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atomheartbevo

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  1. The pace of this shit is picking up. YouTube will be overrun within a year.
  2. Could happen to the best of us - just get bored, spend your days doing weird shit and banging Demerzel.
  3. That is a huge problem.
  4. Or 'Dixie'. Or something by Skrewdriver.
  5. We have almost a thousand F-16s sitting in the high desert, as an example, and it's very dry. They will never be used again, except for occasional parts or to replace the occasional Air National Guard/Air Force Reserve F-16s that are lost or retired for one reason or another. They are in far better shape than aircraft going through the shitshow of Russian aircraft storage where they go well below freezing in winter and bake in the summer, and are stripped for blackmarket parts. Most still have plenty of life in them, they were simply replaced by newer aircraft or retired as the military shrank. We also have 3,600 Abrams tanks that are sitting in storage, many of which were retired, again, due to a shrinking or changing military, or newer models. We purchased over 160,000 Humvees, and I'm sure there's a few tens of thousands in storage (although they may not be in the best of shape, *ahem* a lot of us treated them like shit). We probably have a few thousand Bradleys in storage, probably some Strykers in storage. A whole lot of M113s (although those are very old). Probably have a few hundred Black Hawks in storage as well. We actually take care of our stuff, unlike the Russians.
  6. And Congress is on board as is the American defense industries (which is why Congress is on board).
  7. No CR, just cold reality, but Trump needs a distraction, and Ukraine could provide a pretty good one if some spectacular stuff happened. Wait, cold reality…C..R…
  8. If I woke up tomorrow and aiSelaWard told me that Queen Elizabeth II had to die, well
  9. So if a Real World star takes some of his NASA contracts away from him, or if Tesla has problems with the NHTSA or sales continue to fall, when and how does the thing fall apart, and what company falls apart first? Maybe this is what Isaacson was talking about when he said Musk was probably trying to merge everything.
  10. Biden was President in 2019? edit: @bolverk
  11. The most fascinating thing to me about these past few days is that if they wanted this story to go away, he and Bondi decided to do the exact opposite, and we re seeing both the “Streisand Effect” and a the perfect example of “gaslighting” happening at the exact same moment. I also like that he lumped Hunter Biden’s laptop in with the hoaxes. These are literally things that more than a few MAGA or MAGA-adjacent types really give a shit about for some reason, and that helped drive a major conspiracy movement (Q/Qanons) and he’s telling them to forget about it, that it’s nothing, and if they believe it, they are a part of the leftist conspiracy against him.
  12. Should have sold it to Netflix as a 12 or 16-hour modern version of James Michener’s Centennial. That was an amazing series.
  13. I just know these movies really aren’t on the cultural awareness/what have you of my middle-schooler and his friends, and I hope Alamo will do a double-header of the original Terminator and T2 in the next few years, so he gets to fully experience the flip from antagonist to protagonist.
  14. Some of the Dems in the House are trying to force a vote on releasing the records, thereby putting all Republicans in the House in record. And I bet Marjorie Taylor Greene is more than happy to join them. I'm honestly shocked they haven’t been leaked, but the thing is, the people who could leak know the power in having them, and hanging them over the heads of people they want things from.
  15. I love that he claims the files are false and were written by Obama.
  16. He's having quite a time over the Epstein stuff, and this is liable to fuel a helluva lot more conspiracy theories/theorists. MAGA influencers must be upset with him over it.
  17. Don’t forget the conspiracy theorists who will bitch.
  18. City of Austin texted me about the NWS warnings. Guess nobody is fucking around.
  19. I'm just hoping that nobody feeds the AI information about the song "Sandstorm" by Darude so we can get all kinds of swaying structures when some civil engineers get in a rush and try to use it for some shortcuts.
  20. It will be, since Netanyahu only won the no-confidence vote because he promised they wouldn't be called up. The Orthodox were willing to join up with the other groups to boot him out of power. There's been a lot of noise about this over the past few days on a friend's (from Israel) group chat and how there's going to be a lot of students ignoring the call-up, forcing a showdown with the government. These people that are being targeted don't want to server because they disagree politically or are afraid of dying or whatever, it's religious with them. Really religious.
  21. Elon Musk@elonmusk Grok 4 is the first time, in my experience, that an AI has been able to solve difficult, real-world engineering questions where the answers cannot be found anywhere on the Internet or in books. And it will get much better. 2:39 AM · Jul 10, 2025 —— Engineering problems like whether or not Linda can take a BBC?
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