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251113 PLAVE OT5 Live Stream [ENG Sub Cut] 🎮🏗️Claw Crane Machine Game Mini Compilation 🥹 They all are having fun 🫶🏻 Cutie pies trying to grab their sanrio collab plushie in an arcade way 😂

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Jaynit

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Wonderful and very friendly atmosphere at Selhurst Park Crystal Palace F.C. yesterday for the final game of the season. Wonderful to see Ebere back at the ground where he got a wonderful reception. Congratulations to Arsenal on lifting the trophy for the first time in 22 years. However, I do have an idea for the Premier League …. As Palace season ticket holders we were told under no circumstances were we to swap our tickets and let Arsenal fans have them. Indeed, if we were found to have done that we would be denied season tickets for next year. Completely understandable as I’m sure there were safety concerns. Not surprising though that we were actually surrounded by Arsenal fans pretending to be Palace fans by either wearing Palace shirts or plain white tops for the match only to take them off and replace them with Arsenal shirts they had in their pockets at the end of the game! Now I’m not complaining about what the fans did at all. They were wonderful, friendly and even joined in on “Glad All Over” and applauded the Palace team, players and Oliver Glasner at the end of the game. We got lots of “Good luck in Leipzig” wishes from them too. It was a really friendly atmosphere. But I completely understand their frustration at how hard it was to get tickets for many who were lifelong Arsenal supporters. Chatting with them they said that 2400 seats available for sale. 1200 kept by Arsenal for themselves so only 1200 seats available for the match where they were going to be presented with the trophy. No wonder lots of fans did all they could to get tickets any way possible. So here is a suggestion for the Premier League for next season when working out the fixtures….. Realistically there are probably only 4 or 5 teams who will possibly win the league next year. So why not make sure all those teams have a home game as their final game of the season? In that way the tens of thousands of supporters who go to every home game will have the opportunity to see their team lift the trophy and actually be there rather than having to watch it later on TV? Surely that can’t be too difficult to arrange and if all the potential winners have a home game as their final match there is no unfair advantage towards any of those sides? What do you think? BBC 5 Live Sport Match of the Day talkSPORT

