Bard

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Did you really just edit a video and post a smaller video and reverse it on your Twitter account?

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No, he posted the actual video moving forward in time. If you look closely on both videos, you can tell the direction they are going by the tails. Tails follow, they don't lead so the video where they are going towards the ground ahead of the light from propulsion is the reversed one. NC posted the one where they follow the missiles upwards to intercept Iran's pixie sticks, you stupid fricking hack.

I would say this is basic physics, but it's something most kids learn in elementary school when they are enamored with rockets for all of five minutes.

Let the downvotes from you and your alter(s) rain down... like rockets... with tails following them.

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Iran was just provoked

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Iran was responded to. Did you really think Israel was going to just let the missile attack from Iran back in October go?

Iran has stated numerous times they want to wipe Israel off the map, and at the same time has continued to pursue the development of nuclear weapons. Were they just supposed to let them get nukes and hope the whole "push you into the sea" rhetoric was bluffing?

Iran found out.

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Felicia, a single mother of four, said she has relied on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) since her oldest child was born

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“When I had my oldest daughter 21 years ago, I was working three jobs,” she tearfully told lawmakers. “One job alone I had to pay childcare, another one to pay food, which wasn’t enough. And one to pay the bills, and I still struggled alive.”

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So she had three other kids while knowing she already wasn't making enough to afford the first one and somehow it's the responsibility of taxpayers to feed them?

Talk about a bad spokesperson. She's morbidly obese yet complaining about not getting enough to eat and she's been on social programs, which are touted as being "a hand-up, not a hand-out" for over two decades (ie: lives off of them instead of using them to get back on her feet)... you just can't make this shite up.

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Is this genre completely dead?

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Nah, it just comes and goes in waves. There will be a dead period where no memorable ones are made, then someone will make one and it will be a big hit which spawns others for a few years until they are just phoning the scripts in, then the genre goes back to sleep for a few years until the whole cycle starts over.

The cirrrrrrrcle of liiiiiiife...



oops! :lol:

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free busing, and even free childcare

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There's no such thing as a "free" service, someone else is paying.

Let me help you out a bit. :cheers:

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Man who pledged loyalty to ISIS plotted attack on college football stadium, court records say

An Oklahoma man who pledged his loyalty to the Islamic State wanted to carry out a terrorist attack on the Oklahoma Sooners' football stadium in 2023, court records show.

Landon Kyle Swinford said he and a source who turned out to be an undercover officer noticed flaws in the stadium's security situation and began scouting out the venue, according to the documents.

Swinford "had looked at barricades and security and thought the stadium could be a potential target for an attack," the records say.

Swinford and the undercover officer were in communication from May 2023 until that October, and Swinford told the undercover officer he intended to travel to Tunisia to fight for the Islamic State.

Swinford said he "sadly" would have carried out the attack had he been able to afford it.

Swinford also had an interest in attacking New Orleans, which was the site of a terror attack on New Year's Day. Swinford allegedly wanted to carry out an attack during Mardi Gras at the voodoo temple.

Swinford pleaded guilty to charges of child pornography possession and transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. He's awaiting sentencing for those charges.

The latest documents tying Swinford to ISIS communication were released Monday. Court records say Swinford told FBI officials he posted to influence others to bomb local synagogues and inspire others on behalf of ISIS.

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Let's be real, if this escalates further we will be dragged into it

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We can be dragged into it only if we allow ourselves to be. Iran isn't in any sort of position to Pearl Harbor us (ie: a sudden attack so large it outrages enough of the population to rally to war), but if they did it would go about the same as Iraq did (but I would much rather it be like Libya under Reagan).

Ohhh, you gotta be quicker than that!

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Not so sure that was THE attack

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We'll see. My point in that is for all the time, money, effort and rhetoric Iran put forth leading up to their largely failed attempts to hit Israel, their decision to stand down right after was noticeably, diametrically opposed to everything they expended in the build-up.

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Bad day today. Buckle up. This could be finally "The Big One" in the Middle East. We'll see what Iran's response will be and what Israel does next.

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We'll see. I've wondered since the last dust-up if Iran's attacks on the Iron Dome wasn't just a test but the firing off of too much of their stockpile, then when their attack largely failed they bluffed as if it had just been the flick of a finger rather than a round-house. It would explain why they were quick to de-escalate after having spent so much time, energy, money and rhetoric in building up a frenzy for war.