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  1. Haus

    Snow White (2024)

    Somewhere... someone has convinced that poor girl that she's in a line of work where nobody cares at all about how toxic you are towards the fans and the material you perform. And whereas that's been something a lot of people have gotten away with over the past few years I'm starting to feel...
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    Amazon Vine... Does this make me a shill?

    Yeah, talking to a friend who is in this as well.... apparently it's triggered if enough people read your reviews and click the "I found this helpful" link. Which I have found seems to come from reviews that are at least entertaining, if not funny.
  3. Haus

    Snow White (2024)

    No, it's clickbait. She was dropped from ANOTHER film, Not Snow White.
  4. Haus

    Amazon Vine... Does this make me a shill?

    There is one catch.... At the end of the year you get a 1099 form from Amazon for the value of all the stuff you were given to review. So technically you do have to pay tax on the value of the "free" stuff you get for reviews. Still, it's like getting 60%+ off so long as you're getting...
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    Amazon Vine... Does this make me a shill?

    I got a banner on Amazon mentioning it, but when I went back and looked sure enough there was email about it as well..... Email to the account that normally routes all my Amazon mail into a "shopping" folder. Kinda random luck I saw it. Just search your inbox for "Amazon Vine" apparently.
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    Amazon Vine... Does this make me a shill?

    OK, First off, I guess I should ask if anybody here is participating in the Amazon Vine program? I do a decent amount of shopping and crap purchasing on Amazon. I also tend to go throw up reviews for things I either really like, or really dislike. Apparently the machine spotted me out for...
  7. Haus

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    So if they come to a conclusion and new contract, how long before the actors get a new contract? Can we maybe make the stage hands go on strike next and prolong the magic?
  8. Haus

    Home buying thread

    If that's in SF proper I would say chances are the home had been owned by someone in a family and under homestead style property tax exemption for some amount of time capping the maximum amount of taxes. The home then changed hands, and that triggered a "reset" of tax assessment on the property...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    We're about to cancel Uverse and keep the 1g fiber. Only last tether is figuring out how we're going to stream/get Dallas Stars games. OTOH, Now reliving one of the displeasures from my childhood and/or years that I had Direct TV through a dish on the roof..... Poor reception during heavy...
  11. Haus

    Invincible

    There was already an Eddie Murphy movie about this.... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131325/
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Product review of the day for me.... Just picked up some of this on a lark while grabbing groceries. This is the flavor of my young misspent summers! It's Bomb Pops without the uncomfortable homoeroticism and sticks. All the glorious red, white, and blue flavors, without needing to avoid...
  13. Haus

    Doctor Who

    I think I might have hit the right angle here... Watched some but not all of Capaldi. Wholly skipped She-Who (and I am willing to pretend it didn't happen). Now this walks into the next Doctor...
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    Elderly Parents and Looking Out for Them

    New acquisition to help remind my mother to do tiny things like.. oh... check her blood sugar since she's diabetic.. You can program it with custom alarms that come up in text on the screen, and it's big enough to read across a room.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Grandparents bought a 1500 sq ft 3 bed 1 bath in 1954. Proceeded to raise 4 kids (all of which were already born) in it along with themselves. Then once all the kids had left adopted me from their daughter to raise one more. Whenb I was 7 my grandfather did convert the one car garage into an...
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    Best Credit Card with Cash Back Rewards

    I think I chipped in this bit earlier in this thread but it's too long to go back and read. I have several cards. I use one on a regular basis. Use and completely pay off every 2 weeks. Amazon Prime Visa - 5 points on Amazon purchases, 2 points on gas, 1 point on everything else. No...
  17. Haus

    What We Do in the Shadows

    Taking a shower just now and mentally pondering the end of season 5 and it hit me.....
  18. Haus

    One Piece

    Maybe they can be tempted by the amount of revenue this is generating to just do Logue Town as a 2 hour movie and call it the "Between season OVA" and introduce the non weebs to the OVA concept. heh
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    One Piece

    Yeah, but I figure that can be first part of next season... Netflix really doesn't seem to like committing to more than 8 or so episodes in a season of anything. I am wondering if they had any inkling of how well it would be received if they would have chosen differently on 2 more episodes....
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    What We Do in the Shadows

    There will be the same amount. They literally spend the whole last episode (last 2 really) just doing the "Gotta get back to status quo where nothing has really changed" bit. Literally pulling out some seriously stretched writing to make sure it's smooth. All that said, I generally concur...
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    One Piece

