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13d ago
I was a bit slack to be honest. I've seen all the different angles on twitter slowed down.
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14d ago
No. Look at the direction the front left wheel is facing when she begins to accelerate (apologies, easiest source to find). I'm almost certain the vehicle has power steering and could have been redirected before accelerating.
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14d ago
Fleeing police or resisting arrest shouldn't be a death sentence, but using a weapon against the police to aid your escape can be. Vehicle as a Weapon (VaaW) attacks are a big deal. They make up one of the most common forms of terrorist attack world wide and can easily kill or maim victims. You should compare the attitudes of commentators about this to their attitudes about past protest incidents. Who Whom.
And that's before we get into the differences between police directing you to exit your vehicle compared to a wild mob attacking your car.
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14d ago
I strongly encourage people to take breaks from OLD (or even dating in general) when they feel burnout. You won't be at your best when burnt out and frankly it feels horrible to keep engaging when you've had a bad run.
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14d ago
Not really endorsing your post, but there is a REAL problem with women refusing to advertise their 'true' status in any way that might give up the game before a guy invests attention in her. Even being on a dating app isn't proof positive that she's available and serious.
Certainly is. Women who's entire profile is '@instabae' or 'I'm hardly ever on here, come find me on monetised-thirsttrap.com/teehee'.
Back in the day, the pump and dump was weaponised against women like this (gold-diggers etc) with a very very large amount of collateral damage.
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18d ago
TIL. Looks like they do grab family members as standard practice on these things.
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18d ago
Also black bagging his wife would point towards a deal.
I'm not sure if people normally grab family members in operations like this. They certainly didn't swipe the wives in the Bin Laden raid.
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18d ago
There was some speculation about the real driver behind this in the Transnational Thursday thread a few weeks ago.
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23d ago
It really makes you wonder about televised public executions as I think deterrence works on reasonably high impulse control people capable of organised white collar crime.
If there are no consequences for the people doing this, we are all mugs for working law abiding jobs and paying our taxes when grafting is an easier way to provide for ourselves and our posterity.
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24d ago
Can I convince you to join the cult of Aubrey Maturin enjoyers? The original book series behind Master and Commander spanned over 20 books and I've enjoyed most of them thoroughly. The audiobooks have become my go-to 'long drive/fall asleep' listening for most of this year. If you can make it through the nautical jargon of the first book, it becomes smooth sailing. Also there's plenty of different versions floating around the place.
"It is the dawn of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon’s France. When Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson’s navy, is promoted to captain, he inherits command of HMS Sophie, an old, slow brig unlikely to make his fortune. But Captain Aubrey is a brave and gifted seaman, his thirst for adventure and victory immense. With the aid of his friend Stephen Maturin, ship’s surgeon and secret intelligence agent, Aubrey and his crew engage in one thrilling battle after another, their journey culminating in a stunning clash with a mighty Spanish frigate against whose guns and manpower the tiny Sophie is hopelessly outmatched."
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24d ago
I think full AI is first going to infiltrate areas like the 'kids cartoon slop' genre. I remember a whole bunch of bad 3D CGI cartoons coming out in the 00's and 10's. I actually think full AI would do a better job considering the quality of the man man garbage.
If you want to remain anonymous, be aware that some Australian states made a law that retroactively allowed donor kids to find out who their biological parents were (and it was considered a human right to do so). This opened up a whole can of worms where some donors who only donated under conditions of strict anonymity had their personal lives disrupted by donor kids looking them up.
In other words, a future government may decide that 'the best interests of the child' overrule the conditions under which you originally donated.
Edit: couple of words.
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1mo ago
Find the odd man out in a zone. Press next. Find the next odd man out. Press next. etc etc.
Hint: the half circle is almost always the odd man out. as is the wing dings.
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1mo ago
I think The African Queen is his best book for adults. It has an interesting setting that you don't see much (African riverine warfare, circa 1914) and more realistically flawed characters.
I'll look into that one. I'm still finishing up The Wine Dark Sea.
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1mo ago
In the old days women would be socially ostracized for shooting down men who were trying to respectfully interact in this way. Loose social networks or anonymity facilitate this kind of behaviour. Guys also use it to ghost, pump and dump etc, so it is what it is.
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1mo ago
Daily reminder that women can be selfish scumbags too.
