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Everything posted by atomheartbevo
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Chipping away at Crimea.
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I would like to share your optimism, and I would like to think the law school and the alumni orgs have the leadership’s ear, but Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick also have the leadership’s ear, and Abbott is so desperate to please Trump. It also feels like a letter of rejection is quicker and easier to write than a letter of acceptance that you have to sell to the student body, profs, and alumni.
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Putin: Our gas exports are down, but they will grow! It's great news that Europe no longer buys Russian gas, we now sell to "more promising, responsible buyers" (at a huge discount).
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[Q]: Did president Putin try to dissuade you from selling Tomahawk missiles? President Trump: Of course. What do you think he's going to say, "Please sell Tomahawks"? I did actually say, "Would you mind if I gave a couple of thousand Tomahawks to your opposition?" I said it just that way. [Q]: And what was his response? Trump: He really didn't like the idea. [Q]: What did you tell him [Putin] about the Tomahawks? Did you discuss the Tomahawk missiles? President Trump: Well, we talked about it a little bit, didn't say much. But I do say to you: you know, we need Tomahawks for the United States of America, too. We have a lot of them, but we need them.
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Putin's aide Ushakov has made public the Russian version of the conversation between President Trump and Putin. The conversation lasted nearly two and a half hours and "was very substantive and extremely frank and confidential," Ushakov said. Particular emphasis was placed on the Ukrainian crisis: the Russian president assessed the situation and expressed Russia's interest in achieving a peaceful political and diplomatic settlement. According to Ushakov, Putin noted that Russia holds the strategic initiative, while the Kiev regime resorts to terrorist methods, to which Russia is forced to respond. Trump, in turn, repeatedly emphasized the need to quickly establish peace in Ukraine, Ushakov noted. The idea that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has proven to be the most difficult was evident throughout the conversation, the Russian presidential aide added. The US President pointed out that ending the conflict would open up enormous prospects for cooperation. The conversation also touched on the issue of possible supplies of long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, Ushakov said. Putin reiterated that they would not change the situation on the battlefield, but would cause significant damage to relations between the two countries. The heads of state also discussed the possibility of holding a new meeting, according to the Russian presidential aide. An agreement was reached that representatives of the two countries would immediately begin preparing for the meeting, which could take place, for example, in Budapest. The contact was "very useful," and the two leaders agreed to stay in touch, Ushakov added. ----- Would love to wake up to news that we are getting Tomahawks to the Ukrainians (or to somebody in NATO who then sends a better-suited weapon to Ukraine), but...this feels like Putin bought Russia a lot of time. On the flip side, Trump despises weakness, and Putin can't cover that up, no matter how much he butters up Trump.
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A few days ago, I started a thread in Movies and TV
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And most of the people who will be pressuring UT to accept it, never attended UT.
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In a sane world, UT's leadership would want to be included with those schools.
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Third time this week.
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I hate the 6-7 thing, but I was laughing.
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We are getting so fucking played. Sorry Ukraine, you're not getting Tomahawks and we'll probably end our information sharing.
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I can absolutely believe it. I never listen to the pitches, and I would hope the olds hang up on the callers with thick Indian accents just out of habit, but I can see it if they have your info and you're an old who is worried about finances.
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Until at least mid-2026. I think they are counting on Russia not being able to sustain that much destruction and having to do something (come to the negotiating table or just leave). The Russian people will tolerate a shitload, but if this campaign keeps up for another month as we really get into winter, I don't see how something won't break in their society - it would mean a shutdown on heating, on transportation, on food distribution, on electricity in general. They have to be running low on parts, and the people who can make these repairs have got to be stretched thin. Russia doesn't appear to have much in the way of buffers (national reserves) that they can easily tap to replace all of the lost fuel/refining/transportation, and Ukraine keeps on selectivity hitting targets that seem to be putting pressure on a lot of different places. Maybe they leave a refinery alone but hit vulnerable pumping stations and pipelines that feed to and distribute from that refinery, so for all intents and purposes, it's out of commission, etc. There's a definite grand plan going on. Ukraine has cut off that Russian group in the north and have slaughtered would-be armored reinforcements. They seem to be working on the fuel depots in the south (and the lines that feed them). And the one rail line that feeds Crimea/southern areas under Russian occupation on the landlocked side is apparently out of commission from what's been said - it's not far from Ukrainian lines, and the Ukrainians apparently tracked what was shipped across it so they knew when fuel cars were going to be run down it. They did something to stop a train full of fuel tankers and other military supplies and then took the engine and the tank cars out with drones. Because it's close to the lines and within range of a shitload of drones, the Russians are wary of bringing in heavy equipment to clear the line, so the line is basically out of action, leaving the rail line alongside the Kerch bridge the only rail supply line into Crimea. And supposedly Belarus is struggling and Putin and Co. are not quite abandoning it, but it's not getting much love, and the economy is in the shitter and things are happening there. So much is going on right now.
