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#1094780
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKBN1AJ1SW

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Special counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury in Washington to investigate allegations of Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing two unnamed people familiar with the matter.

The grand jury began its work in recent weeks and is a sign that Mueller’s inquiry into Russia’s efforts to influence the election and whether it colluded with President Donald Trump’s campaign is ramping up, the Journal said.

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#1094693
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What are you reading?
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suspiciouscoffee said:

I’m slowly working through Children of Dune still (and so far I’m pretty much in agreement with Duracell’s above review), but I’m going to write about a book I finished a few weeks ago and never posted about.

VALIS by Philip K. Dick

I don’t think I understand a single thing about it. It’s also my favorite PKD novel (so far, anyway, I’ve only read five). Completely wacko in all the best ways, and at the same time it feels very honest. It’s a deeply personal work.

Okay, I’m terrible at literary criticims, but man I love this book.

My recollection of the 3rd book of the Dune series is that it is not as good as 1, but better than 2.

4 is right out.

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#1094655
Topic
Are The Prequels That Bad?
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TV’s Frink said:

Just off the top of my head…

TPM: Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda, C3PO, R2D2, The Emperor, Greedo (deleted scene but point stands)
AOTC: Boba Fett, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda, C3PO, R2D2, The Emperor
ROTS: Chewbacca, Luke, Leia, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda, C3PO, R2D2, The Emperor

TFA: Rey, Finn, Poe, Kylo Ren, Phasma, Snoke, Hux, BB8, Maz

Yep, new characters in the PT, same old reboot characters in TFA…

Urge to trigger Frink…rising…

I believe you mean Rey(extreme Luke), Poe(extreme Wedge), Snoke(new Emperor), Hux(extreme Motti+Tarkin), BB8(really?), Maz(Yoda lite), Unkar Plutt(extra portions of Watto), Phasma(Boba Fett lite).

All these in addition to the outright reused characters:

Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, R2, C3PO, Ackbar and Nien Nunb.

This list by itself rivals the prequels in length, let alone all of the clear character analogues and reused ships, locations, weapons, and plot points. But I’m mostly fine with all the reused characters in TFA and the prequels because at least it’s honest. The character analogues, not so much.

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#1094418
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

yhwx said:

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

Trump has reached his highest disapproval rating and lowest approval rating yet.

By which metric?

538’s average has him at 38.2% approval, lowest since early June when he was at his true low of 38.0%.

Similarly, RCP has him at 39.2% approval, lowest since mid-June when he was at his true low of 38.6%

You are correct about Trump’s approval rating. I retract that part. We regret the error.

However, you neglected to mention that Trump is in fact at his highest disapproval rating according to the two trackers you cited:


My post was not based on the Rasmussen poll; in fact, it was based on the two above trackers.

538 has just updated to show his disapproval at 56.7% and his approval at 37.8%, his highest and lowest points ever, respectively.

And now it’s down to 37.6%. Sad!

Down to 37.0% by this afternoon.

This is fun.

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#1094401
Topic
STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Watching ESB again last night, I had the thought that perhaps the second Wampa was supposed to be a female, and that the male which attacked Luke was elsewhere in that scene. I wonder if that was supposed to be the implication all along, since they had filmed several Wampas attacking Echo base.

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#1094235
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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yhwx said:

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

Trump has reached his highest disapproval rating and lowest approval rating yet.

By which metric?

538’s average has him at 38.2% approval, lowest since early June when he was at his true low of 38.0%.

Similarly, RCP has him at 39.2% approval, lowest since mid-June when he was at his true low of 38.6%

You are correct about Trump’s approval rating. I retract that part. We regret the error.

However, you neglected to mention that Trump is in fact at his highest disapproval rating according to the two trackers you cited:


My post was not based on the Rasmussen poll; in fact, it was based on the two above trackers.

538 has just updated to show his disapproval at 56.7% and his approval at 37.8%, his highest and lowest points ever, respectively.

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#1094217
Topic
4K restoration on Star Wars
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Fang Zei said:

Don’t think I’ve ever seen this fringing problem.

Regal has something weird going on in their theaters where the right and left sides of the screen will be tinged slightly different. It’s not super distracting but I did find it noticeable during brightly lit scenes. Must have something to do with the way their theaters are set up because I’ve noticed this at two entirely separate locations.

I’ve seen this too at Regal, and I remember at one showing it was very distracting. It was Florence Foster Jenkins, and at first I thought it was intentional because they framed the titular character predominantly on one side of the screen so her face was often tinted, but it quickly became apparent that one side of the screen was green and one side was pink.

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#1094190
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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suspiciouscoffee said:

When I saw Doctor Strange there was a green/pink outline around everything, as if it was supposed to be in anaglyph 3D or something (it was a 2D showing). None of my friends noticed, but I did, and it was bad. Of course, idk how projection stuff works, but something was definitely wrong.

This has happened consistently in one particular auditorium of our local theater. It looks like a fringing effect similar to a mismatch of RGB film layers, with green on one side of edges and pink on the other. Perhaps there’s some misalignment of the LCD causing this fringing, but in any case, it’s irritating to me but apparently not to most other people.

milakow said:

Hellow

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