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  1. 55 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    Russia is weak right now, but even so, seizing a Russian ship makes no strategic sense at all even to fascist shitheels who want to control the hemisphere.

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  2. More from WSJ https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/the-brutal-maduro-enforcer-standing-in-trumps-way-in-venezuela-65102c3a

    Standing between President Trump and his vision for a stable, U.S.-friendly oil power looms one man: Diosdado Cabello, the belligerent and eccentric de facto leader of Venezuela’s security forces and brutal militias, and a wild card in the country’s future.

    Cabello, whose first name means “God-given” in Spanish, has long positioned himself as the regime’s fiercest defender, commanding some of the “colectivos”—armed gangs who roared through Caracas on motorbikes this week in a menacing show of force.

    Indicted by the U.S. alongside ousted Nicolás Maduro, Cabello faces a choice: back the fledgling government of his rival, acting President Delcy Rodríguez, or make a bold play for power himself, toppling her and risking face-to-face conflict with American commandos.

    “Cabello has a great deal to lose and is likely to recognize that among Washington’s demands, his removal could surface sooner rather than later,” said Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez of Aurora Macro Strategies. 

    Fond of swinging a spiked club while spouting conspiracy theories on his hourslong weekly show on state television called “Bringing Down the Hammer,” now on its 556th episode, Cabello is hard to predict.

    Cabello, a 62-year-old whose official title is minister of interior, justice and peace, has so far signaled unity, taking part in Rodriguez’s swearing-in ceremony on Monday, where various factions of Venezuela’s ruling socialist party were present.

    But that night, Cabello was toting a rifle and riling up black-uniformed security forces

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  3. 10 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    Via wood from the other thread. Insightful in details, but obvious in the broader sense. There's been no regime change, more a backstabbing/negotiated mob squabble with more backstabbing and populist unrest likely on the horizon.

    And apparently we don’t even have the naval resources to do a proper blockade, from the WSJ, a ship made it all the way to….*checks notes*….Iceland

    U.S. forces moved to seize two tankers on Wednesday, including one that had fled the U.S. blockade of sanctioned vessels near Venezuela that was being escorted by a Russian submarine in the eastern Atlantic, according to U.S. officials.

    In the Atlantic, south of Iceland, helicopters and at least one Coast Guard vessel were being used to take control of a tanker formerly known as Bella 1, under the Coast Guard’s law-enforcement authority. The officials said tanker captains and mechanics would be sent on board to operate the ship.

    U.S. forces were also attempting to seize a second tanker in the waters off Latin America, according to a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the operation.

    The U.S. brought in P-8 Poseidon “sub-hunter” aircraft and AC-130J gunships to help with the boarding operation of the ship south of Iceland, according to flight-tracking data and two U.S. officials.

    It had been trying to evade U.S. seizure for more than two weeks. When the U.S. began pursuing the ship, it was a stateless vessel flying a false flag and subject to a judicial seizure order, the White House said.

    The U.S. sanctioned the Bella 1 in 2024 for allegedly carrying black-market Iranian oil on behalf of U.S.-designated terrorist organizations aligned with Tehran.

  4. 13 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

    And they're both obviously pussies pretending to be hard asses...poorly. Their respective acts are nonstop cringefests.

    Hegseth still got that “inactive reserve major” energy going on.

  5. 9 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    i have not seen the doc and likely won't, but i remember hearing interviews years and years ago with other actor/comedy types talking about chevy. basically he was told by everybody in hollywood that mattered going into snl and immediately after, that he was all set to be the next big thing, a leading man, someone who would 'open' at the box office. then, after that whole thing never materialized, he basically spent the 80's playing a dork. apparently that pivot was hard on him. obviously no excuse for being a flaming turd, which is what his career turned into.

    You can be disappointed, and it can piss you off - Burt Reynolds was a nice guy as far as almost everybody is concerned, but he was unhappy (when he was dating her) that Sally Field was finding critical acclaim while he was pigeon-holed into Smokey and the Bandit-style roles even though his movies were ruling the box office. He had every right to be bitter after he didn't get a lot of dramatic roles after Deliverance (and he was probably pissed that Voight got more attention out of Deliverance than he did) - his career would have been far different had he at least received some decent nominations with Deliverance.

    But he still kept it together, went to television when it seemed the right thing to do, and most people he worked with genuinely liked him.

  6. 33 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

    So, my theory, it was about oil.

    After Trump posting that tens of millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil will be brought to the US and sold, and the money will be directly under his control, he's removed all doubt that it was ever anything but oil.

    And it ties into what I was saying about how we do not have the troops in place to occupy and control Venezuela - he was never going to have the US physically control Venezuela with boots on the ground when he controls their oil exports. As long as X amount of oil every month finds its way to American refineries, he's going to let Maduro's people continue to control and oppress Venezuela.

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    Edited by atomheartbevo

    On 12/16/2025 at 9:13 PM, atomheartbevo said:

    Just going to upgrade the CPU from a Ryzen 3700x to a Ryzen 7 5700 and video card from an RTX 2060 to something newer.  CPU upgrade is not much but will reduce some stuttering we get in certain games/apps (all 8 cores are together on the Zen 3 versus spread over two segments on the 3700x, and played around on a friend's 5700 and it was smoother) and even bumping up just 3 generations on the video will help tremendously. I can also repurpose the old CPU and video to a second PC we are building for my daughter.

    So I'm curious - we've got a 6GB RTX 2060, and that and my 3700x CPU will be great for my daughter's system (fits the motherboard, have 16GB on that thing). I used to upgrade every year or two, but, well, with the 2060 and 3700x CPU you can tell it's been 4-5 years since I last did anything. We do a lot of Minecraft (lots of mods), lots of RTS games, mostly older games (sims, nothing made within last 3-4 years for the most part) but wanting a little bump for some flight sim stuff (and MMOs).

    Would something like this for $300 be a worthy upgrade over the 2060? (and I have not shopped around, just the first short-form factor card I pulled up, I know I can do cheaper)

    PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Overclocked 8GB GDDR7 PCI Express 5.0 Graphics Card with Dual Fan Black VCG50608DFXPB1-O - Best Buy

    Trying to keep the price down, but willing to do 12GB if necessary, and yes, trying to stay to the shorter form-factor, because it's a smaller case. 12GB too expensive.

    I can go 40x0 series if it's a better price, but I still have to keep the short form-factor.

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