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  1. On 3/27/2023 at 9:08 AM, Chopper said:

    LOL I can't believe I feel the need to defend the British Museum but c'mon ... "a bunch of random artifacts" - there are 8 million artifacts in the museum. Not all have a direct nexis to England but it's organized so you can easily avoid the areas that don't. The museum was created and opened under very different times, like many  institutions you likely take for granted and for which you're more forgiving--the soil beneath your feet being one of them. From wikipedia -

     

    lulz.  Not all = barely any

    Absolutely go if you haven't been.  

    YOINK!

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  2. On 3/27/2023 at 9:12 PM, CooterBrown said:

    To clarify, each person needs their own Apple ID. The credit card can be the same but the card should be in each person’s name. I’m not sure if sharing an Apple ID or if loading a single credit card in one person’s name onto multiple devices would give each user a different encryption number.

    Not when I went last year. ymmv

  3. 12 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (etc. etc. etc.)  it's a pretty common term.  

    So is using clip instead of magazine...  

    The Russians want the black sea, fertile land, nuclear infrastructure, mining resources, pipeline routes to their markets and that's why they are attacking.  This is a Russian war.

    I'm not going to argue with you further if you feel the Russians are fighting American hegemony via a proxy war so be it.

    Enjoy comrade talking points:

    https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-united-states-moscow-5cc322a7ef3b0407c529ebf8bb1fbfd2

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  4. 2 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    that's conflating two different things -- is it a proxy war; why is it happening.  it's happening because russia chose to fight.  it'll stop the second russia chooses to stop.

     

    proxy war is just a term to describe the sort of conflict that exists in the nuclear age when superpowers avoid fighting each other by involving themselves in other disputes where they are aligned.  it's agnostic -- to me at least -- to any fault between the parties.

    Just know your repeating and reinforcing Russian talking points

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  5. 4 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    seems very proxy war to me. i don't think that is a bad thing.  it is just a nato adjacent objective.  no one (here) is saying we started it, but we are more than happy to use it to eliminate one of the world's biggest threats.

    Russians want to frame it as a proxy war with the West and they had no choice but to bring the fight...  That's all bullshit.

    From the internet...so it must be true...  Proxy war "a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved."

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, Tylerocks said:

    Lucky for you, they're not really "country"

    Southern?  Sure

    Kind of "country" the same way Skynyrd or the Allman Bros are.

    If you like loud, guitar driven rock shows...you'll have a good time.

    agree to disagree...   Alt-country not mainstream country

    and that's what I'm counting on

  7. Just now, Tylerocks said:

    Not sure why you'd be cautiously looking forward to it.  They're fucking awesome.

     

    Upcoming for me:

    4/7 Built to Spill- White Oak

    4/15 & 4/16 Widespread Panic- ACL ATX

    6/16 Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade- White Oak

    Because I'm not much of a country music guy...  actually I generally dislike country "twang" and overtly southern accents (I'm from Virginia and a fake or amplified accent is like ice picks in my ears).  But I have heard they are a great "rock" show, the tickets are cheap, and the venue is a short walk from my house...  Worse case scenario, I'll shove some Skoal in my back pocket (for esthetic purposes only) and drink expensive warm beer for a few hours (or less) and bar hop home.

    But I have a newly found affinity for Southern rock and I do like "Gravity's Gone" 

    I got their recent set lists and I made a playlist in Spotify so that by the time the show rolls around I'll at least be familiar with some of the stuff they're likely to play.

    So far "3 Dimes Down", "Daddy's Cup",  and "The Driver" are also doing it for me.   I want to like them, but we'll see.

  8. 13 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

    Fourth night in this Dallas hotel before I noticed this on the wall in my room

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    Makes sense, not a pickguard screw in sight

    Heard an interesting quote about SRV...something along the lines of "he makes people want to learn the guitar and people who play the guitar want to quit"

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  9. 3 hours ago, statsman said:

    The WSJ had another story about the Bakhmut defenders needing shells. I wish we (the US) would increase shell production to where Ukraine could fling them around like a U.S. unit. 
    This spring counter-offensive will probably tell the story for this war. It would be awful if it were to fail because of administration concerns about managing domestic artillery production. 

    The thing is that we sent them something like 2x the number of artillery shells that the cannons we sent them can fire.  The barrels are only rated for so many rounds...  Is there a fudge factor?  Sure...  but if they need more "shells" they actually need a whole new round of artillery from soup to nuts.

     

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  10. 11 hours ago, Handcruser said:


    Most likely enter the classroom like they did multiple times in the video. They didn’t know where the shooter was at first. They kept clearing rooms.

    They did a fantastic job. They did get lucky - but they didn’t shit their pants like the uvalde cops did.

    Don't forget the Parkland cowards...  Shooter escaped their "Perimeter" and was sitting in a McDonalds watching coverage of his shooting for fucks sake.

