Mark Sherman

@Nitler69 @LASHYBILLS usatoday.com/story/entertai…

@LASHYBILLS There’s no way this is real.

Comedian Learnmore Jonasi was mid-performance when he got served with a $27 million lawsuit right on stage…all because of his viral Lion King joke. Composer Lebohang Morake is suing him for $27 million over a clip where Jonasi hilariously translated the iconic intro as: “Look, there’s a lion!” 😂💀 Who else thinks this is wild?

@irishnotsane @LASHYBILLS usatoday.com/story/entertai…

@LASHYBILLS I’m going with fake because it’s an already lost case and Disney knows it. Jokes are protected under the first amendment

@cassioguedes @vhscut He attended the Golden Globes.

@vhscut O Sean Penn já tinha dado a deixa de que não iria pois ele não foi em nenhuma das cerimônias da temporada. Se votaram nele, é pq isso não teria realmente importância.

A vitória de Sean Penn no #Oscar foi considerada um dos PIORES momentos da noite pela TheWrap. “Quando foi revelado o vencedor de Melhor Ator Coadjuvante, a tensão na sala foi sentida quando Renate Reinsve consolou Stellan Skarsgård, seu colega de ‘Sentimental Value’, e quando Delroy Lindo não aplaudiu. O apresentador Kieran Culkin ainda alfinetou: “Penn não pôde estar aqui esta noite — ou não quis.”

@MagnusH2 @Math_files Nice.

@Math_files The sequence 6969 first appears in the decimal expansion of π at position 12,535

The Feynman point is a famous pattern in the digits of π. It refers to the sequence 999999, which appears starting at the 762nd decimal place of π. The name comes from the physicist Richard Feynman. He jokingly said that if this sequence occurred earlier in π, he would memorize π up to that point and end the recitation with “…nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, and so on.” This amusing coincidence became known as the Feynman point and is a fun example of surprising patterns appearing in the digits of π.

@Undius @CalumDouglas1 I’d add pushing hot air over the rear-mounted carburetor would result in net power loss.

@CalumDouglas1 1. Exhaust flow rate of such small engine is too slow to add any thrust at all.. 2. Hot exhaust gases flowing back would damage propeller. + Bending exhaust pipes needs more durable materials to whitstand heat.

80 years later and on military aero engines they cant even take advantage of exhaust thrust. The added "thrust power" to be gained can easily exceed 10% of the brake power of the main engine. All this was known to every sensible aero-engine designer in 1940. But no, lets stick four drainpipes on it because bending a bit of steel tube is just impossible to do economically in 2026.

@Tom_Maguire @BlakeSNeff I think you were right that they issued a correction and pulled the story from their archive.

@mos03c @BlakeSNeff I gotcha. Front page headlines such as "British Bag Ships" or "Lingayen Retaken" have been digitized as part of the story beneath them, so a search on that phrase finds them. "Japanese Forces Wiped Out In Western Luzon" isn't paired with a digitized story so a search won't work.

Just reached this timely anecdote while reading The Rising Sun: During the first week of the Pacific War, America hallucinated a massive victory over the Japanese that never happened. People are making a lot of bold proclamations of triumph or disaster wrt Iran. But the fog of war is thick. A lot of claims will age poorly. Be skeptical.

@SteveSkojec @Chatta24709221 Mostly sunk at berth.

@Chatta24709221 We sunk a dozen of their ships.

This is a ballsy power play by Trump. Lloyd's of London was the gold standard for maritime insurance policies until just a day or two ago when they started cancelling policies or jacking them up 3-5X. Others insurers followed. That collapsed commercial shipping traffic through Hormuz, which choked oil shipments out of the Middle East. Trump doing this means the DFC has the chance to displace Lloyd's as the big dog in this game, when they have been the lock-in player for many years. It also frees up all the oil that was getting trapped there, heading off shortages and keeping the energy market alive. And why not? It's the American navy that sunk the Iranian ships that were harassing tankers. And the American Navy -- at least for now -- will keep those tankers safe. It's a huge reassurance to allies -- both oil producers and oil consumers -- that our campaign in Iran isn't going to sink their economies. And it allows America to be choosy about traffic in the Strait. It also potentially means billions of dollars in insurance premiums at wartime rates going to America instead of the UK. And those rates are STILL going to be cheaper than what shippers were getting.

