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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 9, 2024 13:45:13 GMT -5
This is not even close to the point, of course, but... are Bert and Ernie "Disney-owned" ?? No, right? Like, if Disney owned Elmo, we would know, right? No, Disney owns the Muppet Show muppets (Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, etc), but not Sesame Street. Sesame Street is owned by nonprofit Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop). And currently licensed to HBO, which is a Warner arm. So they're extra not-Disney. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Feb 10, 2024 14:45:32 GMT -5
I just completed a Captcha that required me to pick pictures with motorcycles, and Captcha apparently includes a moped under that term. |
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Post by ganews on Mar 21, 2024 9:31:22 GMT -5
I don't like the idea of replacing passwords with biometrics, fingerprints, and facial recognition. The latter require more hardware and giving away personal information. Passwords would work a lot better if institutions would get out of the 90s and allow people to use the "correcthorsebatterystaple" method.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Mar 21, 2024 16:14:51 GMT -5
Finally encountered a good captcha (asked me to identify motorcycles and let me through without making me click on a moped)
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Mar 23, 2024 12:58:00 GMT -5
I don't like the idea of replacing passwords with biometrics, fingerprints, and facial recognition. The latter require more hardware and giving away personal information. Passwords would work a lot better if institutions would get out of the 90s and allow people to use the "correcthorsebatterystaple" method. This just reminded me: I applied for a Lowe’s card online, and they wanted me to supply a scan of my drivers license, AND submit a short video to prove my identity. Um absolutely not, what the actual fuck. I called them to ask about it, they acted like it was a totally standard thing, I told them I would definitely not be doing that, as I campn just go to the physical store and get approved on the spot withOUT doing that. They put me on hold, & came back to tell me sure that’s fine you don’t have to, your card is on its way. what the hell. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 23, 2024 14:16:18 GMT -5
I don't like the idea of replacing passwords with biometrics, fingerprints, and facial recognition. The latter require more hardware and giving away personal information. Passwords would work a lot better if institutions would get out of the 90s and allow people to use the "correcthorsebatterystaple" method. This just reminded me: I applied for a Lowe’s card online, and they wanted me to supply a scan of my drivers license, AND submit a short video to prove my identity. Um absolutely not, what the actual fuck. I called them to ask about it, they acted like it was a totally standard thing, I told them I would definitely not be doing that, as I campn just go to the physical store and get approved on the spot withOUT doing that. They put me on hold, & came back to tell me sure that’s fine you don’t have to, your card is on its way. what the hell.
Wow! That is bonkers. Do people just do that without batting an eye? Wow.
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Post by rjamielanga on Mar 27, 2024 22:15:23 GMT -5
So ... the AV Club shut down comments?
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Mar 28, 2024 8:00:37 GMT -5
So ... the AV Club shut down comments? Yeah, we've been discussing this on The Old Country's Biggest Blunders thread. Crazy. |
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Post by ganews on Apr 17, 2024 6:22:11 GMT -5
I can't believe my neighbor is using a leaf blower at 7:15 am. In April no less, when there's not even the excuse of leaves or snow on the ground or it being too hot later in the day.
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Post by ganews on Apr 21, 2024 8:01:45 GMT -5
I can't believe my neighbor is using a leaf blower at 7:15 am. In April no less, when there's not even the excuse of leaves or snow on the ground or it being too hot later in the day. Obviously he was listening when I said something about it later that day, because today (Sunday) he began at precisely 8 am. |
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Apr 22, 2024 15:15:54 GMT -5
I can't believe my neighbor is using a leaf blower at 7:15 am. In April no less, when there's not even the excuse of leaves or snow on the ground or it being too hot later in the day. Obviously he was listening when I said something about it later that day, because today (Sunday) he began at precisely 8 am. He was up 5am, gently oiling the barrel of his leaf blower staring at the 3 leaves that blew onto his lawn over night. He sits. Silent. Watching. Waiting. In the distance we hear the ticking of a grandfather clock. |
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Post by ganews on May 11, 2024 14:06:50 GMT -5
Greenbelt, MD: where a son disappoints his mother by going to medical school instead of becoming an artist.
