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Measuring distance on Google Maps, that base is 1,164 miles from the closest piece of Ukrainian dirt, far to the south. That is some seriously impressive range. Edit: Of course, the Ukrainians may have also been able to sneak over and launch drones from a closer point, I suppose.
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Wordle 1,443 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #721 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1224 5️⃣4️⃣ 7️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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Wordle 1,441 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Totally fumbled this one. Connections Puzzle #719 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🙂 Daily Quordle 1222 8️⃣4️⃣ 6️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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No hail at my place; just heavy rain. But it got pretty hairy with the rotatng clouds for a bit.
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This is definitely a 'them' not 'us' issue. Look at what's happened to Republican support in the last three years. Click Gallup article heading for more. Record Party Divide 10 Years After Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Republican support has dropped 14 points since 2022 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A decade after the Supreme Court’s milestone Obergefell v. Hodges ruling declared same-sex marriage a national right in the U.S., a steady 68% of Americans support it. Since 2021, the percentage of U.S. adults who think marriages between same-sex couples should be recognized with the same rights as traditional marriages has ranged from 68% to 71% (the trend high in 2022 and 2023). Yet, this stability in Americans’ backing for same-sex marriage masks shifts in partisans’ views over the same period. Democrats’ support has risen to 88%, the record high for this group by one percentage point. Independents’ backing for same-sex marriage has been relatively stable in recent years and currently stands at 76%, one point shy of the record high. At the same time, Republicans’ support, which peaked at 55% in 2021 and 2022, has gradually edged down to 41%, the lowest point since 2016 after the Obergefell decision. The current 47-point gap between Republicans and Democrats is the largest since Gallup first began tracking this measure 29 years ago.
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I absolutely agree. But the fact of the matter is that the entire thing has become so fucking toxic and conspiracy filled, primarily due to the previous chaotic bungling with uncredentialed “doctors”, scammers, snakeoil salesmen, and various other ne’er-do-wells who “do their own research” filling the void, that the powers-that-be are/have been treating the topic as the proverbial hot potato that no one has the balls to handle. Or, alternatively, they are diligently working against it. In my opinion, the entire notion of pandemic planning, preparedness, and response (utilizing the best tools we have at our disposal, including vaccines) has been fundamentally undermined for the foreseeable future. Simply put, what you’re correctly asking for is a nominally functioning society in which smart people who study and know things can help guide us through crises. What we have is decidedly not that right now. Twenty years ago, that wasn’t the case. Or, at the very least, we kept up appearances and muddled through with generally good intentions for promoting the general welfare, in principle. I can only hope and pray it gets better someday.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
bolverk replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I'm old enough to remember seeing TV ads as a kid for companies that stated they were equal opportunity employers, without much of a stink. It's pretty plainly stated and, hell, there's a whole federal commission that's supposed to enforce related laws. Is it the fact that organizations/companies that incorporate proactive employment opportunity policies (DEI) in hiring and internal advancement a bridge too far for these people? Take Greaser Bob, for example. As a self-professed employment lawyer, he should be familiar with EEO laws; however, his judgment appears muddled when it comes to actually encouraging equal opportunities for all rather than simply passively requiring them. Or maybe I'm being too charitable and he's actually opposed to equal opportunities to all, after all. -
I would've liked to see how the National Security Council's previously prepared pandemic playbook, which was scrapped, would've panned out. Instead, we got all kinds of conflicting and confusing messages from the powers that be while they were making up shit on the fly and pitting states against one another from the outset. In hindsight, it'd be a bit easier to prepare the next one if we could see what actually happened and worked (or didn't) and tinker with that existing plan.
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If you ever find yourself In a place/situation/group Where leadership/peer pressure/propaganda are focused on Separating/isolating you from the influence of other groups/external influences To make you fear other groups/the outside world You might be in a cult and should consider getting the fuck out or fighting back and changing that place/situation/group, because the point of that reinforced isolation is to control you and take advantage of you.
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I can think of no better use for Kyle Field.
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Russian asset and dumbest American president in history is maybe, perhaps, starting to figure shit out after at least 10 years that he’s being played like the stupid, fat fiddle he is. Photo below cracks me up. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/trump-putin.html
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I might be up for that in the aftertime, but it currently hits too close to home.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
bolverk replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
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Judd Stone, former TX Solicitor General, is Freak Nasty
bolverk replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
Remember, the main point of all the anti-abortion stuff is really about controlling women. With that in mind, his being a fucking psycho toward them totally checks out.- 45 replies
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Be dear and become a 21st-century Pied Piper for us by training an AI to hack into Cybertuck programming to lead them and their techbro drivers off the Pennybacker Bridge.
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Looks like a deranged turtle about to take a bite out of Brownsville.
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Yeah, see, I should replace my existing ride with one of these, yeah, just to get into the spirit. See? Chollie, hand me my Tommy gun! RATATATAT
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I read it as: The first one says he discussed it with colleagues for a long time, for months. The second one says he discussed it in excruciating detail with influential and powerful people for a long time, once during dinner.
