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Cugel the Clever posted:Shatner is following in the steps of Larry King to host an infotainment show on RT. In typical Shatner fashion, he's gone into attack mode against those calling him out for serving as a stooge for ol' buddy Vlad. Given that Shatner is 90 I'd wonder if these decisions are signs of possible elder abuse by his handlers like Stan Lee, but on the other hand it's Shatner so who knows.
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GD_American posted:Shatner was also a colossal rear end in a top hat under all that charm, like his entire life. I'm shocked most of his ex-cast members ever stayed friendly with him. Probably the only reason was for the convention cash (and that wasn't enough for James Doohan, who loving hated him). Casting Tim Allen as him was inspired.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Slenderman murder girl is being released. A kid once told me I was as tall as Slenderman. I’m only 6ft!
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/1996ID4/status/1411021351012507649?s=19 Will Smith kicking an unconscious prisoner is never found out by his superiors. He's lucky that alien was later "shot while trying to escape."
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Crab Dad posted:It's not really a myth if it's true for the scenario. Attacking a Tiger from the front across an open field is about the dumbest thing you could possibly do. Tigers, Panthers and Tiger2s on defense did so much better than on attack. Hard to break down if you arent moving. Yeah those are good points. I wish they had more faith in the audience so there didn’t need to be a FNG in the tank for audience perspective. Make it feel like there were prequels of the crew in North Africa and France and we’ve known them forever. Instead we get Shia LaBeouf trying to be a religious fanatic (dang that a private Ryan ripoff) and tower defense with one tower. It would have been better if the Germans shot the solitary tank from half a mile away then credits rolled. I remember at the end when a grenade with a two minute fuse goes into the tank and gives him all the time in the world to get out. Oh well hopefully that upcoming Masters of the Air show will be good.
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Jul 4, 2021 06:21
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mlmp08 posted:Guys what you’re missing about Fury is that Brad Pitt never climbed back into the tank and had some final big conversation with the new guy and then ate the grenades. That was all just a fever dream fantasy the new guy’s broken brain formed to make him feel better about everyone already being dead for hours while he hid. They should have had Brad Pitt turn on the crew and stolen the tank to deliver to Stalin so he’d have the secrets needed to build Shermans. Why not.
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Jul 4, 2021 06:46
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I was surprised to learn we had a guy with a homemade submarine trying to attach a bomb to a British warship and it wasn’t an awful idea, and only didn’t work as when he tried to drill to attach it he was hitting the iron part of the ship bottom and panicked.
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Jul 5, 2021 03:24
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Hahaha they put Kevin Sorbo on there
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Jul 7, 2021 04:22
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KirbyKhan posted:Oi making me nostalgic for the fens and the hooligans of the Queen's overcast isle. It was the 2010 World Cup and I was American in rural Britland, took my buddy to a pub to witness frothing football in person. It was the American Britain game and everything was all volleyball and ice cream because the score was Britland 1 America 0 until late late in the game. At the final hour there was a penalty shot or some poo poo, I couldn't understand but the score went 1-1. I told my buddy "we got to go" and when he asked why he got punched by the dude 3 stools down the bar and we had to start running. Lol that's great. In the early 2010s in Seattle when the Seahawks got good the hooligan bandwagoning was weird. They kept attacking fans in opposing team jerseys even when it made no sense, like a Vikings fan after a game the Seahawks won, or a Jaguars fan when they weren't even playing Jacksonville.
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Jul 7, 2021 18:13
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Platystemon posted:Numerous well-placed Americans walked into the Soviet embassy in Washington at the height of the Cold War and volunteered their services, and the FBI didn’t catch them. Oh yeah Robert Hanssen was not subtle. quote:In 1993, Mr. Hanssen sought out a Russian agent in a parking garage and tried to give him a package with classified data, the report says. The overture was ''remarkable for its recklessness and self-destructive quality,'' it says, and the Russians were so concerned that they were being set up that they filed a formal protest with the United States government. But the investigation never led to Mr. Hanssen.
