vxbush 6/27/2023 6:16:15 AM

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vxbush 6/27/2023 6:19:55 AM

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vxbush 6/27/2023 6:29:32 AM

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vxbush 6/27/2023 6:29:48 AM

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SpaceX making more than 1,000 changes to next Starship rocket 

Change #1: Add cupholders.

vxbush 6/27/2023 6:33:56 AM

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Inside NASA’s Contest to Develop the Space Food of the Future

This also covers some the history of food in space going back to John Glen's flight. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/27/2023 6:43:29 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

Link doesn't work.

vxbush 6/27/2023 7:48:35 AM

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In #6 buzzsawmonkey said: Link doesn't work.

Curses. Here's a working link: Public schools used COVID spending for staff bonuses

buzzsawmonkey 6/27/2023 8:40:32 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 7:

So, how many new lakefront houses has Randi Weingarten purchased recently?

vxbush 6/27/2023 8:58:49 AM

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In #8 buzzsawmonkey said: So, how many new lakefront houses has Randi Weingarten purchased recently?

If she has purchased any, she'll need to purchase new digs in DC as a result of her DHS hiring. Maybe she'll buy the house next to Obama. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/27/2023 9:03:47 AM

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In #9 vxbush said: If she has purchased any, she'll need to purchase new digs in DC as a result of her DHS hiring. Maybe she'll buy the house next to Obama. 

If she plants a few grapevines, Weingarten can have a wine garden in the back yard.

Occasional Reader 6/27/2023 9:20:20 AM

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In #8 buzzsawmonkey said: So, how many new lakefront houses has Randi Weingarten purchased recently?

And will she and Patrice Collors be neighbors? 

Occasional Reader 6/27/2023 9:21:36 AM

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In #9 vxbush said: she'll need to purchase new digs in DC as a result of her DHS hiring

I understand she's simply on an advisory panel to DHS (yes, advising on what???), not a full-time hire, in replacement of her current phony-baloney job. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/27/2023 9:26:48 AM

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In #11 Occasional Reader said: And will she and Patrice Collors be neighbors? 

Heh.

vxbush 6/27/2023 10:49:15 AM

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Occasional Reader 6/27/2023 11:13:52 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 13:

By the way, referring back to our conversation at Insty of yesterday: I would urge you to put aside your dislike of Spielberg, and watch Empire of the Sun when you have an opportunity.   I think it's an extraordinarily good movie (one of my top 5 favorites), and definitely atypical of Spielberg's style.  

Occasional Reader 6/27/2023 11:15:49 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 14:

In a just world, his new job would be breaking big rocks into little rocks.  

buzzsawmonkey 6/27/2023 11:50:41 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 15:

I'll give it some thought; it partly depends on what the distaff side is willing to watch.  

I saw the initial Indiana Jones films, Jaws, ET, etc., and was not impressed.  It's been a long time since then, so I couldn't name the scenes now, but at the time I was picking out "OK, he ripped off this from that, and that from this other thing..."

Basically, I believe that Spielberg's alleged "film genius" is merely his recycling of stuff from older films that the vast bulk of his audience has never seen or even heard of.  I don't mind a certain amount of cross-pollination/borrowing, but I think Spielberg overdid it.  

Nonetheless, I take a recommendation from you seriously, and "The Empire of the Sun" is a film I've actually wanted to see, though I've never acted on that impulse.

Occasional Reader 6/27/2023 12:29:23 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 17:

I don't think you'll be disappointed.  The novel (by J.G. Ballard) is interesting, too, but this is one of the rare instances in which I'd say the film is better than the novel. 

vxbush 6/27/2023 12:31:26 PM

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In #17 buzzsawmonkey said: Basically, I believe that Spielberg's alleged "film genius" is merely his recycling of stuff from older films that the vast bulk of his audience has never seen or even heard of.  I don't mind a certain amount of cross-pollination/borrowing, but I think Spielberg overdid it.  

The same is true of George Lucas.....

lucius septimius 6/27/2023 1:02:54 PM

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Remember last summer when I was trying to sell my old house?  Remember that I had the sale fall through because of a tree?  The tree that couldn't be trimmed, hence they couldn't build a new house on my property?  And I had to sell for less to another buyer who was just going to remodel?  Because tree?

I drove by the old homestead yesterday.  They trimmed the tree.  They ripped down my old house and built a McMansion on the site - all things I was told couldn't be done.  

I'm pissed.  They fucked me over.  

Occasional Reader 6/27/2023 1:34:02 PM

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In #20 lucius septimius said: I'm pissed. 

That.... is justified. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/27/2023 2:49:46 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 20:

Hey, fuck me over, I'll sell you stuff

You will get over, and tell me it's enough

I could have got more than the cash I was paid

But the bureaucracy wouldn't let me make the grade

So I'll be real out of pocket, and I know why

But I can only take it on the chin even as you lie

I'm far too short with the wherewithal, but what else can I do?

Thanks so much to the State---I tell you I hate you!

Occasional Reader 6/27/2023 3:57:19 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 22:

Nicely done. 

Kosh's Shadow 6/27/2023 4:23:22 PM

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In #16 Occasional Reader said: In a just world, his new job would be breaking big rocks into little rocks.  

No, Fauci would be a professional guinea pig for medical research. That's what he did to us.

Kosh's Shadow 6/27/2023 4:37:41 PM

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Sacre bleu!

France: Restaurant owners accused of ‘Islamophobia’ because they like pork

buzzsawmonkey 6/27/2023 6:01:51 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 6/27/2023 7:29:46 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 26:

I wear a fedora, so I get comments often