The guy in the back looks like max weinberg.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Black Friday? Cyber Monday?:

We splurged on an OLED tv for the new house. We really shouldn’t have done it because it’s been such an expensive year, but we just said ‘sod it’.

A week later we found we need a new chimney crown and the ducting is all corroded. Bugger.

It's proper that you need a chimney sweep.

If you had family over for thanksgiving, there would be like a 95% chance a chimney sweep would have been in attendance.

Established Titles is a company that sponsored videos from some channels I subscribe to on Youtube. For a price, they would sell an "official" title of Lord or Lady from the Scottish government, based on some alleged law about landowners having titles. They would sell a micro-plot of land and the title would come along with it. Somehow tree planting was involved. Now it's come out that this company is a "scam" and some of the content creators are hurriedly recalling videos. What was the best case scenario for this company? Some bureaucrat in the Scottish government monetizing a law loophole? This seems to blur the line between scam and legitimate enterprise to sell stupid people a fantasy that they are welcome to believe if they want to.

One of the creators who was sponsored by Established Titles was Dr Grande, who is in the business of creating content about scams like this. I expect he'll produce a video about the scam along with a mea culpa. "I thought it was a legal scam, not an illegal one".

Hot pot

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

The FBI recovered a 495 year old (!) manuscript signed by Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortés that was about to be sold at auction in Massachusetts.

That should finally be sufficient information to draw some conclusions about Hernando Cortes.

That’s pretty on the nose.

We watched it last night. I already had an apple tv subscription. It was pretty good. I didn't get overt tribal political tones out of it. I caught a certain pro-magical-thinking bent.

I am surprised there were "pedo accounts" on twitter. I do remember during the incident with the kids trapped in the cave in Thailand, and Elon's submarine rescue proposal, Elon calling one of his detractors a pedo. Elon got sued, not sure the outcome.

Antifa is similar to BLM in that whenever anything bad happens which might have been associated with them or their ideology, it is immediately reported that the person who did that bad thing has "no ties to the movement". This is convenient. How many BLM or Antifa protesters have any traceability to any official organization under those names? Almost none. It's not like they carry badges or ID cards.

Where are you seeing this chatter? Can you share a link?