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Just for marrying a white woman and that alone? Wow!
No one, because they cut costs to avoid it.
I was more of a MCOSOFT ΓΛAX guy myself. Never could quite wrap my head around MARL.
I'm at the point now where if there's an AI slop image at the top, I'll just hit the back button.
> Then when the ticket winners were selected, he filtered by zip code so he had an almost entirely white audience

How did that work in the 80s? Did he spend days and weeks poring through (paper) census data and correlating it with ZIP codes? Did he use VisiCalc on an Apple ][ or Lotus 1-2-3 on an IBM PC?

Whatever his other misdeeds, I never got a racist vibe off MJ.

Is it just me or did the US get into a lot more foreign conflicts after they swapped "War" for "Defense" in the name?
Re:American cover-up of Japanese war crimes on Saturday March 21, 2026 @02:49PM (#47470012)
I do wonder why the occupation authorities did the exact opposite for Germany, emphasizing war crimes, collective guilt, etc, since (West) Germany was also a bulwark against the Soviet bloc?
Re:Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:41PM (#47432785)
They can restart them and/or build new ones. Fission isn't some lost technology like Greek fire or Damascus steel.
> I really can’t think of any. Is even Iraq considered a success?

It was for Netanyahu, and that's the important thing here.

It's because we do these things not for American interests, but for the interests of a small country that has captured our political establishment through campaign finance and blackmail.
Re:I'm in Tehran, what do you think will be happen? on Saturday February 28, 2026 @09:34PM (#47203025)
Did OP get killed by Israel yet?
It's always funny to me how every few years some Republican representative/senator gets the bright idea of running on "cutting foreign aid", then someone quietly points out most foreign aid goes to either Israel or Israel's neighbors so they play nice with Israel. Then the proposal is quietly dropped.
I have heard of RT lying but I have never actually seen examples of specific lies. Is there any list out there where they list any specific ones? If they do it a lot, it should be quite easy, no?
Re:Days numbered for 'risky' lithium-ion batteries on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:41PM (#46820583)
> harvesting the waste sodium for batteries

But what would you do with all the waste chlorine?

I'd gladly pay the 78 cents for a stamp if it meant my application was opened and read by an actual human.
Re:Tesla is committing automotive suicide on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:02PM (#46818773)
> they had a lot more trouble than competitors in coming up with new models.

I'd read somewhere that it was mainly because Henry Ford was dogmatic that the Model T was perfect, all the car anyone would ever need forever.

It's a private company they don't have to platform your speech!
Are they, like, wrong though??
Re:The Walls Are Closing in on Tesla on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:49PM (#46674195)
They could have easily avoided the accident if they ponied up for FSD?
Re:Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:21PM (#46648997)
It will stand. Walz, Frey, & Co. have zero intention of protecting their citizens from ICE predation. The local police sit on their hands.

But I'm sure this strongly worded editorial will get Trump to reconsider.

Re:Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @05:46PM (#46258969)
They're certainly not backwards about coming forward with their tummy bananas...
Re:Ireland's Inability to Defend Itself on Saturday December 06, 2025 @05:44PM (#46177268)
What, again??
Re:We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains on Saturday December 06, 2025 @02:58PM (#46176149)
Paywalled.
Re:China's BEV Trucks and the End of Diesel's Dominance on Friday November 28, 2025 @05:01PM (#46083170)
I personally stop reading and close the tab at the first sign of ChatGPT so I certainly dudn't get very far into this one!
Re:A Boy Genius Who Killed 14M Poor People on Friday August 01, 2025 @06:54PM (#44763334)
Who's "We"? I don't recall seeing this on a ballot ever.
Re:A Boy Genius Who Killed 14M Poor People on Thursday July 31, 2025 @07:55PM (#44751563)
Why are Americans required to feed millions of people in other countries???
Re:The U.S. Is Switching Sides on Saturday July 05, 2025 @07:26PM (#44476372)
I have never sworn to defend any other country. Where does one take this oath???
Re:America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life on Saturday July 05, 2025 @03:42PM (#44475012)
I'm alright with this.
But that's talking about light, not bleach? What does "bringing light into the body" have to do with "injecting bleach"?
But we do eugenics all the time with non-human animals and plants. We just call it "plant breeding" or "selective breeding". It has massively improved yields and desirable characteristics in animals and plants.

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