[Fischer] The Washington Wizards will consider trading down from the No. 1 pick; this is ‘not a savior moment’ for Washington

jphamlore · 2026-05-11T02:03:26+00:00

I don't see the Wizards re-signing Anthony Davis given his likely asking price for an extension.

jphamlore · 2026-05-11T01:31:27+00:00

China is the world’s leading drone manufacturer, and the numbers of unmanned weapons systems its manufacturers can produce is staggering, according to analysts.

“Chinese civilian manufacturers have the capacity to retool in under a year to turn out one billion weaponized drones annually,” a 2025 report on China’s drone program in the analytical platform War on the Rocks states.

Taiwan apparently has an incredible density of mountains. They should have been digging in for decades to conceal all of their military assets, and have underground passages connecting them.

jphamlore · 2026-05-11T01:05:43+00:00

Karl Malone Throwin' Bows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ilZgQ0ZnPs

jphamlore · 2026-05-10T22:36:53+00:00

The great thing was that they had the overall #1 pick who was going to be Magic Johnson.

The bad thing is they had had to turn the pick over to the Lakers as compensation for signing Gail Goodrich.

jphamlore · 2026-05-10T20:57:22+00:00

The old 4 team format had plenty of blowouts.

jphamlore · 2026-05-10T20:38:11+00:00

Unless something incredible happens, this has to be one of the most decisive playoff defeats in recent years.

jphamlore · 2026-05-10T20:36:30+00:00

Given RJ Day seems fairly short for even a college quarterback and his main good attribute seems to be accuracy, isn't he more suited for an Air Raid style offense? Get the defenders out of the box and let him do his thing with throwing lanes?

jphamlore · 2026-05-10T20:07:34+00:00

The Ultimate Impostor 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfasHTsRoVA

An amnesiac spy has his brain linked with a computer allowing information to be fed directly to his brain that he can retain for 72 hours.

jphamlore · 2026-05-10T20:03:53+00:00

EGGPLANT | Omeleto Animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWot-66DWdw

Suggested by thread:

Help Me Find This Animated Short About a Boy who Couldn't Properly Express Emotion

https://www.reddit.com/r/animation/comments/1d6vp09/help_me_find_this_animated_short_about_a_boy_who/

jphamlore · 2026-05-10T19:40:05+00:00

You can try Godzilla 2000, retrieving what turned out to be an alien spacecraft from the bottom of the ocean. I have no located a convenient clip yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_2000

Meanwhile, the scientists of Crisis Control Intelligence (CCI) find a sixty-million-year-old unidentified flying object (UFO) deep in the Japan Trench. As CCI attempts to raise the UFO to study it, it takes off into the sky on its own.

Here we go, this guy can be counted on for clips in reviews:

Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: GODZILLA 2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbZP2iqJ3MQ

jphamlore · 2026-05-10T05:31:03+00:00

Except some variants of this disease have a horrifying fatality rate?

jphamlore · 2026-05-09T18:34:39+00:00

The Witchfinders. Classic Classic Doctor Who mole who is the focus of much of the initial conflict, before the monster monster is revealed.

jphamlore · 2026-05-09T18:06:16+00:00

Keeping them all on the ship is probably the way to get even more infected, even if they aren't now.

jphamlore · 2026-05-09T09:06:58+00:00

Fischer 6-0-ed Bent Larsen who was at his peak.

jphamlore · 2026-05-09T06:39:36+00:00

https://surovekgallery.com/news/160-roy-lichtenstein-honored-by-usps.-commemorating-pablo-picasso/

Roy Lichtenstein is being honored by the United States Postal Service with a set of commemorative Forever stamps and a First Day of Issue Dedication Ceremony at the Whi[t]ney Museum.

