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  1. Pass this around to your out-of-state or East Texas relatives
  2. People are challenging Leon to livestream what he claims to have done. He’s not going to and everybody knows it.
  3. Lot of hate because it’s so far away from the optimism of Roddenberry’s Star Trek. Arguably DS9 started the peak behind the curtain at the dark stuff, but DS9 is beloved. The feeling is similar to the hate for the Zach Snyder Superman stuff where it seems like he was more concerned with Zod no matter how many innocents had to die, versus the Christopher Reece Superman.
  4. The incels take their gaming seriously. What Leon did is on par with their moms not emptying their piss bottle on time.
  5. Because BlueSky is open, somebody is coming out with a client that basically only shows photos and videos - a pseudo Instagram of sorts, “Flashes” https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/bluesky-is-getting-its-own-photo-sharing-app-flashes/
  6. Mario Kart 9?
  7. Some serious shit going around the schools in Austin. My friend’s kids’ school supposedly had almost 30% out, my oldest’s Kissel school had 100+ put. Seems like flu and some stomach bug.
  8. Some decent talent in front of and behind the camera. The most dangerous enemy is an old friend. #TheAltoKnights starring Robert De Niro – only in theaters March 21. From Warner Bros. Pictures, “The Alto Knights” stars Academy Award winner Robert De Niro in a dual role, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson. The film follows two of New York’s most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello (De Niro) and Vito Genovese (De Niro), as they vie for control of the city’s streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a deadly collision course that will reshape the Mafia (and America) forever. “The Alto Knights” was written by Oscar nominee Nicholas Pileggi (“Goodfellas”) and produced by Oscar winner Irwin Winkler (“Rocky,” “Goodfellas”), Levinson, Jason Sosnoff, Charles Winkler and David Winkler, with Mike Drake executive producing. De Niro stars alongside Debra Messing (“Will & Grace”), Cosmo Jarvis (“Shōgun”), Kathrine Narducci (“The Irishman”), Michael Rispoli (“Billions”), Michael Adler (“Peppermint”), Ed Amatrudo (“Till,” “Nashville”), Joe Bacino (“Kick-Ass”), Anthony J. Gallo (“The Irishman”), Wallace Langham (“Ford v Ferrari”), Louis Mustillo (“Cooper’s Bar,” “Mike & Molly”), Frank Piccirillo, Matt Servitto (“Billions”) and Robert Uricola (“Raging Bull”). Joining Levinson (“Rainman,” “Dopesick”) behind the camera are Oscar-nominated director of photography Dante Spinotti (“The Insider,” “L.A. Confidential”), production designer Neil Spisak (the “Spider-Man” films, “Dopesick”), Oscar-nominated editor Douglas Crise (“Babel,” “Dopesick”), Oscar-nominated costume designer Jeffrey Kurland (“Bullets Over Broadway,” “Tenet”), award-winning casting director Ellen Chenoweth (“Past Lives”) and composer David Fleming (“Hillbilly Elegy,” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”).
  9. A company making orbit on their first try is extremely impressive. Not just the first try of a new system or rocket, but Blue Origin’s first orbital attempt in the history of the company, period. Has that been done before?
  10. Some of these AI shorts…Uhura was..
  11. An arrow burying itself into a human being hay bale makes a pretty satisfying sound.
  12. The thing that I think is missing from that compilation, and I think Swisher pointed it out one time elsewhere, is that Zuckerberg truly believes he is entitled to the user data on Apple devices, and Google and Microsoft as well. If Facebook is on a device, he thinks he should be able to have full access. Apple has teams dedicated to locking it down and they’ve publicly rebuked him, and it pisses him off so much. Apple sees the iPhone as the product and iPhone buyers as their customers. Zuckerberg sees the Facebook users as the product and advertisers as his customers, and the more user data he can vacuum up, the more revenue can come in. This is why he even wanted FB to make a phone back in the early 2010s (it failed quickly). And Apple has banned FB apps before https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/ https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/apples-privacy-battle-with-facebook-just-became-all-out-war/
  13. Has Leon ever admitted to being wrong when it made him look bad?
  14. The first rule is: Any area in a Bucee’s can be a public sex stall. If you’re brave enough.
  15. Not my favorite 1983 release from Bally Midway, but not bad and I liked the band’s digitized heads in the game I’d rather play the sequel, Journey Escape, that came out on the Atari 2600. For the youngsters, Journey was a huge rock band in the 80s.
  16. Interesting article on Jugband Blues https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/decoding-a-genius-last-stand-syd-barretts-final-pink-floyd-song/
  17. "Your money is on its way to China to pay for a golf cart to carry our finest soldiers into battle against those Ukrainian losers who are clearly not in Kursk and not dropping drones on our cities! After we rebuild all of our refineries that have been catching fire from people smoking and being careless with their cigarettes, we can pay you back!"
  18. I would agree except that the internet and travel within Europe in the 90s and 2000s shook things up, to the point where up to a million Russians and their families fled Russia when they became concerned they were going to be drafted in 2022/2023. Obviously it was probably wise of Putin to let them go, since they would have been the troublemakers Plenty stayed behind in the large cities thinking that either their jobs or their bank accounts would keep them from being drafted, and now that security is gone - this can’t bode well for the economy (hence their jobs) and if their bank accounts are gutted, they are not bribing anybody to get out of conscription.
  19. Musk wouldn’t know what to do if he found himself with another person in one of the private sex stalls in the Bucees bathrooms. Or a public sex stall for that matter.
  20. So does Facebook. And don't forget Orkut either. Google had Google Drive/Photos, YouTube (a bigger social media platform than Facebook), Blogger (which would have been an easy platform for individual user pages) and a bunch of other services, but Google is gonna Google. Somebody wrote a book that claimed it scared Zuckerberg and he forced the company to boost a lot of areas or add new features.
  21. Only if somebody else pops up with a major platform that mom and pop can use, that has everything that FB already has. AOL didn't make the leap to broadband provider, so they fell behind their competition fast. AOL was selling internet access over dial-up, and once broadband hit the mainstream scene, a big chunk of AOL's userbase no longer had a need for AOL - AOL would be yet another expense on top of their broadband bill (for many, AOL was their internet access until broadband came along). In other words, AOL didn't evolve, while FB has evolved over time with things like Instagram, marketplace, etc. AOL wasn't profitable in a way that FB is - their profit relied on people using their service sparingly, and when they started to fall behind the competition, they went from an hourly fee to a monthly fee in the late 90s, and it killed their profit margin when people stayed logged in trying to find horny men and women in Austin and Dallas. FB doesn't face that dilemma because their revenue increases when usage increases. Finally, the AOL-Time Warner merger completely turbofucked everything. Facebook is not merging with anybody at that kind of scale. There are very few things that can send FB the way of AOL. It would have to be a competently run platform that offers much of what FB has, just as AOL was wiped out by broadband providing better connection services than AOL. When broadband came along in a big way, people were willing to forego AOL for the better internet access, and would then go find AdultFriendFinder.com or whatever to bang hot ladies and dudes in Austin and Dallas. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are the only companies that could offer a platform at that scale that could compete with FB, and Google has made runs at it, and I'm not sure Microsoft can do that for a lot of reasons (and arguably they have a platform with LinkedIn, but it's no FB).
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