have No Party at January 15, 2024 05:44 PM (5cfJ1)

237 Sidney Sweeny's eyes are too far apart. Like Willa Fitzgerald.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 15, 2024 05:44 PM (Dm8we)

238 Not looking good for our consulate in Iraq right now.

http://tinyurl.com/yc6jhsv4

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2024 05:44 PM (ZLI7S)

239 @221

>>What are you planning to paint on the side?

I'm going to paint it Orange and either put Gandalf on one side and Big Foot on the other.

It's going to have captains chairs, deep pile shag and a disco ball.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 15, 2024 05:44 PM (XV/Pl)

240 I feel like the Tin Man

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2024 05:44 PM (fwDg9)

241
What, exactly, are all these males going to do ... other than riot in blue cities ? Serious question.
Posted by: I Have No Party

__________

Shouldn't they be picking vegetables?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2024 05:45 PM (MoZTd)

242
I enjoy keeping any single dollar I own away from Amazon Music Unlimited.

It's algorithm v algorithm for me. Your 'dot not feather' peeps can't beat me.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 15, 2024 05:45 PM (nIvob)

243 Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp. Sugar Crisp. Sugar Crisp.

Posted by: Repeating Bear at January 15, 2024 05:45 PM (63Dwl)

244 >>>>
https://mol.im/a/12966149

That teacher needs a tire iron.

Posted by: Ciampino -
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Was going to say those Jews should transfer to a Red state but
No. They would vote and donate blue. They should stay in CA and
fight.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:46 PM (O54VZ)

245 I think Nolan wanted to make the opposite of Fat Man And Little Boy, which was a pretty straightforward procedural

and I learned something about the way Oppenheimer got 'repaid' for his invention by the Gummint

Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:47 PM (geLO8)

246 No. They would vote and donate blue. They should stay in CA and
fight.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:46 PM (O54VZ)
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Blue Jews seem to fit Einstein's definition of crazy.

Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2024 05:48 PM (OaZlZ)

247 Suddenly I'm remembering that Steven Seagal movie, with the playboy bunny jumping out of the cake.
Posted by: BurtTC

http://tinyurl.com/ydk6fhd2
Mmmm. Erika Eleniak from the Movie Under Siege. She was...something. That film came out while I was a young teenz and it, uh....had a profound effect on me.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 15, 2024 05:48 PM (ycI94)

248 Didn't know people kept track of these things:

The following weapons were used in the film Joe Kidd:
1 Rifles/Carbines
1.1 C96 "Broomhandle" Mauser
1.2 Canadian Ross Model 1910 (custom)
1.3 Remington-Keene Frontier
1.4 Savage 99
1.5 Winchester 1892 Saddle Ring Carbine
2 Revolvers
2.1 Single Action Army
2.2 Colt Bisley Single Action Army
2.3 Smith & Wesson New Model No 3
2.4 Webley Bulldog
2.5 Colt 1878 DA Frontier
2.6 Webley No.5 Express
3 Shotguns
3.1 10 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun
3.2 12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun
3.3 Winchester 1897
4 Miscellaneous
4.1 Table of Broken Guns

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:48 PM (O54VZ)

249 "By the way, Amazon will start blasting commercials into your face on Amazon Prime starting January 29, unless you fork over another $3 per month."

Eh, just watch on a brave browser, problem solved.

Posted by: lymond at January 15, 2024 05:48 PM (Jvjtu)

250 We are jazz snobs over here at the windswept outcrop. We listen to almost no new music anyway, certainly no pop or rap or even "new country".
Apple Music has pretty much everything we need and their algorithms are working out just fine.
My wife (God bless her) thinks I am putting these elaborate playlists together manually before dinner time.
I haven't confessed yet...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 15, 2024 05:48 PM (MeG8a)

251 MBA school teaches you how to build a company for the sole purpose of selling it. Good products do not matter one bit.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 15, 2024 05:49 PM (55dHh)

252 I feel like the Tin Man
Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2024 05:44 PM (fwDg9)

So you're sayin' that Oz never did give nothin' to ya
That you didn't, you didn't already have.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 15, 2024 05:49 PM (S6gqv)

253 They can lay me off any damn day they want. I'll find something else to do or just plain retire.

Word of advice.. if you have to have internet service at all times, do what the smart kids do. Have a backup service.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 15, 2024 05:49 PM (L8hCM)

254 @221

>>What are you planning to paint on the side?

