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atomheartbevo

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  1. it means that if there’s another pandemic, just like OU in the SEC, she will be out looking for the largest crowds she can, licking doorknobs, drinking after random people, blowing homeless dudes, etc. I told a friend about it, and he said he’s heard similar stuff from family members, about boycotting the next pandemic, for reasons that are CR. Weird thing for my cousin to say, as she lost her grandma to COVID and it was not a pleasant experience by any means, as a painful death is wont to be, and said cousin’s mom kept everybody updated daily on FB so we basically got a day-by-day recap of her last two weeks of living. Shoulda scared these people straight.
  2. Either she doesn't understand the First Amendment and that BlueSky (and twitter/X) are private companies and so it doesn't apply to them, or she is counting on her followers not understanding that.Either way, she should know that if any platform would tolerate her whining, it would have been twitter or truth.social and so she gets to make a choice and go to the bargain bin social media site, or setup her own BlueSky domain or Mastodon servers. This was a saying about twitter and Musk unbanning people and inviting them back, and I'm paraphrasing it here, but it applies to BlueSky: If you host a social media platform, and you unban a bunch of Nazis and invite them back to your platform to spew their Nazi shit, then you now have a Nazi social media platform.
  3. So I've been making a holiday tour to visit various relatives in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and North Texas. In Oklahoma, staying at an aunt's, and had a decent-sized gathering, (around 35 people), and one of the dishes was chicken and I jokingly asked if it was safe - they had just killed something like 100,000 chickens within a county or two of where we are staying and it was still in the news. Perhaps I shouldn't have joked about it given the economic impact and that some relatives were in agriculture. On top of that, OU had just imploded against Navy, so I was not a popular person. One of my cousins pointed at me and said "no matter what happens with this bird flu stuff, I'm not going to participate in your pandemic" and my dumbass response was something about "is that like OU deciding not to participate in the SEC?"
  4. I think I saw an anti-vaxxer get banned faster, but can't remember who, only that they bragged on twitter they were going to fuck with BlueSky, jumped on BlueSky, jumped into a vaccine conversation, and a few hundred people immediately blocked and reported them. BlueSky has much better moderation tools and is not afraid to use them to boot trolls and bots. I've been seeing bots get booted from BlueSky within a day, meanwhile I can hop on twitter and see bots I reported weeks ago still doing their thing.
  5. They have nukes and have had nukes for 70 years. Nobody is going to invade them, and they need to get that through their thick skulls.
  6. https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/texas-gov-greg-abbott-mistakenly-sends-condolences-to-late-rosalynn-carter-after-jimmy-carter-s-passing/ar-AA1wFK7x Gov. Abbott's full statement: "Cecilia and I mourn the loss of former President Jimmy Carter alongside millions of Americans across the country. Our nation remains the greatest beacon of freedom and opportunity in the world because of our fearless chief executives who are our guiding force through the best and worst of times. For that, we owe President Carter our enduring gratitude for his service as the 39th President of the United States. Having led a life marked by selfless service to the American people, President Carter leaves behind a great legacy as a husband, father, naval officer, governor, and Nobel prize winner, and he will be greatly missed by many. Cecilia and I send our prayers and deepest condolences to First Lady Rosalynn Carter and the entire Carter family."
  7. Actually, this appears to be one of their sticking points for whatever reason, and they've taken note that Leon was an immigrant and Vivek is the son of immigrants, and they are pissed that "immigrants are deciding immigration policy". It's probably helped that the world's richest man is telling them to go fuck their faces.
  8. It’s picking up steam on the various social media platforms used by these people. Lots of “holy shit, Musk is doing all of this to benefit his companies” and it’s glorious. Musk’s response of “fuck your face” and calling them crackheads to people questioning him is also glorious. I can’t decide if he is not reading the room, or if he knows something these people don’t (direct line to Trump or whatever). He’s extremely confident that his arguments will win.
  9. Man, that was a hugely aggy thing to include his fucking name in the URL. https://web.archive.org/web/20060202010529/https://mackbrown-texasfootball.com/ I understand that TexasFootball.com had been taken by Dave Campbell, but shoving Mack's name on there was annoying as fuck. It's like that dumbfuck ESPN.go.com bullshit, except worse.
  10. Do you think he will be happy if Sark builds a successful legacy in the next few years and comparisons are made?
  11. /nerd Because back in the day when they were first creating the Superman comics and the printing presses weren't always that good, they needed a way to show movement through the air, and a cape was the easiest way to do it. If the cape is down, he's moving up, if it's raised/above him, he's landing, etc. Originally Superman just jumped really far distances (leap tall buildings in a single bound). Otherwise, he looks like he's hovering in air. Also, they took inspiration for Superman from circus strongmen, who wore tights and capes. Eventually they made it part of the lore that the cape could function as a shield for humans, bulletproof and heatproof, etc.
  12. Some USC fan posted this on reddit and I think it's the kind of summary that ESPN should be using, because it instantly sums everything up. USC and Texas A&M were like two 63 old filipino men in Vegas on their 36th hour at the Pai gow table.
  13. Yeah, wonder what the hell happened at the last second that they went with that runway, rather than try to find a large open area. They sure as hell seemed mostly in control of things other than the lack of flaps/gear - it wasn't like those dudes in the plane shot down by the Russians, who were trying to use the engines to steer the plane and regulate altitude - the Koreans seemed like they had it lined up perfectly with the runway.
  14. Depends on how fast you want to get to the scene of the crash.
  15. Yep, and it's almost a year ago and I believe it was before he publicly acknowledged that it was his alt account. He really is an early 90s teen BBS sysop using alt accounts to make his BBS (or in this case his life) look like something it wasn't.
  16. @Brisketexan apparently some of their hunter/killer drones have shotguns on them for taking out other drones and...I think it could easily work, and depending on the shotgun and ammo used, may not be much recoil. It's a pain to get it in sight (you can see the camera moving up and down) but once they get close to the Russian drone, well it's a shotgun and it doesn't have to be dead-accurate.
  17. If Musk Loomers himself as quickly as he appears to be doing, who knows. Loomer probably knows how to read the room a little better than Musk at least. Musk doesn't get that people look down upon him for this.
  18. Yeah that’s part of what is making his meltdown so hilarious. It’s drawing attention to his breaking the law and he’s out there saying “fuck yeah I did because I’m special and should have had an easier process”. I’m really wondering if he is doing all of this (the campaigning for Trump, etc.) for the H-1B stuff. I’ve seen his tweets where he says America doesn’t have enough skilled engineers for him. He believes this stuff and that H-1Bs are vital to the tech industry.
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