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Jul 8, 2021 04:16
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PookBear posted:the vast majority of olympic events are boring as absolute gently caress Not gonna disagree, when my dad was stationed in West Germany at the time of the Munich games they’d be given free tickets to watch the speed walking event. He still went as it was the Olympics but not a thrilling time. The most exciting one I can remember was the Vancouver hockey games when USA was playing Canada. I wish they’d consistently have the Olympics and World Cup in cities that already have stadiums built. But yeah, corruption so it’s inconsistent.
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When watching I like the CBC coverage as they show as many live events as possible so there are cool moments like checking on the triathlon or seeing way more competition that isn’t only USA athletes. The NBC coverage wastes so much time with talking heads and trying to build narratives.
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Jul 8, 2021 20:45
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CommieGIR posted:Its very shady as hell, and Wells Fargo has a legacy of shady poo poo, which is probably why they are doing this. quote:When Philip Poniz opened Box 105 at his local Wells Fargo, he discovered it was empty — and that he was totally unprotected by federal law. quote:In the days after Mr. Poniz found his box empty, he began piecing together what had happened: Wells Fargo had apparently tried to evict another customer for not keeping up with payments, and bank employees had mistakenly removed his box instead. After drilling No. 105 open, the bank shipped its contents to a storage facility in North Carolina. After Mr. Poniz discovered the loss, Wells Fargo sent back everything it had in storage, but some items had vanished. quote:When Wells Fargo employees opened Mr. Poniz’s box, they created an inventory that included 92 watches. When workers at the bank’s storage facility in North Carolina counted the items, they listed only 85. Also missing were dozens of rare coins that were listed in the first inventory, but not the second. According to Mr. Poniz, photographs and family documents also disappeared. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box-theft.html
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Jul 9, 2021 02:15
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The first game owned so much. I liked how there was a different ending cinematic if you took out the NOD HQ with the ion cannon.
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Jul 9, 2021 02:57
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lightpole posted:Indications I'm seeing are that there won't be a 2009 repeat. The 0 down, interest only loans aren't available, lending standards are pretty decent and people are putting a large amount of cash down. I think there's also a good chunk of institutional money going in aside from private citizens. Theres a large amount of liquidity looking for a return and real estate is red hot. I wish we'd get a Bad Blood style book about what was going on at Washington Mutual in the final years. quote:"Someone in Florida had made a second-mortgage loan to O.J. Simpson, and I just about blew my top, because there was this huge judgment against him from his wife's parents," she recalled. Simpson had been acquitted of killing his wife Nicole and her friend but was later found liable for their deaths in a civil lawsuit; that judgment took precedence over other debts, such as if Simpson defaulted on his WaMu loan. https://special.seattletimes.com/o/html/businesstechnology/2010131911_wamu25.html
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Jul 14, 2021 23:30
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CommieGIR posted:LMAO now that we've pulled out they are full on supporting the guys. Bravo. When we send the annual check for hundreds of millions we should put in the subject line "unfair"
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Jul 15, 2021 18:18
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Without being well informed on the subject, which country would be most/least likely to have a nuke go missing? I'd guess NK would be most likely, maybe Israel least likely?
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Jul 15, 2021 18:46
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Stultus Maximus posted:CJCS discussed a plan with the other top brass to resign en masse if Trump attempted to use the military to remain in office. Wouldn't it have been better to refuse his orders and speak to the press to explain what he's trying to do and why the military is opposing it? Wouldn't mass resignations create lots of empty seats that could be filled with yes-men? It's not like trump would care about the optics
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Jul 15, 2021 19:00
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Chaser to all the shots of watching western Germany drown: Holy cow I don't remember every lesson from driver's ed but "don't drive in flood waters" stands out.
