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Propaganda Machine posted:I'm cool with the lottery. That money mostly goes to tax-funded things like public schools. Less the commission and more Sheldon Adelson. There’s three things that man hates and they’re Internet gambling, Marijuana and the lottery. The man donates 20-30 million dollars every election cycle to the RNC for candidates that support bans on those causes. He’s personally responsible for that ban on online poker a few years ago and had the bill written in such a way that any money in accounts owned by Americans on those sites was forfeit. He overextended this election cycle though. The day after the midterms, which Adelson watched in the Whitehouse with Trump, a memo was sent to the DoJ reinterpreting the Wire Act that allowed states with legal online gambling to allow cross traffic accounts. If you lived in Delaware or Jersey you could use your Harrah’s account to gamble at the Harrah’s Los Vegas properties online suite. Now that’s illegal and companies are out millions invested in developing the software and architecture. That broke some unwritten rule among casino owners(almost every casino owner serves or has served on the RNC executive board) and now they’re gunning for him. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Mar 7, 2019 |
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Just continues his standard ‘let tv choose his talking points’. 60 Minutes just aired a piece about many of the recent Boeing crashes stemming from failure in the stall correction programs in the auto pilot. The entire point of the piece was Boeing blaming pilot error and 60 Minutes pointing out that Boeing installed the program update without actually telling the airlines that it exists so the crashes were caused by the pilots frantically trying to overcorrect what appeared to be a computer malfunction.
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Mar 12, 2019 21:29
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IRQ posted:Put it all on zero! They’ve already put out a statement saying it’s not their fault if the airlines didn’t read the patch notes.
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Mar 13, 2019 16:32
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He also makes all the on air talent, excepting the top earners, pay their own way. Even the guys too injured to wrestle that week still need to accompany the crew in case they feel like shooting some promo vids.
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Apr 1, 2019 20:34
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A mix of the perpetrators being among the old guard/friends of McMahon and firing them would admit liability which would damage the WWE’s image and make them susceptible to lawsuits. Even now they won’t admit anything happened and they’re very good at white washing sordid details. Like how you will not find any official mention of Benoit ever working for the WWE.
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Apr 2, 2019 18:34
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pwn posted:Tickets are free... which I believe is a law for broadcast shows, they cannot charge for tickets. I imagine this is an FCC rule, and likely wouldn’t technically apply to cable shows, since they’re not using the public airwaves and thus aren’t subject to the regulations thereof, but I think all of them give tickets away free, as well. I believe it's a weird interaction with usage rights. Due to studio pans and the like, audience members are technically 'background extras' for the taping, if you check the legalese for the for tickets you'll usually find a clause about the tickets being compensation for usage of your face/voice for the episode. And even if you could charge for the shows, no studio ever would. Charging for tickets would mean you have to hold seats for the people that paid and would have a much harder time accommodating for no shows.
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Propaganda Machine posted:Also, they don't have to fund the cgi dragons anymore. But now they have to fund heavily armored talking polar bears. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jun 4, 2019 |
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Jun 4, 2019 17:26
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Out of interest, what's that number based on? I don’t know about that number but here’s an article breaking down how much Bezos made last year https://www.businessinsider.com/what-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-makes-every-day-hour-minute-2018-10 He was effectively making 8.9M an hour.
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Jul 3, 2019 18:08
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tsob posted:Prawn cocktail crisps are delicious, and I just bought a pack of them today when I was doing the shopping because John reminded me of them. There are some weird but scrumptious crisps in the UK and Ireland: Worcestershire sauce being another odd, but lovely one. The nicest crisps I've ever tasted though, were Walkers Sensations roast chicken & thyme. Which really doesn't sound like it should work as a crisp, but drat they were loving tasty. Are they actually prawn flavored or are they like crab chips where they’re just seasoned the same.
