It must be the uh, electrical, uh, infetterance, uh, prevention protocol. I definitely trust these people to handle everyone’s votes by haphazardly stacking them on a desk out of sight in the corner of the room, putting them in unlabeled and unsecured plastic containers, and then carting them off in their personal vehicles with zero supervision!
Uh well, not zero supervision. A cop rode with them to transport the ballots to a “more central location for final packaging” so I’m told, by one of sketch staffers. I definitely trust cops!
I remember at the place near me, after you used the machine and put the printout into a folder that staff assured was “absolutely confidential”, it was immediately handed over to a guy who opened it and looked inside before putting it into one of several piles.
When I asked what he was doing they said he was “checking for completeness” and using his peripheral vision so he couldn’t see who you voted for. When I pressed them on it one of the supervisor types told me “if you’re done voting, you’re done being here” and said he was gonna call the cops unless I stopped “harassing” them
The media will refuse to cover it, like they do anything else that embarrasses
could kill everyone involved and prime time TV would still be covering Justin Bieber arguing with a meter maid, and the front page of every newspaper would be about Trump being mean to Vietnam veterans
Taking 5 years to film a movie is extreme unless you’re making something like the Soviet War and Peace, but I guess you have to exclude 2020-21 so it practically would only be 3 years or so. 3 years of filming is still on the long side though, sounds like it was in development hell.
But I have to wonder, surely the script was reviewed and approved before they went into production, right? I can’t imagine a company going through the expense of making a period film about a sensitive topic unless they knew it was approved.
Were they reapplying for releasing it every year or did the government just decide to summon it back from exile for the 80th anniversary?
Whatever the reason was that it didn’t get released in 2022 evidently no longer concerns the government.
Nationalist sentiment has been on the rise globally in recent years. So the thinking may be that if you’re not making nationalist propaganda efforts then you’re essentially letting foreign media write your history for you. This was the thinking behind the commissioning of Soviet WWII films in the 1960s - the West was dominating the WWII period film genre and was basically erasing the role the USSR played in the war.
The justices, who apparently divided 6-3 along ideological lines, put on hold a federal district judge’s order that reined in what critics called “roving” raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That judge had found the tactics were likely unconstitutional because agents were detaining people without probable cause at car washes, bus stops and Home Depot parking lots based on stereotypes.
The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its decision to grant the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to block the district judge’s order. However, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote separately in support of the decision, saying it was reasonable to briefly question people who meet multiple “common sense” criteria for possible illegal presence — including employment in day labor or construction, and limited English proficiency.
They’re not even bothering to workshop their bullshit explanations anymore
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
If you put this in a book people would say it was too on the nose
From my experience there’s always been an anti-Japanese “season” around the summer when all the WWII films and Sino-Japanese war films come out. It’s probably being pushed especially hard now since it’s a round number anniversary and likely the last significant one where any actual participants are still alive. Also, Japanese fascists are making significant gains.
I use bilibili as a gauge for brainworm concentrations in Chinese social media and there has definitely been an increase in militaristic sentiments. In any case it’s very different from the much more “let’s all hold hands and sing kumbaya”-type vibes of circa 2010.
It is mildly amusing that there is a segment of Chinese nationalists that basically believe the exact same things as the average Fox News-addled American boomer about woke liberals destroying America by legalizing crime and importing violent migrants and opening free crack distribution centers, except they think it’s good that it’s happening. Just last week I watched a video on bilibili where the guy said San Diego residents are forced to watch millions of migrants invade America by lining up at the border where CBP assigns them free luxury mansions no questions asked if they lie about being abused. Anyway the conclusion of the video was that America is becoming the Qing dynasty because of the moral decay caused by marijuana legalization
Doesn’t seem like the genius dudebro in question ever truly left preschool:
The tests that did happen did not go well. During a jet propulsion test last year, Thornton attempted to hold a drone down with his hands while it was at full throttle to help steady it for launch, according to interviews with multiple people who were present. Senior employees were dismayed; among many risks, the drone could have tipped over and effectively become a projectile, endangering everyone on the test range, three ex-staffers told Forbes. Range administrators shut the test down, they said.
“Mach Industries” is the world’s most expensive adult daycare with only one attendee.
The 53763737th talentless mediocre techbro dropout somehow wound up with a few hundred million dollars to find new ways to get himself killed with.
And exactly what are this guy’s qualifications? What has he ever actually accomplished himself? Does he have literally any experience? Why is he at the top calling the shots considering he wouldn’t even qualify for a Research Assistant position? Has he had a single actual job in his entire life? He’s literally just your average STEMlord except he couldn’t even get halfway through school.
he borrowed $200 from his parents in high school to build a rudimentary gas gun using “deer feeder batteries and an electrolyzer.” After a stint as a mechanic in high school, he attended MIT, where, he claimed to TechCrunch, he assembled a team of undergrads and tested a “large, mounted gun under the railroad tracks near Charles River.”
Oh I guess he did some stuff that maybe would’ve won 4th place in a Middle School science fair. A real brain genius here
During his time at MIT, he convinced a team of hydrogen experts led by Erik Limpaecher from the school’s military laboratory Lincoln Labs, to leave their posts to work on his vision of replacing gunpowder, founding the company as Trident Industries at the end of 2022.
How? How did some random dipshit undergrad convince “a team of hydrogen experts” with cushy gigs to drop everything to join his babykilling startup? How did he even get them to respond to the inquiries of some random dipshit undergrad?
Thornton, who was named a 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 and Thiel Fellow last year
Oh I see it now. Thiel 100% made this guy one of his blood boys in exchange for a couple million and a team of slaves to help him blow himself up in a looney tunes industrial accident. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is how he dies:
Polish politicians will post as screeds about the Russian untermenschen for a few days and then everyone will forget about it