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Kinderman
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Does he even know that he was running?
He was probably walking around wondering why all these people were coming up congratulating him and wishing him good luck. :lol:
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re: Apparently, there are lewd photos of the former DeRidder Mayor
Posted by Kinderman on 3/3/26 at 3:41 pm to Night Vision
Dude looks like Kyle Shanahan
re: Favorite memories of NCAAT first weekend
Posted by Kinderman on 3/3/26 at 3:31 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Wichita State-Kentucky in 2014 was a good one. A crime that game was first weekend because it felt Elite 8 level. Shockers were undefeated with the Cleanthony Early/Fred VanVleet/Ron Baker team, and Kentucky had loads of talent with Julius Randle, Harrison twins, James Young, Willie Cauley-Stein. Hell of a game.
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Chicago's starting center, Drew Dalman, is retiring. Bad news for Caleb Williams.
Only 27 too. But apparently he's a smart dude, saw on X that he majored in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford and had a 3.6 GPA. Got his money, got out before his brains got scrambled. Can't really blame him.
The new Paramount+ "Treasure Island" series casts its Long John Silver
Posted by Kinderman on 3/3/26 at 2:18 pm
David Oyelowo
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MGM+ and Paramount+ described the series as a “bold, high-stakes coming-of-age adventure series for a new generation.”
MGM+ boss Michael Wright said: “This thrilling new adaptation of Stevenson’s classic adventure Treasure Island is a perfect expression of the MGM+ brand. It is a classic Hollywood storytelling crafted for a contemporary audience, brought to life with an extraordinary ensemble cast.”
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I actually really like Marsden. Talented guy in both drama and comedy. This looks like it could be a lot of fun.
Fortune: America is becoming the ‘uncool’ country that people want to move away from
Posted by Kinderman on 3/2/26 at 3:32 pm
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An odd thing is happening as America, long a beacon worldwide as the defining destination for people in search of a new hope and a new life, is starting to feel like the “old country” that people quietly plan to leave behind. More than that, to be American is downright uncool.
When George Clooney secured French citizenship last year and confirmed that his family’s main home is now a farm in Provence, it sent a strong message about the standing of the American Dream. Clooney has been unusually blunt about what the move represents: a bet that his children would have a “much better life” in a country where fame matters less, privacy laws are stronger, and childhood can be more ordinary than it would be in Los Angeles.
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He is hardly alone in looking elsewhere. In 2025, the U.S. experienced definitive negative net migration for the first time since the Great Depression, with an estimated loss of about 150,000 people, according to Brookings calculations reported on by the Wall Street Journal. The analysis found a “millions-strong” American diaspora increasingly choosing to study, telecommute, and retire overseas, drawn by cheaper health care, safer streets, and walkable cities where their U.S. salaries go further. In Portugal, the number of American residents has jumped more than 500% since the pandemic, according to the country’s Agency for Integration, Migration, and Asylum. In Spain and the Netherlands, the Journal reported, the number of Americans has nearly doubled over the past decade, and last year more Americans moved to Germany and Ireland than Germans or Irish moved to the U.S.?
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As venture capitalist Seth Levine and journalist Elizabeth MacBride argue, an economic model has hollowed out both the middle class and the story that used to make staying feel worthwhile. In Capital Evolution, they contend that “shareholder-only capitalism doesn’t work,” having carved “unsustainable fissures in our economy and our society” by treating workers and communities as “resources to be extracted from.” CEO pay has surged more than 900% since the late 1970s while average worker pay barely moved, they note, and the odds of someone born poor rising to the top quarter of wealth distribution have fallen from about one in four to roughly one in 20. “By basic measures,” Levine told Fortune in a recent interview, “we’re failing to provide economic mobility,” pointing to an average first-time homebuyer age of around 40, up from the twenties a few decades ago.
MacBride, meanwhile, told Fortune that she sees the consequences in mood and behavior rather than just statistics. People, she says, no longer feel that “following the rules of the system is going to get them anywhere,” a breakdown reflected in declining life expectancy and what she calls “a suicide crisis among white men.”
