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  1. 10 hours ago, PTINS said:

    But you don't stop one of the few sources of hard currency unless you have to, and Russia stopped exporting refined products. That is not indicative of a drop of 3 or 4%.  And as you are all aware, refined products cost a lot more than the crude oil they are made from.  They would still be running if they could.

    Russian Oil Plunges With Top Producers Days Away From Sanctions - Bloomberg

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  2. 3 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    I have zero problem with Vietnam veterans hating on Jane Fonda.  What she did was inexcusable. 

    Yep.  She may have been right about the war, but she could have done her protests in the US and not held the little photo ops that she did.

     

  3. 49 minutes ago, NoName said:

    Also Thiel selling his stake is the biggest of red flags

    While looking at that, came across this

    Peter Thiel Cuts Stake In PayPal Mafia Company Tesla. Musk Issues This Warning.

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    Musk is going full steam ahead on emphasizing Tesla as an AI and robotics company. On Saturday, the Tesla CEO posted to X that he had "just wrapped" the upcoming AI5 chip design review. Musk added that the AI5 chips "will not be available in sufficient volume to switch over Tesla production lines until mid-2027."

    Tesla's plans seem to be for AI5 and AI6 chips to power the company's upcoming self-driving systems known as Hardware 5 and Hardware 6, or HW5 and HW6. The company's vehicles currently are on HW4.

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    The next catalyst for Tesla stock is likely to be if Musk does indeed remove "safety monitors" in its Model Y robotaxis in Austin, Texas, by the end of 2025.

     

  4. 1 hour ago, pops said:

    I've watched hundreds... maybe thousands of videos in this thread over the past 3.5 years of Russians getting got. For whatever reason, the 2nd guy in this video hit me in a different way. 

    He was just like fuck it. Finally this shit is over. 

    Yeah, I get that, but I just remind myself that the Russian drone operators are training on Ukrainian civilians, animals, and vehicles.

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  5. 7 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

     

    Pretty sure she was fired for saying she was closer to Trump than his daughters.

    And she had her lawyer deny they were banging, but it's interesting that it came up in old emails, and is not some new accusation.

    Her wikipedia photo is weird as fuck, being cropped from this:

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  6. 5 hours ago, Pasken said:

    So I need some help here. Let's say the trump Clinton rumors are true. In what scenario would this happen? I mean the only thing that makes sense is if he was on drugs.  What is the rumored scenario in which this took place?  Group sex and streams get crossed? 

    He probably didn't, it's more about making MAGA deny it.

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  7. Putin goes after his own war cheerleaders

    Roman Alekhin ran a fervently pro-war Telegram channel, advised a Russian governor and received military honours for fighting in Ukraine.

    He was a poster boy for so-called Z-bloggers, self-styled social media war correspondents unflinchingly loyal to the ideology behind Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

    Then, the Russian state designated him a “foreign agent”.

    The spectacle of Mr Alekhin’s dramatic rise and fall has spread fear among the online community that for nearly four years has apparently been allowed to critique and criticise the way the war is being fought.

    While anti-war activists were jailed in their thousands, a growing movement of ultranationalist military bloggers (or “milbloggers”) appeared to be rewarded with money, status and influence.

    But Russia watchers have long warned that the Kremlin’s tolerance of them would run out – that time might be now.

    Keir Giles, a senior Russia analyst at Chatham House, is surprised it had not happened sooner. “This is the kind of dissent that, if it was directed at the political system, would have earned reprisals long ago,” he said.

    The Z-blogosphere “was seen by some as a safety valve, a means by which critics could vent without actually challenging the overall state policy”, Mr Giles told The Telegraph. “That avenue has now been closed off.”

    Mr Alekhin, who was accused of misusing funds he raised for Russian troops after he flaunted a new sports car and an expensive watch on social media, isn’t the first of the milbloggers to fall foul of the state he so ardently championed, as the regime’s machinery of repression begins to eat it its own.

    Sergey Markov, a prominent pro-Kremlin pundit, was listed as a “foreign agent” in August, a label with Stalin-era connotations once reserved for Russia’s enemies but increasingly employed at will by the state apparatus to silence any criticism.

