Actor? Great. Personal? I suppose... realistic? In the 60s he battled alcoholism and left his wife and baby. Even today I think he is unsure if his daughter (now in her late 50s?) has any children (his grandchildren) to speak of. Sad... But saw an interview recently where he was candid about it and moving on with things he cannot control today.

Remarkable engineering, that the jets handled the collision so well, and of course the ejections. This reminds me of that Dallas air show crash a few years ago that was caused by a pilot who literally couldn't see in front or beneath him so he "landed" on top of another aircraft in the air. Sadly that was was fatal.

I invested in JOBY and ACHR a few years ago... I told my buddy who was preaching about the eVTOL future (drone auto helicopters), that those are "buy and check in 20 years" stocks. So far I think I'm up like 3-4x on them, but again... call me closer to when Halley's Comet is coming back.

Indeed. Draft FTW.

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https://gizmodo.com/massive-crypto-atm-company-bitcoin-depot-is-shutting-down-as-the-whole-industry-collapses-2000760192 Bitcoin Depot, once the largest network of crypto ATMs in North America, is calling it quits following mounting legal scrutiny and a state-by-state crackdown on Bitcoin teller machines (BTMs) over fraud concerns. ... Bitcoin Depot CEO Alex Holmes said in the press release that the current regulatory environment had made the company’s business model unsustainable.

Trump has also enjoyed more leisure than ever: So far, the president has spent more than a fifth of his second term—about 21.95 percent—golfing. Trump has hit the links at least 106 times since he returned to office, which puts him on pace to exceed the 307 days he spent golfing over the course of his first term. Former President Barack Obama, in comparison, racked up a total of 333 rounds of golf over eight years in office. https://www.newsbreak.com/the-new-republic-1991457/4658231795389-how-trump-s-team-is-hiding-how-fast-he-s-aging

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2550166/inside-details-how-the-idf-found-and-killed-hamas-leader-al-haddad-known-as-the-ghost.html Hamas’s military chief in Gaza, Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, made a series of operational mistakes in the months after the U.S.-brokered ceasefire that allowed Israeli intelligence to track and ultimately kill him in a strike on a Gaza City apartment, security sources told the Israeli news site Walla. Haddad — known to Hamas operatives as “the Ghost” and described by Israeli officials as the last surviving senior architect of the October 7, 2023, massacre — was killed Friday in a precision strike on a residential building in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood. The IDF said three fighter jets dropped 13 munitions on the building and a vehicle that left the area moments later, killing Haddad along with his wife and a daughter, according to Hamas sources. Both of his sons had been killed in earlier Israeli strikes, in January and April of last year. Emergency services in Gaza put the total death toll at seven, with more than 50 wounded. and According to the defense sources cited by Walla, Haddad had for years moved almost exclusively through Hamas’s underground tunnel network, confiding his movements only to a tiny circle of aides. He survived multiple assassination attempts, dyed his hair and shaved much of his beard to alter his appearance, and reportedly surrounded himself at times with Israeli hostages to deter strikes. and In the end, the strike found Haddad above ground, in a hideout apartment in Rimal, surrounded by family members. When people inside the building attempted to flee in vehicles, the IDF struck a second time, hitting the car to prevent the escape of his associates and any possibility that Haddad himself might survive.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/mark-fuhrman-dead-lapd-detective-o-j-simpson-murder-trial-1236599105/ Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles Police detective who gained notoriety for his part in the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson, has died. He was 78. Fuhrman had been living in Idaho at the time of his death. Lynette Acebedo, the chief deputy coroner in Kootenai County, Idaho, confirmed his death to multiple outlets, saying, “There will be no other information provided through this office.” TMZ reported that he died May 12 and that he’d been battling an aggressive form of throat cancer. Fuhrman was the detective who found a bloody glove at Simpson’s Brentwood estate while investigating the murders of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ron Goldman, outside Simpson’s home on June 12, 1994. That glove became a key piece of evidence in the 1995 trial.

NobodySock said: @Andrea-B said: @NobodySock said: And I will comply with the German’s request, not to let copilot extrapolate on the true story of my piano and... Go fuck yourself, Klaus. Wow. Just wow. Again. Andrea, you had to be there I’m sorry and if you were, you might understand the venom. It hurts double hard when it’s condensation coming from a man I respect and cared for men who I would stop on a dime to go meet and have a beer with and talk about the finer arts of the piano forte. But he replied to a long post I made that was a conversation with Copilot about my special piano with annoyance and ridicule that could’ve best been presented to me in an off-line message and so I brought out my Thompson machine gun and I’m still bitter about it cause he’s gone invisible since And I’m well aware that I misspelled, but I will leave the word alone because condensation also fits. It’s a bunch of fucking crying is what it is.

That’s great

@Mik said: As far as I know the president did not request any of this, it just popped up as a reaction to the hotel debacle. The Senate GOP added it and I seriously doubt a billion dollars could be spent on the ballroom security alone. I suspect it was to beef up security for the president in other ways as well, which in not a bad idea. But I suppose if one's bent its toward cheap dunks this is suitable fodder. If one's bent is toward cheap dunks I'd humbly suggest that one is rather spoilt for choice at the moment.

HAHAHAHA

I don’t think there is anyone international issue that creates more doublespeak than Taiwan vs ROC.

So, right now in the US, if you want to buy a gun, it has to be in person?

There is a real, well-documented, and very recent case to look at: Amazon Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and McKenzie Scott's divorce. They were married before Bezos founded Amazon.