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  1. One thing to ponder, basically anything written before ChatGPT (that you know was written by a human) is going to become steadily more valuable. Especially non-fiction and how-to type content.
  2. I am getting more and more skeptical. Now the Russian MOD is claiming that both Vampires and indigenous Ukrainian Vilkha rockets with “cluster munitions” were used. This is getting extremely self-serving as the Russians have been crying about cluster munitions since we sent them, and they also get to whine about “NATO weapons.” I am doubtful AFU would use cluster munitions against a civilian area. And luckily, RU says they intercepted all of those! I can very much believe Russian air defense fell on Belgorod.
  3. Confirmation that Russia is blaming this on a Vampire system……which likely doesn’t have the range…..
  4. Russia is demanding that Czech Republic explain why its munitions were used to attack Belgorod: The public system that would most likely fit the bill is the RM-70 Vampire. It fires the same Grad rockets that the well known Russian BM-21 uses. Belgorod is at the REALLY far reach of their range. (Incidentally I helped crowdfund a Vampire for Ukraine this year and I get the warm fuzzies over it). My advice here is to watch this space. The Russians have worse relations with the Czechs than even us and very little to lose by pointing the finger. The race to attribute this to them raises some real doubts. There’s also real possibilities that (as happens in Ukraine often) air defense and debris is the culprit. I won’t say “false flag” but what I will say is that whatever version the Russians offer up is likely not true.
  5. There is a statute of limitations, and it’s best to just say what your deal is when you accept an invite. For sure if it’s really involved. “We’d like to come to dinner. We’ve been cutting way down on red meat, is that OK?” lands much better than “we don’t eat anything but chicken and seafood” on the day of. Its a pretty safe bet that by day of, your host has put planning and money into the meal and it’s a dick move to say “oh, we don’t eat most stuff.”
  6. lol, that’s what the wife texted my wife. “If 956 is making ‘beef fajitas’ then John Doe and the boys will bring their own food.” GTFO, that’s even ruder than asking me to cook what you want. About ten years back was the worse, again my wife invited over a couple and their baby we had met in a different city. They just showed up with some raw ingredients and asked to use our kitchen to make their own meal. I nearly booted them out of the house right there. WTF is wrong with people?
  7. Weird-ass dietary requirements. Look, I can cook around actual allergies and religious requirements. If you’re vegan or vegetarian I can respect that and will make sure you’re fed and don’t feel like you’re an afterthought. But my wife has friends coming over tonight and that was cool, I said I’d do fajitas. Then as I’m going to the store— “her husband and kids only eat chicken and seafood.” Fuck, just stay at home with those requirements. That’s just making other people cook what you want. I cannot imagine my dad telling people we are going to visit to cook around my tastebuds like that. Pollo asado it will be but I’m not making bacon free beans that I won’t want to eat for the next few days.
  8. The Cybertruck won a fight with a Toyota Corolla! Smashed it all to hell and has much less damage! https://nypost.com/2023/12/29/business/tesla-cybertruck-involved-in-first-reported-crash/ (Only injury is to Cybertruck driver)
  9. I’ve read some of his other stuff, but not that. He’s a genius writer, thanks for the recommendation.
  10. Although I misspoke, you do kind of care: - When Russian bombs fall on Syrian kids, you’re mad at Raytheon - When Israeli bombs fall on Palestinian kids, you’re also mad at Raytheon - When Hamas gunmen kill Israeli kids, you’re also mad at Raytheon - When Russian missiles fall on Ukrainian kids, you’re also mad at Raytheon (and Toria Nuland) It’s almost like you’ve got some pre-generated outrage here.
  11. You’re undermining your point, which is that you posted this comparison and now you’re saying the figures can’t be known. No shit, that’s exactly what I’ve pointed out— it’s a bull shit comparison untethered to facts. It serves no point, because the things it’s comparing are not accurately counted on either side. The only important thing to you, like everywhere else, is to show that somehow Russia isn’t really that bad. That’s you MO. You don’t give a shit about kids, you never gave a shit about Arab kids getting bombed by Russia in Syria, or Ukrainian kids, or any kids. You actively obfuscated. You only give a shit about kids when Putin tells you to.
  12. I quoted the actual source from OHCR you absolute dipshit. The ones that CNN quotes. https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/09/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-24-september-2023#:~:text=From 24 February 2022%2C which,9%2C701 killed and 17%2C748 injured. Ukraine’s deaths are significantly undercounted, so offering up some comparison is just clown-ass behavior. It’s comparing things that can’t be compared. But to be expected from someone who doesn’t give a shit about kids in Palestine or elsewhere, you care about simping for the Kremlin and obfuscating what they are doing.
