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  1. 1 minute ago, royiv said:

    I hope some folks in EU leadership are paying attention. 

    They are, and when Trump gets asked about this, he's going to be pissed off that he's catching shit for Musk, so it's going to be hilarious.  Leon is playing chicken with the world. I would imagine that a couple of canceled contracts would turbo-fuck SpaceX, so it'll be a warning shot across the bow.

     

    9 minutes ago, royiv said:

    This shit can’t be real, can it? Did the Epstein thing completely cause him to spin out?

    Epstein and the budget (especially the parts that are going to hurt Tesla bigly).

  2. 29 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    wow-eeeeeee crashing out via your large language model is a pretty impressive feat

    And his political party.  Just wait until the first rally, not sure how easy it is to throw up a Nazi salute with your kid on your shoulders, but we will see.

    He's going to get one helluva rush from his political rallies, I guarantee it.

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  3. 4 hours ago, Pasken said:

    It'l be hard to pull the nazis from MAGA. His best opportunity is going after the George Conway, Liz Chaney, Nikki Haley and Justin Amash.  What's he's probably going to do is go for the wannabe political influencers like Andrew Yang, JD Vance types and Vivek Ramaswamy. It might be nice long term to pull the shit libs like Cummo, his brother and all the others out of the dem party but I don't think that will happen. 

    Another possibility is he turns to the existing shits that already suck at his X teet and convince them to run for office. Basically look at the X payroll and contact everyone that he doesn't want to impregnate. 

    He's going after his followers, the tech bros, libertarians, and white supremacists.  There's a joke to be made there.

    He's not pull anybody from the Dems, when he spent over $250 million to get Trump elected.

     

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  4. I really hope that Musk continues to push the Epstein stuff hard as it pisses Trump off and will peel off some of the Qanons who were already disappointed that Trump didn’t arrest Hillary. He needs to redirect those idiots and he will be picking fights with people who can cripple his companies and contracts.

    Be right back, gonna print a few hundred T-shirts that say “Epstein’s final victim” with a picture of Musk on it, in the hopes that Trump gets contracts cancelled.

    Did it even sink in with Musk when Trump literally mentioned how it would be a shame if his contracts and subsidies got cut?

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  5. 47 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    I think he realizes he got used.  I doubt he realizes he can't really do shit about it.

    I think he believes he can bully Trump/Republicans into helping him out with the threat of a new political party.  I don't think he realizes that the GOP has easily dealt with third-parties and pseudo third-parties in recent years.  They fucking wrecked/consumed the Tea Party movement from within, and that was a pretty big movement with a lot of actual grass roots stuff going on.

    Elon may try and start a third party, but he should be extremely wary when long-time GOP operatives show up, say they are tired of the GOP, and want to help out.  Except he won't be wary, because he thinks that he knows what he is doing is right and has the support of many people, so of course it makes sense that long-time Republicans would show up to join his party. They will get in there, eat up his finances, keep everything divided, slow-roll the shit out of the whole process, and generate infighting.  They will make any potential party about as effective as the libertarians.

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  6. James Gunn: Some people will take offence at my new Superman

    ““There are three things I don’t ever need to see again in a superhero movie, I don’t need to see pearls in a back alley when Batman’s parents are killed. I don’t need to see the radioactive spider biting Spider-Man. And I don’t need to see baby Kal coming from Krypton in a little baby rocket. We have watched a million movies with characters who don’t have their upbringing explained, like when we see Good Night, and Good Luck—we don’t need to know the early life of Edward R. Murrow to explain how he became a journalist. Who cares?”

    The Office Thank You GIF

    We had to see a lot of origin stuff with the Marvel movies because a lot of normal people weren't too familiar with the non-X-Men/Spidey/F4 heroes, and in those cases, they were setting up long-term arcs.

    I think Gunn did it right in Guardians with giving us bits and pieces of backstories. Peter and the shit that happened with his mom, the scars on Rocket, etc.

  7. 2 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    Firebomb everyone involved fking liars 

    What if I told you that if the Deep State truly existed the way the Epstein Truthers believe, Trump and Co. would not have been elected?

    I hope Musk gets called out on this a lot in the coming days, because he always thinks he's the smartest/savviest guy in the room and he has to get his opinion out there for the likes/clicks.

  8. 20 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    That's called adrenaline.  It's why couch-cowboys who buy a gun, or a knife, or a baton think they are just going to "see red" and be able to perform. Doesn't work like that.  Your fine motor skills go to shit. 

    1234.

    It's why no matter how tough they are, some dude can walk in on you banging his wife, and you stand up, fully nude, and scream at him "I may have made love to your wife but I'm gonna fuck you so hard your grandchildren are going to feel it and your wife is going to film the whole thing" and I guarantee you that they are going to get the fuck out there.  Whether it's you being fully nude, or your raging erection, or the intensity in your voice or your eyes, you have to convince them that you are in fact going to fuck them, and they will flee, saving one of you a trip to the hospital.

