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  1. The great thing about using drones is that the U.S. can shrug and say no big deal or we can choose to end the Houthis as a political force. The strong pull is in the direction of the former, the preference here is for deterrence to work and there is a willingness to swallow a lot to make sure it does. There is a conscious effort from us to downplay these attacks and a conscious effort from Iran to make sure they can throw a proxy under the bus.
  2. It is a real open question whether that ice will ever get formed enough for armor. More likely not. The winters in that part of the world have changed and you’d need a lot of ice. During the siege of Leningrad there was an ice road across Lake Ladoga, they sent trucks but not armor that I am aware of.
  3. This and the recycling got me when I returned from six years in Europe. I nearly always turn down the plastic bag when the clerk goes for one. And as mentioned up-thread, I feel like a heathen just throwing my recyclables in with the rest of the trash. We use a LOT of plastic shit here. It’s really noticeable.
  4. I grew up in the RGV and would load up the back of my Dodge with Mexican cokes, haul them back to college, and sell cold Mexican coke out of the dorm mini fridge. If you brought the bottle back you got some money back. Then bring the empties back at next break and stock up on a new load. Helped pay for a Spring Break ski trip.
  5. The first time I felt really “old” was tuning into an NFL game and every player being younger than me. The first time I felt super gotdam old was when I went back to a football game and joined my grad school’s tailgate for a few beers with the professors I stayed in touch with and one of the students asked me whose dad I was. I was still on the left side of 40 at the time and took great umbrage.
  6. You have nothing to add to any discussion except pure edgelord bullshit and defense of Kremlin shit, every time. You’re a troll who carries their water.
  7. Northwest* and up from the Persian Gulf. And you’re a Kremlin troll. Fuck uou.
  8. Although, this has been an instructive insight into how information manipulation works, it’s as easy as sending out something that’s well produced and that vibes with your biases and all of a sudden you’re sharing content from an outlet stocked with Kremlin and PRC shills. https://www.thedailybeast.com/neville-singham-funded-breakthrough-news-is-pushing-moscow-beijing-propaganda
  9. But maybe “Breathrough News” are just peaceniks. Maybe they just really believe all war is bad. That’s a good take, right? What else are they caring about besides……. Celebrating Wagner Group organized coups in Africa. Calling Zelenskyy a welfare queen (note Russian spelling of his name in the screengrab) Hyping the Putin-Kim Jong Un alliance. Europe needs to undo sanctions against Russia! “The Eritrean government is good, actually….” Is a take. It is a take.
  10. Serious question, do you realize you’re sharing pure, uncut agitprop and disinformation? It doesn’t make it better when it’s delivered by a smarmy guy in glasses using the buzzwords that get you going. Fucking up the map of U.S. military installations this badly in the CENTCOM AOR alone is reason enough to tune out: Here’s a hint: all those alleged installations northeast of India and up from the Persian Gulf? They don’t fucking exist except in leftist fever dreams and Russian disinformation maps. Neither does the capability to “invade any corner of the globe in a matter of hours” although I’m sure there are people at the Pentagon who’d like to hear this guy’s pitch on how to do it. Speaking of Russian disinformation, what was “Breakthrough News” concerned about before October 6? Oh, carrying Russia’s water and advocating for the end of aid to Ukraine. That actually….tracks perfectly. Totally on-brand and easy to spot within the first fucking two minutes of watching your video. It is not better or smarter to fall for this shit from an “anti-imperialist” perspective.
  11. lol, you’re old as hell everyone knows that 1993 was 20 years ago.
  12. It’s exactly what people mean when they talk about structural racism and how the dreaded CRT isn’t just about vibes and hate for whitey but trying to remove real-life inequities in the way the law treats real-life people who are getting screwed. There’s also some non-structural old-fashioned racism in that this POS would not be pulling this shit with white people. But the point is that the individual-level racism can be defanged in a big way if it can’t be weaponized within a legal system that is no longer intentionally racist but that simply hasn’t been un-racised. Also tempted to get up on my soapbox about how this is a great example of why we need the dinosaur media and how the consolidation of local and regional media to corporate interests is not going to lead to a blooming of great citizen journalism. Citizens don’t have the time or ability to do a piece like this. The trend is moving to make it easier for the local shitheads to fuck your over.
  13. This would not necessarily mean that the equipment is in good shape, but the Russians (like us), frequently require that Russian techs be on-site to do maintenance on a lot of their high-value tech. Really common with aircraft. I don’t know the precise deals with these countries but it would not be surprising if they had factory techs doing key work.
  14. Update: They absolutely did use the wrong kind of UV light.
  15. I liked Bonanza and Sirloin Stockade better than Golden Corral. We called all those places “the feedbag” in my family and Golden Corral really is a feedbag. Douse a Sirloin Stockade steak with enough Heinz 57 and load up the baked potato and it’s not bad at all.