  13. I say this as someone with more time in Russia than anyone should have to go through: Spend enough time there and you will come away simultaneously awed at how shitty things are but impressed that they aren’t even worse.
  14. Speaking of disingenuous shit, I see that Anastasis is on here promoting the ridiculous casualty figures that he pulled from anti-Zionist Twitter, which (in line with Anastasis) is mostly obsessed with proving that Israel is worse than Russia. What does the OHCR actually say about these figures: Russia hasn’t allowed any investigations or reporting from Mariupol, Sieverodontesk, and all the other cities they leveled and continue to occupy. It’s a black fucking box and everyone knows the there’s mountains of corpses but there’s no Hamas run health ministry to report it. He’s been a total pro-Putin simp for years and yet his bullshit on this thread gets lapped up.
  15. It’s just a dishonest tactic to avoid talking about things that are bad for your side. The first instinct was to deny the assaults happened, and then when the NYT reports they they did, you just have to change to say it shouldn’t be talked about. And no one says it’s propaganda to show footage of what is happening in Gaza. Think of all the moments in history that are known, documented, and provoked change because of shocking, authentic reporting on them: Abu Ghraib “Terror of War” Photo Bucha/Irpin Rwanda ISIS persecution of Yazidis and executions Auschwitz and Dachau at liberation On, and on, and on, and on. It’s only this instance that Hayduke objects to. It’s the exact same equivalent of neocons who say they stuff like Abu Ghraib shouldn’t be published because it undermines troop morale or the war effort.
  16. It is not propaganda to talk about the things Hamas actually did, and filmed. You are confusing propaganda with “facts I don’t like.” Was it propaganda to publish what happened in Bucha? Or just anti-Russian propaganda.
  17. Where you keep tripping up is that the “atrocity porn” is just stuff that Hamas filmed and distributed themselves, because they get off on rapes and murders. And you just can’t stand that people notice. It’s one of those magical things about Israel, it’s the only country devious enough to trick its enemies into producing propaganda on its behalf .
  18. Serving in the military is conservative and middle-class to working class coded. People come into the service with those biases. At the officer level, spending time at the Pentagon and other assignments helps to mitigate that, not completely, but it gets harder to buy into the ever loonier right when you’re rubbing elbows and working with the “Deep State” to accomplish the same aims. Vietnam and its aftermath did a lot of damage and we have generations of people who lean liberal and highly educated who would never consider or support the military as a potential career. It’s bad for the services and it’s bad for society as a whole that in some ways the all-volunteer force has become sort of a subculture in itself.
  19. News is the default for background noise, and customers who watch Fox News will whine like assholes to get it on that channel. And low paid receptionists and others with the remote will change just to get them to STFU. On the other hand, I would never risk having to talk to some Fox junkie on the off-chance that it’s a conscious choice to have Fox on. It’s just going to be a miserable interchange with a high chance of me appearing on Truth social getting “owned.”
  20. Atrocity propaganda is a thing but the difference here is that the first producers and distributors of the propaganda were the perps themselves. It’s just obfuscation in terms, trying to claim that being upset over real rapes and murders that Hamas filmed and circulated is equivalent to swallowing Great War stories about the ravaging Hun. At most, you can get upset at people for believing Hamas’ own propaganda, which is kind of a self-defeating argument.
  21. It’s kind of the opposite direction from where OP wants to go, but at Christmas the town of Seiffen in the Ore Mountains is fantastic. Very Wes Anderson vibe, literally the whole town is engaged in making nutcrackers and wooden toys. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiffen Instead of Nuremberg, try Regensburg and then you’re also close to Dresden. Both peak Christmas market towns. And I’m biased but I have always found the most FUN to be at provincial markets in Czech and Slovakia. Bratislava counts even as a capital. Off the path so the focus is not on tchotchkes and quaint tourist shit. It’s for locals, so it’s amazing food and cheap booze. The “turbo punch” (extra shot in a cup of already boozy Christmas punch is a fave). As it gets later, the crowds get younger and hotter, recommend.
  22. This has been in the works, but it has weight and a date behind it now. Someone wanted it out in advance of G7 meetings and the two-year mark; and it’s unlikely they’d have gotten it there if there wasn’t a good chance of it happening. People hate it when stuff like this is expected and fails to materialize. We have the chance to do the funniest thing ever (send Russia a Czech with “From Russia, with Love” in the memo line). We can only dream of having that level of strategic communications.
  23. Notice how far Putin and any RUS leadership stays from their troops.
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