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As pointed out in replies, the same guy who wrote that dialogue wrote this scene:

In the same vein as Restrepro. Quality is fucking amazing for something released on YouTube, so watch it on a TV. Just came out, 2 hours, 20 minutes.

Vladimir Putin has signed a decree lowering the threshold for Russia's use of nuclear weapons. It follows a US decision to allow Ukraine to carry out long-range missile strikes on Russia using American weapons. Ukraine has carried out its first such attack, with Russia confirming that US ATACMS missiles have hit its Bryansk region. Russia’s revised nuclear doctrine states that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack. An attack on Russia with conventional missiles, drones or aircraft could meet the criteria for a nuclear response. The Kremlin urged other countries to study the changes. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov described the decree as “a very important text” and said "it should become a subject to a very deep analysis". Recently Russia warned it would deliver “an appropriate and tangible” response to the US President's decision to let Ukraine use ATACMS missiles to strike the country. Russia's foreign ministry said that such an attack "would represent the direct involvement of the United States and its satellites in hostilities against Russia”.

Makes me want to drive out there and bang some men’s daughters. Or their mothers if they look like Ali.

They are shooting down nuclear reactors over Finland? Isn’t that an Article 5?

Pshaw, he’s an amateur and should have been able to examine you anyways. Hell, mine can put both hands on my hips and still give me a prostrate exam somehow. He’s got an office behind the main dumpsters at the Hancock HEB.

Fixed. Was trying to hide that it was Seth Rogen.

Loaded with talent and cameos. Apple TV+ today unveiled a glimpse at its highly anticipated upcoming comedy The Studio, and announced that the new 10-episode half hour comedy starring Seth Rogen, who also serves as writer, director and executive producer alongside Emmy Award-nominee Evan Goldberg, is officially set to make its global debut on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, followed by one episode every Wednesday through May 21, 2025. In The Studio, Rogen stars as the newly appointed head of a movie studio, Continental Studios. Desperate for the approval of celebrities, he and his team of executives at Continental Studios must juggle corporate demands with creative ambitions as they try to keep movies alive and relevant. The Studio assembles a star-studded ensemble cast led by Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe Award-winner Catherine O’Hara, Emmy Award-nominee Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz and Chase Sui Wonders. Academy Award-nominee and Emmy Award-winner Bryan Cranston, Keyla Monterroso Mejia and Dewayne Perkins also star.

For some reason I thought he died after he made The 10th Kingdom. And then I thought it was Ann-Margret but she's alive and kicking. Turns out that Moira Lister and Rutger Hauer are the only major stars to have died since then.

I had Threads accounts tied that were not linked back to me (even through Instagram) so never worried about it, but if you're not doing that kind of stuff, yeah, don't risk saying stuff that's easily linked back to you. Threads is kind of a bust for me at this point with the hashtag bullshit and with the lack of DMs, and with trying to force you to keep Instagram around. I gave it a shot for a long time and held out hope that it would eventually add DMs and change up the hashtag crap, but nope, Zuck and Co. are not going to risk people bailing on Instagram. The main thing a lot of people are complaining on Bluesky is that it doesn't have "Trending" but I have my feeds and honestly "Trending" on X.com ends up wasting a lot of time to keep you clicking. I get wanting things to go viral though, but...

They are closing in on 20 million users tonight, and my feeds have been popping with a whole lot of people talking about it as if it's a big class reunion but I'm dealing mostly with history/academic types, and some retro gaming/computer folks. Seems like everybody is a lot more vocal on Bluesky than they had been on twitter in a long time. I would be curious how @Hornius Emeritus sees it - I'm assuming most of his activity is on places like Facebook (Lord knows my mom quotes enough of his stuff).

Bingo. Putin can, at most, hold on to what he has now, with a few more gains to consolidate Donestsk and Luhansk. And I'm not even sure he can fully hold Crimea if Ukraine drops The Bridge. Ukraine has been hitting their ferry ships. They've had to move ships out of Sevastapol as it is.

“Unification,” a new short created with the use of a combination of archival footage and CGI imposed over actors (with Kirk himself played by both William Shatner and actor Sam Witwer, and Spock by Lawrence Selleck), takes Captain Kirk on a brief trip though his memories, before watching the sun rise with an ailing Spock. ..

If he was going to use tactical nukes, he would have done it long ago, Bur red line after red line kept getting crossed. Hell, the invasion of Kursk should have been the ultimate trigger. I bet he doesn’t trust them to even work at this point.

He just doesn’t have the manpower, even with the Norks. Otherwise we would have seen it in Ukraine already. As of now, he might have to actually start putting more resources he really doesn’t have into Crimea, if Ukraine drops the bridge. And Poland and the Finns wouldn’t be foolish enough to invade Russia. They’ll hurt Russia bad enough just ejecting them out of the Baltics and can taunt them mercilessly and fart in their general direction. Kaliningrad is the one sticking point, but they don’t have to invade - they have the means to hit any Russian forces in there that are attacking NATO countries (although it sounds like there’s few there these days) as well as blockading it.

This would be a good way to try to intimidate/scare NATO countries into not shipping arms to Ukraine. Russia can feign ignorance and pretend an anchor snagged it, all the while two happening so closely together is a clear signal being sent by Russia. But it’s also a good way to increase arms shipments from NATO countries.

If he had easily taken all of Georgia and. Moldova and was sitting in Kyiv and Odesa, we worry. But I don’t think he could easily put down a rebellion against Lukashenko at this point if he’s having to haul in North Koreans to try and liberate parts of Mother Russia. That’s fucking embarrassing and is not the second best army in the world. Poland and probably Finland would stop Russia in the Baltics by themselves, and they have a huge incentive to step up, even if the U.S. were to tuck our tails between our legs and run away. If he invaded the Baltics, Poland and Finland both know a timer has started and they won’t wait for him to consolidate any victories if NATO as a whole did nothing.

Russia is not even the best army in the Kursk oblast. If they had the forces to invade the Baltics, they would have already kicked the Ukrainians out of Kursk and they wouldn’t be spending months taking just a few kilometers here and there in Ukraine at the cost of tens of thousands of Russians. They ain’t doing shit in the Balkans. Hell it would open the door to Kaliningrad being taken by Lithuania/Poland and probably something happening in Belarus ( they might not even be able to put down any rebellion against Lukashenko). They no longer have the kind of infrastructure to get troops and equipment in large numbers from their railheads to deep into enemy territory, and these are what they are using in Ukraine:

The rest of the world, or at least Europe does. And any nuclear disasters will either drift into NATO territory or a Russian territory. At the least, the flow of weapons will increase and China and India would get nervous if we start talking sanctions against all countries doing business with Russia.

Holy shit the avatar really checks out!

Yeah they had some issues https://downdetector.com/status/bluesky/