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InkaUtexas

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  1. One client is a NZ company. They do a lot of environment work in the South Pacific. Owner has been working there for about 40 years and says the damage is real and getting worse. His big bitch. Micro plastic and chinese fishing boats, or raiders as he calls them.
  2. How was that catch in RF not a top ten?
  3. Europe has been waiting on us to do this. I think they will follow suit. Now do the same with sanctioned oligarch's assets. I still think some of the villas in Italy, France, Spain could be turned into Rehab centers for Ukrainians. It is how it was handled in WW1 and 2.
  4. Lot of noise, very little heavy stuff. Enough to fill up rain buckets.
  5. Ladida. Seven years in the Middle East and worked in every country except Syria. And multiple degrees in International History with a focus on fucked up places. My interpreter for 3 of those years was Palestinian. His family was in the West Bank. He could break bread with an Israeli. There are multiple levels behind the current (80 year) conflict. 1- History over land and water rights. Goes back since the land was settled. 2- Religion. I am right, you are wrong. External actors need it to continue. 3- Non-regional events that continue to be pushed there. The Crusades, spread of Islam, the Cold War.... There is no right or wrong. Fuck, tell me you are engineers without telling me you are engineers.
  6. Refs being mean and letting Denver score.
  7. Damn. Did not know that. I don't track indiana politics. Worked for a client up there. Hated when I had to visit. Good breakfasts though.
  8. Missed that...Who? I did not look at the entire list.
  9. How about the two who went to US Military schools?
  10. What a morbid group of people. Yeah Ma'am, clean your teeth while in session. What, no dick to play with?
  11. Except we are not flooding in San Marcos.
  12. Umps can call it, go out for a nice dinner, or deal with a cool front and potentially more rain. Hmmmmmm.
  13. This is great, but very misleading. This impacts the tourist trade. Not the water around the island. I lived there in the early 1980's for three years and was at the beach every weekend. All over the island. Reefs were pristine, lots of fish. Went back in the 1990's quite a bit. My brothers live there. It was night and day and has only gotten worse. Some areas, where the resorts are have maintained some beauty, but it is not the same and doubt it will recover. Santo Domingo is filthy. The two rivers do nothin gbut push waste into the water. You DO NOT swim in the city. I mean NEVER. No one does. Puerto Plata is going in that direction. So don't want to be a downer, and as I said, this is great. But it is a band aid when amputation is needed.
  14. I am not sure. I think there are two outcomes that would end this. 1- UA holds, and can bleed the Russians. Halt the advance basically and keep hitting them in their rear areas. Infrastructure, air bases, etc. Russia can lose men, but equipment is probably more important. Many forget Lend Lease saved their ass and the West is not doing that. There are so many shells they can get from the Norks. India may buy oil (we should sanction the fuck out of them) but won't be sending equipment. In fact they have cancelled orders of Russian equipment. China? I think in the long run they would like to see a weaker Russia. 2- Putin dies..... Who replaces him is the issue. Another hardliner or a military coup hell bent on going down with Mother Russia or the Oligarchs who are getting hit in their Versace wallets. What is in the aid package will be important. Artillery, anti-air and life support items are important. Some more Bradleys, etc. F-16's will guard Ukraine's skies, don't see them going into Russia.
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