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But Seriously...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Juice, Jun 19, 2015.

  1. GTE

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    Heard some chatter about both trucks being electric is supposed to mean something. Not sure if the F150 Lightning means anything but the fact that the other guy rented a Cybertruck and drove it to a Trump hotel is interesting.
     
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    Sure made for the best pic ushering in 2025 I think. No AI required.
     
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    In case you haven’t seen the news, my conclusions were correct . Gee, that was hard to figure out.
     
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    Pfffttt..Trump's obviously covering up an alien invasion.

    Speaking of alien conspiracy theories, where's Juice?
     
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    Dayum... bit of a crash in DC.

    https://x.com/aletweetsnews/status/1884789306645983319

    Army helicopter seems to have hit a passenger aircraft. Both aircraft in the Potomac river.

    Reports are that boats are coming in overloaded with bodies. Only 4 reported survivors so far.
     
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    emergency responders: "where can we drop off the bodies?"
    firehouse: "we'll ensure the big fridge is turned on"

    Apparently the boats are coming in overloaded with bodies. The passenger jet, even though it is being reported as being "small" by CNN and the like, has just under 80 passenger capacity.

    Army helo sounds like it had VIPs on board.

    The video is crazy.
     
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    A collision between a military helicopter and a civilian airplane. Don't worry, we've got ::checks recent confirmations for Secretaries of Defense and Transportation:: a drunk rapist and a guy from MTV's Road Rules on the case.
     
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    CNN said no VIPs, 3 crew members, at least that’s what I heard.

    jet had 60 passengers, 4 crew.
     
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    After reading five minutes worth of social media posts on the plane/helicopter crash, it seems pretty clear that I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

    Either everything is now parody, or society really is that stupid.
     
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    When nothing is the truth, anything can happen!
     
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    In fairness it was Road Rules: All Stars. And as Secretary of Transportation I need him to have that experience. If he had just been on The Real World he just wouldn't have the chops to do the job.
     
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    The first post was “I’ve heard unconfirmed reports that JD Vance was on the helicopter”. The very next post was “I guess we know who the pilot of the plane voted for.”

    …..ten billion likes.
     
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    Rather solid overview of the DeepSeek stuff:

     
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    This being out of my usual field, I got the gist that somebody in China ran a one-minute mile with AI tech and just fucked over a whole bunch of rich assholes who planned on fucking over the west by proving their huge price tag was horseshit.

    My question is this— WHO are the rich assholes that are currently not liking this situation the most?
     
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    The owner of OpenAI who is trying to convince the world they need $500b in hardware.

    The manufacturer of said hardware, NVidia.

    The hosting service of said hardware, Azure, AWS, GCP.
     
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    From my (albeit, very rudimentary) understanding, it's basically summed up as this:
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    And despite what everyone wants to think, none of it has anything to do with Trump.

    I'd love to believe that, but nah, the helo pilot seems to be at fault in the first one, and this latest one is just mechanical failure that resulted in 1.1k feet/s elevation change... aka "major fucking nose dive".

    Super sad and shitty, but so many people are trying to use it to fit their political agendas and narratives.