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atomheartbevo

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  1. Smith and Young just wanted to have a lot of sex with a lot of women, and Smith ginned up the perfect religion to make it happen, and Young was happy to further it so he cloud also sleep with dozens of different women.
  2. They are pissed. This kind of stuff leaking into the mainstream really pokes a lot of holes in the history some of them have in their minds, or that they tell their kids, of their heroic ancestors, all the while said ancestors kept getting run out of towns/states because they were assholes, so of course they continued to be assholes in Utah. It’s similar to the “the Civil war wasn’t about slavery” crowd when you point out that most of the Confederate states put out statements declaring they were seceding to protect slavery (Texas has among the worst of the declarations of secession). This is probably the most high-profile take on the Massacre, and there’s already been a few Mormons out there doing the “it wasn’t as bad as they made it out to be”. There’s been some recent books that made noise, but their audiences are pretty narrow, I’m pretty aware of the Massacre, but very aware of the Huff and Fancher families and the wagon trains as a whole - I have a few ancestors amongst those families in Benton and Carroll counties in Arkansas, and some genealogy/background research I had published on them made its way into a book on the Massacre. I’m a couple of episodes in, and gritting my teeth a bit over some of the errors (most of which were already mentioned). I am trying to just roll with it, but I keep wondering why they didn’t get some things right, that would not have distracted from the story and would not have cost extra, but Hollywood is gonna Hollywood. There was no need to make up some of the stuff, or compress some timelines, because the story, the characters, the land, would have been captivating enough. My guess is the people behind the show felt the need to be edgy and/or were worried they’d lose their audience. We won’t be getting any mini-series like Michener’s Centennial in the future, I’m guessing. But I’ll reserve final judgement until I’ve finished it,
  3. Scientologists would have done this shit if they could have gotten away with it.
  4. Voyager launched on January 16, 1995.
  5. Generations has grown on me over the years. Liked it when it came out, then kind of forgot about it as I moved on with ST on TV. Watched it recently and it is pretty solid.
  6. Late 2025 or 2026. Second season in pre-production.
  7. $350. Or $3,500. You know some Musk fanboi will pony up for it. Shit. Everybody needs to be looking for stuff in their garage that even remotely resembles hardware that could be on a rocket, that they can sell on eBay.
  8. It’s been a boon for the people preying on the olds who are seeking out sites that don’t require verification. Lots of malware out there. Half these sites are probably owned by companies that make pop-up blockers that the olds pay for to block the pop-ups they created.
  9. This article mentions he would have had to spend hundreds of hours playing between Dec. 6 (game came out) and January 7. Given how much he tweets at all hours of the day, maybe he locked himself in for a week of non-stop playing, https://www.si.com/esports/news/elon-musk-boosting-allegations-explained-path-of-exile-2
  10. My elderly uncle who could never figure out how to turn on the VPN I installed for him maybe pleased and I won’t have to clean up his computer as much from going to the smaller shady sites. https://www.chron.com/culture/article/texas-scotus-age-verification-law-20036407.php Nielson didn't have a good answer. He tried to make a case that biometric scanning, one proposed way to verify age (and one endorsed by the age verification industry, which has submitted a brief supporting Texas), was not as burdensome to adults as showing a physical ID at a store. But when I show my ID to a bartender, he doesn't also take a photo of my face on his iPhone and upload it to the cloud. It's two different standards, and you could hear him sweating as Nielson's reliance on Ginsberg annoyed pretty much every single justice. