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Captainant

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  1. 32 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    So while it’s terrible seeing some of the behaviors of Israel towards the Palestinians, ultimately they can stop it, and just won’t. I find it difficult to blame Israel nearly as much as the other side given all of this.  

    I think Israel would have more support if they weren't running an apartheid state - and Hamas would have less material and political support for their atrocities against Israel as reprisals. Everyone sucks here, but ultimately you're right. The root of the problem is a disagreement over Israels fundamental right to exist.

    It's no coincidence that all of this is happening on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.

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  2. 27 minutes ago, BRLA said:

    In a bit of a surprise to me - the principal has walked everything back, apologized to the student and her family and re-instated her scholarship.  I live here, so to see this kind of a walk-back is uncommon, typically guys like this principal just double down and charge ahead.  He must have received an immense amount of blowback from  the school board, or more probably the school board attorneys as he was most likely going to get himself and the board sued into oblivion.  May still happen as the student is not completely pleased with his apology..

    https://www.wbrz.com/news/walker-high-school-principal-reverses-course-on-revoking-scholarship-student-government-position-from-student

     

    Based on the last 2 sentences from that article, I'd say legal action is still coming

    That post prompted a response from Kaylee via TikTok. In it, she rejected the apology and took issue with parts of the principal's statement.

    Kaylee says the matter has jeopardized the scholarship and suggested that legal action would follow.

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  3. 28 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:

    Could totally see this being a diversion orchestrated by the Russians through the Iranians. 

    That would be a spectacular miscalculation for russia because Iran is about to see all of it's drone factories get asploded

  4. 29 minutes ago, GabrielsHorn said:

    View from Gaza City tonight

    As a note, the third video definitely looks to be a fake. 

    huh, the embedded tweet shows "there's a new version of this tweet" and when you click through the 3rd video is removed. Nice spot

  5. 56 minutes ago, Chopper said:

    Tesla argues autopilot was not designed to reliably detect cross-traffic, or traffic moving perpendicular to a vehicle

    Tesla also argues Autopilot was not designed to operate on roads with cross-traffic, their lawyers say in court documents. But they don't explain why Tesla allows it to be activated on such roads, nor why they allow operators to set crusing speeds on those roads far above the speed limit.

    Tesla is in for a world of hurt once the law catches up to his games with his so-called FSD module. There's no planet earth in which a control system using only raster image inputs to evaluate the outside world will have enough data appropriately handle the chaos of the real world. Hell, even in extremely controlled and low speed environments with only a single entity, computer vision can drift pretty significantly.

     

    I don't understand how Tesla hasn't gotten sued into the ground yet with some of the injuries and property damage being accomplished by their 100% safe autopilot system

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  6. 25 minutes ago, alincoln said:

    Can’t imagine that Israel will allow Gaza to remain in its current form.  Egypt and Jordan need to start preparing for millions of refugees. 

    I'd imagine Gaza is going to be a uniform height of around 1 ft structures by the time Israel is done bombing and shelling the shit out of it

  7. Just now, atomheartbevo said:

    I’ve already seen one idiot claiming a Hamas terrorist shot down an Israeli helicopter.  He fired three missiles out of the same shoulder launcher within seconds.  Arma can look pretty real to those without much knowledge about such systems.  

    Yeah same thing happened with the "Ghost of Kiev" combat footage that was actually DCS World

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  8. 14 minutes ago, bigcigar said:

    Texas still is a good football team. OU is better than I (we) thought. I was pretty impressed by the OU lines - they won the game. When the teams play again in December, I expect we’ll see something similar where the team that makes the most mistakes loses.

    OU came out like a loose bottle of shampoo in your luggage - they were fuckin EVERYWHERE. They came out with so much more intensity it stalled our first quarter and gave em the edge they needed.

    Sark can't let that happen again. 

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  9. On 10/7/2023 at 12:53 AM, TwiceHorn said:

    I pretty violently disagree with that.  Warren has actually passed legislation.  Cruz is yelling at clouds.  Examples, Warren legislated into existence an entire federal agency and is openly calling for the resignation of criminal members of her party (Menendez).  That's about 10,000x the level of competence and candor and integrity of Felito.

    But you specifically said dipshit whore congressman to a Senator.  There are plenty of dipshit whore Senators too.

    This is literally just the conservative self protection mechanism - justify their votes for fascism by arguing without evidence that "the other side is just as bad" and equivocating apples and assholes. They don't post in the CR and hide out in the business boards because they don't like defending their indefensible opinions, and ESPECIALLY don't like it pointed out that they don't have any actual facts besides """people are saying""'

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  10. 2 minutes ago, wackawacka said:

    US planes have already engaged Iran military that was in the area. This could escalate quickly.

    It's not like we air striked a general of theirs a few years ago or anything, still amazed that didn't spark a conflict 

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  11. 1 hour ago, Macklemore said:

    LOL. Let me guess you don’t have experience in dealing with Arabs or doing business in the Middle East in general. Arab countries are always on the top of the list when it comes to the most corrupt countries in the world. They don’t value transparency, good government, rights of women, rule of law and on and on and is a reason why every Arab country is a shithole that none of us would want to live in.

    Arguing that everyone from a region is the worst qualities of that region and it's governments is basically the definition of racism. But then again, you're the dude who wanted to shoot immigrants at the border, so it tracks that you think this way. 

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