Captain Dave

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The Dark Layers of EPSTEIN and CHILD TRAFFICKING. This is the big secret. This is what they do not want you to know and why CHILDREN are involved and so important to this Satanic globalist cabal. The entire child trafficking epidemic has always been a problem, it's just that now, it's at the surface level and they are sexualizing children and attempting to slowly legalize pedophil*a, right in front of you, hiding it through inclusion and behind certain ideologies. The whole Epstein and connection to intelligence agencies and other elite goes far past the pleasure aspect and the blackmailing of world leaders and the for-profit side of child trafficking, although both are very alive and active. This is the other side of why they traffick children that people are having a hard time, accepting and grasping on to the actual reality of what is really going on behind closed doors, and more importantly, WHY? Imagine if you had more money than you knew what to do with. You could afford anything you want. You could go, have, or do literally anything you want 100 times over. But, what's the ONE thing you can not buy that everyone wishes that they had more of? TIME. Time is the one thing you can not buy and these people, these globalist elite want to have more of it. They want to stay young and live forever. This is where you start getting into what these BILLIONAIRES are researching and funding. Not only are many having daily blood transfusions from young people, they are trying to develop the perfect person. This way they will have organs and whatever else is necessary or needed to live longer. They also are on record buying women's eggs for genetic purposes. A lot of this research also goes into transhumanism which is a very big topic with the globalist elite. Finally, you come to the ritualistic practices that go back centuries that include occult Satanic Black Magick, Sex Magick, and Blood Magick, including child sacrifice, and they all involve children and their innocence. This has been going on for decades behind the scenes with our own three letter agencies in our own government whose members were open Satanist in our own government who were also pedophil*s. It doesn't matter what you think or believe. What matters is that they believe it. You have to understand that this is all connected and why they are so obsessed with the sexual abuse of children. They practice these occult ritualistic ceremonies which include and require young, pure children to perform these occult Sex, Blood, and sacrificial ritualic ceremonies. They want to live forever and this is how they are trying to do it. They're controlling world leaders through blackmail with the children, feeding their sick pleasures through abuse, and making money through the trafficking of children, while also trying to buy time and live as long as possible through scientific, inhumane ways and through occult ritualistic Magick. This is the BIG SECRET. This is what they don't want you to know, and they must be stopped at all cost. Child trafficking and abuse must come to an end so we can move forward. Nothing will change until these people are stopped and held accountable. Period.
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The Dark Layers of EPSTEIN and CHILD TRAFFICKING. This is the big secret. This is what they do not want you to know and why CHILDREN are involved and so important to this Satanic globalist cabal. The entire child trafficking epidemic has always been a problem, it's just that now, it's at the surface level and they are sexualizing children and attempting to slowly legalize pedophil*a, right in front of you, hiding it through inclusion and behind certain ideologies. The whole Epstein and connection to intelligence agencies and other elite goes far past the pleasure aspect and the blackmailing of world leaders and the for-profit side of child trafficking, although both are very alive and active. This is the other side of why they traffick children that people are having a hard time, accepting and grasping on to the actual reality of what is really going on behind closed doors, and more importantly, WHY? Imagine if you had more money than you knew what to do with. You could afford anything you want. You could go, have, or do literally anything you want 100 times over. But, what's the ONE thing you can not buy that everyone wishes that they had more of? TIME. Time is the one thing you can not buy and these people, these globalist elite want to have more of it. They want to stay young and live forever. This is where you start getting into what these BILLIONAIRES are researching and funding. Not only are many having daily blood transfusions from young people, they are trying to develop the perfect person. This way they will have organs and whatever else is necessary or needed to live longer. They also are on record buying women's eggs for genetic purposes. A lot of this research also goes into transhumanism which is a very big topic with the globalist elite. Finally, you come to the ritualistic practices that go back centuries that include occult Satanic Black Magick, Sex Magick, and Blood Magick, including child sacrifice, and they all involve children and their innocence. This has been going on for decades behind the scenes with our own three letter agencies in our own government whose members were open Satanist in our own government who were also pedophil*s. It doesn't matter what you think or believe. What matters is that they believe it. You have to understand that this is all connected and why they are so obsessed with the sexual abuse of children. They practice these occult ritualistic ceremonies which include and require young, pure children to perform these occult Sex, Blood, and sacrificial ritualic ceremonies. They want to live forever and this is how they are trying to do it. They're controlling world leaders through blackmail with the children, feeding their sick pleasures through abuse, and making money through the trafficking of children, while also trying to buy time and live as long as possible through scientific, inhumane ways and through occult ritualistic Magick. This is the BIG SECRET. This is what they don't want you to know, and they must be stopped at all cost. Child trafficking and abuse must come to an end so we can move forward. Nothing will change until these people are stopped and held accountable. Period.

The SCIF

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Friends Last night, another Danish airport was forced to close due to sighting of another flock of "mysterious drones"! (Many were sighted, hovering and flying over for many hours - but you can see just one of them in the video below). This time, all flights from Aalborg airport - which also serves as a military base - had to be halted. As I told you just the other day - these "mysterious drones" are going to keep appearing over airports, military bases and populated areas over the next few months. And it won't just be happening in Denmark. It could happen anywhere! Last year it started with military bases and airports in the UK, then it happened in military bases in Germany, and finally it moved to the US and the city sightings in New Jersey. And I predict there will be a similar pattern this year.... the sightings will spread to other countries, and they will eventually become most active over a large, populated area. This time it could all culminate with sightings over London, or Berlin, or Barcelona - or maybe even New York City! WHY? Because they WANT to be seen! These are NOT spy drones from Russia, or amateur drones being piloted by some kind of anarchist group! These are UAPs/UFOs that are intentionally trying to gain our attention. I repeat: They WANT to be seen! These aren't clandestine military devices.... So, PLEASE don't believe anyone who claims as much. Just use your common sense: Spy drones don't emit bright flashing lights and hover for long periods so that anyone can see them! And if those basic facts don't convince you, then ask yourself this question: if these "mysterious drones" are enemy spy drones then why has no country ever shot them down? I'll tell you why: Because they can't! These craft are technologically superior to us! Not only are these UAP/UFOs able to come and go as they wish, without us being able to "jam" their flights or intercept them in any way - but I believe they can also "shape shift" and mimic our own technology. And if they were in any way hostile - trust me we would know about it by now! I have no doubt that these UAP/UFOs have a PEACEFUL intent...but it is clear that they DO want to be seen, and they DO want to grab our attention. I believe that right now, they are deliberately orchestrating what we might call a "Peaceful Protest"...they are trying to make us aware that we are not alone, and that we are NOT the most powerful "players" on this planet...they are trying to raise our awareness and consciousness, while also displaying a soft show of power to encourage, nudge and softly steer us in a better direction. So DON’T let anyone use these sightings as an excuse to start or escalate any current human hostilities! Friends - Wherever you live, look up and stay alert. WATCH the skies, but DON'T believe the lies!

