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  1. I volunteered today. Log/Admin role to replace people for 30-60 days. The operation is in the west, or should the Orcs win will be pulled back behind the NATO wall. Either way the humanitarian effort will be tremendous and if peace hits tomorrow that is when it truly begins. It is with the same group I do overwatch for so I know the ops team pretty well. Worked with them in East Africa and Afghanistan. Fucking pros. All of them. Not sure if I am in, but why the fuck not. My kids are grown up, I can afford it. Like I said earlier. People on the ground are going to be beat to shit in a few months and we need to be ready to go in and alleviate that strain. I hope I get called. Deployment would be 90 days from now. Already polished my boots.
    63 points
  2. If China helps Russia, consider the entire country a lost cause, and begin immediately plotting with the western Allies to slowly shift manufacturing to 20 other countries around the world over the next twenty years. Do it quietly, slowly, methodically and dramatically reduce our reliance on them. We can teach many other low cost countries to manufacture goods for us. In fact we should be doing this anyway.
    19 points
  3. I design humanitarian and reconstruction support programs. I have done a lot in security assistance and reform. My experience is Bosnia, Afghanistan, East Africa and Latin America. I consult and tell companies how not to fuck up and how to design real solutions. I know supply chains and how to modify operational plans as needed. Gotta be flexible. But most important I know that working in these places suck and you have to be able to laugh and lead. Have not been operational for about 7 years (single dad shit) so the time is right. And except for being Navy ROTC at UT, I have always been a civilian.
    16 points
  4. Re the poles’ kindness: my wife has some international contacts for business reasons, and also has met a Ukrainian mom at the tennis lessons my kids go to. That woman has friends or family stuck in Odessa. Wife apparently knows someone somewhere in Poland. The polish person told her to pass on the message that if the Ukrainians can get out of Odessa and find their way to Poland, to contact them and they will find a place for them to live, and that they’ve been doing so already with others.
    14 points
  5. I don’t understand why Russian trolls waste their time on educated forums. They get called out and ostracized immediately, and their propaganda tends to crystalize opposition. It’s self-defeating. It’s like some low-level bureaucrat in Moscow stumbled on TexAgs or Tiger Droppings and assumed that all American college sports forums are dominated by credulous morons.
    13 points
  6. Maybe Poland deserves the cover of Time. What they are doing is amazing. And I would love to see us fly out Ukranians on our returning C 17's. We are all fighting this dick fuck and Poland needs to know that we are there to help with more than supplying equipment. Have said this before. I am not Surly 1%, but I have half a house that is empty and would be happy to let a family live there. And before someone jumps on me about "what about a Venezuelan family", yep, them too. Home of the Free baby. We are the Beacon on the Hill.
    13 points
  7. Yes. I've thought a lot about it, practically every day since this kicked off. I've been dreaming of being over there a lot recently. I still have to support Mo, so if my job would still pay me and if my job would be there still if I got back, I would've left already. I think the draw is that this is a just war. I have the ability and training to help, and it honestly tears at me that I can't/I'm not. I feel lesser.
    12 points
  8. This period where Donkey pretends to be an open-minded pragmatist just looking for a discussion--before he inevitably goes off the deep end one evening and nukes another user name--is so fucking boring.
    11 points
  9. Make Central America the manufacturing hub. Good supply lines north and south. Sure, Maersk will be pissed, but.... Mexico provides the energy, improve lives in Central America and we get the goods we want.
    11 points
  10. Don't. Find a way to help. Shit, I went through my gear yesterday and realized I have more back up crap than the average UA troop. Another set of boots on the ground and another mouth to feed won't help right now. Good resupply and logistics will. Got friends in country so I back them up with overwatch on the OSINT channels. Lets them sleep and stay mission focused. Get ready for the rebuild. That is where they will need some help. One thing to keep in mind is they are going to be tired when this is over, so that is when us old farts can step in with experience and compassion. But yeah, the dreams are there. Shall we form a Longhorn BN?
