Jump to content

Leaderboard

  1. Deej

    Deej

    Certifiably Surly


    • Points

      43

    • Posts

      41829


  2. Underdog

    Underdog

    Legacy Members


    • Points

      43

    • Posts

      33359


  3. Sgt Hulk

    Sgt Hulk

    Legacy Members


    • Points

      39

    • Posts

      22737


  4. RPM

    RPM

    Certifiably Surly


    • Points

      37

    • Posts

      29826


Popular Content

Showing content with the highest reputation on 02/13/22 in Posts

  1. All the Stafford hate is fucking stupid. Burrow and Mixon deserve hate. Burrow for being a humongous douche who ain't fucking Brady and got a little too big for his britches and Mixon for being a woman beating fucking thug sooner.
    17 points
  2. I think now that we are turning from the political positioning of the various external parties into what appears to be an actual military conflict, it could be worthwhile to discuss the political situation within Ukraine itself. The entire concept of a robust, organized resistance is entirely predicated on some semblance of unity on the homefront, which is absolutely not the case at the present moment. In fact, during the past few weeks, when a rational political class should have been pushing its constituents to coalesce around its existing government and putting their differences aside in order to focus on an external threat, Ukrainian leaders have done the exact opposite. In fact, at no point since the Maidan has Ukraine been more divided amongst its own, pro-Ukraine, pro-Western movements. So, in that light, here is where the domestic political situation stands, at least in my estimation, as there are a ton of shifts going on within Ukraine at the moment that cannot be separated from this conflict. I have made no secret of my lack of confidence in the Ukrainian leadership, but at the same time I empathize with Zelensky’s situation - it is truly an impossible one - and I am going to give my best attempt to provide a neutral summary so that news can be perceived with an accurate backdrop of what is going on in Ukraine domestically, particularly once the bombs start dropping. 1. Petro Poroshenko Firstly, it is impossible to understand Zelenksy’s position without understanding a bit about his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, who also remains his most significant existing rival. Poroshenko was the fifth president of Ukraine, but more importantly, he was the first (excluding the nominal caretaker) after Maidan. Poroshenko is a confectionary magnate, and is an oligarch in his own right. His power base is in the far west of Ukraine, specifically Lviv, and he understandably took a fairly hardline stance against Russia after Maidan, Crimea, Donbass War, etc. In the 2014 election, which he won with an absolute majority in a crowded field on a platform of “Army, Language, Church”, Poroshenko secured backing from a wide variety of Ukrainian oligarchs, hawks within the Ukrainian military, etc. And by midway through his presidency his relationship with the hard right elements that have been discussed earlier in this thread to formalize to the point where his administration was dependent on continued close ties with the hard-right. Here are the electoral maps from Poroshenko's win in 2014. Light grey is Poroshenko: Poroshenko also had firm backers in the US Govt, given his willingness to take on the Russian issue very aggressively. During Poroshenko’s tenure, the continued strangulation of the Ukrainian state by oligarchs tightened and Ukraine did assume a more robust position against Russia. Early in his administration, he supported some of the more controversial of the language laws escalating Ukrainian over Russian, which wasn't well received in Eastern Ukraine. He also legitimized/rehabilitated the nazi-collaborators of the OUN, which was very divisive east of the Dnieper, and he supported the creation separate Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which was also an act that was very inflammatory in the Russian speaking parts of Ukraine and was a large factor in the 2018 Orthodox schism between Moscow and Constantinople. There are many other examples of Poroshenko taking on positions that would make him very unpopular with the Russian speaking areas of Ukraine, and I don’t think there is a rational analyst that could say that he was not indeed a hawk wrt Russia and Russian influence. Poroshenko is also as corrupt as can be. He is - even by Ukrainian standards - a completely immoral politician who was roundly kicked out of office for his corruption, losing to current president Zelensky by a margin of approx 75% to 25% in 2019. In German and French corners, Poroshenko is absolutely despised as embodying everything that is wrong about East Slavic corruption and governmental grift. He is known as the Chocolate Oligarch to the Germans and Merkel openly despised him, going so far as to teaming up with the Russians and French to essentially impose Minsk 2 on him from the