Top Gun (1987)

I’m pretty sure she likes me already. Enough to stick around for the last 25+ years, anyway.

I once worked for a CFO who used the word “phenomenal” so much that a drinking game around that word would be classified as a mass casualty event.

There are reports from every state, including Hawaii.

https://www.bigfootmap.com/

Some obvious jokes, but somehow there are true believers across the continent.

I don’t think I could even pick the CEO of my own employer out of a lineup.

There are something like 24 million millionaires in the US, and over 50 million worldwide.

“Famous” is relative, but its safe to say most people have never heard more than a tiny fraction of those names.

Under the section for the leaders of each side. The six men who led the escape include the three killed in the attempt, two more executed for their roles, and Clarence Carnes.

Bernard Coy †.
Joseph Cretzer †.
Marvin Hubbard †.
Sam Shockley Executed.
Miran Thompson Executed.
Clarence Carnes Surrendered.

It’s hard to distinguish the scammed “victims” from the people who knew the crypto was worthless but bought it anyway as a barely-disguised bribe.

They really are good at painting out wire work in movies these days.

I said this when he bought Bond and the Washington Post.

Bezos is basically Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies: billionaire media mogul who manipulates the news to his own ends.

Slight tangent, but Elon Musk is even more like Hugo Drax of Moonraker: foreign-born billionaire who owns a rocket company and is obsessed with repopulating the earth with his own offspring.

Deep Thoughts by Werner Herzog.

The real version isn’t a ton better, but his head is less slumped over, and may have just been caught mid-blink.

There’s enough other evidence that he falls asleep during meetings that there’s no need to exaggerate this one.

Edit: This is why this comm has rules. Links to trustworthy news sources, not just random unverified dunks.

Just so I’m getting this straight,
Being in control of your feed = “echo chambering yourself”.
Looking at everything = “very angry people flooding the platform with their negativity and extremist views”.

You do you.

When the rats start jumping off the sinking ship, remember they’re still rats.

You’ve been Baader-Meinhof’d.

It’s easy to set up any number of seemingly impossible situations if you start with the premise of a super entity that can accurately predict the future.

What you’re given is [Ridiculous Assumption] + [Normal Situation] = [Paradox]

But the trick is to quickly gloss over the [Ridiculous Assumption] and frame it as [Normal Situation] = [Paradox]

Didn’t JD also endorse some AfD chuds in Germany last year, only to see their numbers drop even further?

Hopefully the story or progression is engaging enough to keep my interest.

The devs have promised that the story and progression will be getting a change from previous entries. The past few have gotten some flack for just throwing all the currency and all the cars at you without much challenge to it. Recent editions are bordering on being a car-collector-simulator as much as a racing game.

Personally, I’ve loved them all for just messing around and driving hundreds of different cars, but a bit of change in formula would be welcome, if they can pull it off.

Other comments give a good tl;dw already, but in case anyone wants a video with pictures and examples, Geography By Geoff has done this topic a few times. Here’s one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqyM54CNSsY

In about two days, there will be reports of massive volume of shorts on oil company stocks that occurred in the minutes before the announcement, then another day after that, nobody will talk about it again.

I grew up on Transformers, Thundercats, GI Joe, Voltron, He-Man, Duck Tales, Inspector Gadget, The Smurfs, Dungeons & Dragons, and dozens more. They don’t all hold up the same 40 years later, but this was basically the last generation of free, over-the-air Saturday morning cartoons.