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  1. 11 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

    Going to someone’s house with HBO or Cable even was always looked forward to as a kid.

    There was a stretch where it seemed like Die Hard was constantly playing, and my friends with HBO would get annoyed when I was over at their house and insisted on watching it. One of my friends that had it, it was hooked up to a TV in den, across the house from the parents bedroom.  When I was staying over for D&D or whatever, I'd ask to watch whatever late-night smut was one. 

    He would tell me "Somebody could walk in on you watching that" and my response would be:

    Tommy Lee Jones I Dont Care GIF

    One time he said "yeah, but what if it was my mom?"

    Not Bad Kind Of GIF by MOODMAN

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  2. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Something definitely burning.

    If the reporting and geolocating is correct, they hit the large-scale/long-range SAM battery that protects the harbor first (flashy explosion, but not much fire) and then hit the export dock/terminal (lots of fire, still burning hard, mushroom-looking cloud).  That's some pretty solid coordination.

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  3. dance marathon kids GIF by Children's Miracle Network Hospitals

    U.S. conducts 20th strike on alleged drug boat, killing 4 people in Caribbean Sea - CBS News

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    The U.S. military conducted another strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat on Monday, a Pentagon official confirmed to CBS News. The attack targeted a vessel in the Caribbean Sea and killed four people on board. 

    Since September, U.S. forces have destroyed at least 21 vessels in 20 strikes in international waters, killing at least 80 people. The Trump administration says the operations — the details of which remain sparse — are part of an anti-drug offensive. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dubbed the wider anti-trafficking effort "Operation Southern Spear."

    The Pentagon has not revealed more information about the most recent strike. Previously, Hegseth has said the attacks have targeted "narco-terrorists" on known drug trafficking routes, although U.S. officials have not provided specific evidence that the vessels were smuggling drugs or posed a threat to the United States.

    Some experts say the strikes, which have taken place in both the Pacific and Caribbean, may violate international law even if they target known drug traffickers. U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk this week urged an investigation into the legality of the strikes, warning of "strong indications" of "extrajudicial killings."

    The latest strike comes amid an increasing U.S. military buildup in the region. This week, the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford and other warships had entered the Southern Command's area of responsibility, which includes the Caribbean. The USS Ford is the largest aircraft carrier in the world, and the U.S. Navy's most advanced.

     

    We've done 20 of these things.  And killed 80 people.

    And we're just getting started.

     

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  4. 1 hour ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Remember when the Clintons were free basing adrenochrome from blood children with Jay Z and Beyoncé? Weird that the people freaking about that don’t care about the very real child rapists we’re now seeing.

    Even better was Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey who were doing adenochrome to look young.

    Even though both pretty much look every day of their ages.

    And they get real sheepish when you tell them "well maybe you were right, maybe Epstein didn't kill himself."

  5. 7 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    I think that Trump‘s press conference was a huge success, because I don’t really hear anyone talking about Epstein anymore. They’re talking about Trump and Prince Andrew.

    I didn't see it, but I saw earlier that he was rushing past the media while they were yelling out questions about Epstein.  And he's trying to shut out a bunch of them, which is going to lead to lots more discussions of Epstein.

  6. 9 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

    As was pointed out in January 2022 when Russia was building up to invade Ukraine: No one moves that much into place if they don't plan to use it.  Lots of innocent Venezuelans are about to die.  Some Americans will, too.

    He appears to have been talked out of invading Nigeria, so we’ve got that going for us. That would have been a far larger shitstorm and a lot more deaths on both sides.

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  7. 30 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    As always I’m in, but I assume they’re going to use more reenactments. 12 hours of Peter Coyote narrating historical paintings is a heavy lift for most viewers. 