I'm going to paint it Orange and either put Gandalf on one side and Big Foot on the other.

It's going to have captains chairs, deep pile shag and a disco ball.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 15, 2024 05:44 PM (XV/Pl)

Shaggin' Wagon!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 15, 2024 05:49 PM (4I/2K)

255 and I learned something about the way Oppenheimer got 'repaid' for his invention by the Gummint
Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:47 PM (geLO

Oppenheimer is the epitome of what they used to call "useful idiots."

He had no business dabbling in an area where he didn't know squat, but he did, and got his hand slapped for it. The commies got a W, by showing our most famous scientist could be got to.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 05:50 PM (SyQqu)

256
I'm going to paint it Orange and either put Gandalf on one side and Big Foot on the other.

It's going to have captains chairs, deep pile shag and a disco ball.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 15, 2024 05:44 PM (XV/Pl)

Far out, man.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 15, 2024 05:50 PM (BdMk6)

257 The basic problem with Oppenheimer is it isn't one movie; it's four (at least). There's the Manhattan Project; there's the Communism angle; there's the Oppenheimer-Strauss battle; and there's Oppenheimer's love life.

It would be hard enough to get four such different plots to mesh, especially given that no one cares about the latter two, but throw in Nolan's habit of cutting back and forth in the timeline, and you're left with a mess.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 15, 2024 05:42 PM (g0Y4p)

Well, that is where a great script, and direction matters don't you think ? for example the same can be said about War and Peace. There is the oblivious Russian aristocracy living the life before being invaded, there is the bloody War of 1812, there is the peasants angle, there is the Natasha love story. And that is why the 3.5 hour (?) American movie is genius. Because it brings it all together like an excellent piece of music.

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:50 PM (V13WU)

258
Jack's problem was he wanted his cake and eat it too. Plus, he couldn't run any one of those divisions any better than anyone he bitched about. He was an ass.
Posted by: I Have No Party

Not sure what you are saying. I agree that he was an ass, and that he could not run those divisions. I also agree that his system got out of hand and led to the destruction of the company.

But that came later. The early process was to keep the company competitive. I have worked in so many places where, like Twitter when Elon took control, you could fire 90% of many departments and output would only increase. There has to be a middle ground between firing nobody and a goatee Startrek.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 15, 2024 05:51 PM (xDDY9)

259 It looks like Amazon Prime and Paramount+ have merged. Same shows and movies and same interface.

As I have WalMart+ which includes Paramount+, I’m going to drop Amazon Prime.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 15, 2024 05:51 PM (cMXNt)

260 >>> Here's hoping there's a trend here, with Netfux putting more classic films on their platform.
Posted by: BurtTC
--------------------

http://tinyurl.com/ywmy42f5
Posted by: Braenyard

Is there a reason why they don't have everything out of copywrite?

They are as bad as BlockBuster with only few hundred titles... maybe worse.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 15, 2024 05:51 PM (cOq4q)

261 That Canadian Ross, just read an article about it.
There was a problem with the bolt.
It had a tendency to blow back into
the shooters face.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:51 PM (O54VZ)

262 They are as bad as BlockBuster with only few hundred titles... maybe worse.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
-------------------------------------

You bitch about free?
You gonna bitch when they
hang you with a new rope
too.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:53 PM (O54VZ)

263 MBA school teaches you how to build a company for the sole purpose of selling it. Good products do not matter one bit.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 15, 2024 05:49 PM (55dHh)

Truth

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 15, 2024 05:53 PM (BdMk6)

264 I didn't watch Oppenheimer in the theater but we streamed it. I liked it OK.
Any movie approaching 3 hours, no theater for me.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 15, 2024 05:54 PM (MeG8a)

265 MBA school teaches you how to build a company for the sole purpose of selling it. Good products do not matter one bit.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 15, 2024 05:49 PM (55dHh)

One of my required courses included a case study of Lincoln Electric. Lincoln, in the mid-70s, was a considered a model for successful industrial manufacturing companies. That sector struggled, to put it mildly, during the Carter Years.

Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2024 05:54 PM (rj6Yv)

266 251 MBA school teaches you how to build a company for the sole purpose of selling it. Good products do not matter one bit.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks
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Or an actual positive cash flow.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:54 PM (O54VZ)

267 was Oppenheimer compromised, or was he 'communism curious' but never dived in

Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:55 PM (geLO8)

268 It had a tendency to blow back into
the shooters face.

That one lug that retains a Mauser C96 bolt has entered the chat.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 15, 2024 05:55 PM (OKkSB)

269 251 MBA school teaches you how to build a company for the sole purpose of selling it. Good products do not matter one bit.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks
-----------------------

Or an actual positive cash flow.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:54 PM (O54VZ)

The pointy-headed professors are idiots.

Posted by: Thorton Melon at January 15, 2024 05:57 PM (4I/2K)

270 They better not cut my Korean dancing Twitch girls!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2024 05:57 PM (ZBlvI)

271 Big Media worked really hard for this--hope they enjoy the fruits of their labor.

Posted by: CppThis at January 15, 2024 05:58 PM (PZvjL)

272 Oppenheimer had a brother who was a card carrying CPUSA but no evidence that Oppenheimer himself of ever having been in that particular club.
Again, we in the year 2023 are aware of the horrors of communism but in the 1930s it was somewhat normal in post depression USA. Hollywood especially was in deep.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 15, 2024 05:58 PM (MeG8a)

273 PIT TD

Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 05:59 PM (geLO8)

274 Anyone But You has one of the dudes from TopGun.

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 05:59 PM (V13WU)

275 >>>You posted that link the other day, I'm not sure what it's for, other than being a list of his films?

looks like it's actual videos of the movies

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:59 PM (KRtlO)

276 Ha ha somebody swatted the White House.

Posted by: fd at January 15, 2024 06:00 PM (vFG9F)

277 Half of the media or more are fruits.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2024 06:00 PM (ZBlvI)

278 How do we know that Disney is totally boned? Because they failed to perform the company's basic duty, which is to buy unreasonably long copyright protection from Congress to protect Mickey Mouse.

Steamboat Willie is public domain.

Posted by: CppThis at January 15, 2024 06:00 PM (PZvjL)

279
Oppenheimer had a brother who was a card carrying CPUSA but no evidence that Oppenheimer himself of ever having been in that particular club.

____________

It's a good thing he was a Leftist because otherwise the same people who blub about the investigation would call him a war criminal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2024 06:01 PM (MoZTd)

280 >>>274 Anyone But You has one of the dudes from TopGun.

yeah, Hangman, the Val Kilmer replacement type. (Adversary who becomes an ally.)

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 06:01 PM (KRtlO)

281 2023?
It's 2024.
(slaps forehead...)

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 15, 2024 06:01 PM (MeG8a)

282 That Canadian Ross, just read an article about it.
There was a problem with the bolt.
It had a tendency to blow back into the shooter's face.
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When it was wrongly reassembled; they eventually welded a stop of some sort on the bolt so it couldn't be wrongly reassembled. The other problems were it didn't take to mud well; and I think the British-made .303 was a fraction off so jams could happen. Even after their replacement by SMLEs, units kept a few as sniper rifles.
BTW, whig owns one and he has enjoyed shooting it.

YouTube Forgotten Weapons [16:46 minutes though!]
http://tinyurl.com/28fyvswy

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 15, 2024 06:01 PM (2yu8s)

283 >Oppenheimer had a brother who was a card carrying CPUSA but no evidence that Oppenheimer himself of ever having been in that particular club.

still, the movie makes it look like Oppenheimer 'got some on him', and got f***ed over for it

Posted by: Don Black at January 15, 2024 06:02 PM (geLO8)

284 That Canadian Ross, just read an article about it.
There was a problem with the bolt.
It had a tendency to blow back into
the shooters face.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 05:51 PM (O54VZ)

Herbert McBride, in his book "A Rifleman Went To War", addressed the Ross Rifle and he was very pleased with it. The Ross was certainly one of the most accurate rifles in the field during WW I. McBride was a US volunteer in a Canadian infantry regiment. He entered US service after the United States declared war on Germany in 1917.

Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2024 06:02 PM (rj6Yv)

285 Oppenheimer had a brother who was a card carrying CPUSA but no evidence that Oppenheimer himself of ever having been in that particular club.
Again, we in the year 2023 are aware of the horrors of communism but in the 1930s it was somewhat normal in post depression USA. Hollywood especially was in deep.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 15, 2024 05:58 PM (MeG8a)

Yes, I agree. That was ..University level communism. Before the Archipelago was published and before stalin croaked and the horrors were made known .

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 06:02 PM (V13WU)

286 They welded a lug onto the Ross bolt I just remembered!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 15, 2024 06:02 PM (2yu8s)

287 YouTube premium, no ads, is like 8$/month

Posted by: Jamaica at January 15, 2024 06:02 PM (Eeb9P)

288 There were the McCarthy hearings. Lots of otherwise beloved people "got some on them".
Aaron Copeland himself was grilled mercilessly.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 15, 2024 06:03 PM (MeG8a)

289 Forgotten Weapons just did a video on the High Point Yeet Cannon. He does not discriminate.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2024 06:03 PM (ZBlvI)

290 Everybody that are level 2 subjects or less have to wear the crouch gun.
It shoots straight up.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 15, 2024 06:03 PM (J8LnB)

291 The thing of it is, is you don't always have the luxury of treating everyone fairly. When your mission is to secure technological supremacy and your scientific establishment is literally crawling with Communist spies, sometimes you have to err on the side of "get this guy outta here, he's surrounded by Commies." Sucks, but it is what is, and if Oppenheimer was in a similar position in the USSR, he'd have ridden out the early 50s in Kolyma.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2024 06:04 PM (0FoWg)

292 White House is SWATTED: Prank caller calls 911 to say residence was on fire and someone was trapped inside

https://mol.im/a/12965357

Ha ha ha Ha ha ha Ha ha ha

Posted by: Ciampino - O what fun swatting on a winter's day at January 15, 2024 06:04 PM (qfLjt)

293 >>>237 Sidney Sweeny's eyes are too far apart. Like Willa Fitzgerald.

do I have to jump on this grenade for you cowards?

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 06:05 PM (KRtlO)

294 yeah, Hangman, the Val Kilmer replacement type. (Adversary who becomes an ally.)
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 06:01 PM (KRtlO)

Glen Powell!
there is going to be TopGun Maverick 2 with him and Rooster. they say...

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2024 06:06 PM (V13WU)

295 You posted that link the other day, I'm not sure what it's for, other than being a list of his films?
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looks like it's actual videos of the movies
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2024 05:59 PM (KRtlO)

Yeah, I'm a little slow on the uptake. I had to click around to find them.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 06:06 PM (TOvGn)

296 The 'American Rifleman' article said the Canadians shit canned the rifles as soon as the boat hit England. Their first preference was the .303 second was the Enfield .303.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 06:06 PM (O54VZ)

297 237 Sidney Sweeny's eyes are too far apart. Like Willa Fitzgerald.

Willy Wonka > Willa Fitzgerald

Posted by: Moron Math at January 15, 2024 06:07 PM (ycI94)

298 I agreed to go to "Anyone But You"with my wife. I walked out once I figured it was a poor remake of "Much Ado About Nothing" . Hero and Claudio are replaced with lesbians Miranda and Claudia. My wife understood.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 15, 2024 06:07 PM (JfxgE)

299 White House is SWATTED: Prank caller calls 911 to say residence was on fire and someone was trapped inside

https://mol.im/a/12965357

Ha ha ha Ha ha ha Ha ha ha

Posted by: Ciampino - O what fun swatting on a winter's day at January 15, 2024 06:04 PM (qfLjt)
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I'm not saying this should happen every day between now and November, but I would be laughing my ass of if it happened....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2024 06:07 PM (BpYfr)

300 Oppenheimer had a brother who was a card carrying CPUSA but no evidence that Oppenheimer himself of ever having been in that particular club.
Again, we in the year 2023 are aware of the horrors of communism but in the 1930s it was somewhat normal in post depression USA. Hollywood especially was in deep.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 15, 2024 05:58 PM (MeG8a)

I'd have to go back and look into it, but I believe he was still dipping his toe in where he shouldn't, well after the war.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2024 06:08 PM (TOvGn)

301 IMO... Oppenheimer was "harassed" by FedGov because he didn't toe-the-line with regards to "RightThink ™ "

He also equivocated on stuff someone with his level of info and security probably shouldn't have.

