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  1. Hesgeth could be the model citizen and and husband but he would be manifestly unqualified for this job. The deadly serious people in Beijing and Moscow are toasting their incredible good fortune, that somehow the “hawks” in America settled on starting a war against their own military. Owning the libs by destroying the armed services.
  2. Robbie Williams is a Brit mega-star for inexplicable reasons cause his songs are really not that great. He is legitimately iconic in Europe playing massive arenas and formerly was like 1 of every three videos on MTV when it played music. His cultural penetration there is on par with maybe someone like Justin Timberlake. But, not for lack of trying, he just could not break through at all in the United States. Americans have no clue who he is unless you’ve been overseas and mystified your European friends by not having a clue about one of the biggest stars in their world. It’s almost a running joke that we don’t care about him. And some genius at Paramount signed off on trying to promote his biopic, where he is played by a CGI ape, in a country that famously has no clue who he is. The movie took in something like one million on opening weekend, it’s a complete fiasco.
  3. I don’t know if I’ll like a Hollywood fiasco more this year. Paramount decides to purchase and distribute “Better Man,” a biopic of Robbie Williams (famously unable to get any traction in the U.S.) where he’s played by a CGI ape and it made 580k on opening night. I just want to have been in the room for this pitch: ”So here’s the film, it’s a biopic about this mega pop star. Only no one in America knows who he is or can name one of his songs. I’m telling you, he’s a complete nobody here. A zero. But it won’t be him in the movie, it will be a chimp. Only maybe it’s all in his head? No one ever mentions it in the movie. It’s not clear, but everyone else in the movie are people and he’s a singing ape. That’s the hook. I’m telling you this will do numbers!”
  4. Just let him rename the Coast Guard back to the Revenue Cutter Service.
  5. A fundamental mistake I have seen on this thread is the belief that even if the CIA or U.S. controlled social media (it doesnt and won’t), then that outcome is equal in badness to the PRC controlling social media.
  6. Freedom Win! Top Bankers return to Slurring Special Needs Kids.
  7. Whatever niche interest you had—sports, cars, movies, action figurines— was and is better on bbs or Reddit and will never be good on a social media platform of any type. Social media was only good to get friends and contacts to overshare visual media and is complete garbage as a substitute for a message board. The internet is enshittened. Surly is one of the last forts. Even TexAgs, as an online expression of pure Aggieness, is shit. 2005 TexAgs was real live Old Army posting stupid but genuine shit from Navasota and now it’s just bots talking to each other. RIP
  8. Facebook was great because it acted as kind of a pre-WhatsApp organizing method for college parties and because college girls you knew shamelessly posted vacation and party photos. Insta was great because 20 and 30 something women you know shamelessly posted their vacation and night out photos. This, to a younger 956, was a revelation. That cute girl in my 3-level history class would have fucking slapped me— or at the least gotten the ick — had I asked to see her bikini photos from summer vacation. And then, a few years later— they were simply there to assess with no more awkwardness than a friend request that she would send you! For me, “social” media went wrong when the algos began favoring “content creators” to people you actually know. No matter how much pulchritude some OnlyFan model is flaunting and how scandalous it is, it will never hit as hard as seeing that your high school prom date still has it, and has gotten divorced and is letting her friends know about both. As far as I know TikTok was never about connecting you with your friends and acquaintances, who would have shit video anyway. It was always about driving you to “creators” and it never had any interest to me.
  9. On this thread you’ve been fiending for TikTok’s sweet “pure” algorithim, randomly accused a poster of being an Israeli agent and claimed that Israel is behind the ban, and offered a completely wrong and brain-dead narrative of how this whole potential ban came about. In all seriousness, ban or no ban, you need to personally delete the app and do a detox.
  10. Dude, he heard different on TikTok.
  11. “TikTok didn’t try to sell anything, didn’t try to monetize, didn’t ask for anything of me. It just wanted me to scroll for hours and hours enjoying the purity of its PRC-built algorithm and never look at anything else. TikTok just wants what’s best, that’s why they refuse to sell and make everyone involved rich. It’s unthinkable to be without it.” Fucking lulz. TikTok’s biggest supporters are writing a perfect argument for kicking it out.
  12. The people yearn for the Great Lakes and just don’t know it yet.
  13. @jimmyjazz, I used your page 1 recipe as a base and tripled it for a parish potluck and it slammed. I did use ground chuck and pork because I didn’t have the energy to cube that much meat to feed other people. I also made pans of cornbread and a pot of charro beans for the schismatics to do what they would with them. Plus, I can go for beans on the side of chili. Just not cooked in the chili. I will add a few arbols next time when making it just for me.
  14. If one needed to defend oneself INSIDE a Cybertruck— better to keep a trench knife embedded in the dash or to use an AR-15 so the rounds penetrate and don’t ricochet if you miss? Elon hasn’t weighed in. Concerning.
  15. What. A. Dipshit. Also lulz at being protected from Chicago toughs toting Tommy guns. Also lots and lots of handgun cartridges are supersonic, including 115 grain 9mm. Probably the most common handgun cartridge out there. Listen here, guy.
  16. Fuckin Charlie Kirk, man. What a dipshit. One thing I non-ironically believe is that Democrats made a mistake in having such deep ties between activists and NGOs and their decision makers. It’s not that activism doesn’t have a place, but it trends towards anti-pragmatism and treats compromise as a moral failing, which hinders good policy making and governance. It also leads to an “ur-cause, one thing is everything and the only thing” mentality. But the GOP has long caught up and done it so much stupider.
  17. I also read (I can’t vouch if it’s true)that on average deaf Americans read English at much lower level, because ASL is their first language and its not as simple as just turning it into written English. Which I didn’t think of, but intuitively makes sense, since it’s a different language and they can’t experience the spoken word. Like trying to learn to read Spanish but you never learn to speak Spanish and the teacher tries to explain how to read in English. (Maybe non-phonetic languages like Chinese are easier for deaf people to learn— just an aside). So it’s important to use ASL to give critical information. Anyway, it’s so stupid that people are whining about this. The super-massive core of chud psychology is a burning fear that somewhere, someone different is being treated with compassion.
  18. Those Super Scoopers that you see, including the one that was hit by a drone, are Canadian.
  19. Texas’ Surfrider chapters do great work on this.
  20. Two tennis questions but no combat sports or hockey has me questioning the masculinity of this quiz.
  21. Lol, what a clown you are. You pretend to be some kind of noble libertarian and freedom lover but you have shown nothing but contempt for the brave people defending their country against the clearest cut case of illegal aggression in 80 years. And try desperately to pin the blame on “your” country instead of the one doing the rapes and murders. I have so much more respect for out and out MAGATs, at least they are dealing with genuine cognitive disadvantages.
  22. I’ll stand by The Insider story, which clearly articulates that the new evidence helps to back up the original claim. Which was never “disinformation” and was never “shot down.” That was always your misrepresentation. I’m not waiting for a canceled check with Cyrillic in the memo line. Intelligent people can read the article and compare it to your spin on Trump-era official statements. Weiss and Grozev have rarely been wrong. Your wager proposal is the stupidest thing I’ve read on Surly. I’m sure Hesgeth will be right on this LOL.
  23. New evidence that further corroborates the old evidence— which was never “shot down” it was not confirmed. Dissembling, misrepresenting goal-tending for Russia. You got your trifecta.
  24. This is new reporting and investigation, Ana is dissembling.
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