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BREAKING NEWS FROM SOCAL RAINWATCH 2023

Turns out two inches over twelve hours is exactly as unimpressive as it sounds.

THIS HAS BEEN BREAKING NEWS FROM SOCAL RAINWATCH 2023

BREAKING NEWS FROM SOCAL RAINWATCH 2023

Nothing yet.

THIS HAS BEEN BREAKING NEWS FROM SOCAL RAINWATCH 2023

the baldur's gate 3 experience when you accidentally trigger an unintentional romance because you thought you were just being a really supportive friend

Come on, ya’ll.

Who hasn’t, in a moment of weakness late at night, paid to send Clarence Thomas on an expensive vacation to influence favorable outcomes in important cases?

We’ve all been there!

Having a proper Etiquette Specialist on call is a must have for today’s modern person on the go.

Thank you, Etiquette Specialist!

You are a life saver.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but COVID is still a thing.

Grant O’Brien of College Humor/Dropout, known for the series Total Forgiveness (in which he and Ally Beardsley did challenges to earn money to pay their student loans), on student loan forgiveness

“Things that do not directly benefit me have a net positive on society, which I am a part of” is something more people need to learn.

Drove past a homeless encampment on the side of the freeway on my way to my mom’s.

They had a flagpole erected complete with an American flag.

Yeah, buddy. No shit.

Listen ya’ll.

Big important man had to do big horrific thing but..but..

But!

BUT…he definitely probably felt sups sad about it after so, like, even-Steven on this one?

AND!

And!

And HE definitely had to do it before the other guys, who were real bad, did it. Even though we ended up not needing it to beat them.

This is a really good layman's explanation of some of the business forces behind the Hollywood strikes. This is what I've been trying to explain to people every time someone asks me about it. With bonus extensive quoting of Adam Conover. This is my favorite quote from the article:

It’s a sticking point in the negotiations — actors and writers on streaming series want a better way to calculate the value of their work, given that the residuals they earn are so much lower than for network or cable shows. The studios have resisted. “The reason nobody really wants to open the books on this is because if Wall Street got a look,” one Hollywood insider told New York Magazine, “they’d have a collective stroke.”

Found the worst panel; TJ Miller is talking about Web3 tv shows.

I’m in here because AC.