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@jon-nyc said in Hackman Movies: We watched The French Connection this week. Good but it seems a little odd in 2025 that such a movie would have swept the Oscars. Still it was good. I’m going to watch/rewatch some others of his in the coming weeks. Will report here. I had the same reaction when I saw it years ago. It seemed like a standard chase movie - but I’m guessing it pioneered many of the things we think of as tropes.

Hope things turn in the right direction for you @jon-nyc . Killing a mosquito with a sledgehammer is not the right answer.

@LuFins-Dad said in Keeping the DoD safe from DEI: Sounds like they did a generic search to tag pictures for review, the images will be reviewed and either removed or not. If the Enola Gay is removed, it’s pretty obviously another malicious implementation, again. Scouring the internet, bringing Truth to the American people, one story at a time.

Lol

Imagine having to pay all that money, and then be obliged to have to tell him how awesome he is. It would be like being forced to eat excrement, and then taste it all over again as it is regurgitated.

It’s all that hot air coming off the Gulf of America…

While I get ChatGPT’s point, and I think there’s an important distinction between men attracted to prepubescent girls vs developed minors, I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t use the word ‘pedophilia’ for a middle aged man fucking an 11 year old.

That was a bit of a hairy moment. I've heard that in Brazil they call it a Hitler.

@Axtremus asked in Taiwan: Would Taiwan like to be the 51st of the United States? @taiwan_girl replied in [Taiwan] No. 555 I know the feeling. Nor do we. 555

At NATOs inception the prevailing wisdom or policy was a matter of “Keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down’ to now when the words read more like: Keep the Russians behind the Dnipro, the Americans from losing interest, and somehow figure out how to resurrect Churchill, Napoleon and Frederick the Great. …and, I forgot, Gustavus Adolphus

By the way, this is the same guy that bought that $6MM “art work” that was a banana taped to a canvas. He ate the banana after the auction closed.

I think he gets credit for silencing the debate while ending the “everybody gets a trophy” tradition.

“Inflict” the vaccine. What’s next? Commit vaccination? At any rate for every good sign such as this there are two bad ones (canceling ACIP meetings, and the other group that decides which strains go in the next flu vaccine)

Because it's not what she does, it's who she is. Healthcare is not a job, it is a calling, at least for the ones who do it right. And it is a calling in which the end result is always failure.

By the way he used to blog anonymously though his name was discoverable if you tried. He was fearless and would deeply analyze any topic including verboten things like IQ and group differences. Then the NYT was going to run a hit piece on him as part of their anti-Silicon Valley campaign. He got wind of it and deleted his old blog (‘slate star codex’, like Astral Codex Ten, an anagram of his name). Then NYT never published the piece because the blog was gone minus a cover piece explaining how shitty the Times reporter was. Then he ‘cancel proofed’ his life. He quit his institutional position (he’s a phsychiatrist I believe) and started ‘better help’ online. Then he reintroduced his blog under the new name and I believe undeleted his original blog.

I heard that Biden might run against her.

In Russia, Google Maps shows two names for the gulf https://tass.com/economy/1911177

Wonder what was attached to the other end of the chain

Klaus, the esteemed mastermind of all things tech, should share information regarding German defamation laws on this board.