Having a hard time remembering the last time I saw a Hollywood crash like that. Bananers. Let me help you with that! :) https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/f2d7fbba-7053-4f59-af1f-3ab83add5b56/d3cqli8-4ca564b5-3268-49b3-ad40-fed0831238af.gif?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIU...

Really shows how dumb it was to try and have a college football season during a global pandemic.

That. Plus, B1G/PAC going "OMG, ACC/SEC are playing, so let's quickly start a short season with absolutely no opportunity to postpone games" was the recipe for disaster from Day 1.

Bravado Spice has 50% off their hot sauces/spicy margarita mixes/spicy seasoning. Plus extra 10% if you give them your email. Plus free shipping for orders >$75. All of their sauces are awesome - except for Creamy Herb Jalapeno (which tastes extremely "oily"). They are my "go to" brand, because they...

Interesting movement on Betfair President 2020 market: There is still very heavy trading going on - currently the total value of trades is nearly $1.4 Billion. However, while Biden President price has been steadily going up until yesterday (when Biden was trading between 1.03 and 1.04, which implie...

Interesting movement on Betfair President 2020 market: There is still very heavy trading going on - currently the total value of trades is nearly $1.4 Billion. However, while Biden President price has been steadily going up until yesterday (when Biden was trading between 1.03 and 1.04, which implies...

A really cool paper my colleague wrote: Beauty is wealth: CEO attractiveness and firm value Abstract This paper examines whether and how CEO attractiveness relates to firm value. We construct a Facial Attractiveness Index of 667 CEOs based on their facial geometry. More attractive CEOs are associate...

GW Bush chief economic advisor and a prominent Stanford economist Ed Lazear dead at 72:

Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, is not pronounced Pee-air as in McGuire, it's pronounced PEER, as in peeping Tom. That's an excellent TIL. I'm a geography nut and I never knew that. Well, Prague, OK is pronounced "Preig" by those crazies there. And, of course, if you move to Pittsburgh, and he...

@Tomas I have a source! https://youtu.be/h1aGH6NbbyE?t=765 12:45 to 14:35. Now, he does hedge it with "most likely." It doesn't seem to align with your observations. Not speaking to the veracity of either sides claims, but if you want to view the video and tell me it's wrong I will believe you. ;) ...

I've been up watching/listening to Bibiglia a lot as well. Definitely different than most. He's got a unique style. He's a fantastic story teller. I think he hit the nail on the head when he said in his one stand up something along the lines of: "I'm not a person that does thing. I'm a person that ...

Somewhat tangential and not fit for this thread...but, the two German soldiers that try to surrender and beg for their lives at the beginning of Saving Private were conscripted Czech soldiers pleading in Czech. That got by me for over 20 years. The Americans quickly wasted them. It's a little stran...

DigitalGypsy66 : How is academic hiring in your area (academically and geographically)? I just found out that in both Econ and Finance, this year the number of new positions dropped by 67% - the worst job market in history. In Finance - whoever has any openings will rule this year - even places lik...

How many millions changed hands in the last 48 hours on Betfair US President market? If you thought $90 freakin' million - you were right. As of now, total of $1.05 BILLION worth of contracts... (you can now buy almost $14 million "for Biden" contracts at 1.05 to 1) https://www.betfair.com/exchange...

You know, following this discussion I was just talking with Mrs Tif about this. Stuff like that - the Kazakh is speaking Polish! - pleases me from a sort of meta writing level nearly as much as some of the actual bits and jokes. Like how the character in Galaxy Quest who plays the 'redshirt' crewmb...

Ha, knew jagshemash was Polish, but not the thank you one.

The first one (how are you) can be considered both Czech and Polish (though he apparently said somewhere he mimicked Polish), but Dziękuji (because of the sound "z") is 100% Polish.

Also, am I the only one who didn't think Borat was that funny? I haven't bothered with the second one yet because the first one didn't do much for me. The bit was good for 90 minutes of material 15 years ago, and this is now his like 4th movie playing the trope. We started watching the new one and ...

Look like Mike Birbiglia (currently my No. 1 personal favorite comedian) will have a bunch of live stand-up comedy performances next week:
https://www.birbigs.com/
I can't go (too much work) - but if somebody goes for it - drop a few lines about whether he is still good.

How many millions changed hands in the last 48 hours on Betfair US President market? If you thought $90 freakin' million - you were right. As of now, total of $1.05 BILLION worth of contracts... (you can now buy almost $14 million "for Biden" contracts at 1.05 to 1) https://www.betfair.com/exchange/...

I don't know how anything works... ...that said, I'd assume that ex-military are more likely to pursue vocational programs or other adult skill learning things (like in the tech industry, perhaps) than you're ordinary high school or college grad (or intended grad)... Law school is a vocational prog...

I know that some people here follow goalie prospects. This is a fresh interview with Lukas Dostal (who plays for Ilves Tampere). Apparently he is supposed to be the best young Czech goalie since Hasek... https://www.ilves.com/en/lukas-dostal-a-king-on-the-ice-a-person-like-you-and-me-outside-the-spo...

The fact that people will bet 40 more million dollars on a presidential election that's already over is nuts I noticed there has been quite an increase in trading over the last few days, even though Biden moved from ~1.1 to ~1.05. I am no big betting expert, but I can imagine that some people can s...

In the next couple of days, Betfair will get over $1 BILLION contracts traded on the US President winner (currently at $960+ mil). In 2016, after more than doubling the 2012 numbers, the US President market was worth about $300 million, if I remember well, by the time of results certification. This ...

If you like Mulaney, you may like this. It's something you typically don't see in late night show interviews:



The importance of the coat explained here:

Discourse, nice.

And you're to blame

You give PDT a bad name

The idea of civilized exchange of information is what you sell...

But all we get here is from the twittersphere

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