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I thought you couldn’t run if you weren’t US born? Or is he just backing it and building a team of the biggest fucking losers you can find and it’s like a mighty ducks type situation and he’s the disgraced coach with a DUI?
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Westopher is correct.
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seems like you got a dick up your ass well..get that checked
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Well.. I’d hate to be the first to say it, but Westopher is correct.
I thought you couldn’t run if you weren’t US born? Or is he just backing it and building a team of the biggest fucking losers you can find and it’s like a mighty ducks type situation and he’s the disgraced coach with a DUI?
You can't run to be prez if you are not born in the US. He is just going to use his money to back a bunch of idiots.
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If he wants to split the Republican vote so the Democrats just win everything I say let him lol.
That's the only possible outcome I can see as well. Given how rotten the whole GOP has become, I'd welcome a vote-splitting spoiler party among the conservative voters.
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He will work feverishly on it for a few weeks because that’s how he is and then get distracted by something shiny and drop it.
On the other hand, I also think this would be a likely outcome of this American Party gong show as well lol~
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The whole world has gone down a road no one can recover from, and it's nothing to do with governments, it's because so much of the general public is so fucking stupid.
And Elons goal is to target vulnerable districts and try to score a win or two, but no matter how you slice it, it's bad news for Republicans because most of the people voting for this party will be Republicans. How wild would be if Trump does follow through with his threat and deports Elon lol.
They already had a flood in Texas that the public didn't receive sufficient warning for because of Trumps budget cuts to the weather service. Something like 25+ dead and 30 kids missing from a camp because they didn't know to evacuate. Tragic and entirely caused by voting for Trump.
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half those dudes are hotter than ,my GF.
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OH thank god. I thought u had sex with my wife. :cry:
They already had a flood in Texas that the public didn't receive sufficient warning for because of Trumps budget cuts to the weather service. Something like 25+ dead and 30 kids missing from a camp because they didn't know to evacuate. Tragic and entirely caused by voting for Trump.
K, I'm anti-Trump as most libs here but how is this entirely caused by Trump? What weather service did he cut and had it not been cut, what could that service do to prevent this, it seemed like an 'act of god' thing, flash flood ... are you alluding that the weather service could have given advance notice or did a dam break? Even if there was a bit more advance notice, are you sure it still wouldn't have resulted in fatalities?
Jus Reign (Canadian Punjabi comedian) is going viral for all the wrong reasons, lol. Backstory: the Muslim guy running for mayor of NYC posted this clip on X back in December, and now some Jewish groups are claiming it's antisemitic...
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Jus Reign (Canadian Punjabi comedian) is going viral for all the wrong reasons, lol. Backstory: the Muslim guy running for mayor of NYC posted this clip on X back in December, and now some Jewish groups are claiming it's antisemitic...
If they'd scroll down they'd see this is a group that does it for any religious holiday and makes a song for it, regardless of the religion. This "everything is antisemitic" trope is really stale.
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Westopher is correct.
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seems like you got a dick up your ass well..get that checked
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Well.. I’d hate to be the first to say it, but Westopher is correct.
Here is CNN's report and they are not FOX News ... I read that the river rose like 26 ft in 45 mins ... that's a flood of Noah's proportion. I'm not saying cuts to Weather Services wasn't a bad thing but this was a really rare and catastrophic freak incident.
The forces that descended upon the Guadalupe River in Texas’ Hill Country on Thursday night were a worst-case scenario.
Four months’ worth of rain fell in just hours as water-laden thunderstorms stalled in place, giving rise to a wall of water that surged down the river in the blackness of night, limiting the number of people who could get the warnings and move to higher ground.
The National Weather Service warned of “life-threatening flooding” along the river in a series of alerts in the early morning hours. But questions remain about how many people they reached, whether critical vacancies at the forecast offices could have affected warning dissemination, and if so-called warning fatigue had been growing among residents in a region described as one of the most dangerous in the country for flash flooding.
The National Weather Service has been hard hit by personnel cuts under the Trump administration, but that may not have significantly affected the forecasts and warnings for this historic and deadly flooding.
Sorry to break it to Vivek it's not the fringe right it's the right.
