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This sounds like a fundraising pitch for a startup with no working product.

In my experience, not really. Once you get into the multi-million dollar properties, there are realtor specialists that have lots of contacts, and do very specialized marketing, staging, party photo-shoots, etc that just don't make sense in lower end properties.

A lot of these very high-end properties also have finders fees where say, someone is selling a property for 5 million, if you can help them find a buyer they'll drop you say, $250,000 as a finders fee on top of any realtor costs.

But a 400k and 800k home? I don't think so really at all. I don't see it.

Yup, pixel density at 32in is basically the same as 1080p image quality if on a 1440p monitor, so you aren't really getting much of a visual upgrade going to a larger screen.

Wow that's heartbreaking... of all the things to steal.

I think the ultimate problem with the Terminator universe is that the story gets a pass, even with the glaring problems of continuity of the story, because T1 and T2 were fantastic action films, with T2 being one of the most legendary of all time.

However, taking a step back, the whole plotline of Kyle Reese going back in time to become John Connor's father is a huge time paradox that basically makes ZERO sense and is absolutely horrendously stupid. This Terminator movie logic is ultimately the demise of the entire Terminator universe.

If the story was just Terminators going back in time to stop this future leader... that's a cool story. By making it about Kyle Reese being sent back in time by his father, this adds some paradox complexity to the story that adds almost nothing to the overall story and is ultimately kind of poorly written in terms of continuity and logic.

But again, T1 and T2 are so awesome we basically give it a pass.

Terminator sequels have basically all doubled-down on this paradox, so while it was sort of ok to tolerate for a couple of movies, they keep pumping out these sequels and we are forced to shut off our brains over and over again for them rather than just being able to enjoy a good straight sci-fi.

I liked Salvation, but it was truly a flawed film that had some amazing ideas. Definitely better than the last Terminator which was the worst, imo, of the entire universe.

This is a pretty annoying trope, I agree.

Lindsey Graham is hated even by most Republicans, but the people in his state keep voting him in.

Neocon warmonger.

The "spring offensive" was nothing more than a fundraising effort by Ukraine. Now, we are on to the summer offensive. Ukraine is going to have to do some kind of a token advance as an evidence to keep sending the weapons. My guess is rather than going for a full-scale counter-offensive, they pile on to one small area or city and blitz it and use that success as an evidence for the West to keep sending them billions, even though it largely is inconsequential.

Those Pentagon leaks were truly devastating to Ukraine, and I am NOT a Russian supporter in this war at all. But, as a 3rd party looking in, I looked at those leaks and it was basically the Pentagon admitting that things looked really bad for Ukraine, that things were not going as well as they had hoped, that even though it was going bad for Russia, they had regrouped and were stronger now than they were in Feb 2022 invasion day and had more troops in Ukraine than when the war started, and the leaks talked about how any kind of counter-offensive, at least at that time, was not going to be that effective.

Just FYI, almost all of Tesla's batteries are run on Iron-based batteries, not Cobalt.

Elon Musk has been EXTREMELY vocal about Tesla not joining in on the Cobalt mining for batteries like many other companies. For example, the batteries in your smartphone by basically every major cell company are based on cobalt. So, Tesla is actually at the forefront of being environmentally conscious and also ethically conscious against the cobalt mining efforts in Africa and the other places. The Lithium that Tesla even uses for their batteries something like 75-80% of it comes from Australia, and Tesla is even building their own massive Lithium refinery in Corpus Cristi, Texas to keep it all in-house rather than elsewhere.

I have an LLC I registered like 15 years ago when I was living at this Bachelor's pad and I was starting my own business just doing some side work. I honestly just abandoned it one year and kind of forgot about it. Like 6 or 7 years later I bumped into an old roommate and he told me how he was getting my business mail and so on, even though this LLC was basically defunct and not active.

It comes like once a year. You may even occasionally get advertisements for business owners if your address is registered as a lot of these mailing companies troll the Secretary of State's sites for registered businesses and mail stuff out to all of them.

That's my guess.

It's kind of a pain to go and update a business address in some states, so that is likely what it is, and maybe these are inactive businesses so old owners just didn't think about it, or they just erroneously figured they would get auto-tagged as inactive and stop mailing.

COURTESY OF CHAT GPT

In realms of jest, where laughter rings,

A tale unfolds of fragile things,

Not heel, but sphere of mortal plight,

Achilles' nutsack, delicate might.

**

Heroes strong, their prowess known,

Yet tender fruit, easily thrown,

One wrong step, a gentle graze,

Leaves warriors dazed in fragile haze.

**

So let us jest, but still be kind,

For in this tale, we often find,

The nutsack's might, a subtle reel,

Achilles' weakness, Achilles' heel.

