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choripan

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  1. Actually laughed out loud.
  2. Because it's the second time it came up between your buddy and someone's kid. Believe me, I was married to a black woman for almost two decades, so she would definitely identify it. And I'm a big buzzcutted white dude who carries myself with a military bearing. Whities have no problem being open with me. Been recruited to militia-type organizations a shitload of times throughout Michigan. Snowmobiler bars, dives, bonfires, all kinds of places. Lots of conspiracy theories, lots of horseshit, not a ton of racism.
  3. Of course. I tried to use two paragraphs in my post to delineate, talking about the bubble of A2 in the first paragraph and the rest of the state in the second paragraph. Coulda been clearer, I suppose.
  4. That would totally be one of the yahoos that comes in from the hinterlands just to be a dick. Perfect example.
  5. I didn't say that the first time, but eyeroll at both of these posts. I live in Ann Arbor and haven't seen a confederate flag in years, except for a couple times when some yahoo with a lifted truck tries to make a point. And my ex-wife is black/kids mixed, it's something she/they or I would have noticed and talked about. Not but 3(?) in the 6 years I've lived here, and all of us are out and about quite a bit. Now, downriver, the Howell area, and West Michigan can be racist AF. Most of the state outside of that is pretty rural and "everyone leave me alone and stay away," which includes minorities, people from downstate, people from out of state, gubmint people, etc. I wouldn't categorize that as racist, just misanthropic. To label it as racist or the area as racist is just ignorant armchair quarterbacking (or basing on small sample size anecdote) from distance.
  6. Ford CEO shuts down Tesla Full Self-Driving deal, says Waymo is better Ford has long been rumored to be in discussions with Tesla about licensing its Full Self-Driving technology, but CEO Jim Farley has now shut down those rumors. Farley confirmed that Ford talked with Tesla, but he believes Waymo has a better solution. Back in 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned that he had early discussions with other automakers about licensing self-driving technology, but these discussions didn’t lead to any agreements. In 2023, the CEO announced that Tesla would be open to licensing Autopilot and FSD to other automakers. [rest of the article under spoiler...] I guess all I can say is, "duh." The thing I wonder more is whether Tesla's already at it's dead end with cameras. I think we all, except for the most Tesla-optimistic, have known for some time that there's a ceiling on what you can do with a camera-only approach. This makes me think that we are already there, or damn close to it, with Tesla stuck at SAE Level 2+ and no way to climb higher, even if some reckless Tesla owners treat it like Level 3/4 in practice.
  7. Like we all didn't already know this.
  8. @Beau Vine Your meme game is strong
  9. I fail to see the problem here.
  10. This is the thing that people miss, and the most important point. It is good, and very few would deny that, but it needs to be damn near flawless.
  11. I'm going to try to post this in as not douchy of a manner as possible -- "Oh, but it's not as good as the gathpacho I had in Barthelona!" -- but I think a substantial portion of the attacks (most? almost all?) are either via Shaheds or ground-launched S300/S400/Iskanders. In my experience being bombed in Ukraine (munitions AND alcohol, holler!) once I hit "translate" on the Ukrainian AF/monitor channels in Telegram to see what they said was incoming, it was essentially always one of those things and never Kinzals or Kalibrs or whatever the hell the orcs fire from jets. Not trying to be contrarian or anything like that, but that's what I saw and now, as I still wistfully check Telegram once in a while wishing I were back there.
  12. fuck i just bought a cybertruck last night.
  13. America is so fucked. Over and over, I think that we are the modern equivalent of killing cats that represent the devil only to allow the rats to bring plague. Just ignorance everywhere.
  14. Many coups have found their impetus through coupes, though.
  15. Okay, first, and far more important, LET'S FUCKING GO! 40+ bombers knocked out is huge!! For those that are interested, here's my post on my impressions of Ukrainians: Future installments will be food and drink, the volunteering experience, and a special Krakow side quest post.
  16. Okay, onto impressions of Kyiv/Russian Aggression. Under a spoiler so it's not a super long post.
  17. Yes, that will SHO the Russian's who's boss.
  18. The plane crash president strikes again. Damn.
  19. Okay, I am going to split this into parts and put each part under a Spoiler so it's not super TLDR. First part, a sort of overall review: As for the travel: More to come later but it's time to get ready for bed: Impressions of Kyiv/Russian Aggression Impressions of Ukranians Volunteering Bonus Krakow Content
  20. Yes, a very special friendship with the Pole and the Ukrainian. Only special (making out, light petting) with the Colombian and Bulgarian. 1-3-2-4, although the Bulgarian had just a knockout personality. I would party with her at any time.
  21. I'm back in the States alive. Made it home for Mother's Day with my mom and ex and then crashed. Yesterday was that first day back to work with shit piled up. I want to make a "put a bow on it" post when I have time, though. Work shit and finalizing divorce shit have me busy most of this week tho. Thanks for thinking of me. And interestingly enough, my special friendships over my trip were Ukrainian, Colombian, Polish, and Bulgarian. Only two of which were very special.
  22. I haven't seen anything about rare earths. That's potentially more important to a lot of supply chains than tariffs, since the former can utterly shut down production, while prices can be raised to account for tariffs, though not ideal. Anyone that is following this more closely than me see anything on rare earths? What a stupid own goal.
  23. Okay, you fuggin degenerate...
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