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GD_American posted:I feel like you're slighting George W. Bush here, as there is not one single record of a successful Viet Cong sortie over Texas during is time in the Air National Guard there Dubya’s military service controversy is so quaint by today’s standards.
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Platystemon posted:Dubya’s military service controversy is so quaint by today’s standards. What's funny is it's essentially an iteration of Dan Quayle's from a decade prior to that. Both children of privilege who managed to duck into the Nasty Guard. Except W was a fighter pilot. Quayle was a welder.
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fknlo posted:Kansas City air traffic control center has gone atc zero. They lost everything. Radar, radio, land lines, cpdlc, literally everything. You can go to adsbexchange.com and look at the giant space with almost no airplanes in it to see how impactful this could be if it’s not temporary. I don’t know how this happens without the lines coming into the building all getting cut. Die Hard 2 was p decent
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Jan 14, 2025 10:11
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It’s no Die Hard 1 but what is? 2 is a legit movie that had neither Alan Rickman or Samuel L Jackson. E: Putting down a flame trail to land on is 100% cool as gently caress
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Kesper North posted:I wish I had the luxury of doing this, but I'm a dual citizen and my partner lives just across the border in BC and the covid border shutdown already seperated us for 18 months and we both have responsibilities that keep us where we are soooooooooo To a large extent, you're likely fine doing the same thing I am. There aren't many, if any, discussions about a northern border shutdown because Canada is full of white people. Republican/Donnie screaming about the Canadian border is more about trade bullshit versus racism/immigration bullshit. I could be totally wrong though!
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Are you a lumberjack? You’re okay.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Are you a lumberjack? Unless you wear women's underwear, in which case Elon Musk's DOGE (Department Of Genital Examination) will be in touch on January 21st
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Kazinsal posted:Then there's the Triforce% ACE Showcase, in which dozens of people spent years reimplementing beta code, pre-release rumours, and "my uncle works at Nintendo" style late 90s/early 00s bullshit into Zelda 64 through a series of exploits and extremely high-precision replayed button presses, and then played it live on an unmodified Nintendo 64 and cartridge in front of audience of thousands. For anyone who is coming into this without context, when they power the N64 on at GDQ its in the exact config you'd have had in christmas of '98 - So they're reprogramming the game with all of these extensive mods *live* as they do the run.
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Die Hard 2 is the best of the franchise. Fight me.
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GD_American posted:Except W was a fighter pilot. Quayle was a welder. Sounds like better odds that Quayle did something useful in his time.
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That Works posted:Die Hard 2 was p decent It’s honestly my least favorite, and that was before I got into ATC and my inner voice screams “THERE ARE A MILLION PLACES THEY CAN DIVERT TO OH MY GOD” Internet rumor mill for ZKC going down last night is that it was power related. There are backups for everything of course but whatever they did may have blown all the fuses. I’ll probably find out more on Wednesday when I go back to work. This is another best worst case scenario in that this stuff never seems to happen at the worst time. Like if the Chicago center fire had happened a few hours later there would have been absolute chaos. Tech ops stuff that can have major impacts usually happens on the overnight shift for this reason but they won’t pay for any of those people to be there overnight so you run into “we need to do this before midnight” a lot and then weird poo poo happens. This will get a whole lot of attention though because an entire center going down is a big loving deal.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Die Hard 2 is the best of the franchise. Fight me. It did have the best game in the Die Hard trilogy PlayStation collection.
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fknlo posted:It’s honestly my least favorite Tell me you haven't seen any die hards after 3 without saying you haven't seen any die hards after 3.
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Stealing from gibbisThe Last Call posted:
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CainFortea posted:Tell me you haven't seen any die hards after 3 without saying you haven't seen any die hards after 3. Was a bummer to see Willis go from charismatic action hero with legit good (or at least passable) acting in first Die Hard, Sixth Sense, Pulp Fiction, and Fifth Element to stop trying for a decade and a half & show up for whatever straight to video garbage crossed his desk, especially when it wasn’t a Michael Madsen/Nic Cage one step ahead of the taxman situation.
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I thought he started doing that because he knew dementia was rolling in and he wanted as much of a buffer as possible both for himself and his family
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I thought he started doing that because he knew dementia was rolling in and he wanted as much of a buffer as possible both for himself and his family This was my understanding as well. You even notice he doesn't speak much in his rapid fire later movies, most of which were effectively "direct to video".
