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atomheartbevo

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  1. I can see this with Jeselnik and support this. I fucking loathe Joe Rogan being held up as some kind of arbiter by people, his opinions change with whoever is sitting in front of him. I do think the podcast thing is fucking up a lot of stuff for the reasons mentioned, but I also see why a lot of them like doing podcasts - it's regular work that doesn't require them to leave the house in a lot of cases, or if they do, it's more of a 9-to-5 thing (or more likely 9-to-noon thing) versus life on the road constantly doing clubs in different cities. For a lot of those guys who have families, they'll take it. Throw in that they probably have more control over the financial side of a podcast. I think podcasts, and to a lesser extent, YouTube, ruin things because if you're a comedy fan, you could be consuming a lot of comedy content through your favorite comedian's podcast and through YouTube, and so the idea of taking the additional time and money to go out to the club starts to diminish. It's not like 30 years ago where you'd see the occasionally HBO special and just didn't have a lot of access to comedy outside of Blockbuster and so trips to comedy clubs were a part of your normal rotation.
  2. On the night of October 16, 2025, Ukraine's Armed Forces carried out a strike on the Saratov Refinery in Russia's Saratov region, the General Staff of the AFU said. The Saratov Refinery is one of the oldest oil refining enterprises in Russia. As of 2023, its oil refining volume amounted to 4.8 million tons. The facility is involved in meeting the needs of the Russian armed forces.
  3. I would be extremely disappointed at the lack of A-10s.
  4. One of my favorite YouTube channels - deep dives on classic sci-fi and literature/films/TV. He uses the point of people claiming to have remembered seeing some scenes in the original Star Wars movie that would have basically been impossible to be there. The missing scene was in fact filmed, and most Star Wars fans have now seen parts of it or at least heard about it - stills from the scene made it into 1970s picture books, novels, comic books, etc. From the perspective of a historian, there are paper trails, contemporary interviews, etc. that cast doubt on those claims of people having seen it in the 1970s, and that all goes out the window with AI in the future. Only 10 minutes, but sobering to think that future historians trying to track down what is or is not true, and prove or disprove collective memories, is going to be near impossible because of AI. edit: he makes a point that people could be convicted or even killed because of bogus video in the future,
  5. One other thing - if the remaining refineries/operations have to somehow boost their output/throughput, that seems like a recipe for long-term wear and tear.
  6. @PTINS curious what you think of this IEA Sees Drone Strikes Weighing on Russia Oil-Processing Till Mid-2026 - Bloomberg "The impact from Ukrainian drone strikes will suppress Russia’s refinery processing rates until at least mid-2026, the International Energy Agency says in its latest monthly oil-market report... ' Previously, we had assumed a normalization of refining activity as we approached year-end but now embed a more cautious outlook,' the Paris-based agency said in a report on Tuesday. The IEA currently sees Russian processing rates at just under 5 million barrels a day through June 2026, and a recovery toward 5.4 million barrels a day later, with the outlook to be revised as more information becomes available. ' The increasingly widespread and significant Ukrainian drone campaign against Russian oil refineries and infrastructure' has so far cut the nation’s crude processing by an estimated 500,000 barrels a day, the agency said... With the drone strikes weighing on refinery runs, Russia raised its crude exports in September to 5.1 million barrels a day, the highest since May 2023, according to the IEA. Still, the nation’s oil-export revenues declined to a three-month low of $13.4 billion, the agency estimated. The decline came as Russia’s crude-supply revenues, which rose $200 million month-on-month, were more than offset by a $440 million drop for oil-product exports, the report said. According to the IEA calculations, Russian fuel supplies to other countries in September reached 2.4 million barrels a day, the lowest in a decade, excluding April 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic."
  7. Go back and tell 1980s me that in 40 years, Ukrainians flying MiG-29s would be firing American-made HARM missiles at Russian air defenses.
  8. So about that submarine
  9. Hegg would just accidentally send the info to some journalists.
  10. I’m burning your degree as well.
  11. There are some cool things video-wise, like this - I’ve used a similar tool from a genealogy service on some old photos and they match what relatives remember (or what I saw as a kid). In the below video, you can compare a few of the figures like Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca to real life film footage. They did a fine job with Cléo de Mérode
  12. We might be talking about different posters, but all of the ones I found that came out later had Lando. That one we are discussing, with Lando, Boba, Dagobah, etc. in it was the "concept" poster, which was released well after the theatrical poster. The "clean" one without those features is the theatrical poster. Billy Dee might have been pissed, but if you deep dive, Lucas was paranoid about leaks and literally gave out scripts with misleading lines/names, etc. and actors weren't told specific things until they were in front of the camera. The theatrical posters were stripped down since they went to the theaters well ahead of the release (aka "coming soon"). Struzan did the re-release posters and the prequels. Regardless, movie posters of that era were magical, and it looks like all of the major artists from that era have now passed with Struzan being basically the last.
  13. Is your last name "Cheney"?
  14. Struzan did this for Lucas's book He did the main Phantom Menace poster, which was pretty fucking good.
  15. So that poster is Roger Kastel's print, based on the 1974 Gone with the Wind re-issue. And originally he included a bunch of stuff as seen below, including Lando, but LucasFilm made him take out a bunch of elements because of spoilers, so the poster above is basically covering only the first few minutes of Empire Strikes Back.
  16. Most of the ones I've seen all look like that or are different and have Lando on them. That one above had his name on it in some printings, but not Yoda. Would be wild if mine was valuable. Need to dig it out because now I can't remember if Yoda was on it.
  17. I could see them flying a Cessna or two over every major refinery/installation. Fairly low cost, and might get a few of the drones coming in. It's still a good indication that things are pretty dire for them if they publicly admit they can't protect their infrastructure. This is another one of those little points that Anne Applebaum and others have mentioned that chips away at Putin's narrative about "winning" - instead of fancy schmancy AD systems, the locals see some dude in a Cessna with a gun bolted to it. Doesn't inspire confidence.
  18. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-says-israeli-forces-could-resume-fighting-in-gaza-as-soon-as-i-say-the-word-if-hamas-won-t-uphold-ceasefire-deal/
  19. How long until RFK Jr and his goons try and destroy M.D. Anderson? My oldest is 6 years out from college. No way UT recovers from this by then, and even if he follows his plan of joining the military for 6 years and then getting out and going, I don't think it will recover.
  20. Finally watched The Other Guys last weekend. Holy shit, not sure what I expected.
  21. Neither does the neighbor's yard.
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