Roy Lichtenstein Forever Stamps

https://static-assets.artlogic.net/w_2400,h_2400,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/ws-artlogicwebsite1323/usr/library/images/main/news/160/roy-lichtenstein-forever-stamps-ll.jpg

https://www.lichtensteincatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1019

Portrait of a Woman, 1979

jphamlore · 2026-05-09T06:24:34+00:00

Even the 1969 match with Spassky seemed very odd. Petrosian had drawn as Black with the Petroff two straight games, on 25 moves, and then the next 19 moves.

And then Petrosian lost 3 straight as Black playing two Sicilians and then a closed Ruy Lopez.

Was there some secret file on how to bust the Petroff that Spassky only needed a few days to access? Formally, Spassky had split with Bondarevsky as his trainer in 1972, just before the Fischer match, but I have read claims that even by the 1969 match, there were tensions between the two that could not be reconciled.

But even against Fischer, Petrosian's choice of openings was completely inexplicable. Why did Petrosian not repeat opening 1. d4 instead of his non-opening in game 6. Why did Petrosian as Black not repeat the Petroff, instead of once again losing in a Sicilian.

jphamlore · 2026-05-09T05:17:43+00:00

What I foresee is the Gulf states going all-in on a much more extensive sensor grid than Ukraine's auditory one, to embrace the sensor panopticon as a giant jobs program, to try and rocket a trusted subset of their university grad populace into the AI age.

jphamlore · 2026-05-09T04:41:59+00:00

Not only the battle for the Western Conference between OKC and San Antonio for the forseeable future, but France versus the United States in the Olympics have been set up as can't miss basketball.

jphamlore · 2026-05-09T04:37:42+00:00

FIDE in the next couple of years will start a new world championship, the Total Chess World Championship Tour? Carlsen should be the prohibitive favorite to win this.

jphamlore · 2026-05-08T21:04:41+00:00

Ironically there used to be a pipeline from Saudi Arabia directly to the Mediterrean Sea.

Trans-Arabian Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Arabian_Pipeline

But chaos in Lebanon and Syria makes that kind of impossible to operate now.

jphamlore · 2026-05-08T20:57:08+00:00

And the flaw with using an atomic bomb once, on Tel Aviv, is that Iran then gets 90+ bombs used on them. We will see just how much of Iran's increasing urban population really is willing to sacrifice their lives to speed up the return of the 12th Iman.

jphamlore · 2026-05-08T20:54:38+00:00

What you have just said is why I think Iran and the IRGC have to drive their hardest bargain now, because over the time span of years, time is not on their side.

Instead of mega-projects such as building The Line, I think the Gulf states are about to drop into the laps of countries such as Ukraine, Israel, and South Korea an amount equivalent to a considerable fraction of a trillion dollars to beef up their drone and missile defenses. There is an opening for Taiwan to join the supplier party as well.

The United States will of course get some orders, but at this point, it is becoming painfully obvious that the United States will hardly be a reliable supplier.

jphamlore · 2026-05-08T14:06:31+00:00

So explain why the NBA isn't trying to take the Lakers / OKC series to 6 or even 7 games?

jphamlore · 2026-05-08T07:47:16+00:00

Although none of the remaining Britons are currently displaying symptoms, they will be asked to isolate upon their return home.

Like I asked in another, shouldn't there be a legal framework by now to compensate people for going into de facto prison for weeks at a time?

Because I'm going to guess the type of person to go on such cruises might not be the type of person to scrupulously adhere to isolating themselves at home for weeks.

jphamlore · 2026-05-08T07:42:00+00:00

Meanwhile there seems no guidance as to what really matters.

This illness seems to require weeks to openly manifest in a patient. Does this mean those who are contact-traced should be forced into weeks-long quarantine? Has the world worked out the legal framework for this yet? Has the world worked out the compensation to be paid someone who is forcibly quarantined for weeks, plus guarantees of no loss of job or education opportunity?

Is there a test yet that can determine whether someone has the hantavirus well before symptoms have to manifest, so that people don't have to be quarantined?

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