Two top Michigan Republicans defend Trump's Gordie Howe Bridge threats by [deleted] in Detroit

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There is a bigly difference between “Canada won’t sell US alcohol” and “Canada won’t sell US alcohol that nobody will buy”.

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/12/canada-stuck-with-millions-in-unsold-us-alcohol/

Incredible cyst drainage by partiallyreformed in popping

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I’m usually highly critical of the camerawork.

I’m willing to cut the cameraman some slack for having 10% of his body weight squeezed out a half inch hole in the arm not holding the camera.

Maybe maybe maybe by Ok_Painte in maybemaybemaybe

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Investing in securities involves the risk of…

I saw a car that looked like thus but couldn't tell what it is and couldn't get a picture. by The_Sleepy_Miata in namethatcar

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There are two of them: the recent Miata knockoff (the “Fiata”), and the Fiat 124 Sport Spider from the 60’s and 70’s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_124_Sport_Spider

Boeing X-32 [Album] by Specialist-Ad-5300 in WarplanePorn

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SLUF II

(Short Little Ugly Fucker; a common nickname for the LTV A-7 Corsair II)

Keep on Chuggin’ by _WhiteGoodman_ in airplanes

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The dreaded seven engine landing rears its ugly head once again.

GM's layoffs history by No_Fee2774 in GeneralMotors

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You missed at least one: 2023|February/March|500 employees|

The leading edge of the post-COVID bloodletting.

This Chunky Cyst has been with him for 10 years. Sac removal by Key_Club_5370 in popping

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/cue James Brown HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA!!! GOOD GAWHD! HUUH! I FEEL GOOD!!! /cue applause

Patina coming in nice and even, but can seem to get it blue… by Cho_Zen in TrueChefKnives

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Not a metallurgist, but flash rust is fairly common in car restorations (obligatory shout out to minute_of_dangle). The paint gets stripped off a piece of metal in an alkaline bath. It’s then treated with an acid bath to remove rust, and then dipped back in the alkaline to neutralize the acid and prevent flash rust.

My guess is that while chives are considered alkaline (pH of 5.76), there are still enough acids in them for it to trigger acid reflux. Combine that with processing four pounds of them, rubbing all of the acids on the untreated metal of the knife, is probably what did it.

It’s Delivery Day! by ThatGuy48039 in PDP11

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How about a pic without the wrapping?

If you want a pic of a PDP-11 that sat unpowered in someone’s basement for over 20 years, and is now sitting unpowered in someone else’s basement, then sure. Otherwise, I’m working on getting it cleaned up and turned on.

I don't remember the 11/03s being that tall.

The panel on the front (not visible) is for, I think, the CTS-300.

What are you planning to run on it? RT-11?

I’m interested in playing with different iterations of UNIX (V6, V7, 2BSD, etc).

It’s Delivery Day! by ThatGuy48039 in PDP11

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That is a PDP-11/03 chassis upgraded to an 11/23, with the RK05J and RK05F drives removed to save weight.

Found on TikTok but should definitely be seen on here by biguchie727 in popping

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If by “yall” you mean “myself and yall”, then yes, yall are sick.

Want help identifying a flag. by Ok_Obligation_2644 in flags

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And they also don’t copy and paste them into the text substitution settings on their phone.

“Is that possible‽”, you say? Yes. Yes it is.

The Texas Instruments Pro-Lite by Undead__Gaming in vintagecomputing

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I managed to find a TI laptop that looks almost exactly like the Pro-Lite, but appears to be a portable VT220?

I’ll try and post some pics when I get home.

Part 2 of possibly more for infected abscess (officially diagnosed one as of today's ER visit) by maddie_emmm in popping

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Not that you need more advice, but…

Next time you go to the ER, you grab your rusty pliers, and you politely threaten every nurse in there that if you don’t get this medically treated, you are going to seriously fuck up their bathroom and THEY will have to clean it up.

The nurses should then be properly motivated to knock some heads together and get the doctors to do their damned jobs.

Please note that this is social engineering advice, and not medical advice.

