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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Built my first web page with FrontPage back in the mid '90s... but soon stopped using it after I realized the absolutely spaghetti it produced

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Boy, this all sounds like a lot of work to me. I just invest in domestic index funds and check it every six months or so.

I have at least started being much more careful about waiting a year for capital gains, though. My last tax bill was terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Tom Cruise is a bit like Harrison Ford. They're both good actors, but most of the time they're playing themselves. Or maybe they both have such a force of personality that you only see the actor. Harrison Ford has also had films where he does a good job disappearing into the role, like Mosquito Coast and Regarding Henry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But those were like 1.0.1, 1.0.2... where the Special Editions would be 2.0. I don't know that anyone really cares about the "mini" version changes. When they talk about the original, they mean 1.0.x.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

This is it. Democrats will continue to talk about how they failed at execution so they don't have to talk about the real problem: their platform. At least with Trump some folks think there's a chance he shakes apart the whole system.

I voted for Harris, but I knew it was a lost cause from the moment she became the de facto nominee. She was a status quo candidate in a change election.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's the most evenly divided district in Oregon in partisan terms and she ran on a "bipartisan" theme. She'd be pretty hard-pressed to make her case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

The Republicans were absolutely inundating the district with the most vile stuff, like how she "voted in favor of rapists." They dramatically outspent her campaign.

I'm really happy she won.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you me? Honestly, just finish it. You'll forget all about the collectibles a week later. And if you don't, you can always go back (you won't).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's a great price; I bought my copy for nearly double that. Remember that Bing also has another Christmas movie in 4K, Holiday Inn, although if you only have a handful of movies your collection would suddenly be very Bing Crosby and Christmas heavy, haha.

I'm really ready for the holidays with both of those plus It's a Wonderful Life and Scrooged.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Gonna try to finish my first-time play through of The Last of Us (PS5) today or tomorrow so I can start on Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Xbox). Excited to jump in after the decade since Inquisition.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's the difference between "this story needs to be told" versus "there's money to be made." Ironic that one of the most incisive and fiercely anti-capitalist series in recent memory went back to the well purely to make more money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

That "if" is doing a lot of heavy lifting and maybe Poland doesn't want to yolo World War 3.

To make this a black and white issue is kinda weird when the severity of being wrong is so high. Just because Poland is being a considerate partner to other NATO member states doesn't mean it's required to act that way.

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