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  2. Wait, the group that burns down buildings and kills people over cartoons of Allah is bringing in a bunch of comedians? What could possibly go wrong?
  3. Should be fun. Let's do it.
  4. From The Guadian: Ukraine war briefing: Europe ‘no longer at peace’ with Russia, says German chancellor Summarize Germany ready to defend Baltic region, Berlin says while Hungarian PM claims Ukraine ‘not a sovereign country’. What we know on day 1,315 German chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that Europe “is not at war … but no longer at peace” with Russia. “Let me put it in a sentence that may be a little shocking at first glance … we are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either,” Merz said at a media event in Duesseldorf. Russia’s war is “a war against our democracy and a war against our freedom,” Merz said, adding that Moscow’s intention was to undermine unity in the bloc. He also referred to his recent endorsement of an EU plan to unlock frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine’s war effort, saying the move could provide military support for Ukraine for three to five years. Separately, German defence minister Boris Pistorius said Germany was ready to protect the Baltic region and would respond to Russia’s threats in a united and responsible manner. Pistorius, speaking at the opening of a Permanent Logistics Support Area in Rukla in Lithuania, said Germany was committed to strengthening deterrence, with roughly 2,000 troops to serve in Lithuania by mid-2026. Hungary’s Viktor Orbán said on Monday that Ukraine was not a sovereign country, as he hit back at accusations that Hungarian reconnaissance drones violated its airspace. “Ukraine is not at war with Hungary; it is at war with Russia. It should be concerned with the drones on its eastern border,” the Hungarian prime minister said during an interview on a right-wing podcast popular with his supporters. “I believe my ministers, but let’s say it would have actually flown a few metres there, so what? Ukraine is not an independent country. Ukraine is not a sovereign country, Ukraine is financed by us, the West gives it funds, weapons,” Orban said. On Friday, Zelenskiy said that reconnaissance drones that violated Ukraine’s airspace could have flown from Hungary to check the industrial potential of western border areas. Ukraine has proposed building a joint air defence shield with allies to protect against threats from Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, after a series of airspace incursions that caused alarm on Nato’s eastern flank. “Ukraine proposes to Poland and all our partners to build a joint, fully reliable shield against Russian aerial threats,” he said in an address to the Warsaw Security Forum delivered via video link. “Ukraine can counter all kinds of Russian drones and missiles and if we act together in the region we will have enough weapons and production capacity.” The UK, France, Germany and Sweden said on Monday they would help Denmark increase its anti-drone security during two European summits in Copenhagen this week. Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, said the scale of the recent drone incursions was such that “the entire western, transatlantic community” needed to realise “this is war”. A Russian overnight drone strike killed a family of four in the north-eastern Sumy region on Tuesday, the head of the regional military administration said. Oleg Grygorov said Russian forces had hit a residential building in the village of Chernechchyna, in the Krasnopillia community. “A couple with two young children lived in this house. Unfortunately, no one managed to escape,” Grygorov wrote on the Telegram platform. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russian forces are prevailing in what he said was a “righteous battle” in Ukraine. “Our fighters and commanders go on the attack, and the entire country, all of Russia, is waging this righteous battle and working hard,” Putin said in a video published on the Kremlin’s website. “Together we are defending our love for the motherland and the unity of our historical destiny, we are fighting and we are prevailing.” Separately Putin on Monday called up 135,000 men for routine military service, the country’s biggest autumn conscription drive since 2016. Russia calls up men aged between 18 and 30 for compulsory military service each spring and autumn. Conscripts are expected to serve for a year at a military base inside Russia, not to fight in Ukraine, although there have been reports of conscripted men being sent to the frontline. Russia’s annual conscription campaigns are unrelated to mobilisation, in which Russian men are drafted to fight during wartime. Also on Monday Putin signed a law to pull Russia out of a European anti-torture convention. Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe, an international human-rights monitor, in March 2022, though it had technically remained a party to its European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. The landmark agreement aims to strengthen the rights of persons deprived of their liberty and empowers monitors to visit prisons and detention centres. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has now been without offsite power for six days, the UN atomic watchdog’s chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday. The plant in southeastern Ukraine has been under Russian control since the early weeks of the war, and each side has repeatedly accused the other of shelling it and jeopardising nuclear safety. The IAEA said the external power lines supplying the plant came down last week for the 10th time in the conflict and emergency diesel generators were brought into service. The Council of Europe on Monday awarded its 2025 rights prize to Ukrainian journalist and rights activist Maksym Butkevych, who was released last year after being captured by Russian forces. Butkevych, co-founder of the independent Hromadske radio station and ZMINA human rights centre in Kyiv, joined the Ukrainian army in March 2022, then was detained in June and convicted of war crimes by a court in Luhansk in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine in March 2023. He was sentenced to a 13-year prison term on charges of wounding two civilians while firing an anti-tank grenade launcher in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk, but he was released during an October 2024 prisoner exchange.
