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atomheartbevo

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  1. They really did a good job of casting those two.
  2. I didn't care for his Star Trek work, but appreciate the Xena stuff and a lot of his other stuff. Crazy that I'm around his age.
  3. It really is. And they took Mon Mothma and made her one of my favorite SW characters ever. And she and Luthen are my favorite SW characters since the 1980s.
  4. I just want him to go into his Howard Hughes mode a bit early.
  5. We are leaving a power vacuum and France and Turkey are stepping up. Kind of embarrassing, but great that somebody is. China would love for Russia to collapse. When Putin dies, they are going to hoover up a lot of stuff. Not by sending troops over the border, but through financial means. China has also been dancing around crossing the line that would get them sanctioned, but they have happily tried to buy oil & gas, lumber, etc. at well below-market prices from Russia. Europe is the US's largest trading partner, and you nailed it - China wants to replace us.
  6. We've got a Ukrainian first grader at my school that my daughter is friends with. Great family as well. I'm hoping they are able to stay - they are from an area that was under threat. Thankfully the dad has a work visa (his company does business between Ukraine and the US) so maybe they get to stay.
  7. Musk said this morning that he wants to privatize Amtrak and the Post Office. If you are in a rural area...Musk is telling you to As you drive your ass 15 or 20 miles to get your mail. I would say he doesn't have a shot because, you now, the whole Constitution thing, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is a bunch of people in Congress will realize that their precious fucking campaign mailers won't be getting to their rural constituents in a timely manner and/or will cost their campaigns a lot more to mail, so they might try and push back.
  8. Herbie, I'm glad the state is going all in on this stuff, because with the DOGE nonsense, and with the layoffs/budget cuts to National Park Service and US Forest Service, we could very well be on our own - as of a week or so ago, they apparently cut a bunch of USFS folks in Texas and surrounding areas who coordinate state and national assets in the event of large fires. The folks who, when shit hits the fan, they know all of the right people to get assets moved quickly, whether it's Hot Shot teams in Arizona or California or the larger aircraft out of Canada, etc. They cut one entire group who handles a lot of this (high school classmate's husband was in it) and didn't leave anybody around to do this stuff. So aggy Forestry Service better have their shit together if we have any large fires this year, and I wouldn't count on Los Diablos.
  9. What is it with these people not knowing how to drink from a fucking water bottle?
  10. Agriculture is now up, and apparently the next exemption.
  11. Given how much Beijing dances around not providing the kind of hardware that would put them on the sanctions list, as well as being careful with their trade and banking with Russia, I don't really buy it. Plus, China wants a weakened Russia, both militarily and economically.
  12. Europe is our largest and richest trading partner. It would destroy our economy for many years to come if we were to openly side with the Russian military. There would also be a fuckload of Americans who would lose their shit over such a scenario. They may toe the line on us betraying Ukraine, but that's as far as they'll go. France stuck with us in Afghanistan for over a decade. I have no problem with the French.
  13. Like watching (in Dallas I might add) when Jon Dough went balls-deep on Dana Lynn in Debbie Does Dallas IV - the cheers from the audience really made an impression. Now that I'm older and a dad with a middle-school-aged son, I'm constantly looking at Alamo's website for movies I loved to show him on the big screen instead of at home - in the past year or so, we've done the first three Indiana Jones movies, Goonies, and I'm keeping an eye out on the 1980s Star Trek films (maybe not V).
  14. It's about to get crazier - they are planning to sell buildings that are currently in use by various federal agencies. Musk is hell-bent on disposing federal properties and he and his merry band of 19 and 20-somethings don't know what the fuck they are doing and buildings get listed for disposal only to be pulled back because it turns out they are in use. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/trump-admin-may-sell-j-j-pickle-federal-building-austin-buildings-used-by-veterans-affairs-treasury/
  15. Musk and DOGE are going to cut 70,000 jobs from the Veterans Administration.
  16. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING POSTING MY WIFI PASSWORD WHAT THE HELL MAN Oh wait, that’s Leon’s kid, never mind.
  17. Wild Robot or Wicked?
  18. Since we are going retro…new Suikoden game, mobile only, looks gorgeous.
  19. The reasons being cited - "national security" - they make no sense. It's to your benefit to buy out the other guy (Canada) at cheap prices and use up their supply, and then you are left with plenty of wood in your own backyard. If we log a shitload of our own stuff now, down the road when it's expensive, we'll be buying from Canada at prices they set. Real reason? You can see who gave who money last year in the CR thread.
  20. The good news is you probably would only do it once, because you're kinda dead.
  21. The guided tours have already closed. They stopped the self-guided tours then opened up a few slots after people flipped out, but according to others, they are trying to be optimistic and don't have the manpower to keep things open for even the self-guided tours to go down. A lot of chatter that there is a struggle over closing off the caverns. Carlsbad Caverns Timed Entry Reservation, Carlsbad Caverns National Park Tours - Recreation.gov
  22. I know you want it confined to CR, but they are literally going to wreck our national forests. It's fucking news. Everybody, regardless of political persuasion, should be fucking pissed about this and about them shutting down or restricting the national parks.
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