@Tom_Maguire @BlakeSNeff It’s real. (Left) You can go to their archive for another article on the front page and see the front page as originally printed. (Right)

@BlakeSNeff The article mentions a NY Times banner headline I can't find in their archives. Might have been corrected later. But to reassure the pundit class: This guy was vindicated: "Air Power Pacific Key; Naval Losses Do Not Alter Basic Concept That Planes Will Decide Vast Struggle"

@NixonPunished @BlakeSNeff @L0m3z The Japanese invaded Luzon two weeks after Pearl Harbor and a week after the incident mentioned above.

@BlakeSNeff @L0m3z The Invasion of Lingayen Gulf occurred in 1945 and took one week.

@soldierslim1193 @scullytaco @NBA__Courtside Because he changed positions.

@scullytaco @NBA__Courtside He could have been a top 5 defender. He played 13 and made second team 3 times. He’s a turnstile and that ok, he still great player.

Jeff Teague talking about if Larry Bird played in today’s NBA: “Watching Jokic highlights and y’all thinking how good Jokic is? How good you think Larry Bird would be right now? Because when I watch older people play, they be like he ain’t athletic he ain’t this. But then when I watch Jokic it’s just like he is walking around, he just make it look so simple. Like if Larry Bird played right now, like Luka and Jokic just be walking around. Larry Bird would average 30,10,8.” (Via @club520podcast)

@DavyBaby777x @brigidoconnor @RealEmirHan The one narrated by the frozen peas guy?

@mos03c @brigidoconnor @RealEmirHan I preferred the original version where Richard Chamberlain rose through the ranks to take on that role and was crowned "Shogun". He got a lightsaber as well.

Steven Seagal says Tom Cruise was the wrong choice for The Last Samurai. “They have a 5-foot-2-inch guy, whether he was straight or gay, I don’t know. Doesn’t speak Japanese. I got phone calls saying, ‘That role was perfect for you. How did it happen?”

@brigidoconnor @RealEmirHan Maybe he’s confusing it with the FX show where Cosmo Jarvis played the future Shōgun of Japan.

@RealEmirHan Kind of wondering if he actually didn't get the role because he thought that Nathan Algren was "the Last Samurai" rather than Katsumoto Moritsugu...

@CanisOcculatus @thenewarea51 To quote the greatest Austrian mind of the 20th century,

@mos03c @thenewarea51 They do speak german.

The Austrian government still refuses overflight permits to the USAF C-17s ever since the USAF snuck 2 F-117s through their airspace with a KC-10 in 2002. The Austrians became suspicious of the flight plan and scrambled 2 Saab Drakens and spotted the F-117s. This stunt by the USAF has caused them millions of dollars in extra jet fuel over the decades because of having to circumnavigate the Austrian airspace.

@zuki_2024 Think of it more as a seven year immersion course In etiquette and the Korean language.

Like you aren’t gonna get a free deportation flight back to America and just get banned, Koreans are gonna fucking enslave you while others will continously find and beat you out in the street if they catch you streaming.

I talked to Johnny Somali before all this happened and told him I didn’t like him but my best advice is to go to the US embassy with all your money or find a way to smuggle yourself out of there because you’re not pulling the same thing you did in Japan in the land of han.

@BrianHJacobson @BonkDaCarnivore $500k in valuation difference is portable. The current system incentivizes downsizing more than eliminating property taxes all together would.

@BonkDaCarnivore No he is describing the effects of homestead exemption and using that to explain why he wants to eliminate property taxes on homesteads entirely.

