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Gravy Train

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  1. SnipeX looks fun to me.
  2. Surprised to see CNN's interview of Petro Poroshenko from Kyiv-- he's still there and fighting.
  3. This isn't folklore, and it's from the Maidan Revolution, but it's what I expect to see more of as I ship off to bed. The only way we could replicate this is if we recruited half of the current Philadelphia Eagles' season ticket holders, threw them on a flight to Kyiv, serving up bottomless Jagerbombs with Rocky IV as the in-flght entertainment (on repeat), and then upon landing, convinced them that every tank and dark-green column were Dallas Cowboys fans. More of this shit, plz.
  4. With such losses and failure to take Kyiv, how many doses of Novichok have been prepared for their own command personnel? None of this operation seems to make sense, This is the same regime who would aim a microwave oven stator toward the adjacent hotel room of a visiting foreign ambassador in Moscow hotels.
  5. So where the fuck is their enlisted military? Standing ready at home to anticipate an offensive that will never come? https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-used-beatings-and-tricks-to-forcibly-send-soldiers-to-ukraine-human-rights-group-says
  6. Did this overnight stave buy enough time for the good shit to arrive from Poland? Would love to see Kyiv equipped tomorrow night with more 7.62, Javelins, Stingers and NV optics
  7. This is the angle I'm nervous over. They're supposed to have developed [expensive] precision cruise missles and have kept most of their air superiority parked at home. I don't understand the disconnect between the will of Putin and execution of this "Military Operation." Something is seriously amiss and what we're seeing is the Kremlin's D-team getting their dicks stuck in the mud. I'm wary that if Putin truly wanted to end this, he could just pick up one of his state-security phones, punch in a couple codes and sit back behind his Windows XP desktop, watching the same livestream we're all watching.
  8. I'm trying to read into this, "something is off with Putin" in the scale of Hitler/Madman against the West or Sympathetic/over-his-head with Oligarchs blowing his phone up, the Ruble in rubble and fucking around to find out the Ukraine culture he adored would rather have his head on a stake. He's killing his kinsmen.
  9. We've been diligently fighting Russian cybercrime for more than a decade. It's expensive, but orgs who invest in security have been prepared long before this conflict. I can't speak for utilities and public infra, I'm convinced many still don't have their shit together. Perhaps Colonial Pipeline was enough to get their acts together, and the sad part about that was their corporate systems were breached while their SCADA systems remained segmented. I've been running geo blocks on my home network for a while.
  10. Unfortunately a few viral videos were mere fabrications from a 2008-era video game https://twitter.com/i/events/1497346553605808137
  11. They can under Article 19 of the Montreux Convention. The strait is what, 500M wide at the narrowest point?
  12. Color referring to Chewbacca's RS6 on order-- PPF stands to mute that deep Sonoma Green. I think I'd rather have film replaced than to try and color match chips on your X5M or his RS6. I'd always notice it and it would drive me nuts.
  13. Partial-hood and yellowed PPF is ghetto. Custom cut and full-panel PPF is great when every highway driven is also populated with work trucks and deteriorating expansion joints chipping away at the paint. A full body wrap is expensive and not ideal for your color. I do like the matte films and gloss black films for color changes and roof lines.
  14. Don't wash it in winter or just hose it down on occasion? A good ceramic coating will prevent a bulk of road grime from sticking to the paint-- and it rinses off far easier than uncoated. The problem with automatic washes is that in order to minimize paint contact with brushes, their soaps are cooked-up with a cocktail of chemicals that quickly strip sealants and coatings from the clearcoat. Then you have unavoidable contact with the truly barbaric apparatus of automatic washes-- wheel brushes. That shitty mechanism not only drags over shit collected from the car ahead of you, but runs down the lower door beltline and rocker moldings before it makes contact with the rear wheel. It already does a number on gloss painted wheel surfaces.
  15. Do it, but tell the dealer to fuckoff on everything possible. No pre-delivery prep, leave as much of the plastic wrap on as possible. Take it to a trusted detailer first for a "correction" detail, then have the XPel applied. Once it's set and cured, then the ceramic goes on top, and it needs to be a legit product like CarPro cQuartz UK or Opti-Coat Pro. Hand washes only after that. I've got a guy in Dallas who can do it all for you in one go if you have the time.
  16. Absolutely and only Xpel, being a San Antonio based company with excellent customer service and warranty coverage. Full front clip (full hood, bumper, headlights, mirror caps) plus rocker moldings and rear hatch 'apron' area of the bumper. That'll run you somewhere between $2,000-$2800 but it's been a while since I've installed it on a new car. Licensed XPel installers have access to their online system of templates that makes for an easier, custom-cut install via vinyl plotter cuts.
  17. I'm in Dallas so when I visit Austin for "date night," it's of the F250 variety with plans for venues I can't find in DFW. I'm surprised it's not in this thread, but I enjoyed a fun Saturday night at dipdipdip Tatsu-Ya. Enjoyed the 'Baller Omakase' portion with A5 Wagyu and some great Sake pairings. Great venue to socialize and try something new.
  18. Matt Farah lost his custom-spec'd 718 GT4 Spyder he ordered for a stroker motor/gearbox retrofit once it hit port.
  19. NHTSA finally approves adaptive/Matrix headlights for the U.S. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-business-health-congress-761cac7ae30a03ab6a399b9676ae44bb Nissan Altimas, Toyota Corollas and Kia Optimas may continue to engage their high-beam candlepowers full-time while early-2000-era lifted trucks remain permitted to fit $129 Alibaba HID kits in their reflector housings.
  20. Is Germany walking down from the current-year target of decommissioning nuke power? I had hoped to see some reinvestment in modern reactor designs.
  21. I mean, a fresh set of downs (in the redzone) on an unrecognizeable holding call, after three quarters of clean play, in which said drive sets up the go-ahead score is pretty infuriating for anyone coaching a defense. This shit isn't supposed to feel like the NBA.
  22. "What are you guys talking about in here? Oh, don't mind me, only the biggest game of the year and these flags have been weighting my jersey down the whole game. I think I'll use a couple here in the redzone for L.A." Suck a rice dick, NFL.
  23. I'm watching Joe Millionaire also. Contestants are hotter, concept seems to be working well so far and they did a great job with selecting the two candidates.
  24. This dude is as clueless as Colton and already shipped off most of the hot contestants so I'm out. Edit: Colton/Clayton, what's the difference? Women aren't having it.
  25. Those things still constructed of molten legos with front ball joints that have a useful life of two years?
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