wjrii
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- Comment on Thoughts? 23 minutes ago:
- Comment on No looky for you! 4 hours ago:
Jack Donaghy approves.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 days ago:
Yup. American Christmas lights basically ARE very thin extension cords with the bulbs (hopefully) wired in parallel. Back in the day they were pretty much all incandescent and in series, and a single burned out bulb meant everything went out and Junior got a joyous new holiday chore!
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 days ago:
I have heard there are ways to use these to back feed power from a generator into a house’s system, at least on one breaker, but by definition that bypasses the breaker panel, and the only safe way to use your generator for your house is with a proper cutover installed by an electrician. I can think of literally no other use for one of these cords, except maybe fixing your fuck up if you install Christmas lights backwards.
So yeah, dumb, dumb idea.
- Comment on Not a restaurant 3 days ago:
Pretty decent, if overpriced. I like the Chicken Tikka tacos.
- Comment on 'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes 5 days ago:
I’ve read that the first cameo was just to get people to spend THAT week talking about the Benjamin Bratt re-cast so they’d be calmed down by the time he had something important to do.
- Comment on Hell Yeah! 5 days ago:
Go Gators.
- Comment on the young always think they have all the right answers but THIS eventually happens 1 week ago:
My father was a deeply flawed parent to minor children, and a disastrously bad one to adult children. My adult life was punctuated with discoveries and realizations and interactions that revealed him to be a fuckin’ mess. He was better and kinder than his own parents, but that’s damning with faint praise.
- Comment on Damn 1 week ago:
- Comment on YOLO 1 week ago:
Every once in a while there is am old painting or photo where the style of the artist and subject combine to present a visual that I find eerily modern. Something about this guy just screams “project manager who’s been working from home for three years.”
- Comment on Sensible 1 week ago:
And that lamp is definitely a bong.
- Comment on Bet they have no idea what it means 1 week ago:
I mean, as long as Bob is into it…
- Comment on 'The Simpsons' announces new Milhouse voice actor following Pamela Hayden's exit 1 week ago:
I think part of it is that most peoiple aren’t watching, but the threshold for being a viable network show is so much lower than it used to be. At its peak around season 12, it was averaging 14 million viewers. Season 35 was coming in around 2 million, and it’s been going down every year for a while. I guess the trend is predictable though, and the advertising and streaming revenue still works out for their cost structure.
- Comment on First Image Of Nicolas Cage As Football Icon John Madden & Christian Bale As Raiders Owner Al Davis In Amazon MGM’s ‘Madden’ 1 week ago:
Here’s the two real guys in 1977. mercurynews.com/…/john-madden-al-davis-was-a-frie…
- Comment on What are some of the worst acted main or supporting characters in a TV series you've watched? 2 weeks ago:
Scott Grimes, J. Lee, Halston Sage, and Anne Winters on The Orville. Every single one of them does amateurish line readings that make it hard to suspend disbelief. I still like the show overall, though.
- Comment on The after party 2 weeks ago:
Are we not all middle aged nerds who partied like eight times in our 20s and these days now have a couple of IPAs at our combined LUG/D&D meetings? 🤣
- Comment on The after party 2 weeks ago:
Live your truth, OP, but statistically and demographically speaking, this may be the least relatable shitpost on lemmy, like, ever.
- Comment on Tracy Morgan, Daniel Radcliffe Comedy From ’30 Rock’ Team Ordered to Series at NBC 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s not very wool of you…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I find that I want some politics, and the politics that leaks into News and elsewhere is just about right. I un-subbed from anything specifically with the word politics in it and I mostly avoid .ml, and generally I find it very pleasant around here.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I have mine, and frankly I still use it to read about college football and Star Wars and check AskHistorians and post about keyboards. For shitposting and actually engaging with humans – yes, many of whom are my political speed or even further left – I really prefer it here. I “left” during the Mod Rebellion and APIpocalypse when it kind of became clear things were not going to be getting better. If it dies, it dies. We got beans over here.