  5. I had this exact conversation yesterday. I hold Burr to a higher standard and I like him but you cannot bitch about billionaires running the world and then do this. I’m interested to see if he addresses it in his podcast.
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  7. To be clear, I’m definitely not arguing that the US doesn’t need a major shift in that direction, but coverage for major events in many countries with UHC isn’t as universal as many want to believe. The high cancer rate, and just terrible overall health of US citizens, makes it a particularly daunting task.
  8. Peel back the layers of the onion on some of these healthcare programs and you’ll find they still don’t provide coverage for major, wealth threatening illnesses. “A World Health Organization (WHO) survey found that only 39% of countries included the minimum package for effective cancer management in their public HBPs.” For example, here in Singapore, they have a “wonderful” healthcare coverage for basics needs, but anything beyond that requires supplemental insurance. The lower income people cannot afford it. You know, the ones who truly need it. Yet, most outsiders talk about how great the universal healthcare in SG is. It’s common knowledge here that most of the population is fucked if they get very ill. It wouldn’t surprise me to find many other countries are similar.
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    It was telegraphed that Eryn was the mole for the other side and she was. The show has been pretty straight forward so far but this may be the time they finally throw a twist at us. Her "we have a problem" phone call right after ruffalo left could have as easily been to her contact in the state police about trying to hunt down the mole.
  11. Amanda v. Muchova at 6 am.
  12. Never said anything about the deep south. But yes, NC is obviously a southern state. Anyway, what Cignetti has done at IU is more impressive than anything Kiffin has ever done. He seems like a complete douche, but most good coaches are. Hopefully he stays in the B10.
  13. This is the reason I drive in reverse at all times…
  14. You mentioned Lombok earlier......I spent some time there in 2011. Spent a few weeks laying around the Gili Islands located between Bali and Lombok. Absolutely loved it. The water was so clear, was like swimming in a bathtub. Really enjoyed snorkeling with the super chill turtles. Those things were huge. Lombok was okay but I think Mataram may have been the most boring/depressing dump of a town I've ever seen. Great beaches around the island though. Terrific surfing there if you're into that. The very first night I ever spent in Bali - when I was young and dumb and traveling solo - I downed a little too much of the mushrooms in Kuta. I got lost AT NIGHT and wandered around for 6 hours looking for my hotel. The whole area was a maze. Terrible night. Then when I found the hotel, it was one of those 'Eat, Pray, Love' looking places with gargoyles carved into the walls. I don't recommend doing that at all.
  15. I remember back in the good old backpacking days of the 1990's drinking at Bia Hoi for what seemed like nothing. I swear we had 26 beers one night for around $10. Granted.....it tasted like cardboard but still......
  16. Weirdly enough, that was actually my first thought too. I didn't think "dogs can't read scoreboards, especially dead ones. And even if they could, they wouldn't give a fuck." Instead, it was, "how are the dead dogs supposed to see through the wooden caskets and all that dirt/grass?"
  17. I've been getting into graphic storytelling.
  18. nsiap ... Had to look up Heather McMahan, the stupid MC chick who was on the PA chanting "Fuck You, Rory" & later 'resigned'. Most likely she was told to resign or be fired. She's a has-been/never-was actress/comedian (as in 'former actress and shitty, unlistenable, annoying af comedian). I can't imagine how or why she was ever given that MC job. She says ‘It’s a Little Salem-Witch-Esque’. LOL. [ot]She has a YT channel with like 18K followers. In her latest shitty video, she rips Texans for saying Texas isn't the south. LOL ... tell me you've never lived in Texas without actually saying it. I've lived in Florida, Tennessee twice, Virginia, California, Washington, and Texas. Do parts of Texas share similarities with the south? Sure (mostly in East Texas for obvious reasons). But Texas isn't the south. Why are so many southerners so upset by this concept? Fuck those goobers.[/ot]
  19. Happy Fun Ball, ftw. Remember, do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
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  21. Statistics from different analyses of mass shootings show that the percentage of perpetrators with military backgrounds ranges from 23% to 32% . This is a disproportionately high rate compared to the general population. (AI answer to the question: what percentage of mass shooters are veterans.) Maybe, just maybe, we should throw some money at that problem.
  22. Fairly slept on Em track. 2nd verse is incredible
  23. I walked over his tomb in the 90s. The tour guide did it and guided everyone to walk on top of it. Fuck that puto!
  24. Rich white kid from what, Southlake or whatever and you think he would only better? His best cause scenario is being someone like Rex Kramer.
  25. Nvm Canadians were barred from buying MLB tickets in 2024, too.
  26. Waxahachie Wk 4, 28-27 over Duncanville. Wk 5, 40-17 @ Desoto.
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