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Robert De Niro Says His Gotham Awards Speech Was Edited to Cut Anti-Trump Comments - IGN

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  • Pretty badass move.

    • Why? Are we not doing enough?

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  • I feel like mastodon is doing alright.

    • TIL VH1's Pop Up Video is "lost media". Due to licensing issues, the only way that episodes can be found is through home recordings of the show from when it aired

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  • Yeah but it's so fun to go through and watch what you can on the Internet archive and YouTube 🙂

    • Pink Plans to Give Away Banned Books at Florida Tour Dates

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  • That LOOONG ARM thumbnail freaked me out for a second.

    Good on her fighting Florida's bullshit, long arm or no.

    • FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps

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  • GIGA-SPEEDS!! ... Such bullshit

    • US intelligence report alleging Russia election interference shared with 100 countries

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  • Whataboutism....

    • Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’

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  • But what about that NEW BATTERY TECH that's coming out soon...

    • Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog

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  • What would you say are your top 2-3 reasons you like it?

    • TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills

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  • AND she was in a car with no cup holders. It wasn't a standard feature in sports cars in the 90s. She had borrowed it from her son.

    https://www.capitalone.com/cars/learn/managing-your-money-wisely/remembering-the-ford-probes-role-in-the-infamous-mcdonalds-hot-coffee-lawsuit/1299

    And you're right that it didn't change coffee temps that much:

    “During the Liebeck court proceedings, McDonald’s said it served its coffee between 180 and 190 degrees,” according to The New York Times. “The company has refused to disclose today’s standard temperature, but Retro Report shows a handbook for franchisees calling for temperatures 10 degrees lower.”

    If it doesn’t sound like much, it’s because it’s not. McDonald’s chooses to keep their coffee scaldingly hot because, according to attorney Butch Wagner, hot coffee stays fresh for longer. They save money by doing this (millions per day, in fact, across their US franchises alone), even if it means paying out for other hot coffee settlements—of which there are plenty.

    https://thedieline.com/blog/2019/2/13/drink-at-your-own-risk-how-a-90s-lawsuit-changed-or-failed-to-change-coffee-drinking

    • TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills

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  • And she originally only asked for McDonald's to cover her medical expenses ($20k) which they refused.

    • What are some of your favorite smaller Sci-Fi Horror/psychological thriller stories/films?

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  • I don't have much of an idea on if it was small but the movie Sunshine (2007) comes to mind. Loved that movie. It's well worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

    • Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one

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  • Is it worth it if you don't have a samsung phone?

    • Justin Roiland used his ‘Rick and Morty’ fame to pursue young fans, text messages show

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  • Glad to see more reporting on this. The way they swapped out Roiland's voice in Solar Opposites was absolutely perfect, it really hasn't lost anything imo.

    • Musk's interference to protect Russia allowed Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, and resulted in the deaths of civilians including children - Zelensky advisor.

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  • He probably gets off from that.

    • What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?

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  • Thanks for the heads up! Bit out of my price range though.

    • Why the Proud Boys' sentences matter: They're scaring the rest of MAGA straight

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  • Republicanism has long been about recasting selfishness as a virtue.

    Great line

    • Ruby Franke formally charged with 6 counts of felony child abuse

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    • Trump is running out of other people's money to pay lawyers. Save America PAC is almost broke

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  • What the fuck I thought Super PACs were not allowed to coordinate with the candidate...right? ....right? It's paying his fucking legal bills how is that not a violation? Oh that's right because it's a fucking corrupt bullshit concept. The supreme court's awful Citizens United ruling completely fucked over this country.

    • What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?

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  • Yow, they must be doing well their whole website is sold out

    • TIL The Katy Freeway in Houston, TX was expanded in 2008 to 26 lanes (one of the widest in the world) and 5 years later had longer peak travel times than before the expansion

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  • As with many things there's not a clear cut answer. I think you could make a strong case for the Katy Freeway expansion being a failure where those resources would have been better spent on other forms of transportation. I'd agree that adding lanes is not always a bad idea, but blindly adding lanes like the US has done for decades has not been a good thing overall, imo. We're dependent on cars for everything, they're heating up the planet and they're a very inefficient solution to the ultimate problem of getting people from point A to B. I'm not so much anti-car as anti-inefficient travel that has saddled us with tons of negative aspects to city life.