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Alaois posted:THAT'S OPEN HAND, THAT'S A SLAP, BOY Having listened to the John Stossel episode of Citations Needed, this video is what I needed in my life. gently caress John Stossel.
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Mar 3, 2021 05:22
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Congrats on the weights ehud!
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Mar 3, 2021 05:31
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Man, my phone is like 4 years old at this point, but in pristine condition and they are offering me $400 bucks towards a trade in for a Galaxy S21. My biggest hangup is the lack of a headphone port, especially since I just got really good wired ear buds as a Christmas gift. I hate the concept of wireless earbuds, they are just begging to be lost and fall put of my ears at the worst time. Why did they have to get rid of a stupid simple jack?
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Mar 3, 2021 05:36
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Alaois posted:a pro wrestler has never hurt a media personality that didn't deserve it other than that time Hulk Hogan cracked Richard Belzer's skull open because he's a piece of poo poo
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Mar 3, 2021 05:38
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swickles posted:Man, my phone is like 4 years old at this point, but in pristine condition and they are offering me $400 bucks towards a trade in for a Galaxy S21. My biggest hangup is the lack of a headphone port, especially since I just got really good wired ear buds as a Christmas gift. I hate the concept of wireless earbuds, they are just begging to be lost and fall put of my ears at the worst time. Why did they have to get rid of a stupid simple jack? 
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Mar 3, 2021 05:39
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swickles posted:Man, my phone is like 4 years old at this point, but in pristine condition and they are offering me $400 bucks towards a trade in for a Galaxy S21. My biggest hangup is the lack of a headphone port, especially since I just got really good wired ear buds as a Christmas gift. I hate the concept of wireless earbuds, they are just begging to be lost and fall put of my ears at the worst time. Why did they have to get rid of a stupid simple jack? I’ve had like 4 different brands of wireless ear buds and hated every goddamn one, they’ll take my cords from my tangled, outdated hands
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Mar 3, 2021 05:42
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I was gonna say I love my wireless earbuds and figure out the brand so I could recommend them, but I realized I don't know where they are at the moment.
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Mar 3, 2021 05:48
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I was skeptical of wireless/Bluetooth headphones but someone recommended the Jaybird X4s and these things are great. The two earpieces are still connected by a wire so you don't have to completely give that part up either  Alternatively yeah just buy an adapter and hope you never have to charge your phone while listening to something.
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Mar 3, 2021 05:52
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The Soundpeats Q30 are a pretty good value Bluetooth earbuds for like 20-25 bucks, and left and right are still connected, so they’re fairly easy to keep up with.
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Mar 3, 2021 05:53
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I watched All Good Things. I gotta admit. The poker scene at the end got to me a little.
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Mar 3, 2021 06:00
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"but how will we stop violent criminals without police" part whatever loving number https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1366807442751913986?s=20
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Mar 3, 2021 06:16
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a neat cape posted:I watched All Good Things. What's next? Deep Space Nine???
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Mar 3, 2021 06:21
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General Dog posted:The Soundpeats Q30 are a pretty good value Bluetooth earbuds for like 20-25 bucks, and left and right are still connected, so they’re fairly easy to keep up with. I have these too, they survive living in my gym bag through a warm summer and the charge lasts all week p easily through my 1.5 hr workout 5 days a week.
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Mar 3, 2021 06:21
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Spoeank posted:What's next? Deep Space Nine??? 1 - 20 of 5596 Works in Star Trek: The Next Generation 
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Mar 3, 2021 06:22
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Spoeank posted:What's next? Deep Space Nine??? I'll probably watch the TNG movies and then jump into DS9. But goddamn TNG ending off on *that* line was absolutely perfect
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Mar 3, 2021 06:24
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a neat cape posted:I'll probably watch the TNG movies and then jump into DS9. If you haven't seen them I'd recommend Generations, then the first 5 seasons of DS9 then First Contact
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Mar 3, 2021 06:37
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I'm out of stuff to read. Someone rec me a series.
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Mar 3, 2021 06:47
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Fun fact: the term "slash fiction" specifically was invented for Kirk/Spock erotic fan fiction.
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Mar 3, 2021 06:52
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BlindSite posted:I'm out of stuff to read. What do you want to read?
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Mar 3, 2021 06:53
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BlindSite posted:I'm out of stuff to read. Uplifting or depressing? Andrew Vacchs' Burke series for the latter.
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Mar 3, 2021 07:01
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BlindSite posted:I'm out of stuff to read. Ross Thomas books, they're all short thrillers, there's a couple of recurring characters in some of them, but you don't need to read those in order. Some quick recs for individual titles Briar Patch, Chinamen's Chance (yeah I know, but the book isn't as racist as the name suggests), The Fourth Durango. Otherwise The Parker books by Richard Stark (pen name of Donald E. Westlake for this particular series) start with the first, "The Hunter," unless you've seen Payback or Pointblank and don't particularly want to read the book those movies were based on, in which case skip straight to the second "The Man with the Getaway Face," If you've seen either of those movies you'll understand the backstory plenty.
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Skwirl posted:Ross Thomas books, they're all short thrillers, there's a couple of recurring characters in some of them, but you don't need to read those in order. Some quick recs for individual titles Briar Patch, Chinamen's Chance (yeah I know, but the book isn't as racist as the name suggests), The Fourth Durango. Its been a few years since I've seen either so I dont mind going back over it. I'll check the kindle store. Cheers. Edit: a few years ago I read the eighth dwarf and the backup men. I dunno why I stopped going through his collection. Good reminder. GD_American posted:Uplifting or depressing? I don't mind a good old downer. I'll look into them. BlindSite fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Mar 3, 2021 07:05
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BlindSite posted:I'm out of stuff to read. Another, slightly more out there idea
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Mar 3, 2021 07:07
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Skwirl posted:Another, slightly more out there idea Hahaha that would depress me than cormac McCarthy's writing.
