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atomheartbevo

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  1. Drop some into the Kremlin next month on the anniversary… This has got to be both exhausting Russian air defenses, but also forcing them to redeploy what they have left. And if they move them around, their chances of being spotted go up.
  2. My kid is showing an interest in band/orchestra, and has been listening to some soundtracks, and he played the Star Trek: The Motion Picture theme on YouTube, and damn, I forgot how good Jerry Goldsmith was. Next time TMP or Wrath of Khan show up at the Alamo Drafthouse, we are going. There was one helluva string of soundtracks in the late 70s . 1977: Star Wars opening theme 1978: Superman The Movie opening theme 1979: Star Trek The Motion Picture opening theme
  3. We just need to stick to Surly where we can talk about the restraining order between Hall and Oates, or Jessica Simpson being on the market again, or the new Naked Gun movie coming out this summer, etc.
  4. Yeah, FB is just another communications and organization tool for me. For my parents, it’s…well, a social media platform. Of course, I came up from BBSes to Usenet, and was using GeoCities and MySpace and FB when they were just starting out, while my parents started out with CompuServe or AOL. And their usage of the internet before or during the 90s was pretty limited to things like email (work) and the groups and sites that were in the walled gardens of AOL, etc.. I and others like me were used to bouncing between platforms as new stuff arrived, and we are used to platforms and sites failing, so I don’t find myself as attached to platforms or websites. When Leon bought Twitter, I started looking elsewhere, regardless of what I had done on Twitter. I was able to archive my Twitter stuff. I tried Threads, but I’m done with them keeping it crippled on purpose to drive you to Instagram. So it was easy to pop over to Mastodon and BlueSky. My parents and their friends found things they liked with the walled gardens like AOL, and then later on FB was everything they wanted ramped up to 11, and for them it and Amazon are the internet. I think discussion is still going strong on places like Surly, Reddit, etc.. I heard over the years how email was going to die and be replaced by something else, yet more people are sending more emails than ever before. Same with forums. It’s possible they aren’t as popular as say 20 years ago, but I look at Discourse, Slack, Reddit, even places like Quora, and the speciality or geo-focused sites like Surly, and they are very active. Hell, Reddit replaced Usenet completely. Yep, FB is just another tool to me and I’m surprised it has lasted as long as it did, but I would not be surprised if somebody else came along within 5 years to…not necessarily replace it, but provide an alternative. Reddit showed how to replace sites like Digg. FB showed how to replace MySpace, Geocities, AOL, etc. and there was obliviously a big gap between AOL and FB, but FB seems to have really sucked in the AOL fans.
  5. He has the data and knows how the various age groups are using it, so probably smart to try and diversify in some way. It needed a lot more time though - the audience for Second Life is still pretty limited. A lot of people want high-end VR, they don’t want Lawnmower Man. I’ve been a part of a bunch of groups that have migrated around the web, from Usenet to various op websites to Yahoo Groups to, these days, FB or groups.io and it’s not that hard if you can get the most active folks on the same page and everybody realizes what need to happen. Hell, we saw it right here with our community.
  6. I think there’s some truth to that. It came up in a discussion between my cousins and I over the holidays. My parents and aunts and uncles are boomers and are active on FB, and I mean talking to one another, posting memes, just shooting the shit, etc.. My wife and I and siblings and cousins of the same generation (gen-Xers, the forgotten generation) are on FB as well, but it seems like most of us are using it either to post pics/news for our parents/relatives, or because of specific groups we follow (hobby/professional/high school/college/etc.) and for most of us, our usage feels pretty targeted - like we pop on and send a private message or check updates in a group and then pop off. There is a very clear difference in how we are using it versus our boomer parents. And then you look at my nieces/nephews/younger cousins who are in their 20s/teens, and their FB usage is extremely minimal, and it seems like half the time they are posting their Instagram stuff,
  7. Wait, are you following other women in addition to Susanna Hoffs, Dana Delany, and Sela Ward?
  8. I like that it’ll be up to 70 on Friday and then drop down to 20 within three days.
  9. After claiming the Pacific Palisades Fire was so destructive due to "allowing fresh water to flow into the Pacific," Elon Musk met with local firefighters to bolster his claims, only for one of them to leak the following video, where a precise rate of flow and reservoir capacity are cited
  10. That and Zuckerberg would go after him hard.
  11. Or how many cars roll off the sales lot with trackers/diagnostics modules plugged into the car, that report everything over cellular connections from speeds to locations, times of day, etc. plenty of YouTube videos on how to remove them.
