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  1. It's not just tax breaks for NM. Albuquerque is a 12 hour drive from LA/Burbank, so they can still use the same equipment houses in CA and have anything they need in NM the next morning. Lighting techs, sound techs, cameras, all the other people/stuff they use can be there the next morning. Shuttling equipment and crews in and out is really easy. It's a looooong fucking drive to get any of that shit to San Marcos, which means you'll have to have that stuff on site, or close. That means building out a huge supporting industry that currently doesn't exist. New Mexico also has just about every geography/ecosystem that exists in the US, aside from beach/swamps, within a 4 hour drive of Albuquerque.
  2. It's too hot in Austin. You can only kill people by throwing them in the lake.
  3. Anyone who isn't blocked by an HOA/leasing office should get a window AC unit, or a portable. Even if they disallow window units, most of them allow portables. This isn't going to relent for a while still and it's worth a few hundred bucks not to be miserable when you're trying to sleep. Long term, mine saves money by not having to cool the rest of the house off as much. If it helps anyone, here's the Wirecutter reviews. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-conditioner/ And here are the consumer reports for each BTU category. Portables are the last one.
  4. Is that a croquet mallet? What's she going to do, knock over all the Deep States' wickets?
  5. Not publicly confirmed, but Giuliani, Eastman, Sydney Powell and Jeffery Clark are pretty obvious. The allegations can be paired with specific actions that happened publicly. The other 2, especially #6, the political consultant, are less clear. There's lots of options for #6 and I hope we get some of those options indicted as well.
  6. Just like Putin and his red lines, it's all a never-ending bluff. This is the line in the sand. [DOJ steps over] No, this one is the line in the sand. [DOJ steps over] Ok, well, this one is the line in the sand. [DOJ steps over] Now this is the line in the sand [DOJ steps over] How about, this one is the line in the sand?
  7. Big strong man with tears in his eyes and a dog straight out of central casting.
  8. Seems there might be an Xodus soon.
  9. That's even more obnoxious than I'd previously seen. It turns into a giant strobe light. That could easily trigger a seizure in someone with photosensitive epilepsy.
  10. Russia has committed so many atrocities, the abduction of 700,000 children kind of gets lost in the shuffle. It's a number that is very difficult to fathom. Take a full DKR and multiply it times 7. That's how many kids have been stolen and abused. 7 full DKRs worth. 700,000 kids kidnapped and without our aid, it would be MUCH worse. One out of every 10 kids in the entire country of Ukraine kidnapped. A huge number of Ukrainian children are currently being stolen and abused, yet some Americans still take the Russian side. Few things in this world boil down to actual Good versus Evil. This is one of them. There is only one acceptable response. Give Ukraine what they need to win this war.
  11. Great point. If people really want to share something from there, screen shot it and paste it into Surly instead. The only thing giving them traffic at this point is Ukraine and people laughing at Musk crashing Twitter.
  12. The MALD missile can mimic radar signatures for just about anything and has been in use since 2009. It's a 14-year old weapon we're willing to let Ukraine use and reveal capabilities to the Russians/Chinese. That strongly suggests the military has something much better in the works that we don't know about. Occam's razor says most of these sightings are our new tech. It's not breaking the laws of physics, but it is giving the appearance that it is.
  13. I've mentioned before that the Shahed delta wing design is really inefficient and produces a lot of unnecessary drag due to the triangle shape, but is good at pitch (nose up/down), which is beneficial for accurately descending to hit a target. This Ukrainian design has the same pitch strengths (that's a main reason for the front wings), but is much more efficient with less drag. Both sets of wings are high aspect ratio, much longer along the wingspan than they are wide. That produces a higher percentage of lift, relative to drag across the wing. Less drag = more range. There's also less to hit with anti-aircraft weapons than a delta wing. TL/DR This is a good design. The Ukrainians are smart motherfuckers.
  14. Anyone on the fence about whether the GQP is coming for birth control need only to Google/Duck, Duck, Go it. There are shit tons of results. AG candidates, Senators, Supreme Court Justices, House Representatives. This is just a few of many from a very quick perusal. Supreme Court https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/24/contraception-supreme-court-clarence-thomas-griswold/ US Senator https://www.newsweek.com/blackburn-says-scotus-ruling-protect-birth-control-couples-unsound-1690259 US House https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republicans-voted-against-birth-control-protections_n_62d84d4be4b03dbb9913f86d US Senators https://www.axios.com/2022/07/27/birth-control-bill-senate
  15. We should nationalize Space X and Starlink. It's crystal clear at this point that Elon owning them is a national security threat.
  16. Putin's mouth is writing checks his ass can't cash again. I guess he's having memory issues, because this is the last time the Russians fucked around and found out.
  17. He's a narcissistic moron who would refuse to listen to good advice, even if one of his employees gave it to him, which they won't, because he'll fire them immediately.
  18. Artillery/Arta. It's even better with the lyrics translated. A Muscovite was walking near the forest, Looking for an adventure, The sun shone in the sky Wonderful weather! (in Russian) Suddenly he's fucked The earth begins to tremble A shell had hit A young Muscovite. Chorus And the Muscovite is gone, There's no more Muscovite, There is nothing fucking left, There's only earth, Artillery is working, The boys are fucking them up One less katzap left, And the other shit his himself The Muscovite is hiding in a trench, And holding a Kalishnikov His body is full of tattoos, And weed is in his pocket, Suddenly it banged And land was blown into the air The earth has swallowed up A young Muscovite. Chorus A column of vehicles is coming, Paratroopers from Pskov, And in the bushes, GRU agents are hiding, Suddenly it banged, And the engines halted Paratroopers got fucked so hard, Their under pants were burning. Chorus A katzap mortar unit Was lined up The fuckers are happy Their deployment almost done Suddenly it banged, And their lives were cut short, And with it all their health, For this combat moskal.
  19. Stochastic terrorism coming home to roost.
  20. About one and a half Houstons to go on the Zaporizhya/College Station front.
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