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Willis peaked with Hudson Hawk.
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Looper owned gently caress y'all
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CainFortea posted:Tell me you haven't seen any die hards after 3 without saying you haven't seen any die hards after 3. I don’t hate 4. The one after that doesn’t exist.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Willis peaked with Hudson Hawk.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Looper owned gently caress y'all
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Was a bummer to see Willis go from charismatic action hero with legit good (or at least passable) acting in first Die Hard, Sixth Sense, Pulp Fiction, and Fifth Element to stop trying for a decade and a half & show up for whatever straight to video garbage crossed his desk, especially when it wasn’t a Michael Madsen/Nic Cage one step ahead of the taxman situation. Willis first major role was Moonlighting with Cybill Shepard. He became the action hero after his passible acting phase. And yeah he has aphasia and did a bunch of poo poo movies so his current wife and younger kid would be set. He’s kids from Demi Moore are already loaded.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Looper owned gently caress y'all I don't think anyone's roping Looper in with his direct to video dreck At least, nobody with taste is
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the only thing i remember about looper is that tommy solomon is in it and thats good enough for me
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fknlo posted:It’s honestly my least favorite, and that was before I got into ATC and my inner voice screams “THERE ARE A MILLION PLACES THEY CAN DIVERT TO OH MY GOD” Fuses wouldn't surprise me, we had an install into a new data center and when we powered up the racks had a very satisfying WOOOM *black* KACHUNK *lights* WOOOM *black* as the primary and backup breakers both tripped. Turned out the installers had put the wrong fuses into both, and it was good enough to handle the first few sets of racks that went in but we were the straw on the (improperly built) camel's back.
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bird food bathtub posted:Stealing from gibbis https://x.com/Acyn/status/1879226367847608788
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Man we are so lucky that American Fascists are loving stupid as poo poo. If they were slightly more competent I'd be much more concerned.
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While that's a terrible answer, and it kind of indicates that he may not even know what Asean is, I wouldn't expect even a top level American appointee to have memorized the membership of every economic partnership we deal with. Its the kind of question that just having a cheat sheet for would be acceptable for. There are better examples of this guy's insuitability for the position.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Looper owned gently caress y'all I think looper was his last good movie?
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I checked his filmography and I am confident that’s the case
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hobbesmaster posted:I think looper was his last good movie? looking at his imdb, this is a pretty safe statement
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I met two of the mythical "average American voters" at a bar today and oh my God we're hosed as a nation. Spoiler alert: They had strong views on issues but also no idea which historical president belonged to which political party. In short it convinced me of something I already suspected: Biden's PR team should be put to death for sheer incompetence. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jan 15, 2025 |
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A.o.D. posted:While that's a terrible answer, and it kind of indicates that he may not even know what Asean is, I wouldn't expect even a top level American appointee to have memorized the membership of every economic partnership we deal with. Its the kind of question that just having a cheat sheet for would be acceptable for. the lack of a cheat sheet is in itself utterly disqualifying for an executive position because he's demonstrating he doesn't have a team whose only job is to keep him from embarrassing himself and would be too stupid to delegate to them if he did finding such people, keeping them, and placing them to best effect is literally the entire job
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Man, if I was even theoretically a possible nominee for SecDef I'd try to bone up on basic geopolitical facts like which countries are in a partnership with which.
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dude's a long-term drunken fox news host with a penchant for philandering and fleecing a veterans nonprofit he's not being nominated for his competence 
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Man, if I was even theoretically a possible nominee for SecDef I'd try to bone up on basic geopolitical facts like which countries are in a partnership with which. Seems like a big deal to have a broad understanding of "The block that basically contains most of the land mass bordering the south china sea which china has geopolitical aims on." if you're either SecDef or SecState, but that's just my opinion.
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facialimpediment posted:dude's a long-term drunken fox news host with a penchant for philandering and fleecing a veterans nonprofit I mean yeah but I made the mistake long ago of behaving like a responsible adult.
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Does your average schlub on the street need to know it? No cause it is a bit of a wonk question. When you're looking for nomination to a secretary position for an organization that does a lot of international diplomacy work the rubric changes a little bit.
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