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  1. 4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Here in Austin, we call this just another day at a school.  Kids wear all kids of stuff that is not bright yellow or bright orange. Including actual camouflage as well as Minecraft stuff that blends in well.

    As the parent of young kids, and somebody who takes their kid to school frequently, I see this way more often than I would like (thankfully with other peoples kids, mine are good about it).

    I assume any kid within a 5 feet of a curb is going to randomly and rapidly accelerate into the street.

    Exactly, this is a scenario that can occur in any school zone in the country.

     

  2. 1 hour ago, BeardIP said:

    Can you submit any you found to be enlightening or valuable to your understanding? I'm just trying to report the news here, not make it.

    I read a few articles about this earlier and the common theme was this isn't a recent thing and these issues predate Berliner's career at NPR so his assertion that this is a recent development is odd.

  3. 10 hours ago, Rimbo said:

    There is no way Andrew Tate is straight.

    No straight white man needs this much validation, has to go to such lengths, has to move the goalposts so many times and so far, to prove how white and straight he is.

    If you're white, cisgendered, and ACTUALLY straight, everything we live and breathe validates us for being what we are. There's nothing to prove.

    In fact Tate might very well be the gayest man alive.

    But he's blek and literally shit talking whites from a "Muslim" cultural perspective. The push back he is getting from the "Evropa" types is pretty unsettling. His rant is anti-Western and he intended to get the Neo-Nazis frothing at the mouth for their hatred of the browns.

    Jesus, the whole thing is horrible.

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  4. 2 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Peak Kim Basinger is seducing Garth into killing her husband if memory serves me correctly. 

    I did not know until now that there was a Wayne's World 2.

     

  5. The absurdity of this thread is how serious people are taking it. Derka was not arrested and shipped off to Siberia until Stalin has a change of heart. The user account shadow_operative was disabled. That's it.

    To the posters questioning the Derka ban and wondering how all of the other posters keep coming back.

    This place doesn't have walls to keep people out. Anyone can be banned and then stroll back in 5 minutes later.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

    I don't know if this was Jack Black's first role, but it was the one that really broke him out, wasn't it? Stole every goddamn scene so hard.

    How does Cusack not lose it in these scenes? I can only figure that since he only ever has that sad puppy dog eyes look (and tbf is a VERY good dad puppy dog eyes look; 9,237 high-grossing romcoms don't lie) he's just laughing on the inside.

    He was in a lot of notable movies in the mid-90s prior to High Fidelity.

    But yeah, he wasn't doing the "Jack Black" thing until this movie.

  7. The Yabushige character is very perplexing. Throughout the entire series my views of him keep changing. He fluctuates between a total dick, bad ass, goofball, traitorous, a fun cool dude, but remains very likeable the entire time no matter what he does.

    The kind of guy you want to party with but he's likely to leave you with the bill and then have you jumped in the parking lot afterwards.

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  8. 6 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

    after World War II, lots of guys would hit the ground when a car backfired

    I had a friend that drove really aggressive when he returned from serving in Iraq. He wouldn't stay in his lane, would frequently speed and avoided coming to a stop. From what I understand some vets return conditioned to drive like this because of IEDs and ambushes back in Iraq.

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  9. 4 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/14/truth-social-investors-faith-trump/

     

     

     

     

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    Trump Media spokeswoman Shannon Devine said in a statement that “Truth Social has created a free-speech beachhead against Big Tech for a fraction of the start-up and operating costs that the legacy tech corporations incurred, while having no debt, more than $200 million in the bank, and the support of hundreds of thousands of retail investors who fervently believe in our mission.”

    Trump Media has boasted that it has benefited from a flood of “retail investors” — small-time and amateur shareholders betting their personal cash. Its merger partner, Digital World Acquisition, said its shares were bought by nearly 400,000 retail investors, and Trump Media’s chief executive, Devin Nunes, told Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that the company had added over 200,000 new ones in the past couple of weeks.

