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That's life, but it doesn't feel good for the "late stage capitalism" crowd who are angry and poor.

As others have said, fantastic episode. I'm glad Trent Grimm didn't do something evil with the Colin knowledge, because I half thought that's where he would take a heel turn and be this season's Nate. I like TG way way way better as the archetypical outsider/interloper than Dr. Sharon and what she allegedly brought to season 2.

Staying in and playing pillow fight at the hotel was gayer than Colin and Trent's night.

Okay then I nominate Joaquin Phoenix's adaption of Joker. Left me feeling pretty horrible as we watched a dissent into mental illness and the making of a mad man, but it was good. Just didn't really want to ever watch it again.

NYC has the world’s wealthiest population, thanks to its 340k millionaires. The Bay Area is the global leader in billionaire residents (63 of them). And yet again, Boston leads the way with the most dudes who will give you $20 right now if you can give ’em five good reasons why Kevin Garnett isn’t the best power forward in NBA history.

This thread has been SydneyCarton'd.

Building off that: An estimated 1.1 million–1.3 million people subscribed to the DVD service last year, generating $145.7 million in revenue for Netflix (not the worst biz). The first DVD Netflix ever sent was Beetlejuice in 1998. The most frequently requested DVD was The Blind Side.

An estimated 1.1 million–1.3 million people subscribed to the DVD service last year in 2022, generating $145.7 million in revenue for Netflix (not the worst biz). The first DVD Netflix ever sent was Beetlejuice in 1998. The most frequently requested DVD was The Blind Side.

Just read about it having never heard of it. I feel disgusting and need like 4 showers now. I agree with your sentiment about being friends with someone who enjoyed that.

Human Centipede. My then fiance and I watched it. Regretted it.

People get shot for the darndest thing. The guy who said "enjoy the wild west, cowboy, while it lasts" I think is spot on. That said, I think the default reaction to "holed up watching fox news for 20 hours a day in his recliner so he's scared of his own shadow" argument which gets repeated over and over gets diminished when talking about stupid gun owners when you realize there is a spectrum of this epidemic.

Fox News didn’t have to issue any sort of on-air apology, and avoided having its top hosts and Murdoch testify in court. Yesterday, the network devoted just six minutes to covering the settlement. 6 whole minutes!

And Dominion stakeholders (employees, non-equity management) might not even see a dime due to their ownership structure.

It's the TikTok aesthetic. Young people probably feel comfortable and at home with these jump cuts, but it is jarring for us olds. Chuckie beat me to it, edited to add.

Netflix earnings yesterday were good-- apparently the ad tier they introduced is killing it. Also there was a doubling down on their movie strategy as well. One thing I learned was that I didn't know they still had the DVD-mail business, but they are sunsetting that this summer. 8 people will be mad, I'm sure. from wsj:

There is 0.0 chance the guy knows 3-4 professional anythings. The recording sounded like the b.s'ing that happens a 6-pack deep in a grease-stained garage with some aggrieved poor, ignorant people. Like others have said, that scene is happening all over East Texas and South Oklahoma and the antebellum south every Friday night when football is not in season.

It's not going to make us ravenous hyenas happy, but it's smart business, I guess.

Username checks out. Also, if you can lose $50bn in 48 hours is the standard test: https://www.thestreet.com/technology/billionaire-adanis-empire-loses-51-billion-in-48-hours

Further to note on India's growth and now their leverage: which then answers why we don't bully them or shame them (I'd wager most American's don't even know or realize India is fueling Russia right now while they are in the teeth of western sanctions and would be horrified if they knew, and yes, pun intended).: which of course is code for, "we need them and can't bully them around, so we have to grin and bear them being self-centered".

Definitely underlined. And Greg has gotten annoying. He needs a partner to banter off of. Tom can be funny stand-alone, but Greg needs the Greg-and-Tom show where they are both at their best. The attempts at peanut-gallery gags during the eulogy was a shadow of what once was.

Frenemy?

I've been meaning to ask any Indiaphiles what the consensus is on India geopolitically speaking. They are obviously a hyperfast growing economy the past few decades. They churn out a ton of intelligent-cum-wealthy (or at least, upper middleclass) immigrants to developed nations with established economies and markets (A large % of Indian origin people are CEO's of F500 even, the second largest after white males by a long shot), and the general transformation of their country the last half of the century has been nothing short of remarkable and impressive. In fact, I think they are taking 25% of the Apple manufacturing from China as well. That said, they routinely talk out of both sides of their mouth-- friend to Russia and friend to China and friend to USA and friend to EU. If you take out the moral implications, it's actually impressive how India has been able to be self-serving and do what's best for them, with parties that hate each other. India has nukes and they are soon to be the most populous country in the world (though as of press time, their army sucks). That said, is this not worrisome: Could India potentially be a new "China" in a decade? What I mean is, not in a humans rights violations way, but in a power that the US cannot bully and bluster to get what we want, and must be cede to at times?

Yep. That is a bridge too far and unless that person woke up choosing violence, I can't see it casually happening.

Somehow I'm not surprised to learn this.