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Along with the decline of this idea of the middle class as a distinct thing that can grow and thrive in America, there is also a risk of America declining as a symbol of global cool. A generation ago, blue jeans, Michael Jordan, Coca-Cola, and McDonald’s played a major role in the West winning the Cold War. (There was also a fateful trip to a Western supermarket when Boris Yeltsin realized how wide the gap in quality of living had gotten.) With Gen Zers growing up globally connected by social media, they increasingly find that, basically, cool stuff is overseas.
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I don't really care if people see us as "cool" or not, but apparently it's a significant development for Fortune.
re: Dude gets attacked by a pitbull. Handles it like a boss.
Posted by Kinderman on 3/2/26 at 12:31 pm to bhtigerfan
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Thankfully it wasn’t a woman or a child because they’d be dead.
That’s why I wish he would’ve just choked it out. The next person might not be so lucky.
From the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night. :pimp:
Variety: HBO Max and Paramount+ to Combine Into One Streaming Platform
Posted by Kinderman on 3/2/26 at 8:33 am
Also says that Paramount promises HBO will continue to "operate with independence."
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Paramount Skydance plans to combine Paramount+ and HBO Max into one streaming service, upon the completion of the merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.
However, Paramount will want HBO, the brand, to “operate with independence.”
“As we said, we do plan to put the two services together, which today gives us a little over 200 million direct to consumer subscribers,” Paramount CEO David Ellison said during an investor call breaking down the details of the planned merger Monday. “We think that really positions us to compete with the leaders in the space At Paramount, by the middle of this year, we’ll have completed the consolidation of our three services under one unified stack, and you can see us taking a similar approach to this platform going forward. And we think the combined offering, and given the amount of content and what we can do from the tech side, really will put us in a position to be able to compete with the most scaled players in DTC.”
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Native Iranian: You don’t get to tell our story
Posted by Kinderman on 3/1/26 at 4:54 pm
Good stuff here.
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Hello - Iranian here.
For those fixated on 'legality' to excuse the regime in Iran - F*ck You.
No, I will not let you be my voice. You don't get to narrate my story, you don't get to claim moral superiority. You don't get to tell me my feelings are wrong.
Is it legal to throw women in prison for strands of hair? Is it legal to mass execute people? Is it legal to turn a fertile land into a parched desert? Is it legal to rape? Is it legal to shoot innocent people? Is it legal to kill children? Is it legal to torture people to death? Is it legal to spread terrorism? Is it legal to deprive people of a livelihood? Is it legal to shoot people in the eye to blind them? Is it legal to silence people and take away all of their human rights? Is it legal to shoot down a passenger plane? Is it legal to drive millions to leave their country? Is it legal to jail women for singing and dancing? Is it legal to disappear people including children?
You will never experience anything like Iranians have experienced for the last 47 years.
Iranians have fought barehanded and they've paid a price. All up to 1,000,000 (one million) Iranians have been murdered since the regime came to power.
Your books on 'civil disobedience' and 'collective protest' are useless against an armed opposition that is ideologically driven and will kill all that stand in its way.
You want legality? The world has a duty to protect innocent lives. It's enshrined in R2P. Some people seem to think Iranians aren't humans. The murder, genocide and massacre of Iranians receives scant media attention - hence scant sympathy.
Those who proclaim to care about 'human rights' must think Iranians are animals and not worthy. Their hatred of Israel and US is so great they've lost all perspective.
Yes, Iranians are happy. They're happy someone took out Ali Khamenei and many others directly responsible for so much pain and agony.
And you know what? We're unashamedly hopeful that with the help of the world's superpower, we can reclaim our country and build a better tomorrow.
We know there's a long way to go, but give us this brief moment of reprieve, because daily we sit and try to tell the story of the lives lost, those at risk of execution, those under torture. We've seen the pictures and videos of massacres taking place.
Our dance and happiness comes with a heavy weight. We do so, in knowledge of the many who never lived to see this day.
The day of freedom will come to Iran, it's glorious - and we're not sorry if some outside help contributed to making that happen.
So don't speak on my behalf and stop excusing this regime on grounds of 'anti-colonialism'. and 'anti-Zionism'.
re: Happy 50th Birthday to Ali Larter
Posted by Kinderman on 3/1/26 at 12:03 pm to Oates Mustache
She’s still a smokeshow, absolutely.
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Marco’s is my new fav chain.
