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  1. after hollywood is done remaking all the big films from the 1980s, they will target the 1970s... "like a dog eating its own sick..."
  2. Images have appeared, the Russian militarized police chased down the get-away car and shot up the wheels, then captured them on foot. 1 guy appears to be in a coma, the other 3 have been beaten. There is confirmed footage online that one of the Chechen militarized policemen cut off the ear of one of the suspects and put it in his mouth., the other man had his pants pulled down and appears to have been tortured. Overall not very professional treatment of these terrorists, even if they are mass-murderers. Death count claimed as 137 plus 182 injured, pretty much worse than almost all US mass shootings.
  3. You caught me, I'm not. Not a big fan of the music, like the woman more.., too many of her songs are about relationship trauma I like: 1. All too Well (both versions)- my favorite Taylor Swift Song 2. Ivy 3. Champagne problems 4. Shake it off 5. Cruel Summer 6. Red I have downloaded Era, it is an extremely expensive and grandiose show.
  4. The warnings stuff I have seen before, it happens every so often. 1. US immediately try to distance itself and claims that Ukraine didn't do it. 2. Russia reported that they captured 4 of the muslim terrorists and claims that they are foreigners from Tajikistan & were trying to escape to Ukraine, there is social media footage of an AK-12 lying on the ground which is a Russian weapon. Their state officials are trying to link them to Ukraine. 3. Some Ukrainian propaganda claims that Putin! killed his own people in order to escalate the war in Ukraine (2nd round of mobilization) I'll wait until the dust settles....
  5. I've seen her without glasses- she is gorgeous head to toe
  6. The Gold standard is the Shure SM7B which is $425 for professional podcasting. The newer but lower priced Shure MV7X ($192 plus tax) came in the mail, tried and liked it. Used a $20 XLR cable with reinforced wiring to block out electronic interference. It should be just about good enough for general use but it's not perfect. It blocks out sound if one has a loud computer fan on if the gain settings are tinkered with. However the audio is noticably lower than I would like but that can be dealt with post-processing, which is another hassle. I guess compared to the SM7B it is just a smaller and weaker version of it. But it is significantly better than the Samson Q9U which imho is a failed product, unusable in the summer. With the Vocaster the gain can be moved down with the static removed but the audio is way too low and dim, without punch.
  7. a few years ago, it's all over the internet. IMHO the best model leaks.., Noel looks amazing
  8. ^ yeah she looks good.. As for megastars I am loving Taylor Swift and 5 of her songs.
  9. For decades it was the Left that defended the Unions and the Right that weakened industry, Trump's message has shifted alliances and times have changed. This is one of the most interesting works on economics I've ever read. It is interesting more as a historical and political-economic artifact though. JKG was a highly influential public intellectual at the time and his arguments for the Democrats are very insightful, which included his defense of having a strong, diversified industrial base. JKG imho was correct but his message has fallen on deaf years decades since. The thing that struck me the most is how in the 1960s he and other intellectuals (philosophers, sociologists etc.) had optimistic yet ultimately very false visions of the future. They were from a time where Americans had a baby boom and a massively expanding middle class. They took this recent history and believed that it could continue, that almost all Americans would have at least a middle class standard of living (home, 2-3 children etc) and people would become much more enlightened and civilized. They even believed that one day, it was possible to even reduce working hours to 20 a week, and use the free time for enjoying social life and the arts, and one's true calling. Government would work achieve this vision. This was coined the "Great Society" and was used by President Johnson in his legislative efforts. They were ridiculously wrong as this dream has never happened 60 years later and the middle class instead has weakened so much since the 1990s and the quality of life went towards being far more dysfunctional/dystopian and anti-human.
  10. What I have observed since the Obama years is that in the US there used to be powerful "family values" politics (coming from conservatives) and "middle class" politics- either bipartisan or democrat. It then suddenly took a bizarre turn towards WOKE during the final years of Obama. The middle class/family values politics got completely swamped by WOKE politics which was a pretty awful trade.
  11. + Russia launched a large missile & Geran drone strike on Ukrainian energy infrastructure today (ukraine claimed 155 projectiles against 133 structures). The biggest takedown was a hydro plant in Z-city. + Also a terrorist attack in a Moscow concert hall killed a claimed 40 people and injured 130 more. The footage shows men in military gear gun down civilians with automatic weapons, they also detonated incendiary devices to collapse the roof of the building. US / Ukraine denied their involvement, ISIS claimed that it is responsible It's literally a re-enactment of this scene from COD:
  12. imho she was more perfect 13 yrs ago (father time)