Lastly, it was a movie not made to tell a true story either way.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2024 06:09 PM (Q4IgG)

302 "Killers of the Flower Moon" was the one I spent about an hour waiting for it to wrap up cuz we were done dramatize early in that flick.

The hilarious thing I loved about the ending though was even Scorsese clearly thought
,
"Fuuuuuuuuuck, this movie is too long. Ima gimmick the hell outta this bitch and get out in ten minutes."

And that's how the horrible gimmick ending to KotFM was born.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 15, 2024 06:09 PM (nFnyb)

303 .

NOOD

White Men Having Failed to Position Her For Success, Kamala Harris Frees the "Scorn and Criticism" of DC

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 15, 2024 06:10 PM (qPw5n)

304 Sucks, but it is what is, and if Oppenheimer was in a similar position in the USSR, he'd have ridden out the early 50s in Kolyma.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2024 06:04 PM (0FoWg)

Stalin was a bit more practical about such things. He would have been sent to one of the "special camps" as described in Solzhenitsyn's novel "In the First Circle". Still a prison camp, but at least they avoided starving to death digging gold out of a riverbed while standing knee-deep in icy water.

Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2024 06:10 PM (rj6Yv)

305 IIRC his wife (girlfriend?) was thought to be a USSR honey pot.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 15, 2024 06:11 PM (MeG8a)

306 The 'American Rifleman' article said the Canadians shit canned the rifles as soon as the boat hit England. Their first preference was the .303 second was the Enfield .303.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2024 06:06 PM (O54VZ)

The Ross was essentially a precision-made target rifle and was prone to jamming in the northern European trenches. The Enfield SMLE and the M1917 Enfield were better suited for that kind of work, plus spare parts were more readily available.

Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2024 06:18 PM (rj6Yv)

307
"Thirty Marshmallows in a Vacuum Chamber" as a metaphor for what is deservedly happening to woke media enterprises.

First: vacuous expansion ---

youtu.be/OuHBzK-LK24?si=OT7DEHqz34sfdc0d

--- then, for this post, we are at the 2:00 mark.

Die, wizened and unmourned, media whores!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 15, 2024 06:19 PM (xG4kz)

308 Tom Servo yeah that's about the size of it

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2024 06:20 PM (fwDg9)

309 299 White House is SWATTED: Prank caller calls 911 to say residence was on fire and someone was trapped inside

https://mol.im/a/12965357

Ha ha ha Ha ha ha Ha ha ha

Posted by: Ciampino - O what fun swatting on a winter's day at January 15, 2024 06:04 PM (qfLjt)
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I'm not saying this should happen every day between now and November, but I would be laughing my ass of if it happened....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2024 06:07 PM (BpYfr)
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I'd get that 'so fa' and sit with you - laughing companion _ beer.

(BTW that sock is to the tune 'California Dreaming'.

Posted by: Ciampino - O what fun swatting on a winter's day, at January 15, 2024 06:22 PM (qfLjt)

310 People rave about anything worth seeing in Hollywood. I mean, just being average good, not insulting, having any sort of original story.

Posted by: Garbled memo at January 15, 2024 06:59 PM (mvURQ)

311 KotFM - dopey white guys "trick" average looking native girls into marrying them so they could get their hands on some of that sweet oil cash.

It doesn't flatter either side of that transaction.

Posted by: Garbled memo at January 15, 2024 07:02 PM (mvURQ)

312 Can't recommend the Beekeeper. The finale failed the laugh test for me. So far over the top it came back around to the bottom for me. Sort of like John Wick 4 was just too far. Hell, Superman would have been bruised after all those impacts.

Posted by: JB1000 at January 15, 2024 09:46 PM (NBM7T)

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