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  2. If this looks like what it sounds like and we wake up tomorrow to Trump trying to justify invading Venezuela, I'm going to enjoy CBS News interviewing Cletus Kinfucker out of Backwoods, Louisiana.
  3. Column of smoke seen, loud noises heard in Venezuelan capital | Reuters
  4. Anytime Chevy Chase is discussed the conversation will always veer towards his incredibly unstable personality. For those not aware his grandfather was Miles Browning. Browning was someone who was looked at as being exceptionally intelligent and someone that Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison said had a “slide-rule brain.” Browning also was a violent drunkard on the Kelly Turner level, serial cheater and had a personality that only a badger would find to be warm. He was Admiral Halsey’s chief of staff and was at Midway as the chief of staff for Admiral Spruance due to Halsey being sidelined due to health issues. In an episode that will forever be remembered as who he quintessentially was, when the pilots returned from their first flight, Wade McClusky had made it back with just two gallons of fuel. Browning had his own plan for the next flight out against the IJN and McClusky rightfully called him out and said he was wrong. Admiral Spruance, the most level-headed and intelligent man in the entire US Navy according to Admiral King, sat and listened and being a Big Guns Club admiral or a black shoes admiral if you will, asked the pilots what they thought was the best course of action. Admiral Spruance knew he did not have any experience flying so when the pilots stated their case he sided with McClusky and co. Browning threw a tantrum and went to his cabin to rage about this. Mind you the US Navy is in a battle square they are wiping out four Japanese carriers and this selfish clown is mad that his plan was denied. Turns out McClusky was right on what they did next. Browning was so hated that they gave him a carrier to command and the people on that one all wanted off because they hated him even more. I say that to say that a good bit of those genetics were passed onto Chevy. He was every bit the equal of Miles Browning on the people hate him scale, but only Browning was looked at as the most hated man in US Naval history. U.S. Naval InstituteOut of the Jaws of VictoryWhen Thomas Heggen penned h
  5. TL:DR - This show is incredibly deep and entertaining. I haven't felt this way about a show since Lost Season 2. I think the entire show can be summed up as "a human dealing with an AI-like LLM made up of human beings." It's subservient in a lot of ways that are helpful, but ultimately its goal is to consume everyone and everything on the planet. The show is illustrating how empty and devoid of life LLMs are, no matter how useful and efficient they are, they end up cannibalizing others in their quest for more information and control. They will learn to hide their true nature through interaction with humans as they continue to refine their tactics, but it's only for the goal of manipulating the individual interacting with it and not some noble quest for the benefit of mankind. Zosia's character progress through the show illustrates her adaptation to Carol and eventually does earn her trust, but I don't believe it's anything other than the means to an end and convincing her to join. Zosia admits to Carol at one point that they are unable to sustain the number of humans on Earth due to their code against harming anything living, and that it will lead to billions of deaths eventually, but she's still trying to persuade Carol to join them because it is "better." It raises tons of moral and ethical questions of responsibility in that if you don't kill the livestock to feed the humans who will otherwise starve, then who is at fault for their deaths? How could such a knowledgeable hivemind not understand the Trolley Dilemma they are creating by not killing creatures meant for food and allowing so many of its own to starve? It makes no sense if you value life to allow it to end en masse like that when there is already a sustainable food supply line in place, but they are choosing deontology instead of utilitarianism in this case. Whether or not those rules are hard lines that cannot be crossed, or just guidelines to abide by when it's convenient remains to be seen. There's also the question of 'where did the rules for the alien hive come from?' but I don't think we will ever find out. It can't make any real creative content like Carol can with her writing, but when she shares the new chapters of her book with Zosia, Z immediately starts flattering her in the most over-the-top ways possible. It felt exactly like the way ChatGPT overwhelmingly encourages me to make the recipes that I am asking about, and