Uri Geller

121,293 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten

Yesterday, iVisionSR and BennoJr attempted to rob $1,262 from our tournament prizepool solely relying on the fact that no one else in the tournament spoke Dutch. Here's the breakdown of the leaderboard that we THOUGHT happened based on scores submitted 1. BennoJr, iVisionSR, (3rd not named) - 177.6 2. Bread, Lulla, Skullface - 176.15 That was until 3 separate viewers came forward with translations from Vision & Benno's stream (since been unpublished, however I have the clips), indicating they had purposefully miscalculated their score in order to beat us by a little over a point. Here's how the leaderboard looks without their false reporting 1. Bread, Lulla, Skullface - 176.15 2. BennoJr, iVisionSR, (3rd not named) - 175.4 Translated from their Vod (clip below) iVision: "Um Benno, You have to add an extra point to our score yes?" Benno: "Yes that's ok." iVision: "or just add 10 or something" Benno: "Yes I will" iVision: "Then you can say, the 0 was added by accident" Benno: "Or we should add a placement, I'm going to add extra placement" On top of purposefully reporting their scores incorrectly to take 1st over 2nd, they also attempted to have points taken away from us for an infraction that occurred in the first game (accidental portable Radar throw from Lulla). The Admin reviewed and decided that unless there was any kills or info taken from this, it was an accident and shouldn't be punished as all three of us died right after. I have absolutely no gripe with people trying to debate rules and the integrity of the tournament, that's completely fine. The Admin will always determine the outcome of those scenarios, that's what they exist for. What I have an issue with, and can't comprehend myself, is that not only would they attempt to take points away from us for an infraction that changed nothing (petty is what I would call it at the bare minimum) but go out of their way to lie about their scores in such a blatant way, thinking no one would fact check them when $2,000 is on the line. The balls it takes to be lying while attempting to "bring justice" is insane. Their incorrect score reports are shown here Game 2: Kills (11) Placement (7th - 1.3x) Actual Game 2: Kills (11) Placement (5th - 1.5x) Game 4: Kills (4) Placement (28th - 1.1x) Actual Game 4: Kills (4) Placement (25th - 1.2x) Game 6: Kills (12) Placement (15th - 1.2x) Actual Game 6: Kills (12) Placement (13th - 1.2x) Netting them an extra 2.2 points (just enough to beat us) These score miscalculations would regularly seem like such a minor difference, but when the leaderboard is so close like it was yesterday, it is clear they were trying to beat the system. People break rules in tournaments all the time, knowingly or unknowingly. I died to a Katt AMR yesterday when they were banned, die to portable radars all of the time while they're banned, and still do not lie about my scores with money involved. I look at this situation similar to cheating. Vision and Benno purposefully attempted to take 1st while rightfully in 2nd place, the difference of $1,262 for their team or $148.50. None of this ever would've been found if not for a couple different viewers taking the time to translate their conversations. Thank you Flexxal, Parteroni, SuperJoe, Johan, and Lulla for taking the time to go through their scores. Second clip translation Vision: "Benno, you can't deal with numbers. Actually, you shouldn't do those scores at all things are going completely wrong changing and stuff. If they ask why did you do it, just say I'm bad with numbers." Benno: "Yes, I have discalculate. That's when you see a 1 instead of a 4, I'm just going to say that my parents taught me to round up haha." I can't describe how unhappy this whole situation makes me. If they're willing to ruin the integrity of a Twitter tournament, imagine what lengths they'd go to when real money is involved. All other proof will be linked below if you're interested in viewing it, I cannot believe how grimy people can be over money. Lastly, they will clearly never be invited to another one of our tournaments again, and hopefully others catch on. This type of behavior cannot be ramified short-term, it is stealing.