outside, as the separatists were beginning to kick the shit out of the Ukrainian army in areas surrounding the Donbas back in early 2015. Pictures are worth a thousand words, and you can see the entire Minsk 2 story play out in the following short clip, where you see Merkel, and former French president Francois Hollande welcome Putin warmly, and you can see Poroshenko's facial expression at the end when he is obligated to shake Putin's hand. It is of a man beaten into doing something he doesn't want to do. And sorry to post the clip from RT, but it isn't readily found elsewhere: 2. Current President Vlodomyr Zelensky But to their credit, the Ukrainian people were so tired of Poroshenko's grift, self-dealing and enabling of even deeper corruption, that they kicked him out of office…although the result of that was giving the presidency to Zelensky, a slapstick-style comedian and a complete political novice who played the role of “Mr. Smith goes to Washington” style Ukrainian President on a TV show, along with other notable roles like feigning playing the piano with his dick for five-minute intervals on variety shows. If you think I am being facetious, here is the clip of the future Ukrainian war-time president who now has the mandate to lead Ukraine into battle against the Russian Army. This was two years prior to his election. I think it goes without saying that he is not a serious person. Not particularly Churchillian, either, but I digress. Zelensky won, kicking the absolute shit out of Poroshenko. The people had tired of Poroshenko's corruption and Zelensky absolutely mopped the floor with him, leaving Poroshenko's sole base of power as the strongly nationalist areas in the far west of Ukraine surrounding Lviv. Here are the results of that election: Zelensky ran on three primary issues against Poroshenko. 1) A peaceful and final resolution of Donbass situation, 2) elimination of oligarchs in Ukrainian politics, and 3) an end to the rampant culture of corruption in Ukraine that is an embarrassment to the rest of Europe. He has been completely unable to deliver anything with respect to 1 and 3, and he has limited his progress with respect to #2 to those oligarchs who oppose him, but not the ones who don't. The ones who support him, most notably the corrupt-as-fuck Igor Kolomoisky, who owns the TV station that used to run Zelensky’s shows, have been escalated to positions of essential de facto control of the Ukrainian state (as recently as last month Zelensky took his holiday along with Kolomoisky). Meanwhile, Zelensky has proceeded to shut down/seize over a half-dozen TV stations, which are always painted in English language media as purely “pro-Russian” stations, which many are. But many are actually pro-Western, but anti-Zelensky (2 of which were owned by the former president and anti-russian hawk Poroshenko). It is worth noting that Zelensky's patron, Kolomoisky, has also been investigated by the FBI for moving illicit funds in and out of the US via is ownership in Ukraine's largest bank, which directly relate to his mining empire, including much of it involving his West Virginia and Ohio mining operations. Bottom line re Zelensky, he is a complete novice who campaigned on dialing down conflict with Russia, his political "home" of being somewhere in between the hardline right and the hardline pro-Russian elements is becoming untenable. And both sides want him out and are significantly benefitting from the current tension, and each flank will continue to see political benefits if this goes hot. This is not a situation where every politician in Ukraine loses if war starts...in fact, the only one that truly loses is Zelensky. And perhaps another moderate, Dmytro Razumkov, who is Zelensky's primary competition from the moderate side, but who is essentially a non-factor at present. 3. Pro-Russian Politicians On the other side, of course, are pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians like oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, who was placed under house arrest and has been largely sidelined. However, his pro-Russian party, OPFL, has joined with other pro-Russian gas tycoons and have now released an official position of Ukraine as a non-aligned country. These pro-Russians are not the only political movement with that tendency though. Yevhen Murayev - who the BBC reported a few weeks ago as being backed as a potential puppet installed by the Kremlin - is hated by Viktor Medvedchuk - and is trying to compete with OPFL as the “pro-Russian, yet moderate” alternative who can finally bring peace. With Putin’s behavior galvanizing most of Ukraine into an anti-Russian position, it is unlikely that those pro-Russian movements will gain any additional traction, but at a local level in certain parts of Eastern Ukraine, it does put Zelensky into a tough position because his message of peace with Russia did play well there, and the erosion of faith there only contributes to the current instability with Zelensky. Each attempt to placate them with a peaceful resolution, however, is met with a corresponding counter-reaction in the nationalist areas of the West. So he truly is fucked. 