yhwx

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1143485

Update, Saturday, December 16, 2017, at 8:10 P.M. EST:

Changed:

• A broken link was fixed.
• The count of Off Topic threads in the first paragraph is now accurate.

Added:

• 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games,
• World Cup 2018 thread,
• The Usernames That Would Be the Worst Usernames on the Site if They Actually Existed Thread,
• Petition to give Warbler his Sigh Back, and
• Bring Back Ric!

Making the categories expandable and collapsable also kind of ruins using the “find” feature. You have to expand every category for it to be searchable by the browser. I’m not sure if that trade-off is worth it.

Is that the future that liberals want?

I don’t identify as any religion.

I liked her character. I will agree with the complaint that most of the characters in RO aren’t too compelling, however.

Possessed said:

yhwx said:

I’ve never seen Santa at our Walmart. I wonder what’s his grudge.

Should be from 12-4 every Saturday this month.

Well, I went today and I didn’t see him.

I’ve never seen Santa at our Walmart. I wonder what’s his grudge.

TV’s Frink said:

The extreme misanthropy annoys me for some reason.

Interesting.

https://twitter.com/TheSimpsons/status/941367856070979584

Robert Mueller meets with President Donald Trump… #TheSimpsons https://twitter.com/TheSimpsons/status/941367856070979584/video/1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-in-the-news%3Apage%2Fin-the-news&utm_term=.897b3297c431

The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in official documents being prepared for next year’s budget.

Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden words are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”

In some instances, the analysts were given alternative phrases. Instead of “science-based” or ­“evidence-based,” the suggested phrase is “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes,” the person said. In other cases, no replacement words were immediately offered.

The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, “will continue to use the best scientific evidence available to improve the health of all Americans,” HHS spokesman Matt Lloyd told The Washington Post. “HHS also strongly encourages the use of outcome and evidence data in program evaluations and budget decisions.”

The question of how to address such issues as sexual orientation, gender identity and abortion rights — all of which received significant visibility under the Obama administration — has surfaced repeatedly in federal agencies since President Trump took office. Several key departments — including HHS, as well as Justice, Education, and Housing and Urban Development — have changed some federal policies and how they collect government information about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.

chyron8472 said:

yhwx said:

That narrows it down to millions.

Yes.

Glad we ageee on something.

That narrows it down to millions.

Billions of people have never seen a Star Wars movie.

yhwx said:

yhwx said:

1. The Empire Strickes Back
2. Return of the Jedi
3. The Force Awakens
4. The Phantom Menace †
5. Star Wars
6. Attack of the Clones
7. Revenge of the Sith

† I do really like this score, but due to how lists work, it has been relegated to a lower place than I might have wanted it to. (And no, I do not accept ties.)

Updated ranking, which I am pretty satisfied with:

1. The Empire Strikes Back
   A really good soundtrack.

2. Star Wars
   I think I pretty severely underrated this soundtrack in my original ranking. After listening through it again, I really liked it.

3. Return of the Jedi
   Pretty good. Side note: It’s pretty much impossible to find a good version of this soundtrack that either doesn’t sound like crap or has been watered down to oblivion.

4. The Force Awakens
   Thumbs up.

5. Rogue One
   I think most people underrate this soundtrack, but I loved how it sounded and worked in the movie. I also liked how it tied in with the A New Hope soundtrack.

6. The Phantom Menace
   Thumbs up. I especially like ‘Anikan’s Theme’.

7. Attack of the Clones
   Pretty unremarkable as far as Star Wars soundtracks go.

8. Revenge of the Sith
   Pretty much the same as Attack of the Clones.

So even though I have not watched the movie yet, I have bought the TLJ soundtrack. I’m not quite sure what to think of it. It seemed to me kind of busy in places, but that could just reflect the pace of the movie. I think this soundtrack has a bit more interest to me than TFA’s, so I’ll place it above that for now. I also loved the callbacks to earlier soundtracks.

Current ranking:

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. A New Hope
3. Return of the Jedi
4. The Last Jedi
5. The Force Awakens
6. The Phantom Menace
7. Attack of the Clones
8. Revenge of the Sith

ModsRBad

Sock? If so, of whom?

DominicCobb said:

Making the categories expandable/collapsable would be nice.

That’s very easy to do. I’ll consider it.

darth_ender said:

I know it’s a lot of work for you, but I feel this thread would be more useful if there were more categories or sub-categories.

I’ve thought about this. It would be a major refactoring of the the thread, however.

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

Yes but it was still too close a race. Someone like Moore shouldn’t be able to get anywhere near close to being a elected to the US Senate.

It’s Alabama dude.

This is what I’d say to anybody with doubt regarding the margin of victory.

AP bulletin.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/940784509238333441

BREAKING: Democrat Doug Jones wins election as U.S. senator from Alabama. @AP race call at 10:23 p.m. EST. #AlabamaElection #APracecall

Holy shit!

DuracellEnergizer said:

Mark’s broke her own rules. Therefore I consider them no longer binding.

[insert political joke here]

I’ve accidentally clicked on the TLJ spoiler thread plenty of times. The good thing is that almost all of the time I realize it and have time to click away, but there was one time where it took me a while to realize I was in the spoiler thread, but no spoilers were actually being discussed.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/alabama-senate-election-results/?lpup=11144550#livepress-update-11144550

As the conventional wisdom — and the Upshot’s cool model — now swings slightly back toward Jones again, it’s worth remembering that making extrapolations based on partial returns is a lot harder in a state like Alabama where we aren’t used to having competitive elections. That why models like the Upshot’s have wide confidence intervals (conveying a lot of uncertainty) and why you should be cautious about getting too far ahead of the story.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/melania-ivanka-jared-mayoral-election-votes-didn-count-article-1.3692124

Good thing last month’s mayoral election wasn’t close because if New Yorkers needed the Trump family to decide the outcome, they would have been out of luck.

President Trump and his family of New Yorkers were not in the Big Apple Nov. 7 when voters went the polls, so they voted by absentee ballot.

Or at least they tried to.

But the First Lady did not sign the envelope she put the ballot in as required by BOE, so her vote wasn’t counted.

Trump’s daughter Ivanka also botched her ballot. It was filled out correctly, but she didn’t mail it until Election Day—which was too late to be counted, officials said.

Her husband, Jared Kushner, didn’t mail his back at all, according to the board.

Officials said the President’s ballot was fine. But that was before the Daily News pointed out to an official that the date of birth on his application was a full month off.