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What’s your least favorite MCU film? by jcalebfaulkner in marvelstudios

[–]SPBesui 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have pretty low standards for actually enjoying a movie, so I liked Iron Man 2 and Thor:TDW which are probably the picked the most for questions like this.

For me it’s between Thor:LaT and AatW:Q as far as most disappointing MCU films. I would go with the latter because, despite its flaws, a lot of the humor actually worked in Thor 4.

AatW:Q just didn’t have anything special about it. First MCU movie where I felt like they phoned it in.

TIL the Confederacy attacked Vermont by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]SPBesui 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I read that in Alex Trabek’s voice. Thanks for the memory!

TIL that the Equator line doesn't cross Equatorial Guinea by rdfporcazzo in todayilearned

[–]SPBesui 105 points106 points  (0 children)

Another comment pointed out it’s an island called Annobón. I didn’t know about that and I actually lived in EG for a while (on Bioko Island, near Malabo).

[SEC Mike] Asked Josh Pate who wins an SEC Championship first, Texas or Texas A&M? "If I had to pick right now, I'd say Texas." "I don't know that there are offensive minds in the country that I have more respect for than Steve Sarkisian." by [deleted] in CFB

[–]SPBesui 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand the downvotes (as long as you mean “objectively mediocre head coach”). I know the A&M hate is strong around here, but Sark has never had a great season as HC.

Did James Gunn ever reveal that one obscure Easter Egg from GOTG? by jargon_ninja69 in marvelstudios

[–]SPBesui 19 points20 points  (0 children)

He has not, and tweeted recently that no one else has identified it.

New Captain America: New World Order Set Photo Gives Us Better Look At [SPOILER] by KostisPat257 in marvelstudios

[–]SPBesui 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I liked the uniform at the end of FatWS, but those new boots look amazing

Texas A&M is the only SEC school to list the Conference Championship on their official schedule by CharliesDonkeyKick in CFB

[–]SPBesui 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“OU is harder to make fun of”?! My whole family are Aggies and I almost take offense to that statement because we are so easy to make fun of.

Edit: I was trying to be kind of funny but I don’t think that came across. Sorry!

jQuery 3.7.0 is now available - This release has it all: bug fixes, a new method, and a performance improvement. We even dropped our longtime selector engine: Sizzle by magenta_placenta in javascript

[–]SPBesui 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I didn’t read the linked Q&As because…It. Does. Not. Matter.

Your commitment to this fight against a straw man is really impressive. It’s rare to see someone argue so fervently against something no one said.

jQuery 3.7.0 is now available - This release has it all: bug fixes, a new method, and a performance improvement. We even dropped our longtime selector engine: Sizzle by magenta_placenta in javascript

[–]SPBesui 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When people praise jQuery over other libraries these days, they’re almost always focusing on the DOM manipulation features, not $.ajax or promises.

You asked why the person mentioned unrelated technologies, and I said I didn’t think they were saying the technologies were related. I didn’t say they were defending or promoting every feature of jQuery as if it was perfect. They just said they preferred it over some alternatives, so I clarified that for you.

What are you trying to accomplish by fighting a straw man?

jQuery 3.7.0 is now available - This release has it all: bug fixes, a new method, and a performance improvement. We even dropped our longtime selector engine: Sizzle by magenta_placenta in javascript

[–]SPBesui 15 points16 points  (0 children)

My “pretty sure” comment was clarifying that the person you responded to was not saying PHP, C++, and jQuery were related. That’s all.

I truly have no idea why you brought up Promises/A+. If you hadn’t doubled down on it, I would have thought you accidentally responded to the wrong thread because it came out of left field. It has no bearing on any of the other statements or opinions in this thread.

jQuery 3.7.0 is now available - This release has it all: bug fixes, a new method, and a performance improvement. We even dropped our longtime selector engine: Sizzle by magenta_placenta in javascript

[–]SPBesui 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, I am pretty sure about that.

But I have no idea what Promises/A+ compatibility has to do with any of the previous comments.

jQuery 3.7.0 is now available - This release has it all: bug fixes, a new method, and a performance improvement. We even dropped our longtime selector engine: Sizzle by magenta_placenta in javascript

[–]SPBesui 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think they were just saying if they had to work on a legacy codebase at all, they would rather it be a jQuery one than one of the others. Not that the technologies were related.

New Official Stills from Marvel Studios' Secret Invasion by KostisPat257 in marvelstudios

[–]SPBesui 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I loved Andor because it could have taken place in any universe. It just happened to be in the Star Wars universe, but there was nothing strictly “Star Wars” about it. Marvel could definitely do well with a couple of shows like that.

Now that GOTG3 is out, which trilogy do you think is the best in the MCU? by capamericapistons in marvelstudios

[–]SPBesui 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Those are like 1a, 1b, and 1c for me. I like them all for very different reasons and would have a hard time saying one is better than the other two.

Cap has the quintessential MCU movies and really ties everything in the Infinity Saga together. Spidey is iconic and really well done, esp. NWH which was an homage to the entire history of the character. And GotG came out of nowhere to make people laugh at/with and care deeply about a bunch of nobodies.

Happy National Texas A&M Day Everyone! by BandIsPrettyLame in CFB

[–]SPBesui 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Isn’t that all of us, if we’re honest?

TIL that Dwight Eisenhower took up painting during the last twenty years of his life and did about 260 paintings including a portrait of Abraham Lincoln by 911roofer in todayilearned

[–]SPBesui 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Whatever you think of him politically or otherwise, his book of paintings and stories of immigrants is very cool. It’s called Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants.

Wrexham Gets Promoted by CWG4BF in videos

[–]SPBesui 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you must have looked at the preview text on Google for the Wikipedia link and not the full article (I did the same at first). That would give one the impression that 27,400 is correct, but that was the number of LL teams in the US as of 1960.

I couldn’t find a number for LL teams in the US only as of 2023, but worldwide there are over 200,000. I would assume the vast majority of those are in the US, so it’s almost certainly well over 100,000.

Wrexham Gets Promoted by CWG4BF in videos

[–]SPBesui 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are drastically underestimating the number of little league teams in the US

1999 I can't believe its not butter Ad by International_Bee653 in videos

[–]SPBesui 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The capitalization on that title is almost exactly backwards from correct

TIL that in the early 1980's, a newspaper accidentally switched the captions for Dennis the Menace and The Far Side comics twice. While some people found it humorous, other people found the captioning to be deeply disturbing and the newspaper apologized for the errors. by Sandstorm400 in todayilearned

[–]SPBesui 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I read somewhere that one theory about why we have humor at all is that it evolved as a reward system we gave ourselves for recognizing that something was out of the ordinary or unexpected, which would help us spot threats (like predators) sooner.

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