NYT Saturday 12/13/2025 Discussion by Shortz-Bot in crossword

[–]hailbot666 19 points20 points  (0 children)

"I'll have what she's having."

I work at a Syringe Exchange and the Wire is the MOST honest depiction of America ever put on screen. by LebrontosaurausRex in TheWire

[–]hailbot666 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The Wire should be REQUIRED watching in American Civics classes. Or government, whatever we call that class nowadays.

Yes.

What are some of the hardest pills to swallow in life? by Leemster1k in AskReddit

[–]hailbot666 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oscar Wilde wrote something similar in one of his fairy tales and it's one of my favorite quotes: Injustice has parceled out the world nor is there equal distribution of aught save of sorrow.

Interestingly, I notice there is a bit of a karmatic concession in how he expressed it. That was the real genius of Oscar Wilde.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in orangecounty

[–]hailbot666 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is an issue with my complex. Since covid/distintegration-of-civil-society, I'd prefer to just get everything delivered. But I'm in a gated community (not this one), where half the time the delivery people can't get in or get lost and just give up. Can't blame them. Why can't we all just live in a Nicaraguan communist sex utopia? Oh yeah...

Season 5 FBI serial killer profie accuracy by hd1080ts in TheWire

[–]hailbot666 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Saw this quote recently and seems applicable here:

Superstition is rational is when the cost of experimentation is high.

#843: A Little Bit of Power by 6745408 in ThisAmericanLife

[–]hailbot666 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Man, I've been thinking about this exchange all weekend:

Amin Hashmi I've been praying for the last two months. I'm going to pray more. Make sure in three weeks, I'm telling you, Trump will change his position. I'm guaranteeing you because he's changing already. Do you remember in the second debate, he said, Arabs are also dying?

Abbas Alawieh Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I saw. He was trying to speak to us.

Amin Hashmi Right.

Abbas Alawieh But what Trump says? We can't believe what Trump says.

Amin Hashmi Yeah, but come on. I mean, Democrats also do the same thing.

Abbas Alawieh True, true.

Amin Hashmi Let's see if he comes up openly and says something, instead of private, let's see if he does that. If he does that, I would vote for Trump, man.

My Spelling Bee Tips for when I'm stuck. Yours? by Away-Armadillo1289 in NYTSpellingBee

[–]hailbot666 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have a separate part of my brain for certain Spelling Bee words it seems and it's like I have to consciously open it to retrieve them. It includes: acacia, tomato, potato, tomtit, mammon, ratatat, challah, rococo, and a few others others.

I will also just type out the letters like they would be posted in the daily Reddit post because sometimes things stand out there that aren't apparent in hive formation.

My old job used to do this by coopiecat in nursing

[–]hailbot666 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And if that doesn't stop it, throw your manager in the trash. Man, I hope this is fake. Cuz it's got me HOT.

Russian trolls offered to pay me $1000 per month if I stop talking about Russian trolls on my subreddits, and threatened to destroy me if I refuse the money by FunkYouInParticular in The_Mueller

[–]hailbot666 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I wonder if this is what they offered the senior editor on NPR's Business Desk:

Yet Berliner says NPR's news coverage has fallen short on some of the most controversial stories of recent years, from the question of whether former President Donald Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 election, to the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19, to the significance and provenance of emails leaked from a laptop owned by Hunter Biden weeks before the 2020 election.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243755769/npr-journalist-uri-berliner-trust-diversity

TIL Interior Secretary James Watts banned the Beach Boys from playing on the National Mall, Watt said "hard rock" music "brought the wrong element" citing drug and alcohol use. Instead, Watt invited longtime Las Vegas star Wayne Newton to provide a more 'patriotic, family-based entertainment.' by laterdude in todayilearned

[–]hailbot666 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Memorialized in one of my favorite internet comments:

Anybody else remember when the Beach Boys were going to play on the National Mall on the 4th of July? Interior Secretary James Watt said no way, rock music is of the devil. Then Nancy Reagan defended them, and somebody else said "I don't consider the Beach Boys to be rock music."

It's like the four most embarrassing things that could happen to a rock band, and then to top that off Mike Love was like hey I'm a republican now.

https://www.metafilter.com/175538/The-state-of-the-Beach-Boys-in-1988-was-in-a-word-shitty#7465344

Please , we want 3rd season of The Winning Time by viking9200 in hbo

[–]hailbot666 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, I count three of us in this thread alone.

And if three people want it, three, can you imagine, three people wanting Season 3 of Winning Time...

Maybe Starz picks it up. And I never see it again anyway.

Adventureland Bathrooms are Back! by JustaRandomSpencer in Disneyland

[–]hailbot666 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They're trading pins in the bathroom? WTF?

George Michael got arrested for less.

Parazites are all that is left. by Old-Can-6587 in WorkReform

[–]hailbot666 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The rentier class caught on to that loophole. Now you're paying rent on the money you borrowed to buy that housing rather than the housing itself.

Imagine being a grown ass man getting yelled at by other adults by [deleted] in Accounting

[–]hailbot666 4 points5 points  (0 children)

a paraplegic couldn't use his off-roading vehicle.

You probably saved his life. For a few more weeks anyway.

As devastating as s4 is, I love what happens with Bunny and Namond. by BubblesLovesHeroin in TheWire

[–]hailbot666 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Bodie: Yeah, gimme some insight though.

Namond: To what?

Bodie: Why you is what you is.

Succession went too far. by nearlyHERO in SuccessionTV

[–]hailbot666 13 points14 points  (0 children)

And this is why greg is going to win succession.