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  1. Your Batgirl fandom is showing (but you aren't wrong, directionally).
  2. I get it. I'm with you on everything except it seemed you were saying that $10mm was F-You money. It's a nice bag to set up a little flywheel and never have to work again and set your children up with enough left for the grandkids. A modest man can make a kingdom out of $10mm for his lifetime, but we talking about Odell Beckham blowing through $100mm type F-You money I thought.
  3. You didn't happen to work at the Astro diner on 6th, south of Central Park do you? Huge pancakes and if you do, you've probably served me a dozen times and we never knew it.
  4. $10 mil? lol cute.
  5. This page is chock full of gold, on all sides. Satire and memes are always funny, I guess I'm an equal opportunity employer in that regards. So while I disagree whole-heartedly politically with our friend incredulity, I hope he still posts comedy from the other side of the wall so we know how the East Germans are coping and get a glimpse into their brains.
  6. It's Chrismas season so I have to admit-- I've never seen Die Hard. I plan on watching it on a plane this week. Maybe I'll do a React Video on my YouTube channel which, unlike all the other reaction videos, will be actually real. I've never seen but want to (just need to find the time): - The Wire - Landman Movies I've never seen but want to but also feel lost on where to start and if I'll get the lore if I start at the wrong one because there are like 8 sequels: - IT - Predator (and/or Alien) movies that have come out. I need a chronology map to understand these. Shows that I have ZERO desire to start and watch but people seem to love: - Stranger Things Shows/Movies I did invest the time and glad I did (based on this threads feedback so far): - The Big Lewbowski one of the greatest movies ever. I've seen it probably 20 times. - Breaking Bad, one of the greatest series ever. I've watched it all the way through once, but watched parts of it enough to probably qualify a second viewing. - Django Unchained is amazing and probably seen it 4 or 5 times. - Godfather, was good, watched it once that's enough for me. Shows/Movies I did invest the time and wouldn't have if I had known in hindsight (I imagine all you LOST people are here too) - Ted Lasso after Season 1. Season 1 was soooo good and gold, the rest was bonafide garbage heap trash. - GoT, was cool and at the time was enthralling. In hindsight even the great parts weren't THAT great, but it was the last monocultural show and time we had I think before the complete obliteration of Hollywood monoculture (I guess Stranger Things is that). - The Harry Potter universe. Maybe if I was a kid or a tween when I watched these it would hit different, but as an adult it's very lame. Sorry. - The Walking Dead. Wasted a lot of time continuing to watch based on Sunk Cost fallacy. It was never good but had a way to keep me watching until I finally quit which I think was the fake Glen death. Like getting yourself to quit eating sugar for no reason.
  7. I think we all know how this plays out now with Trump being scrubbed in late last week as well.
  8. I think you just roll with it. If you are choosing to send your kid to a school with enough economically disadvantaged and at risk population that they are being airdropped free coats for the winter and what not, and you are not in that type of need, then it's likely because the school draws from a very diverse area. At his age it's no big deal to have designer logos and he shouldn't be bullied on basis of style, so I wouldn't worry about that. I think you hit the nail on the head, swallow your pride, be an equal party in the community of your school and teach your kids to show no partiality, as it sounds like you are. The issues are the parents insecurities more than the kids at this age.
  9. Netflix buying WB is probably that, if you are long on the longterm existence of Hollywood as we've come to know it (e.g. studios, distribution via movie theatres, Hollywood as a celebrity tastemaker, etc.). But WB being bought by Paramount is going to suck too, in other ways, like inevitiable mismanagement of IP, prices going up for consumers, rewarding the Ellison's, etc. But hey, it's all part of the elite capture anyways. Saw a funny story about how Zaslov and Sarandos accidentally bumped into each other at Polo Bar in midtown right before the deal closed (uh huh), which of course is a place I've been trying to get a reservation to for 6 months. Us poor folk will end up paying more for our stories, one way or another.
  10. Also, it does seem a bit weird to NOT take the better deal (valued over $100bn versus the 80) from a purely fidicuary responsibility perspective, much less the increased regulatory tie-up the Netflix bid has.
  11. 1000% this.
  12. Got some Brendyn’s earlier this week. The brisket and burnt ends were top notch. The ribs were mediocre and the sausage was bad. I threw it out; tasted like cased dog food. This is what the TM50 taste like outside of the big cities? Oof.
