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  1. 3 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Cross Posting. 

    What to know today

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-vance-charlie-kirk-live-updates-rcna230852

    Epstein files ain't going to keep on knocking themselves out of the news cycle, are they?

  2. 56 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    This.  This is what I said pretty early in the war, when it became apparent that Ukraine wasn't going to fold like a cheap tent in a matter of days/weeks.

    I've represented parties in plenty of fights against a much larger, better-funded, "heavy-hitter," bullying opponent.  And our strategy to win is quite often the same: just stand your ground.  The gorilla will charge, kick up lots of dust, beat his chest, maybe even throw a punch or two.  He will eat up your time and money.  But in the end, after he's exhausted his playbook (beat your chest and act the bully), he doesn't have a plan B.  That's when you go on the attack, and he doesn't have a fucking answer for that.  And that's when you win.  It works.  I'm not exactly a genius or novel thinker in using that strategy, it's been around a LONG time.  Ukraine knows it.

    Exactly.  If Ukraine can make enough of a dent on their oil/gas/electricity infrastructure, to where Ukraine is always ahead of Russia's repair capabilities, they can put the squeeze on the Russian civilian population, but also arguably the military side.  It's an oligarchy, not Ye Olde Soviet Russia so they will fuck up allocating resources.

    I would imagine that with the lack of Western companies and parts, there will be, to use a military term, a culminating point where Russia's inability to repair their oil & gas infrastructure will cripple the nation as a whole. And the beauty of it is that because Russia ain't cranking out new air defense systems at a rapid pace, they will have to decide where they want to skimp on air defenses - keep oil and gas going and risk reducing air defenses around military infrastructure?  Or leave oil and gas wide open?

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  3. 1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

    Think about that.   In an ongoing war with Petro resources dwindling and despite being cash broke, Russia has apparently agreed to deliver $20 billion worth of natural gas to Turkey and not get any cash in return.   

    I'm guessing they don't have anywhere else to send it so it's just billions of dollars of gas sitting there, waiting to be blown up.

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  4. 2 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

    I just saw the Gen z revolutionaries killed the PM's wife, the PM fled, and then gen z organized a vote for a new PM over Discord and the army general's going to validate it. Wild.

    Better than Reddit.

  5. That refinery, even if it wasn’t too heavily damaged, has to scare the shit out of Russia.

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    One of Russia's largest oil refineries was hit by Ukrainian drones, sparking a fire on Sunday, Russian officials and Ukraine's military said.

    The strike on the Kirishi refinery, in Russia's northwestern Leningrad region, follows weeks of Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil infrastructure that Kyiv says fuels Moscow's war effort. The facility, operated by Russian oil major Surgutneftegas, produces approximately 17.7 million metric tons of crude per year – equivalent to about 355,000 barrels per day – and is one of Russia's top three oil producers by output.

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    Russia remains the world's second-largest oil exporter but a seasonal rise in demand and sustained Ukrainian drone strikes have caused gasoline shortages in recent weeks. To try to ease the shortage, Russia has paused gasoline exports, with officials on Wednesday declaring a full ban until Sept. 30 and a partial ban affecting traders and intermediaries until Oct. 3

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, Bevo said:

    Give me scenarios how Ukraine could win militarily. The only one I see at this point is to drag it along until Russian citizens have had enough and that isn’t likely. Maybe, I’m being negative today, though.

    If the Russian people are forced to seriously ration gas, and get rolling blackouts, and crops are difficult to harvest, and unemployment shoots up (fuel or electricity restrictions would cripple a lot of businesses), things could/would start to get spicy. Putin has done a pretty good job of trying to isolate a lot of Russians from being affected by the war.  Impact their food supply, employment, heating and electricity, etc. and the war comes home, and they ask why Putin invaded Ukraine and why they have to pay for it.

    Ukraine is going down that road of hitting the national fuel infrastructure which can make all of those other things happen.  There are no western companies rushing in to replace that infrastructure. And Russian air defenses are extremely strained as it is.