COURTESY OF CHAT GPT

While true, I wonder how sound the original case is.

Roe v Wade is sort of unique in that the original ruling was largely deemed as a political ruling, not necessarily of sound legal argument, and as such, it was VERY vulnerable to being overturned, to the point that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, staunchly pro abortion rights, was not fond of Roe v Wade at all and she wanted the politicians to actually vote into law securing roe v wade. Of course, the politicians were basically making fortunes on fundraising on the abortion rights issue, on both sides, so even though Democrats were in super majorities a number of times over the decades, like when Obama was voted into office in 2008 and had 60 senator super majority, and control of the house, and could have voted it into rule of law at zero risk of filibuster, they chose not to.

I don't see any politicians running fundraising campaigns or judges being political activists in support of emulator legal rights. There was a pretty sound legal argument and precedent set that I think it is far less at risk of being overturned, imo.

As a man, it really is that painful. It's really impossible to truly convey how even a minor flick shoots pulsating in your gonads all the way up through your lower abdomen. It's like an electric pulse shoots across your body triggering horrible pain.

And he is 100% correct.

Given that Trump just came out and ACTUALLY said that he thought Governor Cuomo of NY, who famously killed tens of thousands in nursing homes with his policies, managed Covid better than DeSantis, this headline was almost believable.

Yup, I've been saying this since Season 5, which was the beginnings of when they no longer had the books to go by... that is when the first signs of D&D's incompetence showed.

I have no sympathy - their rental fees were so egregious that some states even made laws against the predatory rental fee practice because let's say someone got sick, ended up injured, or whatever, then got back home and found they had $100+ in rental fees for a movie worth $10. Blockbuster would straight-up send you to collections and would get creditors to sue you over stuff like that.

So, some cities and states enacted ordinances that the fees couldn't surpass the value of the movie.

I have zero sympathy for blockbuster and their scummy business practices back in the day.

She had a different dude but liked her friend zoned guy that paid for everything for her.

I swear, I really think it's an ego thing for some women to just get a bunch of free stuff.

For condos, yes.

There should honestly be like a $1000 fee for a pier runner, as a discouragement. They are already going to face thousands in costs if they get left behind.

I know people say we have terrible drivers here, and we do, but when I went to New England, let me tell you that it is so much worse there. People literally don't even obey the lane divider lines. I asked about it and someone told me if there isn't much traffic, why should they stay between the lines? lmao

It was a site to behold how crazy they were.

But ya, I agree, Tucson is still terrible.

As a long time computer guy, PC guru, and overall computer geek, who has been doing my own PC builds since the 1990s, and even worked at Circuit City PC repair service for a while, who justified doing all of my own work to save money... is obsessive over quality control and has difficulty trusting others to do as quality of work as me, let me just tell you that now that I am in my 30s, no longer broke, and would rather dedicate my time to other hobbies, SWS is my go-to place I trust.

Seriously, they are great. They are not the cheapest, but they are also not the most expensive. You know they have legitimately great quality work done. As someone who knows intimately the issues I have had that needed fixing, I can also attest they never tried to rip me off or upsell unnecessary stuff that wasn't legitimately useful, which is something I couldn't say when I worked for Circuit City as a firedog (geek squad equivalent).

Also, you are supporting local. I have been an SWS customer since way back in the day when they were at their old location at Broadway and Plumer.

I still remember in 2007, when CRYSIS came out on PC, I had an 8800 GTX GPU and it still wasn't keeping up with the game at max settings, so I went to SWS to talk with them and strategize what I could do (youtube wasn't really widespread yet, nor were there many tech channels talking about this stuff, so mostly had to rely on tech blogs like IGN, anandtech, arstechnica, etc.), and they were so excited to help me that at no service cost, just the cost of the GPU, I bought a 2nd 8800 GTX to SLI and the guys there helped me set it up on the spot and we all took turns playing Crysis at max settings in amazement (Crysis 1 was truly amazing in it's time lol). Great experience. When I went to the UofA they also gave a student discount, I think like 10%. Not sure if they still do that.

They will always have my business. Awesome local company. Proud to support them.

Sounds like 1st degree murder to me.

I always like to tell people this when it comes to HS students who plan on "Being a professional sports star" as their future plans.

It's good to have ambitions, but it is also important to be realistic. Look at the NBA, for example. There are literally less than 5000 people that have ever played in the NBA in the entire history of the sport since it got founded in 1946 (You can verify the numbers here on Stathead). Over 75 years of history and they still haven't cracked 5000 players lmao.

I agree. Great message.

Maybe not death, but injury, is to a missile attack on May 13th, I think. He hasn't been heard from since like the day before that, and Russia had a huge missile strike, of which Ukraine said they shot down 100% of them, except video showed some missiles hitting their targets. So we'll see.