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  1. On 4/19/2022 at 10:13 PM, atomheartbevo said:

    @CoTex if you want to read more about these types of communities, start with the largest one, The Villages in Florida, with over 70,000 residents. 

    There's a documentary about it - https://www.vox.com/22225786/some-kind-of-heaven-villages-documentary-interview-review

    Basically a shit-ton of people trying to return to their college days, as @millhouse mentions:

    https://nypost.com/2009/01/25/retire-to-the-bedroom/ (although some of the statements are disputed)

     

    Watched the documentary on Hulu, wtf, place is miserable.

  2. 10 minutes ago, After irth said:

    I haven't been through ABIA in 4 years, but I will be picking up a friend from there on a late-afternoon arrival.  Is there a place to hang out, chill with some food & drink, and wait?  Or is everything inside the TSA lines.  Am I better off just camping out in a cell-phone lot?

    Or...is there some place very close that will work?

    745 US-183, Austin, TX 78741

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  3. On 4/16/2022 at 9:24 AM, miguelito said:
    Finbarr O’Reilly / New York Times

    Sister Diogena Tereshkevych tries to comfort fellow civilians with stories while they all take refuge in a bomb shelter Friday in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

     

     

    Sister Diogena Tereshkevych comforting people displaced from eastern Ukraine while inside a bomb shelter during an air raid alert in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Friday.

     

     

    Interesting picture, with the light framed around her head like that.

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  4. 11 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    What can you learn about a military from its band? Usually, not much. But putting on great performance requires some of the same skills as conducting a military operation. It requires recruiting the right people with the right talents (and many militaries, including the American military, use bands as a recruiting tool). It requires equipping those people with the right technology—often highly specialized—so they can do their job. It requires training those people to work together to perform complicated tasks with impeccable timing. It requires developing young leaders, managing logistics, and maintaining high morale. The sergeant I spoke to observed that what came through in the Ukrainians’ performance is that they wanted to be there, they wanted to be great, and their leaders were inspirational.

    Good article. Former EUCOM commander. 

    https://www.thebulwark.com/i-commanded-u-s-army-europe-heres-what-i-saw-in-the-russian-and-ukrainian-armies/

    I skimmed that article and you could replace Russia with aggy throughout and it holds up extremely well.

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  5. 10 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:

    Yeah well, Sumlin never bought recruited the most bestest #1 class of all time.

    Can they add that to their hall of fame or whatever that shit is called? I’m stupid, they probably already put a trophy or a plaque up for that recruiting title.

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