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I wonder if we’ll come up with a fun 21st-century neologism to describe all the various crimes of this new fraud-filled era that we’ve ushered in by the cons in charge, or if the existing ones, such as bootlegging, piracy, smuggling, trafficking, counterfeiting, Ponzi scheming, scamming, thieving, poaching, plundering, or grifting, will suffice. Trade Crime Is Soaring, U.S. Firms Say, as Trump’s Tariffs Incentivize Fraud President Trump’s steep global tariffs have supercharged efforts to evade them. Some U.S. companies say the government is ill equipped to keep up. As President Trump’s tariffs have ratcheted up in recent months, so have the mysterious solicitations some U.S. companies have received, offering them ways to avoid the taxes. Shipping companies, many of them based in China, have reached out to U.S. firms that import apparel, auto parts and jewelry, offering solutions that they say can make the tariffs go away. “We can avoid high duties from China, which we have already done many in the past,” read one email to a U.S. importer. “Beat U.S. Tariffs,” a second read, promising to cap the tariffs “at a flat 10%.” It added: “You ship worry free.” “Good News! The tariffs has been dropped finally!” another proclaimed. The proposals — which are circulating in emails, as well as in videos on TikTok and other platforms — reflect a new flood of fraudulent activity, according to company executives and government officials. As U.S. tariffs on foreign products have increased sharply in recent months, so have the incentives for companies to find ways around them. The Chinese firms advertising these services describe their methods as valid solutions. For a fee, they find ways to bring products to the United States with much lower tariffs. But experts say these practices are methods of customs fraud. The companies may be dodging tariffs by altering the information about the shipments that is given to the U.S. government to qualify for a lower tariff rate. Or they may move the goods to another country that is subject to a lower tariff before shipping them to the United States, a technique known as transshipment. The Trump administration said this month that it would focus more on fighting trade fraud, including tariff evasion. The administration is also trying to persuade other countries to step up their own enforcement efforts, including in trade talks with Vietnam, Mexico and Malaysia. But many American companies say the scale of illicit activity now far outweighs the ability of these governments to thwart it. These schemes are costing the U.S. government billions of dollars in tariff revenue annually, executives and officials say. And they are leaving honest companies that pay tariffs deeply frustrated and worried about being left at a financial disadvantage to dishonest competitors. “If nothing is done, those willing to cheat are going to continue to win the day here,” said David Rashid, the executive chairman of Plews, a car parts company that has appealed to the government to crack down on unfair trading practices by its competitors. Mr. Rashid said that unfairly traded products had filtered into supply chains throughout the United States. “It’s easy to pull the wool over people’s eyes, especially if people like the wool over their eyes,” he added. Continued (free link): https://archive.is/7NTa4
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Trumpism has ushered in an era of corruption, fraud, and lawlessness across the board. We’re living in a Mobland, ruled over by the ultimate con artist and his incompetent capos, inspiring a horde of scammers, fraudsters, liars, cheats, thieves, grifters, and various other ne'er-do-wells to rob you fucking blind. Someone, help me find a Tommy gun, trench coat, and fedora. Trade Crime Is Soaring, U.S. Firms Say, as Trump’s Tariffs Incentivize Fraud President Trump’s steep global tariffs have supercharged efforts to evade them. Some U.S. companies say the government is ill equipped to keep up. As President Trump’s tariffs have ratcheted up in recent months, so have the mysterious solicitations some U.S. companies have received, offering them ways to avoid the taxes. Shipping companies, many of them based in China, have reached out to U.S. firms that import apparel, auto parts and jewelry, offering solutions that they say can make the tariffs go away. “We can avoid high duties from China, which we have already done many in the past,” read one email to a U.S. importer. “Beat U.S. Tariffs,” a second read, promising to cap the tariffs “at a flat 10%.” It added: “You ship worry free.” “Good News! The tariffs has been dropped finally!” another proclaimed. The proposals — which are circulating in emails, as well as in videos on TikTok and other platforms — reflect a new flood of fraudulent activity, according to company executives and government officials. As U.S. tariffs on foreign products have increased sharply in recent months, so have the incentives for companies to find ways around them. The Chinese firms advertising these services describe their methods as valid solutions. For a fee, they find ways to bring products to the United States with much lower tariffs. But experts say these practices are methods of customs fraud. The companies may be dodging tariffs by altering the information about the shipments that is given to the U.S. government to qualify for a lower tariff rate. Or they may move the goods to another country that is subject to a lower tariff before shipping them to the United States, a technique known as transshipment. The Trump administration said this month that it would focus more on fighting trade fraud, including tariff evasion. The administration is also trying to persuade other countries to step up their own enforcement efforts, including in trade talks with Vietnam, Mexico and Malaysia. But many American companies say the scale of illicit activity now far outweighs the ability of these governments to thwart it. These schemes are costing the U.S. government billions of dollars in tariff revenue annually, executives and officials say. And they are leaving honest companies that pay tariffs deeply frustrated and worried about being left at a financial disadvantage to dishonest competitors. “If nothing is done, those willing to cheat are going to continue to win the day here,” said David Rashid, the executive chairman of Plews, a car parts company that has appealed to the government to crack down on unfair trading practices by its competitors. Mr. Rashid said that unfairly traded products had filtered into supply chains throughout the United States. “It’s easy to pull the wool over people’s eyes, especially if people like the wool over their eyes,” he added. cont'd
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