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Jul 16, 2021 16:24
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facialimpediment posted:They already tore out the bridge, or are working on it. It's a total loss, so a lot of money is going to be spen- Hahahaha with the capital letters to make it extra official. I had a Ron Paul delegate roommate who flirted with sovereign citizen ideas and while I agreed "orange juice cures cancer" sounded interesting I did try to discourage his excitement after he learned if cops pull you over they have to let you go if you claim to be a "traveler on the road." He had a compsci degree from a decent school but never had steady employment in Seattle as for some reason he always went through a scammy placement agency rather than directly applying to hundreds of open jobs.
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The Eyes Have It posted:I remember attending a security talk where the guy said you could tell staff "do not show your credentials to anyone outside the building" and no matter how much you emphasized "seriously, don't show it to anyone" you still had: Oh wow, on a similar note I listened to a podcast where an infosec auditing team was hired by a high tech company in the US to audit their factory security, and the team included a guy fluent in Chinese. While they were in the town in the middle of nowhere Midwest he went to a Chinese restaurant and looked at the menu in Chinese and saw they had black duck eggs. The guy realized no way a Chinese place in the middle of Nebraska or somewhere similar would offer something like that if they didn’t have ton of people from China in town all the time, and it wound up being a major espionage discovery with the FBI called in. Ep. 21 of Darknet Diaries, great show
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CommieGIR posted:+1 for Darknet Diaries. Great listen. Oh yeah goofy name for a show but I’ve learned so much, like why no name podcasts dominate the iTunes charts then vanish (paying someone in India with 50,000 accounts to download and review) or basic tips to secure your IRS info I didn’t know. An insane one is ep 39, 3 Alarm Lamp Scooter that takes such a weird plot twist I’d think it was made up but then I saw mainstream news confirming it. Hyrax Attack! fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jul 19, 2021 |
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I listened to this on your recommendation and now I’m absolutely hooked. Thanks! You're welcome! Milo and POTUS posted:What exactly would they be doing in Nebraska anyway? It's been while since I listened so I don't remember the exact state and I don't think they mention the company name, but it was because it was something like a Boeing or Raytheon plant where they were researching or making something like guidance computers. The infosec auditors weren't looking for foreign espionage, they were there to test if they could get inside the plant to a sensitive area so security could be improved. It just happened that one of the auditors I believe was from Russia with extensive background in Chinese and in his off time happened to go to a nearby restaurant where he saw red flags and understood what they likely meant, in regards to China having a significant presence in the town.
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Jul 19, 2021 22:24
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pantslesswithwolves posted:This is the most rage inducing article I’ve read since like yesterday at least. Oh yeah the Post is bad about that. Bezos could have set up the Post as an independent entity and given them plenty of cash if he really felt like advancing journalism but he chose to own them instead. I don't care if they claim they have editorial independence, it's like how the Elon Musk Press probably wouldn't run investigative journalism into Tesla plant conditions. At least Bloomberg was open about how his news agencies would be used to support his presidential run. Wow that boomer hording houses is bad. A friend's dad was up to four houses including three in Seattle but in his defense one was in the process of being sold and another was inherited then sold, so he's down to two. I guess that's still not great.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:53
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facialimpediment posted:god motherfuck poo poo piss oval office rear end Dang that is a good line. This isn't gonna be Brady's last trip is it 
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facialimpediment posted:When the carrots aren't working, Stick 'Em. Good for the NFL. I forgot they added another game to the season. Still baffling they’re sticking with putting games in London each year. I imagine it’s a Robert Moses situation where one guy who can’t be vetoed is obsessed with putting an expansion team there.
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Jul 22, 2021 18:37
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Flikken posted:Maybe since we are leaving Afghanistan in 2021 we don't need as much spending in 2022??? It’s fascinating to read how post-Cold War there was a brief window when the US defense budget did decrease. Wonder if there’s any connection with the government running surpluses and speculation pre-2001 the debt was going to be paid off.
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boop the snoot posted:I’m in Cleveland right now ama Been to any good restaurants there?
