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atomheartbevo

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  1. Asian McRibs - even better, fuck yeah
  2. The elderly freezing up and falling over, that's going to be some. Car crashes, airplane crashes, maybe somebody eating something chokes. Maybe the militaries of the world dropping a bunch of stuff trying to stop it at the last minute (that could certainly ratchet things up). But yeah, that doesn't quite feel like almost a billion deaths. However, it could be that a bunch could not handle it and it killed them. Maybe that was by design, to eliminate those who couldn't handle the assimilation.
  3. Some of his own kids have made it clear they hate him, which I'm pretty sure he knows they exist (whether he knows their names....).
  4. And trying to get my kid a Switch 2 for Christmas.
  5. Thank you for posting these updates. A lot of people don't realize how big this is (no pun intended).
  6. @PTINS you might find this interesting. This was mentioned a few hours ago, but geolocated apparently (see below). They just hit this thing a week ago (well not quite a week ago). They appear to be trying to put it completely out of action. Or scare any "ghost fleet" tankers away. It's also really interesting that the Russians don't seem to oh, I don't know, try and reinforce the defenses of already-vulnerable ports and infrastructure that the Ukrainians have shown they can hit. That's pretty wild - if you have a still functioning facility that's already been hit once, and you know the Ukrainians like to revisit such sites, you'd think they'd do something more than some dudes in a pickup truck with a machine gun. Reported Ukrainian USV Explosion in Tuapse Harbour. POV ~ 44.104496, 39.068211
  7. Only problem with this show was I made the mistake of watching the first few episodes the day after they came out. So now I have to wait.
  8. They are blurring important infrastructure on the Yandex mapping service, which...makes it easier to spot important infrastructure
  9. 2000s and on 1. Band of Brothers 2. Rome 3. Bunch of others
  10. The outbreak probably began in Maryland (they showed the real-life US Army installation), but the Very Large Array (the radio telescopes that got the original signal) is just a few hours away from Albuquerque. But it's Vince Gilligan. Could be either explanation.
  11. Can this tide you over? Also possible USVs making their way towards Russian targets on the Black Sea.
  12. I'm having a hard time believing that Ukraine had all of that production for that system in these regions, given their locations. I also don't understand why Russia threw so many missiles at so many civilian buildings in Ukraine versus trying to destroy all of their missile stuff. Still, seems like drones are doing the heavy lifting on the deep strikes in Russia these days.
  13. I'm intrigued. Like that it's still going strong (still in print even) and that it's skill-based versus level-based. That's one of the things I've always liked about MMORPGs like Ultima Online being skill-based versus World of Warcraft, etc. where everything is centered around leveling up to the next level. It even took a tour through the GURPS system so for a while was located here in Austin. Digging that they make it easy for fans to publish their own stuff non-commercially Traveller Licensing Interesting, they are involved with Twilight: 2000 (or rather the sequel 2300AD)
  14. He did nothing to stop the Houston Oilers from moving nor did he help get the Oilers name released back to a Houston NFL team.
  15. It gets better. After saying that, she walks off with another man who was just off-screen until she starts walking. But yeah, at least when kids beat off to scrambled HBO or Skinemax channels in the 80s, it would occasionally look real for a brief second every few minutes.
  16. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he is ready to meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio but insists Moscow will not budge on its demands for ending the war, Reuters reports. Russia is waiting for Washington to confirm that August's Anchorage summit agreements still stand. Russia's Lavrov: I am ready to meet Rubio | Reuters Lavrov: no legal way to take Russian sovereign assets US is considering Putin's nuclear deal proposal Russian Ukraine proposal is based on Putin's 2024 offer Russia will not give up regions it controls - Lavrov Ultimately, this is probably why Russia is willing to kill or wound 120,000 men to take a city that formerly had 60,000. They are trying to get as much territory as possible for the bargaining table. And they sell it to the Russian people by saying it was paid for with Russian blood. Best Summary: "I'm ready to meet as long as you give me everything I demand."
  17. Former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg writes in his memoirs he refused President Zelensky's February 2022 request for a no-fly zone over Ukraine because NATO would have had to strike Russian air defenses in Belarus and Russia, risking direct war. He called ending that phone call painful. Jens Stoltenberg feared Nato would collapse under his leadership Nato’s former secretary-general has described the “painful moment” in February 2022 when he refused President Zelensky’s desperate plea to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Jens Stoltenberg said he feared their conversation might be the last phone call the president would make. “We all feared for the life of President Zelensky and his family,” he said. “He called me from a bunker in Kyiv with Russian tanks just up the road. And he said: ‘I accept you’re not sending in Nato ground troops, though I disagree. But please close the airspace. Prevent the Russian planes, drones and helicopters from flying and attacking us.’ ---- Stoltenberg said he had told Zelensky: “I understand why you’re asking for this. But it will not happen, because if Nato is going to close the airspace of Ukraine, the first thing we have to do is take out Russian air defence systems in Belarus and Russia, as we cannot fly in over Ukrainian airspace with Russian air defence missiles targeting Nato planes. “And if there is a Russian plane or helicopter in the air, we have to shoot it down and then we are in full war between Nato and Russia. And we’re not willing to do that.
  18. Russia continues to waste bombs on civilian buildings. Ukraine continues to waste Russian soldiers/vehicles. Really can't comprehend what that must be like - no longer of being able to let your guard down in areas you control.
  19. That one does not actually have a tail rotor, it's got the counter-rotating props. They don't seem aware it was broken off initially.
  20. I'm guessing that due to the military doing something and trying to fight the takeover, a bunch of the administration were being flown somewhere and crashed. Maybe tied to all of those aircraft she saw flying that night.
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