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@thestustustudio @grok when was this video taken?

This feels like the future of Waymo in blue cities. Ordinary people just trying to get from point A to point B, hoping the local riffraff do not block the car just to vandalize it. The passenger handled it well by not reacting. Probably the smartest move.

@bboi1987 @ClownWorld Root cause is they got lost on their way to Portland.

How about everyone stop attacking the homeless and go after the root cause of why they are homeless to begin with. We are supposed to be the wealthiest and most charitable country in the world, yet we have homelessness make that make sence. Go after the government it's their fault for stealing and defrauding funds to take care of those people. It's not meant to fund housing and feeding and paying medical bills for fake asylum seekers. The only way to fix this is for all fraud and theft of tax dollars to be exposed.

The city of Boise dumped a massive pile of jagged rocks under this bridge to stop homeless people from camping or sleeping there. The woman filming walks through it and complains that this is what they did so the homeless cannot stay out here while adding that Idaho can do better. Many locals actually support the move, saying it helps keep the area from turning into another Portland.

@deepwebslinger Intel has been cutting people over the last year or so but is still running. They are not abandoning OR. Their stock is up. This is slop.

Intel has been pink slipping over 20,000 workers.... effectively abandoning it's massive 600 acre campuses in Oregon. "Over relegation, cost of living and taxation making it too difficult to keep doing business in the state." Intel investing 25-30 billion, basically relocating it's production to Arizona and Ohio. Oregon is, in effect, losing it's middle class income generation altogether. We are talking billions in annual tax revenues moving out of state. The same is happening in Washington, California, New York, and other liberal states. This is a Liberalism FAFO moment...

@MolterGui @grok what is autorotation?

Você está lá, voando todo pimpão, quando de repente… O motor apaga! O que você faz? Mete uma Autorrotação, confia na física e encontra um lugar pra pousar! Que manobra linda!

@kylenabecker @grok has anyone ever come forward from these rallies to admit they were paid to act as white nationalists?

You can really see how the modern left stages these fake fights to divide Americans. This is from Charlottesville. It's like these riots are scripted by socialist theater kids. Turns out, many are. Nothing the left believes in, or fights against, is real

@MgehZy That Logic slowdown sounds pretty good; I use Transcribe and below a certain percentage slowdown it sounds glitchy and electronic - but maybe that is a difference in using an mp3 source and a full .wav. ?

ギター教則系動画を見ていたら「絶対に弾けないリフ」的なタイトルの動画を発見。どんなのだろう？と思ったらかなり驚きの内容。凡人が気付かないレベルでの狂人的なリズム感と細部にこだわり、超一流のモノづくりへの執念がヤバすぎた。ギターを弾かない人も見てみる価値あり

@PalantirTech Also sandwiches made with untoasted bread. This must be stopped.

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com

@Rothmus Supposedly true; backstage prior to a gig: "Hey Miles check out this spread they got." "I didn't come here to eat."

“My father’s rich, my mama’s good looking, and I can play the blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.”

@hollywoodscifi Done

Okay

@RazorFist Every Rose is open mic gold

'80s Record Companies inventing Poison:

What is the origin of the term "going commando"?

@P_Kallioniemi @grok why is Hasan Piker?

Champagne socialist Hasan Piker at Yale: “The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.” Ironically, Putin has an identical quote

@TheStingisBack He didn't go to HR

Happy Birthday, Andy Garcia The first film I saw him in was The Untouchables (1987), and what an entrance. It almost went another way: De Palma wanted Garcia as the villain, Nitti. Andy refused and pushed to work with Sean Connery… He won over DePalma and got his wish.

@MikeyDiMercurio I was enlisted so didn't wear this hat, but I'm trying to figure out what you mean by "space between the black band and seam of the white fabric."

Usually Hollywood's covers are smiling. That is, exhibiting space between the black band and the seam of the white fabric. Or the chin strap is loose. No one in a Hollywood movie would pass inspection.

@fandompulse My problem isn't with what celebrities say in interviews, it's what actually gets made into the cinematic story.

American History X & Blow screenwriter David McKenna responds to a question about who is keeping him from making the movies he wants to make: "I just think that the industry is broke. I think that nobody has been going to movies because everything is so political now. And every time these actors open their mouths, which is once every two or three weeks, they set us back a frickin' year. Like I said earlier, I don't have a problem with these people and their politics, but when they say it aloud and they go off ala DeNiro and Springsteen, they're killing us. They're killing the dude in Van Nuys who's trying to freaking have a family and who's a freaking grip on a set. They're not thinking about those people because they've got their millions. We've just got to be quiet and win back half the country and half the world. And that's my biggest sort of general overview of the whole thing. It's just every time somebody opens their mouths, and nobody gives a [expletive] about their opinion. And we just got to stop with it. We've got to stay out of politics. We've got to make movies. 'Cause we're screwing all the young people. The young people can't find work." What do you make of his assessment? Do you think this could save the film industry?

@_CinemaHub_ @CultureCrave Why I cancelled Criterion streaming, bad quality

@CultureCrave I believe people will cancel their subscriptions in the near future and turn back to physical media, which has far better video and audio quality than streaming services.

