> How long does CNN have,
> do you think?

Of the rest of my life, CNN will get 0.0%.

TV generally (non-work-related) is probably less than half a percent, maybe a tenth.

There are twenty-one races in the Formula One calendar in 2019, each clock-limited to two hours, so that would be 0.0046%. Which leaves headroom for anything on YouTube (etc) that might be described as "teevee."

A brilliant commenter on this blog once asked: "If you had to choose for your gravestone, hours spent watching television or hours in lonely masturbation, which would you choose?"





The new Bach/AI toy on Google is fun, even if it has nothing to do with either. Here's my first effort, which I've entitled "Dripping with Genius."

Sorry about the music.

People select music for their youtubes with the same misanthropy by which women select gowns for their bridesmaids.

These are fun animations re: population.

The new Bach/AI toy on Google is fun, even if it has nothing to do with either. Here's my first effort, which I've entitled "Dripping with Genius."

What fun! Here's mine.

So my middle daughter, who's been in Kazakhstan since August, called me Tuesday morning to let me know that the country's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, had stepped down, stunning the population.

While she lives and studies in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, she and a girlfriend went off to the capital for spring break. Wednesday morning she called me to let me know that when she went to bed the night before, the capital city was called Astana, but when she got up that morning, it had been renamed, get this, "Nursultan."

As to what's really happening? Nothing much, apparently. Nazerbayev picked his own successor, and will remain the éminence grise in Kazakh politics. If you’re interested, this Eurasianet article gives a pretty good rundown.

Ted Koppel wakes up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41s12Uwb3mU

> Here's mine

Oh FFS, ORDy! Yours sounds like an old drinking song.








I like it.

Seriously, the loop on yours is convincing in a seriously German way.

How to vanish (if you have a lot of money).

Well, Disney now owns Fox. Now it's a mouse-shaped behemoth:

https://storage.googleapis.com/titlemax-media/every-company-disney-owns-13_pageversion.jpg

Fake-news CNN probably got a new lease on life, thanks to Fox News just now becoming a Mickey Mouse operation and no longer a real competitor.

All that are really left to sensible Americans are The Blaze and InfoWars, and both are still under serious attack. Once the left destroys those we might as well be living in Red China.

Where are the antitrust police?

Seriously, the loop on yours is convincing in a seriously German way.

Hadn't thought about it, but I can see what you mean.

Trinkst du dich
Ein Bier für mich
Und werde ich
Auch so machen!

Disney bought the movie studios and archives of 21st Century Fox and the television entertainment operations of FX, FXX, FX Movies, et al. Disney did not buy Fox News, which the Murdochs will continue to own and operate.

Still, that's a whole lot of our cultural heritage now controlled by the mouse; the same mouse that won't release Song of the South for fear of offending someone. The same mouse that won't own up to Steamboat Willie. Wonder what new assets are going into that vault, never to see the light of day again.

Udders out!! Let's do this!

> Where are the antitrust police?

> that's a whole lot of our
> cultural heritage

I dunno… The most remunerative parts of a culture aren't necessarily the biggest.

Cinema collects a fraction of the wealth earned from video games, right? Twenty-first century and all that. These kids with their phones.

Deep diving the electoral college.

https://twitter.com/TaraRoss/status/1108048158171504641

How long does CNN have?

If they make it till Dems are in charge again, the tag will be we can’t let them die. Followed by a push for gov’t funding. After which all pretense of non bias will no longer be needed.

"The same mouse that won't own up to Steamboat Willie."

The interesting bit there is that, barring further changes to copyright law (which there doesn't appear to be any support for), Steamboat Willie enters the public domain in 2024. Now, Mickey Mouse isn't drawn the same way now as he was in that movie, so it doesn't mean that Disney loses its trademark. However, the movie itself, and stills and clips from it, will likely become free to use. Disney will have a conniption fit over it, but for once, there appears to be nothing they can legally do.

(BTW, this is a demonstration of how ridiculous our copyright laws have become... a movie that was made before my father was born will enter the public domain as I'm hitting retirement age.)

He wouldn't have been forced to do this if Trump hadn't outlawed all of the CoExIsT bumper stickers in Italy!

Is there no end to Trump's evil?

...Steamboat Willie enters the public domain in 2024.... ~ Cousin Dave at March 21, 2019 11:59 AM

Yeah? Good luck laying your hands on a copy.

He wouldn't have been forced to do this if Trump hadn't outlawed all of the CoExIsT bumper stickers in Italy! ~ Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at March 21, 2019 12:19 PM

Now that's the way you get people to admit more immigrants from your country, set their children on fire.

Instead of Honduran caravans, the Dems need to organize all the Honduran school bus drivers, and buy some jerry cans.

Meeeee-yow.

Yernotgunna believe this, but I just found something weird on the computer internet.

(The young one, right? I know!!)

Okay, maybe not:

After graduating from New York University in 2013, Jamie McGonagill became a student of the Lightworkers Healing Method, a system of Angelically-Guided Multi-Dimensional Energy Healing for Soul Purpose....

We have seen that expression before.

Remember that Kurt Cobain song?

♫ Rape me… ♬