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3 hours ago, Sbbruin said:
My point was, the typical patron of the Kennedy Center prior to the Trump takeover now wants nothing to do with his bastardized version of it. And the MAGA base doesn't fit the profile of a Kennedy Center attendee.
Sure but the main point is...
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30 minutes ago, Serak The Preparer said:
I don't know that I would call it self-aware because the Post doesn't exist as a money-making enterprise. it is just a combination of vanity project and way to suck up to Trump. Bezos doesn't give a solitary shake about the impact on Post's subscriptions / ad-selling.
Yeah I meant to write un-self aware but there was already an "un" in there so it mistakenly got dropped. (Purposeful use of passive voice.)
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12 minutes ago, Foosters said:
"costs to counties of up to a few million dollars statewide"
Doesn't the "statewide" qualifier mean that it will be a few million dollars statewide? Honest question.
Otherwise, we're talking about 70-200 million to "update election materials?
The very first words -- before "Costs" -- are "MINOR ONE-TIME". So, yes, his wife is a fucking moron which is what he said before he started defending her.
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9 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:
Of course ticket sales have bottomed out. Cletus and Lerlene aren't lining up to buy tickets to La Boheme (it's an opera).
I feel like you missed the point. Or maybe I missed the joke idk.
QuoteAfter President Donald Trump took over the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in February, he and the executive he put in charge repeatedly accused the institution’s former leadership of not doing the very thing they are responsible for: selling tickets.
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QuoteWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “The Kennedy Center learned the hard way that if you go woke, you will go broke. President Trump and the members of his newly-appointed board are devoted to rebuilding the Kennedy Center into a thriving and highly respected institution...
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56 minutes ago, G650 said:
I didn't realize Bump had left the Post.
Took a buyout.
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Platner is taking on water
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The Washington Post published an unironically un-self-aware article today and was fittingly called out by one of their former columnists who departed due to the Post's fascist-remake and business downturn
if you want to read the article https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/10/31/kennedy-center-sales/
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2 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:
Wife got me a rice cooker for Father’s Day this year. Absolute game changer.
My grandfather bought a rice cooker at a garage sale in Galveston in 1956 and I finally inherited it. Greatest rice cooker ever. What an absolute beast.
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48 minutes ago, Mittens said:
Is this not every peeler ever? I'm a little stunned at this conversation right now, as I've never seen a peeler that didn't do exactly this, yet it seems like this isn't a universal experience.
The oxo with its swivel blade maintains contact with the carrot and is more flexible than a swiss style peeler. IMO. Also, I think a significant portion of the population is not aware of the going both ways trick. But ymmv
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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:
Yeah, our Oxo is serrated. Forgot to mention that, it really helps. I don't use it a LOT, but when I do, it makes quick work of things -- mostly stuff like cucumbers and potatoes.
The Oxo swivels and it has two opposing blades which means you can easily change direction on the carrot and cut the peeling time in half.
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this is a yt interview of Cory
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QuoteEnshittification as a term is relatively new — Cory only coined it a few years ago to explain a phenomenon you’ll hear him call platform decay, or the experience of a piece of software or a website becoming worse and worse over time. But the term has since become a kind of rallying cry among creatives, tech theorists, and others trying to make sense of where, exactly, the internet went so wrong.
Now, with generative AI, it feels like everything in our digital lives is becoming enshittified in ways that are plainly obvious to even the most casual user of technology. So you’ll also hear Cory and I delve into that intersection between the rise of so-called AI slop and enshittification — and why it’s important that these two themes have so much overlap.
Now, I’ve known Cory for a long time. We’ve traveled in a lot of the same circles on the internet for years, writing and debating copyright, Section 230, and a lot of the other major forces in U.S. law that have shaped the tech industry. And all of that comes up in this conversation, too — because central to the narrative around enshittification is how tech companies became so big and so powerful that they were able to start abusing their market dominance with little to no consequences.
So enshittification, in Cory’s eyes, is as much a legal and regulatory story as it is a product one — but which laws and regulations have what kind of effects over time? What kind of effects will they have in the future? What’s the best way to curb monopoly power?
This was a really fascinating conversation that touches on a lot of Decoder themes that come up again and again on the show. And in true Cory fashion, he really does not hold back. I think you’re going to like it.
