Randomness Dos

[King Colby]

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3
A

Only pussies put stuff in their damn coffee.

23A is the way

[count2infinity]

33A here.

I’ll admit though that I do not eat steak much if ever. The price to reward ratio for me isn’t worth it.

[RonnieFranchise]

I wouldn’t have a reason to watch a Duquesne basketball game but I do believe I hear Alice Cannon doing color.

[Kane]

2
4
A

[shafnutz05]

GrubHub guy definitely watches zero sports

That's the only explanation. But then again, if I see a bunch of people watching other people do something, my first instinct is not to walk into the middle of whatever they are watching

[LITT]

its staged, gotta be. how would they even get in?

[DigitalGypsy66]

its staged, gotta be. how would they even get in?

I can't find much info on the Cooper Field House (not even listed with the other athletics facilities), other than it had its grand opening in July 2021. If it's like our campus' basketball arena, it also serves as a campus recreation department with workout equipment, indoor track, maybe classrooms. If Johnny Clueless Ubereats guy is a student, he could swipe in and get in the building that way. But how he managed to get through the ticket takers and security is another story.

Nice looking facility from the promo shots though. UPMC sponsors every damn thing, doesn't it?

[King Colby]

It's OK. Fully renovated a year or so ago - but I think a lot more was put into the non-court facilities, like the amenities that attract recruits. It's crazy the kinds of things they have at these schools... I got a game night tour of the Pete a few years ago at halftime and it's pretty cool.

Of course as a college dude you probably already know that!

[LITT]

jim nabors is way cool

[nocera]

We went to the Cooper Field House for the D3 volleyball championship. It's very small but pretty nice. The screens are hilariously big for the size of the arena and as far as I could tell there was only one concession. Seats are comfortable but yeah I'm thinking most of the money went to stuff the public doesn't see (except the scoreboards). Oh, and I can definitely see how somebody could get on the court with zero questions asked. It's basically like going to a high school game. You can just stroll onto it. As far as how they got in, maybe they stop checking tickets in the second half?

[DigitalGypsy66]

Of course as a college dude you probably already know that!

It's absurd. My current school is fairly small and in a small conference, but have top notch facilities. They are building a $30 million indoor practice facility for football. It will have a handful of classrooms so they can call it an educational facility.

My alma mater, Clemson, has ridiculous facilities for athletes. The football facility is...something else. The whole athletics infrastructure - from residence halls, food services, workout/training, to educational support are on a whole different level. Clemson opened one of the first tutoring centers for athletes way back when I was there in the mid-1990s. Interestingly enough, that building isn't new or nice enough any more, so it's now a regular office building for academic services for non-athletes.

[Morkle]

its staged, gotta be. how would they even get in?

Was staged, guy was filming a few sections up and they kicked the guy out who got on court.

[Kane]

[Shyster]

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

Or you could dress up as Phil Kessel's testicle for Halloween.

[Gaucho]

lol

[Shyster]

Also a bulb of garlic. Maybe a fig as well? You could get multiple costumes out of that.

[tifosi77]

Speaking of AI, there's an interesting new lawsuit asserting that the Stable Diffusion AI art thingy is violating copyright because artists didn't agree that their work could be used to "train" the AI. The plaintiffs' lawyer is Matthew Butterick, the author of the Typography for Lawyers book and the type designer for the Equity font, which I use on all of my appellate briefs. One of the plaintiffs is Sarah Andersen of the "Sarah's Scribbles" comic.



I'm not an IP lawyer, so I can't speak much to the merits, but here's a video from a lawyer who knows more than me about the subject:

I was considering sharing this. I am a huge fan of Corridor Digital (I wear the merch!), and Mrs Tif and I watch their VFX Artists/Stuntmen React videos every Saturday morning. Jake (the presenter guy in the bottom video) is a co-owner of Corridor, and has a very strong professional interest in a certain outcome in this litigation.

This sort of reminds me the Napster days when people who didn't have much value to their product argued vehemently that stuff should be free, and people that did have a lot of value to their product argued that it should not. Things are sort of breaking down along similar lines here.

Some we went full YT creator on the initial vids:

[NTP66]

Just placed my first Costco/Instacart order after seeing that delivery was free.

[blackjack68]

Just placed my first Costco/Instacart order after seeing that delivery was free.

Yeah, but no free samples while wandering the store.

Let me know how it works out.

[NTP66]

Just placed my first Costco/Instacart order after seeing that delivery was free.

Yeah, but no free samples while wandering the store.

Let me know how it works out.

This is true. I'm just not feeling well, so there's no point in going there while I need some stuff. I'll let you know.

[NTP66]

Source of the post Let me know how it works out.

Received my order a little over an hour after placing it, would recommend. One of the nicer features is paying in-store Costco sale prices that you normally wouldn't get online. For instance, I saved $4.40 on a box of mixed Baked Frito-Lay chips.

[LITT]

Just placed my first Costco/Instacart order after seeing that delivery was free.

Yeah, but no free samples while wandering the store.

Let me know how it works out.

This is true. I'm just not feeling well, so there's no point in going there while I need some stuff. I'll let you know.

do you find the prices are different for instacart deliveres? did diapers a few weeks back and they were 7 dollrs more a box with instacart but free shipping

[NTP66]

Just placed my first Costco/Instacart order after seeing that delivery was free.

Yeah, but no free samples while wandering the store.

Let me know how it works out.

This is true. I'm just not feeling well, so there's no point in going there while I need some stuff. I'll let you know.

do you find the prices are different for instacart deliveres? did diapers a few weeks back and they were 7 dollrs more a box with instacart but free shipping

I'd have to go back to past purchases to verify prices, but it seemed to me like I was getting the in-store prices. Mind you, I used the Instacart link from within Costco's site. I don't know if it's different if you go straight through a normal Instacart account.

Let me go back and compare a few items.

[NTP66]

Hmm, looks like you're right, some of the items are a little higher - $31.58 for tissues compared to $26.99 in the past (7 months ago), and $16.37 for Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches compared to $13.99 in the past. Then again, other items are cheaper (Frito lay chips and Bounce). So maybe only use this sparingly, lol.