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B00M

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  1. 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? 

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  2. 1 hour ago, Thetexashammer said:

    Almost two years ago, the guy I was sitting next to got tasked to go to DC to participate in the planning for Ukraine's summer offensive. That was our plan they executed last summer, and it didn't work.

    We provided them all a metric shitton of equipment, tanks, 155mm artillery, missiles, more than enough to engage in what we call, by doctrine, combined arms operations.

    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. 

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  3. 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. 

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  4. 12 hours ago, UnhappilyMarried said:

    LBJ is done. He’s had 1 impressive start all year and it was vs Cal Poly in February

    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. 

  5. 40 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

     


    My first thought is they are using old stuff in the lead, knowing it’s going to get wrecked.  It still points to a shortage of tanks, and also they are sacrificing those crews, so you know they aren’t well-trained, and they’ll get fucked up anyways at some point.

    But we also know they were producing about 20 “modern” tanks a month, and were supposedly bumping that up to 40 or more, but it was still not enough to keep pace with tanks being destroyed in Ukraine (their “massive” reserves were originally keeping the front supplied with tanks).  And they were also restarting production lines for turbine engines for tanks, but they were basically hand-producing them, so not in any great numbers.  We might have reached that point where their reserves of T-6x/T-72s are depleted, or at least their ability to deploy them everywhere (parts/engine shortages).

    If this starts happening more and more, that’s going to get real interesting.

    so how does Ukraine react if the NATO equipment support levels stay where they are (over promised, under delivered) and Russia starts pushing for a ceasefire because they’re exhausted? 

  6. What’s Spartz’s deal? Why is she distancing herself from supporting Ukraine and parroting the conservative (pro Russia) talking points about needing more oversight (corrupt Ukraine)? the MAGA wing of my family has now completely turned on Ukraine and the smartest among them, the last to turn on Ukraine, is pointing to her. 
     

     

  7. 4 hours ago, KYHorn said:

     

     

    Man I wish I could more directly help. So disgusting and embarrassing that our lack of support for them has directly led to the lack of air defense in Kharkiv. Pre-war population of 1.4M people, now without power indefinitely and getting double tapped BECAUSE US POLITICS ARE ENABLING A TERRORIST 

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  8. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I say this as a homeowner who pays almost $20K per year in property tax

    sobs GIF
     

    50 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

    I've got no issue with community colleges, and I acknowledge their benefit to the community (although it's a stretch in Austin that community college grads are sticking around to contribute, based on the cost of living alone).  I got my foreign language credit knocked out at ACC many moons ago. 

    Yeah, outside of the trades related courses, it’s a joke of a school that only serves to allow kids to get college level credits without having to put forth college level effort. Maybe it helps raise the worst students up to a barely functioning level. Maybe that’s enough value-add to the community. Maybe the new 4 year programs have elevated the rest of the school. For your mental health, you’re better off getting blackout drunk and just writing the check instead of analyzing where your taxes go. 

  9. 40 minutes ago, royiv said:

    Pepper spray /= firearm

    Not everyone needs to be armed with a lethal weapon to protect themselves from occupational hazards.

    As for your links, how many millions of deliveries are made each day? Of the occupational hazards of the occupation, I’m guessing FiFi is way below auto accidents, distracted driving, slip ‘n falls, back strain, etc. 

     

    First, I never said that dumbass should have shot harmon’s dog. 

    Anyway, nothing you said changes the statistics about how Americans feel about guns and how it’s legal, especially in Texas, for delivery drivers to be armed.

    I pulled a few links supporting that dogs are a problem for delivery drivers. I’m struggling to find good data ranking their occupational hazards beyond “dog bites are a frequent source of injury” — the official number appears to be around 6k/year. 75% of those are pits and rots.

    A driver is probably not gonna pull a gun on their lower back strain or the guy they rear ended in traffic so I’m not sure how relevant that is to the discussion. But sure, I’ll admit that I was technically incorrect when I said dogs are probably the biggest threat to delivery guys — it’s in fact accidents. 
     

  10. 1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    I know this sounds crazy, but I have a proposal. 

    If your dog isn't well trained and could possibly run at or jump on a stranger, have the dog properly secured or keep it inside the house. 

    If you're afraid of dogs, find a different tool outside of a lethal weapon to discourage it from invading your space. 

    of course GIF

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  11. 13 hours ago, royiv said:

    Lol if you think 67% of food delivery folks are packing heat. Additional lol that you think “uncontrolled pit bulls” are some sort of gigantic threat to delivery drivers. How come postal carriers aren’t dropping like flies when all they can be armed with is pepper spray? Where are all the headlines about UPS, FedEx and Amazon delivery drivers getting mauled? Dude, you either sound like someone scared of their own shadow in this post or you just really want to justify killing a 30 pound dog. 

    Words. “Biggest threat” is not the same as “gigantic”threat. I didnt even realize USPS could carry pepper spray.  It’s pretty damn effective against dogs, it’s like you’re making my argument for me. Theres a reason the UK has banned several breeds including pitbulls under multiple names. 

    anyway, here are the first Google results…
     

    Fancy pitbull (staffordshire terrier):

    https://amp.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article280954793.html

    This dude was killed by dogs

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amazon-delivery-driver-found-dead-apparent-dog-attack-rcna53834

    And another victim

    https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/horrible-dashcam-shows-dog-attacking-delivery-driver-in-cooper-city/3132248/?amp=1

    and so on.
     

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