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7 hours ago, Dennis Taylor said:
That was a joke. I don't believe anything any administration tells me. But you do you
chill bro...have some ivermectin, Kennedy says it's good
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this motherfucking cop has rancid balls and a rancid brain
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Man jailed for a mean meme - sheriff maganazi interviewed by local news yesterday
1 day later charges dropped
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this is what happens when you let piggy OD on testosterone and Arby's
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Saw Good Fortune at the theater on Sunday. Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen. It's a comedy in the Trading Places vein. There were a few people in the theater who constantly LOL'd and I'm guessing those people are already big fans of Ansari or Keanu. Each star pretty much played themselves. The type of story has been well-explored. The twist here is it really shows the struggle for those who have to work gig jobs, in restaurants or in retail. That was an interesting choice because it's supposed to be a comedy yet has some rather depressing moments. The ending however is nice and trite and wraps it all up with a happy ending. As for whether it's a comedy. I found the legit lol's in the theater much more hysterical than the actual move, so ymmv. High 80s on RT, I'd give it 2.5/4.
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CTJ wrote he thinks the source is Jerrah and that's as good a guess as any. In fact, I'd say it seems very likely. For several reasons, the source was almost certainly an NFL owner or someone in their close circle. We can also surmise it's definitely not Sexton nor a bmd for the simple reason it's in none of their interests to leak that info about Sark at this point in the season. The reporter who got the quote about Sark also wasn't around a bmd nor Sexton last week, however she was at the NFL owner's meeting.
The original NYT report is by now pretty well buried on The Athletic site but it was written by a reporter whose job is to cover the NFL. She covered last week's NFL owner's meetings and that's where someone apparently gossiped to her about Sark looking for an NFL job. Jerrah is well-known to be a big gossip. The line about Sark is but one sentence at the end of a longish article - maybe 1000 words, all about the NFL except for the Sark mention.
The reporter dropped the "I'm told..." about Sark in the context of discussing what certain NFL owners are saying about their own teams and the league. The use of "I'm told" means she had but a single source. If she had more than one source, she and her editor would have printed that. Her article not only quotes Jerrah extensively about NFL matters, the reporter also wrote about him very favorably - some would say even fawningly.
The rule of thumb when there is an unnamed source is that you can almost always find them quoted elsewhere in the article and that person will be treated favorably within the article. And then you have to analyze who would be motivated to make the statement AND ask for non-attribution. The rule of thumb applies to the Cowboys owner on all counts.
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On 10/24/2025 at 6:16 PM, 956 Worldwide said:
Kind of proving my point with Giuliani. He didn’t spring fully formed into City Hall; his election was a reaction.
Colvin’s paper bag is the exact opposite of “zero tolerance.” Low level things like peddling counterfeit shit, prostitution, small-time drug dealing, etc are tolerable when kept discreet and it’s not in people’s faces. You’ve got to leave a direction where people can turn their heads and look the other way. When they don’t have that, you get a Giuliani or worse.
Which has nothing to do with last week. They're fucking with anyone they see on the streets. If you're concerned about criminals they are in fact working for ICE and at the Trump Shiite House. If it were about the knock-offs, 1) NYPD would've been there, and 2) the brands supposedly being infringed know how to make that happen.
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Maybe I don't understand the point of the post. Giuliani (of all people another gigantic hypocrite and felon) tried a Zero Tolerance police strategy when he was mayor in NYC and it was a huge failure in multiple ways. Whatever dipshit above referred to "public disorder" deserves one kick in the head and another to the nuts.
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5 federal police agencies deployed in riot gear to tame potential trademark law violations. Who doesn't support that?
<The ironic thing is that people with money who don't want to pay street price can order that shit from the comfort of home. Same way dotard's failson orders his cocaine.>
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19 minutes ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:
Anyone dumb enough to bet on the supreme court ruling in favor of what's actually legal deserves to lose their money.
Yeah it would be wild if someone at the supreme court were to leak insider details. Would never happen. Oh wait.
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Off the BT - betting on the fall of the tariffs regime taking place
Gotdammit I Just Got Scammed
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/csb My sister was at my house a few months ago and took a call that I ignored but from the tone it sounded official. Then I heard her say, "Okay, my account number is" and I yelled at her and told her to be quiet and not say another word... I may not have been so polite, I don't recall. She goes, "What? It's my bank!" I said do not say another word to them, your fucking bank NEVER calls you unsolicited for a security issue. She's incredulous. "But it's my bank. They just want me to verify. They think there might be fraud on my account" I tell her, get their fucking phone number and call them back because you're being phished right now." Sister was surprised when she tried calling back and it was a fake phone number. I was stupified.