    I’ve spent several hours listening to and watching her walk around Revolutionary battlefields and other sites and discussing maps, so yeah, let’s keep the paintings down and focus on re-enactments and tours of famous places and maps.  

    https://www.youtube.com/@AllRevolutionaryWar

     

     

     

     

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  8. On 11/12/2025 at 12:44 PM, Captainant said:

    Valve just dropped a ton of news! Steam Controller 2, Steam Frame (VR headset), Steam Machine (x86 linux gaming box running SteamOS), and even friggin SteamOS for ARM

    https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware

    So they are dropping three pieces of hardware next year that can work together.  

    What else are they dropping that revolves around the number three?

    video games night GIF

  9. I know I keep joking that the more Epstein stuff comes out, the more the chances are that Venezuela is gonna get wrecked but.

    Trump briefed on updated military options in Venezuela

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    President Donald Trump has been briefed on updated options for potential military operations in Venezuela, including a strike on land, ABC News has confirmed. 

    The briefing on Wednesday followed the arrival of the USS Gerald Ford -- the world’s largest aircraft carrier -- in the U.S. Southern Command area of operations north of the Caribbean Sea. The carrier is accompanied by some 60 aircraft, including F-18 fighter jets, that dramatically increases the military’s firepower in the region and boost the number of troops in Latin American to 15,000. 

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    Sources cautioned that the briefing itself was not an indication that an attack was imminent.

    Trump has been weighing his options for weeks, which experts say could range from no action to air strikes on seaports, airports and military facilities. Another option, considered less likely, could be sending in a team of special operations forces to apprehend or kill Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and his senior advisers. 

    There's chatter that this is just to make Maduro nervous and/or try to get him out, but again, there is no upside to him leaving power - he'll just end up in an American prison.

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  10. 5 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    I don't know if I can trust a company whose CEO isn't constantly sending out cringy AI erotica for incels on the social media platform that he also owns.

    If I had his money, I wouldn't be interacting with fucking incels of all people, and I would be generating my own erotica with real people.

    I probably wouldn't be on social media either.

  11. 2 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:

    Def. interested in the Steam Machine. I would love to have a "console" that could take advantage of Steam's library and prices, assuming it has enough guts to run more demanding games. 

    Valve's new Steam Machine is a SteamOS-powered mini PC over six times faster than a Steam Deck | PC Gamer

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    "Our benchmark has always been that it should have enough performance to play every game on Steam at 4K60 when you do some sort of upscaling like FSR," Aldehayyat says.

    That's a lofty goal. I had a chance to play Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K with FSR enabled at Valve's HQ, and it ran pretty well on the plucky Steam Machine. It was certainly playable, with no significant frame rate drops during my brief time with it. But neither was it a totally fluid experience, and I enjoyed much smoother gameplay by switching to 1080p, even without any upscaling technology enabled.

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    I can see why Valve is targeting setting its sights on 4K. With the popularity of 4K TVs for living rooms, that's likely to be the native resolution of a TV that the Steam Machine sits in front of. Needless to say, this sets the bar pretty high for Valve's little machine.

    The Steam Machine is many times faster than the Steam Deck. Over six times faster, according to Valve. Though the older handheld isn't the best point of comparison for the more modern, discrete components in the Steam Machine. Compared to a modern gaming PC, the Steam Machine is fairly underpowered. Quite literally, as it only packs a 200 W power supply—a fraction of the size of most modern desktop gaming PCs.

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    SteamOS will also work to Valve's benefit for performance. In my colleague's comparative testing on the Lenovo Legion Go S, using SteamOS saw an increase of as much as 32% in Cyberpunk 2077 compared to Windows 11. While improvements may be less pronounced on more powerful hardware, Valve's own OS should reduce overheads and allow for higher frames per second than comparable kit using Windows.

     

  12. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Mentioned it on here before, but I drive downtown streets every day.  Lots of Waymos on the road with me.  They are among the best drivers -- and even among the most courteous -- in downtown.

    1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I’ve been completely shocked at how good they are. I much prefer them as a passenger to a human uber driver. 

    My kids will count them if they see more than a couple.  One time, within a 5-minute span, we saw 12 Waymos on Shoal Creek. Kind of surprised.

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