WorkNowitzki
WorkNowitzki
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Longhorns, Bayern, politics, finance?
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Watched Locke for the first time in a decade last week. Still great, still shockingly engrossing when they're talking concrete, and the cast is fantastic (young Tom Holland on the other end of the line!).
it’s totally possible to do a movie like this, where the protagonist is locked in one place and the drama comes from his conversations with others. the tom hardy vehicle LOCKE is a great example of the form. but pratt just does not have the range for this. he’s too self-conscously “serious”
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I also think people underestimate the fact that Dem House committees are going to spend two straight years getting testimony on the most egregious corruption anyone has ever heard of.
anyway we’re going to win huge in November and it isn’t going to solve everything right away, or even later, but it will make things meaningfully better in both the short term and the long term for ~everyone, and I know this because I remember 2006
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Any manufacturer who thinks people are going to give up CarPlay is absolutely nuts. No, I don't want to use your glitchy, proprietary system. Obviously. And I certainly won't pay to do it.
Woah. This is good news. People may not realize it when they demand this feature, but what they're saying is "I will not buy a car which requires an ongoing subscription to remain fully functional" and it is a good sign GM may be responding to that. carbuzz.com/gm-not-compl...
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Watched Clue this week in honor of Tim Curry. Getting some real “why would he want to kill you in public?” vibes from this summary.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been convicted of the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. The 63-year-old former South Side Compton Crips leader was charged with orchestrating the drive-by shooting of the legendary rapper in 2023, and prosecutors leaned on his own 2019 memoir detailing his role in the killing.
Obviously shocking on the “merits,” and could impact my kid’s teacher. But Abbott is normally smarter than this and I cannot imagine why he would do this in an election year that promises to be tougher than normal. “I will harm your kids to punish immigrants.” Cool message.
Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday he plans to call for a ban on school districts employing anyone with an H-1B visa, a move that could cost hundreds of Texas teachers their jobs. bit.ly/4wA1bbC
Said another way, it's not enough to do policy only. You've actually gotta do politics as well if you want to win a political process. Managing the press is a really important part of that.
People are gonna be mad about this but yes it's a MASSIVE failure that the Biden admin failed to do the basic mechanics of engaging with the press and pissed them all off. "The press shouldn't base its coverage on whether we answer their emails on time" ok but they do. So answer the fucking emails.
Also, it's fine if it's not earnest! I am very happy with people pretending to be good and care about others because they view it as a social expectation. It's much better than the alternative.
i also wonder if part of the backlash was that we've decided obvious earnestness is 'cringe' &, like, look at the world around you. do we like the alterative? getting back to a sane & just world will involve a lot more of things we dismiss as cringe now
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Everyone is hitting “you’re mad she took the daughter to the ER?!?” Which, sure. But doesn’t this quote imply that he planned ahead in the parenting plan to prevent her from taking the kid for medical care?
Max Miller: When I was reported for child abuse, for my daughter, for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days, and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan
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There were people who thought One Battle After Another made too much of a caricature of Lockjaw and his crew.
"Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Mark Lamster is going on tour! WELCOME TO PARADOX CITY, which features many of the essays that won him the prize, will be published August 4th, and is available for pre-order: store.deepvellum.org/products/wel...
This is both a very funny relationship and the coverage is hilarious. He is a junior at a PE firm. “Hey babe, I know we were supposed to go out tonight but I don’t have all the responses yet for the reps and warranties call and the VP had some comments on the funds flow…”
Who is financier Julian Croonenberghs, Olivia Rodrigo’s rumoured new boyfriend? https://www.byteseu.com/2219406/ Olivia Rodrigo was recently spotted with someone her fans dubbed a “mystery man”, later identified as financier Julian Croonenberghs. The pair were photographed together at an …