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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
When I asked Grok (a few posts above your post), it had Putin place of Vance. I'm guessing that Grok will be "fixed" soon as this stuff is going around the socials. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
We were planning on driving to California this summer - we were going to be in El Paso for a wedding and decided we could extend it into a trip since it's closer to our friends in San Diego than it is to Houston, and it would be cool to hit a bunch of the national parks in California and then on the way back (Grand Canyon, etc.) A friend of mine who works in for the National Park Service and who knew of our plans just sent us a message saying that he was told he can be fired or he can resign this week (I'm guessing it's a difference in benefits, but he didn't elaborate). Really sharp dude who is well-educated and well-connected in the business world and won't have a problem finding a job elsewhere - he's one of those types who got bored with the daily grind and changed things up after COVID, and his wife is an attorney with a big firm in California. He's not a park ranger, but he worked with the parks at the 35,000 foot level (I'm being vague on purpose). No idea if he's going to quit or make them fire him and take them to court, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the latter. Anyways, he told us to go ahead and cancel any plans we had for visiting national parks this summer - he said any that weren't outright closed were going to be so understaffed that the number of visitors allowed in would be a fraction of their capacity, and he said it was all very deliberately planned, and the only thing that could stop it would be Congress. I am not going to ask him to elaborate until he is fired or whatever, but I trust him to know what he's talking about when he used the phrase "deliberately planned". Musk has a hard-on for the NPS and some of the other agencies, and he is truly trying to hurt them as badly as he can, and daring Congress to stop him. -
Well holy shit, it plays just fine on my Mac using Chrome, without having to copy any client installs from Windows. Just load Chrome, login to a discord account, and click on the link below. You can use either a paid account, or a new free account, or a veteran account that kicked over to Endless Journey for free. And yes, this is approved by the Powers That Be at Broadsword/UO https://retail.classicuo.org/
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Up there with Debbie Does Dallas Again, which was, you know, the third movie after the literal third movie, Debbie Does Dallas III: the Final Chapter.
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That looks pretty fucking wild.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Hope you all visited Yosemite before now - Musk is sure as hell going to close it down and try and sell it off to his buddies. https://www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/article/yosemite-protest-job-cuts-20180229.php -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Yeah, about Grok. "Name the three most dangerous people to America" Grok: It’s tough to pin down the "three most dangerous" people to America in a definitive way—danger can mean different things depending on the angle: political influence, national security, economic disruption, or societal impact. Based on current trends, discussions, and what’s been on people’s minds in early 2025, here’s a take grounded in what’s out there. First, Donald Trump often tops lists. With his second term just underway as of January 2025, his plans for mass deportations, targeting political foes, and reshaping government—backed by a loyal base and a now-unrestrained online presence—give him real sway to shake things up. Critics point to his past denial of election results and January 6 as proof he can destabilize democracy itself; supporters see him as a threat only to the entrenched elite. Either way, his actions ripple hard. Second, Elon Musk keeps popping up too. By February 2025, his influence via X, his wealth, and his loud anti-regulation, anti-immigrant stances have made him a lightning rod. He’s not just a businessman anymore—he’s shaping narratives with over 200 million followers, pushing policies that could tank economies (like his warnings on U.S. debt), and even nudging Trump’s agenda. Some call him a chaos agent; others say he’s just amplifying what’s already broken. Third, Vladimir Putin rounds it out from the global stage. Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on, and with Assad’s fall in Syria late last year, Putin’s still flexing what’s left of his reach. His cyberattacks, energy plays, and alliances with China and Iran keep the U.S. on edge—think of the "Salt Typhoon" hacking warnings from late 2024. He’s not in America, but his moves hit its interests hard. Why these three? Trump and Musk are domestic wild cards with outsized control over policy and perception, while Putin’s the external force most consistently testing America’s limits. Others like Xi Jinping or Iran’s Khamenei could make the cut too, but Putin’s active disruption stands out now. Still, "dangerous" hinges on what you value—security, stability, or something else. Who do you think should be on this list? -
Pope Francis: You know that hell thing? Never mind....
