One other thing I haven’t seen mentioned is selling ice cream is only a sustainable business for a few months out of the year in many places. Whereas you can sell burgers/dogs/etc year-round. But yeah, as far as I know they’ve always sold fast food - their burgers were a fave of mine when I was a kid in the 70s.

“S’iomadh Rid” (“The Dhith Om / Clamor A Ni Mi”) sung by Rhiannon Giddens

I think a lot of it is that he spends much more strategically and with lots of strings attached. He also does a lot of work to basically indoctrinate folks who aren’t big players and fund them until they are - JD Vance being a prime example. He’s basically developed into a cult leader for rich wannabes and ends up owning their asses.

Jim Henson - I was 19 when he died, and it felt like a central focus of my childhood was suddenly taken away.

Great photo on the article. Is Trump aging super fast now? He looks significantly older than he did even back in January.

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Black gospel music has often been the only Christian-oriented music that really did it for me. A lot of blues, soul, etc was created by folks who got their start in black gospel music, and used what they learned there in secular genres. Hugely influential in so many different types of music.

Unlike Jefferson, I don’t believe there were any contemporaneous accounts of it, and there’s never been any DNA evidence to confirm it. I mean Jackson was undoubtedly an asshole and believed in the institution of slavery (and I believe treated enslaved people inhumanely), but as far as I understood it, not for this in particular.

I believe you’re thinking Jefferson though Jackson did own enslaved people

The Man With One Red Shoe is much worse than Joe Versus the Volcano. And if made for TV movies count, you have to throw in Mazes and Monsters. Oh and Bonfire of the Vanities was a famous flop. And Volunteers was pretty bad. People forget how bad some of his early stuff was.

Hell, both Forrest Gump and Castaway were tremendously overrated. Also the unwatchable Cloud Atlas and the stupid Dan Brown movies.

<suddenly dawns on me that Tom Hanks makes a lot of bad movies>

…Trump may escalate pressure on allies by leveraging America’s financial dominance

“America’s financial dominance”?! Unless he has a time machine, not quite sure how that’s going to happen.

This is straight out of Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash. Sigh.

My ideal trifecta - fresh tomatoes, green olives, pepperoni

If it’s an air quality monitor, they likely need to move it around to get different sampling areas.

It’s lead-up-to-the-next-Great-Depression … as a service.

Something like this? https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2022/10/31/former-head-of-tesla-ai-explains-why-theyve-removed-sensors-others-differ/

Ahh, yes - the studio that own Star Trek has turned against diversity, equity, and inclusivity. I foresee no repercussions from that at all. /s

I actually had that thought as well, and while they certainly might, I think they’re aiming more for the people who add “reddit” to a Google search when looking for answers.

Every time I see a story like this, I’m always pretty sure it’s an AI that was trained on Reddit content.