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July LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of July?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

2 3.92%

John Kelly

18 35.29%

Jared Kushner

1 1.96%

Wilbur Ross

4 7.84%

Ben Carson

0 0%

Rudy Giuliani

1 1.96%

Scott Pruitt

15 29.41%

Kellyanne Conway

2 3.92%

Rod Rosenstein

3 5.88%

Write-in

5 9.80%

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07-11-2018 , 03:46 PM

#626

StimAbuser

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

You have to convince AT&T to let HBO keep making quality content instead of trying to turn it into a Netflix style dumping ground of lame shows.

Netflix has made some pretty solid shows over the years and they pump a ton of money into some of them. They aren't as good as HBO yet but I chalk that up to experience.

Why the hate on netflix shows?

07-11-2018 , 03:49 PM

#627

aoFrantic

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Originally Posted by StimAbuser

Because for every good Netflix original there are 9 that are mediocre at best.
That is the exact opposite of the HBO brand.

07-11-2018 , 03:51 PM

#628

StimAbuser

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I knew a guy who used to post here, well I knew him from high school and got him into poker and he used to post here. He used to eat 1 large Papa Johns EVERY SINGLE DAY. You'd go to his house and there would be 50 Papa Johns pizza boxes all over his house.

He went on to become a Trump supporter. Don't talk to him anymore. Honestly he might be one of these random trolls that come in from time to time because his main got banned a long time ago.

07-11-2018 , 03:58 PM

#629

Namath12

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Netflix just has TOO MUCH original content now, shows are cannibalizing each other

Nailed It is great, though.

07-11-2018 , 04:05 PM

#630

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I mean they have an insanely huge viewer base, seems natural they'd have a massive amount of original content that all the people can enjoy?

HBO is targeted towards American Adults. Netflix viewer base is basically everyone in the world and some animals.

07-11-2018 , 04:07 PM

#631

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by StimAbuser

I didn't even mean their original shows, I probably should have said "lame content" because I was mostly thinking of all their movies no one's ever heard of you have to scroll through to find something watchable.

07-11-2018 , 04:15 PM

#632

pvn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DrChesspain

This claim about the airport is either untrue or demonstrates just how dumb Palin is, since there are three airports in the DC area:

1. Reagan National, in the heart of the city
2. Dulles, which is 25 miles outside of the city
3. BWI, which is on the outskirts of Baltimore

Maybe she really is this dumb and didn't realize where they were headed.

She was almost certainly flying out of IAD (no direct flights to AK from DCA, I'm guessing UA flies IAD-ANC but I'm not positive), and I'm assuming they dropped her at DCA. There are a bajillion places they could have met that are roughly the same distance from those. And most people who get a car service are probably on their phones the whole way to the airport.

I might not notice if someone was driving me to the wrong airport but I'd definitely notice before I got out of the car, but I'm a super frequent flyer and airport nerd. Someone who doesn't go to DC very often could easily not notice.

07-11-2018 , 04:15 PM

#633

microbet

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My suggestion to Netflix is: Only have things that were added remotely recently in the "Recently Added" category.

07-11-2018 , 04:38 PM

#634

dth123451

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My suggestion to Netflix: stop making ****ty, indistinguishable Sci-fi ****.

07-11-2018 , 04:51 PM

#635

stinkubus

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BoJack Horseman, season five, drops in about two months. If you have Netflix and haven't checked it out I would highly recommend it.

07-11-2018 , 04:54 PM

#636

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After Cohen dressed up as a disabled U.S. veteran with a fake wheelchair to punk Sarah Palin, former GOP congressman Joe Walsh shared his own strange encounter with the comedian. In summary, he’s not happy. The radio show host is now calling for a boycott of Showtime, after Cohen’s team tricked him into doing an interview for a fake pro-Israel event, as Deadline points out. They allegedly told Walsh he would be receiving an award for “Significant Contributions to the State of Israel.”

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/...ce=twitter.com

07-11-2018 , 04:55 PM

#637

StimAbuser

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Browsing netflix hoping to stumble across a good movie/show is a lolold move.

You browse netflix threads for suggestions obv. A million sites out there that will filter out the good from the bad for you. Filtering through trash is legit everything on the internet and its a skill you should have by now.

07-11-2018 , 04:57 PM

#638

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/...ce=twitter.com

hahahaha so amazing. Sacha is the GOAT troll by a huge margin.

07-11-2018 , 04:57 PM

#639

Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by dth123451

My suggestion to Netflix: stop making ****ty, indistinguishable Sci-fi ****.

Black Mirror was good.

07-11-2018 , 04:59 PM

#640

Huehuecoyotl

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About time

07-11-2018 , 05:00 PM

#641

goofyballer

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Originally Posted by stinkubus

BoJack Horseman, season five, drops in about two months.

YESSSSSSSSS

07-11-2018 , 05:05 PM

#642

champstark

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07-11-2018 , 05:07 PM

#643

dth123451

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Right wingers providing the best possible publicity for this show is both unsurprising and fantastic

07-11-2018 , 06:20 PM

#644

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Originally Posted by Namath12

Once Game of Thrones ends, I'd really like to see HBO make Dune its next fantasy epic series. Who do I speak with to get this thing off the ground? I assume Bill Maher.

The Sci-Fi channel already did this back in 2000. It was... not as terrible as you might expect.

07-11-2018 , 06:22 PM

#645

MrWookie

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

The Sci-Fi channel already did this back in 2000. It was... not as terrible as you might expect.

Yeah, it was way better than the movie version.

07-11-2018 , 07:07 PM

#646

goofyballer

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idk if we have a general mass surveillance thread or something for this to go into but:

Company that owns 46 California malls automatically scans consumers' license plates and sells the data to ICE

Quote:

A company that operates 46 shopping centers up and down California has been providing sensitive information collected by automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to Vigilant Solutions, a surveillance technology vendor that in turn sells location data to Immigrations & Customs Enforcement.

The Irvine Company—a real estate company that operates malls and mini-malls in Irvine, La Jolla, Newport Beach, Redwood City, San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale—has been conducting the ALPR surveillance since just before Christmas 2016, according to an ALPR Usage and Privacy Policy published on its website (archived version). The policy does not say which of its shopping centers use the technology, only disclosing that the company and its contractors operates ALPRs at “one or more” of its locations.

Quote:

In December 2017, ICE signed a contract with Vigilant Solutions to access its license-plate reader database. Data from Irvine Company’s malls directly feeds into Vigilant Solutions’ database system, according to the policy. This could mean that ICE can spy on mall visitors without their knowledge and receive near-real-time alerts when a targeted vehicle is spotted in a shopping center’s parking lot.

This seems like it should be a target for local/state activism and legislation. Holding signs outside their locations saying "this mall spies on immigrants" would probably do some work.