Ken Jennings
Person on 4 sites
Ken Jennings (born 23 May 1974) is an American game show host and author.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 23 May 1974 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Jeopardy!: 74 straight wins (2004); won The Greatest of All Time tournament (opens wiqqi.app)
- Host: Jeopardy!, sharing it with Mayim Bialik from 2021 to 2023, then sole host (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Bluesky: @kenjennings.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
“I never post about polls because then 500 people reply "None of this matters if we don't VOTE" and then I have to decide whether to mute or block 500 probably perfectly nice people.”
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Podcast: Omnibus (opens www.omnibusproject.com)
“Tower of Babel, 1957 (Entry 1322.GE1109)”
- Site: ken-jennings.com (opens ken-jennings.com)
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Bluesky: @kenjennings.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
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13 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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State-level millionaire taxes work, because few people actually move away to avoid them. (opens korrents.com)
“You’d get even less migration at the federal level, but my guess is these will still be pretty effective at the state level. There’s a reason why “Fine, I’ll just move to Texas then!” is not a sentence you hear much in…”
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Billionaires who dodge taxes like the Washington millionaire tax should be shamed. (opens korrents.com)
“I said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.”
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Feeling sad at a film or book is not trauma, and it should not be conflated with it. (opens korrents.com)
“But it doesn't do anybody any good to conflate actual trauma with "things that make me feel sad." We all have that! You weren't actually "scarred" by the horse dying in Neverending Story. You just felt big, grown-up…”
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State-level millionaire taxes work, because few people actually move away to avoid them. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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A Hard Day’s Night (opens rcmnd.app)
“The sheer infectious glee of A Hard Day’s Night, on the other hand, actually gets across what it must have been like to be the Beatles in 1964. Since I was ten years old, I’ve probably watched this movie once a year.”
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The Palm Beach Story (opens rcmnd.app)
“but only The Palm Beach Story has Claudette Colbert raising the blood pressure of the Wienie King. Other Sturges movies only aspire to the off-the-rails insanity that this movie achieves in its first and last thirty…”
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A Hard Day’s Night (opens rcmnd.app)