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Short-term DOGE head Vivek Ramaswamy slammed the "race-obsessed fringe of the right," who recently attacked New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and even Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance
K, I'm anti-Trump as most libs here but how is this entirely caused by Trump? What weather service did he cut and had it not been cut, what could that service do to prevent this, it seemed like an 'act of god' thing, flash flood ... are you alluding that the weather service could have given advance notice or did a dam break? Even if there was a bit more advance notice, are you sure it still wouldn't have resulted in fatalities?
The explanation I read was that due to staffing cuts the notice they were able to give was much less than usual. Something like 30 minutes instead of the 3 hours they would've been giving a year ago. There'd likely still be some fatalities, but not nearly as many.
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half those dudes are hotter than ,my GF.
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reading this thread is like waiting for goku to charge up a spirit bomb in dragon ball z
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OH thank god. I thought u had sex with my wife. :cry:
Dude AI doesn't even know the s14 doesn't have a timing belt. All it's good for is advertising and celebrity deep fake hentai.
This is why I need a RICH Chinese friend to invest in my idea of creating a smart ratchet trained on factory service manuals... There is so much room for improvement of tools we use. The ratchet has not changed in as long as I've been alive.
Seriously need to find someone with money that wants to build a simple prototype. I can do all the art that shows how it is SUPPOSED to work.
This would be such a massive advancement for human beings if this tool existed and enabled anyone to do most mechanical jobs just by listening to the tool tell you what to do.
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Jason: That’s why you need my handy dandy AI assisted wrench
If I could help design an AI-assisted wrench that could be proven to show a decent reduction in maintenance hours for equipment, tools, cars, etc etc across many industries, if I even got 1% of that company in the end, I'd be rich as fuck! Think of the immense information and knowledge in those factory service manuals, once scanned and processed by the AI, you could hold all of that knowledge of thousands of vehicles, tools, pumps, appliances, cars, fuck, you name it.
An AI-assisted wrench should:
1. Know the location of all of your sockets, extensions, u-joints, etc
2. Know the job you are working on via it's own sensors / along with a 2nd device (phone, security camera, etc) that records you from a distance
3. Know the torque figures for every bolt, nut, fitting when you removed them, and when you put them on gives a vibrational / audio signal when correct torque level is reached
4. You can record logs of the work as you go along, especially handy for fleet work, i.e. "this truck seems to have a vibration up front, I found the tie rod to be slightly loose, I tightened it, but if that didn't fix it, I'd check the wheel balance next." or something like that. Audio log records to remind yourself in the future that you dropped a nut down the intake.
There are so many potential applications for this. Imagine if your buddy called you up and he had a 1989 Integra that suddenly died. And when you drive to pick him up, you pull out your smart wrench that is connected to all the other 1989 Integra owners all across the world, and you ask the wrench "what's the most likely reason why a car would lose the entire electrical and have a dead battery at the side of the road?"
Then it would scan all of the owners' histories using the tool in the cloud... and suggest that the plastic plug on the underside of the alternator has turned to dust, and probably one or both of the pins fell off.
That was exactly what happened to me and my 1989 Integra at the side of the highway on Vancouver Island... and some Honda tech in an old Prelude pulled over to help me and he found the problem right away because it was so common on Integras, or so he said. He then helped clamp the alternator plug, or what was left of it, back on, and gave me a push-start, and I was on my way... Now when that old timer dies, who can pass that knowledge of that disintegrating alternator plug onto the next novice car owner that is at the side of the highway with a dead car?
If I can get my life together selling AI ad packages, man, I would love to find a way to make this AI-assisted ratchet shit a reality. It would be soooooo useful!
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Regarding why the flash flood in Texas was so devastating, here is an expert (ie. meteorologist )'s take on it, with what I thought was a pretty thorough explanation:
The meteorologist starts at the 2:38 mark, but there are other related info prior to his talk as well.
TL;DR (from my own conclusion)
While Trump's weather station staff cuts certainly didn't help with the situation, he isn't the one to bear the bulk of the responsibility for this flash flood tragedy.
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The whole world has gone down a road no one can recover from, and it's nothing to do with governments, it's because so much of the general public is so fucking stupid.
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