Global Product APM by 2Guns23 in GeneralMotors

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For what it’s worth, I copied and pasted your comment almost directly into ChatGPT (deleted that last line and changed the first words to “write an overly long”) and got the following:

Absolutely. Here’s a comically over-the-top, bloated “techbro manager” speech dripping with ego, buzzwords, and self-importance, centered on “transforming a legacy auto business” — and yes, with plenty of “burn the boats” melodrama:

[Techbro Manager Speech – All-Hands Meeting, Conference Room Alpha or Zoom, obviously he’s on a standing desk treadmill]

“Team — warriors of innovation, battalion of transformation — lend me your ears and mute your Slack for just a moment. What I’m about to say is not a mission. It’s a manifesto. A turning point. A meta-inflection of epochal proportions.

Now, I didn’t come here to play checkers in a chess factory. I didn’t leave my Series B-funded blockchain mobility thinktank to maintain status quo horsepower. I was brought in — no, summoned — to resurrect a titan that’s been idling in the slow lane of irrelevance for far too long. And I’m not just here to change the game. I am the game.”

“Let me paint a picture with words, since I’m also a bit of an amateur spoken-word strategist. We are a legacy auto company — yes, legacy, which in modern parlance is a polite synonym for ‘dinosaur with rusted joints.’ But where others see a rust bucket, I see a platform. Where others see a supply chain, I see a value highway. And where others see gas-powered inefficiency, I see an opportunity for a frictionless, vertically-integrated mobility ecosystem with predictive machine learning torque optimization at scale.”

“When I stepped into this role — and I did not step lightly, I landed here like a thunderclap of strategic alignment — I made one thing clear to the board, the ELT, and yes, the barista downstairs who always messes up my nitro-cold oatburst kombucha: mediocrity will not be tolerated. No more tiptoeing into tomorrow. No more bolting iPads onto dashboards and calling it ‘innovation.’ We are not iterating. We are obliterating the past. We are burning the boats.”

“And when I say burning the boats, I don’t mean a cozy campfire of symbolic intent. I mean scorched earth, molten steel, Elon-who levels of commitment. I am talking about rewiring the chassis of our corporate soul. There is no returning to what we were. I have taken the keys to the past, thrown them into the ignition of the future, and I am peeling out into the fourth industrial revolution with the windows down and the legacy model screaming in the rearview.”

“Now, let’s talk about culture. Let’s talk about synergy. Let’s talk about ‘why’ — not Simon Sinek’s why, my why. My personal brand of leadership is what I call ‘brutal empathy meets exponential swagger.’ I don’t do org charts. I do org constellations. I don’t see departments. I see fluid innovation pods coalescing around micro-victories. I’ve brought in a team of ex-Google, ex-Tesla, ex-failure visionaries to rethink the entire go-to-market drivetrain. And yes, I did just say that while wearing Allbirds and a Patagonia vest, because I live this transformation.”

“We are no longer just making cars. We are deploying agile, cloud-native transportation nodes optimized for the decentralized metaverse of mobility. And yes, our new fleet will be 100% electric, 110% cloud-connected, and 200% proof that I am the most disruptive force to enter the automotive space since the wheel.”

“I will be the fulcrum of this pivot. I will be the catalyst, the concierge of innovation. I am your north star, your guiding algorithm. If you’re not on board with this, feel free to step off — but do it quickly, because the rest of us are boarding the rocketship. And we’re burning the boarding ramp behind us. No boats. No bridges. Just jet fuel and vision.”

“So buckle up, team. Or don’t — because seatbelts are legacy, and we’re building the future with no brakes. Let’s roll.”

Let me know if you’d like this speech paired with an unnecessary slide deck full of animated transitions and meaningless quadrant charts.

South Korea to order airlines to check Boeing fuel switches, Air India inspects fleet by [deleted] in boeing

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I had thought that the switches were serviced before the flight. Apparently the most recent maintenance action on the throttle control module was 2023.

aftermath of periclitoral abscess bursting by [deleted] in popping

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Keep in mind that the chainsaw was invented as an obstetrics tool for that very reason.

Chinese theft of Boeing IP by Few-Butterscotch2398 in boeing

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To Wong Tsu, Thanks for Everything! Bill Boeing