4. Current Situation As this situation has ramped up, Zelensky has tanked in the polls falling to the level of his rival Poroshenko. So there is an absolute benefit being felt by certain elements within Ukrainian politics. Recall the overwhelming support that Zelensky had coming in to his presidency in 2019...well, here is the current polling from a mixture of outlets. As you can see, support has not necessarily gone back to Poroshenko. It instead has just been scattered amongst a bunch of different movements. So at the moment, there is no clear heir apparent...and the ones which are in the running are all objectively as corrupt as can be. Poroshenko has been charged with treason, Tymoshenko has a 20 year history of absolutely unconscionable fraud and graft. But more importantly, there is no one currently on the horizon who could step in and rally the troops around a central figure. Zelensky’s department of justice then charged Poroshenko with treason in December 2021 and threatened to throw him in jail if he returned. Poroshenko returned defiantly last month, and made a complete farce of the televised proceedings, falling asleep multiple times in front of the judge and then holding a rally in front of the courthouse where he whipped up nationalist supporters, as he has a tendency to do now that his movement is essentially only supported by the various gradients of Ukrainian nationalism, ranging from legitimate patriots to the hardline far-right wingers. He also has support in Poland and elsewhere in some eastern European countries, but again, he is absolutely hated in western european capitals, but still has a lot of support in DC. Over the past few weeks, Poroshenko has been relentlessly bashing Zelensky, calling him incompetent and insufficiently pro-Ukrainian, and has spooled up his followers to have almost as much vitriol towards Zelensky that they do towards Moscow, which is saying something. At the moment, Poroshenko has cemented his return as the most powerful figure on the Ukrainian Right and he absolutely stands to benefit if Russia launches an attack. It should be noted that it was somewhat of a surprise that Poroshenko wasn't thrown in jail upon his return and subsequent farcical bail hearing…he made a political spectacle of his return, and then made a joke of the hearing, but ultimately got maximum leniency. It came out later that Zelensky had been told by Justin Trudeau and Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland not to arrest Poroshenko, to which the Ukrainian leadership responded by dutifully backing down, changing its mind and letting him walk. And that’s not conspiracy theory…the Globe and Mail were the ones who broke this. "Canada Credited for Preventing Arrest of Former Ukrainian President": https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-credited-for-preventing-arrest-of-former-ukrainian-president/ So Poroshenko has good reason to believe that he still has the backing of the West, which he has had since he first took office in 2014, and his continued efforts towards internal Ukrainian destabilization from the pro-Ukrainian wing will likely continue. But most importantly to the current situation: Poroshenko and the pro-Russian sides each gain power under the current tensions. The Western media tries to portray Ukraine as united and prepared to fight Russia, but the truth is, the various political leaders are just as prepared to fight each other if the political winds allow a benefit to be derived by doing so. Now of course, that can change when the reality of an invasion sets in, but much of such a change would depend on these rivals throwing Zelensky support publicly, which is essentially an impossible expectation given these people's moral character, plus the fact that most of those on the right will blame Zelensky for allowing this to happen in the first place. So in that light, assuming Russia invades, we should not be under the illusion that Ukrainian political movements are going to coalesce to support their government. Zelensky is in an awful position and he knows that the one the US truly wants in power, Poroshenko, is waiting in the wings. Any development in which Zelensky falls due to internal pressures should be looked at very, very suspiciously. This is one of the reasons he has been so vocal in calling for everyone to settle down, along with the legitimate concern that the hysteria is crushing what is left of the Ukrainian economy. So from a political perspective, the question is: Assuming Zelensky is forced into snap elections to reconfirm the country’s confidence in his leadership, which many are already discussing, could those even occur with Russian artillery raining down and Russian troops on the move? Would such an election be seen as legitimate, both within Ukraine and abroad? And if not, what is the option