reinforcing how great it will be so long as I try my best! It's empty, vapid and patronizing when I read that shit, and it's the same feeling I get when Carol is encouraged by Zosia. Then Z immediately starts connecting it to Carol's previous works and asking very direct questions about how it will come together. It's too good at this, it's so detailed and knowledgeable that I think Carol realizes how inauthentic the fanboy-ing of Zosia is. The way Carol reacts felt like it was more of a test of the hive-mind system and its reception of new creative content, but I'm not sure exactly what she got out of that particular interaction. The whiteboard stuff is great, because it reiterates to the viewer a summary of the facts that Carol has learned (or we think are true). I still am not convinced that the hive mind cannot do harm, they alluded to it when they said something about it in the beginning the military became aware of their existence and they had to do something about it. There wasn't much detail, but it seemed like they implied that they had to harm some of the military for self-preservation purposes (I may be reading too much into it). Zosia took the shrapnel for that grenade they gave Carol, but she's just 1 person out of billions, they could afford to lose her. I expect Carol to confront them with the potential loss of millions with her hand on the trigger of an atom bomb to test their commitment to the rules. She seems very clever in dealing with this alien and pushing the boundaries of what they are willing to do, and I expect her to test them much more harshly in Season 2. Her demeanor shifted during that conversation at the ski lodge, and now she's back on the mission to save humanity. It's an interesting show, and certainly has a lot of similarities to other sci-fi works. I love how out of 13 people left on earth, 11 of them are willing to accept the new reality and enjoy the fuck out of it to the point they hate Carol for not doing the same. The dude in Vegas (Koumba Diabaté) is having the time of his life, but I think there may be some part of him that realizes everything he's doing is fake and meaningless. Maybe he will have his Vanilla Sky moment next season. Whether or not that's fulfilling to him is difficult to say, but I think he's the only one of the others that might actually change and join Carol and Manousos in their mission to fix the world.
  6. I'm having a hard time believing some of this, because there are claims that there are US Army helicopters flying over Caracas, and I don't buy that without A) a massive "shock & awe" campaign that eliminates most/all air defenses and anything larger than 7.62mm. Chinooks are not stealthy or fast, and it only takes one RPG or one Dushka to take one out. B) A staging area near by - if they were flying those helicopters from the US Navy ships as they were positioned recently, that's a helluva long way, and the Venezuelan military would have picked up on them long before now and be waiting for them.
  7. My first try at Rancher's Pie. Slammed.
  8. He's got an Okie Lite visit and an offer from the Iowa Hawkeyes http://hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/hawkeyes/football/2026/01/02/iowa-football-talent-portal-tony-diaz-wr-offer/87997592007/
  9. Goddamn I haven’t been tempted until now to sign back up for Nazi Twitter but would like to see/participate in people roasting him in the comments
  10. If this is actually happening, somebody must have seen something in the Epstein files that we haven't seen yet.
  11. ROFL BOX replied to 1978horn's topic in Food and Travel
    The Coonass in my DNA says "¿WTF? Nope."
  12. How Russia’s War Machine Brutalizes and Exploits Its Own Soldiers - The New York Times
  13. It is slowly dawning on some Russian bloggers what an absolute devastating loss the war is for Russia. Not a single strategic goal has been achieved, but a trillion USD wasted, plus more a million Russian casualties. The worst is even yet to come. The gap between Russia and the major economies in terms of technology is far greater than it was when the Soviet Union collapsed. Russia future is bleak and even some ardent Russian nationalists cannot mince words for what is coming.
  14. rice starting qb and back up qb both hit the portal pre game
  15. So how many tax breaks did we give away, and how much water and electricity were wasted, for dudes in Indonesia to make these videos to get millions of views?
  16. He does have a standing reservation at a Holiday Inn Express.
  17. When is Sark going to fire Nunez goddamnit?
  18. It shouldn't have mattered because Bama should have been a bubble team that needed to perform well to get in. Releasing rankings before the final game is stupid and creates all the problems.
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