Their specials are always money too. They do a lot of BOGO deals or big discounts during the week. Nobody would ever confuse it for gourmet pizza, but it's always a great bang for your buck choice.
Papa John’s is closing 300 stores across US by end of 2027
Posted by Kinderman on 2/27/26 at 7:56 pm
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Papa John’s will close about 300 stores across the United States by the end of 2027, the Louisville, Kentucky-based company announced during an earnings call on Thursday, Feb. 26.
Ravi Thanawala, Papa Johns' CFO and North America president, said he expects about 200 closures to occur in 2026. The closing stores, according to Thanawala, are primarily franchisee-owned and "are not meeting brand expectations or lack a clear path to sustainable financial improvement."
He added that the locations generate "negative four-wall" income and are over a decade old.
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Papa Johns reported a 2% year-over-year decrease in its revenue from North American stores in fiscal year 2025 in its earnings release. Revenue at company-owned restaurants was down 3% while franchised restaurants were down 2%.
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I still appreciate the little peppers they put with the pizzas. Dig those.
re: The son of a Ukrainian crime boss was kidnapped tortured killed over his dads crimes
Posted by Kinderman on 2/27/26 at 7:22 pm to hawgfaninc
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Anywho, he’s dead now. Dad didn’t pay the ransom.
“Give us the money or your son dies.”
Narik Petrovsky:
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We met in a bar and bonded over cocaine, hard drinking, and rough sex.
:yack: :yack: :yack:
How long do you give a movie to capture your interest before you give up and turn it off?
Posted by Kinderman on 2/26/26 at 3:44 pm
Very unscientific survey here.
Are you one of those people who watch the whole thing, even if it sucks, because you've already invested your time in it?
Do you give it 30 minutes and then bounce if it's not keeping your interest?
Opening scene? :lol:
I'm talking about movies at home btw, a theater experience would be totally different.
Are you one of those people who watch the whole thing, even if it sucks, because you've already invested your time in it?
Do you give it 30 minutes and then bounce if it's not keeping your interest?
Opening scene? :lol:
I'm talking about movies at home btw, a theater experience would be totally different.
re: Trump officially broke Gavin Newsom
Posted by Kinderman on 2/26/26 at 2:48 pm to ob1pimpbobi
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Governor of the free world?
In fairness, California lets people sleep in the road and shite on the sidewalk. What's more free than that?
Harper's: Heated rivalry was a fun fantasy, but hockey is still deeply toxic
Posted by Kinderman on 2/26/26 at 2:44 pm
Miserable people gonna be miserable I guess. :usa:
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The gold-medal game between the U.S. and Canadian women reached 7.7 million viewers, becoming the most-watched women’s hockey game of all time. The gold-medal matchup for the men, also between the U.S. and Canada, averaged 18.6 million live viewers. And then the U.S. men’s team threw away all that goodwill in a matter of moments, tainting not only their victory but the women’s as well.
In videos from the post-game locker-room celebration, the U.S. men can be seen chugging beers with FBI director Kash Patel and taking a phone call with President Donald Trump, who invites them to attend the State of the Union address on their way back home. “We’re going to have to bring the women’s team,” President Trump can be heard saying. “[If I don’t] do that, I do believe I probably would be impeached, okay?” The men respond by laughing along.
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This is men’s hockey culture. It is deeply toxic, deeply conservative, and deeply misogynist and homophobic. The NHL, whose viewership has been declining for years, saw a nearly 20 percent spike in ticket sales following Heated Rivalry’s premiere. The league rushed to capitalize on the hype, with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman saying he welcomed this “unique” driver of new fans and teams playing clips and songs from the show during games, as well as selling Heated Rivalry–themed food and merch. New fans to the sport may have believed that, on the strength of a massively successful romantic drama about gay male players, hockey had magically become an inclusive space. But those of us who have followed the league for any period of time knew that it wasn’t just a matter of if the league and its players would disappoint these new fans but when.
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The lack of consideration that the men’s team showed for the women’s team was disappointing but not surprising. What does feel new, however, is how swift and furious the backlash has been. Even hockey-bro podcasts have criticized the men’s behavior, and players are being asked to account for their actions. It’s not often that we see powerful men called out in this way, especially in the sports world, where sexism and discrimination toward women athletes is still largely accepted.
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