if a sketch comedian proves himself unable to govern a country that is being torn apart internally, as well as at its external borders? Can an effective Ukrainian resistance led by a moderate with no military acumen, or will it descend into disparate groups fighting against the Russian invaders, while also carrying out their own internal steps to gain power? The New York Times did an article a few weeks back about who exactly surrounds Zelensky, and it wasn't pretty. It is essentially all former sketch comedians. Ukraine has essentially spent the last 3 years whistling past the graveyard and there is absolutely no argument to be made that they are prepared internally for this. Their economy is cratering from even its typical abysmal state and they have burned a ton of bridges with some powerful allies in the west who are now taking domestic political heat for endlessly transferring them funds. Even with strong, centralized, cohesive leadership, this would be a very difficult undertaking…without such leadership, it has the potential to really get ugly across the board.
    15 points
  3. On Saturday November 16th 2002, we went out for an early afternoon playoff game in Mesquite at Hanby Stadium against Sulphur Springs. Our quarterback, DFW Offensive Player of the year Bill Foran, sat out the game due to a high ankle sprain he suffered 2 weeks earlier in the district championship against Wylie. Our starting QB that afternoon was our strong safety, Rob Rain. Behind Rob was this pudgy, doughy white 14 year old freshman. He had just moved up to the varsity roster, the first freshman to do so since Lance McIlhenny around a quarter century before. This kid would run past me every day on the way to practice because in 9th grade, you’re told to run your ass to practice from 7th period since we don’t have time to fuck around. Because the first thing varsity players would do after 7th period was watch film, get taped up, have position meetings, etc, none of us had the need to haul ass to practice like freshmen did. When he’d pass me (or anyone else), he’d always say “excuse me, sir.” Sir? I’m 18 years old and this 14 year old is calling me “sir?” Damn. When we got near the end of practice we always had to go to the sideline to do wind sprints for conditioning and we did them by position groups so it had the feel of a legit race. They put The Freshman with us kickers since, as Coach Randy Allen put it to him, that’s what his speed and conditioning indicated. Of course the two of us (starter Ryan Wolcott and myself) would whip his ass. He actually went over to the side to puke after Monday’s conditioning. Anyways, cut to the 4th quarter of this first round game against Sulphur Springs. We had just scored a touchdown to go up 44-7 (or something to that effect). I was called on to execute the sky/pooch kickoff since it was against the wind. The upback let the ball go through his arms, bounced between his legs and one of our guys recovered the muff. On the very next play, The Freshman was put in. He didn’t throw a single pass across the line of scrimmage but still managed to conduct a touchdown drive to make it 51-7. We ended up winning 51-15. Tonight, almost 20 years later, that very same Freshman led his team on a game winning TD drive in the Super Bowl and is very likely bound for Canton.
    11 points
  4. Fuck everyone. This is awesome.
    11 points
  5. Well, I'm here. And I'm not even sure where here is but I know that I can't "manage" my drinking anymore. I've tried that time and again and it always end up with too much and too often. Bargaining that I'll cut back or have a sober weekend or week and that usually doesn't happen. So, it's time to fully face the fact that I am an alcoholic and I can't keep this up. Today was the first day that I've admitted out loud to my family that this "isn't a problem" like I've always maintained to them. Indeed, it's "the problem." I need to quit and not just a dry out period or a temporary thing. So, here I am. So, here I am.
    11 points
  6. Y’all try this at home and report back, please.
    10 points
  7. I guess that’s because of poll numbers
    10 points
  8. I started drinking at 13 and smoking weed by 15. I always liked to experiment. Thankfully, I thought, I didn’t have an addictive personality. While I experimented, it never went past that. Weed, shrooms, extasy, Oxy, etc. never sank their hooks in me. When I was 18, I went off to some below average state school. For most of us, no matter your major, your minor was binge drinking. Nobody I was around drank a few beers. We drank all the beers and as quickly as possible. Kings Cup, quarters, asshole, etc. were all fun games to accelerate our drunkenness. That’s what it’s all about, right? You threw up, no problem, puking rally. Still, things felt under control. Drinking was mostly done 2-3 times a week and I was Dean’s List routinely. Drinking to excess couldn’t be a problem if I was excelling in other areas. My 20’s were more of the same. Drink