bread

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Sindhuja, a 25-year-old woman is dead in Mannachanallur, all because she questioned why she wasn't given the famed 8000 coupon. According to news reports, DMK campaign workers abused and assaulted her leading up to a situation where she eventually took her own l!fe. Of course, if we talk about all this -- the immediate response is to shut down the conversation by saying people are doing this in order to control the narrative. As if women feeling safe, women having the right to not be abused/ assaulted, women having the right to live is something that has to be controlled/ coordinated/ temperature-adjusted to ensure that it does not upset the electoral aspirations of a wildly unpopular incumbent regime For years, women writers and social media users have been crying hoarse about DMK's abuse machine online that launches coordinated attacks on any woman who dares to even entertain the possibility of questioning them. Those trying to placate us would say these are frustrated people who have nothing to do with the party machinery when in fact it is the same bunch of thugs giving orders who have made any of this hate possible in the first place. Today, we are seeing it on the streets (the same entitlement, violence, impunity and as always, desperate consequences for the women concerned). Online, their caste arrogance is so deep that it makes all their social justice masks auto-shred in broad daylight. I do not have to cite individual references to show how caste-contempt is so reflexive for these guys that not even their alliance partners have been spared. They can pretend it does not exist to save face but the delegitimisation and casual humiliation cannot be erased from the memory of anyone who is chronically online and has watched all of this unfold. If this is how they treat their own political family, imagine how they see ordinary voters -- or a girl like Sindhuja who asked for a coupon. Someone must remind these power-drunk people that distributing taxpayer money is not charity or some act of generosity. For five years, welfare schemes have been tacitly deployed as weapons of control, and as if that is not enough, they expect voters to become subjects who must respond in one way only, by grovelling in gratitude. I hope in the next week people remember this arrogance and this lawlessness...
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Sindhuja, a 25-year-old woman is dead in Mannachanallur, all because she questioned why she wasn't given the famed 8000 coupon. According to news reports, DMK campaign workers abused and assaulted her leading up to a situation where she eventually took her own l!fe. Of course, if we talk about all this -- the immediate response is to shut down the conversation by saying people are doing this in order to control the narrative. As if women feeling safe, women having the right to not be abused/ assaulted, women having the right to live is something that has to be controlled/ coordinated/ temperature-adjusted to ensure that it does not upset the electoral aspirations of a wildly unpopular incumbent regime For years, women writers and social media users have been crying hoarse about DMK's abuse machine online that launches coordinated attacks on any woman who dares to even entertain the possibility of questioning them. Those trying to placate us would say these are frustrated people who have nothing to do with the party machinery when in fact it is the same bunch of thugs giving orders who have made any of this hate possible in the first place. Today, we are seeing it on the streets (the same entitlement, violence, impunity and as always, desperate consequences for the women concerned). Online, their caste arrogance is so deep that it makes all their social justice masks auto-shred in broad daylight. I do not have to cite individual references to show how caste-contempt is so reflexive for these guys that not even their alliance partners have been spared. They can pretend it does not exist to save face but the delegitimisation and casual humiliation cannot be erased from the memory of anyone who is chronically online and has watched all of this unfold. If this is how they treat their own political family, imagine how they see ordinary voters -- or a girl like Sindhuja who asked for a coupon. Someone must remind these power-drunk people that distributing taxpayer money is not charity or some act of generosity. For five years, welfare schemes have been tacitly deployed as weapons of control, and as if that is not enough, they expect voters to become subjects who must respond in one way only, by grovelling in gratitude. I hope in the next week people remember this arrogance and this lawlessness...

