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Gatorubet

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  1. 50 billion > 2 billion. That’s like being six months behind on your monthly McMansion mortgage payments, and your bank demands that you sell your mountain bike to reduce the debt.
  2. I hate to wait for the test results. Fortunately, the app that my providers use often posts test results within hours. Especially labs. I know that some providers will not post test results until the physician reviews them so that he or she can tell you any potential news that would otherwise freak you out. But always a bunch of fun to see the NED if that happens.
  3. The route taking longer directly results in a reduced volume of oil being transported over a time frame, all while making the trip more expensive and therefore less profitable for Russia. What started out as a war funded with a gigantic Russian rainy day petrodollar fund has turned into a war being funded by payday loans at usurious rates.
  4. as seen by Charlie Kirk MAGA fans
  5. I see no mention of the nurse practitioner, so hard pass.
  6. November 19….
  7. You have to wonder if most are behind the war, because most Russians would assume whatever answer they give is recorded by the state to their possible detriment. But just like Newsmax or Fox, there are lots of people who simply believe whatever state run television tells them. There will always be a hard-core group who believes every lie that comes out out of the Kremlin. But I’m sure there are a ton of people who simply don’t want to be arrested or have their meager employment opportunities forever ruined with the wrong poll answer. We get to boo and yell at our representatives in Townhall meetings. That gets you a jail cell in Russia. I have no earthly idea how you can get a sense with the Russian public truly feels.
  8. I believe a 6% figure is woefully less than the impaired refining capacity at this point. I would love to know the date and source of that figure. I don’t think that a 6% reduction would result in a nationwide fuel crisis so severe that it requires purchasing refined gas from China. I would think at least 25% by now, and very likely more.
  9. What had to worry US planners is the possibility that by helping to destroy Russia thoroughly, all they would be doing is transferring a large part of Russia’s massive natural resources to China after it seizes large parts of eastern Russia - or at least those parts of Eastern Russia to which China currently has a historical claim. it was/is probably a valid concern that if Ukraine succeeded too successfully, Russia would use tactical nukes to counteract that success. With other countries you could discount that possibility, but Russian leaders are such self-interested lunatics focusing only on their own survival, that the well-being of their citizens - or their country - or their neighbors - or the world - is not one of their considerations in the decision to deploy those weapons
  10. No offense, but most who follow this thread have spent years following the war rather closely, and if you have no idea what’s going on, you should go back six months and start binging the thread. It’s like popping up in the football thread and then asking if people could explain what conferences various teams are in. I mean, it is certainly a legitimate non-trollish question, but also sort of a thread derail asking for the most basic information when you have AI on your phone and in five seconds you can have those answers. Edit: my response sounded far more dick-ish than I intended. My apologies. This is the answer to my 10 second question to my phone. “Why is nothing being done to stop the sale of oil from Russia to China and India?”
  11. Other than the severe international sanctions…and the political pressure…and the increased inspections by nations looking for (and stoping) shadow fleet tankers..,and the actual sinking of shadow fleet tankers you mean?
  12. Nobody? I admit to lacking faith in some things, but considering my fellow male genderites - this is not one of them.
  13. This is not an absolute. The parents must be trying to mitigate and diffuse the situation. If the three year-old is kicking the back of my seat, I am not ignoring it if the parents aren’t doing anything to stop it.
  14. Lada sales. Connect the dots, sheeple!!!
  15. She wants to end all funding to Ukraine. Fuck her with a cactus.
  16. Ahhhhh. Worked. Much obliged Imma
  17. I have an iPhone 13 mini. The new iOS got uploaded a day or two ago, and now I am back to the point where this appears in the middle of the page and floats around as you try to scroll the Paige page. The last time this happened, I changed themes, which seemed to fix it. Now, no matter whether I use the default or the 18 iOS or the no avatar version, it still happens. I’m only mentioning this in case it gives you some better diagnostic as to what is happening.
  18. @PTINS - i’d love to hear your thoughts on a subject I know nothing about. I find it interesting that the city of Angarsk in Siberia - a larger city of 200,000 residents - has been largely without any building heating since December 7. This includes homes, apartments, hospitals, schools, etc. When the heat went out, the temperature was -20. Today on December 14th the heat is still out, Angarsk had a recent heat wave, so the highs are in the teens and low 20s, while trending colder at the end of the week. That said, if the temperature remains below zero for a week straight, that city’s residents are living in an icebox. This news jogged my memory about another fact I read recently, that all of the Ukrainian attacks on the refineries have prevented the refineries from planned outages to transition to winter fuel, fuel that contains the necessary ingredient to prevent fuel freezing and gelling or doing whatever it is fuel does without those ingredients. If that inability to refine winterized gas is true and continues into the December and January winter months, what effect will that have on transportation in the country? IOW, what can you tell my ignorant self about the absence of winterized refined fuel in a country so cold - and the consequences to the countries’s economy and the military operation in Ukraine?
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