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"Geezer teaser" is a pejorative term used to describe films, most often action films released direct-to-video and primarily distributed via video on demand (VOD), for which older, well-known male actors ("geezers") are billed in lead or co-lead roles and prominently featured (teased) in promotional material, but only appear sporadically during the film itself.
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As If legal insider trading isn't enough of a perk - they can have a working dinner and chomp on a $300 meal on the lobbyists dime. And they travel to Paris or London or wherever for free. They pretend they actually go to lectures on climate change when they sightsee. Meanwhile Evil Corp is greenwashing and their execs are laughing.
::: spoiler Spoiler > Anime : Here is Greenwood - 1991 (Nagisa Tezuka) > > https://subium.com/profile/90sanimepics.bsky.social/post/3l5ogfonauc2g :::
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If the players were in street clothes and somebody had told me "This gang is responsible for at least 85% of the meth on the Eastern Seaboard," - I would have believed it.
> The Detroit Tigers bullpen looks like the room in Alien Resurrection where they have all the cloned Ripleys that didn't quite work out. But in this case it's 8 attempts to clone Waingro from Heat from a degraded DNA sample. > > https://subium.com/profile/edburmila.bsky.social/post/3l5otf62orf2s
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They hardly work at all. It's amazing how powerful simple propaganda can be - phrasing for example. They call their paid vacations "recesses" and Americans don't even pay attention.
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I did a little googling.
How Many Days Congress Is in Session
According to federal records, the House works about two days a week and the Senate works a little more than that.
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From another article
Meanwhile, Evergreen Terrace are organizing their own show in Orlando, telling fans, “Orlando. We will be seeing you soon. We are currently organizing a show with the bands that dropped off of the Shell Shock fest after being blindsided. All of Evergreen’s proceeds will go to an associated veterans organization. Updates soon. We play shows, not rallies.”
> If you were planning to go to the Shell Shock II music festival in Orlando and you like Kyle Rittenhouse … well, you are in luck. But if you were hoping to see a handful of the bands — including the headliner, Evergreen Terrace — there, well … they apparently don’t want to be on the same card as Kyle Rittenhouse. > > So, instead, the new headliner for Shell Shock II, per Loudwire, will be a Slipknot cover band.
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Shine on you teaser diamond
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I had to squash "geezer teaser" down to two syllables so the lyric would scan right.
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Congress has made no efforts to secure more disaster relief funding... Congress is now in recess until November 12, and while Biden had considered calling Congress back into session early to approve more FEMA funding, there has been no progress.
I love how both parties are like "Sure, there's an election in a month. But fuck anybody who needs help. What the fuck do we care? People will vote for us just because they hate the other party."
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Also - there's another problem. I actually watched a few seconds here or there of the trailer. It's surely Bait-and-Switch Phillips. I bet Lou Diamond Phillips is on screen for 90 seconds tops.
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Ganja feud
After she declared her candidacy for president in 2019, Dr. Harris proceeded to offer economic policy advice to the campaign. But he became angry a month later when the candidate told a radio show host that she supported legalizing marijuana and then added, “Half my family’s from Jamaica, are you kidding me?”
Dr. Harris issued a statement, denouncing as a “travesty” his daughter’s promotion of “the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker.” The father “took umbrage,” said Mr. Hutchinson, Dr. Harris’s friend, “because his family was blasting him for his offspring having embarrassed them in this way.”
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He enjoys tooling around in his silver Corvette.
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Both in essays and in the classroom, Dr. Harris argued that market economies should be inclusive rather than monopolistic. Some of his scholarly papers analyzed Marxist economic thinking, but by the early 1990s, “he had become more realistic, because he’d learned along the way,” said Anne Krueger, a conservative economist and fellow Stanford professor at the time. “He certainly had more faith in government than some of us did. But among the people I knew as Marxian economists, he was not there.”
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In the mid-90s, Dr. Harris took an early retirement from Stanford to return to Jamaica and coordinate what would become known as the country’s national industrial policy. That effort, which sought to transform a national economy fueled by debt into one sustained by an export-based model through public and private partnerships, took more than a decade for the financially hobbled government to put in place.
Once the policy did take hold, roughly a decade ago, the economy’s ratio of debt to gross domestic product was halved. The unemployment rate fell from 15 percent in 2013 to 5.4 percent today. “The national industrial policy was anathema to Marxists,” said P.J. Patterson, Jamaica’s prime minister at the time. “What Don was propounding was the notion of a market-based economy where the private sector, not the government, was the engine of growth. There was nothing in there about state control of industry.”
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Israel is already using the Gaza playbook in Lebanon. They're destroying the healthcare system and killing paramedics.
The entire staff of Marjayoun public hospital in south Lebanon were evacuated on Friday morning after an Israeli drone strike killed four paramedics, putting the hospital out of service, Lebanon’s national news agency reported. The hospital was one of the major medical providers in south Lebanon, particularly as Israel’s intensified aerial campaign which started on 23 September displaced many medical staff from the region.
