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Anastasis

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  1. Extremely few. Only a few hundred a year. Which I hope we can all agree we should be enforcing more consistently. If you fuck around on a 4473, you should get the book thrown at you.
  2. All very fair points. But you also get the NYT cooking site, in which you can find some good leads on dinner recipes from time to time. But, and perhaps a great example of your point here, you also get some real fucking hot garbage. Green Pea Guacamole Recipe from ABC Cocina Adapted by Melissa Clark Yield:6 to 8 servings ½pound fresh sweet peas, shucked (about ½ to ⅔ cup peas) 2small jalapeños 2tablespoons packed cilantro leaves, chopped, more for garnish ¾teaspoon salt, more as needed 3small ripe avocados, mashed 2scallions, whites only, sliced as thin as possible (about ¼ cup) Zest of 1 lime Juice of 1 lime, more as needed 1tablespoon toasted sunflower seeds Flaky sea salt, for serving Tortilla chips, for serving Lime wedges, for serving
  3. My zoysia has held up exceptionally well. I have a mix of bermuda and augustine in some places. SA is a cancer on society and needs to be smote. The bermuda is in struggle mode. So at least based on my experience ZP is the way to go and pretty resilient. I will resod the whole place with Z after the pool install ruins my whole shit.
  4. Watch dem pecan limbs, my friend. hell yeah.
  5. Seems like something that could be cleared up pretty quickly by calling jake Sullivan, milley, and musk in to testify.
  6. Working on the third slow mounting drizzle rain session of the day. Got damn this is beautiful.
  7. The former is also far more sticky, and people will continue to hold ridiculous positions long after they have been exposed. Kinda like the Nordstream examples up thread.
  8. More strawman, you're on a roll. I have a NYT sub and read it consistently. I actually prefer the more nuanced propaganda of someone like Charlie Savage over Natasha Bertrand. The latter is just too obvious. The former will sell a bunch a dumbasses on stuff like bounties on American troops in Afghanistan and then they will really dig in on it without considering the obvious play the sources are running on them.
  9. Elon doesn’t post here, and you were not quoting him, but I bet you can hit him up on Twitter.
  10. Your confidence is misplaced and you are reverting to a strawman. Who here is arguing this strawman?
  11. I am not sure. I would start from a null position, and assess the evidence to see if we can reject that null. What are the potential explanations for a global down time event? It appears that the downtime was not limited to Ukraine theatre, but broadly impacted North America and Oceania and perhaps others. Seems like something that would be very traceable in terms of cause and in particular human interventions. Start with assessing factors insides SpaceX and those outside. I've seen explanations that range from "Elon is a treasonous traitor" to "solar flare event". I would tend to the less emotive explanations, but seems like this one can be readily sussed out by subject matter experts with the right info. Or an appropriate regulatory body. So what do you think?
  12. Would be nice if some of you would learn from your lessons, and maybe muster something greater than 0%, Mr. #BothSidesHaveBeenToPrague. Media skepticism is 100% warranted. After Iraq the NYT had to publish an apology to the American people. The media is a tool of manipulation, esp when it comes to matters of politics and particularly foreign policy activities. But we as a nation generally have a short attention span and insist on making the same sorts of errors over and over again. Some people just seem to get a kick of out face planting themselves repeatedly and acting like it never happened.
  13. Or because the messenger just simply had the facts wrong. Whether he was mislead by Musk or he misunderstood, as he frames it, can be debated until you call the whole crew up to congress to testify under oath. And maybe even after that. If you feel that Isaacson's credibility is shot, and I would agree with that take, you can look to other accounts... FWIW, here is an economist piece from Jan 2023, with sourcing to Ukrainian officials. The overall article is interesting and worth a read, and mentions the drones that were dead in the water without explicitly linking that even to Musk's decision to reject the Ukrainian request, but the relevant portion is excerpted below. https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/01/05/how-elon-musks-satellites-have-saved-ukraine-and-changed-warfare This means that Mr Musk currently has a dominant position in both the launch market and satellite-internet operations. This concentration of power provides three causes of concern. Mr Musk is an unaccountable single individual; Mr Musk’s other business interests may play a role in his decisions; and Mr Musk is Mr Musk. In September Ukrainian officials told The Economist that Mr Musk had rejected a Ukrainian request to allow Starlink to be used in Crimea, a part of Ukraine which Russia invaded and annexed in 2014, and where Ukraine has conducted numerous raids on ports and air bases.
  14. Let’s call the whole bunch to testify under oath. Or sic an IG on it to issue a public report of findings. Certainly there are potential issues in the contracts between SpaceX and DOD that warrant such. Let the auditors do their thing, let’s see what people say under oath. And then we go from there.
  15. Ok, I guess. But that's exactly what Isaacson, the author of the WaPo opinion piece said, "It was simply a misunderstanding". And WaPo added a "correction" addendum to the original article, and revised its content.
  16. Anastasis