In today's episode of "you should own nothing and be happy", we have Florida governor Ron DeSantis saying the problem is that old people aren't trading in their bigger homes for smaller homes. He phrases it as a tax issue, but the underlying statement here is he's saying that as you get older you should have to sell your forever home and move to The Villages to get 19 STDs because...reasons? “You’ve got older people that have been in their home for a long time. They've had protection against valuation increases for 30 years. They're not downsizing because if they go from a three or four bedroom home to a condo, the tax basis is going to be so much higher that they can't afford it" Maybe, just maybe Ron, after someone has spent 30 years paying for their home, they should be able to stay in it if they want.

@CaseClosed007 @TheLegalMindset Settlements matter less with habitual offenders. He’s also been incredibly disrespectful to the court and shown zero remorse. It’s like he wants to go to prison.

@TheLegalMindset Prosecutors refusing the 'settlement' is huge. ⚖️ In many jurisdictions, paying off a victim can lead to leniency, but the Korean court is clearly prioritizing public order and the severity of the deepfake charges over a private deal. #LegalUpdate

Today could not have gone worse for Johnny Somali (aka Ramsey Khalid Ismael) in his trial in South Korea > Prosecutors refused to drop the deepfake charges and ignored his unoffical "settlement" with Korean streamer Yongman or attempts to blame Bong Bong > The Judge and court were offended by his attempt to blame Korean culture for his actions, stating they are acceptable in the United States > His "not apology" apology focused only on his ignorance of the consequences, and trying to claim innocence because the victim (BongBong) was not charged. Tried to claim the laws were unfair, neither the Judge nor Prosecutor liked this argument. > Prosecutors recommended 3 years prison time WITH MANUAL LABOR, the maximum fine, and offical sex offender registration > The Judge set the official sentencing date two months out, instead of the typical 2 weeks, extending the painful waiting process (process is the punishment) This is the FO part of FAFO for Ramsey Khalid Ismael.

@Ariel5618 @newstart_2024 Newton apparently wasn’t an adult because he failed to intuit chemistry. The man studied everything. There isn’t a 30 year period of his life where he wasn’t incredibly successful.

@newstart_2024 Isaac Newton hadn't embarrassed himself. In his time alchemy wasn't pseudoscience, moreover, it created modern chemistry. It looks like everyone got syphilis in the times of Nietzsche. Don't judge.

Chris Williamson's brutal wake-up call in 46 seconds: “Adults don't exist.” He runs down the list: - Steve Jobs delayed pancreatic cancer treatment for carrot juice and acupuncture. - Mozart drowned in debt, constantly begging friends for money. - Nietzsche caught syphilis in a brothel and sold only 300 copies of his work in his lifetime. - Martin Luther King had affairs with over 40 women and spent his last night with two of them. - Isaac Newton wasted 30 years on alchemy pseudoscience his heirs hid out of embarrassment. The point lands hard: Don't put any adult on a pedestal. Kill your gurus. The adults aren't going to save you — they don't even exist. Raw, unflinching, and impossible to unhear. Which "hero" or guru did you once idolize… until you learned the messy truth behind them?

@thatchthoughts @briantylercohen @KatiePavlich That’s not true. The white population in Mississippi has the third lowest high school attainment in the country. The bottom 20% of states in educational attainment by white population are all red states.

@briantylercohen @KatiePavlich Control for race and the data changes. Red states are more black Mississippi for example is well below national average , but controlled for race they are smoking california

.@KatiePavlich: Why is the left radicalizing students to leave school when the country has a 54% rate of not being able to read? BTC: The lowest literacy rates are in red states. Katie: That's actually not true. BTC: [accurately lists off the red states with the lowest literacy rates in the US]

@MungusW @dlc_helena @rinalu_ They raised the age minimum because a minor’s protected person status screwed up the Olympics in 2022.

@dlc_helena @rinalu_ What's more, when it became clear that these skaters could dominate artistically as well (cough, cough, Kamila Valieva), they just raised the minimum age, too.

When Russia plays by the rules too well, they just change the rules. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Zagitova built her free skate in a way that squeezed every possible point out of the rules. All her jumps were placed in the second half, where they earned bonus points. It was a very smart and perfectly executed move. After that season, the International Skating Union limited how many jumps could get the second-half bonus. People started calling it the Zagitova Rule.