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Jul 23, 2021 23:13
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boop the snoot posted:this was in Worthington, PA A friend lives in a island community mostly based around tourism and retirees. 92.6% white, 0.3% African American. They had a lot of drama last year when a handful of BLM signs were repeatedly vandalized by a 78 year old small business owner until he finally got arrested. Dude lives in one of the most lily white spots in the country and is more likely to spot an orca whale each day than a black person and still the concept of them existing is enough to drive him into a rage.
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Jul 26, 2021 18:19
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US Berder Patrol posted:actually it's piles of gold bars as I learned from the film Die Hard: With a Vengeance That movies owns up until the last 10 minutes. So many great NYC set pieces but the grand finale is at a Quebec border crossing? It was weird how his goons are still plentiful and armed with plenty of guns ready to fight and they just don't show what happens to them when they go charging out in the trucks.
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:wut The rocket launcher ending is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-GqY-M5fE4 Were there four possible endings? -Actual ending in film of border crossing helicopter crash -Simon gets away but McClane tracks him down (filmed but not used) -Bomb hidden on plane (not filmed) -First draft of script had Simons plan be to put the garbage trucks through a scrapper, load most of the gold onto a ship to be sunk in the Atlantic, and he gets away with some of the gold. McClane puts on a bomb on a truck going into the scrapper and the explosion takes out Simon's crew, then McClane breaks his neck in a fight: https://www.scriptslug.com/assets/uploads/scripts/die-hard-with-a-vengeance-1995.pdf
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Immanentized posted:Frankly the more efficient way to do it is to have complementary and nested businesses geographically close to one another- How well does that thing from movies work when bank robbers take like a $100k to a casino, play for a few hours and maybe lose $5k, then cash out their chips? Or is that not really money laundering?
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Jul 27, 2021 17:32
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devmd01 posted:Yuuuup. My buddy’s dealer years ago got a warning from chase about too many $40/$80/$etc deposits from Venmo on a regular basis and suggested that he knock it off. They’re watching. That's part of how they busted superhero Phoenix Jones after an undercover cop paid him $300 on Venmo for MDMA
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That Works posted:Most everyone I know in the Boston area has had to take or at the least threaten legal action to get deposits back. None of them had any realistic damages either. In Seattle area moved after 5 years and didn’t get deposit back but not for the scratch on the sliding glass door or melted rubber in carpet, but because of damage to the countertops? They had been in good shape but whatever it would have been something.
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Let's check on William H. Macyquote:Schanda Handley was at home with her daughter and a neighbor when two men showed up at the door, dressed in what looked like blue uniforms from an appliance store. quote:A once successful businessman, Mr. Handley had run software and vitamin businesses and had been the chief executive of a series of drug treatment centers that sold in 2015 in a deal worth about $21 million, Ms. Handley said. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/...-breadth_append
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That's like in Korea when Marines were getting shot at by American made Thompsons, often wielded by former Nationalist troops who had (not always voluntarily) switched teams.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Bill Burr is an rear end in a top hat. These people are fascists I enjoy him in Better Call Saul & Mandalorian but F is for family was bad. A man of contrasts.
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GD_American posted:I'm over 40, and love Bill Burr (mostly) and Laura Dern (totally), and I thought it was a fizzle. I liked some gags like the kids running off to play with zero supervision and the parents being fine with it as it’s the 70s, or how thrilled he was to watch an awful Midwestern football team in a terrible stadium, but a lot of it began to fall into cliches. His boss is fat, that’s the joke. This other character is gay and his wife doesn’t notice. The gross out humor got a bit much and felt like a crutch. South Park has been doing that better for decades so the novelty is gone.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:The american Office is just loving terrible all around. Cringe comedy was popular for a moment and they drug that poo poo out for a decade. Parks and Rec is only marginally better, because of casting, the format is absolute poo poo. I liked both when they were first airing and they took some risks and it wasn’t run into the ground. Now there are Dunder mifflin shirts everywhere and Ron swanson’s face slapped on cheap junk.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:
Oh yeah jack ryan season 2 trailers had us quaking in fear hoping a hero would save us from… the Venezuelan nuclear threat?
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