John Krasinski says his mom talked him out of quitting three weeks before he booked The Office, so she gets 10% of everything
"I said to my mom, 'I'm going to move to New York and be an actor'"
"She said, 'The only thing I ask is that in three years, if you haven't had a bite or a nibble, you have to pull yourself out of this, because as your mother, you can't ask me to tell my son to give up on his dreams'"
"Two and a half years later, I called her and said, 'I did it. I gave it a shot, and I haven't had any nibbles.' She said, 'It's September. Let's talk about it at Christmas. Just finish the year.' Three weeks later, I booked The Office, so I owe my mom 10% of everything"
SONY CAN DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT FOR NOT PLAYING.
while everyone argued about disc drives, the internet actually read Sony's European Terms of Service. section 21 of the current terms - and the clause has been there for years.
- go 36 months without logging in, and Sony may begin closing your account
- they send one email warning. You get six months to respond
- miss that email, and your entire digital library - games, DLC, purchases - becomes permanently inaccessible
- "Account closure is irreversible" - direct quote from the document
now do the math with what Sony announced this week:
> from 2028 physical disc production for new games ends - there is no backup plan.
> three years of real life - deployment, illness, a broken console - and everything you've bought over the years hangs on a single email sent to whatever address you registered in 2026.
THE DISC NEVER ASKED IF YOU'D BEEN ACTIVE LATELY.
Your daughter just got her first period.
Do not tell her she is a woman now.
Tell her what estrogen does.
Tell her what progesterone does.
Tell her her cycle has four phases and each one will feel different.
Give her information. Not a new identity.
Former NBA player Eddy Curry says The Chicago Bulls offered him $400,000 a year for 50 years ($20 million total) to take a DNA test but he refused.
โThe bulls were not letting me play and it came down to a situation where they were like we want you to take a DNA test because we donโt know if you have a heart disease or youโd eventually develop oneโ
โSo my lawyer went to talk to some people and he came back and said โnah I donโt think you should do that because that could probably affect a lot of things for some African-Americansโโ
โThey were like โif you test positive we will give you like $400,000 yearly for the rest of your lifeโโ
This guy bought Samsungโs 990 Pro 4 TB SSD when it was ~$330 and now Samsung REFUSES to replace it as the SSD now costs ~$950 due to the AI boom.
The SSD came with a 5-year warranty but started malfunctioning after just one year.
He sent Samsung evidence showing the drive was malfunctioning. Samsung rejected his claim, said it was working fine, and mailed it back to him.
When asked for a replacement, Samsung said the SSD was โout of stockโ and couldnโt be replaced, offering only a refund of the original ~$330 purchase price.
The problem? The same SSD is currently IN STOCK and selling for around $950, so the refund wouldnโt even buy a replacement.
Heโs now taking legal action against Samsung.
At this point, replacing the SSD wouldโve probably been cheaper for Samsung than fighting the lawsuit. ๐ญ
"Hip Hop changing from positive to negative was not a consequence of history, it was not a circumstance of history....it had everything to do with the fact that there are people in this particular society who wants to see us exactly where we are..."