atomheartbevo replied to Aqua Buddha's topic in Daily Texan
Keeping Lobo's love of 80s SNL alive. Well, at this point pretty much any thread about Pope Francis is probably going to be the "Pope Francis is dying thread for updates and breaking news". -
Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
atomheartbevo replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
atomheartbevo replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
I got one when my first kid was born. It had been decades since I was vaccinated for it - when I was a kid in school, and then I'm pretty sure the Army did it when they filled my arm full of whatever the early 90s version of Bill Gates' 5G vaccine chips there were, but the doc recommended it for rubella when my wife was pregnant and for the measles after the kid was born. -
Impressive resume. Voices Superman in an animated series, was in Star Trek for several years, is in The Boys. He and Starlight do music videos
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We were not staying out though - Japan attacked us precisely because we were interfering in their supply chain with the oil embargo - it was economic warfare. We put them on a timer of sorts where they were going to run out of fuel for their fleets, leaving them vulnerable to us We can argue that we wouldn’t have done a first strike against them, but militarily if we bottled up their fleets in their ports through a lack of fuel, the effect would be the same as outright sinking those fleets. They would struggle to consolidate gains and put down guerrilla movements if they couldn’t easily move troops around. And given how paranoid they were, even if they didn’t hit us at Pearl Harbor, they had to try and take the Philippines from us because those islands stuck right out into the major supply lanes coming out of Japan. A few dozen PT boats out of the Philippines could have shut down their supply lines. And they had to cut off Australia from us because Britain was struggling with their own defenses, let alone trying to keep Australia free from the Japanese. At some point they had to hit American supply ships going to Australia. It was inevitable.
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I wouldn’t leave Poland out of the equation, and we’ve pretty much unified the Baltic and Nordic countries, to the point where some of their air forces are operating as one. It’s agonizingly slow, but as Europe takes our place as the leaders for the West (and probably ramp up arms production even more), they are going to be a lot more unified than they’ve been in many years. Even though Congress passed legislation that prevents us from flat-out leaving NATO , I expect we will bring most or all troops home (which will cause us huge problems if shit happens in the Middle East/Israel), but I can’t see Russia trying to invade a NATO country at this point, especially with a powerful Ukraine tying up almost all of their ground forces. Their fucking Scooby Doo vans and golf carts don’t have the distance either once NATO strikes take out their railways. Hell, Putin got Finland and Sweden off the fence and joining NATO, which is like UT and OU joining the SEC.
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I did. Fucking iPhone. Sorry @Schulz2.0
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Yeah, are we turning off Russia’s Starlinks or demanding they pay us hundreds of billions of dollars? Or even give the Ukrainians a few million?
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
I opened my email client I read the email I created this email with 5 bullet points I added my manager to the CC I checked the deadline to make sure I wasn’t late I sent this email. I know you said five bullet points, but I wanted to show you I was a real go-getter with upper management written all over me. Signed, an overworked and underpaid federal employee. -
She’s a poor man’s Vanessa Hudgens. But she’s an open book apparently, NSFW see-through clothing https://www.abookof.us/openbook/natalie-martinez
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, you are about to be on the doge chopping block. https://www.kxan.com/news/tesla-recalls-over-376000-vehicles-due-to-power-steering-defect/ -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Gonna leave this here Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy Among the cadre of DOGE engineers now rooting through the guts of the administrative state, few have attracted more curiosity than Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, a 19-year-old coder who interned for three months for Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant company. Coristine has a brief but colorful history that includes being fired from Path Networks, a cybersecurity company, for giving company documents to a competitor. He apparently palled around with a criminal hacking group called The Com and, according to a Telegram account associated with him, had solicited hacking services online. In 2021, he founded a company called Tesla.Sexy LLC that, according to Wired, “controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains. One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market.” A lot about DOGE remains unknown – like who’s officially in charge – but Coristine has email addresses at USAID and the Department of Homeland Security and was recently seen inside the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the State Department. Across the federal government, he seems to have the run of the place. There’s one aspect of Coristine’s background that has escaped public notice: his grandfather, Valery Martynov, was a KGB spy who played an intriguing role in a sprawling 1980s espionage drama. ------- Seriously, go read the whole article. Subscribe to that guy if you like it. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Both of them should be very insecure - Zuck's eggs are all in one (Facebook) basket, and Facebook succeeded because AngelFire, Friendster, GeoCities and MySpace failed spectacularly, and all of the walled garden communities were starting to lose their walls (Prodigy, AOL, CompuServe, etc.) just a few years before FB got going. Now mix in that Microsoft-backed LinkedIn is headed towards a billion users (I doubt it will get there, but it's not far away). Hell, Pinterest had FB worried for a while Zuck is now in prevent-defense mode (too soon?) - Threads should have been a twitter killer and FB had the resources to make it a twitter killer, but they were too paranoid that it would take users away from Instagram, so they've kept it deliberately stripped down/crippled, such that if you are a Threads user who wants private messages, you have to rely on Instagram for private messages (among other major problems with Threads). It's fucking stupid that in 2025 a large (what should be a standalone) social media platform relies on another social media platform for private messages, but here we are. Zuck is also willing to lose millions of users by loosening up moderation and letting misinformation and disinformation run rampant (which then generates clicks and ad revenue) because in the short term, all of the ad revenue from the misinformation/disinformation flowing freely now is good for his bottom line. He's not looking a year or two down the line when things have gotten worse (a lot of FB user groups are starting to plot exit strategies to other platforms such as Groups.io) and there's always community-based platforms looking to horn in on FB's audience. FB has had a longer run at the top of the hill than its predecessors and competitors, many of whom had serious financial backing, and Zuck knows that LinkedIn, some of the smaller community-based platforms or user group-based platforms, and even a Google or Apple could probably put Facebook in the negative. Zuck knows that if Google got their shit together on social media and truly leverages YouTube (2nd behind FB with 2.5 billion active users vs 3 billion for FB), or Apple decided to nudge into the social media arena, it would eat into FB. And he's constantly attacking Apple because they keep (openly) working to block off FB/Meta access to the rest of your phone or at least make you aware that Meta wants access to it. And most importantly, Zuck knows that serious FB growth is a thing of the past - a fuckload of FB users are aging out (dying off) while younger generations give no particular fucks about FB or even view it as the old person platform. And those younger generations are constantly bouncing around social media platforms. If they are on TikTok they aren't on Instagram. So he's got to keep engagement up which is why misinformation and disinformation is running freely. Musk should also be insecure for a lot of reasons - he didn't start Tesla (buying companies sometimes makes people insecure that the original founders could have done a better job), and he has to know that sales are not as good as he'd like, and we've all seen parking lots full of CyberTrucks in person, and most auto companies are rolling into their 2nd and 3rd-generation (or more) EVs with popular brands (F-150, etc.) catching some attention in their first-generation releases. SpaceX relies so much on the US government, it makes sense that he's put his people into leadership positions at NASA. If Boeing gets their shit together on the larger stuff, or Blue Origin continues to progress, either one could start nibbling away at SpaceX's business (or worse, Boeing compete with the heavy lift stuff while BO takes low-end satellite launches away as it moves towards heavy payloads). And twitter is not going to make him even more rich, even if its value comes back up, because, like FB, twitter is tapped out - it's not going to continue to gain the numbers it once had, and if anything, as BlueSky and others take in more and more serious/official/famous people, organizations, or companies, it'll have a harder time. And I still have to look a few times a week, and the ads are shit and can't be paying that much. And like FB, twitter is faced with younger people not having any loyalty for platforms and bouncing around whatever is trending. Hell, there are 11 social media platforms with more active users than twitter (and QQ, Weibo, and Pinterest aren't far behind). And the thing about FB and twitter, and this is not lost on Zuck, but it could be on Musk, is that there doesn't have to be one major platform suddenly coming up the ranks - social media can be death by a thousand paper cuts and it can also be a company willing to utilize their existing user bases. YouTube has a lot of Instagram features (it's not just videos, there are discussion areas where YouTubers provide updates) and with its video shorts, we could wake up tomorrow and they piggyback that 2.5 billion active users into a new app focused on shortform videos (and photos) and social media updates, and the big-ass YouTubers with their tens and hundreds of millions of followers will be all over it. What does it do to Instagram if it goes from 2 billion active users a month to 1.7 or even 1.5 in a month? What does that do for profits/revenue, and what does that do for the stock price - in the span of a year it's went from $430 to $730, and it could easily drop down. What if LinkedIn/Microsoft spins off a new service that could be still tied to it, but is more of a personal vs business nature (Microsoft has the know-how, the users, things like Teams, etc.? What if Apple decides to unify some of their services and push a barebones social media platform and Apple being Apple, skip most/all advertising. They have the money to burn, and it would help sell more of their services. TLDR: There are a lot of reasons both Zuck and Leon should be insecure. They could fall just as rapidly as they rose, and there's plenty of money that could make that happen. -
Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
atomheartbevo replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
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Yeah, it’s not bad at all. It feels more Star Trek-like than some of the TNG movies. I even like The Motion Picture now. I used to be a real snob about it as a kid (saw it in the theater when it came out) and rave about II-III-IV, but now that I am older and understand everything that was going on with ST at the time, I appreciate it for what it is. I want to take my kid to see TMP and the others at Alamo when they occasionally show them.
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Bloody as hell. Would pay to see it.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
atomheartbevo replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Yep, and sure, we had to bury some of those friends along the way, and disown others when their webcams shifted and we saw they were wearing nothing below the waist, or our webcams shifted and showed we were wearing nothing below the waist, but it’s the friends that we kept that are important. -
Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
atomheartbevo replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
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