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  1. On 9/10/2025 at 9:54 PM, APMP said:

    I know it's par for the course, but it's hilarious how many non Americans are cast these in roles having relatively specific American inflections;. Buffalo's entire task force is non American actors, as is the 21 year old niece.

    Brits train to be actors. Americans train to be movie stars.

     

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  2. On 8/28/2025 at 6:16 AM, CleverNickname said:

    re international schools. I am interested on behalf of my sophomore daughter. But the schools in Canada and UK don't seem cheap. They are every bit the out if state $$$ I see elsewhere at very good public universities. I guess we are in that "make good money but not $350k+ pay out of pocket $80k per year" group that is price sensitive.

     

    My daughter has excellent academics, but I think she will probably either need to find an OOS school that will give a partial (in state) rate, or non upper tier private institution that will throw money at her. It am thinking it may be that to go OOS she will have to take a step down in academic quality from top in state options (UT Austin). We have a good 529 chunk, but I try to tell it would be good to keep some it for grad school. Maybe a lot of it if she wants to go to law school.

    There are complete undergraduate programs taught in English in other countries also.  For example, you can get a mechanical engineering degree at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the program is 100% in English and no German proficiency is required for admission.   You will have to the pay the international tuition rate of ~$1,500 a year.

  3. 8 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

    Cities spend stupid money on stupid crap - news at 11:00.   Probably 15 years ago, the City of Georgetown spent over $100k for the design of their new logo.  It's a cursive uppercase letter G.

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    It does my Gen X heart proud to see a cursive G that's close to the version we spent countless hours on repetitive worksheets perfecting in 2nd grade only to never write a G like that in the real world.

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  4. The more I think about this episode, the more it sucked.

    They’ve been on mission for 65 years. Boy Cavalier wasn’t born until like 25 years ago. The engineer would’ve had to be compromised well before then. Otherwise, he couldn’t get out of cryosleep on his own. Also, Prodigy didn’t exist back then anyway because it can’t be more than a few years old.

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  5. Rewatching now.  Of all the incompetence on this ship, and there's a lot of it, the scientist lady is the most.  A sammich and Stanley of water while your tossing a dead rat into a cage.  Even on Temu Space X Starship, that's bad.

    I saw something that stated the best and brightest aren’t signing up for a 65 year long mission where you have to give up all your friends and family.
  6. I wouldn't want to the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. I mean the former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

    You know he cooked the numbers in trump’s favor and that’s the best he could do.
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  7. 11 hours ago, mchookem said:

    does anything prevent an establishment from just saying 'fuck it' and having unisex bathrooms? or i mean i've stopped at some real shithole gas stations on Texas highways and they only have one...do there have to be separate facilities, what would happen if they just put up a sign like this? 🤔

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    The Mueller Alamo has the best solution.  Shitters on one side and urinals on the other.  Sinks in the middle.  Use whatever facility works for you.

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  8. Went to a screening yesterday. I’ve probably seen Jaws 50 times and never noticed the barrel continuity error. They start with five barrels. One, along with a tracker, is shot into the shark on the first day. By the next day, that barrel is gone and there are still 5 barrels. Maybe that first barrel being cut loose is referenced but I didn’t catch it.

    I do love the displays of how Gen X was raised. Sure, send a toddler to cross a busy road to go to the pond by himself. Typical parenting there.

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