Person who gets paid millions just to talk says something that makes people not hear what she wants to say. "Cancelled" This discussion comes up as we discuss her new comedy special being advertised during the NFL championship game. Because cancel culture isn't just one and done.

I mean, I guess I got cancelled at birth! I'm still waiting for someone to give me 26 Million to do a Netflix special where I insult trans people. I mean, 50 years is a long-ass time to not have a Netflix special. How dare they deprive me of my livelihood like this!!!! Just the woke mob run amok I tells ya.

Literally the Judge was like "But they had a 'safety talk', acquitted!"

I know the bank doesn't bother to hire security guards, they just have someone outside that gives you the "Stealing's bad, m'kay?" talk. Because that's known to work.

"According to Taylor, Judge Margaret W. Deglau cited a “safety talk” given by Pierce about gun safety as “sufficient instead of simply locking away a lethal weapon in an appropriate manner.”

JFC.

"Detectives responded to the home and spoke with the owner, who advised that he rented the basement to Richard Pierce and his two adopted children, which included Williams. Pierce then talked with police and advised he owned a 9 mm pistol and showed officers where he kept it, along with ammunition."

Another unsecured gun. So happy we live in a country just f___ing full of responsible gun owners. What is his liability for keeping an unsecured gun around a mentally disturbed child who had already been posting threats to his school??

Good to know they only played the lesbian cops for laughs then.

And now we have proof that Oswald didn’t act alone too!

TIL that when a white man doesn’t give credit to a woman of color it’s proof positive that he really did do it all by himself. Thanks man.

That’s just silly. She knew what dog she was laying down with.

I was kinda starting to relax into the dad banter when they did the thing about her mom leaving because she hated them? So… I was pretty turned off by that point. Like… maybe retconning Shaggy into a straight edge was cute, but they went a lame direction with it. Her showing up in thot wear because she didn’t kill her mom and the ensuing scene? Cringe. So, if it had some redeeming bits, it may have been after it had exhausted its goodwill for me.

On a positive note, I learned about Harley Quinn from the discussion around Velma, and I’m really enjoying it.

Omg… look at the long number of projects they collaborated on. She was in from day 1.

Oh, it was full of social commentary. I didn't mean to give the impression that the show with the two lesbian cops wasn't trying to make a point - it's just that they did a very poor job with it.

Paradise PD is Juvenile - but it's also not trying to be anything but. They aren't tongue-in-cheek meta analyzing the shower scene and the plight of asian american representation with pretentions of depth.

I wouldn't even have to mention social commentary in the same breath as a cartoon - but Velma very much was making an effort at it. They just failed miserably. It was mean spirited and OLD. Things that were edgy takes in 1997.

I just felt like the humor fell flat and really had a meanspirited core. It wanted to champion diversity while making some of the laziest "Lol, butch lesbian cops" jokes ever. And it really has nothing more to say than "LOL. Lesbians. Funny, right??" There's no satire, no mirror to society. The only redeeming social commentary to be had is how badly the other sides case is made with this rather stupid show.

To be fair, I've seen worse pieces of junk get 4 seasons on Netflix. Yeah, Paradise PD, I'm looking at you.

Like I knew the lines I was supposed to laugh at... But the humor was just juvenile, poorly delivered, often times confusing... Is Daphne supposed to be Asian and being played by a white (cartoon) actress? Like there was a thing about that after the cringey in every way shower scene, and I just didn't get it. The whole thing was just so clunky and wooden.

Seriously... I have been bobmbarded by ads for "Mindy Kaling as Velma" all day long. Like HBO thinks her name is the biggest selling point of the whole show. I have not seen a single ad all day where the ad didn't have her name in all caps.

Wonder why she's taking so much heat for this?

We can store data on anything. Even plant DNA. And every few years someone goes "OMG, what if we stored data in Ocean Waves!!! It's incredibly impractical and almost totally useless, but it's theoretically possible!" And then some BBC talking head runs a special on "Are Ocean Waves the future of data??" And says that within ten years you'll be loading GTA from the nearest beach and talking about data access for poorer landlocked countries.

Since we can store data on anything, the next question to ask is "Is it practical? Is it useful? Should I encode it on a giant gold disk with a huge sign, or embed it in the DNA of plants like a puzzle from a 90's adventure game?" So, what data would we encode this way, and what would we need it for? I'm just pointing out that while it's theoretically possible, it's not really useful.

SO... We could potentially encode data in plant DNA for future generations. They would just have to A) Figure out it's there, B) decode it, and C) speak the language it's encoded in.

Might as well put a message in a bottle and fling it around Jupiter.

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I just didn't notice the post history before making the offer. :) No offense intended. Just wanted you to know there was no ulterior motive. More concerned you'd assume I was being a creeper than anything.

Just to be clear after checking your post history... Not looking for any fooling around. Just offering to feed ya and hang out. Don't care what you do in your spare time. Hope yer 420 friendly.

I'd still eat Turkey with her, I'll pass on the stuffing.

We don't do anything special, but no one should be alone on Thanksgiving.

You're welcome to come eat Chinese food with me and my wife. We have ping pong. You just need transport to Powhatan, BYOB.

From the Fan you can use the area near the Carillon.

If it's after school hours and there are no events, the many school fields and grounds in the area work fine.

Then do the diatonic series in one position.

I teach Jazz, and you'd be surprised just how many guitarists freak out when you ask them to play F and C in the same position. You can't keep jumping all over the fretboard to play a 1-5 progression. :)