    USMNT 2023

    Me, briefly, in my head: “There’s no way in hell he can turn that and get the shot through” gggggggoooooooooaaaaaaalll
  17. I dropped this into Google translate for the read. I am content letting the readers of this thread read that article (including the addendum) and the DS one I linked, and draw their own conclusions on how to weight these different reports.
  18. FWIW, Wapo issued a retraction today that undermines this description of the events in his opinion piece, and Isaacson's publisher is removing the account from subsequent editions of the book. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/09/12/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-ukraine/ Walter Isaacson says it was simply a misunderstanding. In an interview with The Washington Post on Monday, the acclaimed author and journalist said that his new biography of tech billionaire Elon Musk contained a flawed account of Musk’s role in thwarting a Ukrainian military strike on Russia’s naval operations in Crimea last year. Isaacson’s book, “Elon Musk,” was published Tuesday with the disputed reference intact. It will be corrected in subsequent editions, according to Isaacson and his publisher, Simon & Schuster. Isaacson is the author of best-selling biographies of Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs, among others. According to the reporting, he was in discussions with Jake Sullivan and Gen. Milley. As I suggested upstream, It's crazy to think that the US government was not engaged. Musk also discussed the situation with Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, according to Isaacson. That all being said, it is extremely problematic if Musk was in fact talking with the Russian ambassador to the US about the situation. The only account I see of that taking place is from Isaacson, who has demonstrated that he really doesn't have a grasp of the full situation. So I agree with Warren. Let's shine light on the situation and see what comes of it. If we are going to confiscate SpaceX, I think most of us would agree that there should be some due process. Let's call all these fucks up to congress to testify in public on the situation. Bring Musk, Isaacson, Sullivan, Milley, etc. If Musk was talking with the Russian ambassador you know we were listening. Bring the fucking transcripts. I am not sure that congress is equipped to cut through and do anything more than their typical circus show, but it will at least be entertaining. I would love to see Warren and Musk go at.
  19. I seriously think that congressional investigations would be great, and that they should call Elon and the various government officials necessary to congress for televised testimony. Hopefully all in the same room at the same time for panel testimony.
  20. I am not sure that the posters suggesting that we just take SpaceX from Musk have really committed to what they want to do with it afterwards. Are we just giving it to NASA, or maybe Space Command, or whatever? Maybe we give it to Bezos and he can put foreskin on all the rockets.
  21. I don't recall a DW article, happy to read it and the rebuttal information if you link. I do on the other hand recall a series of articles in WaPo and NYT and the derivatives at AP and reuters earlier in the year citing various us and ex-us intelligence officials, material from the Teixera leak, and this article a few weeks ago in Der Spiegel. Read the media on the topic with an appropriately skeptical eye, consider the different outcomes and movitions, or just be driven by pure dogmatic conviction. If you are all in on Russia did it, you really have no place calling anyone else a stupid motherfucker. https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/investigating-the-attack-on-nord-stream-all-the-clues-point-toward-kyiv-a-124838c7-992a-4d0e-9894-942d4a665778 (overly dramatized, but linked for recency). Investigating the Nord Stream Attack: All the Evidence Points To Kyiv 26.08.2023, 09.50 Uhr Officially, politicians and the Office of the Federal Prosecutor are still holding back with any conclusions. Currently, it is not possible to say "this was state-controlled by Ukraine," Federal Prosecutor Otte says. "As far as that is concerned, the investigation is ongoing, much of it still undercover." Behind the scenes, though, you get clearer statements. Investigators from the BKA, the Federal Police and the Office of the Federal Prosecutor have few remaining doubts that a Ukrainian commando was responsible for blowing up the pipelines. A striking number of clues point to Ukraine, they say. They start with Valeri K., IP addresses of mails and phone calls, location data and numerous other, even clearer clues that have been kept secret so far. One top official says that far more is known than has been stated publicly. According to DER SPIEGEL's sources, investigators are certain that the saboteurs were in Ukraine before and after the attack. Indeed, the overall picture formed by the puzzles pieces of technical information has grown quite clear. And the possible motives also seem clear to international security circles: The aim, they says, was to deprive Moscow of an important source of revenue for financing the war against Ukraine. And at the same time to deprive Putin once and for all of his most important instrument of blackmail against the German government. But crucial questions remain unanswered. From how high up was the attack ordered and who knew about it? Was it an intelligence operation that the political leadership in Kyiv learned about only later? Or was it the product of a commando unit acting on its own? Or was it a military operation in which the Ukrainian General Staff was involved? Intelligence experts and security policy experts, however, consider it unlikely that Ukrainian President Zelenskyy was in on it: In cases of sabotage, the political leadership is often deliberately kept in the dark so that they can plausibly deny any knowledge later on. In early June, when the first indications of Kyiv's possible involvement came to light, Zelenskyy strongly denied it. "I am president and I give orders accordingly," he said. "Nothing of the sort has been done by Ukraine. I would never act in such a manner." In any case, it is difficult terrain for the BKA, not only politically, but also in practical terms. The German criminal investigators cannot conduct investigations in Ukraine, and it isn't expected that Kyiv will provide much support. The German authorities have also shied away from submitting a request to Ukraine for legal assistance because doing so would require that they reveal what they know. That could provide Ukraine the opportunity to cover up any traces that may exist and to protect the people responsible. Asked whether there will be arrest warrants one day, an official familiar with the events replies: "We need a lot of patience."
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