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atomheartbevo

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  1. And a whole lot of the assholes fucking us and our kids over have degrees from Ivy League schools or other out-of-state schools. The irony is lost on Texas voters.
  2. 70 miles from the Texas border, and right now, somebody in this state is writing to their legislators saying this screwworm stuff isn't real. Flesh-eating maggots spotted 70 miles south of Texas threatens livestock population
  3. In the past, when a radical cleric in Israel or Saudi Arabia was beating the drum about how evil Israel was, it was easy to get lost in the shuffle. The sky is blue, OU sucks, Israel is evil, bleh bleh bleh bleh. Now those same radical clerics have Israel publicly fulfilling the claims of what those clerics were saying. That's great for recruiting, bad for Israeli citizens.
  4. NASA safety panel warns Starship lunar lander could be delayed by years - SpaceNews
  5. Yep. Israel is way too big for their britches and things are starting to catch up to them. They are also creating the conditions for a future attack that will probably be far bigger than the 2023 attack - they are creating way too many would-be terrorists who feel like they have nothing to lose.
  6. And in 1991 when the crew were formally awarded a Presidential citation at the White House, President George H. W. Bush did them dirty and just waved at them from a distance. That little action right there sounded like somebody who sided with Israel over our own military.
  7. I've said this before, having followed the conspiracy stuff for a long time (got into JFK stuff before the Stone movie). There's always been a group of people who bought into conspiracy theories, and it seemed like early on many were pretty "damaged" in some way - a lot of the early JFK conspiracy believers were personally vested in the mythos of JFK in some way or another (America would have turned out better/life would have turned out better if JFK had lived). The UFO folks, yeah, many needed their own baggage terminal to follow them around. And there were some who just needed excitement in their lives and conspiracy theories made them feel special and "in the know". Up through the 90s, their reach extended to a small section at bookstore if they were lucky (my first exposure to the JFK stuff was to Garrison's book at a B. Dalton in the 80s) buried with the astrology stuff. Their reach outside of somebody seeing one of the few "mainstream" books was normally the backrooms of independent bookstores and student unions, found by flyers tacked up on telephone poles or bulletin boards in said bookstores or student unions, as well as physical mailing lists (which were expensive at the time unless your followers were paying you). They were mocked/ridiculed by normal society and the media. There was a barrier to entry if you wanted to peddle theories/scam people. It was hard to reach a significant number of your fellow conspiracy theorists unless you really worked at it by way of snail mail mailing lists. Fast-forward to the mid/late-2000s and the barrier entry is down to almost nothing - email lists and websites were easy to create. Search engines put your stuff out there. There was the potential for a lot of mini-Art Bells to crop up. And then YouTube ramped it up. All of the sudden "normal" people could be exposed to this stuff, and some took the bait. Jump ahead 10 years and some of it was creeping into Fox News (and eventually we'd have News Max, OAN, etc. that loved to peddle this stuff). Social media platforms that reached hundreds of millions and even billions were dumping this stuff in the lap of your semi-crazy Aunt Edna, who could, with the click of a button, forward it to hundreds of "friends". Magnify that by millions of Aunt Edna's doing the same thing. Jump ahead a little more and we get a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic that we should have been prepared for - for fuck's sake, the very people who bought hook-line-and-sinker into these theories had been screaming about pandemics and being prepared, and it turns out the preppers couldn't handle staying away from Applebee's or Chili's or Supercuts. It wasn't the idea of the Chinese invading or the government putting them in concentration camps that scared these people, it was the idea they couldn't get a decent appetizer or cheap haircut. And then the icing on the cake - after we elect a President who was helped by conspiracy theories spread by the largest social media platform, we re-elect him, after he ran on conspiracy theories, including that a known pedophile and child trafficker had files on all the Hollyweird Eleet. The Attorney General of the United States of America tells us publicly that she has the client list on her desk. Our President attends a 9/11 memorial with a fucking 9/11 truther. The largest podcaster with a reach of tens of millions constantly pushes whatever conspiracy theories his guests are pushing. The world's richest man constantly pushes conspiracy theories and the 15th or so largest social media platform that he owns allows that stuff to go unchecked. And then our AG and President say there was no list and the party in power votes to keep the list(s) away from the American public. And our former heroin-addict/bushmeat-eating/brainworm-infected lawyer who runs Health and Human Services and the CDC is telling us we don't need vaccines and that Tylenol causes autism. And we have state legislatures banning condensation trails from aircraft because those contrails are secretly brain control chemicals. TLRD: 30 years ago, people with minimal critical thinking skills could get by in life just fine, without being bombarded by bullshit conspiracy theories. Now batshit stuff is dropped in their lap every day, and authority figures reinforce it.
