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atomheartbevo

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  1. Almost as many times as they've talked about Tech and Arkansas playing in the SWC. This game is like watching old people fuck, but unlike this game, at least one of the old people will finish (after you sit through a damned Jasmin Live! ad).
  2. Well, President Leon is going to find himself kicked off the Doge commission, and that's going to be fun as fuck, especially if the H-1Bs are drastically limited or completely ended. We will see twitter weaponized against people who aren't used to it. Musk probably doesn't even see this coming - from his twitter postings lately, he seems to be oblivious to how many people are pissed at him, and because he's always the smartest guy in the room, he thinks the people disagreeing with him are morons. He helped Trump get elected, but he doesn't understand that he's pretty useless to Trump now.
  3. The only states that would be worse to have Patient Zero would be Mississippi, Florida, or Texas. Here’s hoping it differs from COVID and that a major symptom is not the need to travel.
  4. Old guy in Louisiana had it mutate in his body and attack his respiratory system. https://www.kalb.com/2024/12/27/bird-flu-mutation-found-louisiana-patient/ Fucking Louisiana. You know that shit is about to get real..
  5. From a few hours ago https://www.cbsnews.com/news/musk-vivek-ramaswamy-h1b-visa-maga-immigration-what-to-know/ Musk and Ramaswamy's views have sparked an online spat between factions of Trump's supporters over immigration and the tech industry, whose businesses rely on the H-1B visa to bring in thousands of foreign engineers and other skilled workers each year from India, China and other nations. The tech industry has long called for more H-1B visas to attract highly skilled workers to the U.S., although Trump's first administration restricted the program in 2020, arguing that it allows businesses to replace Americans with lower-paid foreign workers. That debate has again erupted after Musk, himself once on an H-1B visa and whose electric vehicle company Tesla has hired workers using the program, defended the tech industry's need to bring in foreign workers. Ramaswamy, for his part, wrote in an X post that American culture "has venerated mediocrity over excellence," leading to a nation that does "not produce the best engineers." "There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent. It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley," Musk wrote on Dec. 25 on X, his social media app. The debate touched off this week when Laura Loomer, a right-wing influencer with a history of racist and conspiratorial comments, criticized Trump's selection of Sriram Krishnan as an adviser on artificial intelligence policy in his coming administration. Krishnan favors the ability to bring more skilled immigrants into the U.S. Loomer declared the stance to be "not America First policy" and said the tech executives who have aligned themselves with Trump were doing so to enrich themselves. Loomer's comments sparked a back-and-forth with venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks, whom Trump has tapped to be the "White House A.I. & Crypto Czar." Musk and Ramaswamy, whom Trump has tasked with finding ways to cut the federal government, defended the tech industry's need to bring in foreign workers. ———— What if Musk dumped a shitload of money into Trump’s campaign and whispered sweet nothings into his ear, so that he could stop Trump from restricting H-1Bs, and even increase the number coming in? What if Vivek joined in for similar reasons? Musk is trying to shut down California’s high-speed initiatives, he and Vivek want some loans or grants given to other EV makers rescinded, he wants to increase government contracts to SpaceX, he wants the EPA scaled back or ditched so they’d get off his back, and so on, and so forth. All of the sudden people are discovering that a billionaire oligarch wants to do things that benefit himself?
  6. Igor Girkin kind of admitted to it.
  7. I doubt he's long for his "DOGE" position - I'm traveling, and staying at various relatives who lean a certain way, and certain TV channels are on constantly, and there's a lot of anger from various politicians and celebrities/talking heads who are really pissed off that he and Vivek are pushing to throw open the doors to a fuckton of H-1Bs/immigrant workers being imported for high-paying jobs in the US. Vivek tried to blame it on some shit about Saved by the Bell or Urkel from Family Matters, but regardless these people are all over social media and the news talking about Musk and Vivek not being "MAGA" and having fooled Trump. I thought Musk wouldn't last into February or March, but I'm not sure he'll make it through January - between all of the memes and talk about how Trump is Musk's puppet and that Musk is really the President, and now the stuff with Musk trying to bring in a fuckton of foreign workers, something is going to stick in Trump's ear. Maybe we should start a pool. I will be shocked if he's still on this committee come January 31st. Musk should have kept the H-1B stuff on the down low until later on, but this is where his inability to read the room comes into play.
  8. I don't think he became an odd duck/recluse, I think he always was one. Either that or Grimes broke him.
  9. So the trailer broke all of the DC/Warner Brothers records with over 250 million views in one day. Fanboy youtubers are posting reaction videos of themselves tearing up. Fangirls are swooning. Meanwhile, a few are complaining that the opening shows that he's weak...and they are completely ignoring the fact that the motherfucker hit the ground at what looked to be terminal velocity. Yeah, he's a weakened Superman, but I'm pretty certain that if anybody complaining hit the ground that hard, they could be poured into their coffin. And they are completely ignoring that a huge part of the first Christopher Reeves movie was literally Superman being held captive by Lex Luthor, and Lois Lane dying and the West Coast collapsing until Lex Luthor's girlfriend frees Superman, who does his timey-wimey thing. And then in the Cavill movies, Batman nearly kills him in Batman vs Superman, until discovering that Martha was their mom.
  10. There are guys who are 10 or 20 years older than Leon, worth less than a million, living in The Villages, who are out almost every night at a party or getting laid or hanging with friends at a bar or playing cards at somebody's place. Meanwhile, world's richest man...hangs out on fucking twitter, getting likes and replies from bots and incels. Trump probably makes fun of him.
  11. The ones where he, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dean Martin used to pick up 2-3 hitchhikers, drug them, fuck with them, kill one of them, make the others dig the grave out in the deserts outside of Vegas and bury them, and then drop the surviving hitchhikers off somewhere, was hilarious, because who is going to believe a couple of drugged up hitchhikers that Frank, Dino, and Sammy did that?
  12. Yep, unstrapping yourself under water, potentially sideways or upside down, is no joke. I had to do some water training with a helicopter rig that was submerged and flipped upside down. Even knowing it was in a swimming pool, and that there were divers 10 feet away, and having been walked through it beforehand, it was still tough.
  13. Christopher Nolan’s next film ‘The Odyssey’ is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology. The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time and opens in theaters everywhere on July 17, 2026. Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Anne Hathaway, and Matt Damon are all onboard in some capacity, though nothing has been revealed about which characters they will play. https://kotaku.com/christopher-nolan-odyssey-casting-release-tom-holland-1851728737
  14. As my ancestors used to say in the Old Country, “Verkauf mir deine Frauen!”
  15. There's photos/film floating around of pooled blood in the cabin, with puncture holes through the cabin, but it's on social media so...hard to say.
  16. If the Gettysburg is going home, I would say it was upgraded.
  17. Genius. Doesn’t know when to discard or throw people under the bus when their expiration date is past due.
  18. Leon only wants women who can bear him kids named after Wi-Fi passwords.
  19. My cousin is just as emotional and just as believing about how having an ATM card means “they” can clean out your bank account (hint: it was her ex-husband).
  20. The mentions tab is nice, and available on the app and on the web site, as is the linear vs threaded views (which I like being able to choose).
  21. I'm using the web interface, but this is nice. Don't need the domain thing, but know a lot of people who want to use their domains but don't want to lose their original bsky.social name to a spammer. Huge for verification (the domain name reservation thing) If you change your bsky.social username to your own domain, your old username will now be reserved for you! Only your most recent `.bsky.social` username is reserved, and it does not expire. How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky You can now quickly change how replies are shown to you — with the settings button in post threads.
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