Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Posted
1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

DJT begins to ask if it’s possible that Putin has been less than truthful and earnest.

image.thumb.jpeg.c0a3170c512c257538c8fc589a1ce213.jpeg

Those last few sentences have got to be fake.

Posted

Putin announces three-day Russian ceasefire in Ukraine from 8 May
26 minutes ago
Thomas Mackintosh
BBC News, London
Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a temporary ceasefire for the war in Ukraine.

The Kremlin said the ceasefire would run from the morning of 8 May until 11 May - which coincides with victory celebrations to mark the end of World War Two.

In response, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called for an immediate ceasefire lasting "at least 30 days".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62j1848509o

Posted
15 minutes ago, Parliament said:

So game on for the next 10 days then shut it down?  Russia just continues to fight WW1.

Well I hope it ends with somebody storming Putin's palace then.

  • Hook 'Em 3
  • Like 1
  • Drool 1
Posted
On 4/28/2025 at 4:08 AM, Hagbard Celine said:

Putin announces three-day Russian ceasefire in Ukraine from 8 May
26 minutes ago
Thomas Mackintosh
BBC News, London
Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a temporary ceasefire for the war in Ukraine.

The Kremlin said the ceasefire would run from the morning of 8 May until 11 May - which coincides with victory celebrations to mark the end of World War Two.

In response, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called for an immediate ceasefire lasting "at least 30 days".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62j1848509o

Sounds like a great time to bomb some Russians. Shouldn’t have any problems finding them on the 9th.

  • Hook 'Em 2
Posted
On 4/29/2025 at 2:46 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

Russia returned the body of a young journalist it had imprisoned in February.   Now we know her body came back without eyes, a brain, a larynx, and other organs.  She was a stringer for Radio Free Europe.  

This is a free speech administration. Except when it comes to Radio Free Europe. We are closing that down, it’s full of lies. Except when it comes to not murdering young Ukrainian women and tearing apart their bodies. You have to understand, there’s so much killing on both sides. 

Her name is Viktoriya Roshchyna.

image.thumb.jpeg.3d8116e6c2c24f54a447a041f4511dac.jpeg

This is example eleventy billion in Russia’s despotic history of the value their culture places upon human life. The world would be better off just walling off the country from the rest of civilization. As horrific as TFG is at the moment this is a country with century upon century of examples of how little the life of a person matters.

At a certain point the blame for how Russia operates cannot just be placed upon Putin and his cronies when generation after generation operates in this manner. 

  • Hook 'Em 4
  • Like 1
Posted
On 4/29/2025 at 7:46 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

This is a free speech administration. Except when it comes to Radio Free Europe.

And Radio Free Asia

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted
12 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

This is example eleventy billion in Russia’s despotic history of the value their culture places upon human life.

The Russian nation is the same collection of shitbaggery they’ve always been.

  • Like 1
Posted
On 5/1/2025 at 3:43 AM, Parliament said:

The Russian nation is the same collection of shitbaggery they’ve always been.

Well yes. My last class this semester I spent a good amount of time studying about the mentality of the average Russian over the last 80 years as well as the mentality of the Russian government/dictators in charge over the same span. To call Russia’s societal organization a mess is doing the word mess a disservice.

Posted
On 4/26/2025 at 11:08 AM, Hagbard Celine said:

5
europe also has to get their ass in gear and get to zero reliance on vlad's pipelines - some big names rely on vlad for 100% of their natural gas - fix your own geopolitical problem - it's the only way to have any leverage with him until he expires - the pipelines are the reason europe has been kicking the can down the road - dem or pub we can't fix that for them

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04547pr9vqo

EU plans to end Russian gas imports by end of 2027

+++

maybe the eu parliament actually has a plan

it's not in that article

achieving this goal requires the conversion of the need for natural gas to something else

