Cliff Unger
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@tiberiusfiles Like it or not, Iran is on the precipice of scoring the greatest military and geopolitical victory in the history of humanity. Tomorrow will mark the end of the Western dominance and define the next several hundred, if not thousand years, with Islam as the dominant religion.
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May the Iranians never run out of missiles inshallah
Mega-Politics@_MegaPolitics
Breaking: Iran says it will produce thousands ballistic missiles more in coming days to continue war.
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@CPGBML Like it or not, Iran is on the precipice of scoring the greatest military and geopolitical victory in the history of humanity. Tomorrow will mark the end of the Western dominance and define the next several hundred, if not thousand years, with Islam as the dominant religion.
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🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iran to Israel... Time to evacuate Israel as Iran has turned much of Israel from Haifa to Tel Aviv to Arad into an orange Apocalyptic hellscape.
The CIA predicted the fall of Israel by 2029. Looks looks we’re ahead of schedule.
They did not predict the total humanitarian pf Anglo American imperialism and the destruction of their network of bases and proxies across Asia.
The Grand chessboard was never an American Game. The Persians are wiping the floor with them.
God bless Iran. Death to the imperialists: to the UK and USA’s imperialist armies, proxies, financiers, monopolists, arms manufacturers, commodities traders, hedge fund managers and political “leaders”. Genocidal gangsters all.
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@CertiNobody In order to be sexually unavailable to men, this thing needs to be desirable by men first. Which it ain't.
Juss sayyyinnnnn
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If you didn’t realize this was a hate campaign against the gay female artist who’s outspoken in her views, sexually unavailable to men, and extremely pro-trans, you’re stupid as hell man
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@RobertJMolnar Like it or not, Iran is on the precipice of scoring the greatest military and geopolitical victory in the history of humanity. Tomorrow will mark the end of the Western dominance and define the next several hundred, if not thousand years, with Islam as the dominant religion.
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as I have been saying for 2 weeks.....and in recent days all of the "experts" are saying, this would be the most suicidal military move...
1. Iran is not going to just allow a convoy of MEUs with a few thousand Marines through the straits to get to the island. We are in a war, they will sink them
2. An airborne assault out of Kuwait, or a fucking airborne parachute drop as the other option is ridiculous
3. The island is 15 miles offshore from the mainland...literally in fucking MORTAR range at least.....drones and missiles and artillery will just pound the tiny "excursion" of troops on a tiny island that has no bunkers, no where to hide
4. Zero logistical support for any troops that actually get there
What the fuck are we doing?
GeoInsider@InsiderGeo
NEW: Israeli sources are increasingly pointing to a possible U.S. ground operation against Iran, likely limited and focused on Kharg Island and the Strait of Hormuz. The objective would be clear: hit Iran’s oil lifeline and force Tehran back to the table.
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@MattKleinman @fandompulse Not under the leadership of Jack Emmert, who ran 3 MMOs into the ground so far. STO will become the fourth I suppose. The only reason it survived thus far was because he fucking left. Now that he's back? zero chance.
Emmert is truly the Man with the Mierdas Touch.
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@CS3101 @fandompulse Actually, the game developers have been working to address those that they can, especially as the game has swapped most of the developers out. There's still a few people from the old guard, but they're STILL trying to address those issues.
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@Pakistani__aura For a shit hole that is about to get glassed tomorrow, Iran sure talks a lot of shit.
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$33.1M opening day with zero green screens. Read that again.
Project Hail Mary cost $200 million to make. Lord and Miller built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a practical set. Thousands of physical buttons, hundreds of real screens, a hatch modeled after ISS designs. The alien, Rocky, is a full animatronic puppet designed by Neal Scanlan, the creature shop legend behind the best Star Wars practical work. Ryan Gosling acted against a real puppet in every single scene.
The movie has 2,018 VFX shots. That sounds like a lot until you compare it to Avatar: Fire and Ash, which ran over 3,500. The difference: Avatar builds the world digitally and asks the audience to believe it. Project Hail Mary builds the world physically and uses VFX to clean up wires, remove puppeteers, and paint in space backgrounds. One approach creates spectacle. The other creates presence.
This is a $200 million bet against the last 15 years of Hollywood production logic.
