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Lane Denson

@LaneDenson

I mostly use Twitter for following retro computing and music news. Maybe some career stuff. My opinions are my own.

Beigetreten Ekim 2021
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Lane Denson
Lane Denson@LaneDenson·
Dancing on the grave of your opposition says far more about you than them.
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non aesthetic things@PicturesFoIder·
I never saw a kick like this, and seems like her opponent didn’t ether.
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Mr. Sausage
Mr. Sausage@MrSausageGet·
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Gator Gar
Gator Gar@gatorgar·
There isn’t a band simultaneously as good and bad as Red Hot Chili Peppers. The balance between perfection and total garbage they’ve accomplished is surreal.
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Lane Denson@LaneDenson·
@StarWarsDaily_ 6. The best Disney SW movie, but thats a low bar to clear. Cool third act, the rst of the movie was thoroughly average
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Star Wars Daily@StarWarsDaily_·
On a scale from 1-10, how would you rate Rogue One?
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Kristan Hawkins
Kristan Hawkins@KristanHawkins·
Defund and debar Planned Parenthood, now!
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Bill_in_the_704
Bill_in_the_704@bill_in_the_704·
@BLABBERMOUTHNET It’s ironic these guys piss and moan about Baz and how they can’t get along with him and how he’s the problem. Meanwhile, they’ve gone through about 5 singers since they kicked Baz out. Maybe Baz isn’t the problem.
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Lane Denson@LaneDenson·
@landofthe80s Watched it with my kid a few months ago. Still a fun flick, but the CGI really dates it.
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Bite-Sized Nostalgia
Bite-Sized Nostalgia@landofthe80s·
The Last Starfighter. Worth another watch or leave it in the past? 🪐🚀
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Jeremy
Jeremy@Jeremybtc·
For 12 years, every major winner of McDonald's Monopoly was a fraud. The game was rigged by the one man hired to prevent rigging. > McDonald's Monopoly launched in 1987. > Peel a game piece off your fries or drink. Match the right properties. Win up to $1 million. > The promotion was massive. Tens of MILLIONS of game boards distributed in magazines alone. > McDonald's poured massive marketing behind it. > By law, McDonald's couldn't run its own contest. > A third party company called Simon Marketing handled the game pieces. > The man in charge of security at Simon Marketing was Jerome P. Jacobson. > Former cop. Everyone called him Uncle Jerry. > His job was to make sure nobody stole the winning pieces. > He stole the winning pieces. > Starting in 1989, Jacobson figured out how to swap the high value game pieces during transit. > He would duck into an airport bathroom stall, break the tamper proof seal on the case, pocket the winners, and reseal it. > He got away with it because a supplier accidentally sent him a sheet of the tamper proof seals directly. > That mistake gave him 12 years. > At first he gave the pieces to friends and family. His step brother. His nephew. People he trusted. > Then it grew. > Jacobson started selling winning pieces to strangers for a cut of the prize. > His network eventually included mobsters, strip club owners and a members of the Colombo crime family. > One family connected to Jacobson's network claimed three separate $1 million prizes plus a Dodge Viper. > Jacobson apparently even anonymously mailed a $1 million winning piece to St. Jude Children's Hospital. > McDonald's honoured it and paid out the full amount over 20 years. > The total stolen was over $24 MILLION in cash and prizes across 12 years. > In 2000, the FBI got an anonymous tip about a man called "Uncle Jerry" rigging the contest. > They looked at the winner list. Almost every major winner lived within 25 miles of Jacobson's house. > The FBI convinced McDonald's to run the contest one more time. Wiretapped Jacobson's phone. > Intercepted the name of the next $1 million winner before he even claimed it. > Then they posed as a McDonald's film crew and interviewed the fake winner on camera. Let him tell his entire made up story about how he found the piece. > Three weeks later, Jacobson was arrested in an early morning raid. > The trial began September 10, 2001. The next day was 9/11. > One of the biggest corporate fraud cases in fast food history got buried under the biggest news story of the century. > Over 50 people convicted. Jacobson got 37 months. He was the only one who served more than a year. > Every time you peeled a game piece off your fries and lost, the fix was already in. The winning pieces were in Uncle Jerry's pocket before the food hit the tray.
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PJ Chesterfield@pj_chesterfield·
@Jeremybtc @cfishman And it’s all about greed. Had he stopped after ‘friends and family’, and been happy with making their lives better, absolutely *no one* ever would have been any the wiser. He’d have completely skated. A vivid (covert) example of capitalism at its purest.
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Nick Loucks@Nicks2Cents·
@Jeremybtc @PeteTredwell One of the more compelling docs I’ve seen was about this. Done really well. Except they dragged it out into like six parts and it lost steam and I never finished. Anyone else have this problem with many of the best docs in the last decade?
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Dad to the Bone
Dad to the Bone@Dad_2_The_Bone·
What band will always make you change the station. For me - Aerosmith
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Peachy Keenan@KeenanPeachy·
POV the last thing you see before you volunteer to be frozen in carbonite
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Lane Denson
Lane Denson@LaneDenson·
@RedRebeccax We were gifted a bunch of DoorDash gift cards when a family member was sick. It’s nice to have a pinch, but way too expensive otherwise. Even if I go to pick up the food myself, I still have to pay a DoorDash surcharge
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Becca is on the Menu@RedRebeccax·
Am I the only one that never does Doordash or Ubereats? Yeah, lemme get some lukewarm fast food for twice the price. How do people have that much money to waste?
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Phil@shadowbanevader·
@KristanHawkins What’s wrong with standing for women’s right to choose?
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cory
cory@th1nkp0l·
@spumdonor @aronfromm Animating the moment of the crash with his iconic shriek made me feel so wrong for thinking it was hysterical
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Aron Fromm@aronfromm·
A little short I made about Norm.
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Jase1478@Jase147819796·
@ThatEricAlper 2010 and VHS doesn't sound right....we were all dvd by then. VHS was long gone, right?
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