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Fuck Russia right up the ass. "We are continuing our rescue operation in the south of Ukraine, and we have managed to evacuate about 4,000 people. Dozens of towns and villages remain flooded, with the worst situation still in the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region. Russian terrorists continue to shell evacuation routes, evacuation points, boats that take people away... Today, as a result of one of these attacks, three people were killed. Ten more people were injured, including two police officers. It was an evacuation from Kardashynka, an occupied village on the left bank of Kherson region... The occupiers created this disaster by blowing up the dam, leaving people to their fate in flooded towns and villages, and then shelling the boats that are trying to take people away... Even beasts are more moral than you, Russian state."
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If you can no longer see your penis, is it still there? I wonder if he has assistants that wipe his ass with towels, the way Mangino used to.
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No? I mean, it took a full fledged invasion to change their tune even slightly. To me, what has happened surrounding the dam sabotage - not just the destruction itself, both short and long term, but making sure it was as much of a humanitarian disaster as possible - confiscating and destroying flotation devices, opening fire on anyone trying to evacuate after the dam break was discovered, shelling evacuation centers, refusing to allow UN personnel to assist people suffering from the devastation - should put a nail in the coffin for what Ukraine is dealing with, and the extent to which Russia/Putin will go. They're making preparations for a mass mobilization of basically any man who can fog a mirror and isn't in a high enough place of power to be able to say no. They're leaning on their historical precedence for simply throwing meat into the meat grinder until the enemy gives in, but they simply don't have as much meat compared to everyone else as they used to, while refusing to acknowledge it. You didn't include Macron, but he's just as bad in many ways. And these are the ones on Ukraine's side. God forbid the opposition took over. I won't go down the list of EU/NATO countries and the problems with each one, but the short answer is that they're full of either small populations with tiny economies, countries heading headlong towards democracies in name only, or countries with oppositions who don't want to have anything to do with Ukraine. That's a broad generalization, but there's more than a kernel of truth in there. I'm all in on Ukraine's side, and have been for almost a decade now. Mostly I see shit like this and just remind myself to be grateful for the support given. Germany has been instrumental in giving Ukraine the means to conduct the current offensive. Their air defense systems have almost certainly saved thousands of civilian lives. Maybe tens of thousands. They're very far from perfect, and it seemed to take forever for them to move their sluggish ass, but if Scholz wants to pretend his stupid fucking phone call is going to make a difference to Putin in terms of providing an offramp for this horseshit, in my mind it's the price we have to pay for Germany making a difference. Which they have. But no. There's a lack of understanding that Ukraine presents an existential threat to Russia. Not just in terms of being on its border while being more western oriented. But the possibility it may actually start having a much higher standard of living while doing so. That's the thing. It's bad enough as it is where Russians are just coming in and stealing shit wholesale because the Ukrainians are living better lives than they are at home. And Ukraine has a dogshit economy. Think if they became the kind of powerhouse I think they're capable of. It would look like the North/South Korea border and the West/East Germany border all over again. What Russian government is going to survive that?
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It's been their stated objective. They did have a brief moment where they proposed cutting down on the number of sports they fielded a few years ago. The alumni went apeshit and raised a bunch of money to keep any programs from being shut down.
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Personally I’d love to see another 9th inning collapse by Stanford. That was a fun way to win last night. My favorite was the fly ball caroming off the right fielder’s glove. I had that on repeat for a while.
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Stanford fields 31 sports. Ohio State leads the country with 35. I wouldn’t say it’s a private/public university issue. Stanford sees part of their mission as preparing Olympians. Texas has made an emphasis on excellence and superior funding in every sport we field. It’s just a difference in philosophy. I do think west coast schools naturally field more programs because of all the niche sports popular there. But who gives a shit? I like the way we do it. If I had my way they never would have changed the rules for the Directors Cup, though. This makes it fairer, but it makes no sense to me to create a metric that does anything other than encourage universities to field more sports teams. But it’s to our benefit, so I’ll take it. Also, fewer people paid attention when it was basically the Stanford Cup.
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They have it. So why not win it? It’s a sign of overall athletic department excellence. I think it’s kind of cool. At the same time we wouldn’t be in it if they didn’t change the rules to limit it to points scored based on the top 20 sports finishes. Stanford was the only winner with their 31 sports for a couple of decades. But I think it’s fun we’ve won both of them after the rule change and have a remote shot at a third one with the last sport deciding its champion. But if they’re in the championship game in Omaha and it’s coming down to the wire, I’m going to care about winning the baseball national championship. Not the implications for the Directors Cup. That shit is just extra. But I also don’t care if anyone else follows it or not. It’s not an end all be all.
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He has a 39 game streak of reaching base. That’s not the same thing, but it’s not nothing.
