The Swamp

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 9:00 am Anyone replaced a spigot?

I replaced a couple of outdoor spigots last year. I did it by calling a plumber and paying with my credit card. I don't fuck with that kind of plumbing.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 9:21 pm
P.D.X. wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 6:24 pm Cmon. He’d have total impunity.
To invade Ukraine and kill tens of thousands?

Yes, and without US support for Ukraine. The GOP has made that very clear. I'm pretty sure this war would have gone very differently had Trump been president.

The new apes movies are absolutely pretty great - solid way to wast 6-7 hours though probably not all at once. Very well done, and of course Serkis is amazing in MoCap. There was an article about him and the movies (he's also involved with possibly making two Hobbit/LOTR adjacent Gollum movies - Ja...

How would getting her mailing address be a scam? Likely just trying to hook the target and then escalate to asking for more private info. Yeah, or you get a virus when you click the link. Still think it has to be a postal employee since they knew the tracking number. Ah, you didn't say it had a lin...

How would getting her mailing address be a scam? Likely just trying to hook the target and then escalate to asking for more private info. Yeah, or you get a virus when you click the link. Still think it has to be a postal employee since they knew the tracking number. Ah, you didn't say it had a lin...

How would getting her mailing address be a scam? That's not exactly secret information.

Yeah, like... So a story that kind of shaped how I (we) vacation. It's our honeymoon and we flew out to LA (5/6 hours) and then waited many hours to fly from LA to Papeete, Tahiti, which was something like an 8 or 9 hour flight. Essentially over 20 hours of travel. We get picked up by the resort (o...

Shirley wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 1:08 pm I think this is my favorite Dave Bin Laden banger. Hilarious.

I just played this one for my wife and she wants it on her Spotify Beach playlist. Need to get DBL on Spotify!

I think this is my favorite Dave Bin Laden banger. Hilarious.

Holy shit, that's awesome. Loved the 6-door pickup at the end too.

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 9:07 am AI music generators are getting crazy. I'm a country singer now!

Holy shit, that's amazing. Now I want to know all about the process. Did you write the lyrics or have AI do it? And how did you then generate the song?

So where was this vitriol in the protests against Iraq? Lots of vandalism against yellow ribbons like the vandalism against signs begging that kidnapped Israeli children get to go back home? How many Afghan and Iraqi kids is it ok to murder to make up for 9/11? The US has backed a lot of questionab...

So where was this vitriol in the protests against Iraq? Lots of vandalism against yellow ribbons like the vandalism against signs begging that kidnapped Israeli children get to go back home? How many Afghan and Iraqi kids is it ok to murder to make up for 9/11? The US has backed a lot of questionab...

All true. But as I said above, it's not the reasonable people driving the narrative.

It's tricky with Israel. If you criticize, say France, for their policies, nobody calls you a racist or anti-semite. Of course, the vast majority of reasonable people can separate the actions of the Israeli government or IDF from all Jews (and Hamas from Muslims/Palestinians), but American politics ...

Johnnie wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 7:06 pm Google News suggested this Polygon article about it to me today. I haven't read it yet, but I will when I have a minute.

https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2414844 ... ubi-review

Ha, that article starts off with the same Oldboy thought I expressed above.

Yeah, it's not everywhere yet, but it's still pretty popular. There are 140 varsity teams in North Carolina, for example. It looks like 24 states have official state championships.

And now with Crystal Palace beating Man U (keep going, lads!), Chelsea might just earn some European football next season. Wild to think that after the topsy turvy season they've had, but it's there for the taking with 3 games to play. So its Man City v ManUnited in the FA Cup final, right? And if ...

I watched The Contestant on Hulu last night. It's a documentary about a game show contestant in Japan, and it's fucking WILD! In 1998, in what seemed like a live variety show, they had this guy living in a tiny windowless apartment, and he couldn't leave until he won $1 million Yen ($8,000) in swee...

I figured it was a little less diluted than some sports. But I guess the same teams win all the "big" sports, too. One interesting thing with lacrosse is that it's spread all across the country at the high school level, but it's fairly stagnant at the college level because of Title 9 issu...

Finished "Shogun" last night. Whole lotta head chopping off going on in that show...which lead to the question: Does a head really just come off that easily? Does it depend on the technique? Sharpness of the blade? I think katanas are actually quite good at that, with a little practice. M...

This new AI DJ in Spotify is actually pretty cool.

Admittedly I don't follow lacrosse, but being ranked #5 and two of those losses against top teams were fairly close...that seems like national championship caliber. Honest question, is it really that top heavy? Fair enough. The ACC has always been loaded in lacrosse. Four of the top 5 right now. An...

I'm hoping UVA figures out what's broken. They've lost 4 in a row for the first time in a long time. Now, 2 of those 4 losses were to #1 ND and another to #3 Duke (the fourth was to #7 Syracuse - brutal schedule!), but still. This is a team that should be national championship good.

And now with Crystal Palace beating Man U (keep going, lads!), Chelsea might just earn some European football next season. Wild to think that after the topsy turvy season they've had, but it's there for the taking with 3 games to play.

Maybe not the greatest speech (which is fine, because like 10 guys could probably hear it), but what a great scene.

Kinda wish there were an additional 10 EPL games this year. It seems like the Chelsea kids are really starting to figure things out. What's kind of wild is that Poch recently made an interesting formation change where Cucarella moves inside when Chelsea has the ball. That seems to have really streng...

This is nuts. These guys programmed a robot dog to be able to move via an exercise ball by walking on it. They did this by training it on a simulator and used ChatGPT to help. This worked so well it worked in the real world the first time they actually tried it. https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1...

Or pregnant women might have to wear tracking devices. Fortunately I’m a straight white guy so I don’t have to worry about things like that and I can entertain either party in office. Biden's president now and I'm at the point I'd risk being stopped if I tried to travel to your state with my oldest...

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 12:32 pm
P.D.X. wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 11:58 am Is there context to that?
Here’s some context

Holy shit. We really have completely lost our collective minds.

I didn't realize the USA was in the group with France. I like that, because I have tickets to a France game in Nice. Maybe it'll be the US game! I'm pretty sure the schedule is out. ETA - Yep https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/football Oh, that's right. I forgot that I saw that before. I j...

I didn't realize the USA was in the group with France. I like that, because I have tickets to a France game in Nice. Maybe it'll be the US game!

Very promising. It's so interesting seeing how much innovation and better design we're getting from new companies. We can all hate Elon, but there's no denying the impact that Tesla has had.

It's just so jarring and when you look at how cool/clean the lines are on the Rivian you really have to wonder WTF ppl are thinking. I really like the Rivian too. BTW, what the fuck is Elon doing with firing his entire Supercharger team? That's the one clear competitive advantage Tesla still has.

My boys are 20 and 23 would get it instantly. And would have for the last 10 years. I did recently ask my younger son if his friends knew Monty Python (which to most kids just means The Holy Grail), and he said that some do and some don't. But it's not universally unknown. (at least not a UNC)

My boys absolutely loved (and love) Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We watched it many, many times together. So, the kids do still like it.

Man, I'm sorry to hear that, man. It's great that his family was around at the end though. I think that's all we can hope for - that our family loves and cares enough to be there.

I always heard it as "what's the difference between jelly and jam?" I think of that joke during most of my grocery store visits.

This is an interesting map of the US by cost of living.

I'm glad they included Guinea in there to give a better sense of scale.

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