Some American stations still run “time and temperature” IDs. Usually these are sponsored by a local advertiser.

I figured out what was going on when Wordle became popular and people started sharing their results simply because the results mimicked the Mastermind reveal clues, although I would try to not place the reveal clues in order in Mastermind just to make it harder.

I’ve seen several from this campaign and they’re so dumb I feel like someone was maliciously compliant in making these so that Delta’s opposition to the union would actually encourage more people to vote to join. Like, management came to someone in marketing, but that person actually wanted to support the union effort.

Wikipedia says Nicolas’s dad is August Coppola, brother of Francis Ford and Sophia; I’m assuming that’s accurate

I’m assuming this is entirely related to him financing the film himself by taking out loans against his properties, which are coming due and he’s now having to sell things off and take new loans. He’s convinced it will still become a cult classic!

He’s sure it will become a cult classic at some point

It was him; he financed it himself by taking out loans against properties he owned. He’s selling things off now to pay the loans back.

Nicolas Cage is his nephew!

Is he still on TV? Twenty years ago I worked a part-time job doing data entry at a small local brokerage. One of the assistant brokers used to complain because they had a client who would call in almost daily wanting to buy a stock he had a hot tip on, which was invariably whatever Cramer had featured on his show the night before.

I realized a few years ago that most Americans will earn at least $1 million during their working lives. Even if they’re “only” making $30k/year that will get them to $1 million in a little over 33 years. They’ll probably never have much in their bank account, but they’ll have earned that much at some point by the time they retire.

So he took out loans to make Megalopolis and now he’s selling things and borrowing more because the movie flopped so he can’t pay back the loans with the movie’s earnings?

I think the two words and a number are what Reddit will come up with if you let them pick a name

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Taping to the camera as shown on the left would be challenging to make work at least. The cameras don’t put out light so whatever image you use would have to be on paper thin and light enough for backlighting to work. The distortion that close would also be extreme, so you’d want to keep the main part of your image in the center and small. And yeah, it’d probably be blurry, but the resolution on most of those cameras was already pretty bad up until a few years ago so you might not notice.

The manufacturers were opposed to them being required. I think they claimed it would cost an extra $200-250 per car. But they sure won’t pass up on the ads if they think they can get away with it!

I’m very curious about who screwed up first

I am most intrigued by this concept of frustrated users crowdfunding pledges for bug bounties that bother them

They made a Jungle Cruise movie?

Why did it have to be the color of the Jeep I had?

When I moved away after high school my parents sold the old Volvo station wagon I was driving, decided the newer Volvo wagon my mom had been driving would be what my younger siblings would drive, and with strong encouragement from my younger brother, my mom picked up a used Boxster thinking that she’d never have to do the carpool line again. This was after the dot-com bubble burst and there was a surplus of used Porsches for relatively cheap. Somehow they found one as an automatic transmission back then, but it was still the best car I’ve ever driven as far as the handling goes. I loved the GTI I bought later, but that Boxster was a different level. At the speed limit it was almost like the car was steering itself because it was so effortless, and it was easy to go double the posted speed limit without realizing it if there weren’t other cars around.