    “There’s not another company out there that has retail investors like this,” said Nunes, who this year will receive a $1 million salary, a $600,000 retention bonus and a stock package currently worth $3.7 million.

    In an interview last month with conservative commentator Sean Hannity, the former Republican congressman recounted a recent discussion with Trump where the men celebrated having “opened up the internet and kept it open for the American people.”

    “I’ll never forget the conversation we had,” Nunes said. “He said, ‘You know, once we’re all dead and gone, this will last forever.’”

    Many of Truth Social’s investors say they’re in it for the long haul. Todd Schlanger, an interior designer at a furniture store in West Palm Beach who said Trump had been one of his customers, said he’s invested about $20,000 in total and is buying new shares every week.

    Schlanger said he now watches his stock performance every day hoping for positive signs. In a Truth Social post last week, he encouraged “everyone who supports Donald Trump and Truth [Social to] buy a share everyday” and asked, “Do you think we have hit bottom?” (The stock slid nearly 10 percent after that post.)

    He suspects the recent drops in share price have been the result of “stock manipulation” from an “organized effort” to make the company look bad. There’s no proof of such a campaign, but Schlanger is convinced. “It’s got to be political,” he said, from all the “liberals that are trying to knock it down.”

    That range of emotions is on full display on Truth Social, where thousands of mostly anonymous accounts have flocked to meme-filled investor groups, one of which is emblazoned with a computer-generated image showing Trump pumping his fist on a Wall Street trading floor.

    Some accounts there have recently encouraged traders to keep investing in a fight they said was about “good vs evil” — a way to defend Trump from the liberal elites laughing at him and, by extension, them. The user @BaldylocksUSMC said “the fight has been long and hard on most of us” and that “this stock is not for the weak,” but that one day they would triumph over critics who were “brainwashed beyond repair.”

    After the billionaire media mogul Barry Diller called Trump Media a “scam” stock bought by “dopes,” one account, @Handbag72, claimed to have bought more shares, arguing Diller didn’t “get it” or was “at risk of [losing] $$$$.” The next day, the account shared a 2021 blog post from the investing forum Seeking Alpha saying Truth Social could be worth $1 trillion in the next 10 years.

    But there are also flickers of uncertainty and disenchantment, with some saying they faced thousands of dollars in losses or had “risked [literally] everything.” One user who had posted “Tired of WINNING yet?” earlier this year when the stock spiked posted that this week’s losses were “painful to stomach.”

    “Come on DJT, every time I buy more, the price drops more,” the user @bill7718 wrote. “When will it be the BOTTOM!!” (He posted a chart Thursday showing the stock rising slightly alongside the caption, “moving!!” The price has since gone back down.)

    The user @manofpeace123, who said they bought shares at $65 and that 71 percent of their portfolio was DJT stock, said on Wednesday that investing was a way of telling Trump, “I believe in you and I stand with you through good times and bad.” But a day later, the user added: “can’t help but feel sad. … feel like I’m trying to catch a falling knife.”

    Another account, @realJaneBLONDE, posted on Sunday that she was “NOT panicked NOT worried” before, two days later, posting a message to Trump and congressional Republicans urging them to make it “illegal” to bet against or short-sell stocks.

    “Sick of MY investment money being stolen!!” she wrote. “They’re stealing peoples money and you’re allowing it!!”

    Some users said they were “baffled” by the stock’s ups and downs, and one asked for advice on how to tell her husband she didn’t want to sell. One user posted a meme image saying, “If you’re worried about your Money, Remember This, DJT stock is about FREE SPEECH & Without FREE SPEECH Money won’t mean much.”

    But other users saw such questions as displays of unacceptable doubt. When the user @seneca1950 asked whether anyone was concerned that the company’s upcoming plans to issue tens of millions more shares would sink the stock price, two accounts criticized the account for spreading “FUD” — fear, uncertainty and doubt.

