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  1. 1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

    Of course, the X factor is as this gets closer a desperate Soviet Union will try to destroy all electrical generation facilities - and maybe water purification/sewerage systems. Essentially Russia will go even more scorched earth try to turn Ukraine in to Russia on their attempt to create more civilian destruction to slow Ukraine down.  

     

     

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  2. It doesn't matter really, but I am curious.  Were these guys's Visa's expired or not allowing them to work on what they were?  I know visas are complicated and I'm sure companies have worked in the gray areas.

  3. 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.

    Pretty much this.  Ukraine continues to get enough resources to hold the stalemate and their people to continue to not quit.  The Russian people have proven themselves tough over many generations, but they also have proven to have limits.  We don't KNOW how close they are to those limits.  It's very possible we are doom casting and in reality they're close.  Like one trigger and they collapse into rebellion.  

    As Lenin said, ""There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen."  That week might be next week.  It can happen.

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  4. 9 minutes ago, William Bludworth said:

    Ohio State up 13-3 on Ohio. We'll see if we're both shitty at the end of the game. I am interested to watch Bo Jackson, tho. He didn't run against us, but so far he's averaging 7.5 ypc

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  5. 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/

    Spoiler

    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.

     

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  6. https://www.slashfilm.com/1953034/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-comedy-episodes-season-3-limit/

    Reviewer says there was too much comedy.  I understand their view but disagree.

    The quality of the plots really fell off the last 2 episodes.  Reminded me of my younger self starting, and finishing, a term paper the night before it was due.  It passed, but was hardly good.  Mentioned above that the writers' strike mighta been a factor.

     

  7. 3 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    Its hard working in a tech office where at least 30% of the folks who work around me were either not born, or too young to remember anything about that day. 

    and even the "kids" that are 29/30 today, they may vaguely remember that their parents were acting weird, that they got picked up early from school/pre-school, and that the TV was constantly on showing the towers falling over and over.... but they processed it differently in the almost quarter century.

    to them it was something that happened to their parents (unless they were directly impacted).  They remember that we were basically at war with the Middle East for the next 20 years, but not the impact of the day it happened

     

    we were on a group call when someone mentioned it being Sept 11, and it went quiet for a tiny second, and one of the younger guys just immediately starts jumping in and asking tougher questions about the call topic, and the older guys on the call just had to kind of mentally move on quickly.

     

    Im sure the greatest generation dealt with the same shit on Dec 7 1965....  the kids remembered the war, but not the day brought us in it

    I hope this view isn't callous.

    The fact they don't understand 9-11 might the the symptom of a good thing.  For quite some time after, we were mentally prepared for followup attacks.  Smaller for sure; maybe even lone wolf.  Certainly had some near misses, and it was only because of the hard work of our FBI and such, but the dark predictions did not come true.  Youngs don't know about 9-11-01 becuase we didn't have a 9-11-02/03/etc.

    Again, I apologize if that view is out of line.

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