  8. He’s been obsessed with Mars for forever. If it was all about Starlink, he wouldn’t shut the fuck op about Starlink. There’s no need to bury it or try to divert attention away from it. In fact, he’d be using that to raise funds. And if all of the stuff with NASA and the moon and Mars was all about him just trying to get more Starlink satellites up there and it gets exposed, government contracts will dry up real fast. They’ll get investigated. Probably heavily penalized probably problems with the FAA and NASA going forward for launches.
  9. Trump administration is going to link Tylenol to Autism even through they don’t have any clear proof. Epstein files ain’t going to burry themselves as long as the House keeps talking about them I guess.
  10. It’s not like you’re wearing it all day and you can see more than you think. The key is to have a fitted mask.
  11. Pretty cool article Sutton put up: H I Sutton - Covert Shores - Timeline of Ukraine Invasion: War In The Black Sea
  12. H I Sutton - Covert Shores Ukrainian UUV manufacturer Toloka has unveiled the TLK-1000 XLUUV at the Brave1 Defense Tech Valley 2025 exhibition in Lviv. As expected, the long anticipated craft is much larger than the TLK-150 model previously shown. According to reports, the TLK-1000 has a variable length of between 4–12 meters, a range of up to 2,000 km (1,080 nautical miles), and a payload of up to 5,000 kg. ------- Pictures at link. 2,000 km seems like a decent range, and 5,000 kg payload seems like it could do some damage.
  13. I like to think that it was in about 95% of TV shows and movies about Vietnam made between the 1970s - now. I'd go with Sympathy, Angie, Ruby Tuesday as well.
  14. I wonder about his cognitive abilities a lot. The first invasion happened while Obama was in office - he has the perfect excuse to bitch about Obama. Zelensky is Jewish, Trump's son-in-law and grandkids are Jewish. He could talk about how much he loves the Jewish people and Israel. These are low-hanging fruit. Instead he passes up the opportunity to blame Obama and he rips the Jewish guy.
  15. @PTINS I'm insanely curious what it looks like if Ukraine continues to pound Russian oil & gas infrastructure. There has to be a tipping point where Russia as a nation-state ceases to function in being able to continue hitting Ukraine on the ground. They can squeeze the shit out of the Russian civilian population, and many will take it, but businesses will start closing shop, and things like food distribution will be impacted. It's telling that Russia is still hitting civilian targets (apartments, schools, etc.) rather than trying to hit Ukraine's infrastructure that supports the missile/drone attack son Russia.
  16. He probably thinks Kuwait started the war with Iraq. Or Poland and a dozen other countries started it with Germany in WWII. Because somebody around him that's pro-Russian told him that Ukraine started it.
  17. People who own Twilight Imperium are like fucking cross-fitters, or Mormons, they are always going to tell you about it. i enjoyed v4 (it felt shorter than the previous version I playded, but even it was around 7 hours) but I could see myself playing it digitally a decent amount. But even if it cut playing time in half, that could run several hours.
  18. Otherwise you would have been kidnapped.
  19. Died in a "tragic plane crash".
  20. I’m five episodes in and it definitely feels like the writing and the editing are better.
  21. Didn’t know Gameboys were used to lure kids into cars in the 90s
  22. Epstein comments may have done a lot of damage…to Leon.
  23. On the one hand, I love it because it is amusing that they of all people are going so hard after A&M, after all of the bullshit UT has had to suffer through. But I also love it because I think it will force many alumni to rethink some things in terms of who they support. I've already seen one friend bitching on FB that Patrick is a carpet bagger and needs to shut up about trying to force aggie officials out and he was tagging his aggie friends. All those aggie alumni who stayed quiet while they fucked with UT are now finding out that their beloved school is not immune to the bullshit. And while I'm sure that more than a few aggie may agree privately with Patrick and Abbott, they sure as fuck don't want a Longhorn and a University of Maryland grad (and Baylor grad - Paxton) fucking with their institution.
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