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  • My mental divorce from American football

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    89th8
    Hard to beat 1983. Heck, Kelly took his team to FOUR straight superbowls. Don't ask him how many they won.
  • ICE kills a US citizen in Minneapolis

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    89th8
    Certainly lack of training. Pretti had a gun in the back of his waistband. At no point did he reach for it, he had his cell phone, an empty hand, and eventually both hands on the ground. At that point the back of his shirt is up enough that an officer sees the gun and yells GUN. Which is fine. An officer takes the gun away (not sure if folks also notice an extra magazine also flies onto the ground, too), and the officer behind Pretti switches from his pepper spray can to his firearm and as he moves it forward it discharges. I believe it was accidental due to being a complete n00b (lack of training), at which point the other officers also fire (don't blame them on that). I also believe the first officer that fires continues to fire so as to try and underscore the legitimacy of the first shot. I'm pretty much an expert video analyst who is extremely humble and never wrong, and this is what I saw about 4 hours after the shooting, and I haven't seen anything to contradict it since. To summarize: Yes, Pretti raised the risk level by legally having a firearm holstered behind his back Yes, he was protesting in the street and was told to get to the sidewalk Yes, ICE officers used excessive force to get him and the lady onto the snow bank An officer correctly yelled GUN when he saw it An officer correctly disarmed him about 1-2 seconds before the n00b officer switches to his gun and discharges it like the n00b he is The other officers correctly fire after hearing "GUN" and a shot Pretti's parents better sue the living shit out of DHS for this wrongful death And yes, the first 2 civilians killed by ICE were PRETTI GOOD [image: 1769829092948-b877c95b-7772-448b-81ef-2d0f64660277-image.png]
  • Saudi NEOM City

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    https://gizmodo.com/saudi-arabias-futuristic-megacity-runs-into-dilemma-why-build-housing-when-you-can-build-a-data-center-2000714028 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had a vision for the perfect city: no streets, no cars, a completely sustainable environment that has everything a person could need. He’s apparently willing to settle on just building some data centers. According to the Financial Times, the much-maligned plans for a megacity project known as Neom are set to be downsized from their original ambitions and may go from being a hub for humans to a hub for AI. Sounds about right. The Line, the most famous high-profile facet of Neom, was initially imagined as a fully contained city that would primarily exist in a linear design, stretching 110 miles long with walls that climbed up 1,600 feet, though the whole thing would be just 660 feet wide. It’d be able to house up to nine million people, and anyone would be able to cross from one end of the city to the other in just 20 minutes via subway. Shockingly, realizing that dream has proved difficult. While Saudi Arabia broke ground on the project in 2022, it has been plagued with delays, setbacks, and sizable budget overruns. It didn’t take long for developers to start pushing back on some of the more outlandish ideas in the project, like an upside-down building that would hang from a bridge. Last year, the CEO overseeing Neom abruptly quit, and there were rumblings that the project would go from a full-fledged futuristic city to something more like a small proof of concept for what could be done down the road. Now it seems like even that level of ambition feels out of reach. Per the Financial Times, the latest on the project is that it’ll be “far smaller” than initially planned, and may even cease to be a city at all. The report suggests that Neom could pivot to become a hub for data centers, in line with Prince Mohammed’s design to make Saudi Arabia a major player in the AI space.
  • How not to lower home prices

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    Well this makes sense. He doesn’t want to lower prices, he wants them nice and high. Good policy choice then. https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/2016994260327842125?s=46
  • Finally. A way to protect your home during a zombie apocalypse

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    @Horace said in Finally. A way to protect your home during a zombie apocalypse: Think of the electricity bills. They ought to have those be manual treadmills and build a generator out of each one…
  • Oldest fossilized dinosaur vomit discovered in Germany

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    @taiwan_girl said in Oldest fossilized dinosaur vomit discovered in Germany: what’s known as a regurgitalite. We had some of that around the toilets of our fraternity house.
  • Hey guys - something to add to your workout

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    @kluurs 555
  • Trauma at Big Bear Lake

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    jodiJ
    Oh no!! I just started watching again, but saw that the nest was unguarded for quite awhile this afternoon.
  • Don Lemon arrested

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    Doctor PhibesD
    “This is a very serious felony,” a federal prosecutor said in court, adding Lemon “knowingly joined a mob to storm into a church.” Tourism, surely? Did he steal any of the religious stuff? Was he seen sitting in Christ's chair? Did he dress up like a fucking buffalo? Probably not.
  • The Iran Nuclear Program thread

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    AxtremusA
    @Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: It worked a lot longer than we thought it would. Did that ever worry you?
  • Hi ho silver!

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    @jon-nyc said in Hi ho silver!: I bought a bunch under 2k also. I have sold some. Maybe I have 135oz left or something like that. Just curious ... do you take physical possession or just owning it on paper?
  • Funny Pics

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    jon-nycJ
    The blue ray is out already [image: 1769801541943-img_0164.jpeg]
  • The West Wing

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    I started on House(MD) today. Channel 4 streaming, 8 series, 22 episodes per. ...may be some time
  • The Dark or Inappropriate Humor Thread

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    jon-nycJ
    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUBjhU4k1fr/?igsh=bnJjemE1YjJyeWhz
  • Kevin Warsh to chair the Fed

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    RenaudaR
    From what I have read, Warsh appears to be qualified for the job. Hasset too, but he’s a brown nosing jerk off.
  • Virginia’s New Democrat Led Government….

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    jon-nycJ
    @LuFins-Dad Dog walking tax?
  • With the Winter Olympics Approaching, What About Future Ones?

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    LuFins DadL
    Wait, let me get this straight… The IOC (one of the most corrupt organizations in the world) commissioned a study that says if we don’t stop driving to work, then they will have fewer cities bribe them to let them build expansive new athletic venues that will only support a single event, ever, where thousands of athletes and millions of spectators will be flown from around the world to watch? No hypocrisy, there…
  • So....

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    jon-nycJ
    I wonder if my recorded call has ever been used for training or quality control purposes.
  • Mildly interesting

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    AxtremusA
    @taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting: Only one person has won both an Olympic medal and a Nobel Peace Prize Philip Noel-Baker from UK 1920 Olympic - silver medal in 1500m race 1959 - Nobel Peace Prize for his work on disarmament Words from the spiritual media are that Noel-Baker are trying to give both to Donald Trump.