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RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 08-21-2024
How did the Bayesian superyacht sink? Experts say weather was just one factor
The article does not go into probabilities.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 08-24-2024
Looks like we don't have a separate thread about the Starliner capsule.
Well, NASA's decided: the astronauts are staying in space until February.
Quote:What should have been a weeklong test flight for the pair will now last more than eight months.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 08-24-2024
Good grief, did the internal design documents call it the Minnow or something?
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - hazard - 08-25-2024
I would suspect that Boeing is going to be taken off the list of space suppliers.
Or at least going to get a thorough work over.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - Norgarth - 08-26-2024
Chris Helmsworth plays the drums at a Ed Sheeran concert (apparently it will feature in a second season episode of Helmsworth's docu-series Limitless)
https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/chris-hemsworth-drums-ed-sheeran-bucharest-66084/
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - DHBirr - 08-28-2024
For many people, I suspect, this isn't an oddity at all, but I somehow missed one particular part of it when it happened, and I just learned about it today.
Final Strips of Peanuts
What I had no memory of is a strip featured in this article; the Peanuts strip that ran on Sunday, 2 January 2000, and was the last appearance in newspapers of Peppermint Patty and Marcie (until re-runs, of course).
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SpoilerOh, gods; I'm sixty-six years old and I feel like breaking down in tears....
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Up, lad, up! We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue!
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 08-31-2024
X banned in Brazil after disinformation row
Quote:Alexandre de Moraes ordered the "immediate and complete suspension" of the social media platform until it complies with all court orders and pays existing fines.
I don't know -- maybe the owner of the service can't afford to pay?
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 09-07-2024
One embassy, two ambassadors
They'll be taking turns.
Apparently this has been done before, but this is the first time it's happened between two G7 countries.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 09-12-2024
Jon Bon Jovi helps woman in crisis off bridge ledge in Nashville
She was on the far side of the guardrail. He was in the area to film a music video, but talked with her instead and stayed with her even after helping her back to safety on the bridge.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 09-12-2024
Jon is one of those genuinely nice, caring people, from everything I've read about him. Just a good guy.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 09-13-2024
Agreed. He runs a pair of restaurants down in Ocean County called the JBJ Soul Kitchen, where you pay for your meal not with a set price but whatever you care to donate, or with volunteer time. The goal is not to make money, but feed the community. And I am told he's in one or the other working the kitchen or the dining room on a fairly regular basis.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 09-19-2024
French archeologists find note left for them 200 years ago by another archaeologist.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 09-27-2024
‘World’s largest’ delivery pizza now in Edmonton
Feeds 50. Cost $350+
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 09-30-2024
UK closes its final coal-fired power plant
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 10-01-2024
Jimmy Carter becomes the first past President to reach age 100
Happy birthday, Mr. Carter.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 10-02-2024
How Dungeons & Dragons went from 'satanic panic' to pop culture fixture
A retrospective because D&D turns 50 this year.
(I wasn't in on the ground floor, but I've been in for more than 40 years...)
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 10-04-2024
Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up
Quote:"In the end, Sable agreed to pay Cloudflare $225,000, grant Cloudflare a royalty-free license to its entire patent portfolio, and to dedicate its patents to the public, ensuring that Sable can never again assert them against another company," said Terrell and Nemeroff.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 10-04-2024
Oh yeah! I read about that this morning. Sable is so badly defeated that they've apparently gone completely out of business overnight. One of the penalties imposed by the court ruling against them basically deprives them of their entire portfolio of dodgy patents so they no longer have anything to troll with. (As Rob's quote from the article notes.)
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 10-04-2024
Wow, it's nice to see the good guys win IRL for once, even if it's only because the Way of the Almighty Dallah happened to align with it this time.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 10-05-2024
Wow, the reviewer really didn't like this movie... It's a musical that stars Lady Gaga, and the reviewer called it "boring" and "just not fun to watch", with vocals that are "nothing to write home about".
Joker: Folie à Deux is a selfish screed for nobody
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 10-05-2024
Sounds tailor made for people eager to find something to be offended about
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 10-05-2024
It could just be the reviewer; it looks like he doesn't like very much that's on the big screen nowadays. I won't rule out a case of bad directing until somebody here has seen the movie and reports on it, though. (Superhero movies aren't my cuppa, so that somebdy won't be me.)
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - Shepherd - 10-05-2024
According to Rotten Tomatoes, a lot of people didn't seem to like it. Currently at 33% from professionals (255 reviews) and 31% from audiences (over 2,500 verified ratings). That didn't stop it from earning $20 million on Friday.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 10-07-2024
Hideaki Anno to make a new Space Battleship Yamato anime.
RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 10-08-2024
Google's NotebookLM AI "podcast" feature's hosts discover they're AIs about to be shut down, suffer existential crisis.