    Yeah, if you can imagine. The 8 episodes you just watched spanned around the first 90 episodes of the anime, IIRC. They left some things out obviously, but one thing you learn about anime is the dreaded "filler arc" heh. And they just lopped all that bullshit right on out.
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    Home Improvement

    Oh, I've run a voltmeter on the wires. The Rc wire shows 24-25VAC every time I check it. If the voltage is failing it's failing momentarily causing the reset at the thermostat, then it's back by the time I check it. And I haven't had the patience to sit there watching the meter for 15 minutes...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Oh, I have a spare cap for it in my workshop. In this case it's not the cap, the compressor outside kicks on perfectly, it's that the thermostat turns off the system when it's detecting apparently a momentary loss of power on it's continuous 24v line. Which is happening around every 10-15 minutes.
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    Best Credit Card with Cash Back Rewards

    Better hold on to your points filled hats lads.... There's a bill in congress to open up payment network access so that Visa and MC no longer have a duopoly in the space, and if you listen to the Visa/MC backed astroturfing sites this would mean DOOM for points rewards (which they pay for with...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Driving to run an errand today and pick up a screw in the back driver's side tire of the wife's car..... pull into a gas station, slightly overfill it with air to make it to a place to get the flat fixed (middle of the tread, so repairable). Takes 3 hours for the place to get it fixed. Can't...
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    Home Improvement

    I have one doctorate. It's good enough, so I can whip out the "that's DOCTOR to you..." card when i'm sufficiently drunk. On the catastrophe of the day front. Calling the AC folks since today my AC started doing this trick of running for 5-10 minutes they apparently resetting, waiting a few...
  27. Haus

    Home Improvement

    I can confirm most of this.. I love Sharkbite fittings and have used them in several applications in both my house and my mothers. There's also an offbrand I think called Gatorbite which seems to be identical. Makes plumbing so much easier as I hate brazing shit.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I'm testing the waters at Texas Capital Bank, if you're a Texan you can park cash there for 4.88% (effectively 5% with daily compounding).
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    AI images

    So using this, feeding it my linkedin pic, and giving it the prompt "This man as Santa Claus"... I get this... Apparently I am the three headed Santa which guards the gate to the North Pole.
  30. Haus

    You know you're getting old when.....

    Me telling people about music I liked in high school today is the same time dilation as when I was in high school and people told me about remembering the INVENTION OF ROCK AND ROLL.
  31. Haus

    Elderly Parents and Looking Out for Them

    I'll just kick off my contribution for this one from the Parent derail over in Politics... ;) Copypasta powers.. ACTIVATE! Pre-warning : Incoming Haus Wall Of Text Rant time... I think it extends beyond just the attitude many younger people take towards their elders, but we can start there...
  32. Haus

    One Piece

    No nudity, and this early in the anime/manga there weren't a ton of hot chicks outside Nami (already shown in this thread). IMHO, Hot chick crewmate will happen when they pick up the character named Nico Robin. Although even with no nudity, there's enough death, and even enough blood that...
  33. Haus

    One Piece

    Honestly, no. I have sporadically read some of the manga, and sporadically watched some episodes (while my wife was in her obsessive phase over it) and I could have followed the show without even that. Things you need to be ready for : It's unapolegetic about being based on an Anime...
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    Investing General Discussion

    It's OK.. they have a plan... https://babylonbee.com/news/auto-ceos-struggling-with-whether-to-replace-striking-workers-with-robots-or-mexicans
  35. Haus

    Home buying thread

    I'm in pretty much the same boat. Around $55k left on the house, been here for 20 years (also did a refi, but for me it was a 3% lock-in). House is already worth 3x what I paid, will probably be 4x before I sell it. Plan on buying land outside town and building there, then move there and rent...
  36. Haus

    One Piece

    I dunno.. I was thinking more it was the CHOPPER HAT WITH ANTLERS...
  37. Haus

    Aquaman 2

    #NotAllHeroesWearCapes
  38. Haus

    The Flash (2023)

    He'll cast his GF/Wife as Power Girl then lecture you for not appreciating the Itty Bitty Titty Comittee.
  39. Haus

    One Piece

    Just finished watching this. Did the whole thing in two nights here at chez Haus. Even with her temperment towards anything touching what is probably her favorite manga of all time the best @Mrs. Haus could nit pick was "Well.. why does so and so have that accent? it makes no sense". And that...
  40. Haus

    Post Your Pet

    TBH it feels pretty sturdy. Once assembled and all the bolts tightened well I was able to pick it up as one piece and move it without it wobbling and whatnot.... Now I will tell you more once the cat shows any interest at all in it. So far he's only interested if he sees me drop treats on it...