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On this day, 52 years ago, John Cassavetes' "The Ki!!ing of a Chinese Bookie" (1974) was released in the USA. John Cassavetes explaining why he made the movie: "'A Woman Under the Influence' (1974) was the first picture I’ve had anything to do with that wasn’t made out of plain, simple feeling, but rather out of a real desire to do something in my profession. It was extremely frightening for me not to come to work out of enthusiasm and instead put myself up as something of a craftsman. Earlier films such as 'Shadows' (1958) and 'Husbands' (1970) grew out of personal experiences reaching all the way back to my childhood days. They were expressions of my innermost feelings, and now that I’ve dealt with all that, I feel obligated to view life in other terms. I want to explore other areas of human and artistic experience. I made 'The Ki!!ing of a Chinese Bookie' (1976) as an intellectual experiment– not because I am in love with it. I enjoy a more intellectual and less emotionally demanding view than in my previous work. If I can make, out of certain intellectual ideas, films that are complex in their nature, then I’m entering into new ground. And that is certainly something I look forward to. It is a film that has little to do with me and with how I feel about life. It’s interesting to me to see how other people live in our society, to look at them and ask myself, ‘Why do they do it? And how do they do it?’ Without trying to explain. The fun and challenge of the film was to imagine a self-contained world different from the one I live in: to move into it and live in it." ("Cassavetes on Cassavetes", edited by Ray Carney, 2001)

DepressedBergman

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These two could easily milk their situation if they wanted to. Most loveteams would. They could feed the hype, keep people talking, and chase every bit of clout...especially since they're together most of the time anyway. But they don't. Dustin and Bianca don't seem interested in playing that game... To me, it feels like they genuinely want to have a normal relationship when the cameras are off. They know when it's work. They know when it's fan service. And they know when it's simply THEIR LIFE... I actually admire that. Sometimes I even feel like we're unintentionally asking too much from them. We want updates. We want photos. We want videos. We want crumbs everyday. But maybe... that's exactly what they're trying to avoid... PRESSURE... And honestly, it makes sense. Both of them have worked alongside or been around some of the biggest loveteams of this generation...KathNiel, JoshLia, and BarDa. They've probably seen both the beautiful side of it and the messy side that comes with living your relationship in public. It's funny how these former loveteams now end up choosing to keep their private lives low-key after learning those lessons the hard way. 😂 Maybe Dustin and Bianca looked at all that and thought.. They should never get to that point... I respect that.. That said... Lovebirds, since we're all working hard for the FanCon, here's our one tiny request. 🥹 We know this isn't naturally your style.. But if you could give us just a little bit more presence until the FanCon... a few posts, a few stories, a little more visibility... it would really help everyone who's been working tirelessly behind the scenes. After that? Go back to your little bubble. We'll happily let you go incognito... until work calls again. 💛 Dustin Yu Bianca De Vera #DUSTBIA #DUSTINYU #BIANCADEVERA

