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  1. According to Business Insider, the company Atreyd has sent a "drone wall" to Ukraine for testing, designed to intercept Shaheds and KABs. Thanks to AI, a single operator can control a hundred drones simultaneously. Production is already established in France and Ukraine, and the system is expected to become operational within a few weeks. Ukraine Gets 'Drone Wall' to Fight Russian Threats: Arms Maker - Business Insider
  2. Venezuela..... Epstein discharge petition secures final signature needed to force House vote on releasing files - CBS News Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, and Lauren Boebert, you weren't the heroes we deserved, but you were the heroes we needed. Now...
  3. Today, the Russian Ministry of Finance sold 1.855 trillion rubles worth of bonds. Tomorrow, 450 billion rubles worth of bonds are due. Net growth in turnover over these days is +1.455 trillion rubles. Growth in turnover since the beginning of the year is +5,872 billion rubles. Who is buying those bonds, or is anybody, and with what money?
  4. Take me to a club where Depeche Mode or Erasue is playing and we'll talk. And circling back to the OP, wonder how many of these guys go to places where people hang out socially.
  5. Or it's a lot nastier than jerking your date off at a Beetle Juice musical and she wants nothing to do with it. And it's extremely telling that they are leaning on Boebert of all people. Must be some really serious shit.
  6. You could read quite a bit into that. This is going to be the peak of whatever power she has as a politician. I'm wondering what they promised her. At least she's not ranting that it's a hoax?
  7. Being middle-aged, there is nothing worse than wanting to get out of the house by myself, and head to a bar, and just hang out, and some other middle-aged guy comes up and starts asking me about whatever I'm watching on the bar TVs or what I think is good on the menu. And I'm not going to answer shit unless he starts buying me drinks.
  8. What if you build up a massive network that can generate and propagate AI stories on a whim? $PZZA Gate: Papa Johns Stock Soars On Fake Buyout News - HUNTERBROOK $PZZA Gate, Part 2: The Network Behind Fake Papa Johns News - HUNTERBROOK It's a deep-dive into IP addresses, emails, time stamps, images, etc.
  9. This will always be the best.
  10. Let's just slide some 70s Pink Floyd into the country charts
  11. Here you go, it's a book list in podcast/vtube format and we need to get this trending on twitter so Musk can opine on it and tell the incels to read it.
  12. Which also ties into Putin last week starting to mobilize reserves across 20 regions, reserves that he had not mobilized before now, and that would probably generate a lot of protests. Ostensibly it is in a "support" role and they are not supposed to be sent to Ukraine, but the order he signed had some leeway in it. Even if they use them to free up active-duty troops who are within Russia proper (logistics, support, guarding facilities, etc.), the people they are calling up are people that are probably productive members of society (educated, experienced professionals, etc.).
  13. Band of Brothers From the Earth to the Moon Rome The Pacific Larry Sanders Veep
  14. Yeah, he said something like that, and my thought was they were in a plane crash.
  15. Poor Venezuela, we hardly knew ya.
  16. Nancy Mace has gone all in on bashing the files, and some are saying she's pulled her signature.
  17. He was in the hospital last week. Kimmel canceled a show or two to be with him.
  18. Damn. That is tough, I can't imagine losing my best friend or even any of my friends going back to the 70s (but fuck we're getting old so): Born Aug. 23, 1966 in Las Vegas, NV, Escobedo's group, Cleto and the Cletones, has been the house band for Jimmy Kimmel Live! since the show's inception in 2003. Escobedo and Kimmel, however, go way back. The pair hit it off as kids, when Kimmel's family moved to Sin City back in 1977, directly across the street, two houses over from a young Escobedo. Kimmel was unable to hold back the tears, and he told of his best friend's passing at the very top of Tuesday night's Live. "We've been on the air for almost 23 years and I've had to do some hard monologues along the way. But this one's the hardest," he remarked. They weren't just friends. They were 24/7 besties, enjoying countless sleepovers, crank calls, backyard ballgames, and "we definitely gave each other many concussions," he recounted. Across 22 minutes, Kimmel told hilarious tales of youthful pranks, parties, bad advice, and much more, the stuff that occurs only when two people live out of each other's pockets. "We loved all the same things. Baseball, fishing, boxing, [Muhammad] Ali, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Woody Allen, Michael McDonald, Huey Lewis, Stevie Wonder, and most of all, we loved David Letterman," he admitted. "We never missed David Letterman. And the first time I was on the [Late Show with David Letterman] was 1999. It was a really big deal for both of us. That afternoon before the show, I was so nervous. I was walking in New York City, just walking fast, trying to burn off the nervous energy, and I called him just so we could be amazed together that this was happening and it was an amazing thing."
  19. They've been on my radar even before their 2nd edition. I have looked at their books, etc. and they feel like they "get it" like FASA did in terms of what they make available to players. And they are living in modern times - you can buy PDFs and print your own stuff out and pass stuff out to other players, and you can also buy the 3D files to print out your own figures, which I think is really cool. Granted, you can get all of the FASA stuff from the Internet Archive and print out whatever you need, and I'm sure somebody has 3D Star Trek Files floating around, but these are officially supported. And I've seen several of the FASA adventures adapted to Modiphius's system and apparently, they played well (FASA had some really cool adventures they sold, as well as fan stuff you can download). I don't think they have the starship combat stuff to the extent that FASA had (I know ship creation is pretty good), but I kind of think of them as almost separate games anyways since you could spend a lot of time moving ships around. It's tempting, very tempting. For now, we are going to dick around in-person with the FASA stuff we already have, and with the Steam tabletop simulator for the starship stuff (when we have to play online). We've talked about it a bit more this weekend though, and Modiphius is a consideration if we feel like FASA's game is bogging us down. Modiphius has the advantage of supporting all of the canon stuff up through now (even have Lower Decks stuff) which is a huge advantage, but also a huge disadvantage in some ways - FASA, you are pretty locked into TOS and the 80s movies, and early TNG, which can keep things simpler. Modiphius also has a lot better Roll20 support, in fact they have official support (even if it's dated, they've released official files/art for Roll20). Half of the people I'd be playing with, I would have to play remotely, so it's an option. I was in a couple of D&D campaigns run through Roll20 for 3-5 years, and it was easy for us to transition to in-person when possible (long weekends, holidays, etc.) and then back online after.
  20. Sucks, and I know Ukraine wants to fight to the last man to defend every little town, but if they are smart and get their people out in time (or inflict maximum casualties for the losses), and they keep up their deep strikes against the Russian infrastructure and economy, Ukraine will come out much better. The fact that Putin is having to mobilize people that really aren't supposed to be mobilized for a Special Military Operation in another country means that Russia is struggling on the manpower front. The mobilization could, at the very least, be a sign that they can't defend their infrastructure that's on Russian soil and fight in Ukraine at the same time.
  21. I want Tech to destroy aggy for the epic TexAgs meltdown. I mean, it will be just fine if we beat aggy (and we will have our chance to do it anyways), but I think getting beat by Tech would hurt the aggy inferiority complex so much more and probably end up with them firing their head coach.
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