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atomheartbevo

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  1. We will get our sixth-gen from Temu AND WE WILL LIKE IT!
  2. I wonder if we got some hail. All of the cars in our neighborhood had tiny little round dirt spots all over them. Either some kind of hail or it was raining muddy rain.
  3. So former Waymo head thinks Musk might fake his robotaxi rollout in Austin in a few months. Former Waymo Head Doesn't Think Tesla Is Close To Ready To Deploy Robotaxis - The Autopian
  4. It's an oil refinery they built in a city. Or a city that grew around an oil refinery.
  5. I've disagreed with my sister in the past but would never vandalize her car.
  6. IMAX
  7. Well…. https://www.wired.com/story/gsai-chatbot-1500-federal-workers/ DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers Elon Musk’s DOGE team is automating tasks as it continues its purge of the federal workforce. ELON MUSK’S SO-CALLED Department of Government Efficiency has deployed a proprietary chatbot called GSAi to 1,500 federal workers at the General Services Administration, WIRED has confirmed. The move to automate tasks previously done by humans comes as DOGE continues its purge of the federal workforce.
  8. You see dear Brisket, when Alabama was paying players under the table, we all understand that to mean that really, it's the Louisiana State Technical School for Deaf and Blind Coal Miners that is truly to blame, and the NCAA should come down on them hard.
  9. We've kept countries from collapsing in the past. India could end up being part of our counter to China, at least in the short term, and they are thinking more "globally" than perhaps they have in the past. If we were smart, we'd be trying to move a shit-ton of manufacturing out of Asia to Mexico and South America, but Trump can't think that far ahead.
  10. I'm sure some of what we do is because we care, but I don't think it gets sold in Congress without discussing what it does for our economy. And I will add that it's in our interest to prevent more wars in Europe, not just because they are our largest trading partner, but that's a large part of it - we can't help but get involved once wars scaled up to the numbers they did starting in WWI, and that means American dead, and it's cheaper to keep things under control than send American boys off to die. With that said, we have the navy that we do because we want to have that influence and we want to keep lanes open for US or US-adjacent shipping. When the Red Sea shit blew up, the world looked to the US, and the US felt obligated because of the amount of shipping that goes through there. It's the same reason the Brits had a massive navy for as long as they did, albeit we are a lot less colonial than they were. It's also why Russia struggles to project power over long distances (although I'd say they were struggling to project power into the country next door). I do think this will be the year that the war truly comes home for a lot of Russians who bury their heads in the sand about what's happening. There's only so many Norks that can be funneled into Kursk, and if Russia is slowing down or losing ground in some parts of Ukraine, that's a manpower problem, and Putin is going to have to get a lot more aggressive about drafting Russians in Moscow and St Pete's.
  11. It's not, but in terms of the ISIS/ISIS-adjacent fuckery, they are closely related financially and religiously. Lot of money and ideology (along with some foot soldiers) flowing out of the radical schools in Saudi Arabia into Africa. If Syria collapses, I'm assuming Turkey gets heavily involved, and hell, toss in some ISIS-related groups (who are still in Syria). If Putin goes, Iran loses their best ally (and maybe last?) if Russian dissolves into infighting, and things get interesting in Africa if the Russians pull out (or they go full-on rogue with some oligarch running and funding things).
  12. Putting aside Russia falling apart, I'd point to the Middle East. It's very clear the fuckery in Syria is still going on. I don't think the Shiite/Sunni stuff will fully blow up this year, but the potential is there if they feel the Iranians are weak. I'd also look for whatever succeeds ISIS (or a rebranded ISIS) to rear their ugly heads in Africa.
  13. Leon continues to be rewarded. SpaceX to receive $17M grant from Texas CHIPS Office
  14. They were/are our largest trading partner. While we like to talk about being (at least in the past) the "Defender of Democracy" the reality is that so much of what we do militarily is not out of altruistic principles, but because the spice goods must flow. We intervene in or prop up countries and feed poor countries because we want those markets and natural resources and/or we want to keep other countries (China, formerly the USSR, possibly India in the future) from nudging us out of the equation.
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