“They hit right next to us, so we had to flee. The area is very dangerous and there is no one on the roads and I am driving alone,” Shoshana Mazraani, the head of the emergency services at Marjayoun public hospital, said while fleeing. Israel also carried out a strike on the Islamic health organisation’s center in Khirbet Selem, causing injuries on Friday afternoon, according to Lebanon’s national news agency.
An additional member of the ambulance service was killed and one injured while carrying out rescue services in the southern suburbs of Beirut, which was intensely bombed the night prior, according to Hezbollah-affiliated media. Lebanon’s prime minister Najib Mikati had a series of diplomatic meetings on Friday in order to pressure Israel to safely allow rescue and relief teams to transfer victims of airstrikes.
At least 102 Lebanese paramedics have been killed since the beginning of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah a year prior.
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I tried to read the blog post but doublespeak and marketing crap gives me an insta-migraine so I checked Reddit.
Mozilla now doubling down on ads in Firefox
Did whoever wrote that pile of marketing gibberish actually say a goddamned thing?
Oh, they said something. They said they believe it’s right and proper for advertisers to intrude into our lives and steal our time and attention, and they’re going to help them do that while claiming to be the “good guys” by inventing some nonsense that “protects privacy” a little more. Never mind that everyone’s main objection to ads isn’t that they compromise our privacy; we object to ads because they intrude on our experience, waste our time and disrupt our ability to focus on the content we seek.
The obvious corollary to this is that ad blockers will eventually be crippled, just like on Chrome, no doubt with the same “security” excuse.
From another thread
"Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers" - founders of Google in 1998.
But the siren song of money always wins.
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Chuckling off stage right. Sounds like Israel.
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There is definitely a lot of hype.
I'm not being sarcastic when I say I have yet to see a single real world example where the AI does extraordinarily well and lives up to the hype. It's always the same.
It's brilliant!*
*When it's spoonfed in a non real world situation. Your results may vary. Void were prohibited.
OpenAI also tested o1 on a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad. Its previous best model, GPT-4o, correctly solved only 13% of the problems, whereas o1 scored 83%.
Ah, I read an article on the Mathematics Olympiad. The NYT agrees!...
Move Over, Mathematicians, Here Comes AlphaProof
A.I. is getting good at math — and might soon make a worthy collaborator for humans.
The problem - as always - is the US media is shit. Comments on that article by randos are better and far more informative than that PR-hype article pretending to be journalism.
Major problem with this article: competition math problems use a standardized collection of solution techniques, it is known in advance that a solution exists, and that the solution can be obtained by a prepared competitor within a few hours.
“Applying known solutions to problems of bounded complexity” is exactly what machines always do and doesn’t compete with the frontier in any discipline.
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Note in the caption of the figure that the problem had to be translated into a formalized statement in AlphaGeometry's own language (presumably by people). This is often the hardest part of solving one of these problems.
AI tech bros keep promising the moon and the stars. But then their AI doesn't deliver so tech bros lie even more about everything to get more funding. But things don't pan out again. And the churn continues. Tech bros promise the moon and the stars...
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I think the photo has a real filmic vibe. Caption...
Smoke rises from Beirut's southern suburbs as a Hellenic Air Force crew evacuates Greek and Greek Cypriot nationals from Lebanon on Thursday.
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Roughly 30% of France's population is now Mimes.
Une tragédie.
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I love the vid. He plays on his regular guy cred. "With full knowledge that my opinion is no more important than that of my fellow citizens..." - regular guy cred. He had them do location scouting to find just the right place for regular guys cred. They had them take it in a diner for regular guy cred. You can hear cars in the background for regular guy cred. I assume he asked his bff Obama for advice how to film it - to maximize regular guy cred.
I seriously have to wonder if some people Obama liked to work with - worked on that.
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Those $100,000 watches are limited edition bro.
Vid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbKF8U06pOs\ article - https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/brawl-breaks-out-before-trumps-speech-outside-saginaw-valley-state-rally
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Was going through old photos because of the Michel Jackson Blackface Congressman and I'm happy to say I have no photos of anyone I know in blackface, but I do have this hard as hell photo of a kid from the first school I taught English in when I was in China
https://subium.com/profile/cooperlund.bsky.social/post/3l5n3kuysv22c
I love social media...
Michel Jackson Blackface Congressman
I guess it's good that I sometimes have no idea what Bluesky is saying. I'm online all the time but I'm not that online. Luckily it wasn't some cryptic annoyance. It was as easy as pie to find.
