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Jim Ross Going Home From Hospital On Tuesday

I'm glad he's getting to go home, a long hospital stay is horrid.

I also worry for the man, one of the places where I grew up the volunteer fire department had a morning call program, every day they would call and check in during a certain half-hour time frame, if nobody answered they'd send somebody over to check on you, I almost feel like he could use something like that.

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This free tool is helping drivers avoid automatic license plate readers — as fears grow around 'intrusive' new devices that could track your phone, AirPod and smartwatch data

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They have a whole division for pushing HOA's to partner with them and "keep the places you call home safe." So it's not even just Governments you need to wonder about, HOA's can just install them. So if you can't find anything in Government documents, it's entirely possible a nearby HOA did it.

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That's some of the sales pitch on their site about why HOA's should get them.

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Steam Machine pricing and launch announced and yes it's pricey

I really question why I would choose this over a 5060 Ti gaming laptop or PowerSpec rig for roughly the same price as the 2tb w/controller option. I guess it looks good, but I can use creative cabinet placement to hide a tower or laptop if I need to. For now, I am not sure it's for me, but it looks good, although maybe not that controller.

I fully expect the next-next Gen Consoles to be similarly priced due to the whole shortages thing for the AI Gold rush.

I also can't wait to see it torn down and to find out how repairable it is.

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Hulk Hogan Dead at 71

I don't necessarily mourn the person, I do mourn the character, I mourn what that character meant for professional wrestling, Hulkamania catapulted wrestling into what we know today, helped bring about Mania, the nWo leads and the Monday Night Wars, that gets us the Attitude Era, which leads to wrestling being a cultural phenomenon we'll likely never see again. I mourn that, I truly do.

Yet... Hogan made a career out of telling people to be moral All-American people, behind the scenes he was a union buster, complicit in a steroid scandal, held up others for his own gain, helped destroy a company he knew nothing about, turned out to be a racist and when he was finally allowed to return it's reported he was telling people not he was sorry just don't get caught on camera, his daughter quit talking to him because he only wanted a relationship on his terms, he went full Trump, all around he was not upholding the principles of Hulkamania. As a human I mostly find him distasteful, but not to go full on like some did today, Holy Beelzebub I dislike a some of you today even if I understand the sentiment.

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Ford Can Lock You Out of Your Own Car

This or similar is coming to every vehicle sold in the United States, Congress mandated passive monitoring for impaired driving in 2021, and didn't stop the funding of it this year, and that means NHTSA is supposed to issue a rule and this will go into affect in 2027 and probably be fully implemented a few years after the rule is issued.

The silver lining I guess, unless they change the law, is that a mechanic, dealer, or manufacturer may not disable a "safety" feature as mandated by US law/NHTSA rule, but the person that owns the vehicle can. I look forward to the internet finding out how to do this appropriately, I don't want any future car I might get monitoring and selling my data to the highest bidder, or Lexis Nexis. The catch here is that automakers are likely to claim it's a software thing and that the DMCA anti-circumvention rules apply... at which point, I'd argue just buy a decent old car and learn how to keep it going whether by working on it yourself or saving up to take it to somebody.

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Peacock raising prices another $3

Oh look... another subscription I will cancel when my Black Friday deal ends, I will not be nickle and dime'd to death by legacy media for just a handful of shows, I can get entertainment in other ways.

Peacock’s yearly plans will see similar increases, with Peacock Premium now priced at $109.99 per year (up from $79.99) and Premium Plus costing $169.99 (up from $139.99). Peacock Premium from $7.99 to $10.99 per month, while its ad-free Premium Plus plan will go from $13.99 per month to $16.99 per month.

It's quoted out of order, but it's the increases.

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Paramount Exploring Bid For Warner Bros. Discovery

Assuming the rumor is true, this is going to be bad. Paramount has already shown they'll do whatever it takes to get the administration to approve it, the only thing that could come out of this is knowing for sure if the TKO/WWE contracts rumored exclusivity clause is real or not.

Workers and actors will lose out as there will be less places to work, there will likely be fewer movies/shows in production, consumers will lose out as the bills are going up up up to pay down the debt this will incur, all around this is going to suck if it happens, even if AEW some how doesn't end up in a bad spot.

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Prince Andrew must be seething that Donald Trump gets to chug along like nothing happened.

Andrew screwed himself with that TV interview, he could likely have weathered it by keeping his mouth shut and just issuing a statement similar to what Donald says, I knew him, found out he was a creep and tossed him out of Mar-a-Lago. I seem to remember at one point an attorney for Guilffre claimed that had he not said he didn't know or meet her in that TV interview there wouldn't have been a lawsuit.

So if he's seething, it's his own damn fault.

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Jennifer Aniston Says Friends Reunion 'Impossible' Without Matthew Perry

Depends on what she means by reunion, a new series of shows or just a get together, they already did the get together thing, so really no need for another one.

I'm not saying do it, I'd urge them not to, but if NBC wanted to drag this on it's possible without needing the original cast to sign on to it. They could just use the original characters children and whatever friends they may have. The Bing twins, the Buffet Triplets, Ben and Emma, they are all possible to use and do call backs to fan fave episodes.

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Due to unsatisfactory ticket sales, WWE has canceled WWE Late Night ft. Tony Hinchcliffe.

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The following is an opinion made from a Jello Mold...

TKO is finding out that WWE fans have slightly better morals than UFC fans, it's why they've been working so hard to convert WWE PLE's into UFC ticket pricing, to push out the middle class (and more importantly poor people) for the millionaire and billionaire class.

As to the topic at hand... think of that gif of Troy going "good."

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ECW Founder Tod Gordon Hospitalized

Best wishes Tod.

Imagine if this man hadn't decided to put his money into Eastern Championship Wrestling when TWA folded. There's a high probability that Paul E Dangerously never gets his shot at booking, never gets the chance to take control and go with the Extreme version of ECW, which would mean WCW never steals the cruiserweights and WWF never finds its "Attitude." Tod Gordon should get some more credit than he does.

Dang ole butterfly affect and all that man.