twice a week to excess. Only now, I realized that plenty of people around me weren’t behaving in the same manner. My excessive consumption was more noticeable and it brought a dose of shame. So, I did what any reasonable person would do, isolate myself from the non-drinkers. They were too uptight and boring to hang around anyways. That left me surrounded by people with similar behaviors and nobody to make me feel guilty. Problem solved and let the good times roll. It wasn’t until my mid 30s where I realized my drinking was becoming an issue. Most of my friends had slowed way down by then. I hadn’t, but most of them didn’t notice or at least didn’t say anything. I knew I was abusive with alcohol but still figured I had it under control. I wasn’t getting arrested, stayed in good shape, was moving up the corporate ladder, and had married an absolute amazing woman. That didn’t excuse my drinking, but it gave me the illusion that the damage from it could be mitigated. I just hit my 40s and know my behavior is unacceptable and I don’t have this under control anymore. At first that didn’t stop anything, rather just made me very secretive about my drinking. I’m fairly bright, detailed oriented, and observe a lot around me. These qualities were key as I started to hide my drinking. Bottles hidden around the house, stopping at a bar before I go to the party so I can have an extra 3 drinks nobody sees, picking up a tall can and drinking it on the way home so my wife only notices me having a couple beers that night. Recently, not surprisingly drunk, I admitted to a close friend I have a problem. The next morning, I informed my wife as well. She already knew but probably not to the full extent. She also admitted she has a problem with alcohol which brings me unbearable guilt. I brought her into this drinking culture and truly don’t think she would have this issue if she hadn’t met me. I still think, perhaps naively, I can get this under control. Telling those two people I have a drinking problem created some accountability that was lacking before. I set some strict drinking rules I feel any normal person should be able to abide by. If I can’t follow those, then I shouldn’t have a drink ever again. Maybe that is the inevitable outcome of this and I’m just the last to know.
    10 points
  9. 9 points
  10. This is the core of it, to me. Projection of guilt. America sent three white men to the moon in 1969. There is room in most of our minds for the tension between two notions at odds with one another — that the mission was a legitimate American triumph, and that women and people of color faced tremendous and unfair obstacles if they wanted to participate in that endeavor. This is just one example of our complex history where most of us see the bad and the good. Trumpkins, on the other hand, cannot hold intellectual tension in their minds. They need to feel absolute unambiguous certainty, even if that means they have to resort to replacing that tension with utter contradictions. Contradictions are other people’s problems, not theirs. So, they’ll cry reverse racism all day, and then they’ll go edit out all the racism out of our history books. They just want to live in a world that unwaveringly reveres them. To admit to a single flaw would shatter their entire fantasy. We are seeing as much racism as we saw in the 50s, only now the white supremacists as a group have learned how to operate covertly as a group while maintaining plausible deniability for each individual — and that denial has sustained itself for so long that most of the supremacists don’t even recognize which side they’re on. All that comes out of their mouths is pure projection, the guilt of the subconscious mind. It’s fucking sick.
    9 points
  11. Lindsay Lohan. Would still plow with the might of 10,00000 suns
    8 points
  12. 8 points
  13. Inform the Russians that they are now part of NATO. They'll never see it coming.
    8 points
  14. Yall remember this face in 10 years on astros prospects list. Most of yall have seen lilshep grow up (appreciate all the kind words) . Played 4 games today. 7 for 8 at the plate. 5 innings 9 strikeouts no walks, no hits. Error free defense also. Our team went 4-0 for championship. Boys played from 9am to 930pm out in waller. That autographed baseball @Player has maybe worth something one day. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk
    8 points
  15. 50 Cent experienced inflation.
    6 points
  16. nobody: absolutely nobody: comcast: let's reboot the fresh prince of bel air as a drama
    6 points
  17. Juno at 9 months now, ready to play football!
    6 points
  18. ^^^and they gleefully celebrate their own indoctrination. I know a thing or two about cults, but this one is truly incredible.
    6 points
