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atomheartbevo

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  1. Oligarchs gonna oligarch.
  2. @BoomMF have you heard of this company? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gametheorytables/game-theory-tables-crafted-for-connections-2025
  3. Not if you’re a 12 year-old in the ‘80s who just watched Damnation Alley on KHTV 39.
  4. Creative Accounting. Also marketing. Wiki says it cost $180 million to make, so anywhere from $100 million to $200+ million to market. Even $100 million movies run from $50 million to $150 million to market. And Disney mostly doesn’t have the benefit of 3rd party streaming services and cable channels throwing money at them for the rights, since it will be mostly on Disney+ (there are deals in other countries for other services, but in the US and some other markets it’s a D+ exclusive).
  5. Ukraine should offer some dirt on Hunter Biden and then Trump will back off.
  6. We are in a bad situation. While there is some waste in our military, we have a big military because we are The Superpower. Our businesses buy and sell good globally, and our businesses thrive globally because we mostly keep the world fairly stable (or at least our trading partners) and we keep the sea lanes open, all of which applies to the UK for arguably a few centuries. We are in a bad situation because we have people who are running the show who do not understand why we have a big military, and some want to bring much of it back home and shrink it. If that happens, we turn into the UK post-WWII. Ironically, China building up their military is making the case for us to keep a strong military that can project power, such that not even the powers that be can ignore that.
  7. The farmers. I have relatives who farm in Oklahoma and Arkansas who thought Musk was on their side last year, and you can tell that it’s finally sinking in that they could be fucked by what Leon is trying to do, and with the tariffs that will probably happen. Friends who farm in Texas, who were opposed to Musk getting anywhere near D.C. have been preparing since it was clear that tariffs would happen, and the USAID fuckery kicked their plans into high gear. We tend to picture farmers as being insular good ole boys, but they use the internet, follow various sites, are emailing each other on mailing lists, are talking to their Congressional reps (and apparently being ignored, at least in Oklahoma) and more importantly, they are talking to the co-ops and companies who are buying from them, and talking to the companies they buy from (fertilizer, equipment, etc.) as well as their banks and everything else farmers deal with. My friends in Texas didn’t vote for Musk and are assuming the worst and trying to line up deals and purchases much earlier than they normally would. Some of them sell within the state (thanks HEB!) or are lining up buyers that may not be as good, but don’t cross the Mexican border. My family in Oklahoma and Arkansas did vote for Musk and they believe they have a slight chance at getting exemptions with the tariffs and USAID (they don’t) but you can tell they are concerned. What my relatives don’t understand is that Musk does not see USAID as a decent org that helps take agricultural surplus off the market and keep a lot of farms afloat (which is actually a matter of national security). He simply sees it as an org that is investigating one of his companies and he wants it destroyed. He has never farmed and doesn’t understand how many farms could go under. Musk not only doesn’t understand it’s a localized natural security issue (keeping American farms going and growing) but he doesn’t see how many countries are helped out by us sending food overseas as well as what would happen if the tariffs kick in. If we limit cheap American food going elsewhere, besides hurting American farmers, other countries might step in to cover the more profitable areas. We also increase the chances of refugees from those countries heading north. And keeping those countries nominally stable keeps them open for American investments and influence (versus Russian or Chinese or Indian investments). TLDR: Musk will happily drive a lot of American farms under if he can help out his companies.
  8. In all fairness, I didn’t get any Java in my COBOL coursework
  9. Doing well at the box office, over $190 million globally. I’m kind of surprised. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/captain-america-brave-new-world-box-office-opening-1236138148/
  10. It helps your mental state when you lose weight, so it’s a bad class of drugs? Can’t have any drugs that help with positive self-image.
  11. And cold temps Thursday morning
  12. If they want a real peace, they need to fucking kill Putin for starters.
  13. Meanwhile, Surly has probably had its fair share of penis reduction surgeries.
  14. Well shit, I was going to wait until it hit streaming, but I'm interested now.
  15. On the other hand, many of them were with us for a decade+ in Afghanistan (including Denmark and Canada and France). There have been things happening since February of 2022 (holy shit three years this coming week) but it's slow to turn various mentalities around.
  16. They are going to try, starting with, you guessed it, Frank Stallone Texas https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/paxton-launches-investigation-into-chinese-ai-company/ Nice Serenity shout-out, by the way.
  17. Hulk couldn’t get a stand-alone movie because of the Universal Pictures rights arrangement.
  18. Had nearly the same thing happen to me on my way out. Waiting to separate and was told they didn’t have records about AIT and that there was a gap in my records, implying that I wasn’t eligible to separate even though it was at a time when they were drawing down (RIF) and sending guys out the door with less than two years’ service, I had literally rolled from basic into AIT in less than two weeks (same base) so it wasn’t like it was a different base, and I had partly served after AIT at the same base. I told them to contact my ex-battalion commander (now a full colonel and regimental) and ask him why he would allow me to serve without having done AIT, and also why were they sending my paycheck to a base during a time frame that they didn’t have info on me having served at and also how I had been promoted during that time. They let me go with the promise I could get an amended DD214 in the future, This was the mid-90s and they were ostensibly computerized and networked, but I wondered for years after if I would get a notice that I would somehow be recalled and told to finish my service that they weren’t sure about.
  19. I remember seeing this at a friend’s house. Kind of an interesting video discussing what made the map great.
  20. Because 1980s TV had us waiting for this. I don’t know why the fuck so many parents let us watch The Day After.
  21. Why did Michael Dell defend Leon’s 19 year-old doge boy last week? I’ll give you $5 billion reasons why. https://www.kxan.com/elon-musk/dell-secures-deal-worth-more-than-5b-in-elon-musks-xai-startup-company/
  22. Yes, a prime sub. Some are through Epic, some GOG, some directly through Prime, some from obscure platforms/shops. You’ll have to link your Epic account but once they are linked it automatically shows up in Epic. GOG is a code but it’s still pretty automated to get. For instance, BioShock Infinite Complete Edition is currently free through GOG on https://gaming.amazon.com/home - if you can claim that you’re good for the rest. On the GOG ones, you need to click on claim code on the prime website and then redeem on the GOG website when it launches from the prime site.
  23. He was...in another MCU movie, so he is Reed...in another universe.
  24. Hint: they’ve already decided on what they plan on doing, this is just to pretend like there is a process to reach that point.
  25. Going after park rangers and the speculation is that this is to prepare the way to fuck with the parks in general,
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