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An AI Event Hired John Mulaney to Do a Comedy Set and He Brutally Roasted Them Onstage

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  • Me too! (I can only wish I could hear the Carlin version.)

    • NASA's solar sail successfully spreads its wings in space

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    • What is the most quintessential 90s movie?

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  • Yeh, she was outstanding. That 'poor little deer' scene in that Brooklyn accent alone.

    • What is the most quintessential 90s movie?

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  • Yep, it's really a lot of fun. A little hard on some parts of both southern culture and NY culture, but just enough to make it even funnier. Not just Pesci as a lawyer and all the lawyer jokes; making a judge out of Fred Gwynne so he could make all those facial expressions he'd perfected was a casting winner. So was Marisa Tomei. And the characters that played witnesses ... to this day when I'm saying 'I guess' it always comes out with that drawl. Every scene in the film was comical first, and never let up. Masterpiece.

    • What is the most quintessential 90s movie?

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    • Imagine modern tech could resurrect old movie stars, which movie remake would you like to see them in?

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  • Margaret Hamilton (witch) in a sci-fi Wizard of Oz remake. Oh hell, let's throw Burt Lahr (lion) in there too.

    • NASA's solar sail successfully spreads its wings in space

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  • Haven't heard about the NASA design yet, but JAXA's 2010 IKAROS used "Eighty blocks of LCD panels are embedded in the sail, whose reflectance can be adjusted for attitude contro ".

    • Enemy Mine: Lost in Translation | A look back at an odd movie, and how it missed the deeper message of the book it was based on (Spoilers)

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  • Thanks for reminding me of a great film I saw in theatres long ago... I was at a con once and heard Barry (spouse and I both liked 'Enemy') and bought his Workshop book ... good to see he's still kicking ...

    and thanks too for hooking me up with Feral Historian's stuff (like his style) which I might never have found otherwise..

    • Strong evidence that ... PLANET 9 LIVES !

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    • What was the hardest part of schooling for you?

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  • If you don't know what you most enjoy after H.S., finding your motivation is a really great idea for many kids. if you give it a quarter and still aren't inspired, outside work could help with that. College is expensive; but it's worth it and -much- easier once you know why you're there! You're story is a perfect example, thanks for sharing.

    I'd add this (from my experience): if you start out doing well, but your grades start slipping in the second year? Take a quarter (or a year) off to figure out why that's happening. Maybe that major isn't for you after all. Maybe things in your personal life need getting past so that you can can get your focus back. The college will still be there when you're ready ... unless what you need is ... another college !!

    • What's a good lesson you learned from Aesop's Fables?

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  • Take the thorn out of the lion's paw, and don't charge him $10,000.

    • Dual booting with Windows? Beware recent Win update!

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  • This is the ongoing story of Microsoft since it started.

    • What's the most fascinating structure or object you've been inside of?

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  • I was in the tunnel, not the steam pipes running through the tunnel.

    • What's the most fascinating structure or object you've been inside of?

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  • The steam tunnel system under that big midwestern university. Once in, it led underneath most every building on the campus. There are many other mysteries hidden in the underground -everywhere-.

    • What happens if you leave your phone off the hook?

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  • Wow. I can't believe it took me so long to learn about that. And no tour needed. Interesting, thanks!

    • Jonathan Kamens: "It has come to my attention that many of the people complaining about Firefox's PPA experiment don't actually understand what PPA is…" - federate.social

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  • Go ahead and send me ads, and I'll just block your site ... never go there except when someone tries to trick me into it, and then my SITE-BLOCKER will refuse for me. Our now and future business IS OVER.

    "But why don't you just trust us?" Because I've been online for 30 years and it's been downhill ever since.

    • The song "Home on the Range" is essentially a limerick. Therefore, any limerick can be sung to the tune of "Home on the Range".

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  • 'Theeeere once was a girl from Nantucket' ... well, sort of works.

    • What makes you feel like you're in the future right now?

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  • As a very curious person with very wide interests, it is so easy to access really hard-to-find information. In the past five years I've satisfied my curiosity more than adequately on hundreds of topics I'd wondered about all my life ... from home. One plus side of Covid.

    On the darker side, there were plenty of predictions (from science and fiction) in decades past that are becoming very real. Too many heads buried in sand.

    • A comprehenisve Three-way vinyl record wear test, to prove once and for all if playing records wears them out.

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  • Now for the next test: 3 identical new styluses responses are profiled. Now 3 identical TTs, play Marcus Family vs. Metallica vs Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.

    After 100 hours compare stylus profiles to originals. Repeat after 1000 hours. Also visit your shrink before and after for a comparitive sanity test.

    • This Robin Williams scene perfectly encapsulates why AI is fundamentally shitty

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  • Great film... and nobody but Robin could have done that scene so well. Phew.