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SquishMitten

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  1. 11 hours ago, utee94 said:

    But why?  Nobody outside of the pariah states like North Korean and Iran believe even half a word that comes out of Russia. 

    If it's meant as an internal measure to generate support for further mobilization, does it really even work, and does it really matter because Russia is going to do it anyway?  Who exactly are they trying to "rally to the cause" two years into this 3-day special operation?

    Would you be at all surprised if they do a big recruiting push for “soldiers who want to take revenge against ISIS for this terrorist attack” and then just send all those guys to Ukraine instead?

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  2. Maybe I’m wrong, but if you’ve got ISIS out there taking credit for the attack, then Russia and all of its mouthpieces are saying stuff like “nah, it wasn’t them. They’re too weak. They’ve already been destroyed. Etc etc” I can only imagine that would embolden ISIS to attack again as soon as they can. Also, this wasn’t a sophisticated attack so it doesn’t take a massive organization to pull it off. 

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  3. On 3/21/2024 at 9:30 AM, ImissWallyPryor said:

     

    There were so many times that could've ended poorly. Burning her tits was like the best possible outcome. First, when she pulls out the gun, she appears to briefly point it at her face. Second, and what I thought the video was going to be, her grip looks to be such that she could easy shoot her own finger off. Third, she blows on the barrel while pointing the gun in her own face. Then, after she burns her tits, she again points the gun at her own face. Although that last time looks like she realized it and quickly pointed it away. 

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  4. Expediting it is a positive thing imo. It puts the issue to bed as fast as possible, and it allows the prosecution to proceed. The sooner it's put to rest, the sooner the crazies stop whinging about it. 

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  5. On 3/7/2024 at 1:52 PM, dcbc said:

    But don't get me started on the Cult of Garner and his convincing lawyers to put citations in the footnotes.

    That’s where you put them when you don’t want anybody to look at em. And sometimes that’s helpful. 

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  6. On 2/15/2024 at 9:03 AM, Mrs Whiggins said:

    True, true. With the addition of @atomheartbevo's tweet (Liam Neeson) post above, I think the Cybergs are envisioning themselves in a Mad Max Fury Road role w/o considering that apocalyptic environments are bad for one's well-being.

    you know what else apocalyptic environments are bad for? Providing electricity along a convenient network to charge your rust bucket.

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  7. On 3/13/2024 at 1:49 AM, Texas Wahoo said:

    Ah yes - This is all a ploy by the SEC and Big Ten to destabilize the Big 12 enough that they can pick off all of the Big 12 schools that they have long wanted but never could dream of pulling away...  Or maybe it's all a ploy to get FSU, a team that desperately wants to leave the ACC to... leave the ACC.

    Yeah, that seems like a bad take. At some point, and we’re probably already there if not super close, the B1G and SEC adding more teams starts to devalue the current conference members. What other teams out there would add enough to a contract that every member would get more money than they do now? There’s not many.

  8. 5 hours ago, Texasborn91 said:

    Interesting the Pentagon releases the videos that the New York Times publish stating they don’t know what it is…. Only to about face and claim indefinitely there’s no proof of anything being of alien origin. Other countries have already admitted there is something visiting. High ranking officials don’t shoot at random objects, mis identify balloons, mistake birds on satellite. It takes just 1 claim to be true. 

    There’s is no contradiction between saying: a) we don’t know what X is, and b) we have no proof of extraterrestrial visitors

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  9. Not going to address all of PTINS longcat, and I don’t necessarily disagree with the general point, but in this specific case, the fact that they came out so quickly and publicly acknowledged that their facilities are at least partially to blame, is a pretty damn strong indicator that they (or one of their subs) fucked up bad.

  10. 9 hours ago, honolulu horn said:

    Without going CR, does anyone have context for the bank photographer video? I can't tell why the dude was filming in the first place. 

    Bank photographer in that situation would imply he was sent there to take pictures of a property the bank was either a) just routinely monitoring the condition of their collateral, or b) getting close to foreclosing on.

    I’ve had lots of my guys threatened when doing that, but no fights I’m aware of.

  11. On 3/6/2024 at 8:36 AM, YGIFS said:

    Sometimes I think like a criminal.  I get the mini-train had inherent value.  I appreciate the planning and pulling off of the heist.  But when you're taking a dump after lunch today, let your imagination wander...who the fuck was the Fence in this scheme?  How do you convince some criminal masterminds that can you discretely sell a miniature train, take your cut, and make them well in the meantime?  I mean, I know some pretty sophisticated, but very shady people, but how do you perform a confidence racket on some guys to grab a mini-train and then move the product?  There's con-men and there mini con-men.  

    They didn't steal the train. They robbed the passengers.

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  12. On 3/5/2024 at 3:23 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    so they do their own road maintenance, fire dept, police dept? Seems like at a smaller scale, those things would be more expensive. What am I missing?

    No taxes for the city or Austin CC. They already have their own utility district, and I think they'd pick up an emergency service district tax. So, a million dollar house would have paid ~$4k less in taxes last year.

  13. On 3/3/2024 at 10:46 AM, tokamak said:

    He’s been 165 since he stepped on campus. At this point, I don’t think it’s happening. 

    Fair. Like the rest of everyone here, I too am the same weight I was at 18

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  14. That's how my kids sell lemonade. 1 for $1, or 2 for $3. When I told them they had it wrong, they told me their justification. Since almost everybody buys 2 at a time anyway, they based their pricing on consumer behavior.

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