    Experts believe that Mr Markov was punished for his open support of Azerbaijan amid the collapse of Baku’s relations with Moscow. It marked a mighty fall from a once-trusted propagandist for Putin.

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    Markov had been featured on Russian state TV I believe. 

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  8. 1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

     

    1 hour ago, Macanudo said:

    The Epstein files have been scrubbed more than Brisketexan's Thanksgiving day plate.  

    35 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    So what's the new play? Get the Senate to take the hit, who he owns even more completely? Or just buying time to figure out how to bury anything else with his name on it?

    30 minutes ago, scottsins said:

    I wonder if his crack legal team is telling him that the bad shit won’t come out because of some legal prohibition. There was some disclaimer/equivocation in his post…”can have whatever they are legally entitled to.”

    23 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    After the House and Senate vote to send this to him for his signature:

    "I'd sign this right now, except for the investigation that Pam is running on this evidence; I can't do it legally, but I'd love to"

     

    1234 - Francisco and scottsins nailed it - there's now an active investigation that is going to take years, so gotta keep the evidence sealed.

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  9. 38 minutes ago, squib said:

    Enjoyed E1.

    Same. I was extremely pleased with the pacing - I wondered how much time they would put into the build-up to Lexington and Concord and the British retreat (or "World-building" as the kids say) but working through the early years (1750s/60s with Washington and Franklin) and up to those battles in the first episode was well-done. I hope the uneducated masses now know Washington and Franklin didn't spring into existence in the 1770s, and that Sam Adams is a great name for a beer, given how much shit he was constantly stirring up, and that it was truly a civil war.

    I like the re-enactments as well - lots of showing stuff happening (things being made, hands carrying rifles, etc.) but not fixated on faces (the mobs were in shadows, etc.). I was kind of worried we'd see re-enactments that take us out of the series, but everything blended together well - paintings, illustrations, etc.  I'm so used to really bad re-enactments from various History Channel shows, but Ken is not going to let us down.

    I'm assuming a lot of the watercolors were done recently, since they depict some very specific things being mentioned in the narrative, and the look was very distinctive, making me think they wanted to differentiate those from the various historical paintings they used.

    I knew of every historian they mentioned except for two, and had read books by several of them, which was cool.

    They did a good job of building up the tension of the British soldiers being quartered amongst the population and the build-up in Boston and how it was perceived by the locals.

    I watched it with my middle-schooler, and he's now fixated on the Revolution.

    Also, Peter Coyote is a national treasure, and while he's still doing well apparently (being in his 80s) I would support future use of AI to recreate his voice for any future Ken Burns series.

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  10. 49 minutes ago, Parliament said:

    Has a sequel been announced?

    We don't talk about the Whiskey Rebellion.

    6 minutes ago, Dutch said:

    Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney voicing the Adams was a very nice touch. 

    Very nice. I had not looked at the credits leading up to tonight, so was very pleased.

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  11. 35 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I find this damn near impossible to believe.  That would lead to prosecutions, of everyone in them.

    And yet Epstein probably would record the rich and powerful to protect himself. Look at how little time he spent in jail, and how long he did this shit.

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  12. 5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Which is why I’m willing to entertain seriously that he somehow rigged his elections, with the 2020 election being or where he didn’t rig it sufficiently and led to the “there’s no way Biden got that many votes” stuff. 

    I don’t think he rigged it like LBJ did, I think misinformations and disinformation were spread to get people out for him and suppress/depress voters in certain areas.

    It’s far easier, cheaper, and safer than outright rigging ballot boxes or voting machines.  AI is only going to make it worse.

  13. 7 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

    Wow.

    It’s getting interesting beyond MTG.  There’s blood in the water and the sharks are circling.

    Massie thinks a shitload of Republicans are going to vote to release the files.  I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch vote to release them.

    If Pete Sessions is telling the truth when he says there are thousands of hours of bedroom tapes recorded by Epstein, you will see a shitload of people who do not want to be hitched to that wagon and they will be jumping off.

     

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