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In 9 months I'd not be surprised if @elonmusk announces a big transition from the current FSD beta.
My car just drove me home from church 20 miles away with zero disengagement! It wasn’t a perfect drive as it still had little kinks here and there, but it was so good I was clapping and hollering in my car! #FSDBeta
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In July 2008, Batman lost control right on the film set. The same month The Dark Knight was breaking every box office record on the planet, Christian Bale interrupted the filming of a scene for Terminator Salvation, called his cameraman a “prick,” and threatened to “kick his f**king ass” in front of the entire crew. He had no idea someone was filming it.
The man on the receiving end was Shane Hurlbut, the film’s director of photography. His crime? He walked behind the actors to fix a light in the middle of a take. That was all it took.
In the video below, Bale goes off like a man possessed.
“I want you off the f**king set, you prick!”
Hurlbut apologizes, and it only makes Bale angrier. “Don’t just be sorry! Think for one fking second! Are you professional or not?” Hurlbut tries to explain he was checking the light. “Oh, good for you. And how was it? I hope it was fking good, because it’s useless now!” Then Bale turns on the director, McG, who’s standing right there and saying nothing: “Have you got something to say to this prick?”
For four minutes nobody dares to stop him. Then comes the line that made headlines in every country on earth:
“I’m going to f**king kick your f**king ass!”
He ends it with an ultimatum: either Hurlbut goes, or Batman walks. “You and me, we’re f**king done professionally.”
Seven months later the tape leaked, and within a week the internet had turned it into a dance remix with millions of plays. Bale had to go on the radio and apologize publicly, and you can hear the apology in the clip below: “I acted like a punk.” Hurlbut kept his job. The movie flopped, and the trilogy it was supposed to launch was cancelled.
So was this a genius protecting his art, or the biggest star in Hollywood showing everyone who he really is when he thinks the cameras are off?
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This video has gone viral on Arabic social media that I monitor...
A Saudi Arabian man whose brother was murdered stands in front of a delegation of tribal elders who came to ask him to pardon the killer. His answer:
“As for my brother, you are turned away on it, by God’s command and God’s law… Either hospitality, the door opens and you come in, welcome on my head and my brothers’ heads. Or, men, my brother’s case is not open for any talk.”
He refused the pardon and still offered them his door, because in that culture a guest is honoured even when his request is rejected.
I have seen this tradition and law being exercised in person in Saudi Arabia and they are powerful moments in the culture and context of the Middle East.
How the law works. In Saudi Arabia "intentional murder" carries qisas ( or retribution), and the right to it belongs to the victim’s heirs.
The family has 3 options:
1. demand execution of the killer or wrong-doer.
2. pardon for free, or
3. pardon in exchange for diya (or blood money).
The killer’s tribe sends its MOST highly respected men to ask, and the WHOLE tribe often pays. Even after a pardon, the state can still jail the killer on its "public" right or if it deems it in the interest of public good.
I have seen this up close in real life across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Iraq calls it fasl, and Pakistan wrote qisas and diyat into its penal code.
Whether it comes through custom, religion or tribal tradition, the goal is the same: pay for one death so the families do not trade 10 more as they may be tempted to seek revenge...
Why does it work? Because it reprices murder.
The tribe pays, so the tribe polices its own. Every family has a cash reason to restrain its hotheads BEFORE anyone pulls a trigger.
It breaks the revenge cycle. Without a settlement, "side A" retaliates, "side B" retaliates back, and 1 death becomes a feud that runs for a generation. A paid pardon ends it at ONE murder.
The victim’s family gets something. A prison sentence gives them NOTHING, the taxpayer funds 25+ years of a cell, and the killer walks out owing nothing to the family he broke and the children of the victim won't get anything in the West.
The killer’s side has to come to the victim’s door and ask, in front of everyone. In an "honour economy" that costs more than time served.
Is it perfect? No. Rich families can buy their way out, sums of tens of millions of riyals have been reported, and this video shows the pressure that falls on a grieving family. Which is why the right to refuse has to stay real, and this man just used it...
The West handed all of this to the State and the Prison system, and mostly forgot how to make an offender face the family he wronged and pay them.
If it were your brother, would you take the diya or demand the qisas?
Signal, not noise!
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A black woman was surrounded by a pack of Arab Muslim men in Detroit, Michigan, and almost got lynched.
At some point, black people will realize that these people are not on their side.
There’s a reason why slavery is still happening in the Muslim world.
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One of the best opening sequences to a Spy movie. The camera work was absolutely phenomenal 🔥
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Jay Leno just tried @Tesla's FSD (Supervised) for the first time. The Model Y L pulled over by itself when an ambulance with its sirens on drove by.
"We got it on self-driving mode! I'm not touching anything."
Jay finally tried FSD! haha
(via new episode of Jay Leno's Garage)
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South Africans Cooking Nigerians
It’s true 👇🏾
youtu.be/2XNatLu5avI?is=GvXj…
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✊🏽‼️Thank you check point for Exposing them.
We are in deep Shit as a country 🤞🏽😏.
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It is alleged that the man in question slept with another man's wife, as a consequence the couple got stuck together while on the act.
The scientific term for this phenomenon is said to be a penis captivus, @grok what really causes this
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Cops found this mom tanning by a pool in Hawaii and handed her a court order: bring your kids back in 5 days. Her 7-year-old son hadn’t been seen in four months. Neither had her 16-year-old daughter. She read it in her bikini, glanced up at the cop and never brought them back:
She knew exactly where they were. That June police dug up her new husband’s backyard. Her son was by the pond, wrapped in plastic. Her daughter was in the family’s “pet cemetery.” The first time police asked about the boy, she said he was at the movies watching Frozen 2:
That was November 2019 in Rexburg, Idaho. JJ, who had autism, hadn’t been seen for two months. Lori Vallow told the officers he was with a friend in Arizona, and that her daughter Tylee was studying at BYU-Idaho. The school had never heard of Tylee. As soon as the police left, Lori called the friend and asked her to send a random photo of some kids. The next day her apartment was empty.
By then three people around her were already dead or nearly so. In July her husband Charles was shot dead by her brother, who said it was self-defense. In October someone fired at the ex-husband of her niece. That same month Tammy Daybell, wife of doomsday author Chad Daybell, was found dead. It was ruled natural, until an exhumation showed she had been asphyxiated. Two weeks after Tammy died, Lori married Chad in Hawaii.
They believed dark spirits could take over a person and turn them into a “zombie,” and that killing that person was the only way out. Lori believed she was a goddess chosen to lead the survivors of the apocalypse. Prosecutors said the money mattered too: life insurance and her kids’ Social Security benefits.
JJ had been killed with a plastic bag and duct tape. Tylee’s remains were so damaged that her cause of death couldn’t even be determined.
In 2023 a jury convicted Lori of murdering both of her children and conspiring to kill Tammy. She got life without parole. Before the judge read the sentence, she stood up and said: “Jesus Christ knows that no one was murdered in this case.” Chad was sentenced to death.
In the video below is the police bodycam from January 2020. Lori and Chad are sitting by the pool in Kauai in their swimsuits, reading the order to bring her kids back. Both children had already been dead for about four months.
Her husband, her two kids and her new husband’s wife, all dead within a year. Who should have stopped her first?