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B00M

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  1. Even the FWD sedans I’ve owned would’ve navigated that segment of trail without issue
  2. “To a person” … “everyone” it’s like they get paid per word.
  3. Do we really need to talk shit? Show some fuckin’ sportsmanship, act like you’ve been there before, etc.
  4. I turned it off for a couple hours, checked the schedule and couldn’t believe the loss wasn’t already posted. Turned on Craig Way — HOLY SHIT WERE NOT DEAD YET
  5. Lummus keeping Texas alive.. Texas trails 2-5 after 4 innings
  6. Generation blaming is dumb. There’s a lot of sadness all over the world and people are struggling from every age group. Social isolation and cost of living and so many other stressors. The modern internet seems really good at pushing people over the edge
  7. I think people generally just try to find the positives in horrible situations. That and our bar for police officers is pretty fuckin low
  8. You’re oversimplifying the battle of the Black Sea and the conditions that could lead to Russia’s defeat. Why are you here making these seemingly intentionally obtuse arguments? Did you get booed out of the CR or something?
  9. Except it does matter. A lot. An Odesa invasion would’ve been much easier for Russia with that fleet that included several landing ships. Much of Ukraine’s economy is agricultural exports through the Black Sea. Those went to zero when Russia dominated the sea. Now they’re back to like 60% of pre-war levels if I recall. To sustain this “stalemate” until Russia breaks requires a mostly functional Ukrainian economy.
  10. 1 to 9? on a Friday? after the last few Fridays? to Houston? okay this shit might be over
  11. A few more tanks or shells? Fuck you. Offensives are utterly pointless right now. They’re wildly inefficient. The only option now is to kill invading Russians as cheaply as possible: make them respect the threat of artillery and use $600 FPVs to kill individuals and a handful of them to get vehicles. Of course that won’t WIN the war. Are you regarded or something? The lines are established as long as supply levels are simply maintained. Stop rug-pulling Ukraine and these lines will stay static while Russia spills blood for meters. Russia has already LOST this war. Ukraine has to destroy Russia’s o&g economy to WIN this war.
  12. Does it? This is the one part of @Thetexashammer’s post I’m maybe on board with. Why are we not actively trying to tie Russia’s hands like they and China did to us in Korea? Send in troops and make their locations known. Russia: strike here at your own risk.
  13. Be real dude, the west gave an almost negligible number of tanks (far from a metric fuck ton) to Ukraine. The western fighter jets are coming online late enough (this summer!) that a lot of Americans have given up. Expecting Ukraine to fight through THREE separate lines of mines, dragon teeth, and trenches with what they were supplied is fucking insane. How the fuck could you expect that to be successful?
  14. Okay sure, let’s just ignore how wildly successful the 2022 offensive was and focus on 2023. You think they had all they needed for successful combined arms operations with what they had in their Air Force at the time? No air superiority, not enough patriots to devote several to the front, no way to adequately support their ground forces from above … In my mind, the only valid criticism of the 2023 was the predictable direction they chose. They went straight into the strongest teeth of the Russian defense, trying to cut off Crimea. That was at least partly political, trying to maintain US enthusiasm. They wasted a lot of their best men and equipment trying to satisfy assholes like you. If they had guarantees of support they could trust, they wouldn’t have made that risky decision.
  15. The Pentagon has said that if congress doesn’t get their shit together, Ukraine is about to be outgunned. That’s factually correct and says nothing about Ukraine’s longer term prospects for victory. As is, Russia will have a ~1 month window where they have a large advantage in terms of men, artillery, and Ukraine will be starved of air defenses. Ukraine is about to needlessly suffer and undoubtedly lose territory and infrastructure because of the US House. It’s hard for me to think of a recent example of US Politicians more directly having blood on their hands. But since you apparently haven’t been paying attention, I’ll spell out how Ukraine wins: 1 - Ukraine immediately receives a stockpile of Patriot missiles and ~7+ patriot systems from the ~100 spread across the EU. Russia has only been able to take out so much Ukrainian power production recently due to a shortage of Patriot missiles. Aside from reducing civilian suffering, this greatly diminishes Russia’s ability to use glide bombs on Ukrainian fortifications at the front because when patriots get near the front, Russia starts losing a jet a day on those glide bomb runs. Russia has only been able to achieve pockets of air superiority recently due to the patriot shortage. 2 - Ukraine receives artillery, mortars, etc… they’ve proven they don’t need to match Russia’s 10k shells per day to prevent Russian advance because they’re more efficient. But they’ll start receiving the 1-2+ million shells from the Czech led initiative in June. If the US could get them something like 6k shells per day immediately, they’d be able to hold the lines until June. 3 - Ukraine continues playing defense, smoking Russians at a 4:1 to 10+:1 clip … Ukraine receives F16s and enough long range weapons to permanently push Russian support hubs and 100+ miles from the front. Yes, Ukraine has had to give up some land since Avdiivka fell, but they’ve retreated to naturally advantageous positions. They now have water barriers and the high ground and Russian advances have largely stopped again. 4 - Ukraine takes out that bridge in the east and the rail lines over the land bridge to Crimea and chokes out the peninsula. 5 - Ukraine continues relentlessly targeting Russian oil and gas, Russian manufacturing, power plants, etc. Starve the machine of oil. This is the most obvious way to break Russia. 6 - Sustain the lines and keep Ukraine mostly clean and productive for 2+ more years. Russia is losing about 1k men per day. Their infrastructure is failing. They’re hemorrhaging billions of dollars a day in lost o&g revenue. Their stockpiles are demonstrably running low and they’re about to be completely dependent on their own production rates (which appear very insufficient) and supplies from their shit stain allies. Inflation is already very high in Russia and will get much worse due to shortages. Russia will break. Go fuck yourself
  16. It is absolutely without merit. If Ukraine falls, the men, women, and children of all of Ukraine will suffer immensely for the humiliation they’ve put Putin through. The massacres, rape, and kidnapping will only possibly be dwarfed by the number of men that are forcibly conscripted and forced to fight nato on behalf of Russia. The “needless slaughter” will get WORSE and much more likely to directly involve Americans.
  17. Todd Jeffries is a fucking idiot. There’s no covid conspiracy or pro-Russian take he doesn’t parrot.
  18. Have any of you crypto folks sold any and then done your taxes? I had to use an outside service (ZenLedger) to get an accurate gain/loss report. It was $50, still painful, but I would definitely recommend their service because of the customer support. Figuring out my cost basis and capital gains for BTC and ETH required uploading or linking all my transactions across every exchange until the beginning of time. PayPal was the worst “exchange” or whatever the fuck they technically are, to work with because the spreadsheet they export is not formatted correctly to work with TurboTax or ZenLedger so you’re having to clean up a .CSV, upload, error, try again… This is not currency — every transfer or transaction is a taxable event. If I thought crypto was impractical before, I fucking hate it now.
  19. If MTG can effectively be the thought leader of congress, why can’t FL?!
  20. And Ukraine didn’t even have to commit an act of war… just good old Russian incompetence
  21. We need to help Ukraine with drone AI. You know China is or will help Russia.
  22. These are the songs of our people HOW CAN ANYONE ROOT AGAINST THAT
  23. Yeah, for whatever reason, he’s not making the pitches he was making this time last year. He had lots of close misses last night along with some wild pitches and straight meat. Maybe there’s an injury he’s working through or something, but he’s struggling and needs the coach to make a change for him.
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