OR

new sources

+++

converting industrial use of natural gas to something else is one thing

converting domestic use of natural gas is something else entirely

image.thumb.jpeg.8afec49bd4d1758f60c4d2b4dad6ee93.jpeg

+++

we flare 2.45 TRILLION cubic feet every year, primarily in north dakota, wyoming and texas

this would have been a spectacular opportunity for the houston economy but liquefaction and cryo upstream requires investment and returns profits over time

in other words it's not eagleford instant heroin

 

  • Hook 'Em 3
  • Rage+1 1
Posted
12 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

we flare 2.45 TRILLION cubic feet every year, primarily in north dakota, wyoming and texas

this would have been a spectacular opportunity for the houston economy but liquefaction and cryo upstream requires investment and returns profits over time

in other words it's not eagleford instant heroin

Huh.  A forward-thinking US government, building on natural alliances and partnerships with Europe, could build a win-win-win scenario where US LNG both solves a European energy gap for decades, and increases US exports of a valuable commodity (you know....exports....that thing that balances out "imports," which helps close a "trade gap").  Oh well.

  • Hook 'Em 4
Posted

the LNG problem had a lot to do with the general shrug over the crimea grab in '15 and 90% of europe's impotence to counter the '22 invasion

shame on petrohouston and supershame on phil gramm, kay bailey, john cornyn and ted cruz who have had a combined 120 years in the senate to figure this out

Posted
38 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Huh.  A forward-thinking US government, building on natural alliances and partnerships with Europe, could build a win-win-win scenario where US LNG both solves a European energy gap for decades, and increases US exports of a valuable commodity (you know....exports....that thing that balances out "imports," which helps close a "trade gap").  Oh well.

It would have been a natural solution.

south-park-its-gone.gif

Can you imagine trying to replace Russia with the U.S. as a source for such a critical resource in light of recent events?  Yeah, neither can I - not anymore.

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 1
Posted
53 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

the LNG problem had a lot to do with the general shrug over the crimea grab in '15 and 90% of europe's impotence to counter the '22 invasion

shame on petrohouston and supershame on phil gramm, kay bailey, john cornyn and ted cruz who have had a combined 120 years in the senate to figure this out

In the European context the problem of LNG has long been a problem of terminals, which cannot be turned on overnight and for which there needs to be a demand. Germany only finally brought their first online in 2022 after the full-scale invasion. NS2 basically existed as a canard to prevent Europe (specify Germany) from building out alternate infrastructure and to keep themselves on cheaper Russian pipeline gas. 
 

It’s a longstanding foreign policy failure all around but an honest reading is that the Germans wanted to delude themselves and it’s unclear if any pressure could have brought them around absent the forcing event. 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted

this is our failure, us, texas, specifically, houston

no pressure would have been needed

the germans would not have been 'forced' to do anything

the dutch would have easily agreed to build a terminal and pipeline for a cut of the action

where the fuck were the think tanks?  this is exactly the kind of thing that gets done at the naked owl dance in july every year

it's jabillions of hard cash for the taking

we didn't bring our first terminal online until '16

us lng shipments to europe doubled in '22 after the invasion

we could have been way ahead of this

there are currently ~400ish lng boats afloat with ~300 on order

image.thumb.jpeg.da2b52676f513d67ab6deeb9c05dc97e.jpeg

 

Posted (edited)

But isn't part of the LNG issues here the development of terminals that are economically sound, environmentally neutral and community safe?  Aren't there two scheduled for near Boca Chica where Elmo keeps dropping rockets out of the sky?  There's a pretty good podcast on how that's a monumental catastrophe in the making down there.  

 

Progress Texas podcast on SpaceX and the RGV

 

Edited by pyrohornIII
added link
  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Fuck Around and Find Out 1
Posted

It looks like the sanguine shores of beautiful and restful Crimea are the remaining beachfront resort options.  

Female tourist should remember to bring their contraceptive supplies, and families urged to bring a sufficient number of pets to consume in the event local food stores are out of provisions.  And ignore the drones. 

IMG_4546.jpeg.680b21698be91f1433f27b10bd9cfede.jpeg



×
×
  • Create New...