  13. Just caught Back to the Future III the one set in the Wild West. It was actually not bad compared to II.
  14. aregant.
  15. Back to the Future II It is so bad. What’s weird is that how great B2TF held up, the sequel was so bad.
  16. No matter how good I try to eat (mixed with the inevitable bad), I've been stuck in the 214-220 range for about 2 years now (I'm 6'1, but old so not very athletic or active). It's like a stock in that when I hit that low mark, I hit a resistence that to break through I can't do it. I must have to do something fundamentally different and harder than what I'm doing in just generally trying to be mindful of how and what I eat. And on the high end, as soon as I creep up and then hit that high hat, I get real serious and intentional and bring it back down. But no matter it stays in that box, which makes me think it's all mental.
  17. No. The Sandinistas and Castros are next. And they know it, and they are scared to death. It's not about the real drug production, you and I both know it, and I'm not here to pretend it is. This is 100% political. The pundits even have a name for it. The DONroe Doctrine. Seriously I didn't make that up. https://toda.org/global-outlook/2025/the-donroe-doctrine.html
  18. I, too, have airline status and opt to fly first class often, and unless you mean to denigrate the fine people in lululemon or vuori, I don't see flannel pajama pants and Yoda blankets. But maybe you are right and I've just been lucky. But I also see a distinction between being comfortable in appropriate clothing for long haul flights (or hangover flights from party destinations, as it were) and the juicy pants and slippers that you say you see often.
  19. 1. If you attack and he stays in power, 100%. But if you can topple him, it can be done quickly. 2. The thoughts are that however unlikely you can pressure him to self-exiling, but the more optimal likely case is that one of Maduro's own officers will topple him a la General Rodriguez who toppled Paraguay dictator and ushered back in democracy (so there is a precedent there). https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/22/world/andres-rodriguez-dies-at-72-overthrew-paraguay-dictator.html 3. US won't engage in a hot war. It will either be a surgical operation a la Bush Sr. ousting Noriega in Panama or nothing. 4. Right. Hence the neighbors being upset at Ven/Maduro because of poor/refugees/immigration a la Palestine and her neighbors.
  20. A funny meme going around the Latin American community:
  21. To be clear I didn't generate the chart and I don't necessarily agree with it, I was responding to the poster who mentioned AI with certain industries as conversation point and to add to that particular discussion. This post was a disconnect from MY personal opinion which was the bear point of view. This site software combined the two into one post as I posted back to back too quickly.
  22. I think Trump would love to go to war with Venezuela because they would be easy (capitulate in 5 seconds) and the oil reserves are massive. Maduro is unliked by everyone and considered a fool at best and a criminal at worst (I know, I know-- like we can talk), but he's had more time in the chair than Trump to completely strip mine Venezuela from a once proud, economically strong and prideful place to one that is hollowed out, broke, and empty from a brain drain that has been going on for a decade. It's no longer professionals leaving in droves and pissing off Chile and Peru but it's the common clay people who can't escape fast enough. And the things in Trump's favor? @'stachementioned a big one in that it's not kitchen table news because of a mix of reasons; aforementioned unlikeability of Maduro, foreign stuff is always a bit detached for the average Joe Sixpack when it's not a hot war like this one won't be or won't be for long, and it gives the whitewashing of "good versus bad" with all the brown drug people poisoning our white American streets. Then you've got Trump who is the most Russo & OPEC cartel friendly President ever. Typically Venezuela could count on the bad guys to sabre rattle and create some distance, but KSA/MBS & Trump are thick as thieves and Putin hates Trump behind his back but sees the value in their being frenemies.
  23. I don't think it's a MAGA, left or right thing, I think it's a poor people versus not-poor people thing to understand how to behave (and dress) in society when you share a common space with other people. That extends to airports. I remember the backlash when public schools made news for shaming poor people for showing up to school in shower caps and robes. It doesn't go over well in poor communities because it can be seen as discriminatory and/or racist. No different here. So the solution is simple: stop flying poor people airlines.
  24. Charles II as "short, lame, epileptic, senile, and completely bald before 35, he was always on the verge of death, but repeatedly baffled Christendom by continuing to live."
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