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Post by ganews on May 11, 2024 16:19:42 GMT -5
Greenbelt, MD: where a son disappoints his mother by going to medical school instead of becoming an artist. Further dispatches from hippie-land: much like this country fought a war so that wouldn't have to care about the British royal family, I don't have to care about faery hedgerow mystic bullshit. |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on May 14, 2024 20:25:04 GMT -5
I noticed the other day that I got a Community Guidelines violation on TikTok so I looked at the comment. It was a video of David Tennant in various outfits, and I commented something like, that second picture of him in the kilt, I'm drooling!
I have no idea what would prompt someone to flag this comment.
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Post by LazBro on May 15, 2024 14:37:30 GMT -5
I noticed the other day that I got a Community Guidelines violation on TikTok so I looked at the comment. It was a video of David Tennant in various outfits, and I commented something like, that second picture of him in the kilt, I'm drooling! I have no idea what would prompt someone to flag this comment. Did you tell them y'all are married? |
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on May 26, 2024 12:41:43 GMT -5
I'm on vacation in Boston in my mom's house, half-watching Pirates of the Carribean movies with my brother.
I have a prediction: there will soon come a time when TV and streaming networks will decide that producing original shows is not cost-effective. Instead, they will take movie franchises like PotC, LotR, Harry Potter, etc., and just chop the movies up into 25- or 45-minute chunks and call them TV shows.
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Post by liebkartoffel on May 27, 2024 6:24:58 GMT -5
I noticed the other day that I got a Community Guidelines violation on TikTok so I looked at the comment. It was a video of David Tennant in various outfits, and I commented something like, that second picture of him in the kilt, I'm drooling! I have no idea what would prompt someone to flag this comment. Ooh, I've never had the opportunity to do this: I got a Community notification for this? |
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Post by LazBro on Jul 3, 2024 8:38:09 GMT -5
Bit about kids "playing house" and then it turns out they're doing unethical medical procedures.
Woulda killed 20 years ago.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jul 3, 2024 16:06:52 GMT -5
My hometown newspaper has no social media presence whatsoever.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jul 3, 2024 16:16:31 GMT -5
Floyd Diabolical Barber I’ve been trying to write the great assimilated Greek-American novel (jk I don’t think I can beat Middlesex, which has an impossible-for-me-to-replicate granular accuracy about the couple of generations before me) and a part of it takes place in 2010s Illinois and I’m finding the Springfield’s State Journal-Register an invaluable resource (lots of stuff from all over the state, either unlimited or very generous allotment of articles, esp. good when one character’s a civil servant nearing retirement)
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Aug 2, 2024 21:45:15 GMT -5
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 3, 2024 6:25:35 GMT -5
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Post by President Hound on Aug 6, 2024 6:31:34 GMT -5
fell in love with Kundal shampoo/conditioner when I got a pack at Costco
so of course my local one stopped selling it. lol
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 7, 2024 11:07:39 GMT -5
Bit about kids "playing house" and then it turns out they're doing unethical medical procedures.
Woulda killed 20 years ago.
The popular medical drama House did not premiere until November 16, 2004; therefore this hypothetical standup bit would have done very poorly at 9:38am EST on July 3 of that same year (assuming you could find a venue to perform a set at that hour), unless, perhaps, you were performing in front of a group of people who were working on the then-upcoming medical drama House. |
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Aug 11, 2024 18:01:19 GMT -5
Someone should tell whoever is posting the "Quiptic" crosswords on downforacross.com that the Quiptics are supposed to be easier than regular cryptics. At least, that's the way they are in the Guardian.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 12, 2024 11:51:11 GMT -5
Things I've muttered to myself today: Who puts onion in lasagna?! Fuckin idiots.
*No offense to the food people here!
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 12, 2024 16:16:18 GMT -5
Things I've muttered to myself today: Who puts onion in lasagna?! Fuckin idiots. *No offense to the food people here! Pistols at dawn! Not really, but that doesn't sound all that terrible to me. |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Aug 12, 2024 17:28:59 GMT -5
Things I've muttered to myself today: Who puts onion in lasagna?! Fuckin idiots. *No offense to the food people here! I mean, are we talking about chopped onion added to the sauce or like whole layers of onion? |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 12, 2024 18:10:11 GMT -5
Things I've muttered to myself today: Who puts onion in lasagna?! Fuckin idiots. I had the lasagna. |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 12, 2024 18:34:58 GMT -5
Things I've muttered to myself today: Who puts onion in lasagna?! Fuckin idiots. *No offense to the food people here! I mean, are we talking about chopped onion added to the sauce or like whole layers of onion? Chopped. It's amazing how many recipes start off with "chop one onion". |
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