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1mo ago
The speedboats exist and I believe they are full of drugs, piloted by drug runners. Clearly there's some intelligence team (DEA/CIA/DIA/whoever) landside that has verified that the boats are being loaded with drugs and when they will leave. I think details about this ISR are suppressed for 'sources and methods' reasons. I personally think its great that they're being obliterated for deterrence and supply constraint reasons.
I don't think Fentanyl is coming out on those boats though. My understanding is that fentanyl production happens in Mexico under the Sinoloa Cartel and not in Venezuala by the Cartel of the Suns linked to Maduro.
Cocaine, sure. Fentanyl no. Does the Fentanyl crisis have more political gravitas that can be used as a regime change justification? Sure. Is the regime change cassus belli another 'directionally correct' Trumpism where cocaine is the real driver? I don't know. I still think foreign influence of America's rivals in Venezuala is more likely a factor and runs afoul of the Monroe Doctrine.
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1mo ago
It's no surprise then that when Trump reached out to industry leaders earlier this week, reps from companies like Exxon and ConocoPhillips said point blank that they had no interest in resurrecting the Venezuelan oil industry with prices at five year lows. It's almost as if he doesn't understand how the laws of supply and demand work. If he were really concerned with how much American consumers are paying at the pump—which isn't much, historically—he'd strike a deal with Maduro to flood the US market with Venezuelan oil and use whatever money he had planned on spending on the war and use it to subsidize the US oil companies outright. This is a terrible policy for a number of reasons, but it's still better than the idiocy we have now.
This is exactly what I'm saying. Some of these reasons seem to be a casus belli based on publicly available (semi-plausible?) information but don't seem to hold water when you dig into them.
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1mo ago
I'm curious about Mottizens' opinions about the US administration's motivations for the regime change push in Venezuala.
I think its multi-factoral. Monroe doctrine cleansing of Iran's influence (shadow fleet, drone technology sharing) as well as potentially stopping sharing of a cleaner less high-sulphur based crude oil to China which is easier to process for US's rival.
Reclamation of oil industry nationalised assets doesn't quite sit right as Grok says in 1976 they got paid 'fair market value' and there was varied compensation in 2006 (although they straight up seized assets from Exxon-Mobil).
I believe Fentanyl/cocaine has practically nothing to do with it despite the administration's claims.
Thoughts?
This ties into the Nick Fuentes issue where he is crudely outlining these sorts of arguments. In addition to the lack of (or deliberate multi-generational suppression of) ingroup ethnic solidarity, White men in positions of seniority have pulled a 'Fuck you, got mine' and pulled the ladder up behind them, leaving the field to 'minorities' (a group that includes women somehow). Basically, throwing the next generation of young white men to the wolves in order to ensure that their own positions are unchallenged until retirement.
Its not fair competition, its DEI discrimination, combined with 'you need to compete with the best from the entire world'.
Edit: More fuel for the theory that JD Vance reads this forum here.
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1mo ago
On the other hand what liars. Is politics actually just Kabuki theater to the elites?
I think there's a lot of this. I wonder if political views are to be worn and discarded for politicians like the latest season's fashion. I've seen all sorts of political opponents sitting down together in private moments. I think your average politician is just a shameless opportunist and doesn't believe most of the things they say.
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1mo ago
Yeah, I think its just a jew post wearing a semite-phile skin suit.
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1mo ago
I played a few MUDs in the mid 90's. Real social experience. Its also where I learnt about ganking, PvP and trolling in general.
First thing kids do with games like that is griefing. Fun times.
MUD's were kinda proto-mmorpgs, but really were just colourful chatrooms where you could fiddle with the content while meeting and catching up with people. Also back in the day, the internet was a new frontier so moderation was very loose. I got exposed to stuff that probably wasn't normal for kids to see until well into adulthood.
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1mo ago
Better yet, 'Bring the movies'.
I saw the video, but can't find a link now. Basically a black dude was filming on his porch directly in front of where the woman's car finally crashed. Her partner? was sitting on his driveway screaming 'Why did you use real bullets?!' amongst other things.
I think the woman and her partner didn't understand the seriousness of the situation they were putting themselves into by choosing to obstruct a law enforcement operation and attend a protest.
Edit: Found a link. Might be taken down quick.
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