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atomheartbevo

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  1. Or just a tool who is too dumb to realize that we just went through a pandemic, and also that we aren’t the ones who are going to be using bioweapons. It’s going to be Russia or a third-world country like Syria, but we have to be prepared to be on the receiving end.
  2. They are drafting men in their 50s to go fight. The uneducated rurals/factory workers can tolerate a lot. Yep, it's almost like clockwork that an official or oligarch or executive kills themselves every few months. Usually falling out of a window.
  3. Contrarians, grifters, and mentally ill. Ee really need to grift off of these people.
  4. Skip over the paid promo at the beginning for ear plugs or whatever, he dives into everything from flat earth to vaccines to moon landings. I found it amusing to send this video to some relatives.
  5. https://deadline.com/2024/12/marvel-exec-nate-moore-1236208724/
  6. So we are getting a full-blown Bluey movie in....in 2027. This will be the creator's swan song as he moves on to other stuff (but Bluey is continuing) Huge News: A Bluey Movie is Coming! - Bluey Official Website
  7. My middle-schooler couldn't stop laughing. I even chuckled a little bit. I give them credit for not playing it too safe, given how many parents will cringe/not let their kids anywhere near it.
  8. Bird flu can remain in the raw milk for up to 5 days or something. Infectivity and Persistence of Influenza A Virus in Raw Milk | Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  9. Thank you for summing up my manifestos in a handful of words. I would toss in this: Netflix dumping entire seasons at once has also really screwed with things, and it's actually hurt TV in some ways. With Game of Thrones or various other shows that have their own threads here in M&T, when episodes were dripped once a week, it gave people a chance to think about stuff, to talk about it with family or friends or co-workers. It also meant that TV shows could build an audience over time as people got roped into conversations they overheard. With Netflix dumping everything at once, you've created a chasm within your audience - those who binge it in fairly short order (whether it be a weekend or say at night during the week) and they are chomping at the bit to talk. Then you've got everybody else who don't have the time or energy and so are catching a few here or there, or worse, deciding that it will always be on Netflix so it can be pushed off. These two groups are not going to come together to compare notes (or if they do it's weeks/months later) and there's no shared experience of basically watching the shows together as they air once a week, so there's no hype train. The only thing saving some of these shows is that social media is filling in for the water cooler and the various clips that get posted online do bring in new viewers, but it's not the same shared experience as we had in the past with Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Mandalorian, or whatever else you can think of that aired once a week.
  10. Ehh, young kids love to go to the theater (and Bluey the cartoon has reinforced that). And older kids as well. We will be seeing Moana 2 this weekend, and next month we'll be seeing the Dog-Man movie, and a few months later, the Minecraft movie. And now that my son is old enough, he wants to see future Marvel movies in the theater.
  11. Europeans and Americans showing up in Russia with a few hundred bucks in their pockets
  12. No wonder he was so cozy with the Russians. Seriously, it's a guy that gassed and bombed his own people indiscriminately.
  13. Is the graveyard in the room with you Leon?
  14. Is this where we bitch about all of the spam robocalls about government benefits? It can be amusing to have a conversation with the bots.
  15. Them being around Picatinny Arsenal - they literally do research for shit the soldiers carry individually, as well as stuff deployed with them at the company/battalion level (but still portable), so they are going to have stuff that is years from being used by the typical soldier - that's going to include the latest in night-vision and infrared, various electronic sensor equipment, It's not Camp Swift outside of Bastrop using hand-me-downs from the Army. Now it could always be that somebody got one of the human-sized drones, I mean VTOL vehicles from Pivotal (and these videos weird me out because I don't see how they are doing what they are doing) and they do have anticollision lights and have a car-sized footprint.
  16. My drill instructors would have whipped my ass for pointing a rifle in their direction repeatedly. Then again, they would not have been walking in front of new recruits with rifles pointed their direction. It was cringe-worthy how amateurish the instructor and the recruits were. We knew they were recruiting older - those didn't look like minorities from the outlying regions nor did they look like hardened criminals - wonder how they got roped into it.
  17. Well yeah, nobody expected the Russians to give two shits about the Norks other than "better them than me". I'm not surprised they'd burn the faces off of the Norks either, given how little they care for their fellow Russians.
  18. The only way I could watch my backlog/queue is if I was stuck in a Palm Springs-style loop for 40 years like Nyles was.
  19. It may not even be televised.
  20. I get that most gamers want a plain-looking young teen girl like Ellie or an older, hunky, rugged handsome guy like Joel as their leads like Last of Us presented, but it’s the first in a franchise series, so there will be other games with other leads.
  21. Which is why they probably know more about what’s going on that we do. The military even said a few days ago that they’ve been used to dealing with drones for years, and that they have the means to deal with them when they are directly over a base. In the same briefing, they said they can’t do anything about them when they only fly near a base or are over civilian areas, other than talk to local law enforcement (and the quality varies greatly based on the interviews we’ve seen). But they absolutely have eyes (or more fancier equipment than the Mark I Eyeball) on this stuff - Picatinny maybe mostly concerned with small arms and small and known for their rifle rail system, but they also test other gear the grunts carry, including optics/sensors. And anybody wanting to spy on a military base is not going to have the running lights going, which makes me wonder if it’s drones being flown out of Picatinny, since they test a lot of the smaller equipment And those are not our most sensitive bases - Naval Weapons Station Earle is for loading ammo on ships, and Picatinny is mostly smaller stuff hidden away in buildings - the really sensitive stuff is not in fucking New Jersey with millions of people around, it’s out west where the military/feds fully control the land and airspace for miles around their Installations.
  22. Ehh, the tinfoil crowd has been trying to see what’s happening on various military installations for many decades (since at least the 70s). The internet is full of their photos of Area 51, etc. Every now and then one of them is arrested for trespassing. Same goes for actual spies. Drones just add another avenue of surveillance for them.
  23. What I like is the “do your own research, don’t trust the government, don’t trust the mainstream media” crowd is not doing any research on air traffic patterns, is not asking why these things have running lights, is listening to grifting politicians trying to stir them up, and is listening to the mainstream media (Fox News).
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