Fun fact about "Iron Eagle": The USAF obviously didn't want to cooperate with a movie centered around a group of civilian teenagers stealing two F-16s and illegally bombing someone, so all the aircraft and flying scenes are IDF assets filmed in Israel. Also, Doug's girlfriend is Jan from The Office....

500+ words about the plight of being short

I am a sturdy 6' even.

It is

I've never read the book, but I know something of the actual historical events/people the story is based on. If book follows the same overarching trajectory and the FX series is faithful to the book, then I imagine we're approaching the outright end. It took like ten years to make this thing. It doe...

This is perhaps the one area where taxation in CA is less steep than nearly everywhere else. Lottery winnings are not taxed. If the prize is relatively low (six or seven figures) I'd take the payout. Once it starts wandering up into the eight and nine-figure range, then the annuity can make sense. B...

We still reflexively say it "may-o-naze".

Also, I don't think the idea is that the perception is that successful white people are successful because they are white. If that's the case, I think I might not have been on that mailing list and would like to know where to address my grievance letter. The - I assert undeniable - reality is that w...

Think Ron Swanson here.

The real person that inspired the character Ron Swanson was a woman.

Personally I see nothing wrong with being liberal or conservative. Different people have different views. I know the specific question was how to get more men to lean liberal, but IMO, the real question is how to get rid of extremism, on both sides. That's where the real issue is IMO. And it seems ...

The Kellogg story is actually pretty interesting. I recommend watching The Foods That Built America.

Their cereal empire has an origin story that I confess was unexpected.

As if Seinfeld wasn't a smug dadhole on the sitcom.

That is outstanding.

It's like an Olivia Tiedemann reel with fewer middle fingers.

Disney now has an agreement with the great state of Florida assuring Reedy Creek's raison d'être is realized through the rest of DeSantis' time in office without having to incur the operational costs. With zero dead British monarchs. Also neat is the two new board members are not merely less hostil...

So is it Pete or is it illegals crossing the unsecured boarder or is it the black mayor or is it WW3? Pick a boogeyman already. Mayor Pete russled him up a gaggle of migrants at Home Depot, and then personally hired a Black female high school dropout to be the harbor pilot. Them he used his gay wiz...

There is a sub-1% chance the other cast were quiet about making fun of RFK. lol

Disney now has an agreement with the great state of Florida assuring Reedy Creek's raison d'être is realized through the rest of DeSantis' time in office without having to incur the operational costs. With zero dead British monarchs. Also neat is the two new board members are not merely less hostile...

Will WDW still be around in ten years? Will Ron DeSantis still be governor? Do any of the articles mention that the two most antagonistic members of the new tourism board resigned within a few days of each other this month with no notice or reason? And that they were replaced with..... friendlier vo...

Is it a picture book version?

It's a pop-up book. Imagine the crucifixion.

@ tagging is super valuable to me in email, but I'm not sure what the purpose is in a messaging app. I don't know how it integrates w email, maybe it has something to do with that

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The Stanford campus is pretty amaze, would be a good way to spend a peaceful hour or so walking around. Honestly, that's about all we ever did there. It's a small college town that happens to sit in between two big cities.

TIL experienced harbor pilots in busy commercial ports handling vessels of this size make upwards of $400,000/yr.

The container ship was under the control of a harbor pilot at the time of the mishap, and was only travelling at approximately 8 knots. They had enough foreknowledge of the problems aboard ship to transmit a mayday call (sabres_goal.wav) before impact, and bridge crews were able to shut down the ing...