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atomheartbevo

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  1. Hegg would just accidentally send the info to some journalists.
  2. I’m burning your degree as well.
  3. There are some cool things video-wise, like this - I’ve used a similar tool from a genealogy service on some old photos and they match what relatives remember (or what I saw as a kid). In the below video, you can compare a few of the figures like Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca to real life film footage. They did a fine job with Cléo de Mérode
  4. We might be talking about different posters, but all of the ones I found that came out later had Lando. That one we are discussing, with Lando, Boba, Dagobah, etc. in it was the "concept" poster, which was released well after the theatrical poster. The "clean" one without those features is the theatrical poster. Billy Dee might have been pissed, but if you deep dive, Lucas was paranoid about leaks and literally gave out scripts with misleading lines/names, etc. and actors weren't told specific things until they were in front of the camera. The theatrical posters were stripped down since they went to the theaters well ahead of the release (aka "coming soon"). Struzan did the re-release posters and the prequels. Regardless, movie posters of that era were magical, and it looks like all of the major artists from that era have now passed with Struzan being basically the last.
  5. Struzan did this for Lucas's book He did the main Phantom Menace poster, which was pretty fucking good.
  6. So that poster is Roger Kastel's print, based on the 1974 Gone with the Wind re-issue. And originally he included a bunch of stuff as seen below, including Lando, but LucasFilm made him take out a bunch of elements because of spoilers, so the poster above is basically covering only the first few minutes of Empire Strikes Back.
  7. Most of the ones I've seen all look like that or are different and have Lando on them. That one above had his name on it in some printings, but not Yoda. Would be wild if mine was valuable. Need to dig it out because now I can't remember if Yoda was on it.
  8. I could see them flying a Cessna or two over every major refinery/installation. Fairly low cost, and might get a few of the drones coming in. It's still a good indication that things are pretty dire for them if they publicly admit they can't protect their infrastructure. This is another one of those little points that Anne Applebaum and others have mentioned that chips away at Putin's narrative about "winning" - instead of fancy schmancy AD systems, the locals see some dude in a Cessna with a gun bolted to it. Doesn't inspire confidence.
  9. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-says-israeli-forces-could-resume-fighting-in-gaza-as-soon-as-i-say-the-word-if-hamas-won-t-uphold-ceasefire-deal/
  10. How long until RFK Jr and his goons try and destroy M.D. Anderson? My oldest is 6 years out from college. No way UT recovers from this by then, and even if he follows his plan of joining the military for 6 years and then getting out and going, I don't think it will recover.
  11. Finally watched The Other Guys last weekend. Holy shit, not sure what I expected.
  12. Neither does the neighbor's yard.
  13. I don’t know. But it seems pretty universal. I’ve had this conversation with others and it seemed like porn was hidden in a lot of wooded areas across the US.
  14. Better porn might keep the incels off the social media, so less time to spread bullshit conspiracy stuff. Win!
  15. It beats having to hope the porn fairy left you a Hustler in the woods or behind the local 7-11, or a Penthouse or Playboy inside of a box marked "quilting magazines" inside of another box marked "fabric catalogs" inside of a suitcase covered by blankets in the back of your parents' closet.
  16. Soon, you will be able to make the porn of your dreams. We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
  17. If they start dipping into their reserves, that means the pipeline of foreign fighters (and their prison system) has dried up. They were hoping to get their reserves up to 80,000 - 100,000 but no word if they ever pulled that off. The reservists were promised a lot - it's all volunteers, and in theory were supposed to stay within Russia and basically help supplement the military (probably logistics on the Russian side of the border). BARS (Russia) - Wikipedia
  18. Russians using light aircraft to hunt drones. I'm sure this will work out and they won't hit their own drones dump a bunch of rounds into cities.
  19. There is currently a ceasefire after the strikes.
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