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@Doctor-Phibes said in tncr is sick: There's nothing sicker than a bunch of grown men talking about shoes. What would that priest from the Overseas Russian Church think of this talk??!!

Weird, the picture in that article is the McDonalds near my place when I lived in Virginia. It is NOT the same McDonalds in the story. Such lazy reporting (I know, these news sites are just churn out from their content stream...)

She’s 10 seconds away from a finger snap…

Maybe that was just his way of saying ‘no’.

There's a street around the corner from us where a bunch of rich people live, and quite a few of those houses are lit up. I quite enjoy it, TBH. Obviously, it's not particularly classy, but it's kind of fun. Not really worth getting upset over. If it upsets the HOA, all the better (we don't have any of that rubbish here in the wastelands of semi-rural Rhode Island).

RIP Gene Hackman.

If that article is even close to correct I support shutting it down.

Updating my above graph through today. 2025 is still running higher than previous years. [image: 1750810466712-screenshot-2025-06-24-at-7.13.47-pm.png]

@Mik said in The Oscars are on now: Yeah, Brody overstayed his welcome. I might not have minded if he had anything remotely interesting to say. I do want to see The Brutalist though. He was good in the Brutalist. I just watched it last nights, yes plural... it's like 3.5 hours long or something so it took me 3 nights. My thoughts, no plot spoilers though: click to show Guy Pierce is really great in it. Surprised to see him, and loved his performance as a rich tycoon. I thought the movie would be more about the brutalist architecture movement though, and not so much about one person. The movie starts out strong (and the cinematography holds strong the whole time) but the plot gets a little sloppy about half way through and (to me) lost the "this is a great picture" feeling by the end.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/moon-landing-private-spacecraft-second-time-week-rcna194919 For the second time in less than a week, a privately built U.S. spacecraft will attempt to land on the moon. The robotic lander, dubbed Athena, was developed by the Texas-based company Intuitive Machines. It launched into space on Feb. 26 and has spent the past week journeying to the moon. At roughly the size of a dishwasher, the six-legged craft aims to touch down at a site in the moon’s south polar region, then spend a week looking for the possible presence of water ice below the lunar surface. The landing is scheduled for Thursday at 12:32 p.m. ET. NASA TV will broadcast a live stream of the event beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET. Less than one hour away. https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/intuitive-machines-2-lunar-landing/

Sounds about right. Politician, not a cop. That's why it makes so much sense to appoint people with "no experience" to head up large agencies. The ones with the experience, are the de facto politicians. That's how they rose to the top, and got the resumes that show all that experience.

He checks through periodically.

Better than funding Gaza hip-hop.

I don’t feel safe with Harry in America.

I don’t mind Collinsworth.

I actually think it’s less of a hassle for President Trump to attend the Super Bowl than it is for Candidate Trump to attend Sunday Night Football. The security at the SB is already incredibly tight.

Oh man very cool.

@jon-nyc said in Historic: Man Wins Argument With Woman: Thanks for confirming that right wing news sources aren’t reporting the December 18th announcement of the 1.3B and 10k troops. Thanks for confirming that the legacy media is not noting the additional $200B, Canada declaring the cartels terrorist organizations, and the Fentanyl Czar. I think the terrorists declaration was what he was really after, along with the attention.

I think it’s all about enjoyment of music and learning something fun from a 6 yr old’s point of view. Something she’ll sit down at not just to practice lessons but to play with, experiment with, develop her ear for, sing with. It was way too formal and painful when I was a kid. That old wooden upright. My 65 yr old friend has a keyboard her daughter once used and I noticed girly pink flower stickers on it. If I had a redo as a parent, sure, why not? It’s all about enjoyment of music.

@George-K said in Let's make those fat people pay: When I went into private practice in a more blue-collar-ish community, I could walk into a room and also tell. Skinny legs, dry skin, a bit twitchy. Actually, that might be the crackheads. Funnily enough, I once commented to one of our admins that one of the senior managers looked like a smoker, but I'd never seen him with one. She gave me an awkward look and said she didn't want to say anything. I later learned that he smoked voluminous quantities of weed after hours.