little old me

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Dear Lexxie (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)... (May I call you Lexxie? You can call me Dev. ) We probably wouldn't get along very well. I'm a throw-the-communists-out-of-helicopters anarchocapitalist, and that's probably too big a political gap to bridge with a few interpersonal gestures. However, like each other or not, I'm going to assume you are asking in good faith, and I'm going to answer you. I'm not going to answer your exact question, though. It's the wrong question. An answer wouldn't get you the information I think you are actually looking for. It looks like you're assuming that the neo-republican "MAGA" movement works like a traditional campaign. You develop a message about how your platform will be good for people, and your opponent's platform will be bad for them, then you get that message out on various channels, and it persuades some people to vote for you. That's definitely how democrats work. You are the party of television. And it's how old, pre-2015 republicans worked, too. You know, all those guys like Romney, who have been exiled to the wilderness, or, in the case of Cheney, have joined the democrats. MAGA doesn't work like that. We didn't vote for Trump because he persuaded us by getting XYZ message out on the UVW channel. We voted for Trump because we were waiting for someone like Trump to come along, so we could vote for him. That's why Trump didn't really have to do much of anything to beat you. He just had to position himself as the anti-establishment candidate, then get out of the way and let things happen, without making any major mistakes. The field was primed for him before he ever announced that he would run. Why? Because of one key insight that I don't think democrats have ever had. Elections are not about policy. They are not about personality. They are not about experience. They are not about charisma. Elections are about trust. Trump was elected in a landslide in 2016, 2024, and probably 2020 as well if you discard all the fake ballots, because more people trusted him, and less people trusted Clinton, Biden, or Harris. If you think about it, it's really pretty obvious that trust is the only issue that matters. Here's an example. Democrats campaigned against Trump by pounding on the abortion issue and cosplaying as fictional sex slaves from a kink novel for lonely cat ladies. And it worked with your base. Despite the fact that Trump had released a public statement that he would veto any national level restrictions on abortion, and that it was the Supreme Court, not he, who had overturned Roe-Wade in the first place, not even on ideological grounds, but because it was bad lawyering. Why did it work? Because those people didn't trust Trump. So anything he said about his intentions on the abortion issue was meaningless to them. It's all about trust. So why did more people trust Trump? And why do I say they were waiting to vote for him before he even came along? Because trust in Trump is rooted in distrust of the Machine. The Machine is the system of informal, unacknowledged relationships between people who have clout in the federal government and use it to benefit themselves, to benefit each other, and to protect their power base from outsiders. In other words, the federal government is corrupt, and the majority of Americans know it. Resist the temptation to argue with me here, even inside your own head. We are talking about why people voted for Trump. It's important what they believe, not whether you agree with them. Now, I could go on all day with examples of the Machine, and its fairly obvious abuse of power and funds. I could talk about fake vaccines that turned out to be neither safe nor effective, which made a lot of money for people who are vaccinated against any liability by your own organization... Congress. But that would sidetrack us, because you'd succumb to the temptation to argue about each one, and it's not important whether you agree. What's important, once again, is what the majority of Americans agree on. They agree on the existence of a Machine. They agree that the Machine has political influence which does not come from the "just consent of the governed". They agree that the Machine is materially harming them by enacting policies which hurt them. They agree that the Machine is materially harming them by spending their money on things that are not in their interest. They agree that the Machine is materially harming them by failing to faithfully carry out the actual duties of the federal government. They hate and distrust the Machine. All of this has nothing to with Trump, because all of this became true before Trump announced he was running. As I said, people were waiting for a Trump they could vote for. This is why. But how did distrust in the Machine translate into trust in Trump? Simple. Because Trump is the enemy of the Machine. How do we know that? Simple. It's not just because Trump told us so. If it were merely Trump telling us so, he could have been lying. We know Trump is the enemy of the Machine, because the Machine told us so. We saw how desperate the Machine was to convince us that Trump was an icky superplusungood double-Nazi, when his actual platform was just straight-up 1960s democrat, John Kennedy style. We saw them hurling accusation after accusation, as if they were throwing pasta at the wall, seeing what would stick. We saw the press elements of the Machine continuing to hold to those accusations, long after they had been proven to not just be false, but to be deliberate lies. Every time the Machine told us that Trump was horrible, all it did was confirm what Trump was telling us... that he intended to fight the Machine. In 2016, that was enough to get him elected. Check the video below. Michael Moore was the only person who understood this in 2016. Thing is he understood Trump voters, but not Trump. He thought a Trump presidency would be disastrous. Turned that nothing much happened at all. The Machine fought him more or less to a standstill, and the only major way he moved the needle was in putting three constitutionalists on the Supreme Court. Now, that's no small feat. Helped us a lot, and will for years to come. But the border security system didn't get finished, Mexico didn't pay for it, etc. Thing is, that's not important. What's important is why. We saw the fight between Trump and the Machine. It wasn't about whether he could beat the Machine or not. It was the fact that he willing to fight it, and the fact that we could see the fight. And that proved that his intentions were at least partially what he said they were. In 2024, he looks a lot more prepared, and has a team of heavy hitters backing him But there's one more set of questions to ask, here. Why did Trump run as a republican? Why is it Democrats, in particular, who are identified with the Machine? Well, the easy answer is that you keep running Machine candidates. Obama looked like an outsider, but he integrated into the Machine with great enthusiasm the microsecond he took office. Clinton and Biden were personifications of the Machine. Harris was the same, only dumber. But the deeper answer is that democrats have been in power for 12 of the past 16 years. And what y'all chose to do with that time was expand the Machine and integrate yourselves with it for ego-gratification and profit. Again, resist the impulse to argue. We may be at a disadvantage against you because we don't sign the paychecks of a legion of armed thugs, but that doesn't make us somehow dumber than you, or oblivious to what's going on. We know what "Ten percent for the big guy" means. And we don't stop knowing it when Comrade Squealer gets on MSNBC and launches some convoluted deflection filled with mental gymnastics we aren't morally flexible enough to replicate. Now, you, Lexxie, can argue that you're not a part of that. Maybe it would even be true. Or partially true. Maybe, through the awesome power of wishful thinking and historical ignorance, you actually are a sincere socialist, who thinks that statist, collectivist policies will actually benefit people, rather than just provide politicians with opportunities to steal and ruin people's live with a stroke of the pen out of sheer sadism. But you're not asking why you lost. You didn't lose. Harris lost. You're asking why Harris lost. Harris lost because we are aware of the Machine, and we don't like it. Trump is just our plan A to dismantle it. Let's all just hope we don't have to go to plan B. Plan B wouldn't be fun for anybody.

