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  1. So... I "know" one person from Ukraine, a model that has done some work for my company. No pics, I'm not doxxing her or me. I sent her $1000 to help get her and her family out of Kharkiv. She made it to Poland along with 2 million other refugees, where she reported that there are no apartments to rent and no jobs. She moved on to Croatia this weekend for hopefully greener pastures. I imagine this is taking place all over Europe but it's a fucking haul to get to the US. Also.... my great grandparents immigrated to the US from Khiv. I never met them, but I owe them more than I could ever imagine.
    29 points
  2. Post-mortem: I hope people in ATX and immediate realize how freaking lucky we've been. The severe prediction map was spot on! The storms started blowing up just west of Austin, giving most of us light rotation and brief, spotty pinpoints of smaller but damaging hail. But all in all we got off pretty damn well. Once this line moved just into and through Austin, it really blew up. And that's exactly where the "moderate risk" area was mapped. The Round Rock tornado was the first instant of these storms super-charging into monsters. And now they're all blowing up east of us. If this event was just 10 miles west, these storms would have wreaked a lot more havoc over heavily-populated Travis/Austin. The worst it did was to glance Round Rock before moving into much smaller populations. We were very fortunate, period. That said, I can't remember a heavier outbreak for our area, some 17-18 tornado warnings forecast within a 75 mile radius of Austin. And those weren't even the worst. T and P for our eastern and NE neighbors. Going to be a long evening. I must say, the forecasters fucking nailed this forecast as well as I've ever seen. I mean amazingly. Good work.
    19 points
  3. I'm struggling to reboot my meteorology expertise after 5 years of focusing on election law, virology, economics, international relations and military tactics.
    17 points
  4. In 4 words, you summed up your entire website.
    17 points
  5. 15 points
  6. Anyone who uses the abbreviation “MSM” I assume believes the Fox News Cinematic Universe is real life and I don’t even bother to engage.
    14 points
  7. I couple of minutes seems like too long to think about it.
    14 points
  8. Axioma, owned by Russian steel magnet Pumpyansky, seized today after docking in Gibraltar for fuel.
    13 points
  9. Taiwan team Ramjet donates $35K in drones.
    13 points
  10. when someone defends something as free speech, i automatically assume that speech is filled with hate, idiocy, and bullshit. that is what has become of free speech. fucking idiots with a bullhorn. half of the world are idiots. it's unfortunate that those are the idiots who use and espouse free speech the most. free speech and civility should go hand in hand. free speech without civility is just non-sense bullshit with the sole purpose of pissing off people. it's more "hey look at me" than a civilized, respectful exchange of ideas.
    13 points
  11. this boils down to certain people getting mad that propaganda is getting harder to spread. change my mind.
    13 points
  12. Out of the closet. Feel good about it.
    11 points
  13. Apologies to those of you who were home schooled or private school twats, but the fact that five of the six conservative justices were home schooled or private school twats tells me we should have fewer home schooled or private school twats on the bench...or in life in general.
    11 points
  14. I mean, they keep their pants held up with something, right?
    11 points
  15. Damn allergies. The girl that sang Let it Go in the Kyiv bomb shelter was the opener of a benefit concert in Poland singing the Ukraine national anthem. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10635301/Ukraines-Let-girl-seven-sings-national-anthem-Polish-stadium-fleeing-Kyiv.html#v-5918275136180632621
    11 points
  16. Just got that horrible call. Winston passed suddenly from a pulmonary embolism. RIP buddy. You were a good boy.
    11 points
  17. Not that anyone cares, but Coach Beard totally won me over in Milwaukee. First games I’ve seen him coach in person as I live in NOVA now (NOVAHorn is taken though). All the other teams I saw at open practice were just shooting around. Our guys were doing FT competitions with the whole team/staff doing push-ups if someone missed, had coaches and players mixing it up diving for loose balls as a game, took the last minute to throw t shirts to fans, etc. Our guys just had way more energy and passion than any of the other teams. And we fought like hell in both games. I was really happy with our culture/spirit as a team. Shots just didn’t fall for us. I’m 100% on board. Obviously I was pulling for us every game this year like usual, but it was clear in person why we hired him and why he’s been so successful in his career. PS I flew through Detroit today. My old stomping grounds!!! 😁😉
    10 points
  18. Re: all the dead Russians: Good. More. Let the bodies hit the floor. No apologies for my take. I love seeing invaders slaughtered. My only regret is that there aren’t more. Make it 50,000. Make it 100,000. They’re fine attacking civilians in Mariupol. So they can die. All of them. There’s only one path to redemption: lay down your arms and surrender.