    11 points
  11. Zalensky is a fucking stud. He may not have been when he was elected.But talk about rising to the moment. The dude is historic.
    11 points
  12. 10 points
  13. 10 miles from Poland. Putin is getting close to Grittyska, an ancient city whose name's meaning is thought to translate as "Fucketh Around and Findeth Out"
    10 points
  14. If you told me 5 months ago that I’d give a shit about today, I’d have laughed in your face. Now we got a draw against a team without a coach, 6 hours from our campus.
    9 points
  15. So the base Russia hit in Western Ukraine is about ten miles from where I grabbed this photo. Guards say they heard it and it shook the ground, they opened the gates and basically rushed a column of people across. The base in Javoriv is where NATO/Ukraine did lots of joint training. Still no news if any foreigners died or were injured. Likely a message- Russians don’t want more arms coming in. Its amazing how organized and efficient the Poles are and how kind they are to the folks arriving. How long can it hold up? Absolute feeling of surreality and exhaustion.
    9 points
  16. fucking lulz. pooooooor aggy.
    8 points
  17. Yep, it is usually overlooked. We love to show off big projects, etc. But how do you let the human rebuild? clean the streets and let them get on with it. Humans move forward unless the ghosts follow them. G
    8 points
  18. beard inherited a team that would have finished dead last in the conference. Recruiting was already over so he hit the transfer portal. He had them solidly in the top 25 all year. He has 2 top 20 recruits coming in next year and another in the top 50, plus whatever he brings from the portal. In short, you don’t know what you are talking about.
    8 points
  19. It was worse when your teacher fucked you because clearly you were homeschooled
    7 points
  20. Those waiting for China to do the right thing, don’t hold your breath.
    7 points
  21. There are volunteer fighters in the Rzeszow airport. Ok, let me back this up. It’s late and there’s been a lot to take in. But there are fighters passing through the Rzeszow airport. You know what else is at the Rzeszow airport? Patriot missile batteries. Across the street is several thousand of the 82nd Airborne in a sports hall. They’re all badasses. But they’re in Rzeszow and that’s fucked up, because Rzeszow is supposed be a sleepy town of ok beer but really good pierogis and definitely not the staging point for shipments of anti-tank missiles across the formerly lackadaisical border crossing into what used to be just another moth-bitten, gently charming corner of the Hapsburg monarchy. If you like helping people the World Central Kitchen is good. Right now some 10,000 people are going to sleep in a warehouse down the road from Rzeszow and they had a warm meal from World Central Kitchen. Some well meaning Poles brought toys. But there’s no room for the toys in the rucksacks and carryons that the kids will be taking with them, onward and across Europe. The warehouse is clean. It’s safe and women and children have a separate space to sleep. There are many big, burly Polish cops there and they look tough but you’ll see them playing with kids. The little ones seem to have fun. Even so, the warehouse is full of old people. They sit on their cots and cry. I am not posting photos of misery porn. You can see them on TV. Just down the road from the warehouse there’s a well-tended grave. The composer of the Ukrainian national anthem is buried there, across the narrow road from the church where he served as a priest. I will post a photo of that. Vladimir Putin says that Ukraine cannot be Europe and that Ukrainians do not belong to the West. The grave and the warehouse disagree.
    7 points
  22. I'm not in the best position to answer this question, but the juxtaposition of these two threads may or may not be a sign.