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Mar 3, 2021 07:10
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Spoeank posted:If you haven't seen them I'd recommend Generations, then the first 5 seasons of DS9 then First Contact Watching Generations now
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Mar 3, 2021 07:18
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It's loving hilarious they didn't trust the TNG cast to carry a film and felt they needed to rope Shatner in.
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Mar 3, 2021 07:20
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BlindSite posted:I'm out of stuff to read. Gideon The Ninth
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Spoeank posted:If you haven't seen them I'd recommend Generations, then the first 5 seasons of DS9 then First Contact Do this.
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Mar 3, 2021 08:44
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Spoeank posted:If you haven't seen them I'd recommend Generations, then the first 5 seasons of DS9 then First Contact I like Deep Space 9, but you absolutely do not need to watch five seasons of it before you watch First Contact if what you want to watch is more content involving most of the main cast of TNG, just watch First Contact. It's loving shocking how little faith Paramount had in star trek films, every little tidbit of behind the scenes information is "oh, how can we gently caress this film." If you don't want to make a movie just don't make the movie. Don't loving greenlight a movie and then the moment they start filming tell them "actually you can only have half the money we told you you could have.
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Mar 3, 2021 08:51
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Watching those Deep Space 9 seasons makes the appearance of a certain ship at the battle of sector 001 way better.
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Mar 3, 2021 08:53
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Pops Mgee posted:Watching those Deep Space 9 seasons makes the appearance of a certain ship at the battle of sector 001 way better. Telling someone they need to watch 100 hours of television starring people they don't give a poo poo about so they can fully appreciate a brief cameo in a movie starring the people they actually give a poo poo about is really, really loving dumb.
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Mar 3, 2021 09:16
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Skwirl posted:Telling someone they need to watch 100 hours of television starring people they don't give a poo poo about so they can fully appreciate a brief cameo in a movie starring the people they actually give a poo poo about is really, really loving dumb. Agreed, but in this specific instance with SA2K about to miss Trek after watching the entire series I think it works though. At least as a person who thinks DS9 is worth watching.
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Skwirl posted:Telling someone they need to watch 100 hours of television starring people they don't give a poo poo about so they can fully appreciate a brief cameo in a movie starring the people they actually give a poo poo about is really, really loving dumb. DS9 has two of those characters Ross in theory gives a poo poo about. 
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Skwirl posted:
I mean, why would they? It's not like Trek, in movie form, was ever a huge moneymaker for Paramount prior to 2009 (with two exceptions in the form of Voyage Home and First Contact). The series was a semi-reliable way for Paramount to spend a modest amount of money ($13 million on Wrath of Khan up to $30 million on Undiscovered Country) and generate a modest return every couple of years, and that's about it. Skwirl posted:
This ... never happened? The closest example I can think of is Nick Meyer being told that he had $30 million to make a 25th anniversary film in time for Christmas 1991 so go do it, and then, down the road and well into pre-production, after yet another Paramount regime change, he was told offhand that his budget was $25 million (the same as The Final Frontier's final price tag after re-shoots). Ultimately pre-production wound up being shut down for a couple of weeks, but Meyer scraped together the extra $5 million with the help of Stanley Jaffe, a producer who had his own small shell on the Paramount lot, and just like that, Undiscovered Country was back on. That's the only real example of budget fuckery I can think of in the entire movie series. Yes, they were very tightly budgeted movies, partially a side effect of II / III / IV being produced by the television division, but if anything, the movies ran into cost overruns, not budget cuts.
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BlindSite posted:I'm out of stuff to read. The Callahan series by Spider Robinson, starting with “Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon.” It’s a bunch of sci-if short stories about the regulars at Callahan’s bar, a Long Island joint that sees aliens, time travelers, and horrible puns.
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I’ve had first-gen Apple AirPods for at least two years and they’ve held up well to daily use. But I also have all Apple stuff, so if that’s not you then it won’t be as tightly connected. I’ve used them on runs without issue too. Also there’s rumor that the Japan Olympic Committee is looking at restricting crowd sizes at events and not allowing visitors from overseas, which is the only real way this thing will get done this year. Note that Japanese pro soccer and baseball has had crowds (of various percentage of full) since last July, and they tend to follow rules like “no yelling” pretty well.
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Mar 3, 2021 12:58
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harperdc posted:
I mean, I would have assumed that would be a given out the gate
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Mar 3, 2021 13:04
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harperdc posted:I’ve had first-gen Apple AirPods for at least two years and they’ve held up well to daily use. But I also have all Apple stuff, so if that’s not you then it won’t be as tightly connected. I’ve used them on runs without issue too. Same. They're freaking amazing. Only complaint was they randomly would mute themselves when I was mid clean, and ONLY HEAVY CLEANS I NEED THIS DEATH FROM ABOVE NOW MORE THAN EVER
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GD_American posted:I have some lightly distressed lobsters due for delivery tomorrow I'd be happy to reroute What does a mail lobster go for a pound these days? BlindSite posted:I'm out of stuff to read. I just finished "A Very Stable Genius" its funny and a fast read. I'm working on "The Gulag Archipelago" its not funny and a slow read.
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