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There had to be a better way of making his point. The US isn't going to get that experience, either, because we wouldn't do such a thing. It's not a bug. It's a feature. And I don't know about the whole "no other Western-style military" thing. Is Israel not a western style military? How is he so sure no other western style military is capable of it? I'm all for being rah rah Ukraine, but there are plenty of ways to do that without hyperbole. Not impressed. This is about desperation on one level. Ukraine needs to do something to prove this isn't a static war of attrition, and they can't wait for Western allies to provide enough air power to neutralize the Russian advantage in the theater of operation. They've admitted as much. So they're going in anyway. God speed.
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This is not a guy you want to overcharge $5 at the Burger King drive thru.
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That was a storm shadow strike (doesn't change your point)., There aren't that many locals in the area. That's on the spit at the mouth of the Dnipro. It was a tourist area previously. I don't think Bucha had anything to do with partisans. The people responsible for those horrors were ordered to clear the area of human beings. Not as a reprisal, but as a strategy to sow terror and to make sure there wouldn't be any distractions. I'm not sure what you're referring to with Kharkiv. Russia has never occupied it. To me Russians are going to be vicious regardless. They abduct children. They blow up prisoners of war. They execute civilians with gunshots to the back of their heads. They blow up dams, but first make sure they've taken or destroyed every flotation device for the people who will be most impacted before they do so. Then they shoot at people who try to evacuate, and shell evacuation centers. They target hospitals and medical personnel, even setting up traps where they can target anyone taking away the wounded. They destroy any cultural references to the Ukrainian people. They burn books written in the Ukrainian language. They erase any reference to Ukraine, its culture, and its people in the history taught in the occupied areas. They keep food from being exported. They annex territory in sham referendums, even when it's likely they might have passed with a majority vote in a legitimate one. They threaten the use of nuclear weapons indiscriminately. They purposefully risk nuclear meltdown at the nuclear power plant under their control, up to and including using it as a hostage for staging military equipment. They imprison their own citizens to long terms simply for not agreeing with the war. They arrest American citizens and then give them no access to the outside world. I can't remember the exact quote, but someone above in the thread stated what they can't control, fuck, or steal, they simply destroy. I don't think destroying a building housing military personnel changes the equation much at all.
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That's using a very liberal definition of the term offensive actions.
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I mean, they look trained. There's a clear priority on providing cover fire, and every soldier is cognizant of maintaining firing lines and avoiding friendly fire. Doesn't sound like a big deal, but I've seen so many videos of Russian assault teams in Bakhmut where there's no real rhyme or reason to it. Just sending in meat for the meat grinder. And remember, many of these troops are volunteers from the recently mobilized with no prior military experience. Just the training provided by Western allies and the inhouse training in Ukraine. Don't know anything specific about this element of course, but I know that's true in a general way. Of course, this could be from Bakhmut, and many of those guys have years of experience. Not every assault is going to be this straight forward, but I still appreciate the footage. They all have to be incredibly tense situations. The more you do the more you trust the people next to you to do their job right, and the more effective the team becomes. This will have to be repeated over and over again throughout the country. Glad to see them honing their skills in what seems like an effective execution. I admire the Ukrainians who volunteered for this duty quite a bit. Thanks for the video.
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"Or else we are going to die here." I mean, there's surrender. Feels like a choice, you fat fuck. "...increased reports of Russian casualties as they withdraw through their own minefields." Oh, that's terrible. Hahahahahahahahaha! "Russian airforce has been unusually active over Southern Ukraine...." Lack of air cover, from either the ground or air, is the biggest weakness of this attack. The Russians are simply able to fly in the area with impunity. I remember in Kherson, Ukraine actually had local air superiority in certain areas during the offensive. Now it feels like troops are simply attacking naked to the skies. That's a bummer. Even if they're not all that effective tactically, there's still a helpless feeling watching those jets fly overhead knowing there's nothing your side can do about it. I watched a recent video of a couple of Russian fighters dropping what looked like cluster bombs almost randomly. Regardless of whether or not they hit important targets, there's a feeling the next one could. I'd love to start seeing reports of Russian fighters being taken down, even sporadically.