  16. When I was in junior high I made the all-A honor roll all year and the reward was going to Shoney’s with the Vice-Principal, Mr. Forrest, and the other honor roll kids.
  17. Hello Mr. Soldier, please fill out this form to have sex with our prostitutes. What does this say, O-5 or O-6? Don’t worry, no one looks at these things.
  18. Have you considered offering something else to do? Getting her to you and even a productive alternative that is still supporting the cause she’s wanting to back that very same weekend? I don’t want to say the trite “touch grass” but getting out of the college and online environment has a way to cool people down. I’m constantly amazed at the ability this one particular conflict has to gin people up to go scream in the streets as there’s a world of people hurting that doesn’t provoke that. It’s manufactured outrage, and it’s super effective for its target audience.
  19. Assholes really find a way to prey on kids who care about things that their parents often want them to care about. They abuse that enthusiasm. And yeah, the gays and drag queens are not your concern.
  20. I know this is the shit on churches thread and they deserve it for the hypocrisy and horrendous self-policing. And I’d add the extra layer of claiming authority over not just the kids but the parents too. I don’t know of any real studies, but man, is you’re a parent and the first concern is keeping your kids safe, then you have so many place to worry about beyond the Baptists or Catholics. We’ve seen this shot in swimming, in wrestling, in gymnastics. In towns all over America it’s the band or drama or after school club. The fact is that any environment that rewards charismatic adults having influence over young people is a magnet for predators. In my hometown it was the band. I posted earlier up that I have an inherent suspicion of youth ministers because most normal people don’t want to be that involved in the lives of teenagers and they especially aren’t interested in returning back to high school right after college. But you have to keep that sense up for any adult in your kid’s life that is playing a bigger role than their own defined role should allow. The only thing a coach should care about is getting a lap time down. You start sending he’s caring about something else, start asking questions. A band director should care about playing in tune. The drama coach should care about learning lines. The pastor shouldn’t be counseling your kid without you there and you shouldn’t catch your kid wondering what he thinks. People who are breaking visible boundaries are almost certainly testing limits in ways you don’t see. I like to think we are getting better at this. In high school, I was friends with a pretty young thing I asked to homecoming. She went with me, but made clear that she could only be friends. Why? Because of this counselor she met at church (Episcopal) camp. And not to worry, they would NEVER do anything, he’s 24 and she’s 16. But they just had this strong connection, you know, and they’d decided they’d just wait to see if being together was God’s plan. And that’s what happened, no dating or anything all through high school because she was waiting to see if this dude was “God’s plan.” Spoiler alter: He was. Those two got married as soon as she finished college and as far as I know they are still together with their three kids. Still, this is a really creepy origin story and can’t be viewed as anything other than grooming. Who knows what she’d have found if she had a normal high school and college instead of a grown-ass man claiming her when she was a sophomore in high school? And I hope that today, her friends would have waved that flag and someone responsible would have intervened to make sure he understood she wasn’t for him and he couldn’t go to church camp anymore.
  21. You know this, but I think a lot of people don’t realize how dependent UN agencies are on local personnel everywhere and especially places like Gaza. There aren’t really a lot “UN third country personnel” there to run things and push out information, they will be relying on local populations with attendant competing interests and agendas. I also really think one reason that so many people were reluctant to believe how horrible October 7 really was is because of how much mendacious reporting on atrocities they know their own side regularly does, so they can’t believe another side might tell the truth. The Russian population has been poisoned this way.
  22. The bulletproof thing is just so fucking stupid. As someone who’s been in more armored SUVs than I wanted to be, I can say confidently that no one actually wants one unless they need one. The formula isn’t hard, thicker and heavier steel and thicker and heavier glass. They handle like shit and are hell on suspensions and tires. And as you mention, it’s all a waste if you are using automotive glass. It’s all part of dumbfuck Elon and his fanboys believing he’s a DISRUPTOR. If there were a way to effectively armor vehicles so that they were more driveable and livable in day to day used the many firms that specialize in armored vehicle would have done it. All Elon is doing is showing that stainless steel is tough. No shit. I really want to see how the Cybertruck does in crash testing. Modern car design builds in crumple zones because all that energy has to go somewhere and if it’s not getting crumpled, it’s passing through to the cabin.
  23. Roger Waters has been an asshole for a long time. He’s been openly pumping Russian narratives about how they were provoked into attacking Ukraine for almost two years now. Ditto Glenn Greenwald, and ditto the Gray Zone cited in the video. Russia and Ukraine is the clearest test of a moral compass and computing power to come along in about seventy years, if you fail it then you are only capable of being accidentally right about anything.
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