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Watched: Evil Dead Rise 🍿

Part 2 of the rewatch to Evil Dead Burn. It’s better than the first time I saw it. Quite possibly the best title card of any movie.

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals. From Propublica.

The amount of never ending blatant corruption within this administration is outstanding. It just never ends.

New bar opened up a few weeks ago so of course had to try it. Went with a daiquiri riff. Really good.

The Tidbyt looks really cool. If I had some play money and a place to put this, I’d 100% pick one up. It sort of reminds me – at least in functionality – of the Chumby from way back in 2010. I had one and still miss it every now and then.

R Kelly officially asks Trump to end his 30-year prison sentence for sex crimes. Birds of a feather and all that stuff. R Kelly should have just ran for president if he didn’t want to go to jail.

Watched: Evil Dead 🍿

Doing a rewatch of the rebooted Evil Dead movies before seeing Evil Dead Burn this weekend. I don’t know if I forgot that I saw this one or what, but it’s pure Evil Dead goodness. Campy, gory, and loaded with the quips.

Watched Jackass 4.5 🍿 last night. As someone who first saw Jackass back in high school and all the spinoffs on MTV, it was fun seeing the crew back together. I don’t know how they still do the things they do at their age.

Quick little lunch trip to Hershey, PA at Troegs for Jacy’s birthday.

One of my unhealthy behaviors is reading comments on the local Fox News affiliate. Their readers pose a unique ability to make racist, vile comments on any story. Prime example on a story about our local celebrity, Mr. Trashwheel, keeping the harbor clean:

Giants08: They learn there habits from there “Parents “..handed down generation after generation..

and

JasonRodram69: Can it clean up “takeovers”?

I’m curious as to what Mr. Rodram69 means by “takeovers”?

Via Techdirt: Musk’s Starlink Socks Customers With $1500 ‘High Demand’ Surcharge

These surcharges are actively designed to deter use because the network is struggling to handle the load. They started at around $100 a few years ago, then jumped to $750. And last week, Reddit users began complaining that they were automatically hit with a $1500 demand surcharge.

and

That a niche broadband option gets congestion normally wouldn’t be that big of a deal; the problem is Trump Republicans have hijacked and retooled the $42.5 billion infrastructure bill broadband grant program to throw billions of dollars – and millions of new customers – at Musk’s Starlink as a personal favor to one of the U.S. president’s biggest donors.

I was sitting at the local watering hole last night and saw the same Starlink commercial at least 4 times. I remember when the dream was “fiber to the home”. It infuriates me that a group of conmen, hucksters, grifters, and all of their sycophants – and their gullible followers – have destroyed that dream.