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Yep, my first thought
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Fuck it just doesn't stop. 3-4 a day, even though I block/report. Every little town around Austin. If I've gotten calls from 200+ different phone numbers since starting this thread, I would not be surprised. Those of us with middle-schoolers who haven't purchased phones for them yet, when they get older and we do get them phones, I wonder how many of them are going to end up with phone numbers that have been used and reported as spam in the past.
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Who's been covid vaxxed? Stand up and be counted.
atomheartbevo replied to High Plains Drifter's topic in Daily Texan
The heroin addict lawyer who got a fucking literal brain worm from eating raw monkey would have you believe in your opinion and not the experts. That Bishop's response is pretty solid: This is a classic textbook example of rhetorical confusion, an attempt to sound anti-authoritarian while misunderstanding both science and faith. Science at its best depends on disciplined expertise, peer review, and humility before evidence. Trusting experts does not mean blind obedience; it means recognizing the limits of one’s knowledge and valuing rigorous, tested inquiry. Rejecting expertise outright is not democratic; it is anti-intellectual. Democracies function when informed citizens weigh evidence responsibly, not when everyone treats opinion as equal to informed understanding. The comparison to religion is equally misguided. Mature faith is not credulous submission but trust grounded in relationship, conscience, and reason. The Christian tradition affirms that faith seeks understanding. It wrestles with truth; it does not suspend thought. Equating trust in credible expertise with totalitarianism is not only false but dangerous, because it erodes the trust that makes both science and democracy possible. Such rhetoric reveals a crisis of epistemic humility, characterized by an inability to acknowledge that truth requires both personal integrity and communal wisdom. When distrust becomes an identity, the result is not freedom but fragmentation, where no one can learn from anyone else. -
Are you all talking about Bill Burr the Star Wars actor? Anyways, with the above said about YouTube and podcasts fucking things up, I've got two young kids, I'm not doing much in the way of going out to clubs or concerts, so I consume the hell out of a lot of YT stuff. I can talk about how YT is fucking things up, but at the same time, I can use it to find people I've never heard of before, and it's giving a lot of comedians and clubs an outlet (and a way to make a living) that they didn't have before. And a lot of comedians don't hold back on YT whereas they might for a filmed special on Comedy Central or Netflix (but not Anthony Jeselik). And comedy does adapt - I love the premise of Don't Tell Comedy - Don't Tell Comedy: Secret Comedy Shows across the U.S. for instance, where you are buying tickets and you have no idea what comedian you are going to get or where it's going to be. We plan on doing this at one of the Austin dates. We had friends who went to one of their shows, and saw Maddie Wiener, and she is somebody they would never have paid money to see before that, had never heard of her, but now they'll go see her anytime she's nearby. Hell, I wouldn't have, but they were telling me about her and looked up one of her DTC clips, and holy fucking shit she got dark at the end. She's not going to be on Joe Rogan or Netflix any time soon because reasons, but of course she has a fucking podcast, but whatever. Would have been fun to show up at a Don't Tell Comedy special and he was there With that said.....YouTube also surfaces a lot of absolute shit that has a fuckton of views and likes and I have absolutely no idea why, and I have to dislike this stuff to keep it off my algorithm. Like the white guy who is a Navy vet and is constantly talking about being around Black people (I think his wife is Black). It keeps surfacing it because I've watched a lot of comedy and military shows, but he's so repetitive. I feel like he did two concerts and everything on YT is just chopped up bits from those concerts. Or Leanne Morgan. It keeps surfacing her stuff. I know she has her audience who loves her, but if I'm going to take a middle-aged blonde Morgan, I'd rather taken Karen Morgan because I find her easy on the eyes and ears and in my wheelhouse (but she keeps it really tame). It's funny with YouTube though, sometimes this feels like "country music is dying" to me because I fucking loathe 98% of country music and country singers from the last 20 years, so I'll go out on YouTube and catch the hall-of-famers doing concerts 30-40 years ago. Same with comedy, I can go find Richard Pryor or Foster Brooks or Don Rickles or whoever.
