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Blueline Bomber

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In non politics news (or rather, American Election politics):


The three women who took home the medals in Paris failed to appear on the list with no points offered for the world rankings.

Also, the men’s gold medal winner also didn’t appear on the men’s ranking.

I really think that whole thing about her being a saboteur for the World Dance Sport Federation might be true.
 

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Honestly, I think if breakdancing was taken a bit more seriously, it wouldn't be too much different than judging gymnastics or ice-skating. The breakers present a routine and the judges judge how well they execute it.

But then you had RayGun imitate a kangaroo and call it breakdancing and effectively killed off any chance it had.
Honestly, I appreciate the kangaroo thing a lot more than pulling from a set of predefined allowable moves. Something based on street performance that was born to be creative and totally organic should celebrate creativity.

I don't think it's anything that can actually be fairly judged as a sport. It doesn't belong at the Olympics IMO.
 

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Honestly, I appreciate the kangaroo thing a lot more than pulling from a set of predefined allowable moves. Something based on street performance that was born to be creative and totally organic should celebrate creativity.

I don't think it's anything that can actually be fairly judged as a sport. It doesn't belong at the Olympics IMO.
There were controversial judgements with both gymnastics and diving too. Just par for the course with any sport which isn't a race with obvious winners and losers.
 
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And here, we are also here:


In case y'all were wondering what would be the outcome when the EU commissar recently threatened Elmo right before his streamed-on-X chit-chat with Trump and got re: f*** you'ed by Elmo:

apparently the guy resigned today in an open letter to the chairperson of the Commission Ursula van den Leyden, who on her side apparently has been promising in shades a weightier Commissariat for France if France only would rather name any other guy as their candidate for van den Leyden's new Commission to be formed (after the EU Elections of this summer).

The initial reactions seem to be that no one really is going to be missing him.

 
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I mean frankly adding the event was so much of a meme that it becoming a meme was the only justifiable outcome
They should have freestyle rap battles as a sport. Kpop vs Babymetal vs Electric Callboy vs Run the Jewells

I know (not well) the latest would-be Oswald's son, mighta met the old man himself at some point. Wild to think about.
Blackrock employee?
 

Lempo

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I guess an amount of Motorola beepers will be left tomorrow home in a strong trash can in what the term "planned obsolescence" doesn't even begin to describe.
 
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Clearly, those are not average pagers with just batteries in them, they are rigged with some kind of explosives to go off in the right circumstance/signal hits it.

Clearly, some other entity figured out that signal and sent it over the pager network.

It's scary that a lot of people seem to think these pagers weren't rigged beforehand and something could just cause normal batteries to just explode out of nowhere do the damage they did.
 
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Apparently it was a supply chain attack.

They were unknowingly sold pagers rigged with explosives, then scrambled signals sent to them caused to them explode after battery hit certain temp.

Pretty f***in nuts as a neutral observer from the outside that such a thing could even be possible to do.
 
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P. Diddler arrested by FBI
From an article:

“Law enforcement seized guns, ammo, drugs and a huge collection of baby oil and lubricant during searches of Combs’ homes in Miami and Los Angeles in March, according to the indictment.

Law enforcement seized “various Freak Off supplies,” including drugs and more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant, at his homes, according to the indictment.

Edit: As I read more about what he's being charged with and some of the details, it's utterly disgusting.
 
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Apparently it was a supply chain attack.

They were unknowingly sold pagers rigged with explosives, then scrambled signals sent to them caused to them explode after battery hit certain temp.

Pretty f***in nuts as a neutral observer from the outside that such a thing could even be possible to do.
yep, the second I heard about it I knew that Mossad had to have something supplier side with that. My suspicion was that they had a code that they could input into a phone that would set off all the devices rather than a battery temp issue.
 

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yep, the second I heard about it I knew that Mossad had to have something supplier side with that. My suspicion was that they had a code that they could input into a phone that would set off all the devices rather than a battery temp issue.
Sounds like they were in on the build for sure. It will be a good movie if we get through the aftermath.
 
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