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Enjoyed some of them, but we never bothered with the last episode after seeing it was part 2 of the one before it. Some good moments earlier in the season, but the fact it won 13 emmys is absurd and only speaks to how obsessed Hollywood is with itself.

That used to be true but is no longer the case.

When they increased the episode length to 90min, I thought it was a big improvement. But this episode showed why 2 hours is just too long, even with it being a 1st episode with the extra challenges at the beginning and getting to know the cast. I just got bored after a while and was ready to get...

This mirrors much of what I was going to say, which is why I voted average. Facebook was a massive success, but was it because he was an amazing visionary, or he stumbled into the right idea at the right time, or a bit of both? Buying IG and WhatsApp was very smart. But the metaverse...

Way back in the day when FBG published a magazine, they also did a golden ticket promo one year - and I received one! I've been riding that lifetime subscription for many years now. I've gotten so much value from that (and won so many league titles), I figured buying one of the new magazines is...

This is absolutely happening, seeing it directly in my small corner of the world. Customers rushing to place orders rather than waiting, distributors front-loading orders to avoid tariff hits. It will bump up this quarter, but it's just stealing from the future and will make the pain worse...

Sand's comments were a bit over the top, IMO. But you are dramatically downplaying the level of IP theft and state subsidization going on in China. I've seen it myself in the companies I've worked at. It is on a completely different level than what happens in the rest of the world. Much of it...

Interesting that the winning team went all Eagles in the SB, but hedged with 3 AFC teams in the Championship round. Winning team

I work in the business side of tech, and have a much different experience. Colleagues who have been laid off having a hard time finding new positions, plenty of good candidates for open reqs. I fear if I were to get laid off, it would take me a long time to find a new role. Very strange job...

I don’t think that’s odd. I live in Colorado, where the “Marshall Fire” burned down 1,000 homes just over 3 years ago (and came within 100 feet of taking down mine too). It took almost 2 years of detailed investigation before the initial cause was determined. With the enormous damage comes...

Cool in-depth article on deep undercover Russian sleeper agents that made me think of this show. Should be a link with no paywall: The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’

Only 4.3 above the cutline with no one left to go. I knew it would take a minor miracle with no QB this week, as I had Goff and Tua. Hoping for a boring defensive battle tonight, but without turnovers or sacks!

Per a WSJ article, "Dockworkers typically earn a six-figure annual salary because of work rules and overtime requirements. In the financial year that ended in 2020, more than half of 3,726 dockworkers at the Port of New York and New Jersey earned more than $150,000, according to a report by the...

I don't think so, I've been using Dataforce for a while, and it's always basically been a manual process for me. I've gotten away from using Dataforce for regular leagues (only do Draftmaster through them now) because the in-season management of manually updating FBG with waiver and free agent...

Your team has been successfully entered . QB - Jared Goff - DET/5 - $18 QB - Tua Tagovailoa - MIA/6 - $17 RB - Najee Harris - PIT/9 - $17 RB - Jerome Ford - CLE/10 - $11 RB - Blake Corum - LAR/6 - $11 RB - Rico Dowdle - DAL/7 - $8 RB - J.K. Dobbins - LAC/5 - $8 RB - Jaylen Wright - MIA/6 - $7...