  19. Not just them. Just want to thank the group for some damn fine analysis. Mine is quite simple and I do not know the Ukraine's internal BS like you all do. Putin has to do something. You don't move that much support gear for fun. It is expensive and pisses off people. There are enough Russian's to take the country but not enough to control it. That is a big deal. The Ukranian's can give them a bloody nose for sure, but not hold them off due to air power and the amount of artillery the Russians have in theater. Putin goes in, be it all in or limited, he goes. It will be his downfall. On a global level, prepare for higher fuel and food costs. Prepare for our network to get hit hard through cyber BS. Enjoy the super bowl.
    6 points
  20. I swear to god if y'all start fighting about fucking Rick Barnes in the Shaka thread..
    6 points
  21. I think 956 makes some good points there...particularly the points about why Ukraine is targeted while others aren't. And from a German perspective, much of it is because of money. Azerbaijan doesn't get (nor do they vocally demand) large amounts of German money. Nor does Belarus, of course. But Ukraine's position to Germany from an optical perspective is "Fuck you. Pay us." We will siphon gas meant for you, we will blatantly steal your infrastructure investments and direct them into the pockets of our worst oligarchs, and then we will complain in public standing right next to your ministers about how you don't care to support us and will disparage you to American presidents about how much you suck. But nevertheless, pay us. And not to get back into this, because to some degree it is like disparaging the soon-to-be-dead, but from a PR perspective, the refusal of certain elements in Ukrainian politics/military to shut down Nazi marches honoring the SS Galicia, or continue to display the Wolfsangel at every fucking turn, or venerate Stepan Bandera, is a huge PR problem here. As we have discussed, that is by no means a significant percentage Ukrainians and the Russians massively overstate this as part of their propaganda, but they are very vocal and it is a serious issue within Germany and it is very visible. And the Germans just don’t want to go back down that road and some Ukrainians for some reason can’t see how much harm this does them in Germany, so they continue to do it. It is a real problem here.
    6 points
  22. Germany’s reticence with Ukraine is absolutely partly to do with Ukrainian ineptness and corruption. There’s no doubt about that, and for U.S. official policy in Ukraine, “rule of law” has ranked right behind “Russia invades” as the biggest problem. However, lots of nations are corrupt, so why is it so particularly toxic in Ukraine? The answer is that Russia uses corruption as a strategic weapon, first. Second, in sort of grim irony, corruption damages Ukraine more because Ukraine actually does make fits and starts towards rule of law and because it is a real but flawed democracy. Speaking as someone with lots of experience inside former Soviet and eastern bloc states, Ukrainian corruption is not qualitatively worse than in nearly any of the non-EU/NATO states. The difference is that in places like Belarus, Russia, the Stans, or Azerbaijan, corruption is both entrenched and predictable, and more or less regulated by authorities. When anti-corruption initiatives are undertaken, you can be confident that they are actually tools of political coercion against entities that have fallen out of favor with the regime. This also makes for a more stable investment climate— one generally knows the ground rules of how much one will pay in bribes and to whom, and more importantly— that the person one bribes today will still be around as your “roof” tomorrow. Ukraine has equally pernicious corruption, but it also has genuine political competition. At one point or another, virtually every political competitor is exposed. That means that even a genuine anticorruption effort (there have actually been some) is bound to be exploited and perceived as a simple political attack on rivals (often they are political). And what’s more, there is no predictability in the system, because political leadership can change and now all of a sudden the politicians who were your clients are on the outside and you’re a target yourself. This is a state of affairs that Russia exploits and encourages. It is official Russian state policy to tunnel into as many politicians as possible in Ukraine (and other countries) because corruption is a strategic win for them. And Ukraine was a satellite for most of its history. We tend to forget that even in 2004 the Russia backed candidate very nearly stole an election and also poisoned his rival (almost certainly with Russian help). Any nation that is in Russia’s sphere of influence will have corruption issues. Balts managed to break out of this cycle by fleeing into the NATO and EU shadow and then deciding to just start breaking some eggs.
    6 points
  23. Wonder what the BF’s surly handle is?
    6 points
