Notices by Rufus J. Cooter (rufusjcooter@mstdn.social)

@maskedscheduler Know this isn't the point here, but wow, that is not a flattering headshot. Folx, hire a professional photog to take your avi pic for your substack.

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My god, the genius of countering the 'childless cat lady' line of attack, by adding Peak Dad to the ticket. Just [chef kiss emoji]

Hot damn, that was good!

I guess what I took away from this one, was, if there's an airborne disease killing millions across the world, maybe you should... wear a mask?

#Monsterdon #TooSoon ?

Also: In a bizarre, ironic twist: Price's cookbook waaaayyy lowballs how much garlic you should use

https://archive.org/details/a-treasury-of-great-recipes-mary-price-vincent-price

Thanks for watching along, y'all! Thanks to @Taweret for hosting! Have a great week, see ya next sunday!

@inthehands I mean, honestly, at this point, what purpose does having two Dakotas serve? It's not like there's a big college basketball rivalry that driving a bunch of TV ad dollars...

@inthehands Love all of these!
Would add:
- end disenfranchisement of convicts (so imprisoned people can vote, putting an end to districts where most/many of the 'residents' can't vote)
- a 'Wyoming' rule, where any state that has fewer people than the most populous district in any other state, ceases to be a state, its territory to be divided among its neighbors, and borders to be redrawn accordingly.

@HistoPol Hmm. What do you remember about the make of the caravan/trailer? (Complicating the search, obviously, is that the term used in the US is "trailer", which makes it hard to search for a movie about a "trailer", because Google wants to show you trailers for movies, not trailers that you hook up to your truck or whatever...)

Was it Airstream-looking, or more like a trolley car?

@HistoPol I had an inkling! (Can't imagine seeing Lucy Ball in something & not remembering she was in it...)

Could have sworn there was a Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn flick that had a similar plot, but a quick IMDB search didn't turn up anything for either... (I also checked all of the likely suspects I could think of for romantic comedies of the 50s - no joy there, either)

@HistoPol Not B&W, but this is what immediately came to mind for me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucb9O8q1eOc

@mmasnick.bsky.social Well, on the bright side, it looks like the bridge works? So that's nice?

@maskedscheduler I reckon you're probably right; what worries is what he'll bargain away to do so

Honest ? for y'all:
the #Playdate - worth it? A couple of bills seems like a lot for a novelty knickknack; are the games actually, y'know, fun?

@pantransautie @Taweret I've come up w a new strategy - next time, I'm picking the 2nd most Star Wars sounding one

@feditips @moira @TechConnectify
"If you want to mainly have one-directional traffic..."

I think this is maybe where this conversation started to go sideways - best as I can figure, nobody's asking for that, at least not that I can see in this thread

I'm certainly not asking for that!

A lot of people have tried the fediverse, found they didn't like the experience and left; many more have been here for a while, but contemplate leaving

I think it's worth asking why?

@moira @TechConnectify @feditips Great post - I've been thinking about this a bunch lately, specifically, how does one recreate a "quality filter" in an algorithm-free timeline, where all toots are created equal?

My first thought is a reddit-like up/down vote system, but that feels like it would go against the 'democratic' ethos of Mastodon, so I don't know...

@feditips @vernissage
So! @jbouie !
This might be relevant to your interests!

@breadbin @inthehands @conniptions @mekkaokereke The tragedy of it is, it doesn't have to be like this!

First of all, the Loudness War was won, decisively, by Prince, in 1995, when he was then the Artist Formerly Known As Prince, and he released The Gold Experience. Still the "loudest", and best orchestrated, best mixed, best mastered, recording that I own. (SRSLY! Listen to it side-by-side w/, say, Paranoid, by Black Sabbath. Man knew what he was doing.)

@futurebird I like it! One ? tho': what do we do about the international date line?

@maskedscheduler Sleep

@maskedscheduler sharing the vid that I always share when pence tries to force his way back into the discourse

https://www.facebook.com/jaydiggsmusic/videos/fly-on-you-jay-diggs-ft-mike-pence-the-fly/926763141183832/