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[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Source cited by a number of media articles is a substack called Popular Information. They say it can be found via the federal contract procurement system but I wasn't able to find any results for ice that were actually warheads. I didn't search exhaustively but I am not sure exactly what they're referring to since armor is also under the category that includes ordinance. There's a link in the article for searching the database, maybe someone can find it.

https://popular.info/p/ice-boosts-weapons-spending-700

They should probably link to the guided missile contract somewhere directly in the article. Primary sources are key in this shit show.

[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Nvidia has a lot more to lose than $100bil if this all goes tits up

[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This ain't no science meme

[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

This is no shitpost

[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but for what

[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

It's actually pretty funny a lot of times, I didn't realize it's supposed to be part black comedy going into it. Definitely an entertaining movie

[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Interesting, I didn't even know there was a book. The article you linked mentions the film writers said the book was meant to be ambiguous and they wanted that same angle for the movie. I found it hard to not think Bateman was completely detached from reality by the time he gets to the ATM, though I thought it was at least somewhat believable to that point iirc.

The movie (and book I guess) seems to be told from the perspective of Bateman (he narrates and is in almost every scene) so I thought it seemed up in the air if anything was real or just his imagination. I took from it that he himself definitely cannot tell what is fantasy and reality and you were along for the ride with his perception. His murders and their aftermath were pretty outlandish ie dragging the body bag with a huge blood trail past the doorkeeper, the collection of bodies that all mysteriously vanished overnight, the overdramatic helicopter spotlights into his windows during the meltdown phone call, etc. I think the only realistic murder really was the hobo where he could just leave the guy there. And if some were fake idk why any of them would be real.

I have the image of Bateman being just permanently aloof and fitting the 'dweeb' description his lawyer gave while nothing happened but him staring off into the distance daydreaming/hallucinating all of his batshit fantasies or maybe scribbling ferociously into his calendar.

[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 80 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

The wild thing to me about anyone idolizing the character in American Psycho is that it's all but outright stated outright that the guy lives in wonderland and hallucinated all of his wild power fantasies except maybe being rich. He's outright called a dweeb by his lawyer at the end once he has a complete mental breakdown. It's like someone idolizing Nicholas Cage's character in Vampire's Kiss.

[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Why bother submitting vulnerability reports just because some AI claims one with no POC?

[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

About time! Been using an addon for this, I wonder how the features stack up.

Highly recommend using groups for people who open too many tabs, I categorize them and they function well as temp bookmarks. Also recommend using another addon called autotabdiscard so you don't nuke your RAM.

[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow that's pretty great savings, a lot of what I saw basically said to expect to pay over a normal listing. Seems like a pretty good deal considering the amount of customization I assume you get, you just need somewhere to live while it's building.

Do you have any resources for what you used to plan your build? Or did you mostly hire professionals to figure it out?

[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I wonder at what point Powell decides he should raise rates. Trump has already been publicly stating he wants them lowered faster and how he also wants to fire Powell but it's not clear if he will be (legally) able to.

Last I saw there was a court case making it's way up the courts to overturn a legal precedent regarding the executives power to oust members of independent boards so it's technically possible he will be able to legally oust Powell and install a lackey if the supreme court decides to throw out existing precedent. I think you're right and both global markets and the dollar will reel if that happens. The fed is supposed to be independent and that obviously is not the case if Trump can fire anyone who doesn't do whatever he asks.

The supreme court seemed to grow a spine on the Kilmar case so maybe they'll continue to have one when this case makes its way up.

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