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atomheartbevo

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  1. What is there to theorize about? They knew some (3 or 4) of the emergency air modules or whatever were manually turned on. They wouldn't turn on from the impact.
  2. Human remains found in Tesla linked to singer D4vd Are we going to find out what all the Tesla cameras record/save?
  3. Ellison Tops Musk as World’s Richest Man After $101 Billion GainL I'm going to guess that in the coming weeks, Ellison will pass him up again and then stay ahead of him.
  4. Look at how many stories in this very forum quickly drop out of sight, out of mind. We're weeks, maybe even days away, from the largest, most infamous, pedophile/child smuggling/grooming ring dropping out of the news cycle. Taylor Swift will announce some guests to her wedding, and somebody won't be invited, and the media will agonize over what it means, meanwhile driving more important stories off of the front pages of websites/media everywhere.
  5. It's 2025. Nothing stays in the news cycle very long.
  6. There's not even a description of the shooter out there and the local cops and FBI have fumbled the ball on announcing the shooter has been caught. It's pretty wild that somebody in this day and age pulled this off in such a manner.
  7. No idea what's going on, but will always rep a B5 post.
  8. There are another 4-5 episodes after that compilation video above. That was basically "Season 1" and "Season 2" starts off with Taiwan. There are a few things that annoy me about it, but at the same time, I'm like "fuck, as much Tom Clancy and other techno thriller/military stuff that I read in the 80s, I could have made this series". He's pretty thoughtful about a lot of stuff, and keeps a lot of stuff straight in such a vast series (in terms of geography and scope). Anyways, here's his channel Flat Circle History - YouTube So where can we talk about Fawn Hall and Oliver North tying the knot?
  9. If we are talking Tom Clancy Prime, as in when he was alive and writing the majority of the books with his name on the cover, there really aren't any (especially as he began to move away from Cold War conflicts). Maybe Red Storm Rising and other 80s staples such as The Third World War by Sir John Hackett (British Army offcer) and Team Yankee by Harold Coyle (a US Army officer serving in the 80s) which is set within the Third World War "universe" - the last two are extremely interesting as they were based on real-world NATO scenarios (and Coyle served within a NATO unit or two during the Cold War) and are very realistic. The problem with all of those are they are 40 years old, based on 40-year-old technology, and based on alliances and countries that no longer exist (and so manpower numbers are all wrong), with the bonus that they had the Soviet Union at its zenith in terms of power projection. I've been keeping tabs on this series - a guy is using some videogame engine (maybe ARMA or Total War or whatever the kids are playing) and with voice acting, etc., creating a WW III scenario in the 2030s where Russia has reconstituted its power. Just ignore the graphics (it's an older engine it appears) This is a compilation of the first 14 episodes he's done (the episodes started at under 5 minutes, moved up close to 10 minutes, and are now in the 13-20 minute range). Yes, it requires you to believe that Russia could be rebuilt by somebody other than Putin the aftermath of the current war with Ukraine, but he incorporates modern military tech, and it's interesting.
  10. My kid's middle school got put on lockdown/secure hold/whatever because of this. Not how I wanted to start my day. I've dreaded this kind of stuff for years.
  11. The rurals in my family all use FB. I'm sure some use instagram/twitter, but the olds don't seem to be leaving (and twitter has enough porn to freak some of them out), so the young 'uns still use it to talk to family/ It's fascinating to see the conspiracy theories spreading on social media in real-time though. People seem to be very against the idea it could be a lone wolf, even though I would argue that because he got away so cleanly, he probably was a lone wolf.
  12. Space Shuttle Challenger because I'm old. OJ was something that fucked up the Rockets game my mom had recorded for me on VCR while I was in basic training. edit: We literally heard about the OJ chase the day after, because it was in the one newspaper we were allowed to read, and it was fucking wild as shit, I will admit. My middle-schooler had no clue today and overheard my wife and I talking about it. Our neighbor's kids (freshman and junior in high school) said they talked about it a bit in class, but nobody really seemed to know him, or if they did, it was because of memes (and they apparently didn't even know his name, just the memes in the past). But this is a small sample, and they are both jocks and tend to ignore a lot of stuff.
  13. I absolutely feel bad for the wife and kids. I am sick of the people (my 19 year-old cousin on FB) who didn't know who he was yesterday and who posted a video of themselves crying about this trying to make people feel bad for them (instead of the wife and kids), but that's for the stupid shit we see on FB thread (or the Anthony Jeselnik thread). Given how well this was pulled off apparently, I won't be surprised if there are others. They had the discipline to setup properly, take one shot, and then escape. That really cannot be understated - this was somebody who rehearsed it/trained for it. If they had missed, I have no doubt they would not have taken a second shot. How many of us have ever went to a range or wherever to do a little shooting, and hit exactly what we aimed at on the very first shot with no warmup? A very tiny target at that at that distance. I kind of suspect he was aiming center mass, but we'll never know. He was definitely patient and disciplined, from the closeup video I saw, he waited until Kirk had paused/was not moving around/or was squared up (prior to that, Kirk moved around a lot). And I'm also wondering if what the cops recovered was meant to throw them off the trail. I mean, I don't want to go down the Jason Bourne/Jackal trail, but....it seems like a lot of the shooters we have in the US have mental health issues that leave them lacking in discipline before and after shit goes down. The nutcase that shot the two politicians in Minnesota, the cops fingered him almost right away as the main suspect because he had fucked up in a couple of different ways and put a "IT'S ME" sign on his back. This guy does not fit that category at all. Shit was thought out well in advance.
  14. She really wishes she was on some kind of Blue Collar Comedy Tour thing.
  15. That's not how those vests work, and if they were shooting center mass, any number of factors could have caused them to hit his neck.
  16. I remember when Texas governors used to say they weren't going to let Washington dictate what Texans do.
  17. Wasn't she married to one of The Doors or I don't know, I just know she banged Rob Lowe and had some connection to the Doors. Anyways, he's 81, she's 61....so if she was the sidepiece, he did well.
  18. I won't be surprised if we get a no-fly zone in western Ukraine, along with NATO air defenses either on the border or just inside Ukraine. Well, I kind of would be, but that feels like where this is going - Europe is tired of Russia's bullshit, and Russia is being the proverbial bully and trying to project power when it's fairly weak - we're coming up on the 4th anniversary of the main invasion. Imagine if it was 1994 and the US and its allies were still trying to liberate Kuwait or it was 2004 and we were still trying to take Kabul. And we were fighting literally halfway around the world, and not next door like Russia.
  19. I was a wee lad, but in high school at the end of Reagan's time, and while I have no doubt some yuppies/College Republicans may have worshipped him, as a kid, I felt he was more about "AMERCA FUCK YEAH!" Obviously he did some really shitty stuff, but he was not out there basically asking people to worship him. He wouldn't have tried to have a military parade focused on praising him. And he was damned sure not out there portraying Democrats as some kind of parasite that needed to be eradicated - hell, he was close friends with Tip O'Neil and quite a few other Democrats. Unlike Trump, Reagan didn't pretend to have always been a Republican and didn't shun his friends going back to when he was a Democrat. He would certainly spar with them when it came to policies, but at the end of the day, he'd have no problem hanging out with them.
  20. Pretty sure @RDCanecutter has painted some miniatures of that. Or he should if he hasn't.
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