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Yeah, Rwandan forces were a good choice by Mozambique and I'm sure ExxonMobil and Total were happy to see them in Mocimboa da Praia. The SADC forces seemed to have deployed into more civilian/local communities; that mandate ended last year unfortunately.
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Seems like, oh, Nigeria has some of that as well. Surprised they've not started up on Mozambique now that Ansar al-Sunna and ISIS is back in Cabo Delgado province (large nat gas reserves) and raising hell with civilians again. Maybe it's because the moçambicanos don't speak English as well. (I know you know the region well, Inka)
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You know, if they mess that one up and it says "UO Sucks", I'll pay for that one.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
flatdawgs replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
This is a huge problem for me as well. I have junior staff doing code research (building, fire, ADA, zoning etc.) and they invariably rely on AI to do this. Nearly daily it returns incorrect answers similar to what you got - wrong code, section was revised, etc. Although I require staff to return the actual code cite language and section reference to me, a lot of them just want to take the AI result as gospel. The last search I did, for a building code reference in a WA state suburb, current (2021) code, returned a reference to the 2009 Santa Clara CA building code. When I showed it to staff, they started to get it - I hope.... -
"You know the best way to raise your income 26%? Move from a red state to a blue state." Yeah, makes about as much sense. These people are shameless.
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Aside from what may have happened to his family in Mandatory Iraq, looking at the guy's photo I'm pretty sure his parents weren't killed by anyone in 1941 and likely not even his grandparents. (as an aside, there was a pro-German coup in Iraq in April/May 1941; it was put down by British and Commonwealth forces following which - i.e. back under British control - riots in Baghdad's Jewish Quarter killed about 200. Bad shit, no doubt; but where was the asylum from a British protectorate supposed to come from?)
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My dumbass brother became an attorney, so I get it 😂
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Huh... 30 years in the profession and now I find out it's not a profession. Well, at least the great pay and short hours make up for... WAIT. FUCK. (yeah, this will go over super well in the A&E community - as an architect I needed to go through several years of mandatory internship then 9 exams. It's thankfully simplified now, although still rigorous. My engineering friends and colleagues have similar rigors to endure before becoming licensed. Sure would've been a lot easier to walk off campus with my degree and yell "I'm an architect now!" and been done with it.)
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He had the same reputation last go-around - a young McKennie even talked about it then. He plays a different role for club now and more than held his own this past summer against some top-level competition (UEFA, CONMEBOL, and CONCACAF club champions) and shut down some guy named Messi in a cup final, frustrating the hell out of him in the process. He's not likely to see many minutes, but having a guy like that on the sideline/in the clubhouse isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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If you look a bit further south, about halfway between Seattle and Portland, you'll find that the city of Longview (and another one, can't recall at the moment which) flipped their city government from R to D. Now, this part of the state is about as hard MAGA as they get around here - Lewis County is Alabama with scenery - so this was an even bigger surprise to me than Wilson's election. I didn't dislike Harrell, but along with the things you pointed out he continually slow-walked the residential rezoning process mandated by state law, to the point where even Spokane currently has more liberal upzoning.
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Yeah, Stroessner (Paraguayan dictator from the mid-50s until 1989) was a bit of a fan of the Nazis, quite a few of whom - like Mengele - figured this out. He was, of course, supported by the US during nearly the entirety of his regime, and although he had to self-exile in Brazil for the remaining 15 or so years of his life his party has ruled almost uninterruptedly since then. Unlike Uruguay or Chile, Paraguay is, to say the least, more than a bit ambivalent about that era.
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God, the Brazilians hate that book, and for good reason - they fought with the Allies against the Germans in Italy and in the Atlantic. Their expeditionary forces even had a cool name: As Cobras Fumantes - the Smoking Cobras (or Snakes). Argentina, on the other hand....
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Yeah, this whole thing is weird. If now there are allegedly 100 GOP reps who are willing to vote to release the files, why do they need Rep. Grijalva's signature on the discharge petition? Why can't one of those 100 who haven't signed do it now?
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
flatdawgs replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
Brother was Army ATC, then civilian after he got out. Saint Ronnie fired him and the world eventually ended up with yet another attorney then judge. Thanks a lot for that, Ronnie - yet another reason you sucked.
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