Amazon is removing 4K streaming from Prime Video starting today • It’s now locked behind its ad-free tier • The ad-free tier has also increased from $3 to $5 a month

@JustineBateman I've been weaning myself off needing to watch something every week. I just read nearly every Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom series via a library. It has been glorious. Television is dead

Classic Predatory Pricing.

@fandompulse If it wouldn't have made much difference to the story if there was a male lead instead... then the writing is bad.

Sci-fi writer Andy Weir slams gender ideologues who wanted to push him on his main character in his book Artemis: "However there is a minority of people who view everything through a lens of social issues. And they're more focused on Jazz's gender then they are in any other part of the story. Many consider it wrong of me not to focus on social issues in the book - as if simply having a female lead means I had some responsibility to make it about her gender. That's not how I write, so I don't think there was anything I could do for people who want that kind of story." Does having a female character mean a work to be some sort of commentary on gender?

@DannyDrinksWine Bracco's Oscar was a fluke. Wow, she really reached deep to play a Jersey Italian mob wife. She sucked in that John McTiernan film with Sean Connery and she delivered a mostly monotone performance in everything else, including the Sopranos.

Abel Ferrara explains how Harvey Keitel completely changed the "Comedic" tone of "Bad Lieutenant" (1992) to a "nightmarish" tone because of his breakup with Lorraine Bracco: "Interviewer: Many people think of that film as your masterpiece. Had you ever worked with Keitel before then? Ferrara: : I didn't know him from Adam. Christopher Walken was supposed to play the part of the lieutenant. Then he says, "You know, I don't think I'm right for it." Which is, you know, a fine thing to say, unless it's three weeks from when you're supposed to start shooting. It definitely caught me by surprise. It put me in terminal shock, actually. Interviewer: Are you saying that Keitel prepared for that role in three weeks? Ferrara: Actually, when we gave him the script the first time he read about five pages and threw it in the garbage. Luckily, Victor Argo, the actor, convinced him to give it a second chance. So in a way, Walken's leaving was good timing. Because right at that point in his life, Harvey really needed an opportunity to play a lead role. He needed to work on something he could relate to. And this film came around right as he was splitting up with his wife, Lorraine Bracco. She had just gotten nominated for an Academy Award for 'Goodfellas' (1990). And up till then, he'd basically dedicated his life to her career — he'd practically retired from acting to help her — and suddenly she takes off with the director! He was in total agony. Interviewer: It certainly comes through. Ferrara: Let me tell you. When people break up with the love of their life, it's always traumatic. But with Harvey, everything is the most traumatic. So that was the most traumatic breakup in the history of the world. And you see it in the movie. Originally, 'Bad Lieutenant' wasn't written to be quite as nightmarish and hellish – originally it had some humor in it. Interviewer: Can you give me an example of how it changed with Keitel in the lead? Ferrara: Take the scene where he pulls over the two girls in their father's car. With Walken as the lead, the lieutenant was going to end up dancing in the streets with the girls as the sun came up. They'd be wearing his gun belt and hat, and they'd have the radio on, you know what I mean? But oh my god, Harvey, he turned it into this whole other thing. Interviewer: In the movie, he forces the girls to talk dirty while he m@sturb@tes in the driver's window. Ferrara: Yeah, he just whipped it out. And that was his live-in babysitter in the car! I said, "You sure you want to do this with your babysitter?" He says, "Yeah, I want to try something." [laughs] Interviewer: Did you consider that shocking at the time? Ferrara: I didn't even know it happened! One take. 'Bad Lieutenant' was a low-budget movie - we didn't even have video assists. Interviewer: So you were lucky to have the camera at the right angle. Ferrara: I know. God forbid he moved an inch. But that's what's great about guys like Harvey and Chris. Try taking the camera off them — they were born in frame." (Abel Ferrara's interview with Cory Reynolds, 2002) P.S: On this day, 34 years ago, "Bad Lieutenant" (1992) premiered at the Broadway Screening Room, New York.

@ramingrod @ManaByte @grok is this an actual person? An adult with enough IQ to use a laptop?

Why do rockets curve to the ocean? It’s because rockets have to have an atmosphere to push off of and as they get higher and higher in the atmosphere, then it gets less and less atmosphere. The rocket curves because it can’t keep going into the vacuum space because there’s nothing to push off of. They fool you with the blast off and fool you with camera trickery. Jeremy understand gas pressure laws but he doesn’t want YOU to understand.

There is a reason people do not debate Flat Earthers or Moon landing deniers. It is not because the evidence is weak. It is because the conversation is rigged from the start. You can bring measurements, physics, engineering, independent tracking, international verification, and experiments they can do in their own backyard, and none of it matters. The moment the facts show up, they shout fake, edited, CGI, conspiracy, or “that’s just your belief.” You cannot debate someone who treats every piece of evidence as invalid by default. You cannot debate someone who demands proof and then rejects the proof the second it appears. You cannot debate someone who thinks their personal disbelief outranks measurable reality. A debate requires both sides to accept evidence. Flat Earth and Moon landing denial collapse the moment evidence enters the room, so the only move left is to deny the room exists. That is why people do not debate them. Not because the globe is fragile, but because the argument they bring is. You cannot have a real discussion with someone who decided ahead of time that nothing you show them will ever count.