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Homercles

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  1. From what I understand ‘the nuclear codes’ (gold codes) change regularly and wouldn’t be worth much of anything. All they are is a way to positively identify the President when he phoned in a launch order to the national command, who then transmits both the code to unlock the weapons/safes plus another code they match in the locked up book to verify its an authorized order. Besides you’re not gonna just call someone on an unsecure line to kickoff WWIII because you had a code book. Much, much more damaging would be details about the design, materials or performance figures of a warhead or delivery system…say how to make FOGBANK, details on the strong/weak link setup in the PAL, or exact dimensions of the warhead in the B-61–12 bomb. With that information you could either design your own or detonate a stolen warhead. Saudi’s would love that I’m sure. But that stuff is ‘born secret’ and I can’t imagine it’s ever just floating around the White House. Ultimately I wish NYT or whoever hadn’t gone straight to nuclear secrets/codes. It’s a nuanced subject, and we all know these lunatics don’t care for details…and if it turns out to not be nuke stuff but ultimately just as damaging (say details on the B21 or formula for F35 paint or a dossier on intelligence sources), we know they’ll just say it was overblown.
  2. Look y’all…I’m a Poke, forged in the pessimistic burning dumpster that was the football program from 98-02. I’ve had my heart ripped out multiple times and knew with absolute certainty that yet another shaky, flickering ray of hope was going to be snuffed out last year when Caleb Williams came to town. It ended up being a last-second, incredible victory over the house that bag-o-dicks built. Let’s not assume it’s over just yet.
  3. This…I’d like to hope that the occasional, dedicated crazies getting appropriate consequences, televised nationally, is enough to gut-check most of the rest. It’s gotta be harder to convince a critical mass of people to take up arms against the country when they regularly see folks dying in corn fields, killing themselves or being locked up. It’s all fun and games on 4Chan/Truth Social/etc until Billy badass actually gets killed for trying to attack an FBI office.
  4. This popped up on my google news feed and seems telling. Bam states he’s much better off without Jackass in his life, Steve-O recounts how he was likely about to get back onboard until Bam skipped the zoom call with key players and everyone else saw him wasted the night before via TMZ (which Bam claims was just sipping beer): https://movieweb.com/bam-margera-steve-o-jackass-interview/ Sounds to me like he refuses to acknowledge the problem and just wants to keep drinking
  5. You’re not a gnat, are ya bug?
  6. Wouldn’t surprise me…his wife, or eventual ex wife I dunno, has long been onboard that all-consuming in-your-face style of agency. Edit: Yeah his FB page is that way too with a long, rambling (shocker) video about it along with a teaser to maybe be on tv?
  7. Ask him if he goes by Mark Stanco
  8. It was on the front page of Reddit. Sorting by controversial to see what mouth breathers gave to say were all pointing out how the AR is nothing like original M-16, the ammo is only middle of the size range for a rifle, it’s not the weapon it’s the user…all the usual flatty talking points.
  9. I know there’s a photo album thread somewhere, but beyond the disgusting actions it took for Trump to be able to take this photo that day…him holding the Bible in a staged, awkward way with a scowl on his face really seems to sum up his exploitative personality in general. Now contrast that with this Souza photo, taken off the cuff in the Oval Office. When I think of who I want leading my country, I value character and accessibility…not tear gassing protestors to pave the way to a church.
  10. Guess he gave up waiting for rain too
  11. Well he’s already using this to fundraise. I thought he was a billionaire? /s
  12. Comments on YouTube, Fox and Reddit are telling me this is only going to galvanize his fan base. Yet I would expect that they were already going to vote for him or it’s possible he won’t be able to run at all. After years of these clowns spamming every website with their cultish drivel I sure hope this goes where we expect it to.
  13. The hinges on my Happening Bunker broke off from excessive, overly excited usage the past few years. Is this latest dust up worth getting it fixed over? It certainly feels different given legit action by (supposedly) non-political agents of the government…but what are the chances this results in nothing? It makes sense to me that the DOJ/FBI would legit have to have ironclad documentation and purity of purpose to raid the Mar-a-lardo residence of a prior president…and the Fox Q News types certainly seem to be wound up…but I’ve been burned before
  14. Homercles

    LBGTQ

    Yeah because there’s no LGBTQ in theater
  15. I dunno I think Ford was an excellent Ryan in Patriot Games. That being said I can’t imagine anyone else playing Ryan in Red October, which is a testament to how well Baldwin played the role of analyst-turned-hero. Red October was yet another testament to practical effects having much longer staying power than early CGI…or most CGI as far as I’m concerned. There’s a short video on YouTube detailing the models they used for exterior and the gimbaled set for interior of the ‘big sonovabitch’. It was all really well executed. Ultimately though my favorite Clancy novel is Cardinal of the Kremlin, and I lament that they never made a serious attempt to put it to film. The detailed tradecraft, Filitov’s threadbare mindset haunted by ghosts from his past, interesting tech and different approaches of atmospheric attenuation for the lasers, desperate advances by the closeted lesbian spy, the archer and attack on the Russian base, sensory deprivation for information extraction, wild ending…it was a very complete, plausible story.
  16. Whoever coined that term ‘the party of NO’, probably during Obama’s term, was absolutely on the nose. I’m not really sure what they’re for anymore…because their stance is all an exercise in contradiction: they espouse small government (build the wall, corporate tax breaks, etc), limited regulation and oversight (see 2008 financial crisis, or trying to castrate renewables), and personal freedom (abortion, voting, gay marriage, church and state, etc).
  17. ^^ Didn’t that destroy a bit insignificant bit of the city with the volume and bass bins? It was a floating stage, right? And Waters continue being Waters, saying Ukraine is in the wrong for not suing for peace, Taiwan is rightfully China’s and Russia had already pretty much defeated the nazis before the US entered the war. https://consequence.net/2022/08/roger-waters-biden-war-criminal-russia-china/amp/ Obviously Barbarossa was falling on its ass about the time the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, so the war of attrition really cost Germany the initiative and was arguably the beginning of the end…but I don't know I’d argue that Russia won the war all by itself.
  18. I have absolutely no knowledge or experience or understanding of any of this…and I have just as much sympathy for the industry crowing about R&D costs when the tv is plastered with ads telling me to ‘ask your doctor about Provasic’ 30 years ago my parents used to bring me tons of random crap they were given by pharma reps including some very pricey custom items like a fosamax clock. How many billions do they spend every year advertising to consumers and manufacturing pens, clocks, calendars and other crap, or sending docs on golf vacations to peddle their wares?
  19. Nowhere near a lawyer but this fuckup harkens me back to reading The Rainmaker with the withheld section U in the underwriting manual and the ‘you must be stupid, stupid, stupid’ letter. So this whole thing is awesome to watch unfold.
  20. ^^ Thanks for sharing. Does a great job elaborating on something I mentioned to my wife tonight, the cinematography is outstanding. Love how he pointed out it conveys tension without shaky camera…a technique that I hate (sorta ruins great fight choreography in the Bourne movies, some of my favorites, and is way overplayed). Also awesome to know they didn’t use any hand doubles
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