AudibleNod
AudibleNod t1_j6opfyk wrote
Reply to TIL that the third best selling album of all time, ahead of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, is the soundtrack for 1992 film The Bodyguard by Linguini_gang
Dark Side of the Moon? You mean that woke album with the rainbow! No thank you.
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AudibleNod t1_j6oodpi wrote
Reply to comment by GreenSalsa96 in Feds drop lobbying probe of retired general, lawyer says by Squirrel_Inner
You could tie it to retirement pay and other post-service benefits. Like burial and survivor benefits.
So if you want to go to the PX and be buried in Arlington, you can't lobby for Qatar.
AudibleNod t1_j6oc70c wrote
Reply to comment by TogepiMain in California father is charged with attempted murder after allegedly driving his family off an oceanside cliff, prosecutors say | CNN by posts-comments-monk
That's a tough row to hoe.
On the one hand you can point to that incident for the car seat effectiveness. On the other, it's shown that your car seat was picked out by a would-be family killer.
AudibleNod t1_j6oavui wrote
Reply to TIL the "Minnow" from Gilligan's Island was named after the then chairman of the FCC famous for his criticism of (among other things) formulaic TV comedies by karl2025
Minow called commercial programming a 'vast wasteland'. This led to Congress forming PBS some time later.
AudibleNod t1_j6n3ic4 wrote
Reply to comment by FuBaReD2 in California father is charged with attempted murder after allegedly driving his family off an oceanside cliff, prosecutors say | CNN by posts-comments-monk
The mom is still in the hospital. She's expected to recover. But they're all alive.
AudibleNod t1_j6n0za5 wrote
Reply to California father is charged with attempted murder after allegedly driving his family off an oceanside cliff, prosecutors say | CNN by posts-comments-monk
>Two of the three counts against Patel come with domestic violence and great bodily injury enhancements, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said during a news conference Monday.
>...
>“Miraculously though, the four-year-old came out with just some bruises, and that does not qualify for significant bodily injury,”
Good for the kid and somehow also the would-be family killer.
AudibleNod t1_j6iv34h wrote
Reply to comment by curahee5656 in TIL In the 60s/60s NASA would use brooms to detect flames from Hydrogen leaks as they were odorless & colorless. by Wandering_Lights
Lemme guess.
One of the rules was to not drive around in flammable cars.
AudibleNod t1_j6iuzfe wrote
Reply to comment by NuGundam7 in TIL In the 60s/60s NASA would use brooms to detect flames from Hydrogen leaks as they were odorless & colorless. by Wandering_Lights
I was in the Navy and was told the same thing. If you could hear a hiss and/or saw condensing water without a known source, you'd grab a broom and Star Wars Kid your way through the space.
AudibleNod t1_j6iqxuc wrote
I'm not an expert on corporate shell company. But on the surface, this sounds a lot like the Sovereign Citizen 'federal personage' nonsense. Whereby they think they can shift the burdens and debt to this federal citizen and are liberated by being their own sovereign citizen. Either way. Good for the appeals court. I hope Alex Jones bankruptcy has the same fate.
AudibleNod t1_j6i4n1i wrote
Reply to TIL about Kwihnai Tosabitʉ or "White Eagle," a Medicine Man and messiah of the Comanche Native American tribe. Uniting all of the Comanche people and several other groups, he led them to an immediate defeat and was renamed Isatai'i "Wolf's Vulva." by marmorset
I like the idea of getting new names after an auspicious or inauspicious event in your life.
"Where's Gary?"
> Oh, you mean Diamond Hands. Diamond Hands sold his Bed Bath & Beyond stock at the right time and he's going to the driver license office to change his license. As is our custom.
"Cool, good for Diamond Hands."
AudibleNod t1_j6dwwja wrote
Reply to TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
Can't they also pick up bluetooth IDs and see how long someone lingers and where?
if not, I'm sorry for giving them the idea.