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Jul 31, 2019 02:17
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I know for a fact that they definitely charge for records. My company was in talks with them about a record during a promotion we ran and one of our sister properties went fully in on one. It was $20k for the record and another $20k every two years to maintain it.
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Aug 12, 2019 16:44
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Grand Fromage posted:That happens in the US but it's not part of the law anywhere as far as I know. Generally it’s tied to a Summary Dismissal with Prejudice. Essentially a judge looks over the briefs before the trial even starts and says “This case is bullshit, you’re an rear end and stop bothering these people.” This completely ends proceedings on the case unless the dismissal is successfully appealed and then everything starts over. A judge’s ability to decide is usually the reason lawmakers are hesitant to expand anti-slap suits, a lot people believe of something is already covered by a law there’s no reason to make more laws.
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Nov 12, 2019 23:39
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I don't know, Kushner was pretty key in making sure Christie imploded, Christie was the DA that put Kushner's father behind bars. It's hard to pinpoint one person pulling the administration in any one direction since self serving autocrats are the people Trumps surrounds himself with. Steven Miller is writing all of Trump's immigration policies, Kudlow was the one pushing Trump to ease up on restrictions and the only brightside is that there's apparently someone that actually speaks Trump with an ounce of sense in the WH. By all accounts the only way they were able to get him to strengthen the stay-at-home order was to show him photographs of his childhood neighborhood and how bad it was for the hospital there so he can personalize the depth of tragedy.
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Apr 1, 2020 17:55
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SlothfulCobra posted:Does this not-news station air its dicksucking "questions" on its own programs, or is their purpose just to give an ego boost to the one man that needs it the least? The second, press conferences tend to be seeded with a few friendly correspondents to lob a few softballs and get the speaker into the rhythm for the actual questions. The network gets sound bytes and the speaker gets to ramble his talking points first. Every president has done it, the problem is this one is so obtuse that he believes everyone should be as fawning and his press staff are so inexperienced that they can't be more subtle with it..
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Apr 7, 2020 23:50
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Yeah, the audience for both LWT and TDS can accurately be described as 'the choir'.
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Apr 14, 2020 20:45
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Only way Trump loses is a mixture of actually getting people that stayed home in 16 to actually care about voting this year and getting Corona firmly in the rear view by October. Otherwise we'll see a suspicious uptick in virus reporting in states with red governers necessitating stay at home orders for urban areas.
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Apr 15, 2020 19:59
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Joking aside, you have to be eligible to be president to be the VP. The longest anyone can serve right now is 10 years, and that's only if you're the VP, the president dies with less than 2 years to go in their term, and you win re-election twice.
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Apr 20, 2020 01:14
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That's just the first point of making a persuasive argument. 60% your audience if either going to already agree with you or is never going to, so you always tailor your message to the 40% in the middle.
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May 16, 2020 06:11
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Ever since I found out Dan O'Brien was writing for the show I can't not hear his stuff in a lot these episodes.
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Aug 17, 2020 04:47
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Perestroika posted:W-why are there potato chips that are made to taste like blueberry?! Because a few years ago their marketing team hit on the idea that if they release a ton of different flavors they could sell people on the idea of combining to make their own. That way they can sell 2-3x as many chips to the same amount of people. Plus they're more like an air fried cracker than a chip
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Dec 7, 2020 15:04
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Simone Magus posted:No they're very sweet, they're not actually spicy at all. It's confusing! You sure it was Voodoo Heat? They make an Evil Eye flavor that's creole seasoning and ketchup flavored and is a farsight tastier than the combo would appear at first glance.
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Dec 8, 2020 01:07
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I'm surprised they didn't bring up Tucker's head writer being fired after reporters found his account on a white nationalist site. https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...4af1_story.html
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Mar 16, 2021 02:12
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I enjoy the webisodes you can tell we're written by Dan O'Brien.
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Jul 12, 2021 21:54
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The judge has accepted the Sackler bankruptcy deal and given the family full immunity from future lawsuits.
