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  1. That is the most HOLY SHIT filled video I can recall seeing. Damn.
  2. That was a very snappy straight-right. After some of these hair-pulling slap fights, that was a nice improvement. I don't know if that girl has done some Mc Dojo lessons or just has an abusive dad, but she picked some skills up somewhere.
  3. What am I missing? Why would the B12 be "ready to end this". From the B12's point of view, isn't it better the longer we're here?
  4. Lolwut? Watch the back of Burrow's chest protector. That is _never_ allowed in NFL games.
  5. For me, the infamous Lakers-Kings Game 6 was like catching Dad placing presents under the Christmas tree. I knew intellectually that Santa wasn't real, but I wanted to believe so I just went with it. I didn't want to accept that games were rigged, right up until I watched a game that showed the undeniable truth that major Pro sports really were fixed (at times). Any time there is a game where calls alter the trajectory of the game I have to wonder. 3 quick fouls on a star NBA player; a couple early drives extended or ended by a call on a lineman that literally be called every play. I'm now jaded.
  6. I really want to know what they _thought_ was going to happen. I know 23 is young, but has she never watched TV? Germany must have a some homegrown show like CSI, or Law and Order. Maybe a Nazi and Order or something. Literally any show with an ME character would have educated them better.
  7. From https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cta/undergrad-degree-fields 150K Social Sciences and History Majors per year is a lot of folks asking if I "want fries with that?". The number of Psychology Majors surprised me enough to google why. Seems Psychology is the generic 'I-need-a-college-degree-but-I-don't-know-what-I-want-to-do-and-I-don't-want-Business' degree of choice for a lot of females. (79%). Nothing wrong with that; it's much more employable than gender studies. Really surprised that the # of Engineering degrees isn't higher.
  8. Damn, it's true, everything's more deadly in Australia.
  9. Let's not get all Cloaky here, so here's my only reply on this topic.
  10. I know officials need to prepare for the worst, and releasing the video late seems prudent, but is anyone really feeling like "cities are going to burn"? Maybe there is a racist angle to the cops being fired so quickly; I really don't know, but they were fired and the wheels of justice are turning. The video may be bad, and it may give people another reason to hate cops, but it doesn't feel the same as George Floyd. Full disclosure: I'm white, so WTF do I know.
  11. I'm waiting for the day (soon) where I can ask an AI bot like ChatGPT to do my work, and then turn that work in as my own. There is probably going to be a window of a few years before employers get smart and cut out the middle man. Big Tech Exec1: We can have AI write our new software product for $10 Million, or we can hire 50 US developers, or 500 Indian developers. Big Tech Exec2: Screw it, human software always sucks. Let's just pay the money and get the software complete today.
  12. Triumph just caught the end of the 70s with a 1979 album release....but the song got lot of airplay in the early 80s.
  13. Wow. This cover does indeed meet the criteria of the thread title. I'm not really familiar with kd lang as an artist, it seems like I mostly recall her for talking about her sexuality on talk shows or pissing off cattle farmers, but damn, can she sing. I clicked on the link expecting to give it the proverbial Gong after 10-20 seconds, but this one made it to the end...twice.
  14. What exactly do you have in mind that they would teach for your "verify" line item? Have them check Wikipedia? Have them check _insert_fact_checking_website_of_your_choice (that 50% of people are going to claim is biased)? Have them find and read original peer-reviewed scientific, medical, or statistical articles? Have them track down a full video/transcript of an event being reported on? Having a good idea that something is wrong is one thing, but 'verifying' it is hard and takes a long time. You can short-cut the process and stop at 'trusted' sources, but of course different people will trust different sources.
  15. I'll have to take their word for it. Maybe I've been getting laid wrong all these years.
  16. Getting back to the OPs point, a "Critical Thinking" class is a valuable thing in-and-of itself, but a class for "Critical Thinking to Fight Misinformation in Media" is a fucking mine field. The world is not black-and-white and the nuanced grayscale of politics makes picking case studies for the class a lot harder than it may initially seem. I think there are far fewer cases of "Holocaust didn't happen" level of misinformation than people pretend. While there are a lot of stupid people out there, I always keep in mind that for every opinion I hold, there is some equally smart person that has the exact opposite opinion.
  17. Not sure I'd call that a sucker punch. Dude pulled up his pants, had his arms loose and ready, was looking at and walking toward his ex. His dumb ass just couldn't defend a no-nonsense-first-strike at the beginning of the launch window.
  18. When a battery breakthrough happens and these things can run for weeks at a time on a single charge, it will be time to freak out. Until then, we only need to play keep-it-away-from-the-charger for 60 minutes before humans win.
  19. Oh God, I can't imagine how terrible that would be.
  20. My one and only time seeing Van Halen live was at the Monster's of Rock Tour in 1988 at Candlestick Park (SF). The band order was: Kingdom Come, Dokken, Metallica, Scorpions, Van Halen. Van Halen was riding high with OU812, and without a doubt had the largest crowd, but Metallica figuratively stole the thunder. "Master of Puppets" had been out a couple years and "And Justice for All..." was going to be released a few months later. On top of that, they were a Bay Area band; this was like a home-game for them. The Scorpions were the big losers. Squeezed between Metallica and Van Halen. The Scorpions quote hard rock unquote sound just wasn't built to follow Metallica and wasn't as grand as Van Halen. If they were following Dokken and leading into Van Halen, they would have been in a great spot, but the way it worked out, they came across as old and stale. The biggest thing I remember from the Van Halen set was Michael Anthony had probably the worst Bass solo I've ever heard. I have no idea if he was drunk, stoned, or just sucks at solos.
  21. Dave may have been the perfect front-man for VH at the beginning, but after six albums he had hit his celling. You can only hide the fact that he's a terrible singer so many different ways. If DLR had stayed in the band, VH doesn't evolve and they just put out more of the same stuff; it would have sounded a lot like Dave's solo crap but with better musicians. I have no insights in to the back-stabbing that may have gone on, but Sammy rejuivnated that band and gave it a 2nd life.
  22. Do we know what the "jaw dropping surprise" is? I care enough to read this thread, but not enough to google the answer. I'll hang up and listen.
  23. CSN/CSN&Y created some of the greatest music of that period.
  24. There are a few edge cases where a movie round has to look exactly like the real thing. Think closeup of loading a gun. But those cases are rare, and if it looks real, it should be treated like the real thing. We still don't know the exact scene they were working on, but if the actor need to load real-looking ammo, fine, BUT there needed to be a 'cut', a gun-swap, and a visual confirmation of fake/blank/dummy/plastic ammo before getting to the part where the gun is pointed at the camera part. It more-than-likely didn't require real looking ammo for what they were rehearsing, so Baldwin _should_ have looked at the gun and said "Hey, this looks like real ammo, can we get the plastic stuff". Not doing that is just crazy.
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