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atomheartbevo

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  1. A 50-mile tunnel that uses off-the-lot Teslas, and the traffic is one-way and changes direction a few times a day.
  2. Trump thinks he can end the war and he’s afraid Tomahawks would escalate the war.
  3. The dumbest fucking timeline.
  4. It would never work and I would love to see him trying to make it work. The only problem is we'd be pumping hundreds of billions of taxpayer money into Musk's companies.
  5. Roads are still open. That particularly railway stuck pretty far out from the coast. Just to add this - from the strike last night.
  6. UT leadership is trying to figure out how to sell it or spin it, otherwise the rejection notice would have been sent out. And it’s Friday, so they’ll put the acceptance letter out tonight.
  7. The northern rail line along the coast is apparently out of commission - blocked by a wrecked Russian train and no ability to repair it as its within drone range of the front lines.
  8. I would like to share your optimism, and I would like to think the law school and the alumni orgs have the leadership’s ear, but Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick also have the leadership’s ear, and Abbott is so desperate to please Trump. It also feels like a letter of rejection is quicker and easier to write than a letter of acceptance that you have to sell to the student body, profs, and alumni.
  9. Putin: Our gas exports are down, but they will grow! It's great news that Europe no longer buys Russian gas, we now sell to "more promising, responsible buyers" (at a huge discount).
  10. [Q]: Did president Putin try to dissuade you from selling Tomahawk missiles? President Trump: Of course. What do you think he's going to say, "Please sell Tomahawks"? I did actually say, "Would you mind if I gave a couple of thousand Tomahawks to your opposition?" I said it just that way. [Q]: And what was his response? Trump: He really didn't like the idea. [Q]: What did you tell him [Putin] about the Tomahawks? Did you discuss the Tomahawk missiles? President Trump: Well, we talked about it a little bit, didn't say much. But I do say to you: you know, we need Tomahawks for the United States of America, too. We have a lot of them, but we need them.
  11. Putin's aide Ushakov has made public the Russian version of the conversation between President Trump and Putin. The conversation lasted nearly two and a half hours and "was very substantive and extremely frank and confidential," Ushakov said. Particular emphasis was placed on the Ukrainian crisis: the Russian president assessed the situation and expressed Russia's interest in achieving a peaceful political and diplomatic settlement. According to Ushakov, Putin noted that Russia holds the strategic initiative, while the Kiev regime resorts to terrorist methods, to which Russia is forced to respond. Trump, in turn, repeatedly emphasized the need to quickly establish peace in Ukraine, Ushakov noted. The idea that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has proven to be the most difficult was evident throughout the conversation, the Russian presidential aide added. The US President pointed out that ending the conflict would open up enormous prospects for cooperation. The conversation also touched on the issue of possible supplies of long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, Ushakov said. Putin reiterated that they would not change the situation on the battlefield, but would cause significant damage to relations between the two countries. The heads of state also discussed the possibility of holding a new meeting, according to the Russian presidential aide. An agreement was reached that representatives of the two countries would immediately begin preparing for the meeting, which could take place, for example, in Budapest. The contact was "very useful," and the two leaders agreed to stay in touch, Ushakov added. ----- Would love to wake up to news that we are getting Tomahawks to the Ukrainians (or to somebody in NATO who then sends a better-suited weapon to Ukraine), but...this feels like Putin bought Russia a lot of time. On the flip side, Trump despises weakness, and Putin can't cover that up, no matter how much he butters up Trump.
  12. A few days ago, I started a thread in Movies and TV
  13. And most of the people who will be pressuring UT to accept it, never attended UT.
  14. In a sane world, UT's leadership would want to be included with those schools.
  15. I hate the 6-7 thing, but I was laughing.
  16. We are getting so fucking played. Sorry Ukraine, you're not getting Tomahawks and we'll probably end our information sharing.
  17. I can absolutely believe it. I never listen to the pitches, and I would hope the olds hang up on the callers with thick Indian accents just out of habit, but I can see it if they have your info and you're an old who is worried about finances.
