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atomheartbevo

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  1. He'll be shocked when the pitchforks come out. He better be reading up on his Aldous Huxley and figuring out how to keep the out-of-work masses placated. Neil Postman wrote a book back in the 1980s talking about Huxley (contrasting with Brisketexan George Orwell's 1984) and summed it up nicely (decades before Facebook and streaming): What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
  2. These two words are what concerns me, because what do these even mean (and "value" sounds like tuition-related, but maybe I'm reaching):
  3. One chair? Hell man, you could apply to be chair of GeoSciences, Natural Sciences, and Engineering with that kind of paper. Maybe even Pharmacy as well.
  4. Aimed slowly at making Trump squirm, because the reality is that Moscow is fast approaching a point where they can't export anything oil & gas related, maybe not even crude oil to be refined and re-imported. Hell, that refinery they hit last night, if it's completely down, means Rosneft won't even be selling much fuel internally.
  5. I enjoy the fact that he is telling ranchers to get the price of their cattle down if they want to compete with Argentinians that we just gave billions of dollars to, as well as telling the oil & gas folks that he wants really cheap gas. It has to make some of them squirm slightly.
  6. The Ryazan one is burning pretty nicely. Also, "Ukraine put together a kinetic sanctions package"
  7. Yep, he cares a lot more about looking powerful than about anybody dying or any nation’s borders. I’m kind of surprised that Putin didn’t toss him a bone.
  8. This is the 2nd or 3rd time Putin has made Trump look like an idiot in front of the world in the past few months, and Trump is desperately wanting that label of "deal maker" and "peace maker" and Putin keeps nabbing it out from under him. I think the sanctions might stick.
  9. Vice Adm Vladimir Tsimlyansky, deputy chief of Russian General Staff's Main Organizational-Mobilization Directorate, indicated Russia will use a new draft law for "special musters" of citizens in the active reserve to protect critical infrastructure & other important sites from Ukrainian UAVs. He pointed to recent experience in which some Russian enterprises were protected by mobile fire teams composed of reservists from those companies. He insisted the reservists will serve only in their home regions and won't be sent to Ukraine. ---- Employees with fucking rifles and shotguns.
  10. Would have been even funnier if I had spelled windmills right the first time. Fucking voice-to-text.
  11. "You know, I like to figure out who the mark is when I walk into a room or get on a telephone call with a bunch of people, but with Putin, you just never can figure it out"
  12. We killed two more people, this time near Colombia in the Pacific. Glad they are preventing another *checks notes* 9/11 out of the Middle East.
  13. Telling American cattle ranchers to be grateful for him and to get their prices down.
  14. NEW RESEARCH OUT OF THE GREAT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS TECH AT LUBBOCK SHOWS THAT WINDMILLS DO CAUSE CANCER. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
  15. @Schulz2.0 already mentioned this one, but a little more info
  16. Plenty of us have stood over our kids' beds at night (or nephews or nieces) with a toy lightsaber lit up.
  17. It would be really interesting to see kind of a time lapse display of everything they’ve hit over the last three months, to see if they appear to be trying to put pressure on certain regions or cause some kind of cascading effect. I also suspect that since they seem to be doing more hits in broad daylight, that they’ve got eyes on these targets, specifically the air defenses. Or that they know the state of Russian air defenses as a whole, and they know how many are being used in Moscow or Saint Petersburg and along the Kerch Bridge and other high value targets. Then they can extrapolate out what areas have no protection.
  18. Saw something that Ukraine will be buying over 100 fighters from Saab going forward. Can’t blame them, the Swedes are much more reliable than us.
  19. So the socials are saying it's a distillation column/unit that suffered a rapid unscheduled disassembly. Older bingo card from a month ago.
  20. Hitting that tower 1,200 km deep is the kind of accuracy the Pentagon would be proud of and would be bragging about. Pretty wild to see it in broad daylight, and you know that stuff is circulating on Russian social media.
  21. @PTINS holy shit video of them hitting a tower of some sort at a refinery in broad daylight
  22. Meanwhile, what’s Peron up to?
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