- Comment on The only way to be 2 weeks ago:
Plenty of clever boys at well-funded public schools have an ancap phase. Most of them grow out of it.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
- Comment on The only way to be 2 weeks ago:
Nah bro! You see, I’ll be invested in the corporations so their success is my success, and furthermore the market forces that definitely won’t be manipulated by the most powerful players will ensure that things are so much better, and the illegitimate use of violence has never occurred in the history of private enterprise ever, and they’re also making plenty more land and natural resources so duplicating efforts is not problematic, and separate will be as equal as people can afford, and we’re definitely also all starting from a place of utter fairness! Like, if anything I’m starting from behind! My allowance is only 100 bucks a week and Eddy down the street makes 200 with his job at McDonald’s!!!
- Comment on Tracy Morgan, Daniel Radcliffe Comedy From ’30 Rock’ Team Ordered to Series at NBC 2 weeks ago:
Well, your standards are higher than mine if you think 30 Rock ever descended below “very, very good,” but of the ones I’ve seen, Girls5Eva and Kimmy Schmidt were the best. Great News and Mr. Mayor were okay but not as good. I’m not sure how much creative overlap there really was, but I also liked Tracy’s show The Last OG, though narratively it got a little weird and ended on a note that, if not an unfulfilled cliffhanger, is a fuckin’ downer. The Saved By the Bell revival was maybe too ambitious for its own good, but it was an interesting idea.
- Comment on Tracy Morgan, Daniel Radcliffe Comedy From ’30 Rock’ Team Ordered to Series at NBC 2 weeks ago:
Neat. I haven’t loved every single thing to come out of the 30 Rock family tree, but they’re pretty much always worth a look.
- Comment on CBS Sets Record With 17th Straight Season Victory in Total Viewers 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the dropoff in linear TV viewing is staggering. CBS does the best because their broadcast lineup skews old, not because it’s particularly good. It also makes you understand why the suits sell their souls for live sports (especially gridiron football).
It’s not a super new phenomenon either. The BBT was CBS’s huge comedy hit of the 2010s, but it never had raw numbers that matched “The Single Guy,” a two-season nothingburger that got canceled for not adequately holding onto its Friends lead-in audience.
- Comment on 'Andor' creator explains recasting major 'Star Wars' character with Benjamin Bratt 4 weeks ago:
I guess technically this is a spoiler, so…
spoiler
The article goes into it a little. It’s a cameo for now. His appearance in this arc is literally 20 seconds of small talk. Gilroy wanted to drop the casting bomb now so people would be over it by the time he has something important to do in the 7-8-9 arc.
- Comment on Please Let the Simpsons Die: An Open Letter to Matt Groening 4 weeks ago:
An Open Letter to Matt Groening
I may be misremembering, but I could have sworn Groening created the Simpsons for the Tracey Ullman Show specifically because he knew he wouldn’t own them and he didn’t want sign over his Life in Hell characters. They’re sort of just doing what they were created to do. I doubt he could stop the zombie husk of the show if he tried.
- Comment on The crossbow 😭 4 weeks ago:
Looks to be a late-15th century prayer book, likely illuminated by Robinet Testard and owned by the Count of Angoulême.
- Comment on You can only use one for the rest of your life, which you choosing? 4 weeks ago:
Everybody is on the right track that Torx or Robertson are by far the best driver heads, but y’all are not even looking at the threads and shanks. Lots to unpack here. If you are allowed an angle grinder or die grinder, then going longer might be better. Hardwoods don’t like fine-pitched threads at all, and while sheet metal screws can work in a lot of wood products it’s not ideal. Then, can you countersink, or are you going to be stuck the rest of your life with screw heads standing proud of the workpiece?
This is some serious shit, you guys, and should not be reduced “Robertson 4 LYF!” We need a couple of committees and some use-case analyses and some brainstorming on workarounds with our inevitable compromise pick. It’s gonna be exhausting!!!
- Comment on Why is the NFL draft day so "special"? 4 weeks ago:
There’s constant running commentary and speculation, and biographical segments, and sometimes a little drama when surprising things happen, or expected things don’t, and a large group of people simply care enough that they want to know as soon as a pick happens, though how organic that the growth of that group has been is certainly open for debate.