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  7. 14 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    If Ukraine hit St Petersburg and Moscow with massive attacks or started to make gains in Russian territory or Crimea, I’m pretty sure I know how Putin would respond. 

    He wouldn’t use nukes.  He’s afraid of dying.  Nukes also end China, Iran, and India’s support and financial dealings.  BRICs would fall apart.  

  8. 59 minutes ago, Parliament said:

    Long past time Europe divests from Russian energy.  They layed down with the Devil and need to just deal with the expense of moving to more expensive energy.  Suck it up.

    https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/eu-considers-faster-russian-oil-gas-exit-after-us-pressure-2025-09-10/

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    STRASBOURG, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The European Union is considering a faster phase-out of Russian fossil fuels as part of new sanctions against Moscow, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday after U.S. pressure on Europe to stop buying Russian oil.
    A ban on seaborne Russian crude oil has cut the EU's Russian oil imports by 90%, but Hungary and Slovakia still import via a pipeline and Europe is expected to purchase about 13% of its gas from Russia this year, though that is down from 45% before Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, EU data shows.

    EU officials are in Washington to discuss coordination on further Russia sanctions to cut off funding for its war in Ukraine. However, internal divisions and the need for global support raise questions over how effective such steps will be.

     

    Are we and/or the Middle East/Africa/North Sea able to meet their demand?

  9. 1 hour ago, Bojack said:

    ^^^^^^ I've just disproven these!! Bob Dylan wasn't even performing a set on Wednesday afternoon and Robert Plant hasn't played Nashville this year!!

    The McCartney one might be true. No idea there. 

    @HenryJames, maybe research a little before posting next time!!

    But the boomers will believe it if it’s on Facebook. 

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  10. 2 hours ago, RPM said:

    He's scared to go into Chicago so now it Memphis.

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    Memphis, TN, has a population of approximately 618,000 to 633,000 people, with a significant Black population of around 63% and a White population of roughly 25%.

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    the city is now home to the National Civil Rights Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate.

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    William Byron Lee (born October 9, 1959) is an American businessman and politician who has served as the 50th governor of Tennessee since 2019. A member of the Republican Party,

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  11. On 6/28/2025 at 5:40 PM, BoomMF said:

    Are we at the tail end of the golden age of board games? Kickstarter and Gamefound haven't been hopping like they used to be a few ago, and it's been like this for months.

    I’ve thought about this over the summer. I somewhat doubt it because I think too many people have been exposed to too many awesome games to want to go back to the shitty games many of us grew up with.  However, I think we will see a reduction in new offerings going forward, because there’s just so many options available now.

    There is a bit of a feeling like when the video game market crashed in the 80s where there were too many games produced, and while there were plenty of amazing games, there was also a lot of shit plus people had their limits, financial or otherwise.  Compound that by the fact that many of these board games being made now are high-priced and people are reluctant to spend money on something they may not play that often.

    I can walk into Tanuki Games or Dragon’s Lair here in Austin and I will immediately recognize games I have seen you or others mention or that I’ve read about on BoardGameGeek or Reddit and I’m zeroed in on a few games that I’m considering/wanting and I can be in and out fairly quickly.   My middle-schooler will spend a couple of hours looking at every game if given the chance.  A casual board game player like my wife would be absolutely overwhelmed unless I point her to one or two sections that I know she would like (Tanuki has a decent setup that doesn’t seem to be too overwhelming for casual players).

    it’s not in our budget for too many of these games per year, and I have a backlog, so it could be a few years before I catch up.  I would bet many others are in the same boat.

     

  12. 2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

    My era war game

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    My older brother and I each have one at our house for when we visit each other.  After dinner and old fashioneds we break that out and unsuccessfully try to remember all the rules.  

    Cross-quoting? @Gatorubet but you should subscribe to this thread.  I loved Broadside as a kid.

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