    7 points
  23. My wife had a decent line once when someone without kids who was thinking about trying asked her what it's like having a kid. She said, take the best parts of you and your spouse. Then add the absolute worst parts of you and your spouse. Then put them into a little small human who is completely dependent on you that has no ability to reason and no ability to communicate what they want from you. It's your job to keep that small human alive. If you're up for that challenge then you're ready to be a parent. Parenting can be very rewarding. It also can be incredibly challenging and amazingly thankless. I say that as the father of a teen girl who has had multiple issues and ongoing issues with depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, anorexia, and self-harm. The pandemic and puberty brought a lot of terrible things out in my kid. Things that maybe were always there. She has ADHD and is possibly bi-polar. I've had to change my parenting style greatly in the past year because there are scary moments where things were hanging on by a thread. We've had a couple stays in inpatient facilities and tons of group therapy, individual therapy, family therapy, and doctors visits that have uprooted our lives considerably. My challenge right now is just keeping this kid alive because there's something there that's just making it hard for her to stay focused on the future. She has friends, she has interests, she's going to a magnet high school next year that she had to work hard to get into. She has a lot to live for. She is incredibly smart but that intelligence can be a massive problem because she's argumentative constantly. Then there's some weird thing that eats away at her in the latter parts of the day that causes the self-harm and suicidal thoughts to come out. This kid has had issues all her life, even going back to being a baby that couldn't sleep through the night without massive measures undertaken by the wife and I. She almost made us decide to not have another kid. But I'm so glad we did because my younger kid is the exact opposite. Easy to deal with, no issues with mental health (yet), very empathetic, loves the small things in life and finds beauty in most things. They are very yin and yang. The older one is definitely going to be successful in life if we can get her past this small moment in teendom. I love my kids. They've given me a sense of purpose that I didn't previously have. But it's definitely not all it's cracked up to be and that's okay. That's life. If you're unsure you want that then just delay further. Kids are definitely not for everyone and not everyone should have them. There's a lot you give up by being a parent. There's a lot more you get back by being a parent. My only regret is we didn't travel more before we had kids. I say that as we're packing to leave for Palo Duro Canyon today.
    7 points
  24. CAN WE ALL TAKE A MOMENT TO APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI IS IN AND A&M-COLLEGE STATION ISN'T???
    6 points
  25. The Wells Fargo thing is why CRT exists. It is a systematic attempt to explain how racism permeates our society. It remains important to acknowledge these things, whether it be by "extremist" CRT, or the simpler "it exists, it holds back its victims, we need to get rid of it." Which is the fictional CRT of which the GQP types complain.
    6 points
  26. Ok I’ll be in milwaukee cheering us on. My 6 year old and I have tickets in the 2nd row off the floor behind the basket. Hope we’re good luck! 🤘🏼
    6 points
  27. Home and business. People need to see improvement now. They already did without. So how fast can you maximize impact to improve daily life. There is a euphoria at the end of a war, but it fades fast. The suicide rate in Bosnia was almost nil during the war. A year after peace it jumped up. Focus on making lives better right away. Forget band aid projects, get them to work and build their homes.
    6 points
  28. IT reporting that Johntay Cook is visiting for both the 3/26 and 4/2 weekends. Also said that the fathers Cook and Manning are good friends.
    6 points
  29. That honestly sounds nuts. You don’t just weaponize a pathogen from a biomedical lab that’s doing research; there are a lot of steps between research and weapon. I mean, you might be able to let a nasty out and get some people sick but a purpose built bio-weapon is something else.
    6 points
  30. The Russian people are not victims, nor are they innocents in all this. They traded a bit of wealth in exchange for turning a blind eye to an autocrat. They've had 25 years to affect internal change, yet continually chose to ignore this and the mounting problems that came with Putin, instead to take vacations in places like Thailand. Saying that they turned a blind eye to it is actually generous, they in fact cheered it on. Are they directly responsible, no, but I have (my own opinion, and mine only) a hard time feeling bad for their current plight, especially when you consider that there are people dead in Ukraine who are truly innocent and victims. I'm not rooting for the terrors of massive austerity that are about to occur in Russia, but there is such a thing of reaping what you sow. When you turn a blind eye to dictator because its economically agreeable to you in the short term, don't expect me to cry on your behalf when those chicken's come home to roost.
    6 points
  31. Questioning whether an Arch Manning commitment will be worth having to deal with Nahlin's main character syndrome arc
    6 points
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