AudibleNod t1_j6599wv wrote
AudibleNod OP t1_j5zepq3 wrote
Reply to comment by thatoneguy889 in Tennessee says pair gave incorrect execution drug testimony by AudibleNod
I think we need a separate "Department of the Inspectors General" at the federal and state levels. And they'd be like judges that you cannot just fire on a whim.
AudibleNod OP t1_j5z88nc wrote
>Two of the people most responsible for overseeing Tennessee’s lethal injection drugs “incorrectly testified” under oath that they were testing the chemicals for bacterial contamination, the state attorney general’s office conceded in a court filing.
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"Incorrectly testified?" You'd think there'd be a legal word for that. Something menacing sounding. Something Old French or Latin that doesn't get used except in a legal context. Oh well. I guess we're sticking with "incorrectly testified". It's the 'alternative facts' of legal words now.
AudibleNod t1_j5yhk9s wrote
Reply to TIL about a practice known as sologamy, where you can apparently marry yourself by [deleted]
My wife watched Glee during the pandemic. I was minimally aware of Sue Silvester played by Jane Lynch. So I walked in the room during a scene where she declared she was having a wedding ceremony where she was marrying herself and she would be officiating the service. I bust out laughing. And had to sit down to watch that episode. Jane Lynch is funny.
AudibleNod t1_j5txgrg wrote
Reply to comment by billpalto in Twitter faces legal complaint in Germany over anti-Semitic content by davetowers646
Don't forget issues with hair.
AudibleNod t1_j5mn3qi wrote
Reply to TIL that the first time the Albanian language was mentioned in History was a witness of a crime reporting he had heard someone yelling in Albanian. by alexmikli
The crime: speaking Albanian.
AudibleNod OP t1_j5lsa1r wrote
Reply to DOJ: Salt Lake City plastic surgeon among 4 charged in alleged COVID vaccine card scheme by AudibleNod
>Card recipients did not get COVID-19 vaccines, though some parents requested that their children receive saline shots instead so they would believe they did, court documents said.
And they're lying to their kids?
AudibleNod t1_j56zf87 wrote
Reply to comment by Flares117 in TIL: Jesse Livermoore pioneered day trading. His shorts for the 1906 SF earthquake and the 1929 crash are considered legendary. He grew up poor, but at 14 worked as a board boy at a stock firm and started gambling. He would consistently become rich or bankrupt, and he died with millions in debt. by Flares117
So was he good or was he a statistical outlier.
AudibleNod t1_j56nzs6 wrote
Reply to comment by Xszit in TIL The famous "rods from god" concept of a space-based weapons system of orbiting tungsten rods was developed by science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle. by BitterFuture
Yeah. I saw an interview with Karlheinz Brandenburg, inventor of the MP3 format, explicitly say Data calling up music as inspiration.
AudibleNod t1_j56lhqy wrote
Reply to comment by thirdeyefish in TIL The famous "rods from god" concept of a space-based weapons system of orbiting tungsten rods was developed by science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle. by BitterFuture
MP3s can trace it's lineage to Star Trek TNG when Data is asking the computer to play music.
AudibleNod t1_j51t1qu wrote
Reply to comment by Hrekires in DeSantis administration rejects inclusion of AP African American Studies class in Florida high schools | CNN Politics by Yevon
*Checks notes "Because."
There's AP courses for Chinese Language and Culture, Environmental Sciences and Music Theory. Which, through the Florida lens, seem woke-adjacent. However, those aren't part of the pilot program that the AP African American Studies is in. My only guess (and I'm playing Devil's Advocate here) is that they can hide under the "pilot program" aspect of the course that the others aren't part of.
AudibleNod t1_j4waq30 wrote
Reply to comment by Godloseslaw in TIL that only about 4% of the Earth's surface has two points on opposite sides of the world that are both on land by A_1337_Canadian
We did it Reddit!
AudibleNod t1_j6u31i6 wrote
Reply to comment by Carlos-In-Charge in Phoenix officer given Narcan after ingesting 'white substance' during traffic stop by trapicana
Yet none of us believed it when a woman claimed the wind blew cocaine into her purse.