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I can see this with Jeselnik and support this. I fucking loathe Joe Rogan being held up as some kind of arbiter by people, his opinions change with whoever is sitting in front of him. I do think the podcast thing is fucking up a lot of stuff for the reasons mentioned, but I also see why a lot of them like doing podcasts - it's regular work that doesn't require them to leave the house in a lot of cases, or if they do, it's more of a 9-to-5 thing (or more likely 9-to-noon thing) versus life on the road constantly doing clubs in different cities. For a lot of those guys who have families, they'll take it. Throw in that they probably have more control over the financial side of a podcast. I think podcasts, and to a lesser extent, YouTube, ruin things because if you're a comedy fan, you could be consuming a lot of comedy content through your favorite comedian's podcast and through YouTube, and so the idea of taking the additional time and money to go out to the club starts to diminish. It's not like 30 years ago where you'd see the occasionally HBO special and just didn't have a lot of access to comedy outside of Blockbuster and so trips to comedy clubs were a part of your normal rotation.
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On the night of October 16, 2025, Ukraine's Armed Forces carried out a strike on the Saratov Refinery in Russia's Saratov region, the General Staff of the AFU said. The Saratov Refinery is one of the oldest oil refining enterprises in Russia. As of 2023, its oil refining volume amounted to 4.8 million tons. The facility is involved in meeting the needs of the Russian armed forces.
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I would be extremely disappointed at the lack of A-10s.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
atomheartbevo replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
One of my favorite YouTube channels - deep dives on classic sci-fi and literature/films/TV. He uses the point of people claiming to have remembered seeing some scenes in the original Star Wars movie that would have basically been impossible to be there. The missing scene was in fact filmed, and most Star Wars fans have now seen parts of it or at least heard about it - stills from the scene made it into 1970s picture books, novels, comic books, etc. From the perspective of a historian, there are paper trails, contemporary interviews, etc. that cast doubt on those claims of people having seen it in the 1970s, and that all goes out the window with AI in the future. Only 10 minutes, but sobering to think that future historians trying to track down what is or is not true, and prove or disprove collective memories, is going to be near impossible because of AI. edit: he makes a point that people could be convicted or even killed because of bogus video in the future, -
One other thing - if the remaining refineries/operations have to somehow boost their output/throughput, that seems like a recipe for long-term wear and tear.
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@PTINS curious what you think of this IEA Sees Drone Strikes Weighing on Russia Oil-Processing Till Mid-2026 - Bloomberg "The impact from Ukrainian drone strikes will suppress Russia’s refinery processing rates until at least mid-2026, the International Energy Agency says in its latest monthly oil-market report... ' Previously, we had assumed a normalization of refining activity as we approached year-end but now embed a more cautious outlook,' the Paris-based agency said in a report on Tuesday. The IEA currently sees Russian processing rates at just under 5 million barrels a day through June 2026, and a recovery toward 5.4 million barrels a day later, with the outlook to be revised as more information becomes available. ' The increasingly widespread and significant Ukrainian drone campaign against Russian oil refineries and infrastructure' has so far cut the nation’s crude processing by an estimated 500,000 barrels a day, the agency said... With the drone strikes weighing on refinery runs, Russia raised its crude exports in September to 5.1 million barrels a day, the highest since May 2023, according to the IEA. Still, the nation’s oil-export revenues declined to a three-month low of $13.4 billion, the agency estimated. The decline came as Russia’s crude-supply revenues, which rose $200 million month-on-month, were more than offset by a $440 million drop for oil-product exports, the report said. According to the IEA calculations, Russian fuel supplies to other countries in September reached 2.4 million barrels a day, the lowest in a decade, excluding April 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic."
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