  24. spacex was granted $5.5 billion in government contracts by 2015 and to date has a perfect record delivering payloads to orbit at a cost 1/2 to 2/3 that of what the traditional players have achieved with 75 years of runway to figure out what elon achieved in less than 10 years meanwhile, over in legacy land, the SLS, which is still using SRB technology designed in the 60s for Gemini and Atlas then used on the Shuttle, and using the same main engines used on the shuttle, designed in the 19frickingseventies, has consumed $23 billion and remains nowhere close to getting to orbit, and even when it does, each launch will cost more than TWO BILLION DOLLARS OVER AN ABOVE THE $23 BILLION ALREADY PAID FOR BY YOU AND ME musk actually delivers what he's paid for, at a cost astronomically (pun intended) less that what boeing, rocketdyne, northrop grumman and the united launch alliance have spent FOR NOTHING the recent comedy value of this thread is unmeasurable with current technology like him or hate him, he's the only fucker on this planet trying to prevent a "don't look up" scenario and insure the survival of humanity AND HE IS DOING IT WHILE FUNDING IT HIMSELF MAKING MONEY ACTUALLY DELIVERING THE GOODS there's a reason spacex is delivering national security payloads on the reg HIS SHIT WORKS and it's INCREDIBLY LESS EXPENSIVE than paying for throw-away one-and-done rockets lock this fucking thread and get your asses over to nerdz, and get some 'learnin before ya be 'postin /rant end of line
    6 points
  25. Frankenstein Bonnie. 2 Cysts and 2 cracked incisors removed. She loves wet food Nulo so much, she is almost okay with the cone of shame at night. I found Tiny Clyde nibbling at her stitches because he is a dirty bastard chihuahua so I may have to put the cone of shame on him at night but I gave him enough shit about it that he knows to leave it. So far so good. I'll take her to work with me all next week to keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn't jump or move too much and let them heal. She is pretty active for an 11 year old. Mah poor pupita.
    6 points
  26. When Ricky’s original agent (Master P’s brother in law?) signed him to that extremely shitty contract with the Saints, he was in the wedding dress with Ditka on the SI cover, smoked way too much weed, etc. he caught a lot of shit on hornfans, of all places. Weird because everyone knows what the consequences of discouraging words used to be there. Anyway I posted something defending him which I’m sure was very eloquent and a poster purporting to be his mom thanked me, asked for my mailing address and sent me these autographed bad boys… The return address checked out. Wish I’d have saved the handwritten envelope. Very nice lady
    6 points
  27. Too bad we can't get a holo Eazy-E or Tupac.
    5 points
  28. What's truly bizarre is your thinking that you're fooling anyone with these two accounts, GRUhorn.
    5 points
  29. You hit that bong, too?
    5 points
  30. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33282228/sources-relationship-qb-kyler-murray-arizona-cardinals-odd-place-amid-frustrations-sides They probably advised that he needs to be the bigger man, which made him more upset.
    5 points
  31. "Don't trust that fart"-- sign seen at Philly marathon.
    5 points
  32. It would really be nice if you didn't habitually misrepresent what I said about the whole DNS thing, but intellectual honesty has always been a growth area for you. Here's a pretty comprehensive post I had on the topic in this thread: You are distorting my argument of "trumpco has changed their explanation several times and none of them made sense". We've had this discussion several times. You continually lie about what I've said. And as an aside - tracking DNS queries isn't some malevolent behavior. In December when the log4j vulnerability became known, it was my responsibility to dig through my customers DNS queries to identify if any hosts had looked up known CnC domains, and determine why they were looked up. We found several hits, linked them to specific network interfaces in use or previously used, and passed than info along to the relevant incident response teams for further analysis and RCA. Some hosts were compromised, some were false positives, and some were active testing that was intentionally checking if those hosts were able to hit known bad domains. In each of those cases, we found a strong and consistent explanation for the behavior. It's just technical analysis. Just because youre an expert at optimizing the profitability of a healthcare transaction doesn't mean youre an expert at analyzing network protocols.
    5 points
  33. I found this the other day looking back through some of my old drawing pads, a spontaneous freehand doodle at the bottom of the page to save space. I would have been 18 or 19 when I did this, many, many moons ago. Bass fishing and football were my most common themes. For some reason, I really enjoyed playing around with blue ball point pen.
    5 points
  34. Every time I see this bumped, I get excited thinking maybe he’s found a way to die again.
    5 points
This leaderboard is set to Chicago/GMT-05:00


×
×
  • Create New...