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atomheartbevo

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  1. He’s going to try, but he’s going to find out that Trump carries weight (heh) and the incel neckbeards don’t vote in large enough numbers.
  2. Fuck I should have been born with bad eyesite.
  3. How fast are those fans to be putting out so much heat it's lighting up your case? That shit's going to melt!
  4. Yeah, but then they might hire actual sci-fi authors to come up with stories/arcs instead of TV writers.
  5. I'm excited as shit about this, Apple has been killing it with the prestige sci-fi stuff.
  6. Yep, 78756 got it as well, off and on for 20 minutes. Not much, not heavy, but I'll take it.
  7. Neuromancer will run 10 episodes; it stars Callum Turner and follows “a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high-stakes crime with his partner Molly (played by Briana Middleton), a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets,” according to an Apple press release. The rest of the cast includes Joseph Lee, Mark Strong, Cleménce Poésy, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Laird, Dane DeHaan, André De Shields, Max Irons, and Marc Menchaca. It’s created for TV by Graham Roland (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Dark Winds) and JD Dillard (Devotion, The Outsider, Sleight). Roland is the showrunner, Dillard is directing the pilot, and they’re both among the show’s executive producers.
  8. One of the most troubling moments in the new interview comes when Kennedy discusses the role that artificial intelligence is going to play in replacing or altering the VAERS system, which stands for Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. VAERS allows doctors to report incidents when they believe a patient has been harmed by vaccines, but Kennedy isn’t happy with it. The secretary insists it was “designed to fail,” suggesting it’s not registering enough people who in his mind have been harmed by vaccines over the years. “We’re going to absolutely change VAERS and we’re going to make it, we’re going to create either within VAERS or supplementary to VAERS, a system that actually works,” Kennedy said. “And, you know, right now, even that system is antiquated because we have access to AI.” Kennedy told Carlson he was creating an “AI revolution” at the Department of Health and Human Services and was attracting the top people from Silicon Valley who “walked away from billion dollar businesses.” But Kennedy says these people don’t want prestige or power, they just want to make the healthcare system better. “We are at the cutting edge of AI,” Kennedy said. “We’re implementing it in all of our departments. At FDA, we’re accelerating drug approvals so that you don’t need to use primates or even animal models. You can do the drug approvals very, very quickly with AI.” ------ The guy who doesn't believe in vaccines is using AI to accelerate drug approvals.
  9. Has anybody asked Stephen Miller's wife what she thinks of all of this, or is she too busy concentrating on the impregnation process?
  10. Analyzing Musk and his "American Party" - Musk could probably get all of the crypto bros, libertarians, etc. on board, but could he get them to actually get out and vote? Musk is pushing the idea that Trump/MAGA are supporting illegal immigrants getting government benefits with the new budget, so there's a whole lot of people confused right now.
  11. Musk had this to say: If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day. Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people actually have a VOICE. And then somebody mentioned Bannon going after SpaceX on behalf of Trump, and Musk said this: Bannon is going back to prison. This time for a long time. Musk again: What good is Doge saving $160B when this bill increases the debt ceiling by $5T? It makes mockery of the work. And how are we supposed to reach Mars if America goes de facto bankrupt? And then Trump was asked by a reporter (Musk retweeted the video): REPORTER: "Are you going to deport Elon Musk?" TRUMP: "We'll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies." ---------------------------- Musk is having a day, and I doubt Trump forgot the Epstein comment either, but regardless, Musk says he'll help fund Massie to stay in Congress after Trump said he would get him kicked out.
  12. Did he really? Woulnd't surprise me at this point.
  13. Let's hope it's not 77-0 (which was so amazingly beautiful) but is more like 7-8 overtimes. Musk is now going hard on twitter after Trump and MAGA in the Congress, and he's publicly backing/retweeting/etc. all of the Republicans who are opposing Trump on the budget - Massie, Rand Paul, etc. And he's retweeting Scott Adams, who was reiterating that Musk was going to primary every Republican who supports this bill, and a lot of other people.
  14. There's a potential for them to wreck his companies, and for him to wreck some of them in the primaries. So maybe?
  15. It's going to be a ride.
  16. I have a friend who has a real-estate company in the Austin area (she's got a franchise or however that works). She can easily see the parent company, who already has a bunch of developers working on adding AI to all of their tools/websites, doing away with franchises, and just having a main corporate office, and a handful of employees in each city who handle any face-to-face stuff that's needed (final walk-throughs, etc.). She said there is so much in the real estate industry that could be automated on the financial side (planning, mortgage work, etc.) or done online remotely (and some already is) and the research side. That's a whole helluva lot of people who might go to D.C. in the future and try and stage an insurrection.
  17. Exactly. And Musk spent a few months within Trump's inner orbit, so he knows how temperamental Trump is, and that very few people who piss Trump off get back within his good graces, and he knows how Trump targets/goes after his enemies. Honestly, I think Musk is scared. If he's serious about ponying up to defeat a lot of Republicans next year, there's no coming back from that - you get one chance, and if doesn't pull it off, MAGA in Congress will act against Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX, etc. And don't think Boeing and the other old-school aerospace industry types aren't already running a whisper campaign against Musk, probably bringing up everything from his behavior to his public drug use to potential security risks in regard to his international ties. He could easily turbofuck SpaceX in the process of going after supporters of this bill.
  18. If he loses the profitability of Tesla, that’s pretty much his ATM. That’s why there is talk of him merging it with Twitter/xAI. He needs that revenue. If those tax credits and carbon credits and potential contracts go away, it’s actually bad for him. I expect some public meltdowns in the coming days. And Trump is going to be furious that Musk is challenging his legacy. Trump made the threat last week, and Musk called his bluff. Even though I’m on Surly, I’m not an expert, but if the NTSB/NHSA refused any more self-driving recommendations or certifications or whatever they do when it comes to self-driving, for Tesla, I would imagine that would mean a lot of insurance companies walking away from Tesla owners.
  19. He’s absolutely going to fuck with them. That bill is a big fuck you to DOGE, and it’s seriously threatening the profitability of Tesla (that and the CyberTruck probably). That’s why I never understood his embrace of the right, I get the libertarian thing, a lot of white makes go through that phase in their life. But a lot in the GOP have been gunning for the EV makers for years, and he should have known that. They openly talked about ditching the tax credits and carbon credits. I would bet money that lobbyists in his company or the EV industry in general put a lot of effort into preserving all of those tax breaks and stuff to help them be profitable and help their customers afford those cars. Leopards eating faces and all of that.
  20. Well, at least they didn't mention the two biggest cliches of the book [spioler] That Gosling's character is actually a clone named Mickey, that they have a bunch more of him stowed away onboard. or that he's living in a training simulation in earth orbit, and that they never got to make the attempt because the Sun and all of the other stars died before they ever built the full ship. [/spoiler] Edit: Never mind, wrong book.
  21. Would you trust a bunch of camera-only Teslas driving down the highway at 75mph, and then all of the sudden an 18-wheeler passes them, casting a shadow over them and spooking the whole herd? Or the cameras/computer misjudging a corner?
  22. May have been cheaper license. I don’t know how that works, but I would assume that the trademark still existed.
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