No worries. Yeah the article is great. They did go to some lengths to try to get to the bottom of it in fairness. Those BBC Verify articles are always absolutely spot on.
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That all started from one news outlet that quickly shut it down but the far right ran with it like a baton at the Olympics.
BBC did a great BBC verify article on it.
I remember when that video came out and I was truly impressed at watching good regulations in action.
Luv me some EU I does. 🇪🇺
It’s not just former POTUS though, it’s presidential candidate also. It honestly looks like a gargantuan fuck up.
Brace yourself…450 feet, not yards. It’s a reasonable distance for anyone with a good rifle, scope and experience.
Apparently the shooter was rejected from his school rifle club and asked not to come back.
The segfault at the end was perfection.
6·6 months agoOh it’s on my to-do list. I’m just an ocean away. Closest I’ve gotten so far is Southern California but I’ll make it!
My wife and I currently have two plans for when we retire:
- Tour the US by road with a focus on national parks
- Take a year to tour Italy, find our spot and settle there. Olive tree essential. The kids and grandkids can come visit. We’ve been telling all the kids about this forever so they don’t get upset when it happens.
Texas with fireworks and alcohol definitely part of #1.
Happy independence day!
You make me want to visit Texas. They should sign you up for the tourist board.
the bad eye could see clear underwater he’d say.
Well that’s fuckin’ fascinating! I want an amphibious uncle.
Magnificent machine. I loved mine so much for so many years.
Or when your mobile phone was about to ring.
Oh wow. I totally forgot about those.
That’s correct. Jesus they were awful yokes but they were really mostly intended for letting you know that your hardware was bollixed at boot time.
PC’s had mostly been business machines really until the 90s if my memory is correct.
If you wanted gaming you got a more gaming focused machine like an Amiga or console.
Pechanga Arena was just “The Sports Arena”
That’s what I thought! But it just seemed like my memory playing tricks on me for a place to be called “The Sports Arena”. LOL.
Random other info about that place, they shot a scene from Almost Famous at one of the freight entrances there.
WHAAAT!?!?! Love that movie and I only rewatched it there a few months ago not knowing that. That’s a cool little nugget. Thanks!
Not there but (and I had to google maps this) it was at a place that I think is called “Pechanga Arena” now on the aptly named “Sports Arena Blvd” but I think the arena was called something else back then. About 2 miles from Ocean / Mission beaches and close to my apartment at the time.
You did well with your purchases!
Flippin’ LOVE San Diego.
Got a second hand ISA interface SoundBlaster 64 at a computer fair in San Diego when I was visiting there for the best summer of my life in 1998. If I remember correctly it was $4.
Money well spent.
THAT is the kind of positivity I need in my life.
I prefer Ravenous Ravenous Rhinos myself
You can make nearly all images small enough to upload and still look good without dropping colour depth. There are 3 ways to achieve it basically:
The resizing is usually enough.
The quality reduction is something that google pagespeed focuses on too. For most apps that means choosing a lower “quality” when converting to jpg or saving as a new jpg. 85% of original is good.
If you happen to have imagemagick installed, I have a little script that I use called “resize_to_pagespeed.sh”. The jist of it is this:
I just ran this on a 2.4MB photo (below) and it came out at 186KB. That’s a 13x reduction. Right click -> open in new tab to see it full size.
If the image isn’t square, imagemagick is smart enough to figure out correct dimensions.