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My favorite TV shows were Better Call Saul and the Good Place. They’re both shows that ask deep philosophical questions. But yesterday I saw some episodes of Bluey. Wow that show is good. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.

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For the past month, every time I try to go to racer.com it crashes and says “critical error.” I would try to contact them about it but I can’t get on their website.

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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

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The 70s remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of the few remakes that makes sense and justifies its existence. The stakes are much more real, the mood is more post-Watergate skeptical than Eisenhower pollyanna. Only complaint is the gratuitous grossouts. 4/4 #filmsky

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The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a good movie with an original idea done in a very clever way. The only thing that holds it back is the Eisenhower-era mood which means they're never in too much danger. 4/4 #filmsky

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The Tragedy of MacBeth is an incredible film. I like everything the Coens do, but this one in particular has great cinematography. The way he figured out how to make Birman Wood go to Dunsinane is a good example. 4/4 #filmsky

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Eau Claire has an excellent library. You can check out art, board games, a pressure cooker, etc. There’s also a patio with Loll furniture and a view of the river.

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Battleship Potemkin is on the Great Movies list, and Maltin gave it a 4. It’s a really good action movie, especially for 1925. The scene on the steps lived up to its reputation. If only it wasn’t an ad for Soviet totalitarianism. 4/4 #filmsky

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Predator is a decent action movie that is held down by a lack of any logical reason why Predator would hang out in a random jungle and kill anyone who shows up. 3/4 #filmsky

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Michael Clayton is a modern thriller about big corporate law and espionage and the stress of trying to deal with that while also trying to have some kind of family life while all that's going on. George Clooney and Tilda Swinton are both excellent in this. 4/4 #filmsky

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Kind Hearts and Coronets is a comedy from 1949 about a man who is 9th in line to be Duke and decides to kill the other eight. All 8 of them are played by Alec Guinness. The guy has to find 8 different ways to dispatch of 8 different Obi-Wans. 4/4 #filmsky

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the more i learn about ai development and the data centers these tech corporations are building and the amount of money and power the people in these companies have and the jobs they want to destroy, the more i understand that we cannot let them build this future they want for us

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The Edge of the World from 1937 has spectacular visuals. It’s set in a remote rocky island in the Shetlands. It’s 75 minutes which is how long movies should be. Everything Michael Powell does is incredible. It’s on Kanopy. 4/4 #filmsky

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The Handmaid’s Tale spent years spinning around in circles only to time jump past the good part. What’s left is mostly June doing dumb things and getting rescued by plot armor. And them taking a train to Vancouver only to go straight back has to be one of the most disappointing rug pulls ever.

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I would like to stop hearing about the Joe Rogan of the left. Let’s discuss the dog of cats. The sock of shoes. The ball peen hammer of gelatin desserts. YOU CAN’T JUST MAKE A THING BY DESCRIBING IT.

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Lalo Salamanca was on the Last of Us! Better Call Saul is my favorite show so that was a fun crossover.

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I can’t be the only who noticed that when the Creed car was on track, Will Buxton asked if it can go higher. I swear I heard it twice. #indycar #indy500

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Sixteen Candles has a man offer his severely drunken girlfriend to another man. Most of the movie is good but that part drags it down to 3/4 #filmsky

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Peavey Plaza is an incredible piece of brutalist architecture, right in downtown Minneapolis next to Orchestra Hall and WCCO.

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The new Google AI functionality in Docs is total mind-ruining shit. Hit enter in docs, it takes over your cursor to offer to help you write. Every. Time. You. Hit. Enter. Do you know how annoying that is when you are writing something? It's someone interrupting you every minute. MAKE IT STOP.

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The Grapes of Wrath, the movie, is good but it doesn't a candle to the book. The Production Code forced them to do a happy ending, which required them to leave quite a bit out. It's still a good warning against the dangers of republicanism. 3/4 #filmsky

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Army of Shadows is about a small group of resistance fighters in a Nazi occupied country. It feels very drab and realistic and unfortunately relatable. 4/4 #filmsky

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Peacock has a big discount on an annual plan, but the only show there I like is Poker Face and it doesn’t take a year to do that one. They cancelled Amber Ruffin, Rutherford Falls, and Girls5eva, and SNL has gotten really bad these last few years.

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Most billboards have tiny words and a giant face. I don’t purchase faces. Tell me what your product is.

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The Big Heat is a noir about a mostly clueless man and some really clever women. It’s on the Great Movies list and there’s a Noir Alley on youtube about it. And anything Fritz Lang does is worth watching. 4/4 #filmsky

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As long as a doctor’s visit costs $2,000, Americans will be too expensive to hire.

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So the president wants Americans to have babies, and he wants jobs to come back to America. But not enough to fix the insane cost of healthcare, which is the root cause of both problems.

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The only thing stupider than a one race championship is moving it from the best track to the worst one and taking six years to figure out it needs to go back. #nascar

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13 million people play chess in the US. 120,000 are active USCF members. Just one of the many reasons the USCF needs new leadership. Every dollar chesscom and lichess earn is a dollar organizations like the USCF and FIDE decided to ignore.

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Firefox’s previous CEO raised her own salary sky high, laid off other people, and fell years behind on new features. They got a new one in February and we already have tab groups and vertical tabs. Vertical tabs are why I switched to Edge, but they added an AI button so I went back.

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It’s been obvious for a long time that Disney needs a competent CEO. Theme park people go to Tokyo nowadays to get the level of quality Disney used to offer. Too bad there can’t be an alternative company to handle the Muppets. At r/Indycar we used to call them “Always Bad Coverage.”

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After Midnight is by far the best comedy show on TV. It’s all Paramount has to offer and they lost it. I think the most recent movie they did that I like is the Truman Show. Lots of good classic movies though. And they had the best nascar coverage, with lots of natural sound.

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Sony hired Mayim Bialik to host a show about smart people. Their movies really reflect that level of thinking. That’s how you get Morbius, Madame Web, etc.

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From Barbie to Sinners was 21 months. That’s how long it takes for the big five Hollywood studios to make another good movie. Godzilla Minus One and Flow were all time greats and both in that gap. And the rest of the world and A24 are making good movies left and right.

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The Wild Goose Lake is a great noir with all the classic elements. It just happens it was made in China in 2019. It only confirms my theory that if you want to see a good movie nowadays, watch anything except what the big five studios are doing. 4/4 #filmsky

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My favorite kind of door is the Automatic Caution Door

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If it is food, and it has directions, those directions tell you how to overcook that food.

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I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.

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