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Jingleheimer posted:Have they always used a laugh track for the web exclusives? I noticed it on the last one, and I suppose it works for the format, but it just seems a little odd to me to even pretend to have a live audience for a short web thing during a hiatus. You think it was a laughtrack even though Jon stops the rant several times to joke about how the viewer is choosing to watch this far in contrast to the studio audience that didn't know it was going to happen and can't leave?
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Jan 11, 2022 19:56
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Well for starters I'm pretty sure he was featured on that episode about leaders world wide getting elected with Trump's playbook. But that's getting into areas that aren't important right now.
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Mar 11, 2022 19:23
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He also hasn't updated his style from 7 years ago and a lot has changed from his 'there's value to finding a common ground for discussion' Neo lib poo poo.
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Mar 14, 2022 19:27
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Theyre a few miles past using the gimmick sparingly.
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Jun 14, 2022 01:58
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The candidate in that episode received 3.4% of the vote in the primary and is insisting that she actually won.
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Jul 7, 2022 01:06
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And they got absolutely housed by the Chinese economically. England became obsessed with tea from China but China didn't want anything they had to trade except silver. By the turn of the 19th century England had almost depleted its entire stockpile trading for it. Of course they then learned China had a high price for opium as a medicine because it could only grow in a very small province and of course the empire was lousy with it from India. And so you got one of the very first incredibly profitable and destructive drugs trades.
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feedmegin posted:'England' the country did no such thing, do you think there was a state tea monopoly or something? Individual traders had issues but it wasn't bringing the Empire as a whole its knees or something. The East India Trading Company was a state run and sponsored trading company in everything but name. The trade deficit caused by trading the silver for tea nearly bankrupted the company, and to save it, Parliament gave them a monopoly over the colonies to obvious consequences.
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We booked our honeymoon in 2018 and our Travel Agent went with a timeshare pitch package. It was done so far in advance and I was so preoccupied with wedding stuff it completely passed by me when she said she did that. Had to spend 4 hours on a beautiful Tuesday morning getting a hard sell on the chain's vacation package to save $1,500 on the trip. Almost won me over too, there is comething appealing about being told you can have 2 weeks stays at any of their Carribean resorts for a $700 a month membership. Even offered to throw in airfare vouchers for the first 5 years. As someone who grew up with the only family vacations being day trips to an amusement park or a weekend at relatives being able to provide my wife and i and any potential children that kind of experience is super tempting. $4k up front 'joiner fee' was a splash of cold water and got me thinking about other fees we'd be hit with. Not sure how much they told me was a lie, but I do remember them going on about member exclusive beaches despite every island in the Carribeans, except Jamaica, having strict laws about every beach being open to the public no matter what.
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Not officially ratified yet, it was approved in principle by the leaders of the union. It goes to member vote in a week or two but writers can return to work until then.
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The part of the SAG contract that covers talk shows wasn't up for renewal and wasn't part of the strike.
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Sep 28, 2023 21:13
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It's actually a fairly common analytics qiestion and staging it as 'how good are you at bullshit' is kind of selling it short. It's goal is to test the applicants structured reasoning skills. If you can build a sound hypothesis with a large number of variables than you obviously do well when dealing with known qualities.
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Oct 24, 2023 19:13
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Yeah I was under the impression it mostly came from Columbia and that was the major source of ethical concern.
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Oct 31, 2023 21:01
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Noticed that the Max app took away the first 9 seasons.
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Didn't even touch on the predatory poo poo that the Federal loan agencies got up to during the time. Like frequently talking students into talking bigger loans than they needed, selling students on supplemental loans so they could focus on school without working. As soon as schools started banning credit card companies from campus Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac started taking up the space. Personally, when Fannie Mae sold my loan it went from 60/40 principle/interest to 80/20, adding 5 years and $8k to my loan. They technically have to notify you when they change the distribution but no one is properly over seeing it
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