    “Are you a Fudster,” wrote a user named “Jesus Revolution 2024.” Wrote another, called Rabristol: “You must be short with no way out!”

    In moments of apparent despair, some users work to lift one another up by arguing that they are enduring the same kinds of “deep state” attacks that had long shadowed Trump himself. When user @BingBlangBlaow said they were embarrassed to be so “deep in the red” and questioned why “everyone [was] acting like everything is fine,” Chad Nedohin, a Canadian investor and prominent cheerleader of the stock on Truth Social and the video site Rumble, responded, “No [one’s] fine with it, but we are DJT now. The deep state is making their run at Trump … and us.”

    The user, however, posted afterward that the argument left him unconvinced. “I’m tired of blaming the deep state,” he said. Later, he added, “You would think that the ‘biggest political movement of all time’ would want to support the man leading it and get much better numbers than” this. (The accounts did not respond to messages and offered no way to contact them.)

    Carol Swain, a prominent conservative commentator in Nashville who previously taught political science at Vanderbilt University, said she invested $1,000 in Trump Media stock earlier this month, at $48 a share, over the objections of her financial adviser, who predicted the stock would dive.

    “If I lose it, fine. If I make a profit, wonderful. But at the end of the day, I wanted to show my support,” she said. “There’s such an effort to destroy him and strip his wealth away, and so much glee about it. I would like to see him be a winner.”

    She, too, suspects stock manipulation, arguing that “the people who hate Donald Trump would do anything to try to hurt him.” As for Truth Social itself, she said she posts there only sparingly and prefers X, where she has 35 times as many followers. “I have always wanted not to just preach to the choir,” she said.

    McLain, the tree service owner in Oklahoma, said he believes the stock could “go to $1,000 a share, easy,” once the media stops writing so negatively about it and the company works through its growing pains. The company’s leaders, he said, are being “too silent right now” amid questions about the falling share price, but he suspects it’s because they’re working on something amazing and new.

    McLain is an amateur trader — he invested only once before and “lost [his] butt” — and said he hasn’t talked to his family about his investment, saying, “You know how that is.” But he believes the Trump Media deal is a sign he is “supposed to invest,” he said.

    “This isn’t just another stock to me. … I feel like it was God Almighty that put it in my lap,” he said. “I’ve just got to hold on and let them do their job. If you go on emotion, you’ll get out of this thing the first time it goes down.”

     

    Damn, all of these poor fools being fleeced and accepting it as a badge of honor.

     

  10. 14 minutes ago, Longboard Horn said:

    Did you enjoy it? 

    Yes, I did. Beer, football and grilled chicken fajitas. I enjoyed the afternoon. Initially, I didn't have any investment in the game but towards the end I really wanted San Antonio to win the game. I will likely watch more San Antonio games. I would really like it if they changed the name to the San Antonio Gunslingers.

  11. I watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood this weekend. I didn't know what it was about until the Polanski and Sharon Tate characters showed up next door.

    Damn. This was a really good movie. Tarantino really captured the yuck factor of hippies.

    Margaret Qualley was hot but damn she looked like she needed a bath.

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  12. On 4/9/2024 at 4:00 PM, futureman said:

    they’re screening this at the bullock soon.  on IMAX.  never saw it but how does this movie warrant a screening on IMAX?

    It doesn't. The movie isn't horrible but it definitely doesn't warrant an IMAX screening.

  13. I've never watched a game until today. I just finished watching the San Antonio vs. St. Louis game. With nothing going on today and having some beer in the fridge I tried out watching some spring football.

    I enjoyed it but turned down the volume because of everyone mic'd up was distracting.

     

     

  14. 27 minutes ago, Blotto said:

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    Back in the 90's I met a chick online. We scheduled a time to meet and when she drove up and got out, I drove off.

    Later she messaged me on ICQ asking why I suddenly left. My reply "you have a Mossimo sticker on the back of your back car."

    Truthfully, she was chunkier than expected and had a Mossimo sticker which pushed her over the edge.

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