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atomheartbevo

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  1. Yep, unstrapping yourself under water, potentially sideways or upside down, is no joke. I had to do some water training with a helicopter rig that was submerged and flipped upside down. Even knowing it was in a swimming pool, and that there were divers 10 feet away, and having been walked through it beforehand, it was still tough.
  2. Christopher Nolan’s next film ‘The Odyssey’ is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology. The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time and opens in theaters everywhere on July 17, 2026. Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Anne Hathaway, and Matt Damon are all onboard in some capacity, though nothing has been revealed about which characters they will play. https://kotaku.com/christopher-nolan-odyssey-casting-release-tom-holland-1851728737
  3. As my ancestors used to say in the Old Country, “Verkauf mir deine Frauen!”
  4. There's photos/film floating around of pooled blood in the cabin, with puncture holes through the cabin, but it's on social media so...hard to say.
  5. If the Gettysburg is going home, I would say it was upgraded.
  6. Genius. Doesn’t know when to discard or throw people under the bus when their expiration date is past due.
  7. Leon only wants women who can bear him kids named after Wi-Fi passwords.
  8. My cousin is just as emotional and just as believing about how having an ATM card means “they” can clean out your bank account (hint: it was her ex-husband).
  9. The mentions tab is nice, and available on the app and on the web site, as is the linear vs threaded views (which I like being able to choose).
  10. I'm using the web interface, but this is nice. Don't need the domain thing, but know a lot of people who want to use their domains but don't want to lose their original bsky.social name to a spammer. Huge for verification (the domain name reservation thing) If you change your bsky.social username to your own domain, your old username will now be reserved for you! Only your most recent `.bsky.social` username is reserved, and it does not expire. How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky You can now quickly change how replies are shown to you — with the settings button in post threads.
  11. That would be nuts, and could be fatigue. I got to see a Patriot live-fire exercise fairly up close, and they had a lot of procedures in place, both to ensure they only hit what they needed to, but also to keep things powered down so they couldn’t be spotted. I want to say the automated stuff was simulated only (no missile fired), and that they were on the semi-automated mode (a person made the final decisions) when they did live-fire.
  12. Imagine if this was a few years down the road and they are dealing with drones in the water* and they pop a friendly submarine …and years down the road some college football board full of degenerates never gets its @blacklab *they may already be dealing with waterborne drones
  13. I’ve done foolish stuff in my younger years, but nothing that batshit, and even in my younger years, I still had a part of my brain that said “you will probably die if you do this”. Of course, I wasn’t doing it for internet likes, but still, I don’t know how you turn off that part of your brain.
  14. We Gen Xers, assuming you are with us, we were impressed by CNN broadcasting live from Baghdad in 1991 when shit was going down, and we were further impressed in 2003 with all of the embedded journalists hauling ass through the desert. And we chuckled when Geraldo Riviera fucking gave away the plans to the 101s Airborne Division’s assault on live TV. And we saw plenty out of Afghanistan from GoPros uploaded after soldiers got to a decent internet connection. This is definitely another level.
  15. I’m guessing ad revenue is down if they are ditching ads for the top tier and bumping the price $6. More Grok limits probably has little impact on expenses, since most people get bored with it and are there for ad-free. Priority support probably won’t be worth it, since it’s not exactly a complex piece of software for most use cases and the premium people probably know Twitter fairly well and don’t need help. Radar is just another means of tracking trending stuff.
  16. When he stopped taking adrenochrome? Also, I now realize I missed a lot of SNL in the 2000s/2020s. Like this.
  17. Definitely poorly, unless your fetish was to be strapped to the end of an anti-aircraft gun.
  18. Ready Room looks to be over and there’s lots of terth-gnashing that Paramount is cutting the fat ahead of the acquisition, but the fact is, that it probably didn’t cost much, and it’s competing with a shitload of well-produced YouTube shows. Hell, there’s third-party YouTube shows that have 2-3 times as many views in just a single day. https://blog.trekcore.com/2024/12/star-trek-ready-room-aftershow-concludes/
  19. Yep, and the memes are increasing in numbers and making the rounds and leaking into the mainstream media, which Trump will definitely see. And somebody who is close to him will show him the memes, to drive a wedge between him and Musk, if he’s not seeing them himself on social media. Trump’s extremely sensitive about being seen as being his own man - he’s never liked people bringing up what he inherited because it comes across as he hasn’t earned or done anything, and that everything is due to Fred Trump and not him. Musk is too fucking tone deaf to realize when he goes too far. He’s pissing off people with the shutdown talk and with blowing up the budget talks. He can blame it on his self-diagnosed autism, but he’s going to be shocked when it happens and he’s not able to sit in on any meetings. Thiel knew what he was doing getting Vance into the WH. I will be surprised if Musk still has access to the WH come February or March.
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