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atomheartbevo

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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/
  4. 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.
  5. Finally watched The Other Guys last weekend. Holy shit, not sure what I expected.
  6. Neither does the neighbor's yard.
  7. 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.
  8. Better porn might keep the incels off the social media, so less time to spread bullshit conspiracy stuff. Win!
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. There is currently a ceasefire after the strikes.
  14. Good interview with an expert (Anne Applebaum) on the narrative inside of Russia - she’s a Pulitzer Prize winner (for a history on the Gulag system), and had a book out last year,, Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World that got into how dictatorships are run these days, with the help of oligarchs, and how they prop each other up. Interesting listen about how narratives are so important in Russia. She gets into what change in Russia would look like and how it usually happens fast (if it fractured). She’s written a lot on their drone industry.
  15. That armored assault was an absolute cluster fuck.
  16. Trump: "I sent Witkoff to meet with Putin thinking it would be 15-20 minute meeting. Witkoff had no idea about Russia or Putin. He did not know much about politics." WHO THE HELL SENDS A NOVICE TO NEGOTIATE THE BIGGEST WAR IN EUROPE SINCE WW2?!
  17. Russia is struggling, and there's no end in sight - Ukraine continues to chip away at their energy grid, at their oil & gas production, and at their exports. Iran could be thinking about a future without Putin and where Iran would then stand - Russia will be an absolute shit-show for many years after Putin is gone, since he did everything he could do drive viable, decent leadership candidates away (or just had them killed) and we'll be left with oligarchs and military commanders in one helluva civil war (no way Chechnya doesn't break away). When that happens, Russia won't be doing much buying from outside countries. Could be Iran is trying to get in the graces of countries not named Russia, and are doing back-channel deals.
  18. I maybe camping Saturday, so you all can thank me for the torential downpours.
  19. Would China really give a shit if they had them on or off as long as they were getting what they wanted? The whole thing is really odd.
  20. I don't know, but after Iran lost Syria, and watching Russia slowly circle the drain, and watching a lot of their stuff get destroyed in Yemen, Iran may have decided it was in their interest to play nice. Plus, Russia's buying power may be starting to drop. They have an equation where they know (or project) what Russia does for their economy vs them being able to openly sell, and things might have recently changed. But it's Trump, so they may have simply wooed him as the great peacemaker and he put out that he was willing to wheel and deal with them. All the while the rest of the world might not be so willing to go along with it.
  21. Edit: Well fuck me, this is Roger Kastel. Who is also dead. My absolute favorite movie poster of all time, had this as a kid in my bedroom. So much going on there, yet fairly simple. Just magical to the young me.
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