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atomheartbevo

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  1. I like her confidence that a few other Rs are going to vote to release the files.
  2. Are farmers in the countryside going to have access to fuel for tractors and trucks? If shit hits the fan, are those farmers going to want to ship to the city or processing plants or save it for themselves or the local black market? There’s already been some crop problems as it is. If there’s a reduction in food shipments from farms to the markets, and they are having problems with international markets and shipping, what happens with the large cities? That is all in the future though (spring) - we are heading into the winter, which helps a bit since they are mostly relying on food already harvested, processed, and stored, but they still have to move that food around from storage to market to home. And they may import food in the winter. I have faith that the black market is going to contribute to fucking things up as well.
  3. Yes it’s YouTube, but this guy does a lot of entertaining deep dives on sci fi books/series, both past/classic and present. Great to listen to in the background. https://www.youtube.com/@feralhistorian/videos He also looks at adaptations of major books
  4. I've got a 24TB RAID setup in my house for stuff I give a shit about (I also have a 2x12TB RAID setup for basically scratch disks/downloads/etc. that I don't care about), but my most important stuff (family photos, work, etc.) are also backed up to a few different services. And occasionally I back up my local data to a couple of large drives and store those elsewhere (away from my house). It's pretty insane how much they are struggling to recover. I would also imagine that if they have over 900 people working to restore stuff, that they are getting in each other's way.
  5. I saw this in Aliens back in the 1980s, except they were automated.
  6. Even if Russian trucking starts to shut down, I'm sure the major cities are heavily supplied by rail, but somebody has to get the food from the farmes to the rail depots, or at least to the food processing plants/warehouses and then to the rail depots. And from the rail depots to the grocery stores. When does that start to break down? It's like Hemingway said: "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
  7. Marjorie Taylor Greene on the Epstein files: "I can't conclusively say if that's why the House isn't in session, but the House should be in session ... there is a new Democrat that's been elected that does deserve to be sworn in ... if it's to avoid the discharge petition, why drag this out? That is going to have 218 signatures." --------
  8. atomheartbevo

    Rush

    So where will Surly be pre-gaming the concerts in Fort Worth at? Asking for a friend.
  9. Something Interesting Is Happening With GOP Public Opinion - Phillips P. OBrien I do think a lot of people are starting to realize just how serious Ukraine's strategy against Russian oil & gas infrastructure is, and how much it's paying off. We like to joke around here about everything being two weeks out, but if we are starting to see gas shortages/fuel rationing already (and have been for a bit), and if Russia is having to import gasoline from China, and we see delivery trucks/long-haul trucks being idled, and Ukraine keeps plinking away at refineries and pumping stations and other facilities, it's going to start affecting delivery of food as well. Another 2 or 4 weeks of this stuff means fewer air defense systems operating, more shortages at a much larger scale, even more of a repair backlog (due to lack of parts and probably manpower that's been shipped off to the front). Residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg can probably weather fuel shortages for the short term better than a lot of Russian cities, given they have mass transit systems in place, but let's see what a disruption of food supplies can do, as well as what the good ole Russian black market is going to do for fuel and food. And that's before we get into the Russian winter.
  10. Try the latest/official:
  11. Ties into the post directly above this.
  12. You think the border is closed?
  13. Trump is apparently flying out there to sign it or witness it being signed or something, so he at least believes it might actually happen. I would imagine that if Israel is lying or going to pull something foolish while he's there, Venezuela is going to get the shit kicked out of it. Seriously though, he's acting like it's a done deal and this is part of him getting a peace prize of some kind.
  14. atomheartbevo

    Rush

    Well, at least there will still be one woman there.
  15. Okay ladies and gentlemen, let's stop trashing the business model and instead start talking about how we can make a fuckton of money off of it.
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