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BTW, from what I'm reading, the attack towards Tokmak is concentrating on the western flank, because there's a height advantage there. You'll see some reports of Ukrainian forces possibly skipping Robotyne, which may or may not be true to an extent, but a lot of it isn't because they're just leaving entrenched Russian forces there while they head further down the road towards Tokmak. It's because that's not even where the main thrust is right now. The road follows a "valley" of sorts, although there's no such thing as a true valley in this area. But better to command the heights for the attack on Tokmak than to leave the enemy there while attacking the town. I also want to reiterate - which is something I've said for months now - that excessive expectations are the enemy of the Ukrainian forces to some extent. Some people in Western audiences are hoping/expecting a Kharkiv type of advancement where they breakthrough and then take over 30 kilometers per day in a mad rush to form a new front line. This was always going to be more methodical due to limitations for what the Ukrainian forces have at their disposal versus the sheer manpower involved in the Russian defenses. Some key things to remind ourselves of (IMO) as the counter offensive unfolds: - Russia has no capacity for offensive operations now, and may not be able to generate it for the remainder of the war outside of private military groups. Their elite formations have been smashed. They stripped their training infrastructure to deploy them as troops right now. They're not reconstituting their troop organizations, but merely throwing untrained bodies into previously elite formations and calling it a day. They rely on outdated, unmaintained equipment for a lot of their brick and mortar military infrastructure. I'm not trying to say they're not dangerous any more. They are. They retain elements of a serious military force. They retain the advantage in weapons and technology in specific areas. But the winter offensives, and Bakhmut specifically, were their last hurrah in terms of effectively taking any more Ukrainian territory. They don't have the military infrastructure, particularly in term of their command structure - which is valued on other things beyond their capacity for leadership (political loyalty, non threat to the Kremlin) - to be able to generate the kind of capacity they held at the beginning of the invasion. It will take years and a level of competency they currently do not enjoy to rebuild that again. This is not a small thing. Above all else, it means any territory Ukraine recovers during this counter offensive is unlikely to be taken back unless a PMC gets involved. - What's happening in Bakhmut is important, because those are veteran UAF troops without access to the latest western kit (they absolutely have western artillery among other things). They've made impressive advancements - 2 kilometers already, and have already entered the southwest part of the city - in an obvious effort to encircle Russian forces there. It shows Ukraine maintains offensive force generation capabilities even without Western armor. - The minimum goal for Ukraine is to show this isn't a standoff battle of attrition. To me they're already showing that, but my biases are extreme. They're already showing more promise in making advances than the Russians have since September. The truth is the West can afford to send a lot more in the way of equipment to Ukraine. It's a matter of political will. If Ukraine can show they have the capability of breaking through Russian lines of defense and establishing new front lines, but they need more support, that's a much better situation politically than a static front line that preserves western kit but does nothing to generate more support. - It's obvious that at least for a limited amount of time, Ukraine has all the artillery ammo they need. If you don't have any real air power, you have to have effective artillery. To me that will determine how long this counter offensive can be effective as much as anything else. As long as the artillery ammo holds out from the extreme usage they're putting it to at the moment, they'll be able to keep pushing forward. Once whatever stocks they've been able to build up have been depleted for the most part, we're back to a static line. That, to me, is as critical a time line as Ukraine faces at the moment. - I still wonder if Ukraine is waiting to open up another attack vector, or exploit somewhere other than Tokmak. I don't have any opinion on what they should do. I don't know enough for that. But I do feel confident that Ukraine maintains a level of flexibility and mobility in terms of where they can move troops to, how quickly and effectively they can be employed, that Russia simply lacks. Throughout history the main advantage of the attacker is to be able to choose time and place for the battle. Based on what we've seen from Ukraine command previously - specifically the whole Kherson versus Kharkiv dynamic - I'm unconvinced they don't have something major hidden up their sleeves that has yet to be revealed.
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It's infuriating on some level to see the Russian online propagandists paint that attack as an attack on civilians. I've seen it portrayed as tourists staying there (yeah, right) or a children's center. You'd think I'd be numb to the hokum. Sometimes it's so blatant, and about a subject where a casual observer simply won't have access to the truth of it, that it drives me a little nuts. This is one of those.
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Haunting photo:
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Institute for the Study of War has a big update. Lots to unpack. But I want to focus on a specific part of this update: "Several independent sources reported additional evidence that an internal explosion likely destroyed the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (KHPP) dam on June 6. Norwegian seismic monitoring center NORSAR reported that seismic data indicates that an explosion occurred on June 6 at 2:54am local time, about the same time as the collapse of the KHPP dam.[30] NORSAR seismologist Volker Oye stated that seismic data indicated a pulse of energy that was “typical of an explosion.”[31] Seismic data cannot locate the energy pulse of the explosion to a more exact location than within 20 to 30km of the KHPP, however.[32] Oye stated that it would be an “unusual coincidence” if something other than an explosion caused the energy pulse.[33] The New York Times reported that an unnamed senior White House official stated that US spy satellites equipped with infrared sensors detected an explosion at the KHPP dam before it collapsed.[34] The Wall Street Journal reported that multiple engineers and munition experts assessed that an explosive blast likely detonated at a specific point or multiple points of weakness, which destroyed the KHPP dam.[35] ISW previously reported that engineering and munitions experts that the New York Times interviewed believe that a deliberate explosion caused the KHPP dam’s collapse.[36] The preponderance of evidence suggests that a deliberate explosion damaged the KHPP dam. ISW continues to assess that the balance of evidence, reasoning, and rhetoric suggests that the Russians deliberately damaged the dam.[37]" https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-9-2023
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My mother has some oil and gas royalty paying assets she inherited from her deceased husband. She needs extensive help with them. Does anyone on here have any suggestions on where to start looking for competent help? I'm going to make some phone calls on my own regardless, but I figured there are some people on here in the industry who if they don't have a solution themselves, might have an idea of who I could talk to/ask to point me in a good direction beyond what amounts to cold calling.
