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I wanted to hate this before listening to it but kinda liked it!

Wasn't there a scene last season where Connor told the other siblings that Kerry is using some homeopathic recipe and food recipes for Logan to get his semen count up and they all assumed it was to have a baby? I could be off on the details, but that is what I generally remember. Edit to add at the 38 second mark:

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From the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/10/louisville-bank-shooting-kentucky/ Neighbors of Sturgeon, whose house was surrounded by heavily armed officers Monday, said in interviews that they had not interacted with him much, but that little about him stood out. Kera Allgeier, 39, lived next door to Sturgeon in a home owned by her father with her four children and her partner, Michael McCoy, a 45-year-old brick mason. Allgeier, who works at Ford Motor, said she didn’t see Sturgeon much because they had different work schedules. She said he and his roommate had invited them to summer parties where attendees played beer pong in the backyard, though she never attended. “Never once would I have thought any of this,” Allgeier said. “He didn’t strike us like that.” Sturgeon was quiet, said Allgeier, who said she heard him say little more than hello and goodbye. There were no signs of guns or “anything inappropriate,” she said. Her partner, McCoy, said he briefly interacted with Sturgeon on Sunday, when he and Allgeier were feeding a cat in the street behind their house. Even so, Allgeier said, she found herself feeling numbed by the news. “Nothing surprises you anymore,” she said, adding she had “a lot of friends” who had died, victims of the opioid epidemic. “In the world, it’s becoming the norm, and that’s sad.” Another neighbor, Maryanne Denny, 58, worked with trauma surgeons Monday morning as shooting victims came into the University of Louisville hospital, where she is employed as a medical assistant in the outpatient office. Denny said she saw Sturgeon a few times going in and out of the house with a gym bag and they’d wave. She said she felt “in shock and disbelief” but, of Sturgeon, she added, “Who knows, nowadays, what goes through anyone’s mind?”

Agreed. What does that look like? Doctors having to report CTE and other medical issues like head trauma, like they do with mental illness so it's flagged?

The Chinese tech giant posted record underlying profit last year (known as EBIDTA) and is now more profitable than fellow Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Tencent, per the Financial Times. ByteDance grew sales 30% in 2022 to $85 billion, and its profits surged 79% to $25 billion. Worth $300 billion last year, ByteDance is the world’s most valuable private company.

My first reaction too. Yech. Also, Brother Jones giving off big Andre3000 vibes and Andre3000 is awesome.

@Brisketexangonna be big mad that crypto is back.

I read somewhere that this guy had no legal record or medical alerts and was generally a regular guy who didn't raise alarms with neighbors, etc. Short of pre-crime and thought police, how can you keep guns away (in the current status quo) from someone who is mentally ill but hasn't been flagged as it yet? That was my questioning response to sawbonz as a response to his rhetorical question.

Wait, another streaming service or is this just consolidating HBO Max with Discovery? Warner Bros. Discovery unveils a new streaming service. Expected to be called Max, the app will combine HBO series like “Succession” with Discovery’s library of reality series for about $16 per month. The promise of a streaming service that could compete with Disney and Netflix was one selling point of the merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery last April.

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huh?

You are talking Shakespeare territory now.

Conan the Destroyer (1982) Pretty cheesy and campy watching it now 40 years later. I remember seeing it as a kid and thinking it was the epitome of awesome movies.

I agree and take it a step further. I will only eat a steak if it’s a bone-in ribeye. I’ve gone to many corporate and social functions with a set menu and when it’s a choice between the filet mignon or the chicken or fish, I’m never choosing the filet. Why waste the red-meat allowance of cholesterol and fat on anything but a medium-rare bone-in ribeye, I say.

I can kinda get what everyone is saying and feeling (here and abroad on reddit and twitter), but this episode didn't do it for me and felt like a slog, which I guess was the entire point with the 27 minute long single shot. Logan dying was inevitable and I do love how they did it off screen and didn't film it happening and the people on the plane trying to save him, but idk-- I've cut family off for way less than what Logan has done all those years so I don't have a ton of sympathy or empathy watching the toxic emotional fall-out when he finally passes and the damaged kids are dealing with it. It was good television but nowhere near "I'll never emotionally recover from this" or "best hour of television I've ever seen" for my tastes. I thought the most emotionally wrenching stuff was the Con stuff-- the obvious trauma with the "looney cake" he still deals with as a bit of PTSD as a kid and more the coming to terms that his marriage is a sham and his wife married him for his money and the emotional vulnerability of admitting that he fears if he doesn't go through with it now, it will never happen and her emotional honesty right back at him. That said, the Tom/Greg stuff was funny and I'm hoping we get more of that duo in the ensuing jostling that will occur as Tom needs an ally and Greg is fringe family and needs one too as foreshadowed with his icy relationship with the three main Roy sibs and how he was already awkwardly trying to play the "family has to stick together card" that went over like a lead balloon.

The Kerry character I hope gets completely cut out now and that will be funny.

Saw the actor/director notes at the end and they said it was essentially a 27 minute long, 28 page scene. They had to hide film reels and cameras around the set for quick reloads, etc. Edit to add: you later saw it and posted it. sorry to be redundant.

I don't know, but I like him now, does that surprise you or is that okay with you? :-p

2x a month (every two weeks), with tip, it's ~$900 (north of 4k sqft, they bucket you per sqft). If we are hosting an event or a party, like we did for Easter brunch, it's an additional ad-hoc visit and expense. We trust and really like this team and have used them for years, so not sure if it's the most competitive price on the market these days, but it was in-line with quotes and services we had previously.

Impressed with the dexterity to get out the jack and tire iron and manually loosen lugs (they are a nightmare these days) and change a flat while black-out-of-your-mind drunk. It wouldn't be a walk in the park for me mid-day, sober as a judge.

This movie did numbers over the weekend. Industry loves it and is back!

I don't think that is accurate. The upper class is losing wealth, that much seems to be true, but I don't think it's making things better for the middle class. At least from what I've seen and experienced as a surly middle-classer (not a top 1% like most of you) is that interest rates sucks for mortgage payments, cars are more expensive, car insurance has spiked, groceries feel like they cost double, gas is high-ish, and the ole 401k was doing diddly squat most of 2022 (to be fair, it's up like 10% since January). If you work in or adjacent to Tech, you can add the stress of lay-offs/losing your job because while unemployment is low, it's because a ton of low-class wage job growth in hospitality/service.

I couldn't stand Jon Stewart when he was on the Daily Show, mainly because of his delivery and the faux-indignation thing that he patented and screeching people like John Oliver took to an 11, but I've really come around on him in his third act and post-Daily Show stuff. He has always been smart but his delivery here is a master class in deflecting an arrogant and condescending person while maintaining composure and not being overly emotional. I'd like to see ole Jonny Stew run for an office at some point. His advocacy of the rank-and-file military men has long been commendable, as well.

Oh man, reminds me of the year I was having to work with Gartner and be in Stamford every other week-- Connecticut is legitimately scary when the sun goes down. I was more scared for my life in Hartford, CT after dark than any other city, except Nuevo Laredo.