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The one thing every knows for sure, is nobody knows anything.

I’ve been watching some cosmological shorts on RightNow media, so this hits close to home.

This was me too. I'm actually a little surprised at how beloved this has been.

In January, federal drug agents and Carrollton police began looking into medical emergencies with evidence of fentanyl overdoses. They traced each one to a Carrollton house on Highland Drive just blocks from R.L. Turner High School, court records show. There, federal authorities say, juvenile dealers as young as 14 picked up drugs to sell to classmates.

I immediately thought of the story I read about a Tech CEO who laid off 8,000, was so distraught and traumatized he needed a 10 day digital detox. Salesforce CEO says he took a 10-day 'digital detox' trip to French Polynesia in the wake of company layoffs

Was reading about the Carrollton student deaths and somehow got down a rabbit hole and read about the Han Gil Hotel. Wow. Raise your kids right and hope for the best. https://www.dallasreports.com/4-things-to-know-about-northwest-dallas-notorious-han-gil-hotel/

Fun fact: the sommelier was one of the "car guys" in the long-running (and polarizing/hated) Sonic drive-in commercials.

There was a poster I think on this thread positing that math is outside of God, so maybe a peer?

Interesting read about the proliferation and saturation of anti-heroes in modern story telling: https://www.polygon.com/23589217/antiheroes-the-boys-batman-superman-buffy-spike-defined

Perfect gift IMO

Milk/Dairy farmer friend told me 7 days past the stated expiration date is fair.

That's interesting. Back in my day, it was much easier to transfer into Natural Sciences than McCombs but you are saying now it's the opposite? Like, so much easier, getting into Natural Sciences was default.

Thought it was okay. I felt like there was a lot of meat left on the Namor bone which, I guess because it was a Wakanda movie had to focus on Shuri who is not a great actress or action heroine. M'Baku stole every scene he was in and Angela Bassett was in a class all by herself. 5/10.

AMC, like most theatres that are not also bowling alleys and laser tag arcades, are struggling. I don’t begrudge their attempts to monetize whatever they can and make a press release for the good buzz and maybe to try and get that sweet memestonk buzz again. Probably the only chance they have in the long run.

I don’t understand; why?

It’s been mentioned in other threads that activist investors are having a moment in 2023, but as it pertains to streaming and Disney+ this is interesting:” from NYT: “He [Iger, Disney CEO] must also rethink streaming. The flagship Disney+ service will refocus on profitability instead of subscriber growth, and spend less on content. Iger suggested that Disney may end up selling its majority stake in Hulu instead of buying out Comcast’s stake in the platform. And Iger still has a thorn in his side: Ike Perlmutter, the chairman of Marvel and a top Disney shareholder who urged the board to make Peltz a director. (Yesterday, Iger said he had prevented Perlmutter from firing Kevin Feige, the man behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in 2015.) That’s a lot for Iger to fix, in what he has pledged will be only a two-year term as C.E.O. (He said on CNBC that the board is already working to find his successor — obviously hoping to avoid a repeat of Bob Chapek’s disastrous tenure.) “That’s what my contract says,” he told CNBC about his intention not to stick around. “That was the agreement with the board.”

The first one was fantastic

"I'll wait..." LOL

Probably true, but I think perhaps he takes a run nationally in 2024.

Activist Investors are having a moment, it seems, between the *checks notes* now FIVE different stakes in $CRM now and the very public takedown of Adani and Peltz bullying Disney into breaking up into three parts and laying off 7k (and $DIS was up 6% on the news).

Wow, people are really in their feelings about this:

Interesting blurb, I didn't realize there was an effort to boycott this (which backfired): The new Harry Potter video game, Hogwarts Legacy, isn’t even officially out yet and it’s already a top seller—despite J.K. Rowling detractors urging players to set down their controllers. One of the most anticipated single-player RPGs of the year (Zelda’s obviously No. 1) will be available for general sale on Friday, but Potterheads willing to spend extra galleons got early access with the purchase of its Deluxe Edition starting on Tuesday. Even with that limited release, the game has already… Broken the record for most concurrent views on Twitch for a single-player game (1.2 million). Become the top earner on the video game marketplace Steam, the bestseller on the Epic Store, and taken both the No. 1 and No. 2 bestseller spots for its regular and deluxe versions on Amazon for the PlayStation 5. If you only became a free elf yesterday… The calls for a boycott stem from J.K. Rowling’s polarizing views on transgender rights. Ever since she got tweet-happy about them in 2019, some former fans have stopped buying Gryffindor scarves to keep royalty checks out of her bank account. Despite the game developer Avalanche adding a transgender character to the game at the last minute, Hogwarts Legacy couldn’t avoid the controversy. Influential gamers have been telling fans not to play the game, while others have added custom tags to the game in Steam, including “genocide simulator.” At least one popular gaming chat forum banned discussion of it and some critics refused to review it. Zoom out: This isn’t the first time a boycott backfired. Goya sales rose 22% two weeks after social media users called on consumers to stop buying it, and Nike sales went up 31% after a controversial campaign led to some people burning their shoes in protest. Oh, and did we mention that Louis CK sold out a show at Madison Square Garden last week?

It's because it's a political/culture war, and DeSantis knows a lot of Florida will eat it up. In that sense he is not a moron, but a good politician.

I thought people didn't want people to post Ron Flipkowski tweets anymore because they are disingenuous.

First off, no need to be vulgar with me. Secondly, his stridency and passion is the point. So much so, nobody dares tangle with him and if they do, just look at Sydney— a guy who probably thinks himself decently smart and literate— who got slashed to pieces in the buzzsaw and made to look very small. Reread this. Anyone capable of this sort of thinking and writing is clearly brilliant and has me thinking, “well hey now…maybe he’s right and I’m wrong, let me revisit some things and hear what he says about them.” That’s how you win hearts and minds from the other side, imho. He’s a great policy salesman. Ginsburg (fuck this "RBG" gangster iconography bullshit) didn't care about her impact on the abortion question, and neither did the liberal establishment. The idea that she would be "haunted" by it is laughable. More liberal myth-making for their dead-eyed heroes. She was on the court with Alito and Roberts. She knew exactly what was coming. And her plan was to go die of COVID she caught at a public wedding she officiated for the children of insanely wealthy power players. That's how much women's reproductive rights were worth to that psychopath.