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Here is my serious advice. Try to have grace for the person involved. I don't blame you for getting upset. You don't need that $5, but it's fucking irritating. Compounded enough in your life, where you pay $5 more than everyone else around you for every good and service you ever purchase for the rest of your life, and it would make a sizable impact on the quality of your life. Luckily, that's not what is happening. But it doesn't help to think of her as pocketing that money. I don't blame you for going there. I go there nearly every single time something bad happens to me. Something isn't where I left it, I immediately conjure scenarios where someone else moved it from where I left it and either took it for themselves or didn't put it back where it belongs. Turns out I didn't actually leave it there. Someone is late for an important appointment? They're assholes who I should never associate with ever again. Then it turns out something truly important came up and they weren't able to communicate with me in a timely manner. I'm not saying Burger Kings shouldn't be burned to the ground. If there were never any consequences for our actions we'd never alter our behavior in important ways. But we both know you're not going to do anything about it. Get mad. I don't blame you. Then accept you were playing the roulette wheel of human incompetence, and somehow your number came up. Weeeee! You win! And there are going to be times you do it to someone else in some way. That woman is working a shitty job at a shitty Burger King with an underpaid shitty manager and assistant managers with unhealthy power trips in charge of her life in ways no one would wish on another person. She deals with anonymous asshole after anonymous asshole on an assembly line conveyer belt of mediocrity. There's no real human connection. Nothing to be proud of regarding what she accomplished that day. And she fucked up your order in a long line of orders and you're never getting that $5 back, nor the time and energy you've invested in it since then. But maybe all of us are doing the best we can to manage our lives in whatever inadequate way we can muster. If we could just manage to give more people even a smidgen of a benefit of the doubt, I think it would be helpful. I'm not saying every fuckery should be about turning the other cheek. But some fuckery should. Maybe this is one of them.
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Oh, you know way more than me about the area, for sure. But there's a reason the cultural identities are so strong. I'm not saying there aren't exceptions. But you simply cannot maintain those cultural identities over all these centuries if there are mass intermarriages. And yes, didn't mean to say it was only about the religion. I purposefully mentioned that was a shorthand, with the inaccuracies inherent in using shorthand. I do appreciate the correction. The last thing I want to appear as is someone correcting you on something I acknowledge you know way more about than me. The Greek stuff is mostly about Greece being a primary sponsor in the EU. Not as much about historical ties. But there are some Greek/Turkiye tensions based on Greek support for Croatia versus Turkish support for Bosnia. It's not a main driver for anything. Mostly, like you said, it's all very complicated.
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I’m saying fund your fucking mandates. That’s not a Republican/Democrat cloak room issue. That’s a responsible government issue. To me at least.
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Yes, but add to that one group is like nitrogen, another group is like oxygen, a third group is like nitric acid, and their historical grievances are like fuel. There’s no assimilation. No real mixing between groups. All of them kept their cultural identity by emphasizing marriage only within their cultural group. While I’m not trying to put Tito on a pedestal, because he was truly a despicable despot, it does show how remarkable of a leader he was that he was able to utilize ruthless repression to keep the groups from killing one another. In some ways they were never more united in terms of their collective hate for Tito And he managed all this while navigating a surprising course between the Scylla and Charybdis of the Soviet Union and the west. Plus there’s some Greek/Türkiye tensions reflected there, too. Basically you have the Roman Catholic, the Russian Orthodox, and the Islamic cultures in close proximity. More to it than that, but that’s a decent shorthand
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I’m a one issue guy right now. I realize not everyone is. If someone supports Ukraine but is otherwise reprehensible, I’m all “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Not saying that’s the case with McCaul. It’s just a general observation. The one thing i’ll say I get irritated about regarding McCaul and people like Graham, is that there’s some famous Congressional unfunded mandating going on here. I’d like it a lot more if instead of making noises about ATACMS and F-16s - which is well and good - how about funding them? it’s going to be very challenging getting a supplemental spending bill regarding defense and Ukraine spending in the HOR passed. The Senate is ready to do it on a bipartisan basis. McCarthy and company need to get their shit together. I mean, in a lot of ways, but again, I’m a one issue guy. I mean, let’s not default on the debt while we’re at it, too, but outside of funding continuing obligations, nothing is as important to me as giving Ukrainians a legitimate opportunity to break away militarily from centuries of Russian fuckface domination, to escape this genocide, and return to 2014 borders.
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