    Edit: it would probably work at a gas station hold-up, assuming you could get your clothes off and get erect fast enough.  Dudes who cosplay that they are tough generally can't handle another nekkid man.

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  9. 32 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

    Just wanted to quickly respond here as I fully agree. I think way too many shows produce X numbers of episodes why Y would have sufficed. Reduce shitty side character archs, reduce overall characters, stick to the main story and stop with the emotional baggage that doesn't drive plot as well as overly extensive back story not relevant to core characters. Also, way too much fucking exposition. 

    You end up with "Worms", when you just wanted to fly fish.

    Gilroy showed how to do it with Andor season 2.  Thread that needle - leave people wanting a little more, but don't leave a lot of people going "I don't know if I can finish this".

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  10. From that AP article earlier

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    How one Texas summer camp successfully evacuated from the floods | AP News

    It was about 1 a.m. on the Fourth of July when the facilities manager at a central Texas summer camp saw water from the Guadalupe River steadily rising amid a deluge of rain.

    Aroldo Barrera notified his boss, who had been monitoring reports of the storms approaching Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly, a recreation destination where an intercultural youth conference had been called off early just hours earlier.

    Despite an absence of warning by local authorities, camp officials acted quickly on their own, relocating about 70 children and adults staying overnight in a building near the river. With the kids safe, camp leaders including President and CEO Tim Huchton were able to avoid the catastrophe that hit at least one other camp near Hunt, where the 500-acre Mo-Ranch is located.

    “They helped them pack up,” Lisa Winters, communications director for Mo-Ranch, told The Associated Press on Sunday. “They got them up, they got them out, put them up on higher ground.”

    They did it right.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

    Did Austin firefighters deploy to Liberty Hill and Georgetown? Because I know for a fact that Round Rock firefighters deployed to Liberty Hill and performed numerous water rescues and evacuations. 

    Probably/maybe? They did something like two dozen water rescues within Travis County (and maybe a few outside of TC), and it sounds like they were deployed where needed.  I know they didn't deploy to Kerrville, and the union is blasting the fire chief over that, but I think their reasoning was that they expected bad flooding within Austin/Travis County.

     

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  12. 14 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    Nicole has made the national news!

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    The waters of a Texas lake remain shrouded in mystery as dozens of young men’s bodies continue to be pulled from the depths, putting a community on edge as rumors of a serial killer continue to swirl. 

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    Nobody I know outside of Surly or Reddit or true-crime sites has really gives a fuck about this and very few are even aware of the deaths  

    I have relatives in other towns and states ask me about it and can’t believe when I say it’s a running joke with a lot of people or that we aren’t scared to go downtown.  

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  13. 9 minutes ago, Parliament said:

    Or (CR) they have their own Pete Hegseth.

    He’s lucky he’s not in Russia.  Putin deals with such people in a harsh manner.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/europe/russian-minister-suicide-intl

     

    Former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit died by suicide on Monday, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin fired him from the job, officials said.

    Starovoit was dismissed by Putin on Monday morning. The decree announcing his dismissal was published on the official Kremlin website, with his deputy Andrey Nikitin appointed acting minister.

    Asked by reporters for the reasons behind Starovoit’s dismissal, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov denied this was due to a “lack of trust,” but he did not give any alternative reason.

    The Investigative Committee of Russia said in a statement that Starovoit’s body was found inside a car in Odintsovo, a suburb of Moscow. He was found with a gunshot wound, the committee said. It said the circumstances of his death were being investigated but the “main theory is suicide.”

    Before he became a minister in May 2024, Starovoit was the governor of the southern Russian Kursk region. While he left the post before Ukraine’s surprise incursion, he was partially blamed for security failures in the Russian region.

    The dismissal came amid a multi-day disruption to air travel in Russia. Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport said 485 flights were canceled, 88 were diverted and 1,900 were delayed over the weekend and into Monday.

    The agency said the cancellations were down to “external interference,” without giving any specifics. But the Russian Defense Ministry said more than 400 Ukrainian long-range strikes were intercepted during the same period of time.

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  14. 5 hours ago, ABSR said:

    It’s not like the lake being there, or the bars being there is new.  

    Also, what is the percentage of men versus women who “drowned”?   Even if you say it would likely be more men than women if accidental you wouldn’t think it would be overly uneven.  Then look at the reality of the numbers.

    The incidents (at this higher numbers) are a new phenomena and are largely male.

    What is new is the massive influx of newcomers and visitors within that demographic over the past 10 years or so.

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