    10 points
  19. My wife reports the dog has bad breath. My son wants to try on all the clothes in his closet. Stay tuned for more updates.
    10 points
  20. This take is dumb AF. Fair enough, the West doesn’t treat humanitarian aspects of war equally and and recognize the human catastrophe as the same. But war as a means of statecraft had disappeared from Europe for over 70 years. The Balkans were not an example of state in state aggression. Nuclear powers had completely refrained from redrawing maps and acquiring territory via military means. This war is a norm-shattering event of historic significance and with destabilizing potential for the global system, as wars in Europe frequently end up being. People are absolutely right to be more afraid and concerned over what this means as well as upset about the retrogression of an entire continent from a zone of peace to a zone of war than they should be over endemic regional warfare in MENA. Someone who understood what realpolitik means would get it.
    10 points
  21. Facebook and Instagram are extremist organizations? Well, I guess a blind nut can find an acorn occasionally, Russia.
    10 points
  22. 10 points
  23. I’m literally staring at a 737-800 I’m about to board in 10 minutes.
    10 points
  24. Are you referring to the investigation that led to indictments of 34 individuals and 3 companies?
    10 points
  25. If we’re as successful at prompting a nuclear war as we are at football….I’m sleeping easy tonight.
    10 points
  26. That guy needs to buy a lottery ticket… and a new pair of pants.
    9 points
  27. Trumps campaign colluded with Russia. It’s not up for debate. How are you still not getting this?
    9 points
  28. Please review the "how my wife tells a story" diagram above and internalize its lessons. This post is terrible.
    9 points
  29. Sadly yes. Texas was so close to that 5 seed but we blew it in KC. This team probably could have beaten a UCLA, Providence, Arkansas or Illinois, compared to Purdue. We got the worst 3 seed possible. Wisconsin would have been more preferable; even Tennessee would have been better than Purdue. Oh well, taking a rag tag group of nobodies with no size, after losing your 6'10 player midway through the year, to the school's first NCAAT win since 2014, is a win in my book.
    9 points
  30. Dodged a howitzer. The fact that this behavior was tolerated at OSU tells you how morally bankrupt that place is.
    9 points
  31. The United States needs to announce a comprehensive program for Russians willing to defect. Target officers, soldiers, and people with technical skills or working in key industries.
    9 points
  32. if the right is screeching about something, there's close to 100% chance that they do not fully understand it.
    9 points
  33. (1) False. See the article from October 22, 2020, right before the election. https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/6234aa276c90860020516e75/republican-conspiracy-russia-ukraine/ (2) Worse than Nixon sabotaging peace talks with North Vietnam before the 1968 election? Worse than Watergate? Worse than Manafort handing over internal polling information to a Russian operative? Worse than Roger Stone working with Wikileaks to leaked DNC emails stolen by the Russians? (3) Again, false. See (1). (4) Did they though? (5) False. You made this thread late at night when few were awake and didn't even respond the few posters who replied last night. (6) Not by China, he didn't. Even the Wall Street Journal and Fox News disagree: Bobulinski said that, in 2017, Hunter Biden consulted with his father about forming a new venture with CEFC China Energy Co. to invest in real estate and technology in the U.S. Bobulinski was brought into the venture by James Gilliar, an English businessman who purportedly knew the Bidens through Rob Walker, a former Clinton administration official. Bobulinski became a partner and CEO of the venture, which was named SinoHawk Holdings LLC. The company was incorporated in Delaware in May 2017. The Wall Street Journal reported that the deal fell through; SinoHawk never received money from or completed deals with the Chinese oil company. According to the newspaper, Hunter, Joe Biden’s brother James, Gilliar and Walker were also involved — but there was no role for Joe Biden. Bobulinski claimed otherwise. "Everything I’m saying is corroborated by emails, WhatsApp chats, agreements, documents and other evidence," he told reporters gathered Oct. 22, before gesturing to three phones that he claimed contained incriminating evidence and said he would hand over to authorities. Bobulinski provided some of his records to outlets like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. Both reported that they do not show Joe Biden had business dealings with SinoHawk Holdings or took money from the Chinese company. https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/oct/29/tony-bobulinski-hunter-biden-and-china-explainer/ (7) And, just to be clear, that twitter account is reposting shit about Ukraine from a pro-Kremlin news channel (see below), is posting anti-vaxx shit, and c) is posting shit about buying and selling gemstones. In sum, you're spreading disinformation. I'll be generous here and assume you believe everything you posted last night and are just an easily duped victim or stooge (aka useful idiot). Believing otherwise would mean you're a liar, hell-bent on malicious intent. Which is it? Care to debate?
    9 points
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