Devon Eriksen

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I love the Arcade1Up Official cabinets that Trista has given me the last couple years. Yes, you can run free emulators on almost any device, but having the games running in a cabinet with arcade controls is a much better experience, even though it is just a packaged emulator. I was pretty decent back in the day, but after playing these for a while, I got farther than young-John ever did. Recently I played an original Joust machine at Cidercade and on my second game, I blew away my previous best score at home — 158k! The subtle control latency of the emulated experience versus the real thing matters! I measured the press-to-flap latency at home, and it looks like about 80ms. It isn’t blatantly obvious, but it shows up in the game feel and control error rate. I know there is a hard core community around emulator optimization, and with high refresh rate monitors it is possible to get objectively lower latency than the original CRT based hardware, but there is no reason the popular consumer versions can’t get most of the way there. This is probably just a matter of backing up a triple buffered swap chain or extra layers of image scaling / UI compositor getting in the way. Phase sync to the last quarter or so of the video interval and swap to the actual display should cut that latency in half. Doing the bit plane graphics and scaling directly to /dev/fb0 with software would be a guaranteed low latency path if you can get vsync timing. Trivia: The real Joust, and all the classic Williams games, didn’t even page flip, they just drew straight to the frame buffer, paying attention to the scan time.

John Carmack

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🚨Relief effort update - yes it is a long post, but please read. I want to start off by explaining how strong the Appalachia people are, because the scale of devastation is truly bizarre. We have had team members on the ground reach some of the most rural places that havent seen a single "agency" since this has all happened. Our crews have reached people whose homes no longer exist, who have lost loved ones and who have nothing but the clothes on their backs, people completely cut off from the outside world. That being said, the common theme through every one of these interactions, is that the citizens who live in these communities still have their heads held high and have rolled up their sleeves and begun the process of trying to clean the FEET thick layer of mud covering everything to see what is even left to salvage. These people are "mountain tough" and their resolve is unbreakable, but they need our help, AS A COUNTRY. One of our forward crew member on the ground, providing updates on road conditions into towns that are cut off and need help, has hiked into several places that have been neglected. The pictures i include in this post are of the area in and surrounding the Green Mountain area. The level of destruction depicted in the photos and videos do not do the scope of the damage justice, but you can tell from the imagery, that this situation is not only challenging, but dire. Critical infrastructure is completely decimated in most of these places and will take months if not longer to repair or rebuild. We have coordinated a group of Doctors that will be bringing life saving medical supplies, well above and beyond basic first aid needs. They will be traveling by helicopter to areas that are inaccessible by vehicle to give that life saving aid. We have been able to get supplies into the remote town of Marshall, where their homes have been either damaged by the flood waters to the point of being unlivable or just completely deleted from the earth. Talking with these people, they have concerns for the future, and not just the coming days or weeks, but in the near future as winter creeps into the area. As that happens, the challenges they are presented with become exponentially more difficult and so much more dire. From the difficulty of building temporary housing to the logistics and availability of supplies to rebuild, the geographical location of this devastation is creating more problems to overcome than what most would associate with "hurricane damage". As the country descends on Asheville, supplies and help has become bountiful there and our operations will begin to shift further into the mountains to help those that have not had help. Supply needs are changing rapidly, and as they do we are having to pivot on what we are procuring to bring into the affected areas. I call on the people of this country to help us help these people. They have been largely neglected and are deserving of our compassion and help in any way that we can deliver it. I can't speak for the government and what they are or aren't doing, but i can speak for our efforts. We are just everyday citizens, husbands, wives, sons and daughters, standing together to help those in need. We will not stop, until our mission is complete.

Ryan Tyre 🇺🇸

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