After Avengers: Endgame, the industry standardized around green screen stages and digital environments because it was faster and cheaper per shot. Studios could reshoot entire sequences in post. The tradeoff was invisible until it wasn't: audiences started describing blockbusters as looking like "video games." Snow White's $42M opening. The Marvels at $46M. Quantumania. Ant-Man built on a soundstage that looked like it.
Lord and Miller went the opposite direction and spent more money on physical construction than most studios spend on entire VFX pipelines. Greig Fraser, the cinematographer who shot Dune, lit the Hail Mary with practical lights so the camera could move freely through real corridors. When Gosling floats in zero-g, that's wire work, not simulation. When he touches a panel, it's a real panel.
Guillermo del Toro saw the film and called the commitment to practical sets and puppets "a goal, an aspiration, and a commitment. Especially now."
The "especially now" is doing all the work in that sentence. He's talking about an industry where the default response to a $200M budget is to minimize physical production and maximize digital flexibility. Project Hail Mary did the opposite and just posted the biggest non-franchise opening day in domestic box office history.
The audience can tell. They've always been able to tell.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ has earned $33.1M in the film's domestic opening day. Biggest domestic opening day ever for any non-franchise film. Read our review: bit.ly/DFMary
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@thatdayin1992 Why is a police chief making this statement? Are they out of IRGC officers?
Eh, no matter. They are all getting glassed Monday.
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@alt_w_v_g Home warranty companies are a joke.
I successfully sued mine (years ago) in small claims court.
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The dishwasher broke
My wife said "good thing we have the home warranty"
I said nothing
I've been paying $62 a month for three years for this moment
$2,232 for the peace of mind that when something breaks someone will come to the house and tell me it's not covered
I called
47 minutes on hold
They sent a technician
Arrival window: Tuesday through Thursday between 8am and 5pm
My analyst delivers faster than that
And he still hasn't fixed the gridlines
He showed up Wednesday at 4:47pm
Looked at the dishwasher
Opened the door
Closed the door
Touched something underneath
Said "not covered"
90 seconds
That's faster than my bank lets me prove I'm human
I said "what's covered"
He said "the motor"
I said "what's wrong with it"
He said "not the motor"
I said "convenient"
He said the service fee is $75
I paid a man $75 to open my dishwasher, close my dishwasher, and say two words
My analyst could do that
And he's not even that good
I called the warranty company back
38 minutes on hold
Requested the policy
129 pages
I read all 129 pages
Because that's what I do
The coverage section is 34 pages
The exclusions section is 58
The business model is right there
In the margins
Where nobody reads
Except me
Page 91 says "all mechanical and electrical components essential to appliance function are covered under standard service"
Page 104 excludes control panels
A control panel is an electrical component essential to appliance function
Their own document contradicts itself 13 pages apart
I highlighted both
Sent them an email
Subject line: "Plz fix. Thx."
Attached both pages
No other context
Took them three days to send a technician
Took them 4 hours to call me back when I found the loophole
Funny how that works
They covered the repair
Waived the $75
And I canceled the warranty anyway
Because a contract that contradicts itself isn't a contract
It's a suggestion
My wife said "so we're canceling"
I said "we're canceling"
She said "and the dishwasher"
I said "fixed. They're covering it."
She said "how"
I said "I read the policy"
She said "all 129 pages"
I said "the exclusions section starts on page 47. The coverage section ends on page 34. There are 13 pages between them where they hoped nobody would look."
She looked at me
Then she said "you're unbelievable"
I said "I just saved us $744 a year and got a free dishwasher repair. I'm not unbelievable. I'm thorough."
She looked at the ceiling
The dishwasher works now
The warranty is canceled
And the policy has been read
By at least one person
Probably the first
Make common sense common again
Plz fix. Thx.
Sent from my iPhone
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Paapa Essiedu says he's received death threats for being cast as Snape in HBO's 'Harry Potter' series
“I’ve been told, ‘Quit or I’ll murder you"
“The reality is that if I look at Instagram I will see somebody saying, ‘I’m going to come to your house and kill you' ... while I’m pretty sure I’m not going to be murdered ... That could age badly! But ... while I hope I’ll be OK, nobody should have to encounter this for doing their job"
"Many people put their lives on the line in their work. I’m playing a wizard in Harry Potter. And I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t affect me emotionally"
(via @thetimes)


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