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atomheartbevo

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  1. Feels like the powers that be have less control over things than the Iranian leadership. Then again, you get out in the boonies and the Pakistanis are armed to the teeth and not necessarily in line with the rulers, not to mention the foreign fighters that hang around the fringes/Afghanistan border.
  2. Shit's been going down in Islamabad this afternoon/evening. If you check social media, be wary, lot of blood and guts and protestors being shot/beaten/etc. Translation tools aren't doing the best job for whatever reason, but it seems like for a lot of Pakistanis, it's a Big Fucking Deal.
  3. Like getting paid to pretend to bang Halle Berry in a movie?
  4. Tweets are all he knows how to use these days. I can only imagine what a meeting with him would be like. KEEP YOUR ANSWERS TO LESS THAN 250 CHARACTERS OR I WILL FIRE YOU. SHOW ME YOUR THREE BEST TWEETS IN THE MATTER.
  5. Ukraine and Russia both struggle as well when the drones are jammed. Israel sent fighters into Iran for a reason, and they had no problem with Russian air defenses. We’ve been running drones since the first Gulf War (off the battleships as artillery spotters) and arguably since Vietnam, but drones as we think of them now, we’ve been running for a couple of decades, and we have some pretty amazing ones now and probably lots that’s not been seen publicly since we kept iterating on what we were using in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it’s possible that Iran has old Russian stuff, but I doubt it’s that old. There’s a reason why the Europeans are lining up to buy F-35s and even placing new orders, and why we are still investing in them, and still keeping our non-stealthy bomb trucks around. There will be a point where we might feel secure enough in our comms or in an AI inside of a drone that’s been cut off due to jamming, using drones for what we currently use manned fighters for, but that time is not quite there yet. And I say this as somebody who wondered on the old site when we were going to start building smaller and cheaper drone carriers instead of massive aircraft carriers.
  6. Car people/finance people, if this happens (referencing the comments below), if Trump goes through with revoking the $7,500 EV credit, what will it do to Tesla's stock prices? And if the carbon credits thing is canceled, that just seems like it would put Tesla in the red.
  7. Next you're going to tell us that the newer Battlestar Galactica was also about 9/11. J/k, they didn't even try to hide the 9/11 references.
  8. He got paid to have a topless Ali Larter grind on him.
  9. BlueSky doing AMA on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/1gyfram/hi_were_members_of_the_bluesky_team_ama/ Bookmarks are coming Trending topics are coming but they will be implemented carefully (sounds like to avoid the doom scrolling bullshit) Bots: Moderation and blocking Verification Community Notes: We looked into integrating Community Notes a while ago but we figured we needed more people on Bluesky for this to really be effective. (Their algorithm uses some logic around people who typically disagree with each other's ratings of Community Notes should agree in order for the Note to be shown.) We should revisit this, after adding 9M people to the network over the last couple weeks! *makes a mental note* Drafts: I don't have a timeline that I can share for drafts yet, but it's on the roadmap! In the meantime, there are a bunch of third-party Bluesky apps that you can use that do have drafts. (Independent developers frequently ship a feature faster than we do, joys of an open API 😅) The ones that are top of mind are Tokimeki (https://tokimeki.blue/) and Skeets (skeetsapp.com), and there are plenty more out there too. Official iPad client sucking: This one's my fault. When I first built the app, I assumed the native build wouldn't need to handle multiple screen types. I just targeted phone screens. The web build actually does handle tablet screens, so this was an unfortunate oversight on my part. It's doable, but it'll take enough time that it'll steal from other priorities, and so we haven't found a good time to prioritize it. My bad. When they have a subscription plan: We won't promote the posts of paying users, and We won't give bluechecks to paying users (verification should mean something!)
  10. And I'm confusing Idina Menzel with Lea Michele. Not sure how that could happen.
  11. Wife and daughter saw it and liked it, and I expected my wife to nitpick it but she didn't. She's a fan of the version with Kristen Chenowith or whatever and the woman from Glee or her mom or whatever, so I thought for sure she'd compare them..
  12. As the owner of one of those Fords, Eddie Bauer was quite pleased with and promoted them. Probably something Eddie Bauer the man would have approved of, had he not died in the 80s. Until the whole tire thing, and then Eddie Bauer was all
  13. Big League Chew is still around?
  14. To be fair, some pedestrians have the ability to turn on a kind of stealth mode around Teslas.
  15. Yep, with UT dismantling the College of Liberal Arts as we know it, there won’t be.
  16. Thankfully his images no longer display upside down for the rest of us.
  17. Servant Girl Annihilator is the proper term, and also the name of my Lobo tribute band. Far, far cooler than Midnight Assassin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_Girl_Annihilator
  18. Fuck I missed it. Hope they have it streaming
  19. I could picture him seeing the B-2 or B-21 and saying “it’s a shit design, there’s no tail on it, don’t these fools know that cameras and AI can detect tail-less aircraft?”
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