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  • And the mom/fam was able to call from overseas to local PD, and leave various messages with friends or neighbors to check on Kevin.

    The lines weren’t down. If local lines are non-functioning, all phone traffic is inoperative regardless if it’s long distance or not. Kevin also called for Pizza and the police himself.

    Let’s face it, the phone is a plot hole.

  • Sanders calls deal to end government shutdown a "disaster"

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  • Yeah, I do. An institutionalized and systemic prejudicial harassment of a population is not genocide. I suggest you stop using that word seeing as you clearly don’t know what it means.

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  • Ah, so you’re saying that between the initial attack but before Israel’s genocide you get to infer today Bernie supported genocide before the genocide occurred, yet ignore the context where he clearly denounced it after it was occurring? You’re full of crap, dude.

  • Sanders calls deal to end government shutdown a "disaster"

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  • Don’t take it out of context and make shit up.

    "Israel, like any other country, has the right to defend itself from terrorism but not the right to wage all-out war against the Palestinian people.”

  • What old movies hold up because of a lack of special effects or because clever use of effects?

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  • Ah, had to scroll too far to find this one. It should be higher. The production quality and special effects are absolutely stunning for the era. The scenes where they’re walking around in Morbius’ giant machine are awesome. Blows my mind, underrated.

    Nice job of building tension with the invisible monster. It’s also a solid movie despite the trope of “military men out on a lark fighting monsters, plus a hot chick.”

  • What old movies hold up because of a lack of special effects or because clever use of effects?

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  • FX…omg haven’t thought of that movie in forever. Gotta do a rewatch.

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  • There’s no difference between those lines at the local level. The only long distance lines would be the oceanic ones.

    E: does nobody know how old lines worked? I can’t believe the number of people trying to force some twist to make their version work. The phone repair guy was right there on the residential street. If local lines were down, no in/out calls would work, yet Kevin ordered pizza and called the cops locally. It’s a huge leap to assume that this area would have had a side junction to separate international calls to a different system. Extremely unlikely, and that would probably be a feature reserved for businesses that needed to make such calls regularly. Old lines just weren’t run for international like that on analog runs for regular homes. His family were able to call friends and neighbors from overseas to see if they were home. So those lines weren’t down even if for some bizarre reason they were separate.

    It’s just a plot hole. NBD. Enjoy the movie.

    E2: digging around on the internet people have pointed out the plot hole. The only scenario where it would work is full of “ifs” that allow international calls in through a separate system, but nonetheless, it would basically only have to affect that one house getting perfectly hit to knock out international but not local by the tree branch yet nearby neighbors get calls on their answering machines from overseas.

    I’m not pursuing this further, lol. It’s just entertainment. I’m not going to ruin the fun with over-analysis and bickering over “but if…”

  • God ****** dammit, here we go again

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  • Ah, gotcha. Thanks.

  • Trump, 79, Struggles with Basic Math on Refund Checks

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  • The man who means what he says always needs interpretation.

  • Democrat who caved on shutdown says Chuck Schumer knew all along

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  • Of course. Why else would it be dems not going for reelection. Just like republicans growing a spine and criticizing trump after they’ve resigned, the dems letting others vote for something unpopular and then resign so it’s “not the dem’s fault.”

  • Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs

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  • Yeah. I know. Wishful thinking.

  • Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs

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  • There wasn’t as big of a price drop as I thought there would be when the crypto mining switched to ASIC from GPUs. Don’t know if all that hardware just got dumped or is sitting in a rack rotting somewhere. Hope that we get cheaper prices when the bubble pops, this artificial scarcity sucks.

  • Trump says he'll issue $2,000 tariff dividend to all except 'high-income people'

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  • Pay down the maxed out credit card a little.

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  • Huh. On top of all that he took credit for discovering the double helix of DNA when Franklin’s student showed him the work done by Franklin’s group without permission.

  • God ****** dammit, here we go again

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  • Comprised of email addresses and passwords from previous data breaches,

    So these are previously “hacked” data, and now the aggregator has been hacked?

  • Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs

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  • AI crap. Infesting everything. Search of all kinds, photo management, telephone menus, who knows what else. And it does none of it well.

  • Trump says he'll issue $2,000 tariff dividend to all except 'high-income people'

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  • It’s a weak bribe.

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  • Ehh I wouldn’t give us that much credit. Our skills are somewhat nullified by the fact that we were the biggest trump voting generation. Not really a thing I’m proud of my generation for.

  • Trump quietly dishes out tax breaks to rich investors while slashing food aid for millions

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  • If only.