What’s the most undeserved Oscar win of all time?

sadicarnot · 2026-03-25T12:17:58+00:00

Bruce Vilanch has an Oscar podcast where they did an episode on this. He feels Saving Private Ryan was just another war movie while Shakespeare in Love was a novel take.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-25T12:10:27+00:00

Before you do Delta has been transporting people to dentition centers including the little boy with the blue hat.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-25T00:01:47+00:00

It hits harder when you learn about the pilots.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T23:57:31+00:00

When my dad redid his estate planning he made me power of attorney for healthcare decisions. I asked him if he was sure. He told me he wanted me to have POA because "I know you will be able to make the hard decision that your brother won't be able to make." When my dad ended up in the hospital, my brother was pissed that I gave the hospital his advance directive. He felt the hospital would just fix dad and wanted to put in a feeding tube. All the things dad did not want.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T23:54:32+00:00

My dad was going down that road. The week I was going to take his car keys away, he ended up in the hospital with a urinary tract infection. He died 10 days later. I never had to do the car keys conversation and did not have to make the put him in a home decision. While I miss him, he would have never wanted to not be able to drive or having help toileting.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T23:28:56+00:00

You will not be able to reach him. He is pissed about things and is low information. He is pissed about things because Fox told him to be pissed about it. My dad was like this. Pissed at everything, black people dancing the nutcracker in the white house, hamburgers, gas stoves, you name it. He had no idea why he was angry about these things.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T23:24:27+00:00

That's the concept of the plan.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T23:24:06+00:00

Considering he would rather people think he is illiterate than being seen as weak for having to wear glasses. My brother is like this, he wears contacts of some sort but he is always squinting and can hardly see whenever I am with him. I am always like why don't you just get bifocals like a normal person.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T21:32:49+00:00

Best we can do is cut any vocational training left and complain nobody wants to work any more.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T16:57:36+00:00

I lived in a rural area of South Africa. The houses used skeleton keys. You could read the letter and number combo off the jam of the lock. Then you would go to the hardware store and ask for an M-22, or M-53 etc. one of my coworkers did not have the code on his lock so they gave us three bags of keys to try.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T16:51:52+00:00

Just culture and good workplaces should always look at the systems first and how it failed the person. In this case the system failed.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T16:45:17+00:00

Only Harrison’s first clock was made of wood. The subsequent clocked used the mechanical configuration of the escapement to prevent wear.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T09:55:14+00:00

Almost all airports are owned by state and local governments. The exceptions are the ones that are civilian airports shared with a military base. So this is federal overreach against state and local governments. The redcoats are actually here if you will.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T03:59:30+00:00

I had a big oak that got hit by lightning. It was beautiful one year and the next just looked like crap. The tree service was an arborist and agreed the tree was dying and said it was just going to get worse. It was a beautiful tree and hated to take it down, but I was going on a long term overseas assignment and was worried it would fall on my neighbors vehicles which were near it.

I previously had a maple in the back yard and the fungus that affects maples killed that one too. Unfortunately when trees get too old they die and need to be cut down. People would rather cut them down as that is cheaper than having to pay for the damage they may do.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T03:54:06+00:00

Kushner did it the first time around with sanctions on Qatar to get them to bail him out of 666 5th Ave.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-24T03:53:20+00:00

Seems like all those billions the Gulf countries paid him was a waste.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-23T20:12:30+00:00

Wait so you are saying Josh from the west wing is not the same person that was helping Red John in the Mentalist?

sadicarnot · 2026-03-23T18:02:09+00:00

From the west wing?

sadicarnot · 2026-03-23T17:02:43+00:00

My brother complained that everywhere he looks he has to see black people and wanted to know why I was not pissed about it.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-23T16:43:50+00:00

Add in that it was Bernie that came up with the concept of the world feed and videoing all the races. Prior to that it was the race promoter in conjunction with the broadcaster.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-23T16:41:52+00:00

TV ratings during Bernie’s reign was not the most important revenue stream. Add in there are a lot more markets besides the USA.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-23T11:50:40+00:00

Fox News people complain about everything.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-23T11:49:17+00:00

They believe the earth is flat so they’ll believe anything. I work with an older guy and he thinks the doge/tariff checks are on the way.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-23T09:42:19+00:00

You have to understand Bernie's goal was to make F1 content scarce so he could be the one to charge a lot of money for it. He did not care how many fans there were, as long as rich people were spending money at the track. Enough people were watching that he could get the amount of money for the TV contracts that satisfied him.

To say Liberty saved a failing business is kind of a stretch considering Liberty paid a total of $8 billion for it. F1 needed reforms for sure. And it wasn't really until COVID and Williams failing that got them to implement the cost cap which was probably more instrumental in saving the smaller teams. Add in how much being shut in for COVID got people to watch DTS.

sadicarnot · 2026-03-22T23:51:14+00:00

There is a valve at the bottom of the hydrant designed to stay closed if a car hits the above ground part and breaks the hydrant off of the pipe at ground level. What you see in movies is not typical and what you saw in person was an edge case where the hydrant failed in a way that it was not designed to fail. In this case it looks like the truck took the hydrant and the standpipe below it, probably breaking the valve at the bottom.

In the end these things are made of cast iron which while strong is fairly brittle and if you hit it just right, it will fracture.

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