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Hellworld.


Spain's first astronaut!


I usually mentally poop on anything written by Michael Weiss's media operation (theins.press is a Michael Weiss joint) but "placing Novichok in Alexai Navaly's underwear" is how Navaly was originally poisoned.


There are plenty of Marines who will tell you that they signed up for service after watching Full Metal Jacket.


reading further, I think you were referring to Paths Of Glory. sorry.


Whoever wrote the screenplay or script for the movie definitely read the book.

Several Starship Troopers movie scenes are lifted directly from the book, almost word for word.


The scriptwriter did. I think the director had him write chapter outlines of it.


The movie is a commentary on the seductiveness of Fascism.

Verhoeven is something of an expert on this, since he grew up in The Hague during Nazi occupation.

There's an interview out there where he says when he making the film he was wondering if his movie was in-your-face enough about Nazis, to really make sure his movie wasn't too subtle or that people would miss the point he had the former Doogie Howser actor wear a SS officer's trenchcoat.


If only he had embedded a short parody of Triumph of the Will, a decidedly seductive film IMO (YMMV).


I selfhost tailscale with headscale, I used a helm chart in a k8s cluster, works great.

I ran into a corporate network recently that blocked the Tailscale DERP servers.


https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-du...

tl;dr: http://www.jacurutu.com/viewtopic.php?t=4054


You think the relentless replacement of UK services by unhinged sovereign wealth funds is caused by 'uncontrolled immigration'? I'll have to study this more.


It produces about 900 million in interest to run Cornell.


apparently that only accounts for less than 20% of the operating budget:

https://dbp.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FY25-Oper...


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