[Swedish FM escapes tomato, onion attack over Israeli occupation stance](https://aje.io/l9o832?update=3220263)
> Japanese commanders told the crews sailing east that their target was the American fleet moored at Pearl Harbor. > > “When I heard that, the blood rushed out of my head,” Mr. Yoshioka recalled. “I knew that this meant a gigantic war, and that Hawaii would be the place where I would die.”
www.theguardian.com
> An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in central Asia and the US to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.
> A player's slide to beat the throw at home plate is one of baseball's big thrills, especially during the postseason, which begins today. But of the two sliding styles — head-first and feet-first — which is faster? > > Head-first, says David A. Peters of Washington University in St. Louis, an engineer and avid baseball fan. > > The reasons that it's faster to lead off with your noggin all have to do with physics, Peters said. > > Specifically, it's a matter of the player's center of gravity (or center of mass) — essentially the point where gravity exerts its tug. For most people, their center of gravity is right around the stomach area, Peters said. > > Whenever you leave the ground, no matter which end of your body you lead with, your center of gravity will move forward with the speed (and momentum) you left the ground with, Peters explained. > > Two factors make you reach the base sooner if you dive head-first, Peters told LiveScience. One is that your arms are lighter than your legs, which means that as your body rotates, your arms are going to extend out farther than would your legs. Also, because your feet are still pushing off the ground as you dive, you can get a little extra acceleration. > > If you slide feet-first, your feet will dig into the ground instead, slowing your motion, Peters said. > > Some people prefer to slide feet-first though so that they can pop up when they reach the base and avoid sliding past it. > > Head-first slides are also more dangerous, Peters said, because players could jam their hands into the base. Until the 1960s and '70s, in fact, players tended to avoid sliding head-first into a base to protect their hands and faces. > > Players who do slide this way will often hold their batting gloves in their hands to keep themselves from extending their fingers as they slide, he explained. Just how many players favor each type of slide has never been calculated, but Peters estimates that it's about 50-50. > > https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna26975693
So, pretty much as we’ve been saying, and what I want to do is I want to be able to — Look, your business — Years ago in this area, I was honored as the man of the year. It was maybe 20 years ago. Oh, and the fake news heard about it. They said, it never happened. It never happened. And I didn’t know who it was. It was a group that honored me as man of the year. The fakers back there, see the fake news. But they said — They said, oh — And they looked and, you know, they said it never happened. But I said, I swear to you, it happened. It did happen. I was man of the year. And I came and I made a speech and I said, why do you allow them to take your car business away? Why do you allow it to happen? They’re taking your business away. And I didn’t know too much about it. All I know is they were taking your car industry away from you. They said it never happened. And lo and behold, somebody said, I remember the event. And then we found out and we had everything. We got the awards. We had everything. It did happen. But I gave a speech, which at the time was pretty controversial. We can’t let them take your car business away. It’s such an important business. And you know it’s an important business even in times of war where they switch over. And it was really something. And I looked at that speech from, I don’t know, it’s like 19, 20 years ago. And I could repeat it now without changing a word. You cannot let foreign countries, and a lot of the times our worst foes are our so-called friends, okay? You know, our friends, the European Union takes tremendous advantage of us. As an example, they give us cars by the millions. We don’t have too many Chevrolets in the middle of European cities, okay? European Union is brutal. They don’t take our farm products for the most part. They don’t take a lot. But unlike Kamala, who always complains and doesn’t do anything, I keep saying, why don’t you do? I saw Marsha the other day. Why doesn’t she, why didn’t she do it four years ago almost? And I say that, you know, she’s on the border today trying just to, what a day for the border. She goes to the border today, and they just announced just before she got up to speak that more than 13,000 murderers from jail, solitary confinement people in many cases, were released. But I just say, let’s go back. So we can’t let them take our businesses. And we’re not gonna let them take our businesses. And you can control that so easily through good policy. Not her kind of policy, by the way. She changed her policy 15 times. No fracking. Oh, I like fracking. Defund the police. She wants to defund the police. Now, oh, I love the police all of a sudden. By the way, when anybody is into defunding the police even for a day during their career, they can no longer serve as President of the United States, I can tell you. So we’re not gonna let them take our businesses. And really, a lot of that’s determined by our taxation policy. When China has to pay all that money, the people that liked me the best were the steel companies because I saved them. They were dumping China and others, but mostly China was dumping steel in here at levels that nobody had ever seen before. And it was putting the steel companies out of business. I put a 50% and 100% tax on the dumping of steel and the steel companies thrived. I saved them, and you have to have the steel companies. So we’ll do the same thing. And you don’t worry about it. Here’s what you have to do. I only ask you to do one thing, and then you can sleep beautifully all night long, go to a job you love, and get a lot of money at the end of the week. You know what the thing is? Vote for Trump. If you vote for Trump, everything’s gonna be perfect. --- ::: spoiler Spoiler It's real. [Live: Donald Trump hosts townhall in Warren, Michigan](https://www.youtube.com/live/it1J3V5QqMk?t=5661) :::
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