Posts posted by atomheartbevo
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18 minutes ago, GSU&UT said:
I'm not going to argue that and really feel like we'll see the same things repeat if Biden wins the nomination.
Biden doesn't have decades of hatred from the GOP and more than a few independents like Hillary had.
Trump knows this. That's why Trump is so fixated on Hunter - he's doing everything he can to gin up the same level of hatred and angst against Joe Biden as he tapped into with Hillary, and he and the Republicans just can't do it.
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4 hours ago, FondrenRoad said:
The GOP is trying to implement a 100 year plan right now so they can maintain power after demographic change.
No they aren't. If they gave a shit about the demographic change, which is happening faster than they expected, things would be a lot different. Instead, they are doing plenty of things that are turning off a shitload of young people, minorities, etc. and they have no care in the world.
Those two dozen or so Republicans that are retiring from Congress are not doing so for shits and giggles.
Right now, the store is on fire thanks to them, and they are looting the cash registers as they run out the door.
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1 minute ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:
Where do the Republicans get these assholes? Doesn't he look like a great representative of the master race?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-moates-qanon-guy-accused-of-inappropriately-texting-teens-quits-campaignSomebody in another thread said all of these Republicans looked like they were bullied mercilessly as children. Add another one to that list.
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Those of you interested in this stuff, there's a digital effects studio that puts out YouTube videos on why certain effects are good or bad. Even though they are younger guys, they have a reverence for the old-school in-camera stuff, as well as things like Jackson's Lord of the Rings (which has a lot more practical sets than I thought).
Yeah, it's mostly a reaction channel, but they actually will go in and do new effects to show how it could have been done, and because they are effects artists themselves, they get really in-depth on behind-the-scenes stuff. They also do deep fakes, and they have stuntmen come in and discuss their stunts and how they are actually done.
Warning: Poorly-done CGI lips are like one of their biggest pet peeves.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSpFnDQr88xCZ80N-X7t0nQ
They have a massive amount of videos:
https://www.youtube.com/user/samandniko/videos
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43 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:
somebody posted some photos upthread of some shrapnel holes. Yep
And they looked external (as in shrapnel punching into the fuselage/wings, instead of exploding outward).
The fact that the Iranian government was so quick to say they wouldn't be sharing the blackbox with Boeing/etc. was a sign as well.
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6 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:
3 days of official state sanctioned mourning for a terrorist scumbag but let's see if the Iranian government will admit to the truth or continue their brazen lying about the cause. What an embarrassing display. 60 people die in a stampede at the funeral of the scumbag and now they shoot down a passenger jet. The value the Islamic government has for ordinary lives is nil.



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23 minutes ago, Chet Steadman said:
Significant Risks. Jim Spencer. Tornados in January??
PHD makes his long awaited return in 3, 2, 1....
Paging Mr @phdhorn, you have a telephone call at the front desk!

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52 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:
was this actually confirmed?
The US government didn't come out and say it, but a bunch of reporters with sources in the Iraqi government stated so, and the fact that the bases were completely in lockdown within 4 minutes of launch tends to give credence to that.
Rough math says that the main missiles launched at Al Asad (Fateh-110) travel at Mach 3.5, with a range of 300km, so at max they were in the air for 4-5 minutes. That's not a long time to get 1,500 troops, plenty of whom were asleep, completely under serious protection at 1:45am.
Interesting note: If the DOD is correct (yeah, I know), the four missiles that failed were fired at Erbil and were the Qiams (longer-range scuds), and the 6-10 fired at Al Asad were the Fatehs, shorter-range, truck-launched, and homegrown, and all hit Al Asad.
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