  12. I'll take those Hondas over anything Tesla makes though. They don't look like they were designed by 12 year-old me in the 1980s after watching Jan-Michael Fucking Vincent and George Fucking Peppard in Damnation Alley.
  13. "Look at this self-driving car, huh? You need to get yourself one of these. Watch this, I'm going to grab the steering wheel and jerk it really hard towards that car pulling into the intersection, and my car will correct itself before we are in danger." "Look at my new,new self-driving car. You need to get yourself one of these, and by the way, I'm sorry about last time, and I'm glad insurance covered your bills, and that you are regaining feeling in your legs. Okay, so there's no other cars around, just relax, but check this out, it drives great on snow and ice, and if you jerk the wheel, it'll self-correct. Don't worry, there's no other cars around!"
  14. This is what Honda has coming out. The plan is to launch the 0 Series SUV and 0 Series "Saloon" sedan in North America in 2026, followed by global markets. Though still prototypes, the EVs will likely look similar to what Honda is showing today, perhaps with some minor tweaks plus various packages and trim options. Honda will produce the 0 Series vehicles in Ohio, suggesting they would qualify for the $7,500 federal tax credit, just like the Prologue. However, that's only if President-elect Donald Trump abandons plans to kill the credit when he returns to the White House later this month. -- Honda says it wants to establish "global leadership" in Level 3 self-driving, which is a step above the Level 2 systems offered today by Tesla, Ford, GM, and others. The key difference with Level 3 is the driver can take their hands off the wheel and look away—no constant attention and eye contact required. Mercedes is currently the only automaker with an approved, Level 3 system in the US. "The vehicle will oversee driving, which will enable a human driver to perform a 'second task' while en route to their destination, whether watching a movie or remotely joining a meeting," Honda says. The "eyes-off" system will first be available on highways before expanding to "all driving situations." -- Honda Debuts '0 Series' EVs With New AI Chip, Level 3 Self-Driving | PCMag But Honda isn't relying on Tesla to solve the EV-charging problem. It's teamed up with seven other automakers to create the IONNA charging network. It'll eventually offer 30,000 fast-charging stations in public areas by 2030. Combined with the roughly 18,000 Superchargers available to non-Teslas, plus other networks, Honda expects 0 Series drivers will have access to "more than 100,000 charging stations by 2030." Honda views 0 Series cars as "virtual power plants." The cars can charge themselves at times when energy usage is lowest and sell back energy to the public power grid when electricity costs are high, "thereby wisely managing the entire household's electricity bill."
  15. They fucking murdered Time Bandits, however they have a lot more invested in Star Wars and keeping the kiddos interested (those Star Wars resort things at Disney World don't pay for themselves).
  16. If you told 20 year-old me that the world's richest man would spend large portions of his day hanging out on twitter and chatting with people, I would assume that twitter was some kind of 1-900 or 1-976 party line, and he'd be talking to people pretending to be supermodels or getting his fortune read, I would think "okay, that's a little weird, but the world's richest man could afford to hang out on a 1-900 or a 976 party line all day. He could probably even afford to hang out on The Sierra Network gaming setup all day" (I had to take a second job to pay for that shit, but I still love Sierra and you Ken and Roberta Williams). But if you told me it was him typing messages to a lot of lonely men, Russians and AI-controlled bots, I'm picturing him on a BBS with a bunch of the older BBSers, a bunch of Yakhov Smirnovs, and things that sound like Dr. Sbaitso, or some weird-ass alt. usenet group.
  17. So they are getting 5G whether they want it or not?
  18. Lots of projection. He’s scared of the world at large because he spends so much time on the internet listening to other lonely men who are scared of the world, so he assumes that the world is dangerous and that other people should also be scared.
  19. I have relatives flipping out about some event and wondered what it was. His screenshots were low res and I couldn’t see a date. A couple of weather apps are showing low 20s for the Austin area for Monday and Tuesday (20th/21st). Ut sunny during the day and into the 40s so not great, not terrible.
  20. Up to half, maybe more depending on sources, died there. More died in another assault elsewhere. I would be surprised if 10% were still functional.
  21. Coming up on an anniversary. Back when the Russians had trained personnel and decent light armored formations, before they were reduced to fucking golf carts and Ladas.
  22. Ehh, that’s any number of ranches east of Alpine on a Tuesday afternoon.
  23. Look man the Pacific Ocean is just like the Gulf of America.
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