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  1. So then we are bombing tomorrow morning.
  2. It was some in-character shorts by the Daily Planet staff. Entertaining and good marketing..
  3. That’s not going to get good viewership numbers though. SAD! If they don’t use that ordnance, they may have to dump it in the ocean rather than trying to land with it and putting the wear and tear on the airframe, which is a lot of expensive toys wasted. My guess is they are either going to use it, or the aircraft are empty and they are putting misinformation/disinformation out there making it look like we will bomb.
  4. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cF3tiGwSrSM
  5. He brought it so he could find more baby mommas.
  6. If we attack in a large-scale way, we, and Israel (already) will potentially (depending on civilian damage) be helping to create more young men who will be all in on strapping explosives to themselves (or at the least the strikes will be providing the propaganda material to recruit such men) or helping in other ways to kill Americans, Israelis, etc.. It could be that we kill their friends or family members, or just that we are attacking their country. Either way, we are feeding into what the Mullahs are selling. But there is also some irony at play - if Iran had nukes on missiles or at sea or whatever, Israel wouldn’t be doing this, just like if Ukraine had nukes, Russia wouldn’t have invaded. Israel and Russia are literally reinforcing the message that if you can get nukes, you don’t have to worry as much about being attacked by other countries. North Korea is living proof of this. And Israel going to such lengths against Iran, a country with 10x their population, makes it clear they are scared of a country like Iran getting nukes and that they wouldn’t attack if Iran had nukes. Well, the nuclear stuff is the “official” reason, but we all know Netanyahu only survived a recent vote of confidence because he promised the Orthodox Jews he wouldn’t draft their kids. Without the Orthodox, his government collapses and we aren’t talking about war with Iran. But it doesn’t matter now, Israel has a tiger by the tail and is asking us for help in how to let it go without being bitten.
  7. If you want to freak those types out, read this to them and I’ve probably posted it here before Texans didn’t beat around the hush when it comes to why they wanted to secede. Texas in 1861 literally declared that slavery should exist for all time. https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html DECLARATION OF CAUSES: February 2, 1861 A declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union. The government of the United States, by certain joint resolutions, bearing date the 1st day of March, in the year A.D. 1845, proposed to the Republic of Texas, then a free, sovereign and independent nation, the annexation of the latter to the former as one of the co-equal States thereof, The people of Texas, by deputies in convention assembled, on the fourth day of July of the same year, assented to and accepted said proposals and formed a constitution for the proposed State, upon which on the 29th day of December in the same year, said State was formally admitted into the Confederated Union. Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated States to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility [sic] and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution, under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings. She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery--the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits--a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them? The controlling majority of the Federal Government, under various pretences and disguises, has so administered the same as to exclude the citizens of the Southern States, unless under odious and unconstitutional restrictions, from all the immense territory owned in common by all the States on the Pacific Ocean, for the avowed purpose of acquiring sufficient power in the common government to use it as a means of destroying the institutions of Texas and her sister slave-holding States
  8. So you're saying Nicole should install the Tesla/robotaxi app on her phone? I think Walter Isaacson is right and he's going to merge Tesla and X/Xai or whatever.
  9. I see a massive multi-multi-million-dollar engineering feat that could be defeated by a missile or drone. That looks so vulnerable.
  10. Yeah, but higher oil prices will be good for people in Texas. Well, some of them.
  11. To be fair, that was in January according to his twitter account
  12. Abraham Lincoln died April 15 at the young age of 56.
  13. Told you all - as I said, if we are evacuating Americans out of Israel, if multiple Republican Senators extremely loyal to Trump are making the rounds with the talking heads to sell us on war, and if Fox News is selling its viewers on war, we are going to war. So it's starting tomorrow? Makes sense, it's a Friday.
  14. It was an anomaly. With Starship blowing up yesterday, and Robotaxi coming Sunday, it's got to be a little bit stressful for Leon. Wonder if there's anything he can turn to, to help with that.
  15. If we are actively evacuating Americans from Israel, and we have Republican Senators doing the rounds of the talking heads to gin up support for an attack on Iran, and if Fox News is pushing it, I think in this instance those things support what he's saying and you kind of have to hear what he is saying.
  16. From the KXAN article above about the robotaxi, how long until a special session is called to help Tesla out? A group of Texas lawmakers sent a letter to Tesla urging the company to delay its robotaxi operations in Austin. Tesla reportedly planned to launch the self-driving service on Sunday, June 22. The letter said the Texas Legislature approved a revision to the state’s 2017 autonomous vehicle operations framework. It mentioned how this new law goes into effect this September. “Under the new framework, commercial autonomous vehicle operators transporting passengers or property must receive prior authorization from the Department of Motor Vehicles before operating on public streets without a human driver,” the letter read. In order to get that authorization, an operator must demonstrate each vehicle is: Capable of operating in compliance with state traffic laws Equipped with a recording device Compliant with federal law, including federal motor vehicle safety standards Capable of achieving a minimal risk condition if the automated driving system is rendered inoperable Registered, titled, and insured under Texas law Along with those requirements, operators have to submit a First Responder Interaction Plan to the Department of Public Safety to explain the following: How first responders interact with the autonomous vehicles How to communicate with fleet support and safely remove or tow vehicles from the roadway Any additional information regarding hazardous conditions or public safety risks associated with the vehicles “As members of the Austin delegation in the Texas Senate and Texas House of Representatives, we are formally requesting that Tesla delay autonomous robotaxi operations until the new law takes effect on September 1, 2025. We believe this is in the best interest of both public safety and building public trust in Tesla’s operations,” the letter read. The letter said if Tesla still proceeds with its plans to launch this month, they request the company responds to this letter with detailed information demonstrating that Tesla will be “compliant with the new law upon the launch of driverless operations in Austin.” ======= Since it's the Austin delegation, I'm guessing it's Democrats, but as somebody pointed out, Musk doesn't have a lot of friends on the right side of the anymore, so between Texas ambulance chasers and somebody looking to make a name for themselves, Tesla better not fuck this up. And don't think Trump won't be above mocking the shit out of him/having the NTSB look into any accidents if they fuck this up. When he's done with you, he's usually done with you, and I doubt Musk realizes that. He seems to operate under the belief that if you delete a tweet, it's no harm, no foul. And these stricter protocols were put in place by the R's, and the fact that Musk said they were making sure to avoid certain intersections as being "problematic" I think was the wording, was hilarious. I'm going to guess that it won't happen in June. Or July.
  17. 'Member when he went on the Joe Rogan show and smoked pot? I member.
  18. Yeah, friends told me months in advance that we were going to go into Iraq because of how much was being moved and prepared. I think the biggest tell is Republican legislators hitting up the circuit and making the case. They are not spontaneously doing that on their own.
  19. I would normally agree to that, but we already saw the comments being sent out to various people and organizations in support of it, and Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham are out in public making the case to attack Iran (along with other Republicans who are making the rounds). I don’t think those things happen in a vacuum. I hope I’m wrong but this is feeling like Iraq in late 2002/early 2003. The fact that Israel cleared a lot of pieces off the board is probably making some people a little more eager than they might have been.
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