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  • Trauma at Big Bear Lake

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    Hard to tell with most animals. I mean, even your dog sat in front of you looking up into your eyes, wth is he thinking? Food, walk, play, you smell funny...
  • Saudi NEOM City

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    @taiwan_girl said in Saudi NEOM City: 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. … 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. Got me thinking, what the early vision for The Great Wall was like when the Qin Emperor was spitballing the idea with his court in the early days.
  • Serving the interests of Americans vs trying to obtain power

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  • Bad news for our Easterners

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    I blame the lesbians. God fucking hates ‘em. You’d think he’d have more important stuff to think about, but no. It’s lesbians all day long. That’s why he watches all those movies presumably.
  • An app I wrote using AI

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    On the History Report screen you can Re-Sync the schedule if you make modifications, add new medications, etc. You can also export the history report to a pdf or csv file. Notifications are fully functional etc.
  • Hey guys - something to add to your workout

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    @kluurs said in Hey guys - something to add to your workout: I possess and am the subject of some of the worst looking running photos of ALL time. I have friends who look great. One woman friend had a picture of her taken in the late stages of a marathon with her smiling and looking like she should be on the cover of Vogue. I look like a before picture to be included in Morticians Monthly Magazine. I have seen these pictures, you have a talent at getting the photographer to hit the shutter button as you hit the pavement and your face makes the most gravitational pose EVAH. Still, you're running, so you're 10/10 awesome in my book.
  • Hi ho silver!

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    @Horace said in Hi ho silver!: Silver down 30% today, gold down 10%. You called it! @Horace_t3h_w1se: But silver could so easily crash.
  • Speaking of Minnesota

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    She'll probably win. The left doesn't like her as much as you'd think since she's a bit wishy-washy-Washington. I do remember seeing her on a flight once, and she didn't seem that wishy washy. Anyway... as long as the pillow cocaine con man doesn't get close to that office, I'm fine.
  • History of Ice Skates

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    Link to video
  • 40 years ago today

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    Oh yeah you can find film of McCauliff's parents watching, it's an uncut 5-10 minutes or so. Of course they were being filmed for their positive reaction not expecting to capture their realization of what they just saw. Mind boggling. One of the engineers who had been warning against the launch just recently died, apparently he was filled with guilt but according to his widow he recently found peace as many people wrote him to tell him it wasn't his fault. Of course Artmeis II is being pushed back a few days already for delayed testing... mainly because that area of Florida is going to see sub-freezing temps here soon.... which was the main cause of the above explosion. Now the launch I think is NET (no earlier than) Feb 12 instead of Feb 6...
  • My mental divorce from American football

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    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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    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]
  • 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.
  • Don Lemon arrested

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    “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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    @Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: It worked a lot longer than we thought it would. Did that ever worry you?
  • Funny Pics

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    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