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still, considering it was written just a couple months after the first moon landing by a 17 year old. not too shabby.

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Prosecutors also allege that after he asked for the “biggest” gun available, the actor used the prop weapon “as a pointer directing crew members”; fired it after “cut” was called on a scene; placed his finger on the trigger in scenes that required no shooting; rushed the film’s armorer to reload faster; and was “inattentive during the firearms training” and “distracted by texting/face timing family members and making videos for his family’s enjoyment”.

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America’s middle class, traditionally considered the backbone of the nation and its economic engine, has been shrinking for the past 50 years, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.

A study based on government data released by the Washington-based nonpartisan fact tank in late May found that the share of Americans living in middle-class households dropped from 61 percent in 1971 to 51 percent in 2023. During the same time, the share of Americans living in lower income households rose from 27 percent to 30 percent, while that of individuals living in upper income households rose from 11 percent to 19 percent.

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The aliens brought him back to life just to tell us that?

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ikr? And this is what’s going to piss the aliens off, not the tunnel underneath? There’s even a chance of finding their secret base with all the digging (/s)

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naw, y’all see, the bright orange color of the offending pigment applied to the landing site will act as a beacon, guiding the ships to the landing zone. yes, the aliens are coming, aided and abetted by the stop oil protesters. they hope to bring about the introduction of alien technology in order to end fossil fuel dependence and ushering in universal peace.

or not.

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Could the aliens maybe help us out with global warming? Because if it can actually summon them, this seems like a really good way to call for assistance.

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Texas DPS seeks to keep info about Uvalde shooting secret | wfaa.com

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But 26 years after being granted a U.S. patent for his “fire selector system,” U.S. law enforcement officials say his creation is flooding the streets of American cities with these outlawed machine guns and many have fallen into the hands of teenage criminals indiscriminately using them to wreak havoc on communities both large and small.

“After seeing and reading about all those deaths, those unnecessary deaths of youngsters, of police officers, of broken families, I don’t feel nice about that, I don’t feel good,” Leon, now 59, told ABC News. “I regret filing that patent because … my technology, which was very well protected at that time, is free for everybody.”

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Snopes did a piece recently claiming Trump didn’t really mean Nazis, etc. when he said “very fine people on both sides”. Here is Parker Malloy’s response:

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Austin sees mass exodus of ex-Silicon Valley tech companies, here’s why

Is the big tech trend in Austin over?

https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/austin-loses-tech-companies-18541636.php?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2g-9H69iYtCFpJPTP5-rL9Qn_9Nc_8MgPUWeLCHXeF65K_NeXPSdAK_Gw_aem_OUILewwibUCUDzc4Gej1WA

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Nvidia loses a cool $500B as market questions AI boom

Nvidia has rapidly lost about $500 billion off its market capitalization amid concerns that the GPU maker may have become overvalued or that the AI market powered by its chips is a bubble set to burst.

The California-based biz overtook Microsoft last week to become the world’s most valuable company with a market capitalization of $3.335 trillion, shortly after leapfrogging Apple. Now Nvidia is back down in third place again after losing about 15 percent of its peak value in a matter of days.

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