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was particularly incensed with Texas and repeatedly reminded Nielson that Ginsberg did not create a constitutional pass for age verification laws, only that it found that minors had no right to access content that adults may find obscene. ——- Only Alito seemed to agree with Texas' argument that the court should rule in favor of the law on a rational basis, the lowest form of scrutiny which only requires the government to demonstrate a "legitimate interest" in restricting a fundamental right. It's an extreme proposal that would have disastrous implications for free speech since rational basis is incredibly permissive. While somewhat sympathetic to Texas, Alito's colleagues still stopped short of his radical proposal. Barrett said she wanted to "take rational basis off the table," throwing cold water on Texas' argument and instead suggested "intermediate scrutiny," a weaker but still skeptical standard, to look at age verification laws. Jackson argued that if Alito's test was applied, the government could say adults must provide a signed statement from their parents before watching porn. Nobody was ready to destroy First Amendment protections for porn with Alito, but it was clear that a majority was interested in splitting the difference between very protective speech standards that exist now and flexible standards proposed by Texas. Who should apply that new standard was unclear. The justices have the option to send the case back to the lower court to apply a different standard, which they seem inclined to do. A decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is expected in early July when the court typically hands down opinions. No matter what the justices end up deciding, however, they showed that the future of online porn has probably changed forever. —————— The article has all of the technical stuff and various comments which I left out here. Surly law dogs, it almost sounds like the ID verification might get ditched, but not sure what they would replace it with to satisfy Texas. Only dumbasses want to upload their government IDs online to view porn, and it’s only a matter of time until one of the databases gets Ashley Madisoned and we find out who all is looking at what porn sites, I need to look around and see if VPNs came up.
  11. Trump: “Leon, what’s this I hear about people saying you are pushing for too many cuts on this service? There are people in Congress calling me and asking me to tell you to stop pressuring them on Twitter” Musk: *tapping away on phone* Trump: “LEON!” Musk: “Hold on, this 14 year-old said something about me on X and I’m trying to get all of their information so I can dox them” Trump: “if you’re gonna talk to 14 year-olds on a porn site and dox them, whatever that is, wait do you have to pay her extra for that? Anyways, don’t do that in the White House.” Musk: “No, it’s a 14 year-old boy, and X is what the uninformed call Twitter, it’s not a porn site” Trump: “Doesn’t Twitter have a lot of porn on it?” Musk: “*sighs* yes but it’s a free speech public square and forum, not a porn site” Trump: “I don’t know, if people use it for porn, it’s a porn site to them. Why are you talking to 14 year-olds anyways?” Musk: ”Because they challenged my skillz” Trump: *stares blankly at Leon*
  12. Bezos has rode in his own spacecraft, has Musk?
  13. Yeah, some of my favorite movies. If you told me he was Henry's dad or brother, I might have believed it. Some of those ancient people gave us The Right Stuff
  14. Yeah, him responding with some Diablo IV footage made things so much worse. On the one hand, he has the perfect excuse to ignore it with the White House stuff, but on the other hand, his personality won't let him ignore it, because he's been called out on his own platform. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.
  15. Jeff is getting something from Lauren every day that he wants it, apparently on a big-ass yacht a lot of times, Musk is getting…*checks notes*…virtual high fives from 25 year-olds living in their mom’s basement.
  16. If you were worth just $40 million, the only thing you’d be doing on social media is posting photos of you and your spouse/significant other on some yacht in the Caribbean or Mediterranean.
  17. If it's not real, it's hilarious that Musk's own social media platform is being used to pass around disinformation about his own space company.
  18. Damn, Yeoh was 38 when she made Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. If the movie did extremely well, maybe they do a Section 31 series with other people. Maybe get the guy who played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, he’s probably not doing much these days. More likely they will shoehorn Section 31 into SNW and Tilly’s Starfleet Academy series.
  19. Pass this around to your out-of-state or East Texas relatives
  20. People are challenging Leon to livestream what he claims to have done. He’s not going to and everybody knows it.
  21. Lot of hate because it’s so far away from the optimism of Roddenberry’s Star Trek. Arguably DS9 started the peak behind the curtain at the dark stuff, but DS9 is beloved. The feeling is similar to the hate for the Zach Snyder Superman stuff where it seems like he was more concerned with Zod no matter how many innocents had to die, versus the Christopher Reece Superman.
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