    This work won the Pulitzer prize, I assume in part because the Sentinel had to fight to obtain information and painstakingly piece it all together...  Its not a long read and is interactive, but only look at this if you want to get really pissed.  Pay attention to the timelines

    https://projects.sun-sentinel.com/2018/sfl-parkland-school-shooting-critical-moments/

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  11. 8 hours ago, 4th and 5 said:


    NPD got extremely lucky not to have multiple officers shot or killed. Had the subject been barricaded, loaded for bear, and a possessed a little tactical skills, that fast push would have been disastrous. But that’s the job they signed up for.

    Perhaps, but if you can't screw up your courage to go put yourself to the test in order to literally save young kids lives, then you shouldn't be a cop or anyone sworn to protect anything.  

     

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  12. 10 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    Had the shooter been holed up in a room full of kids I think the cops would've tried negotiating with the shooter, any shots fired from that room and all negotiations stop and they try and save as many as they can.  Jmo. 

    I'm not a tactical bro, but it's my (perhaps naïve) understanding that the policy is to engage an active school shooter ASAP.  I'm mean after shots have been fired do you negotiate while kids bleed out on the floor?  

  13. 21 minutes ago, po elvis said:

    If the Uvalde shooter was in that hallway outside of that classroom he would have been shot and killed pronto. If the Nashville shooter was inside a classroom with 30 people, we don't know what the Nashville police would have done.

    Yeah the Uvalde shooter was in an unlocked room murdering children, it was the cops that sat in the hallway.   Don't try to excuse their cowardly behavior. 

    Also while I don't think cops are all heroes or villains by default, it sure looks like the Tennessee cops might actually deserve some admiration for a job well done.   I saw the video, they went into rooms to clear them.  It sure seems like the Nashville cops remembered their training and their balls and went to confront the shooter ASAP instead of detaining parents and setting up road blocks at a safe distance.

    I wonder why only Nashville PD wanted to release the bodycams so quickly while Parkland and Uvalde have vigorously fought public disclosure.

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  14. 4 minutes ago, HamsterHookah said:

    Kudos and hats off the police here for sure. Definitely saved lives with their rapid and efficient and brave response. 

    Otherwise known as doing their f*cking jobs...  That said, at least they're not the cowards from Broward or Uvalde.  

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  15. 1 minute ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    God bless all of those guys (and our sources and methods, even when bad).  Otherwise we'd all be speaking German today!

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    The smallest fucking German speaking province in the Russian empire!

  16. On 3/22/2023 at 10:15 PM, DalTxHornFan said:

    Good story.  My wife's great uncle died in a B-17 crash in England, right after take-off.  They apparently pushed the limits on fuel weight to give them margins to make it home from their bombing mission.  A B-17 full of gas and loaded with bombs -- what could go wrong?  RIP James and crew.

    They also had a limited amount of high octane fuel so they had to cut the power and risk unstable flight.   I have read some transcripts that talk about the danger of forming up and that it was greater than that of danger over the objective.  They had to climb up through the clouds alone becasue they didnt have information about othter planes positions.   They also took off every 30 seconds from 4 or 5 different fields.   The Army airforce lost more men than the marines...88k  Of that 36K died in accidents ... let that sink in....  They classified accidents and outright denied others so the Japanese and Germans wouldn't know how bad our training and birds were...

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  17. 38 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

    As for artillery, and the Russian report of it increasing, when was the last time we heard of a massed Himars attack?  I know they've done a few lately on high value targets, but nothing huge.   I'd bet when we get it trickling out of  mass Himars strikes that's when it's starting.   

    I don't want it to be true, but there could be fewer HIMARS attacks because there are fewer HIMARS in service.  Could also be that they have been told to use it VERY selectively because our ability to replenish ammo stocks is not as robust as we expected.  Also fuck Russia and it's oligarchs

  18. 3 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:

    If it wouldn't kill public schools, I'd be all for vouchers to send these nuts off to their own circle jerk schooling.

    In Florida lots of the complaints are lodged by individuals who do not have a kid in the school so that would not solve the problem.   They just want to cram their religious beliefs down everyone's throat.  Everyone knows Jesus hates dongs... all dongs should be banned!  Wait till they figure out some state funds in the form of vouchers will go to GASP Muslim schools!

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  19. 27 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    VISIT THE TRAINING GROUNDS WHERE B-17 CREWS LEARNED THEIR CRAFT

    When Boeing began churning out more than 12,000 of the heavy bombers, the army looked for sparsely populated places to train. Northern Montana fit the bill nicely.

    https://www.historynet.com/b-17-training-montana-wwii/

    Yup, my great uncle died in 1943 in a training crash of his (he was in the crew not the pilot) B-17F about 2miles east of Big Sandy MT near the reservation.  There were eye witnesses and supposedly some farmers still have parts of his B-17 in their barn.   Not a lot of info out there, but I posted some stuff on the Memorial Thread, but I cross posted that pic because I thought you airplane nerds might like to see it.

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