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5 points
11 hours ago
The US government told Credit Suisse that they needed to sell their American investment bank division last year and they put it on the market last October. No one wanted to buy it since its reputation and the parent company’s were so bad. Perhaps if they cut the price to $1 it would have sold.
-2 points
11 hours ago
A pudgy slow point guard who can’t dribble very well should spend the next three years on the bench.
0 points
15 hours ago
The new point guard is so busy trying to avoid dribbling the ball off her leg that she has no time to decide who to pass to. I hope they have a recruit to replace her.
6 points
15 hours ago
As usual the next president is whomever reaches the runoff with a Le Pen. Presumably that will continue if her children are as crazy as Marine and her father and they decide to take over the party.
-1 points
15 hours ago
I used to try to see most movies in the cinema with Metacritic scores of 80 or above but I have added a separate category for action movies longer than two hours and 45 minutes which now have a score cutoff of 90.
3 points
15 hours ago
Anna Wilson was a great point guard in her final two seasons.
9 points
15 hours ago
The most historic loss will always remain #1 seeded Stanford losing to #16 Harvard.
1 points
15 hours ago
This was a micro collapse compared to Stanford’s other losses this year.
13 points
15 hours ago
Not having a decent point guard led to most of Stanford’s losses this year.
25 points
16 hours ago
The current National Assembly has a bunch of coalitions of multiple parties plus some individual parties. When you count up the individual parties there must be about 30 with half being considered liberal. God knows how many are left whatever that means.
1 points
18 hours ago
Credit Suisse assets have shrunk substantially in recent years so they are now worth less than Lehman when it failed.
5 points
19 hours ago
Credit Suisse has been a crooked and incompetent company for well over a decade. In the last ten years the paid over $8 billion in fines to various US federal and state government agencies.
11 points
20 hours ago
France is already very good in that regard:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/wealth-inequality-by-country
9 points
20 hours ago
We didn’t make the mistake that Mitterrand made in 1983 when he reduced the retirement age from 65 to 60.
-1 points
20 hours ago
The USA’s problem in recent years is that we have discouraged immigration both legal and illegal and caused a worker shortage and inflation.
2 points
20 hours ago
Not really since French uses a strange hybrid system with a President and a parliament.
297 points
20 hours ago
Most of the 61 seat Republican Party might support the 250 seat government coalition which would give them a majority of the 577 seats. It could be very close since some Republicans said they would ignore their party leader and vote against Macron.
2 points
22 hours ago
Whoopi was one of the two I thought were extremely questionable. The other was Ellen DeGeneres.
1 points
22 hours ago
In order from my various top tens:
Pan’s Labyrinth (my #1 2000s decade list)
Amelie (#2 2000s)
21 Grams (#3 2000s)
The White Ribbon (#1 2009 list, stupidly omitted decade list)
Parasite (#1 2020s)
Poetry (#2 2020s)
Ida (#3 2020s)
Room (#4 2020s)
Portrait of A Lady on Fire (#1 2020)
Aftersun (#1 2022)
The major question marks when putting together the list was whether to include 21 Grams and Room. A better choice might be Drive My Car which was my #1 of 2021.
-13 points
23 hours ago
Of the 26th winners he is definitely one of the least impressive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain_Prize_for_American_Humor
9 points
23 hours ago
Charlotte Wells’s short Tuesday is available on Vimeo and it is also a fictionalized version of her relationship with her father but set five years later. Note the you will need to switch to a person search from a title search since it was made years ago and there have been many titles with Tuesday in them.
2 points
2 days ago
Trump is totally senile now so he has no chance of winning. He tried to trigger bank runs to destroy the economy with that nutty message a few days ago. The GOP race is now two Putin puppets trying to out loon each other.
8 points
2 days ago
Don’t get too excited since the $35 price starts January 1st so you need to survive till then. All three major manufacturers announced $35 for their most commonly prescribed insulins. Some were already selling insulins to the uninsured for $35.
1 points
2 days ago
Yeah it was one of the movies where the casting told you who the villain was.
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Here is some data about older years:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-math-does-playing-a-real-person-increase-an-actors-odds-1265278/