  18. Until at least mid-2026. I think they are counting on Russia not being able to sustain that much destruction and having to do something (come to the negotiating table or just leave). The Russian people will tolerate a shitload, but if this campaign keeps up for another month as we really get into winter, I don't see how something won't break in their society - it would mean a shutdown on heating, on transportation, on food distribution, on electricity in general. They have to be running low on parts, and the people who can make these repairs have got to be stretched thin. Russia doesn't appear to have much in the way of buffers (national reserves) that they can easily tap to replace all of the lost fuel/refining/transportation, and Ukraine keeps on selectivity hitting targets that seem to be putting pressure on a lot of different places. Maybe they leave a refinery alone but hit vulnerable pumping stations and pipelines that feed to and distribute from that refinery, so for all intents and purposes, it's out of commission, etc. There's a definite grand plan going on. Ukraine has cut off that Russian group in the north and have slaughtered would-be armored reinforcements. They seem to be working on the fuel depots in the south (and the lines that feed them). And the one rail line that feeds Crimea/southern areas under Russian occupation on the landlocked side is apparently out of commission from what's been said - it's not far from Ukrainian lines, and the Ukrainians apparently tracked what was shipped across it so they knew when fuel cars were going to be run down it. They did something to stop a train full of fuel tankers and other military supplies and then took the engine and the tank cars out with drones. Because it's close to the lines and within range of a shitload of drones, the Russians are wary of bringing in heavy equipment to clear the line, so the line is basically out of action, leaving the rail line alongside the Kerch bridge the only rail supply line into Crimea. And supposedly Belarus is struggling and Putin and Co. are not quite abandoning it, but it's not getting much love, and the economy is in the shitter and things are happening there. So much is going on right now.
  19. Fuck it just doesn't stop. 3-4 a day, even though I block/report. Every little town around Austin. If I've gotten calls from 200+ different phone numbers since starting this thread, I would not be surprised. Those of us with middle-schoolers who haven't purchased phones for them yet, when they get older and we do get them phones, I wonder how many of them are going to end up with phone numbers that have been used and reported as spam in the past.
  20. The heroin addict lawyer who got a fucking literal brain worm from eating raw monkey would have you believe in your opinion and not the experts. That Bishop's response is pretty solid: This is a classic textbook example of rhetorical confusion, an attempt to sound anti-authoritarian while misunderstanding both science and faith. Science at its best depends on disciplined expertise, peer review, and humility before evidence. Trusting experts does not mean blind obedience; it means recognizing the limits of one’s knowledge and valuing rigorous, tested inquiry. Rejecting expertise outright is not democratic; it is anti-intellectual. Democracies function when informed citizens weigh evidence responsibly, not when everyone treats opinion as equal to informed understanding. The comparison to religion is equally misguided. Mature faith is not credulous submission but trust grounded in relationship, conscience, and reason. The Christian tradition affirms that faith seeks understanding. It wrestles with truth; it does not suspend thought. Equating trust in credible expertise with totalitarianism is not only false but dangerous, because it erodes the trust that makes both science and democracy possible. Such rhetoric reveals a crisis of epistemic humility, characterized by an inability to acknowledge that truth requires both personal integrity and communal wisdom. When distrust becomes an identity, the result is not freedom but fragmentation, where no one can learn from anyone else.
  21. Are you all talking about Bill Burr the Star Wars actor? Anyways, with the above said about YouTube and podcasts fucking things up, I've got two young kids, I'm not doing much in the way of going out to clubs or concerts, so I consume the hell out of a lot of YT stuff. I can talk about how YT is fucking things up, but at the same time, I can use it to find people I've never heard of before, and it's giving a lot of comedians and clubs an outlet (and a way to make a living) that they didn't have before. And a lot of comedians don't hold back on YT whereas they might for a filmed special on Comedy Central or Netflix (but not Anthony Jeselik). And comedy does adapt - I love the premise of Don't Tell Comedy - Don't Tell Comedy: Secret Comedy Shows across the U.S. for instance, where you are buying tickets and you have no idea what comedian you are going to get or where it's going to be. We plan on doing this at one of the Austin dates. We had friends who went to one of their shows, and saw Maddie Wiener, and she is somebody they would never have paid money to see before that, had never heard of her, but now they'll go see her anytime she's nearby. Hell, I wouldn't have, but they were telling me about her and looked up one of her DTC clips, and holy fucking shit she got dark at the end. She's not going to be on Joe Rogan or Netflix any time soon because reasons, but of course she has a fucking podcast, but whatever. Would have been fun to show up at a Don't Tell Comedy special and he was there With that said.....YouTube also surfaces a lot of absolute shit that has a fuckton of views and likes and I have absolutely no idea why, and I have to dislike this stuff to keep it off my algorithm. Like the white guy who is a Navy vet and is constantly talking about being around Black people (I think his wife is Black). It keeps surfacing it because I've watched a lot of comedy and military shows, but he's so repetitive. I feel like he did two concerts and everything on YT is just chopped up bits from those concerts. Or Leanne Morgan. It keeps surfacing her stuff. I know she has her audience who loves her, but if I'm going to take a middle-aged blonde Morgan, I'd rather taken Karen Morgan because I find her easy on the eyes and ears and in my wheelhouse (but she keeps it really tame). It's funny with YouTube though, sometimes this feels like "country music is dying" to me because I fucking loathe 98% of country music and country singers from the last 20 years, so I'll go out on YouTube and catch the hall-of-famers doing concerts 30-40 years ago. Same with comedy, I can go find Richard Pryor or Foster Brooks or Don Rickles or whoever.
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